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Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today at the memorial service in honor of the Capitol Policemen who were shot and killed 10 years ago today:
"Some may know that when I attended George Washington Law School many years ago, I worked full time on the swing – or night shift – as a Capitol Police Officer. My service as a Capitol Policeman was not one where I did anything courageous or notable. But even then, before the heightened awareness to threat we have today, we police officers knew if the call came to sacrifice to protect this United States Capitol, our jobs meant answering the call.
"Ten years ago, two officers did just that. Special Agent John Gibson and Officer Jacob Chestnut were stationed near the East entrance on the House side, mere steps from where we stand. When a gunman attempted to bypass metal detectors, Officer Chestnut answered the call of duty and blocked his path. The gunman shot Officer Chestnut point blank.
"Hearing shots, Special Agent Gibson also answered the call of duty. He warned nearby staffers to seek cover and confronted the attacker. They exchanged fire.
"Despite valiant efforts to keep both heroes alive, including efforts by my predecessor, Senator Frist, Special Agent Gibson and Officer Chestnut died from their wounds.
"I knew Agent Gibson. During a Congressional retreat to Virginia, he came to care for my wife when she became ill during the night. I remember how he ran to her side. I will never forget how kind and gentle he was with her.
"I knew Officer Chestnut only by face and in shared greetings whenever we passed each other. But I do know he was a veteran of the Vietnam war, had given 18 years of service to the Capitol Police, and heartbreakingly, was just months away from a hard-earned retirement.
"We are honored to have Agent Gibson's wife, Lyn, and their children, Kristen, Jack and Danny, Officer Chestnut's wife, Wen-Ling, and their children, Will and Karen, and their many cherished friends and family. We hope that it has been some comfort to you – the ones they loved most – to know that in the 10 years since that terrible day, some measure of your burden has come to rest upon all of our shoulders.
"So today we plant a tree in the name and memory of John Gibson and Jacob Chestnut. The tree is small now, but every day it will grow taller, stronger and broader. Its roots will grasp ever deeper for the American soil that lies below, the American soil that both men defended so heroically.
"As this tree takes root and grows and flourishes, it will remind us always of these two brave men. And though it will shed its leaves in the Fall, it will always bloom when Spring arrives again."


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Wellington, July 16 (ANI): Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs, who is respected throughout the soccer world, has another task to face when the A-League All Stars team play an exhibition game against the English Premier League Champions in Sydney on Saturday night.
According to stuff.co.nz, Paul Ifill and Michael McGlinchey, the Kiwi players in the team, both have plans to swap shirts with the 13-time Premiership medal winner, along with a lot of other players in the team, who will play at a sold-out ANZ stadium.
Ifill represents Wellington Phoenix and has played in opposition to Giggs before during the 2004 FA Cup final playing for Millwall, and hopes that he could do better this time than a 3-0 loss, which they faced at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. (ANI)


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Mystery author J.A. Jance kicks off the "Women Writing Mystery" lecture series next Sunday offered by Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries as part of the Tucson Festival of Books.
The lecture series is linked with the Women Mystery Writers Collection, one of a few such research collections in the country that includes works from American women mystery writers, with an emphasis on those from the Southwest.
Women mystery authors use the popularity of the mystery genre as a vehicle for raising social problems and issues, according to UA press materials.
"The genre provides us with strong women protagonists who effectively use 'womanly' skills of intelligence, empathy, and consensus-building to achieve this resolution rather than violence or force," said Christine Acevedo-Medina, owner of the Tucson-area mystery bookstore Clues Unlimited, in press materials.
The "Women Writing Mystery" presentation will also emphasize why "J.A. Jance is truly a Tucson Treasure," noted Acevedo-Medina.
Jance, a 1962 Bisbee High School graduate who was not allowed to enroll in creative writing at the UA because she was a woman, "has overcome prejudice against women and personal tragedy to become a best-selling novelist. … I want people to know the woman behind the best-selling novelist," Acevedo-Medina said.
The UA's 1,400-volume collection holds mystery novels published from the 1950s to present written by female authors who primarily portray female protagonists. It also has the papers and manuscripts of Southwestern female mystery authors.
The collection was established at the UA in 2001 by John P. Schaefer, former University of Arizona president, and Carla Stoffle, dean of the University Libraries.
The Special Collections staff hopes female mystery authors will deposit their materials in the collection and that festival attendees will use the collection for research.
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DESPITE having TULISA as a mentor, LITTLE MIX have managed to remain clean-cut
since they formed on The X Factor.
But the first crack in their wholesome image has appeared.
Singer JADE THIRLWALL cheated on her DIVERSITY star boyfriend SAM
CRASKE during the early stages of their relationship.
But perhaps what's worse for poor Sam is the identity of her secret lover —
serial shagger DERRY MENSAH from boyband THE RISK, who
competed against Little Mix on last year's show.
He got together with Jade on the Cardiff leg of the X Factor tour in April
this year.
A pal of Jade's said: "She is devastated at the thought of her affair getting
out — and how it will harm her image.
"She is in love with Sam and had invited him along to some of the X Factor
tour dates, where he met all the gang backstage.
"She was seeing Sam when she slept with Derry.
"Jade and Sam have a good relationship built on trust because they are both
busy people.
"But Jade was attracted to Derry and he knows how to woo the ladies.
"Despite his womanising reputation, she was drawn towards him like a magnet."
A spokesman for Jade suggested she only got serious with Sam after the X
Factor tour ended in May.
But the picture of the pair kissing in April shows they were very much an
Thankfully, Jade gave it a go with Sam rather than fall long-term for Derry's
She recently gushed about Sam during an interview — ironically about trust.
She said: "I'm more like a mate with Sam. I don't feel sexy at all. The idea
of it makes me cringe… I'd never check his phone because he doesn't give
me a reason to.
"And I do think once trust is broken it's hard to get it back.
"I've stayed with someone after they've cheated — and it's hard to forget it."
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Governments across Africa have faced increasing challenges to maintain fuel subsidies over recent years. In Ghana, in the face of a near 12% fiscal deficit in 2012, their burgeoning cost has drawn attention to questions of fiscal sustainability as well as their overall efficiency and effectiveness. In 2013, the Ghanaian Government would have spent cost 2.4 billion GHS (approximately 1.2 billion USD) on fuel subsidies, equalling 3.2% of GDP and more than half of Ghana's allocation to the entire education sector. Fuel subsidies....
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Moon Mania! #rockinreview
How does the moon affect the tides? the Moon's gravitational forces are strong enough to disrupt this balance by accelerating the water towards the Moon. This causes the water to 'bulge.' As the Moon orbits our planet and as the Earth rotates, the bulge also moves. The areas of the Earth where the bulging occurs experience high tide, and the other areas are subject to a low tide.
Waxing= The moon at any time after new moon and before full moon, so called because its illuminated area is increasing.
Waning= The moon at any time after full moon and before new moon (so called because its illuminated area is decreasing).
Gibbous= Convex at both edges, as the moon when more than half full.
Crescent= The figure of the moon as it appears before its first quarter phase or after its third quarter phase, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
Moon Phases= Although the moon rises in the east and sets in the west each day (due to Earth's spin), it's also moving on the sky's dome each day due to its own motion in orbit around Earth. The moon's orbital motion can be detected in front of the stars from one night to the next. It's as though the moon is moving on the inside of a circle of 360 degrees. Thus the moon moves about 12 degrees each day. Each day, as the moon moves another 12 degrees toward the east on the sky's dome, Earth has to rotate a little longer to bring you around to where the moon is in space. Thus the moon rises, on average, about 50 minutes later each day. The later and later rising time of the moon causes our companion world to appear in a different part of the sky at each nightfall for about two weeks. Then, in the couple of weeks after full moon, you'll find the moon rising later and later at night.
Lunar Cycle= Refers to the moon's continuous orbit around the earth. As the moon orbits the earth, its appearance (the "phase") changes and thus gives us an indication of the moon's progress in the cycle (the "age"). The sun always illuminates exactly one-half of the moon, but we see it at different angles as it rotates around the earth. With the naked eye, we can see only the part of the moon that the sun is illuminating. All lunar months approximate the mean length of the synodic month, or how long it takes on average to pass through each phase (new, half, full moon) and back again. It takes 29.5 days.
Earths Seasons and Eclipses! #eclipses
Who was Copernicus? Nicolas Copernicus was an astronomer who first gave the theory (which is now proven) that all planets revolve around the sun, which is called the heliocentric model of the solar system. The belief at the time was that the Earth was the center of the solar system/universe. We now know that Copernicus was right, but everybody in his time said he was a nutcase, and his heliocentric model didn't become popular until after Galileo and Keple.
Why do we have seasons? As the earth spins on its axis, producing night and day, it also moves about the sun in an elliptical (elongated circle) orbit that requires about 365 1/4 days to complete. The earth's spin axis is tilted with respect to its orbital plane. This is what causes the seasons. When the earth's axis points towards the sun, it is summer for that hemisphere. When the earth's axis points away, winter can be expected. Since the tilt of the axis is 23 1/2 degrees, the North Pole never points directly at the Sun, but on the summer solstice it points as close as it can, and on the winter solstice as far as it can. Midway between these two times, in spring and autumn, the spin axis of the earth points 90 degrees away from the sun. This means that on this date, day and night have about the same length: 12 hours each, more or less.
Why when the sun is closer to earth its not hotter then when its farther away?During the winter, the sun's rays hit the Earth at a shallow angle. These rays are more spread out, which minimizes the amount of energy that hits any given spot. Also, the long nights and short days prevent the Earth from warming up.
Why isn't there a lunar eclipse every month?
This is because the Earth, Sun and Moon are not in the same orbital planes. The Moon orbits the Earth in a slightly tilted manner, thus most of its orbits it either passes above or below the shadow of the Earth, or passes above or below the Sun, thus preventing an eclipse.
How do we have day and night?
When where you are is pointed toward the Sun, it is day. Then the Earth rotates you away from the Sun, and it is night.
Equinox= The time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length (about September 22 and March 20).
Solstice= Either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.
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Plates! #platetectonics
Who is Alfred Wegener? Alfred Wegener was a scientist who unraveled the the mystery of the tectonic plates and why the continents are shape the way they are. He figured out by cutting a scale map of the continents and fitting them together like a puzzle.he also formulated the theory that the continent move by tectonic action by way of massive plates in the earths crust.he was not widely believed and it took awhile for the idea to take hold and be accepted by mainstream scientist and geologist.
Convergent Boundary= An actively deforming region where two (or more) tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide. As a result of pressure, friction, and plate material melting in the mantle, earthquakes and volcanoes are common near convergent boundaries.
Divergent Boundary= A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other and new crust is forming from magma that rises to the Earth's surface between the two plates.
Transform Boundary= A transform boundary is a fault zone where two plates slide past each other horizontally. Most transform faults are found in the ocean where they offset spreading ridges creating a zigzag pattern between the plates. Some transform faults occur on land.
What tectonic plate is just off the coast of Washington? The Juan De Fuca Plate.
What role does the Juan De Fuca plate have on the formation of the Cascades? The Cascade Mountain range was formed by pressure from the collision of the Juan De Fuca plate and the North American plate. The Juan De Fuca plate is constantly being pushed into and under the North America an plate which pushes up the North American plate where the Cascades are. mountain is formed by the moving plates underground. when the plates meet and push aginst eachother and make a mountain.The Cascade Range is formed along convergent plate boundaries. This is when plates move toward each other. more specifically the type of plate collision that caused the Cascades is an oceanic-continental convergence. This is when a plate with continental leading edge slowly collides with a plate that has an oceanic leading edge.
What are convection currents and what role do they play in plate tectonics?Convection is defined as the movement of molecules in a fluid. Convection in the Earth is what causes flows in the plastic layer of Earth. This creates forces on the plates in the lithosphere to move because of convection.
Rift Zone= A system of related, narrow structural depressions between parallel faults.
Subduction Zone= The process by which collision of the earth's crustal plates results in one plate's being drawn down or overridden by another, localized along the juncture (subduction zone) of two plates.
How were the "Channeled Scablands" were formed? They formed during the Pleistocene Ice Ages, when lobes of ice blocked meltwater from the glacier, forming a huge lake, called Lake Missoula. Quite often, the water flowed over the ice dam, forcing it to rise and break, crating a huge flood, which carved out bot the channeled scablands as well as the Columbia River Gorge.
Rocks! #RocksandRoles
The ThreeTypes Of Rocks!
Sedimentary Rocks= Types of rock that are formed by the deposition of material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
MetaMorphic Rocks= Rock That was once one form of rock but has changed to another under the influence of heat, pressure, or some other agent without passing through a liquid phase.
Igneous Rocks= Formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
Examples of these types of rocks!
Sedimentary Rock= One example of a sedimentary rock is Sandstone.
MetaMorphic Rock= One example of a metamorphic rock is Marble.
Igneous Rock= One example of a igneous rock is Obsidian.
Stratification= The Formation or deposition of layers, as of rock or sediments.
How can the age of landforms can be estimated? If there is more rock layers it tends to be older since more sediment has formed into rock over time. The shape of rock layers too can estimate the age of landorms, since jagged rocks are much younger than flat thick rocks, due to erosion.
What Geological events could have caused huge blocks of horizontal sedimentary layers to be tipped or older rock layers to be on top of younger rock layers?Sedimentary rocks are formed particle by particle and bed by bed, and the layers are piled one on top of the other. Thus, in any sequence of layered rocks, a given bed must be older than any bed on top of it. This Law of Superposition is fundamental to the interpretation of Earth history, because at any one location it indicates the relative ages of rock layers and the fossils in them.
What are ways that living organisms have shaped landforms? They die and their skeletons/shells build up layers. They dig holes in the ground allowing water to run into the ground. They build dams creating lakes. The eat vegetation promoting erosion. They send roots into cracks that can break down mountains.
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The main objective of this type is to count with the necessary signs for Latin America, this is to say, that has the set of characters used in official languages and in dialects. After accomplishing this goal we want to establish a new system of Latin American signs, and promote the use of dialects and languages so they don't cease to exist. The sets available at current time, in alphabetical order, are: spanish, portuguese, quechua, guaranÌ, french, aymara, n·huatl, taÌno, maya, mapudungun. As a secondary objective we proposed to complete other sets for other languages outside this region.


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JERUSALEM (Mar. 4)
The facts and figures pertaining to the Jewish community of Rumania are unique in every respect: unique in the Jewish world, unique in the Communist world, and unique in Rumania itself.
Before World War II there were 800,000 Jews in Rumania. Half of them perished in the Holocaust. Of those who survived almost all have emigrated to Israel — with the blessing of the Rumanian government.
Today some 26,000 Jews still live in Rumania. Half live in Bucharest, the capital. The rest are spread among more than 50 provincial towns. Virtually all of them are members of the organized Jewish community and actively participate in Jewish communal, religious and cultural life — again with the blessing of President Nicolae Ceausescus hardline communist regime.
More than half of the Jews are more than 60 years of age. Many thousands of them directly benefit in vital, material ways from a gamut of welfare programs, from kosher kitchens to medical care, funded in large part by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) — once again with the full consent of the Rumanian authorities.
"It is quite literally a program of survival," a Rumanian Jewish official told this reporter during a recent visit to Bucharest, referring to the welfare programs. "Without this aid, many of the elderly recipients would be condemned to starve."
Given the bitterly harsh climatic conditions prevailing across Rumania this winter, and the palpably evident economic difficulties which confront most of its citizens, these dramatic words seemed no exaggeration whatever.
The annual cost of the totality of the welfare programs is in the order of $5 million. Of this the JDC contributes $4 million, and the Jewish Community Federation of Rumania the remaining million. (The community is sometimes the beneficiary of bequests, and therefore holds funds of its own.)
The programs include aid in cash. This alone accounts for some 30 percent of the outlay. Some 5,000 persons are eligible: Holocaust refugees; elderly couples or individuals whose families have moved abroad, usually to Israel; persons who, for whatever reason, do not qualify for the full state pension receivable on the basis of a minimum of 25 working years.
"We are guided by two principles," says Sami Edelstein, head of the Jewish Federations assistance department. "Strict adherence to criteria (for eligibility), and strict maintenance of human dignity."
Thus the monthly aid grants are sent, by mail, to recipients' homes, just like the state pensions, thereby obviating the sometimes embarrassing need to come to the federation offices to collect them.
Aid packages are sent out eight times a year, six times to coincide with the major Jewish festivals, and once in midsummer and once in mid-winter, to bridge the long dry seasons between festivals.
The criteria of need are determined by a committee comprising Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen, Federation president Theodore Blumenfeld, and assistance department head Edelstein. The final arbiter is the rabbi, who, since his election to office in the storms and dangerous days of the late forties, has led this community with a firm hand — and with an even firmer and more unwavering vision of its ultimate redemption: transplanted almost in its entirety in Israel.
The packages contain foodstuffs, purchased from government stores. They each weigh some 40 pounds and are worth some $20. Married couples receive double packages.
Once a year, persons meeting the criteria are invited to their local federation offices to select clothing and shoes. Here, too, the precious principle of dignity is rigorously maintained: all the clothing is brand new most of it manufactured in Rumania, though some is sent over from the United States by the JDC, and people are invited in small groups, to eliminate crowding or embarrassment.
Meals on wheels, bringing hot midday meals to elderly housebound Jews, is literally a lifesaver in many cases. The meals are prepared in the Kosher restaurants which are maintained in all the major Rumanian communities, and despatched to recipients homes by minibuses owned by the community.
There are ten restaurants around the country, offering substantial and tasty kosher meals every day to anyone who comes by. And thousands of Jews do. By no means all of them are old or weak: younger people too find the convenience and ambiance of the Jewish restaurant attractive and pleasant.
Those who can pay the full 22 lei (about $1.80) for their meal. Most people, however, pay for less, and some pay nothing.
The criteria for payment are determined by a discreet means test. Yet — such is the fastidious concern for human dignity — people sitting around the same table and enjoying the same meal cannot know what each of them paid for that meal. The system of ticketing is specifically designed to conceal this information.
The assistance department hires home-helpers to clean, cook and shop for elderly home-bound or bed-ridden Jews. Four hundred homes in the capital and another 300 in the provinces benefit from this service.
The Federation employs, in addition, six social workers who visit recipients and potential recipients of the various aid programs. These social workers are all retired people themselves (in Rumania retirement age is 60 for men and 57 for women), boosting their pensions by doing this work — but doing it, as is immediately and abundantly apparent, much more out of love and devotion than for the material benefit.
Edelstein explains that the federation cannot attract young, professional social workers "because we can't afford to pay as much as the government." He himself is a former senior official at the Ministry of Foreign Trade who, when he retired, was eagerly enlisted by Rabbi Rosen to head up the assistance department.
A medical center or polyclinic in Bucharest has doctors who are also almost all retirees. Among their number are some of the country's better-known specialists, including internationally-renowned virologist Prof. Nikolai Cajal, a member of the Rumanian Academy of Sciences.
While ostensibly health care is provided free by the state to all its citizens, the elderly and/or needy Jews are eligible to attend the clinic, or call its physicians to their homes, enjoy a considerably more efficient, and immeasurably more devoted, service. The clinic, moreover, is linked to two pharmacies which dispense its doctors' prescriptions. The drugs, like the medical diagnoses and treatments, are all free for all eligible patients — and are not available, even for money, for people not adjudged eligible.
With 2,000 mostly young professional Rumanian Jews having left for Israel in 1984 alone, and with only 50 Jewish births having been registered throughout the country, Cajal predicts the virtual end of this entire, impressive, moving structure of organized Jewish life within a decade. A combination of aliya and biology will see to that, he says.
Israeli experts tend to agree. They feel there is potential for a further 10,000 Rumanian Jewish immigrants to Israel at most, with the remainder of the community intent on living out their lives in Rumania.
Rabbi Rosen does not agree with the essence of this prognosis. But he predicts a slower shrinkage. In ten years time, he believes, there will still be a Jewish population of 15,000.
"Whether or not there will still be organized, flourishing communal and religious Jewish life — that depends on us," Rosen says. "Even the present situation is unnatural, almost miraculous. A community of 26,000 maintaining active Jewish centers in 68 separate places — complete with synagogues and social services."
Rosen believes passionately that the key to Rumanian Jewry's monumental success — and the statistics, after all, add up to an incredible success-story, especially in view of the objective circumstances — has been his unrelenting fight to preserve the spiritual heritage. His greatest pride and joy are the afterschool classes, usually held in synagogues, where the ever-dwindling young generation imbibes the fundamentals of their people culture and traditions.
"They may not become great scholars (talmidei Hahamim)," Rosen said in a speech at the Choral Synagogue last month in the presence of Israeli Premier Shimon Peres. "But they grow up with a profound knowledge of what it means to be Jewish–and a profound commitment and identity."
Rosen's particular innovation, in terms of Jewish education in trying circumstances, has been his encouragement of music and song. All the larger communities boast Jewish youth choirs. In Bucharest there are several.
Enormous effort and devotion go into rehearsing, songwriting, organizing, and periodically performing — especially on the festivals and whenever a distinguished visitor comes by, from Israel or the West. And the enthusiasm of the young choristers and musicians is infectious, regularly rousing audiences of Jews, young and old (mostly old), to join in with the songs of Zion, the Yiddish lieder and the liturgical tunes that fill the grand old synagogues with the sounds of yesterday — and of tomorrows.


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After adding a tweet button to our site, we have noticed frequent 30+ second load times for "t.gif" from "p.twitter.com." The site has full functionality but appears to continue loading. Is there a way to disable the loading of the pixel without breaching Twitter's terms of service? I have noticed this problem on several other sites as well.
Thanks in advance
We have the same problem blocking page from loading after page loaded still waiting for p.twitter.comany way to fix it?
I haven't been able to find a solution yet. Even this discussion page was left hanging for 40 seconds with the same message, so I'm guessing it isn't seen as an important issue.
I have not personally observed this issue but do not completely discount it. Can you offer any further information on this? Is it deterministic? What's your ISP and where is it physically located? Do you have any other Javascript or widgets on your site? Are you using the output code from a button configuration or did you build the button yourself using the documentation from this site?
The issue happens on any site that hosts the tweet button. We are using the provided button code. I am positive that it has nothing to do with any additional scripts on our site, as I have seen it on twitter.com as well. We have observed the problem from ISP's Comcast and teljet out of Vermont. For reference, this is the problem occurring on this forum page. http://imgur.com/xpdQ6. It is also always p.twitter.com, and never the pixel from r.twimg.com
Thanks David, I'll ask some folks to take a look
Okay, so it seems like I'm not the only one with this problem. Ever since I inserted a tweet button on my site, I've had to deal with intermittent load times where the status bar would say "Waiting for p.twitter... " for 30+ seconds. By intermittent, I'd say 4 out of every 10 page loads. Any workarounds on this? My ISP is in Japan, and the script was copy/pasted directly from twitter. Thanks All-
We get this as well - I am accessing my website using Time Warner Cable in Charlotte, North Carolina. I know speed and connectivity is not an issue. Many of our users in Europe also complain about this. We are using the provided code at http://64bitvps.com/csgo/ - and we seem to notice this issue with the Firefox 15 browser the most. If we use Cloudflare, the problem is exacerbated.
I'm having this problem very frequently and for a long time. With this problem, Twitter button is almost unusable. I decided to remove them from our website to avoid Google's page speed penalty. My website is hosted on Amazon S3 Oregon and Tokyo regions and I live in Japan.
...And the problem is occurring even on this forum right now Need fix.
I'm seeing this this afternoon: but only on my dev server, which operates on port 8080. The live site (which uses identical code) doesn't appear to exhibit this problem.


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Peninsula -- Artists created some beautiful works of art during the plein air contest June 6, 7 and 8. Now visitors can view the artwork from June 29 through Aug. 8.
The juried exhibit of 32 works of art created during the competition will be on display and will be available for sale at the John F. Seiberling Gallery in the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park Administrative Offices at 1403 West Hines Hill Road in Peninsula. The award winning pieces will be displayed at the Conservancy's Trail Mix Peninsula store.
Awards will be presented at the artists' reception on June 29 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the John F. Seiberling Gallery. Awards include $500 for best of show, $300 for second place and $200 for third place. Visitors to the reception can cast a ballot for People's Choice, and the artists with the most votes will win a gift basket from the Winking Lizard, according to event chair Debra Bures.
The award winners are Best of Show to Lawrence Churski for "King of the Road;" second place to Kathleen Gray Farthing for "Indigo Lake Depot;" third place to Janet Stolle for "Horseshoe Pond;" and honorable mentions to Mark Erdelyi for "Rescue Dogs," Julie Holman for "Red Winged Blackbird," Brian Shellito for "The Old School House" and "Inside Lock 29," and Mary White for "Diane's Cabin."
The plein air painters of the 2014 event worked in selected sites in the Peninsula and Cuyahoga Valley National Park areas. Weather was beautiful the first two days but rainy the third, Bures said. They had rain sites inside of barns or in protected areas though.
"In plein air, the artist paints in the open air so they prepare for the weather," Bures said. "The event was successful, and the quality of artwork phenomenal."
The event has grown every year and is good for the community, park and artists, Bures said.
"Composition, confidence and color were the standards I used to jury the work," said judge Barbara Gillette. "Much of the work was done, from my point of view, on a professional level. And many of the paintings were from competent to new artists in the genre of landscape painting."
Gillette encouraged those who did not place to continue painting.
"I want to strongly encourage those that are not in the exhibit to keep working," Gillette said. "Competent painting and drawing take practice. See as many exhibits as possible. They are a mini course in making art. Hopefully, those of you not in the exhibit this year will keep painting and enter again next year."
The Peninsula Area Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the national park and the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park sponsored the Sixth Annual Plein Air Competition.
Artist created an original two-dimensional art in any medium other than photography during the event in the true plein air style, working on site on a stamped blank canvas. The artists could submit two pieces for the juried competition.
Sold artwork will split the amount with 60 percent to the artist and 40 percent to the Peninsula Area Chamber of Commerce.
Winning artwork is featured on www.explorepeninsula.com link to plein air page.
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The Log Cabin Gallery, 1671 Main St. in Peninsula, will feature artwork by 23 local artists in a variety of mediums--glass, fiber, wood, clay, paper, metal--housed in a restored 1850s log cabin from June 26 through July 27 on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Sunday, July 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. Tom Baldwin will transform a block of wood into a bird for a Wildfowl Carving Demo.
Saturday, July 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. Meet the artists at a reception celebrating the creative arts at the Summer Pure & Simple Reception. Jan Hammond performs on a mountain dulcimer.
Saturday, July 19 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. help paint the Peninsula python; Learn to juggle with MisterO from noon to 12:30 p.m. and 12:45 to 1:15 p.m.; and Python Parade up Route 303 at 1:30 p.m.
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BANNER ELK, N.C. -- Behind another late second half goal, the University of North Georgia women's soccer team earned its third consecutive victory as the Nighthawks downed host Lees-McRae College 1-0 in non-conference action.
North Georgia's Kelly Penston scored an unassisted goal at the 62:15 mark when she was in the right place to collect a rebound that LMC goalie Alicia Pierson could not collect. The senior forward found the back of the net for the third time with the deposit also being her second game-winning goal.
After scoreless first half that saw the Nighthawks outshoot the Bobcats 11-6, UNG continued to apply the offensive pressure holding an 11-5 advantage in shots after half. North Georgia's offensive attack featured balance as 11 different players tallied shots in the contest.
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The export-oriented knit composite C & A Textiles Limited company floated 4.5 crore ordinary shares of Tk 10 each to raise the fund for machinery consume, building construction and repayment of all bank loans in Bangladesh.
C & A Textiles Limited net asset value per share of the company was Tk 18.38 and earning per share of Tk 1.78 according to the company's financial statement of the year ended on December 31, 2013.
C & A Textiles Limited issue managers is AFC Capital Limited and Imperial Capital Limited. The Bangladesh Security Exchange Commission fined Fine Food Limited BDT. 1 lakh as the company has dishonored different securities related rules in arranging its financial statement for the year ended on June 30, 2013.
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There are 36 textile companies are listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange Bangladesh, accounting for around 5% of the total market capitalization.
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As the climate warms, all species will either need to find new habitats with similar temperatures to those they currently occupy or evolve new thermal tolerances. Recent research by Araujo and colleagues suggests that some species may be able to adapt to new, higher temperatures better than others. Specifically, the authors analyzed the heat and cold tolerance capabilities of 2740 terrestrial ectotherm, endotherm, and plant species from across the globe. They found that maximum heat tolerance levels were similar across species, regardless of organism type, while maximum cold tolerance levels were more highly variable. This suggests that there is a physiological limit to heat tolerance across the tree of life. If so, species that already live in warm environments will likely be unable to effectively adapt to even warmer temperatures. In contrast, cold-adapted species will more easily be able to evolve higher heat tolerance and potentially survive. Thus, tropical species are likely at higher risk of extinction in the near term than temperate and polar species, a sobering thought given that a huge portion of the planet's biodiversity is concentrated in tropical areas.
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Now a star-studded roster of his colleagues have gathered together to produce a two-disc tribute album, Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne, releasing this April 1st. And it's no joke. Look for tunes covered by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams, Don Henley, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin and more.
Co-producer Tamara Saviano tells us more about this intriguing project. "In the past I used a house band and would create the arrangements ahead of time. But for this album we relied solely on the artists to create their own vision for the songs and gave them complete control over the instrumentation and arrangement. It was a challenge but it struck me how excited everyone was to honor Jackson in their own way."
You can check out Lyle Lovett's take on "Rosie" over at Rolling Stone.
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1. These Days - Don Henley w/ Blind Pilot
2. Everywhere I Go - Bonnie Raitt and David Lindley
3. Running On Empty - Bob Schneider
4. Fountain Of Sorrow - Indigo Girls
5. Doctor My Eyes - Paul Thorn
6. For Everyman - Jimmy LaFave
7. Barricades Of Heaven - Griffin House
8. Our Lady Of The Well - Lyle Lovett
9. Jamaica Say You Will - Ben Harper
10. Before The Deluge - Eliza Gilkyson
11. For A Dancer - Venice
12. Looking Into You - Kevin Welch
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1. Rock Me On The Water - Keb' Mo'
2. The Pretender - Lucinda Williams
3. Rosie - Lyle Lovett
4. Something Fine - Karla Bonoff
5. Too Many Angels - Marc Cohn feat. Joan As Police Woman
6. Your Bright Baby Blues - Sean and Sara Watkins
7. Linda Paloma - Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa
8. Call It A Loan - Shawn Colvin
9. I'm Alive - Bruce Hornsby
10. Late For The Sky - Joan Osborne
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The staff thanked Camille and her family for their fund-raising efforts which helped with the purchase of the 3.0 tesla MRI. Ever since Camille had surgery at Children's Hospital Oakland in 2004 to remove a brain tumor the size of a tennis ball, she and her family have been raising money for the facility with lavish Halloween parties. Camille, who has a rare medical condition called neurofibromatosis, hopes to use this cutting-edge technology three times a year so Children's medical experts can closely watch for re-occurring tumors.
Blackhawk Veterinary and Grooming announced that Dr. John Andersen, formerly of Alamo Animal Hospital, has joined its practice. Andersen, a Danville resident, has practiced in the Tri-Valley area for more than 30 years. Blackhawk Veterinary and Grooming is located at 9000R Crow Canyon Road, at the corner of Camino Tassajara and Crow Canyon Road.
Michael Bette, a recent graduate of San Ramon Valley High School, receives an awards check from Assistant Fire Chief Steve Hart for $1,000 from the Robert R. Tuttle Memorial Scholarship Fund. The presentation took place during a meeting of the Danville Sycamore Valley Rotary at Crow Canyon Country Club. Michael will be attending Butte College in the fall, majoring in fire science. Present, among others were, Danville Mayor Newell Arnerich, Mary Tuttle, Michael Bette, Assistant Chief Steve Hart and Rotarian Paul DiDonato.


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TOWN 'N COUNTRY — When Rick Martinez saw the geyser of sewage rocketing into the sky Saturday morning, he was furious.
The sewage pipe on Comanche Avenue between Hanley Road and Sweetwater Creek has ruptured and been repaired three times in seven months, with the latest repair on Wednesday.
The fourth break, which began at 11:40 a.m. Saturday and was shut off at 1:40 p.m., made him want to scream.
"It's obvious that the pipe is defective," Martinez said. "I want to know why they keep putting it back into the ground — even though it breaks every time."
The answer, according to the county's Water Resource Services, is not so simple.
Testing has found no integrity problems with the 20-inch pipe or the engineering, said Michelle Van Dyke, a spokeswoman for the agency. She said the investigation will continue to try to find the reason behind the frequent ruptures.
In the meantime, the county will station an employee on the road 24 hours a day to improve the response time if there is another rupture.
And the third break on Wednesday accelerated county plans to build a bypass to the 755-foot section of pipe that will be replaced, she said.
Until the bypass is complete, the county will limit traffic and prohibit parking on that stretch of Comanche Avenue because a parked sport utility vehicle was damaged in Saturday's break.
In the first spill on Sept. 12, 200,000 gallons of sewage poured into a small retention pond and then overflowed into Sweetwater Creek.
Just one month later, 1.8 million gallons of sewage polluted the creek in an overnight break.
On Wednesday, Water Resource Services estimated that 460,000 gallons flowed before the lines were shut down. That spill flowed for two hours like the Saturday break, Van Dyke said.
The trouble began after Spectrum Underground installed the 2,600-foot section of thick-walled PVC pipe to replace older iron pipes in July. A second company, Secord Contracting, has been hired to install the replacement.
Sweetwater Creek is just 20 feet wide, 6 inches deep and flows into Old Tampa Bay.
Martinez estimates the first and second spills cost his Sweetwater Organic Community Farm nearly $80,000 by affecting his crop irrigation. His crops haven't been hurt since the county switched his irrigation to city water, but he's still unhappy about what the ruptures have done to his neighborhood.
"It's sad that we've gotten used to the smell (of sewage)," he said. "That's not something we should have to be accustomed to."
Times staff writer Richard Danielson contributed to this report. Robbyn Mitchell can be reached at (813) 226-3373 or email@example.com.


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Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to test with multiple user accounts on the same WordPress powered website? Incognito windows and using multiple browsers only gets you so far. This plugin offers a one click swap between user accounts, logging you in as the selected user. It also comes in hand when you need to actually see what a user is seeing when they report an issue.
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The Rudd government will waive its own guidelines on taxpayer-funded advertising to fast-track a campaign to counter "misinformation" by the mining sector against its super profits tax.
It claims that misinformation by the mining industry over its resources super profits tax is affecting the value of Australia's capital assets and having an impact on financial markets.
The mining sector has been leading a campaign against the government's proposed tax, with the mining giant Rio Tinto warning that it has the potential to destroy Australia's reputation in the global community.
The government has insisted that the tax would be a 40 per cent take on so-called super profits.
But claiming there was an urgent need to counter the "coordinated misinformation" being promulgated by the mining industry's campaign, the government has exempted itself from its own guidelines on taxpayer-funded advertising.
These guidelines require any taxpayer-funded campaign costing over $250,000 to be vetted by an independent committee.
The Auditor-General was dumped from this vetting role in March.
The Special Minister of State, Joe Ludwig, granted the waiver following a "request" from the Treasurer, Wayne Swan.
The advertisements begin this weekend.
In the federal budget, $38.5 million was allocated for advertisements promoting "tax reform".
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Myfitnesspal.com support thread 6!!!(714 Posts)
A thread for all those wanting support and advice for using mfp website and app. Welcome to everyone new and those of us that have been around a while
Added loads of the newbies (although I'm abit of a newbie myself)
Its great when you can see what other ppl have done. DH doing lots of late shifts this week so I cant get to the gym and have been doing Jillian Michaels instead, I brought her box set off Amazon yonks ago and have been doing that.
Anyone have a target like a holiday? I'm going on holiday at the end of april with my family so I'm treating that as a mini target.
Welcome all new comers.
Right who wants to queue up and give me a
big kick up the backside.
I've almost complete fallen of the wagon. Since Christmas I've had one thing after another with children (being ill, broken arms ect) and snow days. I just can't seem to be able to get back onto doing exercise and eating properly.
Hi wheredidiputit
Consider yrself kicked !!! And one more for luck ;-) x I think we all fall off from time to time but the main thing is u get back on and u have made the 1st step today x so well done x
R u on MFP ? If so is yr name same as on here and I will add u ?
Morning ladies....
I am so glad that I am not the only one but I do suffer after I have stressed ate!! IBS is playing havoc this morning.....
wheredidiput big kick from me too!!! Did insanity fit test yesterday off to do plyo shortly if I can manage to stay away from the loo long enough... !!
Come on ladies we can do it!!! Xxx
I know I can do it. I've lost 30lb since July last year. I've just got to get on with it. I may leave it next week as it's half term, and just try to eat healthly and do as much activity as possible (weather permitting).
My username is power1969 on MFP.
where KICK, although a break between losing weight is supposed to be a good thing, so if you have managed to maintain(ish) the 30lb loss, which is superb by the way, then getting back on track should give good results.
floot I couldn't see your diary. Happy to look at non-weird dairies, too.
pink I'm going on holiday at the beginning of April
which I may have mentioned once or twice already and want to lose another 10lbs by then, although I'd be reasonably happy with 7lbs.
Lissy shred is high impact, so won't be any good for you. Have you looked at Taebo? I think that is supposed to be low impact - ask on MFP, I know a few people do it.
Twinkle yes, I'm definitely an emotional eater, too. I am trying to listen to my body and differentiate between when I want to eat because I am hungry and when I want to eat because I am stressed/ tired/bored. I agree with cinnamon that I think it'll always be a battle, but one I am getting better at.
It help me to prolog as much of my food as possible, then I know how many calories I have, or don't have, left.
Should have made my diary public now. Indian takeaway tonight- I shall be on the tandoori chicken and okra, no rice or naan for me!
I've heard a lot of people talk about MFP but how exactly does it work? I am struggling to lose babyweight 10 months post baby. Want to lose about a stone and a half. I struggle to think up meal ideas and snacks to help me lose weight and never seem to find time to exercise but I really want to try harder now. Is MFP quite straightforward to follow? Thanks
Jemster all MFP is, is counting calories. Log every calorie you eat and try to come under your target!
Speaking of, I am now 47 calories over my target today, so must so some exercise this evening!
Hello everyone just checking in again. Not much to report here. Jemster I am finding MFP useful in other areas too apart from calorie counting. I like the support that goes without saying but I also like how it breaks things down into food groups so you can see where you're going wrong or help you decide what to have as a snack if you have cals left over. I also like the fact that there are a lot of popular low cal recipes in the database. Good luck!
Jemster big welcome to u x I love MFP but it can become very addictive in a good way x think I spend most of my time looking at what others have had to eat ( not in a stalkerish way might add) but for low cal snacks and eve meals x I have an iPhone so if u wanna log something u can scan the packet and it adds all the info to yr diary x
Not only does it teach u the calorie value of every thing which u pick up quickly it teaches u portion control which has always been where a slip up having done slimming world where u have loads of what they call free foods x no food is free x I and all the others log everything from glasses of water to main meal x once u have signed up u will b able to look at what others eat and that helps a lot x another good app is be food smart x it's free and has low cal meals for every time of day and snacks x
If u need any help getting started and setting up then post on here and someone will answer x but if I can do it anyone can ;) x
Wise I'm on hol at the beginning of April too, on a cruise so quite scared of myself being let loose among all that food!
That sounds lovely. Where are you off to DoubleMum? I want to go on a cruise too! Jemster that is a really good point about MFP and portion control. I was quite a healthy eater, don't drink much, never have junk, always cook from scratch yet still at least 2.5 stone overweight probably more. Not an emotional eater either so portion control is my only issue. I notice a few people pre-logging. I think that's a great idea. I shall be doing more of that. Think holidays are difficult. I'm going to Venice tomorrow. Wish me and my willpower good luck!
It's in the Med, got into cruises through Clubcard points, it was a bit of a shock to have to pay for it and unlikely to happen again so I want to make the most of it. The first cruise we went on called at Venice, 'twas lovely. Good luck and have a fantastic time!
I think I have multiple issues - eating bad stuff, portion control, emotional eating, feeding frenzies - all of them and that's why I have so very much to lose. Also if you've never been thin - ie overweight since childhood - you don't have anything to hold on to IYSWIM.
I'm in the same boat double !!!!! Think I was thin ish when I was 18 but had always been a chubby kid x now 43 so that was many moons ago may b I should change name to doublelissy ???? We will get there in the end hun x
Yes definately make the most of the cruise then. I'm going to be as careful as I can. I'm mindful that a few All Inclusive holidays may have helped me get where I am. Must tell myself I don't need 5 puddings! I haven't been really thin since my 20's. I was at my smallest when I was at uni but I was huge as a child. I can't pinpoint exactly when I gained and lost weight and I wasn't even that happy when I was thin. It's ok thinking like that though as it makes the health aspect the focus for me.
Hi Jemster I agree with what everyone else has said about MFP. I have found it really helpful in many ways. If you join, let us know your username and we will friend you, it's like having your own cheer leading group, it's great for motivation.
Double that sounds lovely, although I get seasick, so have always been wary of cruises. We have a villa in Lanzarote for a week, as self catering I will have a bit more control over the food, but I don't intend cooking much and a week off is fine as long as you get back on the wagon afterwards.
mrsnec that sounds lovely. Enjoy your weekend away, very jealous.
floot I can stalk you now
<disclaimer> I had an apple Danish for breakfast. Friday is bakery day in our house, I bloody love apple Danishes. However I should point out I've gone from having about four a week as snacks to having one a week to replace a meal. So it looks bad on paper but I'm actually quite proud of my restraint . Going out to Giraffe for dinner tonight, any low calorie suggestions?
Afternoon everyone.
Last fast day of the week today. Must instruct DH not to buy any wine or anything for tonight!
mrsnec have a great time in Venice. If you want a drink have a Bellini, or dirty Martini, they're lowish in calories! Lots of lovely seafood there too. Ooh, I'm now!
I think Chops is off to Montreal too. If you read this Chops, have fun!
Last year I lost 17kg and mfp played a big part in that. Then I lost the drive to succed and need a giant kick up the bum. I'm feijoajam on mfp, please come and kick me.
At the moment I'm working on getting fit, but I need to sort my eating out again.
Yep, off to the airport shortly, hope you all have lovely half terms, see you all soon! x
Well gel chops x haves fab time u have done soooo well so far x
Welcome and I've just added u hun x consider yrself booted x
Sorry silly phone corrected yr name x
It's going to be quiet around here with all these lucky people off on holiday.
Welcome feijoa, well done on the weight loss, that's great. I've sent you a friend request and am happy to kick. Feel free to kick back.
Have been really busy last few days and I'm on my phone so its a pain to scroll back past this page so sorry if I don't respond to anything!!
Welcome back wheredidiputit and come on pull yourself together, you've done so well to just stop now. Make yourself do that first day of eating well and exercise and you'll remember why you loved it
It tells you what you should be eating based on weight, height, age and activity level jemster and they allows you to log what you actually eat and you try to match up the two! Be honest with what you log and keep below your weekly calories and you will lose weight. Plus TA a great support network.
Have a lovely time mrsnec
Well done for getting as far as you did FeijoaVodkaAndCheezels, and you can do it again to get to your goal!!
I know what you mean DoubleMum, I was bullied as a fat child and my mum eventually took me to slimming world when I was 16. I went from 12 1/2st to 9 1/2st. I then gained it all back by 18 plus more. I've been between 13 and 18 1/2st since only losing while pregnant! So I don't really have anything I look back and didn't have clothes to fit back into, I had to buy new ones . You should look forward to what you would like to be! You can do it!!
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Robert Cottrell | Laird Easton | Stephen Lewis |Jeffery Livingston | James Matray | Jason Nice | Kate Transchel
Robert Cottrell
Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945 (M.E. Sharpe, 2008).
This book acquaints students with the lives of a variety of influential Americans, both famous and lesser-known, who decisively shaped the course of events in the decades following World War II. Through those lives, it provides a comprehensive examination of the critical issues that determined the course of modern American history.
The individuals presented in these narrative biographies significantly, and sometimes decisively, impacted contemporary American life in a wide range of areas, including national politics, foreign policy, social and political activism, popular and literary culture, sports, and business.
"Modern American Lives is a wonderful book. These highly readable biographies of men and women who have shaped recent U.S. history illuminate important political, diplomatic, social, and cultural trends of these decades. The introductions and other supporting materials enhance the work's value and embed the biographies firmly within their historical context. From George Kennan to Noam Chomsky, Marilyn Monroe to Tiger Woods, every biography provides a rich harvest of perceptive insights." -- Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin
Smokejumpers of the Civilian Public Service in World War II: Conscientious Objectors as Firefighters for the National Forest Service (McFarland, 2006).
This is the story of Civilian Public Service smokejumpers, who battled dangerous winds, searing heat, and devastating fires from 1943 until 1945. Fewer than 300 World War II conscientious objectors served their country in this fashion, operating out of CPS bases in Montana, Idaho, and Oregon. But that small band of men helped keep Forest Service operations alive in the Pacific Northwest. When the war ended, CPS smokejumpers, like millions of World War II combat soldiers, were ushered out of wartime service. Some, like returning GIS, encountered difficulties in adjusting to civilian life; many went on to make remarkable contributions to their communities, their nation, and the world.
Laird Easton
The Red Count: The Life & Times of Harry Kessler
"Laird M. Easton's The Red Count: The Life & Times of Harry Kessler can be enjoyed as both cultural history and ironic tragedy. And as comedy. . . . This rich and careful biography fills in the tragic fate of one more figure of goodwill and intellect defeated by fanaticism and unbridled cruelty." --Harpers Magazine, August 2002
"Aesthete, patron, diplomat, diarist, peace campaigner, defender of the Weimar republic and exile from Nazism, this ultra-sophisticated German count belongs to a type that probably no longer exists: a moneyed and cultivated amateur whose brains and background brought him effortless access to politics, society and intellectual life in any capital where he set foot. . . . In the first full biography in English, Laird Easton describes Kessler's life in detail and well." --The Economist, August 24-30, 2002
"Laird M. Easton . . . has written a thoughtful, well-researched, and fascinating biography of Kessler's life that is also a contribution to the history of fin de siècle avant-garde art." --The New York Review of Books, October 24, 2002
Chosen by The Economist as one of the five best biographies of 2002.
Selected by the editors and contributors of The New York Review of Books for inclusion in The Reader's Catalog, a list of the best books in print.
Translated into German as Der Rote Graf: Harry Graf Kessler und seiner Zeit (Klett-Cotta, 2005).
"Uncommonly worth reading because of its elegant and fluid [style]. . . . Finally we are able to make the acquaintance of one of the most fascinating, politically farsighted, and culturally receptive Germans of the 20th century, thanks to Easton's vivid and erudite portrait. This book is truly an enriching experience." Deutschlandradio, December 25, 2005
Listed as one of the best books of 2005 in Die Literarische Welt, December 3, 2005
Stephen Lewis
The Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chiapas, 1910-1945
My first major research project grew out of my longstanding interest in nationalism, marginalized populations, and revolution. Chiapas, Mexico, is an ethnically diverse, impoverished state bordering on Guatemala, and it proved to be the ideal laboratory for the study of state- and nation-building after 1920. Teachers from Mexico's fledgling Ministry of Public Education (SEP) sought to bring to rural Chiapas the land, labor, and pro-Indian reforms that we usually associate with the Mexican revolution. Ranchers, coffee planters, alcohol merchants, debt labor contractors and even state governors resisted the federal blueprint. They fiercely defended their interests against teachers who doubled as agrarian reformers, unionizers, political agitators, social reformers, and labor inspectors. Mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian) peasants and workers, for their part, generally supported the teachers and came to embrace populist pedagogy during the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40). Meanwhile, the state's highland indigenous communities rejected the SEP's cultural project throughout the period of study. Indeed, the Zapatista insurrection of 1994 dramatically indicted several decades of failed federal Indian policy in Chiapas and underscored the revolution's "ambivalent" outcome.
The Eagle and the Virgin: National Memory and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 (Durham, 2006)
My co-edited volume with Mary Kay Vaughan, The Eagle and the Virgin: National Memory and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 (Durham, 2006) was inspired by my frustration over teaching the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920 or 1910-1940, depending on who's counting). How was it possible that so few classroom texts were available to teach the most exciting, most important period in Mexican history? I think the volume does a good job at highlighting the state's top-down state- and nation-building designs (in music, education, film, radio, architecture and the arts) as well as the responses of peasants, women, indigenous peoples, conservative Catholics, and industrial workers, among others.
Jeffery Livingston
Swallowed by Globalism: John M. Vorys and American Foreign Policy (2001)
A critical development in mid-twentieth century American politics was the evolution of conservatives from isolationism to staunch support for U.S. globalism. In "Swallowed by Globalism", Jeffery C. Livingston examines Republican Congressman John M. Vorys' role in piloting the conservative odyssey.
Michael Magliari
John Bidwell and California: The Life and Writings of a Pioneer 1841 - 1900 (2003)
"Defying all odds, Gillis and Magliari have established that academics can indeed write history in a readable way. They put together a wonderfully intelligent--sometimes downright thrilling--narrative at the beginning of each section. Then they amplify it all with Bidwell's own writings....the initial printing of this book sold out within weeks of its arrival. A second printing is now selling briskly."
Gregory Franzwa
Former president of the Oregon-California Trails Association
Review in the May 2003 issue of Folio
"Gillis and Magliari...invested eight years of intensive and extensive research to present a more balanced view of John Bidwell, his accomplishments, and his failures. The result is clearly the definitive account of a complex man....This is not a revisionist account, but a thorough analysis and presentation of the historical record. Controversial issues...are explored and presented in an even-handed manner. Interesting facts abound throughout....The sixteen-page bibliography, a boon to future researchers and historians, stands as a testament to the research that has gone into this book. _John Bidwell and California_ is highly-informative and a great pleasure to read; it is well-written, with no wasted words and without the verbosity found in some scholarly works. A few words (such as hagiography and kulturkampf) may give pause or have the reader reaching for the dictionary, but they are a rarity. Enjoy!"
Andrew Hammond
Review in Spring 2003 issue of Overland Journal
James Matray
The Reluctant Crusade: American Foreign Policy in Korea, 1941-1950
"Out of the ashes of its defeat in World War II, Japan arose to become the foremost economic power in East Asia and a major player on the world economic stage. How did it do this? This work provides a concise summary and analysis of Japan's emergence as a global economic power. This guide discusses the growth of Japan as an unconventional global power based on the strength of its economy and the softening of its economy in the 1990s. Six topical essays are supported by a timeline of events in postwar Japan, biographical profiles of key players, the text of important primary documents, a glossary of terms, and an annotated bibliography."
Japan's Emergence as Global Power (2000)
East Asia and the United States: An Encyclopedia of Relations Since 1784, 2 vols.
"James Matray has pulled off the Trifecta of academic reference books by making the East Asia and The United States comprehensive, accurate, and, above all, readable. This will be a 'must buy' for both personal and institutional libraries."
Michael Schaller
Author of Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General
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Japan's Emergence as Global Power (2000)
Out of the ashes of its defeat in World War II, Japan arose to become the foremost economic power in East Asia and a major player on the world economic stage. How did it do this? This work provides a concise summary and analysis of Japan's emergence as a global economic power. This guide discusses the growth of Japan as an unconventional global power based on the strength of its economy and the softening of its economy in the 1990s. Six topical essays are supported by a timeline of events in postwar Japan, biographical profiles of key players, the text of important primary documents, a glossary of terms, and an annotated bibliography.
Jason Nice
Sacred History and National Identity: Comparisons Between Early Modern Wales and Brittany
Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
Hb: 256pp: March 2009
978 1 85196 623 3: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 85196 599 1
The sixteenth century saw a redrawing of the borders of north-west Europe. Wales and Brittany entered into unions with neighbouring countries England and France. Nice uses Brittany and Wales's responses to unification to write a comparative history of national identity during the early modern period.
The Estates of Brittany and the Council in the Marches of Wales sponsored works of sacred historiography which manipulated history to defend their jurisdictions and legitimize their legal claims. Nice argues that the sacred histories of each country fostered contrasting national identities, one differentialist and the other assimilationist. This distinction, which uses terms characteristic of twentieth-century nationalism, demonstrates that the original function of national identities must be considered in order to appreciate their historical specificity and mutability.
Kate Transchel
Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932 (Pitt Russian East European).
"In this fascinating study, Kate Transchel shows how Russian workers resisted both Tsarist and Soviet attempts to reform their traditional drinking habits. Like much recent research on early Soviet history, Transchel's pioneering study shows the remarkable resilience of Russian working-class culture despite the colossal and often brutal transformations of the early twentieth century." --David Christian, San Diego State University
Our Daily Bread: Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941 (New Russian History Series).
Drawing on newly available archival materials including official documents, reports, and personal accounts, this remarkable study presents a detailed picture of the living standards of various social groups in prewar Soviet Russia, and the role of state-controlled distribution of food and goods as a tool of the Stalinist dictatorship. The study offers a new perspective not only on the period of collectivization, industrialization, and terror but also on the regime's most rudimentary method of controlling human behavior and reshaping the social order. In her conclusion the author analyzes the long-term impacts of the Stalinist "dictatorship of distribution," from bureaucratization to rural depopulation to the emergence of a distinctive type of black-market economy.
The Breakup of Yugoslavia: Conflict in the Balkans (Arbitrary Borders).
The cause of the Balkan Wars of the 1990s went beyond territorial disputes; they were the result of arbitrary social, cultural, and ethnic borders that developed over centuries. The location and accessibility of Yugoslavia, or "Land of the South Slavs," determined the nature of its history as a battle ground of peoples, empires, and cultures. Historically, the Yugoslav lands have been located in a region of conflict between East/West and Christianity/Islam and have always been a focus for international rivalries. In the twentieth century, two Yugoslavias were created and destroyed: the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941) and the socialist state, the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1945-1991). Both states struggled to achieve a viability that eluded them in the end; thus, Yugoslavia provides an instructive example, and a cautionary tale, of the centrality that imposed borders can have on the development of societies and nations.


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More than 900 people living in the villages of Whitegate and Marton have been given the chance to help shape plans for their neighbourhood by answering the Neighbourhood Plan Questionnaire.
The questionnaire, which has been distributed to homes across the two villages, asks residents to give their views on where future housing, jobs, schools, roads, access to local health services and leisure facilities are located.
Although the neighbourhood plan consultation was launched in September, residents still have time to have their say.
Whitegate Parish councillor and resident, Mhari Oakes, said: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the people of Whitegate and Marton to have their say on what happens in their village.
"We are urging people to fill in the questionnaire and return it as soon as they can either by post, by email or by handing it in at the Christmas lights switch on this weekend.
"This is their chance to make a real difference to Whitegate and Marton over the next 20 years."
You can return your questionnaire responses:
By post: The Parish Clerk, Whitegate & Marton Parish Council, Holm Lea, Clay Lane, Marton, CW7 2QE.
By email: email@example.com
By hand: At any parish council meeting, held on the second Monday of each month at Whitegate School, or at the Christmas lights switch on at The Mews, Church Green, on Saturday December 8.
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Calvin W. Stinnett Sr., 80, of Quincy died at 6:05 am Thursday (March 1, 2012) in Country View Health Care Center in Macomb, Illinois.
Born February 9, 1932 in Quincy, Calvin was the son of Perry L. and Hilda Woermann Stinnett Sr. He married Shirley Ann Bange on March 17, 1950 in Quincy. She survives.
Calvin was a member of St. James Lutheran Church. He enjoyed fishing, traveling and especially loved to go camping.
Mr. Stinnett was employed at the Quincy Herald Whig as General Press Foreman for 42 years until his retirement in 1993.
Survivors include his wife, Shirley; two daughters, Sharon K. Logsdon and her husband William and Becky Reilly and her husband Philip both of Quincy; one son, Calvin W. Stinnett Jr and his wife Marla of Quincy; seven grandchildren, Jody Logsdon (Jarrod) of Quincy, William L. Logsdon (Brandy) of Quincy, C.J. Stinnett (Nichole) of LaGrange, MO, Brandy Bartlett (Chuck) of Ursa, IL, Alex Stinnett, Brittney Yates and Cassie Reilly all of Quincy; sixteen great grandchildren; and many loving nieces and nephews.
Mr. Stinnett was preceded in death by his parents; four brothers, Edward George, Donald, Harold and Perry Jr.; and one sister, Lillian Bredehoft.
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Chippenham came to life at the weekend with about 9,000 visitors on Bank Holiday Monday alone for the folk festival.
There was no gap to be found along the High Street as people gathered to see an animated procession of 17 dance groups, who filled the town centre with the vibrant colours and sounds of clashing sticks and tinkling bells.
Sally Joyce, 55, of Andrew's Close, Chippenham, has been going to the folk festival since she was 15.
She said: "Look what it does for Chippenham. It brings generations out together and puts a smile on everybody's face; even in the rain they're still dancing.
"I love to see the kids dancing as they're the ones who'll be carrying it on."
In the Big Top on River Island Park, the youthful Hampshire Ceilidh band Threepenny Bit had a full house clapping when their mix of electric and acoustic instruments put the groove into folk.
The innovative trend continued into the night as the Demon Barbers fused folk and hip hop in what was surely the first time a scratch DJ had graced the folk festival stage.
The show brought clog dancers and street dancers on stage together in a very brave and bizarre, but brilliant festival finale.
Festival organiser Bob Berry said: "We invited Chippenham's own Xpression StreetDance to try our kind of street dancing, Morris dancing. At 10am in the morning [of the show] they had never tried it before, but as dancers they picked it up in just 20 minutes."
Mr Berry said his favourite act this time had been Grace Notes, a female trio who perform a cappella and accompanied arrangements of traditional and contemporary songs in three-part harmony.
He said selling tickets online for the first time this year added about £3,000 to their revenue by increasing ticket sales to 808.
He said: "All the free stuff we put on for the community is just an eighth of what the festival has to offer.
"The ticket-buyers get access to over 200 events, including workshops ranging from how to play the hurdy gurdy to how to rapper sword dance.
"We also had a presentation from a chap from Yorkshire who
researched the huge collection of traditional folk songs of Frank Kidson, who was relatively unknown.
"We still need support from the traders of Chippenham. The festival brings £800,000 into the community in one weekend."
He said the festival costs £160,000 to run and breaks even thanks to the support of about 550 volunteers.
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