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Outdoor Heating Options
Start a fire, and what happens next is magical. Once a fire is lit in your back yard, it's inevitable: that is where the party gathers. Whatever it is about fire, it mesmerizes us, warms us, and relaxes us. And today, there are more choices in outdoor hearth appliances than ever before.
Extend the Season
With Americans spending more on outdoor rooms than ever before, it's not surprising they want to get as much from their investment as possible. That's why manufacturers are responding with a wide assortment of heating appliances to keep you cozy even through the cooler spring and fall seasons. Read below to learn more about your choices.
Outdoor Fireplaces
Outdoor fireplaces, permanently installed on your patio or outdoor room, bring the same kind of charm and ambiance to the outside of your home as on the inside. Usually made of 100 percent stainless steel, outdoor fireplaces can be surrounded by granite, tile, stone, or any other material that complements your home's architecture and style. Outdoor fireplaces usually don't require a chimney and can use either natural gas, propane or wood. Prices generally range from about $2000 to $2500 and up. HPBA strongly recommends installation performed by an NFI-certified installer (National Fireplace Institute).
After the traditional campfire, chimineas are probably the oldest kind of outdoor fire "appliance." Typically made of clay (some are cast-iron), chimineas provide an elevated, portable outdoor hearth with an opening that lets heat out on just one side. While they provide warmth and ambiance, they are not recommended for use on wood decks and can be subject to cracking and breakage. Chimineas are often the least-expensive style of outdoor hearth.
Making their debut in just the past few years, firepits have recently become highly popular with homeowners due to their portability, beauty, and convenience. Firepits are hearth appliances that are closest in style to an old-fashioned campfire because they radiate heat in a complete circle (360 degrees). Generally intended for heat and ambiance, some firepits come with grills and can be used for cooking. Whether flush to the floor or elevated, firepits can burn natural gas, liquid propane gas, or wood logs. They produce between 50,000 and 70,000 BTU's of heat. Most are made of steel and retail between $300 and $700. Firepits should never be used indoors, too close to the house, on the grass, or under an overhang or anything that could catch fire. Some firepits should not be used on wood decks. Owners should check the product manual to determine whether use on a wood deck is recommended.
Patio Heaters
Patio heaters are also a relatively new product offering that are quickly gaining popularity. These appliances can run on liquid propane or natural gas, produce 35,000 to 45,000 BTU's, and radiate heat 20 to 25 feet in all directions (farther than a firepit). Patio heaters can be stainless steel (most durable, if high-grade), cast aluminum, or painted steel. Prices range from about $300 to $700. While most patio heaters are free-standing, there are some smaller "table-top" units that produce up to 10,000 BTU's of heat.


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Tidioute fund reaches milestone
Thanks to residents of the Tidioute area and their friends, an initial $25,000 has been raised for the Tidioute Area Community Fund (TACF). With a matching grant of $25,000 from the Community Foundation of Warren County, the initial goal of $50,000 has been reached. The Community Foundation will invest these funds and any additional funds for the benefit of the Tidioute area. TACF will function as a donor-advised fund with a group of Tidioute area residents serving as an advisory committee to accept requests for the use of the income from the fund. A common application form will be developed by the committee. Contributions may be made directly to the Community Foundation of Warren County, PO Box 691, Warren, PA 16365-0691. All contributions are tax deductible under current IRS regulations.

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Skip to comments.France and Britain Reportedly Considering Pulling Ambassadors from Israel
Posted on 12/03/2012 8:32:42 AM PST by LibWhacker
Everybody knew that Israel's move to build new settlements in the previously off-limits area outside Jerusalem known as E1 would anger friends and enemies alike. But few probably guessed that it would send European ambassadors fleeing the country. According to a new report from Haaretz, that's exactly what the diplomats from France and Britain are thinking. More specifically, the Haaretz report cites senior European diplomats who say that the two countries are considering "the unprecedented step of recalling their ambassadors." One told the paper, "This time it won't just be a condemnation, there will be real action taken against Israel."
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlanticwire.com ...
The "US" would too, if it thinks it can get away with it...
If they go, fine. Convert their quarters to housing.
"...Israel's move to build new settlements in the previously off-limits area outside Jerusalem..."
Is this area not part of Israel?????? Why can't they build in their OWN country????????
Amazing considering that Jewish national history is older than the english and French combined.
It was eventually going to happen anyway. Israel is slowly being de-legitimized by the West.
These "nitwits" have brought their own countries to the very edge of ruin by their (insane) immigration policies. They're the last people Israel needs any lectures from (especially about its internal local home building for its own citizens)
Funny how this hasnt appeared in any British media, which is covering the Israel-Palestinian recent flareup wall to wall.
I smell BS.
Well you been a good and faithful friend Britain...But I must chose the side of God and his chosen...Fare thee well old friend...
Why are Israelis always building "settlements" in warzones? I wouldn't live in one of those. Does the government do this or private citizens?
I sincerely hope you're right and this report is BS.
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They aren't "settlements" any more or less than the town you live in is a "settlement." They are just communities and homes for Israel's families and citizens.
Israelis are getting damned tired of living in a "war zone," as you put it. Quite probably, it seems to me anyway, or at least possibly one of these days (maybe after the terrorists fire another 2000 missile- bombs into Israeli homes, schools, hospitals, and pizza parlors,... or perhaps sooner than that?), Israel will eventually lose patience and get rid of the problem (like any other country would have done long ago, frankly).
Then, Israelis won't have to live in a "war zone" any longer (but maybe France will really recall its ambassador? Mon dieu! Horrors!).
Until then, as long as the Israeli government continues to exercise such (amazing) restraint for the "causes" of "saving Arab civilian lives in areas occupied by the enemy" and "trying to get along with the neighbors," Israelis are stuck living either in homes in their "war zone" or they live out on the street or in holes in the ground or in caves in their "war zone." They choose to live in homes.
90% of the continent is gone. It has fallen to 'Eurabia', and total control of the EUSSR.
The French president was apparently asked in a press conference if he'd consider sanctions against Israel. He said not yet, but the fact that it's even being considered is like some kind of sick joke. Do they sanction leading human rights abuser, Saudi Arabia? No.
Perhaps we should sanction the European Union for its lack of democracy and police state tactics used against the critics of Islam. Sweden in particular has been begging for sanctions what with its Nazi-style ban on home-schooling. This should be our threat to the Europeans. If they sanction Israel, we will sanction them. It's not like our economy could get any worse under O'Loser.
"A diplomatic source, who declined to be named, said London would decide whether to recall its ambassador later in the day."
Who is the "we" you suggest sanctioning the EU???
The United States government under "fearless leader" would go right along with the EU and sanction Israel...
The "we" you speak of doesn't have any control over the United States government any longer....
Over in Britain, there's a firm belief that the two state solution would've brought peace to Palestine and Israel years ago and so every new settlement in "occupied" land is viewed as Israel shooting itself in the foot in the long run.
Over here, if you ask the Islamists what they want to happen (it's not difficult), they are quite candid: the sooner Israel starts flattening Palestine the better. They don't care about the Palestinians any more than they care about the Jews.
There's no bigger cheer goes up than when some Palestinian kid throws a rock at the IDF and gets a bullet in his face as a "proportionate" response. Because that's the kind of propaganda they're after.
They love it even more when the news here shows a Palestinian school flattened... "because those evil little kindergarteners didn't do enough to stop Hamas gunmen putting a rocket launcher on the roof."
And what you need to understand is that as soon as anything like that can hit the news over here, the anti-Zionist media deliberately juxtaposes the reporting of that specific kind of event with a "Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence, in a really posh part of Israel, here's some moaning minny complaining about how they got a cracked windscreen when a Palestinian threw a rock at their brand new Range Rover (yes that IS how it's reported).
The Islamists WANT Israel to be seen as the bad guy. They WANT Israel to ignore international law. So of course they stick rockets on school rooftops. Nothing works better for them than flattening some SUV on the Israeli side and then seeing a school flattened in retaliation. Every Israeli retaliation is a media own goal.
I don't think the ramifications of this has computed across the Atlantic yet (and that amazes me - I always thought Americans were far more media-savvy than us Brits). Did you guys not see how the regimes of Egypt and Libya were toppled pretty much by the power of social media? THAT'S WHERE THE REAL FRONT IS ON THIS WAR!
Some of us friends of Israel now think Israel would be far better off knowing how the game's being played, and changing their plays.
Israel would be far better off letting the Palestinians have their own state and THEN using the international laws of self-defence against an aggressive state, to defend blowing Palestine off the map. Give the Palestinians their state and stand up in the UN and cite every custom, law and precedent going to say "Here's what you wanted. But if one more shell lands on our side of the border that's it, we're going to flatten you."
And if Hamas call their bluff there's not one country in the UN will take their side, just as nobody stood up for Saddam when he attacked Kuwait.
But the only way that'll work is if Palestine fires first. It HAS to be seen to fire the first shot. He who fires first, loses the PR war.
And you cannot get round that anymore.
You make many good points about the PR war against israel. Israel has the talents to do much, much better at doing some positive pr, too! But Israel should not, and can't afford to, let its enemies lead it into letting a fear of manipulated bad PR (which unfortunately, will continue to spew forth anyway) for positive actions, whether constructive or defensive. That's a trap Israel fell into several times before, at perilous risk and great cost in lives and security. Defense first, as any decent country must do for its citizens, building of homes and schools and communities second, as any decent people do for themselves and their children, and yes wage the best PR effort possible but that's 3rd priority. In my humble opinion. (And the anti- Semitic PR assault will, regrettably, continue because the saudis are dumping tons of money into it, along with the madrasahs and camps to indoctrinate the terrorists and train them how to use bombs and missiles). In short, just do the best u can to build and defend your country and yes, try to do a much better PR job along the way. Yes, indeed, although whether Isr can ever match the PR crap being thrown at it? I doubt that. Just how it seems. The infiltration and subversion of the mass media appears quite extensive. Best regards, fhc
"Something Hitler didn't know about the Brits is that eventually they'd surrender ~ same with the French ~ just a matter of waiting them out."
Alternatively - something us Brits understood over 70 years ago that Israel and America STILL haven't figured out yet (despite both having ample opportunity to get it) is that if you want the politicians and the history books to declare you to have the moral upper hand you must ALWAYS let the other guy take the first shot. You make the truce and make darned sure everyone sees him break it. And, make darned sure everyone sees that his attack was *totally* unprovoked.
The history books will unequivocally state over and over again that whenever a FOREIGN STATE launches an unprovoked attack, everyone will accept that any response by the victim state, no matter how devastating, is legitimate.
In the Israel/Palestine debate it's all gone wooly. Palestine is not a foreign state. It's seen as part of Israel by the rest of the world. It's occupied by Israel, it's militarily contained by Israel, and it's blockaded by Israel, and for those reasons Israel can no more nuke Palestine than England could've nuked IRA heartlands.
This is precisely why Israel, not Palestine, needs to totally change the terms of the game by doing the last thing the islamists want or expect. Give them their nationhood. Nukes can be pointed at Iran without anyone crying foul, and on the exact same basis they could also be pointed at Palestine.
IF it's a nation state.
Totally agree with everything you say there, but I'd cite the Northern Ireland example as a case in point.
All the time England acted defensively and actively hunted down the IRA, who hid inside communities they terrorised, we achieved diddly squat. The Loyalist paramilitaries cited our support as their motivator, when in fact most of us hated what those guys did in our name. The biggest driver to peace for the Six Counties was Omagh. Because after that event everyone was crystal clear who the real enemies of peace were. There was no argument anymore. Even those who hadn't decommissioned, did so.
And now what's left of the Troubles? A band of about 50 bored kids kneecapping drug dealers and hanging round a dozen has-beens who still think they're part of something big when they aren't.
I know what I'm saying does sound like a very risky strategy for Israel given it has other enemies in the region, but Ahhmedinajad uses proxies like Palestine simply because Hamas is an easy way to keep Israel's eye off the real ball.
The stateless nature of the Palestinian people while they're technically living in a state of occupation is the one thing that enables them to lob rockets over the wall. That's what empowers Hamas. That's what makes them useful to Iran.
Take that away from them and they'll have no military might whatsoever, and no defence. Israel would be able to point a nuke at them. Any remnant dissidents in Hamas will have all the moral and strategic power of an IRA splinter group.
At that point, Palestine will be too busy reconstructing and too scared of the consequences to start anything, and Egypt and Jordan will be quite happy to leave things as they are.
We know that because of all the nutters in the Middle East, Saddam was by far the most unhinged and even he didn't dare bring it. Ahmedinajad's nowhere near as insane as Saddam, and we already know he won't start anything he can't finish unless he has allies who're equally willing to commit to huge loss of life for a fight that's not worth having.
So in the long run, resolving Palestinian statehood will do far more defensively for Israel than building more settlements in contested territory. Even if it means ostensibly giving land away,
Britain and France will never be on my good side again
Thanks. Israel tried that softer or "let them amass massive weaponry and attack first" (for the sake of "peace" or PR or whatver) approach for over 50 years. It lrd to insecurity and substantial losses in lives. Isr also tried the "give away your homeland for peace" approach and all it got them was 1oooo deadly missiles pointed at them. No, those approaches are proven losers. Proven over and over again. Sorry about that but that's what 50 years of Arab murders have done. Now Isr needs to just get on with it, rebuild Zion and stop trying to be so very very nice and gentle and appeasement-prone. All those wonderful humanitarian efforts have only been interpreted as weakness and invitations to more murderous attacks. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, yes for sure, but keep the powder dry. As president Reagan said, peace in this difficult world comes from strength (not weakness or reticence or any failure of resolve, all of which just invite more attacks missiles and terrorist bombs). Or something like that. The idea you wrote about sounded wonderful for a world 50 years ago, it has since, regrettably, been proven (by several Arab attacks and hundreds of terrorist bombs and thousands of terrorist missiles) to be very counter-productive. But thanks for your ideas. Much appreciated. Best regards,fhc
Really small nukes though ~
All true, except that the Pali's don't want a state for just this reason. So long as they're a mere "territory", they don't have to play by any rules and cannot be held accountable for their actions.
"No, those approaches are proven losers."
Yes, because the one thing the Israelis have never ever done is officially give the Palestinians the statehood they claim to want.
No sovereign nation has to tolerate aggression from another sovereign country. NONE. If any other country attacked Israel, most of the people that FReepers think are anti-Zionists in Europe would be on Israel's side in a heartbeat. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Afghanistan - if any of those nations attacked Israel the West would take Israel's side.
But at the moment, the average man on the street in Europe still thinks of the West Bank as a province of Israel which is just as much Samaritan, Christian or Jewish as it is Muslim, hence they see Israel's claim of greater victimhood as incongruous with its militarily dominant position.
What he tends not to understand so well is the argument of forcibly displacing one group of settled Israelis in favour of another group of settler Israelis, in Israeli territory, when there's more than enough land for them all to live on and they're all surrounded by Israelis with guns who're overwhelmingly on the side of the settlers anyway and by the way what kind of settler wants to live in Bandit Country when there's prime beach front all-Jewish real estate sitting empty on the Med Coast, far away from the rockets and the smelly A-rabs.
The word round here, unfortunately, is "lebensraum". People just can't see the argument not having the two state solution unless Israel wants the whole area ethnically cleansed so it can be 100% Jewish.
Again, all this misconception would be easily rectified IF the Palestinians had statehood because even the dumbest of anti-Zionist Brits understands the concept of border security.
"So long as theyre a mere territory, they dont have to play by any rules and cannot be held accountable for their actions."
Of course. If people look at the history books, they invariably observe that every nation that's ever sought independence from an oppressive government (yes, America, that includes you!) has used any means necessary to repel the occupying forces in the game of winning independence, without the rest of the world saying "you can't do that".
That is precisely the same moral argument that the Palestinians use to muddy the moral waters and that is why the two state solution is so vital.
History proves your premise wrong. First, two-thirds of mandatory "palestine" is already under arab governance. Second, multiple arab and/or islamic sovereign governments have not led them to be peaceful with their neighbors or anyone else. Quite the contrary, they often use those territories into terror-tories to threaten or attack their neighbors. Read the history, and the newspapers. Third, it is certainly none of our business to tell Isrealis where they can or can't live in their own country. Indeed, this may be the greatest danger to "peace" right now. Last, perhaps your country has extra land and you can persuade your government to give it away if you wish (not that the possessors of such a great part of the earth's surface need your donation) , but israel plainly doesn't have any more extra land to give away and cannot risk to give any more of it away anyway, particularly not the defense-necessary highlands,to such hostile, murderous terrorist thugs who've already amassed over 10,000 missiles pointing at Jerusalem and much of the rest of israel. Nor should mass murderers be rewarded for their evil deeds. (At any event, that won't happen.)
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Telecoms Reveal Competing iPhone Profit Theories
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Investors entered 2012 mapping out probabilities on how the telecom sector would consolidate, as also-ran carriers like Sprint(S) , T-Mobile USA , MetroPCS(PCS) and Leap Wireless (LEAP) struggled to build networks to handle Apple(AAPL) and Google(GOOG) -powered smartphones and compete against industry titans AT&T(T) and Verizon(VZ) .
In the wake of a frenzy of 2012 mergers, investors now need to understand how carriers are addressing key issues such as spending, profitability and long-term strategy when it comes to servicing high data load smartphones and tablet devices.
A flurry of recent announcements from the nation's largest carriers indicates that competing theories are emerging in the telecom sector on how to handle and profit from booming demand for smart devices.
Consider that earlier in the week, AT&T unveiled an ambitious "Velocity IP" plan to bolster its nationwide 4G LTE network. Along with the the plan the carrier announced an annual capital spending budget of $22 billion through 2015, with 60% allocated to the company's wireless network. The bet, in AT&T's case, appears to be that spending on network and service improvements is the way toward subscriber growth and long-term earnings.
Competitors like Sprint and recently merged MetroPCS and T-Mobile appear to see a slightly different way forward to iPhone and Android-powered profits.
Sprint continues to see unlimited iPhone data plans as its value proposition to consumers over competitiveness on wireless coverage and service, in the interim. From a pocketbook perspective, Sprint's unlimited data plans compare favorably to the tiered data plans of AT&T and Verizon; however, consumers need to take a leap of faith on coverage, data speeds and the company's improving financial picture.
Sprint also is in the process of completing Network Vision , a rollout of a nationwide 4G network, but that spending plan pales in comparison to AT&T even after the company was effectively recapitalized in a merger with Softbank of Japan.
Meanwhile, the biggest announcement from a recently merged MetroPCS and T-Mobile
It's no surprise; however, that the subsidy averse U.S. arm of Deutsche Telekom will carry the phone in an unsubsidized manner that may break new ground in passing handset costs onto consumers.
The three aforementioned plans to handle smartphones illustrate the biggest issues facing the telecom sector - capital spending, data pricing and handset subsidies - and indicate that after this year's reshuffle, telecoms are approaching 2013 and beyond with increasingly divergent strategies.
While AT&T's plan may seem expensive to investors, the real question is whether competitors like Sprint are realistic in theirs?
Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett highlights the tension in a Thursday review of AT&T's higher-than-expected spending plan and the import for the industry. Notably, Moffett argues that when faced with a choice of spending, subsidies or service pricing wars, AT&T appears to see its comparative advantage in using a fortified balance sheet to invest tens of billions in its wireless network and outrun competitors.


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Tripp Trapp®
Are all Stokke® Tripp Trapp® Cushions water-repellent?
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At the top of our website www.stokke.com, under 'Find your retailer', you can search for your nearest one. Depending on the type of problem, the retailer will be able either to order a replacement part on your behalf or to have the chair replaced in its entirety. Whether this can be done under the terms of Stokke® product warranty will depend on whether the claim is made within the warranty period.
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Oprah Winfrey recently announced her first-ever cross-country tour, "The Life You Want," which will feature Oprah "like you've never seen," in addition to talks from a series of "hand-picked" gurus, including Iyanla Vanzant, Deepak Chopra, Elizabeth Gilbert, and former pastor Rob Bell.
"It's about living the life you want," Oprah explains, "because a great percentage of the population is living a life that their mother wanted, that their husband wanted, that they thought or heard they wanted…Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world."
Today, over at The Federalist, I offer a lengthy critique of the spectacle, arguing that behind all the glory and grandeur, much of this amounts to plain old cultural consumerism:
This is cultural consumerism at both its highest and lowest — humanistic in its instincts, privileged in its priorities, and carefully glazed with all the right marketing to deceive itself that justice is at hand and Neighbor Love has the wheel. It's as if human desire has grown so weary of natural constraints and so content with its own appetite that it would prefer to label self-indulgence as "self-help" and be done with it.
It's faux-self-empowerment for the self-centered, heart-religion as a mantle for hedonism.
As it relates to the areas of vocation, calling, and whole-life discipleship, getting first things first is fundamental to all that we do. Service and sacrifice must come before self-empowerment, and obedience to God before that: (more…)


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Arendt, Hannah
Hannah Arendt 1906–1975
German-born American philosopher, journalist, editor, and translator.
The following entry provides criticism of Arendt's work. For further information on her life and career, see CLC, Volume 66.
A distinguished political philosopher and cultural historian, Arendt directed her writing towards the analysis of modern political movements, most notably of the events and circumstances that led to the rise of totalitarianism and to the ubiquitous sense of personal, social, and political alienation in the twentieth century. Arendt maintained that political activity expresses what is most valuable in human endeavor and argued that individuals achieve a sense of purpose and meaning through active participation in decision-making processes concerning social change or the preservation of ideas. Her reputation as a profound and independent philosophical analyst of political systems began with the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), but her best-known and most controversial book is Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), which blends reports of the 1962 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann with observations about Nazism and anti-Semitism. The work also suggests a Jewish complicity in Germany's atrocities during World War II. Ever ready to apply philosophical thought to current events, Arendt examined a broad range of topics—racism, war and revolution, culture and the life of the mind, the nature of evil, the social effects of technology—yet her main concerns were twofold: the problem of political evil in the twentieth century and the dilemma of the Jew in the contemporary world. "Twenty years after her death [her admirers] see her desire for a 'new politics' of collective action vindicated by the revolutions of 1989," remarked Tony Judt, "and her account of modern society in general and totalitarianism in particular confirmed by the course of contemporary history."
Biographical Information
Born October 14, 1906, in Hannover, Germany, to erudite Jewish parents active in social causes, Arendt spent her childhood in Konigsberg, her father's ancestral home. She studied philosophy, theology, and Greek under instruction from three leading contemporary German philosophers: Martin Heidegger, with whom she had a brief liaison, at Marburg University; Edmund Husserl at Freiburg University; and Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg University. Heidegger's ideas strongly influenced Arendt's own thought, and Jaspers directed her doctoral dissertation on St. Augustine's concept of love, which was published in 1929. Forced out by rising anti-Semitic sentiments, Arendt fled in 1933 to Paris, where she worked with Jewish orphans and refugees and completed her first book, a biography of an eighteenth-century Berlin salon hostess, Rahel Varnhagen (1958). In 1940 Arendt married Heinrich Blucher, an art historian. The two moved to New York, where Arendt served as research director for the Conference of Jewish Relations from 1944 to 1946 and as chief editor of Schocken Books from 1946 to 1948. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1950 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952. During this time Arendt established herself as an incisive political commentator by writing essays and reviews for Aufbau (Construction), an emigre newspaper, and secured her reputation with the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition (1958). Following her appointment as the first woman professor at Princeton University in 1959, Arendt later lectured for the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago from 1963 to 1967, when she joined the graduate faculty at the New School for Social Research. Eichmann in Jerusalem, which first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker, generated furor over Arendt's comments about German Jews, and Arendt lost many friends despite her efforts to reply to her critics. Arendt voiced her response to the revolutionary zeal of 1960s in On Revolution (1963), Men in Dark Times (1968), On Violence (1970), and Crises of the Republic (1972). Arendt died suddenly of a heart attack on December 4, 1975, in New York City.
Major Works
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt's first major publication, analyzes the historical circumstances that fostered the development of fascist ideology in twentieth-century German and Russian society, tracing its roots to anti-Semitism and nineteenth-century imperialism. Closely related to Origins, The Human Condition outlines Arendt's views on the public realm or vita activa of human activity, interpreting the causes of personal and social alienation in terms of the nature of labor, work, and action. Her posthumous The Life of the Mind (1978), a proposed three-volume study of the elementary mental activities of thinking, willing, and judging, of which only the volumes "Thinking" and "Willing" were published, treats the private realm or vita comtemplativa, analyzing the processes of the mind and their effects on action. Arendt's belief that political activity was the noblest of human endeavors expressed itself in the highly controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem, which suggests that the failure of Jews to act against the policies of Nazi Germany actually enabled the state to proceed with the Holocaust; though never intending to exculpate Eichmann's guilt, Arendt showed that he was not a mere evil madman, but rather someone who had developed an inability to think. Her other book-length studies include On Revolution, which is a comparative analysis of the American and French revolutions, and On Violence, which argues that violence is a reaction to a lack of power. Some of Arendt's best work is found in essays she wrote for a variety of periodicals and later collected in such volumes as Men in Dark Times, which contains biographical sketches of her personal heroes; Crises of the Republic, which offers her observations on the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, and the Watergate scandal; The Jew as Pariah (1978), which collects pieces on Jewish themes; and Essays in Understanding (1995), which features the writings of her early career.
Critical Reception
Arendt's writings provoked widespread debate among political scientists, sociologists, and historians, who in turn generated a wealth of contradictory commentary on a variety of subjects; at the same time their influence has proved extraordinary, extending even to the American judicial system. (The Origins of Totalitarianism has been cited in several court decisions protecting the rights of displaced persons and expatriates.) "To some she represented the worst of 'Continental' philosophizing…. For such critics her insights into the woes of the century are at best derivative, at worst plain wrong," observed Judt, who added, "Others … find her a stimulating intellectual presence; her refusal to acknowledge academic norms and conventional categories of explanation, which so frustrates and irritates her critics, is precisely what most appeals to her admirers." The paradoxical reception of Arendt's work derives in part from ambiguities detected in the works themselves, which have provided fodder for both her supporters and detractors. Margaret Canovan, for instance, detected a "serious inconsistency" between the "elitist" and the "democratic" aspects of Arendt's political thought, while such critics as Sheldon S. Wolin, George Kateb, and John Sitton, contrary to prevalent analyses of her work in terms of totalitarianism, have scrutinized her writings for indications of her attitudes toward democratic government. Although the hostility that greeted Eichmann in Jerusalem has subsided, the volume continues to fascinate readers. Walter Laqueur, for example, reevaluated the question of "whether, in fact, [Arendt] was misunderstood and injustice done to her"; Tony Seibers analyzed the book in terms of its affinities to literary elements of storytelling; and Barry Clarke examined Arendt's representation of the "banality of evil" in the personality of Eichmann. In addition, numerous comparative analyses of Arendt's writings and those of other philosophers—from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to Walter Benjamin and Heidegger—further illuminated her own ideas. "[Arendt] made a good many little errors, for which her many critics will never forgive her," admitted Judt. "But she got the big things right, and for this she deserves to be remembered."
Principal Works
Der Liebsgriff bei Augustin: Versuch einer philosophischen Interpretation (dissertation) 1929
The Origins of Totalitarianism (philosophy) 1951
The Human Condition (philosophy) 1958
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess (biography) 1958
Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought (philosophy) 1961
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (journalism) 1963
On Revolution (philosophy) 1963
Men in Dark Times (philosophy) 1968
On Violence (philosophy) 1970
Crises of the Republic (philosophy) 1972
The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age (philosophy) 1978
The Life of the Mind. 2 vols. (philosophy) 1978
Lecture's on Kant's Political Philosophy (lectures) 1982
Hannah Arendt—Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926–1969 (letters) 1992
Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949–1975 (letters) 1995
Essays in Understanding, 1930–1954 (essays) 1995
Denis Donoghue (essay date May 1962)
SOURCE: "After Reading Hannah Arendt," in Poetry (Chicago), Vol. 100, No. 2, May, 1962, pp. 127-30.
[In the following essay, Donoghue relates "the profound, humane reflections" in Arendt's works to contemporary poetry, noting that he "had the disturbing impression that she had far more to say—more of humane relevance—than any ten contemporary poets."]
I first read Hannah Arendt in Partisan Review, a classic essay on Hitler's concentration camps. The essay was free from hysteria, violence, vituperation; there was only the violence within—Wallace Stevens's great phrase—animating the prose; no "rhetoric". I had not thought much about the camps; they were...
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Irving Howe (essay date October 1963)
SOURCE: "'The New Yorker' & Hannah Arendt," in Commentary, Vol. 36, No. 4, October, 1963, pp. 318-19.
[In the following essay, Howe denounces the New Yorker's refusal to print rebuttals to Arendt's arguments in Eichmann in Jerusalem, which made its debut in the magazine as a controversial series of articles.]
Some months ago, shortly after James Baldwin published in the New Yorker his now famous article about the Negroes, there appeared a mildly satiric comment upon it in the New Republic. The author of this comment elaborated upon the incongruity between Baldwin's passionate outcry and the sumptuous advertisements surrounding it. At the...
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J. M. Cameron (review date 6 November 1969)
SOURCE: "Bad Times," in New York Review of Books, Vol. XIII, No. 8, November 6, 1969, pp. 4, 6, 8-9.
[In the following excerpt, Cameron highlights ambiguities in Arendt's political writings, tracing their genesis to the "peculiar character" of twentieth-century culture.]
Thinkers who are original and profound often mask their ideas in a style, not so much of prose as of thought, that is opaque to all but the most determined reader. This is obvious in the work of, say, Kant; and opacity of style may produce those long-lasting ambiguities that provide rich material for the work of the commentator. If Miss Arendt's work survives—and it is surely more likely to survive...
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Philip Green (review date 7 May 1972)
SOURCE: "Crises of the Republic," in New York Times Book Review, May 7, 1972, pp. 27-8.
[In the review below, Green comments on the "astonishing" insight Arendt brought to her writings, despite "those occasional lapses from which no truly serious work of the intellect is ever wholly free."]
In a recent essay not reprinted in this collection, Hannah Arendt has written that "thinking" isinherently an antisocial and subversive activity, a quiet enemy to all established versions of right and order. The truly independent thinker is never finally at ease with the customs and institutions of his (or her) times, but rather is continually and relentlessly probing for the soft...
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Lore Dickstein (review date 24 November 1974)
SOURCE: A review of Rahel Varnhagen, in New York Times Book Review, November 24, 1974, pp. 27, 30.
[In the following review, Dickstein objects to the dispassionate narrative tone and the lack of psychoanalysis of the subject in Rahel Varnhagen, especially since "the reader … would have expected more from so brilliant a theorist."]
[Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman] was written more than 40 years ago and the woman it deals with lived more than 170 years ago, but the story of Rahel Varnhagen survives the passage of time. Rahel Varnhagen was one of the more renowned "salon Jewesses" of Berlin at the turn of the 19th century. Her charm and...
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Mary McCarthy (essay date 22 January 1976)
SOURCE: "Saying Good-by to Hannah," in New York Review of Books, Vol. XXII, Nos. 21-22, January 22, 1976, pp. 8, 10-11.
[Below, McCarthy eulogizes Arendt, emphasizing her person rather than her ideas.]
Her last book was to be called The Life of the Mind and was intended to be a pendant to The Human Condition (first called The Vita Activa), where she had scrutinized the triad of labor, work, and action: man as animal laborans, homo faber, and doer of public deeds. She saw the mind's life, or vita contemplativa, as divided into three parts also: thinking, willing, and judging. The first section, on thinking, was finished some time ago....
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Robert Lowell (essay date 13 May 1976)
SOURCE: "On Hannah Arendt," in New York Review of Books, Vol. XXII, No. 8, May 13, 1976, p. 6.
[In the following essay, Lowell reminisces about his relationship with Arendt and his impressions on reading her works.]
Hannah Arendt was an oasis in the fevered, dialectical dust of New York—to me, and I imagine to everyone who loved her. We met in the late Fifties or early Sixties in Mary McCarthy's apartment. She seemed hardly to take her coat off, as she brushed on with purpose to a class or functional shopping. In her hurry, she had time to say to me something like "This is an occasion," or more probably, "This is a meeting." I put the least intention into her words,...
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Margaret Canovan (essay date February 1978)
SOURCE: "The Contradictions of Hannah Arendt's Political Thought," in Political Theory, Vol. 6, No. 1, February, 1978, pp. 5-26.
[Below, Canovan investigates Arendt's major works, discerning "a contradiction between democratic and elitist attitudes on the one hand, and an uncertainty about the relation of her political thought to practice on the other."]
Hannah Arendt's political thought is baffling even to the most sympathetic reader. It is baffling not only because of her fondness for questioning our established certainties, and not only because her political values are strange and shocking to us, but most importantly because her thought is riven by a deep and...
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Walter Laqueur (essay date March 1979)
SOURCE: "Re-reading Hannah Arendt," in Encounter, Vol. LII, No. 3, March, 1979, pp. 73-79.
[In the essay below, Laqueur addresses the questions of why Arendt wrote Eichmann in Jerusalem, why it provoked controversy, and "whether, in fact, she was misunderstood and injustice done to her."]
Few books in living memory have stirred up more bitter controversy than Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, published in 1964. The controversy still continues as the introduction to a recent collection of Mrs Arendt's "Jewish" essays shows [The Jew as Pariah], albeit without the acrimony of the earlier debate. The editor clearly believes that Mrs Arendt was...
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Berel Lang (essay date Summer 1988)
SOURCE: "Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Evil," in Judaism, Vol. 37, No. 3, Summer, 1988, pp. 264-75.
[In the following essay, Lang explains how the relation between personal conscience or religious commitment and public or civic life informs Arendt's conception of modern totalitarianism.]
In the 20th century the position of the German Jewish community was to be one of unusual complexity, of powerful ironies and, ultimately, of great disruption and pain. On the one hand, the ideals nourished by the Enlightenment, emerging in the last part of the 18th Century, and represented in Germany by such figures as Kant, Lessing, and Goethe, had spoken eloquently about the...
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Jean Bethke Elshtain (essay date Fall 1989)
SOURCE: "Hannah Arendt's French Revolution," in Salmagundi, Vol. 84, Fall, 1989, pp. 203-12.
[In the essay below, Elshtain discusses Arendt's interpretation of the revolutionary tradition, focusing on her "construction of the French and American revolutions as prototypes of 'successful' revolutions."]
Of the Chinese students with their worker and peasant allies, massed by the tens of thousands in Tiananmen Square in defiance of martial law, it can be said that Hannah Arendt would have loved it. Their actions are "spontaneous" in the sense that they could not have reasonably been predicted. Their rhetoric is cast in the language of freedom. A papier mache representation...
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Tobin Siebers (essay date Summer 1992)
SOURCE: "The Politics of Storytelling: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem," in Southern Humanities Review, Vol. 26, No. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 201-11.
[In the following essay, Siebers analyzes Eichmann in Jerusalem in terms of memory and judgment—qualities largely absent in twentieth-century culture but inherent to storytelling.]
Few modern events have stirred the need for recollection and judgment more than the Holocaust. As time and witnesses pass on, however, its memory grows more dim, and legally speaking the atrocities of Nazi anti-Semitism have remained for the most part unjudged. The trial of Adolf Eichmann and the Nuremberg Trials assume great...
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Richard A. Shweden (review date 20 September 1992)
SOURCE: "Dialogue Amid the Deluge," in The New York Times, Vol. CXLIV, No. 49977, September 20, 1992, pp. 1, 53-4.
[Below, Shweden reviews Hannah Arendt—Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926–1969, concluding that "it is a privilege to enter [Arendt's and Jaspers] studies."]
The correspondence begins at the University of Heidelberg in 1926, in the years before what now might be called the "ethnic cleansing" of the German universities and the Holocaust. It starts with a skeptical query from a 19-year-old German Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, to her German and non-Jewish professor, Karl Jaspers, about the impossibility of learning anything from history. It ends 43...
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Tony Judt (review date 6 April 1995)
SOURCE: "At Home in This Century," in New York Review of Books, Vol. 42, No. 6, April 6, 1995, pp. 9-14.
[In the review below, Judt finds that both Essays in Understanding and Between Friends provide a better understanding of Arendt herself, demonstrating that "it becomes a little easier to see just what holds together the various parts of her oeuvre and why they provoke such diverse and powerful responses."]
Hannah Arendt died twenty years ago, leaving a curious and divided legacy. To some she represented the worst of "Continental" philosophizing: metaphysical musings upon modernity and its ills unconstrained by any institutional or intellectual...
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Further Reading
Ettinger, Elzbieta. Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, 139 p.
Brief account of Arendt's relationship with Heidegger.
McCarthy, Mary. "Hannah Arendt and Politics." Partisan Review LI (1984/1985): 729-38.
Recollects the significance of politics in Arendt's public and private life.
Young-Bruehl, Elizabeth. Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982, 563 p.
Bio-critical study gathered from oral and print sources....
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RAPID RIVER – John and Dawn Broeders celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 9, 2012. John and the former Dawn Wilbee were married June 9, 1962, at the Congregational Church in Rapid River with Rev. Hazard officiating.
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Arnold City Park Trail
2 miles
The Arnold City Park Trail follows former residential streets through a wooded area along the Meramec River in a southwestern suburb of St. Louis. It forms a loop that begins and ends at the gravel road at the northeastern corner of Arnold City ...
Benld-Gillespie Bike Trail
1.4 miles
The Benld-Gillespie Bike Trail is part of two developing Illinois initiatives: the Route 66 Trail from Chicago to St. Louis, loosely following the historic highway; and the Illinois Traction System (ITS) Trail from Springfield to St. Louis, ...
Busch Greenway
4.8 miles
Spanning nearly five miles, the Busch Greenway provides an important connector between Missouri's famed Katy Trail, the August A. Busch Conservation Area, and Missouri Research Park in western St. Louis. At the northern end of the business park, ...
Carlyle Lake Bike Trail
10.3 miles
The Carlyle Lake Bike Trail is located in one of Southwest Illinois's most popular recreational areas, just 50 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri—not far from that area's abundance of great trails, as well. Since the Army Corps of Engineers built ...
Centennial Greenway
3.5 miles
Centennial Greenway will one day stretch 20 miles through St. Louis County from Creve Coeur County Park at its northern end to Forest Park at its southern tip. Currently, the trail is open in three segments, totaling 3.5 miles (north to south): S. ...
Columbia Bottom Trail - Missouri River Greenway
4.8 miles
For nearly 5 miles, the Columbia Bottom Trail meanders through the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area, which features forests, wetlands, and open fields. The trail is part of the Missouri River Greenway, which will one day follow the river ...
Creve Coeur Park Trail
7.7 miles
Travelers on the Creve Couer Park Trail will enjoy watching the sailboats and kayakers on the sparkling Creve Coeur Lake as they loop around the water. The flat paved trail continues through wooded areas and past the picturesque Dripping Springs ...
Delyte W. Morris Trail
2.4 miles
The Delyte W. Morris Trail lies entirely on the campus of Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (SIUE). It is named for the university's president at the Carbondale campus in the 1960s who helped create the Edwardsville campus. Students ...
Eagle Points Trail
7.2 miles
Caution: While construction continues on the new I-270 bridge over the Mississippi River, be alert for trail restrictions or closings north of the parking lot access. The trail will remain open from the parking lot south. The Eagle Points ...
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Earth City Levee Trail
3 miles
Earth City Levee Trail, which opened in June 2015, is part of a growing trail network called the Missouri River Greenway. It connects directly with the Riverwoods Trail in Bridgeton, forming a paved loop. Situated on top of a levee, the trail ...
Glen Carbon Heritage Bike Trail (MCT Heritage Trail)
11 miles
The Glen Carbon Heritage Bike Trail is part of a trail network spanning more than 100 miles managed by Madison County Transit (MCT), which also runs busses equipped with bike racks for passenger convenience. The feel of the trail is a mix of ...
Grant's Trail
8 miles
Only 10 miles from the famed Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the 8-mile Grant's Trail is heavily used for recreation and commuting. The trail was named for the former President Ulysses S. Grant, and like the arch, is a monument to westward expansiononly ...
Hesse Trail
0.7 miles
Hesse Trail connects two neighborhoods and a park in the city of O'Fallon with plans to extend and connect it to other trails in the large Metro-East area. It is a short, completely tree-covered rail-trail, well used by local residents. Except ...
Katy Trail State Park
237.7 miles
Katy Trail State Park is the nation's longest continuous rail-trail, offering nearly 238 miles of scenic trail from Clinton east to Machens on the outskirts of St. Louis. The Katy Trail is in the Rail-Trail Hall of Fame and is designated a Millennium ...
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Lakeside Park Trail
7 miles
While exploring the seven mile Lakeside Park Trail you are treated to views of the 140 acre lake at Lakeside Park. Lakeside Park Trail's asphalt and concrete surfaces are ideal for biking, walking, and inline skating. The lake not only offers ...
Madison County Transit Bluff Trail
2 miles
The MCT Bluff Trail is the shortest trail in the Madison County network, but it highlights a feature of regional topography which can be evidenced on several other trails. The American Bottom is a wide and distinct floodplain of the Mississippi ...
Madison County Transit Confluence Trail
18.7 miles
Caution: Trail closures are occurring in two areas along the southern half of this trail: 1) near the construction site of the new I-270 bridge over the Mississippi River, and 2) at the construction site of the new harbor facility at Bissell ...
Madison County Transit Goshen Trail
8.5 miles
The Madison County Transit (MCT) Goshen Trail is a namesake of the old Goshen Road that was built in 1808 to supply salt to the first permanent settlers of Madison County. The modern bike trail crosses the old road in one place, as does the ...
Madison County Transit Nature Trail
14.4 miles
The Madison County Transit (MCT) Nature Trail goes through richly varied surroundings of city, farm and wood. In the west, it begins at beautiful Wilson Park in Granite City. From there, it makes its way through older city neighborhoods, where ...
Madison County Transit Nickel Plate Trail
21.6 miles
The Madison County Transit (MCT) Nickel Plate Trail is the longest of the county's trails and perhaps the most diverse in its offerings. On the west, it begins at a junction with the MCT Nature Trail, offering a rather typical mix of rural rail-trail ...
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Madison County Transit Quercus Grove Trail
18.4 miles
The MCT Quercus Grove Trail begins in Edwardsville at its junction with the MCT Nickel Plate Trail. It begins on city sidewalks and alleys near Edwardsville's historic downtown area and very quickly loses itself in the dense tree cover of the ...
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Madison County Transit Schoolhouse Trail
15.9 miles
The Madison County Transit (MCT) Schoolhouse Trail is part of the Transit District's system of more than 100 miles of urban and suburban trails—many of which are former railroad corridors, all of which are linked with public transit. This trail ...
Madison County Transit Watershed Trail
5.1 miles
The Madison Count Transit (MCT) Watershed Trail is all about trains, bridges and waterways. It follows an abandoned rail corridor built in 1868, the first to serve the city of Edwardsville, itself the third oldest city in Illinois. Later the ...
McKinley Bridge Bikeway
1.2 miles
The McKinley Bridge has a long and storied past. In 1910, it opened to both railroad and vehicular traffic. Railroad tracks ran through the strong center portion of the bridge under the trusses, and vehicles crossed on exterior lanes supported ...
Meramec Greenway Trail
13.5 miles
The Meramec Greenway Trail is planned to one day encompass 60 miles of pathway throughout St. Louis and west to Pacific, Missouri, connecting residents to the Meramec River, the city's parks and the area's natural treasures. Currently, four ...
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Metro-East Levee Trail
7.6 miles
The Metro-East Levee Trail offers a semicircle route around Cahokia, which lies south of St. Louis and east of the Mississippi River. It parallels a canal and sits atop a levee that is 30 feet high at some points. The experience offers a mixture ...
MetroBikeLink Trail
6.9 miles
This trail gets its name from the MetroLink Red Line train track it parallels through eastern Belleville and (briefly) the village of Swansea. It is a classic rail-with-trail configuration, where train and trail share the same corridor. There ...
Mississippi Greenway
6.1 miles
The Mississippi Greenway is a growing multi-use trail in the St. Louis area that will eventually span 32 miles. Sometimes it's referred to as the Mississippi River Trail or the Mississippi River Greenway Trail for the magnificent waterway it ...
Monarch Chesterfield Levee Trail - Missouri River Greenway
10.4 miles
As its name implies, the Monarch Chesterfield Levee Trail was built on top of an embankment created to protect Chesterfield from Missouri River flooding. As such, it offers a wide, flat route over smooth pavement. The trail covers just over ...
Old Chain of Rocks Bridge
1 miles
The Old Chain of Rocks Bridge was part of the renowned Route 66 and crosses a scenic stretch of the Mississippi River. It links two states—Illinois and Missouri—north of St. Louis. The bridge is short and narrow, only 1 mile long by 24 feet ...
Richland Creek Greenway Trail
3.8 miles
This trail along Richland Creek is in two discontiguous sections that must be accessed separately. The northern section goes by the thick and quiet woods of Centennial Park, where there are also very nice walking paths. The southern section ...
River Des Peres Greenway Trail
5.5 miles
The River Des Peres Greenway Trail provides a flat, paved route along the River Des Peres Drainage Channel in southwestern St. Louis. Although this urban trail is seldom crowded, one of its drawbacks is that it follows the busy Des Peres Parkway, ...
Riverwoods Trail - Missouri River Greenway
1.7 miles
Although a relatively short route, the Riverwoods Trail offers plentiful scenic views of the Missouri River and historic St. Charles. The trail closely follows the river's shoreline through wetland forest. Begin your journey at the northern ...
Rock Hollow Trail
2.3 miles
The Rock Hollow Trail offers a beautiful, wooded excursion in the City of Wildwood, just west of St. Louis. The paved 2.3-mile trail is built on what was once Lawler-Ford Road. A trailhead with parking is available at its northern end, adjacent ...
Sam Vadalabene Great River Road Bike Trail
20.4 miles
Big bluffs, mighty rivers, the largest state park and one giant bird—you'll find them all along the Sam Vadalabene Great River Road Bike Trail. This unique rail-trail starts in the 8,050-acre Pere Marquette State Park (named for the first European ...
St. Louis Riverfront Trail
11.8 miles
The St. Louis Riverfront Trail follows the Mississippi River on the Missouri side, from Gateway Arch heading north to the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, part of the legendary Route 66. The trail is distinctly urbangritty even, in placespassing ...
St. Vincent Greenway Trail
3.3 miles
The St. Vincent Greenway Trail winds through the north and south campuses of the University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL) before emerging into the lush woodlands of St. Vincent Park. The park offers a playground, athletic fields and a community ...
Sunset Greenway Trail
3.9 miles
The Sunset Greenway Trail begins near Sunset Park, on the banks of the Missouri River, and travels along a roadway through open space to beyond St. Ferdinand Park in Old Town Florissant. The village of Florissant was established in 1786 by the ...
Ted Jones Trail
2.2 miles
The Ted Jones Trail runs for 2.2 miles between the town of Ferguson and the University of MissouriSt. Louis (UMSL), where it joins with the St. Vincent Greenway on the west side of campus. From Ferguson south the trail runs roughly parallel ...
Truman Park/St. Stanislaus Trail - Missouri River Greenway
0.6 miles
This short, but beautiful trail, takes travelers from Truman Park's lake north to Aubuchon Creek through a lush wooded area. The park offers places to fish, play sports and picnic. Future plans include continuing the trail's northward course ...
West Alton Trail
2 miles
The West Alton Trail occupies the right-of-way of an old railroad bed. The crushed-stone trail runs for 2 miles between St. Charles Street at US 67 in West Alton and the Lincoln-Shields Recreation Area at the Mississippi River near the William ...
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Western Greenway - Hamilton Carr Trail
1.5 miles
The Hamilton Carr Trail begins off Woods Road in Rockwoods Reservation, a state forest and wildlife conservation area that offers hiking trails, picnic areas, caves and interesting rock formations. The trail continues south along State Route ...
Wildwood Greenway
5.7 miles
Wildwood Greenway is an eight-foot-wide bicycle and pedestrian trail in Wildwood, a western suburb of St. Louis. It is part of a trail system offering twelve miles of asphalt trail throughout the city. Currently, the longest continuous segment ...
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The YouTube sensation and digital influencer discusses the new generation of fitness trackers.
Boasting 1.9 million YouTube subscribers and over 1 million Twitter followers, web sensation Justine Ezariak has been dubbed the "Most Influential Person Online," and rightfully so. After skyrocketing to Internet fame with the launch of her widely-popular YouTube series, Justine��best known by her Internet screen name, iJustine�is now broadening her exposure as the host of AOL On's "Hardwired," a web-exclusive series that navigates the emerging market of wearable technology. Given her love of fitness and technology, Justine makes a natural fit on the show as she travels across America in a quest to find the coolest new fitness gadgets. Along the way, she charms viewers with her down-to-earth personality and contagious energy. Below, we caught up with the digital influencer and self-proclaimed tech geek to chat about fitness, her ascent to Internet stardom, and why she thinks technology is drastically altering the way we exercise. Spry Living: Can you tell me a bit about your web series, �Hardwired�? What inspired you to do a show about wearable technology? Justine: Wearable tech has become more prevalent in the past couple of years; it wasn�t as commonplace before. Prior to getting involved with the show, I had been making YouTube videos and all kinds of content based around pop culture tech. That's when AOL approached me about doing a show based around wearable tech. In my first initial meeting with AOL, I was wearing a Fuelband and a Jawbone fitness band. They took a look at me and were like, "You're perfect for this." From there, once the show started filming, we went and traveled all around the country and found really cool companies who create these different forms of technology. It's been really fun to be apart of. SL: As a digital influencer, in what ways do you think wearable technology has revolutionized the fitness landscape? J: Fitness trackers are helpful for most people because they keep them constantly motivated. They enable you to �track basically everything that you�re doing, from steps taken to calories burned to sleep cycles. You can compete against friends and family or simply compete against yourself. But most of all, fitness trackers keep you constantly aware of what you�re doing and help you stick with your goals. Personally, I�like using wearable tech because it gives me periodic reminders to keep moving�for example, the Jawbone vibrates every now and then to tell you to get moving.�Before that, I wasn�t cognizant of how many steps you should be getting every day. So it definitely keeps you accountable in that sense. SL: I understand that your mom was a P.E. teacher when you were growing up. Have you always been passionate about fitness? J: That's right, and she still is a gym teacher. Growing up, she always kept us very active. I always loved computers and technology. She�d always say something like, �If you want to use the computer, you have to go do something active first.� It was a great incentive to keep me active, because otherwise I would've just been parked in front of a computer all day. So I have to thank her for instilling those good habits in me, because I�ve carried that with me for most of my life. Nowadays, there are so many fun ways to use technology and video games as a way to to stay in shape. For example, I just downloaded the Xbox Fitness App and have been using it pretty much everyday. It�s so awesome, because you can play a video game and simultaneously get fit. SL: Do you use fitness trackers or gadgets in your own workouts? If so, which ones? J: I've sampled just about every fitness tracker on the market, but I�ve pared it down to a few in my own workouts. I tend to use the FitBit a lot� I like that you can sort of clip it to your clothing and hide it. �I also like Mystic Shine. It looks more like a piece of jewelry rather than a fitness tracker. So those are my two favorites. SL: You have built a tremendous brand and fan following on YouTube. How did you get your start doing that? J: I�ve been doing online videos for awhile now, and consistently doing it has helped me slowly acquire an audience. It�s been fun and challenging, you know, being in the digital space and watching it change and adapting with it. The Internet world is always shifting, so the key is to stay on top of the trends. It�s also been fun getting involved with AOL because it's allowed me to try something different and tap into a new fan base. SL: Lastly, we've gotta ask�where did you come up with your Internet name, "iJustine"? J: In 2002, back when social networking first started, I had a bunch of different screen names. �Unfortunately, the screen name "Justine" was already taken on most of the sites. At the time, I had just gotten an iPod�the first generation iPod�and I was really excited about it, but was upset that Justine was taken on various websites, so I just channeled Apple and put a lowercase �I� in front of my name. So the name sort of stuck. I�ve always been really inspired by Apple, as a matter of fact�I was doing Steve Jobs book reports back in sixth grade, when nobody had any clue what Apple Computers were. I've always been a tech geek, I guess! This article originally appeared as on Spry Living


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Blogger, stylist, wife and mom, Valerie Rice puts together a romantic dinner for two.
California native, food writer, stylist and �hostess with the mostess,� Valerie Rice is an advocate of all things fresh, yet delicious and simple, yet elegant. Throughout Valerie�s blog, Eat Drink Garden, she makes an inspiring case for thoughtful, but not overdone entertaining, always focusing on enjoying a beautiful meal in an equally beautiful setting.
So just in time for Valentine�s Day, when we�re inclined to actually set the table, she�s organized a menu of satisfying and romantic dishes for two, plus a list of tips for the table. Her table tips are simple, sexy and seasonal, and perfect with her French-inspired cozy menu. From February�s sweetest flowers (and how to display them) to lighting and location, Valerie�s styling tips have all the makings for a night of amore.
But don�t be afraid to work in your own personal touches. After all, one of Valerie�s mantras is �don�t worry about everything being perfect. The greatest memories come from real life moments with people you love.�
�Alissa Harb, Relish Editorial Assistant
Valentine�s Day Menu
A luxurious, romantic and simple menu for two
Braised Chicken with Mushrooms
Wild Rice
Arugula Salad
Bananas Foster
Tips for styling your table:
Move a table to wherever inspiration leads you; in front of the fireplace is a great spot. Add a tablecloth (white, preferably) and comfortable chairs, and you've got a cozy table for two.
I love small Moroccan tea glasses for votives. The touch of gold and intricate design bring romantic texture to the table. Any small glasses will work.
Add a fresh, simple glass of flowers�white tulips or Cymbodium orchids, which are in season now. Stick to one color for maximum effect.
Start with some bubbly. Champagne or Prosecco sets the stage for a special evening.
Remember that you're setting the table for love, not for Pinterest. A clean, elegant aesthetic is always sexy. Don't go for cute�go for simple and beautiful, with lots of cande light.
Add music. I'm currently listening to Caro Emerald, whose music is perfect for a romantic dinner�sensual, fun and a bit exotic.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (1561 votes).
In short: Where was the city and the mile markers?In full: My 3rd marathon.Having read all the hype on it being fastest uk route I saved myself in London pinning my hopes on a pb here.The late start left us all open to long period of time running in the midday sun. Lack of decent or any mile markets at points made pacing difficult to those not owning a garmin/similar. Relay runners either pushing past you or stopping right in front of you was just annoying especially when the heat was taking it's toll towards the end.No half way marker not even a balloon! Relay area had big overhead banners surely the marathoners needed the indicators of distance more!Water plenty but too far apart at times.Supporters were the best part of it lovely people kids fab hoses out to help were organisers failed to deliver.Running route could have been anywhere, let's see more of the city and bring the finish back in, or as close as without having to climb stairs to cross finish line. Finishing surface! Who's practical joke idea was that? Finish area, let's cram thousands of people through a tiny gate after running 26.2 miles then make them walk to the farthest corner before they can get their bag! Buses where were they after all the walking to get bags had to walk a further 3 miles to pay again for public bus!Best bit was medal (hardest earnt one in my small collection) very lively and t shirt great, organisers sort out the rest keep these two bits constant and this could be a great marathon!!Date of review: May 25, 2010
In short: fab experience but post race not goodIn full: good start, easy to drop my bag & get into place.heat aside the run was great :-) on a colder day then the organisation was pretty much ok... but having to rely on locals and kids to provide water showers was v shortsighted.Afterwards, gosh it took me longer to walk to the charity tents / baggage than it did to run the last couple of miles!!! Too far. Finally the bus was a nightmare... we left the baggage area, waited in the long queue for the bus. Buses came past. Full buses came past. Empty buses came past without stopping. Were we in the right place? Who knows as there wasn't a marshall in sight. More buses passing. We walked further up and managed to get on a bus, only to find that along with all the other runners on the bus we had to pay - and THANKYOU to a lovely woman runner who payed for us as the driver wouldn't accept the only money (a £20 note we had on us)More passing of lots of other queues of runners still waiting :-(Date of review: May 25, 2010
In short: Just need to sort the finish area out.In full: Suggestions for improvements...Move the start to Princes St. That would be a memorable experience and reduce some of the complaints about not enough of the city centre being included in the route. Persuade the Racecourse management to allow the use of the vast acres available for the reunion area.FIND SOMEWHERE CLOSER THAN 1.6 MILES FROM THE FINISH(as measured on Google Earth)FOR THE SHUTTLE BUSES!Provide some run-through showers. (The locals' efforts were very welcome and well meaning, but some of them didn't quite grasp the difference between a pleasant cooling mist and a deluge!)Start an hour earlier.Otherwise, a wonderful event. Excellent medal and a high quality T shirt.Date of review: May 25, 2010
In short: Enjoyable raceIn full: Enjoyed this race this year again, and once again it was another warm day.Agree with others regarding the relay runners, they could do with learning some marathon etiquette!Could have started the marathon at 8am, would have been better!Will be back again next year.Date of review: May 25, 2010
In short: great experience. the crowd helped us all with the sweltering weather conditions. you do not see much of edinburgh city centre itself but the coast line view is lovely. Date of review: May 25, 2010
In short: A good race let down by poor organisationIn full: What can I say that has not already been said! I feel that the race organisers bit off more than they could chew. Having relay runners on the course did not work for me, got tripped up twice,(both times by relay runners darting in and out!) but managed to stay upright, they did not seem to appreciate that people around them were runnning a lot further than them!Race start too late for the marathon, seems more sensible to have it the other way round.The problems at the finish with congestion and a long walk to reunion areas, buses etc was the real let down of this marathon. I would have liked a finish in the city centreLack of water stations in the later stages. Marshals seemed in short supply, especially later on in the race.On a positive note I thought the two starts worked well. Only a short walk took me to the start line, not like the Birmingham Half where it was 20 minutes!Fantastic atmosphere and great crowds with fabulous local support, no problems with my goody bag, nice t-shirt and medal.This race has potential to be great and I really feel Edinburgh is a great City to have a Marathon in but the organisers have some serious work to do. Date of review: May 25, 2010
In short: A race with great potential - but still a couple of major flawsIn full: This is the second time I have run the Edinburgh Marathon and I definitely did notice improvements, particularly at the start. The course itself is not particularly scenic, and I think they quite rightly try to sell the race on its PB potential. One of the two major flaws is at the finish - transport to and from Musselburgh still needs sorting out. IMO, the second major flaw is that if they want to hold a marathon this late in the year with the present course, which is very exposed, 10am is too late a start time. I would prefer a late April date - I am not sure I will run this again toward the end of May. As it is, I ran strongly for 30K but then deliberately eased off because I did not want to join the host of collapsed runners along the final third of the route. Still sneaked a PB which is testament to the speed of the course, but I reckon I could have done 10 minutes faster on a cooler day.Date of review: May 25, 2010
In short: A great race in a great city - only problem was the unseasonal heat!Date of review: May 25, 2010
In short: Although very hot, the race was well organised and very friendly. Recommended.Date of review: May 25, 2010
In short: MarathonIn full: Won't go on to repeat many of the negative comments already posted as I experienced many. I could have cried when I finally got back to my hotel and opened my t-shirt to find I had been tossed off with a relay t-shirt! I endured 26.2 miles in that devastating heat, taking over an hour longer than I had anticipated for a left over relay t-shirt! In one fell swoop they made my mammoth effort feel worthless and wish I had never bothered!I too have done London and found the organisation outstanding. There was a distinct lack of marshalls on some very lengthy parts of the route and 3 miles between drink stations need to be shortened.I too found the trail to the shuttle buses horrendous - there was no-one helping direct people onto the buses, no-one seemed to know where they were and were arguing with the normal service bus drivers as they couldn't get on with their ticket numbers. By the time I got to them and sat on the bus I felt ill. The journey was not over - I realised they were dropping us back off at the start - sick sense of humour I thought - my hubby had thought we would be dropped at Princess Street as others were - they were the service buses - wish I'd got one as I then had another 25min walk to the hotel.Support from locals - fantastic and other fellow runners - fantastic.Edinburgh - Fantastic I will be back as a tourist - I have vowed never to return as a runner!They will never make this a world class marathon if they don't take note of the feedback which they have clearly had before.Date of review: May 25, 2010
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Interview with Bloc Party
Formed in 2003 in London, England, Bloc Party made their debut in 2004 with the album "Silent Alarm." The positively reviewed effort was followed by several successful shows and their second album in 2007. After releasing "Intimacy" the next year, the band took a short break to pursue outside projects. They returned in 2012 with the appropriately titled record, "Four." In this video, WatchMojo.com speaks to British indie rock band Bloc Party about their new album, "Four," their songwriting process, social media and more.


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The Consumer Price Index: An Overview
Date: December 14, 1979
Creator: Esenwein, Gregg A & Molefsky, Barry
Description: The consumer price index is probably the most widely used measure of inflation. Changes i n the index affect the incomes of a substantial portion of the U.S. population. This report provides background information on the history and concepts of the index. In addition, several factors which may produce biases in the index are analyzed. The objective is to provide an introduction to the CPI f o r the policy maker who wishes to acquire a working knowledge of the concept as an aid in examining economic policy alternatives.
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