Being able to offer 24/7 services means that we are able to be there when you need us the most, and when it comes to lock and key problems you can count on us fully.
You have no doubt heard that it's good to go local. This is true times one thousand when you're in the market for a lock change or repair. Since lock work must be done locally, you should start looking into locksmith businesses. After all, you'll be relying on their quickness when your lock gets broken and you need it fixed in a hurry. Our local locksmith company can take care of the problem, and our team can make sure you will be serviced as fast as possible. Whether you lost your key or the lock itself broke out of the blue, you can depend on the problem being fixed in a timely manner. Plan ahead for even better results.
In those situations where your lock malfunctions in the middle of the night, an emergency locksmith company really comes in handy. Our company is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in order to make sure that even if your lock malfunctions in the middle of the night – you will be able to sleep soundly, knowing it was fixed before you even began to worry. That is our goal. We also offer emergency rekey and lock replacement services, for the very same reason – your safety. Burglary attempts are a nasty business, and we want to be able to help in preventing the next attempt.


Hi! I'm Terry, a musician (guitarist/bass guitarist) and singer who has been around for a lot of years. In my 50s now, I can look back on many happy times playing and singing in a variety of different bands as a hobby for most of my life.
That's me in the picture on the right, playing bass guitar and singing - something a lot of bassists don't do! OK, I'm showing off, but the great thing is that I can, because that's what I can do!
One thing: I never took it to the big time, not because I didn't have the talent or the ability, but simply because it wasn't where I wanted to go. I have always worked at things I enjoy doing too much to give them up for a musical career, preferring to keep it as something I truly enjoy as a hobby rather than a profession.
That doesn't mean I don't get paid for performing and showing off my talents! I do and I get paid very well for doing it!
You see, I have the best of both worlds. I get to keep my anonymity from the big wide world and enjoy a private life away from the prying eyes of the media (because it's what I want), while still being able to enjoy singing and performing at a local level. I get all the fun, enjoyment and financial reward for what I do without the fame.
Not everyone will want to do as I do, of course. Many people want the fame that goes with being a musical performer and that's great too. It's just not for me, is all.
How did I learn how to sing? I never had any formal lessons, that's for sure. I learned by first watching other singers very closely to see what they did, asked a lot of questions of singers that I worked with in bands and got shown the tricks of the trade from the people that knew them. Then I practised what they showed me and learned how to sing in tune and develop my vocal ability to be able to sing for two hours or more on stage at a live performance in front of an audience.
You can do that too by watching and learning from an online video course that you can do at home!


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ElectricMustache - Indie Rock Blog: mp3: Megafaun "Volunteers"
I don't know about you guys but we're pretty psyched about Megafaun's upcoming show at Sail Inn on April 23rd. I'm also looking forward to checking out the groups new mini-LP Heretofore which should be released later this summer on Hometapes. Earlier today Pitchfork gave us a sneak peak of the album when they made the song "Volunteers" available for download. The new song is an awesome twangy mellow tune. Take a listen down below.


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Home Europe Malta 2 Shillings 6 Pence 1940
2 Shillings 6 Pence 1940, Malta
Years of issue: 1940
Signatures: Treasurer: Mr. Edgar Cuschieri
Serie: Emergency Issue of Second World War
Printer: Bradbury, Wilkinson & Company Limited, New Malden
The portrait appears to have been taken specifically for coins and postage stamps, which traditionally show the profile of the monarch.
HM The King George VI.
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George, 14 December 1895 - 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth.
Denominations in numerals are in all corners. In center in words.
Uniface note. White.
World War II Emergency Issues by the Paper Currency Board in 1939.
As early as June 1938 the Secretary of State for the Colonies advised Parliamentthat, should war break out between Great Britain and Germany, difficulties regarding the resupply of currency notes to the various colonies would surely arise. It was suggested that notes in denominations of 2 shillings, 2 shillings 6 pence, 5 shillings, 10 shillings and 1 pound be printed and held in Maltese banks in the event of an emergency. It was further suggested that £750,000 would be adequate to meet demand. Since there were no suitable printing facilities on Malta at that time, the job was given to the lowest bidder, which happened to be Bradbury, Wilkinson and Company.
When Germany attacked Poland on 1 September, 1939 Great Britain and France declared war. Two days later the use of temporary paper money in the colonies was announced. Issuance of these notes, it was pointed out, was strictly temporary in order to alleviate the shortage of circulating silver coinage and was made in anticipation of difficulties which would certainly arise due to the German U Boat campaign. Since insurance rates were rising rapidly for the shipment of currency, time was also of the essence.
The first of the temporary notes to be released was the 2 shilling 6 pence. Release occurred commensurate with a drop to less than one week's supply of the island's silver half-crowns and florins. Shortage of small change became so dire that, at one point, postage stamps were being accepted for bus fares. The Governor of Malta could no longer delay the release of the balance of notes which had already been printed and delivered. Two days later the £1 note entered circulation. Transport of emergency currency was handed over to the Admiralty and Air Ministries which employed every method available to get them there.
Naval ships, submarines, flying boats, merchant ships and aircraft were all pressed into service. To add to the difficulties, all shipments did not get through. For example, when HMS Beconshire was sunk off Malta, only 12,000 of the 84,000 £1 notes on board were recovered.
Temporary notes were not stamped with the signature of the Treasurer until after arrival in Malta. This was accomplished using hand fed machines at the Government Printing Office. When heavy aerial bombing intensified, the stamping of currency notes was dispersed among several locations throughout the island using available printing shop facilities and even a brewery.
Two types of £1 notes signed by Treasurer Pace exist; one bearing the date "1939" under Pace's signature, whereas later series do not have the date. The reason for this is unknown.

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RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) is an intensive coed leadership training and development program. It is designed for 10th & 11th grade students from all Hawaii public and private high schools. It begins late afternoon on Friday and ends Sunday after lunch. It is sponsored by the Rotary Clubs on each island. Each camp is held at a camp site that is listed on the chart below. Students will be transported to and from the camp by bus.
WHAT DO YOU DO AT CAMP?
RYLA campers will experience a broad range of activities to encourage you to think about leadership principles and how you can apply them in your life. Adult Rotary Club facilitators and student Assistant Facilitators will take you through a variety of experiences. They include interactive games, physical activities and guided discussions on leadership topics that you can relate to. The program will empower and challenge you to be proactive in your school and community.


These are lyrics by The Cult that we think are kind of nonsensical.
It only works underwater, but at least it's free on weekends....or so it seems.
Big mouth alligator smile? Cyclone kiss? Just what does she do to you anyway? Then in this song you mention "lizard in a bottle". What's in your drink anyway? Sta-range!


Since June is the traditional month of weddings, there are usually lots of weddings to be expected. I just love this wedding stamp set "To Have and to Hold". It has simple lines with a touch of elegance. It is just calling for some vellum paper and lots of glitter!
This card we made at one of my club groups last month. We had a wedding theme party and even had a mini wedding cake! It was great! We stamped our projects while we watched the movie "27 Dresses" on DVD! I just love that movie, don't you? If you've not seen it you should! It is so cute! There are so many great "wedding" theme movies we could have picked to watch; "The Wedding Planner, Runaway Bride, The Bachelor, Father of the Bride" so on and so on..., but "27 Dresses" was the latest wedding movie out and not everyone had seen it! Anyway back to the card; I knew that I wanted to use vellum in some sort of way and also lots of glitter. This is what I came up with. I hope you like it...the ladies in my club all seemed to. The vellum on the front of the card is held in place in the center of the card and the "Bride & Groom" are stamped on white card stock and mounted on the Basic Gray piece then placed over the vellum. The ribbon on the side helps hold the vellum down at the edges.
We also made a couple of other cards at this club party which I will post later. One of them was a gift card holder that I learned how to fold and make at a SU regional seminar that I attended in Orlando recently.
Thanks for stopping by today! Let's go stamp something!
This will make such a beautiful and elegant wedding card. You gave good instructions too! I think I will try to make some for upcoming weddings this summer. I love the glitter!


The next Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) Director's Forum is scheduled to take place at 6.15pm on Wednesday 7th September during the Outdoor Trade Show (OTS) 2016 at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. As the first day of the show comes to an end, attendees will make their way to the Oak Tree (Stoneleigh Park) for a CSR forum led by Tom Levitt, consultant and writer on responsible business, author of 'Welcome to GoodCo: Using the Tool of Business to Create Public Good'.
Tom Levitt is a writer, trainer and consultant on business engagement with communities. He is a keen rambler and lifetime supporter of the YHA. Through his own small business, Sector 4 Focus, his clients vary between small networks of SMEs working with local charities through to advising the supply chain of the world's third largest retailer. His 2015 book, Welcome to GoodCo, was very well received. With a background in education and government, Tom believes that business behaviour will be key to social progress in the Britain of the Future – and that there is a business case to justify such activity.
Tom's presentation will explore why you should, and how you could, engage your business with your local community. He will aim to answer and encourage discussion on questions such as, how can you engage your business sustainably, and what benefits can your business gain from such behaviour? Is promoting a healthy outdoor lifestyle enough? What skills could your employees gain, to your company's benefit, from a modest degree of planned engagement with a charity?
The Director's Forum is free to senior level OIA members on a first come first served basis, and attendees will receive free entry to the OTS Party, sponsored by Vango, 'celebrating 50 years outdoors', taking place at 7.30pm on Wednesday 7th September.
To book your place at the OIA Director's Forum at 6.15pm on Wednesday 7th September, please email bookings@theoia.co.uk. On the email, please confirm if you would like to attend the OTS Party afterwards before Wednesday 24th August, as these need to be pre-purchased by the OIA.


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I'm currently in Washington D.C. at the Freedom to Connect conference. There is a live audio stream and live chat, linked from the top of the conference website.
The conference tagline: "The future of telecommunications is in play. Freedom to Connect will shape the debate."
I'll be speaking on Global Voices in a panel this afternoon. My focus: in order to create a more democratic global media and a more representative global conversation, we must aspire to easy and cheap internet access for all people on the globe. This may be through wireless mobile devices, not through broadband and PC's, but the ability to connect to and engage in the global conversation is key.
Got ideas or opinions about this? Please share them on the live chat or in the comments section on Global Voices here.
Ethan Zuckerman and I will hold a brainstorming session about Global Voices here at the Berkman Center today at 12:30pm Eastern time (17:30 GMT).
The link to the webcast will be updated at this link on Global Voices when we get it.
I'll be speaking about Global Voices at Blognashville on Saturday, May 7th. Space is limited so sign up early!
Mack Zulkifli has posted links to a number of bloggers who are on top of a huge earthquake that just hit the coast of Indonesia. Stay tuned.
You've heard of videoblogging, audioblogging, photoblogging, and moblogging, but have you heard of flashblogging? Developed by Malaysian blogger Mack Zulkifli in the wake of the Asian tsunami disaster, it's a cool new way to get across information, express your opinions and make your point about issues you care about. Mack explains flashblogging over at Global Voices. Check it out.
Hossein Derakhshan (Hoder) says "Mostafa Moeen, the reformist candidate for the next president, has written his second post on his blog, which means he is taking it seriously." Unfortunately when I clicked on the link, there is an error message showing that Moeen's bandwith has been exceeded. The power of Hoder!!
Malaysian bloggers Jeff Ooi and Mack Zulkifli have been busy trashing corrupt government officials and encouraging citizen action.
Read all about it at Global Voices. I've also posted the full transcript of the live IRC chat I did with them earlier today.
The Schiavo case is reverberating around the world. Peter Tan, who describes himself as a "Roman Catholic Malaysian Chinese, born and bred in Penang, late-thirties, suffered spinal cord injury at eighteen, paralysed from chest down and afflicted with chronic kidney failure" has this moving post about the ways in which he and his own family members have faced incapacitation and death.
IRC location: #globalvoices on Freenode. (irc://irc.freenode.net/#globalvoices). Unfamiliar with IRC chat? For instructions on how to use it and where to download IRC chat clients, please click here.
We will go for about an hour or maybe longer if there's interest. I'll moderate it kind of like a panel. I'll interview the two of them in the chatroom for maybe 20 minutes or so, then we'll open up the floor to questions from everybody who happens to be in the chatroom. I will save the chat and post it on Global Voices soon afterwards.
Chinese blogger Isaac Mao answers a bunch of questions I e-mailed him about China's latest internet crackdown over at the Global Voices blog.
Is there more you'd like him to explain? Got more questions about the Chinese blogosphere? Please head on over there and hit the comments section!


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Dec. 6th to 8th, 2019 – Sync Con Hollywood: Music in Film and TV Conference. Hollywood, has embraced diversity and is...
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Subtle Savage: Calgary's Ruben Young redefine's his city's sound with latest releases
It has been two years since Calgary's Ruben Young released his first three singles independently through his own record label, Young...
Update: A$AP Rocky released from Swedish jail & makes public statement
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SLDM kicks off the summer with their debut project SLDM Summers
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Q: XmlNode.SelectNodes Returns 0 Nodes I have an xml like this:
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
 <hibernate-configuration xmlns="urn:nhibernate-configuration-2.2">
    <reflection-optimizer use="false"/>
    <session-factory>
           <property name="XX">XX</property>
           <property name="XX">XX</property>
    </session-factory>
  </hibernate-configuration>

I'm trying to select the property nodes using SelectNodes, and I've tried the following:
root.SelectNodes("property");
root.SelectNodes("//property");
root.SelectNodes("/session-factory/property");
root.SelectNodes("descendant::property");
root.LastChild.SelectNodes("child::property");

But all of them returns 0 nodes.  Can anyone help me?  Thanks.

A: Take a look at this long answer:
Why is XmlNamespaceManager necessary?
It has to do with the namespace on the root node.

A: var nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(root.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("x", "urn:nhibernate-configuration-2.2");

var nodes1 = root.SelectNodes("x:property", nsmgr);
var nodes2 = root.SelectNodes("/x:session-factory/x:property", nsmgr);

A: I would recomend you to use LINQ to XML
    var xml = XDocument.Parse(
    @"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>
    <hibernate-configuration xmlns=""urn:nhibernate-configuration-2.2"">
    <reflection-optimizer use=""false""/>
    <session-factory>
    <property name=""XX"">XX</property>
    <property name=""XX"">XX</property>
    </session-factory>
    </hibernate-configuration>");
    var properties = xml.Descendants().Where(p=>p.Name.LocalName.Equals("property")).ToList();

Check msdn for more info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb943906.aspx

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There is a saying in Poland: you're not even good for horseradish grating (meaning: you're useless). If only horseradish grating was easy!
Horseradish has an established position ion Polish kitchens. Used not only to prepare traditional Easter horseradish sauce, but also throughout the year: in beetroot and horseradish preserve, often eaten as a side with dinner in the winter time (when fresh salad vegetables are not available). Some regions of Poland are also famous for their horseradish soup, which, I must say was a delight.
The first mention of using horseradish instead of black pepper in Poland comes from 1593. Horseradish was (and still is) considered a spice, rather than a vegetable, due to its pungency and rather spicy flavour and aroma. The root itself, when untouched and uncut, has no aroma. It is only when we start processing it (peeling, cutting, grating) the enzymes from now-broken plant cells break down and produce mustard oil, which can irritate our sinuses and eyes. In the past, not only the fresh horseradish root was used, but also – a powder made with it, which used to add extra depth and flavour to otherwise flat and boring dishes.
At first, horseradish root was cultivated in flower gardens, due to its decorative leaves and small, white flowers. Later on, the spicy properties of the horseradish root were discovered and a plant moved from the flower garden to the vegetable one.
Traditionally, horseradish sauce is served with various types of meats (which is also a case in the UK, horseradish sauce being a much liked side to be served with roast dinner, especially with beef), hams, cold cuts, hard-boiled eggs or jellied fish. I, personally, love a bit of horseradish sauce in my sandwich. It goes very nicely with a slice of good ham and some homegrown garden cress.
Making horseradish sauce is also a good way of using the hard-boiled, beautifully decorated Easter eggs and preventing food waste. Traditionally, in Poland Easter eggs would be eaten with żurek, during festive Easter Sunday breakfast, some will be stuffed and served with mayo, and some will become an integral part of the horseradish sauce.
Horseradish sauce is, next to żurek, a staple Easter food in Poland. Most of the Polish families nowadays buy a ready-made horseradish sauce and add things to it, to make it more fancy.
No wonder people seek help at supermarket shelves though. Grating horseradish is not easy. I can't even get close to it, my eyes produce ridiculous amounts of tears, as if horseradish grating was the saddest event on earth. I cried, even though I wasn't the one grating it. Prepare yourself for a little bit of suffering, if you decide to make your own horseradish sauce. But it's so totally worth it!
1. Peel the horseradish root and grate it finely. Be careful if your eyes are very sensitive, horseradish smell is even stronger than onion, so it may make you cry or be a little painful for your eyes. Don't touch your eyes when grating the horseradish root, it'll definitely hurt!
2. Once grated, sprinkle it with lemon juice and mix well, the lemon juice will stop the horseradish from darkening in colour. If you feel you'd rather have your horseradish sauce mild, divide the grated horseradish root into two bowls, add boiling water to one (hot water will tune down the spiciness) and add lemon juice to the other. Leave for 20-30 seconds, drain the water and mix both of them together.
3. Finely chop the hard-boiled eggs and mix them with sour cream. Mix the grated horseradish root in, combine well.
4. Season with salt and sugar. Add a teaspoon of mayo.
5. Taste it (be careful, it's very strong and spicy) and season more if required.
6. It's best to make the horseradish sauce a day before planned use, to allow all the flavours to blend properly.
7. You can eat the sauce with soup (in Poland we put a small amount of sauce in żurek soup), on a sandwich or with meat.


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SOLON– The Solon Community Food Pantry will host a grand opening ceremony on Sunday, May 27, from 9 a.m. until noon. The pantry opens for clients on Monday, June 4, and will be open weekly on Mondays from 3 until 6 p.m. at the Solon United Methodist Church, 122 N, West St., Solon.
Entry to the food pantry, located in the lower level, is through the back door of the church across from the Solon Fire Station.
Watch for weekly updates, volunteer opportunities, pantry news and needs in the Solon Economist.
IOWA CITY– Online registration for the sixth annual "Tee Off for Philanthropy– Team Up for Community" golf outing has opened. Golfers may register on-line at http://communityfoundationofjohnsoncounty.org/pages/golf-outing-rsvp.php.
The annual golf outing is held on the Monday preceding the annual Memorial Day holiday weekend. This year's event will be held May 21 at the Brown Deer Golf Course and Country Club in Coralville to benefit the Community Foundation of Johnson County.
CEDAR RAPIDS– The area's first regional year-round market is looking for unique vendors ready to make the NewBo City Market their year-round home. Those wishing to lease a permanent space in the market have until May 31 to apply.
It's a philosophy music instructor Marek Sznyrgala abides by.
In this case, it's also literally true.
A band of his Music4Life students will play a small set at the annual Blues & BBQ event Saturday, May 26, a new twist for the sixth annual community festival. Student performers have not been part of the lineup before, noted planning committee member BJ Jaggers.
TIFFIN– Thursday, April 26, was a very good day for Jane Astor's Clear Creek Amana (CCA) girls' track and field team as they won their home meet, the Pacha Relays.
The Clippers totaled 150 team points to dominate the eight-team field.
TIFFIN– The Clipper boys' track and field team from Clear Creek Amana (CCA) had a good showing on their home track Thursday, April 26, for the annual running of the Pacha Relays. Tony Brack's gentlemen finished second in team points with 109 behind Iowa City Regina (130) and ahead of WaMaC rival Mount Vernon (4th with 84).
IOWA CITY– Coach Rich Redfern's Women of Troy took to the courts Tuesday, April 24, to face-off against Cedar Rapids Prairie in a MVC tennis match. West handled the Prairie Hawks 9-0.
Addy Riley (West) def. Maddie Rainey (CRP), 10-1.
Olivia Lofgren (West) def. Bri Kaous (CRP), 10-0.
Elena Wilson (West) def. Emily Wetherell (CRP), 10-0.
Brittani Langland (West) def. Shannon Costigan (CRP), 10-2.
Megan Jans (West) def. Michelle Grenn (CRP), 10-4.
Jenny Clark (West) def. Alicia Eckman (CRP), 10-1.
Riley/Jans (West) def. Rainey/Wetherell (CRP), 10-3.
NORTH LIBERTY– To most parents, preparing kids for school means loading up a backpack with tablets and pencils, crayons, tissue boxes and paint sets.
Many don't think of the other things so important in preparing for school: clean clothes, washed hair and daily baths.
"We want them coming to school ready to learn, " said Kris Hynek, coordinator at the Family Resource Center at Penn Elementary School.
TIFFIN— The mantra "stop, look and listen" we learned in grade school apparently is no longer enough.
In a push to increase safety at its railroad crossings, the Iowa Interstate railroad (IAIS) wants more of its grade crossings to be signalized.
IOWA CITY– The University of Iowa DeGowin Blood Center will hold a blood drive at the North Liberty Recreation Center on Monday, May 14, from 4 until 7 p.m. in the Gerdin Conference Rooms 1 and 3.
• Be 17 years old or 16 with parental consent.
• Be cold or flu symptom-free for five days.
• Pass a mini-physical and medical history inquiry.
• Know Social Security or driver's license number.
• Drink fluids and have a meal prior to donation.
• Bring a list of current medications.


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Joint Review: The Wish List by Gabi Stevens
May 10, 2010 By Lou 1 Comment
Publisher: Tor
Where did you get this book from: Review Copy from publisher.
Release Date: Out now.
Blurb taken from author's official website:
When Kristin Montgomery discovers her three aunts are fairy godmothers and she's next in line for the job, her uncomplicated life disappears like magic. No, not like magic; it is magic. Kristin not only has to deal with burgeoning magical powers, but also a reluctant arbiter, a selfish sprite, and a suave French sorcerer. It's bad enough there are no books or classes she can take to learn magic, but someone is out to take over the Arcani world. Kristin has to trust her heart and her instincts to keep herself and the ones she loves out of danger.
Has: I really liked the idea of a fairytale/bewitched premise of the book. It was a welcome change from the usual paranormal fare of vampires and werewolves. However, I do think the execution of this wasn't that great. I know Kristin was a newbie and as a reader we were learning the world from her eyes, but I hated that it was mostly telling and not showing this new world. And I felt that the worldbuilding was weak due to this.
Lou: The thought of a modern day and young fairy godmother definitely makes for a change, but I also have to agree with you on the execution. I really, really struggled with this book. I found that we didn't really see Kristin's journey of becoming a fairy godmother. And I struggled also with Kristin's character. I didn't feel that there was any personality to her, or any emotional development as a character. As you said, there was a lot of telling, but never showing. I didn't get the sense of what made Kristin tick, what she loved, what she liked. Her personality seemed to be missing, except when she got angry with Tennyson, the hero of the book.
Has: I think the time when she was thrown into the mix with the older forgetful fairy Godmothers, and them not supporting her was also a cliché too. I was pretty frustrated with this because it would have been more interesting with them guiding her instead of showing up much, much later in the book. I found that Tennyson becoming her guide didn't add any tension to their romance and it felt forced. And his character wasn't as developed too, there was nothing that stood out for me either.
Lou: Again, this is what I struggled with in the book. There didn't seem to be a lot of character development for most of the characters. Tennyson was grumpy, he was a scholar, and he was attracted to Kristin. Again, I feel there was no emotional depth. And then when Lucas enters the fray, as a triangle of sorts, that was so predictable, that I knew straight off the bat what his character was going to be.
Has: Oh I agree! This also didn't endear me to Kristin's character. For such a sensible person she made mistakes in trusting the wrong people, and although she figured things out later in the book, it was pretty obvious from the beginning who the bad guy was.
Lou: That really bugged me about Kristin. Why was she telling – basically a stranger – about what she was, and what was happening to her, and telling that person what Tennyson was explaining to her. And while we get the backstory of the Arcani world, and the baddie, and how they came to be, I felt the worldbuilding and the actual paranormal aspect was weak. It was simply, wave your wand, and things are magically done instantly.
Has: Exactly and there were no real repercussions and when there was, it was don't use magic when you're angry or being weak. I felt that Kristin's 'I hate you, but I really like you' reaction towards Tennyson was also tedious. When she slept with him for the first time and then she was like oh my god what did I do? And then it was back and forth constantly with each other. I felt it didn't add to the romantic tension – what little there was of it. It was annoying and frankly I didn't like both characters that much. Zack and Callie, the side characters, had more development and personality.
Lou: See, I didn't even feel that Callie, Kristin's fairy friend, and Zack, Tennyson's human friend, brought anything to the story. I didn't see the point of their romance as the romance wasn't shown at all. Everything – in the whole book – happened in such a short space of time, and it all felt rushed – with Kristin learning about being a fairy godmother, from her learning shortly about the world, her learning and using her powers super fast, and the rocky but fast relationship with Tennyson. Add I knew who the baddie was when he was first introduced, and he's not what I would call a real baddie.
Has: Yup I agree about that speed of her learning her powers. Also, her being a Rare one. It was never really fully explained or shown what that entailed. I found the baddie to be a cardboard baddie – and again clichéd. And why did the bad guy want her so badly? Especially when it was shown that he didn't have to use her really, when his main objective was the Godmothers themselves.
Lou: I think it was a means for dangerous things to happen to Kristin, that enabled Tennyson to be with her all the time guarding her, which means their romance could develop. While the love scenes were done well, and there were hints of emotion as the story went on, overall, everything just fell flat for me.
Has: I agree with you about the love scenes, but there was no real build-up of tension between Kristin and Tennyson and I found both of their characters almost like caricatures and clichéd and so was the bad guy for that matter. The idea of a light hearted tone and magical world just didn't fulfil its promise, and I really wanted to like it because the premise sounded fun. But I really struggled to finish this book and it was almost a DNF for me. But I rate this 2.0 stars as I felt the book picked up pace towards the latter end.
Lou: It was nearly a DNF for me also, and I really wanted to like this book as it looked to be a fun read. I think the worldbuilding of the Arcani has great potential to be expanded upon, and the role of the Godmother which was to grant wishes, but there was no real emotion from the characters IMO, and everything felt really rushed. I would give The Wish List 2.0 out of 5 stars also.
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Initially a part of a larger ministry program in Ukraine that began shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, Evangelion Chorale (Greek for Good News) was founded in 1998 when then-Bethel University choir director Dennis Port and his wife, Nola, focused on creating a chorale for classical choral outreach to Ukraine. The Minnesota-based professional ensemble aims to enlighten, enrich and inspire audiences with sacred classical songs sung to the glory of God.
The initial focus on Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union was due to a commonly held opinion that to be a Christian was synonymous with mediocrity. Evangelion's goal in Ukraine was to prove this wrong – "The aim of this ensemble was to show that one could be a believer, and also perform at a high level of excellence to the glory of God, and that in itself could point people to the preeminence of God and the greatness of His gifts to his children," said Evangelion's associate director and MIWC board member Tim Sawyer.
After its nine tours of Ukraine and following the Russian invasion into eastern Ukraine, Evangelion broadened its boundaries this past summer and headed to the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia for a new season of ministry.
Since the mission of Evangelion complements the music missions work done by MIWC so well, MIWC partnered with Evangelion for this summer's trip with the long-term vision of the chorale becoming an ongoing outreach ministry of MIWC.
MIWC's Europe Associate, Serhiy Bilokin (pictured talking to concert-goer), is based in Estonia and coordinated all of Evangelion's ministry events in the Baltics. Those events served as a great boost to the churches and areas where Bilokin has been ministering.
"Baltic countries are countries with a great musical potential among churches," said Bilokin. But while they include some musicians who trained with the CMA from 2004–2009, they also have a new generation of believers who grew up without training and all of the residents are affected by the complicated geographical position of the Baltics.
While the three small countries border Russia, they are not friends with her. Both Ukraine and Western Europe are far away, leaving the church members in the Baltics feeling abandoned.
With Evangelion's leadership reorganized, a new mission statement was crafted that continued its focus on enlightening and enriching but opened the doors to allow its ministry to flow into other countries.
"The goal was much more than tourist evangelism," said Sawyer, but instead to connect with and encourage believers and non-believers alike in new places.
"The Evangelion Baltic Tour was exactly at the right time and place," said Bilokin.
"When I heard about it, I was elated. God knew how important it was to those churches and cities," Bilokin explained. The perfect fit also showed itself through the strong connection between MIWC, CMA Ukraine and Evangelion – in every church the tour visited, Bilokin saw former CMA students, some moved to tears with gratitude that someone had come to their small town.
"It was an encouragement," Bilokin said, "to me and my family to continue the ministry in these countries. In each place I've been with a cloud of witnesses, and it was clear to others that we are not alone – the goal is high and it's worthy."
Bilokin also reflected on the challenges he faces in the Baltic region – not just being new to the area, which requires time to build relationships, but trying to motivate people who culturally are very focused on their financial worries. He has found it much more difficult to encourage people there, as working extra shifts to earn money will take precedence over church and music ministry activities.
Challenges aside, Bilokin is ready for the hard work, he said, and will start individual music training and youth seminars on the biblical principles of worship this year.
He also called the pastor of every church Evangelion visited this summer and heard among the many words of gratitude and love, many invitations for the choir to return, and return regularly.
"Baltic people look Nordic and serious, but they are warm inside...I was blessed by all of Evangelion on this tour because they are God's people. And there is no other joy than to serve the Lord together."
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The government of El Salvador provides its elementary schools with the basic ingredients (rice, beans, corn, sugar, powdered milk) necessary for a small meal for every student each school day to help impoverished families meet the minimum nutritional requirements of their children. Parents in Upire however, a small community nestled in the northwestern mountains of El Salvador not far from the Honduran border, still have difficulty meeting the essential vitamin and mineral requirements for their growing children. Over time this leads to tired children lacking the energy to play with their friends and stay focused in class. To address this issue a group of parents, teachers, students, and community leaders came together and determined that the best possible way to combat malnutrition was to grow the produce needed to improve and maintain the health of children in the community. A $490 grant from World Connect's Kids to Kids Program in 2010 supported the Sowing the Seeds to Grow Healthy Strong Kids program that developed a biology lab to help 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students learn the benefits and methods required to raise organic produce to sustainably meet the nutritional needs of children while developing agricultural skills.


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Richard Chopping's association with Bond author Ian Fleming began when he was exhibiting some Trompe L'Oeil works at a London gallery when his friend Francis Bacon showed Fleming's wife around. The ensuing cover of From Russia with Love (1957) was similarly in Trompe L'Oeil style, the imagery of rose and dew drop being specified by Fleming, the Smith & Wesson revolver lent by the author. Fleming asked Geoffrey Boothroyd, a firearms expert, if he could lend his illustrator, Richard Chopping, one of his guns to be painted for the cover of From Russia, With Love.
Boothroyd lent Chopping a Smith & Wesson revolver that had the trigger guard removed for faster firing.
Ian Fleming writes in 1962:
"Late summer is also the time when he and I get our heads together about the design of an appropriate jacket for the book. The volume I was working on at the time of my correspondence with Geoffrey Boothroyd was From Russia with Love, and, with the correspondence in mind and remembering the excellent trompe-l'oeil jacket for Raymond Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. in 1950, my idea for a jacket was a gun crossed with a rose. So I decided to approach Dickie Chopping, who is probably the finest trompe-l'oeil painter in the world and for whose work I have a great admiration.
Dickie Chopping having agreed in principle, the next requirement was a suitable gun. I at once thought of Geoffrey Boothroyd's favourite—the S & W .38 Special M & P whose barrel he had sawn to 2 inches, and whose trigger guard he had cut away for quicker shooting, and I wrote asking for the loan of the gun.
Geoffrey Boothroyd agreed. His beautiful gun came down to me by registered post and was sent on to Dickie Chopping, who at once set to work, commenting in a letter around the middle of September,
"It has been the very devil to paint, but fascinating."
And then fate stepped in via an urgent trunk call from Geoffrey Boothroyd. Boothroyd later had to assist the police with their enquiries when a similar weapon was used in a triple murder in Glasgow explaining that his weapon had been posted to Ian Fleming for a book cover. Peter Manuel was later arrested for the murder, convicted and executed.
(Ian Fleming describes this experience in depth here)
Richard Chopping: "It has been the very devil to paint, but fascinating."
Original proof copy for From Russia With Love
His delicate renditions of flowers and guns seemed to perfectly capture the style of the novels and remain the definitive editions. Peter Selley, one of Sotherby's experts, said:
"The proof copy is unusual in that it shows the progression and development of such a famous cover. It's an important part of British literary history and dust jacket design itself."
Ian Fleming wrote:
"The Chopping jacket was a tremendous success, both in England and America, and from that day on he and I and Michael Howard of Cape's have devised all the James Bond jackets, which have now become something of a hallmark with the book trade and have earned prizes for Cape's."
After years of disappointment about his most famous commissions, Mr Chopping had no hesitation about putting the publisher's proofs on the market when they surfaced unexpectedly at his home in Wivenhoe in Essex.
"I found them at the bottom of a drawer. What they are is progressive proofs, so there are sheets with different colours added, yellow, brown, red. This was before they used computers for printing."
Ben Williams investigated the career and style of Richard Chopping, who developed the haunting and iconic cover art of 10 literary James Bond adventures for Mi6 Confidential magazine.
Original photo and final cover art for 'From Russia With Love'
Although the first edition jacket announced that it had been designed by the author; Chopping later said:
"He in now way designed it. He did tell me the things he wanted on it. It had to be a rose with a drop of dew on it. There had to be a sawn-off Smith & Wesson. We never discussed the type of revolver we would use. It had to be that one."
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Devex: Inside Development: Ethiopia's state of emergency silences aid workers. #OromoProtests October 31, 2016
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Ethiopia's state of emergency silences aid workers — and some of their work
By Andrew Green, devex31 October 2016
The Ethiopian government's recently imposed state of emergency, which followed months of clashes between political protesters and security forces, has imposed new curfews, limited the movement of civilians and diplomats and outlawed opposition media.
It has also largely silenced the extensive international aid community operating in the country from speaking about what effect the current political dynamic is having on their work.
The quiet itself is telling of the fear NGOs and agencies are operating under. More than a dozen agencies working in a variety of humanitarian and development fields — including the United Nations' resident humanitarian coordinator — either did not respond to interview requests or declined to speak to Devex for this story, most citing concerns about the potential risk to staff operating in Ethiopia.
Meanwhile, some development projects have been slowed by the government's reaction to the protests, according to NGO officials. Security forces have fired tear gas and bullets into crowds and temporarily shut down some channels of communication. Transportation restrictions threaten to wreak havoc with the ongoing efforts to address food shortages following monthslong droughts. If violence broadens, it could precipitate a larger humanitarian crisis.
International officials — including from U.N. agencies — appear reluctant to speak candidly on the situation for fear it could cost them access to the communities they are trying to assist or even result in their agencies being expelled from the country. That could be devastating in a country where 9.7 million people are estimated to need food relief before the end of the year.
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In Ethiopia, the U.S. Agency for International Development has a "crucial window of time" to use disaster response tools to prevent the very worst impacts of drought.
Yet if not aid agencies, human rights activists wonder who is going to speak up about the situation in Ethiopia. They say the state of emergency has presaged a crackdown on local journalists and civil rights groups. Most diplomats have been wary about offending a key regional partner, even as the situation looks set to worsen.
"Right now the general intolerance the government is demonstrating toward criticism is only fueling people's frustrations," said Clementine de Montjoye, the advocacy and research manager for the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project. With the violence looking to continue, aid agencies will remain in the precarious position of calibrating how — or whether — to respond.
Roots of discontent
The current protests date to November 2015 and began in Oromia, the region that extends over much of the country's south and east like a sideways "V". Demonstrators initially reacted to a government plan to take land from Oromia to expand the capital, Addis Ababa, which falls inside the region. The proposal stoked long-simmering feelings of marginalization among the Oromo ethnic group — the country's largest, accounting for more than a third of Ethiopia's 100 million people.
Clashes recently spread to the Amhara region in the country's north, home of the country's second-largest ethnic group. Though the demonstrations are unrelated, they are both rooted in feelings of exclusion from the government, which is dominated by the Tigray — a community that makes up only 6 percent of the population. The government has acknowledged that more than 500 people may have died because of the security force's response to the protests or in stampedes that have followed, as people have tried to escape.
The roots of the discontent extend beyond political marginalization, said Yared Hailemariam, the executive director of the Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia. Cyclical humanitarian crises — including periodic food shortages — and the slow pace of infrastructural development have deepened frustration. Despite the country's rapid economic growth over the past decade, progress has come unevenly and left some regions lagging behind.
Oromia and Amhara, in part because they are the largest regions, have the largest numbers of people in need of food assistance, according to a midyear review by the government and aid agencies. After a failed rainy season in 2015 and a drought so far in 2016, three times more people are in need of aid this year, according to the review.
Many areas in these regions rely on domestic and international agencies for support. If the state of emergency interferes with humanitarian relief efforts or development projects, Yare said it could push more people onto the streets. The declaration includes not just a ban on protests, but also a 6 p.m. curfew and a prohibition on foreign diplomats traveling more than 40 kilometers from Addis Ababa without approval.
"Some of the embassies have development projects, for example," he said. "If they can't visit those areas and can't communicate with the staff on the ground, they won't know what's going on. Maybe it ignites another round of protests. It's ridiculous."
Impact on aid work
The few NGO officials willing to talk told Devex that they are still waiting to find out how the state of emergency will impact their work. Location seems to be the most critical determinant of whether aid projects are directly affected.
Most of Mercy Corps' projects, for example, are far from the areas where the clashes have taken place, and their services have not been interrupted, said Christine Nyirjesy Bragale, the director of media relations. The organization works on emergency responses to the droughts as well as long-term climate change and other environmental adaptation.
Some of WaterAid's projects, have been forced to slow down as contractors have refused to show up for work if there are nearby protests, said Lydia Zigomo, the organization's head for the East Africa region.
Focusing on access to water and raising hygiene and sanitation standards, the organization has funded more than 50 projects in Ethiopia, including ongoing sites in Oromia and Amhara.
Officials and activists also said aid projects experience some overarching challenges in communication as the government regularly shutting down the internet and phone lines.
WaterAid's Zigomo said the organization has been helped by the perception of the water and sanitation sector as nonpolitical. "We tend not to be in the first line of any problems that are going on."
The danger of being viewed as political is something the international community is very attuned to, and their caution is likely warranted. The government maintains acute oversight of the international community, including through a 2009 law regulating the activities of nongovernmental organizations. That alone already makes it difficult for groups to even do their work, Yared said.
His own experience is telling of the challenges: Though he operates out of Brussels after escaping into exile in 2005, he said he still gets calls from international aid agencies asking him if he has reports from communities outside Addis Ababa he can share. Relief organizations "can't get information," he said. "The government restricts them from moving in these conflict areas."
Yared said he understands international agencies are in a difficult position. Even the perception of commenting on the effect of the government's policies could prove devastating for their programs. But he also wonders who will tell the world what is happening in Ethiopia.


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Lessons not learned: UK govt. and industry to mount massive spin campaign to promote smart grids
Contrary to the claim below that the British energy industry has "learned from mistakes in the USA and Australia" just the opposite is true. What about the many reports on health effects coming from Australia and the U.S.? Absolutely nothing is mentioned below. Its all about "lifestyle changes" with part of the spin using cartoon characters Gaz and Leccy spreading the supposed benefits of smart meters. Perhaps appropriately like to the cartoon character Joe Camel featured in those old cigarette commercials.
Wouldn't it be nice if the money was instead spent on investigating those health effects? A bit like believing in the Easter Bunny…..
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Having learned from mistakes in the USA and Australia, the British energy industry has joined forces for a nationwide campaign that seeks to rally support for smart meters by touting the devices as a platform for future lifestyle changes in households. Cartoon versions of gas and electricity (Gaz and Leccy) will star in ads nationwide later this month.
Smart Energy GB, an organisation set up by the Government and funded by energy companies, has just launched the first phase of the £85 seven-year marketing plan. It was first revealed in March and the campaign will play a key role in the Government"™s £11bn plan to install the devices in every home by 2020.
Smart Energy GB brand identity has been formed to embody the push, highlighting how the devices can transform the relationship between UK consumers and energy companies. Print and TV ads will speak to the concerns of many homeowners by showing how smart meters control boisterous, Tom and Jerry-esque cartoon versions of gas and electricity, dubbed Gaz and Leccy respectively. A coolly delivered voiceover urging people to ask their energy provider for more details will offset the chaos caused by the duo. See article.
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In this series of blog posts, adapted from a recently published paper, we sought to demonstrate how layered business and technical architectures can leverage modular component design practices....
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The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is continuing to beef up its board of trustees after the loss of several members during the museum's much-publicized financial troubles in late 2008.
On Wednesday, the museum said its board has elected four new members. The new trustees are Lauren King, a philanthropist and residential designer; Timothy J. Leiweke, the president and chief executive of the sports and entertainment conglomerate AEG; Catherine Opie, the provocative photographer and visual artist; and Donald Tang, the founder and chief executive of CITIC Securities International Partners.
Tang has had close ties with Eli Broad, who also sits on the MOCA board. Tang was also a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Opie's photographs have been exhibited at MOCA, and some of her work is part of the museum's permanent collection.
MOCA announced in December that Victor Pinchuk, Peter Brant and Steven Mnuchin were joining the board.
In the past, trustees have had to pay a minimum of $75,000 in annual dues to the museum, with additional contributions in their first year. MOCA did not say Wednesday if the new trustees were bound by this rule.
Wednesday's announcement comes a little more than a year after the Times reported that nine trustees had exited the MOCA board in the wake of the institution's near financial collapse.
Since then, MOCA has turned around its finances with a big helping hand from Broad, who extended the museum a $30-million bailout offer. In January, MOCA announced that New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch would assume the role of director of the museum in June.
Deitch will assume the reins from Charles E. Young, who took over the leadership of the museum in an interim capacity after the resignation of Jeremy Strick.
MOCA said that in the last 15 months, it has raised more than $67 million and added 14 new trustees to its board.
Photo (top): MOCA's Grand Avenue location in downtown L.A. Credit: Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times.


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Q: Trigger  request on page load I have a page which has to trigger an AJAX request when it is loaded. I've managed to perform the request when clicking a button on the page. But I haven't managed to trigger this automatically on page load. The parameter to use comes from the other page via f:viewParam.
I've tried to use a load event which seems to be usable with f:ajax and HTMLGraphicImage or HTMLBody as per this thread but it doesn't work with a4j:ajax (or I may be missing something).
Tag Exception
<a4j:ajax> loadevent is not supported for the HtmlGraphicImage

I haven't posted the bean for simplicity as this part now works as I want to. My problem is about triggering the a4j:ajax tag. If you think the bean would be also needed just let me know.
I think there is a way to do it via PrimeFaces. I am not sure I'll be allowed to add this library to the project so please post other solutions if there are any.
Here is the JSF page. This one tries to use an image load event to trigger AJAX. There is also an attempt to use HTMLBody but it's tagged with ui:remove:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes" ?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
    xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"
    xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j">

<ui:composition template="layouts/template.jsf">
    <ui:define name="body">

        <f:metadata>
            <f:viewParam name="recordCode"
                value="#{recordDetailBean.record.recordCode}" />
        </f:metadata>

        <h:graphicImage value="/images/transparent.gif">
            <a4j:ajax event="load"
                action="#{recordDetailBean.createDummyDelay}"
                status="loadingRecordDetail" render="recordDetail" />
        </h:graphicImage>

        <ui:remove>
            <a4j:ajax event="load"
                action="#{recordDetailBean.createDummyDelay}"
                status="loadingRecordDetail" render="recordDetail" />
        </ui:remove>

        <rich:popupPanel id="loadRecord" style="text-align:center"
            autosized="true" modal="true" width="200">
            <h:graphicImage value="/images/ajax-loader.gif" />
            <br />
            <h:outputText value="#{msg.loadingRecord}" />
        </rich:popupPanel>

        <a4j:status name="loadingRecordDetail">
            <f:facet name="start">
                <rich:componentControl event="start" operation="show"
                    target="loadRecord" />
            </f:facet>
            <f:facet name="stop">
                <rich:componentControl event="stop" operation="hide"
                    target="loadRecord" />
            </f:facet>
        </a4j:status>

        <h:form>

            <a4j:commandButton value="Do something"
                action="#{recordDetailBean.createDummyDelay}"
                status="loadingRecordDetail" render="recordDetail" />

            <a4j:outputPanel id="recordDetail">
                <h:outputText value="#{recordDetailBean.dummyDelay}" />
            </a4j:outputPanel>
        </h:form>

    </ui:define>
</ui:composition>
</html>

Thanks in advance.

A: Watching again my question I guess I should have asked that I wanted to link two pages passing a parameter and invoking a method of the managed bean being invoked prior to page render.
This is the approach I finally used. It is probably shown in other threads so this may be closed as duplicate. I also followed guidelines shown in this answer by BalusC regarding f:metadata. Unfortunately I couldn't make a "loading" h:popupPanel appear prior to change to the other page. If somebody could provide an approach to do this I would open another question:
Link on the first page:
<h:link value="#{rSearch.recordCode}" outcome="recordDetail">
   <f:param name="recordCode" value="#{rSearch.recordCode}" />
</h:link>

Metadata on the page being called:
<ui:define name="metadata">
   <f:metadata>
      <f:viewParam name="recordCode" value="#{RecordDetailBean.theRecord.recordCode}" />
      <f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{RecordDetailBean.populateRecord}" />
   </f:metadata>
</ui:define>

In the populateRecord method I use a DAO and the parameter stored in RecordDetailBean.theRecord.recordCode to retrieve all the info I need before the page is rendered.


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John Jacob Cornwell (July 11, 1867 – September 8, 1953) was a Democratic politician from Romney in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Cornwell served as the 15th Governor of the US state of West Virginia. Cornwell also served in the West Virginia Senate as a state senator (1899–1905).

Background
John Jacob Cornwell was born on a farm near the community of Pennsboro in Ritchie County into a family of Welsh origin whose ancestor Peter Cornwell, born in Wales in 1634 , settled in the Virginia Colony. When John J. Cornwell was three years old in 1870, his family moved to Hampshire County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Cornwell attended Shepherd University in Shepherdstown at the age of sixteen and became a school teacher upon graduating in Hampshire County.

In 1890, Cornwell and his brother, William B. Cornwell, acquired the Romney Hampshire Review and assumed the roles of publishers and editors of the newspaper. In 1892, he married Edna Brady.  In 1897, Cornwell and his brother bought out the competing paper, the South Branch Intelligencer, adding its name and 1829 founding date to the Review's masthead.

Political Office
Cornwell was admitted to the bar in 1898 and served as a state senator from 1899 to 1905. Cornwell was defeated in his first gubernatorial bid by William Mercer Owens Dawson in 1904, but was elected governor in 1916, took office in March 1917, and served until 1921. In 1917, Cornwell became the only Democrat to serve as governor in a thirty-six-year span between 1897 and 1933. In fact, Cornwell was the only Democrat elected to a statewide office in 1916.

One month after Cornwell took office as governor, the United States entered World War I and due in part to his efforts, the state of West Virginia had one of the highest percentages of volunteers of any state. Also during his term, the state reached an agreement on a public debt figure owed to Virginia since West Virginia's statehood in 1863. Cornwell advocated strengthening the mining code, the creation of a state board of education, and the establishment of the West Virginia Department of Public Safety, now officially known as the West Virginia State Police. He supported woman's suffrage, adding it to the agenda for a special session of the legislature in February 1920. West Virginia became the 34th state to ratify the federal constitutional amendment for women's right to vote.

Cornwell's term was not unblemished, however, and was marked by growing labor unrest in the coal industry of southern West Virginia. Cornwell discouraged an armed miners' march in 1919 by assuring them he would address the miners' grievances. His failure to handle the situation led to increased violence, including the infamous shootout between miners and coal company guards in Matewan, Mingo County.

After leaving office in 1921, John J. Cornwell served as a director and general counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.

Death
Upon retirement, he lived at his home on Main Street in Romney. Cornwell contracted pneumonia in the summer of 1953 and died at Cumberland Memorial Hospital in Cumberland, Maryland on September 8, 1953. He is interred with his wife and son in Romney's Indian Mound Cemetery. Cornwell descendants continue to run the Hampshire Review today.

John J. Cornwell Elementary School in Levels is named for him because of his background in and strong support of education in the state of West Virginia.

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