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Len Hutton captained the English cricket team in Australia in 1954–55, playing as England against Australia in the 1954–55 Ashes series and as the MCC in other matches on the tour. It was the first time that an England team had toured Australia under a professional captain since the 1880s. After losing the First Test by an innings, they beat Australia 3–1 and retained the Ashes. The combination of Frank Tyson, Brian Statham, Trevor Bailey, Johnny Wardle and Bob Appleyard made it one of the strongest bowling sides to tour Australia, and it was the only team of any nationality to defeat Australia at home between 1932–33 and 1970–71.

The England touring team

Management

The tour was managed by Geoffrey Howard, the popular secretary of Lancashire County Cricket Club who had been a wicketkeeper-batsman for the Private Banks XI in 1926–36 and had played three games for Middlesex. He was in the RAF during the Second World War and once hit a century before lunch playing for their cricket team. Howard had managed the MCC tour of India and Sri Lanka in 1951–52, and on a later tour would smooth things over when some players tipped water over umpire Idris Begh in Pakistan in 1955–56. "The 'Ger" ran a happy ship and even played in a couple of non-first class matches. He had been given no funds by the MCC (he was meant to return a profit) and had to take out an overdraft from an Australian bank until he could pay his way with gate receipts. When Len Hutton was stricken with fibrositis at the start of the Third Test, it was Howard and Duckworth who convinced him to play. George Duckworth had been England's wicketkeeper in the 1920s, but now managed the team's baggage and travel arrangements. He "was guide, philosopher and friend to all who had the sense to see the worth of his experience of cricket in Australia" and liaised with the press corps. One innovation was the appointment of Harold Dalton as the team physiotherapist. Previously the players had used local masseurs.

Captain
The selection of the MCC touring team was not without controversy. Len Hutton was the first professional England captain since Arthur Shrewsbury in 1876–77 other than as a temporary stop-gap. This break with tradition received much criticism from those who thought only a gentleman should hold this honour, but England had been heavily defeated by Australia in every series since the war, and even the West Indies in 1950. Hutton had been brought up in the hard school of Yorkshire cricket under George Hirst and Herbert Sutcliffe. Even so, he "...was a tactical genius, whose assistance was often sought..." by amateur captains, but in his day professionals were not trained as captains and the burden sat heavily on his shoulders.

He began well with a 3–0 victory over India in 1952 and regained the Ashes 1–0 in 1953. England pulled back from being 2–0 down to square a series in the West Indies in 1953–54 despite political interference, riots and dubious umpiring. England drew 1–1 with Pakistan in 1954, but Hutton was ill for two Tests and the Rev David Sheppard captained England. There was talk that the Sussex amateur should lead the MCC in Australia and New Zealand. Fortunately, wiser counsels prevailed and Hutton was confirmed as captain. Of the amateurs on tour Bill Edrich was an old comrade and had been a professional before the war, and the others – Reg Simpson, Trevor Bailey, Peter May and Colin Cowdrey – had been schoolboys when Hutton was making Test centuries. As a result, Hutton's right to the captaincy was not questioned, the team were happy to play under him and his conscientious vice-captain Peter May was particularly helpful. As a working class Yorkshireman he was not fully adept in social graces, and he gave his after-dinner speeches in "Pudsey English". When dealing with the press corps, Hutton used heavy silences and "developed the art when it suited him of delivering with much gravity Delphic utterances which his hearers could interpret however they pleased"

Hutton captained England in 23 Tests – of which he won 11, drew 8 and lost 4 – and proved to be one of the most successful captains in England's history. They never lost a series in which he was captain and England regained the Ashes from Lindsay Hassett's powerful 1953 Australians—the first such success in 19 years. He was fortunate in the quality of the young England players available in the 1950s, but he used them to the utmost effect. More than any other player he knew the strain of facing high-quality fast bowling and used his own fast bowlers ruthlessly. Hutton would often slow the over rates both to rest them in the Australian heat and to break the concentration of the batsmen, as he knew that strokemakers could be got out through frustration alone. These tactics did not endear him to the crowds, or the "old guard" back home who preferred the carefree attacking captaincy of the amateur, but they were very effective. The Yorkshireman also made bowling changes with great cunning, notably in the Fourth Test at Adelaide, and his ability to read a wicket during a match sometimes verged on second sight. Frank Tyson wrote that Hutton was "pursued by his own personal demons. He will never be completely content until the series has been won and he has exorcised his two personal tormentors, Lindwall and Miller. Not for a moment does he relax his own bottled up intensity". There have been more inspirational captains and those with more flair and imagination, but few matched Len Hutton for sheer bloody-minded determination to win. He retired from the game soon after the tour and was knighted for services to cricket in 1956.

Batsmen
England had a strong batting line up: Len Hutton (averaging 56.67), Bill Edrich (40.00), Peter May (46.77), Colin Cowdrey (44.06), Denis Compton (50.06) and Trevor Bailey (29.74), with Tom Graveney (44.38) standing in for the injured Compton and out-of-form Edrich in the two Sydney Tests. Hutton was the holder of the then record Test score of 364 and had by far the best batting average of either team in 1950–51 (88.83) and 1953 (55.37). The main problem was finding a suitable opening partner once Cyril Washbrook (42.81) had retired. Reg Simpson (33.35) was the only other opener in the team and thought the job should be his. He had been on the sidelines for years, and had made 156 not out at Melbourne in the 1950–51 Ashes series when Australia was beaten for the first time in 12 years. Though chosen for the First Test he failed and did not find his form until late in the series. As a result, Hutton tried Bailey, Edrich and Graveney in the number two position. England's opening-partnership problem remained unsolved until the emergence of John Edrich and Geoffrey Boycott in the 1960s. With the strong Australian bowling on their home turf, runs were hard to come by and only the obstinate stonewaller "Barnacle" Bailey exceeded his career Test average in a low-scoring series (37.00 over 29.74). Keith Miller wrote "I reckon he has saved more matches for England than anyone else since the war. His figures belie his worth to England. When a fielding side sees him coming in, a trough of deep depression immediately settles around the area". Bill Edrich had been a Squadron Leader during the war and won the DFC for his part in the "RAF's most audacious and dangerous low-level bombing raid" on Cologne in 1941. Edrich had "an immense relief that he survived" becoming a bon viveur who lived for the day and a gutsy batsman who was "almost indifferent to his own safety. No bowler is too fast to hook; no score too large to defy challenge." Vic Wilson was a strapping Yorkshire farmer who could hit the ball many a mile, but failed to come to terms with the Australian pitches. The baby-faced Colin Cowdrey, an Oxford undergraduate and the youngest member of the side, was a real find with his immaculate timing of the ball in the first of a record six tours of Australia. "The 22-year-old had received news of his father's death at the start of the tour, but soldiered on, thanks to the advice and encouragement of his young teammate Peter May and father figure and captain Len Hutton". Even so, Hutton made a small bet that Wilson would score more Test runs than Cowdrey on the tour Tyson worked on his batting and in 1954 "was building up a reputation as an all-rounder, scoring consistently with the bat", and even batted at number seven on the tour. The team scored fewer Test runs than any England team in Australia for fifty years, but with such talent somebody usually got the vital runs and, except at Brisbane, England had the advantage.

Bowlers
Like Australia, England had a rich seam of bowling talent in the 1950s, so much so that they left behind fast bowler Fred Trueman (average 21.57), off-spinner Jim Laker (21.24) and slow left armer Tony Lock (25.58) who between them had taken 15 wickets in the Ashes-winning Fifth Test at the Kennington Oval in 1953. The most likely explanation is that these outspoken cricketers were regarded as 'difficult tourists' by the MCC and Hutton thought that "Fiery Fred" had yet to mature as a bowler. As in every series since the war it looked like the England bowling would rest on the broad shoulders of Alec Bedser (24.89)—in 1954 his 231 wickets was the greatest haul in Test history. His lethal combination of in-swingers and leg-cutters had taken 30 wickets (at 16.06) on the 1950–51 tour and 39 wickets (at 17.48) in 1953. The unfortunate Bedser suffered from shingles, had seven catches dropped off him in the First Test, where he was hit for 1/131, was dropped and never got back into the side. He took to bowling to the Australian team in the nets and Keith Miller told him "You're not too bad for a Test discard. If you want a game you can come over and play with us". In the last four Tests Hutton relied on the formidable bowling attack of Frank Tyson (18.76), Brian Statham (24.84), Trevor Bailey (29.21), Johnny Wardle (20.39) and Bob Appleyard (17.87). While "Typhoon" Tyson is justly famed for simply blasting the opposition away, the nagging accuracy of Statham and Bailey and the increasing spin of Wardle and Appleyard all served to tie down and frustrate the Australian batsmen. In fact the spinners took wickets with a faster strike rate (1 wicket every 57 balls) and at a lower average (21.57) than the fast bowlers. Like Simpson the fast swing bowler Peter Loader (22.51) thought that he should have played in the Tests and was unlucky not to do so. Big Jim McConnon also had a bad tour, he was never really seen as an adequate alternative for Jim Laker, didn't find his form and was sent home early after a couple of painful injuries. Bill Edrich had opened the England bowling before the war, but rarely bowled in the 1950s. Len Hutton, Tom Graveney and Colin Cowdrey were part-time leg-spinners who were only really used in up-country games.

Fielding
Evans is a grand keeper. On this tour he proved that he is the outstanding keeper in the world today. I have never seen a better keeper than Tallon as he was in England in 1948...but that time has passed. Evans is now the world best. That's the way things go and the way we Australians are supposed to like it. Evans reminds me always of a fox terrier. He simply cannot stand still whilst on the cricket field. He moves with short, quick steps, dives, literally dives, at the ball when it is returned badly out of his reach...
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England's lamentable fielding at Brisbane – they dropped 14 catches – set a new low in Tests, made even worse by Australia's obvious superiority in this department. As a result, the tourists worked on this aspect of their game and improved through the tour, they could hardly do worse. In the First Test the exuberant Godfrey Evans – the outstanding wicket-keeper of the era – was suffering from heat-stroke, so debutant Keith Andrew was behind the stumps; he dropped Arthur Morris on 0 (he made 153) and didn't take any catches. Evans recovered and took over the rest of the series, taking a magnificent leg side catch off Tyson to dismiss Neil Harvey at Melbourne that precipitated Australia's collapse. Len Hutton (57 catches), Peter May (42), Bill Edrich (39) and Tom Graveney (80) were fine slip catchers, and Colin Cowdrey (120) proved to be an excellent one, but Hutton had fibrositis, Edrich and Bedser proved ungainly in the field and Denis Compton not only had his knee problem, but broke his hand on a billboard at Brisbane. As a result, the young bowlers had to exhaust themselves in the outfield instead of resting between spells. Vic Wilson never got to grips with the Australian pitches, but was a noted fielder and was used as a substitute.

First Test – Brisbane

See Main Article – 1954–55 Ashes series

Second Test – Sydney

See Main Article – 1954–55 Ashes series

Third Test – Melbourne

See Main Article – 1954–55 Ashes series

Fourth Test – Adelaide

See Main Article – 1954–55 Ashes series

Fifth Test – Sydney

See Main Article – 1954–55 Ashes series

Ceylon
The English team had a stopover in Colombo en route to Australia and played a one-day single-innings match there against the Ceylon national team, which at that time did not have Test status.

Further reading
 John Arlott, Australian Test Journal. A Diary of the Test Matches Australia v. England 1954–55, The Sportsman's Book Club, 1956
 John Arlott, John Arlott's 100 Greatest Batsmen, MacDonald Queen Anne Press, 1986
 Peter Arnold, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Cricket, W. H. Smith, 1985
 Sidney Barnes, The Ashes Ablaze: The M. C. C. Australian tour, 1954–55, Kimber, 1955
 Ashley Brown, The Pictorial History of Cricket, Bison, 1988
 Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877–1978, Wisden, 1979
 Arthur Gilligan, The Urn Returns: A Diary of the 1954–55 M. C. C. Tour of Australia, Deutsch, 1955
 Tom Graveney and Norman Miller, The Ten Greatest Test Teams  Sidgewick and Jackson, 1988
 Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
 Alan Hill, Daring Young Men: MCC Tour to Australia – 1954–55, Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2004
 Keith Miller, Cricket Crossfire, Oldbourne Press, 1956
 Ian Peebles, The Ashes 1954–55, Hodder and Stoughton, 1955
 Playfair Cricket Annual 1955
 Alan Ross, Australia 55: A Journal of the MCC Tour, Joseph, 1955
 E. W. Swanton and C. B. Fry, Test Matches of 1954/55 Victory in Australia, The Daily Telegraph, 1955
 E. W. Swanton (ed), Barclay's World of Cricket, Willow, 1986
 Roy Webber, The Australians in England, A Record of the 21 Australian Cricket Tours of England 1878–1953, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953
 Crawford White, England Keep the Ashes: The Record of the England and M. C. C. Tour of Australia, 1954–55, News Chronicle, 1955
 Bob Willis and Patrick Murphy, Starting With Grace: A Pictorial Celebration of Cricket, 1864–1986, Stanley Paul, 1986
 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1956, "MCC in Australia and New Zealand, 1954–55"

References
 E. W. Swanton, Swanton in Australia with MCC 1946–1975, Fontana/Collins, 1975
 Frank Tyson, In the Eye of the Typhoon: The Inside Story of the MCC Tour of Australia and New Zealand 1954/55, Parrs Wood Press, 2004

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Early in my project to dayhike the lower 48's most remote peaks, I dismissed the northern Rockies in favor of the northern Cascades. While I still believe that the Cascades contain the hardest dayhikes, the Rockies can certainly bring the pain, as I found on this harder-than-expected trip. Mount Cleveland is the highpoint of Glacier National Park, and the last ultra-prominence I will climb in the conceivable future (Ibapah is a desert garbage-mound, and Mitchell and Washington are back east). While it is normally approached via Waterton Lake and Stoney Indian Pass, that route involves Canadian border guards and a ferry. I have endured my Canadian border crossing for the year, and the ferry would mean camping, so I chose the alternate approach from the Chief Mountain trailhead near the port of entry.
The first 10-ish miles are a routine trail commute past the Belly River ranger cabin, then up the Mokowanis to Glenns Lake. The standard route starts from Stoney Indian Lake, well southwest of the peak, then crosses some narrow, east-facing ledges. Since I was coming from the east, and the ledges would definitely hold snow this early in the season, I had to do something else. Digging around online, I found a trip report of a failed attempt from Whitecrow Lake, and a vague account of a route up Whitecrow Ridge, then across the Whitecrow Glacier and up some steep snow. The latter makes little sense on the map, and even less when looking at the terrain, and the former was less than definitive, but I assumed that I could make something work. The plan was to ascend Whitecrow Ridge, then traverse to Cleveland and find a path up its south side.
Nearing Glenns Lake, I checked out my options for getting onto Whitecrow Ridge, with its mixture of steep forest and small cliff bands. Rather than starting at the toe, I decided to head up somewhere just below Point 7047′, where the trail was relatively close to the slope. This proved only mildly unpleasant, with a bit of woods-thrashing, then a bash through some fresh waist-high plants along the edge of a slide path. I occasionally had to tangle directly with the slide alder or forest, but the Cascades have hardened me to such things. Above, I had little trouble threading through the cliff bands with only a bit of class 3-4.
Emerging just east of 7047′, I was confronted with a real possibility of defeat, as the small knob was steep and sketchy-looking on both sides. The south side was less steep overall, but it turns out that the ledges are more usable to the north. While there is no obvious goat-path, I found droppings here and there, and a series of ledges that got me around the knob with only one truly narrow spot. Above, I stayed on or left of the ridge, following goat trails and the path of least resistance, to eventually reach Whitecrow, a minor bump on the ridge.
From this vantage, it became clear that a headwall blocked the direct path up Cleveland's southeast ridge, so it would be necessary to traverse its south face to meet the Stoney Indian route. There are a couple of cliff bands on this face, but it looked like I could find connecting ledges while avoiding most of the lingering snow. There are a number of towers and gaps between Whitecrow and the face, which consumed time backtracking and downclimbing to the south, but there was no truly difficult terrain, and I soon found myself on a dirt-ledge headed across the face.
While the underlying rock is solid, the ledges are all covered in scree and dirt, some of which had turned to slick mud from the melting snow above. I made my way across and up the face, crossing through a steep grey band partway across, aiming for the saddle with the Stoney Indian Peaks. This made for a lot of annoying side-hilling, and a few minor stream crossings, but nothing super-exposed or sketchy.
As I got closer to the saddle, I thought I would be smart and angle upward to meet the ridge on its Cleveland side. Bad move: the black rock band above my traverse ledge proved both steeper and wetter than I had expected, requiring some sketchy wet fourth class and backtracking. I eventually made it work, though, and found a faint trail and a couple cairns on Cleveland's much easier west side. I traversed around a step in the ridge, then started climbing back toward the crest. Along the way, I spotted a shy mountain goat — the only one I saw on this trip — who kicked a few rocks in my direction as he escaped. I followed the goat for a bit, then wound my own way up to the ridge.
The lower end of the summit knob is a jumble of horrible basalt talus with a short third class step. Above, the broad summit plan stretches for over half a mile, gradually rising another 400 feet to the summit on its far northern end. Cleveland is notorious for grizzly bears feeding on its summit later in the season, but I was there before the bears, and saw only a couple piles of old manure. From the highpoint, the peak drops steeply 4000 feet northwest to Cleveland Creek, then another 2000 feet to Waterton Lake. To the south, Mount Merritt rises 5000 feet on the other side of the Mokowanis.
After 15 minutes, I reluctantly set out on the long slog home. I wanted to avoid the long traverse around Whitecrow Ridge, and contemplated some version of descending via Whitecrow Lake. The bushwhack below the lake was supposedly bad, but there seemed to be consistent snow in the woods above 6000 feet, and the plain above the lake was covered in nice, solid avalanche debris. I returned to the saddle, hoping to see an obvious path down to the southeast. Failing to see an obvious line, and worried about cliffing out, I decided to retrace my traverse partway to Whitecrow, where there was obviously navigable terrain down toward the lake.
As it turns out, it looks like a diagonal line from the saddle toward the ridge southwest of the lake would have worked. Unfortunately, I managed to punch myself in the face with some epicly stupid route-finding. First, I thought I would try to traverse the south side of Whitecrow above the forest to reach a slide path. The side-hilling proved awful, so I eventually gave up and scree-skied into the woods. The snow was helpful in places, but not as continuous or consolidated as I had hoped, so then began the bushwhack. I ended up bashing my way down a steep, wooded hillside left of creek, tripping on hidden branches, stabbing my hand on broken twigs, climbing over rotting logs, and generally hating life. I was having flashbacks to my descent fro the Pickets via Eiley-Wiley Ridge, though at least this time was not by headlamp. As a final insult, I reached the valley bottom only to find that the trail was closer to the lake than the map suggested, across a nightmare tangle of deadfall. I think retracing my steps would have been slightly faster, but all roads to Whitecrow involve suffering.
I transitioned to shorts, then started the trudge home. I expected to have the place to myself, but soon met an experienced Glacier backpacker out for the day from his camp at Cosley Lake. We talked for awhile, and he reported seeing a grizzly swimming past the camp area that morning. Joy. Fortunately I met no bears, just a couple of kids out on a camping trip. I would have told them about the swimming grizzly, but they didn't seem talkative. My wet feet were sore, so I actually enjoyed taking my shoes off to wade through the 50-yard stretch below Cosley where the trail had become a stream.
Nearing the ranger cabin, I looked up to see a fox staring intensely at something in a meadow 100 yards away. I zoomed all the way in and focused on it, but I remain a bad photographer: right as I released the shutter, the fox pounced on its prey, and I got the back half of a Nat Geo action shot. I took a couple more photos as the creature sized me up, then took off again jogging for home. A couple miles past the ranger cabin, I met a girl out for a solo backpack who had just startled a mountain lion on the trail. I though that perhaps I should walk for awhile to avoid setting off the cat's prey drive, but that resolve lasted for all of 100 yards: I wanted this to end. I was even impatient enough to jog parts of the 700-foot climb up from the Belly River to the trailhead. I reached the car just over 14 hours out, and rinsed off and ate as CBP made a pass through the lot, keeping the Homeland safe from… something. I have many peaks still to bag in Glacier, and a new respect for its savagery, but that's enough for this trip.
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Families stunned, angered by units' deployment extension past one year
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Jessica Corey's husband, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Matthew Corey, deployed to Iraq last March with the Giebelstadt-based 3rd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment. He missed most of his wife's pregnancy, as well as the birth of his son, Joshua, who is now 2 months old. "No amount of money can repay the time we've lost," Jessica Corey said. (Steve Liewer / S&S)
Carla Aikens and her daughter, Taylan, 4, have been marking off days on the calendar until Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kevin Aikens, 31, a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot with the 3rd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment comes home from Iraq March 20. Taylan got very excited, Carla said, when the number of days dropped below 100. This week, though, family members learned the unit will have to stay in Iraq past the one-year mark. "When I found out the other day, I was crushed," Carla Aikens said. "They told us no more than one year." (Steve Liewer / S&S)
GIEBELSTADT, Germany — Tuesday night's e-mail spread the dreaded news quickly across the home front in Giebelstadt: one year from the date their husbands deployed to Iraq, the men of the 3rd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment still will not be home.
"This is the worst news," said Jessica Corey, 29, whose husband flies Black Hawk helicopters for the unit. "Besides being absolutely stunned, we're completely heartbroken, too."
The Pentagon announced this week that 1,500 soldiers, National Guardsmen and reservists would be forced to stay in Iraq beyond their one-year rotation dates. About 1,000 of them come from Europe. More than 600 of those soldiers belong to two units from Giebelstadt: the 3/158 Aviation, a UH-60 Black Hawk unit; and the 7th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, an aviation maintenance support unit.
"Everyone's having a hard time with this last bit of news," said Jennifer Groncki, 28, wife of a 3rd Battalion pilot. "People are very upset. They feel like the end was in sight. Now it's been taken away."
The 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion, which is headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, is among the units being extended.
"They all seem to understand," said Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Joe Monroe, the 302nd rear detachment commander. "I think we have a great bunch of guys. They understand it's mission first."
The unit deployed down range in mid-to-late February 2003. The return date is still very much "a moving target," Monroe said.
Other U.S. Army Europe units from Germany affected include: the 19th Combat Support Center from Wiesbaden; the 27th Transportation Battalion, with units in Hanau and Bamberg; the 71st Corps Support Battalion, from Bamberg; and the 181st Transportation Battalion, from Mannheim. All of them deployed to Iraq between January and March 2003.
Thousands more soldiers just missed a similar fate. A Pentagon spokesman, who requested anonymity, said U.S. Central Command at first sought permission to extend at least 50 units beyond their first anniversary. The Department of Defense pared the list by more than three-fourths.
The Pentagon's efforts to limit the impact to a few units comes as little consolation to people like Valerie Belgrave, 30, who has spent only two months with her husband — Chief Warrant Officer 2 Benito Belgrave, also a 3rd Battalion Black Hawk pilot — in the past three years, through his 18 months of flight school and now one-year-plus in Iraq.
To their 2-year-old son, Nathaniel, Daddy is a stranger.
"[The boy] doesn't know my husband," Valerie Belgrave said. "He's like a visitor."
Carla Aikens, 34, and her 4-year-old daughter, Taylan, had been marking off the days on a calendar until March 20, when Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kevin Aikens finally would come home. Now, she doesn't know what to do.
"In the summer, we finally had a date," Aikens said. "This is very hard for [Taylan] to accept."
Rumors of the extension had flown around Giebelstadt the past several weeks, several wives said, but they followed the advice of both their Family Readiness Group leaders and their husbands to disregard them. As recently as last week, the battalion commander had e-mailed spouses assuring them that the March 20 return date still looked solid.
That's what made this week's news all the more stunning. The e-mail didn't explain why the troops would have to stay longer nor how long, though Pentagon officials have since said the units will stay between five and 60 extra days to bridge gaps caused by the enormous transfer of troops in and out of Iraq this spring.
"We deserve to be told the truth," Corey said. "We're big girls. We can handle it."
The wives said their husbands have accepted the news stoically. Steeped in the Army tradition of a soldier's duty, they are trying to do the same.
"Suck it up and drive on — if you're an Army spouse, that's what you've got to do," said Mena Sawyer, 30, also a 3rd Battalion pilot's wife. But, she added, "We were promised, more than once, that it would definitely not be more than 365 days. [The Army] always promises things, and they don't follow through."
Many wives can quote from memory U.S. Army Europe Commander Gen. B.B. Bell's pledge in one command message last August: "Soldiers and their families can count on no more than a 1-year deployment to [Iraq] for the current rotations."
"At least my husband is safe — relatively — and, eventually, he will come home," Corey said. "But I want to know that it won't happen again.
"The guys are just physically and mentally exhausted. That's not the way you treat your best assets.
"They need to come home."


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Q: how to use gce loadbalancer for mysql loadbalancing I want to use google load balancer for mysql load balancing. First and foremost is the google documentation where they mentioned support for only few ports(line mentioned below). So should I assume that GCE load balancer can not be used ahead of mysql instances.
TCP proxy supports the following ports: 25, 43, 110, 143, 195, 443, 465, 587, 700, 993, 995
Thanks,
Jag Nikam

A: You can find information on the different GCE Load Balancers here . Your SQL instances can be placed behind a Regional Network Load Balancer

A: Google Compute Engine TCP proxy works on a very basic level:

With TCP proxying for your TCP traffic, you can terminate your
  customers' TCP sessions at the global load balancing layer, then
  forward the traffic to your virtual machine instances using TCP or
  SSL.

The port list is an indication that the GCE TCP proxy is designed mainly for email load balancing:

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*Email (SMTP 25, submission 465 & 587, POP3 110 & 995, IMAP 143 & 993)

*WHOIS (43), EPP (500) and DNSIX ( 195)

*HTTPS ( 443, although HTTP(S) load balancing is recommended instead)

SQL load balancing is more complex. See The Challenges of SQL Load Balancing by Lori MacVittie. The article mentions two points why GCE TCP load balancing may not support (/ work for) SQL:

If your application uses stored procedures, then this method will not
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  applications rely upon stored procedures, and are thus not able to
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This also requires that the load balancing service parse MySQL or
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  optimized to do so. Load balancing services are generally not designed
  to parse these languages and depending on the implementation of their
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A center which aims to reduce overdose deaths through an innovative, multidisciplinary approach and also targets known residents' needs in the Franklinton community opens today, thanks to efforts by the Franklin County commissioners.
The project is called Stop Addiction for Everyone Resource (SAFER) Station. The center will be initially open at 20 hours a week, Monday through Saturday, and its hours will grow as more staff are added. In addition to offering linkage to treatment services for those who suffer from drug addiction, the center also provides primary wound care, and support services that can link visitors to applications for social service benefits, a state ID, a birth certificate, and more.
"The dedication and desire to understand the Community's needs have helped develop a center that will offer resources that are beneficial to every resident in need of the services provided,'' said President Erica C. Crawley. "Franklin County has had more than 800 overdose deaths these are lives, not numbers. We want to help each person on their road to recovery."
SAFER Station is located at 368 W. Park Ave., Columbus, 43223, and has a private grand opening today with neighborhood residents, businesses, and nonprofits. The soft opening allows area residents to meet the center's staff in a casual, welcoming environment.
"It is important for this community to know they can trust everyone at the SAFER Station and that we are there to be a good neighbor and resource. Commissioner John O'Grady said. "Those who come to this center will face no judgments, no requirements, they will only find staff who will listen and want to help."
Franklin County's Office of Justice Policy and Programs started the concept through a partnership with the City of Whitehall at the Whitehall Division of Fire where residents could walk in for help. However, given first responders' already demanding workload, the program required more time than their schedules allowed and no longer takes walk-ins. SAFER Station uses the same model on West Park Avenue with expanded wrap-around services to best support the client during and after linkage to treatment.
The center has a licensed social worker with extensive case management experience to handle support services, aiding clients after their release from a treatment center. SAFER Station also has community health workers and peer supporters who provide treatment screening, case management, recovery support and health education to clients.
"The case manager's goal is to contact every client within 48 hours of their release from a treatment facility. We want them to know they have support," said Commissioner Kevin L. Boyce. "Addiction is a disease. The quicker that is widely recognized and those afflicted are treated, not jailed, the quicker we will truly see a difference in our communities."
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DeMasco began her career training under Chef Claudia Fleming in her celebrated pastry kitchen at Gramercy Tavern. This was followed by her first opportunity to run a pastry kitchen at Fore Street Restaurant in Portland, Maine. In 2001, DeMasco returned to Manhattan to serve as pastry chef on the opening team of Chef Tom Colicchio's Craft. She went on to open Craftbar in 2002 and 'wichcraft in 2003.
DeMasco was the only pastry chef included in New York Magazine's Best Chefs roster in 2003 and was named Outstanding Pastry Chef by the James Beard Foundation in 2005.
In May 2009 DeMasco joined Chef Andrew Carmellini to create breads, pastries and desserts for Locanda Verde, his rustic Italian restaurant in The Greenwich Hotel.
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I'd like to thank my parents for introducing this recipe to me way back when I was a kid. It's both laughably cheap and easy to make. And because of the rich beet coloring, a glass jar filled with pickled beets looks quite visually stunning.
These babies will keep for up to a month in your fridge. And best of all, they are an instrumental first step in making pickled eggs, so save that bright purple liquid! We'll return to the subject in an upcoming post.
Combine in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add 2-3 cups cooked and drained beets (about 5-6 medium-sized beets, either sliced or cut into smallish wedges--see below on instructions for cooking beets). Return to boiling and simmer for 4-5 minutes. Cool in refrigerator, then put beets and liquid into a glass jar or a sealable plastic container.
Best if served after a minimum of 48 hours of steeping in the pickling liquid.
First cut off the stems/greens about one inch above the beet itself.
Rinse them off well, then cover with water in a sauce pan. Bring to a boil, then simmer for roughly 50 minutes. The way you tell if a beet is done is the same way you tell if a boiled potato is done--just stick a fork in it and if the fork goes in pretty easily, it's done. Very high-tech.
Then, drain the cooked beets and refill the pan partway with cold water. Use your bare hands to quickly pull off the outer skins of the beets. They'll come off quite easily when fully cooked. Run cold water onto the beets as you're peeling them and you won't burn your hands.
You can either cut the beets into wedges (my pref erence) or slice them up. Sliced beets have a more typical look to them, but I've always felt they were harder to eat that way.
You can store pickled beets in either glass or Tupperware-type plastic, although I prefer glass. There's always a chance, depending on the plastic, that the deliciously purple beet color can stain your plastic irrevocably. Note also that it's a bad idea to leave the pickled beets in a saucepan or other metal container, as vinegar can corrode the metal and the metal can impart a metallic taste to whatever you're pickling.
If you want to get that "my grandmother made this" look, I encourage you to use traditional 1 quart mason jars (you can buy them by the dozen at Wal-Mart for cheap). But in our casual kitchen we just use carefully washed out jars of pasta sauce. They work just as well and they're free.
The pickling liquid can of course be modified to fit your tastes. I like the taste of the above recipe, which is a version I've modified myself from the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, but I'm considering reducing the sugar content by 25% or so and adding even more vinegar. You can also substitute brown sugar if you prefer to use unrefined sweeteners. If you're a newcomer to this blog, be sure to take a moment to read my series on how to modify a recipe.
Finally, for God's sake don't wear anything white while you're making this dish!!!
That reminds me of pickled eggs I had recently at a local diner. But they weren't pickled with pickled beat juice, but rather with a juice of halopeno (sp?) peppers, onions and a couple other things. Quite spicy, and good.
That then makes me think that you could pickle eggs with many different ingredients, which would be an interesting experiment.
Ok, I am over the KEN's post. I love this post, CK. Let's face it: the beet is the perfect vegetable. It is hearty and filling with a meat-like consistency that pleases the carnivore and vegetarian alike; it can be stored for weeks in your garage; it can grow just as easily in your garden or on the Siberian Steppe; it is one of the world's largest sources of natural sugar (important for you wall street types who are looking for cheap alternatives to corn of the high fructose syrup variety....); it is a natural food coloring; it is beautiful in color, versatile in presentation and great tasting. It is very good for you. There is really only one problem with beets - they intimindate people. They are underserved and peole don't know what to do with them. Your post is a great step. When I log off, I am going to buy a bunch of beets and make smome borsch, grab a jar of pickled herring and chill a bottle of vodka.
Thanks! I've used this recipe several times for beets from CSA. I'm going to try reducing the sugar as you suggest, but I do love these beets as they are!
Next time you make this you NEED to add a few good shakes of crushed red pepper -- so delicious!


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The Iranian Nuclear Deal: What the Experts Are Saying
Ignore the right-wing politicians and pundits. Here's what nonproliferation wonks think about the accord.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and world representatives discuss the nuclear agreements. Brendan Smialowski/AP
Shortly after the participants in the Iranian nuclear talks announced that a double-overtime framework had been crafted, I was on television with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who is something of a celebrity rabbi, a failed congressional candidate, and an arch-neoconservative hawk who has been howling about a potential deal with Iran for months. Not surprisingly, he was not pleased by the news of the day. He declared that under these parameters, Iran would give up nothing and would "maintain their entire nuclear apparatus." Elsewhere, a more serious critic, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who last month had organized the letter to Iran's leaders signed by 47 GOP senators opposed to a deal, groused that the framework was "only a list of dangerous US concessions that will put Iran on the path to nuclear weapons."
These criticisms were rhetorical bombs, not statements of fact. Under the framework, Iran would give up two-thirds of its centrifuges used to enrich uranium and would reduce its stockpile of low-enriched uranium (which is the raw material used to develop bomb-quality highly-enriched uranium) from 10,000 kilograms to 300 kilograms. These two developments alone—and the framework has many other provisions—would diminish Tehran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon. Its nuclear apparatus would be smaller, and under these guidelines, Iran's pathway to nuclear weapons, while certainly not impossible, would be much more difficult. Yet because politics dominates the debate over this deal—as it does so often with important policy matters—foes of the framework could hurl fact-free charges with impunity.
It is perhaps easier to do so when the subject is a highly technical matter. Nuclear nonproliferation is a subject that depends upon science. (Do you know how many centrifuges it takes to spin enough material for a bomb?) And it is difficult for nonexperts to assess any nonproliferation agreement. But it is rather easy to decry Tehran's leaders as evil tyrants who support terrorism, despise Israel, and cannot be trusted. Little of that sort of attack has any bearing on evaluating this framework, which may or may not lead to a concrete accord. Trust is not at issue, for example. What counts is whether the technical means of inspection agreed upon are deemed sufficient to monitor the nuclear program, materials, supply chain, and facilities that remain. Yet who can tell?
Well, there are nonproliferation experts. A fair number, in fact. These are scientists and policy mavens who are trained to study and answer the questions posed by this framework. They are not infallible. They may disagree among themselves. But if there ever were a policy debate that should be shaped by scientific expertise, this is it. The politicians, pundits, and, yes, rabbis (or, at least, one rabbi) ought to give due deference to the guys and gals who know this stuff. So I've collected a few initial takes from arms control policy experts who are mostly keen on the possible deal, and here they are:
Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a former national security aide to Sen. John McCain, and a former director of intelligence assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense: "[T]he proposed parameters and framework in the Proposed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action has the potential to meet every test in creating a valid agreement over time…It can block both an Iranian nuclear threat and a nuclear arms race in the region, and it is a powerful beginning to creating a full agreement, and creating the prospect for broader stability in other areas. Verification will take at least several years, but some form of trust may come with time. This proposal should not be a subject for partisan wrangling or outside political exploitation. It should be the subject of objective analysis of the agreement, our intelligence and future capabilities to detect Iran's actions, the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) capabilities to verify, and enforcement provisions if Iran should cheat. No perfect agreement was ever possible and it is hard to believe a better option was negotiable. In fact, it may be a real victory for all sides: A better future for Iran, and greater security for the United States, its Arab partners, Israel, and all its other allies."
William Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former deputy secretary of state, and former career ambassador in the Foreign Service: "In a perfect world, there would be no nuclear enrichment in Iran, and its existing enrichment facilities would be dismantled. But we don't live in a perfect world. We can't wish or bomb away the basic know-how and enrichment capability that Iran has developed. What we can do is sharply constrain it over a long duration, monitor it with unprecedented intrusiveness, and prevent the Iranian leadership from enriching material to weapons grade and building a bomb…The history of the Iranian nuclear issue is littered with missed opportunities. It is a history in which fixation on the perfect crowded out the good, and in whose rearview mirror we can see deals that look a lot better now than they seemed then. With all its inevitable imperfections, we can't afford to miss this one."
Matthew Bunn, professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and coprincipal investigator at the Project on Managing the Atom: In a PowerPoint presentation he notes, "The proposed deal is the best chance to stop an Iranian Bomb. Deal would impose technical barriers that would take overt breakout off the table as a plausible option, and make sneakout more difficult. Political effects of the deal would undermine Iranian bomb advocates, reduce the chance of an Iranian decision to build the bomb. The credible alternatives—a return to sanctions or military strikes—pose significantly higher risks to US and world security. The deal is highly imperfect—but better [than] the other options realistically available."
Dan Joyner, University of Alabama School of Law professor, author of International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, and contributor to ArmsControlLaw.com: "Overall I think the framework of agreement is a very good one. Iran definitely made some very significant concessions. In fact, one might be forgiven for thinking that, with all of the specificity placed on Iranian concessions, and really only fairly vague wording on the lifting of unilateral and multilateral sanctions (i.e., regarding timing) in the joint statement, Iran showed the most diplomatic courage in agreeing to this framework. I'm sure there is much that was agreed to that we don't know about, and I have no doubt that [Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad] Zarif and his team reached a satisfactory understanding with their negotiating partners on the sanctions question from their perspective. But I suppose I just wanted to highlight that Iran is the party that made the most obvious significant concessions in this framework agreement."
Gary Samore and Olli Heinonen of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and members of a group called United Against Nuclear Iran: The New York Times reports, "Mr. Samore…said in an email that the deal was a 'very satisfactory resolution of Fordo [enrichment facility] and Arak [plutonium reactor] issues for the 15-year term' of the accord. He had more questions about operations at Natanz [enrichment facility] and said there was 'much detail to be negotiated, but I think it's enough to be called a political framework.' Mr. Heinonen, the former chief inspector of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said, 'It appears to be a fairly comprehensive deal with most important parameters.' But he cautioned that 'Iran maintains enrichment capacity which will be beyond its near-term needs.'"
Joseph Cirincione, president of of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation, and former director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "The agreement does three things. It blocks all of Iran's pathways to a nuclear bomb. It imposes tough inspections to catch Iran should it try to break out, sneak out, or creep out of the deal. And it keeps our coalition united to enforce the deal. Under this deal, Iran has agreed to rip out two-thirds of its centrifuges and cut its stockpile of uranium gas by 97 percent. It will not be able to make any uranium or plutonium for a bomb. Many of the restrictions in the agreement continue for 25 years and some—like the inspections and the ban on building nuclear weapons—last forever."
Frank von Hippel, an expert with Princeton's Science and International Security Program: According to the McClatchy Washington Bureau, "Frank von Hippel said he was surprised that Iran had accepted an enrichment level of 3.67 percent and hadn't insisted on 5 percent. 'There are still details to be filled in, but I like it a lot,' von Hippel said on the framework…'On transparency, it looks like they really are doing a lot.'"
As many have noted in the past day, a framework is only a framework. There are plenty of tough and complicated details to sort out. The deal may fall apart, especially with conservatives in both Washington and Tehran—and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his crew—sniping away and looking to subvert any agreement. But as the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.
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About the film festival in Clovis, on Veteran's Day
CLOVIS VETERANS MEMORIAL FILM FESTIVAL
Free Film Festival
Written by: Steven Sanchez
Clovis, Ca, November 10th, 2017
– On Saturday, November 11th, 2017, on Veteran's Day weekend, from9am-3pm, the Clovis Veterans Memorial District will host the first ever Clovis Veterans Memorial Film Festival 2017.
Genres of films range from fiction to nonfiction, short film to feature length, documentary to scripted, with appearances by the respective filmmakers and participants involved in the films.
A free event that is open to the public. The theme of the event is Honor, Perspective, Healing – to honor our veterans; bring their perspectives onto the big screen; and through that viewing they can have a peace of mind to see their services will forever be remembered.
Located in the heart of the Central Valley in California, Clovis, along with other surrounding cities and towns, have developed a reputation for being some of the most patriotic communities. Central California has a very high population of veterans who have sacrificed their lives serving in the military of the United States.
That's why it's very fitting to hold the festival in the Old Town area (downtown) of Clovis, that was the very mission for the coordinators hosting the event.
The Fulton Film Company, founded by George Ohan in 2016, a veteran himself with the U.S. Army, is a production company that offers free educational sessions on filmmaking, acting, and photography. His program is called "Teach. Coach. Mentor." and the classes are offered for free at the Clovis Veterans Memorial District.
Besides honoring our veterans, George has made it his goal to put the local film community more on the map, to bring Hollywood to the Valley, and to help local artists to look in CenCal to make it in the entertainment business. In his opinion, the place for "Art success" is here, in Clovis, Fresno, and Madera area.
The festival looks to not only bring generations of Veterans together, but as a way for local aspiring filmmakers, actors, and artists to interact with their moviemaking peers. Unfortunately, the Central Valley doesn't house too many premieres or film showcases like this, with the exception of the Tower Theatre in downtown Fresno with the Fresno Film Festival. (Support them too!)
This event allows for local filmmakers, even former veterans, and others across the country to show their filmmaking chops and abilities. Giving inspiration to Valley artists that this is worth pursuing
as a career while supporting a good cause, and hopefully it can inspire more festivals to happen
They'll be screening over 10 various film projects throughout the day with short breaks in between each film block for the audience. Among the film selections is the short documentary ALL-AMERICAN, directed by Philadelphia filmmakers Michael Ayjian & Stephen Skeel; and the documentary feature film, BROTHERS AT WAR, directed by Jake Rademacher and executive produced by the actor, Gary Sinise (FORREST GUMP, CSI:NY) followed by a Q&A with the director.
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For information regarding the event, go to Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/2251479571745130/ through the Fulton Film Company
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Founder, Lorenzo Rios
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to see the schedule of events they have taking place
throughout the day.
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The Clovis Veterans Memorial District is dedicated to serving our veterans and our community, and has been since 1946. We're proud to honor all members of the armed forces, including those who have served in combat positions. One of the most important responsibilities of the Clovis Veterans Memorial District is the commissioning and maintenance of our memorials. Each memorial honors the veterans of our community in a different form and represents a different aspect of veterans' service.
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Q: application is running but the MAP is Blank i am using google map api to locate some location It shows me "Authentication failed on the server" error.
App runs without crashing but map is blank.Below i have pasted logcat and MainActivity class of my project.
This is MainActivity of my project
        static final LatLng TP = new LatLng(17.385044, 78.486671);
        private GoogleMap googleMap;

        @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
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                // Loading map
                initilizeMap();

            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            /*
             * try { if (googleMap == null) { googleMap = ((MapFragment)
             * getFragmentManager() .findFragmentById(R.id.map)).getMap(); }
             * googleMap.setMapType(GoogleMap.MAP_TYPE_NORMAL);
             * googleMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(
             * TP).title("TP")); } catch (Exception e) {
             * e.printStackTrace(); }
             */
        }

        @Override
        protected void onResume() {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            super.onResume();
            initilizeMap();
        }

        /* function to load map. If map is not created it will create it for you */
        private void initilizeMap() {
            if (googleMap == null) {
                googleMap = ((MapFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(
                        R.id.map)).getMap();

                // check if map is created successfully or not
                if (googleMap == null) {
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                            "Sorry! unable to create maps", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                            .show();
                }
            }
        }
    }

     ## Manifest ##

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        package="com.cell.track.activity"
        android:versionCode="1"
        android:versionName="1.0" >

        <uses-permission android:name="com.example.googlemaps.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE" />

        <uses-sdk
            android:minSdkVersion="14"
            android:targetSdkVersion="22" />

        <permission
            android:name="com.example.googlemaps.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"
            android:protectionLevel="signature" />

        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
        <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

        <uses-feature
            android:glEsVersion="0x00020000"
            android:required="true" />

        <application
            android:allowBackup="true"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
            <activity
                android:name=".MainActivity"
                android:label="@string/app_name" >
                <intent-filter>
                    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
                </intent-filter>
            </activity>

            <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps" />

            <meta-data
                android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
                android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />
            <!-- Google MAP API key -->
            <meta-data
                android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY"
                android:value="AIzaSyA4cNBwKoRxmpW0qhMF8B_jBDpkkHaaSsQ" />
        </application>

    </manifest>

here is logcat:
01-05 11:34:22.841: E/b(24238): Authentication failed on the server.
        01-05 11:34:22.841: E/Google Maps Android API(24238): Authorization failure.  Please see https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/start for how to correctly set up the map.
        01-05 11:34:22.851: E/Google Maps Android API(24238): In the Google Developer Console (https://console.developers.google.com)
        01-05 11:34:22.851: E/Google Maps Android API(24238): Ensure that the "Google Maps Android API v2" is enabled.
        01-05 11:34:22.851: E/Google Maps Android API(24238): Ensure that the following Android Key exists:
        01-05 11:34:22.851: E/Google Maps Android API(24238):   API Key: AIzaSyA4cNBwKoRxmpW0qhMF8B_jBDpkkHaaSsQ
        01-05 11:34:22.851: E/Google Maps Android API(24238):   Android Application (<cert_fingerprint>;<package_name>): 90:A8:E0:F0:90:2F:93:73:C6:16:F0:10:B7:D8:2B:8A:24:08:48:7E;com.cell.track.activity

A: Please make sure that you have added your map api key in your manifest.
If you have create your api key correctly , then please make sure you have enabled google maps api from developers cosole.
 I have created a scenario where everything is right exceptt is not enabled . Shown the same error you got. Hope it helps.

A: Probably you didn't configure your project right in google developer console. I answered same question some days ago here on stackoverflow. Link for answer. Follow all the steps mentioned there.
For eclipse. follow steps mentioned in this tutorial

A: Permisions are given?
<permission
        android:name="com.example.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"
        android:protectionLevel="signature"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="com.example.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"/>

Key is added? under application
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            android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
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I recently posted the famous tale of the shepherd from Blov as it appeared in the Kronika Neplachova, but there is another well-known case of a revenant referred to in the same chronicle under the year 1344:
"A. d. MCCCXLIV Quedam mulier in Lewin mortua fuit et sepulta. Post sepulturam autem surgebat et multos iugulabat et post quemlibet saltabat. Et cum fuisset transfixa, fluebat sanguis sicud de animali vivo et devoraverat slogerium proprium plus quam medium, et cum extraheretur, totum fuit in sanguine. Et cum deberet cremari, non poterant ligna aliqualiter accendi nisi de tegulis ecclesie ad informacionem aliquarum vetularum. Postquam autem fuisset transfixa, adhuc semper surgebat; sed cum fuisset cremata, tunc totum malum conquievit."
In my translation this goes something like:
A.D. 1344 a certain woman died in Lewin and was buried. But after her burial she rose, killed many and ran after whomever she pleased. And when she was impaled, blood flowed as from a living animal. She had devoured more than half of her veil, and when it was pulled out, it was full of blood. When she was to be cremated, the wood could not be set afire unless it according to the belief of some old women was made of thatch from the church. But after she had been impaled, she once again rose at all times; but when she was cremated, then all evil ceased.
Like the story of the shepherd from Blov, the tale of of the woman from Lewin was retold by Wenceslaus Hagecius in his 16th century Böhmische Chronica with many interesting details somehow added (and again he also added a year to the date, see e.g. Claude Lecouteux: Die Geschichte der Vampire, p. 96-8). This version has been retold by various other authors, e.g. as here quoted by Dudley Wright in his Vampires and Vampirism (first published 1914):
"Again, in 1345, in the town of Lewin, a potter's wife, who was reputed to be a witch, died and owing to suspicions of her pact with Satan, was refused burial in consecrated ground and dumped into a ditch like a dog. The after-events proved that she was not a good Christian, for, instead of remaining quietly in her grave, such as it was, she roamed about in the form of divers unclean beasts, causing much terror and slaying sundry persons. Thereupon her body was exhumed, and it was found that she had chewed and swallowed one-half of her face-cloth, which on being pulled out of her throat showed stains of blood. A stake was driven through her breast, but this only seemed to make matters worse. She now walked abroad with the stake in her hand and killed quite a number of people with this formidable weapon. Her body was then taken up a second time and burned, whereupon she ceased from troubling. The efficacy of this post-mortem auto-da-fé was accepted as conclusive proof that her neighbours had neglected to perform their whole religious duty in not having burned her when she was alive, and they had been thus punished for their remissness." (p. 167-8)
I have unfortunately not had the opportunity to read Ernst Boehlich's 1928 paper on Die Hexe von Lewin, but I can mention that Karen Lambrecht in her 1994 paper on revenants and vampires identifies Lewin as Lewin Kłodzki which is situated in Southwestern Poland. I find this a bit surprising, as Lewin is otherwise referred to as being in Bohemia, and there is in fact a Lewin (Levin) in that part of the Czech Republic. Furthermore, if you read about Levin in the German Wikipedia, it is mentioned that it was well-known for its pottery in the 14th and 15th centuries, and in this connection the potter's wife who became a "vampire" is mentioned:
"Die Einwohner lebten von der Landwirtschaft und dem Handwerk. Besondere traditionen hatte die Lewiner Töpferei, deren erste Zunftprivilegien aus dem Jahre 1402 stammen sollen und deren Produkte als Lewiner Geschirr weit verbreitet waren. Von einer Töpfersfrau, die in der Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts gelebt und bösen Zauber ausgeübt haben soll und zur Strafe zu einem Vampir wurde, berichtet eine alte Sage." (The inhabitants supported themselves by farming and craftmanship. The Lewin Pottery had particular traditions, which are supposed to originate from their first guild privileges from the year 1402, and there products where widely distributed as Lewin tableware. An old legend tells of a potter's wife, who lived in the middle of the 14th century and is claimed to have practised evil sorcery and as a punishment became a vampire.)
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