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In the 20th century it was widely accepted that a nation with high homogeneity will be more stable and successful. Thus, when the new world order was created by the westerns following the World War-II, the international borders were drawn, mainly, based on linguistic, ethnic, religious or regional divides. A country, having all sorts of diversity and differences, was simply considered unnatural and destined to be a failure. Following this logic, when the question was raised about 'an independent India' the British intellectuals had severe doubts.
Sir John Strachey, who was a member of Governor General's Counsel of British Raj, said – "'India' is merely a label of convenience, a name which we give to a great region including multitude of different countries. The differences between the countries of Europe are much smaller than those between 'countries' of India. Scotland is more like Spain than Bengal is like the Punjab. The most essential thing to learn about India – that there is not, and never was an India, or even any country of India possessing, according to any European ideas, any sort of unity, physical, political, social or religious". While addressing his Cambridge audience, he said – "It is conceivable that national sympathies may arise in particular Indian 'countries', but that they should ever extend to India generally, that men of Punjab, Bengal, Bombay and Madras, should ever feel that they belong to one Indian nation, is impossible".
When asked about 'self-governance to India', J. E. Welldon, former Bishop of Calcutta (1915), said – "The disappearance of the British Raj in India is at present, and must for a long time be, simply inconceivable. That it should be replaced by a native Government(s) is the wildest of wild dreams… As soon as the last British soldier sailed from Bombay or Karachi, India would become the battlefield of antagonistic racial and religious forces… the peaceful and progressive civilization, which Great Britain has slowly but surely brought into India, would shrivel up in a night".
Views such as these were widely prevalent among the British. And politically the most important of these was undoubtedly Winston Churchill. In 1930-31, while speaking at the Albert Hall on 'Our Duty to India', he said – "to abandon India to the rule of the Brahmins (his reference to the Congress Party) would be an act of cruel and wicked negligence. If we leave, the entire gamut of public services created by us – the judicial, medical, railway and public works departments – would perish, and India will fall back quite rapidly through the centuries into the barbarism and privations of the Middle Ages'.
Caste: In four varnas (place that jati occupies in social stratification) fit 3000 and more jatis (group one is born into), each challenging those, in the same region, that are ranked above it, and being in turn challenged by those below.
Language: The constitution of India recognizes 22 languages as 'official'. According to Census of India of 2001, 29 languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers and 122 languages (234 mother tongues) by more than 10,000 speakers. 1962 Census recognized 1961 mother tongues. Of course, Indians speaking one tongue have fought with Indians who speak another.
Religion: Today a vast majority of the billion-plus Indians are Hindus (approx. 83%). But, India also has the second largest population of Muslims in the world – about 140million (only after Indonesia; Pakistan is likely to overtake due to its extra-ordinary population growth-rate) . Also, there are substantial communities of Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains. And India has had a number of communal riots. In pre-independence era, Hindus formed roughly 75% of populations, while Muslims formed about 23%.
Class: India has massive disparities. Although, the number of people coming out of poverty is rapidly increasing (poor population under 22% by 2015); still the economic divide has only increased (if not unchanged) over the period of time. The percentage share of India's 55 Billionaires is about 15% of its GDP. On one hand India has about 1.3lac millionaires, and on the other hand the number of poor people living in eight states of India (about 420million) is higher than the number of poor in 26 poorest African countries (410million). These asymmetries have fuelled many movements of opposition. In pre-independence era about 70% of Indians were below poverty-line with literacy rate of about 18% creating a great reason to worry.
Regionalism: Some regions of India have still not being integrated completely (i.e., Kashmir and north eastern states). Also, conflicts have sparked between north and south Indians, and between Marathis and UP/Biharis.
In addition, most of the times, the conflicts are confusingly convoluted, where a group of people of particular region, speaking particular language, object practices of a particular religion to target the other side. Such mixture of axes most of the times impedes political class to move forward to resolve issues with clarity.
Despite all these complexities, the Indian leadership always maintained the idea of a united India. With the establishment of Congress, the foundations were laid by mainly, Dadabhai Navroji, Gokhle, and Tilak. However, the imagination of common Indian masses was captured by the vision given by Gandhi, Nehru and Tagore. Simultaneously, the socialist and communist youth organizations and Hindu nationalist youth volunteers devotedly worked for nation building. Amid all those freedom-movements and turmoil and confusions of 1946-47, Sardar Patel and his secretary V. P. Menon did the unthinkable. In mere two years, over 500 autonomous and sometimes ancient chiefdoms had been dissolved into fourteen new administrative units of India. Only one case of Kashmir went astray, that too mainly because there were many others involved and Patel was not consulted throughout the process. However, there were real possibilities of having hundreds of Kashmir-like scenarios that Patel's shear political mastery averted.
It was then time for something unprecedented to happen. On 15th of August 1947, the world witnessed the beginning of one of the most courageous experiments of human history. India came into being as a sovereign, socialist, secular democratic nation. All those who underestimated India, kept giving deadlines for its collapse. Those deadlines have passed and all those deadline-givers are dead, but India is still there. Of course, India has seen its darkest days – the bleeding partition and the greatest human migration of history, the wars with its neighbours, horrifying droughts and natural disasters, numerous communal riots and secession movements, deadliest terrorist strikes, financial collapses and international sanctions, and heavily armed insurgencies. However, India has remained intact. Its pluralist and tolerant social-fabric has absorbed all blows. Its existence itself is a miracle. A country, which was considered extremely poor, illiterate, and too diverse to self-govern and was predicted to result into a chaos within months, has emerged as a global power today. As time has passed, India has become stronger and more stronger. Its political and social stability has repeatedly surprised political/social scientists. The idea of India is not just a triumph of Indians, but of all of the mankind. We all can live together and grow. What more reason do we need to stay together except that we are all human-beings? Of course, we all have differences… But, isn't the commonality out-weighing those differences? India is under the process of constantly discovering the binding forces across all possible divides. And its existence is the proof that these binding forces are much stronger than the divisive forces. 'Let us discover and value what holds us together' - is the greatest message India has for the world.
Note: the quotations in the article are from Ramachandra Guha's classic book 'India After Gandhi: A brief history of the world's largest democracy'.
We should keep exchanging ideas. There were many points of convergence in our articles.
"Unscientific" practices of Educational Boards: why tolerate?
How can we have a riot-proof Gujarat?
How can we have intrinsically motivated students like Rancho?
How can India Tackle Terrorism from Pakistan?
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Шнипишкес (; устар. рус. Снипишки) — один из районов города Вильнюса, образующий староство. Располагается на правом берегу реки Нярис к северу от центральной части города.

Площадь территории Шнипишского староства 3,12 км2. По данным переписи населения 2001 года, на ней проживает около 20 тысяч жителей.

В границах староства насчитывается 40 улиц, 3 средних школы, лицей, 6 детских садов-яслей.
Здесь располагаются католический костёл Святого Архангела Рафаила, православная церковь Архистратига Божия Михаила, армянская апостольская церковь Святого Вардана (построена в 2006 году), здание Вильнюсского самоуправления, Национальная художественная галерея. Зелёным мостом и пешеходным Белым мостом соединён с историческим центром.

Главной магистралью района издавна была одна из главных транспортных артерий города — улица Калварию (идущая от Зелёного моста к району Йерузале), пересекающаяся у Кальварийского рынка с улицей Жальгирё.

Южная часть района является деловым центром города с высотными административными и офисными зданиями, развлекательным и торговыми центрами — улицу Калварию недалеко от реки пересекает проспект Конституцийос, где расположены гостиница сети «Radison Blu» (бывшая «Летува») и первые небоскрёбы столицы.

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Снипишки — бывшее предместье Вильны, названное по имени богатого купца, которому великий князь литовский Витовт подарил большие участки земли за рекой Вилией. С XV века здесь располагалось первое еврейское кладбище в городе, ликвидированное в 1949—1950 годах. С XVIII века на Снипишках стоит барочный костёл Святого Рафаила и монастырь (сначала иезуитский, с 1773 года пиарский). Напротив костёла с конца XIX века возвышается дворец Радушкевича, в котором ныне размещается Союз архитекторов Литвы.

В 1970-е годы началось осуществление нового генерального проекта застройки правого берега Нярис, где предполагалось создать новый общественно-торговый центр города. В 1973 году было выстроено 12-этажное здание Министерства мелиорации и водного хозяйства (архитектор В. Олейниченко).

В соответствии с планом к западу от тогдашней улицы Ф. Дзержинского (ныне Калварию) в 1974 году были построены Центральный универсальный магазин (ЦУМ, ныне ТЦ «Cup») — самый крупный в то время в Литве (7000 м², архитектор Зигмантас Ляндзбергис), семиэтажная гостиница «Туристас» на 324 места (архитектор Ю. Шейбокас; ныне отель ), здания планетария, касс Аэрофлота, комплекса предприятий бытового обслуживания (швейное, обувное ателье и пр.), в 1976—1983 годах — гостиница «Летува» (архитекторы Альгимантас и Витаутас Насвитисы; ныне, после реконструкции  — самый большой и самый высокий отель в городе), позднее — Музей революции (ныне Национальная художественная галерея).

С 2002 года в Шнипишкесе, по левой стороны от улицы Калварию, по обеим сторонам проспекта Конституцийос, интенсивно создаётся деловой центр города с высотными административными и офисными зданиями и торговыми центрами.

1 мая 2004 года, в рамках торжеств вступления Литвы в Европейский союз, была открыта Башня Европы с офисными и торговыми помещениями — самый высокий небоскрёб в балтийских странах (33 этажа, 148 м) (архитектор Аудрюс Амбрасас).

Сегодня Шнипишкес — район контрастов. Через него проходит одна из главных транспортных артерий и витрина города — проспект Конституцийос, где расположены высотные гостиницы и торговые центры, небоскребы столицы. Однако, стоит пройти несколько сотен метров левее, сквозь вереницу стеклянных офисов, в которых обосновался городской муниципалитет, престижные офисы, торговые центры, рестораны, дорогостоящие апартаменты с бассейнами — оказываешься на небольшой улице Гедрайчю, центральной улице района (и единственной, заасфальтированной в этой части района, остальные выложены камнем и гравием, но кое-где нет и этого). Её основу составляют деревянные дома деревенского типа, довоенной и послевоенной постройки. Встречаются отремонтированные и ухоженные, но большинство - запущенные, а некоторые - и полуразрушенные.

В большинстве таких домов района нет централизованного снабжения водой (водоснабжение — через колонки с водой) и городской канализации (раз в неделю приезжает гидродинамическая машина, которая и удаляет все отходы).

Во время экономического роста и строительного бума 2004—2008 годов, когда район превращался в деловой центр города, инвесторы предлагали жителям огромные суммы за их участки, однако тогда немногие решились продать их. В настоящий же момент руководство района не собирается проводить водопровод и асфальтировать дороги к отдельным домам, этому должно послужить полное переоборудование всего района.

Недавно были объявлены планы городского руководства по превращению района в полноценный деловой центр столицы. Должен появится деловой центр площадью 40 тыс. м², жилой комплекс, магазины, рестораны, сквер с фонтаном, обновлена пешеходная зона рядом с ЦУМом.
Первым шагом стал снос (весна 2012) дома-призрака — недостроенной с советских времён гостиницы «Спутник». Однако дальнейшая реализация этих планов, ввиду экономического кризиса, остается неопределённой.

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Now it its 19th season, Crested Butte Music Festival (CBMF) continues its bold new approach in presenting music that is elevating, entertaining and transforming. Opera In Paradise (July 15-26), one of four "mini" festivals taking place during the Festival, is no exception, as some of the biggest names on the opera world, along with top-tier emerging talent through CBMF's acclaimed training program, theCrested Butte Opera Studio, join the Festival for a six-week residency.
"Opera is the ultimate art form, combining music, theater, sets and costumes—it has something for everyone. This year's line-up is one of our strongest in years," says Alexander Scheirle, artistic director of Crested ButteMusic Festival.
Cabaret Bleu and Opera on Tap demonstrate that opera isn't confined to the "expected" performance venues and approaches.
Since its beginnings in 19th-century Paris, cabaret has been a beloved form of expression, bridging the worlds of classical and popular art. On June 30, members of the Crested Butte Opera Studio will perform Cabaret Bleu, directed by internationally renowned director Kevin Newbury with a special appearance by local singer Ron Earl. The lively performance will feature music and scenes by Cole Porter and Noël Coward and begins at 7:30 p.m.at Gunnison High School, with tickets available for $28 per person.
Leave the opera glasses and gowns at home and grab a beer or a cocktail instead at the late-night Opera on Tap at Kochevar's Saloon in CrestedButte. Ron Earl and the Crested Butte Opera Studio will serenade the audience with popular arias and ensembles from great operas and musical theater. This free presentation is part of CBMF's commitment to making the festival and opera accessible to everyone. The event will begin at 10 p.m.
Maestro David Stern, CBMF's new music director of opera, joins the Festival for a season that will feature a new production of Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale on July 22, 23, 25 and 26. When the rich and middle-aged Don Pasquale decides he wants to marry, the wily Dr. Malatesta convinces his friend Norina to help dupe the old man's pretensions. Donizetti's comic masterpiece glows with unforgettable melodies as audiences laugh at Don Pasquale's good-humored misfortunes and celebrate the eventual triumph of Norina and her young lover.
Renowned bass Kevin Glavin makes his CBMF debut in the title role, joined by guest tenor Jason Slayden and members of the acclaimed Crested ButteOpera Studio and Opera Children's Chorus. Fenlon Lamb directs this lively new production, which presents Donizetti's heart-warming opera with a modern twist.
At the free talk "Everything You Wanted To Know About Donizetti But Were Afraid To Ask" on July 15, Maestro Stern will lead a lively discussion about Donizetti's masterpiece Don Pasquale, including insights about the origins of the piece and the musical and dramatic highlights. Sign up online for a free ticket to the talk, which begins at 5:30 p.m. at Crested Butte Mountain Theatre.
World-renowned tenor Barry Banks returns for a second year as artist-in-residence, and will work directly with Opera Studio participants who will be performing an evening of arias and ensembles from beloved operas at the Opera Studio Gala at Center for the Arts Crested Butte on July 16. Banks also will lead a master class for Opera Studio artists at Union Congregational Church on July 20. Tickets for the gala cost $40, and the public can observe the master class for free.
On July 21, Banks will present an intimate concert of songs and arias joined by his wife, mezzo-soprano Toby Newman. Always a favorite part of CBMF's annual calendar, the opera Home Soirée is an intimate concert featuring casual socializing over wine and appetizers in one of the valley's most exquisite mountain homes. A limited number of tickets are available for theJuly 21 concert, and the cost is $210.
Crested Butte Opera Studio (formerly known as the Marcello Giordani Young Artists Program) provides gifted singers and pianists opportunities to study and perform with leading opera professionals during a six-week residency at CBMF (June 15 – July 26). Launched in 2008, the program has grown from 35 applicants to more than 400 competing for eleven positions this year.
In 2015, participants will undergo a rigorous training program that includes 40 hours per week of vocal and dramatic instruction, along with dance and fitness training. Opera Studio participants perform roles in the main stage opera, present an evening of cabaret (June 30), sing a concert with the Festival Symphony Orchestra (July 16), and perform in public master classes given by tenor Barry Banks (July 20) and dramaturg Cori Ellison (July 17). Additionally, members of the Studio will be featured in public master classes focused on Purcell's ground-breaking opera Dido and Aeneas, led by Opera Music Director David Stern (June 27 and July 24). All master classes are free and open to the public.
Opera Children's Chorus (OCC) is a unique, tuition-free, three-week intensive performance program for talented young singers, ages 8 to 18. OCC participants receive professional-level performance training and experience and access to festival events. OCC will present a concert of choral favorites at Union Congregational Church on July 15 at 4 p.m. Led by OCC Director Allison Armerding and Music Director Stephen Sulich, this inspiring afternoon of song is sure to delight the entire family.
As a culmination of the chorus's three-week training program, the talented young singers will present Getting To Know The Sound Of Music, a children's version of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical at Center for the Arts Crested Butte on July 25 at 11 a.m. The production will be directed by rising director Omer Ben-Seadia.
Tickets to OCC performances cost $10 each. A limited number of free SoundTrack Kids tickets for ages 6 to 18 are available for both performances (kids 6 to 12 must be accompanied by a ticketed adult).
A native New Yorker, CBMF Music Director of Opera David Stern is a born communicator. Whether conducting a major symphony orchestra, a baroque opera or teaching vocal master classes, Stern rivets his musicians, students and audiences. Founder/Director of the Paris-based opera studio and period-instrument ensemble, Opera Fuoco, Maestro Stern recently was appointed music director of the Shanghai Baroque Festival and chief conductor of Palm Beach Opera.
Artist-in-residence tenor Barry Banks is known for his aptitude for roles in productions of works by Bellini, Rossini and Donizetti, which regularly take him to the world's leading opera houses. Current season highlights include his debut as Arnold (Guillaume Tell) at Welsh National Opera and a return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London to sing Don Narciso in Il turco in Italia.
Winner of a 2012-13 Sullivan Career Grant, tenor Jason Slayden has been celebrated for the warmth and beauty of his voice, as well as demonstrating "considerable subtlety as an actor." Recent performances include a debut with Gotham Chamber Opera in their double bill of Bohuslav Martinů's Alexandre Bis and Veselohra na Mostĕ (Comedy on the Bridge) and appearances as il Duca di Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto with Arizona Opera, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Ash Lawn Opera and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Austin Lyric Opera.
The top-tier directorial staff includes Omer Ben-Seadia (Opera Santa Barbara, Merola Opera Program, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music), Fenlon Lamb (Arizona Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Mobile Opera, Bar Harbor Music Festival) and Kevin Newbury (San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera).
To view the entire 2015 Crested Butte Music Festival schedule and purchase tickets, visit www.crestedbuttemusicfestival.org. The seven-week festival also features contemporary, chamber, symphony and gypsy jazz music along with children's concerts and a Home Soirées series. For additional information, call 970.349.0619.
Now in its fifth season, Crested Butte Music Festival's Gypsy Jazz in Paradise celebrates the music of Django Reinhardt, one of the most influential guitarists of the 20th century, on Aug. 6 – 9. New this year is the four-day Frank Vignola Gypsy Jazz Guitar Camp and the addition of an extra day to the schedule. This year's festival includes performances by Ben Powell, Olli Soikkeli, Brian Netzley, Frank Vignola, Vinny Raniolo and Cyrille Aimée.
Also for the first time, three of the performances will take place at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory's new Community Center in the historic mining town of Gothic, which dates back to the late 1800s.
New this year, the Festival is collaborating with guitarist extraordinaire, Frank Vignola to offer a Gypsy Jazz Guitar Camp.
"We are thrilled to team up with Frank, one of the foremost gypsy jazz guitarists in the world," Scheirle says.
Rhythm guitar, improvisation, a specific workshop on the secrets and riffs of Django Reinhardt's style, participant ensembles, and late-night jam sessions around the outdoor fire pit are among the workshops and activities planned for camp, which runs from Aug. 6 – 9 at Elevation Hotel and Spa in Mt.Crested Butte.
The $350 registration cost includes six workshops, jam sessions, three tickets to Gypsy Jazz In Paradise performances, and a set up and maintenance clinic by Thorell Fine Guitars. Registration for individual workshop sessions will be available for $50 per session starting July 1, based on availability.
Joining Vignola on the teaching staff are Frank's guitar duo partner, gypsy jazz musician and educator Vinny Raniolo and Finnish guitar sensation Olli Soikkeli.
Frank Vignola's stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world's top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Wynton Marsalis and Tommy Emmanuel as well as the Boston Pops and New York Pops. At the age of 28, Vinny Raniolo is already among the elite. He has performed and recorded with Bucky Pizzarelli, Tommy Emmanuel and David Grisman, just to name a few.
Born in 1991 and now based in New York City, Soikkeli started playing guitar at age of 12 and began focusing on gypsy jazz soon after. Despite being only in his early 20s, Soikkeli has already played with stars such as Bucky Pizzarelli, Andreas Öberg, Samson Schmitt, Anat Cohen, Tommy Emmanuel, Paulus Schäfer, Antti Sarpila and Marian Petrescu.
The Gypsy Jazz In Paradise All Star Band, led by Vignola and Powell, kicks off Gypsy Jazz in Paradise on the evening of Aug. 6 at 8 p.m. Olli Soikkeli, Brian Netzley and Vinny Raniolo also are part of this gypsy jazz super ensemble that will be on stage together for the first time ever. The music will focus on Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and their immortal Hot Club of France. Tickets cost $50 and include bus transfer to and from Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
British-born Ben Powell, one of the leading multi-stylistic improvising violinists of his generation, returns for his fourth year. Now a Los Angeles resident, he has worked with jazz icons such as vibraphonist Gary Burton and classical conductors Sir Roger Norrington, Marin Alsop and Keith Lockhart and been on the scoring stages of composers Hans Zimmer and Alexandre Desplat.
Back by popular demand for a Home Soirée on Aug. 7, Vignola and Raniolo inject comedy and showmanship to deliver an eclectic set of popular tunes crossing all sorts of barriers. Since "Frank and Vinny" teamed up in 2008, they have performed more than 1,000 shows at some of the most prestigious concert halls and festivals in the world. This is CBMF's final Home Soirée for the season, offering the opportunity to enjoy an intimate concert in a beautiful mountain home, libations and appetizers. The event begins at 6 p.m. and costs $155.
Primarily raised in France by a French father and Dominican mother, Cyrille Aimée was a curious child and would sneak out of her bedroom window to wander into the nearby gypsy encampments for the annual Django Reinhardt Festival. She quickly fell in love with gypsy music and now tours the world with her Cyrille Aimée Band. She also performs in a duo with Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueiredo. Audiences can enjoy one of the few female gypsy jazz performers on Aug. 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $50 and include bus transfer to and from Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
It's hard to beat a Sunday morning that starts with a delicious brunch, a spectacular view of Gothic Mountain, and Ben Powell and Brian Netzley's musical tribute to Stéphane Grappelli. The Gypsy Jazz In Paradise Brunch onAug. 9 begins at 10:30 a.m. and costs $76, which includes bus transfer to and from Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
To view the entire 2015 Crested Butte Music Festival schedule, visitwww.crestedbuttemusicfestival.org. For additional information, call970.349.0619.


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Council Recognition Awards
There are so many ways to recognize and thank your volunteers! One such way is by giving them an award! The Washington State PTA awards listed below recognize individuals, or organizations, for their efforts and accomplishments in promoting the well-being and education of children in the state of Washington. Every year, Northshore Council PTSA asks for nominations of community members deserving recognition and we celebrate them at our Spring Recognition Event.
Please take a few minutes and nominate someone you feel has made an impact and a difference in your community!!!
NOMINATE SOMEONE:
The awards listed below (excluding Golden Acorn) will be presented at our Northshore Council PTSA Spring Recognition Event in early June. Northshore Council PTSA purchases the awards from WSPTA and a donation of $48 (out of the $50 cost of each award) goes directly to the WSPTA Scholarship Program.
To nominate, you can either fill out the online nomination form (COMING SOON!) or email Jane Chiodo with the following information:
Name of Nominee: Who are you nominating? Are they a community member? Are they a PTA member? If so, which PTA? Do they work for an organization or for the school district?
Which award?**: Select an award from the list below that best represents your nominee.
Nominated by: Who are you? If you have a title (ie President of XYZ PTA), let us know. If you don't want to share who you are, that's totally okay! You can just write "An engaged community member".
Nominee's qualifications: What have they done to go above and beyond, and why? How have they made a difference to PTA, the community and/or children/families? This is an explanation as to why you think they should be honored. Please give as much detail as possible in your nomination.
**Note: It is okay if you are unsure what award to nominate someone for. The committee will evaluate all submissions whether you designate an award or not.
WSPTA AWARDS
Outstanding Educator – individuals who go beyond the normal expectations of their jobs to make the learning environment fun, beneficial and challenging.
Outstanding Advocate – Honors individuals for their continued and dedicated service to ALL children demonstrating a commitment to speaking up for children in the areas relating to health, welfare, safety, and education of children and youth.
Outstanding Service - this is the highest volunteer award given by the Washington State PTA. It is awarded to someone who has gone beyond his or her own school community, job, or PTA in order to give dedicated volunteer service to children.
Honorary Life Membership – Recognizes an individual who has contributed significantly to a PTA at the local unit, council, or state level. This special award can be given by a PTA unit, council, or region.
Outstanding Student Advocate Award - recognizes students who have made significant contributions through leadership and service in their school and community.
Golden Acorn – A Golden Acorn Award is presented to a school or community volunteer in recognition of their dedication and service to children and youth (Note: this award will be presented at the Northshore Council PTSA May Membership Meeting)
To learn more about the WSPTA Volunteer Recognition awards visit this link. To order awards for your PTA's exceptional volunteers, visit the WSPTA Online Store.
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Digby and the Yodelayhee…Who?, Renee Price (author), Anil Tortop (illus.), Create It Kids, March 2017.
Strumming up a musical storm in a delicious brimful of plonks, plinks and twangs is the energetic page-turner; Digby and the Yodelayhee…Who?. Sequel to the adventurous antics of Digby's Moon Mission, here is a seamless transition from the moonlight to the limelight.
And just like its predecessor, the themes of teamwork, curiosity and problem solving, and the teachable concepts of measurement (telling time and noise levels) are included and presented in a whole new and refreshing melodic tone.
Price's musical background is showcased in full spotlight, incorporating not only different instruments and their sounds but also in the way the narrative has been pitched. She has written this story with a tuneful arrangement, harmonising between rhyme and prose, just like the verses of a song. Clever!
Anil Tortop's mixed-media illustrations once again bring life, colour, vibrancy and a discernible swag to the pages, composing the opportunity for a hand-clapping, toe-tapping, bottom-wriggling romp for its audience. And to add further to the liveliness of this book, Digby and the Yodelayhee… Who? is accompanied with swinging song notes and QR code for 'Digby's Jam'; a lyrical composition by Renee Price (and family) herself!
Digby is perplexed by the mystery of a 'super-duper noise'. So he sets out on yet another mission to find a conclusion. It takes five hours of careful auditory processing, watching each of his trusty friends explore a different instrument at different hours of the day. Stanley strums on his guitar at half-past one, Sophie toots on her kazoo at half-past two. Finally at half-past six the noise-o-meter makes a much-needed appearance, and when it rings out a 'Thunderous!' sound the gang know just where to look. With their newly acquired yodelling prowess in tow, the group enjoy a noisy jam… but there's another unexplained sound to settle!
Euphoniously delightful as a read aloud experience, visually dynamic, encouragingly active, humorous and imaginative, Digby and the Yodelayhee… Who? will lead its preschool audience on a most exhilarating journey of resounding goodness.
For more information on this innovative and talented creator, please read my interview with Renee Price on Digby and the Yodelayhee… Who? here and through the Digby Fixit interactive website here.


Late Madhavrao alias Annasaheb Godbole, BA, LLB was born on the 27th March 1905 in Islampur, Dist. Sangli, to a humble yet cultured family. In his childhood he faced dire conditions and completed educatio fighting against all odds. High moral, cultural and social values were imbibed in him in early childhood. It was very natural for him to take up social cause and serve society ceaselessly. He dedicated his life to social cause as a worker of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He has a distinction of being elected as the first MLA on the ticket of then Jansangh and now BJP.
His contrbution towards development of co-operative movement, especially in urban co-operative sector, was right from grass root was commendable. In 1935 during British Raj period, to serve common Indian, locals he established Sangli Urban Bank in Sangli and worked for development of this Bank till his last breath.
Development and progress, penetration of urban co-operative movement in every segment of society, establishing more and more urban co-operative banks was his single-minded focus. He inspired, encouraged, helped & guided establishment of various banks. Pune Janata Sahakari Bank, Pune Janaseva Bank, Bhagyalaxmi Bank, Nanded are few of the list.
He strongly believed that co-operative movement is highly potent movement and can be used for the benefits of masses. He stressed that intellectual, top-notch professional, quality people should join co-operative movement for it to flourish. To achieve this aim, he established Sahakar Bharati, an institute that very recently celebrated silver jubilee.
The movement that was stated on a very small scale, has spread allover the state has gained support and sanction from every segment of the society. Today we can our social fabric is incomplete without co-operative societies.
Work of Late Madhavrao alias Annasaheb Godbole was not limited to urban co-operative banking sector only. He inspired establishment gave impetus to development of various institutes like district central banks, Maharashtra state co-operative bank, various farmer's co-operative organizations etc. He was associated with a specturm of organizations in various capacities. A lawyer by profession, he was a visionary, a thinker, a warm-hearted worker, eminent scholar, a loving family man and a father-figure. He was a power-house of strength for many organizations as well as individuals. He shouldered multiple responsibilities with equal skill, dedication and strength.
As an expression of gratitude and a tribute to his work, an award – 'Late Madhavrao Godbole Memorial Award' has been instituted to be given to an eminent personality forn his/her extraordinary contribution towards co-operative sector. The award is given by Sahakar Bharati.
स्व. माधवराव गोडबोले स्मृती पहिला पुरस्कार सहकार भारतीचे ज्येष्ठ प्रचारक स्व. तात्या इनामदारयांना मरणोत्तर प्रदान करण्यात आला. स्व. तात्यांच्या वहिनी श्रीमती अचला इनामदार यांना पुरस्कार प्रदान करताना संघाचे तत्कालीन सरकार्यवाह मा. डॉ. मोहनजी भागवत. या प्रसंगी प्रमुख पाहुणे सकाळचे तत्कालीन संपादक श्री. यमाजी मालकर, डॉ. अविनाश आचार्य व श्री. विजयराव कुलकर्णी उपस्थित होते.
सहकार भारतीच्या पुणे अधिवेशनात स्व. माधवराव गोडबोले स्मृती द्वितीय पुरस्कार मा. वसंतराव देवपुजारी यांना प्रदान करताना डॉ. नरेंद्र जाधव, डावीकडून श्री. ज्योतिंद्रभाई मेहता, मा. अण्णा जोशी व श्री. सतीश मराठे.
सहकार भारतीच्या औरंगाबाद येथील अधिवेशनात सहकार भारतीचे पूर्व राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष, तसेच रा. स्व. संघाचे ज्येष्ठ स्वयंसेवक डॉ. अविनाश आचार्य यांना स्व. माधवराव गोडबोले पुरस्कार प्रदान करण्यात आला. प्रकृती अस्वास्थ्यामुळे डॉ. आचार्य यांच्या वतीने त्यांची कन्या सौ. आरती व जावई श्री. संजीवन हुजूरबाजार यांनी हा पुरस्कार भाजपचे ज्येष्ठ नेते श्री. गोपीनाथ मुंडे यांच्या हस्ते स्वीकारला.
३१ मे व १ जून २०१४ रोजी नाशिक येथे झालेल्या सहकार भारती अधिवेशनामध्ये स्व. म. ह. तथा आण्णासाहेब गोडबोले स्मृती पुरस्कार सहकार भरातीचे ज्येष्ठ नेते स्व. मधुकरराव कुलकर्णी यांना प्रदान करण्यात आला. हा पुरस्कार त्यांची कन्या अश्विनी अटकेकर यांनी श्री. एकनाथराव खडसे यांच्या हस्ते स्वीकारला. रोख ११ हजार व मानचिन्ह असे पुरस्काराचे स्वरूप आहे. पुरस्काराची रक्कम सहकार भारतीच्या कार्याला प्रदान करीत असल्याचे त्यांनी या वेळी जाहीर केले.
23 एप्रिल 2017 रोजी मुंबई येथे झालेल्या सहकार भारती प्रदेश अधिवेशनामध्ये स्व.म.ह. तथा अण्णासाहेब गोडबोले स्मृती पुरस्कार सहकार भारतीचे संस्थापक सदस्य व ज्येष्ठ मार्गदर्शक श्री. वसंतराव देवधर यांना प्रदान करण्यात आला. महाराष्ट्राचे महसूल मंत्री ना. चंद्रकांतदादा पाटील व सहकार भारतीचे राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष श्री. ज्योतिंद्र मेहता आदी मान्यवरांच्या उपस्थितीत हा पुरस्कार प्रदान करण्यात आला. रोख रु. दहा हजार, सन्मानचिन्ह, शाल व श्रीफळ असे पुरस्काराचे स्वरूप होते. पुरस्कार प्रदान करताना स्व. माधवरावांच्या ज्येष्ठ कन्या सौ. वासंती पराडकर या उपस्थित होत्या.


Like a favorite childhood toy (or those jeans from college), sometimes we simply outgrow the things we love most. My clients, Eileen and Scott, were beginning to feel that way about their beautiful beach home in Lewes, DE. The couple had owned the home for years, and had fond memories of summers spent there with their two daughters. The location couldn't be beat – it was close both to the beach and historic Lewes Village. But now, their daughters have all grown up and the home was starting to feel like it just didn't fit anymore. The idea of selling the home and all its history had been floated around, but everyone was so attached that they just couldn't bring themselves to do it. It was up to me to make a home that could fit their growing family.
Lewes is a beautiful little beach town with a ton of history, and the homes here reflect that. Homeowners, like Eileen and Scott, take a lot of pride in the care and presentation of their homes, and want to honor the town's history as much as possible. It was important in this renovation to create new spaces that would make the home livable, but with elements that felt like they had always been there. A little repurposing, a little creativity, and a little more elbow room were all this home needed to satisfy the family's needs for generations to come.
Problem: The home really didn't have a dedicated master suite. Eileen and Scott were using the largest bedroom, but it didn't have a bathroom and it was upstairs with the other bedrooms. They dreamed of a private retreat where they could relax and wind down after spending time with family and friends.
At the lumber yard with my brother, picking out wood for the home's new (but old) beams.
Solution: There simply wasn't enough space in the home's current footprint to create the master suite the couple wanted, so the only answer was to build it! We created a whole new addition to the back of the house with large windows to take in the beautiful garden view. A vaulted ceiling covered in shiplap makes the new space feel airy and grand, while beams add contrast and interest, as well as draw the eye up. The bedroom needed a focal point, so I built a custom headboard out of door panels that I added reclaimed wood to in order to impart a sense of age and history. Lastly, I painted the walls a light teal to give the whole room the ocean vibe everyone loves at the beach.
Every master suite needs a great master bathroom! For Eileen and Scott, I wanted to create a space that felt luxurious, but still casual enough for a coastal home. I continued with the ocean-inspired hues of the bedroom, and added luxe details like this amazing mirror/medicine cabinet. The shower is outfitted with a sleek, modern tile and a band of accent tile to tie back to the color scheme of the rest of the space. And finally, I made sure to install a window in the shower – it's the next best thing to actually showering outside!
Problem: Anyone who lives at the beach knows that sand will inevitably find its way into your home. But there are ways to cut back on the amount that tracks inside by providing guests with a place to rinse off and take off their shoes before coming indoors. Unfortunately, Eileen and Scott had no such space and didn't have an outdoor shower (a beach house sin, if you ask me). Finally, their washer and dryer was located in the kitchen, using up precious space.
Solution: Part of the new addition to the house included space for a laundry/mud room and an outdoor shower right outside it. We first laid new decking in the yard to make room for the shower. Then, we built the shower frame out of new wood to make sure it's sturdy and safe. We then used salvaged wood fencing that Scott and Eileen has saved to clad the shower, giving it history and charm that new wood just doesn't have. Not only was this solution sustainable, but it turned out really sharp, as well!
For the combination mud room/laundry room, we tied the plumbing into the outdoor shower and master bathroom. Moving the washer/dryer to this space freed up the kitchen and also created a convenient place to launder sandy beach clothes and wet towels. Because this is a space that will certainly see a lot of water, we tiled the floors. We also included plenty of storage and a sink to make it a one-stop shop for all of Eileen and Scott's sand-containing needs.
Problem: Eileen and Scott have a beautiful yard and garden, and when they aren't on the beach, they love spending time improving their outdoor space. But they had nowhere to store their supplies or do their potting and planting.
Solution: The final part of the new addition was a new shed. This sweet space has a large work surface for potting and pruning, shelves to display objects or store supplies, and a wide barn door entrance with a ramp to make moving large equipment in and out a breeze. A window lets in natural light so that even when the couple is working in the shed, they can still feel connected to the outdoors. Lastly, we made sure to outfit the structure with plenty of electrical for lighting and power tools. The new space is a light, bright, and most importantly, functional space where Eileen and Scott can relax and and enjoy their gardening hobby.
With the new addition we built, Eileen and Scott were able to add valuable and useful space to a home they've loved for years. But most importantly, the extra square footage meant they could now save the home instead of sell it to preserve the history they've already made there and continue making memories for years to come. And that's what the beach is all about, anyway!
Well, that's it for #BigBeachBuilds Season 1. Thank you so much for watching, sharing, tweeting, emailing, calling, texting, and supporting me in the million ways that you did. I couldn't have done it without you!
P.S. Go behind all the season 1 builds with my episode recaps!


This program brings together two artists' homages to 'Vertigo' (1958), Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece about deceit and obsession. In her latest short film 'Vertighost', Lynn Hershman Leeson continues to develop her interest in the figure of the doppelgänger. In interviews with artists and art historians, she investigates the famous museum scene in which we see the character of Madeleine (with her iconic French twist) from the back as she looks at the portrait of her grandmother Carlotta. The subject of Douglas Gordon's 'Feature Film' is the haunting soundtrack of 'Vertigo', which was written by Bernard Herrmann, one of the most influential composers in Hollywood cinema. The film, which consists of close-up shots of the face and the hands of conductor James Conlon, marks the transition from Gordon's early cinematic installations, such as '24 Hour Psycho' (1993), to his later film works, notably 'Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle' (2006).


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Content by Tony Macklin. Originally published on January 19, 2006 @ Las Vegas Weekly.
Every 10 years, British film magazine Sight & Sound conducts a poll of film scholars and critics the world over to determine the 10 best films ever made. Tony Macklin has been contributing since 1972, and his list has undergone only minor changes in the past 30 years. Here, he talks about each of his choices from the most recent poll, in 2002, as well as one surprising film that ended up on his ballot for the AFI's list of the best film comedies.
It's one of those films that changes with the times. There's so much going on there. I may just watch the sense of history, or I may just watch the acting, or I may just watch the lighting, or I may concentrate on the editing. But it's one of those things that never dies. If I had to fight to the death to defend a motion picture as a work of art, it would be Citizen Kane.
When I voted in the AFI for the best actors, I think my best actor was Charlie Chaplin, just because of what he did. I think that Charlie Chaplin is a one of a kind. He was the one who carried the banner for great, wonderful, remarkable silent film comedy.
I prefer Buster Keaton to Chaplin. Chaplin is sentimental. He has moments of sentimentality that make me wince. I'm more a Keaton guy, even though Chaplin may have been a more important figure in the history of film.
I grew up with the western. The western was the genre. It wasn't light sabers; it was six-guns. I think my next list, if I'm still alive, I might have just one western. And would it be The Searchers or would it be Sergio Leone's (Once Upon a Time in the West)? I think Sergio Leone's film is a work of art much more than The Searchers. But The Searchers brings John Ford, John Wayne and the whole Monument Valley, the whole thing. It's kind of a culmination of so many qualities and so much history and so much of the aura of American film.
I think it's a very human film. And at the end he has the pure image of this young girl, and he's a desiccated man who has nothing left, no values left. I think that that film probably speaks to what we loved in the '70s about film. Film was about character and personality and society and social values. Some of the scenes are still vital, they're still vivid in my mind. I guess I really have a soft spot or a fondness for people and films that are denigrated by society or the system or whatever. Priests were attacking this film from the pulpit when it is an extremely moral film. It shows the sweet life—yes, degradation, but it shows the cost of it.
When I was alone at a certain age, Vertigo was my favorite. Students didn't much relate to it, but God, did I. The sense of irony and the sense of fate, the sense of doom and loss and alienation.
To me, it's contributed so much. And I love the fact that Kubrick says machines are smarter than men, than human beings. Human beings are vacuous, banal. They're empty. And I like that. I agree with that point of view.
His best film. A film about women. I love women, or at least some women. It's another classic that has those sequences that are eternal. The hills, the riding on the bicycle, that wonderful actress—whoever she was.
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It's a film that I don't think people realize how much depth it has.
That probably, other than a few slapstick moments, couldn't stand up to real rigorous criticism. It was just fun. I love that film. I really enjoyed it.


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I've written about my relentless friend, Bonnie (pen name B.J. Myrick) before. Those articles have centered on how she prodded me to write. This week, Bonnie did something amazing. She published Angel of Mercy, a mystery novel completed in 2003 and lost in the mail following a computer crash.
The story began (or would that be ended) with Bonnie completing the final draft of Angel of Mercy in 2003. She had barely finished celebrating her accomplishment when the blue screen of computer death flashed in front of her. Nothing could resuscitate the hard drive. That's when having a computer-tech daughter came in handy. Or maybe not.
Saying she could retrieve the files, Bonnie's daughter urged her to send the dead hard drive to her. Bonnie bundled the computer for mailing and took it to the local post office. The package never arrived at her daughter's house. A tracking number had not been given at the time of mailing. The hard drive with manuscript inside was lost.
Many people would have given up at this point. In fact, the loss stopped even relentless Bonnie for a few weeks. But then she remembered her online critique group and wondered how frequently we deleted the critique files she sent us. She hit the jackpot. She was able to gather all but two chapters from the four members in the group, enough to reassemble the novel.
But a new obstacle, a family crisis, blocked her writing path. Her older sister became disabled and moved in with Bonnie. Caregiving became a round-the-clock, unpaid job and left Bonnie no time or energy for work on Angel of Mercy. After six years, her sister's condition deteriorated to the point Bonnie could no longer care for her at home. Reluctantly, she found a nursing home and had her admitted.
It took a few weeks, but Bonnie finally started work on Angel of Mercy again. She finished it the beginning of this month, October 2015. Just as she was about to upload to Create Space, the computer screen froze. After much mouse-clicking and rebooting, she was able to get some movement. Next, she dumped many files and a new program that might have been responsible for the problem. Finally, she got the machine working again.
With some relief, Bonnie started the publishing process on Create Space—but her upload speed was too slow. Discouraged, she called me. After some discussion, she sent me the files, and I uploaded them for her.
Twelve years after the book was first completed, Angel of Mercy is now available in e-book and paperback on Amazon and Create Space. Check it out and you'll find Emma McBride, the main character, as relentless and feisty as her author.
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Wow, that is amazing. Perseverance required!


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During his performance, the artist commented on the course of action humorously. The artist's commentary consisted mostly of comparing eletrical energy to work, emotions or the relations in the world of art. The other layer of action was the atmosphere created in the studio, the strong interest and unprecedented reaction of the audience of the live broadcast in the public television.
Józef Robakowski (PL), b. 1939, is an author of films, photographic series, videos, installations and conceptual projects. Also known as performer and initiator of many artistic events. He undertakes experimental actions, based on merging film image and sound, which currently belongs to the classic of polish conceptual and post-conceptual art of the 70s. Co—founder of the avant—groups Zero—61 and the Film Form Workshop. Since 1971 he has been running The Exchange Gallery focused at present art.


Just a quick explanation – this is my 100th post on my blog. It's been running now for about 10 months and seems to be doing a wonderful job of curing my reader's block. One of the recent discoveries of mine is the huge back catalogue of Dr Paul Doherty aka PC Doherty aka Paul Harding aka Michael Clynes aka some other names as well, so in order to have a minor 100th post celebration, I'm declaring this week on my blog "Paul Doherty Week"!
Admittedly this is partly due to the huge pile of unread books of his that I seem to have recently acquired, but also because I do consider him my primary discovery from my blog so far. A thank you to Sergio, by the way, for pointing me in the right direction with the recommendation of The House of the Red Slayer, a review of which will be appearing in two days time.
Hope you enjoy the reviews – if you do, go out and harangue your bookshop until they stock Dr Doherty's books. It does work!!! And I promise, I'll take a bit of a break when the week is out… possibly.
Congratulations on your centenary mate – telegram from the Queen in the post hopefully! Your organised pages on Queen, Carr and especially the Doherty books is really terrific. As the good Doctor would have said in his tenth incarnation (and not entirely felicitously from a syntactical standpoint, 'Molto Bene').
Congrats on your 100th post and beating me to The Red Slayer! 😉 Yesterday, I received a package stuffed with locked room mysteries, among them Doherty's The Slayers of Seth and The Red Slayer. But I guess I have to bump the latter a few spots down on my TBR list, and try to get a buzz started for the impossible crime novels of Herbert Resnicow. I've said this before and I will say it again: the life of a mystery enthusiasts is littered with trials, tribulations and luxurary problems. Oh woe is us!
Anyway, here's to the next 100 posts!
Many thanks for the congrats.
BTW, (The House of) The Red Slayer isn't really a locked room mystery – the only impossibility in it is the miraculously ringing of a bell despite it being surrounded by unbroken snow. Not wishing to spoil the end of my review, but it really is first rate – definitely among the best so far. Don't let me delay you in reading it.
I'm keeping off the Egyptian ones for a little while so you've got time for Slayers of Seth.
Never heard of Resnicow – looking forward to reading about him.
From the Egyptians, I also have The Assassins of Isis and The Spies of Sobeck, and with special review of The Mask of Ra coming up, making it an almost complete set of reviews of that particular series.
I thought the main problem from The Red Slayer was the murder of the Constable of the Tower of London inside a sealed and watched chamber, but the problem you described sounds intriguing as well. Like the playing harp in the locked music room from Paul Gallico's Too Many Ghosts.
There are already several reviews of Herbert Resnicow up on my blog. The best, up till now, are The Gold Curse and The Dead Room.
Um… How to explain The Red Slayer without blowing it… there's an open window in the tower, a frozen moat below and handholds cut into the brickwork. That's not a spoiler at all, it's all found very early in the book. The room is in no way a locked room. But I can see why some people refer to it as such… To say any more would give the game away.


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Kiev, Ukrainian House, Khreschatik, 2 (European Square), 3-d floor.
Official opening of Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum 2005.
Welcome word from Forum organizers and guests of honor.
Section 1 – Outsourcing technology and infrastructure.
Independent software testing – new type of outsourcing services., Dmitryi Oparin, Business Development Director, Sunbay Software Crimea Ltd.
Practices of extreme programming in outsourcing. InterLink experience. Aleksey Smirnov, Project Manager, InterLink Ltd.
Section 3 – Ukrainian outsourcing business development.
Round table discussion "International image of Ukraine – outsourcing services supplier." Ukrainian IT companies at the international exhibitions.
Section 2 – Global marketing of outsourcing services.
Ukraine's Role in Global Outsourcing Industry – What the LARGEST clients need and demand. Karl Robb, Executive Vice President, Global Operations, EPAM Systems Inc.
Section 4 – IT professionals' labor market in Ukraine.
Round table discussion : «Position of Ukraine on the global outsourcing market. Prerequisites and opportunities».


Jewish stores in Bucharest, Romania during the Iron Guard pogrom that ends on 23 January 1941.
Italian/Greek Campaign: The battles around the Klisura Pass continue on 23 January 1941. Greek II Corps counterattacks against small Italian successes and recaptures the heights west of the pass.
East African Campaign: The British are not 42 miles within Eritrea. The British troops advancing from Kassala are pressuring the Italians in the vicinity to fall back. The RAF is active, bombing various points throughout the region. Continuing the long-established pattern displayed by the Italians, they quickly give ground under determined attacks.
At Keru Gorge, where they had established a fairly decent defensive position, the Italian 41st Colonial Brigade precipitously retreats during the night of 22/23 January under pressure from Indian 4th and 5th Divisions (primarily the Indian 10th Infantry Brigade). What they forget to do is tell their command, General Ugo Fongoli and his 800 headquarters troops nearby that they are leaving. The General and his troops become guests of His Majesty for the duration of the war. The Indian troops continue pressing forward toward Agordat, and the Italian retreat turns into a fleeing mass of panicked men.
"Posed portrait of three guardsmen from 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, 23 January 1941." © IWM (H 6864).
European Air Operations: The slow pace of operations continues. The Luftwaffe only drops scattered bombs along the east coast of England, and neither side puts bombers in the air after dark.
Battle of the Atlantic: One of the little-known stories of World War II is the occasional breakout attempts of merchant ships from internment or capture. Ships from both sides have attempted it, with varying success. Today, five Norwegian ships (Elizabeth Bakke, John Bakke, Tai Shan, Taurus and Ranja) engage in Operation Rubble. Under the command of British temporary attache to Stockholm Captain R.D. Binney, they journey mostly as a convoy (one ship is faster and travels independently) from Gothenburg, Sweden through the Skagerrak north of Denmark and head for a rendezvous with the Royal Navy. It is a rare escape attempt within the Baltic by ships operating against German interests, as the Germans have complete hegemony over the western Baltic at this time.
German heavy cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau continue their journey north along the Norwegian coast as part of Operation Berlin. A British agent spots them between Denmark and the island of Zealand and reports to England. The British are preparing to send their heaviest naval units north to confront them before they can break out into the North Atlantic.
The Luftwaffe (Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condors of 1,/KG 40) bombs and sinks 3564 ton British freighter Lurigethan in the shipping lanes about 500 km west of Ireland and south of Iceland. There are 16 deaths and 35 survivors. Not far away from where the Lurigethan sinks, the Luftwaffe also bombs and sinks 4524 ton British freighter Langleegorse (entire crew lost) and 1859 ton British freighter Mostyn (two dead). The Lurigethan, incidentally, is abandoned by her surviving crew and left as a derelict and will be sunk on 26 January by U-105.
Royal Navy 255 ton minesweeping trawler HMT Coutier hits a mine and is damaged, but makes it to Milford Haven. Royal Navy 248 ton minesweeping trawler HMT Ronso also hits a mine, but also makes port.
The Kriegsmarine sends four minelayers to lay mines off the south coast of England during the night in Operation SW-b.
Convoy FN 390 departs from Southend, Convoys FS 394 and FS 395 depart from Methil.
In the Royal Canadian Navy, minesweeper HMCS Reo II and corvettes HMCS Agassiz and Bittersweet are commissioned. Minesweeper HMCS Wasaga is launched.
U-204 and U-561 are launched.
Rosalind Russell in a promotional shot taken on 23 January 1941, perhaps for her upcoming starring role in "They Met in Bombay" with Clark Gable.
Battle of the Mediterranean: Emergency repairs are completed on HMS Illustrious, and, at 1846, it departs from Grand Harbour, Malta for Alexandria (and thence Norfolk, Virginia for permanent repairs). The departure is timed to minimize the chances of Axis reconnaissance observing the escape attempt, and other more subtle precautions also are taken, such as keeping escorting destroyers in harbour as long as possible. This is a major operation (Operation MBD 2) covered by the Mediterranean Fleet, including battleships HMS Barham and Valiant. The Luftwaffe quickly notices the operation and prepares an attack on the carrier and its escorts before they get out of range.
This is important not only for the prospects of getting the aircraft carrier back in service (eventually), but it also removes the major catalyst behind Luftwaffe Fliegerkorps X's recent onslaught of air raids against Malta. Thus, while the Illustrious Blitz may or may not continue, the Illustrious itself is no longer in harm's way within range of the Stukas. The departure of Illustrious, while good news for the British tactically, also leaves a strategic gap in the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet which will take time to fill.
Winston Churchill is unhappy about the recent Luftwaffe successes in the Mediterranean. As is his wont, he meddles in Royal Navy decisions, suggesting that the navy replace its obsolete Fairey Fulmars with monoplanes such as the American-made Brewsters and Martlets.
General O'Connor of XIII Corps, fresh off another victory over the Italians at Tobruk (where all remaining resistance has ended), quickly sends his British and Australian units northwest and north, respectively, to continue Operation Compass. Next stop along the coast is Derna, a town of 10,000 people, while Mechili also is coming within view of the 7th Armoured Division. The Italians are sending Special Armoured Brigade (Brigata Corazzato Speciale) under the command of General Valentino Babini (also known as the "Babini Group") to block the coast road. Italian 10th Army commander General Giuseppe Tellera orders a counterattack against the advancing British Seventh Armoured Division for the 24th. The RAF bombs Derna.
The British waste no time getting Tobruk Harbour back in operation as a depository of British supplies. They begin Operation Parallax, which aims to sweep the harbour of mines and restore the port facilities. Minesweeping trawlers HMT Arthur Cavanagh and Milford Counties begin sweeping the harbor today, while boom vessel HMS Magnet arrives to restore order in the port.
In London, the Admiralty reports to the War Cabinet that recent RAF attacks on Fliegerkorps X bases at Catania, Sicily and elsewhere have been successful. However, the Luftwaffe is still in business and shortly will makes it continued vitality known.
Battle of the Pacific: While the war by and large has not yet extended to the Pacific Ocean aside from scattered attacks by German raiders, the British in Hong Kong decide to make some preparations. They send minelayer HMS Man Yeung and destroyer HMS Thracian to seed some mines in the approaches to Hong Kong.
US/Yugoslavian Relations: "Wild Bill" Donovan continues his fact-finding mission in the European and Mediterranean region. Today, he stops off at Belgrade, no doubt drawn by the issues in Romania that are attracting worldwide attention.
US Military: Although a pre-World War I warship, battleship USS Arizona is made the flagship of Battleship Division 1 by Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, replacing Rear Admiral Russell Wilson, who himself had relieved Rear Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Charles Lindbergh testrifies before Congress, 23 January 1941.
US Government: Aviation legend Charles Lindbergh is invited to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Lindbergh is a well-known Isolationist who is supported by, and supports, the America First Committee organized by a Yale student. Lindbergh knows many of the German leaders personally and has deep knowledge of the European aviation situation. Escorted into the chamber by police, he faces a largely hostile committee (most being Democrats behind President Roosevelt's support of Great Britain). He testifies that he is "in sympathy with the people on both sides" and prefers a negotiated peace. His theory appears to be that a complete victory over Germany would cause huge long-term problems in Europe, both economically and militarily.
A destroyed doctor's office in Bucharest, Romania, 23 January 1941.
Romania: Prime Minister Ion Antonescu calls in the troops, and the put down the Iron Guard rebellion that began on 21 January. His loyal army commanders assemble 100 tanks and other units from outlying areas and regain control of the Bucharest streets. General Ilie Şteflea's troops incur 30 deaths and 100 wounded, while sending about 200-800 Legionnaires to their eternal rewards. Contrary to international press reports, the Wehrmacht troops in Romania for other purposes never lift a rifle to quell or support the rebellion, but at Antonescu's request they afterwards stage a mock victory parade that ends in front of the Prime Minister's building. That gives Antonescu an air of legitimacy and support, but also creates an appearance of German control of the situation which is absolutely false.
The politics of the situation now become extremely muddied. Antonescu is now cast in the role of a Romanian moderate, while the Iron Guard is shown to be perhaps the most extreme fascistic organization outside of Germany. Iron Guard leader Horia Sima, who disappeared during the rebellion, flees to Germany, while 9000 Legionnaires left behind are sentenced to prison. The facts of what happened in Romania never really filtered out to the western press during the war, and this episode contributes to the western belief that Hitler has "taken over" Romania. In fact, Wehrmacht units remain guests of the Romanian government who try as much as possible to stay out of the internal politics of the country. However, they are present, and the world just assumes they committed crimes.
All that said, the true victims of the rebellion are the country's Jews. The Legionnaires burn down synagogues, destroy 1274 businesses of one form or another, and collect 200 trucks-worth of stolen items (along with vast sums of money, much of which likely gets buried in backyards and hidden in attics across the country). And even all that pales beside the torture, humiliation by the Iron Guard of at least 125 Bucharest Jews and undoubtedly others from other parts of the country as well. This, too, never really filters out to the international press, and the memory of all such depredations eventually get dumped in a single bin marked "Hitler."
Indochina: The Japanese are getting tired of the rather pointless frontier war going on in French Indochina between Thailand and the Vichy French. While the two sides have expressed some interest in Japanese mediation, the war continues. The Japanese decide to hurry things along, so, in a classic example of gunboat diplomacy, they dispatch four cruisers from Kure for Saigon as an expression of their deep interest in a peaceful resolution. This is "S" Operation.
Actress Rosalind Russell in a promotional shot taken on 23 January 1941.


It wasn't always a thing of beauty, but the Nevada basketball team can certainly be satisfied with at least one thing from Tuesday night — despite playing far below its best and having one of its best players not score, it beat a perennial 20-win team by 16 points.
Once its shooting picked up in the second half Tuesday, the Wolf Pack ran away from BYU to score an 86-70 win in the season-opener for both teams. The game was tied at halftime, 34-34, after 20 minutes of both teams struggling to make baskets (BYU shot 31 percent in the half; Nevada hit only 27 percent of its shots).
The Pack, though, was much sharper in the second half, hitting more than half of its shots (15-of-29) and extending its lead with some key 3-pointers. Nevada took the lead for good, at 53-52, with 12:49 to play on an inside shot from Jordan Caroline. A little over a minute later, that lead was up to seven points on a traditional three-point play from Jazz Johnson, playing in his first game in more than a year-and-a-half.
Here's the top takeaways from Saturday night's season-opening win.
Nevada's Jordan Caroline put in a full shift Tuesday night, playing 38 minutes, scoring 25 points, and grabbing 16 rebounds — all game-highs. The 16 rebounds also tied a career high.
He also finished with just two fouls in a game with lots of whistles — 47 fouls were called — and occasional sloppy play.
"I thought J.C. did a great job of keeping us in the game from an offensive standpoint," Musselman said.
Four Nevada players made their much-anticipated debuts after sitting out last season under NCAA transfer rules.
Johnson (Portland) hit three of the Pack's eight 3-pointers and finished with 12 points.
Tre'Shawn Thurman (Omaha) grabbed nine rebounds before fouling out.
Corey Henson (Wagner) scored on consecutive layups in the first half to help keep the score close; he finished with six points.
Nisre Zouzoua (Bryant) scored five points in 12 minutes.
Also, graduate transfer Trey Porter (Old Dominion) had three of Nevada's four blocks, scored nine points, and had seven rebounds. He and Thurman were both starters.
If an average Pack fan had been told before the game that Cody Martin would finish with zero points, they could be forgiven for thinking Nevada would be in for a long night.
Instead, Martin was a force for the Wolf Pack, finishing with a game-high 11 assists — no other player had more than five — and directing a Nevada offense that caught fire in the second half.
Martin, who attempted four shots, played the entire second half after recording just nine minutes in the first. He picked up his second foul of the game with 9:37 left in the first half, but was able to finish the game with three fouls.
His brother, Caleb Martin, scored 21 points, all in the second half. The Martin brothers were held scoreless in the first half for the first time as Nevada players.
Nevada improved to 22-0 in non-conference home games under Musselman, who is in his fourth season. Overall, he is 43-14 in non-Mountain West games.
Musselman-coached teams improved to 44-5 at Lawlor Events Center. Nevada plays its next three games at home.
Tuesday's attendance was 11,094, the 16th-largest crowd in Lawlor history.


Love Kingston, a fund for charitable activity in the Royal Borough of Kingston welcomes the announcement by Councillor Julie Pickering, the newly installed Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston, that she will be supporting Love Kingston during her mayoral year.
Established in 2012, Love Kingston raises funds to support groups working with communities across the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, now and in the future. Our vision is a Kingston where local people and local businesses come together to support local need.
Mayor Pickering announced her support during an event on Tuesday May 16, which saw her installed in her role as Mayor. She will be joined in her duties by her husband, James and daughter Anna. Councillor Mike Head has been appointed as Deputy Mayor.
Having worked closely with Kingston's community and voluntary sector groups over the past few years, together building this fund is close to my heart. We have to ensure we support those locally that need our support and this is a Community fund to support the Community.
We have set a fundraising target to be nearing £1m by 2020, as I know how much people care about Kingston and I am confident that together, as a borough, we can do this.
Love Kingston would like to congratulate Julie Pickering on her appointment to become Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. We are delighted that the Mayor chose to lend her support to us at Love Kingston. Our aims are united in building a borough where local people and local businesses come together to support local need. To do this we need to focus on engaging with residents, businesses and community groups and encourage them to invest in the future of our borough's local giving activities, through the Love Kingston Fund.
We thank the Mayor for her decision to support Love Kingston and look forward to a happy and fruitful partnership.
Love Kingston is a project of Kingston Voluntary Action, CIO No. 1160403 working in partnership with London Community Foundation.
For further information please contact Tessa Kind, Community Fundraising Manager at tessakind@kva.org.uk or call 07905 468589.
Originally published on Tuesday 16 May 2017.


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Man found guilty of torturing 8-year-old boy to death because he thought he was gay
Isauro Aguirre could now face the death penalty over the killing of his girlfriend's son Gabriel Fernandez.
A man has been found guilty of torturing his girlfriend's 8-year-old son to death after prosecutors argued he inflicted the horrific campaign of abuse on the boy because he believed him to be gay.
Isauro Aguirre, 37, was convicted by a jury on Wednesday (November 16) of the first-degree murder of Gabriel Fernandez, who was found unresponsive at his home in Palmdale, California in 2013 and died two days later.
Aguirre was also convicted of a special circumstance charge of torture, meaning a jury must now decided whether he should receive the death penalty or life in prison without parole, CBS reports.
Over the course of the five-week trial, jurors heard how Aguirre and his partner Pearl Fernandez subjected Ferndandez's son Gabriel to a barbaric and sustained campaign of abuse and torture, motivated in part the prosecution said by the elementary school student's perceived sexuality.
The court heard how Gabriel was found with a catalogue of terrible injuries when he was hospitalised on May 22, 2013.
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami explained that Aguirre and Fernandez beat and bit Gabriel, burned him with cigarettes, shot him with a B.B. gun, whipped him, starved him, fed him cat litter, and kept him gagged and bound at the family home.
Hatami argued at trial that Aguirre had abused Gabriel "because he didn't like him … he believed Gabriel was gay, and to him, that was a bad thing."
He added that Aguirre's actions "had nothing to do with drugs [or] mental health issues," and was simply "intentional murder by torture."
"[Gabriel] was belittled, bullied and called gay," Hatami said. "His teeth were knocked out. He was tied up every night in a box."
The next phase of the trial to decide Aguirre's penalty will begin on November 27.
Gabriel's mother Pearl will be tried separately next year. She has pleaded not guilty to murder.
Four social workers who were assigned to Gabriel's case also face charges in connection with the death.
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Gabriel Fernandez
Isauro Aguirre
Coventry city councillor says he cannot be homophobic as he has a 'gay friend'


For a couple of years, I had some sand stashed away in my craft supplies. What should I do with it?
The first thing I did was to make most of the sand into colored sand. First I divided it it into 5 baggies with about one ounce of sand per baggie. To make the colors, I simply used food coloring. To about 1 ounce of sand, I added 2 to 4 drops of food coloring. For the orange, I used 6 drops -- 3 drops of yellow and 3 drops of red. Found out you wouldn't want to add much more than 6 drops. The sand absorbs the moisture, but begins to get moist if you add too much.
Yellow and red (to make orange); just the regular colors, not neon.
Here are my baggies of colored sand.
In my craft supplies was a pretty little glass candle holder. It was lonely and had no match, so it was just waiting for something to make it cheery and fun.
This project was simple. First I made sure the candle holder was clean. Then I chose the colors of sand (actually Mom chose them). First was blue, then green, then blue, then green again. They were poured in unevenly so as to make patterns within the glass candle holder. When it got as full as I wanted it, I added a little round candle and some tiny sea shells. Here is a peek from some different angles.
You will probably recognize this vase from last week's post. It is the one I used for the experiment stringing seed beads onto copper wire. It looked OK but really needed a lot more beads in the larger part of the vase. Mom had the idea of filling the vase with the colored sand. That sounded great, so I gave it a try!
Now, filling this vase with colored sand was easier said than done. Surprisingly, it was about as hard to get the sand in the curvy bottom of part of the vase as it was to get the beads and wire in it. With some patience, turning the vase this way and that, and some gentle tapping, the sand got down there. However, that part of the vase never did get full.
So that was my fun with colored sand! What would you make with colored sand?
Hey, everyone! Thanks for stopping by!
I'm a bit late with this craft roundup because of technical problems uploading pictures to the blog. But, I'll give it a try today and we'll see how things go.
My bedside lamp finally gave up the ghost. It was old and well used. The glass base and shells were pretty though, and they needed a new life. So, they turned into a shell colored lights lamp.
First I unscrewed the base and cut off the power cord. The cord was amazingly easy to cut. Guess it was getting rather old and brittle. Then I enlarged the hole in the metal part of the bottom of the lamp base. This was no easy task. Whatever metal it is made of was not intended to be bent. It actually had to be heated on the stove quite a while before I could bend it with some needle nose pliers.
Once the hole was big enough, I let the metal piece cool. After it cooled, I fed a string of Christmas lights through it. The hole was still quite small, so they had to be fed one light at a time. Then I arranged them among the shells. Was not quite happy with the finished product. When the lights need to be replaced, I think I'll take some of the shells out so they are not so tight in there and then the lights should be easier to work around through the shells. When the lights were in place as good as they could be, I screwed the bottom of the base back on.
Now, what to do with the top? The switch mechanism wasn't all that pretty. So, I decided to make a star fish decoration to cover it up.
First I took an old CD and covered it on the printed side with a piece of tan felt. Next, I printed out a picture of a starfish and glued it on. When that was dry, I glued on glass gem stones over the shape of the star fish. Finally, I covered any exposed areas of felt with glue and sprinkled on some sand.
After the sand was dry, the CD was turned over. Double sided sticky tape and some wire were added to make a way to attach the decoration to the switch assembly part of the lamp.
Now that the lamp was put together, it was time to test it out. It did look pretty, although it was hard to get all the colored lights to show up in the picture. This will look nice in our fish/sea themed bathroom.
This craft was more of an experiment, but it turned out OK. I had this lovely vase that I had gotten from a thrift store and wasn't sure what to do with it. Also had some very thin copper wire which looked just about the right thickness for "stringing" tiny seed beads. So, I strung them on until the wire was long enough to go the length of the vase (although it could have been a little longer).
Next job was to work the beaded wire through the vase. This was harder than I had anticipated. Because the wire was so thin, it would bend when it met resistance instead of following the path through the vase. But, I used a thin dowel rod to encourage it along. With persistence, I finally got it all the way to the bottom. Now it sits on the little rolling cart in front of my window and adds shine and sparkle to the room.
These mirror tiles have been sitting in my craft supplies for several years, and I had no idea what to do with them. As I was looking at pictures of crafts on the internet yesterday, an idea came to my mind. How about making a small tiled mirror mat for taking pictures of little craft items that would look good with a reflection?
To make the mat, I first cleaned a small piece of glass that had been taken out of a picture frame. It was just the right size for the 25 mirror tiles. These were arranged as neatly as possible on the glass and then glued to the glass. The glue was allowed to dry overnight. Now the mat is all set for taking pictures. The fun part will be figuring out the best items to take pictures of and the best angle to use to get the right reflections. Here are the results of a couple of tries at picture taking on the mat.
That's it for this craft roundup! Hope to see you again next week. Then I'll share with you what I made with this colored sand.
This was challenging as I had not done a project like this before. And this is the first time I made a lined bag of any kind.
First I made the main part of the purse, which was about 10 inches wide by 7 or 8 inches high. The butterflies were part of the stitch, but I added the flowers. Mom stitched on the name using a chain stitch.
The purse was made from the top down. I started at the zipper and worked toward the bottom. When I got it the desired length, I unzipped the zipper (very important) and turned the purse inside out. Also turned my work so that I was crocheting the opposite direction and closed the bottom of the purse by single crocheting both sides together. Then the purse was turned right side out.
The next step was to do the lining. I've seen several different ways to do it, but this video had the easiest technique I found, at least for me. Since the purse has a zipper, I sewed the lining to the zipper on the inside, making sure to go all the way through and sewing to both zipper and yarn. With a little care, the thread can be pretty much invisible on the outside, though it will show on the inside.
After the lining was put in, the pockets were sewed on. One side had a single pocket. The other side had two smaller pockets. To make the pockets more sturdy, I sewed the pockets to the lining but also made sure to go through the felt and catch a little of the yarn as well with each stitch. This was a little tricky, and I ended up redoing part of each pocket as I caught some yarn on the edge of the purse and made the side pucker. Thankful for picks and sharp pointed scissors. :-) Here is a picture of the lined purse with pockets.
One request with this order was for an adjustable strap. This wasn't as difficult as I thought, but I don't know how to explain what to do to make it. Mom helped me with this step. Three rectangular rings were used in the process.
Colors used in the wallet were the same as those used in the purse -- the spring green and pale yellow. It was Mom's idea to double up the button. Hence a fuchsia pentagon shaped button on the bottom with a green flower button on top. I glued these together first so that the holes would stay aligned while I sewed and then sewed it on with purple thread.
but they were actually almost the same size.
goes the length of the inside but comes about a half inch from the top.
So was completed this challenging project. It definitely wasn't perfect, but it was a good way to learn how to do some new things. Hope you enjoyed!
Are you trying a new or special project? Tell me about it in the comments.


Londoners have faced a third day of disruption, as climate change protestors continue to block roads and bring transport routes to a halt.
More than 300 arrests have now been made since Monday.
The DLR was stopped earlier after two people climbed onto the roof, and another man glued himslef to the train.
Elsewhere Oxford circus, Westminster and Waterloo Bridge have remained closed, as businesses leaders say the protests have cost firms millions in lost sales.
Eleanor Cunningham has a round up of the latest events.


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Fargo man sentenced in cornfield incident
MOORHEAD - A Fargo man was sentenced Wednesday to about five months in jail after pleading guilty to charges linked to an incident last fall in which he was accused of swerving his car at his girlfriend several times, forcing her to hide in a cor...
MOORHEAD - A Fargo man was sentenced Wednesday to about five months in jail after pleading guilty to charges linked to an incident last fall in which he was accused of swerving his car at his girlfriend several times, forcing her to hide in a cornfield.
Jonathon Lee Kinney, 32, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making terroristic threats as part of a plea deal that sentenced him to five years of supervised probation, a suspended prison term of one year and one day and 150 days in jail, with credit for four days already served.
A charge of second-degree assault was dismissed when he pleaded guilty Jan. 7.
The complaint against Kinney alleged that on Sept. 10, he and his girlfriend were arguing in his car, and he told her he had a gun in the car.
When she got out of the car, he took her phone away, then got back in the car and swerved toward her five or six times, court records alleged.
Related Topics: CRIME


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Q: Easy Update "Table of Contents" feature in Microsoft Word 2007 VS. Microsoft word 2010 I am currently working on a document that was written using Microsoft Word 2007 and I am also using Microsoft Word 2007 to update the document.  It is just the way of the workplace I am now in.
I have noticed that the feature of adding nested headers ("subheaders" perhaps) does not work the same as I remember it did with Microsoft Word 2010.  Since I am not the original author of the document, I am not sure if the table of contents was set up the right way.  So my first question is: How do I see if the table of contents was set up properly in Microsoft Word 2007 to allow automatic updates whenever a subheader is added to the text.  There seems to be a number of other things going on with the document that do not seem right.  But maybe if we fix this problem first the other issues will dissolve or be lessened.

A: When there is a table of contents (and providing that you use the "header" styles defined in office) you need to manually refresh the table of contents, rather then have it all be automatic.
First port of call to make sure that the table of contents is set up correctly is to check the styles applied to the headers that do appear in the table. Make sure you use the same styles to headings and subheadings you add, because you can define custom styles and use them for the headers.
Then you can select the table and in the "reference" tab, click "update table"
If that doesn't change the table at all, then it would point to the table being manually created, and you'd need to generate the table of contents properly.
There is an article about tables of contents on the office section of the microsoft site available here.

A: This question discusses how to modify the table of contents style. Despite the title, the information also applies to Word 2007. As Trezoid mentions the table of contents has to be manually refreshed to include the new content.

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