BACKGROUND: The Master Collection Three began shipping nationwide in February 2015. The blend is comprised of tobaccos from three different countries; a Habano wrapper from Ecuador, a binder from the Dominican Republic and filler tobaccos from two growing regions in Nicaragua. As with all Master Collection blends, the experience is designed for those with a more refined palate.
The new Master Collection Three is packaged in white, piano finish boxes and contain either 20 or 50 cigars depending on the format. This edition is available in five formats and retails from $8.00 to $12.00 per cigar.
This week's featured cigar is the 7-inch by 38 ring gauge Master Collection Three Mutante.
Aberlour A'bunadh is a cask strength whisky that has achieved cult status among whisky connoisseurs.
Abundah is made using exclusively oak casks that have previously aged Sherry, but are first fill for Scotch. That is, though they have been used to age Sherry, this is the first time they've been used to age Scotch. After aging in these casks, the finished scotch is transferred straight to the bottle at Cask Strength, which is just a hair under 61%ABV or 122-proof.
BACKGROUND: The J. Grotto Silk has an Ecuadorian-grown Connecticut Shade wrapper and a double binder of Indonesian and Honduran tobaccos. All this is complimented by filler leaves from the Trojes region of Honduras and from Jalapa, Nicaragua. All tobaccos are aged a full three years.
The Silk line's presentation includes 20-count Spanish cedar boxes and the distinctive J. Grotto bands and box art. This week's featured cigar is the 7-1/2″ x 41 ring gauge Silk Lancero.
BACKGROUND: The new BG Meyer Gigantes, which from Spanish translates as "Giants," pays tribute to those trail blazers or towering spirits who lead by example and influence the lives of many. The concept for the cigar comes as a play on the legendary Gigante format, which is traditionally a 6" x 54 ring size cigar known for robust flavors.
The Gigantes feature a Nicaraguan-grown Habano wrapper, A Brazilian Mata Fina binder and high-grade filler tobaccos from both Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. The binder and filler tobaccos in the Gigantes blend have been aged a minimum of six years, while the wrapper has been at rest since 2007.
All BG Meyer cigars are hand made in Danli, Honduras. The Gigantes come in 20ct boxes that have been draped with black Oak veneer. This new line began shipping on Wednesday, April 15th and retails from $10.00 – $13.00 per stick.
BG Meyer Gigantes comes in four sizes and the size I'm featuring today is the 5" by 54 ring gauge Robusto.
This Rye Style Black IPA breaks down and rebuilds the boundaries between roasted dark malts and brilliant, complex, hoppy IPA aromas that were pioneered here on the West Coast. This beer imparts pine and spicy rye complexity with subtle toasted malt sweetness. This beer is the most recent release of our Forager Series.
BACKGROUND: The "Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve" cigar is a long-filler, premium hand made, small batch cigar created at Drew Estate in Estelí, Nicaragua. This historic cigar features a Kentucky Fire Cured Wrapper over a Mexican San Andres base wrapper. All of this covers a filler and binder of well-aged Nicaraguan leaf.
The cigars are available exclusively from Pappy & Co., and come in two sizes. The cigar I'm featuring today is the 5.25-inch by 52 ring gauge Robusto.
Bulleit 10 is Tom Bulleit's selected reserve. Select barrels of Bulleit Bourbon were set aside to age for 10 years. These were aged in charred American white oak barrels. Bulleit10 has the same high-rye content mash bill as the original. And, as a result, you can expect more of the spicy rye character in this bourbon. But you can also expect more oak influence. The original Bulleit is aged for 6-years in oak and the difference of four years of aging in oak is most certain to affect the outcome. The 10-year weighs in at 45.6%ABV.


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Review : "My Boss"
November 15, 2012 Dileep, malayalam cinema, malayalam films, Mamta Mohandas, Sai Kumar
Dileep scores again with his popularity to put on the malayalam movie "My Boss" in the entertaining zone and it is the malayalam version of hollywood hit "The Proposal". Here and there it feel like some awkward moments goes through your mind, but at the end it's a entertaining one and worth the watch.
Starts off with the Manu Varma (Dileep), who's dreaming to go abroad and with that ambition joins the IT firm based in Mumbai, as an assistant to Priya Nair (Mamtha Mohandas), who is the boss. Everyone is in the office is so obsessed with the Boss, but She doesn't care about that and follows the strict discipline in the office. Manu Varma is an engineering degree holder, but lands up
for this assistant job because of some family problems.Now the job goes on with the tussle between the fiery boss and her assistant.
On the move of this story, Priya Nair is expecting a promotion and in the middle of that she has some visa issues to settle, which led her to implement a false story of an affair between her and Manu Varma and soon going to get married. Now the Manu Varma's time to take sweet revenge on his boss's cruelty and bring his Australian native bride Priya Nair to Kerala, which forms the rest of the part.
Dileep looks better with his refreshing look and as usual no match to his comedy roles again at his best. Mamtha Mohandas is better on her side, but looks to be lost during some major scenes. Sai Kumar manages to create some laugh along with Kalabhavan Shajohn. Mukesh, Seetha, Ganesh Kumar, Valsala Menon, Dharmajan Bolgatty and others done their parts pretty well.
Director Jeethu Joseph added a every bit of things like humor and romance to suite better to its star Dileep. Jeethu Joseph could add some more missing elements which add spice to the second half. Anil Nair's cinematography brilliantly adapted the beauty and charm of Allapuzha and V.Saajan's editing also needs a clap. Sejo John and M.Jayachandran's songs are good with the lyrics of Santhosh Varma and East Coast Vijayan. Manjunatha and Kas release bring this malayalam movie "My Boss" to the theatres, which is being produced by East Coast Communications.
Just share your opinion about this malayalam film "My Boss" in the comment box given below.......
Sai Kumar

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Anxiety & The Writing Life
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When I decided to write about Tim Parks' new essay collection Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations between Them, I didn't intend to write about panic attacks, anxiety and the emotional toll of the writing life, but these themes curiously bubbled up to the surface. I was also writing it for The Millions, which unlike the Los Angeles Review of Books, for example, avoids straight-up reviews, forcing me to look for interesting themes across Parks' divergent essays. One of his pieces focused on Samuel Beckett–no stranger to anxiety himself–and this led me to Anthony Cronin's fine Beckett biography, which helped give me some additional material.
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The piece is titled "The Writer is Not Here: On Nihilism and the Writing Life," and I can also say that when I was reading Parks' collection, I was finishing my own novel and experiencing a certain amount of anxiety in the process. Not anxiety in the career sense (i.e., have I written a good book?), but at the level of raw nerves, of scratching at emotional wounds, of going deep.
The essay was well received. It has been mentioned in The Paris Review Daily, 3 Quarks Daily, and also in The Rumpus. I suppose the topic is not unfamiliar to writers who "go deep" on a regular basis.
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Newsweek's "The Daily Beast" Chimes in on My Recent Essay
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Andrew Sullivan, who writes the popular "The Dish" column on Newsweek's "The Daily Beast" website, mentioned my recent essay on Catholic writers in The Millions. The title of his post is "The Poetry of the Latin Mass." Sullivan writes:
"Robert Fay wonders why there aren't great contemporary Catholic writers like Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Flannery O'Connor. Fay blames the Sunday morning Mass, updated in the 1960s…"
I like that Sullivan adds a video clip from the great documentary Into Great Silence about the spiritual lives of the humble Carthusian monks in France.
Now that I've made it into Newsweek (ha!), I'll have to shoot for Time magazine next month. 🙂
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Critic Maud Newton Recommended My Essay On Catholic Writers
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The noted literary critic and blogger Maud Newton recommended my essay on Catholic writers in The Millions. She wrote:
I recommend Robert Fay's essay about the end of the Latin Mass — and Catholic "drama of salvation" novels — even though I strongly disagree that "the Christian faith [has] been in full cultural retreat since the 1960s."
In addition to Newton's blog post, the essay has generated a certain "buzz" across the Internet.
The venerable Commonweal Magazine blogged about the essay, saying in part:
Over at the Millions, Robert Fay has an essay with the provocative title, "Where Have All the Catholic Writers Gone?" Fay tells a story of decline, arguing that there has been a profound falling-off in both the quantity and quality of Catholic writers since the mid-century.
Over in the UK, The Catholic Herald UK linked to the story, but took a curious approach, citing me as the source that writer David Foster Wallace considered becoming Catholic before his death:
Robert Fay says that novelist David Foster Wallace considered becoming a Catholic before he took his life.
It was not me, but Evan Hughes in his New York Magazine story, which I mention and link to in the essay.
I also had the privileged of emailing with the writer Gregory Wolfe (publisher of the journal Image) about the issue of Catholic writers. He left a comment on The Millions where he recommended his own 2008 essay on the same topic.
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My Essay in 'The Millions'
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I recently published an essay on the online literary site The Millions titled, "Paris, Wikipedia and My Middle Age Crisis."
Each man's middle age crisis begins at an indeterminate age and offers a peculiar window into the architecture of masculine decline. In this respect it mimics death, which is both punctual and ruthlessly efficient in its demolitions. For many men, the crisis begins with the fear that your Emersonian Self-Reliance is spent, or even worse, you've sucked so deeply on the marrow of life that you are now as penniless as Henry David Thoreau . . . Go here to read the full essay.
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Shangri-La Partners With Diversey to Upcycle 12,500kg of Hotel Linen Into Half-a-million Reusable Face Masks for the Vulnerable
20 participating Shangri-La hotels in Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka continue to care for the health of the most vulnerable and the environment
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Students at Dehigahalanda School, Hambantota, Sri Lanka have received masks through L4LFM
(SINGAPORE, June 30, 2020) Vulnerable members in communities across 11 cities in Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka will soon have greater access to reusable face masks with the regional Linens For Life Face Masks (L4LFM) partnership between Shangri-La Group and Diversey, a leading global hygiene solutions provider.
As part of the L4LFM programme, the 12,500kg of used linen donated by 20 Shangri-La hotels will be repurposed into reusable fabric face masks by local Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Colombo, Hambantota, Penang, Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Surabaya, Jakarta, Manila, Singapore, Bangkok and Yangon. In some cities such as Manila, Yangon, Johor Bahru, Jakarta, Surabaya and Bangkok, the upcycling of masks will also generate employment opportunities for members in low socio-economic community groups.
The half-a-million face masks will subsequently be distributed to local communities in need, providing vulnerable members of society with a basic piece of protection that is now mandatory in many countries in the global fight against COVID-19.
The upcycling of clean, used linen into face masks also provides Shangri-La a meaningful way to help reduce environmental waste. If new linen was produced to manufacture this quantity of fabric masks, it would have incurred 60 million litres of water (the equivalent of 23 Olympic-size swimming pools) and a carbon footprint of 150 tonnes of carbon dioxide, equivalent to 63,000 litres of petrol being combusted*.
Employees at Shangri-La's Rasa Ria Resort & Spa, Kota Kinabalu preparing the linen for their local NGO's
Mr. Chan Kong Leong, Regional CEO for Shangri-La Group in Southeast Asia & Australasia, said, "At Shangri-La, we have dedicated our last 50 years to caring for our guests, colleagues and local communities. Just as we have elevated our cleaning and safety protocols in our hotels as part of our 'Shangri-La Cares' commitment to our guests and colleagues, we are heartened to be able to continue helping and caring for the communities around us throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The Linens For Life Face Masks programme provides clear health, social and environmental benefits for communities during these challenging times. Not only does it give our used hotel linen a new lease of life, it also provides the most vulnerable with a basic piece of protection and helps sustain livelihoods."
In Bangkok, Thailand, the Group and Diversey have teamed up with Cedar Learning Centre where local community members will upcycle the clean but used bed sheets, duvet covers and pillowcases into face masks and distribute them to refugees and asylum seekers in the city. Volunteers at WHY Loving Care in Penang will create and distribute the masks to vulnerable children in local schools and orphanages, while in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, with the help of the Kechara Soup Kitchen, disadvantaged women will receive an additional source of income from the sewing of face masks which will be distributed among poor families and the homeless.
Mr. Brijesh Rathore, Vice-President, Diversey Asia-Pacific Global Strategic Accounts stated: "One of Diversey's global priorities is to support local communities, particularly during COVID-19. The Linens for Life Face Masks Programme is a great example of how Diversey, together with our customer hotels and partner NGOs, are providing simple hygiene items to those who really need them and helping to prevent the spread of infection."
A refugee creating masks for the community at Cedar Learning Center, Bangkok
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shangri-La Hotels across the region have continuously sought out opportunities to help their local communities and to uplift spirits - from donating essential items such as groceries to local communities across Southeast Asia and Australasia, to preparing fresh meals and donating personal protection equipment to courageous frontline workers.
With hygiene and safety being top-of-mind for many, the Shangri-La Group has recently introduced its "Shangri-La Cares" commitment, reinforcing the Group's efforts to caring for people as we begin welcoming guests back to our hotels and resorts. As part of its ongoing efforts to create a trusted and nurturing environment for guests, the Group has partnered Diversey to implement a series of safety standards and precautionary measures across its hotels.
Shangri-La's partnership with Diversey on the L4LFM programme builds on the successful Soap For Hope collaboration between the two entities globally, which has seen 427 tonnes of hotel soap slivers recycled into 3.5 million new soap bars for at-risk communities over the past three years. For more information on how the Shangri-La Group is caring for local communities, please visit our Corporate Social Responsibility blog here.
Two refugee children help each other with their masks at Cedar Learning Center, Bangkok
*The environmental impact figures are gleaned from an independent study by Metabolic in The Netherlands - https://www.metabolic.nl/news/improving-the-environmental-performance-of-hotel-linen/. The figures are taken from the life cycle analysis of cotton and poly-cotton linen and cotton towels used in top hotel chains.
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Well, look at this. I really like this poem Janorama. It says a lot about a shopping trip. The coffee stop is always the best part.
Thanks Martin. Yes well I'm not sure which gives me the greater 'fix'…retail therapy or caffeine, so I play safe and go for both every time!


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'I had fun singing the songs in the practices. I am also glad I got to sing in front of the school' – Sadie
'I liked it when I got to go up by the microphone and read the people's parts who weren't there.' – Daniella
'I brightened my whole day. Nothing could come bad!' – Abbey
'I felt like there were 500 people. I was excited and happy. I was also a little scared.' – Sarah F.
'I felt happy and excited about the service because I got to sing in front of everyone.' – Wendie F.
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'I felt proud of going on to the bima and singing and saying prayers. Everyone sounded great!' – Olivia G.
'I felt very happy and excited because I got to sing on the bima and stand near the ark with the Rabbi and the Cantor.' – Sam B.
'I like the story of how the chickens turn into goats!' – Lily C.
'I feel happy to represent the 3rd grade. The songs are very fun and catchy. It waqs fun to watch the audience laugh and smile when we sang "Wherever You Go." The songs are easy to catch on to. I was giggling with everyone else when we ran to attack the challah. All the songs are catchy and, like I said before, are very catchy. I enjoy Hebrew school and can't wait for the next service.' – Mira
'At the service I felt a bit nervous but when i said my line I felt a lot braver. At the end of the service I felt proud of myself and was not nervous anymore!' – Maya
'I was thinking that the song "Wherever You Go" was not good but it was ok. But the other songs are good like "Standing By the Sea" is the best of all that I sang. Actually it was the only song I sang out of all.' – Rachel O.
'I felt very proud when I sang the songs and when I did my part. I also liked having my family support me.' – Jacob G.
'My favorite time of the play was when i read my part of the play. I felt good about this play!' – Julia E.
'I liked when I went up to the microphone and said my part. I was glad that my family was there.' – Matthew S.
'I felt alive to be on stage and to sing with my friends.' – Jack B.
'I felt like I was at my bat mitzvah. I was a little nervous when I lit the candles.' Gabby
'I felt that it was fun. I was a little nervous when I was reading, singing, and when i said my name out loud. But it was cool.' – Skylar K.
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It's Packi Day, again. Thank God!
From the archives. This first appeared February 16, 2010.
Dedicated to PP reader big spaniel for whom Lent has already begun. He's Eastern rite Catholic which means his priests have the better hats.
When I reported for my first day of work at an ad firm in Detroit 22 years ago, I discovered the creative department to be devoid of men, including the 2 guys I had just moved 800 miles to be the partner of. I did catch a glimpse of one be-speckled guy in Greek fisherman sandals and a black turtleneck sweater absentmindedly wandering the hallway but that was about it. Absolutely no other men around at all it seemed.
"Where are the guys?" I asked the woman who had recruited me.
"It's the first day of deer season." she replied.
The moment those words left her mouth I knew I was no longer in Kansas, I mean Boston. I was working with guys who killed Bambi.
The second time I knew I was no longer in Boston came a few weeks later when a type rep Frank, in an effort to win my business, had offered to take me to lunch to The Polish Yacht Club. I was dressed up for lunch at the Club waiting outside when Frank pulled up to the curb, behind the wheel of his pride and joy, a pre-oil embargo gas guzzling El Dorado convertible.
That car was as magnificent as the QEII. The perfect car for lunch at a Yacht Club, Polish or not. I hopped in and we sailed down The Lodge highway to the ghetto that was the City formerly known as Detroit. Frank was pointing out where everything used to be before the Democrats had destroyed the town. He exited off a ramp that was not only landlocked but ghetto locked too. Where could a yacht club be around here I wondered? After driving through a particularly bad bombed-out section, he pulled onto a street that still had many of the homes standing as well as inhabited, stopping before a brick one.
"Here we are." he said.
"At The Polish Yacht Club."
"This isn't a Yacht Club."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't. Where's the water and the boats?"
"It's a Polish Yacht Club, remember?"
"You mean we're allowed to make fun of Polish people around here?"
"Hell yeah!"
The Polish Yacht Club was the nickname for a family-owned restaurant of more than 70 years running in the shadow of the GM plant in Hamtramck. Hamtramck's nickname was Poletown because so many auto workers of Polish decent once lived and worked there in neat and tidy neighborhoods with huge Catholic Churches all around. In the early years of the Polish Yacht Club, the family lived upstairs over the restaurant. But no longer. The granddaughter of the original owners who was married to a Detroit cop was mistress of both the bar and kitchen while her Dad, in his retirement, held court at the corner of the bar with his regulars of at least 40 years standing. Frank, due to his good Polish nature and generous expense account, had achieved movie star status among these folks. He seated me at the bar and ordered us Stroh's. As we sat there talking he told me to look down at my feet. The base of the bar was made of stone as was the floor right next to it.
"Do you see how the stone on the floor is cut like a basin? And down there" he pointed, "is a drain?"
"Yes."
"Do you know why?"
"No."
"In the old days, this was the men's urinal."
It was moments after those words left his mouth and mine was still hanging open upon receiving them when the mistress of the bar who had been listening to our conversation said the table was ready in the dining room. Frank had ordered a Polish lunch for us, starting off with keilbasa appetizer.
"I've never had keilbasa as an appetizer."
"You're going to love it."
He was right. I did. As we ate he pointed out the spinnaker of the Polish Yacht Club decorating the walls. It bore the The Yacht Club's logo, a plump keilbasa with a sail stuck in it. Then Frank pointed out the photos of all the past Commodores. Very serious men wearing their traditional yachting caps complete with the black patent leather visor. I fell in love with the Polish Yacht Club that day. About 4 years later, Mr. P and I met up there there for lunch. On our way out we accompanied the mistress of the bar to the backyard and over to what used to be her grandparent's doghouse. She threw back the burlap curtain of the doghouse and said,
"Take your pick."
Mr. P and I looked at the 6 little kittens there with their feral mother. Mr. P picked up a small orange tabby and we both petted the pathetic mewing furball. "We'll take this one." he said. As we walked back through the bar, the Dad who was still holding court stopped us. "That's Billy. You picked the nicest one of the litter." As we left the bar, a "Don't forget to send photos." was heard as the door closed behind us. If you were to go to The Polish Yacht Club today for lunch, behind the bar you would see a photo of Billy - who became our cat Hobbes, now deceased, sitting on a mantle along side his sister, Eloise, now deceased sitting along side an 10"X15" black and white framed portrait of the Episcopal Bishop of Boston, also deceased. But back to when I was discovering I was no longer in Boston.
The next time I knew I was no longer in Boston was a few days before Shrove Tuesday. Frank came by and asked, "What kind of punch-key do you want?"
"What's a punch-key?"
"Don't you know what a punch-key is yet?"
"It's a super rich Polish doughnut that they make down in Hamtramck the day before Ash Wednesday."
"Really? How rich?"
"About 800 calories rich."
"Nooooooooooo. You're kidding."
"Not at all. What flavor do ya want?"
"I don't want one."
I never actually tasted a punch-key until we had children. By that point in the game we had gone Catholic and the upright, uniform, and erudite Hot Cross Buns of my Episcopalian youth seemed too distant from the messy, deep fried, and thoroughly voluptuous Catholic life Mr. P and I had taken on. At this point our children believed fried Kowalski bolonga accompanied by Better Made potato chips to be the height of culinary achievement. Not only had I given them the religion for punch-keys, I had developed their taste buds for punch-keys as well. So on Fat Tuesday, off I went to get my family the very best punch-keys I could find.
They had Boston Creme Pie punch-keys at the bakery. I thought long and hard about buying those. But thought Mr. P would think I was trying to hard to maintain some semblance of my life before him if I came home bearing a box of Boston Creme Pie Polish doughnuts. I chose the punch-keys with the Maine Blueberry filling instead, thinking Mr. P wouldn't notice. He didn't because when I got home and cut them in half as no one was allowed to eat a whole one, I discovered the bakery had given me prune filling instead. After abstaining for nearly 15 Fat Tuesdays, I finally give in and get punch-keys. And I get prune-filled ones. The only thing that comforted me at that moment was the knowledge that the bakery had given us the most traditional punch-keys. Polish people love prune-filled pastries.
So this year found us in Southern Illinois and I told the kids a few weeks ago this meant no punch-keys for Fat Tuesday breakfast. They, being Detroit born and bred Catholics, were disappointed. I toyed with the idea of making them Hot Cross buns. Frankly, if I thought Hot Cross buns were a distant thing from my childhood when living on the edge of the ghetto called Detroit well they are even further away when living in a reclaimed cornfield in Southern Illinois. So I was at a loss at what to do. Yesterday found me wandering around the bakery department of our posh grocery store, looking for ideas. And that was when I came across a stack of clear plastic bakery boxes containing freshly-made Boston Creme Pie punch-keys.
I could not believe my luck. Boston Creme Pie punch-keys in the middle of the corn! I called over Roger Kimball's future daughter-in-law (our 10 year-old daughter) with a loud "Look at what I found!"
She came over and read the label. The kid knows how to read the Polish spelling of Paczki.
"Boston Creme Pie Paczkis!" she exclaimed. "Can we get them?"
I thought of Mr. P's reaction upon discovering that I had found Boston Creme Pies punch-keys in Southern Illinois and was about to say "Yes." gladly. But wisdom took over and said, "Not Boston Creme Pie-flavored. That's way too much. Let's see if they've got Maine Blueberry." Unfortunately, it was too much to ask of life in the corn for Maine Blueberry filled punch-keys. We went home with a box of strawberry. This morning I broke with Detroit tradition and allowed the children to have whole punch-key. They were delighted and went off to school happy as clams.
See what I mean about the better hats in Eastern Rite Catholicism? It looks as if he's wearing a Russian Cathedral on his head.
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A great story that lost nothing in the repetition. And, my, that's quite a hat.
Posted by: Old Dominion Tory | March 08, 2011 at 10:03 AM
Agree with ODT.
Posted by: The Maximum Leader | March 08, 2011 at 04:18 PM
Took Sarah down to The New Deluxe in Hamtramck yesterday. It was a nice trip down memory.
Posted by: Card's wife | March 09, 2011 at 09:41 AM


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Q: Replace NA values with the average of before and after row values in R I want to write a code to replace all NA values with the average of before and after row values. The following code works for 1 single column. Is there any idea that I can run the code for all the columns of the dataset without writing column names into the code one by one?
data$WTI[is.na(data$WTI)] <- rowMeans(cbind(data$WTI[which(is.na(data$WTI))-1],
                                  data$WTI[which(is.na(data$WTI))+1]))

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structure(list(Timestamp = structure(c(1629417600, 1629331200,
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Thanks.

A: One way would be to use lead and lag:
library(dplyr)
Timestamp %>%
        mutate(
            across(where(is.numeric),
                ~if_else(is.na(.), (dplyr::lead(.) + dplyr::lag(.)) / 2, .)
                )
            )

mutate modifies existing columns, across selects the columns to which is.numeric returns true. ~if_else(is.na(.), (dplyr::lead(.) + dplyr::lag(.)) / 2, .) checks whether the current value in the column is NA and if so, replaces it with the mean of the column before and after.

A: Try this,
set.seed(42)
dat <- as.data.frame(matrix(sample(c(NA, 1:9), size = 35, replace = TRUE), ncol = 7))
dat
#   V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7
# 1 NA  3  6  9  3  7  7
# 2  4  1  3  1  4  2  5
# 3 NA  9  8  2  4  9  9
# 4  8 NA  4  8  3 NA  7
# 5  9  7  3  8  1  9  3

dat[] <- lapply(dat, function(z) {
   mtx <- cbind(c(NA, head(z, -1)), z, c(tail(z, -1), NA))
   mtx[is.na(mtx[,2]) & rowSums(is.na(mtx)) > 1,] <- NA
   out <- ifelse(is.na(mtx[,2]), rowMeans(mtx, na.rm = TRUE), mtx[,2])
   out[is.nan(out)] <- NA
   out
 })
dat
#   V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7
# 1 NA  3  6  9  3  7  7
# 2  4  1  3  1  4  2  5
# 3  6  9  8  2  4  9  9
# 4  8  8  4  8  3  9  7
# 5  9  7  3  8  1  9  3

If you want the V1[1] to also be updated despite not having a "before" value, then remove the mtx[...] <- NA assignment:
# fresh dat
dat[] <- lapply(dat, function(z) {
   mtx <- cbind(c(NA, head(z, -1)), z, c(tail(z, -1), NA))
   out <- ifelse(is.na(mtx[,2]), rowMeans(mtx, na.rm = TRUE), mtx[,2])
   out[is.nan(out)] <- NA
   out
 })
dat
#   V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7
# 1  4  3  6  9  3  7  7
# 2  4  1  3  1  4  2  5
# 3  6  9  8  2  4  9  9
# 4  8  8  4  8  3  9  7
# 5  9  7  3  8  1  9  3

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India leaped 23 places to the 77th position on the World Bank's "ease of doing business" ranking as GST, insolvency framework and tax reforms made the country more investor-friendly. Turkey now ranks 59 globally in this area, compared with 96 previous year, it noted.
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"Malaysia carried out six business reforms the past year". Djibouti, the only economy from West Asia and North Africa region in the list of 10 top improvers this year. India is the only South Asian country to achieve this distinction two years in a row, and only nine other countries have accomplished this since 2011.
When the NDA came to power in 2014, India stood 142nd in World Bank's "Doing Business" list.
Besides these reforms, other data corrections also contributed to the unprecedented improvement in the ranking of Pakistan, said Fareena Mazhar, executive director general, BOI.
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Regarding getting electricity, newly-adopted regulations from the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission require that electrical connections be completed within 15 days of the application's acceptance. "You have to crack the code and try and improve on the criterion in which we lack". As a result, the time to start a business was reduced from 20 days to 17 days, while the cost was reduced from 7.9 per cent of the income per capita to 6.8 per cent.
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Northpoint Named a 2016 National Blue Ribbon School
U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. announced today at 1:00 p.m. EST that Northpoint Elementary School is among the 329 schools (eight in Indiana) named a 2016 National Blue Ribbon School.
Principal Diane Wirth called an all-school assembly shortly after the announcement was made nationally to surprise all the students, teachers and staff with the good news. Students celebrated by singing and dancing the Northpoint School Song.
This makes the second time in six years that the Penn-Harris-Madison Four Star School has been recognized with this national honor; the first award was given in 2010. Northpoint has a strong track record of maintaining high standards and helping their students achieve academic success. Nationally, Northpoint is ranked #27 (among 70,000 schools) in the 2016 list of "50 Best American Public Elementary Schools" by TheBestSchools.org.
"The belief that 'It takes a village,' is truly understood and applied at Northpoint," said Wirth. "Our student population is a snapshot of the world's diversity and culture. We celebrate these unique differences and teach our students to value and respect all. Our success is tied to the strong partnership formed between students, teachers, and parents. Northpoint embodies this 'Triangle of Success,' Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation's formula for student achievement."
"Today's award is an affirmation for Northpoint and P-H-M School Corporation that our formula for success works," said Penn Harris Madison School Corporation Superintendent Dr. Jerry Thacker. "The students are the focus of our Triangle. Their success is possible because they are encouraged and taught by excellent teachers and supported by their parents and families."
Recognized as an Exemplary High Performing Blue Ribbon School, Northpoint teachers consistently instill a can-do attitude in students. Using formative assessments, teachers are able to pinpoint the needs of each child. Teaching is data-driven and infused with high expectations. Northpoint boasts a well-rounded education where the arts and music programs enrich the students' experiences.
Nine National Blue Ribbons have been awarded to P-H-M Schools. The tally includes Penn High School in 1994, 1995 and 2001; Discovery Middle School in 2006 and 2013; Prairie Vista in 1996 and 2015; and Northpoint Elementary School in 2010 and 2016.
The Department of Education will honor 279 public and 50 private schools at a recognition ceremony at in Washington, DC to be held on Monday and Tuesday, November 7 and 8, 2016. In its 34-year history, the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program has bestowed this coveted award on more than 7,500 of America's schools.
The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools where students either achieve very high learning standards or are making notable improvements in closing the achievement gap. The award affirms the hard work of students, educators, families and communities in creating safe and welcoming schools where students master challenging content.
All schools are recognized in one of two performance categories, based on all student scores, subgroup student scores and graduation rates:
Exemplary High Performing Schools are among their state's highest performing schools as measured by state assessments or nationally normed tests. Student subgroup performance and high school graduation rates are also at the highest levels.
Exemplary Achievement Gap Closing Schools are among their state's highest performing schools in closing achievement gaps between a school's subgroups and all students over the past five years. Student subgroup performance and high school graduation rates for each subgroup are at high levels.
The Department invites National Blue Ribbon School nominations from the top education official in all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and the Bureau of Indian Education. The Council for American Private Education (CAPE) nominates private schools. A total of 420 schools nationwide may be nominated each year.
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Klamath County — at or near 10% unemployment for over six years straight. Many are homeless. Many are on State or Federal subside programs while at the same time almost everyone employed by a government agency has not felt one drop of the economic tragedy since the housing collapse of 2008.
So the leftists go to work. They are going to bring economic prosperity through more programs, better public school buildings (not education), more parks and improved public safety. But that is not how the real world works. Improving those items are nice, and may earn one accolades by fellow citizens because it all sounds so wonderful and noble. However, that is not how to build a local economy.
On Monday we lost a great, conservative county commissioner and replaced him with a moderate politician. Kelly Minty-Morris was sworn into office on Monday as the next Klamath County Commissioner. Even though the Commissioner seats are now non-partisan, as a Republican Minty-Morris joins two other Republicans in office: Jim Bellet and Tom Mallams.
We see this change from Linthicum to Minty-Morris as an unfortunate setback for conservative values in government. Linthicum continually opposed ballot measures that restricted the people's liberty and/or raised taxes (which if you think for a moment are one in the same). He fought hard to make government do with less, so that the people could do more. However, the three commissioners now in office (for the next two years) may claim they hold these same principles, but in practice it is far less certain.
Tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives will face the most important vote they will encounter for the next two years. On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 the House will vote for their next Speaker. The reason this is the most important vote cast by each Representative is because of the enormous power the Speaker has on how the U.S. House of Representatives is governed. If you get on the Speaker's naughty list, chances are you will not get a good committee assignment, your bills will never make it out of committee and do not expect any funding to come your way for re-election.
The Speaker's position is also very important from a PR perspective. Not only does this office wield the gavel when it comes to legislation, this is the office that the DC Press look to when there is a divided government in order to find a contrary opinion to the President's. It is therefore crucial to have someone in power who can clearly articulate the conservative point of view and why it is best for the country.
Here we stand. The U.S. Constitution has been trampled on by our President, issuing yet another executive order making law — without Congress — that those who had broken the lass of our land and entered the country illegally were now welcomed guests — with no doubt an invitation coming shortly to become citizens.
How are we going to stop President Obama from doing further damage via his fiat pen?
Who is going to undo this damage when President Obama is out of office?
The first question is, will our Republican led congress do anything of substance to stop Obama? This means more than using Obama's actions for a GOP fundraisers or for raising the hackles on the back of our necks so we support the GOP. No, Obama took action. Now it is our turn. But will the GOP do likewise — take real action — to stop this and future unconstitutional acts? Congress controls the purse, so there is an wide swath of pressure they can place upon the White House — but will they take real action or will they just talk? Watch your congressman, watch your senators and watch the upcoming candidates for the 2016 GOP nomination. Talk is cheap. Real, substantiative action is what we need.
It has been interesting to watch the latest round of "we need more money for the children" telethon. Of course I'm talking about the advocates for Bond Measure 18-99. If passed, the Klamath Falls School District (KFSD) will get a loan of $36,000,000 that the tax-payers in the district will be on the hook for the next 20 years. The economic impact is that over $2 million each year will be transferred from the citizens of Klamath Falls to the special interest consortium of banking, construction and real estate.
The Yes crowd's claim is that this bond measure will benefit the children. It is a pure emotional plea. There is no real thinking behind it. In the final analysis it is some personal feeling that drives the Yes vote. In reality this bond measure does nothing for the children except to make their parents poorer while doing nothing to fix the real problem in Klamath County — education.
Public teachers often get a pass. They get to claim their main reason for being a public school teacher is that they care about the kids and that they love teaching. While they may complain about the work at times, how difficult students can be, if we dare challenge this core motive — caring for children — we are instantly made out to be demons with horns and pitch fork.
However, it is my belief that for most public school teachers this is a smoke screen, that caring for students and their education is not their core motive. So how do I prove to you my hypothesis, that most public school teachers really care more about something else than their students and their education? It can be done with two simple questions.
Yes, I'm serious with that question: Are Conservatives Smart? I don't mean in an IQ kind of way, but more in a street-smart, politically-savvy kind of way. The more I travel conservative circles and hear responses from those who claim to be conservative, the more I am inclined to think we conservatives are not politically smart.
One such item that bothers my colleague, G.W. Washington, and myself is the inability of conservatives to see the long-view on the political landscape. Conservatives are mostly about the next election. Rarely, if ever, have I been in the presence of conservatives and learn about their 20-, 10- or even 5-year plan. Why? Because most conservatives do not think that far ahead. Conservatives are easily angered by liberals and progressive policies, vowing to do all they can to get rid of the bums in Washington, Salem or Klamath Falls. However, if doing so requires building a strategic 10-year plan, all bets are off. Conservatives can not seem to seem to see beyond hill just in front of them.
This is why conservatives play defense so much of the time. We seem to be always voting "No" to liberal agendas. Very rarely are conservatives putting ballot initiatives together in order to move their agenda forward. Where is the ballot measure to make County Commissioners partisan again? Where is the ballot initiative to require 50% of voters to approve any sort of new tax or levy? Where are the ballot initiatives to lower property taxes? Where are they? Of course every now and then there are exceptions. But you will see this play out if you look at your November ballot. Notice that there is not one conservative agenda on the ballot — all of the ideas and ballot measures are progressive ones.
Problem: Your general ballot for congressman, governor, senator, state representative, county commissioner or city council person does NOT contain a conservative candidate. The general election is between a moderate Republican and a Democrat (who is liberal — that pretty much goes without saying). The common retort is to "vote as conservative as you can". In other words, hold your nose and vote for the Republican, because it will be better than having a Democrat in office — or so the thinking goes.
This has been the conventional wisdom for about 50 years. Let me ask, how's this advice working out? Do moderate Republicans deliver on conservative agendas? Are we moving in a more conservative direction as a country and as a community?
This advice, while helping ease our conscious, does little to help to move any conservative agenda forward, and actually does much harm. Why? Because moderate Republicans are not in the business of upsetting the status quo. Moderate Republicans find their home in better managing the current systems put in place by liberal Democrats. Think about it. Where is the outcry from the National Republican party over Obamacare? At first opposition and repeal language was loud and large, but recently have you heard anything? If asked, the GOP will say they can't do anything until the have control of the Senate. But stop and think, is this the overarching theme from the Republican party for their Senate candidates? Do you think once in control of the Senate the GOP will repeal Obamacare? Or do you think the GOP will instead try to make Obamacare better and more manageable? Will they work with the President on some sort of compromise to get something done? If you guessed the second answer, you're getting it. Moderate candidates and legislators are all about being liked and getting along. That's how they get re-elected — which is their #1 goal that supersedes all other policy matters. Fighting to tear down a bureaucracy is not in their nature and therefore they won't take a stand unless there is complete political cover for such an action. Why? Because tearing down a government program means people benefiting from the program become upset. When people get upset they make a lot of noise and demonize the person taking away their freebie. Moderates melt in such conditions like an ice cube on the equator. Therefore moderates avoid any such activity of undoing government programs and bureaucracies put in motion by Democrats.
Is Walden one of us?
Senior Center Expansion for only $0.12/$1,000 — to expand the senior center program to have satillite locations throughout the county, not just in Klamath Falls.
Economic Development Upgrade for only $0.58/$1,000 — to better fund and expand KCEDA, the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, and SCCOED.
Like he said, his list is nearly endless (and yes, he has many, many more ideas). If you think all of these ideas, including the four he wrote about previous (County Coffee Shops, County Library, County Museum, County Daycare Centers, County Airport), are wonderful then you also think adding $4.44/$1,000 to existing taxes is also a fine idea. Of course no one would ever propose a $4.44 levy in Klamath. That would never pass. So the trick is to offer one, maybe two at a time and over time the public is gullible enough to pass them, especially if it makes the community better or helps the poor and the children.


The Western Lakes have still been fishing well for some good size trout, with anglers from the shoreline and boats both doing well. The average size trout coming out of Lakes Tooliorook and Toolondo has been around 3lb, with 3 - 6 fish per session average for most anglers which makes the fishing well worth the drive.
Customers Paul and Filip fished out at Tooliorook with Trevor from Victorian Inland Fishing Charters recently where they did well on some cracking brown trout to 2kg, all taken slowly trolling white tassie devils around the lake margins.
How is this for a trout! This massive brown trout was caught by angler Andrew downrigging in Lake Purrumbete. The Western lakes are still producing some quality fish as these photos show, with Purrumbete, Bullen Merri, Tooliorook and Fyans producing fish on both bait and lures. Customer Andrew caught this nice brown from Lake Fyans over the weekend trolling lures around the weed edges in the lake.
The Western Victorian lakes are still red hot for some thumping trout at the moment. The most productive lakes have been Tooliorook and Purrumbete but Bullen Merri and Toolondo have also been good as well. Scott Gray has been fishing a few of the lakes over the past week and he has found the fishing excellent.
Trout to 3kg have been pretty much around average, with a few better fish coming out as well. Most anglers have been flatlining lures such as tassies and shallow running hardbodies to catch a few, however anglers working the weed and timber edges casting both lures and flies have been a bit more successful due to the stealth factor. Small mudeye imitating soft plastics have caught their share of fish along with lures such as Rapala flat raps and xraps.
Victoria's Western lakes are still fishing well for trout and the odd redfin at the minute. Most of the action is coming from anglers trolling and casting lures like tassie devils and shallow running hardbodies fitted with weedless hooks. Running weedless hooks on most lures for this style of fishing means that the lures can be run as close to grass and weed as possible without fouling up. Most of the trout and redfin will hang close by to the weed and dash out to attack prey.
Customer Paul fished Lake Tooliorook recently where he has been catching plenty of trout averaging around the 2.5kg mark. Paul's best so far has been a 4.3kg beauty that took a trolled lumo white tassie. Trolling early in the day has been the best, and then once the sun comes up casting the same lures has been a good method.
If you're a keen freshwater fisho, and want to tangle with some good Redfin and Trout now is the time to get across to Western Victoria. Lake Tooliorook is just out of Colac and is producing some lovely fish.
Customer Brian from the Bendigo Angling Club went across and fished the lake to land both Trout and Redfin. The Trout were mainly caught on flatlined Tassies while most Redfin were caught on Maria and Strike Pro vibes around the northern side of the lake.


Footersville Timber is a third generation, family owned, timber merchant started by Lawrence Footer in 1956, expanded by Graeme Footer from 1965, and further developed by Mark Footer from 1990.
Roof trusses were introduced into the business in 1990 and over the past two decades have developed into the core business of the company.
More prefabricated products have been added to the stable of products the company offers to its customers, including floor trusses and wall frames.
We still offer a range of loose products to customers, therefore offering a complete first fix service. Footersville has been a leader in the industry in many ways, with the latest computer driven plant, safety standards and value adding services.
Recently added is an estimating service to complement the prefab division of the company which provides a complete service to customers, from council application through to first fix construction. Footersville operates primarily from a 4.29 Ha site at Regency Park but also operates a satellite depot at Port Augusta which services the mid north of the state.
The business mainly supplies the domestic and commercial building market through established builders and owner-builders, with a small trade for the home handyman. Footersville was recently recognised at the TABMA (Timber and Building Materials Association) national awards night as the best Frame and Truss Operator 2011.
We are honoured to be recognised in this category at a national level and were exceptionally pleased with comments from the TABMA executives that we have a smart and smooth operation. We have invested a lot of resources developing processes to ensure our plant is operating as efficiently as possible. We operate our plant utilising the Mitek engineering system and acknowledge their support in our operations.
Footersville uses the ProStix software to run the operations of the business, using automations wherever possible, from quote and order imports and manufacturing component imports to production and transport scheduling, invoice blasting and purchase order send.
Footersville have been keen to try out the third party add on programs to ProStix, currently utilising Financial Reporting, Query and Dashboards to report KPIs ensuring management and supervisors are kept up to date with production flows and performances against budgets.


San Manuel, AZ - Business details, reviews, maps, weather, and local info.
Provides information provided by the FAA. Gives the location, the operations, communications, the services, runway details, operational statistics, and ownership and management details.
Presents photos, maps, and a profile of the community. Covers the climate, housing, household income, industries, and occupations.
Home of the Bulldogs. Covers registration, lunch menus, the school mission, news, and offers a calendar, and a message from the principal.
The district, which consists of approximately 1,250 students in four schools, presents information about the district as well as each of the schools within it, staff information, and helpful links.
Information in PDF format prepared by the Arizona Department of Commerce. Includes population, economic and tourism information.
Home of the Miners. Find a message from the principal, events, athletics, lunch menus, immunization details, registration, the location, and contact information.


In the early to middle 20th century, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) created a series of photographs of clouds, called "equivalents" (1925–1931). According to an essay on the series at the Phillips Collection website, "A symbolist aesthetic underlies these images, which became increasingly abstract equivalents of his own experiences, thoughts, and emotions". More recently, photographers such as Ralph Steiner, Robert Davies and Tzeli Hadjidimitriou (see catalogues listed below) have been noted for producing such images.


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Blueprints (reprographic copies) (40)
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Inventors (41)
World War, 1939-1945 (41)
Art historians (40)
Art museums (39)
Warshaw, Isadore (40)
Cummings, Paul (32)
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI (31)
Brown, Robert F. (30)
Ellington, Duke (29)
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI. (22)
Cooper-Hewitt Design Archive (19)
De Kooning, Willem (12)
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI (12)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (12)
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. (11)
Martínez, Juan A. (11)
Duchamp, Marcel (10)
Hartley, Marsden (10)
Picasso, Pablo (10)
Smithsonian Folklife Festival (10)
Stieglitz, Alfred (10)
United States. Army (10)
Albers, Josef (9)
Americans (128)
Hispanic Americans (22)
Latino Americans (22)
Cuban Americans (11)
Asian Americans (9)
Japanese Americans (8)
Mexican Americans (5)
Chinese Americans (4)
Catholics (3)
Cubans (3)
Europeans (3)
Teton Indians (3)
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New York (N.Y.) (16)
Anacostia (Washington, D.C.) (4)
Panama Canal (Panama) (4)
Baltimore (Md.) (3)
Smithsonian Institution Archives (99)
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections (16)
Anacostia Community Museum Archives (11)
Smithsonian Libraries (11)
Query: United States -- History -- 20th century
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Coughlin, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1891-1979
1919-2015, undated
9 Cubic feet (27 boxes, 1 map-folder)
This refence collection was assembled to assist in writing a biography of the Reverend Mr. Charles E. Coughlin. The collection contains books, booklets, published sermons, published lectures, pamphlets and other printed materials. Of these, 57 were written by Coughlin. The remainder of the materials relate to him directly or have chapters or passa...
Chuck Mangione Collection
Mangione, Chuck, 1940-
6 Cubic feet (12 boxes, 10 oversize folders)
Archival materials documenting the career of musician Chuck Mangione.
Tom Whaley Collection
Whaley, Thomas L.
Papers documenting Whaley's association with Duke Ellington and his career as a copyist, pianist, composer and arranger. The collection includes letters, photographs, music manuscripts, business records, writings, and printed materials including magazine and newspapers articles, concert programs, and catalogs.
Oral history interview with Reuben Kadish
Kadish, Reuben, 1913-1992
Polcari, Stephen
1992 Apr. 15
1 Sound cassette (Sound recording)
40 Pages (Transcript)
AAA.kadish92
An interview of Reuben Kadish conducted 1992 Apr. 15, by Stephen Polcari, for the Archives of American Art. Kadish discusses designing murals for the WPA in the 1930s; working as an artist in the South Pacific for the U.S. Army during World War II; the N.Y. art scene in the 1940s; and his views on government support of the arts and on art censorshi...
Horn and Hardart Records
Hardart, Paul
Hardart, Tom
Horn and Hardart.
The collection documents the Horn and Hardart chain of restaurants and retail stores.
Ladislaus Laszlo Marton Collection
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Marton, Ladislaus Laszlo, 1901-1979 (physicist)
4.66 Cubic feet (15 boxes, one (1) 16 mm film)
This collection consists of materials documenting the history of electron optics, especially electron microscopes. Included are engineering drawings of Marton's devices, designed in Belgium, Stanford and RCA in the 1930s and 1940s; notebooks concerning extensive investigations in electron microscopy; photographs and micrographs concerning developm...
Anthony W. Pendergast Collection
Pendergast, Anthony W., 1879-
Music, Sports and Entertainment, Division of, NMAH, SI
1920s-1970.
A Fairbury, Illinois, optometrist, Dr. Anthony W. Pendergast, (1879 -?) was a collector, author, antiquarian, dealer, and authority on the subject of cigar store figures. The collection includes correspondence; newspaper clippings on Pendergast and his various folk art collections; a scrapbook of photographs and miscellaneous materials relating to cigar store figures; and a large number of black and white photographs of figures from his personal collection, mostly for use in selling the figures.
Madison Cooper Papers
Cooper, Madison, 1868-1946
Madison Cooper Company (Watertown, N.Y.)
0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
Madison Cooper was an inventor and manufacturer of refrigerating systems in the early twentieth century. Cooper received several patents for his refrigeration inventions, including several refrigerating apparatuses, an air-circulating system, a process for preventing the formation of frost on refrigerating surfaces and a refrigeration train car. The collection spans 1900-1963 and includes his United States and foreign patents, his publications related to refrigeration, and a few documents and photographs related to Cooper and the Madison Cooper Company.
Lucinda Rudell Covered Bridge Collection
Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Moyer, Frances
Rudell, Lucinda
0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
The collection documents Mrs. Rudell's research on covered bridges, mostly in the United States, but also including some in Europe and Canada.
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Women
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
1.45 Cubic feet (consisting of 3 boxes, 2 folders, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material.)
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Women
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana


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Q: How to stop a Windows Service programmatically? I'm writing a simple Windows Service that sends out emails to all employees every month. My question is, how to stop itself when it's done? I'm a noobie in this field so please help me out. Really appreciated.
It will be deployed on the server to be run monthly. I did not start this thing and the code was given to me like that. It is written in VB.NET and I'm asked now to change a few things around it. I noticed that there is only 'Sub OnStart' and wondered when the service would stop? After the main sub is done, what it the status of this service? Is it stopped or just hung in there? Sorry, as I said, I am really new to this....

A: If you have a task that recurs monthly you may be better off writing a console app, and then using Windows Task Scheduler to set it to run monthly.  A service should be used for processes that need to run for a long time or constantly, with or without a user logged on

A: As every other answer has noted, it sounds like this should be an executable or script that you run as a scheduled task.
However, if you are obligated for some reason to run as a Windows Service and you're working in .NET, you just have to call the Stop() method inherited from ServiceBase once your service completes its work. From the MSDN documentation for the method:

The Stop method sets the service state
  to indicate a stop is pending and
  calls the OnStop method. After the
  application is stopped, the service
  state is set to stopped. If the
  application is a hosted service, the
  application domain is unloaded.

There's one important caveat here: the user account under which the service is running must have permission to stop services (which is a topic for ServerFault).
Once a service's OnStart method completes, it will continue running (doing nothing) until something tells it to stop in one of the following ways:

*

*Programatically, by calling Stop
within the service itself or from an
external process using the method
Colin Gravill describes in his
answer.

*Via the command-line.

*Through the windows Computer Management console's "Services" panel.

A: If this is a Win32 service (i.e. written in C or C++), then you simply call SetServiceStatus(SERVICE_STOPPED) and return from ServiceMain.
On the other hand, if you're just sending emails once a month, why are you using a service at all? Use the Windows Task Scheduler and run a normal application or script.

A: It might be better to write this as a scheduled task, it would certainly be easier to develop initially. Then it would naturally terminate and wouldn't be consuming resources for the rest of the month.
To answer the original question, you can get a list of the current running services in C#
services = System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.GetServices();

Then look for the one you want and set the status to stopped
locatedService.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped

Full example on msdn

A: net stop [service_name] ...on the command line will do it too.
But, I agree with everyone else; it seems that Windows Task Scheduler will meet your needs better.

A: Is there a reason it has to be a Windows service?  If not, then follow @Macros solution.  However, if it does, then why stop the service?  If you stop it, then it'll just have to be restarted when the emails need to be sent.  Based on your description, it doesn't sound like it would require a lot of resources, so I'd suggest just installing it and letting it run, firing up once a month to send the emails.

A: here's what i did in a similar situation.
windows service runs 24/7 and processes work units. it gets work units through a database view.
table Message
         ProcessingStartTime
         CompletionDTE
         ...

the database view only pulls records marked not-complete and have a ProcessingStartTime in the past. So after the service confirms the transaction it executes a stored procedure that updates the database record. For this system, end-user upload excel files to asp.net webfrom that imports them into the database.


The appearance of life has always fascinated mankind.
would have started with great admiration and destroyed with equal force life.
Biodiversity is what makes our Earth a unique planet in every sense.
The same species are a mystery, like the existence of life.
amazingly adopted to dominate the evolutionary line.
the new ideas about biodiversity.
the doors to the understanding of biodiversity.
Diversity makes the Earth alive and life makes the Earth diverse.
What's in a name wrote Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet?
how to recognize this smell to prevent the vanishing the wind.


A birthday is a special occasion which involves throwing up a party in which all the friends and family members participate to celebrate and enjoy. But in case if you are not able to come to the birthday party of your loved one, friend or family member you always have the option of sending a Funny Birthday sms. These Funny Birthday SMS will sure cheer the person on the other end.
who have the most live the longest.
A Birthday is A Million Moments, Each holding A Promise Of Fulfillment Of Your Dreams and Accomplishments of Sum Special Plans.. Wishing U A Very Happy Birthday.