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2022; The year of kingpin commodity stocks. Four stocks to watch and why
Jessica Amir
Market Strategist
Summary: Markets have shifted, favouring what's more important to economic growth i.e. commodities, are pivoting out of what will come under further duress as rates rise (tech). Kingpin commodities are in vogue and we see higher prices this year, and record results are ahead in oil, lithium, copper, as well as gold, and silver. We cover four commodity stocks to look at and why.
In our Quarterly Outlook last year, we sounded the alarm; higher commodity prices were ahead for; oil, coal, lithium, copper, grains, (wheat), and meat. Then the Ukraine war struck, adding to ailing supply concerns, causing de-globalization, pushing commodity prices to fresh records. This also revved up the push to be more carbon neutral, ushering in more 'green-inflation', .i.e. higher prices in green metals (from rising demand and inelastic supply). Playing devil's advocate, even if the war in Ukraine ended tomorrow, we think a community super cycle is still near, which will fuel even higher prices, creating more profits for investors, at a time when commodity companies are already boasting the highest cash flows (and free cash flows) in the market.
So what is also behind the forthcoming commodity super cycle?
Rising demand for; infrastructure (roads/rail, dams, housing, buildings, China building an undersea tunnel that's twice the length of the tunnel between England and France, China building 5G stations/data centres etch), demand for food, heating/cooling, the push to carbon neutrality, and investors are also demanding 'real' assets. So demand is hot, while commodity supply is anaemic; from weather constraints (hotter summers/ colder winters), regulation issues (from ethical/ESG constraints) preventing banks and companies from lending to miners/ drillers, to community protests halting mines from operating (i.e. Rio's Serbian mine).
How is this affecting performance?
Commodities are having their best year since 2000. The Bloomberg Commodity Index, tracking 23 commodity futures prices (from energy, to materials, and agriculture) is now in record high territory, after rising 53% this year, and will likely hit higher levels in 2022 for reasons above. The technical indicator also support this too.
Source: Saxo, Trading view
At a stock level, commodity stocks have become the best performers, in the US and Australia this year. Oil and gas, and crop nutrient companies are strongly outperforming markets. Oil companies like Occidental Petroleum (OXY) trade 104% higher this year, Halliburton (HAL) is up 60%. While Fertiliser companies like Mosaic (MOS) have gained 73%, CF Industries (CFF) is up 43%; all sharply outperforming the US benchmark S&P500 which is underwater, down 12% year to date.
Five other catalysts to invest in commodities?
Consideration 1 - wage inflation and supply issues - Some of the largest companies in the world, Amazon, Tesla, IBM, BHP, Rio etc are flagging wage inflation and supply issues will linger throughout this year. Some companies like Tesla and IBM, will be passing costs onto consumers, while also experience slimmer margins. IBM and many other companies have stated this.
Consideration 2 – overall earnings is slowing, but not in commodities - US quarterly earnings results showed earnings stalled in the first quarter 2022, with earnings growth coming in about 70% below the historical average amid wage inflation and supply chain issues. Overall earnings growth in Q1 is just 2.6% (out of the 275 S&P500 companies who reported results so far), and this is below the 10% average for earnings growth. The strongest earnings growth has come from the Energy sector with 245% average earnings growth in Q1, and the Materials (mining) sector with 37% earnings growth.
Consideration 3- higher interest rates to come -The Fed alluded to doing what it can to 'fight inflation' last year (November 2021). Since, then inflation surged to 40 year high (8.5% year on year in March). Inflation surpassed the Fed's forecasts, and inflation is set to continue, and thus The Fed will hike rates aggressive to combat this. This week the Fed is expected to make a 0.5% rate hike (its biggest hike since 2000). The Taylor rule, the Fed's model to forecast interest rates, suggests rates should be 9%, not 2.6%, where consensus forecast rates to be at year-end.
Consideration 4- The market favours quality companies- Companies, specifically commodity companies, with strong balance sheets, scale, and strong free cash flows have been favoured this year, and this trend will likely continue as these organisations can sustain rising inflation and rising interest (click here for commodities stock inspiration). The market is already telling us this; favouring those who will likely do well over the next 6, 9, 12 months (commodities)
Consideration 5- G-7 countries to shrink their balances sheets by $410 billion in 2022. Yet Commodity companies have enough cash flows for buy backs. Many commodities companies have ample free cash flows, and are likely to announce buy backs. On top of that, many companies have solid valuations in comparison to their earnings. Even if the war is Ukraine is over tomorrow, cash flows, and free-cashflows, in commodities companies are still aggressively rising, not only due to due to US President Biden's infrastructure stimulus, but also China's stimulus. Rising cashflows, and earnings are said to be the key to share price growth, especially in this new market of record inflation and rising rates.
Potential sectors and stocks to watch?
Global lithium prices are likely to set new records this year. The Lithium Price Index (a measure of the lithium prices) is at its highest level in history, supporting lithium stocks share price growth. We believe the lithium price is likely to set higher prices this year, given the supply deficit, and rising demand from electric vehicle companies who are phasing out internal combustion engines (ICE or IC engines). Morgan Stanley is also of the same view too. Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley is bearish on the lithium price in 2023, seeing a return to surplus lithium next week. We think the lithium price could set higher levels not just this year, but over the longer term given the lack of supply, and higher the International Energy Agency (IEA) wants to ban fuel consumption engine sales by 2050.
Stock to watch? Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (SQM)
SQM is one of the world's leading lithium companies, while diversified in plant fertilizers too. 41% of its profit is from lithium. While it produces fertilizers and plant nutrients including potassium, and as well as other agricultural sector products where 57% of profits are from. Both lithium and fertilizers are growth markets. The lithium carbonate price is tipped to grow at 17% CAGR till 2026. Fertilizers are also tipped to see strong CAGR's for the world to grow crops, and also sustain higher growth rates due to the behavioral shift toward eating vegan/vegetarian product. For more on fertilizers, click here.
Key Metrics: SQM is listed in US. Market cap is $21 billion. P/E is 11.78 times earnings. Current yield is 0.5%.
Outlook? SQM is likely to hit higher levels this year, supported by expectations for the lithium price to double, and for fertilizer/agricultural nutrient prices to continue to rise amid rising demand and limited supply (Russia has a ban on phosphorus and potash and China has limited exports of phosphate). The market (known as consensus) expects SQM's revenue and gross profits will hit a record this year as a result. Revenue growth of 111% is expected, profit growth of 50% is expected, and earnings (EBITDA) growth of 51% is expected.
The technical indicators: Are bullish, on a weekly and monthly level, suggesting SQM's share price could set new highs to the delight on long term shareholders and new investors.
Key risks: Supply chain issues and higher wages could be a headwind for the short term.
Copper is not only needed in housing construction, but also in essential in the green transformation (for its used in electric cars). We think copper is the sleeping beauty commodity and will likely set higher prices in 2022, as restrictions ease in China and as global demand picks up, in this tight market.
Did you know the average electric vehicle needs;
83 kilograms of Copper
10 kilograms of lithium
45 kilograms of nickel
20 kilograms of manganese
14 kilograms of cobalt
70 kilograms of Graphite
250 kilograms of Aluminium
That's a lot of industrials metals. BHP is an example of a company that makes revenue from many of these key elements, and more.
Stock to watch? BHP.
BHP, the world's largest miner, can't be ignored. The diversified business makes 58.1% from iron ore and the steel ingredient (iron ore) is in a continued long-term bullish rebound from its low, supported by expectations China will increase iron ore buying (to execute its infrastructure project boost so that China can achieve its 5.5% GPD target). 26.5% of BHP's revenue is from Copper - and we think Copper is due for a run up, ahead of China's lockdowns ending (the technical indicators also support this too). Plus don't forget BHP also makes 8.7% of revenue from Coal and 6.7% from petroleum, (both are in uptrends) but these businesses are being sold off with so BHP can focus on being a greener companies. The funds from the sales of BHP's coal and petrol assets will likely be returned to shareholder, via share buy backs - which again, supports share price growth. And lastly, BHP keep also makes money from industrial metals, essential to electric vehicles, nickel, alumimum, and manganese (yet BHP has not broken down how much it earns from these).
BHP's Key Metrics: BHP is listed on the ASX, and in US. In Australia its market cap is A$256.7 billion. It's the world's biggest mining company and Australia's largest company stock. P/E is 7.8 times earnings. BHP's dividend yield is 13.5%.
Outlook?
BHP (BHP), and its peers Rio (RIO), and Vale (VALE) the world's biggest mining companies, reported quarterly iron ore shipments fell amid COVID staff shortages and outages. BHP also flagged supply chain issues but we still see upside in BHP and it maintained full-year guidance. While Rio (RIO) said the current inflation environment was unlike anything the global economy had witnessed in almost half a century. On a like for like basis, Vale's full year revenue growth is expected to slow, along with its profits growth, while BHP's revenue and profit growth is expected to rise this year; consensus is for 64% gross profit growth in 2022, 11% revenue growth, with headline revenue and earnings (EBITDA) to hit record highs. Meanwhile, the market thinks Rio's revenue will slide in 2022. Bernstein, Barrenjoey, Macquarie, BMO and Shaw and Partnerss have BHP as a BUY, and only AlphaValue has BHP as Sell.
Saxo has a good relationship with BHP executives who tell us they have a very strong relationships with China, where 65.3% of revenue from. 7.6% of revenue comes from Japan, which is their second biggest consumer.
The technical indicators: As below, BHP is likely to continue its long term rebound, supported by the fundamentals drive.
Key risks: The risk to BHP is if inflation and supply chain issues continue longer than expect, it might mean; BHP's revenue and profit growth could be flat and BHP might not be able to pay another record dividend. We also don't see geopolitical tension with China affecting BHP over the longer term, as we don't believe the US, or Australia would want to jeopardize a large source of employment and a big contributor to GPD.
The gold price is up about 4% this year, which offsets the pull back in broad US stocks (The S&P500). Gold, makes a good addition to a portfolio to offset pullbacks in equities. Gold is likely to set higher levels, as yields rise. Historically we know gold has outperformed equities, every time the US fed rose interest rates (with a cycle of hikes). As our head of commodity strategy pointed out, from December last year, the gold price has mirrored the price rise of oil. This strength tells us about the level of risk in the system. In our recently published Quarterly Outlook we also highlight the reasons why we see gold moving higher and reaching a fresh record high later this year.
Stock to watch? Barrick Gold (GOLD)
Barrick Gold, is an international gold company; with projects in US, Canada, South America, Australia and Africa is arguably one of the most loved by analysts, yet little known gold stocks by retail investors. While many bullion producers stocks are on the nose, Barrick has performed better than most.
Key Metrics: Barrick is listed in US. Market cap is $40 billion. P/E is 19 times earnings. Current yield is 1.8%.
Outlook? Barrick Gold had fared better than its peers amid tight labour markets and higher freight and energy costs, however its recent quarterly results missed expectation as the gold producer copped the pinch from inflation. Barrick sees quarterly costs rising 19-21%. So that contributed to Barrick's shares pulling back from recent highs. While Q2 is expected to be lackluster, the biggest picture is brighter with Q3 to see a recovery in all margins with the market expecting logistics and wages pressures to subside. Barrick has strong free cash flows that are expected to rise over the next two years. Barrick is a BUY stock for 75% of investment analysts that cover it. On a yearly basis, given gold's likely push up and likely continued rise, Barrick's revenue, earnings and gross profit metrics look set to shine in the full year. The market sees stronger profit growth in 2022 and 2023 from a recovery in revenue growth, of just 2.2% and 2% the year after. If Barrick can pull it off, following the fall in revenue growth in 2021, Barrick will likely continue to lead other bullion producers. The market expects profit growth of 49% in 2022 and earnings, and net income growth to rise in the full year, which also supports share price growth.
The technical indicators: On a monthly basis, given the growth trajectory for Gold, Barrick's shares are likely to continue their long-term uptrend from September last year. However Barrick's shares are susceptible for a short term pull back following their weaker than expected results.
Key risks: The major risk is that cost pressure don't subside. The miner has a longer labour force, so may have to eat into free cash flows if energy and other input costs and wages pressure don't subside in Q3.
We see the oil price hitting new levels and possibly resting its all-time high later this year, given the continued disruptions from Russia, but also as we haven't even seen covid19 restrictions ease in China. So Global oil will set higher levels since global mobility and travel resumes.
Stock to watch? Halliburton (HAL).
Halliburton is one of the best performers in the US stock market this year (HAL) is up 600%, and the street is very bullish on HAL for the year ahead. Halliburton is the biggest energy contractor (an engineering, construction and a manufacturer/seller of products in the energy sector). The company makes most of its money from America (41.7%), 25% from the Middle East, 17.8% from Europe/Africa, and 15.4% from Latin America. Halliburton was also the first major oilfield-service contractor to halt all work in Russia in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine, so the company booked a $22 million write off from that as a result. But that has not put a dent in its outlook. The company's entire fracking fleet is spoken for (sold out) and demand for drilling is expected to balloon. Halliburton expects oil drilling budgets to grow 35%, as oil companies are tipped to look for more oil, in riskier, costlier and deeper more time consuming areas than traditionally projects like Deepwater wells.
HAL Key Metrics: HAL is listed in US. Market cap is $33 billion. P/E is 19.5 times earnings. Current dividend yield is 1.3%.
Outlook? HAL is trading at its highest level since 2018, and is likely to hit higher levels this year, supported by its expected revenue, earnings and profit growth. The market expects profits to return to 2018 levels, and record free cash flows next year. Consensus expects revenue growth of 25% in 2022, gross profits are tipped to growth 16%, earnings (EBITDA) growth of 19%. 74% of investment analysts that cover HAL, love it. Following HAL's recently quarterly results, which beat expectations, the stock was upgraded by Citi, and Bank of America. Susquehanna and Goldman Sachs, see 100% share price growth in a year, along with Griffin Securities, and Cowen. Morgan Stanley is less bullish, seeing 56% upside share price growth in a year to $45.
The technical indicators: Are bullish, on a weekly and monthly level, suggesting HAL's share price could set new highs to the delight on long term shareholders and new investors.
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Mens Walk 2012
by Barry February 27, 2012
written by Barry
Midday on Saturday saw me turning up to Kingsholm ready to take part in this years Mens Walk, and we could not have asked for a better day. A 5 mile walk around the city, followed by a Pie, Pint and 2 games of Rugby, especially with such a great home game performance from Gloucester, what more could you want. (Well, for England to have won against Wales, but the less said about that, the better).
This is the second year of the Mens Walk and also my second time too. I went with Rich and his son Louis, the same team as last year, and we got ourselves registered and were hugely impressed by the number of other blokes who had turned out. We were starter by Peter Buxton, and trooped off out the players tunnel, round the pitch and out into Gloucester. The weather was fantastic and a great sense of camaraderie amongst the walkers made this a fun trip.
After the walk, which took in Eastern Avenue (with a quick pit stop at McDonalds), down Metz Way, Trier Way, up Southgate Street, across the Docks, through the Cathedral Grounds and back to Kingsholm, we settled down with the Pie and a pint to let the feet rest a bit before the 6 Nations Game started. We went outside to watch this ont he big screens. This was followed by the Gloucester Vs Harlequins game, which was very good indeed.
After that, Amanda came to pick us up and its fair to say I did sleep rather well on Saturday night.
Thanks to all those who Sponsored me, I really appreciate it and here is looking forward to next year already.
Gloucester 29-23 Harlequins | Aviva Premiership match report (guardian.co.uk)
Leaders beaten at Gloucester (skysports.com)
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County Council Library Scrutiny Farce
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The Gloucester Libraries debacle has been "Called in" by the Liberal Democrats to the scrutiny Committee, and thus an extraordinary scrutiny meeting was called tonight to hear the arguments. I attended in the public gallery, and what resulted can be described as nothing better than a whipped farce.
In essence, there was a number of elements that had been called into question, from how much legal scrutiny there was, to just how much consideration into the impact of communities there had been. All the motions were voted on, and almost invariably the Vote was 7-4, with one or two abstention along the way.
There were a number of elements that made this a farce, firstly the County Council is a Tory council. The Scrutiny Chair is a Tory. The majority of the Committee is Tory. So where is the scrutiny? What is worse, it seemed to be whipped, under the beady eye of the Council Leader, Mark Hawthorne, who wasted no time in trying to set his authority on the Chair.
But, in dealing with this particular issue, a number of issues were highlighted during the proceedings, such as the Cabinet had made its decisions on the Libraries 9 days before the consultation period ended.
That some people may have to travel 6 hours to a library
That little or no thought has been given to the disabled provision, or the Museum and Libraries act!
And it was summed up by a councillor who expressed his dismay at the way the County Council do scrutiny and a plea that they need to change the way they work.
Many people in the Public Gallery were very disappointed in the process, which as the evening continued, ended up in open laughing at the "votes" and slow clapping the Tories from the room.
But the biggest failure here is to the residents of Gloucester. The big Defence from Cllr Noble was that the decision would not be made until the budget meeting on Wednesday, but Wednesday will come and then it will be too late. The decision could be "called in" again, but for what point? Our system can not see proper scrutiny when the odds are so tipped in the Cabinets favor and the councillors have been clearly whipped in. There is a time for Whipping, and that is full council, not Scrutiny.
The Library service has been dealt another blow, Cllr Noble was very clear that no decision had been made, yet their press coverage and released clearly contradict this. They are hiding behind a thin veil. They are not doing this for the good of the residents, and they have no plan B or alternatives. It's a "take it or leave it" deal, without the "leave it" option.
As an observer it seemed a complete sham, but best quote of the night for me was from the Chair, Cllr Rob Garnham, when he said "there are too many Cons" to which the public, almost to a person, roared "your so right", which led to a few red faces on the Tory sides.
On the plus side I met a few people who I had only met in the "Twittersphere" and internet including City Councillor Sebastian Field, Jo Anderson and Kay Powell, so at least I got something productive out of it, its always good to put faces to opinions.

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I have higher algebra and elementary mathematics and also am a student of FIITJEE.
Is there any website which provides study material shortcut tricks of high level like IJSO?


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An astonishing 1 in 3 companies report losing data stored in cloud-based applications. That means the permanent deletion of potentially hundreds of work hours.
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The Watson Institute is hiring substitute Classroom Therapist at Friendship Academy, a special education school for children ages 5 to 21 located 4 miles east of Pittsburgh, PA.
Responsible for assisting in implementing the academic program and for implementation of the school-wide behavior support system (Watson Financial) and monitoring of student goals.
Model how to follow the teacher's directions.
Maintain emotional control in the face of stressful situations and request help when needed.
Collect and record behavioral data on each student daily.
Complete clinical progress notes on a daily basis.
Coach students on achieving their goals.
Develop milieu treatment goals with students for treatment.
Evaluate the communication skills and behavioral strengths and weaknesses of a new student and participate in the development of a Functional Behavioral Assessment, Behavior Intervention Plan and/or Individual Behavior contracts for identified students.
Responsible for safety of the group.
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Underwriting has been identified as a key area where AI could be used, however, with the methodology and technology still in its infancy the key questions are how do you get there? and what should I be doing now?
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Kyle Carpenter impresses me every time I hear him speak. A truly humble, quiet professional an warrior.
+10. Humble and showed the true meaning of being a warrior and protecting your brothers in arms.
Best short video series I've seen in a LONG time. My favorite part of the Band of Brothers series was the interviews with the guys. There are very similar and there are almost a hundred I believe, from WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
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On a lighter note, in the video below..the gentleman is informed of his MOH by a Private named Sergeant Major.
I answered the phone in orderly room one day, an the individual on the other in of the line this is Private Sergeant Major, TOP. I asked what can I do for you SGM, he stated no this is Private Sergeant Major, with a dumb look on my face, I stated again what can I do for you SGM. He stated NO I am a PVT my first name is Sergeant Major, I through ok who in the hell is trying to pull a joke on me.
His first name was Sergeant Major.
Bump. Again, today is Medal of Honor Day. The Marine Corps put up a short video on it's website. I had the honor and privilege of meeting 1stSgt Jimmie Howard at our Battalion Mess Night prior to deployment in June 1990. His 18 man platoon from C Co. 1st Recon Bn is the most decorated small unit in military history: (1) Medal of Honor (4) Navy Cross' (13) Silver Stars and (18) Purple Hearts. At one point in the battle they were low on ammo, engaging in H2H combat and throwing rocks at the attacking NVA.


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Q: How to locate the first occurrence of a string in a string I need a function like memchr() but it should be able to locate a substring(string), not an only single char.
And it should return the first occurrence found in string.
For example
p1 = afunclikememchr(str1,"here the function that can locate this substring",200);

To the mods: I added the C++ tag because this is also relevant to C++
In a nutshell: I want a function that would be called memstr(), conventionally.
In addition, I must use C standard libraries, not C++, and the function should not stop when it founds a '\0' byte.

A: Have you considered strstr()?
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strstr.html

The strstr() function shall locate the first occurrence in the string
  pointed to by s1 of the sequence of bytes (excluding the terminating
  null byte) in the string pointed to by s2.

A: Since you tagged this question with both c and c++ (which is wrong), I'm exploiting this fact to answer it as if it was a C question (I don't know if it really is):
So you are looking for something like memstr() which is not a standard function, but I have an implementation here.
Or just use the GNU extension memmem(), if available and you don't mind being non-standard.

A: You need the equivalent of strstr which will work on general arrays.  This is what I assume from your question.  There is no memstr as you probably have found so you will have to write your own.
Something like this:
size_t memstr(const unsigned char* arr, size_t length, const unsigned char* tofind, size_t flength) {
   for(size_t i = 0; i < length-flength; ++i) {
      if(memcmp(arr+i, tofind, flength) == 0)
         return i;
   }

   return -1;  //highest possible unsigned value - eg std::string::npos often implemented like this.
}

int main() {
   const unsigned char arr1[] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4};
   size_t sz = sizeof(arr1) / sizeof(arr1[0]);
   const unsigned char fnd[] = {3,3,3};

   size_t where = memstr(arr1, sz, fnd, 3);
   return 0;
}

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Dead Calm (Mattie Winston Series #9)
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As deputy medical examiner and homicide detective respectively, newlyweds Mattie Winston and Steve Hurley are dispatched to a grisly crime scene at the Grizzly Motel, a seedy joint for illicit liaisons on the outskirts of Sorenson, Wisconsin. A man and woman are found dead next to each other in bed in what initially appears to be a grim but straightforward murder-suicide. An affair gone sour?
But as the forensic evidence is gathered and autopsies are performed, Mattie and Hurley realize the scene has been staged. They have a double murder on their hands. The spurned spouses of both victims top the list of suspects, but as more is revealed, the case becomes increasingly complex. Dividing their time and resources between the crime and an ongoing investigation involving Mattie's father, plus caring for their kids, the two are stretched to their limits. After another victim turns up dead, there's no room for error as they stage a scene of their own to back the killer into a corner . . .
Praise for Annelise Ryan and her Mattie Winston series
"The forensic details will interest Patricia Cornwell readers . . . while the often slapstick humor and the blossoming romance between Mattie and Hurley will draw Evanovich fans." —Booklist
"The funniest deputy coroner to cut up a corpse since, well, ever!"
—Laura Levine, author of Killer Cruise
"A puzzler of a mystery. Annelise Ryan has created a smart and saucy heroine in Mattie Winston . . . What a thrill ride!" —New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay
"Ryan smoothly blends humor, distinctive characters, and authentic forensic detail."
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USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan is the pseudonym for the author of the Mattie Winston Mysteries and another mystery series. She has written more than 200 published articles, worked as a book reviewer for Barnes & Noble, and is an active member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. She currently works as a registered nurse in an ER. She can be reached at www.mattiewinston.com.
The chiming ringtone of a phone awakens me from a deep sleep, and out of habit, I roll over and grab my cell in an effort to silence it as fast as I can. My bleary eyes try to focus on the screen, but sleep's hold is too great; the whole thing is a blur. I blink hard, glance at the clock on my bedside table, and see that it's just after three in the morning. The ringing stops, and for a moment, I think the caller must have hung up because I haven't hit the answer icon yet. Then I hear a voice behind me say, "Hurley," and realize it wasn't my phone ringing.
Just as I'm thinking that my husband and I need to personalize our ringtones so we can distinguish whose phone is getting called, the chiming sound starts up again. This time I know it's my phone because I feel it vibrating in my hand. I finally see the answer icon and swipe at it, silencing the ring. I realize as I do so that if both my husband's phone and mine are going off in the middle of the night, it means someone is dead.
My name is Mattie Winston, and I'm a medicolegal death investigator for the medical examiner's office in Sorenson, Wisconsin. My husband, Steve Hurley, is a homicide detective here in town. There are no regular hours to either of our jobs, though we try to maintain a façade of normalcy by getting up every weekday morning and heading into our offices. But people don't die on a Monday-through-Friday, nine-to-five schedule, and that means there are plenty of times when we put in a lot of long, extra hours.
"This is Mattie," I say into my phone. I sit up straighter in bed and look over at Hurley as I hear the voice of my boss, Izzy, emanate from my phone. I used to work at the local hospital; my original career was in nursing, and I spent six years in the ER and seven in the OR, good prep for the slicing and dicing I have to do in my current job. Now I'm an assistant to Dr. Izthak "Izzy" Rybarceski, the medical examiner in Sorenson, though for the past three weeks Izzy has been out on sick leave following a heart attack. I've been working with Izzy for almost three years now, and we work well together, in large part because we were friends — and, at one point, neighbors — before I started my current job.
"Mattie, we have a call," Izzy says. His voice sounds energized and excited, and that does my heart good because it means his heart is good. "It's a two-fer, so we should both go."
"A two-fer?" I echo, looking at Hurley with eyebrows raised. He nods, confirming that he has received the same info.
"The cops say it looks like a murder-suicide," Izzy says.
"Okay," I say, flinging back the covers. "Where?"
"It's out at the Grizzly Motel."
This gives me pause. "That's quite a way outside the city limits. Who's investigating?"
"The county guys pulled it, but they're terribly short-handed. They've got two men out on sick leave, another one out for paternity leave, and there are two accident scenes they're investigating right now in other areas of the county. And if the tentative IDs are correct, the victims are both Sorenson residents, so Hurley's probably going to get a call to assist."
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure he just did. Give us ten minutes to get going, and we'll meet you out there."
I disconnect my call and get out of bed, heading for the bathroom. Hurley is still on his phone, but he isn't saying anything at the moment; he's just listening. Our dog, Hoover, a yellow Lab mix — and, judging from the way he eats, I'm convinced there's a bit of vacuum cleaner in those genes — opens his eyes and watches me, his big head resting on his paws.
By the time I emerge from the bathroom with my bladder emptied, teeth brushed, and my hair partially tamed into a cowlicky mess of blond mayhem, Hurley is already dressed. We pass one another just outside the bathroom door.
"The Grizzly Motel?" I say.
"Yep. Murder-suicide?" he counters.
"Yep." I head for the dresser and grab a pair of jeans, a bra, and a T-shirt. "I'll go wake Emily," I say as I pull on my jeans beneath my nightgown. Then I peel the nightgown off, put on the bra and shirt, and shuffle my way down the hall to Emily's room, stepping over Hoover. Along the way I stop at our son Matthew's room and poke my head in.
He is sound asleep, and I utter a silent prayer of thanks that the ringing phones didn't wake him. His thick, dark hair — the color just like his father's — is sticking out on top of his head like a rooster's comb, the style surprisingly similar to mine even if the color is at the opposite end of the spectrum. He has his left thumb firmly planted in his mouth, but he is still, not sucking, not moving, no muscles twitching. A persistent internal alarm clamors, one I've had to quell hundreds of times in the twenty-two months of Matthew's existence, and I focus my gaze on his chest until I detect a slow rise and fall. Reassured, I resist an urge to tiptoe into the room and kiss him, knowing there's a good chance the action will wake him. And at this age, a just wakened Matthew is like the Tasmanian Devil cartoon character, a whirlwind of seemingly endless and frenzied energy with a penchant for creating crayon artwork on the walls and an apparent belief that any remotely wet form of food he eats is also a hair product.
I sense Hurley behind me — I can feel the heat of his body along my back — and his face appears over my right shoulder. We stand there that way for several seconds, both of us drinking in this most precious sight.
Finally, Hurley whispers in my ear. "I'll go nuke us a couple of cups of coffee. I think there's enough left in the pot."
I nod, and as he turns and heads downstairs, I make my way to the door of Emily's room and open it. The room is a mess, its normal state. Clothes are strewn about on the desk, the chair, the floor, and the bed, and two of the drawers in the dresser are open, with items hanging over the edges. The top of the desk is a chaotic riot of papers, as if a tornado had spun above it. There is half of a sandwich, the edges dry, brittle, and curling, on the bedside table. Out of habit, I head for the sandwich, intending to take it downstairs with me, but I change my mind. My seventeen-year-old stepdaughter and I reached a peace treaty some time back about the state of her room. We agreed that it is her space to do with as she wants, and that I won't nag her about the state it's in, nor will I venture into it and try to clean it up. Treaty or not, the mess still bothers me, but as long as there aren't any bugs in the room or mold growing on the walls, I'm determined to abide by our terms.
Emily is sound asleep in the bed amidst all this squalor, and I feel a twinge of guilt at having to wake her. But it's late July and summer vacation for her — no school to worry about, and she has no job other than the frequent babysitting she does for us — so I know she'll manage.
"Em?" I say in a low voice, giving her shoulder a gentle shake. This first effort does nothing, so I try a second time, speaking a little louder and shaking a little harder. I'm rewarded for my efforts with a grunt.
"A call?" she mumbles, not opening her eyes.
"Yes," I say. "Can you watch Matthew until we get back? I'm not sure how long we'll be gone, but I can get Desi to come and pick him up later this morning if need be."
She sits up and rubs her eyes. "I'm good for the day," she says. She drops her hands into her lap, glances at the alarm clock beside her bed, and smiles at me. "Of course, given the hour and the short notice, this job should probably be paid at triple time."
I smile back at her. "You got it." The girl excels at extortion, and her babysitting money goes into a fund she calls her funny money, money she is saving up to buy herself a car. Hurley and I have argued over this because I feel we should buy her a car, and frankly it would be nice to get rid of the chauffeuring duties I'm constantly having to do. But he is insistent that she earn the money and buy the car herself. So for now, I'm speeding up the process by caving in — willingly and happily — to Emily's attempts to pad her fund.
Emily's smile broadens at my capitulation. "I might get that car before school starts at this rate," she says.
"Indeed, you might," I say, giving her a kiss on the forehead. "Now go back to sleep."
She plops back down, fluffing her pillow beneath her head. I go downstairs, where I find Hurley nuking coffee that was left in the pot from earlier in the day. It won't be gourmet, by any means, but at this hour, just about any coffee will do.
Wordlessly, we fix our coffees in travel mugs and head out, slipping on shoes that are kept by the door. Hurley's car is parked in the driveway. Mine, a midnight-blue hearse, is parked in the street. Without any discussion, we both head for Hurley's car. While seeing a hearse at a death scene shouldn't be too shocking — in fact, it's ironically apropos — the car at times tends to attract attention that I can do without.
As soon as we're settled and underway, I say, "We probably should have iced these coffees instead of nuking them. It's still in the eighties out here."
Our weather for the past week or so has been a blast of furnace-quality heat and dripping humidity. The temps have been well into the nineties, and the humidity has been hovering in the 80th-percentile range. Though some people love this hot weather, it's not my favorite. I come with plenty of natural insulation, and my tolerance of heat is about as good as my tolerance of the tongue-in-cheek Wisconsin state bird: the mosquito. They've been out in force this past week, too, and I have the bites to prove it.
It's a Wednesday night — though technically it's now Thursday morning — and I spent the better part of the past weekend traveling to the land Hurley and I bought right before we tied the knot a few weeks ago, giving up our independence on Independence Day. The land is out in the country; the mosquitos were apparently having some sort of convention out there all weekend, and I was on the menu for every meal. As a result, I now look like I have the measles. It's a small price to pay, however, for moving along our building project. I'm desperate to get into our new home. The house we're living in now is Hurley's, one he bought and lived in for two years before I moved in. Now, with the two of us, two kids, two cats, and a dog in it, it's feeling kind of tight. It also feels like Hurley's house, and I'm eager to have a place to live that is not only roomier, but ours, with no prior history.
Emily and I have tried to fem up the place some, but our efforts have done little to eliminate the overall bachelor pad feel of the place. Apparently, it takes more than some curtains, throw rugs, and a box of tampons in every bathroom to lend a house a feminine air.
The only thing that truly felt like home to me before moving in with Hurley was a small cottage that Izzy had built behind his house. Back when I was married to a local surgeon named David Winston, Izzy was my neighbor. He built a cottage behind his house for his then-ailing mother, Sylvie, but Sylvie rallied after a year and then opted to move out and into senior housing. This happened right around the time my marriage to David went south, along with most of the local geese, after I caught him canoodling with an OR nurse at the local hospital where we both worked at the time. So I moved into Izzy's cottage until I could sort things out, a process complicated by my starting a whole new career, meeting Hurley, getting pregnant, and dealing with the discovery of Hurley's daughter, Emily, who he didn't know existed until two years ago. Her arrival, along with that of her mother, an ex that Hurley discovered wasn't really an ex because she never filed the divorce papers, coincided with me discovering I was pregnant.
For the better part of a year and a half, Izzy's cottage was my home. It was my fortress of solitude, the place where I acquired my fur family of one dog and two cats, the place where I launched my new career, the place where I learned how to be on my own again, the place where I gave birth to my son — literally, since it happened in the bathtub — and raised him on my own for most of his first year. It was small — what Realtors euphemistically refer to as cozy — and I'm not, since I stand six feet tall and typically weigh in somewhere between one-seventy and none of your damned business. Considering that I moved into the cottage after living in a McMansion with David, one might think I found it to be a humbling, if not humiliating step down in life. But I never saw it that way. I grew to love the place, and it was one of the few things at that time that I could call my own. The facts that it was next to my old house — offering me ample spying opportunities — and only steps away from my two favorite therapists — Izzy and his life partner, Dom — were bonuses. To be totally honest, my favorite therapists are Ben & Jerry, but Izzy and Dom are a close second and kinder to my hips.
The house David and I once shared burned to the ground not long after I moved out — a whole other story in itself — though it has since been rebuilt. The new house is even bigger, and David still lives there, along with his new wife, Patty Volker, who at one time was our mutual insurance agent. Though the destruction of the house saddened me at first, it seemed fitting after a while. That fire gave me closure. It also gave me a decent little divorce settlement when the insurance check came.
Unfortunately, Sylvie's good health didn't last, requiring her to move back into the cottage. It was a move she didn't accept gracefully, given that it meant not only giving up some of her independence, but living in close proximity to Izzy and Dom. Sylvie doesn't approve of her son's sexual orientation, and having evidence of it in her face every day is something she hasn't taken to very well. She spent the first two months there without bathing, a curious quirk that almost led to Izzy putting her in a home. Then we learned that Sylvie knew I'd delivered Matthew in the bathtub, and in her mind that area was now like sacred ground. She wouldn't stand in it, sit in it, or run water in it. Izzy had to find a local priest to come in and do a special ceremony — one I suspect he made up — in which he "captured" the sacred essence Sylvie thought was in the tub and put it in a mason jar. Sylvie insisted on giving me the jar afterward, and I thought about tossing it out. But some superstitious vestigial corner of my brain wouldn't let me — that and a fear of what Sylvie would do if she ever asked to see it and discovered I no longer had it.
Since I had to vacate the cottage for Sylvie, moving in with Hurley was the logical option. But it wasn't an easy decision for three reasons. For starters, my relationship with Emily was iffy at the time, iffy being a euphemism for a barrel of TNT connected to a short, lit fuse. Her mother died not long after the two of them showed up on Hurley's doorstep unannounced, and while I understood Emily's emotional turmoil — losing the only family she had known for more than fourteen years, discovering she had a father she'd always thought was dead, and then learning that he was starting a new family with me — her behavior at one point bordered on frightening. We eventually worked it out with the help of time, patience, a lot of counseling, and a near-death experience for Emily. I have grown to love Emily as if she were my own daughter, but for a while there it was touch and go.
Another thing that made moving in with Hurley an iffy prospect was the state of our relationship. He'd asked me to marry him — several times — and I wanted to. But I couldn't shake the feeling that the only reason he was asking was because I was pregnant and he felt it was the right and proper thing to do.
(Continues…)
Excerpted from "Dead Calm"
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Copyright © 2018 Beth Amos.
Excerpted by permission of KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP..
At the start of Ryan's enjoyable ninth Mattie Winston mystery (after 2017's Dead in the Water), Mattie, a death investigator for the medical examiner's office in Sorenson, Wis., and Steve Hurley, her homicide detective husband, rush to a crime scene at the Grizzly Motel outside town. What looks at first like the cut-and-dried murder-suicide of a couple of adulterous lovers is quickly revealed to be more complicated—but not so complicated that astute readers won't be able to guess the perp. And that might be why a back-burner case involving Mattie's father suddenly comes to the fore. Add a mysterious long-buried body unearthed on the property where newlyweds Mattie and Steve are building their new home, and there's enough meat to sustain interest. That and, of course, the savvy, wry, and eminently relatable protagonists. This may be one of Ryan's lighter series entries, with a bit less witty banter than usual, but fans will still be satisfied. Agent: Adam Chromy, Artists and Artisans. (Mar.)
A murder-suicide isn't what it seems.At long last married to Detective Steve Hurley, who's the father of her toddler son, Matthew, Wisconsin forensic investigator Mattie Winston (Dead in the Water, 2017, etc.) gets a call about another couple that isn't so lucky. The bodies of Craig Knowlton and Meredith Lansing turn up at the Grizzly Motel with gunshot wounds suggesting that Craig shot his lover and then himself. The Sorenson coroner's office has been short-staffed since the murder of Mattie's co-worker Hal Dawson, and Mattie's kind of distracted not only by energetic Matthew and teenage stepdaughter Emily, but by the return of her father, Cedric Novak, with a shocking explanation of why he abandoned her when she was only 4. So her growing suspicion that Craig couldn't have killed Meredith is as unwelcome as it is urgent. But Mattie presses forward, rattling the cages of Craig's wife, Pamela, and Meredith's husband, John. She even looks into their family insurance policies, sold to them by her ex-husband David's new wife. Just when she thinks she can't handle any more news, the contractor clearing the land for a joint Winston-Hurley home calls and tells her he's discovered a human skeleton right where she'd planned her new kitchen.Overfilling her heroine's plate does little to improve the meal. Less is more might be a better recipe for fans of Ryan's forensic franchise.
Dead Calm 4.6 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 7 reviews.
I enjoyed this book far more than previous books in the series. The plot was so much better that it held my interest throughout the book. Ryan is improving so much as an author. Glad I stuck with the series. Stephanie Clanahan
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KrisAnderson_TAR More than 1 year ago
Dead Calm by Annelise Ryan is the ninth installment in A Mattie Winston Mystery series. Mattie Winston, medicolegal death investigator for the medical examiner's office, and her husband, Detective Steve Hurley are called out during the night to a crime scene at the Grizzly Motel. At first glance, it looks like a murder-suicide scenario with Craig Knowlton killing Meredith Lansing. But upon further examination, it is evident that the scene was staged. Now Steve and Mattie have a double murder on their hands. The more they dig, the more complex the case. At the site of Steve and Mattie's new home, the builders dig up a set of unusual remains. The bones are deformed which causes speculation that the remains are those of an alien (media sensation). Steve is still digging into the Prince case which relates back to Mattie's father. They are still missing some key details. Will Mattie's father fill in the gaps? This pair have their hands full with three investigations, a teenager and a toddler to take care of, and the construction of their new home on hold. Then another victim turns up. It does not help that the medical examiner's office is understaffed, and the only potential candidate has a malodourous medical condition. How will it all turn out? You will have to read Dead Calm to find out! Dead Calm reminds me of the Energizer bunny—the story just keeps going and going at a fast clip. Dead Calm has three mysteries with varying levels of complexity. There is one odd, one simple, and the final one is convoluted. The main mystery can be solved before you are a quarter of the way through the story. The Prince case is more complex, and it started in a previous book in this series. It is a mystery that plays out since readers are not given all the facts necessary to solve it. This case dominates the book, and we are vast amounts of information relating to it (information overload). The odd case involving the deformed skeleton is interesting and provides some humorous moments (since people believe the skeleton belongs to an alien). I felt that the author crammed too much into this one book. Dead Calm is not a standalone book. While many details about the characters and cases from previous books is included (goes on for many pages), new readers will be lost. The characters are realistic and well-developed. The ending was anticlimactic regarding the Prince case, but the solution was clever. The crimes are counterbalanced with humor that will have many people laughing hilariously. There are a couple of items in the book that I could have done without. One of them being Matthew, Mattie's young son, peeing on her leg. While I am sure most people will find it humorous and realistic, I did not feel it needed to be included (makes me glad I had a daughter). There is some repetition of information in Dead Calm. It makes me wonder if authors think readers forget the facts as we progress through the book. I am giving Dead Calm 4 out of 5 stars. There is a preview of Last Call (the next book in A Mack's Bar Mystery series) at the end (both series written by same author).
Good continuation to Mattie Winston's story.
I enjoyed this book very much.
CozyMysteryLover1 More than 1 year ago
Dead Calm (Mattie Winston Mystery, #9) by Annelise Ryan is another fantastic book added to the series. When Mattie & Hurley are called out to a seedy motel, known as Grizzly Motel- for a suspected murder-suicide, they have no idea of the tangled mess they will have to unravel. Married life is new for Mattie & Hurley, and trying to combine family, work, building their new house and many other things, Mattie is emotionally and physically drained. She knows the only way to get through this is to work smart, so she teams up with Hurley to investigate the odd deaths. What they discover is an Cancun plot and the murderer is not sorry at all. Fans of this series will be delighted to catch up with Matte and the gang in the 9th book in the series. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book provided by the publisher and NetGalley. Dead Calm releases on February 27, 2018 #DeadCalm #NetGalley
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Credit: From Crown Publishing.
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Lorraine Elizabeth Wooster (Ohio, 24 de juliol de 1868 - Chicago, 4 de juliol de 1953), també coneguda com a Lizzie E. Wooster o Elizabeth Wooster, va ser una educadora, advocada i política de l'estat de Kansas dels Estats Units. Va ser la primera dona a ocupar un càrrec electe a Kansas, exercint com a Superintendent d'Instrucció Pública entre 1919 i 1923.

Lizzie Wooster va néixer a Ohio, però la seva família es va traslladar al comtat de Mitchell, Kansas, quan era jove. Va començar la seva carrera docent a una petita escola local quan tenia setze anys. El 1894, es va traslladar a Salina i va començar a escriure llibres de text; va vendre els seus llibres a escoles de tot el país i va establir una companyia editorial a Chicago per als seus llibres el 1907.

El 1916, es va presentar a les eleccions per a Superintendent d'Instrucció Pública de Kansas. Tot i que la seva campanya va fracassar, va intentar-ho novament dos anys després i va ser elegida, convertint-se en la primera dona elegida a una oficina estatal de Kansas. En campanya havia defensat que, considerant que el 80% dels professors de Kansas eren dones, era la persona més adequada per a representar-les. El suport de Kansas al sufragi femení, pioner al país, també la va ajudar, ja que les dones van obtenir el dret de vot el 1912 i van ser votants actives en el moment de la seva elecció.

Com a superintendent estatal, Wooster va promoure més finançament per a les escoles, cursos escolars més llargs per als estudiants rurals i ensenyament obligatori fins als setze anys. No obstant això, també era coneguda pels estrictes codis de conducta moral que va aplicar als professors de l'estat. Va insistir que els professors no fumessin, no beguessin, ni ballessin ni es maquillessin. Va ser reelegida el 1920, però el seu codi moral va provocar la seva caiguda. El 1922, va perdre les eleccions per a un tercer mandat.

Després de deixar el càrrec, Wooster va continuar la seva carrera com a advocada. Va exercir de vicepresidenta de l'Associació Nacional de Dones Advocades i, el 1932, va fer campanya sense èxit per al càrrec de Fiscal General de Kansas. Es va traslladar a Chicago el 1934, on va viure fins a la seva mort el 1953.

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Advocats de Kansas
Polítics de Kansas
Morts a Chicago
Advocats d'Ohio
Polítics d'Ohio

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Q: Reverse GeoCoding Pandas Python I have two columns df['latitude'] and df['longitude'] and I am trying to reverse geocode them into full address in df['Address']. However, I am not very successful. Is there a better way of doing this? I am using Geocoder package.
 df['Address'] = Geocoder.reverse_geocode(df['latitude'], df['longitude'])

A: you could try something like this out, if Geocoder is working for you:
df['address'] = df.apply(lambda row: Geocoder.reverse_geocode(row['latitude'],row['longitude']),axis=1)

If not, I would recommend another API as @Mokshyam said.

A: You can try this if, you want just the country:
df['country'] = df.apply(lambda row: reverse_geocoder.search((row['latitude'],row['longitude']))[0]['cc'],axis=1)


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CSXI NWOH
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Client – CSX Intermodal Terminals
Location – North Baltimore, Ohio
Value – $15,000,000
In an effort to meet the growing demand in intermodal traffic, the Milord Company was contracted by CSX Intermodal Terminals to expand their central hub terminal located in North Baltimore, Ohio. The $15 million dollar expansion included the addition of operating tracks throughout the yard along with doubling the size of their process area, including the addition of two wide span overhead cranes. NWOH terminal is CSX's gateway hub, so this project had to be built, without disruption to their daily operations, while under a tight schedule.
The expansion consisted of adding five new tracks including two bad order tracks, two engine ready tracks and a new receiving and departure track, all totaling 16,000 track feet. Also included the installation were two new craneway foundations and track totaling 4,300 track feet, to accommodate the two wide span cranes. The addition of eight new process tracks totaling 25,600 track feet, along with 17 new turnouts. 42,000 tons of ballast was placed for the new track work, 65,000 square yards of new concrete and asphalt was added to accommodate vehicles, all while maintaining CSX's current operations. The project was completed ahead of the contract schedule.
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Israeli flags burned outside 2 German synagogues; Spanish synagogue vandalized
A pro-Palestinian slogan and the acronym for a praise for Allah on the wall of the synagogue in Cueta, Spain on May 12, 2021. (FJCE)
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(JTA) — Israeli flags were burned in front of two synagogues in Germany and the words "Free Palestine" were spray-painted on another one in Spain.
The incidents this week are among the first manifestations of antisemitism in Europe connected to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which six Israelis and at least 50 Palestinians have died in the exchange of rocket fire.
In Germany, police arrested 13 people in Muenster after witnesses reported "a group of about 15 with Arabic appearance" shouting and burning an Israeli flag in front of the synagogue.
In Bonn, police arrested three suspects in their 20s in connection with the burning of an Israeli flag outside a synagogue. A window in the door of the synagogue had been shattered.
Bishop Batzing, chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, called the incident an "unjustifiable act of pure antisemitism."
The incident in Spain happened in Ceuta, an enclave of that kingdom in North Africa. In addition to the slogan about Palestine, the perpetrators write AUAH, which stands for "Allah hu akbar," "Allah is the greatest" in Arabic.
In London, thousands protested against Israel on Tuesday in a rally that turned violent when some demonstrators tried to lunge at a smaller gathering of pro-Israel protesters who had gathered there with the Israeli flag. Police separated the groups and extracted the pro-Israel demonstrators amid chants of "shame on you" and "f***ing Jews" by some of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators.


As a school kid, this meant a day off from school. Once you knew the school buses were not running, after farm chores, I would explore the pastures and forest with my camera. I loved the cleanliness of it all. Often the only sound would be the occasional sound of a tree borne snow drift falling to the ground. There is also a special sound when snow is crushed beneath your boot.
As an adult, a snow day presents nothing but questions. Do you risk driving to work? Do you shovel the snow from the sidewalk or let it melt? Sadly, living in a city, you just don't find pristine beauty in fresh fallen snow. Instead, you find grit, soot, salt & sand.
Still, you venture out because you have a camera, a wonderful wife who also has a camera and the desire to share or capture the youthful experience of pristine memories. Today we found some interesting bits of ice in the foliage.
In Russia, snow days simply don't exist. Schools, factories and business don't let snow impact their operations (wussie Amerikantsy).


It's May the 4th, and punsters everywhere have adopted the day as the day to honor one of the largest feature film franchises of all time: Star Wars.
NH Episode 21: The Road to the Force Awakens (Star Wars Episodes I-VI)– A long time ago, in Parts-Unknown, Utah and Austin, Texas Matt and Trevor sat down and discussed the whole Star Wars saga up until that point. The good, the bad, the ugly. It was the time of the Disney transition for Star Wars, and the boys talk about the saga, the prequels, the state of the expanded universe, and the future of the franchise.
NH Episode 22: Arrival at the Force Awakens (Star Wars Episode VII)– No big deal, it's just a box office shattering juggernaut that represents the collision of a successful property with a hugely successful entertainment conglomerate. The Nighthawks are here to talk about it. What follows is the absolutely spoiler-ridden podcast, wherein Matt and Trevor get downright granular on their discussion of the first film in the JJ Abrams era of Star Wars.
NH Episode 55: Star Wars Episode VII: The Last Jedi– Matt and Trevor wander into the battleground as they opine about the latest film in the core Star Wars saga. A movie that has proven to be divisive among fans, it seems like you either love it or hate it. The Nighthawks have their own opinions about the film. They also, in a not-too-surprising meta twist, have their own opinions about your opinions. Then again, the movie seems to have an opinion about all of our opinions. Director Rian Johnson, of LOOPER and BRICK fame, takes the 2017 edition of the Star Wars franchise into bold new territories, subverting expectations, forging ahead, and putting its own brand on the beloved property. Did they go a step too far? Meanwhile, the political conversation continues to boil. Is The Last Jedi an allegory for our modern political spheres? Our modern pop culture fan spheres? Both? Or is this Carababba tabac cigarra just a cigarra? Join us at the conceptual Nighthawks cafe as we avoid the Star Wars Christmas Special, and talk about the wars among the stars that you want to hear about. Disagree with us? Agree? Let us know.


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Q: WildFly - EJB invocations from a remote client - Operation failed with status WAITING Following is my code to invoke an ejb, but it wait for the connection and get failed. I changed the port to 4447 but no luck.
private DataGridService lookupRemoteEJB() throws NamingException {

    Context context = null;
    try {

        Properties clientProperties = new Properties();
        clientProperties.put("remote.connectionprovider.create.options.org.xnio.Options.SSL_ENABLED", "false");
        clientProperties.put("remote.connections", "default");
        clientProperties.put("remote.connection.default.port", "4447");
        clientProperties.put("remote.connection.default.host", "127.0.0.1");
        clientProperties.put("remote.connection.default.username", "admin");
        clientProperties.put("remote.connection.default.password", "password");
        clientProperties.put("remote.connection.default.connect.options.org.xnio.Options.SASL_POLICY_NOANONYMOUS", "false");

        EJBClientConfiguration ejbClientConfiguration = new PropertiesBasedEJBClientConfiguration(clientProperties);
        ContextSelector<EJBClientContext> contextSelector = new ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector(ejbClientConfiguration);
        EJBClientContext.setSelector(contextSelector);

        Properties properties = new Properties();
        properties.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, "org.jboss.ejb.client.naming");
        context = new InitialContext(properties);

        String jndiName = "ejb:poc_ear-1.0/poc_ejbs-1.0//DataGridServiceImpl!com.oms.ejbs.DataGridService";
        System.out.println("____" + jndiName);

        return (DataGridService) context.lookup(jndiName);

    } finally {
        if (context != null) {
            context.close();
        }
    }
}

JNDI in server console for the stateless session bean.
11:00:53,220 INFO  [org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.EjbJndiBindingsDeploymentUnitProcessor] (MSC service thread 1-2) JNDI bindings for session bean name
d DataGridServiceImpl in deployment unit subdeployment "poc_ejbs-1.0.jar" of deployment "poc_ear-1.0.ear" are as follows:

        java:global/poc_ear-1.0/poc_ejbs-1.0/DataGridServiceImpl!com.oms.ejbs.DataGridService
        java:app/poc_ejbs-1.0/DataGridServiceImpl!com.oms.ejbs.DataGridService
        java:module/DataGridServiceImpl!com.oms.ejbs.DataGridService
        java:jboss/exported/poc_ear-1.0/poc_ejbs-1.0/DataGridServiceImpl!com.oms.ejbs.DataGridService
        java:global/poc_ear-1.0/poc_ejbs-1.0/DataGridServiceImpl
        java:app/poc_ejbs-1.0/DataGridServiceImpl
        java:module/DataGridServiceImpl

11:00:53,284 INFO  [org.hornetq.core.server] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 56) HQ221007: Server is now live
11:00:53,285 INFO  [org.hornetq.core.server] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 56) HQ221001: HornetQ Server version 2.4.1.Final (Fast Hornet, 124) [73e4f957-b7a5-11

Error Trace:
____ejb:poc_ear-1.0/poc_ejbs-1.0//DataGridServiceImpl!com.oms.ejbs.DataGridService
Feb 19, 2015 10:48:33 AM org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClient <clinit>
INFO: JBoss EJB Client version 2.0.1.Final
Feb 19, 2015 10:48:34 AM org.xnio.Xnio <clinit>
INFO: XNIO version 3.2.2.Final
Feb 19, 2015 10:48:36 AM org.xnio.nio.NioXnio <clinit>
INFO: XNIO NIO Implementation Version 3.2.2.Final
Feb 19, 2015 10:48:38 AM org.jboss.remoting3.EndpointImpl <clinit>
INFO: JBoss Remoting version (unknown)
Feb 19, 2015 10:48:44 AM org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector setupEJBReceivers
WARN: Could not register a EJB receiver for connection to 127.0.0.1:1099
java.lang.RuntimeException: Operation failed with status WAITING
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.IoFutureHelper.get(IoFutureHelper.java:94)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.ConnectionPool.getConnection(ConnectionPool.java:77)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.RemotingConnectionManager.getConnection(RemotingConnectionManager.java:51)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector.setupEJBReceivers(ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector.java:155)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector.getCurrent(ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector.java:115)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector.getCurrent(ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector.java:47)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.getCurrent(EJBClientContext.java:271)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.requireCurrent(EJBClientContext.java:281)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.doInvoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:176)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:144)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy0.getData(Unknown Source)
    at com.oms.client.EJBInvoker.main(EJBInvoker.java:40)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:134)

A: Following line solved my problem, port has to be changed to 8080
clientProperties.put("remote.connection.default.port", "8080");

A: Same problem, http port did not help me.
I could do it with remote port.
I have added:
   <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:remoting:2.0">
        ...
        <connector name="remoting-connector" socket-binding="remoting" security-realm="ApplicationRealm"/>
    </subsystem>

And added port:
    <socket-binding-group name="standard-sockets" default-interface="public" port-offset="${jboss.socket.binding.port-offset:0}">
            ...
            <socket-binding name="remoting" port="4447"/>
    </socket-binding-group>

EDIT: local I can only connect with remote 4447 and with webstart (jnlp) only with http port...


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Good old song, bring back some good memories.
10/10 - Pixies are in every playlist I make for my students to listen to.
7/10 nice counting over the past couple days MSgt.
7/10 And I'm not sure what you mean 1xer.
6/10 - Wish they'd stop singing over each other.
Dude, yes. Kerplunk. I grew up with 1089 and Kerplunk blaring on our old porsche 911 ghetto Circuit City aftermarket sound system. My brother and I even posed at the cemetary to recreate the cover of 1089 hours (I live near it). 10/10 would blare again. Epic goosebumps hearing this again. Taps into that invincible youth feeling, whilist coming to terms with your own mortality, but just wanting to get high. (paraphrased).
As for my contribution, I am marrying my Macedonain lover in a week, and I fully intend to blare this song during the festivities. Let this be some inspiration for all you Charlie and Easy folks. Get them AK's rockin!
7/10 - Very good comrade, we shall smash the bourgeoisie, Franco will fall!
10/10 Classic Piece. Sounds great in the wood room.
Here's some classical canadian folk here.


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Home » Magnus Carlsen v Ian Nepomniachtchi: World Chess Championship Game 9 – live!
Magnus Carlsen v Ian Nepomniachtchi: World Chess Championship Game 9 – live!
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posted on Dec. 07, 2021 at 11:35 am
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Hello and welcome back for the ninth game of the World Chess Championship. The overall score in the showdown between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi is 5-3 to Carlsen after the Norwegian's breakthrough wins in Game 6 and Game 8, putting the Russian challenger into something of a desperate situation with six contests remaining.
On Sunday, a fatal blunder by Nepomniachtchi donated a pawn to Carlsen in the middlegame, gifting the 31-year-old world champion an advantage he leveraged until the Russian challenger resigned after 4hr 6min.
Magnus Carlsen (white) took advantage of a fatal blunder by Ian Nepomniachtchi (black) in Game 8 of the 2021 World Chess Championship.
For anyone just coming aboard, Carlsen, who turned 31 last week, has been at No 1 in the Fide rankings for 10 straight years and was considered the world's best player even before he dethroned Vishy Anand for the title in 2013. Nepomniachtchi, also 31, is ranked No 5, having earned his place at the table by winning the eight-man candidates tournament in April.
The best-of-14-games match is taking place at the Dubai Exhibition Centre with the winner earning a 60% share of the €2m ($2.26m) prize fund if the match ends in regulation (or 55% if it's decided by tie-break games, as happened in Carlsen's second and third title defenses).
We're a little under a half-hour from today's first move. Will we see Nepomniachtchi play yet another closed Ruy Lopez? Or will the challenger go for broke as the situation demands?
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Used car market revs up as car buyers wait for 'green' light
Used car market revs up…
A year ago, car rental company Hertz was on its knees, forced into bankruptcy amid longstanding problems and the sudden shock from the COVID-19-induced demand collapse, leaving it with few options and fewer funds. At the time, a ragtag bunch of retail investors bid up the stock in the suspicion markets had sunk it too far, and Hertz could come through its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and proceedings without too much pain. Oh, how everyone laughed. It was seen as another case of irrational exuberance from the newly-minted retail investing public – albeit before Reddit and GameStop made irrational exuberance 'cool'.
Now, Hertz has been bought out of bankruptcy by a consortium of capital managers – in a deal that gives the reorganised company an enterprise value of $7.43 billion. In fact, it turned out to be quite a dramatic battle for control of the company, with multiple groups vying for ownership in a contest that seemed unimaginable just a few months ago. According to the new owners, shareholders will see a recovery of about $8 a share. A decent bit of business, as it turns out.
We should not get carried away with the underdog narrative. The claimed $8 price is contentious at best, and buyers of the stock last year would have been realistically better off investing in many other parts of 2020's rallying equity market. What's more, one of the reasons Hertz managed to survive reorganisation is because it used the money investors gave it wisely, positioning for an economic recovery that would come after the massive drop off in demand last Spring. It just so happens that the recovery was quicker than expected, to Hertz's benefit. In particular, whattriggered the company's collapse – a fall in the value of its fleet of cars – was short-lived, and prices were already rebounding by this time last year.
That rebound has kept going ever since, to the point where used car prices have seen an astounding rally to an over 20% increase over the last 12 months. The chart below shows price inflation in the US used car market. Prices have shot up, prompted by a flurry of activity and huge demand for pre-owned vehicles. It is not only Americans that are eager to buy: a recent report shows online traffic from used car buyers in the UK shot up 36% last month, together with a 7.1% year-on-year jump in postings on Auto Trader.
In recent decades, vehicle demand has become a key indicator for overall economic activity, so it is quite astonishing to see such high levels while still barely out of the deepest global recession on record. But the trend in the used car market needs unpacking. The pick-up in second-hand purchases has been accompanied by a drop-off in demand for new vehicles – to the detriment of the old automotive manufacturers (a booming Tesla notwithstanding).
Consumers are choosing 'nearly new' for a number of reasons. Firstly, they are cheaper, and with so much uncertainty over the last year, a splurge on a new car seems off-putting for many. To add to this, well-publicised supply chain issues suffered by car manufacturers – stemming from a global shortage of microchips – have pushed the prices on new cars up further, while projected delivery dates have been disappearing into the horizon. The collapse of Hertz (and the struggles of other rental companies) meant far fewer ex-rentals became available in the used car markets, creating issues of short supply issues there as well.
These were short-term factors, but they compounded longer-term fears too. Both consumers and car companies are increasingly aware of the limited future for fossil-fuelled cars, and the push toward greener technology and tighter environmental regulation has only increased during the pandemic.
Car manufacturers, especially the old 'incumbents', are spending vast amounts on research and development amid the push towards net-zero carbon emissions. Electric and other non-carbon vehicles are increasingly available, but the downside is that the R&D cost is borne by the early-ish adopters. Electric vehicles (EVs) still cost a significant amount more than the petrol equivalent. Compare the basic Renault Zoe with the basic Clio. Even including a government charging grant, the Zoe costs £27,600 (including battery purchase) versus £16,200 for the Clio. Although fuel costs will be lower, you have to drive a long way to make up for it (and, of course, EVs don't currently lend themselves to driving big distances in one go!).
Motorists are likely to be wary of handing over a hefty sum for an internal combustion engine car that will become obsolete in a few years. The technology behind EVs is improving at a rapid pace, with newer models able to travel further and charge quicker, but that rapid change might well be part of the problem. Renault used to lease the battery to its Zoe owners, but now it makes them buy it. At such a huge expense, car buyers want to know their purchase will last a long time, and not be overtaken by a new model, or fall victim to new regulations a few short years down the road.
At the regulatory level, more clarity about overall infrastructure, such as the distribution of charging points and standard requirements is required. Among electric models, there are many components for which standards are not close to being set – and it is still an open question even whether hydrogen-electric hybrid vehicles will win out over all electric – in other words, it's still unclear which automobile technology will be 'VHS' and which will be 'Betamax' . Heavy goods vehicles are much more likely to favour hydrogen. Dual hydrogen and electric infrastructures will add to the costs, in which case it may be better for all vehicles to go for hydrogen, especially given fossil fuel stations and forecourts have a much higher resemblance with the infrastructure we may need for hydrogen vehicles than the electric charging infrastructure requirements.
This creates a huge headache for all the other parties involved in car purchases, such as financers and insurers. Over the last decade, car financing has been a booming source of credit growth with lenders keen to hand money out and package the debt up into asset-backed securities. But if lenders are uncertain about the shelf life of the assets, they will be much less willing to fork out the money. This week, the Green Finance Institute assembled a coalition of independent experts and UK companies in the finance, automotive, energy and infrastructure sectors. It aims to improve the general access to the huge amount of credit financing necessary for the transition to zero emission vehicles.
However, such initiatives highlight that the transition is difficult. So, a used car – even one with many more miles on the clock – suits nicely as a temporary solution. For now, this is benefitting used car dealers and renters like Hertz. The short-term factors will clear up eventually as life returns to normal, but the longer-term problems will last until policymakers give more clarity.
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