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Pender's Blog by Lee Pender, RCPU Editor
The Undead OS: Why Windows Vista Still Haunts Microsoft
What's that you say? Microsoft is doing all right for itself, and as a Microsoft partner, so are you. Satya Nadella is a visionary CEO who is leading the company in the right direction. In fact, Microsoft made the Fortune 25 last year for the first time ever. (I'm sure you all have your Fortune 500 parties ready for later this spring. Can Walmart repeat? Will Apple fall? The suspense is gripping.) Is all of that right?
Actually, it is. (Well, hopefully it is in the case of partners doing all right for themselves. We're cheering for you.) Microsoft is on the up overall, and that's good for pretty much anybody who is reading these words right now. But as the former editor of this newsletter (and now a writer seeking assignments -- hit me up!), I can't help but wonder what might have been had Microsoft been able to shake a certain obsession about a decade ago. More
Posted by Lee Pender on April 11, 2017 at 2:04 PM0 comments
Finally, Steve Ballmer Can't Lose
Steve Ballmer is the biggest loser in America ... among tech multi-billionaires. (That's a pretty important caveat, but still.) At Microsoft, he managed -- metaphorically, of course -- to turn the 1960s Celtics into something closer to the Celtics of the 1990s, or maybe the Lakers of the 1980s into the 2014 Lakers. Whatever. Microsoft under Ballmer went from hero to, well, not zero, but certainly something less than hero.
He got violently out-Steved by his late counterpart at Apple. Among former Microsoft luminaries, Bill Gates is currently saving the world, and Paul Allen, more than 30 years gone from Redmond, is still savoring a Super Bowl triumph with his Seattle Seahawks -- and no doubt loving the fact that he left Microsoft at just the right time, before any of the really hard work had to be done. For Allen, it was all music projects and sports-franchise ownership, while everybody else who stayed behind was fighting through antitrust suits and the eventual and humiliating existence of the Zune. More
Posted by Lee Pender on May 30, 2014 at 3:44 PM0 comments
Nokia Acquisition Looks Like Another Sign of Microsoft Abandoning Partners
If Microsoft makes an announcement and nobody is there to hear it, does it still make a noise? Once again, as it did with the news about Steve Ballmer's impending, um, retirement, Microsoft dropped a bomb this week at a time when most Americans were off doing something else.
OK, we realize that Microsoft announced its impending acquisition of Nokia's devices and services divisions in Finland, where Nokia is headquartered, and that the world does not actually end where American beaches plunge into the sea. Still, most of the tech press, pretty much all of Wall Street and probably most folks who work for Microsoft were asleep or otherwise occupied when the company revealed its latest blockbuster move overnight Eastern Daylight Time time on Tuesday, just on the other side of the Labor Day holiday here in the United States. More
Posted by Lee Pender on September 04, 2013 at 11:04 AM0 comments
Steve Ballmer Got the Axe (Apparently) Because He Was Too Slow To Give It to Himself
Steve Ballmer was getting around to it. He was always getting around to it. That's the way Ballmer's Microsoft has worked for years: slowly, almost casually, and with no apparent sense of urgency. So, yeah, Steve Ballmer was going to retire...eventually. But then, according to lots of sources in stories from excellent journalists, Ballmer got retired by Microsoft's suddenly impatient board.
As we all know now, Ballmer said Friday that he'd step down as Microsoft CEO sometime in the next 12 months. Using the classic, old tactic of dumping "bad" news on a Friday (in August, no less), when supposedly nobody is paying attention, Microsoft released Ballmer's announcement only to find out that it wasn't bad news at all. The company's stock price went up -- kind of by a lot, by Microsoft's low standards. The press and pundits took a non-cursory interest in the company for the first time in quite a while. What a surprise, huh, this positive reaction to bad news? More
Posted by Lee Pender on August 27, 2013 at 6:27 PM0 comments
The Definitive Movie About Steve Jobs Already Exists
At some point soon, and maybe it will already have happened by the time you read this, the movie Jobs will be in theaters. Ashton Kutcher, probably best known for sort of acting in "That '70s Show," hosting a not-unfunny prank show called "Punk'd" on MTV and horsing around on Twitter (ugh), has borne the awesome responsibility of playing the iGod himself, the late Steve Jobs. You know this, of course. But stick with me here, please.
I'm sure ol' Ashton is just fine in that role, no matter how much criticism he's bound to get from Apple sycophants and snooty, ivory-tower film mavens alike. (Seriously, who's more annoying than an old-school, print-publication "film" reviewer? More annoying than the people who never call them movies, only "films"? These people are at a Ph.D.-in-English-Lit level of annoying, and other than crabby blogger, there is no level higher than that.) Seriously, though, I'm sure Ashton does OK. But it doesn't matter. It's only a movie. And it's not the movie, anyway. More
Posted by Lee Pender on August 21, 2013 at 10:07 AM0 comments
Microsoft Dives Into the E-Book (But Not the Tablet) Nook
The printed word made it all the way from one Gutenberg to another -- Johannes to Steve, although Steve picked up an extra "t" somewhere along the way -- before finally giving way to the inevitability of pixels, screens and bookmarks not made of plastic and given away for free at the local bookstore. (On a side note, the local bookstore isn't around anymore, either. But we digress.)
Kindle, Nook, iPad, HP Touchpad (hey, we are out there!) -- the age of the e-reader is not only here but has been here for a while. So it's about time Microsoft jumped into it. Late, but not fashionably, to the trendy party as usual, Microsoft took a big stake in the e-reader game this week by pumping a few hundred million dollars into Barnes & Noble's Nook device and the subsidiary-type thingy that B&N will create to produce it. More
Posted by Lee Pender on April 30, 2012 at 11:56 AM1 comments
Microsoft's Old-School Moneymakers
Connoisseurs of great television advertising will remember the days when Smith Barney made money the old fashioned way -- they eahhhned it. And so it goes at Microsoft, which, despite being behind in every new-fangled market from tablets to smartphones (actually, pretty much just those two), continues to make money the old fashioned way -- with Windows. And, um, Office.
Last week's Microsoft earnings report was something of a throwback to the '90s, or maybe even the '80s. Entertainment stuff was weak. Nobody's buying Windows Phone. But the old stalwarts in Redmond -- Windows and Office, plus Dynamics (yes, really) and some servers and whatnot -- drove Microsoft to beat analysts' earnings expectations. OK, so Microsoft is no Apple when it comes to blockbuster numbers. So what? More
Microsoft, Facebook and Bing: Do This!
We at RCPU don't make a habit of telling Microsoft what to do. We usually focus on what we think Microsoft is doing wrong or could be doing better. That's what bloggers do. We magnify problems without offering any solutions. We're like politicians in that sense.
Once in a while, though -- and this might actually be the first time -- an idea comes along that's so good, so smart and so seemingly simple that we just have to jump on the bandwagon and say, "Do it, Microsoft! Give Bing to Facebook in exchange for Facebook shares and some search revenue." Oh, it's not our idea, of course. Barron's explains: More
Microsoft and Ariba...Wait, What?
Hmm, let's see here, press releases, news items, Microsoft and Ariba are collaborating on...wait. Hold on. Microsoft and who?
Honestly, on the list of companies we honestly had no idea still existed, Ariba was near the top of the list. But some semi-vague deal with Microsoft has confirmed Ariba's non-death.
What's next? Finding out that Commerce One is still alive? Nah, that's what we thought. At least something in the tech world makes sense right now.
How Microsoft and Facebook Are Spending $1 Billion Each
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
-- Something Sen. Everett Dirksen probably never actually said, but still a good quote.
Microsoft and AOL this week cut a deal that makes both parties look like titans of the lost 1990s compared to Facebook, which just keeps charging ahead into the 21st century.
Dell Gets Wyse to Thin Clients
Wyse Technology started as a producer of convection ovens in the 1930s before converting itself into an aircraft manufacturer during World War II. OK, not really, but the provider of thin clients does go back to 1981, when Wang was still a major name in computing and Microsoft wasn't. It has been around a while.
But no more, at least not as an independent entity. Dell announced this week that it is snapping up Wyse but didn't mention a price. What also doesn't get mentioned all that much these days is thin client computing, what with all the hype about Software as a Service and the cloud.
Windows Phone Much-Loved But Still Unpopular
Does the sliver of the smartphone market that owns Windows Phone-based devices know something we don't? Maybe, as it appears as though Windows Phone is driving a high rate of satisfaction among users -- so high that it tied with the iPhone in a recent survey of customer satisfaction. That's all great news for Microsoft, we suppose, but your editor loved his Intellivision as a kid (George Plimpton did the ads!), but that still didn't stop it from being crushed by Atari. Microsoft's market share for Windows Phone is still less than 10 percent -- but at least it's a happy less than 10 percent.
Posted by Lee Pender on April 02, 2012 at 11:56 AM12 comments


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By TDS Staff June 24, 2015 9:30 am
By TDS Staff | June 24, 2015 9:30 am
While we are having record heat in Phoenix, I am dreaming about hockey season and getting inside an ice cold building. It's 115 degrees out and October seems like a galaxy far, far away. For now I will have to focus on the ways the Coyotes can improve the on-ice play.
The free agency market this summer leaves a lot to be desired; there have definitely been better free agency groups. It also means some players will cost a lot more then they would in a different year. The last I checked, the Coyotes had about 18 million to spend to reach the cap floor. Obviously, some of this will be used on signing UFAs and possible trades but I suspect the Coyotes will need to sign at least a couple of free agents. I wouldn't be surprised to see Don Maloney add at least one forward and one defensemen to our ranks.
I think the Coyotes will focus on becoming younger and faster than last season's roster. The Coyotes have three NHL-level free agents in Martin Erat, BJ Crombeen, and David Moss. I don't believe any of these three will be back. Erat just never lived up to the player he was and could have been. Crombeen was mostly a waste of roster space. Moss has played hard for this team but just doesn't have a place on the Coyotes moving forward. But of the lengthy list of free agents, who could Arizona possibly go after?
The first player that comes to mind is left wing Matt Beleskey, currently of the Anaheim Ducks. Although, if current reports are true Beleskey will be staying with the Ducks. (It is possible at the time of publishing he has already resigned.) Beleskey will probably command 4-4.5 million, a hefty raise from his current 1.4 million salary. What remains unclear is if 2014-2015 was an anomaly for him or if Beleskey is finally coming into his own. This is the first season he reached the 22 goal mark. His assists are also low for someone netting 22 goals; other players with 22 goals ended the season with between 40 and 80 points. His last season high was 11 goals.
Beleskey is an imposing force at 6' and 200 pounds. He is still fairly young at 27 and could have a lot of seasons left in him. Beleskey isn't afraid to play hard. He could be a welcome addition to the Coyotes if he can keep up the 22 goal pace and the Ducks don't hold on to him.
Another great option for the Coyotes is center Carl Soderberg, currently with the Boston Bruins. Boston needs to make room and the Coyotes could clean up by signing some of the players Boston cannot resign due to cap issues. Soderberg made 1 million last season and will probably go for upwards of 3.5 million. He has been pretty consistent with his numbers over the past two seasons. In 2014-2015, he played 82 games, scored 13 goals and had 31 assists for 44 points. Soderberg would be a depth center and played on the third line in Boston. Soderberg is also a large guy at 6'3 and 216 pounds. He is a little older than Beleskey at 29 but probably still has a few good seasons.
Of course, there is always the option of Antoine Vermette coming back. He has won his ring and has been known to like Phoenix. Vermette is a faceoff specialist and could take some pressure of the young guys to perform. I would be happy to see Vermette back, but I assume with all his game-winning goals during Chicago's playoffs he may have priced himself out of Arizona.
As far as defenseman, the most obvious choice is Zbynek Michalek, or Z has he is commonly known. We all know that Z wants to be here. The team wants him to be here. And the fans want him to be here. Z has always been a solid, dependable player. Z is not afraid to put his face, or any other body part, in front of a puck. As an aging defenseman I imagine he isn't looking for a huge pay day and will most likely receive 4 million per year. Z may be looking for a longer contract, as it could be his last. He's not flashy and won't rack up the points, but he will be hard working. Z will block shots and guard the blue line with the best of them. He also can be a good role model for the younger guys that will be joining the team. I know I would love the see Z back in the sedona red.
Another victim of the Boston Bruins cap troubles might be Adam McQuaid. He might be a bottom pairing, but he is also a solid defenseman who can help mentor younger players. McQuaid, at 6'4, could also replace Crombeen in the intimidation area. And he isn't afraid to drop the gloves. He currently earns 1.8 million and could probably get 2.5-3 million. McQuaid may not have the speed the Coyotes are looking for, he's no Yandle, but he does bring character and professionalism to what could be a very young team.
There are about a million other players available. Some will be way too pricey for the Coyotes. Some don't fit in the system. Which free agents do you think wind up in a Coyotes uniform for 2015-2016?
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The Office of Commercial Vessel Compliance has announced the publication of the 2018 Domestic Annual Report.The report highlights, U.S. domestic fleet deficiencies, inspections, and marine casualty statistics and serves as a powerful tool to study trends, identify key performance indicators, and bring attention to issues in the fleet.
Is your company a Top 100 performer? The application period for this year's MN100 edition is officially open and underway! Only those who apply can be considered for inclusion.The MN100, always our August print edition, is our annual look at the best 100 firms in the MarineNews, brown water, workboat space.
The World Maritime University (WMU) signed an enhanced Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), to cooperate on global maritime leadership training and capacity building for the international maritime community. The enhanced MoU was signed by Ms.


Mecalux designed and built an automated rack-supported warehouse for Special Dog, a Brazilian pet food business. It comprises two aisles both lined with double-depth racks and flow channels on one side. With this solution, the company receives a storage capacity of more than 6,000 pallets and can dispense product quickly to the 25,000 points of sale the company runs all over the country.
Pallet sizes: 39" x 48" x 63" / 71"
Founded in the state of São Paulo (Brazil) in 1967, Special Dog has a long history of investigation and innovation, making them a forward-thinking company. It started doing business processing and selling coffee. Over time, it got involved in rice and flour production, which are used in different food industry sectors (mainly for children).
Since 2001, it has specialized in cat and dog food. Currently, it offers a wide variety of products that focus on making pets healthier and happier.
In the last few years, Special Dog has experienced unprecedented growth in Brazil. To shore up its position in the Latin American market, it sought out the collaboration of Mecalux to pinpoint a solution that would provide a large storage capacity, and at the same time speedy picking.
After analyzing the company's needs, Mecalux erected a 13,993 ft2 automated rack-supported warehouse in the city of Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, approximately 218 miles from São Paulo.
The rack-supported installation is a building formed by racks that support their own weight, that of the goods, of the vertical cladding and roofing, as well as the thrusts by the stacker cranes. Its design anticipates certain factors that have an impact on the structure, such as the force of the wind, the seismic activity corresponding to the area and the local standards in force.
The Special Dog installation measures 89' high and is composed of two 282' long aisles with double-depth racks on both sides.
In each aisle, a single-mast stacker crane is tasked with moving products inside, from the conveyors up to the locations assigned by the Easy WMS warehouse management system by Mecalux.
The stacker cranes work at a travel speed of 524 ft/min and 125 ft/min when raised, with a potential to handle approximately 100 pallets an hour. They are equipped with double-depth telescopic forks able to reach the second position on all levels.
The warehouse contains an efficient fire-fighting system with smoke detectors and automatic sprinklers. These are spread out inside the racks and can turn on directly above the affected zone if a fire ensues.
A roller conveyor circuit is tasked with the automatic inputs and outputs of goods, eliminating any sort of human involvement.
Operators, aided by pallet trucks, deposit the goods in the entry stations and a hydraulic table lifts the load to the input conveyor's level. From there, they flow to the checkpoint, where their characteristics are verified, and it is checked whether they fulfill the established warehouse parameters. Pallets that do not pass the inspection are ejected from the circuit to be reconditioned.
The output conveyor, placed in parallel to the input one to avoid mix-ups between the two operations, is set up to handle full pallets leaving the warehouse and heading straight to dispatch.
Lower rack levels coincide with the dispatch areas, where 58 flow channels are enabled. Each channel can house up to three pallets.
When a reserve pallet is used up, Easy WMS by Mecalux gives the stacker cranes the order to replenish the channels with goods automatically. With this system, there are always goods available, and this avoids interruptions during order picking.
Operators crisscross the flow channels with order pickers, locating SKUs to insert into each order.
The WMS by Mecalux instructs personnel which location to go to by means of RF devices and, once there, they collect products directly off the pallets.
The Easy WMS warehouse management software by Mecalux controls all warehouse processes and operations, such as the incoming goods, their location in the warehouse based on assignment rules and algorithms, the pallets being sent to the flow channels or directly to the exit conveyor, and order preparation.
Easy WMS by Mecalux is in permanent, bi-directional communication with the ERP of Special Dog, interchanging information in order to increase the throughput of the installation.
The Galileo control module sends commands to the automatic equipment in the warehouse, such as the AS/RS stacker cranes and the conveyor circuit.
Storage capacity: in a 13,993 ft2 area, the Special Dog rack-supported warehouse provides a capacity for more than 6,000 pallets.
Smooth picking system: the installation of flow channels expedites picking tasks, keeping goods always on hand to be picked.
Precise warehouse management: it is managed by the proficient Easy WMS from Mecalux and the Galileo control module, capable of boosting the installation's throughput.


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Elephants Held As Malawi Cruise Past Algeria
AFCON tournament favourites Ivory Coast were held to a barren draw last night in Cabinda by a Burkina Faso side that were determined to make the most out of their opening Group B encounter. Burkina Faso, the underdogs in this match, were lucky not to concede a goal as Ivory Coast had more than a handful of chances to score.
Olympique Marseille's Bakary Kone had the best opportunity for the Elephants in the 67th minute to win the game after Tiote run through Burkina Faso's defense to pull back his cross for Kone who put it wide. That was to be his last touch as Vahid Halilhodzic immediately replaced him with Kieta. There was still no real intentions made by the Ivorians and sensing danger, Halilhodzic made two more quick substitutions to bring on Arouna Dindane and Salomon Kalou.
These introductions spurred some life into the team and it provided Drogba with the opportunity to link up with his strike partner Kalou and create some chances. Kalou's best chance of the match came towards the end of the match when Drogba cut through Burkina Faso's defense to provide Kalou with a ball that should have ended in the back of the net however, he kicked the ball high and wide. That was to be the last real opportunity for Elephants as Burkina Faso held out for a draw.
They that in football you should expect the unexpected but when i got word of Malawi's 3-0 demolition of World Cup finalists Algeria, i was stunned beyond words. I could not believe that the nation that would be representing the entire continent at the finals could suffer such an embarrassing defeat to a team that is barely recognized in Africa.
After eliminating Egypt in their play-offs for the final ticket to South Africa, i expected the Desert Foxes to give a repeat performance of their epic 1-0 win over the Pharaohs in Khartoum. Algeria, Angola and Mali now have all to work for in Group A as Malawi now lead the group.
Today's fixtures will see Egypt and Nigeria battle it out for Group C Supremacy while Mozambique face off with Benin.


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The 1927 National Championship (Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1927. / Државно првенство 1927.) was the first year in which the championship was played in a  league system, with Hajduk Split being the first national league champion. Newcomer BSK Beograd replaced Jugoslavija Beograd as Serbia's top-performing club, this was due to half of the Jugoslavija players switching clubs to play for BSK. Hajduk and second-place club BSK entered the 1927 Mitropa Cup.

Qualifiers
For the final stage of the national championship, the clubs were qualified through their subassociation competitions, although this year, the major subassociations of Belgrade and Zagreb gave each two teams for the qualifying stage, qualifying the subassociation champions directly, while the second placed will participate in a qualifying round.  Hajduk Split also qualified directly as Cup winner, while the champions of the rest of the subassociations played the qualifying round.

The representatives were:

Subassociation of Belgrade: BSK Belgrade (qualified directly) and SK Jugoslavija
Subassociation of Zagreb: HAŠK (qualified directly) and Građanski Zagreb
Subassociation of Ljubljana: Ilirija
Subassociation of Osijek: Hajduk Osijek
Subassociation of Sarajevo: SAŠK
Subassociation of Split: Hajduk Split
Subassociation of Subotica: SAND Subotica

Qualifying round:
Ljubljana, May 26: Ilirija – Građanski 5:0
Sarajevo, May 29: SAŠK – Jugoslavija 2:1
Osijek, May 29: Hajduk Osijek – SAND 2:2

The qualified teams were Ilirija, SAŠK and SAND.  The elimination of Građanski and Jugoslavija, both former national champions, was a major surprise.  The qualification was played only in one round.  As Hajduk Osijek and SAND ended tied in their match, an additional match between them was played in Osijek on May 30 which qualified SAND.

League table

Results

Top scorers
Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.
1 - 6 goals - Kuzman Sotirović (BSK Belgrade)
2 - 4 goals - Antun Bonačić, Vinko Radić (both Hajduk Split), Branko Zinaja (HAŠK)

Winning squad
Champions:

HAJDUK SPLIT (coach: Luka Kaliterna)

Otmar Gazzari
Renzo Gazzari
Ivan Montana
Miroslav Dešković
Mihovil Borovčić Kurir
Veljko Poduje
Šime Poduje
Leo Lemešić
Mirko Bonačić
Antun Bonačić
Vinko Radić
Petar Borovčić Kurir

See also
Yugoslav Cup
Yugoslav League Championship
Football Association of Yugoslavia

References

External links
Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables

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Yugoslav Football Championship

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From great ice hockey arenas, baseball, softball and soccer fields to bowling centers, tennis and basketball courts, BMX and extreme sports Flint & Genesee is the place to be.
We take our sports seriously as demonstrated by these great athletes and teams that have come from Flint & Genesee:
Claressa Shields, 2012 Olympic Gold Medalist in Women's Boxing
Mott College Basketball Team, NJCAA National Champions in 2012, 2008, 2007 & 2003
Mark Ingram, 2009 Heisman Trophy Winner
Charlie Bell, Mateen Cleaves and Morris Peterson "Flintstones" who led the way to the 2000 NCAA Championship for Michigan State's Basketball team
Chris Byrd, 1992 Olympic Silver Medalist in Boxing and 2002 IBF World Heavy Weight Champion
Ken Morrow, 1980 Olympic Gold Medalist in Hockey and 4 time Stanley Cup Winner (1983, 1982, 1981 & 1980) with the New York Islanders
In addition to great sporting venues and over the top support from the Flint & Genesee Convention and Visitors Bureau when planning your event, there is always something going on around town for players, fans and families.
Flint & Genesee boasts a variety of historic and community sporting venues - from multi-sport complexes, basketball facilities, ice arenas, and ball fields to bowling centers,...
Hosting a special celebration like a bridal shower, retirement, or birthday? Many restaurants in Flint & Genesee have special private dining rooms and event menus that cater to...
The Flint & Genesee Convention and Visitors Bureau provides service to tournament and event organizers at no charge.
Flint Farmers' Market
Longway Planetarium
Flint Institute of Arts
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Considered one of the preeminent trial attorneys in Pennsylvania, Ed Balzarini, Sr. has represented personal injury victims and their families for over 50 years. Mr. Balzarini has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for his injured clients. His accomplishments include the largest jury verdict for injuries suffered in an automobile accident and the largest jury verdict for medical malpractice ever awarded in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
While tirelessly representing his clients, Mr. Balzarini has for many years served as an advisor to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on its Procedural Rules Committee. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, considered the elite trial lawyers organization in the United States, a member of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County and the American and Pennsylvania Association of Trial Lawyers.
By his devotion to obtaining the maximum recovery for each of his clients, Mr. Balzarini has so distinguished himself in the Pennsylvania legal community that he is known as a "lawyer's lawyer." Accomplished trial lawyers throughout Pennsylvania refer their most challenging injury and death cases to him for handling because of his proven record in achieving the best results.


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The Stylistics - Friday 9th November 2007
THE STYLISTICS completed a treble hat-trick at Dunstable Leisure Centre on Friday night.
Their third pre-Christmas show under the Cali-R banner, the third time they sold out the venue and a third classy performance that again wowed a wildly enthusiastic audience.
If anything, this was the best of the three shows. As you might expect from a quartet on a tour billed as "Greatest Hits 2007", the super-smooth soulsters produced a night that packed in the very best of the Stylistics, from You're A Big Girl Now to 16 Bars, and all points in between.
The Philadelphia-based outfit are celebrating 39 years of hits, but if anyone thinks that they might be jaded -- forget it. Exceptional vocals from Eban Brown, complemented by the two remaining founder members Airrion Love and Herb Murrell, plus Van Fields, and backed by the ultra-professional Style Orchestra, ensured that the show never once dropped from the highest standard.
And it wasn't just the ladies who enjoyed themselves – yes, you hard-looking skinhead guys with tattoos, you did enjoy waving your arms in the air and singing along, didn't you?
But they weren't alone, because it was obvious that the Stylistics were also enjoying themselves thoroughly. Airrion Love admitted afterwards: "We're having a blast each show! When we get such good vibes off the audience we feed off each other, and each of us feels like a piece of a puzzle that goes to make a complete show.
"We have a great seven or eight years together. We've been working such a lot and it shows no sign of slowing down. I guess if we saw signs of things not happening we might consider stopping, but I haven't actually seen any signs of that. If anything the past couple of years have been like a steady, upward rise."
And Airrion hopes that the momentum will continue into the Stylistics' 40 th year, thanks to their first non-compilation album since Love Is Back In Style in the 90s.
Said Airrion: "We are really excited, and are talking to Universal about its release. It's produced by Preston Glass (writer/producer who has worked with acts from Earth, Wind and Fire to Christina Aguillera, and who wrote most of the tracks on Love Is Back In Style) and we think it'll probably be called That Same Way. We've done an acapella version of Ebony Eyes and Ray (Ghostbusters) Parker Jr plays acoustic guitar on it. It's a very Stylistics album!"
There was an added bonus for the audience in the appearance of Marvin Ruffin, first cousin of Jimmy and the late David, of Temptations fame. The UK-based Marvin judged the audience just right with a great selection of Motown hits – including nods to his family with versions of What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted and I Wish It Would Rain. A great start to a memorable night.
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It has always amazed me how a 5-year-old child could remember so vividly 70 years later the tragic events which he witnessed. But my father, somehow, remembered. Perhaps it was discussed in his family years after the event occurred when he was old enough to understand.
The big city of Bialystok was a paradise for Jews. More than 60 percent of the city's population were Jews, mainly in the textile business. Relations between Jews, Russians and Poles were usually cordial and they met one another every Thursday morning in the large central market square where peasants came to sell their fruits and vegetables.
The mayor of Bialystok was a Polish Catholic and enjoyed good relations with the Jewish citizens who valued his friendship.
In the early 1900's the cauldron was already on the fire in Czarist Russia. Revolutionaries, many of them Jews, were stirring up troubles which Czar Nicholas II could not permit. They were a threat to the stability of the Russian empire. Assassinations were frequent for leaders of the revolutions in an attempt to instill fear into the hearts of the followers.
On Thursday morning, June 14, 1906 hundreds of Cossack riders appeared on the streets of Bialystok waving swords to behead anyone who stood in their path. They were joined by several hundred Russian troops of the Czar's army.
A few days earlier the city's chief of police had been assassinated and the Czar used it to create a pogrom of monumental destruction.
In order to gain support of the non-Jewish population, rumors had been spread that Jews were planning to burn down the city's Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches. The effect of the false rumors enflamed the non-Jews who eagerly joined forces with Cossacks and Russian troops.
The Polish Catholic mayor of Bialystok was sincere in his efforts to protect the Jews, even offering to provide them shelter in the churches. For his good intentions, he was assassinated by the Russian troops.
The Cossacks rode wildly on their steeds striking down a Jew wherever one was found.
It happened unfortunately at the time when my grandmother and my father were in the city of Bialystok. They had travelled there from their home in a small village of Grodno gubernia to consult with a noted Jewish ophthalmologist for treatment of my grandmother's glaucoma.
My five year old father had been playing outside of the home in which they were staying. When he saw row after row of Cossacks riding at full speed on their horses, he became frightened and ran into the house.
His mother locked the door and carried my father to a large wooden wardrobe closet with many draws. In one draw she placed my father, covering him with many blankets, leaving only a tip of his nose to enable him to breathe and she gave him firm instructions not to move and to remain completely silent.
When the invading Cossacks broke into the house they searched for money and jewelry and objects of value. Finding none, they attacked my grandmother and left the house. She and my father were saved from death but due to the beatings she received from the Cossacks, one of my grandmother's arms was paralyzed and she had to wear it in a sling until her death in 1921.
For three days the pogrom continued resulting in the murders of 200 Jews and more than 80 wounded. On Saturday, June 16, 1906 the Cossacks and the Czarist army retreated from Bialystok and the surviving Jews ran to the synagogue to pray. There they were welcomed and comforted by other survivors in the synagogue of the late and great Bialystok Rabbi, a founder of the early religious Zionist movement, Chovevei Zion, Rabbi Samuel Mohiliver who died in 1898.
From 1906 until the outbreak of war in 1914 and the overthrow of the Czar and his family by Russian communist revolutionaries a few years later, the Jewish population of Bialystok lived in relative peace and security. All of that came tragically to an end in 1939 with the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany. Only a few of Bialystok's large Jewish population survived the war.
In 1945-1946, 81 Jewish survivors of Auschwitz, Maidanek and Treblinka returned to their former homes in the city of Kielce, now occupied by Poles. The Jews came in search of their homes and property only to be massacred by the Polish Catholics who refused to return anything to the Jewish survivors. 81 Jews were murdered in the first pogrom in Poland immediately after the end of the war.
The vast numbers of murdered Jews in the 1906 pogrom, one of the largest in Russia, is in recorded history. Since that time, until 1939, there were very few attacks against Jews in the Russian empire.
My father often spoke of his memories of the Bialystok pogrom. As a five year old boy he knew very little of the Russian language and spoke only Yiddish. The one Russian word which he did remember was "morozheneh"… ice cream.
Memories, happy and sad ones, affect our lives in different ways. For my father, the memory of Cossacks beating his mother and causing her paralysis never left his mind.
70 years later he could still tell me his story of fear and survival over and over again.


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 St Helens (Merseyside) , cette ville ayant un club de rugby à XIII désigné communément  « St Helens »
 St Helens (Swansea) terrains de rugby et de cricket
 Saint Helens (Oregon)
 St Helens (Tasmanie)
 St Helens (île de Wight)
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Qayyarah Police Chief also pointed out to the remarkable cooperation between all ranks of security forces that are participating in the battle to liberate Mosul, and revealed that no families migrated from Mosul until now.
We ask to our Lord help for the brave soldier of Irak, Peshmergas, sunitas,chiitas , cristianos, you fight for us too. The great victory is coming.


Heather Elrod is CEO of Amazing Lash Studio, making its debut on the Franchise Times Fast & Serious list.
I can't tell you where it ranked until the issue publishes January 1, because that would take all the fun of it, but I can say Heather Elrod, CEO, has a remarkable story to tell about her systematic approach to take over from the founders and get growth going.
America's Swimming Pool Co. is another newcomer, and its founder Stewart Vernon had a wry observation as to why he started the company in the first place, back in his hometown of Macon, Georgia.
"I found it was a service-oriented business that was lacking service," he said, and once he "stumbled into the franchising world" his expansion plan was born. Now, "106 owners later," a digital platform called PoolOps is a key component in a bumped-up growth rate over the past three years.
That's all you'll get for now, but see the full list of 40 companies and learn who's No. 1 in the January issue of Franchise Times.


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The Resolute Forest Products Inc. pulp mill in Fairmont, W.Va., will receive $55 million for the mill.
Waste360 Staff | Sep 06, 2018
Hong Kong-based Nine Dragons has entered into an agreement to purchase a Resolute Forest Products Inc. pulp mill in Fairmont, W.Va.
The Fairmont mill produces recycled content pulp used in packaging and tissue products and has an annual production capacity of nearly 220,000 metric tons.
According to a press release issued by Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based ND Paper LLC, Resolute will receive $55 million "plus certain elements of working capital, payable in cash" for the mill.
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A United States-based subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Ltd. has entered into an agreement with Montreal-based Resolute Forest Products Inc. to purchase Resolute's recycled-content bleached kraft pulp mill in Fairmont, West Virginia.
According to a press release issued by Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois-based ND Paper LLC, Resolute will receive $55 million "plus certain elements of working capital, payable in cash" for the mill. Nine Dragons says it plans to use "existing cash on its balance sheet" to fund the transaction.
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These May 2019 UK Book Releases Are Very Exciting & You Should Add Them To Your Reading List Immediately
By Niellah Arboine
The doom and gloom of winter is finally over. Spring is in full bloom, and there is nothing better to do as the weather warms up than get stuck into a really great book while enjoying the great outdoors. But with so many wonderful options, it can be a challenge to know where to begin and what May 2019 book releases to bother keeping up with, because there are so many incredible ones hitting the shelves this spring.
There are already some highly anticipated novels coming out this year. Margaret Atwood will finally be releasing another novel to follow her hugely successful Handmaid's Tale novel, which is now a hit TV show. The Testament will be hitting shelves on Sept. 10 2019, and begins 15 years from where the story left off. And Malorie Blackman is releasing Crossfire on the July 5. It will be the fifth book in the Noughts and Crosses series, and set 34 years after the original protagonists.
While the wait begins for those new books, here are some stellar novels out now that you should be reading in 2019. From fantasy trilogies encapsulating African mythology to creepy dystopian fictions about fertility farms, there's so many options to get your teeth stuck into this May.
'Girl, Woman, Other' — Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other / Bernardine Evaristo
Award-winning author Bernardine Evaristo who wrote Mr Lover Man, the highly acclaimed novel about an older Carribean man living in Hackney who is secretly gay, now brings us Girl, Woman, Other. The story follows 12 very different people living in Britain who are mostly black and mostly women.
Click here to buy.
'Queenie' — Candice Carty-Williams
Queenie / Candice-Carty Williams
Everyone has been talking about Candice Carty-Williams debut novel Queenie. Although it's been hailed as the new Bridget Jones Diary, the two really can't be compared —Queenie completely stands on its own. It follows the story of a young British-Jamaican woman navigating through all life's messy bits.
'The Confessions of Frannie Langton' — Sara Collins
The Confessions of Frannie Langton / Sara Collins
The Confessions of Frannie Langton is Sara Collins' debut novel and it's already getting loads of attention. The gothic-style book set in 1826 follows the story of Frannie Langton, an enslaved woman on trial for murder.
'The Farm' — Joanne Ramos
The Farm / Joanne Ramos
If you're a fan of Margaret Atwood, and are counting down the days until her Handmaid's Tale sequel, then this book will be right up your street. The Farm by Joanne Ramos is about a luxury retreat called Golden Oaks. The catch? The women who go have to dedicate their lives to producing babies. This new dystopian tale is super creepy!
'Black Leopard, Red Wolf' — Marlon James
Black Leopard, Red Wolf / Marlon James
Jamaican author Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for A Brief History Of Seven Killings back in 2015 and his new fantasy novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf looks equally incredible. It's the first in a trilogy that draws from African mythology and history.
'Spring' — Ali Smith
Spring / Ali Smith
The Scottish author who wrote Autumn and Winter finally brings us Spring. The seasonal series was written post-Brexit and Autumn won the Man Booker Prize For Fiction. Each book in the quartet centres on a different plot so it's okay to jump straight into Spring without having read the others.
'With The Fire On High' — Elizabeth Acevedo
With The Fire On High / Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo, the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Poet X, bring us another stellar young adult novel this May. With The Fire On High follows high school senior Emoni Santiago as she juggles life's hard decisions.


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Point Pleasant é um distrito localizado no estado americano de Nova Jérsei, no Condado de Ocean.

Demografia
Segundo o censo americano de 2000, a sua população era de 19.306 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 19.882, um aumento de 576 (3.0%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
10,8 km², dos quais 9,2 km² cobertos por terra e 1,6 km² cobertos por água. Point Pleasant localiza-se a aproximadamente 3 m acima do nível do mar.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 8 km ao redor de Point Pleasant.

Ligações externas

Cidades de Nova Jérsei


Let's begin with my Bilstein story..
On June '98 I was in Paris for a holiday. I took a train to a suburb of Paris and found Eurofac, the main distributor of Bilstein in France.
Has nothing to do with the horsepower, as the name says. Imagine your original gear level is in neutral and you pushed the gear lever forward to 1st gear. How many centimeters did the gear lever travel? 8 cm? 10 cm? It must be something like that.


Power Handling: 300 watts RMS.
Individual Driver Power Rating: 80 watts RMS.
Individual Driver Impedance: 32 Ohms.
Individual Driver Frequency Response: 45Hz – 7kHz.
Individual Driver Sound Pressure Level: 101dB 1w@1m.
Dimensions: H700mm / W610mm / D430mm.


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Food Mysteries For Your Summer Picnics
This week we have another group of fun food mysteries for your summer reading-Deadly Sweet Tooth: A Vintage Sweets Mystery by Kaye George, Peachy Scream: A Georgia B&B Mystery by Anna Gerard, Nacho Average Murder: A Country Store Mystery by Maddie Day, and Southern Sass and a Crispy Corpse: A Marygene Brown Mystery by Kate Young. Details at the end of this post on how to enter to win a copy of all 4 books and links to purchase them at the end of each review–you may not be able to see the Amazon links if you have ad blocker on.
Deadly Sweet Tooth: A Vintage Sweets Mystery by Kaye George
Tally's Olde Tyme Sweets is located in Fredericksburg, Texas. Remember the treats you loved as a kid? Tally sells those—Twinkies, mallomars, whoopie pies, Mary Janes, Clark bars—all made from scratch right in the store. Tally's best friend, Yolanda, has a gift basket shop next door. Life is good.
Tally's brother, Cole, is on his way. The last time he visited, he left a Maine Coon cat for Tally to adopt—without asking her about it. Who can resist an extra-large sized cat named Nigel? Tally couldn't.
Tally's hosting a reception for her parents, coming for their first visit. The party is a roaring success, but there's always one person who wants to spoil the party. That's Fran. She and her husband, Len, were once good friends with Tally's parents. Now that's a thing of the past.
There are other personal dramas on the menu as well. There's a young woman hanging on Len's arm and his every word, much to Fran's disgust. She may not like her husband, but she's not willing to share.
Fran starts a loud argument with Tally's folks when Tally's mom is already feeling ill. Moments after Tally's parents leave the party to get some rest, Fran collapses and is rushed to the hospital.
While Tally's mom recovers, the same can't be said for Fran who was poisoned, With a goal of clearing her parents of suspicion and to protect the store, Tally vows to find other suspects—and just maybe, the killer.
This is the second book in the series. Tally is keeping supply ahead of demand (barely) and loving her business. She's hired three new retail clerks on probation. Her love life could use improvement but that's for another day.
For a good mystery and sweet treats, head to Fredericksburg. Find the recipe for homemade whoopie pies at the back of the book. Sticky fingers may make the pages hard to turn, but it will be worth it.
Peachy Scream: A Georgia B&B Mystery by Anna Gerard
Nina Fleet fell in love with a three-story Queen Anne home that dates to the 1890s. Located an hour west of Savannah, Georgia, it's got charm galore. It's also currently rented to a troupe of Shakespearean actors, in town for the annual festival. Although the actors are amateurs, they are skilled and clearly lovers of the Bard's work.
If only their director was…someone else. When the owner of the house died, it was assumed she'd leave it and the contents to her nephew, Harry. The will had been updated, the house listed for sale, and Nina made a successful offer. Harry was not pleased. Lawsuits are pending. Of course, he'd turn out to be the director of the Shakespeareans.
He is a wonderful director and actor but often a louse to deal with. A truce is called for the duration and Nina can't wait for the festival to be over.
Len is a high maintenance guest. He claims an injured knee, not bad enough to keep him from acting but painful enough to prevent him using the stairs to a second floor room. Another of the guests is a much younger actor named Chris, the one with ear buds and phone taking up all available time and attention. There are two single men, another couple, and Len's wife, totaling eight, counting Harry. It's going to be a long two weeks.
Offstage the troupe is a hot mess of arguments, accusations, and animosity. Two days into their stay, Len goes out to smoke in the designated garden area and doesn't come back. He can't—he's dead.
With Len out of the picture, his wife locked in her grief and her room, will the show go on? The festival's success is riding on the actors' ability to rise above and perform as usual. With suspects limited to troupe members, it's hard to sleep, knowing a killer is close at hand.
I enjoyed the characters a lot, especially Nina and Harry. I predict more time together in their futures. Nina's Australian shepherd, Matilda, adds even more charm to the story, as all dogs do.
Peach Clobbered is the first book in the series. Gerard, writing as Ali Brandon, also pens the Black Cat Bookshop mysteries (6), the Tarot Cat book (1), and the Leonardo Da Vinci series (writing as Diane A. S. Stuckart, 3 books).
Nacho Average Murder: A Country Store Mystery by Maddie Day
High school reunions are usually a mixed bag. While they can provide the opportunities to restart old friendships and catch up with former best friends, they may also reignite never-forgotten resentments and past rivalries. For Pans 'N Pancakes owner Robbie Jordan, returning to Santa Barbara for her Chumash High School ten-year reunion brings both. Robbie is delighted to be back with the newly engaged biochemist bestie Alana Lieberman, but it also puts Robbie back in the eye-line of bossy mean girl Katherine Russom. Not only did the wedding planner organize their high school reunion, her father happens to be the president of the controversial Agrosafe chemical company. It is local resident Paul Etxeberria who links Walter Russom to the recent death of Robbie's mother, who Paul claims was intentionally poisoned by one of his company's products. Robbie is stunned by the suggestion that her mother's aneurism was actually a case of murder, but she's unable to ignore the possibility when Paul himself is found dead.
Fortunately, one of Robbie's high school pals also happens to be the cybercrime investigator for the Santa Barbara Police Department, and he grants her access to those with insight into both cases. Robbie's dreamy boyfriend Abe O'Neill remains back home in South Lick, Indiana, but Alana's upcoming nuptials help them to get closer to the still-irritating Katherine and learn more about her possibly homicidal father. Along the way Robbie savors the Cali-Mex cuisine of the Nacho Average Café, a delightful restaurant that shares not just her practice of farm-to-table meals, but an affinity for six-toed cats. Drug addiction, gambling, greedy widows, and company misdeeds all provide our favorite chef with a surfeit of motives for murder past and present.
This seventh in the series seems to do its best to outmatch previous entries with descriptions of mouth-watering meals, despite Robbie being away from her restaurant and out of the kitchen. Even SBPD investigator Jason Chang whips up a version of his grandmother's stir-fry, with an easy but delicious recipe included at the end. Robbie's emotions are bubbling at the surface with the implications concerning her own mother, but her involvement in the present investigation is seamlessly integrated into the official investigation and never seems intrusive or implausible. Robbie's friendships and reunions with her charismatic former classmates is so naturally presented that it feels as though readers have known them all along, and having them appear in a future installment would be welcome. The topics of locavore cooking and organic farming are presented in ways that educate and tantalize, using humor and clever writing to make the discussions compelling. Whether written under the name Maddie Day or Edith Maxwell, these series highlighting cooking and farming never fail to entertain with their spirited heroines and sparkling dialogue.
Southern Sass and a Crispy Corpse: A Marygene Brown Mystery by Kate Young
Much has changed for Marygene Brown since she returned home to help her sister run their Peach Diner on Peach Cove Island, Georgia. While their mother Clara Brown may have recently passed away, she certainly hasn't moved on and her ghostly presence continues to make Marygene a focus point for those in a similarly deceased state. That may be why when one of Marygene's rare adventurous attempts to be daring by skinny-dipping in the ocean has her bobbing next to a burnt up corpse. The only person less enthused than Sheriff Eddie Carter to see Marygene once again in the midst of a murder investigation is Deputy Alex Myers, her on-again off-again boyfriend. Trauma from Marygene's abusive marriage and Alex's inability to commit have them in the "off" stage of their relationship, which makes it both convenient and awkward when new Deputy Javier Reyes finds her intriguing. His suspecting Marygene's real estate friend Yvonne Brookers of possibly being involves is infuriating, but that pales in comparison to the lengths her newly found father Eddie will go to in order to keep Marygene safe.
The decisions Clara Brown makes in her limbo afterlife will determine whether or not she gets to makes it into heaven, meaning that Marygene has both the gift and irritation of her mother's attempts to repair their fractured relationship. At least Marygene's sister Jena Lynn has some good news of her own, although that also means that Marygene wants to keep her as far away from any murder investigation as possible. That need is made obvious when the home Marygene inherited from her mother is burnt down, leaving her homeless and forced to bunk with her exuberant Aunt Vi. Fortunately Marygene's friend and flirtatious waitress Betsy is always eager to eavesdrop and spy in order to gather information, as is Marygene's Meemaw; who apparently had a talent for corpse-encountering of her own. Missing twins, a tourist-attracting Taste of Peach Cove Event, and a questionable mortician all ensure that the ghost of her mother will be the least upsetting presence in Marygene's future.
This second in the series makes the most of the Southern island setting, with descriptions of mouth-watering southern comfort cuisine as essential as the polite manners and nosiness of neighbors. This is a town where everyone knows one another—possibly for generations—and news spreads faster than any newspaper could ever convey. The relationship between Marygene and Alex and Eddie is fascinating, made even more complex by their histories and secrets. Her relatives and friends are absolute delights in these novels, with their eccentricities never seeming too over-the-top or unbelievable. In fact, they are a dream-team of emotional and investigative support, especially when the law enforcement officers seem too personally invested to act rashly. Full of humor, southern cooking, and a surprisingly helpful ghost, this second in the Marygene Brown mystery series showcases her strength as a vulnerable, likable, and evolving amateur detective.
To enter to win a copy of all 4 mysteries, simply email KRL at krlcontests@gmail[dot]com by replacing the [dot] with a period, and with the subject line "picnic," or comment on this article. A winner will be chosen July 25, 2020. U.S. residents only, and you must be 18 or older to enter. If you are entering via email please include you mailing address in case you win, it will be deleted after the contest. You can read our privacy statement here if you like. BE AWARE THAT IT MAY TAKE MUCH LONGER THAN USUAL FOR WINNERS TO GET THEIR BOOKS DUE TO THE CURRENT CRISIS.
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1 Glen Davis July 18, 2020 at 9:16am
Another great collection of books!
2 Alicia July 18, 2020 at 8:05pm
Food mysteries are my favorites!
3 Carol Knudtson July 19, 2020 at 8:02am
What a great selection! Thanks for the contest.
4 Lynn Brown July 19, 2020 at 9:55am
Thanks for the chance. Awesome books.
5 ellie July 19, 2020 at 10:42am
Wonderful and captivating books. Thanks.
6 Shannon S July 19, 2020 at 11:29am
Just found you today! Thanks for the reviews, I enjoyed them!
Holy Moly..I'm loving this giveaway!!! Thank-you so very much KRL!! Fingers crossed on this one for sure!!!
8 Teresa Warner July 19, 2020 at 1:03pm
Love all the covers and titles, would love to read them all! tWarner419(at)aol(dot)com
Four great new mysteries for summer. Would love to read aa of them. Thanks for the chance.
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10 Lisa Sabatini July 20, 2020 at 4:09am
Each one of these mysteries sounds unique and fun!
11 Mary Holshouser July 22, 2020 at 8:46pm
It's been a hot summer. I need these
books to help me while away the days
until fall. thanks
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About
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``fabtools`` includes useful functions to help you write your `Fabric <http://fabfile.org/>`_ files.

``fabtools`` makes it easier to manage system users, packages, databases, etc.

``fabtools`` includes a number of low-level actions, as well as a higher level interface called ``fabtools.require``.

Using ``fabtools.require`` allows you to use a more declarative style, similar to Chef or Puppet.

Installing
==========

To install the latest release from `PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fabtools>`_

.. code-block:: console

    $ pip install fabtools

To install the latest development version from `GitHub <https://github.com/ronnix/fabtools>`_

.. code-block:: console

    $ pip install git+git://github.com/ronnix/fabtools.git

Example
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Here is an example ``fabfile.py`` using ``fabtools``

.. code-block:: python

    from fabric.api import *
    from fabtools import require
    import fabtools

    @task
    def setup():

        # Require some Debian/Ubuntu packages
        require.deb.packages([
            'imagemagick',
            'libxml2-dev',
        ])

        # Require a Python package
        with fabtools.python.virtualenv('/home/myuser/env'):
            require.python.package('pyramid')

        # Require an email server
        require.postfix.server('example.com')

        # Require a PostgreSQL server
        require.postgres.server()
        require.postgres.user('myuser', 's3cr3tp4ssw0rd')
        require.postgres.database('myappsdb', 'myuser')

        # Require a supervisor process for our app
        require.supervisor.process('myapp',
            command='/home/myuser/env/bin/gunicorn_paster /home/myuser/env/myapp/production.ini',
            directory='/home/myuser/env/myapp',
            user='myuser'
            )

        # Require an nginx server proxying to our app
        require.nginx.proxied_site('example.com',
            docroot='/home/myuser/env/myapp/myapp/public',
            proxy_url='http://127.0.0.1:8888'
            )

        # Setup a daily cron task
        fabtools.cron.add_daily('maintenance', 'myuser', 'my_script.py')

Supported targets
=================

``fabtools`` currently supports the following target operating systems:

* Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid)
* Ubuntu 12.04 (precise)
* Debian 6.0 (squeeze)

Contributions to help support other Linux distributions are welcome!


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Sardinia Grand Slam – Day 1
The first day of competition at the Poetto di Cagliari is over. After two races, Nico Parler leads the provisional ranking with a point ahead of Maxime Nocher. Daniela Moroz first in women's category
Not even today's weather alert on the entire city of Cagliari has managed to stop the show of Sardinia Grand Slam 2018. The third and final stage of the KiteFoil World Series, which is awarding on Sunday, October 21st the world titles, has regularly begun at 14.00!
The wind and the sea, though rough, allowed two races to take place. The first one immediately after lunch and the second one at 17.30, after a stand by of a few hours made necessary to have the best conditions possible for the performing of the test.
In the first race, the Monegasque Maxime Nocher, now the number one in the ranking and favourite for the victory, immediately confirmed his leadership. Behind him, in second position, the French Nico Parlier, who, after dominating the 2017 edition of Sardinia Grand Slam, confirms his excellent feeling with the wind of the Poetto of Cagliari. Fifth the Italian Mario Calbucci.
Among the women, excellent performance by the very young American Daniela Moroz, followed by the Sardinia Grand Slam winner, Steph Bridge.
Plot twist in the second race with Nico Parlier who manages to impose himself on the British Guy Bridge. Only third Maxime Nocher. First among the Italians is once again Mario Calbucci, seventh.
At the end of the first day we then have Nico Parlier leading the standings with 3 points followed by Maxime Nocher with 4 points. Third, detached of 7 points, the British Connor Bainbridge.
Unchanged the women's arrival order of the second race and then of the provisional ranking with Daniela Moroz first, followed by Steph Bridge and Julia Damasiewicz.
The Sardinia Grand Slam is organized by Good Looking Entertainment with the collaboration of the Yacht Club Cagliari, which deals with technical sports coordination, under the auspices of the IKA (International Kiteboarding Association), and with the contribution of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia with the Department of Tourism and the City of Cagliari with the Department of Sports.


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Iomeprol is a pharmaceutical drug used as a radiocontrast agent in X-ray imaging.
It is sold under the trade names Imeron and Iomeron.

It is classified as a water-soluble, nephrotrophic, low osmolar X-ray contrast medium. Low osmolar non-ionic agents are better tolerated and less likely to cause side effects than the high osmolar ionic agents.

The substance is not metabolized in the human body but excreted in unchanged form. It is decomposed slowly and can therefore accumulate in the environment.

See also
 Iodinated contrast

References

Radiocontrast agents
Iodoarenes
Benzamides
Acetanilides


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It's official: People are animals. Filthy, disgusting, not-fit-for-society animals. Especially these people (who remain unnamed) who trashed an Airbnb home in Calgary that they rented for the weekend. And even "trash" is probably too generous a word to describe what they did—they destroyed this home. They desecrated it. Watching the video walk through of the house is heartbreaking, and listening to the heavy breathing and shaking voice of one half of the couple who rented the house, Mark King, will make you feel exactly how violated and vulnerable he feels.
Mark and his wife Star rented the property on Airbnb to four people who said they were going to a wedding. Instead it seems they spend the night tearing open couch cushions, blocking the toilets with condoms, breaking anything they could get their hands on, and vomiting on the floor. Allegedly, shortly after the Kings had surrendered the keys to the renters, a luxury party bus delivered around 100 people to the home, at which point neighbors began contacting police and the Kings. The part where I nearly contributed to the vomit on the floor was when the video of the damage caused by the revelers revealed a baby's crib. The destruction is bad enough, and then somehow knowing it's happened in the home of a small child makes it that much worse.
CBC News reports that Jakob Kerr, Airbnb spokesperson, said the company had banned the guests in question from renting through their site. He said in a statement, "We have zero tolerance for this kind of behaviour and our team is working quickly to make this right. Over 35 million guests have stayed on Airbnb, and property damage is extremely rare." Kerr also told CBC "that King family will be reimbursed through its Host Guarantee insurance, which provides up to $1 million 'to eligible properties in the rare event of guest damages which are not resolved directly with the guest.'"


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Elizabeth Taylor's Most Dazzling Fashion Turns On Film
by W Magazine
Stylist: Edward Enninful
As W's February issue celebrates Elizabeth Taylor's most surprising legacy—her feminism—we created a slideshow of the screen icon's most enduring fashion moments on the silver screen.
Costume designer Irene Lentz outfitted a young Elizabeth Taylor (only 12 at the time) in equestrian wear for her breakout role.
Legendary costume designer Edith Head crafted Taylor's wardrobe for her scenes opposite Montgomery Clift.
Taylor's bombshell looks in this film were created by designer Helen Rose, who had previously worked with Taylor on Father's Little Dividend (1951) and The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954).
Sharing the screen with Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift, Taylor's outfits were crafted by Tony award-winning costume designer and art director Oliver Messel.
Costume designer Renié (born Irene Brouillet) won an Oscar with co-designer Irene Sharaff for the incredible ensembles Taylor donned as the Egyptian queen.
Working again with designer Irene Sharaff, Taylor won an Oscar for her work in this charged film adaptation of Edward Albee's play.


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Variance granted for vacant SoHo building
Permissible uses for vacant two-story building on Crosby Street expanded to include restaurant and bar. The owner of a vacant two-story building at 54 Crosby Street in SoHo applied to BSA for a use variance to permit a bar or restaurant on the building's ground floor. The 4,535 sq.ft. building sits on a lot twenty feet wide and is built to less than half of the available floor area. The building was formerly used as a sculptor's residence and studio, and its M1-5B manufacturing zoning does not permit commercial uses below the second floor.
The owner argued that the narrow building made a conforming manufacturing use impractical. The owner claimed that the building's narrow floor plates were inefficient for a warehouse use and that the absence of an elevator would make transferring goods between floors difficult. According to an analysis submitted by the owner, only five of the 150 surrounding lots had widths of less than 25 feet and are built to less than half of the zoning district's maximum floor area. (more…)
Tags : 54 Crosby Street, Manhattan Community Board
New SoHo BID proposal heads to Council
City Planning Commission • Business Improvement District • SoHo, Manhattan
Map of Proposed SoHo bid. Image: Courtesy of sohobid.org
Proposal encompasses 800 businesses and features unique reimbursement plan for certain mixed-use co-ops. On January 26, 2011, the City Planning Commission approved the Department of Small Business Services' plan to create the SoHo Business Improvement District for approximately 800 businesses and 433 residential units in Manhattan. The BID would include 280 tax lots along Broadway between Houston Street and Canal Street. The BID would include a special reimbursement plan for seven mixed-use co-ops in response to concerns about the annual assessment on those properties.
The BID's boundaries encompass a mix of uses including art galleries and retail shops. The area is primarily characterized by five- to twelve-story residential loft buildings with ground floor commercial uses and live-work quarters for artists on the upper floors. The BID's projected first-year budget would be $700,000. Wholly commercial properties and ground floor commercial condominiums would be assessed based on a combination of a linear front footage rate, an assessed value rate, and a base fee of $250. Mixed-use properties, including co-ops, would be assessed the same way in which commercial properties are assessed, but using a reduced assessed value rate to reflect the upper floor residential use. Commercial condos located on an upper floor or below-grade space would be assessed based on an assessed value rate plus a base fee of $250. Wholly residential tax lots would pay an annual one-dollar assessment. (more…)
Tags : Brian Steinwurtzel, Manhattan Community Board 2, SoHo Business Improvement District
Trump SoHo defeats new permit challenge
Board of Standards & Appeals • Appeal • SoHo, Manhattan
Community group argued developer improperly deducted elevator shafts on mechanical floor from floor area calculations. In May 2007, Buildings issued a building permit to the BayRock/Sapir Organization LLC to build a 42-story condominium hotel, known as Trump SoHo, at 246 Spring Street in Manhattan. The lot's M1-6 zoning prohibited residential development. Therefore, Buildings' approval required that the developer file a restrictive declaration prohibiting anyone from living in any of the building's units for more than 29 consecutive days in any 36-day period or for a total of more than 120 days in a calendar year. Later that year, the SoHo Alliance community group unsuccessfully appealed the issuance of the permit, claiming that the building would violate the zoning resolution's regulations for transient hotels. 5 CityLand 74 (June 15, 2008).
In August 2008, Buildings approved the developer's plan to add a 43rd and 44th floor to the building. The Alliance challenged Buildings' issuance of the permit, arguing that the project exceeded the maximum floor-area regulations. Buildings refused to revoke the permit, and the Alliance appealed to BSA. (more…)
Tags : 246 Spring Street, BayRock/Sapir Organization, SoHo Alliance, Trump SoHo
Revised facade renovation for SoHo store approved
New H&M storefront retains more of building's original fabric than previous proposal. On September 7, 2010, Landmarks approved a revised proposal to replace the storefront of an 1860s-era building owned by H&M at 558 Broadway in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. Landmarks had previously rejected a proposal to replace the two-story building's entire brick facade with layered panels of fiberglass-reinforced concrete. 7 CityLand 76 (June 15, 2010). H&M's new proposal would only impact the ground floor, leaving the building's decorative work and a large second floor tripartite window untouched. TEK Architects' David Lee proposed removing the ground floor facade, which had been repeatedly altered over the years, and building a glass storefront with grey steel framing and a sixteen-inch- high kick plate running along the bottom. An entrance to H&M's second-floor showroom would be located on the left side of the facade and separated from the main storefront by a steel column.
Manhattan Community Board 2's Jane McCarthy testified that CB2 supported the new plan. The Historic District Council's Nadezhda Williams urged Landmarks to deny the proposal, conceding that it was "not nearly as offensive" as the initial plan but arguing it created a facade of two distinct and unrelated parts. (more…)
Tags : 558 Broadway, H&M, Historic District Council, Manhattan Community Board 2, SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, TEK Architects
Proposed facade for SoHo store rejected
Landmarks Preservation Commission • Certificate of Appropriateness • SoHo,Manhattan
Architect argued that retail building's deteriorating facade did not reflect area's historic fabric. On May 4, 2010, Landmarks denied a proposal to construct a new facade for an H&M clothing store at 558 Broadway in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. The site was originally occupied by a four-story building dating back to the 1860s, but the building's height was reduced by two stories and the facade was reconstructed in 1920. H&M has been located in the building for ten years, but it only recently came into possession of the entire building. H&M proposed removing the existing brick facade in order to update the building with a more contemporary facade.
TEK Architects' Andrew Ojamaa presented the plan, noting that H&M planned to renovate the building's interior in addition to making the exterior alterations. The building's first floor and cellar would continue to be used as a retail store, and H&M would use the second story as a private "editor's showroom." Ojamaa claimed the existing facade was in a state of disrepair and argued that the facade's 1920s design did not reflect the neighborhood's "designated historic fabric." (more…)
Tags : H&M, SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, TEK Architects


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Q: Question Mark in Querystring with Server.MapPath returning an error I am working on a web application. Here I am storing attachments/uploads on server physical directory. The parent folder of uploads may contain special characters like '?'
Example of URL
"~/ChapterFiles/Capgeminisdfsdf_BE CSE ?_CoverPic/CoverPic.jpg"

When I am doing, Server.MapPath() on this URL, I am getting an error "Illegal characters in path."
Can't remove question mark from folder name as it's part of requirement. Please suggest a solution, I need to fix it urgently.

A: You can use something like:
String absoluteDir = Server.MapPath("~");
String myRelativePath = "~/ChapterFiles/Capgeminisdfsdf_BE CSE ?  _CoverPic/CoverPic.jpg".Replace("/","\\");

String absolutePath = Path.Combine(absoluteDir,myRelativePath);

It will work. I advice you to write some unit tests for this function.

A: Use HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode and UrlDecode to encode/decode the string.

A: Question marks are not allowed in folder names in Windows. Your requirement in it's current form is impossible to implement and there is no "fix". You need to rethink how to map URL's to folder and file names.

A: You need to use @ sign before the string. Like below
@"~/ChapterFiles/Capgeminisdfsdf_BE CSE ?_CoverPic/CoverPic.jpg"

Reference link

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Audio Damage's Phase Two plug-in is a perfect digital recreation of the Bi-Phase, one of the most sought-after vintage phaser units, highly prized for its liquid and subtle stereo phasing abilities.
Phase Two features two separately controllable 6-stage phasers, and like the original unit, these two phasers can be routed in series or parallel, for everything from subtle stereo washes to full-blown alien attack. Using the extra CC feature, which takes the place of the "Opti-Pedal" in the original unit, you can manually sweep the phaser frequencies with a MIDI controller, such as a mod wheel or aftertouch.
The cel-shaded user interface of Phase Two matches the original unit in every respect, right down to the footswitch, so anyone familiar with the vintage unit will feel right at home using the digital recreation. Every object on the interface has Audio Damage's standard MIDI Learn feature, so the unit can be fully controlled from external hardware controllers.
– Two separately controllable 6-stage phasers modeled on the Mutron Bi-Phase.
– The same routing mechanism as the original hardware, for serial or parallel operation.
– Full MIDI learn mode, for MIDI CC control of every control (VST only; handled by host in AU version).


A federal district court in Connecticut has ruled that a party to a reinsurance assumption agreement has the right to compel arbitration of its dispute pursuant to a cut through clause with the reinsurer even though the assumption agreement itself did not contain an arbitration clause. In Trenwick American Reinsurance Corp. v. Unionamerica Ins. Co., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97518 (D. Conn. July 12, 2013), Judge Arterton emphasized the fact that the assumption agreements were physically attached to and referenced within the terms of the facultative reinsurance agreements. Further, the court held that a signatory to an agreement containing an arbitration clause is estopped from avoiding arbitration with the non-signatory when the issues the non-signatory is seeking to resolve in arbitration are intertwined with the agreement that the estopped party has signed. Finally, the court refused to allow the reinsurer to carve out a statute of limitations defense independently of the arbitration proceedings.
After Trenwick allegedly failed to make payments due to Unionamerica under the terms of the Reinsurance Assumption Agreement, Unionamerica demanded arbitration. In response, Trenwick filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut seeking to enjoin Unionamerica from this �illegal arbitration.� The District Court granted a Temporary Restraining Order to Trenwick and proceeded to consider the merits of the parties� positions. Unionamerica moved to dismiss Trenwick�s case and to compel arbitration.
In arguing that it should be allowed to go forward with this litigation, Trenwick focused on the fact that there was no provision for arbitration in the Reinsurance Assumptions Agreements and that Unionamerica was not a signatory to the reinsurance certificates that Trenwick/Chartwell had issued to CCIC. Alternatively, Trenwick argued that the court should at least consider its threshold argument that the time for pursuing such claims had expired under Georgia law before compelling arbitration.
As a preliminary matter, Judge Arterton concluded that the issue of arbitrability could be decided by her and not by the arbitration panel as there was not �clear and unmistakable evidence� of an intent that such question should be decided by the arbitration panel itself. The court distinguished a similar dispute in Contec Corp. v. Remote Solution Company, Ltd., 398 F.3d 205 (2nd Cir. 2005) as involving an arbitration clause that incorporated by reference the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association, which specifically contemplate the authority of arbitrators to rule on their own jurisdiction.
Judge Arterton next rejected Trenwick�s suggestion that because Unionamerica was not a party to the Reinsurance Agreements it could not take advantage of the arbitration clause in the Agreements. The District Court focused on the fact that the Assumption Agreements were attached to and made a part of the Agreements and were actually referenced in Article I of the Reinsurance Agreements, which contained the arbitration clause. The court observed that Article I stated that �[n]othing herein will in any manner create any obligation or establish any rights against the reinsurers in favor of any third parties or any persons not parties to this agreement except as provided� in the schedule (emphasis added).
The court also took note of the fact that the Second Circuit had ruled in Choctaw Generation Ltd Partnership v. American Home Assurance Co., 271 F.3d 403, 404 (2nd Cir. 2001) that a signatory to an agreement containing an arbitration clause is �estopped from avoiding arbitration with the non-signatory� when the issues the non-signatory is seeking to resolve in arbitration are intertwined with the agreement that the estopped party has signed. Judge Arterton found that Trenwick�s interpretation of the Agreements ran contrary to the plain language set forth therein. Further, the district court determined that the parties� dispute fell within the scope of its arbitration clause as it sought to collect reinsurance balances.
Finally, Judge Arterton declined to entertain Trenwick�s proposal that it resolve the statute of limitations defense that it had raised with respect to Unionamerica�s claims notwithstanding Section 9-9-5 of Georgia�s Arbitration Code which states that, �If a claim sought to be arbitrated would be barred by limitation of time had the claim sought to be arbitrated been asserted in court, a party may apply to the court to stay arbitration or vacate the award. . .� Judge Arterton held that the U.S. Supreme Court has already decided that a choice of law provision contained in an arbitration agreement, without more, cannot impute a specific intent to exclude certain disputes from arbitration. Further, the court noted Second Circuit authority that limitations defenses are properly addressed by arbitrators. As a result, the court declined to carve out the issue of the statute of limitations from the rest of the case to be arbitrated.
Trenwick has sought to appeal Judge Arterton�s judgment to the Second Circuit. Meanwhile, a dispute is on-going in the District Court with respect to Trenwick�s efforts to stay the effect of the court�s order and avoid going to arbitration until its appeal is decided.


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Security regionalism and flaws of externally forged peace in Sudan: The IGAD peace process and its aftermath
Auteurs: Ylönen, Aleksi.
Genre de publication: Article
Éditeur / Institution: African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 2014.
During 1983-2005 Sudan hosted one of Africa's longest insurgencies. Throughout the conflict a number of competing peace initiatives coincided, but a process under the mediation authority of the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) prevailed. However, although initiated in 1993, the IGAD process only accelerated after the September 2001 attacks on the United States (US) and was consequently finalised through the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in less than four years' time. Although it was presented as IGAD's success as a conflict resolution body, in reality the organisation's role in the making of peace in Sudan was to a large extent conditioned by the involvement of a narrow selection of Western stakeholders.
This article examines the IGAD peace process in Sudan, highlighting the dynamics and relative roles of the principal actors involved. It argues that although the negotiations were portrayed as inherently sub-regional, and adhering to the idea of 'African solutions for African problems', a closer analysis reveals that the peace process was dominated by external protagonists. This resulted in the interest Western actors, particularly the US, playing a prominent role in the negotiated agreement, consequences of which are currently experienced both in Sudan and South Sudan.
YLÖNEN, Aleksi, « Security regionalism and flaws of externally forged peace in Sudan: The IGAD peace process and its aftermath », African Journal on Conflict Resolution, vol. 14, nº 2, 2014, ps. 13-39.
/Security regionalism and flaws of externally forged peace in Sudan


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