Thankfully, this is a very easy fix.
Open up the editor again and look in the Miscellaneous folder. You'll see a file marked 'bookmars.txt'; just delete that file and export again and you should be good to go.
Cheers, Paul. That worked. I've now published Beauty Beyond Death. Now for the print version.
Hello Paul. Could you, or someone here, explain to me what this means, and how to fix it. I solved the others issues, but now this one popped up after fixing that issue and it confuses me. It doesn't make sense to me.
I had the same problem. Paul has posted solution at top of the page. It worked for me.
Indeed. Compared to just sticking a docx in to a Converter, it's a lot of hassle.
I'm no techy and the codes baffle me, but I followed Paul's instructions and published my latest book. I must say though, this process must be off putting for anyone wishing to publish here.
I must say though, this process must be off putting for anyone wishing to publish here.
I hope people will persevere and not be put off. So many have been sent here by Lulu support and Paul has helped us. However it can be very frustrating and I join the voices of those who long for the converter to be fixed. It was so easy to make an eBook then.
I agree Paul's tutorial on the workaround is great. But it is kind of putting me off a little not wanting to upload anything. It was so much easier before. But I'll try and see if I can get things to work.
Have you tried "libro eBook reader"? So sorry Calibre doesn't translate into Spanish.
I have not seen any comments on converting a GoogleDoc into an EPub. On Chrome, you can do this conversion, but I have not been able to get the Lulu converter to accept such Epubs for publication. Any thoughts on this?
When Lulu's ePub tool was working fully it was still quite fussy about what it would convert, or use.
I'd never tried using Google Docs to make an EPUB before!
The 'package.opf' file is the same as the 'content.opf' commonly created by other EPUB generation software.
Aside from that, the major issues are: a lack of metadata and the file isn't broken into sections (chapters).
Both can be achieved through Calibre. Here's some instructions.
Start by adding the file to Calibre and selecting 'Edit Metadata', then add the author, published date, and publisher.
Now you'll get into the 'Book Editor' and you'll see the entire EPUB is one .xhtml file. For our system to create a Table of Contents, we need a discrete file for each Heading section.
Click 'OK' and the file will be broken up at each H2 into sections.
Last step is to add the publication date, as I detailed at the start of this thread. Remember that the content.opf is labeled package.opf in a Google Doc created EPUB.
With this done, I exported the file and was able to upload it. There were other errors, but those were specific to the file, and may not apply to your file.
I strongly recommend exporting a .docx from Google Docs and converting the DOCX to EPUB using Calibre. Google embeds a lot of formatting in the EPUB that could make using our system difficult.
Any word on when the site/convertor is going to be updated?
I know we're testing now, but we haven't hit the previous two releases we hoped, so I'm not inclined to say we've got a date.
I have an epub that I created in calibre, that was rejected by lulu due to a littany of error messages, mostly pertaining to images I have within the body of the document. I tried uploading the document as a docx and got an unspecified error as to why it was rejected (possibly due to the document conversion issues this thread is about.) I need some help here. I just want to fix the issues so I can upload my epub and have it accepted. Any advice I could get would be greatly appreciated.
*update* problem has since been resolved.
The latest Calibre (which I installed this morning) seems to be automatically removing the publication date (opf:event=publication) after I put it in. This is rather inconvenient.
Okay, I added it in Sigil and all is well. I don't know why Calibre is suddenly doing this.
Just imagine if the printed book Wizard also broke!
And apparently it was due to dates being mismatched. Things seem to be working right now.
I haven't uploaded anything since it broke. I don't have the patience to do all the editing in Calibre. Add to that, that Amazon has been terrible lately in getting paperbacks up or updating covers , etc. I feel like giving up for now.
Completely understandable, I'm sure several people feel as you do. However I hope you don't give up. Hopefully the "broken" will be mended soon.
Also Larika since the merge on Amazon I've had so many problems with books not being listed, covers not updated, look inside features not working, it's just so frustrating. I have books from three months ago still not fixed yet. Support has contacted Amazon three times to just fix one book and still nothing. Before the merge my books were up and complete usually in two weeks flat. Sort of losing my inspiration to do anything.
Sort of losing my inspiration to do anything.
So sorry to hear that TheJesusNinja. Unfortunately what's happening with the breakdown is that people like solail ( sohail828 sent you a message "We are also specialised in creating valid epub files for lulu." ) keep sending me and I'm sure others, messages through Lulu, saying that (for a price) he can make me an epub. I wonder how many have been enticed away. All we can hope for is that soon Lulu will fix things. I sent the first message from solail to Lulu but didn't get a response. He is doing it through the community Paul. Can he do this?


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Pelicans' Anthony Davis out indefinitely with non-displaced fracture in his right hand (Video)
Dan Devine
Ball Don't Lie December 2, 2013, 4:20 PM UTC
Well, this is a bummer — Anthony Davis, the New Orleans Pelicans forward whose sensational start to his sophomore campaign has been one of the most compelling stories of the early NBA season, suffered a non-displaced fracture in his left hand during the Pelicans' 103-99 road win over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
Davis appeared to injure his hand during an alley-oop attempt with just under three minutes remaining in the first quarter of Sunday's game:
After a timeout on the floor, Davis made the two free throws he received for the mid-air foul, missed his next field-goal attempt and was replaced by New Orleans big man Jason Smith with 1:33 remaining in the first quarter. He'd later head back to the Pelicans' locker room, emerging with his left hand wrapped:
Davis would not return to the game, finishing with seven points and four rebounds in 10 1/2 minutes. The Pelicans did not provide a timetable for Davis to get back to action, according to Nakia Hogan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune:
"I am hoping it is a short-term thing, so I can get back on the floor," Davis said. "I felt pain. I didn't think it was going to keep me out. I am happy that my team battled for the whole 48 (minutes) and got that W."
That win — owed in large part to a game-high 31 points on 7 for 11 3-point shooting by floor-spacing big man Ryan Anderson — got the Pelicans back to .500 on the season, but if Davis misses an extended period of time, Monty Williams' squad figures to have a tough time staying there.
After a rookie season short-circuited somewhat by an array of injuries — an early concussion, a late-November left ankle tweak, a post-All-Star-break left shoulder sprain and a season-ending sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee — Davis got off to a roaring start this year, leading the Pelicans in scoring and rebounding while shooting just under 50 percent from the floor and 85 percent from the free-throw line on nearly six attempts per game. He's added some off-the-dribble cleverness when facing up from the elbows and has extended the range on his jumper, hitting just under 39 percent on midrange shots, up from 30 percent as a rookie.
He's firmly established himself as one of the league's most devastating offensive players when catching the ball in motion, ranking No. 2 in the NBA in points scored per play finished as the roll man in the pick-and-roll and when receiving the rock in transition, according to Synergy Sports Technology's game-charting data, which makes him an ideal big man for a Pelicans team playing at a considerably faster pace this year (nearly six more possessions per 48 minutes, according to NBA.com's stat tool) after the additions of guards Jrue Holiday and Tyreke Evans. Add it all up, and Davis is posting the league's second-highest Player Efficiency Rating — an admittedly imperfect but still somewhat useful catch-all metric — through 16 games, trailing only reigning Most Valuable Player LeBron James. And that doesn't even factor in his defense.
While he struggled a bit to translate the defensive dominance that made him a terror during his lone season at Kentucky to the NBA as a rookie, Davis has emerged as a legitimate deterrent in Year 2. He leads the NBA in both blocks per game and block percentage, which measures the share of his team's defensive possessions that he ends with a swat. He's also influencing shots he doesn't block, holding opponents to a 41.8 percent shooting percentage on tries at the rim, the 11th-lowest mark among big men who average more than 20 minutes per game, according to NBA.com's player-tracking data. New Orleans has been just south of middle-of-the-pack in terms of points allowed per possession with Davis on the floor and just north of bottom-of-the-barrel when he's off it; with backup center/shot-blocker Greg Stiemsma still sidelined by a sprained left knee, missing Davis for any extended period of time would make the Pelicans perilously thin in the middle and susceptible on the defensive end, while also taking away the offensive focal point who helps create open looks for Anderson and a rejuvenated Eric Gordon, and generates drive-and-dump opportunities for Holiday and Evans. That lineup was starting to score like gangbusters in increased minutes; now, it looks like Williams and company will have to find more ways to generate offense without Davis drawing defensive attention on every dive to the rim.
While any absence for Davis presents a gray cloud over Pelicans fans, the silver lining is that the fracture is both non-displaced (meaning the pieces of the broken bone are still lined up properly) and in his non-shooting hand, which (hopefully) should limit his shelving somewhat. Still, with the Pelicans staring down an upcoming slate featuring eight current playoff teams and the Memphis Grizzlies over the next nine games, this isn't exactly an opportune time for New Orleans to be without its best player; any significant slippage over the next few weeks could put the Pelicans in a deep hole when it comes to fighting for a playoff berth in a brutal Western Conference that features 12 teams with .500-or-better records and one (the sliding Minnesota Timberwolves) within one game of all-square.
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Lisova Poleana (în ) este un sat în comuna Matiivka din raionul Bahmaci, regiunea Cernihiv, Ucraina.

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Conform recensământului din 2001, toată populația localității Lisova Poleana era vorbitoare de ucraineană (100%).

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These crushers put more emphasis on the triceps lateral head. Decline Bench. Cable version with bar/EZ-bar. The line of pull comes from the side with this variation, so there's no resting spot at the top. Cable version with bar/EZ-bar. Cable version with rope.
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Dumbbell Skull Crusher. The skull crusher is the ultimate isolation exercise for the triceps, if I had to pick 2 exercises to perform for my triceps without a doubt the skull crusher would be one of them!
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Fly your flag today! July 4, 2012
Fourth of July: NPR has already read the Declaration of Independence, PBS is ready to broadcast the Capitol Fourth concert (maybe a rebroadcast is available, if you're off at your own town's fireworks — check your local listings), your town has a parade somewhere this weekend, or a neighboring community does, and fireworks are everywhere.
Remember to put your flag up today.
Last flag on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and the U.S. Flag — Apollo 17 on the Moon (NASA photo)
"Fireworks in Washington, D.C." (from 2009)
Another post from 2009 – linked for the photo
Our current 50-star flag is the longest-flying flag since 1789; since Hawaii's entry into the Union, the U.S. has gone the longest stretch without adding a state (is it time to add one?)
Fun quizzes on the Fourth of July, from PBS's "Capitol Fourth."
Advice on photographing fireworks, from PBS (with experience on the Mall in Washington, D.C.), and from Ritz Camera and the New York Institute of Photography
One more way we know the Moon landings were real — the photo below shows the flag from the photo above, still on the Moon.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photo of Apollo 17 landing site
Fourth of July trivia: Fun facts about flags, food and fireworks (mercurynews.com)
Happy Fourth Of July! Celebrate With 75 'Firework' Songs (huffingtonpost.com)
Y! Big Story: Lesser known truths about Fourth of July (givemeliberty01.wordpress.com)
Fireworks TV schedule: July 4, 2012 — when, where to watch (examiner.com)
AP PHOTOS: Americans celebrate the Fourth of July (sfgate.com)
Josh Turner plays PBS's 'A Capitol Fourth' special (blogs.tennessean.com)
This is mostly an encore post, but I so love that photo of the flag with the Earth in the distance.
Happy birthday, Kathryn!
Tip of the old scrub brush to Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and the cast of thousands of patriots including George Washington.
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Tricuspid insufficiency (TI), also called tricuspid regurgitation (TR), is a type of valvular heart disease where there is failure of the heart's tricuspid valve to close properly when the ventricles contracts. This defect allows the blood to flow backwards, reducing its efficiency. Regurgitation may be due to a structural change of components of the tricuspid valve apparatus, a lesion can be primary (intrinsic abnormality) or secondary (right ventricular dilatation).
Signs/symptoms of tricuspid insufficiency are generally those of right-sided heart failure, such as ascites and peripheral edema.
Tricuspid insufficiency may lead to the presence of a pansystolic heart murmur. Such a murmur is usually of low frequency and best heard low on the lower left sternal border. As with most right-sided phenomena, it tends to increase with inspiration, and decrease with expiration. This is known as Carvallo's sign. However, the murmur may be inaudible indicating the relatively low pressures in the right side of the heart. A third heart sound may also be present, also heard with inspiration at the lower sternal border.
In addition to the possible ausculatory findings above, there are other signs indicating the presence of tricuspid regurgitation. There may be giant C-V waves in the jugular pulse and a palpably (and sometimes visibly) pulsatile liver on abdominal exam. Since the murmur of tricupsid regurgitation may be faint or inaudible, these signs can be helpful in establishing the diagnosis.
In the diagnosis of tricuspid insufficiency a chest x-ray will demonstrate right heart enlargement. An echocardiogram will assess the chambers of the heart, as well as, right ventricular pressure. Cardiac magnetic resonance may also be used as a diagnostic tool, and finally, cardiac catheterization may determine the extent of the regurgitation.
Generally, surgical treatment of tricuspid regurgitation is not indicated when it has arisen as a result of right ventricular dilatation. In such instances of secondary tricuspid regurgitation, the mainstay of therapy is medical. When left-sided heart failure is the cause, the individual is instructed to decrease intake of salt. Medications in this case may include diuretics and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors.
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- Following along with the tests in the `spec` directory, write code in the `lib` directory to fulfill the tests.
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Anton Scharnagl (* 15. November 1877 in München; † 19. Januar 1955 ebenda) war ein bayerischer katholischer Geistlicher und Weihbischof im Erzbistum München und Freising. Zudem war er Abgeordneter im Bayerischen Landtag.

Werdegang
Anton Scharnagl wurde als Sohn des Bäckermeisters Karl Scharnagl geboren und war Bruder des Politikers Karl Scharnagl. Nach Volksschule und der Reifeprüfung 1896 am Wilhelmsgymnasium München studierte er Philosophie, Theologie und Rechtswissenschaften an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
In München wurde er Mitglied der katholischen Korporation K.S.St.V. Alemannia München im Kartellverband und übernahm dort mehrere Chargen. Später wurde er noch Mitglied in den Studentenvereinen K.St.V. Walhalla Würzburg, Isaria Freising, Germania-Hohentwiel Freiburg und Karolingia München.

Priester und Weihbischof

1901 empfing er die Weihe zum Priester und war zunächst in der Seelsorge tätig. Von 1904 bis 1906 war er Kurat im Priesterhaus St. Johann Nepomuk an der Asamkirche und von 1906 bis 1911 Benefiziat am Dom zu unserer lieben Frau, jeweils in München.

Gleichzeitig habilitierte er sich im Jahr 1908 und wurde als Privatdozent für Kirchenrecht an der theologischen Fakultät der Universität München tätig. Als außerordentlicher Professor für Kirchenrecht, bayerisches Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht kam er 1911 an die Philosophisch-theologische Hochschule Freising. Scharnagl wurde in Freising 1919 zum ordentlichen Professor ernannt und übernahm 1929 als Rektor die Leitung dieser Hochschule.

Innerhalb des Erzbistums München und Freising bekleidete Scharnagl hohe kirchliche Ämter. 1930 wurde er im Münchener Metropolitankapitel infulierter Domdekan, nahm also die zweite Dignität und somit die zweite Leitungsrolle in diesem Gremium ein. Im Jahr 1934 wurde ihm die Aufgabe des Erzbischöflichen Offizials übertragen. Am 10. April 1943 wurde er zum Titularbischof von Zenopolis in Isauria und Weihbischof im Erzbistum München und Freising ernannt, die Bischofsweihe empfing er am 9. Mai 1943 durch Michael Kardinal von Faulhaber. Kokonsekratoren waren der Augsburger Weihbischof Franz Xaver Eberle sowie der Regensburger Weihbischof Johann Baptist Höcht. Scharnagl übernahm dann auch als Dompropst die Leitung des Metropolitankapitels.

Im Jahr 1945 war Scharnagl einer der Initiatoren bei der Gründung des Katholischen Männervereins Tuntenhausen. Der Verein gilt als Herz des politischen Katholizismus im Freistaat Bayern.

Scharnagl ist Verfasser zahlreicher Schriften auf dem Gebiet des Kirchenrechts und war Mitarbeiter am Staatslexikon der Görres-Gesellschaft.

Politiker der BVP, Mitglied des Landtags

Er betätigte sich politisch in der Bayerischen Volkspartei (BVP). Als deren Abgeordneter gehörte er dem Stadtrat von Freising und ab 1919 dem Kreistag von Oberbayern an, wo er den Fraktionsvorsitz seiner Partei innehatte. Bei den Landtagswahlen am 6. Juni 1920 zog er im Stimmkreis Freising in den Bayerischen Landtag ein, dem er bis zu dessen Gleichschaltung im April 1933 angehörte. Dort war er Vorsitzender des Haushaltsausschusses und führend in kirchen- und schulpolitischen Fragen. Insbesondere machte er sich beim Abschluss des Konkordats zwischen Bayern und dem Heiligen Stuhl verdient.

Verhalten im ›Dritten Reich‹

Nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurde Scharnagls Tätigkeit für die Gestapo bekannt. Er wurde zwar in einem Spruchkammerverfahren "als nicht betroffen eingestuft", jedoch sind mittlerweile mehrere Quellen bekannt, die eine solche Tätigkeit belegen. Derzeit werden die Tagebücher von Kardinal Faulhaber wissenschaftlich ausgewertet. Hier hat sich dieser insbesondere auch mit den Gerüchten um die Person Scharnagl nach dem Krieg auseinandergesetzt.

Scharnagl wohnte zuletzt im Haus Widenmayerstraße 2 im Münchner Stadtteil Lehel.

Ehrungen
 Ernennung zum Päpstlichen Hausprälaten
 1930: Ehrenbürger der Stadt Freising, für seinen Einsatz für den Ausbau des Hochschulstandorts in Weihenstephan, Ernennung am 8. April 1930
 1930: Ehrendoktor der Landwirtschaft

Schriften
 Der Begriff der Investitur in den Quellen und der Literatur des Investiturstreites (= Kirchenrechtliche Abhandlungen, Heft 56), Stuttgart 1908 (Nachdruck Amsterdam 1965).
 Das feierliche Gelübde als Ehehindernis. In seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung (= Strassburger theologische Studien, Band 9, Heft 2/3), Freiburg i. Br. 1908
 Bayerisches Volksschulrecht (= Staatsbürger-Bibliothek, Heft 37), Mönchengladbach 1913.
 Bayerisches Staatskirchenrecht (= Staatsbürger-Bibliothek, Heft 55), Mönchengladbach 1915.
 Das bayerische Armenrecht (= Staatsbürger-Bibliothek, Heft 67), Mönchengladbach 1916.
 Religionsunterricht und Schule nach dem neuen kirchlichen Gesetzbuche (= Flugschrift, Vereinigung der Katholiken Deutschlands zur Verteidigung und Förderung der christlichen Schule und Erzählung, Nr. 13), (ohne Ort) 1916, in: Katechetische Blätter, Sept. 1918.
 Das neue kirchliche Gesetzbuch. Eine Einführung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des bayerischen Rechtes, München, Regensburg, 1918, 2. vielfach vermehrte Auflage, München, Regensburg, 1918.
 Religionsunterricht und Schule nach dem neuen kirchlichen Gesetzbuch (= Schulpolitik und Erziehung, Neue Folge der Sammlung, Heft 15), 2., verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage, Düsseldorf, Mönchengladbach 1923.
 Die Schulpolitik in Bayern seit der Revolution (= Schulpolitik und Erziehung, Neue Folge, Heft 22), Düsseldorf, Mönchengladbach 1924, (aus: Schule und Erziehung, 1924, Heft 3).
 Die nationalsozialistische Weltanschauung, Eichstätt 1931, (aus: Klerusblatt, 1931, Nr. 9, Nr. 11, Nr. 12, Nr. 13).
 Die Gottlosenbewegung in Russland und Deutschland, München 1932.
 Nivard Neurauter (Autor), Anton Scharnagl (Anhang), Unsere heilige Kirche im Wandel der Jahrtausende. Illustrierte Geschichte der Kirche, München 1932.
 Katholisches Eherecht. Mit Berücksichtigung der in Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz geltenden staatlichen Eherechts, München 1935.
 Das neue deutsche Ehegesetz mit den für das Land Österreich und das Sudetenland geltenden Sondervorschriften, München 1939.
 Zur Geschichte des Reichsdeputationshauptschlusses von 1803. In: Historisches Jahrbuch, 70 (1950) S. 238–250.
 (in Verbindung mit dem Landessekretariat des Klerusverbandes), Friedhofs- und Begräbnisrecht. Kirchliches und staatliches Friedhofs- und Begräbnisrecht(= Klerusblatt, Juristische Beilage, Nr. 23), München 1950.
 (in Verbindung mit dem Landessekretariat des Klerusverbandes), Die apostolische Konstitution "Sponsa Christi" vom 21. November 1950. Zur Förderung der weiblichen Orden. Kommentar (= Klerusblatt, Juristische Beilage, Nr. 22), München 1951.
 (in Verbindung mit dem Landessekretariat des Klerusverbandes), Die Säkular-Institute (= Klerusblatt, Juristische Beilage, Nr. 14), München 1951.
 Das Recht der Bekenntnisschule in Bayern nach dem Konkordat, der Bayerischen Verfassung und dem Schulorganisationsgesetz (= Das Recht der Bekenntnisschule in Bayern nach dem Konkordat, der Bayerischen Verfassung und dem Schulorganisationsgesetz, Teil 1.), (= Klerusblatt, Juristische Beilage, Nr. 10), München 1952.
 Das Bayerische Konkordat von 1924 und die Kirchenverträge (= Das Recht der Bekenntnisschule in Bayern nach dem Konkordat, der Bayerischen Verfassung und dem Schulorganisationsgesetz, Teil 2.), (= Klerusblatt, Juristische Beilage, Nr. 18), München 1952.
 Johann Valentin Hart (Hrsg.), Anton Scharnagl (Vorwort), Dr. Alois Rittler. Ein Kämpfer für christliche Sitte, Wahrheit und Recht, Würzburg 1953.
 Christoph Sätzl (Komponist), Anton Scharnagl (Hrsg. und Vorwort) Resonet in laudibus. Weihnachtsmotette, Partitur, Altötting 1955.

Weblinks
 Eintrag zu Anton Scharnagl auf der Seite von catholic-hierarchy.com (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Titularbischof
Römisch-katholischer Bischof (20. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (PTH Freising)
Ehrendoktor einer Universität
Weihbischof in München und Freising
Domherr (München)
Mitglied der Bayerischen Abgeordnetenkammer
BVP-Mitglied
Korporierter im KV
Ehrenbürger von Freising
Gestapo-Agent
Deutscher
Geboren 1877
Gestorben 1955
Mann
Widenmayerstraße 2


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El Estadio Bollaert-Delelis hasta 2014 llamado Estadio Félix Bollaert, es un estadio de fútbol ubicado en la ciudad de Lens, región de Paso de Calais, Francia. Fue inaugurado en 1933 y posee una capacidad para 41 000 espectadores.

Historia
El estadio lleva el nombre de dos hombres importantes en la historia del Racing Club de Lens: Félix Bollaert, director comercial de la empresa minera de Lens ansioso por promover el desarrollo de los clubes deportivos en el área y que decidió construir el estadio en 1931, y André Delelis alcalde de Lens y ministro del gobierno de Pierre Mauroy que "salvó" al estadio y al club de la quiebra en su momento, al final de la minería del carbón, principal sostenedor económico del club.

Como anécdota, su capacidad (41 809) es superior a la población de la ciudad de Lens (36 823 habitantes).

El recinto ha albergado importantes eventos deportivos como la Eurocopa 1984, la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998, la Copa Mundial de Rugby de 2007 y la Eurocopa 2016.

Eventos disputados

Eurocopa 1984
- El estadio albergó dos partidos de la Eurocopa 1984.

Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998
- El estadio albergó seis partidos de la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998.

Mundial de Rugby 2007
- En el estadio se disputaron tres encuentros de la Copa Mundial de Rugby de 2007.

Eurocopa 2016
- El estadio albergó cuatro partidos de la Eurocopa 2016.

Véase también
 Anexo:Estadios de fútbol de Francia

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Sitio web oficial
 Estadio Bollaert-Delelis en Stadiumdb.com
 Estadio Bollaert-Delelis en Sitercl.com

Racing Club de Lens
Instalaciones deportivas de la región de Alta Francia
Estadios de fútbol de Francia del siglo XX
Estadios de fútbol inaugurados en 1932
Estadios de la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998
Estadios de la Eurocopa de fútbol 1984
Estadios de la Eurocopa de fútbol 2016
Francia en 1932
Estadios de la Copa del Mundo de Rugby 1999
Estadios de la Copa del Mundo de Rugby 2007


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During the 2012 Isle of Man TT, John McGuinness will be experimenting with something new – electric-motorcycle racing.
Besides running the solo races on Honda TT Legends and Padgetts machinery, the 17-time TT winner will also compete during the single-lap SES TT Zero race aboard the all-new Mugen "Shinden" EV bike.
This week, McGuinness got his first on-track experience with the Mugen EV bike, the Brit lapping the Motegi circuit in Japan.
John McGuinness says: "I am honored to be asked to ride the Mugen Shinden, which, originating from a company with such pedigree and from a country where over the years the best racing motorbikes have been produced, could prove to be a major milestone in the history of the SES TT Zero event.
"The bike was, as you would expect from a company such as Mugen, a well-designed and well put together proper race bike. As soon as I got underway it felt natural and I almost forgot it was fully electric, while I was also learning the Twin Ring Motegi circuit for the first time.
"Now, having ridden the Mugen Shinden I am looking forward even more to competing in my first SES TT Zero event. This was a trip of firsts; my first time riding an electric bike, my first time around Motegi and also the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition to visit the Honda Collection Hall, which is in the circuit complex. All in all, a really satisfying trip."
Satoshi Katsumata (Team Mugen Principal) says: "We are very happy with the performance of the Mugen Shinden at this first major test for the bike.
"The package performed as expected and, despite some unseasonal weather on day one, we were able to run through our planned programme and collect some very valuable data.
"Of course having a rider with such experience as John McGuinness, and the unique TT-specific feedback he is able to give us, is a tremendous boost to the team and the whole Team Mugen TT programme."
The Mugen Shinden will undergo further development based on data from the Motegi test before being shipped to the UK for further testing before its public debut at Isle of Man TT.
The team will be one of a number of outfits looking to become the first electric bike to lap the iconic 37.773-mile mountain circuit at an average speed of 100mph.


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New facility heralds the end of dustbin waste going to landfill in the county of Devon
Posted on: 7 February 2019
A new waste transfer station at Bynsworthy, Barnstaple will become fully operational on Monday 11 February 2019.
The new facility will enable Devon County Council to bulk up and transfer non-recyclable 'wheelie bin/black bag' waste collected in the North Devon and Torridge areas away from landfill to Energy from Waste facilities where it is converted into electricity.
The new facility marks the end of household 'black bag' waste being sent to landfill in the county of Devon. This type of waste elsewhere in Devon is already being sent to either the Exeter Energy Recovery Facility or the Devonport Energy from Waste Combined Heat & Power Facility where it too is used as a fuel to generate energy.
On Thursday (7 February) Councillor Andrea Davis, Devon County Council's (DCC) Cabinet Member for Infrastructure and Waste, and Councillor Rodney Cann, North Devon Council's Executive Member for the Environment, previewed the new facility.
The facility was built and will be operated for DCC by SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd.
Councillor Andrea Davis, Devon County Council's (DCC) Cabinet Member with responsibility for Infrastructure and Waste said:
"This facility marks an historic milestone, the end to the landfilling of residual household 'black bag' waste in the county of Devon.
"Residents in Torridge and North Devon have already been doing a fantastic job separating their waste for recycling and I would urge them to keep recycling as much of their waste as possible, so we can continue to deal with waste in the most environmentally sound way. However, there is some waste that still cannot be recycled, and it is this that will be managed at the new waste transfer station.
"Reducing, re-using and recycling as much as possible and diverting what remains into energy recovery is better for the environment, and better for council tax payers. I want to thank SUEZ who have built this facility and will be operating it on behalf of the county council."
James Pike, Regional Director for SUEZ, said:
"We are pleased to be building on our long standing partnership with Devon County Council by constructing and operating this vital facility. Moving materials up the waste hierarchy is crucial to meeting our goal of living in a society with no more waste, and we look forward to helping the residents of Devon to divert their residual waste away from landfill."
5 comments on "New facility heralds the end of dustbin waste going to landfill in the county of Devon"
Charles Mossman says:
Are the black bags sorted for materials which ought to be recycled such as plastics before they are incinerated?
Devon Newscentre says:
Charles, thanks for your comments. We rely on the public to recycle as much as possible through the kerbside systems provided. Once the material is in the residual waste stream it will not be subject to further segregation (with the exception of obvious larger material, such as large metal or electrical items that the public may have put in their bins)
To which incinerator does the waste from Mid Devon go?
Waste from Mid Devon generally goes to the Exeter Energy From Waste (EFW) facility and occasionally the Plymouth EFW facility
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What Money Is For
It's time to make a down payment...on happiness
By David Zinczenko
Are you rich?
Before you answer that question, hold off for a moment. Because, regardless of whether you say yes or no, a lot of people are going to disagree with you.
Over the next 18 months, you'll be hearing politicians, pundits, and pollsters debating the definition of "rich." As Congress contemplates various ways to close the federal budget gap, you'll hear more and more people arguing over who should pay what in our efforts to shore up America's foundering fiscal flotilla. And inevitably—despite the arguments of certain Ayn Rand acolytes—part of the answer will be, "Let's make the rich pay more."
Which leads to two questions: Who are the rich? Are you among them?
In tax terms, at least, the U.S. government sees you as rich if you earn $379,150 or more a year—that's the cutoff point for the highest tax bracket. But personal income tax is a pretty poor barometer of rich. A single guy pulling down a buck and a quarter in Fargo is pretty well off by any definition; a married fellow with four kids making the same amount in Queens is going to suffer many a restless night calculating what the cost of college tuition will be in 2025.
Which brings us to the real definition of rich, and one of the reasons money was even invented in the first place: to cure the problem of stress.
See, early man had no money and, hence, plenty of stress. He had to hunt his own game, build his own tent, break his own horses, carry his own water, and defend himself against the barbarian hordes—every single day. Freakin' stressful. So man invented money, which allowed him to pay butchers, roofers, auto mechanics, plumbers, and divorce attorneys to do all these things for him. Money relieved the stress caused by the battle to survive.
Or at least it was supposed to. But at some point we forgot that money was created to relieve stress, and instead began to see money as a source of stress. Like junkies, we turned a trifle invented for relaxation into a personal slave driver. We began to plot and plan and scheme about how to gain more of it; we began to measure our worth as men in monetary terms, a brutal and unforgiving game (especially since most of us start this game from the first tee but still have to compete with those who were born on the 18th green).
Money isn't a measure of personal worth, nor is it some magical get-out-of-misery-free card. Money is medicine—stress medicine—to be applied the way you take aspirin to cure a headache. Gathering up more of it than you need doesn't soothe the hurt any better; all you need is just the right dose for whatever ails you.
That's what my friend, former coworker, and supremely lucky guy Joe Kita discovered when, about two decades shy of Social Security age, he decided to leave the office for good. The company's HR director tried to talk him out of it, but Joe wouldn't listen. He realized that if he continued to play his cards right, he would have the exact amount of money he needed to do the one thing money was invented to do: fight stress. Now he travels the world on cruise ships, and from time to time he picks up a little extra dough helping others live better lives. He's on "Permanent Vacation," which is why his tale with that name anchors our annual summer issue. Learn from his advice on money, stress, and life's true purpose, which begins on page 140.
Bottom line: Money can, in fact, buy you relief from stress. It's not much good for any other purpose. A lot of money won't buy you love, it won't buy you respect, and it sure won't buy you happiness, any more than a lot of aspirin will buy you happiness.
But it's a heck of a lot easier to be happy when you don't have a headache.
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Dan Wheeler is a survivor. But then, you don't become the owner and president of Wheeler Machinery Sales, Inc., one of the largest used-equipment companies in Southern California, without some determination, dedication, and just plain grit.
Not only did Wheeler buy the business from his parents; he also transformed it from a single-building, mom-and-pop business into the major player in the used metal working machinery market that it is today, one that competes on the international stage.
These same qualities that helped him grow his business into one of the largest dealers in Los Angeles are the same character traits that helped him kick cancer. Just like the process of growing his company, beating cancer was no easy ride. "My treatments lasted eight hours a day, five days a week," he said. "I was getting two bags of chemo a day times five. It's been a long road."
In just six months' time, Wheeler went from living a very active lifestyle to barely being able to walk outside to get the mail. "I was a college athlete," he said. "I love to water ski, work on cars, coach my kids' sports teams and work out." All that changed after an ultrasound revealed a diagnosis he never expected: testicular cancer.
"It all happened very suddenly," he said. "I was walking out of the ultrasound appointment, and before I even reached my car, I got a call that I was scheduled for surgery for the very next day." Oddly enough, the surgery was the easy part.
Platinum in the treatment package affected his nervous system. "I had neuropathy so bad I could hardly walk," he said. "Going to the gym hurt so bad, I began to wonder if my body was ever going to recover. I was tired all the time," he said. This, on top of another testicular cancer issue: testosterone levels going up and down. "I was so beat up from the chemo," he said, "that people today could look at me and say, 'that's not the same man.'"
Unfortunately, in Wheeler's business, you have to be healthy to make it work. "It takes a lot of money and energy to operate this company. But I would get to the shop at 8 or 9 a.m. and have to leave at noon. I was watching the bills skyrocket. At one point, I began thinking about an exit strategy."
All that changed during a conversation with his wife, Gina. "I was driving around one day with my wife. I was angry. And she said, 'Let me tell you something. If everything in this world was good all the time, you wouldn't appreciate anything.'" Wheeler took on her words as a challenge, one that changed his life.
"I learned to use my experience as a tool to help others," he said. "Now I take this toolbox life has given me and use it to help people who weren't dealt the best hand of cards. It's time to get out of the pity party and focus on solutions."
That focus has spilled over into the workshop, too. "The way I see it," said Wheeler, "is that you can focus on the past or you can future forecast, but what's most helpful is to ask, 'Let's figure out what we're going to do right now.'"
What Wheeler is doing right now is paying forward the lessons he's learned. Volunteering for the Testicular Cancer Foundation and encouraging others with a similar diagnosis are ways Wheeler is giving back. He credits all the support he received, along with his desire to support others, with giving him a new focus. Today, he has learned not just to survive, but to thrive.


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Q: sqlce auto increment ids not generated when using dataset i'm writing a program which uses  sql compact edition.
in this program i would like to load one-many related data using the dataset class functionality.
after loading, the data can be shown on the form, and adapted by the user. no problems, when using sqlceDataAdapter the data will be written to disk successfully.
But... i would like to add new data as well, so add data in the parent table, and data in the child table. These data will be added to the dataset first. After that i would like to write it to the database when the user wants to save the new data. To add data in the child table i need to know the id of the parent data, and there's the problem ! the id is specified as integer, auto incremented, and when adding data to the dataset, the id is not generated automatically.
when writing data to the database, the ids are filled in by sqlce, but i need these ids already before, when creating the child ids.
anybody an idea how solve this, without generating the ids myself ?
thanks !

A: You'll have to resort to @@identity in your insert command of the dataset

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The efforts of HOHP reflects Pinal County's support of their Veterans and Military Families and concretes Pinal County's great future and history.


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FCC and District Court Provide Additional Clarity to the TCPA's Emergency Purpose Exception
Bradley J. Andreozzi, Justin O. Kay and Emily T. Broach
Emergency Purpose Exception, FCC Actions, Healthcare, Prior Express Consent.
Over two years ago, we first argued that a pharmacist's prescription refill reminder calls fell within the emergency purpose exception to the TCPA in Kolinek v. Walgreen Co. (N.D. Ill.). The TCPA, of course, prohibits many types of autodialed or pre-recorded/artificial voice calls to cell phones if made without the prior express consent of the called party, except where the calls are made "for emergency purposes." 47 U.S.C. § 227(b)(1)(A). In Kolinek, the court held at the motion to dismiss stage that further factual development was necessary to evaluate whether the emergency purpose exemption precluded plaintiff's claims because the complaint did not allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of the calls. Although the case settled before the court had the opportunity to rule on the issue on summary judgment, the court acknowledged the viability of the emergency purposes defense as a basis for approving the class action settlement despite objections that the settlement fund was a tiny fraction of potential liabilities. In its order granting final settlement approval, the court noted that the emergency purpose exception created a "tough row to hoe" for the plaintiff and that "further factual development might [have] prove[d] . . . that the calls were made for emergency purposes." 311 F.R.D. 483 at 494, 495 (N.D. Ill. 2015). On July 26, a court finally had the opportunity to address the scope of the emergency purpose exception on a factual record, holding on cross motions for summary judgment on the named plaintiff's individual claims that the emergency purpose exception foreclosed plaintiff's TCPA claims regarding prescription calls. Roberts v. Medco Health Solutions, Inc., No. 15cv1368, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97177 (E.D. Mo. July 26, 2016).
Defendants Medco, a pharmacy benefits manager, and Accredo Health Group, a specialty pharmacy, provided prescription and health benefit services to a family, each of whom "was receiving one or more prescription medications from defendants that would have been important to their continued health." 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97177, at *4. A member of the family had provided the phone number to defendants, but the phone number was reassigned to plaintiff, who sued after receiving calls meant for the family, alleging that she received 115 calls to her cell phone using an artificial or prerecorded voice, in violation of the TCPA. Id. at *3-4. The court first held that only 5 of the alleged calls were potentially actionable, finding that the majority of the calls, which were blocked using a call-blocking application, did not trigger a violation of the TCPA because they were calls "in which a prerecorded voice 'might [have], but d[id] not, play.'" Id. at *4-5 (quoting Ybarra v. Dish Network LLC, 807 F.3d 635, 641 (5th Cir. 2015)).
The five calls that remained at issue fell into three categories: a request to speak to the patient before filling a prescription; a call stating that the doctor needed to authorize a prescription renewal request; and a call regarding the status of a renewal order. Id. at *5-7. The court concluded that each of the 5 calls were "covered under the 'emergency purposes' exception to the TCPA." Id. at *7. The court started and ended its analysis with the FCC's definition of the scope of the exception, noting that "[t]he FCC has defined calls made for an emergency purpose as 'calls made necessary in any situation affecting the health and safety of consumers.'" Ibid. (quoting 47 C.F.R. § 64.1200). The court recognized that "in many instances, a patient's ability to timely receive a prescribed medication is critical to preventing a major health emergency." Id. at *8. The court also rejected the plaintiff's argument that the emergency purposes exception "is limited to large scale emergencies, such as natural disasters, that affect significant portions of the population." Id. at *7. The court observed that "the plain language of the regulation in no way limits its application based on the size or public impact of the reason for the call," and broadly held that "[c]alls like the ones here, involving an attempt to confirm or refill a prescription order, schedule a prescription delivery, or confirm that a prescription is on its way, fall within the ambit of 'calls made necessary in any situation affecting the health and safety of consumers.'" Id. at *7–8.
The court also rejected plaintiff's argument that the calls did not come within the emergency purpose exception because if they did the FCC would not have needed to create an exemption in the July 2015 Order (discussed here) "for calls 'for which there is exigency and that have a healthcare treatment purpose.'" Id. at *8. The court again focused on the broad language of the FCC's definition of "emergency purpose," holding that plaintiff's argument "would defy the plain language of the emergency purposes exemption," and relied on the FCC's brief in opposition to Rite-Aid's challenge to the July 2015 Order (discussed here and here) to note that the FCC has acknowledged "that many healthcare calls fall within both the emergency purposes exception and the healthcare exemption [and that f]or those that do not fall within the healthcare exemption . . . parties are free to rely on the emergency purposes exception as appropriate." Id. at *8-9.
Just a week after Roberts was issued, the FCC issued its long-awaited ruling on petitions filed by Blackboard, Inc. ("Blackboard") and Edison Electric Institute and American Gas Association (collectively "EEI/AGA"), both of which had originally requested relief under the emergency purposes exception (although EEI/AGA ultimately narrowed their request for relief to focus solely on prior express consent).
The Blackboard petition was filed by a company that provides an "interactive web portal" offering a messaging platform allowing schools to reach parents by various means, including automated calls and text messages. Declaratory Ruling at 3-4. Blackboard filed a petition in February 2015 seeking a declaration that all of the communications sent by schools over its platform fall within the emergency purpose exemption. Id. at 3. While the FCC "declined to extend the TCPA's emergency-purpose exception to all robocalls made by school callers[,]" it did rule that many types of school communications are exempt under the emergency purpose exception. Id. at 10 (emphasis in original). Reiterating that its rules "define an emergency for TCPA purposes as "any situation affecting the health and safety of consumers,'" id. at 8 (quoting 47 C.F.R. § 64.1200(f)(4)), the FCC "confirm[ed] that autodialed calls to wireless numbers made necessary by a situation affecting the health and safety of students and faculty are made for an emergency purpose." Id. at 9. For example, "school callers may lawfully make autodialed calls and send automated texts to student family wireless phones without consent for emergencies including weather closures, fire, health risks, threats and unexcused absences." Id. at 8. The FCC further noted that "this list is not meant to be an exhaustive list of emergency calls but represents those examples cited in the current record. Other types of calls may conceivably fall within the emergency-purpose exception if they can be shown to be made for health or safety reasons." Id. at 9 n. 75. The FCC clarified, however, "that autodialed or prerecorded calls made for purposes that do not affect health and safety concerns," such as calls regarding "an upcoming teacher conference, or general school activity" were not exempt under the emergency purpose exemption. Id. at 10, 11.
According to the FCC, however, such calls, along with the calls at issue in the EEI/AGA petition (calls "that warn about planned or unplanned service outages; provide updates about service outages or service restoration; ask for confirmation of service restoration or information about lack of service; provide notification of meter work, tree trimming, or other field work that directly affects the customer's utility service; notify consumers they may be eligible for subsidized or low-cost services due to certain qualifiers[;] . . . and calls that provide information about potential brown-outs") can fall within the prior express consent exception to the TCPA because they are "closely related" to the purpose for which the phone numbers were originally provided and thus within the scope of consent. Id. at 3 n. 14, 11, 13. The FCC reiterated that it "continues to interpret 'closely related' narrowly," (id. at 8), meaning that while "consent to be called at a number in conjunction with a transaction extends to a wide range of calls 'regarding' that transaction[,] . . . . the scope of the consent must be determined upon the facts of each situation." In re GroupMe, Inc., CG Docket No. 02-278, FCC 14-33, ¶ 11 (Released March 27, 2014). When discussing the EEI/AGA petition, the FCC reiterated two other points it has also made before: (i) that companies are required to demonstrate that the consumer provided consent and (ii) that the FCC
strongly encourage[s] . . . all robocallers[] to inform customers during the service initiation process or when updating contact information on the account as an additional safeguard that, by providing a wireless telephone number to them, the customer consents to receiving autodialed and prerecorded message calls at that number, to the extent such calls are closely [related] to the service purchased by the customer.
Id. at 8, 14; see also In re Request of ACA International for Clarification and Declaratory Ruling, CG Docket No. 02-278, FCC 07-232, ¶ 10 (Released Jan. 4, 2008) ("[W]e conclude that the creditor should be responsible for demonstrating that the consumer provided prior express consent."); id. n.37 ("We encourage creditors to include language on credit applications and other documents informing the consumer that, by providing a wireless telephone number, the consumer consents to receiving autodialed and prerecorded message calls from the creditor or its third party debt collector at that number.").
While agreeing with the result, Commissioner O'Rielly blasted the Commission for creating a "framework" "curtailing critical communications between companies and consumers," where "parties have to spend resources to come before the Commission to ensure that they won't face needless liability for such vital messages." Id. at 20. He noted that "[t]he fact that the Commission must continually grant exemptions or clarifications to its TCPA framework . . . highlights that its interpretations of the law are overly restrictive, unrealistic, and unworkable." Id. The Commissioner expressed hope "that the Commission's general framework will be overturned in court . . . and that the Commission will chart a more rational course in the future." Id.
Now that the FCC has provided additional guidance on the emergency purpose exception and a court has ruled on the scope of the exception, both confirming and adopting the expansive view of the exception that we first advocated in Kolinek, we expect that additional defendants will argue that the emergency purpose exception applies in their cases. Indeed, Roberts has already been cited as an additional authority in a TCPA action pending against Rite Aid in the Southern District of New York. To preserve a consent argument in the event the FCC or the court finds that the calls at issue do not fall within the emergency purpose exception, however, companies should also carefully consider whether the calls are "closely related" to the purpose for which the called number was provided and whether additional consent should be obtained.