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DOMINIC NORTH
Dominic trained at Nydza School of Dance in Bingley and Central School of Ballet in London where he gained a Diploma in Dance & Related Studies. Awards whilst training included Boy's Award and Best All-rounder & Musicality Award. Scholarships included British Ballet Organization, Yorkshire Ballet Seminars, Northern Ballet Theatre course and International Ballet Masterclass, Prague.
Dominic joined Matthew Bourne's New Adventures in 2004 to perform as an ensemble swan in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake with seasons at Sadler's Wells Theatre and on tour in the UK, Paris, Japan, South Korea, the USA, Australia and Athens.
In 2007 he performed with New Adventures in The Car Man and Nutcracker! before in 2008 taking on the principal role of Edward in Matthew Bourne's staged dance version of Edward Scissorhands for which he was nominated as Best Male Dancer (Modern) in the National Dance Awards 2009. The Award citation noted that "North is a strong dance-actor and brought depth, dead-pan humour and pathos to his memorable portrayal". He then played the soloist role of Cyril Vane in New Adventures' contemporary take on Dorian Gray in the summer of 2009, returning to Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake at the end of 2009 in the principal role of The Prince. He has also created the lead role of Leo in Bourne's Sleeping Beauty. Away from New Adventures he created the lead role of Pascal in the Royal Opera House 2's dance version of The Red Balloon choreographed by Aletta Collins in 2009, performed with Douglas Thorpe in 2009 and appeared in the films Streetdance The Movie (3D) (2010), Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire and an advert for Skype. Dominic has also been nominated for another National Dance Award in 2016 for Outstanding Male Dancer (Modern). Dominic created the role of 'Lumen' in Chantry Dance Company's 'Chasing the Eclipse', as part of The Gravity Fields 2014.
CLEMMIE SVEAAS
Clemmie trained at the London Studio Centre. She has danced around Europe with leading companies including Phoenix Dance Theatre, Rambert, New Movement Collective and HeadSpaceDance and has collaborated with choreographers including Javier de Frutos, Will Tucket, Cathy Marston, Fin Walker, Kim Brandstrup, Arthur Pita, Darrel Toulon, Ian Spink, Jane Dudley, Rafael Bonachela, Alexander Whitley, Luca Silvestrini, Didy Veldman, Steven Hoggett, Scott Graham, Lucy Guerin and Wayne Parsons and directors including Rufus Norris, Matthew Dunster, Angus Jackson, Carie Cracknell and Sue Buckmaster. She has appeared in venues including Sadler's Wells, The National Theatre, The Young Vic, The Coliseum, Shakespeare's Globe, in the West End and at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
Clemmie's credits include:
Macbeth (Young Vic), Everyman (National Theatre), LOL (Protein Dance Theatre), Medea (National theatre), HeadSpaceDance: If Play is Play (Critics Circle award nominated) and Three and 4 Quarters (Roh2), Wind in the Willows (Roh2, West End), Nest, Collapse and Please Be Seated (New Movement Collective), Witch Hunt (Bern ballet, Roh2: Oliver award and Critics Circle award nominated), Dr Dee (ENO/MIF), The Most Incredible Thing (Sadler's Wells and BBC4 ), Lightning Child (Shakespeare's Globe), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal & Derngate), Pleasures Progress (ROH2) Cabaret (WEST END), Carousel (Chichester Festival Theatre), Ghosts and Pinocchio (both ROH2), Anatomy of a Storyteller (ROH2/ARC).
SARAH KUNDI
Sarah classically trained at Central School of Ballet and after completing her training there, she joined Northern Ballet up in Leeds, travelling extensively throughout the UK and abroad.
In 2008 she joined Ballet Black, based in London, where she got to create and dance in many works by different choreographers- Will Tuckett, Christopher Hampson, Antonia Franceschi, Martin Lawrence, Javier du Frutos and Christopher Marney, to name a few!
Sarah has been a member of English National Ballet since 2014, dancing in all the major classics the company has to offer and the new, exciting & innovative triple bills.
In 2009 Sarah was nominated for a National Dance Award for 'Ouststanding Female in Classical' and was also featured as 'Dancer of the Month' in the Dancing Times April 2010.


There are 12 Chinese zodiac signs in China, one zodiac represents one year, and 12 years is a reincarnation. Best Technology has developed into the leading export company in Shenzhen in manufacturing flexible circuits, rigid-flex circuit and PCBA, after 12 years' development.
At the beginning of the company's establishment, we only have one person with annual sales turnover $8,000. Now our company has over 100 employees, and our target performance for this year is $8 million. In the past 12 years, Best Technology has grown so fast, and rate of rise was 1000 times in past 12 years.
As the president of our company, Peter made a brief speech. He reviewed the past and looking forward to the future, and he also summarized the development of FPC products over the years. Our FPC products include single sided flexible circuits, dual access flexible PCB, double sided flexible circuit, multi-layer flexible circuits and rigid-flex circuits.
One of the successful secret of our company is always trying our best to provide suitable products to customers with best service, as our vision is to become the most reliable partner of our customers and the most satisfied enterprise of our employees, so we must work together to make our company grow better and better.
Listening to peter's speech, everyone is full of confidence in the future, and at the same time, they are sure and gratified that their efforts have been affirmed; everyone hopes to play an important role in their respective jobs in the future!
Today,everyone started to relax the intense work, relieve the pressure of work, and enter into a happy dinner party!
Tomorrow, we will work more hard, we are restarting to make the next 12 years become much better, to save customers time and money on making flex circuits, rigid-flex and flex circuits assembly.


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And France says that the people of the US do not know how to vote properly…
Having just witnessed history in France and Europe, I have to say that I am not shocked at all by the French people in their vote against the EU constitution. Athough I had hoped that they would vote yes on an organization that they helped create, and show intelligence in their choice in voting yes. However, it seems the usual pompious French attitude still exists 60 years after D-Day.
By France closing themselves off and acting like isolationists, they will encourage further inaction when action is needed. The French would rather sit in the cafes drinking their coffees and wines, eating their cheese, than lift a finger to help a neighbor who has been attacked or even when their own country of France is possibly attacked. Many of the young people feel that since the Euro has hurt the French economy, that they must close themselves off to protect their economy by sending away competing products from other countries, namely Chinese or American goods.
France will need to become proactive if it wishes to be able to defend its economy. By using price market floors to protect French goods, they will only hurt France and its economy. France should stop play defense and play on offense if they want to promote their goods in the free market where name no longer has an issue of importance, just price and quality.
If Chirac is looking around the town squares checking for the guilletine, he should start looking at the other countries in Europe that want his head, not the French people.
France, Politically Incorrect

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Noel Fielding's solo live tour coming to Hertfordshire
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Spend An Evening with Noel Fielding at Watford Colosseum
Noel Fielding, star of award-winning comedy duo The Mighty Boosh, has announced his first solo live tour in five years, including a couple of shows in Hertfordshire.
Kicking off in Guildford, the An Evening with Noel Fielding tour takes in some 20 plus dates, including two nights at the Watford Colosseum, on Wednesday, November 5 and Thursday, November 6.
Expect a magical mix of Noel's unique brand of stand-up comedy, live animation, music and some of Fielding's best-known TV characters, such as The Moon and Fantasy Man.
There will also be muscular support from the loose stylings of Mike Fielding and the physical lunacy of Tom Meeten.
Tickets for Noel Fielding at Watford Colosseum this November cost £26, plus booking fee, and are on general sale from 9am on Friday, March 7.
Priority members' tickets go on sale at 9am on Wednesday.
Visit www.watfordcolosseum.co.uk for more information and to book online 24 hours a day.
Tickets can also be purchased by calling 0845 075 3993, or visiting the Watford Colosseum ticket office.
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Death on the Hempstead Turnpike Calls For A NY Car Accident Lawyer
A two-vehicle car accident occurred on April 15, 2009. The crash happened in Bethpage, New York.
On Wednesday, Tita Portillo, 37, was driving along the Bethpage State Parkway at four-thirty p.m. As she was on the road going northbound, her 1994 Toyota Corolla switched over into the south lane and hit another vehicle. Portillo, 37, crashed head-on with a 2008 Honda CRV. The Honda was being driven by William Brigante, 52, of Bothpage.
After the accident, Brigante was taken by air to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow. There, he suffered major injuries.
Unfortunately, Tortillo died quickly at the scene of the crash which was located at about a half-mile south of Hempstead Turnpike.
Any subject who suffered from the accident should inquire the help of a New York Injury Lawyer. Although there is no clear cause of the accident, a good New York Injury Attorney will enable you to protect your civil rights.
Stephen Bilkis & Associates with its New York Car Accident Lawyers has convenient locations throughout the NY area including Yonkers, NY. Our attorneys can provide you with advice about personal injury caused by someone else's negligence. Without a NY Car Accident Lawyer you will not know all your rights and may be at a great disadvantage.


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Iconic MLK Images Painted by Pop Artist Peter Max
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"Iconic MLK Images Painted by Pop Artist Peter Max"
Check out the painted image of Martin Luther King by artist Peter Max
Peter Max:
For the past five decades, Peter Max's art has been part of the fabric of American pop culture – from his numerous museum and gallery exhibitions to a giant Moscow Music Peace Festival stage, a six-hundred-foot-long Woodstock '99 Music Festival stage, a two-hundred-fifty-foot-long billboard flanking the U.S. Pavilion at the World's Fair in Seville, Spain, the hull of a giant Norwegian Lines cruise ship, and Dale Earnhardt's NASCAR race car. Max has been official artist for six GRAMMY Awards, five Super Bowls, the NHL All-Star Game, the 2000 World Series, the 2000 Kentucky Derby, the U.S. Winter
Olympics, World Cup USA, the Indy 500, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and many other notable events in sports and music. Max's portraits have honored U.S. Presidents, foreign dignitaries, rock stars and jazz musicians, movie stars and sports icons.
Artist Peter Max has painted portraits of this great civil rights leader for over 20 years, celebrating Dr King's legacy and extraordinary life.


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Eben Moglen on learning through collaboration
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A professor of Law and legal history at the Columbia University, Moglen preaches what he practices -- free software and the role it plays in improving education. As part of Bangalore's Christ University's conference on distributed education, Moglen delivered a (recorded) talk on how he uses Wikis to teach his Law courses.
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"Dear Mr. Frey, Your letter about our recent change to the GFDL, which lets operators of some GFDL-covered wiki sites relicense their contents under Creative Commons BY-SA license, raises the important questions of whether this change and the way we made it were proper, and what they imply in regard to trusting the FSF's stewardship of our licenses in the future..."
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"I spent more time than I would like to admit massaging the process that ultimately led to the release of the the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 (GFDL) by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
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Inside Networked Movements: Interview with Jeffrey Juris
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"...Both free software and wikis precisely reflect the kind of collaborative networking ethic that I explore in my book, and it should come as no surprise that so many radical or autonomous activists see their own struggles reflected in the struggle for free software or that so many contemporary activist collectives and projects use wikis- and the decentralized, collaborative editing process these
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"Say No To Software Patents" Campaign in Bangalore
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DokuWiki: An elegant and lightweight wiki engine
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Created as a simple solution for managing documentation, DokuWiki has evolved into a powerful and flexible wiki suitable for most tasks involving collaborative editing. DokuWiki doesn't use a database back end (all pages are stored as plain text files), which makes it easy to install and maintain.
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For a lot of programmers, writing an application is fun, but writing its manual is not. Adding new features, refining the product, and responding to users' input are all more rewarding than writing instructions on how to use the software. However, good documentation is necessary to have happy, informed users who can contribute meaningfully to future development.
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Jouarre est une commune française située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne en région Île-de-France.

Géographie

Localisation

La ville est située à environ  par la route au sud de La Ferté-sous-Jouarre.

Avec , c'est en superficie la seconde commune de Seine-et-Marne après celle de Fontainebleau.

Communes limitrophes

Géologie et relief
L'altitude de la commune varie de  à  pour le point le plus haut, le centre du bourg se situant à environ  d'altitude (mairie). Elle est classée en zone de sismicité 1, correspondant à une sismicité très faible.

Hydrographie

Réseau hydrographique

Le réseau hydrographique de la commune se compose de dix-sept cours d'eau référencés :
 le ru de Péreuse , long de , affluent de la Marne ;
 la rivière le Petit Morin, long de , affluent de la Marne en rive gauche, ainsi que ;
 un bras de  ;
 un bras de  ;
 un bras de  ;
 le ru de Vorpilliere, , affluent du Petit Morin ;
 le ru de Choisiel, , affluent du Petit Morin ;
 le ru du Rognon, long de , au sud-ouest de la commune ;
 le cours d'eau 01 du Petit Bibartault, , qui conflue avec le ru du Rognon ;
 le fossé 01 du Grand Bibartault, , qui conflue avec le cours d'eau 01 du Petit Bibartault ;
 le fossé 01 de la Petite Brosse, , qui conflue avec le cours d'eau 01 du Petit Bibartault ;
 le ru de Bourgogne, , qui conflue dans le ru du Rognon ;
 le fossé 01 du Bois d'Arrageon, long de , qui conflue dans le ru de Bourgogne ;
 le cours d'eau 01 de la commune de Saint-Germain-sous-Doue, , qui conflue avec le ru de l'Orgeval ;
 le fossé 01 de la Commune de Doue, , qui conflue avec le cours d'eau 01 de la Commune de Saint-Germain-sous-Doue ;
 le fossé 01 de l'Étang de Péreuse,  ;
 le fossé 01 de Villers, , qui conflue avec le ru du Rognon.
Par ailleurs, son territoire est également traversé par l'aqueduc de la Dhuis et aussi baignée  de quelques plans d'eau dont l'étang de Perreuse.

La longueur totale des cours d'eau sur la commune est de .

Gestion des cours d'eau
Afin d'atteindre le bon état des eaux imposé par la Directive-cadre sur l'eau du , plusieurs outils de gestion intégrée s'articulent à différentes échelles : le SDAGE, à l'échelle du bassin hydrographique, et le SAGE, à l'échelle locale. Ce dernier fixe les objectifs généraux d'utilisation, de mise en valeur et de protection quantitative et qualitative des ressources en eau superficielle et souterraine. Le département de Seine-et-Marne est couvert par six SAGE, au sein du bassin Seine-Normandie.

La commune fait partie du SAGE « Petit et Grand Morin », approuvé le . Le territoire de ce SAGE comprend les bassins du Petit Morin () et du Grand Morin (). Le pilotage et l'animation du SAGE sont assurés par le syndicat mixte d'Aménagement et de Gestion des Eaux (SMAGE) des 2 Morin, qualifié de « structure porteuse ».

Climat

La commune bénéficie d'un « climat océanique dégradé des plaines du Centre et du Nord », selon la typologie des climats en France  définie en 2010. Ce type affecte l'ensemble du Bassin parisien avec une extension vers le sud, dont la totalité des communes de Seine-et-Marne.

Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir cette typologie comportent six variables pour les températures et huit pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent aux données mensuelles sur la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré ci-contre. Avec le réchauffement climatique, ces variables ont pu depuis évoluer. Une étude réalisée en 2014 par la Direction générale de l'Énergie et du Climat prévoit en effet que la  température moyenne devrait croître et la pluviométrie moyenne baisser, avec toutefois de fortes variations régionales. Cette évolution peut être constatée sur la station météorologique historique de Météo-France la plus proche, Melun - Villaroche , qui se trouve à  à vol d'oiseau, où la température moyenne annuelle évolue de  pour 1981-2010 à  pour 1991-2020.

Milieux naturels et biodiversité
L'inventaire des zones naturelles d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique (ZNIEFF) a pour objectif de réaliser une couverture des zones les plus intéressantes sur le plan écologique, essentiellement dans la perspective d'améliorer la connaissance du patrimoine naturel national et de fournir aux différents décideurs un outil d'aide à la prise en compte de l'environnement dans l'aménagement du territoire.

Le territoire communal de Jouarre comprend trois ZNIEFF de  :
 l'« Étang de Pereuse » () ;
 le « Le Petit Morin » (), couvrant  du département ;
 les « Ru de la Vorpillière et bois de Moras » (), couvrant  du département ;
et une ZNIEFF de ,
la « vallée du Petit Morin de Verdelot à la Ferte Sous-Jouarre » (), couvrant  du département.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Jouarre est une commune urbaine, car elle fait partie des communes denses ou de densité intermédiaire, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
Elle appartient à l'unité urbaine de Jouarre, une unité urbaine monocommunale de  en , constituant une ville isolée.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Paris, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire regroupe .

Lieux-dits et écarts
La commune compte  lieux-dits administratifs répertoriés consultables ici (source : le fichier Fantoir).

 cinq lieux-dits peuvent être qualifiés de bourgs : Courcelles-sous-Jouarre (limitrophe de La Ferté-sous-Jouarre), Vanry, Romeny (à ne pas confondre avec la commune de Romeny-sur-Marne), Glairet et les Corbiers ;
 dans le nord-est de la commune : les Pommières, le Gouffre ;
 dans l'ouest de la commune : Petit Ballot, Grand Ballot, Perreuse (château) ;
 dans le sud de la commune :  L'Hôtel-du-Bois, la Fringale, Grand-Bilbartaut, les Loges, Nolongue (manoir-ferme), Choqueuse (forêt domaniale).

Occupation des sols
L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (68,1 % en 2018), une proportion sensiblement équivalente à celle de 1990 (69,1 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (64,6% ), forêts (26,6% ), zones urbanisées (4,3% ), prairies (3,4% ), milieux à végétation arbustive et/ou herbacée (1% ), zones agricoles hétérogènes (0,1 %).

Parallèlement, L'Institut Paris Région, agence d'urbanisme de la région Île-de-France, a mis en place un inventaire numérique de l'occupation du sol de l'Île-de-France, dénommé le MOS (Mode d'occupation du sol), actualisé régulièrement depuis sa première édition en 1982. Réalisé à partir de photos aériennes, le Mos distingue les espaces naturels, agricoles et forestiers mais aussi les espaces urbains (habitat, infrastructures, équipements, activités économiques, etc.) selon une classification pouvant aller jusqu'à 81 postes, différente de celle de Corine Land Cover. L'Institut met également à disposition des outils permettant de visualiser par photo aérienne l'évolution de l'occupation des sols de la commune entre 1949 et 2018.

Planification
La commune disposait en 2019 d'un plan local d'urbanisme en révision. Le zonage réglementaire et le règlement associé peuvent être consultés sur le Géoportail de l'urbanisme.

Habitat et logement
En 2018, le nombre total de logements dans la commune était de , alors qu'il était de  en 2013 et de  en 2008.

Parmi ces logements, 88,3 % étaient des résidences principales, 3 % des résidences secondaires et 8,8 % des logements vacants. Ces logements étaient pour 76,1 % d'entre eux des maisons individuelles et pour 23,4 % des appartements.

Le tableau ci-dessous présente la typologie des logements à Jouarre en 2018 en comparaison avec celle de Seine-et-Marne et de la France entière. Une caractéristique marquante du parc de logements est ainsi une proportion de résidences secondaires et logements occasionnels (3 %) supérieure à celle du département (2,9 %) et à celle de la France entière (9,7 %). Concernant le statut d'occupation de ces logements, 67,7 % des habitants de la commune sont propriétaires de leur logement (70,3 % en 2013), contre 61,8 % pour la Seine-et-Marne et 57,5 pour la France entière.

Voies de communication et transports
La  gare de La Ferté-sous-Jouarre est située à .

Le réseau de bus Brie et 2 Morin dessert la commune via les lignes 40 (La Ferté-sous-Jouarre - Jouarre - Sept-Sorts) et 41 (La Ferté-sous-Jouarre - Jouarre - Coulommiers).

Toponymie
Domus Dei de Jotro - Jouerre-en-Brie - Juere - Jouarre-Balleau et Courcelles.

Au cours de la Révolution française, la commune porte le nom de Jouarre-la-Montagne.

La racine toponymique de Jouarre renvoie sans doute à une ancienne occupation celte, ce toponyme provient de l'agglutination des mots gaulois divo et durum qui signifie : la « forteresse sacrée ».

Histoire

Antiquité
L'occupation romaine du site, avec peut-être l'aménagement d'un castrum (camp retranché) faisant suite à un bourg fortifié gaulois, permettent d'accréditer cette explication.

Ancien Régime
Cependant, l'essor jotrancien est à rechercher dans la première moitié du , lorsque saint Adon fonde  à cet endroit une abbaye, encore en activité à l'heure actuelle. Les invasions normandes du , les dégradations de la guerre de Cent Ans au , la Révolution française, autant d'événements majeurs qui ont touché cette commune. Mais le patrimoine local est resté intact, et si chaque époque a laissé sa trace, c'est pour mieux révéler ce qui avait été fait antérieurement… Ainsi Jouarre reste l'une des rares communes de la région à conserver autant de vestiges des temps révolus. Joyau du patrimoine et de l'art mérovingien, les cryptes de Jouarre demeurent un ensemble unique en Europe de par leur conservation et de par leur âge.

Au temps du roi Dagobert , une grande école du palais réunissait à la cour les fils des plus hauts dignitaires du royaume où il leur était donné une grande culture et une initiation à l'administration royale. C'est ainsi que le roi Dagobert choisissait ses ministres et ses évêques. Authaire, un haut fonctionnaire du palais, y fit instruire ses trois fils, Adon, Dadon et Radon. Originaires de la région, et plus particulièrement d'Ussy-sur-Marne, Authaire reçut chez lui, l'hiver 610-611, la visite du moine irlandais Colomban. Après avoir acquis un haut niveau de culture, Adon, Dadon et Radon assurèrent de grandes fonctions au service du roi Clotaire II, puis de Dagobert . Dadon fut chancelier du royaume puis nommé évêque de Rouen, Radon, fut trésorier de Dagobert  et Adon référendaire.

Adon quitta assez rapidement la cour du roi pour fonder un monastère sur le site de Jouarre et dota ce dernier de son patrimoine exceptionnel. Des membres de la famille d'Authaire, tels qu'Agilbert et Ebrégisile rejoignirent Adon à Jouarre, puis ce fut au tour de Mode, sa sœur Balde et leurs nièces Telchilde et Aguilberte pour former une communauté de femmes. C'est ainsi que l'abbaye de Jouarre devint un temps un monastère double, où hommes et femmes mènent une vie monastique, en même lieu, en des bâtiments séparés. Techilde en fut la première abbesse. Ainsi, la crypte Saint Paul de Jouarre abrite les tombeaux des fondateurs.

Époque contemporaine
En 1915, les bâtiments de l'abbaye de Jouarre sont réquisitionnés pour servir d'hôpital militaire à l'arrière du front.

Politique et administration

Rattachements administratifs et électoraux

Rattachements administratifs
La commune se trouve  dans l'arrondissement de Meaux du département de la Seine-et-Marne.

Elle faisait partie depuis 1793 du canton de la Ferté-sous-Jouarre. Dans le cadre du redécoupage cantonal de 2014 en France, cette circonscription administrative territoriale a disparu, et le canton n'est plus qu'une circonscription électorale.

Rattachements électoraux
Pour les élections départementales, la commune fait partie depuis 2014 d'un nouveau  canton de la Ferté-sous-Jouarre

Pour l'élection des députés, elle fait partie de la cinquième circonscription de Seine-et-Marne.

Intercommunalité
Jouarre était membre de la communauté de communes du Pays fertois, un établissement public de coopération intercommunale (EPCI) à fiscalité propre créé en 1970 et auquel la commune avait transféré un certain nombre de ses compétences, dans les conditions déterminées par le code général des collectivités territoriales.

Cette intercommunalité envisage en 2017  fusionner avec la communauté de communes du Pays de Coulommiers afin d'augmenter les ressources de cette nouvelle structure, qui prendrait le statut de communauté d'agglomération et bénéficierait à ce titre de dotations plus élevées de l'État, tout en ayant une possibilité de négociation plus équilibrée avec Val d'Europe Agglomération et la communauté d'agglomération Pays de Meaux. Cette fusion intervient le , formant la communauté d'agglomération Coulommiers Pays de Brie dont est désormais membre   la commune.

Tendances politiques et résultats
Au second tour des élections municipales de 2014 en Seine-et-Marne, la liste DVD menée par Fabien Vallée obtient la majorité des suffrages exprimés, avec 798 voix (48,33 %, 21 conseillers municipaux élus dont 5 communautaires), devançant celles menées respectivement par :
- Pierre Goullieux, maire sortant (DVD 664 voix, 40,21 %, 5 conseillers municipaux élus dont 1 communautaire) ;
- Sylvain Feron (DVD, 189 voix, 11,44 %, 1 conseiller municipal élu).
Lors de ce scrutin, 33,75 % des électeurs se sont abstenus.

Lors du premier tour des élections municipales de 2020 en Seine-et-Marne, la liste DVD menée par le maire sortant Fabien Vallée obtient la majorité absolue des suffrages exprimés avec 701 voix (61,54 %, 22 conseillers municipaux élus dont 2 communautaires), battant très largement celle, également DVD, menée par Philippe Rimbert (438 voix,  	38,45  %, 5 conseillers municipaux élus dont 1 communautaire).Lors de ce scrutin marqué par la pandémie de Covid-19, 56,55 % des électeurs se sont abstenus.

Liste des maires

Politique de développement durable

La commune a engagé une politique de développement durable en lançant une démarche d'Agenda 21 en 2003.

Équipements et services

Eau et assainissement
L'organisation de la distribution de l'eau potable, de la collecte et du traitement des eaux usées et pluviales relève des communes. La loi NOTRe de 2015 a accru le rôle des EPCI à fiscalité propre en leur transférant cette compétence. Ce transfert devait en principe être effectif au , mais la loi Ferrand-Fesneau du  a introduit la possibilité d'un report de ce transfert au .

Assainissement des eaux usées
En 2020, la gestion du service d'assainissement collectif de la commune de Jouarre est assurée par la communauté d'agglomération Coulommiers Pays de Brie (CACPB) pour la collecte, le transport et la dépollution. Ce service est géré en délégation par une entreprise privée, dont le contrat arrive à échéance le .

L'assainissement non collectif (ANC) désigne les installations individuelles de traitement des eaux domestiques qui ne sont pas desservies par un réseau public de collecte des eaux usées et qui doivent en conséquence traiter elles-mêmes leurs eaux usées avant de les rejeter dans le milieu naturel. La communauté d'agglomération Coulommiers Pays de Brie (CACPB) assure pour le compte de la commune le service public d'assainissement non collectif (SPANC), qui a pour mission de vérifier la bonne exécution des travaux de réalisation et de réhabilitation, ainsi que le bon fonctionnement et l'entretien des installations.

Eau potable
En 2020, l'alimentation en eau potable est assurée par la communauté d'agglomération Coulommiers Pays de Brie (CACPB) qui en a délégué la gestion à la SAUR, dont le contrat expire le .

Population et société

Démographie

Enseignement
École maternelle et primaire.

Manifestations culturelles et festivités

Économie

Revenus de la population et fiscalité
En 2019, le nombre de ménages fiscaux de la commune était de  (dont 62 % imposés), représentant  et la  médiane du revenu disponible par unité de consommation  de  euros, le  décile étant de  euros avec un rapport interdécile de 2,6.

Emploi
En 2018, le nombre total d'emplois dans la zone était de , occupant   résidants (dont 21 % dans la commune de résidence et 79 % dans une commune autre que la commune de résidence).

Le taux d'activité de la population (actifs ayant un emploi) âgée de 15 à 64 ans s'élevait à 68 % contre un taux de chômage de 10,3 %.
Les 21,7 % d'inactifs se répartissent de la façon suivante : 10,6 % d'étudiants et stagiaires non rémunérés, 5 % de retraités ou préretraités et 6,1 % pour les autres inactifs.

Secteurs d'activité

Entreprises et commerces
Au , le nombre d'unités légales (activités marchandes hors agriculture) par secteur d'activité était de  dont  dans l'industrie manufacturière, industries extractives et autres,  dans la construction,  dans le commerce de gros et de détail, transports, hébergement et restauration,  dans l'Information et communication,  dans les activités financières et d'assurance,  dans les activités immobilières,  dans les activités spécialisées, scientifiques et techniques et activités de services administratifs et de soutien,  dans l'administration publique, enseignement, santé humaine et action sociale et  étaient relatifs aux autres activités de services.
 Zone Industrielle la Croix de Mission de .
 Société Wimbée : cartonnage et plastiques, détenteur de brevets, fabricant à l'international.

En 2021,  ont été créées sur le territoire de la commune, dont  individuelles.

Au , la commune ne disposait pas d'hôtel et de terrain de camping.

Agriculture
Jouarre est dans la petite région agricole dénommée la « Brie laitière » (anciennement Brie des étangs), une partie de la Brie à l'est de Coulommiers. En 2010, l'orientation technico-économique de l'agriculture sur la commune est la culture de céréales et d'oléoprotéagineux (COP).

Si la productivité agricole de la Seine-et-Marne se situe dans le peloton de tête des départements français, le département enregistre un double phénomène de disparition des terres cultivables (près de  par an dans les années 1980, moins dans les années 2000) et de réduction d'environ 30 % du nombre d'agriculteurs dans les années 2010. Cette tendance se retrouve au niveau de la commune où le nombre d'exploitations est passé de 26 en 1988 à 22 en 2010. Parallèlement, la taille de ces exploitations augmente, passant de  en 1988 à  en 2010.
Le tableau ci-dessous présente les principales caractéristiques des exploitations agricoles de Jouarre, observées sur une période de  :

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

Les cryptes de Jouarre
Les cryptes de Jouarre ont subi plusieurs campagnes de travaux depuis le . Jusqu'au , il y avait vraisemblablement un plafond de bois qui reposait sur tous les chapiteaux, dans les deux cryptes. Au , les tombeaux sont vidés, pour placer les restes des corps dans des reliquaires et des châsses  et on perce des ouvertures pour que les cryptes ne soient plus dans l'obscurité totale.
 Les cryptes renferment les tombeaux de la famille fondatrice de l'abbaye.
 La crypte Saint-Paul : ses chapiteaux du  sont faits de marbre des Pyrénées. Les fûts sont des réemplois gallo-romains du .
 - Le mur occidental de la crypte est un mur dit « réticulé » car les pierres forment un dessin de filet, à la fois par leur disposition, mais aussi par leur taille.
 - Le sarcophage de saint Agilbert qui fut évêque de Dorchester puis de Paris. Il fonda également la première communauté d'hommes de l'abbaye. Le côté du sarcophage présente un magnifique bas-relief. À la tête de ce tombeau, un bas relief, représente le Christ tétramorphe, dans une mandorle, symbolisant les quatre évangélistes.
 - Le tombeau de saint Adon.
 - Les tombeaux de sainte Osanne, sainte Balde, sainte Mode, sainte Telchilde.
 - Le tombeau de sainte Aguilberte, avec des parements d'inspiration coptes sur le dessus et des svastikas, retrouvées dans les temples hindous.
 La crypte Saint-Ebrégésile, d'origine carolingienne et utilisée comme chapelle jusqu'au début du  abrite le sarcophage de saint Ebrégésile, évêque de Meaux au , frère de sainte Aguilberte.
 À l'extérieur des cryptes, les vestiges de la basilique funéraire qui fut entièrement détruite lors de la guerre de Cent Ans peuvent être aperçus. L'accumulation des sols au fil des siècles, explique qu'il faille descendre une douzaine de marches avant d'accéder au mausolée.

L'abbaye Notre-Dame de Jouarre

L'abbaye bénédictine fondée au  par un disciple de saint Colomban de Luxeuil est encore habitée par une communauté bénédictine. Démolie en 1792, elle est rebâtie en 1837 en intégrant des éléments datant du , notamment le clocher-porche de la tour.

La tour romane
La tour romane abrite notamment le magasin des sœurs. On y découvre également une exposition sur l'histoire de l'abbaye et il est possible d'assister à une projection audiovisuelle sur la vie monastique.

C'est sans doute le monument qui résume le mieux l'histoire de Jouarre. Édifiée à la fin du  sur des ruines carolingiennes, elle était le clocher de l'église abbatiale. Incendiée par les partisans anglais pendant la guerre de Cent Ans, la tour n'offrait au regard que des pans de murs calcinés, les planchers en bois ayant été détruits. Des pierres rougies permettent encore aujourd'hui de constater la violence de l'incendie.

À la fin du , une flèche est construite. Son sommet est surmonté d'une boule de métal dans laquelle sont enchâssées des reliques, dans la pensée de protéger l'édifice des calamités.

Au , sous l'impulsion des abbesses Madeleine d'Orléans et Jeanne de Lorraine, la tour est restaurée. Les armoiries de Madeleine d'Orléans sont sculptées aux clefs de voûte dans la salle du deuxième étage. Sur le blason, supporté par deux lions, trois fleurs de lys qui rappellent que l'abbesse était demi-sœur du roi François  sont distinguées.

À la Révolution, la tour est transformée en habitation, annexée d'une forge.

u , la tour, en mauvais état a perdu sa flèche. Pour la sauver, il est alors décidé de la réduire d'un étage, ceci explique sa silhouette massive aujourd'hui.

La tour offrant un panorama impressionnant sur la vallée servit enfin de poste d'observation et de réglage d'artillerie pendant la bataille de la Marne, en .

Bombardée en 1914 et 1940, foudroyée en 1951, ses vestiges furent sauvés par l'association « Les amis de l'Abbaye ».

Le musée de la Civilisation paysanne
Dans le musée, deux salles de collections données par l'abbaye, et par des familles de Jouarre y sont présentées ; des outils agricoles en tous genres, des châles, des coiffes traditionnelles ainsi que du mobilier rural. Installé "provisoirement" au-dessus des cryptes au début des années 1960, il y resta jusqu'en 2005. En 2015, à la suite d'un changement de destination du bâtiment qui l'abritait, il a regagné la chapelle Saint Martin au-dessus des cryptes.

L'église Saints-Pierre-et-Paul
L'église Saints-Pierre-et-Paul édifiée au , elle abrite divers joyaux. On peut ainsi citer les châsses des abbesses de Jouarre et autres saints protecteurs, un christ en croix du , une piéta du , une représentation du Christ au tombeau du , des vitraux du , de nombreuses statuettes et sculptures en pierre dont la finesse révèle une maîtrise de l'art et de l'expression et dans la nef de très belles châsses contenant les reliques qui sont portées à dos d'homme chaque année lors de la procession de la Pentecôte.

Le manoir de Nolongue
La construction du manoir-ferme de Nolongue remonte probablement à la première moitié du . Cette ferme est la seule de la région à avoir supporté le poids de la guerre de Cent Ans, conservant encore aujourd'hui son ancien logis, visible sur la façade méridionale des bâtiments. À l'origine, c'était une construction fortifiée, entourée de douves, à l'intérieur de laquelle on pénétrait par un pont-levis. Un manuscrit de 1544 nous livre une excellente description de l'état du domaine d'alors. Aborder Nolongue, c'est aussi évoquer la mémoire de Jean de Brie, qui y fut « gardeur de pourceaux » à partir de 1357. Par la suite, auteur d'un traité de bergerie, intitulé le Bon Berger, il entra dans les faveurs du roi Charles V de France qui en fit son secrétaire particulier.

Le domaine de Perreuse
Le domaine de Perreuse et son château du  :

Durant la première bataille de la Marne, le château fut mis à disposition de l'état-major allié et devint l'un des plus grands hôpitaux militaires de la région. Par la suite, Perreuse devient un centre de repos puis une maison d'accueil et de traitement.

L'étang de Perreuse a été creusé par les premiers moines bénédictins il y a plus d'un millénaire.

Cimetière militaire du Château de Perreuse
Cette nécropole rassemble des tombes britanniques et françaises.

L'aqueduc de la Dhuis
L'aqueduc de la Dhuis traverse le territoire de la commune.

La Fromagerie Ganot
La Fromagerie Ganot est l'une des fromageries les plus importantes de Seine-et-Marne, elle transforme la crème et le lait en yaourt ou fromage. Elle reçoit plus de  visiteurs par an.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, botaniste (1748-1836). En 1817, il achète le domaine de Venteuil, qui devient un véritable centre intellectuel où Antoine–Laurent reçoit ses amis, dont André-Marie Ampère, célèbre mathématicien et physicien. Le domaine est également un lieu de fêtes familiales, puisque chaque année la famille de Jussieu y fêtait la Saint-Antoine le . Très attaché à ce lieu, Antoine–Laurent choisit de terminer ses jours au château de Venteuil et y mourut en 1836.
 Hippolyte Fizeau, physicien (1819-1896), élève de François Arago. Après de grands travaux, calcul de la vitesse de la lumière, il reçut de nombreux prix tels que le prix triennal de l'Institut de France en 1856, il entra dans la section physique de l'Académie des sciences pour en devenir le vice-président en 1877 puis président l'année suivante.
Gombert-Alexandre Réthoré (1820-1892), natif et décédé à Jouarre, propriétaire-cultivateur, géomètre, archéologue, historien, écrivain, conseiller municipal, officier d'Académie; auteur de travaux sur Jouarre et Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin. Une rue de la ville porte son nom.
 Auguste Prévot-Valéri (1857-1930), peintre, y est mort.
 Brice Parain, philosophe et essayiste français (1897-1971), y est né.

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Q: Is there iPhone authentication by MFI external accessories? I am doing preliminary design of an iPhone app and I'm trying to find the answer to the following question: Does the MFI system allow an external accessory to restrict which particular iPhones are plugged into it?
I presume that I can add something to the external accessory protocol to do authentication/authorization.  My question is, do I have to bother--does the MFI system already provide that?
I'm led to believe that if I register with the MFI program, I can get the answer, but I do not intend to ever do so.  I will eventually work with a developer that is an MFI registeree.  I suppose I could wait until I've established a relationship with such a developer and then ask them to find out, but I was hoping to get an answer to this one specific question prior to that point.
I'm hoping that as I am just looking for user level info, and not implementation details, that the answer is not hidden behind the MFI NDA.
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Does the MFI system allow an external accessory to restrict which particular iPhones are plugged into it?

This is handled in the following manner:

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*The App must initiate a session using a protocol that the Accessory supports.

*The App must know how to talk to the Accessory (i.e. how to encode/decode communication data).

There is nothing preventing any random iOS Device with the proper App installed from connecting to an External Accessory so long as the App meets the above requirements.
The External Accessory could implement some additional form of security (like sending a password maybe?) before opening up its full capabilities to the App. Obviously, this would require the Accessory developer and App developer to both know this extra procedure.

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4 'Calls to Action' for health care technology leaders in 2020
Key themes emerge from CCM's Top of Mind 2020 Summit for innovators to tackle in the coming year
Health systems are facing many challenges as they look to the future, from interoperability of data to implementing new digital health technologies.
At the Top of Mind 2020 Summit, organized by the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM), leaders from across the industry came together recently to discuss their top priorities and challenges, and learn how their colleagues are forging ahead.
Packed with speakers from top health systems across the country, the Top of Mind Summit agenda grows from the CCM's Top of Mind research report, which examines health technology trends for the coming year.
For 2020, the report looked into three technology areas that are essential for managing the transition to value-based care — patient engagement, data aggregation and analytics, and precision medicine.
"Over the past three years this summit has become a special event where leaders in health care can come together and have frank discussions about the state of health care," said Tal Heppenstall, Treasurer of UPMC and President of UPMC Enterprises. "Our goal is to talk about what's working, where we're running into roadblocks, and come away with energy and optimism to continue pushing the forward in the coming year."
After three days of keynotes, panel discussions, and networking, four key calls to action emerged from the Top of Mind 2020 Summit.
Call to action 1: No more leading with technology
Tami Minnier MSN, Chief Quality Officer, UPMC, at right
For too long health care has introduced new technologies without first understanding the needs of patients, clinicians, and users, and how technology affects them. Speaker after speaker at the Summit said this practice of "creating Band-Aids in search of cuts" must stop.
Health care has a track record of implementing technology without figuring out whether the solutions will benefit patients and clinicians, and how the solutions will factor into workflows. This has led to frustrated and disengaged patients, burned-out physicians, and intractable inefficiencies.
Many Summit speakers said there is a human element that's needed to ensure technology is working effectively for users – whether clinicians or patients.
Tami Minnier, MSN, Chief Quality Officer at UPMC, said: "The best tech doesn't exist yet. There are more and more technologies that just add another tool to the toolbelt… My toolbelt is already full."
Call to action 2: Advocate for data standards and open data
Don Rucker, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
Data is essential for precision medicine, population health, personalization, care outcomes, lowering costs – you name it. Several sessions at the Summit were dedicated to data aggregation, integration, and interoperability, but the availability of quality data was a backbone of nearly every conversation.
Health systems can be active in driving data standardization progress by advocating for and supporting data standards, open sharing of data, and systems designed with end users in mind.
The government is pushing regulations that will drive change, but Summit speakers made it clear that health system leaders need to take a more active role in calling for data standards and open data.
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'SOMETHING I'LL NEVER FORGET': Former Breakers standout Sean Workman a heat winner at Olympic Trials
Former Breakers standout wins his heat in 200 back at Olympic Trials
Pete Hayes, phayes@civitasmedia.com
Published 7:28 pm CDT, Thursday, June 30, 2016
Former Edwardsville Breakers swimmer Sean Workman won his heat in the 200-meter backstroke prelims Thursday at the US Olympic Swim Trials in Omaha, Nebraska.
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OMAHA, Neb. — For a while Thursday, Sean workman was shoulder-to-shoulder and neck-and-neck with the best at the U.S. Swim Trials. The former Edwardsville YMCA Breakers swimmer won his heat in the 200-meter backstroke prelims and had a shot at advancing to the Thursday night semifinals.
But while his time was eventually surpassed by enough swimmers to put him out of a semifinal berth, Workman was happy with his effort - and he was ready for a cheeseburger
"Today was a personal-best time," said Workman, who will be a sophomore this fall at Virginia Tech University. "I finished as one of the top 30 in the country and I'm happy with that.
"I knew I had a shot (at the semifinals), but there were some really fast swimmers and I knew it would be a long shot."
The top 16 swimmers out of the 12-heat event advanced to the semifinals. Workman ended up 27th. Cal's Jacob Pebley was tops after the prelims and had the top seed in the semifinals with a time of 1:56.29. Defending Olympic gold medalist Tyler Clary was second at 1:56.85.
But Workman did win his heat.
"There is that," said Workman, who at O'Fallon High School was an IHSA state champion in the individual medley and bronze medalist in the 100 backstroke. "It's something I can always say - I won a heat at the Olympic Trials."
Workman, swimming in Lane 5 in Heat No. 4, finished in 2:01.91, more than a half a second ahead of Thane Maudselien, who had a time of 2:02.78.
Workman's split in the first 50 meters was 28.50 seconds and he held a slight lead over Maudselien. But at the next turn, Maudselien had taken the lead with a split time of 59.07. Todd McCarthy was second at 59.92 and Workman was third in 59.96.
Workman steadily closed in on Maudselien and by the last turn at 150 meters, trailed by 0.12 of a second.
Workman passed Maudselien midway through that last lap.
"It was pretty cool," Workman said. "To look up and see my name as the winner on the board, have the camera on me and see myself on the screen was something I'll never forget."
Workman is one of 13 Virginia Tech swimmers at the Trials. One of his teammates, Robert Owen, finished fifth in the 200-backstroke prelims and garnered that seed heading into Thursday night's semifinals.
"(Owen) has been one of my role models on the (Va Tech) team," Workman said. "He pushes me and we have a great relationship."
Owen's fifth-place time was 1:58.01. The rest of the semifinal field included Ryan Murphy, Michael Taylor, Sean Lehane, Hennessy Stuart, Austin Katz, Jay Litherland Joey Reilman, Justin Ress, Carter Griffin, Patrick Mulcarer, Matt Grevers and Drew Cosagara.
With his two-events at the Trials over (he also swam the 100-meter backstroke Monday), Workman is ready for a break before returning to training.
"I'm staying here to watch my (Virginia Tech) teammates and support them," he said. "But first, I'm going to go pig out and get some food.
"I've been wanting a big cheeseburger for a long time, and I'm finally giving in."
Reach Pete Hayes at 463-2500 or Twitter @HayeserPete


Are You a High-Risk Borrower?
It's no surprise that banks – including credit card issuers and lenders – want to avoid high-risk borrowers. Or if they do extend credit to this less-than-ideal group, it usually includes low limits, higher interest rates, and even special terms. But what exactly makes someone a high-risk borrower… and could you be one?
You might be surprised to learn some of the habits and situations that would knock you into that category as a borrower. Here are 5 factors that lenders eye when labeling a customer high-risk.
All debt is not created equal. There is good debt and there is bad debt, and each impacts your overall credit – and a lender's view of you as a borrower – differently.
Good debt is typically any account that is considered an asset. If you're paying down the mortgage on your home, for example, that debt typically won't count against you in the low-vs-high-risk analysis. Many lenders will even throw student loans into this category, since higher education often results in higher income.
Bad debt, however, is anything that costs more than it's worth… at least in the eyes of a creditor. Your auto loan falls into this category, as your vehicle depreciates quickly (often faster than your loan balance decreases). Retail accounts, such as credit card usage, definitely count as bad debt -- too high of a credit utilization on these accounts is a quick way to get yourself labeled high-risk. Other bad debts include things like payday loans or other high-interest lending.
Even one single negative report on your credit can knock you into the high-risk category for many lenders. For some, it doesn't even matter whether the negative report was from 6 weeks ago or 6 years ago… you have a "history" of irresponsible account management, and this gives them a good excuse to label you as a less-than-ideal borrower.
Negative reports can be anything from late payments on your credit cards to an account that went to collections (even if it's since been paid). Tax liens, delinquent loans, and even court judgments that wind up on your credit report can paint you in a bad light.
If your FICO credit score is 649 or below, you have credit that is considered Poor (550 and below is "Bad"). A score in this range could be due to a number of factors, but no matter how you got there, you're considered a risk to lenders because of it.
Your credit score could be this low due to negative reports, a high credit utilization, or even just a lack of credit history. If you want to quickly find a way out of the "high-risk borrower" pool, you need to work to improve your credit score as fast as possible.
Want to raise some eyebrows with a potential new creditor? Have a recent history of opening a few new accounts. This is a quick way to get marked as a higher risk, even if the reason is innocent.
When lenders see someone open a number of new accounts in a short period of time, they tend to wonder why. Is it because you are planning a big purchase? Or are you overextended financially and you need to rely on credit for a while? Either way, having too many young accounts on your credit report (and even a slew of hard inquiries) can sometimes be enough for a lender to say No, even if it's the only negative you have going for you.
If a lender is going to give you money, in the form of a loan or even a line of credit, they want to know that you can pay it back. In order to pay that debt back each month, you need to have reliable income.
Employees with salaries are ideal. Self-employed or contracted workers with a strong history of consistent income (this means 2 or more years' of tax returns) are also acceptable. However, if you recently switched to a commission-based job or just quit your salaried position to start a business in your basement, you might have trouble with a new lender.
There are many ways to be marked high-risk in the credit world. Some of these – such as having negative reports on your credit – are understandable. Others might not be quite as "fair," but when it comes to borrowing money, creditworthiness is in the eyes of the lender.


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Q: remove %20 and pass value with & with $_GET i am trying to send a value through link and get the value on other file using $_GET but the problem is the value has & in between two words and in url its coming like
list.php?v=Bakery%20&%20Cake%20Design
and when i echo this value in second page it come out to be bakery instead of bakery cake & design . Since i am sending this value from the first page via jquery on click i tried using encodeURI() to remove the %20 from the link but it still does't helps as the part after %20 & is not being printed on second page when i echo the value. my jquery code is
var vendor = $(this).text().replace(/\s/g,"%20"); in this i tried to remove it via replace too . But still no help .

A: You dont need to remove %20
just check that there should not be any space between the variable and the value!
This will produce   %20 :
echo 'Deactivate User	';

This will not:
`echo '<td><b><font color="#663300"><a href="deactivate.php?id=' . $row['ID'] . '">Deactivate User</a></font></b></td>';`

Reason : just a whitespace between (php?id ='.$row)

A: Use the URL Decoder function
echo urldecode("A%20B") // will print 'A B'

A: On the JS side you need to use encodeURIComponent() on the item with the ampersand like.
var title = encodeURIComponent('bakery cake & design'); // bakery%20cake%20%26%20design

As opposed to encodeURI which:

Note that encodeURI by itself cannot form proper HTTP GET and POST requests, such as for XMLHTTPRequests, because "&", "+", and "=" are not encoded, which are treated as special characters in GET and POST requests. encodeURIComponent, however, does encode these characters. These behaviors are most likely not consistent across browsers.


The explosive emergence of the internet has a profound impact on the growth of the online lending industry. In fact, the ease of securing credit online has spurred a relatively huge number of consumers to shift from traditional loans to online financial options, such as cash advance loans with no credit check.
By having a strong presence on the internet, private lending companies that offer cash advance loans are now able to provide borrowers with highly accessible financial choices. However, while the benefits may be impressive, it also has a drawback. Online lending exposes potential borrowers to excessive interest rates and exploitative lending schemes. Here are some tips on how they can avoid sky-high interest loans.
Consumers should not jump into a decision without fully understanding the terms and the details of the loan. Individuals who are in desperate need of immediate finances and those with poor financial literacy are likely to be targets of abusive lending practices. When consumers are faced with financial hardships, they tend to overlook the costs involved in the lending process. In order to avoid hidden interest rates and penalties, they are encouraged to go into the details of the terms and confirm the legitimacy of the loan itself before giving out any personal information.
They should carefully evaluate their expenses and borrow within their means.
Most of the reputable lending companies that offer cash advance loans online usually base the maximum loan amount on the applicant's income level. Thus, the best way to avoid the debt cycle is to stay away from lenders who encourage individuals to borrow more than they should. Borrowing more than what they can afford to pay back will, in the end, force loan consumers to borrow again to pay existing debts.


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Dunia Game -Universe- Chapter 1
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I'm just a lazy kid who was forced to go to college to fulfill my parent's ambitions. They hope I will be a bachelor and make it easier to find some job.
I was born as a child from a simple family who aspire to change our family life by playing video games. since junior high school, I play a video game that causes me addicted to another world called the virtual world.
Some people assuming that playing a game is just for running away from the real world. My parents worked as one of the law enforcers in this city. Because my parents refuse corruption. In this day and age at this time, he was forcibly removed from his strategic positions. In fact, my father's career in this field has a dozen years old. At the same time, my mother is a woman who works at home by opening a boutique to support our family's economy.
My work after school is playing the game in the home or in the game center in the middle of the city. Countless how many games I've finished Online or Offline.
I don't have many friends at that time, just some people, you can call them Awan, Putra, and Riki. They are my friends of joy and sorrow when this game. We make a little team for hunting or entering some place called Dungeon in MMORPG world or we can also call it Multi-Player Role Playing Game which can be played together with friends. Someday we already Online in the MMORPG game we used to play called Dooms Day.
This game describes conditions after the apocalypse where the world controlled by 3 Groups: Sky controlled by Angels, Earth controlled by Human, and Afterlife controlled by Demons. We make some association or called Guild and choose a different race from most people.
Yup, we choose Demon race.
Also, Riki invites us to gather in that game on a place in the middle of quite a city Called "Dessert Land". After we've entered the game, we immediately headed to the agreed place. It doesn't take a long time to get there by entering the Portal that could move the character where they had been before. Just arrived at the place I was greeted with a Laugh from my best friend.
" Hahaha… A nasty Guild Leader. You're Late" a figure with a shiny black armor and with a sword with dragon Carving standing in front of me. He is Riki with Nickname named Rainhard. He is a Vice-Leader in this Guild.
"Yeah. That's It. What's your Reason make us gather here ?" I asked that Question to a busy Riki holding a sword with dragon carving that is always he used when fighting. This sword he acquired after Level 150 is a Reward from Quest that he completed after changing his Job.
"Wait for the other Dy. Awan and Putra haven't logged on the game yet."
That's True the Riki says. I haven't seen my other two friends before. Soon the white light coming from the Portal that moved me Shine brightly. That indicates there are people who will move to this place.
"I'm Sorry Leader and Vice-Leader… I just go back from college"
"That's Okay, Now we need to wait for Putra."
"Yeah, That's Right," Riki Says.
Doesn't take a long time, person who we waiting is coming. His arrival was same as Awan and appear a tall, slender figure appeared. Equipped with a black scythe and a black cloak covering his head. this figure has a skull face and over his head, red color clearly visible marked on his name, Cleo. Yeah, that's Putra, My Friend since Junior Highschool.
"Sorry, I'm Late, What's Wrong Rik? really rarely do you ask us to gather in this place."
"I just want to discuss something with you all" Riki start take the Conversation.
"Are you all not bored with this game ?"
"not really, but sometimes. I playing another game too." Awan said.
"Yeah, like you see. My level can't level up anymore. Besides I already have what I want from this game, maybe with selling it with several million Rupiah makes me calm." Putra Said.
Indeed we have almost reached the last Level in this game. Since Senior Highschool we played this game. we have not counted how many guilds we defeated or Duel Competition that we've won. We named this guild "Black Cloud". You can call us is the strongest in Demon Races and it is uniqueness from our Guild. We just recruit our close friends in this guild and the core members is just 4 people. Riki as an Assassin same with Putra. And Awan as an Expert Weapons and myself as a Leader in this Guild as a Magic Caster.
"Yeah… I just little bored with this game Rik. But what must we do ? is it not possible we play another game again ?"
"Hahaha… Not like that Bro. Lately, I just found a New Game which is Quite famous in Indonesia. Even in Southeast Asia. This game Named Universe, the concept same as Dooms Day that we Played Right now. Consisted of various kinds of Race and there is something that interests me."
"What is it, Rik?" Said Awan Curious.
" The level System is so fantastic, the early update is the level that we must reach is 200. Last time I checked overseas Server, there is information that the maximum level of this game can reach Level 1000. And there many rewards and money we get from selling items or fighting PvP in this game. The reward is real world's money. What do you think? are you not interested in this ?"
"Hmm. Sounds Good but how about the other ?"
"If you Join, Dy. Definitely will do, I'll Join too."Awan Said.
"Well if it's a joint decision. Anyway playing a game like this without you all won't taste good, " Putra said.
Finally, we agreed to play the new game named The Universe. But, we need a week to learn the game from the official website and must wait for Open Beta game is Launched. We already download this game and waiting for the next update from the developer. We're ready to play this game on our Laptop and try to be the strongest in the game. Don't know this will be easy or hard, I hope I can produce enough money from this game.
A week has passed and the latest update already come out. We agreed to update together. We already adjusted the time to download. In this age, the internet already free for all countries so we do not have to wait or spend more to buy a quota. The size of this game is 25 GB and just wait 20 minutes for download and do extract files to my laptop. Up to an icon figured U with red motive appears on the desktop screen. For a moment this finger clicking twice on the icon and I start playing the game.
On the Screen a text Welcome to the Universe World appeared. Then followed by the display login id and password. Previously I and the others already register on its official website. By writing my Nickname Mayhard, I was logged into the game. The next screen is text to create a new account or already have another game account. I was quite shocked, with the second option I think it's very strange where previously there has never been a game like this. Out of curiosity I also choose the second option is to have an account in another game.
A picture appears on some of the accounts that I have been playing. There are various games that I have played from RPG to FPS. The choice is one, that converts the old game into the current game. Since this is RPG, of course, I choose an account with the same Portal in the Dooms Day game. I think this account is the strongest of all accounts I have. After clicking the convert, this game immediately accumulates the game I've ever played and this game shows the display of transferring data that happened at that time. Tired also wait from 1% -100% maybe about 5 minutes it happened until finally the process is finished.
I showed up at a place like a graveyard and automatically I saw my character's look at that moment was a skull bone running. Then I checked Status(A numerical level in the game that contains Level or level information on the game). From my character that has been incorporated into the game.
Character Status
Number of HP: 42,000
Number of MP: 25,000
Title: 0
"hmm…. It seems this game not bad at all. At least my level high enough past 100 which is an early update on this game. But, I don't have any reputation, title or money in this game."
I'm still a little confused then I immediately moved to check my bag or inventory in this game. Just to see what this game provides? For beginners like me now. By clicking on a bag-shaped picture I looked into the Inventory, there was only a worn hat, a wooden magic wand, a magic book and also some red and blue bottles used to fill the HP or MP (MP is an internal power used to release magic). I checked the worn hat, the wand and the book one by one.
Combat Equipment
Worn Hat
Endurance: 15
Ability: Adds 1.5% addition MP every second.
Requirements Level: 10
Attack: 50-60
Durability: 30
Ability: Adds a magic attack of 5%.
Level requirements: 10
Ability: Provides various types of magic if studied.
I just sigh, it seems the only status can be incorporated into this game. All armor, money or reputation I have in the previous game cannot be moved into this game. Only the Role of Demon can be combined and my level who reached number 99 in this game. I decided to use these items and pretend to be a beginner to learn more about this game. While inviting my other friends to come together and make an association with our previous appointment. Be the strongest, the best and the richest in this game. Hopefully, our trip will be easy later. Our adventure in the game Universe is now starting.


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Vestager to investigate IKEA's taxes
Furniture retailer is the latest target for EU competition boss.
European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager
By Nicholas Hirst
Margrethe Vestager, the EU's competition boss, is poised to open a formal probe into the tax affairs of Ikea, the world's largest furniture retailer, according to people familiar with the investigation.
The inquiry into the company — founded in Sweden and now headquartered in the Netherlands — could come early this week and would be the latest in a series of cases that have targeted aggressive tax avoidance by multinationals, as well as the second to shine the spotlight on The Hague's tax regime.
The Ikea inquiry is expected to focus on rulings issued to the company by the Netherlands that allegedly allowed the company to cycle profits through the EU.
"The Commission has informed the Netherlands that it contemplates opening an in-depth investigation into possible state aid involving Inter Ikea Group," said a senior Dutch EU official. "The Netherlands fully supports the Commission's work."
The official said that the Netherlands agreed individual companies should not receive preferential treatment and would cooperate with the inquiry.
Commission investigators have been looking at royalties paid by a Dutch entity to a Luxembourg subsidiary holding intellectual property during the period between 2006 and 2010. They have also been examining the acquisition of that intellectual property by a Dutch Ikea entity, financed by an internal group loan from Liechtenstein, according to a person with knowledge of the inquiry.
In February 2016, Green MEPs published a report that found Ikea companies had avoided €1 billion in taxes across Europe over the prior six years. Ikea did so, the report claimed, through an aggressive franchising structure, the payment of business charges to Liechtenstein and a sweetheart tax ruling in the Netherlands.
The MEPs forwarded the report to Vestager.
The European Commission and Ikea declined to comment.
Ikea, which turned over some €35 billion in 2016, would be a prominent European scalp for Vestager, who has been dogged by accusations she is "disproportionately" targeting U.S. companies.
In August 2016, she ordered Ireland to recoup more than €13 billion in back taxes from Apple, while in October she told Luxembourg to collect around €250 million against Amazon.
Her defenders point out that she is probing France's Engie and has targeted Fiat, now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, as well as many European multinationals located in Belgium.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect the correct number of tax ruling cases targeting the Netherlands: Two.
Vestager ramps up pressure on Bayer-Monsanto mega-merger
By Nicholas Hirst and Simon Marks
Vestager files Apple lawsuit despite Dublin's promises
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We chose the dresser and matching night stands because of the color and finish. Was surprised at the low price considering the quality of the piece. Had a great buying experience at the store too. Highly recommend this line.
I really like this dresser as it came put together already and was very reasonably priced. I would definitely recommend and it works perfect in my son's room.
This was a great addition to my daughter's bedroom. I love everything about it. Looks very nice and has plenty of space for all of her clothes. The photo does this dresser no justice you must see it in person.
I absolutely LOVE this dresser! I bought it about a month ago and am still happy with my purchase. It is well made and doesn't feel at all cheap. The style is beautiful as well and I honestly haven't seen another dresser look like this one anywhere.
Purchased to fit under a bay window and it works beautifully. Heavy, solid construction. We have already received so many compliments on it!
Classic look and nicely made dresser. Plenty of drawers. You can never go wrong with the Valencia sets.


The problem with dinner parties is that once the invitations have been sent you've really lost all control over how things will unfold. The problem with dinner parties is that someone will inevitably open a cupboard or lift a pillow and see that your life is a dusty shadow of the pristine image you try to convey on Instagram. And being the guest is no easier. Do you take flowers and risk sending the host into that awkward frenzy of looking for a vase and the rice boils over? Do you bring wine? Are these the wine connoisseur or the baby duck friends? And how do you determine if the host, insisting you bring nothing but yourself, is being sincere or testing you?
I hosted my first dinner party in grade ten. That was the one year in high school when I had friends. I used my Girl Guide acquired expertise to set the table properly. Mixed the prettiest syrupy mocktails in brandy snifters complete with paper umbrellas. I served fondue, the kind where you heat the oil to boiling and dip your meat into, creating a meal of greasy flavorless tough meat. I'm glad that fad died out. The chocolate dessert fondue was a hit.
I don't know what possessed me to want to host my six closest girl friends for a dinner party. Goodness knows the favour was never returned and the friendships eventually petered out with high school drama and disloyalty. But I don't regret it. Oh my, did we feel grown up that night as my parents disappeared into the background and we sat around the table for hours taking on the adult persona of dinner conversation with all seriousness.
I think I learned it young, certainly my parents would host dinners, usually in our case people from church and sometimes these were adult only affairs. But no matter we lived in a modest split-level, I could sit just inside my closed bedroom door and listen to every word of their adult conversations well into the night. From the other side of my bedroom door, seated crossed legged for hours I learned that the real gold of a dinner party has little to do with the food. That's where I learned that dinner parties are most importantly about the conversations, the connection, the people, and the vulnerability.
Jesus was the guest at plenty a dinner party. He was the host sometimes too, once in an upper room the night before he was tracked down and brought to the cross, once on a beach eating fried fish and his disciples. And he was the guest more times than you can count. Sometimes he was the guest at the home of dear friends like Martha and Mary but mostly he was at the table because he invited himself like he did with Zaccheus or as a curiosity to the hosts as in the story before us today. No matter the circumstances one thing is sure, Jesus knew that dinner parties are central to our lives of faith, core to shaping our identity as Kin-dom people.
In the story before us he was invited to the home of a Pharisee. These were the guys who knew the rules and enforced them. They'd been watching Jesus since he healed on the Sabbath and they were waiting for him to break another rule. There must have been tension in the air that night. One would expect Jesus to have been on his best behaviour but he never seemed to be limited by what others thought. He gets to the party and hasn't even found his seat when he sees that people are vying for the places of most honour at the table.
You've got to appreciate that honor and shame had tremendous sway in society at that time. There really was nothing more important than your honour and it was tied in to your family, you didn't just bring shame on yourself for a misstep you'd bring it on your whole family too. Jesus sees this competition rumbling at the party and starts into a parable.
He tells them, if you're invited to a party don't take the seats of honour take the worst seat possible and then you only have one way to go, up. Which sounds like a rather half-baked parable. Really, take the worst seat so as to not risk being shamed by the host?
I wonder if he had lost a bit of his usual nerve or if he couldn't, at first, get beyond the cultural norms so embedded in him. Because it's not until the parable is over that he opens the trap door. I've talked before about the trap doors inherent in every parable. They open just when you think you have the thing figured out and they reveal some unexpected truth, some challenge to you, something that shifts the meaning of the whole thing. But in this instance the trap door lays between the parable and the real world in this line Jesus speaks to the host of the party. He says "For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted." This key verse sews together the parable with the directive he gives to the host.
The mainline church gets critiqued some times for various reasons but one of them is that we are a social club, more than a faith community, not enough concerned about Jesus and his kingdom as we are about the friendships we develop here or the justice activities we engage in.
With all seriousness I propose that there is a particular Christian spiritual practice that has been long overlooked: the spiritual practice of the dinner party. When we sit at table together as people who seek to follow in the way of Jesus, we are participating in something much greater than filling bellies. We are placing ourselves in the very vulnerable position of being changed, of being seen. It is hard to hate someone with whom you've shared a meal. And though it's been done it is hard to leave a table when you've been offended, leaving you in the awkward position of sitting face to face with difference. Hospitality is certainly disarming and it can also be downright painful for both host and guest.
This community has been eating together a lot lately. A few weeks back when we announced that we would host our third annual Dine Out event the congregation erupted in applause. Who would have thought there would be such an appeal to sign up dinner, not even knowing who the other guests will be or who your host is for that matter. And you folks love it! But that's not all. We hosted a community potluck earlier this month where sixty people gathered round table. And a gala dinner last Sunday where eight people purchased tickets so others could attend.
And it's pancakes after church next week and later in March we'll eat pies as we explore the Affirm United invitation to be Public intentional and explicit in our inclusion of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
On Mondays Mary Lou opens up the doors to the Great Hall, puts on a pot of coffee and hosts several dozen men living close to the economic and line, under the pretense of offering them tickets to get a free meal. But I've seen what she does and the meal is as peripheral as the coffee and delicious lemon squares she serves up. The heart of the kingdom revealed on Mondays is in the community that arises from the conversations. You may want to consider putting yourself in the blessed and vulnerable place of showing up. And on Thursdays as dozens of parents and their little ones gather for parent and tot group we feed them too.
And of course for the past twenty years this community has been serving up meals once a month at First United. That's twelve meals a year times about 150 people per meal, that's 36000 meals! But ask the hundreds of people who faithfully volunteer to lovingly set tables, serve never ending pots of coffee at a sit down meal, ask them if they think they are the host and they'll tell you these people who can't return the favour return it a hundred fold every single week in their words and presence. They'll tell you the food is just an avenue to the heart, to meeting the other, the stranger and when the stranger becomes a person you can't help but look at the world and your place in it a little bit differently.
And later today after we gather for a service of remembrance to lift up the life of Blake Schaeferle, who was baptized here in this church, who no doubt played a few games of hide and seek amidst these pews and later would sit down at this piano any chance he got. After that service we will gather for lunch, around table, because we know that the conversations that happen as we fill our bellies are an extension of what happens here as we fill our souls. Because tables are places where we learn that our tears are not so different, our politics don't need to be so entrenched, our joys are remarkably similar and one's heartbreak has a way of seeping into the heart of another, so that we can bear it just a little bit easier.
I don't know exactly what Jesus was trying to say that day but I do know that every parable points to the Kingdom and with so very many stories about tables he must have wanted us to know that the kingdom, the place where Love wins, is very much present in the things that happen around table. Maybe parables are filled with trap doors. Maybe there's a trap door, an opening to powerful truth, a call to faithful discipleship for us that may be different from the trap door of previous generations or contexts. I'm not sure we actually need to have this all figured out but maybe there is something to be learned by practicing and laying out the spread and inviting any and all to every table we can, maybe there is always something to learn about the kindom.
Dinner parties are risky business, people may see you for who you really are, and the conversation may veer into places that leave you feeling uncomfortable but these are opportunities to be fed as much as the lavish abundance of dinner parties. What if every dinner party, ever meal shared, every time there's a table present we saw it as invitation to practice being a kingdom people.


The St. Paul Johnson Governors are the "Pride of the East Side" of Minnesota capital city - Saint Paul, MN and home of USA hockey legend Herb Brooks where he was once quoted as saying "winning the 1955 State Tournament with my est friends was the single most successful moment in my life, even more than winning the 1980 Olympics". The Govies are home to 4 State Tournament Championships (1947 - 1953 - 1955 - 1963). This retro t-shirt with over sized printing featuring Herbie and his team-mates in heathered texture and soft tri-blend 50% polyester, 37% cotton, and 13% rayon for a distinctive, yet comfortable vintage feel that you'll want to wear everyday.


Operation Career is an interactive career workshop designed to give transitioning Military, Veterans and their spouses the strategies, resources, skills and accountability they need to find employment in the civilian workforce.
Operation Career is based on The Get Real Guide™ to Your Career Workbook (a PeopleThink publication). It includes 5 action-oriented modules corresponding to the 5 key steps in the career process. Each module comprises activities, checklists and tools.
Taking Inventory – What are your values, skills, natural talents and barriers?
Creating You – Can you clearly state what you want and what sets you apart from your competition?
Designing Your Target Campaign – What's your career plan and how will you attain it?
Getting Out There – Are you ready to interview with confidence and negotiate your worth?
Taking Charge of Your Career – Are you preparing for your next career opportunity?


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We will write, wonder and weather our way through light and shadow, footfalls and silences, creating the Ritual Theatre of your/our stories detailed soulfulness.
Live Wire Theatre Labs awaken and sharpen those places in ourselves that need realigning, recharging or perhaps rewiring back to what's most original and true, unlocking the stories our bodies are longing to tell--the poetic landscape that is at the root and heart of the 5Rhythms practice.
Each gesture being an extension from our body, heart, mind, soul and spirit.
Fueled by the ecstatic language of the 5Rhythms®, this is movement as spiritual practice, a dancing, kinetic prayer of connection to the unpredictable mystery of it all. The way to this center is a deep medicine journey, a journey of blood, bones and sweat.


I had a sneak preview from Hamleys of what's likely to be hot this Christmas – here are the top 10 "I want, I want, I want" toys, plus my tips on how to buy them for as little as possible.
OK, hold onto your reindeer antlers. I'm talking about Christmas – in July.
I've just come back from the Hamleys Christmas press show, where I had the chance to play with all the toys that are going to be big with the kids this winter, including its top 10 toys for Christmas.
Hamleys usually gets this spot on, so it's a good indicator of what your little ones will pester you for.
Here's the list, to give you plenty of time to prepare. But this wouldn't be the Deals Hunter blog without some insider tips on how to get them as cheaply as possible. I've sourced the cheapest price for each toy (for now) so you don't have to do it.
My Friend Cayla is a doll you can ask questions and she'll answer by looking up the answers on Wikipedia. Hamleys told me it's going to be the really big toy this year – so it'll be pretty hard to get hold of.
This is a fancy watch for children that you can take pictures and videos with as well as play games. You can then upload them for editing. Oh, and it also tells the time.
The buyer at Hamleys told me that last year's version of this (Teska, a robotic puppy) was a best-seller. So there's a good chance this one will be too.
This is a 3-D Play-Doh that dries hard. I can't get that excited about it. Sorry!
There's a lot of talk about this being a big one for this year – at least according to the wonders of the web. It's basically a slimmed down version of Wii for young kids. If you want it, I'd suggest getting it in October when it's released. And to be honest, Hamleys is probably not going to be the cheapest place to buy it.
This is a massive, 51cm-tall dinosaur Transformers action figure. Its eyes light up and its mouth chomps. Obviously, boys are going to love it – but it's a lot of money for a toy that's going to be bashed about. Hamleys' buyer told me you can buy extra mini-Transformers to activate extra sounds and more. Sounds a bit like a waste of money, to be honest – but each to their own, I suppose.
Since when did all these Barbie toys stop including the dolls? This one is a plastic bag that changes colour depending on the outfit you're wearing. Considering I wore a lot of Sweater Shop jumpers (remember their crazy '90s patterns?) when I was about 12, I'd have liked to have seen it match me.
These are Barbie-sized dolls based on the main characters, Elsa and Anna, from the hugely popular Disney film Frozen. Anything Frozen sells like hot cakes, so get your hands on them ASAP, although £30 is pretty steep.
I couldn't even pretend I wasn't horrified by this toy. Basically, it's a gross Furby with snot coming out of its nose. Kids, eh?
This is basically a Nerf gun, without actually being a Nerf gun. I've been told this one is outselling the brand as it doesn't jam (unlike the Nerf). It also only sticks to the small dartboard thing (so it doesn't ruin your painted walls). But if the dartboard goes missing you're stuck, as they won't stick (if you see what I mean).
The top 10 are generally new toys. Unless they're part of larger cross-store promotions, such as 3for2s, they're unlikely to go down in price before Christmas. Some will sell out quickly and the price is likely to inflate with all the hype. So if you're going to get one of these top 10 items, get them before the Christmas scrabbling starts.
Look out for promotions and toy sales that many stores run around September/October time, before Christmas fever kicks off. In the past three years Debenhams, Argos, Tesco and John Lewis have all slashed toy prices around this time.
The same goes for Amazon. Looking at Amazon's price tracker from last year, you would have paid £59.99 for the Teska Robotic Puppy after late November. But if you'd bought it back in September/October, you could have bought it for £39.99 – a £20 saving on one of Christmas 2013's best-sellers.
So, what have I learnt? Well for a start, when I have kids they aren't having toys. Not really… but seriously, I just can't believe how expensive these bits of plastic are.
Obviously, my MoneySaving tip would be to not buy into the hype – but the hype isn't aimed at you, it's aimed at your kids so it's not that easy.
The key thing here is if you are going to spend money on these big brand toys, make sure you buy them early before the hype takes hold. As an added bonus, you'll avoid the Crimbo madness too.


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