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Clean Slate 10.8
This one wasn't a formal meeting at a neutral location. In fact, the person I was here to meet didn't know I was coming at all.
There was a very good reason for that. Selene hadn't been able to dig up much on the leadership of any of the independent factions—apparently they'd all been content to keep their activities quiet until recently.
But Shadow was the spokeswoman for the camp that felt that people with magic were better than normal humans, that they deserved to be in charge. They were a group that was defined by a serious and extreme agenda, and apparently they were willing to use violence to advance it, even while the world was going to pieces around them.
The funny thing was that, on some level, I understood where they were coming from. When you can stop bullets, or bench press a small car, or blow things up with your mind, it can be hard not to look at a plain old human being and think of them as lesser. People on the fringes of the supernatural got used to being marginalized, from both the connected players and normal society. It wasn't hard to see why Shadow had been able to attract followers under the platform of "It's our turn now."
And just from that, I could be fairly confident that Shadow wasn't the kind of person who would respond to diplomacy and negotiation. Someone who thought of personal power as the appropriate basis for societal power, who wanted to move up in the world and instantly looked to move someone else down, had a very different outlook on life than the idealists I'd met with earlier.
I intended to convey my message in terms that she could understand.
So rather than a restaurant or a park, we pulled up in front of an apartment building. It was nice enough, as such things went, a fairly small building with lots of windows. There was a guy at the front desk just inside the door who looked like he wanted to stop me. I just smiled at him and kept right on walking.
People don't usually stop you if you look like you know what you're doing, and this guy was no exception. Even though I was wearing a hooded grey-black coat, and accompanied by a ridiculously scary-looking husky. Snowflake wasn't wearing armor, and mine was covered by the cloak, but it was still not the sort of ensemble that you should probably let walk into your apartment complex unchallenged.
Then again, maybe he was calling the police behind us. It might not matter—I imagined they were too busy to respond to every suspicious person call. Either way, it was probably best to work fast.
I hadn't been able to get Shadow's residence narrowed down any further than this building, so I was going to have to find her apartment the old-fashioned way. I started on the ground floor, walking slowly down the hallway and looking for anything out of place.
I found plenty of things. The cat in 103 was in heat, and pissed off that she couldn't do anything to relieve the tension. From 107 I caught the scent of raw beef, and lots of it. That had nothing on 112, where I smelled blood and camphor, and heard a low moaning coming from inside. I almost went into that apartment, until I realized that they had a pet dog and got a look at things through his eyes.
Then I realized what the residents were up to, blushed, and kept walking. I considered myself fairly open-minded on the subject—Aiko has a rather bizarre imagination, after all, and my pain tolerance and healing rate were both off the charts. It would have been somewhat odd if we hadn't played around a little. Watching other people going at it, though, that was a different story.
I didn't run into anything else quite that exciting as I finished surveying the ground floor, but there were plenty of other oddities. It was amazing, really, all the things that happened behind closed doors. This was a pretty normal apartment building, pretty bland, and after a casual examination of the place I still had a ridiculous amount of blackmail material.
I finished looking around and moved up, doing the same thing on the next floor. It was a good thing that it was a smallish apartment complex; I couldn't have done this in a really big place. But there were less than two dozen apartments per floor, and I only needed about thirty seconds to clear each one. It didn't take too long.
Finally, when I was midway through the third floor, I caught what I was looking for. Apartment 309 smelled of magic, the sharp disinfectant tone of humanity cut with a shot of darkness. There was something odd about that smell, something I hadn't encountered before. It was quiet and dusty, but there was something about the scent that was deliberate, the result of action rather than chance.
To put it in simpler terms, there was the darkness you got when you couldn't see, and the darkness you got when you closed your eyes. This was the second one, and I didn't know what that meant.
There was nowhere to go but forward, though, so I walked up and knocked on the door. I had to knock a couple more times before I heard rustling cloth inside, and then it was almost another minute before footsteps approached the door.
I hated not knowing what was going on. There were no pets in this apartment, so I had nothing to go on but what I could hear from outside to guess what was happening.
Finally, just when I was contemplating picking the lock and going in, the door opened a few inches before being caught by the chain. The woman on the other side was short and thin, with brown eyes and dyed-black hair that was rather disheveled. She was wearing a black robe and a black mask that covered everything but her eyes.
"Hi," I said dryly. "You must be Shadow."
"Who are you?" she asked suspiciously.
"Winter Wolf. Can I come in, please? I'm afraid one of your neighbors will see us."
She frowned at me suspiciously. But apparently she couldn't think of a good way to tell me no, because a few seconds later she reached up and unhooked the door chain.
I went in, taking a look around the place as I did. It was a nice apartment, not terribly large, but nice. The furniture wasn't ridiculously expensive, but it hadn't been purchased at a garage sale or IKEA, either. There were a few bookshelves, with a whole lot of books stacked on them, mostly paperback fiction.
I took a seat on a leather couch that had seen its fair share of use. Snowflake sat next to me and rested her head on my thigh, where I could scratch her ears while Shadow locked up.
A few moments later she came back and sat on the other couch, which was at right angles to the one I was on. That gave both of us a decent view of the other, while also putting the coffee table between us.
"Would you care for some tea?" she asked after a few moments. It sounded like she wasn't sure what else to say, so she fell back on that by default.
"Please," I said. "Also, no offense, but I've gotta ask. What's with the robe and mask?"
"I was asleep," she said. "The robe was the simplest thing to throw on. As for the other…well, look at it from my perspective. If you got woken up by a strange mage knocking on your door, would you really want to answer it without some kind of protection?" She smiled wryly. "Obviously not, given what you're wearing."
"The armor serves a practical purpose," I said defensively. "It makes sure that if someone tries to shoot me, it won't work."
"The mask is another kind of protection," she said quietly. "Although not one that will do me much good here, I guess." She stood up. "Let me get that tea."
It took a few minutes for the water to boil, which I mostly spent scratching Snowflake's ears and trying to reconcile this homey apartment and being offered tea with a power-hungry faction of mages.
When Shadow returned, she'd ditched the mask and traded in the robe for a black T-shirt and jeans. Without the mask her face was a little pale and visibly freckled. Her hair was still mussed, but now it was artfully mussed, the sort that happened on purpose for stylistic reasons.
She set two cups on the table, followed by a jar of honey, a small pitcher of cream, and a teapot. She made no move towards either cup, letting me choose. Courtesy in the supernatural world, particularly between those who weren't quite enemies but certainly weren't friends, had a lot to do with minimizing the possibility for assassination.
Not that I was safe. There were all kinds of ways to get around the standard precautions, after all. She could have just taken a preemptive antidote and then slipped the poison into the teapot, for example. But it limited the danger, and the fact that she'd done things this way said a lot.
"Thank you for the hospitality," I said, taking one of the cups and pouring tea into it. It was something of a loaded phrase; the rules of hospitality were taken very seriously by the vast majority of supernatural beings. Do something to violate them, and you could expect very little welcome once word got out.
"Of course," she said, taking the other cup. "Would you like some honey?"
"No, thank you. I don't care for sweet tea."
She shrugged, spooning some into her cup. "Suit yourself."
I settled back into the couch, taking my helmet off and setting it next to Snowflake. It would be hard to drink while wearing it, and removing it would send another message, a less hostile one. "Okay," I said. "No offense, but you're really not what I was expecting."
She raised one eyebrow, blowing on her tea to cool it. "Really?" she said. "And what were you expecting?"
"I'm not sure. Something a little less pleasant, I suppose. I mean, you're the ringleader of the most aggressive, power-hungry faction of independents in town right now. No offense."
"Is that how you think of us?"
"Your central tenet is that people who don't have magic should be subservient to those who do," I said dryly. "It's kinda hard to interpret it any other way."
She was quiet for a few seconds, then abruptly asked, "How many dogs are there within a block of us right now?"
"Nineteen," I said instantly, then paused.
It was the strangest feeling. I hadn't thought about that beforehand. Oh, I'd been aware of the animals nearby, but I hadn't stopped to count them or anything. And yet, the instant she asked, I knew the answer, and there was no doubt in my mind that I was right.
"And cats? How many of them?"
"Twenty-four. I'm sorry, is this relevant?"
She shrugged and took another sip of tea. "How hard would it have been for anyone else to answer that?" she asked idly. "I mean, a 'normal' person, a plain old standard-issue human being, would have to work for it. They could go door to door and ask people, but that wouldn't account for strays. Or they could do research on the demographics of the area and compare it to standard values, and maybe get in the right general area. Either way it would take a lot of work and the answer you get would have a certain margin of error. I ask you and I get an answer right now, no delay, no uncertainty. Just boom, there's your number."
"So you of all people should agree with me," she said, setting her cup down. "When I say we're better than they are, it isn't racism or classism or whatever ism you want to call it. It's a statement of fact, plain and simple. You've got access to information on a level they can only dream of. I can walk into their house right in front of them, pick up their treasured belongings, and walk back out, and they won't do a thing to stop me."
"Can," I asked quietly, "or have?"
She smiled a little. "This apartment doesn't pay for itself."
I nodded. "So what you're saying is that might makes right. We have the power, so we should use it. Is that about right?"
"I guess so, yeah. Although it's really not any different from what you're doing, is it? I mean, I'm not going to pretend I know everything you do, but you're taking power, right? Taking control?"
"That's different," I said, although I didn't sound convincing, even to myself. "I'm doing it to help people."
"Sure," she said. "I get that. That's why a lot of the people with me are speaking up now, when they haven't before. The old rules, the old protections, they don't apply anymore. That means that we're the only ones who have the knowledge and the power to keep people safe. But we can't do that while we're too attached to the way things have always been to move forward."
"You know," I said quietly, sipping just a tiny bit of my tea, "there are a lot of people that would say that you're wrong. That the ones who have that kind of power should be answerable to the people, not the other way around."
She snorted. "Yeah, right. Since when has that ever happened? Don't get me wrong, it's a nice idea, but the real world doesn't work that way. The people in power always rig the game in their favor. I'm just not in denial about it." She grinned. "Besides, if you really believed that, wouldn't you be doing things aboveboard instead of just taking power by yourself?"
I winced. Shadow had scored a very palpable hit, there. "I get what you're saying," I said. "But there are a couple of things you're overlooking. First, your estimates of relative power are whacked. There are like a hundred of them for every one of you, even if you convince all of the mages and minor talents to side with you, and they've got things a hell of a lot nastier than torches and pitchforks these days. Second, this is a temporary situation. Anarchy is a nice concept and all, but there's too much pressure from above for it to last long. The major players want things stable and orderly."
"And you don't think that we could make things stable?"
"No," I said. "Not in the long term. Have you ever read Leviathan?"
"It's an old philosophy book by Thomas Hobbes," I said. "The way he looks at it, the natural state of things is a lot like what you're describing. It's all about personal power, who's the strongest, that kind of thing. But if you want a stable society, you need a unified government backed by something more than who has the biggest stick, you know? If the system is based on personal power and strength, then there will always be someone who thinks he's the baddest guy around. Things will never really be stable."
"That's a fair point," she said. "But I don't think it's the only way to run things. Think about it. How much of what you're saying here is based on reality, and how much of it is just what you've been taught to believe? Right, wrong, good, bad, they're all just rules that the people in charge made up to stay in charge, and keep the masses down. Well now it's our turn, and we don't have to listen to any rules but the ones we choose."
I was still trying to think of how to respond to that, or how to convince her that what she was doing really wasn't a very good idea, when there was a sudden boom outside.
Most people probably would have been confused then, or wondering what was happening. I wasn't. I'd heard explosions before, and I knew one when I heard it. This had been louder than some, but not ridiculously, which meant that my ears were ringing but my balance wasn't thrown off.
It only took a couple of seconds for me to be on my feet, Tyrfing in one hand, pulling my helmet back on with the other. Snowflake rose beside me, a snarl bubbling up in her throat, lips pulled back to show metal teeth.
Shadow was apparently no amateur herself, though. By the time I was ready to go, she was on her feet and looking out the window. A moment later there was another explosion, and this time I could see the red glow from outside. Somebody was starting fires out there.
"Unbelievable," she said, letting the curtain fall. "That's Newton. He's one of my inner circle."
"Not anymore, apparently," I said dryly. "That's the trouble with preaching the übermensch philosophy. Sometimes people take you seriously."
"I'm not surprised he wasn't loyal to me," she snapped. "I'm surprised he was stupid enough to turn on me like this. He of all people should know better." She turned to me. "Winter, I'm sorry, but we have to put this conversation on hold. You want to give me a hand with this, it might be good for both of us. Newton is…he's not someone that you could have this debate with, let's just put it that way."
I pursed my lips and nodded. "Fine," I said. "But you'll owe me."
All right, Snowflake said, sounding a little more excited than was comfortable. And here I thought today would be boring.
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BestlaKnows
You continue to amuse and please me. I am not alone. Fascinating that it was Loki who actually called the old ones. Yes, the "crazy one". None other was brave or interested enough to set in motion what comes. Winter Wolf, your destiny may be greater than most realize. Such is my belief.
I'd like to voice my agreement with Bestla; you continue to amuse and please me, as well. Ah Winter Wolf, your people are counting on you… and yet, who waits in the wings.


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Portly Movie Review: Teacher (2019)
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Given the unprecedented Age of The Virus we're all living in, and the changes it's brought to teaching and learning, I've been dedicating more and more blog posts to the subject of education. Like NEO's recent post "National Lineman's Day" (the proprietor of Nebraska Energy Observer has electricity in his blood), it's only natural that I'd keep coming back to my profession as a source of blog material.
Similarly, in entertainment I'm often drawn to films about teaching. Like pretty much every other teacher, Dead Poets Society left a pretty strong imprint on me (and my students used to call me "Captain," years ago, though I doubt many would stand on their desks for me), and School of Rock directly shaped my approach to teaching music (indeed, Jack Black deserves the credit—or blame—for my musical personae). Frank McCourt's memoirs of teaching, Teacher Man, also inspired me to enter the profession.
So last night, while casting about for some quarantine entertainment, I stumbled upon the psychological thriller/after-school drama Teacher (you can stream it on RedBox for $2.15). It's a 2019 film about a nebbish English teacher at a critical juncture in his personal life and career, who is also dealing with intense bullying of two of his nerdy students. He then decides to take matters into his own hands with some vigilante justice.
The main character, Mr. Lewis, is nearly up for tenure at his high school, where he's a very devoted English literature teacher. If the pressure of his tenure review weren't enough, he's also going through a difficult divorce. Lewis might be an alcoholic, and he punched a couple of holes in the wall, so his wife wants out.
On top of it all, the film starts with a young, ludicrously bespectacled Lewis having his face submerged in a shallow, muddy pool by a gang of hooligans. The mud-covered youngster then stumbles home in time to witness a fight between his angry father and his harpy of a mother.
The film really lays this stuff on thick: the whole point is that bullies are the creations of other bullies, not unlike vampires. It's pretty on-the-nose, but the cheesy, after-school special message aside, it's a taut thriller throughout.
Mr. Lewis suppresses his inner rage and at the injustice around him and goes about being a teacher as best he can. There's a great scene during a divorce settlement hearing in which his wife demands he vacate their home by summer, and, seething at the process, Lewis tells his wife he's sure she will "rise like a phoenix from the ashes"—before the female mediator tells him "That's enough, Mr. Lewis." That scene says pretty much everything you need to know about divorce-rape in the gynocracy.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
But I I digress. The real drama in the film involves two students, a nerdy photographer and his very-slightly chubby Mexican girlfriend, who is made out to be a ham planet by the other students. This pair finds itself in the cross-hairs of Tim Cooper, the stand-in for every rich jock you've ever seen in any movie. He's torments the poor photographer kid, going to the point that he pushes a nail into his back through a bus seat, but with no witnesses—and with Cooper's wealthy, influential parents—the hapless administration does nothing.
Meanwhile, Cooper and his buddies run a website of unflattering and pornographic images of the Mexican girl. She tries to take her own life, which makes for one of the most gripping and terrifying scenes in the film. This occurs after her photographer boyfriend has been stabbed in the park multiple times by masked hoodlums—agents, it would seem, of the sociopathic Tim Cooper.
Facing a world in which the powerful run roughshod over the weak, and with little official recourse, Mr. Lewis snaps, and concocts a truly ridiculous scheme to enact justice. When I read the description for the film, I figured he was going to start some kind of torture dungeon, or just go full Death Wish on these kids.
That is not what happens. But after losing his job and chance at tenure—as well as his marriage and his chances with the Michelle Malkin-esque science teacher, Arabella—Lewis does go full bore on enacting revenge on a sixteen-year old. Of course (SPOILER ALERT), it turns out Cooper himself is a victim of bullying—at the hands of his ultra-Type A father.
One of the other on-the-nose lines in the film is when the ultra-Type A father, Bernie Cooper, says something along the lines of "I worked 80-hours a week for 35 years" to give his son the best education and the best prospects, only to have an English teacher tell his students that the bourgeois white guy is the enemy. Bernie Cooper ends up being the real villain, of course, because filmmakers can't stand bourgeois white guys.
There is a pinch of identity politics going on here: the Mexican girlfriend is sweet, and her family is hardworking (there's a scene where the father has fallen asleep on the couch in his suit). The rich white people are bad and throw their money and power around to rig the system.
But those are incidental details, and at this point, I'm not expecting a film where the rich white guy isn't the villain. The real heart of the movie is Mr. Lewis's descent into vigilantism. He's been so beaten down by life, he has nothing left to lose. He finally gets fed up with everything.
Here I detected plenty of parallels with Joker, as well as Michael Douglas's turn in Falling Down. The Joker parallel is obvious: a mostly good and hardworking man with some demons tries to make a good life for himself, but ultimately succumbs to evil means to achieve what he believes is the greater good.
Really, the Falling Down parallel is much the same: a mostly good and hardworking man with some demons ultimately snaps at the absurdities and minor injustices of modern life, and resorts to increasingly violent ends on his march across Los Angeles.
Teacher definitely falls into that mold: the disaffected guy who has played by the rules, even when it cost him, and still ended up on the bottom. These films are cautionary tales, though: in each case, the attempted cure is worse than the disease. Teacher ends on a redemptive note, with Mr. Lewis in prison, atoning for his sins—and teaching.
The movie is a bit ham-fisted in parts, and the production is not the best, but it will definitely had you in knots. If you like these kinds of films—where a man, beaten down by life and its multitude of injustices, tries to take matters into own hands—you'll enjoy Teacher. Just know that the attempted suicide scene is rough.
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Фермен () — місто () в США, в окрузі Гемптон штату Південна Кароліна. Населення — 239 осіб (2010).

Географія
Фермен розташований за координатами  (32.681247, -81.187705).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 8,07 км², уся площа — суходіл.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкало 239 осіб у 99 домогосподарствах у складі 66 родин. Густота населення становила 30 осіб/км².  Було 135 помешкань (17/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 0,8 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 1,3 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 17,6 % — особи молодші 18 років, 62,7 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 19,7 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 49,1 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 83,8 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 77,5 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  долари для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 20,5 % осіб, у тому числі 36,5 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 7,2 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 100 осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: сільське господарство, лісництво, риболовля — 20,0 %, мистецтво, розваги та відпочинок — 19,0 %, роздрібна торгівля — 13,0 %, виробництво — 13,0 %.

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Джерела

Містечка Південної Кароліни
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Can Ramonet és una casa d'Amer (Selva) inclosa a l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya.

Descripció
Immoble de quatre plantes, entre mitgeres, cobert amb una teulada a dues aigües de vessants a façana. Està ubicat al costat esquerre del carrer Ludovico Pio.

La façana principal, que dona al carrer Ludovico Pio, està estructurada intèrnament en tres crugies. La planta baixa consta de tres obertures, a destacar especialment el portal d'accés rectangular equipat amb llinda monolítica de dimensions importants i muntants de pedra ben treballats i escairats. En la llinda es pot llegir la data de "1 5 9 7".

En el primer pis trobem tres obertures de similar tipologia, és a dir tres finestres rectangulars equipades amb llinda monolítica, muntants de pedra i ampit treballat. Sobre l'ampìt un petit ornament de ferro forjat de tall vegetal. Sota la finestra trobem la solució arquetípica, que consisteix en la disposició de dues o tres pedres, com a mesura de reforç en la sustentació de la pesant finestra.

En el segon pis s'observen tres obertures, dues de les quals són bastant irrellevants, ja que no han rebut cap tractament destacat. Trenca aquest ritme uniforme i monòton, la tercera finestra, ubicada a l'extrem esquerre i equipada amb llinda monolítica, muntants de pedra i ampit treballat. Sota l'ampit tornem a trobem la solució arquetípica, que consisteix en la disposició de dues o tres pedres, com a mesura de reforç en la sustentació de la pesant finestra.

Pel que fa al tercer pis, el qual exerciria de ben segur les tasques de golfes, trobem cinc obertures: dues d'arc de mig punt rebaixat al centre, intercalades per tres petites finestres quadrangulars. Totes cinc bastant irrellevants.

Remarcar, a mode d'apunt, que el material preponderant en les llindes, muntants i ampits de les diferents obertures, és la pedra, concretament la pedra sorrenca. Una tipologia de pedra molt més efímera i volàtil en comparació a la pedra nomolítica o pedra calcària de Girona, d'aparença i naturalesa més robusta.

Referències

Patrimoni monumental d'Amer
Edificis d'Amer


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Q: SetAccessRule - Some or all Identity references could not be translated I have a script that creates a directory and a group in Active Directory. Only users in the group will have access to the directory. Most of the time it works just fine without any problems, but sometimes I get an Exception and I don't know why. Any ideas what the problem is?
My code:
[...]

New-ADGroup -Server $adserver -Path $adpath -Description $description -Name $groupname -GroupScope DomainLocal -GroupCategory Security
New-Item -Path $dirpath -Name "$dirname" -ItemType "directory"

Start-Sleep -s 30     #wait to make sure directory is created

$dp = "$dirpath\$dirname"

$Acl = Get-Acl $dp

#fileradmingroup
$Ar = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule($admingroup,"FullControl","ContainerInherit,ObjectInherit","None","Allow")
$Acl.SetAccessRule($Ar)
Set-Acl $dp $Acl

#remove inherited permissions
$Acl.SetAccessRuleProtection($true,$false)
Set-Acl -Path $dp -AclObject

#new created group $groupname
$Ar = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule($groupname,"DeleteSubdirectoriesAndFiles, Write, ReadAndExecute, Synchronize","ContainerInherit,ObjectInherit","None","Allow")
$Acl.SetAccessRule($Ar)     #this is the line where the exception occurs
Set-Acl $dp $Acl

[...]

And here is the Exception:

Exception calling "SetAccessRule" with "1" argument(s): "Some or all identity
references could not be translated."
At L:\Skripte\Skript2.ps1:178 char:9
+     $Acl.SetAccessRule($Ar)
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : IdentityNotMappedException

A: I had the same kind of challenge recently when creating new user accounts and home directories in an environment with lots of domain controllers spread over multiple sites. My solution was to use the sid of the newly created account.
I changed the line where the group is created and the line where the access rule is created. The Start-Sleep should not be needed and is commented out.
I hope it works in your situation.
$NewGroup = New-ADGroup -Server $adserver -Path $adpath -Description $description -Name $groupname -GroupScope DomainLocal -GroupCategory Security -PassThru
New-Item -Path $dirpath -Name "$dirname" -ItemType "directory"

#Start-Sleep -s 30     #wait to make sure directory is created

$dp = "$dirpath\$dirname"

$Acl = Get-Acl $dp

#fileradmingroup
$Ar = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule($admingroup,"FullControl","ContainerInherit,ObjectInherit","None","Allow")
$Acl.SetAccessRule($Ar)
Set-Acl $dp $Acl

#remove inherited permissions
$Acl.SetAccessRuleProtection($true,$false)
Set-Acl -Path $dp -AclObject

#new created group $groupname
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In this course you will learn about your payroll obligations, how to set up your payroll and to navigate the payroll dashboard. You will practice how to enter payroll information, enter payroll calendars and pay items, add employee details, set up leave entitlements and process pay runs. This includes preparing payslips and preparing the batch payment in Xero. You will also learn how to prepare end of year procedures including payment summaries.


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And the best part: admission is free.
We just ask you bring along a Toy and/or non perishable food item for the Salvation Army.
Please join us on December 1st from 7am-12 noon for a regular market day filled with our regular vendors, then return to join us as we celebrate local artisans at our special Christmas Evening Market from 3-9pm.
We will be showcasing a number of talented local artisans. These artisans are all local and have a large selection of items for sale from Soap to knitted goods, Baked Goods to jam.
We will be offering a craft centre for the kiddies to be creative while you shop. Santa will be paying us a visit too!
Salvation Army will be there collecting toys and non perishable food items for local families in need this Christmas.
Penny Sale, draws and get a FREE cup of lavender Hot Chocolate from Purple Haven or a Hot Apple Cider from Houser's Farm.
Come see Richardson's show you how they make Maple Taffy.
Stop by on your way to the Santa Parade and get purchase yourself a bit to eat from Uncle Paul's then stop by after the parade for a Hot Chocolate.


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Suspect arrested in 'best-dressed bandit' robberies
4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago Thursday, April 30 2015 Apr 30, 2015 April 30, 2015 5:22 PM April 30, 2015 in News
By: Russell Jones
BATON ROUGE - Police said a tip led them to arrest a Baton Rouge man suspected of being a well-dressed bandit who robbed local gas stations and kidnapped a woman.
Cpl. L'Jean McKneely said officers arrested 53-year-old Michael West Thursday on suspicion of armed robbery at his home on North 35th Street.
Police said West robbed a gas station on Nicholson Drive earlier this week, taking cash while armed with a handgun. Police said the same man was believed to be connected to a gas station robbery in West Baton Rouge Parish the day before, where the station manage was kidnapped but later released unharmed.
Sheriff's deputies in West Baton Rouge Parish said a woman was driving the getaway vehicle West used in that kidnapping and robbery.
In both cases, police said the man seen robbing the store wore a yellow long-sleeve shirt. Surveillance photos also showed him in dress slacks and a tie at the West Baton Rouge gas station.


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Lars Mitchell Kooij (* 11. August 2000 in Amstelveen) ist ein niederländischer Handballspieler.

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Kooij begann das Handballspielen in seinem Heimatverein HV Aalsmeer. 2018 wechselte er in die Akademie der SG Flensburg-Handewitt nach Deutschland. Hier gewann er mit der A-Jugend in der Saison 2018/19 die Deutsche Meisterschaft. Zudem spielte er für die zweite Mannschaft in der 3. Liga. Im Februar 2020 wechselte er zum TM Tønder Håndbold in die 2. dänische Liga. 2021 wechselte er zum deutschen Zweitligisten ASV Hamm-Westfalen, mit dem er 2022 in die Bundesliga aufstieg.

Mit der A-Nationalmannschaft nahm er 2022 an der Europameisterschaft teil und erzielte ein Tor.

Weblinks
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 Lars Kooij in der Datenbank der Handball-Bundesliga
 Lars Kooij in der Datenbank der Europäischen Handballföderation

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The Industrials Business Development Manager (BDM) is responsible for the introduction and success of Whole Brain Thinking system. You will actively seek out new business opportunities and introduce the ongoing lifetime value of Whole Brain Thinking within the industrial, manufacturing, transportation and engineering business verticals. The BDM will sell the full suite of Herrmann solutions and be responsible for developing relationships with multiple buyers within these accounts, to develop and close larger opportunities. Candidate must have a demonstrated track record of achievement selling to large enterprise financial services organizations.
Work with Marketing and Sales teams to execute campaigns to top buyers.
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Meet Your Szabo Team
Peter Szabo 1947-2006
Peter Szabo, Founder of Szabo Associates, Inc., was originally from Jacksonville, Florida. He attended Gordon Military College and Georgia State University. His professional background was in finance and securities prior to founding Szabo Associates, Inc., in September 1971, which was the first collection firm to specialize in media collections.
He served on the Board of Directors of the Broadcast Cable Financial Management Association from 1988 to 1991 and was the recipient of the "President's Award" in 1989; the "Headliner Award" in 1991; the "Jack Zwaska Career Achievement Award" in 2001; and an Appreciation Award from the Broadcast Cable Credit Association in 1991.
Pete was a lecturer for the NAB, RAB, BCFM, BCCA, several state associations and broadcast groups as well as the Commercial Law League of America.
Along with numerous published articles, he also assisted in the writing of the book "Understanding Broadcast and Cable Finance" published by the Broadcast Cable Financial Management Association; the "Broadcast Cable Credit Administration Manual" for the Broadcast Cable Credit Association and the following books published by the National Association of Broadcasters: "Radio Credit Manual"; "Off the Books and Into the Bank"; "Out of the Red and Into the Black"; " The Small Market Television Manager's Guide - II".
He was the publisher and editor of Szabo Collective Wisdom, a quarterly educational newsletter of credit and collection articles and tips, with a circulation of 9,500.
C. Robin Szabo
Robin Szabo is originally from Jacksonville, Florida, and is a graduate of Florida State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from the College of Business with major areas of study in Accounting and Finance. He joined Szabo Associates in 1975 and served as Vice President from 1982 to 2006.
He is a longtime member and supporter of the Georgia Association of Broadcasters and a member and past board member of the Media Financial Management Association currently serving on the Membership Marketing, Promotions and Services Committee, the Interactive and Digital Media Committee, and the TFM Editorial Advisory Board. In 2011 he received MFM's Rainmaker Award and in 2014 MFM's Chairman's Award in recognition of his lasting contributions to the growth and expansion of the association. He has lectured for the AMCEA, AWRT, BCCA, INFE, MFM, NAB, RAB, many state associations, media and entertainment groups and credit associations.
Robin is a contributing editor for MFM's "The Financial Manager", and past contributing editor for AMCEA's "News and Views" and "The Credit Professional". He is also the publisher and editor of Szabo's "Collective Wisdom", a quarterly educational newsletter of credit and collection articles and tips with a circulation of 9,500.
Robin's passions beyond work are spending time with family and friends, organic gardening and competitive and pleasure fishing.
robin@szabo.com
Randy Neff
Randy Neff is responsible for the company's strategy and corporate operations, overseeing collection, sales and litigation operations, including the development of the company's growth and productivity initiatives. He also directs new business and partnerships, financial structure and promotion of the company's culture and vision statements.
Randy joined Szabo Associates in 1996, and previously served as an Account Associate, Newspaper Division Manager, Radio Division Manager and Cable/Television Division Manager. In those positions he was responsible for managing collection and sales associates, ongoing training, performance, reviews, forecasts, budgeting and the growth of the divisions.
Randy has been a guest lecturer on Credit and Collection Management for media industry companies and is a member of the Media Financial Management Association, where he serves on the Localism Committee; the Networks, Programming & Streaming Committee; and the Television Committee.
Prior to Szabo, Randy spent seven years in Credit, Collection, and Consumer Finance in both First-Party and Third-Party operations. Randy has received certifications in Accounting, Marketing and Distributions, and Sales and Management.
Randy enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, playing tennis, and just about any other outdoor activity. Some of those activities include hiking, kayaking, spending time at the lake or beach, and even spelunking!
rneff@szabo.com
The best people always do more. Ours are the best.
Sandi Garris Henderson
Legal Services Manager
From Florence, South Carolina; graduated from Frances Marion College with a B.A. in History and a minor in English; continued on to the National Center for Paralegal Training in Atlanta, Georgia and became a Certified Paralegal. Joined Szabo in October 1989. Prior to Szabo, three years experience in credit and management. Recipient of the Szabo Certificate of Appreciation in 1992, and the Szabo Quality Award in 1994 and 1996.
Hobbies include movies, reading, gardening and hiking.
"Our objective at Szabo is to offer quality service to our clients by maintaining a high standard of performance."
shenderson@szabo.com
Patrick Hogue
From Abilene, TX. Joined the Szabo team in May 2021; prior to Szabo, spent over 20 years in credit and collections, and several years as vice president of collections in both commercial and consumer collections; served in the US Army.
Awards include Most Improved Commercial Agency and Top Collection Agency.
Hobbies include riding my motorcycle, family adventures, video games, shooting at the gun range, and golfing.
"Szabo's motto is 'More is Better than Less' and my goal is to add from my experience the ability to be innovative, a problem solver and trainer. With the world class personnel Szabo has, I want to build on the effective professional collection service for our clients to continue to be proud of."
phogue@szabo.com
From Maryville, Tennessee; received Bachelor's Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration from the University of Tennessee in 1991. Prior to joining Szabo, managed Burger King locations for 10 years in Tennessee; worked as administrative assistant at Bonnie's Garage Door Company for 2 years.
Hobbies include bowling, reading, tennis and music.
"With a background in customer service, I am constantly striving to give our clients the best service possible."
probinson@szabo.com
John Shearer
From Dunedin, Florida, received a Bachelor's of Arts degree from the University of South Florida, majoring in Finance; joined Szabo in December 2008. Prior to Szabo, spent 10 years in the car leasing industry as an area sales manager. Received numerous sales and customer service awards.
Hobbies include fishing, tennis, and working out at the gym.
"My goal is to provide the highest level of service to our clients in an efficient and professional manner."
jshearer@szabo.com
Krissy Chea
From Bronx, NY; studying Sociology at Georgia Perimeter College. Joined the Szabo team in February 2020; prior to Szabo, worked as an administrative assistant and office manager.
Hobbies include spending time at the gym and with family.
"I strive to provide the best customer service experience to my clients so they can always have a memorable note of how outstanding and professional working with Szabo is."
kchea@szabo.com
Lauren Fitzpatrick
From Carmel, New York; graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South with a Bachelors of the Arts in Anthropology. Joined Szabo in March 2019; prior to Szabo, spent eight years as an administrative assistant with an employment agency.
Hobbies include reading, gardening, and baking.
"The most valuable accomplishments are the ones that are shared with the team."
lfitzpatrick@szabo.com
David Grieco
From New Jersey; attended Rutgers. Joined Szabo in August 2014; prior to Szabo, spent ten years as Director of Operations for a national collection agency; owned own agency for seven years. Has earned several Manager of the Year awards.
Hobbies include football, physical fitness, reading, and politics.
"Problem solving is achieved through the art of negotiation."
dgrieco@szabo.com
Rob Hollis
From Augusta, Georgia; graduating with a Business Administration Degree in Journalism from the University of South Carolina. Joined Szabo in May 2000. Prior to Szabo, twenty-three years in collections with several banks and finance companies. Held position as Collection Manager during part of this period. Member of Toastmasters and American Institute of Banking.
Hobbies include exercise, photography, travel, camping, reading, and writing.
"I look forward to working for our clients to provide the best service possible."
rhollis@szabo.com
Richard Hunter
From Atlanta, Georgia; received a Bachelor's of Arts Degree Georgia State University. Joined Szabo in June 2012; prior to Szabo, spent fifteen years as Credit and Collections Manager for various national and regional commercial and consumer product and service companies; eight years in the bankruptcy and receivership fields, and five years as a certified fraud examiner.
Hobbies include tennis, collector cars, and buying and selling collectible assets.
"My goal is to further promote a team atmosphere within my division and in our company, which will further enhance our performance and superior service to our valued clients."
rhunter@szabo.com
Kenya Johnson
From Detroit Michigan; attended Art Institute of Pittsburgh to pursue a degree in Hotel Management. Joined Szabo in December 2019; prior to Szabo, worked in collections for 12 years.
Hobbies include bowling, skating and wine.
"There's joy in being the solution to a problem."
kjohnson@szabo.com
Vernon Johnson
From Atlanta, Georgia; attended Clark Atlanta University and Computer Learning Center, received a Network Administration Diploma; joined Szabo in September 2002. Prior to Szabo spent fourteen years with the US Postal Service, four years as a mailroom supervisor, and two years as a facilities/service assistant.
Hobbies include surfing the internet, bowling, exercising, music, and movies.
"In a world of corporate impersonality, it is a refreshing pleasure to be associated with a company that truly values its employees. Being that the AEs are my customers, it is my duty to make sure that they have everything they need to satisfy their clients."
vjohnson@szabo.com
Iomie Kendrick
From Columbus, Georgia; joined Szabo in March 2011. Prior to Szabo, spent sixteen years in the collections industry.
Hobbies include refinishing old furniture, cooking, bowling, and spending time with family.
"Keep your dreams alive. Understand that to achieve anything it requires faith and a belief in yourself, vision, and hard work. You must have determination and dedication. I bring that perspective to work with me every day so that I may better service my clients."
Ikendrick@szabo.com
Margarette Lominy
From Port Au Prince, Haiti; graduated from Chattahoochee College majoring in Business Administration. Joined Szabo in May 2017; prior to Szabo, spent ten years in the collections industry.
Hobbies include music, tennis, volleyball, and bowling.
"One call can make a difference that will last you a lifetime."
mlominy@szabo.com
Jeffery McRae
From Atlanta, Georgia; attended Kennesaw State University. Joined Szabo in March 2019; prior to Szabo, spent thirty-one years in commercial credit; twenty-six of those years as a vice president/national sales manager and five as a CEO. Member of the American Collectors Association and the Healthcare Financial Management Association; endorsed by the Georgia Dental Association.
Hobbies include golf, good food, good wine, good life, and some exercise.
"To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. I can honestly say that I have never felt that more after 31 years in commercial credit than I do now working at Szabo Associates and International Credit Control."
jmcrae@szabo.com
From Columbus, Ohio; received Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Clark Atlanta University; rejoined Szabo in February 2005. Spent 15 years in the collections industry and six years in independent sales.
Hobbies include watching movies, playing basketball, and reading.
"It has always been my mission to provide excellent service while utilizing a strong work ethic. It has always been my belief to give your best to get the best."
mpeterson@szabo.com
Michelle Pillar
From Cleveland, Ohio; attended Georgia State University. Joined Szabo in June 2000. Prior to Szabo, eight years in management with a national retail music & video store, and three years administrative work for a lawn care/landscaping business.
Hobbies include camping, traveling, and there's always time for music.
"I strive to provide quality service with a positive attitude."
mpillar@szabo.com
Kedra Pittman
From Racine, WI; received a Bachelor's in Political Science with a Minor ir Sociology from the University of Wisconsin. Joined the Szabo team in April 2021; prior to Szabo, spent 4 years as a paralegal at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
Hobbies include working out, watching movies, and playing with my dog.
"My goal is to form great relationships with our clients and get them the results they want."
kpittman@szabo.com
David Schimmack
From St. Louis, Missouri; received a B.S. in Social Work from University of Georgia. Joined Szabo in January 1991. Prior to Szabo, seventeen years experience with commercial and consumer credit and collections; former credit and collection manager for a fortune 500 company. Completed the Dale Carnegie Sales Course.
Hobbies include volleyball, rafting, college football, landscaping, and reading.
"Szabo's innovative technique and training, along with quality personnel, combine to create an effective professional collection service for our clients."
dschimmack@szabo.com
Robbin Steele
From Portsmouth, Virginia; joined Szabo in March 2011. Prior to Szabo, spent twelve years in consumer collections, ten years in residential property management, three years in the textile industry, and several years in customer service.
Hobbies include horticulture, geography & maps, movies, and spending time with family.
"After twelve years of collection experience, I am excited to join the Szabo team. It is refreshing to work with an organization that services the media and strives to service our valued clients."
rsteele@szabo.com
Karen Trivette
Legal Services Associate
From Pikeville, Kentucky; graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a Bachelor's in Criminal Justice and a minor in Paralegal Studies. Joined Szabo in December 2017; prior to Szabo, spent one year at a law firm specializing in Social Security Disability and Workers Compensation.
Hobbies include traveling, being with family, and hiking.
"My goal is to provide the best quality service to our clients and to show them that they have someone they can trust that is going to work hard to get what they need done."
ktrivette@szabo.com
Caroline Walters
From Conyers, Georgia; attended Georgia State College and University and Georgia State; joined Szabo in September 2001. Prior to Szabo, spent three years in the telecommunications field as an administrative assistant, and also provided administrative support to a small record label.
Hobbies include volunteer work for radio stations and the High Museum of Art, music photography, writing, and listening to local bands.
"I am a firm believer that hard work, integrity and giving a hundred percent always brings success."
cwalters@szabo.com
Szabo Associates was the first and is the largest media debt collection firm in the world, delivering millions and millions of media debt dollars to clients over the past half century. Our team members—masters of diplomacy and incredible negotiators—combine their skills with services such as DebtorNet®, A/R management, and legal processes to deliver MORE expertise and MORE money. After all, it's your money, we think you should recover MORE of it. Let us show you how.
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YOKOHAMA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 26: Eddie Jones, the England head coach walks out of the tunnel during the Rugby World Cup 2019 Semi-Final match between England and New Zealand at International Stadium Yokohama on October 26, 2019 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)
Get Eddie! Cup whiz 'should be top of the list'
27th Oct 2019 11:08 AM
Rugby Australia are being urged to bring back Eddie Jones after the Australian coach engineered another historic Rugby World Cup triumph.
New Zealander David Rennie had been tipped to succeed Michael Cheika, but England's stunning 19-7 win over New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup semi-finals has put Jones in the spotlight.
The shock win comes four years after the Australian mentor masterminded Japan's stunning 34-32 quarter-final triumph over South Africa, dubbed the "Miracle of Brighton".
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Eddie Jones has guided England into the World Cup final.
Jones was a consultant for South Africa when the Springboks won the World Cup for the second time in 2007.
He also led the Wallabies to the 2003 final, somewhat against the odds, where they lost to England.
Cheika has called for an Australian to follow him and former Wallaby Stephen Hoiles says RA should make every effort to sign Jones.
"If we're serious about that, if Australian rugby want to find the right man for the job, and it's everyone's preference in Australia that that is an Australian, those phone calls have to be made," he said.
"Absolutely, whether he's on contract or not, that's a conversation for after the World Cup final.
Eddie Jones is on top of the world ... almost, anyway.
"But Australian rugby, to go through a genuine review, you've got to cast the net wide and find the best in the world.
"I'd argue there's not anyone better than him."
Former England star Stuart Barnes praised Jones' for masterminding the victory over the All Blacks.
He said England's relentlessness at the breakdown on Saturday night reminded him of Australia in their win over New Zealand in 2003 and Japan in 2015.
"He's done it again," Barnes said.
England will go into the final as favourites.
"It's a trilogy of great coaching performances."
However, he warned that RA may not be able to afford to bring back the coach they sacked after a string of losses in 2005.
"Eddie Jones has been signed up till 2021 with England so forget that," Barnes said.
"England pay pretty well so if Australia want him, they're going to have to break the bank."
Saturday's momentous win was surprising for Jones, who was humble in victory.
England fans celebrate after their team's amazing win.
"We've had two-and-a-half years to prepare for it (semi-final). We had been unconsciously preparing a game for this game," he said.
"When you ingrain habits in your players they are easier to sustain, and we saw some great habits from our players.
"It's another week or us. When we flew out on September 8, we wanted to be here at the end, and that's where we are at.
"We set out four years ago, and we wanted to be the best team in the world. We are not the best team in the world, but we have got an opportunity to play in a game to prove we are, and that is all we are concerned with.
"We will just take each day as it comes. We have got another week to enjoy it, and that is what we will do."
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Časopis Porta Balkanica s podtitulem Časopis věnovaný zemím Balkánu a jihovýchodní Evropy je jediný balkanistický časopis v České republice a na Slovensku.

Zaměření
Porta Balkanica se věnuje dvanácti zemím: Slovinsku, Chorvatsku, Bosně a Hercegovině, Srbsku, Černé Hoře, Kosovu, Albánii, Severní Makedonii, Řecku, Bulharsku, Rumunsku a Turecku. Přináší odborné články v celém spektru humanitních věd (filologie, historie, politologie, etnologie, literární věda, lingvistika, religionistika, sociologie, hudební a filmová věda), z jejichž poznatků těží balkanistika jako interdisciplinární věda. Stejně tak je ale v časopisu vyhrazen i jistý prostor pro reportáže, překlady beletrie, recenze, eseje a také přehled nově vydaných publikací a souhrn dění na Balkáně za uplynulé období.

Historie
Vydavatelem časopisu Porta Balkanica je stejnojmenné občanské sdružení se sídlem v Brně. Iniciativa založení časopisu vzešla z prostředí studentů, absolventů a některých pedagogů balkanistiky a jihoslovanských filologií na Filozofické fakultě Masarykovy univerzity. První číslo časopisu vyšlo v prosinci 2009, od roku 2011 procházejí všechny původní vědecké články nezávislým recenzním řízením.

Cíle
Porta Balkanica si klade za cíl přispět k racionálnímu a kritickému myšlení o Balkánu a jihovýchodní Evropě. Směřuje k hledání vzájemných vztahů mezi jednotlivými národy a především o dialog odborníků, kteří se jimi zabývají. V roce 2014 byl časopis zařazen na Seznam recenzovaných neimpaktovaných periodik v ČR.

Složení mezinárodní redakční rady
Předsedou mezinárodní redakční rady časopisu Porta Balkanica je od roku 2010 český balkanista doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D. (Masarykova univerzita, Brno). Dalšími členy rady jsou Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gero Fischer (Institut für Slawistik, Universität Wien – Rakousko), PhDr. Ján Jankovič, CSc. (Ústav svetovej literatúry Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava – Slovensko), dr. Lindita Rugova (Fakulteti i Filologjisë, Universiteti i Prishtinës, Prishtina – Kosovo), prof. PhDr. Jan Rychlík, DrSc. (Ústav českých dějin, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, Praha – ČR) a dr. Slobodan Selinić (Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, Beograd – Srbsko).

Externí odkazy
 Porta Balkanica v pořadu Kosmopolis
 Porta Balkanica v katalogu Národní knihovny ČR
 Seznam recenzovaných neimpaktovaných periodik v ČR

Časopisy v češtině
Balkán
Časopisy na Masarykově univerzitě
České odborné časopisy


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  Vinax est
       un village
       situé dans le département de Charente-Maritime en Poitou-Charentes. Elle totalisait 62 habitants en 2008.

Si vous envisagez de venir habiter à Vinax, vous pourrez facilement trouver une maison à vendre.

À proximité de Vinax sont positionnées géographiquement les villes de
Romazières située à 5 km, 68 habitants,
Ensigné localisée à 5 km, 271 habitants,
Saleignes localisée à 3 km, 68 habitants,
Crézières localisée à 7 km, 59 habitants,
Néré localisée à 7 km, 735 habitants,
Villemorin située à 7 km, 128 habitants,
 entre autres. De plus, Vinax est située à seulement 26 km de Saint-Jean-d'Angély.

Le nombre de logements, à Vinax, se décomposait en 2011 en zero appartements et 57 maisons soit
 un marché relativement équilibré.


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Lacoste Perfume & Women's Fragrance
Lacoste is a French Fashion House, founded by René Lacoste and Andre Gillier in 1933. Today, the company is directed by Michel Lacoste, the younger brother of Bernard, who was running the company from 1963 but who died in 2006. The fashion house sells both formal and sporty clothes, shoes, watches and fragrances. The green crocodile logo derives from René's nickname "The Crocodile", describing his competitive personality as a tennis player. His passion for tennis was so strong that he developed Lacoste's clothing collections around it. The white Lacoste tennis shirt became a symbol of both sport and fashion in the 80s. Tennis players, such as Andy Roddick, became endorsers of the brand and pushed Lacoste to another level. During the 80s, Lacoste became famous in the US and was considered the ultimate preppy brand, also mentioned in Lisa Birnbach's Official Preppy Handbook of 1980.
Lacoste's popularity starting growing significantly after the year 2000 when Christophe Lemaire was chosen as creative director. His urge to re-think the brand with a more modern touch brought incredible sales and visibility. In 2005 the company managed to sell 50 million Lacoste products in over 110 countries. The celebrity endorsements started increasing as olympic champions and other representatives of the sport community starting adopting the brand.
Lacoste's fragrances are produced in collaboration with Procter & Gamble. The fragrances for women are both elegant and sporty. Lacoste Woman (1999) revolutionised the tuberose scent, transforming it with spices and Moroccan incense. Touch of Pink (2004) is another notable Lacoste perfume for women. The fragrance is a jasmine and violet blend with orange, coriander and vanilla notes. There have been several extensions of this particular product, such as Touch of Sun (2006), Touch of Spring (2007) and Joy of Pink (2010). Eau de Lacoste (2013) and Eau de Lacoste Sensuelle (2013) are gorgeous fruity and sweet fragrances that highlight the elegance of a woman without overwhelming her with sweetness.
Eau de Lacoste
Eau de Lacoste L.12.12 Pour Elle Eau Fraiche
Eau de Lacoste L.12.12 Pour Elle Elegant
Eau de Lacoste L.12.12 Pour Elle Magnetic
Eau de Lacoste L.12.12 Pour Elle Natural
Eau de Lacoste L.12.12 Pour Elle Sparkling Collector Edition Pour Femme x Jeremyville


Parfum 50mL – highly concentrated Parfum made from the finest essences and naturally derived ingredients.
Parfum Rollerball 15mL – LeRêve Parfum in a portable rollerball.
Nutritive Body Lotion 300mL – a richly nourishing, protecting and hydrating body preparation.
Hand & Nail Nutrition 100g – a fast absorbing hand and nail preparation.


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German food in Fort Lauderdale is so diverse that it begs a description of the different dishes that are offered. Old Heidelberg is an authentic German restaurant that is owned by the Liebe family that has extensive culinary experience.
The world of German food has a wide variety of different dishes. We have selected a few to describe what their ingredients are and what they are called.
Spatzle, are noodles that are made with wheat flour, and egg. This is particularly are popular in the South of Germany. It is often served with cheese (kasespaetzle) on top – similar to macaroni cheese. It is also sometimes served with roasted onions.
This dish is a steaming bowl called eintopf and is designed for cold weather. This is a traditional German stew which means 'one pot' and describes the way of cooking style rather than a specific recipe. Most recipes have the same ingredients which include: a broth, some vegetables, potatoes and meat (commonly pork, beef or chicken) or sometimes fish. There are regional specialties, such as, lumpen und fleeh (which means 'rags and fleas') in the Kassel area, which is very similar to an Irish stew.
Apfelstrudel or apple strudel, is a pastry filled with apples that are flavored with sugar, cinnamon, raisins and breadcrumbs. This has been popular dating back to the 18th century. The "puffed pastry" or "delicate flakey pastry", made from an elastic dough, is kneaded and stretched until it's as thin as a phyllo pastry, similar to the Greek pastries. Then, the pastry is wrapped around with the filling building up many layers, then baked. This is then served warm and sprinkled with powdered or icing sugar.
This main dish is a pan-fried pancake that is made from grated or ground potatoes mixed with flour, egg, onion and seasoning. It is served salty as a side dish to a main course of meat or fish, or sweet with apple sauce, blueberries, sugar and cinnamon. They can be found in outdoor markets in the winter.
This is a red fruit pudding and is a popular dessert in Northern Germany. It is made from black and red currants, raspberries and sometimes strawberries or cherries, which are cooked in their own juice and thickened with cornstarch.. It is then served with cream, vanilla sauce or milk.
German food aficionados always celebrate their meat. One of their national dishes is sauerbraten (meaning 'sour' or 'pickled' roast) is a pot roast. It can be made from many different meats, which are marinated in wine, vinegar, spices, herbs and seasoning for up to 10 days. Schweinenbraten is a delicious roast pork dish, usually served with braised cabbage or sauerkraut and dumplings (knoedel), and eaten with a pilsner beer.
Brezel are soft, white pretzels, made from flour water and yeast and sprinkled with salt (and sometimes different seeds), and great to eat as a side dish or snack – or with a beer. They are located in every bakery and can be found on street stands. They are sold plain, sliced and buttered (butterbrezel) or with slices of cold meats or cheese.
Schnitzel is the description of a thin, boneless cutlet of meat, that is prepared coated in breadcrumbs and sometimes served with a slice of lemon. Wiener Schnitzel, is veal, or a schnitzel Wiener is with pork. Depending on the style you order, a Hamburg-style schnitzel, will come with a fried egg on top; while a Holsten-style schnitzel comes with an egg, anchovies and capers.
These are sausages which comprise more than 1500 different types. A wurst (sausage) is made in Germany and there, there are street stalls that sell them everywhere. Most popular are the bratwurst (fried sausage) which is made of ground pork and spices, Wiener (Viennese), which is smoked and then boiled, and blutwurst and schwarzwurst, which are both blood sausages. There are regional specialties like Berlin's currywurst (sausage with curried ketchup on the top), Bavaria's weisswurst, is a white sausage that one must peel before eating with a sweet mustard, and Nuremberg's grilled rostbratwurst, is served with fermented shredded cabbage known as sauerkraut.
Enjoy the wide array of German food that exists and comes with a deep heritage and tradition. Old Heidelberg in Fort Lauderdale brings out many of these traditional flavors that one needs to try and find the treasures of German cuisine and culture.


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Defying Convention
Women Artists in Canada, 1900-1960
Emily Carr (Canadian, 1871-1945), Metchosin, c. 1935. Oil on canvas. 50.7 x 58.7 cm Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor G-86-501
MAY 5-NOV 11
This exhibition features work by more than 30 groundbreaking women artists of the Modernist period in Canada, who not only challenged artistic conventions but defied constraints on women's roles in the decades after the Victorian era. They embraced the excitement of a radical movement in artmaking that offered new ways of evoking immediacy and emotion. It was a time of experimentation and innovation, of shattering 19th-century art world traditions.
The women in Defying Convention seized the Modernist potential for intuitively expressing contemporary life around them, the people who inhabited their worlds, and their desire for self-expression. By asserting their identities as artists, they also resisted the social prescription that a woman's sphere was primarily the home. Instead, they occupied multiple roles as artists and activists, mothers and mentors, wives and lovers, teachers and community builders.
The work of these artists represents the lives and experiences of women from across Canada: from Nunavik to the Prairies, from British Columbia to Eastern Canada. Their stories are as rich and diverse as the styles they explored. The art they made reveals the insistent nature of their personal visions.
Curated by Paula Kelly and Stephen Borys
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Lucille Casey MacArthur Canadian (born in U.S.A., 1844-1902), The Boy with a Red Cap, 1891-1898. Oil on canvas. 35.3 x 27.1 cm Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Mrs. Jean Cameron G-75-18
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BLOUNTVILLE — The Sullivan County Board of Education split 5-2 on updating its facilities timeline to recognize construction delays and to remove any mention of closing Indian Springs Elementary School.
Parent Susan Lawson during public comment urged the BOE not to close Indian Springs, which school system officials had said was not the plan in the past few years. However, member Mark Ireson said he thought the BOE indicated to county commissioners that the facility would be closed when the board sought funding for Phase 1 of the facilities plan that includes construction of the new West Ridge High School and Sullivan East Middle.
Lawson said she homeschooled her three older children but found Indian Springs a good fit for her two younger ones, including one who needed reading help.
Juanita Larkins Housewright, who blames mold at Indian Springs for causing her daughter's 2017 death, tried to speak at the end of the meeting but did not sign up for public comment. BOE Chairman Michael Hughes did not allow Housewright to speak but said she could sign up and speak at the March 7 board meeting.
The results of air quality testing at the school were released Tuesday. The samples, taken Jan. 31, found no airborne black mold in Indian Springs classrooms.
"I don't want any of our schools to close," said Ireson, who along with Paul Robinson voted against the facilities timeline upgrade. However, he said the school board made it clear to the County Commission in 2015 paperwork that it planned to close older facilities and mentioned Indian Springs by name.
However, Vice Chairman Randall Jones said the document never was intended to be written in stone, an opinion shared by BOE attorney Pat Hull.
"We did not approve the closure of any particular schools," Jones said.
He also said the board in August voted for a "two high school plan" and a timeline, with no individual elementary schools mentioned.
He also said that without rolling Indian Springs into the Holston Elementary building, after Holston Middle is moved to the new Central Middle, that the Holston building will be at "30 percent capacity." Options discussed in 2015 included moving the central office to Holston or housing all elementary schools in the Central High building.
Ireson also questioned whether Jones' daughter working as a teacher at Indian Springs was a conflict in Jones' moving to amend the timeline to make it clear Indian Springs is not targeted for closing.
Hull said unless Jones had a financial interest in his daughter's income, such as living in the same home and co-mingling funds, it would not be a conflict.
Those who voted for the timeline change were Hughes, Jones, Jane Thomas, Matthew Spivey and Randall Gilmore, the latter of whom was in Nashville but attended the meeting remotely by Skype.
At Hughes' request, the board vote also said that Mary Hughes School, which will become an elementary only after the middle school portion shifts to the new East Middle in 2020, could be renovated or replaced.
A motion made by Ireson to delay the opening the of new middle school to August 2020 failed 2-5, with only Ireson and Robinson voting for it.


A century ago, the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 established the United States Cooperative Extension System, a partnership of the Department of Agriculture, land-grant colleges, and state and local governments. This historic legislation provided federal support to land-grant colleges in "cooperation with the Department of Agriculture ... in order to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information . . ." The Smith-Lever Act was the culmination of years of fledgling outreach efforts by land-grant colleges to extend the educational, social, and economic benefits of higher education beyond the campus to serve the people. County extension agents and land-grant extension faculty delivered scientific knowledge and new technology, promoted local education, health and wellness programs, provided life-long learning, engaged in community development, and reoriented land-grant colleges as a public good. To mark this anniversary, we look back for insights and inspiration to the legacy of the Smith-Lever Act, and consider the promise of extension in the twenty-first century.
a) HISTORICAL: histories of cooperative extension, higher education outreach, land-grant college / community partnerships; biographical treatments of extension educators, staff, and leaders; histories of rural development programs; and histories of "beyond the campus" programs and services (i.e. 4-H, short-courses, summer programs, nature studies, correspondence courses, agricultural fair exhibitions, etc.).
b) CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS: contemporary scholarship across the disciplines on the missions, policies, and practices of cooperative extension and community engagement; research on administrative and institutional frameworks for higher education engagement and/or higher education for the public good; papers that consider faculty and student roles in extension and/or engagement activities (i.e. service-learning, engaged scholarship, continuing education, problem-based research / learning, 4H, public health services, etc.); critical appraisals of the financing of extension and engagement in a post-recession economy; scholarship on the state and federal politics of extension; papers on extension and/or engagement for community development and/or the place of extension and/or engagement in technology transfer, innovation, and economic development; extension's role in combating issues of food security, climate change, and rural poverty. The suggestions under these headings are not all-inclusive, and we invite scholarship that connects broadly with extension past or present.
Please send one-page paper proposal for the research symposium, including paper title, abstract, name, & institutional affiliation, to Dr. Nathan M. Sorber at nasorber@mail.wvu.edu.
Proposals will be considered until June 10, 2014; however early submission is recommended. Subsequent publication of selected papers in an edited volume is anticipated.


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Wyden Statement on Commerce Dept. Ruling That Chinese Solar Companies Violated Trade Rules, Will Face Tariffs
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee's subcommittee on Trade, issued the following statement after the U.S. Commerce Department ruled today that Chinese-made Solar panel producers were violating trade rules and that the U.S. would impose tariff remedies on imported panels: "I know there will be a temptation to portray today's ruling as a win for U.S. Solar Manufacturers and a loss for Chinese producers, but the impact of Commerce's … Continue Reading
Merkley, Wyden Announce $85 Million for Portland to Milwaukie Light Rail Line
PORTLAND, OR - Oregon's Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today that Trimet has been awarded $85 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help complete the Portland to Milwaukie light rail line. "The Portland to Milwaukie line will expand Portland's world class public transit system even further throughout the metropolitan region," said Merkley. "As a nation we must reduce our addiction to overseas oil. The MAX's success has proven that when people have good transit … Continue Reading
Wyden Letter Raises Concerns about Effect of Afghan Air Pollution on U.S. Servicemembers
Washington, D.C. - Servicemembers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan have faced hazardous and dangerous work conditions outside the scope of combat including health risks posed from toxic burn pits and hexavalent chromium exposure. In order to bring attention to another serious health risk posed to U.S. Servicemembers, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has sent a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urging him to minimize servicemember exposure to the high levels of air pollution in the Afghan … Continue Reading
Wyden Statement on the Increase of Direct Flights from Portland to Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) issued the following statement after the Department of Transportation announced that Portland International Airport (PDX) will receive one new round trip direct flight to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). Expanded air travel access to the east coast will be an economic driver for Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. "Greater access means greater economic opportunity for the region. Right now, the demand for flights from Oregon to … Continue Reading
Wyden Leads Letter to Senate Conferees Calling for County Payments and PILT to be Adopted in Surface Transportation Conference
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Senators and Congressmen Introduce Password Protection Act of 2012
(Washington DC) - Today, Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced legislation aimed at curbing the growing practice of employers requiring prospective or current employees to provide access to password-protected accounts as a condition for employment. In the House, Congressmen Heinrich (D-NM) and Perlmutter (D-CO) are introducing an identical companion bill. The Password Protection Act of 2012, … Continue Reading
Wyden Joins Colleagues in Calling for Extension of Current Postal Closing Moratorium
Washington, D.C. - Days after the Senate passed postal reform legislation that would have protected states that vote-by-mail or with large numbers of absentee balloting from the concern that postal closures too close to the election will disrupt their ability to vote, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) joined more than 40 Senate colleagues in a letter to the Postmaster General calling on the United States Postal Service to extend the current moratorium on postal closures beyond the May 15 … Continue Reading
Wyden Statement on Oregon Waiver for Medicaid Demonstration Project
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agreement to grant a waiver to the State of Oregon allowing our state to create a coordinated care program for Medicaid beneficiaries that will have the potential for billions in Medicaid savings over the next ten years: "Oregon is proving once again why it should be called 'the innovation state.' The waiver agreed to today to create community-based coordinated … Continue Reading
Wyden: Time is Ripe to Increase Sales and Exports of Oregon Agricultural Products
PORTLAND, Or - Looking to increase jobs and economic development in Oregon, Senator Ron Wyden said today that negotiations to open up Asian-Pacific markets and Congress' consideration of a new Farm Bill offer opportunities to increase the domestic sale and international export of Oregon agricultural products. "My guiding principle in improving the Oregon economy is that we grow things here, add value to them and ship them somewhere, and nothing says that more than selling more Oregon fruits, … Continue Reading
Markey, Wyden Applaud Selection of Innovative Independence At Home Pilot Programs
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Wyden Moratorium on Postal Closures to Protect Vote-by-mail Included in Postal Reform Bill
Washington, D.C. - With 25 million Americans expected to cast their ballots for president through the Unites States Postal Service, disruptions to that system could have real and lasting effects on the outcome of the election. In order to protect the integrity of the vote-by-mail system first pioneered by Oregon and the millions of Americans who vote by absentee ballot, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) successfully secured an amendment into the postal reform legislation to prevent closings of … Continue Reading
Wyden Schedules Town Halls in Harney, Grant, Wheeler, Gilliam and Sherman Counties
Portland, OR - Oregon Senator Ron Wyden will hold his annual town hall meeting in Harney, Grant, Wheeler, Gilliam and Sherman counties on May 1 through May 3. The meetings will be held in the cities of Burns, John Day, Fossil, Condon and Moro. Wyden has been holding town halls in every Oregon county every year beginning in 1996. He held his 600th town hall last August in Wheeler County. Harney County Town Hall Meeting Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 Time: 4:30 p.m. Location: Harney County … Continue Reading
Wyden, Feinstein, Merkley, Tester Amendment Will Keep Rural Post Offices Open Through Election Day
Washington, D.C. - The planned closures and consolidations of rural postal facilities throughout the country poses a particularly serious risk to states like Oregon that rely on vote-by-mail for their federal and state elections. With the presidential election approaching and the United States Post Office moving forward with plans to close many rural facilities in states like Oregon and California, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Jon … Continue Reading
Wyden Statement on the Forest Service's Decision to Withdraw Plans to Close Roads in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
Portland, Or - Oregon Senator Ron Wyden issued the following statement on today's decision by the Forest Service to withdraw its plans to close roads in the Wallowa-Whiteman National Forest. "Today's decision by the Forest Service recognizes the importance of rural Oregonians and demonstrates that their voices have been heard. As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests, it became very clear to me during meetings last week in the communities that surround the … Continue Reading
After Tour of Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, Wyden Says Situation Worse than Reported
Washington, D.C. - After an onsite tour of what remains of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facilities decimated by last year's earthquake and subsequent tsunami, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) a senior member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent a letter to Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki looking for ways to advance and support clean-up and recovery efforts. Wyden's principal concern is the relocation of spent fuel rods currently being stored in unsound … Continue Reading
Wyden in Medford on April 10th to Meet with College-Bound Medford High School Students and Hold Annual Town hall Meeting
Portland, OR - Oregon Senator Ron Wyden will meet with local high school students on Tuesday to talk about the cost of a college education. He will also hold his annual Jackson County town hall on Tuesday at the Medford City Hall. A college education is the second largest expense most families will face in their life time and college loan debt - now approaching $1 trillion - now exceeds national credit card debt. That makes a college education a huge investment, yet getting complete … Continue Reading
Wyden Schedules Town Halls in Morrow, Umatilla, Wallowa, Union, Baker and Malheur Counties
Portland, OR - Oregon Senator Ron Wyden will hold his annual town halls in Morrow, Umatilla, Wallowa, Union, Baker and Malheur counties on April, 12 through April 15, 2012. The meetings will be held in the cities of Boardman, Pendleton, Wallowa, La Grande, Baker City and Ontario. Wyden has been holding town halls in every Oregon county every year beginning in 1996. He held his 600th town hall last August in Wheeler County. Morrow County Town Hall Meeting Date: Thursday, … Continue Reading
Markey, Wyden to CFTC: Are Commodity Investment Funds Skewing Oil Market?
Washington, D.C. - Two Democratic lawmakers today asked the government agency tasked with regulating the nation's commodities markets -- which includes crude oil futures and other derivatives trading -- to investigate whether commodities index funds are artificially inflating the price of oil. The letter, written by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), was sent to Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler. In their letter, the lawmakers express concerns … Continue Reading
Wyden Resolution Condemning Killing of Journalists in Syria Unanimously Passes Senate
Washington, D.C. - Coverage of the escalating violence in Syria continues to underscore the essential service that war correspondents provide the world community. As the Syrian government continues to deny the mass killing of civilian protesters, journalists have risked life and limb to deliver an objective account of the conflict. In pursuit of the truth, these men and women have been detained, arrested, wounded and sometimes killed. Last night, the United States Senate unanimously … Continue Reading
Fixing Medicare by Keeping Seniors Healthy
Washington, D.C. - Recognizing that raising premiums and cutting benefits aren't the only ways to deal with the growing cost of Medicare, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced legislation today that experts say could save Medicare billions by helping seniors get and stay healthy. The Medicare "Better Health Rewards" program is a 100% voluntary program designed to help Medicare beneficiaries get and stay healthy by giving participating seniors achievable … Continue Reading


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