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The town of Blandford Forum was destroyed by a major fire on 4th June 1731 and with it the town's medieval church. Rebuilt after the fire to a design by John and William Bastard the church was opened in 1739. The Grade I Listed Building is the centre-piece of one of the most complete early Georgian townscapes in England and the church is one of the finest Georgian churches outside London.
The first quinquennial inspection and report was completed in December 2012. The report identified a multitude of urgent fabric repairs and it is estimated that £3million is required to return the building to good condition. The first £250,000 of HLF funded repairs to the tower were completed in 2016 and comprised: the repair of the cupola; high level masonry repairs, gutter repairs; the re-installation of the weathervane; the re-gilding of the clock and the rehanging of the apprentice bell. In parallel we have assisted the PCC in the preparation of their Conservation Management Plan. The project was shortlisted for the 2017 King of Prussia Gold Medal and was Highly Commended at the 2017 Georgian Group Awards.
The west entrance steps were modified in 2017 and access for all is now through the west doors.
In 2019, the PCC received an HLF grant to prepare proposals to repair the roofs, undertake high level masonry repairs, insulation the roof spaces and to carry out urgent plaster repairs and conservation to the nave and apse ceilings. The £800,000 project is currently nearing the completion of the Development Phase.
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Shelly & Chad hosted the family for a great evening of crab, kids, and a sighting of Santa! Chris, Liz, Sammia and Isabella came down from Chico. Grandmama Meena and Papa Ray were surrounded by all their kids and grandkids. We shared special Christmas memories around the table, and made a new one in the process. View the photos on Flickr.
It's only 21 days till Christmas, and I am so not ready for it. Trying to get in the spirit, but it is slow coming. Maybe soon, hopefully soon… Nora is really helping, with her advent calendar excitement, and her pink twinkle lights in her room (not white or multicolored – they had to be pink). I bet after this weekend, it will really kick in. Crossing my fingers.
Thanks to Aden for a great, HUGE undersea puzzle! The thing is as tall as Nora when fully assembled. Dell and Nora had a great time putting it together for the first time.
We flew to Houston on Wed 12/27 for a visit with the Thompson Clan. Lots of hanging out, visiting, eating, playing games. Nora stayed up for her first New Year's Eve celebration. Very relaxing and fun to spend time with Dell's family. View all the photos on Flickr.


Yes I know it's been a while since I blogged about my *favorite* development tool... but that's only because I haven't had to touch it!
That smooth series of events was shattered yesterday with me experiencing the Thrill of Victory and Agony of Defeat in multiple cycles... and as you can guess it involved Crystal Reports.
So here's the deal... I'm working inside what a fellow developer called a 'Draconian' environment. .NET 2.0 is the 'standard' although I installed 3.5 SP1 on this box (and either they haven't noticed or decided not to complain). Add to all that the fact that the web app suite is old-school as well. I've recently dragged it into .NET 2.0 kicking and screaming (me, not the software).
So two days ago I had the genius idea of using Ajax in the app. Of course with .NET 3.5 SP1 I didn't need to do anything to get that goodness, but remember my user's and my target is 2.0. I downloaded the 1.0.61025.0 version of the binaries. I imported them and set the resources to 'local'.
So back to Google and found lots of posts about it, and lots of idiotic comments from "developers" that apparently troll forums just to see if they can insult people looking for help and pi$$ me off in the process. To all of you: when you get done working on "Hello World" and start building real applications, good luck getting assistance!
Gave up at the end of the day on that one. Came in today with 2 choices: either find a way to get around that or restore from version control.
and thanks a bunch to Jason Whitehorn for that post.
That lead to a repeat of yesterday... check it out on this box, push it to the server and try it on a user's machine.
That lead to a Crystal Report with a bad link reference on it. The report displayed which was the problem I had been trying to resolve, but the link needed to be fixed.
This is a small report... only 8 subreports. So I opened the subreport in question, fixed the reference, saved it, re-imported it into the main... oops, it doesn't know where the xsd file is... that means I hadn't touched this since the new machine was delivered... not a big deal, we have the technology. I pointed it at the right place, then throught I should check the other 7 reports ... yep... they all needed to be touched. I'm starting to shake now... this is way too much interaction with Crystal Reports and I just have this feeling it's going to poot.
It wanted the database credentials... why? I was able to find and open it in the subreport and nothing in any underlying whatever changed.
So I started my normal mode of dealing with Crystal Reports: make a change, save, close the project, turn around 3 times to the left, twice to the right, have someone else push the build button, you know the process.
No go... sigh... I finally got it to where I had the report back no problem, but my change wasn't in there.
So I nuked the subreport out of the main, and re-inserted it and wow... that worked!
All-in-all one good link and a few rants, hope the link helps someone else!


One of the world's leading entertainment TV channels and Film Distribution Companies', B4U has been named the UK and overseas theatrical distributor for this summer's most eagerly anticipated Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara (OUATIMD) releasing on 15th August 2013. The film is produced by Balaji Motion Pictures.
Bad really is the new good as Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara sees Akshay Kumar make the transition from the role of an archetypal hero to a flamboyant bad boy, Shoaib. He is joined by Imran Khan (Aslam) and Sonakshi Sinha (Jasmine). The film also sees the return to the silver screen of Sonali Bendre (Mumtaz) in a cameo, after a hiatus of almost ten years.
Milan Luthria, who directed the first instalment of Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai and India's most celebrated film of 2011, The Dirty Picture, has created this romantic drama shot partly in the Sultanate of Oman, and largely in Mumbai, recreating the 80s. The stirring musical score has been created by Pritam.
Since its inception in 1999 as a fledgling music and movie satellite portal, B4U has catapulted itself to become one of the world's most watched entertainment TV channels, which is dedicated to all things Bollywood. The network operates three key channels – B4U Music, B4U Movies and B4U Mobile, which are at present available on more than eight different satellites, in more than 100 countries including the USA, UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Mauritius, Canada and India. The collaboration with Akshay Kumar starrer Once Upon A Time in Mumbai Dobaara seals the channel's status as a leader in the competitive global entertainment space.
Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara releases in UK cinemas on 15th August 2013 through B4U.


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Settled Status
The Hostile Environment
Settled Status and Pre Settled Status refer to the new legal status created for EU nationals resident within UK and Northern Ireland. Applicants have till June 30 2021 to apply, but they must be in country by end of 2020 to do so. We believe that this is not what was promised by the Leave Campaigns or indeed the UK government and this leaves our many EU residents in a weak position. Our specific concerns are: Hostile Environment, People missing out and EU family members of UK nationals who wish to return home.
Settled Status must be applied for - it isn't a basic grant. This means that if people do not apply for it, they will not get it. Even before the Pandemic, there was a real and material risk that many would miss out, due to a variety of factors, like being vulnerable adults or children, poor language skills, access to legal advice or basic information, lack of technological prowess (applicants must use a smartphone) or just bad luck with timing (like being overseas for a sudden emergency when a deadline passes). The Pandemic has made everything harder and Settled Status is no exception. Whilst it is easy to apply for compared to other immigration statuses, it still requires preparation and work. When people are distracted due to their safety, jobs, or mental health, they will not always be able to find out things they need to know.
The Hostile Environment is a general term for the UK government policy of making reducing illegal immigration by making it harder for illegal immigrants to live in the UK, through reducing access to healthcare, housing, social services and employment. The policy was outlined by Labour's then Minister for Immigration Liam Byrne in May 2007, who said:
"We are trying to create a much more hostile environment in this country if you are here illegally".
The actual policies were then introduced by Conservative Party Home Secretary Theresa May and progressively extended throughout her tenure in office. By 2018 there was widespread public anger at the impact of these policies on many long term residents of the country who had come to the UK from the Caribbean, many of whom live in Lambeth. The practical impact of the policies has been to make it very hard for people who are deemed illegal, even if they should have lawful rights to live in this country (or indeed are citizens) to live and work here. Landlords and employers are not able to engage with people deemed illegal, as they must check immigration documents before renting or offering contracts. Many people suffered greatly, losing jobs or housing. Some especially suffered by being deported to countries that they either had not lived in for many decades, or had no real connection except via their parents, due to their age at migration. The Windrush Scandal as it is known led to Amber Rudd resigning as Home Secretary. We are still working through the negative effects of this.
The Government is intending to subject EU/EEA residents to the same wider Hostile Environment policies, as demonstrated by the passage of the 2020 Immigration Bill into law in November 2020 and and in December 2020, the new immigration regulations. Far from learning from their mistakes and cruelty to our Windrush friends and family, they intend to vastly extend the scope to include millions more people. This is a far cry from their Referendum promises. Levelling up Britain seems instead to mean punishing migrants for being unlucky.
So what to do? The hard fact is that the immigration law has changed and the Hostile Environment remains in place. The Liberal Democrats opposed this in parliament and attempted to mitigate some of the harsh impacts, like lack of a written confirmation of Settled Status, but this was unsuccessful. We were especially annoyed at the Physical Proof issue as the Conservative government decided that EU nationals should not get the same written proof that all other migrants get. Imagine making your home in a country and that country refusing to let you have a written document confirming your right to live there! We supported European citizen rights organisations efforts to overturn this rule in the House of Lords, but this failed when the Labour Lords decided to no longer support our motion in the final stage. Several Labour Lords voted with us, as did several Conservative Lords, but after Labour withdrew support, we (just) lacked the numbers to win.
We need to ensure that all EU nationals know about their new obligation and that they get Settled or Pre Settled Status. This means lots of work to meet people and communities to ensure they are aware. It is a numbers game. We Lib Dems are well known for flooding people with leaflets but this is exactly what needs to happen now. Both the UK government and Lambeth Council need to make repeated efforts to reach people, by regular mail outs and focused contact with at risk groups.
We also need to ensure that there is advice available. There are volunteer groups like Settled helping EU residents work through the process and of course the CAB and volunteer legal advice services, but given the scale we need specialist Settled Status advisors who are multi-lingual.
We will be writing to the Lambeth Council leader to ask them to redouble their efforts on this matter over the next 6 months and we will report back on what we find.
More generally we must all work together to remove the cruelty from the immigration system. Whatever the concerns are that people have of immigration and how it may effect them, that is no reason, nor no excuse to institutionalise cruelty to those who chose to migrate to the UK. Polling has shown a trend nationwide that people are becoming more positive towards immigration and immigrants - we must embrace this!
Published and promoted by Lambeth Liberal Democrats, 8 Coaldale Walk, London, SE21 8LZ.


Ever since 1920, the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives has been publishing a book that shows how many votes each candidate for Congress received in the preceding election. The Clerk has just published the latest volume, which is titled "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010." The book is interesting because it includes tables at the back, showing the vote for each house of Congress by party. These tables will not recognize a minor party candidate for Congress as a candidate of that party, unless the state prints the party's label on the ballot. For example, Oklahoma and Tennessee have extremely easy ballot access for non-presidential independent candidates, but extremely difficult ballot access for new and minor parties. Therefore, minor party candidates in Oklahoma and Tennessee for over ten years have all been on the ballot as "independent", so the Clerk's tables show those votes in the Independent column, not the column of any particular party.
Even with that limitation, the 2010 chart for U.S. House lists the Libertarian Party's national vote total as 1,002,511. The Clerk's tables have credited the Libertarian Party with over 1,000,000 votes for U.S. House in five elections now. Besides 2010, they are: 2000 1,610,292; 2002 1,030,189; 2004 1,040,465; and 2008 1,083,096. The Clerk's booklet has never credited any other party (besides the Democrats and Republicans) with as many as 1,000,000 votes for U.S. House. The Progressive Party had over 1,000,000 votes for U.S. House in 1912, but the booklet didn't exist back then. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the news about the book.


Background: These were to be part of the Pacifica Sourcebook -- the gliders appearing in a scenario where the authorial voice of the s-b gets a little closer to the action than he'd liked; the rocket-fighters to fill the gap left by the ban on jets. The glider rules necessitated altitude rules. These were written before the SMOCS considered the notion of "inverting" the BTN values, as discussed elsewhere, hence the need for the cumbersome "11 - BTN".
Altitude is measured in bands, numbered from 0 (lowest) to 9 (highest). A 10-sided-die with the appropriate number facing up placed next to the plane or obstacle can be used to indicate current altitude.
Climbing: A plane can climb no faster than ([current speed] + [current MA]). For each level ascended above MA, deduct 1 from current speed. Ex.: A _Defender_ plots speed 3 (its maximum) this turn; it can ascend 1, 2, 3, or 4 levels, to a maximum altitude of 9. If it ascends 1 level, it may plot any speed-3 move; if it ascends 2 levels, it may plot any speed-2 move; if it ascends 3 levels, it may plot any speed-1 move; if it ascends 4 levels, it may plot any speed-0 move (with attendant effects).
Each level ascended/descended adds 1G to the maneuver plotted. To indicate how many levels are ascended/descended, write the number of levels ascended/descended. Make a note in brackets after the plot of the effect on the unit's speed. Ex.: A 3R3C+2 indicates a 3R3C with a 2-level gain in altitude, and indicates the plane is "speed 1"; a 3R3C-2 indicates a 3R3C with a 2-level loss of altitude, and is "speed 5".
Combat Effect: Each difference in altitude between firer and target equals one hex of range. Ex: A target three hexes away, and two altitude levels away, is at an effective range of 5. Units in the same hex but at different altitudes may fire at each other (the pilot kicks the nose up or down as needed).
Collisions/Rams: In order to collide or ram, both units must be at the same altitude, as well as being in the same hex.
Zeppelins: Despite their size, zeps only occupy one altitude level.
Obstructions: A normal obstruction occupies all altitude levels from 0 up to its indicated "altitude". Some unusual obstructions may have gaps at certain altitudes (ex.: A canyon may occupy levels 0, 1, 3, and 4; level 2 is a gap eroded by wind over time); these can be indicated as the players see fit.
Construction: Gliders may be fixed-wing, or gyros*. MA is always 0; do not allocate mass for this stat. MS cost and mass are both 0.1x normal (round normally).Towplanes must be equipped with a Towplane Hook (per BTN of glider permitted to be towed: $750; 75 lbs.). Due to practical limitations, Towplanes may not tow more than one Glider at a time.
A Towplane towing a Glider may not perform a maneuver of greater than 1G; if it does, the tow is broken.
If either plane of the pair must Push Gs, the tow automatically breaks.
Towplane and Glider occupy a single hex, and face the same direction at all times. Collision is not possible.
When released, Glider acts as an airplane with no functioning engine. It must land when Speed = 0; it may land when Speed = 1.
Glider Release occurs in Step One of the turn; releasing the Glider does not preclude either pilot performing other tasks.
Glider begins plotting its own moves immediately upon release.
Once separated, the Towplane and the Glider may maneuver freely (within normal limits).
While towing, MS of the pair is reduced to [(MS of towplane) - ((11 - Towplane BTN) + (11 - Glider BTN))/(11 - Towplane BTN), round down]. If result is 0 or less, Towplane may not tow Glider.
While connected, Glider may not fire out hex-facing A; Towplane may not fire out hex-facing D.
If incoming fire arrives through hex-facing A, Towplane must be targeted; if arriving through hex-facing D, Glider must be targeted.
Construction: Fixed-wing only; no gyros. Uses Rear-Engine Fighter template.
Engine -- per (11 - BTN) of unit: Cost: $1,000; mass 100 lbs.
MS: 0.1x normal cost and mass.
MA: not allocated; all rocket-powered units have MA3, with Poor Throttle SA.
May not use engine-related SA, or Extra Fuel Tanks.
Units may be towed into combat by Towplanes, as per Glider rules.
Movement: During plotting phase, the unit may accelerate (as "MA" above), or decelerate a minimum of 1; it cannot maintain speed.
Each acceleration uses (11 - BTN) fuel points.
If unit plots a speed of 6 or more, the move must be [n]SA. If unit is at Speed 6+, and is forced to perform any maneuver besides [n]SA, unit is automatically destroyed (bailout BTN 20). Note this will force a MS5 design to Push Top Speed.
Fuel Tanks: The unit must designate the wing, and fuselage, tanks as either "solid-fuel" or "liquid-fuel" tanks; all tanks of a given type must hold the same fuel type (ex.: if "wing tanks are solid-fuel", then all "wing tank" damage boxes are considered to have solid fuel in them, and all "fuselage tank" boxes are then liquid-fuel tanks).
When solid fuel is hit, treat as a non-fuel-tank box (MG has no add'l effect, etc.).
When liquid fuel is hit by any damage, unit is destroyed (bailout BTN 20).
Flare: BTN 8 ($3,750); MS5 ($235; 120 lbs.); MG5 ($2,550; 1,200 lbs.). Engine: ($3,000; 300 lbs.); 18 pts. fuel ($1,800; 900 lbs.). Armor: 6 pts. [ea. facing; 1] ($150; 180 lbs.). 2x 0.30-cal. [3, 4] ($360; 300 lbs.); 3x Hardpoint ($150). G-Efficient Cockpit ($250); Fire-Linked Weapons [3, 4] ($36). $12,209.
Skybolt: BTN 1 ($250); MS3 ($141; 330 lbs.); MG3 ($1,530; 3,900 lbs.). Engine: ($10,000; 1,000 lbs.); 60 pts. fuel ($6,000; 3,000 lbs.). Armor: 29 pts. [F, FL, FR, AL, AR: 5: A: 4] ($725; 870 lbs.). 1x 0.60-cal.  ($590; 600 lbs.); 2x 0.30-cal. [6, 7] ($360; 300 lbs.); 10x Hardpoint ($500). $20,096.
Wow! Some long thought went into this, very nice!
Lots of info to digest here, but on first glance the altitude rules seem workable.
Gliders and Rota vehicles are a pet love of mine, glad to see someone else likes them!
The military did some double and triple towed glider experiments in WWII with each trailing behind in a string like a train, but the tail end glider always got badly buffeted and beat up from a "Crack the Whip" type of movement so they gave it up. Seems to me if you could get your tow lines long enough, then you could eliminate that problem, like a tugboat and barge, they let out line until their wakes work with each other instead of fighting each other.
Drooling for Rocket Planes! The Japanese could make the ultimate Kamikaze plane with these beauties!
Thom wroteColon Wow! Some long thought went into this, very nice!
Thom wroteColon Gliders and Rota vehicles are a pet love of mine, glad to see someone else likes them!
At the time, they were seen as viable military units -- less dispersal and more control than parachutes. While this turned out to be not strictly correct (two words: "Rommel's asparagus" :) ), they did serve reasonably well.
Thom wroteColon The military did some double and triple towed glider experiments in WWII with each trailing behind in a string like a train, but the tail end glider always got badly buffeted and beat up from a "Crack the Whip" type of movement so they gave it up.
Thom wroteColon Seems to me if you could get your tow lines long enough, then you could eliminate that problem, like a tugboat and barge, they let out line until their wakes work with each other instead of fighting each other.
Nope -- the problem's the wake turbulence from the preceding unit; it's what breaks the line and/or connecting hook. The amount of line required to get, and stay, out of the wake is impractical.
Thom wroteColon Drooling for Rocket Planes! The Japanese could make the ultimate Kamikaze plane with these beauties!
Thom wroteColon Wonderful stuff here!
Did you test-play the altitudes or do you already use them on a regular basis? I'd really like to know how they worked out.
Actually, in the pulp context you need evil guys. Not much has been written about CS Japan but I guess there is a conter-part to the Unit 731 folk in the Empire.
From my POV, in Germany you got the SA and the NSDAP clowns but they are more the Indiana Jones type than the final solution type. The Kaiser mainly give the old Prussian officer class another figure to get attached to until a charismatic leader comes out from their rank (Rommel IMHO). The tipping point in 1030s Germany was the officers going to the NSDAP. So now you still have your vilians without getting into dicey territory.
[GSS]Bandit wroteColon Did you test-play the altitudes or do you already use them on a regular basis? I'd really like to know how they worked out.
I played them; but I was never able to get any blind-testing done [hint, hint, hint :) ].
Cyagen wroteColon Actually, in the pulp context you need evil guys. Not much has been written about CS Japan but I guess there is a conter-part to the Unit 731 folk in the Empire.
In this case, a unit labeled "Unit 731" would be a small force of Japanese ninjas, tasked with making life difficult for Japan's foes; *not* a force for horrific science experiments on POWs. if any of that sort of thing is going on, it's being done by "loners and quiet guys" who serve no master save themselves (for a period example: The Joker, first incarnation, from the _Batman_ comics).
Cyagen wroteColon From my POV, in Germany you got the SA and the NSDAP clowns but they are more the Indiana Jones type than the final solution type. The Kaiser mainly give the old Prussian officer class another figure to get attached to until a charismatic leader comes out from their rank (Rommel IMHO). The tipping point in 1030s Germany was the officers going to the NSDAP. So now you still have your vilians without getting into dicey territory.
I am familiar with them -- unfortunately, one of their central themes was anti-Semitism, so they're non-starters for CS.
Antisemitism was so rampant in the 1930s that you must either write around it or assume it out of CS.


Grafton Recruitment, in partnership with one of its key partners, is inviting applications for full time temporary packing operatives ,commencing immediately in the Drogheda area.
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Money transfers are a useful tool that businesses can use to send and receive payments from business to business, around the world. Here are answers to some of the most common questions surrounding money transfers.
Electronic funds transfer has been available for nearly a century and a half, growing into an enormous global web of many interconnected networks. To get a sense of its scale, for example, the Reserve Bank of Australia reported the value of non-cash payments worth AU$227 billion per business day in 2015.1 It is no wonder that businesses turn to money transfers when they have to send or receive funds from business to business, or country to country. Yet despite their widespread use, it is normal for businesses to sometimes still have questions about money transfers.
A money transfer is an electronic transfer of funds from one person (or business) to another. There are various ways to send a money transfer, and some are faster than others. The fees associated with money transfers can vary, depending on how quickly a sender would like the money delivered to the recipient. "Wire transfer", the popular U.S. term, originated in 1872, when existing telegraph networks (which were built with wires between cities) were used to send information about money transferred to and from persons in different locations.
What is a money transfer used for?
A money transfer is used to send money from one person, or place, to another; it can be a transfer from one party to another across the street, or across the globe. Money transfers are a fast and cost-efficient way to transfer money, without having to send a cheque, bank draft or cash.
Who can send or receive a money transfer?
Virtually anyone can take advantage of the benefits of a money transfer. An individual or business can quickly and easily transfer funds using a money transfer. The funds can be withdrawn directly from the sender's bank account, or the sender can give the funds to be transferred as cash if the money transfer service has a physical location.
What are the advantages of a money transfer?
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Opinion | Can Kevin McCarthy Still Outlast the Lettuce?
America, you're still in danger of your own Liz Truss moment.
Of the many indignities suffered by Truss in her short stint as U.K. Prime Minister last year, one of the most memorable was a publicity stunt by the Daily Star newspaper. As her premiership hit the rocks, the tabloid set up a live video stream that showed a photograph of Truss next to a head of lettuce with two bobble eyes stuck to it. Amid turbulent markets, with the pound plunging and Conservative members of Parliament in open revolt, the chyron asked: "Will Liz Truss outlast the lettuce?" The vegetable triumphed after Truss became the shortest serving Prime Minister in British history. "Lettuce rejoice," read the front page of the next day's Star.
Last week, the vegetable made a stateside comeback when the attention-hungry pranksters at the Lincoln Project revived the lettuce-lawmaker stunt, this time asking if Kevin McCarthy, then the Republican House speaker hopeful, would have a longer shelf-life than the veg.
Although McCarthy finally secured the gavel on the 15th attempt in the early hours of Saturday, there are plenty of obstacles he needs to clear before he has eliminated the possibility of becoming the American Truss — a short-lived victim of today's frenetic politics and a fractured political right that struggles to govern.
The similarities between what's happening in the U.S. and U.K. go far beyond lettuce. From a fracas on the floor and dramatic late-night votes to fretting about what the rest of the world makes of the mess, McCarthy's fight echoed the turbulence that has engulfed the U.K.'s House of Commons in recent years. And his travails may start to feel even more like Truss' if a fight over the debt ceiling or a government shutdown roils markets. (Though at least McCarthy has already avoided being the shortest serving speaker in U.S. history; that honor goes to Theodore Pomeroy, who held the post for one day in 1869 in a largely ceremonial capacity before his retirement.)
The speaker of the House and prime minister may be very different roles, but they share one crucial feature: Their authority stems from the support of a majority of lawmakers. Especially under the new rules that McCarthy has agreed to, the speaker, like the prime minister, is only ever one vote away from being booted out of the job.
In this respect, McCarthy may find that there is actually more to learn from the protracted downfall of Theresa May, who spent her three years as prime minister trying — and failing — to get Parliament to green light her Brexit deal with the European Union, than from Liz Truss' bellyflop.
Truss inherited a solid House of Commons majority but was doomed as soon as it became clear to the overwhelming majority of Conservative MPs that she would never recover from a disastrous announcement of economic and fiscal reforms that spooked markets. May's time as prime minister, by contrast, was defined by razor-thin vote margins and a party at war with itself — a scenario that will by now feel familiar to McCarthy.
As with McCarthy and the Republicans, everything got a lot more complicated for May after an election in which her party badly underperformed expectations. In 2017, May called a general election. Her aim was to secure the mandate and majority she needed to deliver the version of Brexit she had promised. Instead, she lost her majority and was forced to negotiate a "confidence and supply" arrangement (a deal in which the junior party agrees to vote with the government on essential legislation) with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party. Their 10 members of Parliament would give May the majority she needed to stay on as prime minister, but it was the most tenuous grip on power. The DUP could threaten to walk at any moment, while small groups of Conservative rebels could wield huge power. So while Truss faced short, sharp humiliation, May's fate was, in some ways, more tortuous: an enervating, drawn-out realization that she could never get her Brexit deal through Parliament — and so could not go on in the job.
But numbers only tell part of the story. After all, May's predecessor David Cameron, led a five-year-long coalition government with the Liberal Democrats after he failed to secure a majority in the 2010 election and then won outright in 2015 (before the Brexit referendum derailed his career and much more the next year).
There have been plenty of comparisons between the Republicans and the Tories in the years since the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's first election. With Trump's influence now waning, the Republican Party of 2023 feels a lot like the Conservatives of the Theresa May premiership. After the Brexit vote and May's disappointing election, the Conservatives had a discredited leader and a muddled mandate. Today's GOP looks stuck in a similarly ambiguous interregnum: rudderless and unsure of which direction to take. McCarthy lacks the credibility to stamp his own authority on the party, while its splintered factions are eager to throw their weight around.
One difference between McCarthy and May is the stakes: May had a daunting and vital task — negotiating Brexit with the EU and getting a majority of MPs on board. For House Republicans, things are a little less make or break. With the Democrats in control of the Senate and the White House, expectations for McCarthy to implement the GOP agenda are far lower, though he will still have to steer the usual must-pass legislation through the House. The high stakes worked to May's advantage, allowing her to turn the screws on rebels — albeit not enough to pass her Brexit deal. McCarthy, by contrast, may be about to experience a version of Henry Kissinger's famous line about university politics: that it gets so vicious because the stakes are so low.
This Congress promises to give Americans a messy lesson in parliamentary politics. And if it is anything like the recent history of the House of Commons, it'll be a bumpy ride for leadership — even if McCarthy lasts longer than a head of lettuce.
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Guðrúnarkviða II, le second lai de Gudrún, ou Guðrúnarkviða hin forna, le vieux lai de Gudrún est probablement le plus ancien poème rattaché au cycle de Sigurd, selon Henry Adams Bellows.

Ce poème fut composé avant l'an 1000 et Bellows le considère comme de , mais c'est sous cette forme qu'il a fourni des informations cruciales sur la Völsunga saga, où il a été fidèlement paraphrasé. Il affirme, toutefois, qu'il s'agit du seul poème en vieux norrois antérieur à l'année 1000 évoquant Sigurd et qui soit parvenu à l'époque moderne sous une forme à peu près complète. Les autres poèmes anciens, Reginsmál, Fáfnismál et Sigrdrífumál sont des collections de fragments et seule la dernière partie de Sigurðarkviðu subsiste. Les poèmes qui restent dans le cycle sont généralement datés des XI et .

Bellows suppose que le poème résulte d'une complainte originaire d'Allemagne, car la mort de Sigurd se déroule dans la forêt, comme dans le Nibelungenlied, et non pas dans son lit.

Synopsis

Le roi Þjóðrekr était à la cour du roi Atli, et venait juste de perdre la plupart de ses guerriers dans une bataille. Þjóðrekr et la femme d'Atli, Guðrún attendent ensemble et discutent de leurs peines respectives. Guðrún dit alors à Þjóðrekr qu'elle n'était qu'une jeune vierge quand son père Gjúki la donna à Sigurðr avec une dot en or. Ensuite, ses frères assassinent Sigurðr.

Guðrún prend la bride du cheval et se met à pleurer, comprenant ce qui vient de se passer.

Quand elle rencontre ses frères, Gunnar baisse la tête mais Høgni lui dit que Sigurd a été tué, et qu'il a pris leur frère Guthormr avec lui. Il lui dit en outre qu'elle pourra trouver les restes de Sigurd sur la route au sud, où elle avait entendu le cri des corbeaux et les loups hurler. Guðrún va dans la forêt à la recherche de ce qui a été laissé par les loups et trouve Sigurd.

Quand elle trouve Sigurd, Gudrun ne pleure pas, ni ne gémit ou se tord les mains même si elle est si triste qu'elle ne veut plus vivre. Elle quitte les montagnes et voyage pendant cinq jours, jusqu'à ce qu'elle voie le palais de Hâlfur, au Danemark, où elle séjourne pendant trois ans et demi avec Thora, la fille de Hakon.

Thora et Gudrun s'occupent en tissant des tapisseries dans les salles du sud :

Sa mère Grimhild demande à ses fils Gunnarr et Högni quel genre de wergild ils voudraient donner à leur sœur pour compenser le meurtre de son mari et de son fils Sigmund, et ils sont tous deux prêts à compenser leur sœur. Guðrún rencontre sa mère, ses frères et Valdar, le roi du Danemark, ainsi que trois hommes nommés Jarizleif, Eymoth et Jarizskar.

Le poème raconte que Guðrún oublie et les trois rois s'agenouillent devant elle et que Grimhildur se met à parler. Sa mère lui dit qu'elle a donné l'ensemble de ses richesses à son père, et qu'elle aurait également les richesses de Buðli parce qu'elle allait devenir l'épouse d'Atli.

Guðrún répond qu'elle ne veut pas se marier avec Atli, mais sa mère rétorque qu'avec Atli, elle serait aussi heureuse que si Sigurd et son fils Sigmund étaient encore en vie. En outre, si elle n'épouse pas Atli, elle vivra sans mari pour le restant de sa vie. Guðrún répond que sa propre mère ne devrait pas être si pressée de la donner aux Huns, et elle prédit qu'Atli tuera Gunnar et arrachera le cœur de Høgni. Grimhildur se met à pleurer quand elle entend la prophétie et dit à Guðrún qu'elle est obligé de la donner à Atli.

Guðrún poursuit sa complainte en disant qu'elle a épousé Atli pour l'amour de ses proches. Elle n'a jamais été heureuse avec lui et qu'elle a perdu son fils lorsque ses frères sont morts. Elle tuera Atli.

Elle se rend chez Atli après une semaine de voyage à travers des terres gelées, puis une semaine sur l'eau et enfin une semaine à travers des terres qui manquent d'eau. Ils arrivent devant de hauts murs et les gardiens ouvrent les portes.

Bellows commente qu'il semble y avoir une lacune importante qui suit son arrivée chez Atli. Il ajoute que la fin de la complainte semble avoir été remplacée par un autre poème, car il traite de la manière dont Atli dit à Guðrún qu'il avait eu le pressentiment d'être tué par elle en rêve. La description du rêve commence par cette strophe :

Sans comprendre le sens du rêve, Atli décrit son futur banquet sur ses propres fils, servis à lui par leur propre mère Guðrún, pour se venger du meurtre d'Atli sur ses frères.

Le poème se termine par quelques lignes cryptées où Guðrún dit que les gens vont parler d'un sacrifice.

Notes

Références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Edda poétique

Liens externes
 Le second, ou le vieux lai of Guthrun traduit et commenté par Henry Adams Bellows
 Le second lai de Gudrún traduit par Benjamin Thorpe
 le second (ou le vieux) lai de Guðrún traduit par William Morris et Eirikr Magnusson
 Guðrúnarkviða hin forna édition de Sophus Bugge pour le manuscrit original
 Guðrúnarkviða in forna édition de Guðni Jónsson avec un texte normalisé

Bibliographie
Régis Boyer, Les religions de l'Europe du Nord

Source de la mythologie nordique

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The Worst Question to Ask About Charity
The question is, "What percentage of my donation goes to the cause?", also known as the admin:program ratio, the "efficiency" measure, or the overhead ratio. Whatever you call it, it's hopelessly flawed, widely abused, utterly useless, a pathetic substitute for meaningful information about a nonprofit's work, inept at exposing fraud, and a danger to human […]
Dan Pallotta
The question is, "What percentage of my donation goes to the cause?", also known as the admin:program ratio, the "efficiency" measure, or the overhead ratio. Whatever you call it, it's hopelessly flawed, widely abused, utterly useless, a pathetic substitute for meaningful information about a nonprofit's work, inept at exposing fraud, and a danger to human life. In my next few posts I'll deconstruct these many failings.
For today, I simply want to shine a light on how widely accepted and applied it is, that we might appreciate just how much opportunity it has to do its damage. Why? Because there is the widespread illusion among those of us who read the Stanford Social Innovation Review and all the latest articles on venture philanthropy that the world has moved on to more sophisticated measurements of nonprofit work. It hasn't. Policy makers and thought leaders at the highest levels — not to mention the general public at large — 1) never consider asking a question other than What percentage of my donation went to the cause, 2) are not aware that there's another question available to them, and 3) have never heard of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. We have a long way to go.
All three of the watchdog agencies — Charity Navigator, the Better Business Bureau, and the American Institute of Philanthropy — prioritize the measure in their charity profiles. All set some guideline for it. And all penalize a charity for falling short of those guidelines. In turn, most of the states' attorneys generals' websites tell consumers to inquire about a charity's overhead percentage and/or to go to one of the watchdogs to ascertain it. The media consistently tells consumers to visit watchdog websites to find out about overhead ratios before donating (the Better Business Bureau site sees huge spikes on the occasions of tsunamis and other disasters). And, in a tragically ironic dynamic of circular reinforcement, most of the major charities, knowing the public demands low overhead ratios, place the watchdog seal of approvals (for which they must have low overhead to qualify) on their website homepages as badges of low-overhead honor.
In 2002 the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance commissioned a study that asked respondents what information they wanted when considering donating to a charity. Seventy-nine percent wanted to know what percentage of their donation went to charitable programs. Remarkably, only 6% wanted to know if the donation would make a difference. How can that be, you ask? Well, the media, the watchdogs, and the sector itself have done an amazing job of training the public to think that the two things are the same, i.e., that if a charity has low overhead, it must be making a difference. Major studies on the relationship between organizational strength and impact find otherwise.
A 2008 Ellison Research study showed that 62% of Americans believe charities spend too much on overhead. In Paul C. Light's 2008 NYU study, 70% of respondents said charities waste either "a great deal," or "a fair amount of money." Why would they feel that if they weren't asking about overhead ratios all the time, right? I was in the WGBH green room with a prominent Massachusetts political official prior to an interview on my book recently. When I told him it was about charity he glanced left and right as if about to divulge a state secret and quizzed me, "You know what question I always ask before I give to charity?" "Let me guess," I thought to myself. "What percentage of the money goes to overhead," he said with a confident nod.
I won't rest my case on an anecdote, but try it yourself. Ask a couple of your sophisticated friends what question they ask. Or ask yourself what you think they'd say if you did.
Dan Pallotta is an expert in nonprofit sector innovation and a pioneering social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Pallotta TeamWorks, which invented the multiday AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days. He is the president of Advertising for Humanity and the author of Charity Case: How The Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World.


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This story was pinched (then embellished, re-written and generally tarted-up) from recent posts on a railway enthusiasts' online forum …
While motoring up the A11 in East Anglia recently, a railway enthusiast came up behind four low-loader lorries carrying railway carriages he didn't immediately recognise. They were pale green, a colour not used on any UK railway except for the rather bilious Central Trains livery, and had sliding doors like an underground train.
Only when he overtook the lorries did he recognise them - they were from the Dublin rapid-transit electric railway system (DART for short) which he had seen while on holiday in Ireland. But what were they doing in East Anglia?
Someone on the internet forum eventually revealed the secret. The four coaches were being taken to Germany to be refurbished, a fact confirmed by the German number-plates on the lorries.
Now let's just think that through.
These coaches had been lifted off the rails and off their bogies, and lowered carefully onto four enormous German lorries which had, presumably, travelled all the way from Germany - empty.
They then travelled to the ferry port at Dun Laoghaire and were shipped to Holyhead. The lorries then wound their way across Anglesey, through Snowdonia, across the Welsh Marches, along the M54 and the M6, then the A14. Arriving in Harwich they were loaded onto another ship and carried across the sea to Holland. There they travelled by road once again across Holland and into Germany to their destination.
Once they have been refurbished by the jolly kraut coachworks, they'll be shipped back to Ireland the same way and re-united with their bogies and their eager passengers.
Quite an odyssey!
Now the hard part: WHY?
For Paddy's sake, what insane logic makes this cost-effective? Don't they have anyone in Ireland who can refurbish a railway coach? It's hardly rocket-science, is it? At the very least they could have had the work done in England - this used to be the workshop of the world railway industry. English and Scottish factories supplied half the world's steam locomotives. Some of them are still running a hundred years later. In more recent times, British-built diesel trains were sold as far afield as Australia. For most of the history of railways in the British Isles, individual railway companies did their own dirty work - they laid and maintained their own track, they maintained their own locomotives and rolling-stock, they sold their own tickets, they ran their own buffet-cars and restaurant-cars, they cut their own grass, patted their own ballast and emptied their own toilets - onto the track, mostly. They even built their own locomotives as, to keep the East Anglian thread going, the Great Eastern Railway did at their Stratford works, the site of which is fast disappearing beneath the alleged 2012 Olympics.
Besides, if Irish and British engineering firms aren't up to the job, wouldn't it have been cheaper to ship German workers over to Dublin to do the job?
There's an absurd spin-off from the Elf'n'Safety industry these days - everything has to be done by "an expert" or "a specialist". Want to design a children's playground? Don't for heaven's sake try and do it yourself - common-sense just doesn't cut it, there are people who "specialise" in that sort of thing. Put up some Christmas lights in the High Street? No, your common-or-garden council workers can't possibly cope with that, you have to call in a specialist contractor. Councils don't mend their own roads any more, or collect their own rubbish.
At the drop of a hat, local authorities commission reports from so-called "consultants" telling them what to do on almost any issue, which conveniently enables them to blame someone else when it all goes pear-shaped. It even permeates all the way up into government: £2.8 billion was spent on consultants just in England in 2005/06, and "experts" suggested that half a billion of that was a waste of money. Neue Arbeit have actually had legislation framed for them by an outside contractor, in fact a single-issue gay rights campaign organisation.
All very sad. Expertise, self-reliance, pride in the job, common-sense, all gone. In a few years' time one can envisage a society in which no-one can do anything for themselves any more. The GOS used to maintain his own Austin Allegro (easy, just fit a new rubber-band occasionally). Now he doesn't dare open the bonnet. Actually, these days he drives a Renault Clio, so it opens itself.
Already we can't mend our cooker, our fridge, our washing-machine or our heating system, and in some cases we aren't allowed to. Elf'n'Safety are making strenuous efforts to prevent us from doing our own electrical work in the home. Before long we'll have to call in an electrician to change a light-bulb or plug in the telly. And it's only a matter of time before RoSPA remind us that the majority of accidents happen in the home, that many of them are in the kitchen, and that we all ought to give up cooking and phone for a takeaway. The Americans already do.
Mind you, when someone realises there are risks inherent in a man and a woman fulfilling their more intimate conjugal responsibilities for themselves, we could see the birth of a whole new "service" industry. If only the GOS were a little younger …
The GOS says: While we're talking about air-miles, or the carbon footprint of a railway coach on the back of a lorry, or some such garbage, consider this …
The American government has bought 9 billion condoms for family planning and HIV programmes in the Third World in the past 30 years. Thanks to "buy American" rules, most are made in Alabama and cost 5 cents each. The American taxpayer then pays to ship them to countries like Indonesia, India and China where they cost 2 cents each to buy. This has cost the American taxpayer $270 million.
A condom used in East Timor and made in Alabama from Sumatran latex has travelled 20,200 miles. And it's only the last six inches that count.
(This last bit of information came from a review of The Wisdom of Whores by Elizabeth Pisani.
She spent years as an AIDS expert working for UNAids, the United Nations anti-HIV programme. This is an enormous industry: in Haiti alone the US government spent $84.7 million last year, and that's without the input of other international organisations and UNAid itself.
Pisani tells a fascinating tale of inept statistics gathering, of aid agencies deliberately distorting the facts, of the Bush administration's obtuse insistence that of the $15 billion it spent on HIV programmes in the five years from 2002, the majority must go not on condoms but on encouraging people not to have sex at all, a strategy that has a 76% failure rate in the US itself. Now there's a surprise. Not.
She also has some cogent things to say about the spread of the disease itself, such as the fact that despite "expert" threats that it would "blaze through the general population", it has signally failed to do so. She suggests this is because (a) it is, like so many other contagions, a disease of the very poor, and (b) it is principally spread by activities most people just don't indulge in - anal sex, rough sex, and shared needles.
All in all, a good read. Now, where did we start ….? Oh yes, trains …)
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Two Coronation Street actors are BROTHERS IRL and we are SHOOK Heat WorldCoronation Street actors Greg Wood and Matt Milburn are actually brothers in real life, although they've never shared a scene together.
Kara Tointon is seen for the first time since her mother passed away Daily MailSix days ago, she revealed her beloved mother Carol had passed away, when she shared a heartbreaking video of her on Instagram.
EastEnders real-life romances: 6 couples who found love in Albert Square HELLO!Photo - EastEnders real-life couples – 6 couples who found love on the soap including Nadia Sawalha and Marc Bannerman, Kara Tointon and Joe Swash.
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Car accidents: Collision in Tennessee injures 4
On behalf of Boston, Holt & Durham, PLLC | Apr 17, 2017 | Car Accidents
A great deal of thought and effort go into the design of Tennessee roadways. The goal of these efforts is to ensure that all drivers can understand the layout of the road. Unfortunately, some people fail to observe which way traffic is flowing, for example, causing serious car accidents. Unfortunately, four people were recently sent to the hospital, allegedly because of a crash caused by a wrong-way driver.
Officials claim that the incident happened one night on a day in April. According to reports, a 48-year-old driver left a resident near the highway. Unfortunately, he reportedly turned south into northbound traffic. Troopers indicate that at some point he attempted to cross over into the other lanes of traffic using a crossover.
Unfortunately, the man's actions reportedly caused an accident involving two additional vehicles. All the drivers were transported to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for treatment. A passenger in the first vehicle also required treatment at the hospital. The driver of the first vehicle has since been charged with driving the wrong way and failure to exercise due care.
Injuries suffered in car accidents often have lifelong ramifications. In some cases, victims are unable to return to work in the same capacity. In combination with medical costs, these victims also struggle financially as a result of lost wages. To help cope with these costs, those injured due to someone else's negligence often choose to file a personal injury lawsuit. If claims of negligence can be proved, victims can receive a financial award to help them manage their bills and other expenses.
Source: standardbanner.com, "Wrong-way driver causes crash", April 11, 2017


This month I am presenting a dish that my grandmother used to make, but slightly modified for convenience. My Grandmother used to make these enchiladas frequently, however she would usually boil meat for the filling or simply use cheese. Sometimes she would use leftover beef or pork to make enchiladas. Usually she used canned chiles for convenience, and at other times she would make her own from dried chiles.
You can become somewhat creative with this recipe. I illustrate using canned beef, and this is perfectly suitable if you are in a hurry. You can also use leftover roast beef or pork that is shredded, or use some imitation crab meat in the filling. Shrimp would also be good for seafood lovers, or some other kind of cooked fish. If you want to keep it simple, use just cheese, olives and green onions for the filling.
Cooked and shredded chicken or turkey also make an excellent filling for enchiladas. Many people prefer the lower fat content of fowl as opposed to meat. Enchiladas are well suited to leftovers.
You might consider serving enchiladas with Spanish rice, refried beans and salad. If you like, you can top the enchiladas at the table with guacamole or sour cream and a chopped green onion garnish. A little chopped cilantro on the side is also a nice touch.
Prepare a roux by heating two tablespoons of bacon grease, butter or oil in a skillet and adding 3 tablespoons of flour to thicken. Heat until the flour slightly browns, stirring constantly. Add the chili sauce very slowly while stirring to eliminate lumps. Allow the chili to simmer over low flame while preparing the other ingredients.
Have ready a large baking pan, approximately 9 x 13 inches, and about 1 to 2 inches deep. The enchiladas will be placed in this pan side by side until finished, and the entire dish will later be baked in the oven.
Prepare each of the enchiladas as follows: Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Take one tortilla and dip it with tongs into the hot oil and let it fry for about 1 minute on each side.
Remove the tortilla with the tongs and dip it into the chili to soften. Make sure both sides or the tortilla are covered thoroughly with chili.
Place the tortilla into the baking pan and fill with shredded meat, cheese, diced green onion and a few chopped olives. Use each of these ingredients in modest amounts rather than overfilling the tortilla.
Roll the ingredients into the tortilla and arrange in the baking pan.
Once all of the enchiladas are prepared, spoon any remaining chili over the top of the enchiladas, top with the remaining cheese, diced green onions and chopped olives. Bake in a preheated oven at 375 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes before serving.


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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. (Applause.) Thank you. Well, first of all, it is just good to be home. And it is good to be back with so many close friends.
So I am not going to give a long speech. This really is family. You guys know me. You don't need to hear a lot of speechmaking. What I want to do is mostly answer questions and entertain ideas and comments from you. But what I do want to just say briefly is both what this campaign is going to be about and why it's going to be so important.
There are going to be a lot of issues involved because we have probably as sharp a contrast between two candidates as we've seen in a very long time -- substantively. I feel very strongly we've got to have comprehensive immigration reform.
We're a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. Governor Romney has a different view. I care very deeply about women's health issues. Governor Romney thinks differently about those issues.
I very much believe that the environment and making sure that we're protecting it for the next generation is consistent not just with Democratic traditions, but with traditions dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican. Mr. Romney disagrees with me.
So there are going to be a whole set of issues to debate. But the essence of this campaign is going to be about the economy. It's going to be about how do we create an economy that works for everybody, that is dynamic, that is competitive, that meets the challenges of the 21st century, and provides a platform where everybody who's willing to work hard can succeed. And I mean everybody -- whatever their background, race, gender, surname, faith -- that if you're willing to apply yourself and do everything it takes to follow your dream, that you can make it in this country.
And not everybody is going to make it like a Lester Crown or a Neil Blum, but you should be able to find a job that pays a living wage, and buy a home and send your kids to college and imagine that they're going to do better than you did, and have some sense of security after a lifetime of labor.
And the big challenge is not just since this financial crisis but for a decade before that people felt that that basic compact was slipping away, that basic security was being lost, that rewards weren't matching up to effort and responsibility. And so that is going to be the essence of the debate: Who has got a vision for how we make sure that the next generation of Americans as well as this generation of Americans can succeed if they're responsible and they're working hard.
Now, obviously so much of that debate is going to be colored by the fact that we've had an unprecedented crisis, something we haven't seen at least since the 1930s. And today's job report reminds us that for all the progress we've made, the world economy is integrated and it's still fragile. Too many people still out of work. Too many folks still have homes underwater. Too many people are still struggling to pay the bills. Too many people are still struggling with debt.
But the truth is, is that the steps we took back in 2009 and 2010 have helped to stabilize this economy. It is growing. We've created more than 4 million jobs, more than 800,000 in the last few months alone. And if as we work with other countries in Europe but also in Asia to try to restore a sense of stability in the world economy, then I have no doubt that we can continue on a path of growth. But that alone is not enough.
And so the debate is going to have to extend beyond just how do we solve immediate crises; it's going to be how do we make sure that every child is getting the kind of education they need in the 21st century. It's going to be how we continue to make progress on energy independence and clean energy that's important for our economy, but also for our environment. How we're going to make sure that we are reducing the costs of health care while improving the quality of health care -- because we are still spending 17 or 18 percent of our GDP on health care. Other countries spend 11 or 12 percent and they're still getting better outcomes. And I believe that the health care bill that we passed is pushing us in the right direction, but we're going to have more work to do on that front.
We're going to have to debate how to reduce our deficit in a way that still allows us to make the investments we need to grow, and make sure that everybody is paying their fair share, doing their part. We're going to have to talk about how we rebuild our infrastructure and our broadband lines and our wireless and all the things that we need that provide a platform for success -- and how we're investing in basic research and development.
And on each of these questions there's just a fundamentally different vision between myself and Governor Romney. I think he's a patriotic American. He's had great personal success, which we applaud, and he seems to have a wonderful family. But his recipe for how we grow an economy in a way that allows everybody to prosper, that's broad-based and lasting, is basically a retread of ideas that we tried before I came into office and didn't work, and in fact haven't worked for most of our history.
And so that's what the debate is going to be about. And there are going to be all kinds of distractions over the next five months, but I cannot wait to have that debate. And I want the American people to hear it, with great clarity, because if they understand the choices involved I'm absolutely convinced we're going to win. And as a consequence, I'm absolutely convinced that the 21st century is going to be the American Century just like the 20th.


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Can you draw a picture of my secret button from the clues below? 1. Tap the button. 2. Tap . 3. a button to match the property words. 4. Click to submit your work.


I am a marketing consultant based in San Francisco with more inbound requests than I can handle. I am well aware that I could make this an agency, but I am not sure that my margins would support the work. How have other solopreneurs scaled their consulting practices?
Network with people you trust. Sell them your excess leads for a percentage of what they'll derive.
Choose other freelancers, whom you might consider bringing on board if an agency emerges.
This way you have only enough collaboration initially. In other words, you're not compromising your own position by taking on added responsibility. But you retain the option to expand along more formal lines if things go well.
Sounds like you've reached a crossroads - with more business than you can handle you have what many would consider to be a "high class problem".
Might I suggest you start with re-visiting (or, if you've never formally done so - creating) your business model.
Since margins are an issue - you will have to consider restructuring if you are going to be able to scale. How elastic is your pricing structure? Can you viably charge more for your services? Can you offer additional services or products to create more margin via an ascension model or via back-end sales?
Many of the entrepreneurs I work with jumped head first into their start-up without considering what would happen during stages of growth. Those that are successful enough to survive (and thrive) often reach a point where they have to "go back to the beginning" and re-vision their business if they are to mature into a successful business (where you, the owner, build an asset and get compensated by the business for creating it via distributions).
You know how to reach me if you'd like one-on-one help.
In any case...best of luck!!
If you don't have the margin to support staff growth, then it's a time management issue. You don't have the time to handle the inbount requests. Some solopreneurs (including myself) create a product funnel or set of products and services that take various levels of time and expenses. First level of materials are normally free to attract new clients. But it sounds like you don't need to attract more requests.
The next level could be online training materials, books, DVD or audio CD to handle the bulk of your frequently, novice type marketing coaching issues. Then you can off-load some of the frequently encountered marketing issues with your products. You are still assisting people, but it's economical in your time and their cost.
The next level would be group seminars, membership subscriptions, workshops, and group consulting. The group events take more time than sending people to your products, but less time than one-on-one consulting. This is often a mid-level price range.
The next level would in-person one-on-one consulting and premium subscription packages. This takes more of your time and normally is more costly to the clients. By implementing a product funnel strategy, you can continue to provide service at different cost price and time involvement.
2) If you do scale your business... will it become more valuable or less valuable?
IMHO, you don't want to start an agency unless you want to enjoy the fruits of a negative cash cycle, dealing with pissed off clients on a daily basis and the very real probability of a difficult earn out period should you ever wish to sell the business.
So, do you want to sell it one day?
The fact that you're contemplating starting an agency means that you're probably offering a broad scope of services, and as a solo outfit... it's impossible to deliver 'everything' unless you consider outsourcing the work or starting an agency... hence your current predicament.
You can scale as an agency, but ultimately it doesn't mean you will make more money or provide a better service for your clients, and if you want a business you can sell in the future you probably don't want to start outsourcing or start an agency.
Sure, you can start an agency, but then you need to specialise in something if you want to scale it effectively and perhaps one day sell it.
The hardest part about being an entrepreneur / business owner...is to say the word NO.
Scale doesn't always = more profit.
This all comes down to your vision.
How you scale is by deciding on the service that you offer which creates the most value for your clients and which makes you the most money / profit.
Once you're there, develop SOP's which you can hand over to a sales team and or a team of resources that can deliver the work on your behalf.
You then spend the rest of your time selling your company and not the service itself.
You'll be happier for sure - you'll make more money (by scaling effectively) and if you do decide to sell you can... and without the hassle of earn out periods.
The normal answer to this question is simply increase your prices until you start losing clients, hire staff, or spread the love and get a piece of the action.
I you form associations with other marketers you should charge up to 30% according to your role. If you have a small roll you could charge as little as 5-10%.


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Mabel Blakiston-Houston1
F, #171181, d. 30 October 1951
Last Edited=6 Mar 2015
Mabel Blakiston-Houston was the daughter of John Blakiston-Houston and Marian Gertrude Streatfeild.1 She married George Hurst Fowler, son of Robert Fowler and Laetitia Mabella Coddington, on 24 June 1896.1 She died on 30 October 1951.1
From 24 June 1896, her married name became Fowler.1
Children of Mabel Blakiston-Houston and George Hurst Fowler
W/Cdr. Frank Fowler2 b. 28 May 1897, d. Dec 1971
Brigadier Bryan John Fowler+2 b. 18 Aug 1898, d. 4 Dec 1987
Elizabeth Jane Marian Fowler+2 b. 29 Sep 1919
[S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 394. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S47] BIFR1976 See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S47]
George Hurst Fowler1
M, #171182, b. 6 April 1866, d. 17 April 1928
George Hurst Fowler was born on 6 April 1866.2 He was the son of Robert Fowler and Laetitia Mabella Coddington.3 He married Mabel Blakiston-Houston, daughter of John Blakiston-Houston and Marian Gertrude Streatfeild, on 24 June 1896.1 He died on 17 April 1928 at age 62.1
He was educated at Cheltenham College, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.2 He was educated at Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.2 He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.)2 He lived at Eureka, Kells, County Meath, IrelandG.2
Children of George Hurst Fowler and Mabel Blakiston-Houston
[S47] BIFR1976 page 441. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S47]
[S47] BIFR1976. [S47]
Isabel Blakiston-Houston1
F, #171183, d. 18 November 1956
Last Edited=19 Oct 2005
Isabel Blakiston-Houston was the daughter of John Blakiston-Houston and Marian Gertrude Streatfeild.1 She married Brig.-Gen. David Ramsay Sladen on 5 January 1911.1 She died on 18 November 1956.1
From 5 January 1911, her married name became Sladen.1
Brig.-Gen. David Ramsay Sladen1
M, #171184, d. 21 June 1923
Brig.-Gen. David Ramsay Sladen married Isabel Blakiston-Houston, daughter of John Blakiston-Houston and Marian Gertrude Streatfeild, on 5 January 1911.1 He died on 21 June 1923.1
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.)1 He was appointed Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.)1 He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the King's Own Scottish Borderers.1
Ethel Fanny Blakiston-Houston1
F, #171185, b. 1879, d. 1954
Last Edited=29 Feb 2020
Ethel Fanny Blakiston-Houston was born in 1879.2 She was the daughter of John Blakiston-Houston and Marian Gertrude Streatfeild.1 She married, firstly, Captain James Robert Macalpine-Downie on 20 August 1902.1 She married, secondly, Arthur George Florence McClintock on 8 January 1929.1 She died in 1954.2
From 20 August 1902, her married name became Macalpine-Downie.1 From 8 January 1929, her married name became McClintock.1
[S2667] Sylvia McClintock, "re: McClintock Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 10 February 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: McClintock Family."
Captain James Robert Macalpine-Downie1
M, #171186, d. 21 March 1918
Captain James Robert Macalpine-Downie married Ethel Fanny Blakiston-Houston, daughter of John Blakiston-Houston and Marian Gertrude Streatfeild, on 20 August 1902.1 He died on 21 March 1918, from wounds received in action.1
He lived at Appin, Argyllshire, ScotlandG.1 He fought in the First World War.1
Arthur George Florence McClintock1
M, #171187, d. 16 November 1930
Arthur George Florence McClintock married, firstly, Susan Heywood-Collins in 1877.2 He married, secondly, Ethel Fanny Blakiston-Houston, daughter of John Blakiston-Houston and Marian Gertrude Streatfeild, on 8 January 1929.1 He died on 16 November 1930.1
He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.)3 He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.)3 He lived at Rathvinden, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, IrelandG.1
Children of Arthur George Florence McClintock and Susan Heywood-Collins
Lt.-Col. Arthur George McClintock2 b. 1878, d. 1936
John McClintock+2 b. 1880, d. 1959
Robert Le Poer McClintock+2 b. 1883, d. 1969
Jane Catherine Gladys McClintock+4 b. 1885
Edward Stanley McClintock+2 b. 1889, d. 1975
Ronald St. Clair McClintock+2 b. 1892, d. 1922
Hilda Blakiston-Houston1
F, #171188, d. 4 November 1936
Hilda Blakiston-Houston was the daughter of John Blakiston-Houston and Marian Gertrude Streatfeild.1 She married Captain George James Bruce, son of Samuel Bruce, on 25 September 1907.1 She died on 4 November 1936.1
From 25 September 1907, her married name became Bruce.1
Captain George James Bruce1
M, #171189, d. 2 October 1918
Captain George James Bruce was the son of Samuel Bruce.1 He married Hilda Blakiston-Houston, daughter of John Blakiston-Houston and Marian Gertrude Streatfeild, on 25 September 1907.1 He died on 2 October 1918, killed in action.1
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.)1 He was awarded the Military Cross (M.C.)1 He fought in the First World War.
Samuel Bruce1
Samuel Bruce held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.)1 He lived at Norton Hall, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.1
Child of Samuel Bruce
Captain George James Bruce1 d. 2 Oct 1918


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Intel XDK IoT, Intel edison.

The code allow to monitor the status of a plant through three main sensors; The main sensor is for humidity, the others are for light exposition and temperature. We also have an automated system for water suply with a tiny water pump, it is triggered when critical humidity levels are given.

AT&T M2X API

We use this API to store the data we obtain from the sensors in the cloud for further usage.

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