Just last week, NBC announced it would not be renewing its video distribution partnership with Apple and its iTunes service, and it moved to Amazon instead --while Sony has announced plans to more directly compete with Apple when it comes to video downloading services. Many analysts believe that the video distribution "wars" have only begun, with no clear-cut winner yet to emerge, and I could not agree more.
Online video content creators are in the enviable position of having learned from what happened to their friends in the music industry, and are making sure they don't end up in the same position. With more than 3 billion songs downloaded through iTunes, consumers are clearly passionate about music distributed through the web and, more specifically, through the Apple service. However, at 99 cents per song download, the financial reward has been very limited for the record companies. Apple can afford to have music be a breakeven or loss-leading product, provided it can help create demand and buzz for the company's slew of offerings including the music players, phones and their soon-to-be-launched WiFi device. Apple has had the upper hand when it comes to negotiating with the record labels, but that is certainly not the case when it comes to video.
These two announcements are interesting because they are the first of what I expect to be a significant amount of back and forth when it comes to video distribution. Companies like ABC have decided to rely primarily on themselves for distribution, while CBS has taken the opposite approach and has numerous licensing agreements with other websites. Who is taking the right approach? That's still to be decided, although I think both strategies have strong arguments.
It is certainly more profitable for CBS when a consumer watches an episode of "CSI" directly on CBS.com as opposed to through a third party. However, if a site like YouTube, Joost, or even Hulu can gain the necessary viewership, then broadcasters and video content providers will need to revenue share to maintain scale and avoid sacrificing brand recognition. Let's not forget that Web distribution today is still primarily used for on-air promotion, with online video still holding its place as an "opportunity."
While I am a fan of Apple and iTunes, I am pleased to see Amazon emerge as another choice (in addition to Netflix, Blockbuster and others) when it comes to distribution. With the new Hulu CEO most recently having spent almost 10 years at Amazon, it should come as no surprise that NBC and Amazon have partnered (Reminder -- Hulu is partly owned by NBC).
As for Sony, it is in a fantastic position to grab a significant seat at the table by leveraging its role as a media and technology company. Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Park Associates, says, "If there is a company that can marry all this emerging content to products that people want, it's Sony." What Sony means for online video distribution is yet to be seen, although I think the company's greatest impact might be the ability to move online video upstream through its television products.
Expect many more announcements -- including new partnerships and terminations of old ones as the distribution wars heat up. There is no question that online video will be a driving force not only behind online advertising, but also advertising as a whole in the coming years. But where you go for your video and how it is downloaded in the future may surprise us all.


Madison Street Capital is a Chicago-based multinational investment banking firm. They recently acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Napoleon Machine who were seeking credit. Napoleon Machine is a company that was established in 2010 and provides manufacturing services to other companies. Their services include precision machining, light assembly, metal fabricating, and painting among other services. The credit they were seeking was provided by Sterling Commercial Credit. When the financial transaction between Sterling Commercial Credit and Napoleon Machine was completed the deal was announced by the chief executive officer of Madison Street Capital, Charles Botchway. The two executives who led this transaction for Madison Street Capital was Vice President Capital Markets Steven Richards and Barry Petersen who is the senior managing director.
In a statement about completing this transaction Barry Petersen stated that completing it, along with follow-on tranche, would give Napoleon Machine the ability to expand its manufacturing capabilities and further its ability to meet the needs of its clients. He also said it would lead to their growth trajectory accelerating bringing in greater revenues and profits for the foreseeable future.
Napoleon Machine's President Kevin Febrey said that he appreciated how the team at Madison Street Capital really listened to what his company is all about and in so doing was really able to explain to creditors how his company would find a lot of opportunities for further growth with access to more capital. He said that his industry is very capital-intensive which was a fact appreciated by Madison Street Bank personnel and they were able to come up with creative solutions to solve his need to access more working capital. They ended up increasing Napoleon Capital's working capital access by four times. Febrey was happy with this outcome and said he planned to work with Madison Street Capital again in the future.
Madison Street Capital has been helping other companies like Napoleon Machine for over a decade. They offer a variety of financial services beyond raising capital such as being an advisory firm on both the sell-side and buy-side, providing valuations of mid-sized companies in many industries, and assisting with tax planning and wealth preservation. As an advisory firm they have assisted in mergers & acquisitions, capital restructuring, private placements, bankruptcy, and more.


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The Testaments: A worthy return to Gilead
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is a great book, deservedly earning its accolades as a masterpiece and a contemporary classic as it brilliantly weds her substantial gifts as both a poet and a prose writer in the service of one of the most potentially powerful genres, dystopian literature. Her sequel, The Testaments (2019), is not a great book. But it is a good one (and really, Atwood has more than one great book to her credit, let's not get greedy). Fair warning, spoilers ahead for those who have not yet read The Handmaid's Tale and one kinda-sorta spoiler (explained below) for The Testaments.
The Testaments is set roughly a decade and a half after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, and thus moves on, save for one noteworthy exception, to a whole new cast of characters. That exception is Aunt Lydia, who here is one of the three points of view conveying the story. The others belong to two younger women. (Warning: I'm going to use one of the girls' real name/identity here, which is technically spoilery, but it's so telegraphed, so obvious, and is made clear so early, I can't think Atwood meant it to be a reveal to anyone but the character herself, but if you care about those things stop here.) (No, really.) (OK.)
One of those is Agnes, born and raised in Gilead itself in the home of one of the more powerful commanders. The other POV belongs to a grown up "Baby Nicole," who had been smuggled out of Gilead 15 years ago and has become a symbolic touchstone of conflict between Gilead and Canada ever since (symbolic because up to now nobody knew who she actually was). And yes, if you do the math it's pretty clear whose child Nicole is.
Lydia's point of view is by far the most powerful and effective one, chilling and tense and thrumming with anger and potential violence as it moves between present-day events and an account of how Lydia, a judge before the coup that put Gilead into power, became Aunt Lydia, one of the four "Founders" of an authoritarian regime that treated women in such horrific fashion. It was always a mystery, to both readers of The Handmaid's Tale and the female characters within it, how women could do what they did to other women. What is so icily terrifying here is how easily that happens — a few days of horrific treatment, a regular close-up display of the brutal and typically fatal punishment for those who don't go along with the new regime, and a simple vow to survive is all it takes. Complicity, as history teaches us and Atwood portrays, is a dully regular occurrence. And once one has stepped on that path in order to survive, it's hard to turn off of it for the very same reason. Or as Lydia puts it: "I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most traveled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them." Or, earlier and more succinctly: "in times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet."
That isn't to say, though, that Aunt Lydia throws herself into her new role happily. Atwood doesn't do "simple." So while Aunt Lydia inhabits her role fully and is more than good at it, beneath the stonily aloof surface seethes a boiling, frothing fury and desire for vengeance and, for she was a judge after all, justice. From the very start of her complicity ("giving up was the new normal, and I have to say it was catching"), she is already planning her retaliation: "I will get you back for this. I don't care how long it takes or how much shit I have to eat in the meantime, but I will do it." It's that mission that drives the plot of this novel.
And plot-driven is a good description of it, certainly more so than its predecessor, where we spent so much time within the mind of its narrator Offred. The point-of-view impact was bound to be diluted somewhat by its being split amongst three narrators. But truthfully, the drop-off from Aunt Lydia's older, complex, more self-aware, more jaded and honed-to-a-bittersharp-edge, to the younger, more naïve, less thoughtful ones of Agnes and Nicole is pretty steep. In my mind's eye, I picture Atwood leaning forward, on the edge of her seat, wringing her hands and cackling with glee as she creates Lydia's sharply wry commentary (few do sharply wry like Atwood; here is Lydia on a commemorative statue: "… it's not a great success. Too crowded. I would have preferred more emphasis on myself … moss has sprouted in my damper crevices"). When it comes to the other two points of view, I see her leaning back and dutifully, steadfastly using Agnes and Nicole to move the plot along, stopping now and then to make herself a sandwich or scratch the cat, becoming, if not bored, a little restless, all while jonesing for another bit of Lydia composition.
Not that those Agnes/Nicole sections are poorly written, or the plot badly constructed. Just the opposite. Atwood probably couldn't write two or three bad sentences in a row if she were thumb-typing on a phone in a dark cave she'd just fallen into, all while being mauled by the angry grizzly she'd so rudely awakened, and the book is an absolute page-turner — tensely compelling and expertly paced, with just a few forgivable shortcuts or coincidences to ease its way forward. It's also a broader plot than The Handmaid's Tale, less claustrophobic in setting and atmosphere as it moves us not only around different environs in Gilead, but also sets various portions in the border areas and Canada. The drop-off therefore isn't in readability or writing ability, but in the compelling nature of the voice.
Lydia's voice also is able to add another layer the other two cannot simply by nature of her age and experience, which allow her to contrast Gilead with what had come before. In other words, with our time, and this allows for some starkly clear commentary on our own world, as when she berates herself for being "Stupid stupid stupid: I'd believed all that claptrap about life, liberty, democracy, and the right of the individual I'd soaked up at law school. These were eternal verities and we would always defend them. I'd depended on that, as if on a magic charm." Or, again in the wry succinct way Atwood has mastered: "Penises. Them again."
I confess I laughed aloud at that last one. And there's certainly more humor in The Testaments than The Handmaid's Tale. It's in all ways a lighter book, even as it details equally horrific acts and structures. Part of that is the way it opens up in setting and voice. Part of that is as well that two of those voices belong to young girls, who are generally more optimistic, and who also don't have the jaded bitterness of an earlier, better life to compare their current existence to. It's also more optimistic in that we see how even within the awful strictures of Gilead, women, despite their seeming powerlessness, work to do what they can for other women, something we saw little of (if memory serves) in the first book. And so girls are shunted out of extremely bad into merely bad, men who do worse evils are punished more than those who perform lesser ones. Again, it's Aunt Lydia who nails the concise pragmatism of it: "I am a great proponent of better. In the absence of best. Which is how we live now."
I noted at the top this wasn't a "great book," but it does have a truly great character inhabiting it, and while that would have been enough to make it immensely readable, Atwood brings as well her usual ease and skill with regard to other elements such as plot and language. So if The Testaments is a lighter book than The Handmaid's Tale, and therefore also a slighter one, that's OK. Judged on its own, it more than suffices.
~Bill Capossere
I agree with almost everything Bill said (so eloquently here) except that I wouldn't use the word "lighter" to describe The Testaments. To me, it didn't feel lighter. Perhaps I did smile more while reading The Testaments than I did while reading The Handmaid's Tale, but that was more in appreciation of Lydia's dark humor — something that was missing from the The Handmaid's Tale — than out of any sense of lightness.
As Bill mentioned, The Testaments answers the question of how women like Aunt Lydia could betray their entire sex. This was something I was wondering about while reading The Handmaid's Tale. I found Atwood's explanation believable and chilling.
I listened to Random House Audio's version of The Testaments and it's spectacular. The narrators are Derek Jacobi, Mae Whitman, Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Tantoo Cardinal, and Margaret Atwood herself. Each of the POV characters has a different narrator. I especially loved Ann Dowd, who did Aunt Lydia's chapters; she was perfectly cast. I recommend this version!
~Kat Hooper
Published in September 2019. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets. As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.
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BILL CAPOSSERE, who's been with us since June 2007, lives in Rochester NY, where he is an English adjunct by day and a writer by night. His essays and stories have appeared in Colorado Review, Rosebud, Alaska Quarterly, and other literary journals, along with a few anthologies, and been recognized in the "Notable Essays" section of Best American Essays. His children's work has appeared in several magazines, while his plays have been given stage readings at GEVA Theatre and Bristol Valley Playhouse. When he's not writing, reading, reviewing, or teaching, he can usually be found with his wife and son on the frisbee golf course or the ultimate frisbee field.
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Ware discloses his motivation in writing this book is that he senses evangelicals have a better understanding of Christ's deity than they do His humanity. I think he is right. Ware argues the nature of the kenosis (self-emptying) of the eternal Son, as described in Philippians 2: 5-8, means that Christ emptied Himself by taking on humanity. In so doing, "Christ lived his life fundamentally (not exclusively) out of his human nature..." How could this be? How could Christ, in His human nature, possess such a knowledge of the Word, endure immense temptations, do miracles, and live a sinless life? He does all that His Father commands Him by relying wholly on the anointing of the Spirit and the Spirit's work in and through Him.
When it comes to considering the natures of Christ, I would guess the majority of evangelicals think in two dimensions. This book helps the reader to take on a three dimensional Christology; one that begins to contemplate Christ's humanity and His deity simultaneously. Such an understanding can help work through questions like, how is it that in His divine nature Jesus is omniscient, but in His human nature He is said to have grown in wisdom (Luke 2:52)? To this, Ware posits, "[A]lthough he came as one who was both fully God and fully man, he also lived his life as one indwelt with and empowered by the Spirit of God." This empowering of the Spirit, which the Father poured out on the Son, granted Him insight and increased understanding of God's Word as He grew.
Ware's intention in writing this book is not simply theology for the sake of theology. To divorce theology from spirituality is to take a brain out of the body. The brain is made to think, the body to carry out the actions dictated by the brain. For this reason I am especially grateful that Ware includes an application section at the end of every chapter. Additionally, each chapter also contains five discussion questions, making this book conducive for Sunday school or small group settings.
We cannot say, "God will not allow us to be tempted more than we can bear. Therefore, we will experience little to no suffering in this lifetime." Look at Jesus, God did not allow Him to be tempted more than He could bear, yet He died on a cross for our sins. If you thought, "Yeah, but He was God," then this book is for you!
 Bruce Ware, The Man Christ Jesus (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013), 60.


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Czech software pirate's video goes viral on YouTube to help him avoid paying a huge fine
Czech pirate's video goes viral on YouTube and helps him avoid fine
Judge in Czech Republic had said the the Czech pirate could escape from fine if his video gets 200,000 views
A software pirate has found an odd way to escape from paying damages depending on YouTube video views he gets for an anti-piracy video made by him.
Known only as Jakub F, the man agreed to produce and star in a video denouncing piracy to avoid paying a huge fine.
As a part of the arrangement with Business Software Alliance (BSA) who represented Microsoft, his anti-piracy video had to be viewed more than 200,000 times within two months of its publication. BSA member companies reached an out-of-court agreement with Jakub F.
The 30-year-old was also given a three-year suspended sentence after being found guilty of pirating and sharing illegal copies of copyrighted software of Microsoft, Sony Music, HBO, Twentieth Century Fox and others in forums. Microsoft alone claimed losses of 5.7m Czech Crowns (about £148,000/$223,000).
A spokesperson for the BSA confirmed the punishment after speculation the video was a viral ad. They added the 200,000 views stipulation was to ensure Jakub shared the clip.
"The district court in Litom??ice, Czech Republic, sentenced Jakub F for copyright infringement to three years imprisonment with a conditional suspension of the sentence for three years, said a BSA spokesperson to the Guardian.
"In addition, Jakub F was ordered to pay compensation for damages caused to the BSA member company rights holders.
"In respect of the damages, an out-of-court agreement was reached between Jakub F and the rights holders, under which Jakub F will pay partial compensation for the damages on condition that he collaborates on a public education campaign about the risks of Internet Piracy."
BSA confirmed that Jakub will only pay "a small portion" of the damages to rights holders if he reaches 200k views with his YouTube video. If he fails, he "may be liable for the full amount of damages ordered by the court".
Fortunately for Jakub, as if Friday, he has now gone above and two times beyond, with more than 450,000 views on the dramatic "It All Began With File-Sharing" video.
In the video, produced by a Czech public relations firm hired by BSA, Jakub says, "I was convinced that I was too small a fish for someone to get to me. But, eventually, they got me. Even for me, the investigators came to work."
The video released has garnered mixed reactions potentially inspiring software pirates to seek revenge.
Many YouTube users commented that they had only come to support Jakub. Another user struck a confused chord in a comment calling the video the "weirdest punishment ever."
The lawsuit was brought by a number of the large media and software companies. Microsoft have accused Jakub of illegally sharing copies of its operating systems due to which they had to suffer huge amount of losses.
According to Microsoft, an estimated one third of all software used in the Czech Republic is pirated.


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Isa Bey Mosque is located in the Selcuk district of Izmir, between the Temple of Artemis and the Church of Saint Jean. It was built in 1375 by Aydınoğlu İsa Bey. It is the work of the architect Şamlı Ali. Isa Bey Mosque is one of the oldest and most spectacular works of Turkish architectural history from the Anatolian Principalities period. It was also used as a caravanserai in the 19th century. The two entrance doors of the mosque, which was built on an unsymmetrical plan, are on the west and east sides. The western door is decorated with inscriptions and geometric shapes. The west side walls are covered with marble, while the other facades are made of cut stone. Its facade, window edges and the pulley of both domes are decorated with Seljuk tiles. One of the two minarets rising above the east and west doors of the mosque was completely destroyed, and the other one above the balcony was destroyed by earthquakes in the middle of the 16th century. The roofs of the mosque were also destroyed in the same earthquakes. In 1975, the roof and walls were repaired and opened to worship again with the improvement works made by the Seljuk Mufti Abdullah Arılık in 1975.
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Bromsgrove crowned NatWest Schools Cup winners at home of England Rugby
Twickenham Stadium today (March 16th 2016) hosted the climax to the school rugby season as Bromsgrove School were crowned 2016 NatWest Schools Cup winners, beating Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield 18-10 in the U18s Cup Final.
Running out on the same turf that less than a week ago hosted England's victory over Wales in the RBS 6 Nations, a victory that sets England up for a historic Grand Slam finale in Paris on Saturday, Bromsgrove proved worthy of playing on such a stage in a stunning performance.
Competing in their second successive U18s NatWest Schools Cup Final, Bromsgrove previously faced tough ties against Whitgift and RGS High Wycombe and proved too strong for a spirited QEGS side. Two tries from No 8 Beck Cutting took the game away from QEGS to cap a memorable day at the home of English rugby for the Worcestershire school.
Jamie George, the Saracens and England hooker who has had an impressive season for club and country, watched on from the stands throughout Finals Day and was on hand to present Bromsgrove with the NatWest Schools Cup trophy. George also presented a signed England jersey to Man of the Match Beck Gutting of Bromsgrove.
The Old Haileyburian, who competed in the NatWest Schools Cup almost 10 years go said,
"It is so promising to see such talented young players taking part in the NatWest Schools Cup and being given the opportunity to prove themselves on the biggest stage of all, here at Twickenham. I still have fond memories from my playing days at Haileybury and, although I would have loved to see my former school competing here today, I have been really impressed with the quality on show, particularly from Bromsgrove. I hope they cherish today's win and that we see these promising young players follow the pathway many of the England squad have taken, from the NatWest Schools Cup, through the age-grade system and onto representing their country."
Tony Windo's side joined Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Sedbergh and Northampton School for Boys, who won the 2016 NatWest Schools Cup U15s Vase, U15s Cup and U18s Vase by beating Sir Thomas Rich's School, Wellington College and St Ambrose College, respectively.
New for 2016 NatWest will be rewarding and inspiring those who that have performed well in the 2016 NatWest Schools Cup. 30 players will have the chance to experience what it is like to be an England player at the NatWest Schools Cup Academy Day. Players from this year's tournament are able to be put forward to represent their school at England's training base in Surrey and, alongside host and former England winger Mark Cueto, have the chance to see behind the scenes at the newly crowned RBS 6 Nations Champions training base.
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Bone McAllester Norton attorney James E. Mackler spoke with Steve Haruch, reporter for the Nashville Scene, about the complexity of the laws and regulations surrounding the use of drones. But despite the difficulty in traversing those rules, the reporter points out that drones are here to stay.
James's comments appeared in two articles in this week's Scene. In the cover story, he explains that the rules are confusing, so he tends to be cautious in his reading of what the FAA says is allowed and what isn't allowed. The current law starts with a blanket ban on the use of drones and then includes exceptions, such as for authorized military use, search and rescue and scholarly research. "I would never tell a client to violate FAA regulations. . .but if someone came to me and said the FAA was trying to enforce those regulations, I would work very hard to defend them by arguing that those regulations are not enforceable. That particular person may or may not have violated the law, or the regulation, but there's probably an argument to be made either way," he said.
And in a supporting story on how two Tennessee companies are using drones legally, James points that "a strict reading of the regulation" hints that a commercial organization utilizing drones for commercial purposes "would be included in the regulations, unless you've got a COA (certificate of authorization) or you're flying at an FAA test site."
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A lasting legacy: What kind of story will you leave behind?
On March 19, Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist church, passed away. The next day, his son Nate Phelps spoke at Mount Royal University.
For those of you that don't know, the Westboro Baptist Church is an unaffiliated Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas. They are well known for their strong hate speech towards homosexuals and their frequent picketing of funerals.
Nate Phelps, son of Fred Phelps, left the church and left home when he was 18. He now tours around speaking against the ideas of the Westboro Baptist Church and promoting acceptance and equality.
At the end of his regular lecture, Nate read a press release he had written regarding his father's death. In it he said that, unfortunately, even though his father has died, the negative ideas that he promoted still live on. His legacy of hate will continue on through both the Westboro Baptist Church and many others who are encouraging prejudice and violence. I don't know what will be written on his headstone, but I do know that the way he has been portrayed in the media will be the way will be remembered.
We live in a digital age. Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram — photos that we take end up on the Internet instantaneously, and can stay there for eternity. We don't often think of how we are presenting ourselves.
With the end of the semester a mere couple of weeks away, I am transferring files and uploading a whole host of videos I've made to my website as a demo reel. When graduating from broadcasting; a demo reel is your entire legacy. Other students in our program made a graduation video where each of us shared gossip about our classmates. The "dirt" that was dug up on people, might not follow us for a lifetime, but for a brief moment, it becomes our legacy.
A legacy is also something (an object or a reputation) that can be passed on. This is the last issue of The Reflector for this school year. Whatever is written on these pages will be the legacy we leave for the next four months until our positions are picked up by a new team in the fall.
When I came in eight months ago, I was handed a legacy of despair and hopelessness from the previous faith columnist. One thing that Nate Phelps and I seem to have in common is that we both desire to leave a legacy of hope in our wake. He believes that by spreading a message of acceptance and community in an atmosphere characterized by the absence of faith, the world can have the greatest hope. I would argue that hope in its most inspiring form exists within a faith environment.


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To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 11 August 1794
From Jeremiah Olney1
District of Providence 11th Augt. 1794.
On the 24th April last I had the Honor of Transmitting for your information Sundry Documents relative to the Suits of Messrs. Arnold and Dexter2 against me: my not hearing from you, Since, on that Subject, and as the Court meets in this Town on the 15th Septr. next, when Damages are to be assessed—I am induced to enclose a letter from Mr. Barnes3 to me, relative to his Idea of the Future Management of those Suits and respectfully to ask your advice & Instructions as to the Ultimate mode of Defence thereof, and to say with Deference, that I am in Sentiment with Mr. Barnes (Since a favourable Change in the Court has taken place) of Petitioning the Genl. Assembly for a New Trial. As there Seems to be no new points to be Stated before the Court in the assessment of Damages, I have deemed it inexpedient for the United States to be at any Further Expence for Counsil in the Defence of these Suits, than what will accrue in the employment of Messrs. Barnes & Eddy,4 but whatever instructions (in respect to this, or the ultimate modes of Conducting the Suits) you may please to Communicate shall attentively be carried into Execution.
I have the Honor to be &c.
Jereh. Olney Collr.
Alexander Hamilton Esqr.
Secretary of the Treasury.
ADfS, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.
1. For background to this letter, see Olney to H, November 7, 15, 28, December 10, 13, 27, 1792, March 14, 25, April 15, 25, September 23, October 7, 21, November 21, 1793, February 17, March 31, April 14, first letter of April 24, May 5, 1794; H to Olney, November 27, 1792, November 7, 1793, March 19, April 24, 1794.
2. Welcome Arnold and Edward Dexter.
3. David Leonard Barnes.
4. Samuel Eddy had served as clerk of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1790 to 1793.
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"To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 11 August 1794,� Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0038. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 17, August 1794 – December 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, pp. 82–83.]
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Led by athletics but carried by a recovery in its women's offerings, DSW Inc. reported comparable sales increased 7.6 percent in the fourth quarter. Comps were flat in the year-ago quarter.
Earnings on an adjusted basis rose 7.7 percent to $30.9 million, or 35 cents a share. Results exceeded company guidance calling for earnings in range of 21 and 31 cents a share, and Wall Street's consensus estimate of 28 cents.
Net income reached $30.8 million, or 34 cents a share, up from $28.1 million, or 30 cents, after charges related to its RVI merger and its discontinued test of luxury items last year.
On a conference call with analysts, Mike MacDonald, president and CEO, said 2014 started with "very little sales momentum, and with both external and internal challenges." A leadership change in its buying organization helped lead to a resurgence in its women's footwear business, which contributes over 60 percent of total revenues.
DSW also in the back half of the year benefited from strengthening its value proposition, increasing its opportunistic buys and selectively reducing prices. Said McDonald, "We believe these actions, contributed to our steady improvement in comparable sales performance throughout the year."
After four consecutive quarters of comparable sales declines, the women's footwear category turned positive in Q3, and recorded a 6 percent increase in Q4. Women's boots comps jumped 13 percent on top of last year's 8 percent increase. Women's dress comped ahead 6 percent on the quarter, driven by regular priced merchandise, benefiting from "greater levels of fashion and newness in the assortment." Women's casual business comped down 8 percent.
Athletic led by category gains with a 14 percent comp increase. Mary Meixelsperger, CFO, said, "We distorted our buys in fashion athletic to capitalize on strong holiday demand and the strength in vulcanized footwear. Our athletic comp accelerated throughout the year."
Deborah Ferrée, vice chairman and chief merchandising officer, added that the athletic gain was driven by fashion, which is about 40 percent of the athletic category's sales. Added Ferrée, "All of the activity and action and newness and freshness is really coming out of the fashion piece of the business and it's really coming out of a couple of different brands and a couple of key styles."
She noted that the athletic business has "stayed very consistent" through the third and fourth quarters and the momentum is continuing this year. Ferrée added, "I will also tell you that the running business, the performance piece of the business, is also strong for us."
Men's footwear posted a 7 percent comp increase, driven by strong results in men's boots. Accessories business comped up 13 percent in the quarter, led by growth in fashion accessories, hosiery, and jewelry.
Overall, store and online traffic increased and maintained its momentum after the holiday shopping period. Conversion rates increased in both store and online. A low-single digit increase in units per transaction was partially offset by slightly lower average unit retails.
Fourth-quarter gross profit declined 60 basis points to 27.6 percent. Q4 merchandise margin declined 100 basis points, driven by lower shipping revenue, lower initial markup, and nonrecurring items that benefited Q4 last year. Lower initial markups drove better sell-through and lower markdowns. As a percentage of sales, Q4 SG&A rate was flat to last year.
Regarding the West Coast port slowdown, MacDonald said DSW has seen some related product delays that it has been able to somewhat offset with the early release of its pre-buy inventory. As of Tuesday, its inventory ownership was approximately 6.5 percent lower than what DSW intended it to be at this time as a result.
"Further," added MacDonald, "DSW expects it will take another several weeks or even months before the West Coast ports are caught up and operating normally. We've been working through this situation cooperatively with our suppliers, to minimize its impact on our sales and profitability while simultaneously capitalizing on opportunities for highly advantageous buys."
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Alliance Councillor Gavin Walker and I have expressed our bitter disappointment after plans to express support for local LGBT people were overturned on Wednesday 26 September 2018 evening.
Passed at committee earlier this month, the plans would have seen the Council pledge that lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people are accepted and valued as equal citizens and that Ards Town Hall be lit up in Rainbow Colours to coincide with Pride Day.
This is a real blow to all who believe true equality should not be this hard to achieve in 2018, especially after the recent words of support from Arlene Foster which have now proven to be very hollow.
This motion was about to making a positive difference to the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people across our borough, letting them know they are accepted and valued as equal citizens. But instead, those who moved to quash this motion have sent a negative signal that Ards and North Down Council is not dedicated to working for all.
I am extremely grateful to all those who backed this motion, especially in the wake of intense criticism as others have sought to play politics with people's lives and also to the Rainbow Project and Stonewall for their help in drafting the motion, which included lighting of Ards Town Hall in rainbow colours to coincide with Pride Day.
Councillor Gavin Walker added: "As the father of a gay man, I find it upsetting that some of my council colleagues have taken such a decision - essentially signalling they do not value my son's contribution to our society. It is completely unacceptable that anyone should be made to feel different, but to be made to feel so by politicians who are supposed to stand up for everyone cannot be allowed to continue.
"As a Council we had the power to send a strong signal, to make a change that would have brought comfort and support to so many. All those who voted against this have made an uninformed decision."
With Air Quality affecting everyone across the Borough I was keen to ensure the new Council got the same regular updates as we used to get at the old legacy North Down Borough Council. I therefore requested tabling of the reports for review by Councillors and, in turn, members of the public on the Council's website.
I would like to thank officers for agreeing to do this and whilst Air Quality levels are generally satisfactory across the Borough I am concerned to learn that Air Quality levels have been reducing over the last number of years along the A2 near Holywood Town Centre. Whilst officers feel that objective levels will not be exceeded the risk that levels further increase is real especially with further development planned to occur in vicinity.
Ards and North Down Alliance Councillor Gavin Walker and I have welcomed a recent decision by an Ards and North Down Borough Council Committee to back our proposal affirming that lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people be accepted and valued as equal citizens with Ards Town Hall to be lit up in Rainbow Colours to coincide with Pride Day.
I presented this motion in the hope that we could make a positive difference to the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people living, working or visiting our Borough and am therefore delighted to have secured backing of the relevant Council Committee in affirming that LGBT people should be accepted and valued just like everyone else.
Ards and North Down Borough Council is set to publish attendance statistics of all elected representatives, after an Alliance motion secured the latest move towards full openness and transparency.
I managed to secure unanimous support for the plans – which will be updated on a quarterly basis going forward – since ratepayers' deserved to know attendance rates for their elected representatives. The decision reached at the Council's Corporate Committee is now subject to formal ratification by full Council on 26 September 2018.
When elected, Councillors have a responsibility to not only articulate the concerns of their constituents, but to ensure good governance within the Council. This is primarily done by engaging with officers via the established Committee structure and full Council meetings, reviewing papers, asking questions, debating the issues and reaching decisions. Whilst simply attending meetings is not the only measure by which we should judge Councillor performance, actually being in the building, ready to work is a starting point, except, of course, if the Councillor has legitimate reason to be absent.


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Q: Bad substitution running MongoDB commands in linux shell I'm trying to create a simple bash script to test the return value of a MongoDB query. The Mongo script itself returns the expected value. But, if I try to put the query script into ${}, I get a "Bad substitution" error. Any ideas ?
#!/bin/bash

#This line returns the number 1 (expected value)
mongo dbName --eval 'db.dbCollection.find({"updatedAt":{"$gt":ISODate("2019-01-31T00:00:00.000Z")}}).count()'

#Trying run from inside a "${}" returns the error
counter=${"mongo dbName --eval db.dbColection.find({'updatedAt':{'$gt':ISODate('2019-01-31T00:00:00.000Z')}}).count()"}

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A: try this
counter=$(mongo dbName --eval db.dbColection.find({'updatedAt':{'$gt':ISODate('2019-01-31T00:00:00.000Z')}}).count()")

A: I finally found an answer. This line returns the expected value to the var:
counter=$(mongo dbName --eval 'db.dbCollection.find({"updatedAt":{"$gt":ISODate("2019-01-31T00:00:00.000Z")}}).count()')

In other words, I surrounded the Mongo commands with simple quotes and used the double quotes inside the command. And, instead of curly braces, I'm using parentheses. That's it !


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From residential homes . . .
Each year, small groups of players visit various residential homes to provide Christmas music to residents and staff.
Engagements like "these are undertaken on a voluntary basis, although we are grateful when donations are offered. Valewood also provide us with outstanding refreshments!
No Village fete is complete without the sound of a brass band and over the years we have played for most local village events.
One of our regular engagements is at Cranleigh, an annual event we enjoy and we are usually conducted by a Cranleigh resident, Norman Every, who plays tenor horn in the band.
Norman is well known locally for his long involvement with Cranleigh Youth Band, National Methodist Youth Brass Band, and the Methodist Church.
Playing for a Garden Party can be great fun if lucky with the weather—and we usually are. The atmosphere is friendly and informal and we are often provided with some excellent refreshments. Even though the standard of playing must be maintained, we do relax and enjoy ourselves too.
Each year we can be heard at the Godalming Bandstand for the Sunday afternoon Songs of Praisa event.
We also play far something similar at Hascombe; this is an early evening service Hascombe Pond. This is a beautiful settings and a well-supported event.
Along the road to Guildford . . .
We are invited to play at Guildford Bandstand most years, but as part of the 1996-7 Opening Day for Guildford Festival, we played in the High Street, just by Tunsgate, and also at the bandstand in the beautiful Castle Gardens.


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In last year's psychological thriller Magic, green-eyed Ann-Margret lit up the screen wearing tailored sweaters and nicely fitted blue jeans. In her latest picture, The Villain, the actress has less comfortable-looking attire to deal with. The film is a wacko western that threatens to spew as many gunslinging stereotypes as Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles. For example, one of Ann-Margret's co-stars is beefcake body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays a handsome stranger and goes by the name Handsome Stranger. Her other leading man is dimple-chinned Kirk Douglas, who chases Ann-Margret around while portraying the Old West's most incompetent outlaw. "While Kirk is falling out of trees, and I'm falling out of my
bodice, Arnold keeps gathering firewood," says Ann-Margret, desperately attempting to summarize the plot. The Swedish-born beauty should have a chance to make a larger social comment in her next project, Middle Age Crazy, which is being produced by CBC Ombudsman-turned-movie-mogul Robert Cooper. In it she plays the patient but ruthlessly honest wife of Bruce Dern, whose 40th birthday triggers a roving eye and a sports-car fetish. "Some people, especially men, are going to get extremely uncomfortable," says AnnMargret, who feels that the turning-40 anxiety syndrome is "indigenous to the whole world." She is 38.
By swept 1940, up actress Broadway Sylvia and gone Sidney to Holhad lywood to star with Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda and James Cagney. Nice work if you can get it—but it wasn't enough for Sidney, who found her true passion when she decided to re-cover a set of dining-room chairs and discovered the joys of needlepoint. Her cross-stitches have endured the test of time better than some of her films and, at 68, she has written two "fumble and fuss" books about the craft. This fall she will lead a tapestrystudded trek across France with 30 dedicated crewelers and hookers who will enjoy such formidable sites as "71 scenes embroidered in eight colors of worsted recounting the Battle of Hastings." The 16-day tour, including aperitifs with Sidney and round-trip airfare from New York, puts a $5,500 tear in the sewing basket. And, for those who can't cope with thimbles, a similar excursion is being planned by 54-year-old actress and beauty expert Arlene Dahl, who will lead 20 consummate consumers through a 10-day tour of London establishments that bear the shingle "By Appointment to the Queen." Special visitations on the Dahl dally include meeting the hatters who make Princess Anne's riding helmets.
Ten years ago Charlie Farquharson's alternate persona, Don Harron, set foot on stage to act without whiskers and Parry Sound accent. He was on his honeymoon. The well-known actor was appearing in a Chicago production of Measure for Measure and he had taken an afternoon off to marry singer Catherine McKinnon. "They made me play the evening performance—I decided after that, to hell with theatre," says Harron, 54, who turned his sights to producing and is now concentrating on a radio career as the talkmeister of CBC AM's Morningside. While he is on a twomonth leave of absence from radio this
summer, Harron is breaking his stage silence by appearing in a production of Bernard Slade's much-applauded Same Time, Next Year, which is being staged at a little theatre in Barrie, Ontario, before moving to Toronto. Performing in the play, a two-hander about the serial infidelity of a couple who escape their mutual families and shack up once a year, won't disrupt the honeymoon for Harron this time. He has solved the problem by co-starring with his 34year-old wife. It will be her first nonmusical play and Harron's musical debut, which he marks with a rousing rendition of If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake.
As if this summer's crop of horror films hasn't curdled enough blood, those wonderful Hollywood folks who brought you The Brood, Prophecy and Dawn of the Dead have now spawned Guyana, Crime of the Century, a bigscreen blockbuster about the Rev. Jim Jones's tragic cult of madness that led to the suicide/murders of more than 940 people eight months ago. The film was shot last February in a jungle outside Mexico City, where the Jonestown compound was re-created .'ight down to the Kool-Aid packages in the food storage room. Stuart Whitman {Murder Inc.) stars as "Rev. Jim Johnson," a role for which the craggy actor gained at least 20 pounds, and Gene Barry {Name of the Game) plays "Congressman Lee O'Brian," after Leo Ryan who was murdered on the Jonestown airstrip. Also lending a ghoulish tinge to the proceedings is Canadian-born Yvonne de Carlo, 56, ( Lily in The Munsters) who acts as a liaison between the Whitman character and the outside world.
Though her name doesn't appear on the marquee, one of the most memorable images in Ivan Reitman's summercamp version of Animal House, Meatballs, is light and lively Canadian actress Cindy Girling, who plays a counsellor in training under Kate Lynch and Bill
Murray. Sporting a hot pink bikini and a tan that never quits, the bouncy 22year-old is looking forward to playing more serious roles, not to be typecast as a "dizzy California blonde." Oozing ambition, Girling started in show business at 14 as a rock singer in a long-forgotten band that frequently played at her high school in Waterdown, Ont. "It aged me quickly," says the wrinklefree, former Miss Canada runner-up whose previous movie experience includes playing "mysterious mistress" in the thinly disguised story of the Peter Demeter murder saga, I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses. Girling had an opportunity to catch up on her youth when Meatballs was filming last summer in Northern Ontario. "It was great. We all had cabins to sleep in and every morning the buses would come around to pick us up and take us to camp."
To capture the appropriate stranger-thanfiction reality for his 1960 epic, La Dolce Vita, Director Federico Fellini had Rome's thoroughfare, the Via Veneto, rebuilt as a set. Ten films later, the 59-yearold master of neorealism is busy building again. This time he has re-created a congress hall, a jungle garden and a roller-skating arena which will serve as backdrops for The City of Women, a film about feminists and the women's movement that he has been filming outside Rome since April. Starring in the contemporary-themed work is Marcello Mastroianni, a veteran of Vita, whom Fellini has cast as a puppy-dog character trailing about on the heels of the leader of a feminist party. The set, as with all Fellini efforts, is a bizarre bazaar in which subtlety is avoided and only Fellini is said to know the plot and ultimate outcome. Hundreds of women of all shapes and sizes and a variety of dogs from Afghans to Pekinese have been cavorting on the set, and confusion is reportedly rampant. There is also a great deal of concern in Italy about the approach Fellini will take to feminism,
and his wife, Giulietta Masina (who also starred in his Academy-Award winning Le Notti di Cabiria), has been conducting a radio campaign in defence of her husband's right to parody.
(fit you weren't in the wake of his deIstructiveness, he was an adorable man," says Maxine Marx, 56, of her father, Chico, the cuddly, behatted Marx who died in 1961 after 74 years of funny business. Once an aspiring actress, Maxine Marx has been working as a New York casting director for the past 12 years and will join the ranks of Hollywood offspring authors this January when her book, Growing Up With Chico, will be published. "It's not at all an exposé like Christina Crawford's Mommie Dearest. I didn't have a horrible childhood like that," insists Marx, who says she felt compelled to write the book because of denigrating comments made about her father by the late Groucho Marx, who pegged his older brother as selfish and irresponsible. "People have forgotten that Dad was the manager, the brains behind the act. He was the least malicious human being I've ever known," she says. Chico did have his faults, however, and even according to his loving daughter he was "a compulsive gam -bier,chronically faithless husband and congenital liar." And that's not horse feathers.
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2019, year of firms' adjustment to new economic system: TAQA Arabia - Daily News Egypt
Business 2019, year of firms' adjustment to new economic system: TAQA Arabia
2019, year of firms' adjustment to new economic system: TAQA Arabia
Egypt likely to open its Benban project in February, says Chairperson
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The Chairperson of TAQA Arabia company, Khaled Abu Bakr, said that 2019 is not an easy year, as it is constitutes a year of continuous reforms, noting, " we are investing in many governorates and locations across Egypt, and we see that 2019 is considered an adjustment year to the new system in all sectors, in terms of counting costs for the firms and corporations."
There is a global economic slowdown. However, Egypt has been through radical reforms over the past three years, topped by banking and financial sectors, Abu Bakr, informed Daily News Egypt.
Noteworthy, TAQA Arabia, is a private sector energy distribution company in Egypt with over 20 years of experience, which invests and operates in energy infrastructure, including gas transmission and distribution, power generation and distribution, and marketing of petroleum products.
Through its four operational divisions, 14 companies and its 3,400 professional employees working in 18 governorates, TAQA Arabia caters for one million customers annually in Egypt distributing 5bn cubic metres of gas, 1000MW of power, operating 46 retail fuel stations and generating over EGP 2bn in annual turnover.
Investment banks are very positive in their views about foreign investments in Egypt during 2019 and the years after, mentioned Abu Bakr, adding, "new factories are being built and new investments are entering the local market, especially in some sectors in which we didn't enjoy new investments for a while such as the industrial one."
Egypt is expected to open its Benban solar park project in February in presence of the Minister of Electricity, Mohamed Shaker, said Abu Bakr, adding that he will also attend the event, which is the world's largest solar power station, and targets to cover Egypt's electricity needs, and propel it forward on its path to becoming the region's energy hub.
In March 2018, Shaker said that the ministry is working on achieving 20% clean energy by 2022, and 37% clean energy by 2035. Benban is set to bear and implement Egypt's dream of generating 20% clean energy.
The Benban solar park is set to generate the equivalent of 90% of the energy produced by Aswan's High Dam, already home to the most important electricity production plant in Egypt.
After the project's completion, the operating park is set to employ some 4,000 people, many of whom will be from Aswan.
"We began to move in the right direction. I acknowledge that our steps are slow but determined. Investment in the gas sector is still attractive as many global corporations are here in Egypt," indicated Abu Bakr.
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BLACK Leopards coach, Rodwell Dhlakama, said out of sorts midfielder, Denver Mukamba, can hit his best form once again if he is treated like a baby.
Dhlakama redeemed Mukamba's career when he was rejected by almost every Premiership club in 2019 by signing him for Chapungu.
The gamble paid off as Mukamba ignited a career which had stalled.
Unfortunately, Chapungu got relegated that season and the duo packed their bags and joined Ngezi Platinum Stars.
The Ngezi leadership was not keen on signing Mukamba, but Dhlakama stood up for him. The 29-year-old had a blistering start at the club and some even called for him to be included in the Warriors' squad for the 2021 AFCON finals.
But Mukamba's resurgence was tested when Dhlakama left the club prematurely. His form deteriorated and Ngezi terminated his contract early this month.
"Mukamba has a special talent, but it's unfortunate that he has a deviant character which makes him unacceptable. But that doesn't mean he should be labelled and assaulted for abusing drugs. He needs a coach who makes him feel special. Believe it or not, that's what keeps his batteries charged.
"People with such personalities do exist in our society and it's wrong to constantly remind them what they are because they will continue doing what's wrong knowing that people are expecting certain things from them," said Dhlakama.
He challenged coaches to play psychologists' roles when dealing with hot-headed players.
"Coaches need to change their approach when dealing with players. They all come from different backgrounds and you can't expect them to grasp your message and behave in the same way.
"Some need a gentle approach and some are okay with everything, but those who know Mukamba on a personal level can confirm that he is a shy person.
"Mukamba is not scared to do something ridiculous because he knows that people expect the worst from him, but my plea to coaches and fans is to treat such players with compassion. They will change; that I can promise," he said.
He hailed international football agent Gibson Mahachi for being an all-weather friend to Mukamba.
"When Mukamba was being rejected everywhere, Mahachi called me and told me what the player was going through. I accepted the challenge and took him to Chapungu and I never had a problem with him at the club. Even when I moved with him to Ngezi, he showed me respect without putting more effort and I was not surprised with his resurrection because I had discovered what was missing in his career.
"Mahachi has demonstrated what it means to be an agent and he deserves credit. Mukamba can still play for more than six seasons if he people start to treat him differently.
"In the back of his mind, he assumes that everyone thinks that I'm bad news, I can't breathe without taking prohibited substances.
"We have all identified his problem, let's all direct our energy in helping him to forget what was said about his past, it's never too late. People need to change their perception and treat him like a clean man, from the coaches, social media and fans."
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Dinard has changed little through the years - 22-12-2018
This old postcard picture of Dinard, datring from the 1920's, shows how little Dinard has changed over the years. The famous coastal path is clearly shown. The waves which crash over the sea wall at high tide are a year round attraction, with children of all ages escaping from the water as they walk along the coast.
The beach with the famous beach huts are in background, although the blue and white colours can not be sen in this early black and white image. The large building on the front was originally the casino and hotel, although these have now moved a few hundred metres along the beach. The building has now been converted into appartments many of which benfit from one of the best views in town !
Dinard Film Festival - First weekend in October - 22-12-2018
First created in 1990, The British Film Festival occurs anually on the first weekend in August. The fastival showcases Dinard as real fan of all things British and over the last 30 or so years has helped launch numerous films into the European mainland market. Many of the films which have won awards in Dinard have gone on to be successful throughout europe.
Each year the 5 day festival utilises 5 different cinemas. During this time Dinard showcases 6 films competing for awards, somewhere in the region of ten premieres and around twenty short films,. These are judged and enjoyed by not only the formal Jury but also by around 30,000 festival-goers.
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Patrimoine et Famille Immobilier
After managing other Estate Agencies and holiday rental agencies within the Dinard area for many years, Yves De Sagazan and his wife, Marielle, decided to create their own agency and took posession of offices ajoining the market square in the middle of town.
Now, well over 20 years later the estate agency is one of the most respected within the area, and the holiday rental side of the business is just as successful. Our business philosophy remains the same today as it did the day we opened our doors for the first time and every customer can expect the best possible service delivered in a polite, friendly and effecient manner.
While Yves concentrates primarily on the Estate Agency (property sales) side of the business, Marielle manages all aspects of the holiday accommodation / holiday rental side of things.
The estate agency primarily deals with properties within Dinard and its immediate surrounding area including St Enogat. We also propose properties from local towns such as St Malo and Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, as well as properties located along the Rance estuary as far as the town of Dinan. Most properties, however, are within central Dinard and its suburbs.
Our holiday rental agency offer a large range of holiday accommodation from large mansions, family friendly properties to studio apartments. The majority of properties are located in Dinard and its suburbs with many of the properties being within easy walking distance of the center of town, then main beaches and Dinard's busy market square with its thrice weekly markets. All of our accommodation is shown in detail on our website. Each holiday home is shown with a full description, a location map and lots of photos so you can be sure that property you select is right for you. All weekly rental prices are shown along with up to date availability.
Both Yves and Marielle speak English and will be happy to talk or write to to you in French or English to answer any questions you may have.
Why choose Dinard, Brittany for your holiday or holiday home
Located on the other side of the Rance Estuary opposite the famous port of St malo, Dinard sits full square on the coast based around a sandy beach enclosed by headlands. From these you can look out across the water to see St Malo, its harbour and its city walls. Dinard is a popular beach resort in the department of Ille-et-vilaine in the north west of the region of Brittany.
A long standing favourite of the British, Brittany is closely linked with Britain so much so that Brittany is known to the french as Bretagne, while Britain is Grande Bretagne ! Dinard's history is very closely linked to the British and the town is regarded as 'tres british' by the french.
Originally a small fishing village in the small parish of Saint-Énogat, Dinard is sheltered by imposing promontories giving rise to not only a safe harbour but also to a very pleasant sandy beach (Plage de l'Ecluse) around which the small village developed. The imposing promontories around the bay were the reason behind Dinard's initial development as an 'upmarket location'. Wealthy ship owners from the nearby town of St Malo commissioned imposing residences upon the clif tops from which they could both escape the noise and smells of the port of St Malo ... while still, literally, keeping an eye on their business interests across the bay.
Later on, towards the end of the 19th century, Dinard underwent another metamorphosis from fishing village to wealthy upmarket suburb of Saint Malo to a popular holiday destination for British aristocrats, celebrities and noveau riche who arrived in numbers and began the building of remarkable 'belle epoque' villas within the town, hundreds of which remain to this day. This influx went on for many years and gave the town a very strong British identity - an identity which continues to this day in the eyes of the french ! For the British, Dinard remains quintessentially French, with the local food (seafood is a speciality) ensuring that there is no doubt whatsoever that Dinard is very definitely French.
As the Plage de l'Ecluse and its surrounding area became more prominent part of the wider conurbation, in 1879 the name of the settlement was formally altered from Saint-Énogat to Dinard-Saint-Énogat to reflect the rise in importance of this part of the parish. With the development of the area around the beach and headlands continuing apace, in 1921 the town was formally renamed to Dinard with the original area of Saint-Énogat becoming the name for the western suburb of the new town. Saint-Énogat remains the name of this area to this day and is regarded by many of the locals as a village in its own right.
Dinard is renowned for its quiet, relaxed atmosphere and does not seek to compete with some more 'modern' beech resorts where all night discos and extreme sports are frequently on offer. Dinard has deliberately set out to focus on a very traditional holiday market and will suite the many people seeking a relaxing, low pace holiday rather than those seeking adrenalin filled activities and parties until the sun comes up. It is particularly popular with families with young children and very often we find that grand parents and extended family holiday together.
Dinard and local attractions
Whilst Dinard offers many attraction from the sandy beaches to the famous coastal walkways, many other attractions are close by :
Dinard Golf Course 7km :
Despite the name, the golf course is acutally located in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer some 7km west along the coast from the center of Dinard. The Golf Club was founded at the end of the 19th Centuary by a small colony of British residents who had made their home in the area, and the "links" course is proported to be one of the oldest courses in France.
Many of the local British residents responsible for the creation of the Golf club were army offers who retired to the area after returning from serving in the military in India and Egypt. These retired officers and their families having settled on the Emerald Coast, wanted to maintain their passion for the game of golf and so set about creating the now world famous club. At around this time a lot of social changes were happening especially in relation to leisure time and with the arrival of the railway came an influx of people to enjoy sea bathing (which became very popular) as did a general wish for the well off to embrace a new outdoor lifestyle. They also created the tennis club in Dinard (saidf to be one of, oif not the first, tennis club in France) and greatly developed the sport of sailing and the development of the sailing club in the town.
While Dinard itself would have been the location of choice for the golf club, the lack of available space meant that an area to the west where cows and sheep grazed on an area of some 50 hectares of seaside broom / gorse / covered heath and dunes overlooking the sea, became the most logical compromise location. Following the purchase of the land the Scottish architect Tom Dunn was engaged to design and build the new golf course which was duly completed in 1887.
Very soon after its opening the Dinard Golf Club at Saint-Briac became famous throughout france and was soon hosting a large number of golfing tournaments. As early as 1890, only 3 years after it opened, influential magazines lauded the course as a great success. One review stated that "Its sandy soil makes it the best course in France today" !
Over the years the course has attracted many famous visitors and it remains very popular with the locals. Many children learn to play at the club in organised lessons with mini tournaments organised as well as those for adults..
Located along a long stretch of sandy coast line, the local coastline and the course was mined during the Second World War to stop it being used as a landing beach. When all o fthe mines were cleared after the end of the war the course reopened in 1949. Since that time, the course has once again played host to many championships and other competitions. To this day the course maintains a committed following amongst the golfing fraternity with many people from the UK and the channel islands amongst many visitors from around the world.
Saint-Briac-sur-Mer 7km
Apart from the golf course on the outskirts of the town, Saint-Briac-sur-Mer is worth a visit.
The name of the town actually derives from from the name "Saint Briag". Briag was an irishman who arrived with Saint Tugdual from Ireland in around 548 AD.
The town has a interesting history. During the french revolution in the late 18th century the then "port Briac" saw its 12 century castle (Le Chateau du Nessay) used as a prison for political prisoners.
40 years earlier (in September 1758) A british Fleet of some 110 ships under the command of Admiral Richard Howe landed in Saint Briac. With a force of around 12,000 soldiers they established a camp in the nearby coastal town of St Lunaire and proceeded to burn and pillage much of the area. In just two days over half of Saint Briac was burned to the ground.
Mont-Saint-Michel 40km
One of the most visited tourist sites in the world the Mont-Saint-Michel is located on the Normady / Brittany border. The Abbey was build over many years between the 11th and 16th century and is one the most recognisable sites in france. If you are holidaying in Dinard then a visit to the Bay of St Michel and the famous abbey is well worth a visit. If you take the coastal road for the return journey you will also pass Concale (see later) which is also well worth a visit.
Saint-Malo 4km
Either a short drive from Dinard across the 'barage de la Rance' or a ferry ride across the bay (a very popular alternative which delivers you straight to the 'old' city walls) Saint Malo is a very popular tourise destination and spending a day wandering around the reconstructed old city, the 'intra muros', is well worth doing. Largely destroyed in 1944 the old town has been reconstructed with many shops and restaurants lining the 'old city'.
Dinan 20km
A short drive along the Rance from Dinard, Dinan is an historic walled town overlooking the river flowing to the Rance Estuary.
Arguably Dinans port is most attractive part of the city, and it is where we would suggest you begin your visit, especially if you take one of the regular ferries to the town from either Dinard or St Malo. The river side quay is lined with period stone houses, many of which have now been converted to restaurants and shops. If you walk along the river a little way, you can discover more about life on the river in olden times by visiting the Maison de la Rance discovery centre. From anywhere along the river, the view that dominates is the 131ft (40m)-high viaduct.
When leaving the port, you will climb the Rue du Petit-Fort, which was Dinan's main road until the 18th century. This cobbled hill boasts half-timbered houses and is a popular photo oportunity. Dinan has been designated a Ville d'Art et d'Histoire (A Town of Art and History) and the town boasts many arts and crafts including artists, sculptors, engravers, bookbinders, glassblowers and many more.
Dinan also boasts a 13th-century castle which has been converted so that it now contains the towns impressive museum. Take a tour of the magnificent ramparts around the old town which run for nearly a mile and a half and are the oldest in Brittany. Each July Dinan holds ta famous event, the Fête des Remparts to showcase its medieval heritage.
Cancale 17km
located on the far side of St malo, Cancel is the oyster capital of Brittany. The oysters from Cancale have been famous for at least 2000 years being eaten Julius Caesar's troops and delivered on a daily basis to the court of Louis XIV.
Throughout France Cancale is famed as one of the premiere regions for the cultivation of oysters. The area around Cancale has been growing and harvesting oysters for hundreds of years and is one of the most important areas of production in country. There are two types of the mollusc produced in France. The original "flat oyster" and more recently imported "hollow oyster", which has been brought in from other parts of the world. Most of the oysters now cultivated in and around Cancale are the hollow oyster variety. This is a frequent pattern throughout france mainly due to parasitic infections which have led to a rapid decline in the indiginous flat oyster since the 1970s. Cancale produces over 15,000 tonnes per year, and the extensive oyster beds are clearly visible at low tide.
If you want to discover more about the history of oyster farming in the area, visit La Ferme Marine which is a family run company where you can see the oysters being farmer and visit various exhibits concerning differrent types of shellfish from around the world.
If you are visiting for lunch or dinner, then Cancale boasts a variety of very good quality restaurants mostly focusing on seafood for which the port is famous. If you are a budding chef, then cookery classes can be book at the culinary school of Olivier Roellinger. Mr Roellinger is a retired former three-star Michelin chef, who will teach you how to turn even basic fish and seafood into gastronomic delights.
Cancale is a very old settlement and has a hostorical side apart from its association with seafood and molluscs. The Église St Méen is named for the Welsh saint who settled in the area in the 6th century. Inside the church can be found the "Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires" which details the town's history. Once a year in mid Augus, the town hosts a festival "Les Reposoirs" dedicated to the Virgin Mary who is locally known as the protector of sailors.
Lots of other local attractions are worthy of a visit including the fort at Cap Frehel 23km (famous for the film 'the vikings'), the Emerald Coast 4km, Dol-de-Bretagne 24km, Plancoet 18km, Combourg 34km and many, many more ....
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Wham Bam Shazam!
Shazam always struck me as a technology in need of a problem. Sure, the ability to recognise a piece of music as it was playing is sort of useful, but it hardly seems to justify a business model, let alone the tens of millions that Shazam has brunt through since it was founded.
But the company has survived and has now raised a further $32m (!) to take it into the TV discovery market.
The service claims 150m users - and it may well have had this number of people register over the past twelve years, but I doubt how many of these users are active. Naturally, the service has come into its own in the app world, where it's much easier to use and app than dial an SMS number to access the service.
So, I can see the VC pitch now - we have 150m users and the ability to leverage our technology into the second screen market for telly. Hmm, they might have a point. One worth watching...
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So this is it. After two decades I am closing down IPTV Times. The last post was Murder on 5th: the last breath of democracy in the US. It will fade in the rear view mirror. Barely anyone will see it go or mourn its passing. The world of online TV remains a fascinating space, but not one for me. I did my time over thirty years and had successes and failures. As with most people in everything they do, mostly failures. The blog will remain as a testament and archive to a time and a place and an evolution. Follow my new adventures at Kwedl Sparks .
Going East
This weeks sees me off to give a keynote address at the inaugural DMFest in Singapore. Largely, I will be looking at the technical processes behind setting up and operating online television services, but I will also be examining the commercial models that have evolved in the industry and what seems to have worked to date and what has not. My presentation will be posted here in due course. Unlike many other similar events (with the notable exception of PICNIC ), the event combines content makers with technologists - just the way it should be. Over the past decade the technology has become somewhat incidental to the delivery of video over the web. Advances in broadband technology and codecs mean that the majority of broadband users in developed countries can now happily watch decent full screen video on their PC; although until this situation is ubiquitous this remains an issue for commercialising Internet TV services as advertisers point to the gap in the services. What has not h
Why Is Old Media Being Perverse ?
I was going to use the term 'lemmings' but the United Order of Lemmings have written to me and asked me to stop giving them a bad name. How did ITV get Friends Reunited and ITV Local so wrong ? And where did NewsCorp managed to get MySpace from 100m to 5m users - and why are they now seeming to do the same with The Times online sites? Yet, with video they have leveraged this positions well and become dominant in the provision of online video in the US and the UK. In the US no major TV company has tried to stray beyond what they do, and at the same time they've come up with concepts such as Hulu . Collaborative ventures like this have critical mass in the US, but seem futile in the UK where only the BBC count. Traditional media has great sales capabilities, good production discipline, but the content is what counts. Great video content is much more difficult to produce than a great article. Volume of video content is even more difficult. For example, by my experien
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Rachevtsi (Bulgarian: Рачевци [ˈrachevtsi]) is a village in Gabrovo Municipality, in Gabrovo Province, in central northern Bulgaria.

Geography
Rachevtsi  is located about 4 km west-northwest from Gabrovo's town center. It is located on a northern slope in the northeastern foothills of the Chernovrashki hill. The altitude in the northern part of the village is about 375 m, and in the southern part it rises to about 420-430 m.

The way to the village of Rachevtsi is through a left turn from the municipal road, which starts from the intersection in the village of Popovtsi with the second-class republican road II-44 (Sevlievo - Gabrovo) to the south of the villages of Gergini, Garvan, Peiovtsi and Nikolchovtsi.

The population of the village of Rachevtsi, which numbered 134 people in the 1934 census, decreased to 16 in 1985 and by 2019 had (according to the current demographic statistics for the population) 26 people.

History
In 1995, the former settlement Rachevtsi huts acquired the status of a village.

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Villages in Gabrovo Province

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