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Mas des Costes
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Accepts Small Pets
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Location Fontvieille Villa - near St Remy de Provence, France
Mas des Costes is a true wonder, tucked in the middle of a vast grove of olive trees. Historically, this property was once a postal relay station, then a farm, and now a wonderfully renovated vacation home situated between the famous cities of St Rémy de Provence and Arles.
This 16 acre property offers perfect views of the Alpilles and is composed of a main bastide, an adjacent "mas" and an ancient tower. Each of these lovely stone buildings offer the best in luxury amenities.
Due to its size, Mas des Costes is ideal for families traveling together, or for large groups seeking privacy while still being able to gather together in various communal areas such as the pool house or under the shade of the 200 old nettle tree.
The main Bastide has three bedrooms with private bathrooms and is recently renovated and fully air-conditioned. The ground floor kitchen, dining room and lounge area open onto the terraces leading to the pool.
There is an adjacent Mas (house) which is entirely independent, though of course never rented separately to other groups. A ground floor kitchen opens to a large shaded terrace to enjoy long lunches and dinners. The entire Mas is air-conditioned, and offers a level of comfort mimicking that of the main Bastide.
Lastly, the Tower is entirely independent from the other buildings and overlooks the valley. There is a kitchen and a sitting room on the ground floor, and one bedroom with bathroom on each upper floor. Again, the level of comfort here is high, and it is fully air-conditioned — a great place for any guests seeking extra privacy.
The property is surrounded by manicured Provencal gardens, as well as olive and fruit groves. A large pool area with terrace offers gorgeous views of this garden space, as well as the Alpilles hills in the distance.
From the property, you are less than 15 minutes from the popular villages of Fontvieille, Les Baux, Saint Rémy de Provence with a vast array of boutiques, cafes, markets and restaurants. In less than 30 minutes, you will also find the historical cities of Arles, Nimes and Avignon.
8 bedroom/ 8 bathrooms sleeps 16
Second Story (1er étage) Bedrooms/ Bathroom Layout
BASTIDE:
Bedroom 1 - Master bedroom, King bed with en-suite bathroom (Italian shower, 2 sinks, WC). A/C. TV.
Bedroom 2 - King bed with en-suite bathroom (Tub with handshower, 2 sinks, WC on the landing). A/C. TV.
Bedroom 3 -King bed, open bathroom (Italian shower, 2 sinks, WC on the landing). A/C. TV.
MAS:
Bedroom 4 - Master bedroom, King bed (Tub, shower, sink, WC). Separate staircase. A/C. TV.
Bedroom 5 - King bed with en-suite bathroom (Shower, sink, WC). A/C. TV.
TOWER:
Second Story:
Third Story:
Air conditioning throughout entire property
Broadband Internet/ WiFi
Satellite TV with English News Channels
iPod Dock (speaker base)
Fully Equipped Kitchen including Dishwasher
Laundry in the Grange: Washing Machine, Clothes Dryer, Iron and Ironing Board
Hair dryers in each bathroom
Indoor Dining for 16 people
Outdoor Dining for 16 people
English-speaking House Manager
Couple of Guardians living on the property in a separate house
Baby Crib/ Cot and High Chair
All linens provided
Bathrobes in all the bedrooms
Office with printer available for guest use
Pool House with Lounge suite
Outdoor Kitchen with ice machine and dishwasher
Outdoor Terraces
Well-lit Garden
Grill - 2 Gas BBQs
Shaded and Grassy areas
Terrain des Boules
Foostable
Views on the Alpilles
Dimensions/ Depth: 15m x 4m
Security (Fence, Alarm): Electric security cover
Salt water System: No
Heated?: Yes, upon request. Additional charges may apply.
Please note that pool heating is dependent on outdoor weather conditions and specific temperatures cannot be guaranteed
Note: Wonderful views from the pool area, along with large open space to play for children.
Twice per week from July to September; once per week during remainder of year, plus end of stay cleaning.
The personnel is also available for providing various services: please inquire. Linens changed weekly unless agreed otherwise. Maids not responsible for washing guest dishes/ pots/ pans or personal laundry.
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Nearest Villages
Closest Village Fontvieille 4 KM 2.48 mi Map Village Info
Nearby Village Les Baux de Provence 10 KM 6.2 mi Map Village Info
Nearby Village Maussane Les Alpilles 10 KM 6.2 mi Map Village Info
Nearby Village Saint Rémy de Provence 15 KM 9.3 mi Map Village Info
7 km north east of Arles and 8 km south of the Baux de Provence via the D17.
Fontvieille - Daudet's windmill
Fontvieille is situated in the heart of the "Provence des Alpilles", not far from the historic arena at Arles, the citadel of the Baux de Provence, the museums of Saint-Rémy and the Avignon Festival which is less than 30km away !
Fontvieille - Church
After having left Arles, you will follow a pretty road (the D17 in the direction of Les Baux and Maussane) which crosses the superb countryside of the Alpilles with its vast fields of olive trees, shrubs and lush green fields, with the majestic Montmajour abbey in the distance.
Fontvieille - Town hall
Arriving in Fontvieille, you will discover a picturesque village with its ancient houses built from stone extracted from the famous quarries founded in the 15th century. The arenas at Arles and Nîmes, the 14th century chateau at Tarascon and most recently the Palais Longchamps and the Bourse at Marseille have all been built from the same stone.
Fontvieille - Mautauban castle
Fontvieille is the village where Alphonse Daudet wrote his famous "Lettres de Mon Moulin". To visit the "Moulin de Daudet" and its small museum, climb the small hill until you reach the summit where the wind-mill overlooks the valley. From the hill (easy to climb), you will have a superb view of the Alpilles and the "Château de Montauban" where Daudet lived from time-to-time.
It was here, surrounded by this "scenery of stone" (or "caillasse" as they say here), on this hill-top covered in olives, pine-trees and oaks that Daudet found the inspiration for his stories.
He dreamt up his characters while listening to the stories from the shepherds and inhabitants of the Montauban chateau.
A variety of walking-tracks ranging from 2 to 9 km are available so visitors can appreciate the beauty of the natural environment, and it is even possible to walk in the foot-steps of la chèvre de M. Seguin!
The easiest way to get to Inland Provence from the US is to fly to Marseilles International Airport (MRS). If you would like to see Paris, fly to Charles de Gaulle Airport then connect directly to the TGV(high speed train) from CDG TGV2 to Avignon TGV(3 hours direct) and rent a car. You would plan to see Paris on the way back, taking the TGV from Avignon TGV to Gare de Lyon, getting a cab to your hotel in the city.
Cities and villages: Les Baux, St Rémy, Arles, Paradou, Eygalieres, Nimes, Avignon are less than 30 minutes drive.
Morning Outdoor Markets
Sunday: L'Isle sur la Sorgue
Monday: Fontveille
Tuesday: Paradou
Wednesday: St-Remy, Mouriès
Thursday: Maussane les Alpilles
Friday: Fontvieille
The wonderful countryside of the Alpilles.
Little shops in Fontvieille, larger ones in Tarascon or Saint Rémy de Provence.
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Terms and Conditions Overview
Arrival: Saturday (arrival date subject to availability)
Minimum Stay: 1 week - please inquire about exceptions outside the summer months.
Services Included: Final cleaning and any additional maid service listed on the web page
Making your reservation: These properties are reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis. However, before you reserve, you are required to review and sign a rental agreement for the villa (the "Rental Agreement"). We will send you the Rental Agreement by email. The Rental Agreement explains in detail all of terms and conditions regarding rental and use of the property in detail. We shall have no obligation to accept any reservations, unless the Rental Agreement is fully executed.
Payment: After you have signed the Rental Agreement and filled out the appropriate information, as approved by us, a nonrefundable payment of the one-half (50%) of the Rental Fee (which price is defined in your Rental Agreement) must be received by us within seven (7) days to confirm the reservation. The remaining one-half (50%) of the Rental Fee is due 60 days before the arrival date, and is also non-refundable. If reservations are made less than 60 days prior to the arrival date, then 100% of the Rental Fee must be paid upon the signing of the Rental Agreement. Please know that a failure to pay any portion of the Rental Fee as set forth above and in Rental Agreement can result in loss of the reservation of the villa and a termination of the Rental Agreement. We will confirm receipt of each payment and note any outstanding balance and due date(s).
Cancellation: We have a no refund cancellation policy, but usually succeed in rescheduling cancelled reservations to the Spring or Fall or re-booking the cancelled period to another group and refunding the party that cancelled. Failure to pay the final balance (which is due 60 days before arrival) or provide required information for the security deposit may be deemed a cancellation with no refund due. Clients are advised to consider Trip Cancellation Insurance with the carrier of their choice at the time of confirmation.
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Brace yourself: Sharp's dashing looking LT-32P70E is not HD Ready. But, Sharp sees the LT-32P70E's non-HD Ready status as a potential strength.
A low native resolution of 960 x 540 pixels means the LT-32P70E is set up for standard definition PAL broadcasts, as it can show them without the need for noise-inducing scaling.
Connectivity gets the job done. Pleasingly, although it's optimised for standard definition, the set can take HD through an HDMI socket or component video-compatible VGA PC jack (the necessary component-to-VGA cable is provided). Plus it carries two Scarts, and the usual 'lower quality' options.
The LT-32P70E is also equipped with a digital tuner, complete with seven-day EPG support and an eight-event timer memory.
Reasonably accessible onscreen menus, meanwhile, play host to one or two interesting features, including selectable progressive and interlaced modes, noise reduction routines, and a contrast booster.
The LT-32P70E has won an Energy Saving Recommended Endorsement from the Energy Saving Trust for its low power consumption. So you can be eco-friendly and save money.
Given its pro-PAL stance, we tried the LT-32P70E first with the standard-def test DVD of Layer Cake and found ourselves seriously impressed. For starters, as billed the standard-def picture is very clean and pure, with hardly a trace of dot crawl noise.
The set also does unusually well suppressing MPEG noise from the digital tuner, and enjoys some winningly vibrant hues together and a deft touch with colour subtleties. The tone is natural for most of the time, too, with just the occasional over-ripe skin tone to disappoint.
The TV's black levels are good with SD and HD alike. They're not absolutely the deepest in the world, but they nonetheless get black enough to give dark scenes a solid sense of depth and scale.
Perhaps inevitably, though, all this SD finery has a trade off with HD. Our Layer Cake HD recording from Sky simply doesn't look as sharp or detailed as it does with our other group test contenders. The TV downscales all that lovely HD detail to fit its 540-line panel. The downscaling of the HD picture also seems to generate a little extra video noise.
The LT-32P70E's sound, meanwhile, puts in quite a punchy performance with the Layer Cake soundtrack, providing power, treble richness and a wide soundstage. A touch more bass would have really sealed the deal, though.
As a TV targeted at standard definition, it would have been nice to find the LT-32P70E costing a bit less. But still, if HD is as interesting to you as watching paint dry, and you'd much rather enjoy a mostly stunning standard definition performance, the LT-32P70E fits the bill.


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Two Unbelievable German Fairytale Castles.
By all accounts, Ludwig II was a mad king. Of course, madness is subjective, but most people agree that it's a bit off the wall to build yourself a fantastic fairytale castle, then spend your kingdom's vast fortune to build another one across the way, just so you have something nice to look at from your own, fabulous castle. It's even more ridiculous to hear that Ludwig II married a girl, then moved her into the other castle. I'm sure that made for interesting sex, sending a messenger on the forty minute walk to ask: "Your castle or mine?" Only to receive a reply, eighty minutes later: "Oh, not tonight darling, I have a headache." May as well save oneself the effort and grab a villager instead. Perhaps this explains why Hohenschwangau castle (often mistakenly called Hohenschwanstein castle) was quite near to the village of Schwangau and Neuschwanstein castle was way off in the distance. Old Mrs Ludwig II couldn't exactly complain if she couldn't see anything that her husband was doing. Perhaps if Henry VIII had adopted this two-castles-on-two-mountainsides approach, he could have saved himself all the nuisance of having to dispose of unwanted wives after the warranty period.
But he didn't think of it.
In Britain, we never really consider Henry VIII a mad king, perhaps because he knew which end the crown was supposed to go on, and didn't roam Buckingham Palace in his nightwear, and anyway, when he was compared to Charles I (who was so despotic, he caused the only English civil war) or George III (who figuratively wore his underpants on his head), he gets a free pass. I think it comes down to the fact that, historically, we have tended to respect the institution of marriage a little too much. Henry VIII was married to each of the six women who he wronged, but that's fine because he married them. If, as a bachelor, he had treated just one of those women properly but not married her, that would have been a scandal. But beheading two wives? That was reasonable, because he was married to them at the time. I think the other reason we don't remember any of our kings as properly, truly mad (rather than just bloody stupid), is because we've never had a proper despot on the throne. Add to that the fact that we still have a monarchy and the Germans don't, and it's perhaps easier to see why the Germans embrace the madness of their erstwhile monarchy and open it up for tourists to see at low low prices (Austria's got the market pretty well cornered on this too, but I'll come to that in another article).
Ludwig II is suggested to have schizotypal personality disorder for which there is evidence from his autopsy – he died in 1886 under highly mysterious circumstances the day after he was dethroned for extremely paranoid behavior. Fascinatingly, he was claimed to have drowned and it was recorded as a suicide, but he was known to be a good swimmer and there was no water in his lungs. Add to that the further mystery that his psychiatric doctor was with him at the time – and the doctor was found dead with head and neck wounds and markings concurrent with strangulation.
There are plenty of things in Germany which are spectacular, or ludicrous, or despotic, but nothing in Germany is quite as spectacularly, ludicrously, despotically fabulous as the twin castles of Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein. We were so taken by them that we actually went to see them twice.
The drive was painful in both directions due to bad traffic around Munich. We parked in Fussen for a breather and that was when we saw the first of the two castles. I've been told by quite a few people that Schloss Hohenschwangau is supposed to be the best one, but Schloss Neuschwanstein was the first one I saw and it captured my imagination far more. It was fit for a princess. It looked like a Disney castle. I don't think I've ever seen a castle that was quite so… well… castley. If someone distilled pure essence of castle and made a castle out of it, Neuschwanstein would be the result. This castle belonged to every Disney Princess who ever lived.
Neuschwanstein castle, Schwangau, Germany; taken from Fussen.
Neuschwanstein as seen from Schwangau.
We didn't go inside either castle because (on the way to Salzburg) by the time we'd fought our way through traffic they were both closed for the day. The same thing happened when we drove here on the way back from Rome, so I've not seen first-hand what they look like inside, but when they look like this from the outside, I can't wait until we actually get to go in. Photography is not allowed inside the castles.
Castle Hohenschwangau, aka Hohenschwanstein, Schwangau, Germany, Taken August 2014.
The castles look even better in real life and I think they were well worth the effort of driving here even though we didn't go inside – I don't think there's anything like them to be found side-by-side like this anywhere else in the world.
Make it Happen:
There's two parts to this – getting to Schwangau and then getting to the actual castles. Once you're in Schwangau the rest is pretty damn easy (as long as you DON'T mistakenly go to SCHWANAU which is 3 HOURS AWAY from where the fairytale castles are).
Getting to Schwangau:
Fly to Munich airport then hire a car, accommodation is best in Fussen which also has a much better selection of restaurants and bars than Schwangau.
Drive straight to Schwangau from your home address – this is what I did, it took two full driving days and one overnight stay in a layby in central Germany to get here after 5pm from the North of England.
By public transport it's really sketchy, which is why I never got here on my Interrail trip – basically Schwangau is a little bit remote and doesn't have it's own train station. There is a direct train from Munich to Fussen which takes 2 hours 6 minutes, then you're on your own to get to Schwangau (Google says it's a 45 minute walk or a 12 minute cycle – so if you're reasonably fit and mobile you can probably walk it in under 30 minutes; it wasn't far at all by car), but if you're willing to get a taxi this is another option from Fussen. I can't find bus info.
Getting to the Castles from Schwangau:
Hohenschwangau is a very easy stroll from the centre of Schwangau.
Neuschwanstein is slightly less accessible, you can take a 45 minute walk if you're feeling sporty.
The more common option to get to Neuschwanstein is to take the tourist buses (run by private companies) which costs about E2.60 there and back again. I think there's still some walking involved and the buses are unsuitable for disabled people due to the terrain between where the bus stops and getting into the castle.
The most awesome option by far to get to Neuschwanstein is to take a horse drawn carriage, at E6 there and E3 back again. There is a 15 minute uphill walk from where the carriage drops you off. If you're feeling especially fancy, you can also ride in a carriage to Hohenschwangau castle for E4.50 there and E2 back again.
Entrance to the two castles on a twin ticket was 9am-6pm (summer) or 10am-4pm (winter) and cost E12 each or E23 for a combined ticket. For more information click here.
Disabled, Wheelchair and Pushchair Access:
You can't drive to the entrances, the closest parking is in Schwangau village centre which costs about E5, or there's free parking even further down the hill in two large lay-bys. Neuschwanstein appears to sadly be generally unsuitable for wheelchair users or people with mobility-related disabilities due to its design (although some people have had success getting around, I think this has to be taken as the exception; if you're planning a trip for a busload of pensioners, you'll have to give Neuschwanstein a miss, but if you push your own wheelchair and you've got someone to help out on the hilly bits, you will be able to get around enough to see some of Neuschwanstein). Pushchairs can get to Neuschwanstein but if you're not reasonably fit you will be utterly shattered afterwards. If you have an invisible disability such as CFS or MS you may have extreme difficulty with Neuschwanstein because the bus queues are a lot of standing around waiting and the walk is hilly with no real breaks; if you're having a low-energy day, I'd skip Neuschwanstein and go for Hohenschwangau instead. Hohenschwangau on the other hand appears to be reasonably accessible if you can make it up the much gentler hill to the entrance (but if in doubt, double check this when you buy tickets, because everyone's level of ability is different) and pushchairs are no problem at Hohenschwangau. Everything I saw of both castles and Schwangau village was hills rather than steps.
For accommodation I strongly suggest you avoid the expensive hotels of Schwangau and instead stay in the beautiful large village of Fussen, as there is much more choice, it's a bigger town and there's lots of cheaper options and more amenities. If arriving by train, staying in Fussen will also break up the journey a bit. I found the absolute best selection of accommodation from Booking.com but do book early as it's a popular but relatively undeveloped area, and when we were travelling to Schwangau/Fussen from Rome, I tried to book us a hotel for 2 days ahead but the cheapest options that were left started at 150 Euros which was out of my price range (this was September prices). By contrast, there are currently options for mid-August available starting at £43 for two people, which is obviously a significant saving. By comparison, for the same example date (12-13th August) hotels in Schwangau start at £93 per night for mid-August if you book now.
Has anyone else been to see these fabulous castles? Let me know what you thought in the comments.
If you're looking for more info on disabled access of major tourist destinations, I've also written about which parts of Rome were wheelchair accessible.
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morgueticiaatoms says:
Bloody hell, I was stressing out my kid wanting a two story nice house…Now she says I gotta buy her one of these castles to live in…
Delight and Inspire says:
Aww man I'm sorry… can you draw the shape of a castle on a cardboard refrigerator box? I used to love toys like that at her age, but I guess it probably wouldn't be realistic enough for today's kids…
I can't get a fridge box thanks to the recycling madness. I'd castle that bitch up with pink and glitter and let Spook live in there for weeks at a time. Long as I call her Queen Elsa I bet she'd go for it.
Haha I think I'd go for a setup like that to be fair.
I have a picture of Neuschwanstein covered in snow hanging in my bathroom. No, I didn't take it myself, but it's absolutely stunning. Great article!
Thanks, I love those castles so much! I have some postcards of it that are WAY better than anything I could take!
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September 2010 – NYC
DEBUT LIT's 2010 fall events will kick off in New York as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival's "Bookend" series.
On Friday, Sept. 10, DEBUT LIT will host a new writer showcase with five authors who have first or second books out.
The writers will read two-page original work on the evening's theme, "Opening Act," at 7 p.m. at powerHouse Arena located at 37 Main Street in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood.
Our rock star readers include:
Daphne Beal, In the Land of No Right Angles from Anchor Books
Brooke Berman, No Place Like Home from Random House
Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me and best-selling The God of Animals both from Scribner
Matt Stewart, The French Revolution from Soft Skull Press
Sung J. Woo, Everything Asian from St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Maaza Mengiste, debut author of Beneath the Lion's Gaze from W.W. Norton will MC.
Books by the authors will be available for purchase, and a signing will follow.


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Q: Lodash groupBy() Method should be in same order as original array
I'm working on an array using groupBy lodash method, here the
original array order does not exist on performing groupBy, is the any
way to regain it after groupBy()

  const groupBy from "groupBy/lodash";

const mockData = [
 { groupId:"44", groupName:"mno",   },
 { groupId:"45", groupName:"pqr"  },
 { groupId:"40", groupName:"abc"  },
 { groupId:"41", groupName:"def"  },
]
const filteredArray = mockData.filter(item =>....); //logic to filter based on few parameters
const newArray = groupBy(filteredArray, "groupId");
console.log(newArray);

 result - {
 40: [{ groupId:"40", groupName:"abc"  }],
 41: [{ groupId:"41", groupName:"def"  }],
 44: [{ groupId:"44", groupName:"mno"  }],
 45: [{ groupId:"45", groupName:"pqr"  }],
}

expected - {
    44: [{ groupId:"44", groupName:"mno",   }],
    45: [{ groupId:"45", groupName:"pqr"  }],
    40: [{ groupId:"40", groupName:"abc"  }],
    41 [{ groupId:"41", groupName:"def"  }],
    }

A: My guess, the groupBy method is sorting/grouping the array using groupId.
Can you clarify this question, are you saying the mockData order is diff and newArray order is diff. If so, then it is groupedBy groupId otherwise its mutating the array.

A: The _.groupBy() function creates an object. You are grouping by the id, and the ids are integers in a string form. ES6 traversal order rules order the integer properties by their value (ascending) - see this article. In your case, the groups are sorted by the id integer value.
Since _.groupBy() doesn't actually sort the keys, nor can you sort object's integer keys explicitly, you'll need to use another structure that preserves the order - a Map.

const groupByToMap = (arr, predicate) =>
  arr.reduce((acc, o) => {
    const key = predicate(o)

    if(!acc.has(key)) acc.set(key, [])

    acc.get(key).push(o)

    return acc
  }, new Map())

const mockData = [{ groupId:"44", groupName:"mno" }, { groupId:"45", groupName:"pqr"  },  { groupId:"40", groupName:"abc"  }, { groupId:"41", groupName:"def"  }]

const result = groupByToMap(mockData, o => o.groupId)

// !!! look at the browser's console (the snippet's would display an empty object) !!!
console.log(result)

// when converting to an object the keys would be reordered by their integer value
console.log(Object.fromEntries(result))

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According to Larry Moran, Darwin was the greatest scientist ever.
Most of us know that Charles Darwin was the greatest scientist who ever lived but one still finds the occasional misguided physicist/mathematician who thinks that the honor should go to an eighteenth century Englishman named Isaac Newton (1642-1727).
I agree that Darwin was a great scientist. But I will stick with Newton as the greatest ever, even though Larry thinks that misguided.
Yes, Newton had some weird religious ideas. And parts of Newton's science have since been displaced by relativity and QM. But it is not Newton's laws themselves that make him great. Rather, it is his involvement in the transformation of how we do science.
For sure, that transformation was the work of a number of people. Copernicus was important, and Galileo was very important. Others, such as Boyle and Hooke were important. But the greatest credit must go to Newton, for why science today is so different from what it was at, say, the time of Aristotle.


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Like a lion they crouch and lie down, like a lioness–who dares ROUSE Them?
Although I was a successful student, I wasn't great at everything. I remember the feeling of frustration and helplessness which threatened to overwhelm me as I struggled with my math homework. Once, during class, my frustration exploded as I burst into tears, rushing from the class after yelling at my teacher, only to return red-faced and ashamed a few minutes later. I remember sitting terrified in German class, watching the clock and praying that the teacher wouldn't call on me, counting the seconds until I could escape without having to speak in front of the class – ironic, considering much of my time is now spent as an itinerant public speaker! These experiences epitomize everything I believe education should not be: disenfranchising, enfeebling, paralyzing. Education should be about empowerment – rousing we lions and lionesses into consciousness of our own capability and strength.
Empowerment is essential to organizing, too. Unless we feel powerful – unless we feel we can make a difference - we will not be roused to act, for it only makes sense to take action if we have some realistic hope that our actions will have an effect. That means that we, as organizers, need to constantly remind people of their own power, confronting them with stories of their past achievements and the outcome of past struggles.
Even people in the best positions to act will not, not because fear failure but because they fear success. Change is frightening – even if it is change we would like to make. So leaders must frequently empower people, giving them the sense that yes they have the power to act and yes they should overcome their fear and use that power. But how do you do that?
Almost any group you work with will have achieved something collectively in the past, and those achievements can become the fuel to generate a sense of power in the present. When we are reminded that we made a difference before, we will be more likely to believe that we can make a difference again.
When Elijah says "I believe with all my heart that you [teachers] have the power to do it", his words are given weight and plausibility by his own experience of how teachers have transformed him. The past success other teachers is used to empower an entirely different group of teachers. By connecting his teachers with the soon-to-be teachers in front of him ("a couple of teachers – like you…"), Elijah empowers the Teach for America participants through his "living proof" of their potential power. This reminds us that even the achievements of others – if they are meaningfully connected with our own skills or circumstances – can encourage us to feel powerful.
When the struggle seems tough, and the odds uneven, remind your people they have a choice to work with you. People have a tendency to discount their own agency, and to reconstruct past victories as the necessary outcome of fate rather than the contingent result of effort. We also tend to see the path we're on as the only path, and forget that we are, all the time, making choices – we always have options, and therefore we always have power.
While the choice is something of a false one – the British did not have anywhere to go if they chose not to fight, their retreat being blocked by the French army – the symbolic gesture is powerful. It at least reminds the soldiers that they have a choice to fight or not, and in that choice lies a certain amount of power.
Empowering those you lead is a critical task of any leader – if people don't feel powerful they will be disinclined to act. You can help people feel powerful by recalling their past accomplishments – or the accomplishments of others like them, as Elijah Miles did – and by reminding people of their agency by making it clear they have a choice.


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The Magic of Saida by M.G. Vassanji
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"Vassanji's remarkable new novel is a magic trick that reveals how it's performed while in process . . . As Kamal relates the colonial history, [it] amounts to the best sort of historical fiction . . . Vassanji has won Canada's Giller Prize twice. This book also seems bound for glory."—Michael Autrey, Booklist (starred)
Kamal Punja is a physician who has lived in Canada for the past forty years, but whom we first meet in a Tanzanian hospital. He is delirious and says he has been poisoned with hallucinogens. But when Kamal finds a curious and sympathetic ear in a local publisher, his ravings begin to reveal a tale of extraordinary pathos, complexity, and mystery.
Raised by his African mother, deserted when he was four by his Indian father, married to a woman of Indian heritage, and the father of two wholly Westernized children, Kamal had reached a stage of both undreamed-of material success and disintegrating personal ties. Then, suddenly, he "stepped off the treadmill, allowed an old regret to awaken," and set off to find the girl he had known as a child, to finally keep his promise to her that he would return.
The girl was Saida, granddaughter of a great, beloved Swahili poet. Kamal and Saida were constant companions—he teaching her English and arithmetic, she teaching him Arabic script and Swahili poetry—and in his child's mind, she was his future wife. Until, when he was eleven, his mother sent him to the capital, Dar es Salaam, to live with his father's relatives, to "become an Indian" and thus secure his future. Now Kamal is journeying back to the village he left, into the maze of his long-unresolved mixed-race identity and the nightmarish legacy of his broken promise to Saida.
At once dramatic, searching, and intelligent, The Magic of Saida moves deftly between the past and present, painting both an intimate picture of passion and betrayal and a broad canvas of political promise and failure in contemporary Africa. It is a timeless story—and a story very much of our own time.
Praise for The Magic of Saida
"An ambitious, passionate work about racial identity, deracination, and the unsolvable mysteries of the human heart . . . The retro echoes of Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham play with readers' expectations in this decidedly contemporary African novel . . . Vassanji employs dense but splintered prose to mirror the dense but splintered identity of his multicultural/multiethnic protagonist."—Kirkus Reviews
"It's a bravura performance, but subtle and understated. Vassanji isn't a bombastic writer; his prose is rich, but never distracting, multifaceted, but never simply beautiful for its own sake . . . [The novel's frame] allows for fluid, non-linear storytelling that brings the past and the present, the recounted and the shown, the pedestrian and the magical, into a crystalline narrative immediacy . . . The Magic of Saida is an expansive, inclusive work, incorporating a capsule history of east Africa; an account of religious conflict; a chronicle of emigration and dislocation; and a vivid examination of contemporary life in Tanzania. All of which could make for a daunting, even prohibitive read, were Vassanji not so deft a writer. In his hands, the material of encyclopedias and nonfiction tomes becomes the vital particulars of life. At its heart, The Magic of Saida is a mystery novel, the question of what happened to Saida in the past and where she is the present guiding the narrative through its turns and weaves. When those questions are answered—finally and elliptically—the novel snaps into place with a resounding, heartbreaking clarity . . . The Magic of Saida is the sort of novel that, upon finishing, one wants to immediately read again, to examine, to study just how Vassanji works his narrative magic, and to allow oneself to savour it just that little bit longer."—Robert J. Wiersema, Globe and Mail
M.G. Vassanji is the author of six acclaimed novels: The Gunny Sack, which won the regional Commonwealth Prize; No New Land; The Book of Secrets, which won the very first Giller Prize; Amriika; The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, which also won the Giller Prize, and The Assassin's Song, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction. He is also the author of two collections of short fiction, Uhuru Street and When She Was Queen, and a work of non-fiction, A Place Within: Rediscovering India. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons.
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Past, current Northwest faculty honored by Associated Collegiate Press for contributions to journalism education
Four journalism educators with connections to Northwest Missouri State University and decades in the field are among 101 individuals who will receive the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) inaugural Pioneer award this fall.
Laura Widmer
Steven Chappell
Dr. Bob Bergland
Dr. Linda Smith Puntney
The honor distinguishes journalism educators and advocates who have provided exceptional leadership to collegiate media programs as well as contributions to collegiate journalism and service to ACP.
The honorees include Dr. Bob Bergland, Steven Chappell, Dr. Linda Smith Puntney and Laura Widmer.
"We wanted to recognize 101 great journalism advisers and educators in this first class, and these Pioneers represent a Who's Who of collegiate journalism," Widmer, who now serves as ACP executive director, said.
Widmer, a 1979 Northwest alumna, began working at the University in 1983 as an assistant professor in what is now the School of Communication and Mass Media and as the student publications director, retiring in 2012.
She raised the bar for excellence at Northwest's student publications, adding a four-state travel magazine, Heartland View, to complement the profession-based experiences students receive with The Northwest Missourian student newspaper and Tower yearbook.
Under Widmer, The Missourian expanded its coverage beyond the Northwest campus to include Maryville news and high school sports. Additionally, Tower added a CD-ROM supplement, and later a DVD, to its book that included video, audio clips, extended campus coverage and photos.
Widmer received numerous awards for her teaching at Northwest, including the Governor's Award for Excellence in Education. She is a member of the College Media Association's John Boyd Hall of Fame and the Missouri College Media Association Hall of Fame. Most recently in 2021, she received the Northwest Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Emeritus Award.
Chappell joined the Northwest faculty and succeeded Widmer in 2012 as director of student publications. In addition to his more than 25 years of college newspaper advising experience, Chappell is a former newspaper reporter, photographer, copy editor, page designer, news editor and editor in chief, having worked with The Birmingham News, The Columbiana Reporter, The Leeds News in Alabama as well as The Columbia Missourian.
Bergland joined Northwest in 2019 and serves as an associate professor of mass media. Previously, he advised the student newspaper and yearbook for 22 years at Missouri Western State University. He has been connected to the journalism field since 1983.
Puntney served as advisor of the Tower yearbook from 1976 to 1978 and has continued to advise Northwest journalism students through training sessions and workshops. Today, she is an emeritus assistant professor at Kansas State University, having joined its faculty in 1989. She also is a member of the College Media Association's John Boyd Hall of Fame.
While the Pioneer is the only award ACP presents to journalism educators, a six-member committee of retired and active advisers from throughout the nation reviewed and selected the honorees. ACP will maintain a plaque naming all Pioneer recipients at its headquarters in Minneapolis.
ACP, which is celebrating its 100th birthday, will recognize recipients Friday, Oct. 28, at its Fall National College Media Convention in Washington, D.C. To view a complete list of the honorees, visit https://studentpress.org/acp/acp-pioneer-award/.


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Q: Excel - Add randomly generated line (composed of 4 columns) at the end of a static line I have an xlsx file with 2 worksheets tabs.
In the first one, I have the following content : first worksheet
In the second one, I have the following content : second worksheet
I would like to add the content of each line from the first worksheet at the end of each line of the second worksheet IF the number randomly generated is the same.
Do you know a way to achieve this ?
Thanks for your time,
Best regards,

A: If I understand the question correctly, this formula should work if you first paste it to cell D2 on second worksheet, and then copy and paste it to all the range D2:G11 or below, assuming that worksheet names are Sheet1 and Sheet2.
=IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet1!A:A,MATCH(Sheet2!$C2,Sheet1!$E:$E,0)),"")

A: I tried this and it worked:
Formula for Category column
Formula for Description column
Same process for Description, and Resolution Code by replacing the last column index (A$, B$, C$, D$, etc.).
Result: Result
I wanted to know if there is an easier way to achieve this.


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HomeTennisJohn McEnroe warns Carlos Alcaraz he's now considered otherwise by rivals
John McEnroe warns Carlos Alcaraz he's now considered otherwise by rivals
John McEnroe described Carlos Alcaraz as "one of the crucial refreshing athletes" he has seen within the final 10 or 15 years but in addition warned the Spaniard that he now has a goal on his again Alcaraz, 19, launched himself to the tennis world in a formidable style, successful a Grand Slam and turning into the youngest No 1 in tennis historical past.
"Now, a win over Alcaraz is so much greater than it was a yr in the past, for anyone, so the hot button is to try to embrace the concept, I consider having the ability to take pleasure in it, however on the similar time in search of methods to know what it's going to take to remain there as a result of it's one factor to get there however I consider it's far tougher to keep up that," McEnroe instructed Eurosport's Arnold Montgault.
McEnroe curious to see how will Alcaraz do in 2023
12 months in the past, Alcaraz was thought of among the many most gifted and promising gamers on the Tour. Now, Alcaraz is taken into account a tennis famous person and his rivals undoubtedly will not be pondering of him as only a actually promising and gifted teenager.
"It's going to be very fascinating to see how he handles it. I fear just a little bit as a result of it's so much to placed on some child's shoulders at 19. I grew to become No. 1 briefly at 21 after which I misplaced the rating once more, it was one other yr, a yr and a half earlier than I acquired it again for good for some time.
So it is going to be fascinating to see what occurs with him, if he's capable of preserve or else they discuss a 'sophomore hunch' just a little bit, and it's arduous to think about one thing like that gained't occur to a sure diploma," McEnroe added.
Throughout the identical dialog, McEnroe stated working with Juan Carlos Ferrero is a really constructive factor for Alcaraz. In the meantime, Alcaraz is lacking the Australian Open as a consequence of a leg harm. Alcaraz's Australian Open withdrawal got here as a shock to many as there was no indication that the 19-year-old was coping with an harm firstly of the season.
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Most Americans, especially school children can tell you that America's birthday is July 4th. And since 1776 we have celebrated the fourth. But is that really the right day?
The Continental Congress was meeting in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776. The thirteen colonies had sent delegates because of the unhappiness with British rule and heavy taxes placed on them by the king. But not everyone was unanimous. Many supported remaining a British colony.
War had broken out in April 1775 and there had been skirmishes with British troops known as Red Coats, for the color of their uniform. So why do we not celebrate our independence every April?
By June of 1776 the colonies met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. It was Richard Henry Lee who made the motion for independence on June 7th, 1776. So why not celebrate June 7th?
After much debate the Continental Congress adopted a declaration claiming that the colonies should be free. That was on July 2nd, 1776. Delegate John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that July 2 "will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival" and that the celebration should include "Pomp and Parade…Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other. " Adams was so passionate about July 2nd that the rest of his life he refused to take part in July 4th events. So why not celebrate July 2nd?
It was Thomas Jefferson who is credited with drafting the Declaration of Independence. His document was adopted and signed by the delegates to the Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776. The New York delegation did not sign on that day, but later did sign. John Hancock signed first in great big bold letters. He is quoted as saying "There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!" So why not celebrate July 4th?
It took the country until 1870 to make July 4th an official federal holiday. And it was not until 1941 that Congress granted a paid holiday on July 4th for all federal employees.
On July 4th, 2017 we will celebrate the 241st anniversary of the actual signing of the Declaration of Independence. Around here, John Adams' idea of a celebration will be expanded to include grilling, boating, and other forms of relaxation. The Journal hopes you will celebrate, have fun, see some old friends, and most of all have a safe Fourth of July!
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Young Entertainment Mag: You play Athena, a character that did not appear in the original series. Can you tell us about Athena?
Ciara Riley Wilson: Yes! Athena is a new character in the Kim Possible universe, and I am so excited for everyone to meet her. Athena is a new kid at Kim's school and is ironically the ultimate fan of Kim Possible. When Kim and Ron befriend her and she becomes the newest member of Team Possible, it is a dream come true. Athena is fun loving, passionate, and dedicated. I can't wait for viewers to see the dynamic she brings to the beloved characters from the original series.
YEM: Were you a fan of Kim Possible before being cast in the movie?
Ciara: Just like super-fan Athena, I was a huge fan of the Kim Possible cartoon series! I remember looking up to Kim as the ultimate girl power icon. When I heard they were making a live action movie, I was so excited to see how the world of Kim Possible was going to come to life. As you can also imagine, I was ecstatic when I found out I was cast as Athena. Because I had watched the series growing up, seeing all the movie set design, wardrobe, and stunt choreography come together while filming was the most amazing experience.
YEM: Does your character have any cool stunts in the movie?
Ciara: Stunt training was one of my favorite parts of my whole experience filming Kim Possible. Sadie and I flew out to Vancouver, Canada (where we filmed) a month before we shot anything primarily for stunt training. I learned hand to hand combat, kicks, shoulder rolls, flips on harnesses and Bo Staff (Athena's specialty in the movie and my personal favorite.) There was an amazing team of stunt choreographers, doubles, and coordinators that were crucial in bringing the iconic Kim Possible fight scenes to life.
YEM: What Disney Channel show was your favorite growing up?
Ciara: Other than Kim Possible of course, my favorite Disney Channel shows growing up were Wizards of Waverly Place and Hannah Montana. There seems to be a common theme of leading ladies and girl power as Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus starred in these shows. We love a female icon!
YEM: Do you have a favorite Kim Possible villian?
Ciara: Shego is definitely my favorite Kim Possible villain. Shego is ruthless, sassy, whip-smart, and fiercely unapologetic. Taylor Ortega brings Shego to life in the live action movie. And there is no one who could play this iconic character better. Taylor is a fierce leader and an incredibly talented actress who I look up to in my own life. However, my favorite dynamic between two characters in the movie is Shego and Drakken. They add this element of comedy within their villainous schemes that is so unique to the story of Kim Possible. I know fans will fall in love with the villains just as much as the heroes in this movie!
YEM: I've seen that you and the cast got very close while filming! So what was it like to film the movie?
Ciara: Filming Kim Possible was the best experience of my life! I got to spend three months exploring the beautiful Vancouver, Canada, with my best friends while we all got to bring to life the incredible story of Kim Possible. Athena becomes fast friends with Kim and Ron in the movie. And I did just that with Sadie and Sean in real life. We spent every moment on set and and not on set together, giggling endlessly, watching movies, and having deep talks. I know I've found lifelong friends in them and I know our real life dynamic will show on screen too.
YEM: Finally, what character are you most like: Kim, Ron or Athena?
Ciara: I think I am most like my character Athena! I am goof-ball, very passionate, and fiercely loyal to my best friends, Sean and Sadie, just like Athena is to Kim and Ron.
Kim Possible premieres on Disney Channel this Friday!


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66.1201(15)(Lm) (Lm) Covenant as to the use and disposal of the moneys held in funds created under par. (L).
66.1201(15)(m) (m) Redeem the bonds, covenant for their redemption and provide the terms and conditions of the bonds.
66.1201(15)(n) (n) Covenant against extending the time for the payment of its bonds or interest on the bonds by any means.
66.1201(15)(o) (o) Prescribe the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with bondholders may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent to a contract amendment or abrogation and the manner in which consent may be given.
66.1201(15)(p) (p) Covenant as to property maintenance, replacement and insurance and the use and disposition of insurance moneys.
66.1201(15)(q) (q) Vest in an obligee of the authority, if the authority fails to observe or perform any covenant on its part to be kept or performed, the right to cure any default and to advance any moneys necessary for that purpose. The moneys advanced may be made an additional obligation of the authority with such interest, security and priority as may be provided in any trust indenture, mortgage, lease or contract of the authority.
66.1201(15)(r) (r) Covenant and prescribe as to the events of default and terms and conditions upon which any of its bonds shall become or may be declared due before maturity and as to the terms and conditions upon which the declaration and its consequences may be waived.
66.1201(15)(s) (s) Covenant as to the rights, liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach by it of any covenant, condition or obligation.
66.1201(15)(t) (t) Covenant to surrender possession of all or any part of any housing project upon the happening of a default, as defined in the contract, and to vest in an obligee the right to take possession and to use, operate, manage and control housing projects, and to collect and receive all rents, fees and revenues arising from the housing projects in the same manner as the authority itself might do and to dispose of the moneys collected in accordance with the agreement of the authority with the obligee.
66.1201(15)(u) (u) Vest in a trust the right to enforce any covenant made to secure, to pay, or in relation to the bonds, to provide for the powers and duties of a trustee, to limit liabilities of a trustee and to provide the terms and conditions upon which the trustee or the bondholders or any proportion of them may enforce any covenant.
66.1201(15)(v) (v) Make covenants other than the covenants that are authorized in this subsection.
66.1201(15)(w) (w) Execute all instruments that are necessary or convenient in the exercise of its powers or in the performance of its covenants or duties.
66.1201(15)(x) (x) Make covenants and do any act necessary or convenient in order to secure its bonds, or, in the absolute discretion of the authority, that tend to make the bonds more marketable. An authority may not mortgage any of its property except as provided in sub. (16).
66.1201(16) (16) Power to mortgage when project financed with aid of government.
66.1201(16)(a)(a) In this subsection, "government" includes the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority.
66.1201(16)(b) (b) In connection with any project financed in whole or in part, or otherwise aided by a government, whether through a donation of money or property, a loan, the insurance or guarantee of a loan, or otherwise, the authority may do any of the following:
66.1201(16)(b)1. 1. Mortgage its property.
66.1201(16)(b)2. 2. Grant security interests in its property.
66.1201(16)(b)3. 3. Issue its note or other obligation as may be required by the government.
66.1201(17) (17) Remedies of an obligee of authority. An obligee of the authority, subject to its contract, may do any of the following:
66.1201(17)(a) (a) By mandamus, suit, action or proceeding, all of which may be joined in one action, compel the authority and its commissioners, officers, agents or employees to perform every term, provision and covenant contained in any contract of the authority, and require the carrying out of any covenants and agreements of the authority and the fulfillment of all duties imposed upon the authority by ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211.
66.1201(17)(b) (b) By suit, action or proceeding enjoin any unlawful acts or things, or the violation of any of the rights of the obligee of the authority.
66.1201(17)(c) (c) By suit, action or proceeding cause possession of any housing project or any part of a housing project to be surrendered to any obligee having the right to possession pursuant to any contract of the authority.
66.1201(18) (18) Additional remedies conferrable by mortgage or trust indenture. Any authority may by its trust indenture, mortgage, lease or other contract confer upon any obligee holding or representing a specified amount in bonds, lease or other obligations, the right upon the happening of an "event of default" as defined in the instrument:
66.1201(18)(a) (a) By suit, action or proceeding obtain the appointment of a receiver of any housing project of the authority or any part of a housing project. Upon appointment, a receiver may enter and take possession of the housing project or any part of the housing project and operate and maintain it, and collect and receive all fees, rents, revenues or other charges arising in the same manner as the authority itself might do. The receiver shall keep the moneys in a separate account or accounts and apply the moneys in accordance with the obligations of the authority as a court directs.
66.1201(18)(b) (b) By suit, action or proceeding require the authority and its commissioners to account as if it and they were the trustees of an express trust.
66.1201(19) (19) Remedies cumulative. All the rights and remedies in this section are in addition to all other rights and remedies that may be conferred upon an obligee of the authority by law or by any contract with the authority.
66.1201(20) (20) Subordination of mortgage to agreement with government. The authority may agree in any mortgage made by it that the mortgage is subordinate to a contract for the supervision by a government of the operation and maintenance of the mortgaged property and the construction of improvements on the mortgaged property. A purchaser at a sale of the property of an authority pursuant to a foreclosure of a mortgage or any other remedy in connection with the foreclosure shall obtain title subject to the contract.
66.1201(21) (21) Contracts with federal government. In addition to the powers conferred upon the authority by other provisions of ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211, the authority may borrow money or accept grants from the federal government for any housing project that the authority may undertake, take over any land acquired by the federal government for the construction or operation of a housing project, take over or lease or manage any housing project constructed or owned by the federal government, and to these ends, enter into any contracts, mortgages, trust indentures, leases or other agreements that the federal government may require including agreements that the federal government may supervise and approve the construction, maintenance and operation of the housing project. A council may take any action necessary to secure the financial aid and the cooperation of the federal government in the undertaking, construction, maintenance and operation of any housing project which the authority may undertake.
66.1201(22) (22) Tax exemption and payments in lieu of taxes. Tax exemption and payments in lieu of taxes. The property of an authority is public property used for essential public and governmental purposes and the property and an authority are exempt from all taxes of the state or any state public body, except that the city in which a project or projects are located may fix a sum to be paid annually in lieu of taxes by the authority for the services, improvements, or facilities furnished to the property of the authority by the city. The amount paid in lieu of taxes may not exceed the amount that would be levied as the annual tax of the city upon the project. Property of an authority includes property in which an authority operating within a 1st class city or an entity in which an authority operating within a 1st class city holds an ownership interest holds a partial ownership interest if the property is held for any of the following purposes:
66.1201(22)(a) (a) As part of a financing or equity plan that includes state or federal tax credits, financing, funding, or rent subsidy.
66.1201(22)(b) (b) A purpose related to the conversion of a housing project to a rental or housing assistance program under a contract with the federal government.
66.1201(23) (23) Reports. The authority shall at least once a year file with the mayor of the city a report of its activities for the preceding year.
66.1201(24) (24) Bids.
66.1201(24)(a)(a) When a housing authority has the approval of the council for any project authorized under sub. (9) (a) or (b), the authority shall complete and approve plans, specifications, and conditions for carrying out the project, and shall advertise by publishing a class 2 notice, under ch. 985, for bids for all work which the authority must do by contract. The authority is not required to submit for bidding any contract in an amount of $25,000 or less or, if the contract is for a project on a property wholly or partially owned before October 1, 2021, by a housing authority created by a 1st class city, $50,000 or less, but if the estimated cost of the contract, except a contract for a project on a property wholly or partially owned before October 1, 2021, by an authority created by a 1st class city, is between $10,000 and $25,000, the authority shall give a class 2 notice, under ch. 985, of the proposed work before the contract is entered into. A contract subject to bidding shall be awarded to the lowest qualified and competent bidder. Section 66.0901 applies to the bidding.
66.1201(24)(ag) (ag) As an alternative to the advertising and bidding procedure under par. (a), an authority may contract under any purchase procedure authorized for the authority by the federal government.
66.1201(24)(am) (am) The authority may reject any bid required under par. (a).
66.1201(24)(b) (b) An authority may contract for the acquisition of a housing project without submitting the contract for bids as required by par. (a) if all of the following apply:
66.1201(24)(b)1. 1. The contract provides for undertaking of the housing project on land not owned at the time of the contract by the authority except the contract may provide for undertaking of the housing project on land acquired and owned by a community development authority for the purpose of ss. 66.1105, 66.1301 to 66.1329, 66.1331 or 66.1333 if the community development authority is proceeding under this paragraph as provided by s. 66.1335 (4).
66.1201(24)(b)2. 2. The contract provides for conveyance or lease of the project to the authority after completion of the project.
66.1201(24)(b)3. 3. The authority invites developers to submit proposals to provide a completed project and evaluates proposals according to site, cost, design, the developer's experience and other criteria specified by the authority.
66.1201(25) (25) Liquidation and disposal of housing projects.
66.1201(25)(a) (a) In any city or village the council or village board by resolution or ordinance, or the electors by referendum under s. 9.20, may require the authority to liquidate and dispose of a project held and operated under ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211 or 66.1331.
66.1201(25)(b) (b) If liquidation and disposal of a project is provided for under par. (a) the housing authority or other designated agency shall sell the project to the highest bidder after public advertisement, or transfer it to any state public body authorized by law to acquire the project. No project may be sold for less than its fair market value as determined by a board of 3 licensed appraisers appointed by the council or village board.
66.1201(25)(c) (c) The arrangements for the liquidation and disposal of a project shall provide for the payment and retirement of all outstanding obligations in connection with the project, together with interest on the obligations and any premiums prescribed for the redemption of any bonds, notes or other obligations before maturity.
66.1201(25)(d) (d) Any proceeds remaining after payment of the obligations under par. (c) shall be distributed in accordance with the federal law applicable at the time of the liquidation and disposal of the project. If no federal law is applicable to the liquidation and disposal of the project all remaining proceeds shall be paid to the city or village.
66.1201(25)(e) (e) If the highest bid received is insufficient for the payment of all obligations set forth in par. (c) the project shall not be sold unless the city or village provides sufficient additional funds to discharge the obligations.
66.1201(25)(f) (f) In order to carry out this subsection an authority or other designated agency shall exercise any option available to it for the payment and redemption of outstanding obligations set forth in par. (c) before maturity, if the city or village provides funds for payment and redemption.
66.1201(25)(g) (g) No actions taken under this subsection shall affect or diminish the rights of any bondholders or other obligees of the authority.
66.1201(25)(h) (h) In this subsection, " outstanding obligations" or "obligations" includes bonds, notes or evidences of indebtedness, as well as aids, grants, contributions or loans made by or received from any federal, state or local political government or agency.
66.1201(26) (26) Dissolution of housing authority. Any housing authority may be dissolved upon adoption of an ordinance or resolution by the council or village board concerned declaring that the need for the authority no longer exists, that all projects under the authority's jurisdiction have been disposed of, that there are no outstanding obligations or contracts and that no further business remains to be transacted by the authority.
66.1201 History History: 1973 c. 172; 1975 c. 94, 221, 350; 1977 c. 418; 1979 c. 89; 1979 c. 110 s. 60 (13); 1979 c. 221; 1981 c. 112, 190, 232; 1983 a. 24; 1983 a. 81 s. 11; 1983 a. 83 s. 20; 1983 a. 189, 444; 1987 a. 27, 163; 1991 a. 316; 1993 a. 172, 184, 268, 379; 1995 a. 27, 225; 1997 a. 35; 1999 a. 150 ss. 285, 383, 384, 386, 388; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1201; 2001 a. 103, 104; 2005 a. 22; 2009 a. 95; 2015 a. 196; 2017 a. 316; 2021 a. 196; s. 35.17 correction in (9) (am), (24) (a).
66.1201 Annotation The office of county planning and zoning commission member is incompatible with the position of executive director of the county housing authority. 81 Atty. Gen. 90.
66.1203 66.1203 Housing authorities; operation not for profit.
66.1203(1)(1) It is declared to be the policy of this state that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing decent, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations, and that no housing authority shall construct or operate any project for profit, or as a source of revenue to the city.
66.1203(2) (2) An authority shall fix the rentals for dwellings in its projects at no higher rates than it finds necessary in order to produce revenues which, together with all other available moneys, revenues, income and receipts of the authority from whatever sources derived, will be sufficient to accomplish all of the following:
66.1203(2)(a) (a) Pay, as the rentals become due, the principal and interest on the bonds of the authority.
66.1203(2)(b) (b) Meet the cost of, and provide for, maintaining and operating the projects, including the cost of any insurance, the administrative expenses of the authority, and, for projects located on properties wholly or partially owned before October 1, 2021, by a housing authority created by a 1st class city, tenant support services.
66.1203(2)(c) (c) Create, during not less than the 6 years immediately succeeding its issuance of any bonds, a reserve sufficient to meet the largest principal and interest payments which will be due on the bonds in any one year after the creation of the reserve and maintain the reserve.
66.1203 History History: 1999 a. 150 s. 389; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1203; 2021 a. 196.
66.1205 66.1205 Housing authorities; rentals and tenant selection.
66.1205(1)(1) In the operation or management of housing projects and mixed developments, an authority shall at all times observe the following duties with respect to rentals and tenant selection:
66.1205(1)(a) (a) It may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations in a housing project only to persons of low income and at rentals within the financial reach of persons of low income, except that, for mixed-income dwelling accommodations that are part of a mixed development, an authority may rent a portion of the dwelling accommodations at rentals that are not within the financial reach of persons of low income.
66.1205(1)(b) (b) It may rent or lease to a tenant dwelling accommodations consisting of the number of rooms, but no greater number, that it considers necessary to provide safe and sanitary accommodations to the proposed occupants, without overcrowding.
66.1205(1)(c) (c) It shall not accept any person as a tenant in any housing project if the person or persons who would occupy the dwelling accommodations have an aggregate annual income in excess of 5 times the annual rental of the quarters to be furnished the person or persons, except that in the case of families with minor dependents the aggregate annual income of the person or persons who would occupy the dwelling accommodations may exceed 5 times the annual rental of the quarters to be furnished by $100 for each minor dependent or by an amount equal to the annual income of the minor dependents. In computing the rental for the purpose of selecting tenants, the authority shall determine and include in the rental the average annual cost to the occupants, of heat, water, electricity, gas, cooking range and other necessary services or facilities, whether or not the charge for such services and facilities is in fact included in the rental. This paragraph does not apply to a property wholly or partially owned before October 1, 2021, by a housing authority created by a 1st class city.
66.1205(2) (2) Sections 66.1201 to 66.1211 do not limit the power of an authority to do any of the following:
66.1205(2)(a) (a) Invest in an obligee the right, if the authority defaults, to take possession of a housing project or cause the appointment of a receiver of the housing project, free from all the restrictions imposed under ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211, with respect to rentals, tenant selection, manner of operation, or otherwise.
66.1205(2)(b) (b) Pursuant to s. 66.1201 (16) vest in obligees the right, if the authority defaults, to acquire title to a housing project or the property mortgaged by the housing authority, free from all of the restrictions imposed by s. 66.1203 and this section.
66.1205(3) (3) Subsection (1) (a) and (c) does not apply in the case of housing projects to the financing of which the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority is a party, as to which ch. 234 shall be controlling.
66.1205 History History: 1971 c. 213 s. 5; 1975 c. 221; 1983 a. 81 s. 11; 1983 a. 83 s. 20; 1995 a. 225; 1999 a. 150 s. 390; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1205; 2001 a. 103, 104; 2021 a. 196.
66.1207 66.1207 Penalties; evidence.
66.1207(1)(1)
66.1207(1)(a) (a) Any person who secures or assists in securing dwelling accommodations under s. 66.1205 by intentionally making false representations in order to receive more than $1,000 but less than $2,500 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both.
66.1207(1)(b) (b) Any person who secures or assists in securing dwelling accommodations under s. 66.1205 by intentionally making false representations in order to receive at least $2,500 but not more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled is guilty of a Class I felony.
66.1207(1)(c) (c) Any person who secures or assists in securing dwelling accommodations under s. 66.1205 by intentionally making false representations in order to receive more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled is guilty of a Class H felony.
66.1207(2) (2) Any administrator or employee of an authority under s. 66.1205 who receives or solicits any commission or derives or seeks to obtain any personal financial gain through any contract for the rental or lease of dwelling accommodations under s. 66.1205 shall be punished under s. 946.13.
66.1207(3) (3) Any person who receives assistance for dwelling accommodations under s. 66.1205, who has been notified by the authority of the obligation to report an increase in income or assets that would reduce the amount of that assistance and who intentionally fails to notify the authority of the receipt of income or assets is subject to one of the following:
66.1207(3)(a) (a) The penalty under sub. (1) (a) if the failure to report results in the receipt of more than $1,000 and less than $2,500 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled.
66.1207(3)(b) (b) The penalty under sub. (1) (b) if the failure to report results in the receipt of at least $2,500 but not more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled.
66.1207(3)(c) (c) The penalty under sub. (1) (c) if the failure to report results in the receipt of more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled.
66.1207 History History: 1987 a. 173, 403; 1995 a. 225; 1997 a. 283; 1999 a. 150 ss. 391 to 393; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1207; 2001 a. 109.
66.1209 66.1209 Housing authorities; cooperation in housing projects.
66.1209(1)(1) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects located within the area in which it may act, any state public body may do any of the following:
66.1209(1)(a) (a) Dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its property to a housing authority or the federal government.
66.1209(1)(b) (b) Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works which it may undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing projects.
66.1209(1)(c) (c) Cause services to be furnished to the authority of the character which it otherwise may furnish.
66.1209(1)(d) (d) Subject to the approval of the council, furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which it may undertake.
66.1209(1)(e) (e) Enter into agreements with a housing authority or the federal government respecting action to be taken by the state public body pursuant to any of the powers granted by ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211. The agreements may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary.
66.1209(1)(f) (f) Any and all things, necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects.
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Petrol Kft. took up it's duty in 1990 at the fuel-technology segment of the market with those professionals and technicians who came from the company KLIMA Industrial Co-operative Society. From the formation the company is owned by the Hungarian management. In the beginning only the technological mounting and maintenance of filling stations formed our company's profile, but until now it considerably widened. This enlargement didn't touch only the profile but the human segment and the income too. At the present our company employs 35 persons, and we have many subcontractors. We have own premises and own fleet of service-cars and we have sub-office in Gyula for faster serving those clients of ours, who lived in the eastern side of the country.
Now we perform all the work what could be in a technological system of a filling station, from the planning of a filling station on, through the fuel-technological execution, to the maintenance. We accept commissions for planning and building filling stations like main contractor, to relieve our client of the burden of the difficulty of the organising, of the co-ordination of the subcontractors, and of the taking of relationship with the co-operating authorities.
From our company's establishment our goal is that our clients have access in Hungary to the latest technology possible, thatswhy in 1994 we entered into a distribution contract with Nuovo Pignone, one of the biggest dispenser manufacturer of Europe. In the meantime Nuovo Pignone joined to the american General Electric company-group, or rather Nuovo Pignone became the flagship of the General Electric's Oil and Gas Business. Their activity doesn't ends with manufacturing of dispensers, they offer solutions, services, products for all field of oil and gas business. On the spring of 2004 the dispenser manufacturing segment of General Electric was buyed by the Dresser Inc. (Dallas, USA), and with this step they became the biggest dispenser manufacturing company of the world. The name of the new company is Dresser Wayne Pignone. Our cooperation is uniterrupted, we are still available with the extended product range for our customers.
In the end of 2005 we'd started on our cooperation with the Tatsuno Benc a.s. manufacturer from the Czech Republic. The hydraulics of his bidden dispensers came from the leader dispenser manufacturer of the asian region Tatsuno to Europe, and the final design is evolved with the electronics and dispenser frame by the czech partner. From 2006 we signed a distributor contract with them.
In 2006 we've made a distributior contract with Kungsörs Plast AB (Sweden). They producing fuel pipe systems, and chambers from plastic under the brand name KPS System.
From 2007 we can offer to our customer the products of the dispenser manufacturer Tokheim.
We are also the exclusive distributor of SAMPI in Hungary. This relationship started in 1996, and at the beginning it was limited for trade and service of flow-meters. Because in the meanwhile SAMPI also became a member of a bigger consortium - called Liquid Controls - it's product-palette enlarged, so we can offer a wider solution to our client at the field of industrial flow-meters and other distributing apparatus.
The wide-ranging experiences of our employees, what they collected their serious, professional past and theirs continuously, professional an not professional training assure our clients of we can be available with the application of the most up-to-date technology.
As we are a provider company our value-adding power is the quality of our activity, or the enlargement of the quality to inspire and hold our client's confidence.
For that reason we built, initialised, made authorisation, and started to operate an ISO 9002:1994 quality management system. Afterwards in 2002 answer to the new challenges, or rather enlarge the efficiency of our system we turned to ISO 9001:2000 quality management system.
Authorisation published by the Hungarian Technical Safety Office for on the spot technological mounting, repairing, examination of leaking, cleaning, and structural examination of storage equipments of inflammable (dangerous) liquids and dissolving materials.
Authorisation published by the Hungarian Technical Safety Office for measuring of carburetted hydrogen emission, installing and setting up of vapour recovery system in the dispensers and vapour recovery pipelines.
Authorisation published by the Regional Inspectorate of Technical Safety for metal welding and for the connecting activities.
Authorisation published by the National Office of Measures for taking part in authentication of storage tanks of inflammable (dangerous) liquids and dissolving materials.
Licence published by the National Office of Measures for doing 30 day long qualification substitute for authentication of dispensers exclusively after repairing.
Our company is qualified delivering company of NATO.
Beyond that we have got all needed certifications of all products what we sell to use them in Hungary.
I hope this short introduction made a positive image from our company, and in the future you will honour us with your commission.
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1047 Budapest, Fóti út 43.
Address: 1047 Budapest, Fóti út 43.
Mailing address: 1615 Budapest, Pf. 194.