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How hard will Mint push new $1 coin?
I ran into Doc on Sunday. He is a retired physician here in Waupaca County and a casual coin collector. He wanted to talk about the new Presidential $1 coins. Usually he wants to talk politics, so this means that some of the Mint
Dave Harper
I ran into Doc on Sunday. He is a retired physician here in Waupaca County and a casual coin collector. He wanted to talk about the new Presidential $1 coins. Usually he wants to talk politics, so this means that some of the Mint?s public relations work reached him. That?s a good thing.
The nature of his questions was such that the Mint still has a lot of work to do to give the dollar coin a chance.
Doc?s first question was when the new coins would be released. This conversation occurred Feb. 11, just four days prior to the national release date. He was pleased to hear that he would soon be able to get some of the new coins.
His next question was how the Mint was selling them. I replied that they were offering them in the usual sets plus some special sets. He thought that sounded pretty good. I also said that the new dollars would be released through the banking system and he could inquire at his local bank.
?How much are they?? he asked. I was a little startled by this question. I know he doesn?t eat, sleep and breathe coins like I tend to do, but I was a little surprised that he did not make the connection that coins at banks are generally put out at face value. He was very pleased to hear that the price is face value. While he doesn?t mind paying more to acquire sets from the Mint, he is enough old school that the idea of getting coins for face value still rates highly with him.
Now, as you might have guessed, Doc is not a subscriber to Numismatic News. He does know that I am the editor of ?that coin paper up in Iola,? but that is about as far as it goes.
I don?t know whether his local bank over in Weyauwega will have the coins when he makes his inquiry, but I hope so. So does the U.S. Mint.
How long will the public keep an open mind about the new dollar coin before writing it off as a failure like the Sacagawea and the Anthony? I know that I have already written of my experiences with reader feedback regarding the new dollar coins. I am not trying to duplicate that here.
However, during the process of introduction of a new coin, there is that period of time of indeterminate length where the public is surprised, curious and open minded. It is during this period that the Mint has to give it the best shot it can to put the new coin in the best possible light.
When the stories started appearing in the general press in 1979 that the new Anthony dollar looked like a quarter, it was game, set and match. The public never gave the coin a chance after that.
The Sacagawea dollar had a longer honeymoon period. The color alone made the quarter argument sound peculiar. The fact that Wal-Mart was giving it out in change was another plus. But even then, the public never got beyond the curiosity stage and a desire to save a few. The idea of actually carrying them around and using them every day never took root. I tried to spend a few just to see what happened in the checkout lines and gave up. The story was always the same. The clerk would ask what it was. The whole checkout process would slow down as the coin was examined and assurances were given that it was indeed genuine United States legal tender.
When complaints about the Mint?s ad budget for promoting the use of the Sacagawea dollar gained traction in 2000, that was all she wrote for the coin.
America is waiting yet again for a new dollar coin as this is written. Some people are aware of it, especially coin collectors. The Mint has the opportunity to ?sell? these coins to the public. How long that period of time will be, we don?t know. The fact that there are four designs this year makes me wonder whether the door to acceptance will open more than once, or whether we will just settle down to hard core collectors going to their local banks once per calendar quarter to get the latest dollar coin.
Getting that regular collector support is not a bad thing, but let?s see if the Mint tries to get more than that.
How hard can it be to get euros in change?
NN editor goes to Germany and has a tough time accumulating euro coins.
How can I say that the Mint copied Mets?
Why are things the way they are? Huh? I ask this question because of the beginning of the new gold bullion coin program, the the U.S. Mint calls the 24-karat, one-ounce gold bullion coin with the Buffalo nickel design.
How many hard core gold coin buyers are there?
By golly, I hardly ever use a one-cent coin
Consider your routine transactions. How many cents do you use?
Mint seems to be sliding into gimmickry
Would you have ordered one of the 20,000 American Eagle 20th Anniversary Gold and Silver Sets for $850 each had you known that these uncirculated coins, with the
Mint gets cent breather in battle with metals
Since the Treasury imposed a ban on melting or exporting cents and nickels Dec. 14, the hobby has been looking for the other shoe to drop: the announcement of new compositions for both coins.
Good sportsmanship applies to Mint orders
It has been increasingly popular for readers to buy coins on the opening day of availability in order to sell them at a profit on eBay. But it doesn't always work.
Complaints push Mint to delay silver coins
Cents push up Mint output
Surging cent production helped the U.S. Mint reach the 3 billion coin mark by the end of April. During the first four months of the calendar year, the Mint cranked out 1,957,600,000 cents, up 34.6 percent from the January-April 2011 period.


Originally Published: May 9, 2018 8:02 a.m.
Through life and forever occurs a single moment at a time and that is why I made my choice to remain exclusively with still/freeze frame photography so that we can ponder that fraction of a second and spend some time just enjoying that moment, irrespective of what has gone before and what will follow. This is a shot of a young hen mallard and her brood of five young ducklings on May 6th, 2017 at 3:08:39 PM and it captured the family over a span of 1/1250th of a second. Now, a year later the ducklings that survived are beginning their own families; probably only one or perhaps two have made it, maybe none, but life goes on and every species continues to try and perpetuate their species … like us they live in the real world and it is a world of survival of the fittest, there are winners and there are losers, that is just the way life is and perhaps we are the only species on the planet that tries to alter natural outcomes … sometimes for the good and sometimes not so good … ultimately, though, nature prevails.
A friend was wondering what my take on the volcanic activity in Hawaii is … I haven't given it much thought, but it is absolutely beautiful and a display of natural forces that should give us pause. We are here on the surface of this tiny little planet and completely at the mercy of forces we have absolutely no control over or fully understand. Still, we proclaim how we are destroying the environment/planet and how we can control everything so all will be well … we build homes over areas of volcanic activity, or like Corky and I did when we moved to California, directly over the Newport Englewood fault line and to boot, it is in an area of liquification, which means when a strong quake occurs, the ground will liquify and the house along with thousands of others will simply be absorbed by the earth.
So, I guess the answer is simply that I am awestruck by the forces of nature, and equally amazed by those who think we have any control over anything related to the earth. We're along for the ride, and we know not where we started, nor where we are going. It reaffirms my belief that choices have consequences including events relating to our choice of domicile. New land is being created which eventually will give rise to more land to build on … and they say land is the best investment because they are not making any more of it? They are here!
There is a benefit with this eruption and all the other ones that occur in various places around the earth … the earth is dynamic and below the crust a seething molten mass. If these venting's did not occur to relieve the pressures down there it is conceivable that the pressures would build to the point where the entire planet would explode and be ripped into fragments and all life as well as the earth itself would cease to exist.
So, I ponder the vastness of all that is, give thanks for the privilege of being here to witness it all and to share the beauty I find in life … it does not get better, nor does it take anything more complicated than sitting on a hill, by the sea or wherever and open your eyes and take in the beauty … and smile, we really are here … for these few moments we call life.
I am the dawn, the whisper of winds, the perfume of morning.
The passing night fondled me, hovering close to me, softly, silently.
The breaking day builds the spirit temple of my joy, I abandon myself!
I see all as one, and nothing repels me, as this new day climbs noiselessly out of the valley of the night.
Peace lies over the world and over the world of my soul.


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Q: c# LinQ Update with multiple where I'm stuck in using LinQ, I can update using 1 filter but when using multiple it ignores the other 2 and just check the first one.
Here is the code that I am using:
One where that is working:
Engagement_History eh = qdb.Engagement_History.First(a => (a.pdPPMCID.Equals(PPMCID));

Multiple Where that is not working:
Engagement_History eh = qdb.Engagement_History.First(a => ((a.pdPPMCID.Equals("1")) && (a.ehMonth.Equals("1")) && (year.Equals("2016"))));

A: In your query you have just
year.Equals("2016")

as your final clause.
This should be:
a.year.Equals("2016")

Otherwise it's going to be looking for a local variable called year to compare "2016" against. If that local variable doesn't exist then you should be seeing a compiler error. If it does exist then the query will only return results if it's set to "2016".

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Leopold de Habsbourg-Toscane (en italien : Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Francesco Ferdinando Carlo), né le  à Florence et mort le  à Rome, fut grand-duc de Toscane sous le nom de Léopold II (Leopoldo II) de 1824 à 1859.

Sous son règne, Léopold a été reconnu à la fois comme monarque libéral, appliquant la Constitution de 1848 et permettant une certaine liberté de presse. En 1847, le grand-duc, après la mort de la duchesse de Parme et la restauration des Bourbons-Parme, annexa le duché de Lucques. La même année, un conseil des ministres est créé.

Léopold dut faire face à une rébellion populaire qui culmina avec le printemps des peuples en 1848. En Toscane, le grand-duc a ordonné la répression et a approuvé une constitution libérale. En dépit de ses tentatives d'acquiescement, des combats de rue éclatent en août à Livourne. Léopold II apporte son soutien au royaume de Sardaigne dans la guerre austro-sarde. En , le grand-duc dut abandonner la Toscane aux républicains et se réfugia dans la ville napolitaine de Gaète. Une république provisoire fut établie à sa place avec à sa tête Giuseppe Montanelli, qui inaugure une politique ultra démocratique (dans la terminologie politique de l'époque), tournée vers l'union avec les autres états italiens et la reprise conjointe de la guerre contre l'Autriche. Avec l'assistance de l'Autriche, Léopold est restauré à Florence. La Restauration laisse place à une période de répression violente contre les républicains. La constitution libérale est ainsi révoquée en 1852.

Lors de la deuxième guerre austro-sarde, Léopold se dissocia de la Sardaigne et s'allia à l'Empire d'Autriche. Le roi Victor-Emmanuel II de Sardaigne s'empare de la Toscane et la conserve pendant toute la durée du conflit. Le grand-duc s'enfuit. La paix de Villafranca a permis à Léopold de revenir une fois de plus. À son arrivée à Florence, il abdique en faveur de son fils aîné, Ferdinand IV. En , le Grand-Duché est réuni aux Duchés de Modène et de Parme pour former les Provinces-Unes d'Italie centrale, qui ont été annexées par le royaume de Sardaigne quelques mois plus tard. Le , après un référendum, la Toscane est officiellement annexée à la Sardaigne. L'Italie est unifiée en 1870, la même année où meurt Léopold II.

Premières années

Deuxième fils du grand-duc Ferdinand III de Toscane et de Louise de Bourbon-Siciles, Léopold vécut très jeune dans les territoires du Saint-Empire romain germanique, où son père s'était réfugié après l'annexion napoléonienne. Il devint prince héréditaire du grand-duché de Toscane en 1800, à la mort de son frère aîné François-Léopold. Il suivit son père exilé d'abord à Vienne, puis en 1803 à Salzbourg, où Ferdinand obtint réparation pour les territoires perdus l'espace de l'ancien domaine archiépiscopal. En mars 1805, Léopold fut contraint d'abandonner cette ville à cause de la nouvelle guerre entre l'Autriche et la France. Il se rendit donc à Wurtzbourg, où la famille s'installa dans l'ancien palais épiscopal. Au cours de ces années tourmentées, Léopold put beaucoup étudier avec des professeurs allemands et italiens, manifestant ainsi une prédilection pour les sujets littéraires.

Il rentre à Florence le , après la première abdication de Napoléon, bien accueilli par ses sujets, également pour la politique de son père, qui ne purge ni ne se venge contre ceux qui ont collaboré avec le gouvernement français. Le jeune héritier du trône gagne l'affection des Toscans pour son caractère doux et son comportement informel, ce qui lui a valu le surnom de « Broncio » (« moue ») en raison de la lèvre inférieure légèrement saillante qui lui donnait un air triste et perpétuel (alors qu'en réalité le jeune prince ne manquait pas de spiritualité).

Parallèlement, il termina ses études déjà entamées à l'étranger après des cours de droit, d'art et de littérature, voire d'agriculture, pour lesquels il fera toujours preuve d'une grande attention. Il se fixa comme objectif personnel de rassembler, d'étudier et de réorganiser tous les écrits de Galiléo Galilée et publia une édition des poèmes de Laurent de Médicis, qu'il édita personnellement, ce qui lui valut d'être nommé membre de l'Accademia della Crusca.

En 1817, Léopold épousa Marie de Saxe, à laquelle il était particulièrement attaché et dont il eut trois filles. Avec sa femme à partir de 1819, il entreprit un long voyage en Europe  faisant étape à Munich, Dresde, Prague, Vienne et Venise. Son premier contact avec les affaires d'État eut lieu en , lorsqu'il fut appelé à Vérone pour prendre part avec son père aux travaux du Congrès de la Sainte-Alliance.

Grand-duc de Toscane

Accession au trône

À la mort de son père le , Léopold II prit le pouvoir et se montra immédiatement en souverain indépendant, appuyé par le ministre Vittorio Fossombroni, qui parvint à déjouer une manœuvre de l'ambassadeur autrichien, le comte de Bombelles, pour influencer le grand-duc inexpérimenté. Celui-ci confirma non seulement les ministres nommés par son père, mais témoigna immédiatement de son désir sincère de s'engager dans la voie d'une réduction de la taxe sur la viande et d'un plan de travaux publics prévoyant la poursuite de la réhabilitation de la Maremme (beaucoup de choses dont les Grossetani se souviendront avec un monument situé sur la Piazza Dante), l'extension du port de Livourne, la construction de nouvelles routes, un premier développement des activités touristiques (alors appelées "industrie étrangère") et l'exploitation des mines du grand-duché.

Politique libérale
D'un point de vue politique, le gouvernement de Léopold II était à cette époque le plus doux et le plus tolérant des États italiens: la censure, confiée au savant et modéré père Mauro Bernardini de Cutigliano, n'avait pas beaucoup d'occasions d'opérer et de nombreux représentants de la culture italienne persécutés ou n'ayant pas trouvé l'environnement idéal chez eux, purent trouver asile en Toscane, comme ce fut le cas de Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro Manzoni, Guglielmo Pepe, Niccolò Tommaseo. Certains écrivains et intellectuels toscans tels que Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, Giovan Pietro Vieusseux et Giuseppe Giusti, qui, dans d'autres États italiens, auraient sûrement eu des problèmes, pouvaient travailler en paix. A l'ambassadeur d'Autriche se plaignant que « la censure ne fait pas son devoir en Toscane », le grand-duc répondit avec agacement « mais son devoir est de ne pas le faire », formule qui resta célèbre. Le seul inconvénient de tant de tolérance et de douceur fut la suppression du magazine "L'Antologia" de Giovan Pietro Vieusseux, qui advint en 1833 sous la pression de l'Autriche et, en tout état de cause, sans autres conséquences civiles ou pénales pour le fondateur.

La douceur du gouvernement grand-ducal signifiait qu'en Toscane, il n'y avait ni motions ni séditions et que les activités de conspiration étaient limitées à la ville de Livourne et d'une importance minime: les seuls actes répressifs furent en 1830 la suppression du journal « L'Indicatore Livornese » et la condamnation de Guerrazzi à six mois de réclusion à Montepulciano pour avoir prononcé un discours à la mémoire de Cosimo Del Fante. Des intellectuels tels que Niccolò Tommaseo et Giuseppe Giusti soulignèrent également la tranquillité du Grand-Duché. Ils vouèrent une satire agréable au grand-duc (« Il re travicello »), qui provoqua la colère du destinataire, mais qui fut ensuite gentiment séduit par l'intéressé.

Les soulèvements de 1831, qui choquèrent les deux duchés émiliens et les légations des États pontificaux, ne furent pas suivis en Toscane, malgré le fait que certains patriotes voulurent les provoquer: le seul souci d'ordre public fut de mieux protéger la frontière nord pour éviter l'intrusion de fauteurs de troubles.

En 1832, la grande-duchesse Marie mourut, laissant le grand-duc désespéré. Celui-ci, pour assurer sa succession, se remaria l'année suivante avec la princesse Marie-Antoinette de Bourbon-Siciles. De ce mariage Ferdinand, l'héritier tant attendu du trône, naquit en 1835.

En 1839 et 1841, Léopold II autorisa la tenue du « Congrès des scientifiques italiens » à Pise et à Florence, en dépit des menaces du gouvernement autrichien et des protestations du gouvernement pontifical; dans l'intervalle, le gouvernement grand-ducal prévoyait un développement important du réseau ferroviaire qui, dans les années à venir, verrait la naissance de la « Ferrovia Leopolda » (chemin de fer reliant Florence-Pise-Livourne, avec la branche d'Empoli à Sienne) et de la « Ferrovia Maria Antonia » (Florence-Prato-Pistoia-Lucques), tandis que la « Ferrovia Ferdinanda » (Florence-Arezzo) et la « Ferrovia Maremmana » (Livourne- frontière de Chiarone) en restèrent à l'état de projet.

Le comportement du grand-duc à l'occasion de la grande inondation du , destiné à rester dans le cœur des Florentins (au moins jusqu'en 1849), fut l'occasion pour le souverain de marquer sa bonne volonté en ouvrant les portes du palais Pitti aux personnes déplacées, s'engageant personnellement à secourir un bateau et à se rendre même dans les régions les plus reculées touchées par la catastrophe.

Annexion de Lucques

En 1847, le grand-duc de Toscane dut faire face à une grave crise avec les souverains des deux duchés d'Emilie: cette année-là, certaines clauses du congrès de Vienne de 1815 et du traité de Florence de 1844 prévoyaient l'annexion par le grand-duché lorrain de presque tout l'ancien duché de Lucques, mais en même temps, il fut établi que de vieilles enclaves toscanes de la Lunigiana passaient sous les Bourbons de Parme et les Habsbourg-Este de Modène. Si, à Lucques, il était facile de dissiper le mécontentement des citoyens par une visite que rendit le grand-duc bienfaisant, il n'en fut pas de même dans les municipalités destinées à la vente. En Toscane, il en vint à déclarer la guerre aux deux États voisins, chose impensable pour le doux Léopold, qui tenta d'éviter la vente en offrant d'importantes sommes d'argent aux deux ducs. L'offre fut rejetée et les pressions furent transférées au profit de l'Autriche, le gouvernement de Vienne ne pouvant se permettre de créer une zone de troubles en ces temps déjà annoncés catastrophiques.

Révolution et premier exil
En 1847, dans le contexte du processus réformiste suscité en Italie par l'élection du pape Pie IX, Léopold II se distingue par son engagement en faveur de la réforme: le , la liberté de la presse est garantie et le , une Garde civique (Guardia Civica) est créée. Au cours de la même période, le grand-duché de Toscane, les États pontificaux et le royaume de Sardaigne signèrent les préliminaires de la Ligue des douanes, que tous saluèrent comme prémices pour de futurs ajouts majeurs.

Le , quelques jours avant Charles Albert de Sardaigne, Léopold II accorda la Constitution, qui se distingua des autres en octroyant tous les droits aux citoyens de toutes les religions. Le  naît le premier gouvernement constitutionnel toscan, présidé par François Cempini. Quelques jours plus tard, alors que les deux ducs émiliens furent obligés de fuir les insurrections, Léopold II réattribua à la Toscane les municipalités cédées en Lunigiana, la Haute Garfagnana Estense et l'ancien duché de Massa et de Carrare, dont les populations avaient demandé à être toscanes, selon le principe selon lequel chaque peuple est libre de décider de son sort.

Le , le grand-duc suscita l'enthousiasme populaire en décidant d'envoyer les quelques troupes toscanes régulières, encadrées par des volontaires, combattre en Haute-Italie aux côtés des Sardes contre les Autrichiens. Tandis que la petite armée grand-ducale se dirigeait vers Pietrasanta et San Marcello Pistoiese, Léopold II remplaça le drapeau Lorrain par le drapeau tricolore italien recouvrant les armoiries grand-ducales et adhérant personnellement au prêt de guerre.

L'attitude patriotique du grand-duc commença à évoluer au milieu de l'année, lorsque les attitudes expansionnistes du royaume de Sardaigne furent claires et en août, à la suite de violentes émeutes à Livourne, où il fut contraint de renvoyer le gouvernement modéré de Gino Capponi et confier cette tâche aux démocrates Guerrazzi et Giuseppe Montanelli qui inaugurèrent une politique ultra-démocratique.

Restauration

Le , Léopold II quitta Florence pour se réfugier d'abord à Sienne (et pour prétendre être malade, il eut l'idée de recevoir les délégués florentins au lit, vêtus d'une chemise de nuit et d'une chemise pontificale), puis à Porto Santo Stefano. En ce lieu, il accepta et refusa à plusieurs reprises l'offre de l'ambassadeur du Piémont, Villamarina, de reprendre le pouvoir avec l'armée du royaume de Sardaigne, jusqu'à ce que, convaincu par sa cour de préférer l'Autriche, il se rendît à Gaète, sous la protection de Ferdinand II des Deux-Siciles.

L'exil dura jusqu'en avril, date à laquelle, après la défaite de Charles Albert à Novara, les Toscans modérés renversèrent le gouvernement Guerrazzi afin d'éviter une invasion de l'Autriche et rappelèrent le grand-duc en espérant qu'il maintiendrait les réformes.

L'espoir fut vain : le lieutenant-maréchal d'Aspre vint de Parme avec 18 000 hommes, prit et saccagea Livourne, puis occupa Florence. Quelques mois plus tard, Léopold II débarqua à Viareggio, mais eut la mauvaise idée d'être escorté par des troupes autrichiennes et revêtu de l'uniforme autrichien, mettant un terme à la sympathie que les Toscans avaient pour le souverain.

Les actes des années de gouvernement suivantes éloignèrent encore plus les sujets les plus loyaux : l'abolition du Statut en 1852 et de la Garde civique ; l'occupation autrichienne et la formation d'une coûteuse armée toscane ; la répression sanglante du soulèvement de la ville de Livourne contre l'occupant autrichien ; le rétablissement de la peine de mort pour certains crimes (un fait retentissant pour la Toscane, le premier État abolitionniste de Pierre-Léopold, le grand-père du grand-duc).

Fin de la dynastie

En , dans l'imminence de la guerre franco-piémontaise contre l'Autriche, Léopold II proclama la neutralité, mais le gouvernement grand-ducal avait les jours comptés : le centre opérationnel du coup d'État imminent du  se trouvait être l'ambassade du Piémont à Florence. Cavour avait envoyé au cours des jours précédents environ 80 carabiniers piémontais en tenue civile qui, à un signal prédéterminé et divisés en divers groupes dispersés dans divers quartiers de la ville, auraient dû commencer à crier contre le grand-duc et en faveur de la guerre contre l'Autriche. En outre, divers drapeaux tricolores avaient été préparés, prêts à être exposés aux balcons de divers bâtiments à un signal prédéterminé. En réalité, la population ignorait totalement ces véritables complots subversifs contre un État souverain par un autre État, précisément le royaume de Sardaigne.

Exil et fin de vie

Le , vers quatre heures, refusant de donner son assentiment à la guerre contre l'Autriche et devant affronter une mutinerie de l'armée d'obéir, et afin d'éviter des problèmes plus graves pour lui-même et son État, Léopold II partit en voiture du Palais Pitti, en sortant par la porte de Boboli, vers la route de Bologne.

Cet effacement pacifique (le grand-duc n'avait jamais pensé à une solution violente) et les modalités du départ, avec peu d'effets personnels chargés dans quelques carrosses, la sympathie pour le personnel de la cour, permirent à Léopold de retrouver l'estime de ses désormais anciens sujets: la famille grand-ducale fut saluée par les Florentins, qui levaient leurs chapeaux au passage, criant  (); il fut accompagné avec tous les égards par une escorte jusqu'à Firenzuola, ancien poste de douane avec les États pontificaux. Le même jour, à six heures, la municipalité de Florence constata l'absence de toute disposition laissée par le souverain et nomma un gouvernement provisoire.

Réfugié à la cour de Vienne, l'ancien grand-duc n'abdiqua officiellement que le  suivant; par la suite, il vécut en Bohême, et se rendit à Rome en 1869, où il décéda le , à Via delle Tre Cannelle. Enterré initialement à l'église des Saint-Apôtres, son corps fut ensuite transféré à Vienne en 1914 pour être inhumé dans le mausolée des Habsbourg, la crypte des Capucins.

Descendance

Léopold épousa la princesse Marie de Saxe, fille de Maximilien de Saxe et de Caroline de Bourbon-Parme, le . Ils eurent trois filles. Marie décéda de la tuberculose en 1832.

De cette union naîtront :

 Marie-Caroline (1822-1841) ;
 Auguste-Ferdinande (1825-1864), elle épouse en 1844 Léopold de Bavière, fils cadet du roi Louis  de Bavière (1821-1912) ;
 Marie-Maximilienne  (1827-1834).

Le , Léopold se remaria en secondes noces avec Marie-Antoinette de Bourbon-Siciles, fille de François  des Deux-Siciles et de Marie-Isabelle d'Espagne. Le couple eut dix enfants. Marie-Antoinette mourut en exil en Autriche en 1898.

De cette union naîtront :
 Marie-Isabelle de Habsbourg-Toscane  (1834-1901), qui épousa son oncle François de Paule de Bourbon-Siciles, comte de Trapani ;
 Ferdinand qui lui succédera, il épouse en 1856 Anne Marie de Saxe (1836-1859) dont il a deux filles, puis en 1868 Alice de Bourbon-Parme (1849-1935) dont postérité ;
 Marie-Thérèse (1836-1838) ;
 Marie-Christine (1838-1849) ;
 Charles-Salvator (1839-1892), qui épouse en 1861 Marie-Immaculée de Bourbon-Siciles ;
 Marie-Anne (1840-1841) ;
 Rainier (1842-1844) ;
 Marie-Louise (1845-1917), elle épouse en 1865 Charles d'Isembourg-Büdingen (1838-1899) ;
 Louis-Salavtor (1847-1915) ;
 Jean-Salavator (Jean Orth) (1852-1890).

Dans la culture
Une biographie romancée de son avant-dernier fils, Louis-Salvator de Habsbourg-Lorraine, écrite par Jean-Louis Sarthou, traite de leurs dernières années à Florence : L'Archiduc sans frontière.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
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Criterion Confessions
A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich.
3 WOMEN (Blu-ray) - #230
"I'm trying to reach toward a picture that's totally emotional--not narrative or intellectual--where an audience walks out and they can't say anything about it except what they feel."
Robert Altman's description of his intentions with 3 Women doesn't really decode the entire thing, but it does give a key to opening up whatever secret book holds the answers. Because 3 Women, which Altman wrote and produced under his own Lion's Gate banner as well as directed, is not a story that works on paper, it's not a script with a traditional plot. Its act breaks are more like psychotic breaks, in that the movie transforms twice, shifting when its main characters face trauma, swapping their roles, and yet never stopping to explain. Altman is clear in his nod here to Luis Bunuel, naming a pushy boss Mrs. Bunweill as tribute, and interestingly enough, holds much in common with the movie the Spanish filmmaker released that same year. 1977 brought us both 3 Women and That Obscure Object of Desire. In Bunuel's film, the lead actress changes mid-way through the picture, a confounding narrative conceit that demands the audience take a leap of faith that it all means something. Altman plays a few parlor tricks of his own. Both these men were driving down Mulholland Dr. a couple of decades before David Lynch.
The story here begins normally enough. A young woman named Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) is starting work at a nursing home, and she is assigned Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall) to train her. The two couldn't be more different. Millie is tall and composed; Pinky is small and shy. Millie talks constantly, yet no one ever seems to listen; Pinky is always watching, yet others often don't see her. Millie pretends to be the sophisticate; Pinky is a child. Millie likes dressing in yellow; Pinky is nicknamed Pinky for a reason.
Pinky is also somewhat of a mimic. An emotional and physical chameleon. She is drawn to Millie and soon begins copying her. She borrows a phrase here, a detail there. When Millie needs a new roommate, Pinky seizes on the opportunity. What better way to observe her new obsession than in her natural habitat? It's like Single White Female for the art house, but without the murderous intent.
Things are up-and-down for the new roomies. Millie notices things being slightly off about the younger woman. Likewise, the landlord's wife and proprietress of the saloon where Millie drinks, the similarly named Willie (Janice Rule), appears suspicious of the new girl. I suppose in this pyramid, Willie is the crone, and indeed, she and her elaborate paintings have a kind of bewitching effect on Pinky, drawing her in the way the moon draws the tide. The spying girl often observes Willie through water, or in relation to water, like in a fish tank or at the bottom of an empty pool, and every time, Willie can sense the staring almost immediately.
Altman makes great use of the murals that Willie paints (though in reality they were created by artist Bodhi Wind). She does small abstract work that can be hung on walls, though those she tends to riddle with bullet holes, which only calls further attention to their humble size. Her masterpieces, on the other hand, are large and impressive, covering walls or the floors of swimming pools. She depicts mythic creatures, alien and surreal, masculine and violent. In one, which also ends up being the final image of the movie, her bizarre creatures rant and rave at an object in the heavens, suggesting they are as primal as the apes at the start of 2001 [review]. One can presume she is painting the world she sees around her--the saloon is populated by men riding dirt bikes and shooting pistols--but maybe she also feels that desperate pull herself.
Everythng changes midway through 3 Women. In a surprising twist--though not really a spoilery one, it would be sort of impossible to spoil a movie this unconcerned with conventional narrative--after Millie turns on her, Pinky tries to drown herself. Feeling guilty, Millie stands by her while she is in a coma, only to find the girl who wakes up in that hospital bed is radically changed. Pinky is now the assertive one, and Millie can only do her best not to be completely subsumed, to have her entire identity swallowed. It takes another tragedy, this time involving Willie's baby, to shake things up again. (Digression: It might be interesting to compare how Altman allows the birth to affect the lives of the main characters in a movie about women vs. how the birth scene at the end of his male mid-life crisis picture Dr. T and the Women [review] affects Richard Gere. Is there something to be said for why it is magical and liberating for the man and not for the ladies?)
I briefly considered tracking my feelings throughout my viewing of 3 Women, but that seemed to kind of miss the point of the experiment by intellectualizing it too much. It would also pull me away from the screen and make me focus on the paper, and 3 Women requires undivided attention. That said, in the first half of the movie, there is definitely a feeling of desire and hope, but that translates to pity, as well--which is an audience reaction, not a function of the storytelling. Neither Pinky nor especially Millie are that self-aware. Later, I felt in sync with Millie, as Pinky's attempted suicide and the fall-out thereafter inspires anxiety in both the viewer and the actress. Duvall is a fascinating onscreen presence. She almost doesn't seem like that good of an actress. Her delivery can be flat, and she can appear ill at ease. Her gawkiness can be hypnotic, in much the same way her Margaret Keane-like features make her beautiful. I am always hyper aware she is Shelley Duvall, whether she's playing the scared wife in The Shining or Olive Oyl in Popeye . Yet I find myself enjoying watching her all the same.
It's a demeanor that is ideally suited for a movie as intentionally dreamy as 3 Women. Shelley Duvall is practically surreal unto herself. This makes it all the more smart to cast Sissy Spacek opposite her. Spacek is naturally more grounded. As Pinky, she maintains the girl-next-door vibe she had in Badlands [review] and Carrie , and yet is utterly convincing when she becomes the more confident and mean of the two roommates. One could posit she's putting the little-girl-lost routine to bed for good. Performance-wise, she is as natural on screen as Duvall is awkward. I would almost try to argue that all of 3 Women is Millie's dream, given how menacing a figure her counterpart becomes, but the changes occur in Pinky's vision. She observes, she sees the rifts, and she dives into them.
Altman approaches all this with a measured gaze. He doesn't push the odd happenings too hard, he doesn't go all wonky or psychedelic. Pinky's early "visions" are more practical. The first superimposition of waves over the image, for instance, uses water that is actually in the scene. It's only near the end that Altman steps away from this, indulging in one short yet meaningful dream sequence, a kind of quick run through the greatest hits of everything we've seen so far. He's practically working at odds with his own skewed motives here. 3 Women deals with strange events, but Altman makes most of it seem as real as possible. Even the obvious symbols, like the pair of twins that work with Millie and Pinky, are really just twins who work with Millie and Pinky. Though, they do allow for some leading dialogue. "Do you think they know which one they are?" Pinky asks. "Maybe they switch back and forth."
This earthiness and lack of show makes it easier to go along with the more obtuse occurrences, just as Gerald Busby's distant and ominous music provides a throughline in the sometimes rambling narrative. Altman is far from indulgent, he's giving the audience as much as required to keep them invested and on track. It's only in the final scenes, when the lever on the cinematic slot machine is pulled one last time and the titular trio of women slides into its final roles, that some might end up truly confounded. I've seen the movie twice now and I'm still not sure if it's a jackpot of "Ah-ha!" or otherwise some combination of "what's that?" and "why this?"
I like it anyway. I am fascinated and enraptured, hypnotized by its vibrant colors the way Pinky is hypnotized by Willie's paintings, every time I watch it. And I don't worry about what is happening or what it's trying to say. Which would mean Altman is successful in creating an all-in experience, one that entices and teases and provokes even if it never explains.
Note: 3 Women will be playing the NW Film Center on Sunday, January 18, as part of a Robert Altman weekend.
Posted by Jamie S. Rich at 8:10 PM
Labels: altman, blu-ray, bunuel, david lynch
Author of prose novels and comic books like Cut My Hair, It Girl & the Atomics, You Have Killed Me, and 12 Reasons Why I Love Her. Jamie's most recent novel is the serialized book Bobby Pins and Mary Janes, and his most recent graphic novels are the sci-fi romance A Boy and a Girl with Natalie Nourigat; Madame Frankenstein with Megan Levens; and the weird crime comic Archer Coe & the Thousand Natural Shocks with Dan Christensen. He also co-created Lady Killer with Joëlle Jones.
In addition to writing here, Jamie has reviewed movies for DVDTalk.com and The Oregonian.
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BIRD IN A CAGE
Dianne Wiest & Alan Cumming/PH: Joan Marcus
Moody and often melancholic, the CSC's staging of The Seagull emphasizes the somber side of Chekhov's tragicomedy. That's not to say that there aren't comic moments, because director Viacheslav Dolgachev and his cast do bring out the play's humor. Earning the heartiest laughs is two-time Oscar winner Dianne Wiest as the vain, self-absorbed actress Irina Arkadina. Wiest may be too old for the part, but she contributes star quality and boundless energy to an often sluggishly paced production.
An attention-hogging diva, Arkadina is visiting the country house of her brother, Pyotr Sorin ( John Christopher Jones). she brings along her younger lover, the famous writer Boris Trigorin ( Alan Cumming). Her son Konstantin ( Ryan O' Nan), also an aspiring writer, stages a play starring Nina ( Kelli Garner), a pretty neighbor who has acting ambitions. Arkadina mocks the play, and Konstantin abruptly brings down the curtain.
Dolgachev, former director of the Moscow Art Theatre and currently artistic director of the Moscow New Drama Theatre, finds the right balance of humor and pathos and stages the group scenes well. At times, however, he has actors turn their backs to the audience, and many of the actors-particularly O'Nan- speak so quietly that it's difficult to hear them. O'Nan could use a lesson in vocal projection from the commanding Wiest or David Rasche, who lends fine support as the local doctor Yevgeny Dorn.
Together with set designer Santo Loquasto and lighting director Brian MacDevitt, dolgachev creates lovely images with shimmery curtains, candles in lanterns, and soft lighting. The look of the production perfectly matches the wistful tone. But the director's decision to place Konstantin's makeshift theater downstage, where it blocks some in the audience, is distracting. Jorge Muelle's sound effects, ranging from an ominous humming sound to trickling water, are distracting as well.
Those are minor flaws, but the production's biggest problem is that many of the scenes drag. Due to the often glacial pacing, including numerous drawn-out pauses, this Seagull clocks in at three hours. That's about 15 minutes longer than it needs to be.
On the plus side, Cumming has a few droll moments, and it's nice to see film and TV veteran Annette O'Toole on stage. She plays Paulina Andreyevna- wife of farm manager Shamrayev ( Bill Christ)- and O'Toole wordlessly expresses Paulina's exasperation with her foulmouthed husband. As Masha, Marjan Neshat is perhaps too understated, and Greg Keller is similarly low-key as the schoolteacher Masha settles for because Konstantin ignores her. Ryan Hornchick rounds out the cast as hired hand Yakov.
Whenever she's around, though, Wiest's actressy actress steals the show. she's at her most winning when Arkadina brags about how much fitter she is than the young but mopey Masha. After flitting about to show off the spring in her step, Arkadina feels a slight twinge in her back. It's a priceless moment. Unfortunately, the production as a whole could use more of the energy, wit , and theatricality , that Wiest displays in that inspired comic bit.


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Сердар ( — "командант", "управник"), познат и као Сардар и Сирдар, племићка је титула која се првобитно користила за означавање кнезова, племства и других аристократа. Она се такође користи за означавање главе или вође племена или групе. Користи се као персијског синоним за арапску титулу емира. Код Српског народа се појавило административно уређење Сердара, Сердарство у Кнежевину Србију траје мање од годину дана, до Сретењског устава, док је у Црној Гори трајало до почетка прошлог века, тј. стварања краљевине Југославије.

Термин и његови когнати настали су од персијске ријечи -{sardār}- () и историјски су заступљени на простору Персије (сада Ирана), Османског царства (сад Турске), Месопотамије (сада Ирака), Сирије, јужне Азије (сада Пакистана, Индије и Непала), Кавказа, средње Азије, Балканског полуострва и Египта.

Термин је широко био заступљен код марата племства, које је држало важне позиције у марата државама Царства Марата.

Након пада феудализма, сердар је означавао шефа државе, врховног команданта, као и војни чин. Као војни чин, сердар се обично представља врховног команданта или највишег официра у војсци, што одговара данашњим армијским генералима. Више административна титула Сирдар-Бахадур углавном означава генерал-гувернера или шефа владе удаљене покрајине, као што је британско вицекраљевство.

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Epic Reads, as part of catching up to the Olympics buzz, started a swell idea for the #ReadingDecathlon. I didn't quite make it to ten books in ten days, but I learned a few things along the way.
It's a good mix of young adult, fantasy, science fiction, and even a contemporary fiction. While a lofty goal regardless, I got through six books (seven if you count that I finished Bird by Bird the day the project started). In my quest to almost complete my 2016 reading goal of 40 books, I speed-read through some fantastic works, but this post is about the process, not the books themselves.
It's important to pick books that you can read within a 17-hour time period. I'll admit that some of the books I chose were really long and even if I had the time, I'd get exhausted. For taking on such a reading project, consider the length of books and their enjoyabiliy. I don't know about you, but for me, picking a book like War & Peace would be a terrible idea.
I chose to pursue this reading extravaganza during my last two weeks between leaving work and moving to a new city. Also, not the best timing. I tried to catch as much reading time as I could. This type of endeavor works best for quiet summer weeks when you just want to unwind, not for when you're pent up in stress.
There's nothing more to add here. Forcing yourself to consume books voraciously helped me as a writer and a reader. I can read more efficiently and because of the variety I chose, I had a chance to explore different narrative styles. I can't wait to share those insights at some point, because the current read is really interesting given my questionable attempts at multiple-POV stories.
What've you been reading lately? Let's be Goodreads friends.


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Q: Puppet Postgresql Module ERROR 400 Invalid parameter onlyif I have a module named oss_puppetserver that has an init.pp and a database.pp.
The database.pp class is enabled/included/assigned via hiera for a host, the module itself makes use of the existing puppetlabs-postgresql module that is deployed to /etc/puppet/environments/testing/modules/postgresql via r10k and the oss_puppetserver module is deployed to /etc/puppet/environments/testing/site/oss_puppetserver, the file database.pp contains the following code:
class oss_puppetserver::database {

  class { 'postgresql::globals':
    manage_package_repo => true,
    version             => '9.4',
    repo_proxy          => 'proxy:8080',
    datadir             => '/opt/pgpuppet/data',
    xlogdir             => '/opt/pgpuppet/xlog',
    logdir              => '/opt/pgpuppet/log',
  } ->
  class { 'postgresql::server':
    ip_mask_deny_postgres_user => '0.0.0.0/32',
    ip_mask_allow_all_users    => '0.0.0.0/0',
    listen_addresses           => '*',
  }
  postgresql::server::db { 'test1':
     user    => 'test2',
     password => 'test2',
  }
}

init.pp:
#lots of descriptive comments
class oss_puppetserver {
}

However the issue seems to be that the node seems to be returning the following:
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Invalid parameter onlyif on Postgresql_psql[grant:database:GRANT test2 - ALL - test1] at /etc/puppet/environments/testing/modules/postgresql/manifests/server/grant.pp:229 on node host.test.bla
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run

It seems to keep hanging up on the defined type and i have no idea why, ive looked at the code inside grant.pp and these seem to be the offending lines:
  $_onlyif = $onlyif_function ? {
'table_exists' => "SELECT true FROM pg_tables WHERE tablename = '${_togrant_object}'",
    default        => undef,
  }

  $grant_cmd = "GRANT ${_privilege} ON ${_object_type} \"${_togrant_object}\" TO
  \"${role}\""
  postgresql_psql { "grant:${name}":
    command    => $grant_cmd,
    db         => $on_db,
    port       => $port,
    psql_user  => $psql_user,
    psql_group => $group,
    psql_path  => $psql_path,
    unless     => $_unless,
    onlyif     => $_onlyif,
    require    => Class['postgresql::server']
  }

albeit i am not quite able to discern why exactly it is failing or why the parameter would be invalid as the errormessage suggests.
I have tried to redploy the modules and rewrite the class multiple times. I can only assume at this point that the issue seems to be with having class declarations inside a class and missing something along the lines of an include or requires. But my attempts have been futile so far. Either that or I am missing something extremely obvious. I would appreciate any help or suggestion at this point since the other serverfault postings that included the Error 400 Invalid Parameter XXX posts didnt make a lot of sense to me, at least it wasnt relatable to me from my point of view, maybe i just misunderstood.
Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions as to what i could possibly try or do to solve the issue.

A: So, i just wanted to post an answer to my own question, it seems like there was an issue with puppetserver caching the types and providers for the module. I have redployed it with 'r10k puppetfile install -v' and then restarted the puppetserver. Something appears to have gotten stuck in the cache.
Now this issue seems to be fixed and everything is working fine. I hope this helps someone out down along the line.


Oh my! It has been a month. Perhaps all of that April blogging exhausted me. Or maybe I have just had a rather full schedule.
Well, I keep walking along with my book: I hit cross schedules, computer glitches: all manner of details to work out. I am still heading towards a publication very, very soon. I was remembering that I published my first book: Nannee on my birthday in 1993, so I was thinking that I am working to announce this new book on June 16th this year - exactly 15 years later.
The Great Library ATC Swap has more than 30 techniques to keep an ATC group at your hometown library interested and coming back for more. Or maybe just you - but I highly reccomend making art in community. I have lots of ideas on how to start a group and instructions for how to trade with us, here in Rockport! We are looking forward to that!
AAAnd, I realised a week or so ago that I miss sewing. So I have started a new embellished reverse applique quilt. Sigh. I am happy.


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Tesco halts work at Chinese factory over prison labor claim
by: GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press
FILE – In this Monday, Sept. 22, 2014 file photo, the sign on a Tesco shop is photographed, in London. The British-based grocery chain Tesco has halted production at a factory in China after a British newspaper said it used forced labor to produce charity Christmas cards. Tesco said Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019 it had stopped production and launched an immediate investigation after the Sunday Times newspaper raised questions about the factory's labor practices. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)
LONDON (AP) — The U.K.-based grocery chain Tesco said it halted production at a factory in China on Sunday after a British newspaper reported the factory used forced labor to produce charity Christmas cards for the supermarket.
Tesco said it also launched an investigation of the Chinese supplier it hired to make the holiday cards, Zheijiang Yunguang Printing, after the Sunday Times raised questions about the factory's labor practices.
The newspaper said the potentially problematic province of the cards came to light when a 6-year-old girl in south London found a card in her box already had a message written inside.
It read: "We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qinqpu prison China forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organization."
The writer asked whoever received the note to contact Peter Humphrey, a former British journalist who was detained in China while working as a corporate investigator and spent time at the same Shanghai prison.
The London girl's father, Ben Widdicombe, said Sunday they at first thought the message was a "prank."
"On reflection, we realized it was actually potentially quite a serious thing," Widdicombe said. "So I felt very shocked, but also a responsibility to pass it on to Peter Humphrey as the author asked me to do."
He said the message was eye opening: "It hits home there are injustices in the world and difficult situations that we know about and read about each and every day."
Widdicombe said finding the message shortly before Christmas was poignant and that he told his daughter, Florence, what it might mean.
"We explained that the person who wrote it was a prisoner in China and that the person felt the prison guards were being mean, making them do work, they felt really sad," the father said.
Humphrey told the BBC he thinks he knows who wrote the message. He said he won't identify the person for fear the inmate would face retribution.
Humphrey said he was "pretty sure" it was put inside the card by a group of prisoners as a collective request for help.
Tesco said it was "shocked" by the discovery and would never allow prison labor in its supply chain.
The company says it donates 300,000 pounds ($390,000) annually to the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK from the sale of its Christmas cards.
by BRIAN SLODYSKO, Associated Press / Jan 19, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden will issue an executive order after taking office, aimed at reinstating White House ethics standards that were diminished or disregarded by the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump campaigned on draining the "swamp" of entrenched influences in Washington. Yet in practice, the Trump administration weakened ethics rules and failed to enforce the those he adopted, government watchdog groups say.


As India is pushing heavily the policy of cashless society, Google is launching its special mobile payments application specifically tailored for the Indian market. Dubbed as 'Tez', this mobile payments app will allow customers to make money transfers each other and also pay for purchases both at physical stores and online.
The new application available immediately on Google Play and App Store supports eight languages spoken in India, including English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and others. Tez application is compatible with the Indian Unified Payments Interface standard and enables the transfer of the funds directly from the accounts of the 55 participating Indian banks.
In its official statement Google noted that its goal is to replace cash by providing the same convenience as Indian customers feel with the notes and coins, making it possible for friends to share their bills, pay for purchases online and offline while also enabling P2P transfers. On the P2P end Tez offers 'Cash Mode' service based on Google's proprietary audio QR technology which allows contactless transactions without sharing sensitive bank details or personal data.
Google also plans to introduce options for businesses to provide them with a special customized business channel integrated into the application, using which businesses will be able to reach their customers by sending smart notifications for recurring payments, advising them on new offerings, loyalty programs and rebates.


Last year two Saskatoon teachers won a 2010 Microsoft Canada Innovative Educators Award. The award recognizes teachers who use new technology to improve student learning. Kelli Boklaschuk and Curtis Wagner were selected for creating Connecting Canadian Kids to the World, a social studies unit for Wagner's Grade 6 students at St. Angela School, Greater Saskatoon Catholic School Division in Saskatoon.
Being selected as a finalist in Canada led them to compete at the Global Microsoft Innovative Educator Forum in Cape Town, South Africa where the project was judged against 125 projects from 114 countries. Connecting Canadian Kids to the World was among 12 finalists chosen in the collaborative projects category—a significant accomplishment given that 200,000 projects overall were entered in the original competition. This was the first time in the history of the forum that Canadian educators made it to the semi-finals.
A key part of Wagner's and Boklaschuk's unit saw Wagner's class create a partnership among schools of the four Atlantic Rim continents to learn about each others' cultures. The students communicated via email, online chats and video conferences with schools in Brazil, South Africa and the United Kingdom. When it came time to show what they'd learned, the Canadian students presented to their classmates using their choice of more than 25 different types of software and technology.
Student reviews were also positive. "I really enjoyed this unit because we got to learn not only from the Internet and books but from a new friend we made. It was really cool to learn about how the countries are the same and how they are different," said one student.
Wagner and Boklaschuck hope the recognition the project has received will encourage more teachers to investigate how to incorporate technology into their lessons. Everything teachers need to use Connecting Canadian Kids to the World in their own classrooms is available for free online at blog.scs.sk.ca/ar6.
Donella Hoffman is the media consultant for Greater Saskatoon Catholic School System.


Discussion in 'French League' started by No1 Man Utd fan, Apr 15, 2019.
Paris Saint-Germain's wait to clinch the Ligue 1 title will go on another week after they were thrashed 5-1 by Lille.
The table toppers crumbled at Stade Pierre-Mauroy as second-placed Lille postponed their visitors' title celebrations by inflicting an emphatic 5-1 victory after Juan Bernat was sent off.
PSG could have won the title last week but failed to do so after drawing 2-2 at home to Strasbourg.That draw featured one of the worst misses of all-time from Maxim Coupo-Moting.
They went into their game against second-placed Lille on Sunday knowing that a point would be enough. But the visitors fell behind after just seven minutes.


Now this I disapprove of. The Washington Post's brilliant Dan Steinberg posted this video from the Nats/Phillies game on Monday showing visiting Phillies fans taunting former Phillie Jayson Werth during the Phillies win.
We told you yesterday about how Phillies fans have completely taken over Nationals Park and made it a second home stadium for Roy Halladay and company. But it's bad juju to take advantage of that annexation to mercilessly heckle a dude who left the team for more money (as anyone would) without any unkind words for his former teammates or the hometown fans. Come on now, Phillies denizens. You know better than this. No wonder the Nats turned it around and spanked the Phillies the next day. That's just karma getting in its licks.
This video represents a bizarre dynamic. Here we have a former beloved Phillie leaving for another town, only to have his old fans take over that town and spend the whole game taunting him for leaving. Seems kinda cruel, or as cruel as one can be to a guy making $18 million a year.
I know it's easy to get a bunker mentality as a fan and just go ahead and boo anyone who leaves your team for any reason, but Jayson Werth doesn't deserve that. He's already struggling on a crummy team and that's revenge enough. Besides, the Phillies have still yet to find a way to adequately replace him, so it's hard to taunt Werth without acknowledging that Philly sure could use him back in the lineup. So the next time you decide to take over Nationals Park, Phillies fans, leave poor rich Jayson Werth alone with his beard and his thoughts. You'll be better men for it.


Shamus and Kelly gave us one last opportunity to celebrate the summer last month with their beach wedding at Merri-Makers in Sea Bright, New Jersey. While the weather wasn't completely cooperative, these two and their guests were not going to let that stop them from having a good time. We met Kelly through her brother and sister-in-law, Brian and Shannon, whose unorthodox wedding we photographed back in 2010.
Both Kelly and Shamus were extremely relaxed throughout the day, and it showed in everything they did, especially when a downpour began just as they tried to leave the house for the ceremony and it became clear they wouldn't be getting married on the beach as they originally planned. In order to make things easier on everyone, they rented a villa just a short distance from their wedding venue and everyone — bridal party, family, etc. — all got ready there. The place was so big that they didn't even run the risk of seeing each other. Plus it provided us with a great backdrop for their first look and bridal portraits.
Kelly accented her A-line ivory gown with a pair of deep blue high-heels and nice, simple pearls around her neck. She really was breathtaking. Kelly and Shamus were disappointed not to be able to have a beach wedding, but Merri-Makers has a great big window that allowed the ceremony to have an ocean backdrop without having to worry about the wind and rain.
They incorporated a wine mixing ceremony, which was new to us. They each poured separate wines into a single cup and then drank from the cup. It was really a unique wedding addition that we hadn't seen before.
Their reception was filled with unique personal touches. Kelly surprised Shamus with a scrabble-themed groom's cake. We love how she even personalized with their names and wedding date filled into the squares. Kelly's youngest brother, Troy, and her niece, Alyssa, serenaded the newlyweds right after the first dance. Later, during the bridal party dance, Troy took his time in the limelight a step farther, stealing a kiss from Alyssa when the cameras were on him.
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My toddler loves the Memphis Zoo, so we visit often. I think the zoo's staff does a great job teaching visitors that habitat conservation is vital to the long-term survival of wild species. But this lesson rings hollow when the zoo's leadership chooses to create new exhibit space by destroying old forest in Overton Park.
Recently I watched a trackhoe uproot several acres of trees within sight of the zoo's elaborate bronze shrine to Chief Seattle. As if this wasn't irony enough, the shrine itself occupies ground that was forested for the past 10,000 years or so -- until three years ago, when it was clear-cut by the Memphis Zoo.
Northwest Passage is a lovely exhibit, but it's hard to see anything but empty hypocrisy in the rocks carved with eloquent paeans to the web of life. And it's hard to pay attention to the placard urging us to "plant trees" while a beautiful, healthy forest is being laid to waste behind that placard.
The new Teton Trek exhibit promises grizzly bears and elk in addition to the bald eagles and black bears at Northwest Passage. All of these species require access to mature forests in order to live and reproduce in the wild. What lesson is the Memphis Zoo trying to impart by destroying the very habitat these creatures need?
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Brand Factory clocked in Rs 1,045 crores worth of sales in FY17, accounting for 27 per cent of the total revenues earned by Future Lifestyle Fashions Retail. But what about the future?
Even as offline and online retailers rethink the discount and sales route for growth, Kishore Biyani's Brand Factory is staying the course.
The fashion discount retail brand, positioned as a stopover for consumers before they graduate to more expensive labels and styles, says that it will continue doing more of the same as it enters its tenth year.
Surprising move that, given that the marketplace for discount chains is rapidly emptying out.
E-commerce majors are cutting back on deals due to regulatory issues and pressure from investors and offline discount stores are either reinventing or scaling back operations. Arvind Group's Megamart has been converted into a value retail brand and another discount retailer, The Loot, has considerably downsized operations due to its financial issues.
General market behaviour has not dented Future Group founder-CEO Kishore Biyani's enthusiasm with the model. "We have got the model right and people have accepted it. India is a young country and we can grow much faster," he says.
The chain has begun experimenting with different formats. "Since we want to expand faster, we have to have two to three different formats," says Suresh Sadhwani, concept head, Brand Factory.
Apart from standalone stores, it is looking at setting up inside malls too. This gives the retail brand flexibility and access to multiple locations within the same city.
Target customers are those looking for a bargain buy in the branded segment. "Aspirational customers who cannot buy big brands and smart customers who know the value proposition, both come to our stores," says Sadhwani. He explains that a value brand is one where the price is half that of a big brand in the category, but it is 70 per cent as good as the big brand.
Nearly half the products at Brand Factory constitute one-season old merchandise. The rest comes from fresh fashion. Half the stock is from Future Group's labels and the other half from national and international brands like Levis, Pepe, Jack n Jones, Vero Moda and others. "We get the scale through these two and pass on the margins to customers," Sadhwani says.
The 55-store Brand Factory is part of Future Lifestyle Fashions that also owns Central, All, Planet Sports among other retail brands and contributes the second largest chunk to the division's revenues. In FY17, Brand Factory clocked in Rs 1,045 crores worth of sales. It accounted for 27 per cent of the total revenues earned by Future Lifestyle Fashions Retail, coming up second to Central that accounted for 59 per cent, according to a presentation the company made to its investors in March this year.
IMAGE: Kishore Biyani, head of Futures Group that owns Brand Factory. Photograph: Kind Courtesy Kishore Biyani/Facebook.
Brand Factory plans to double its sales in the current financial year and triple the store count in two years. Sadhwani says that the store brand is has managed to differentiate itself from similar chains in the market because it it is the only multi brand retail chain to offer year-long discounts.
But are discount stores relevant when prices have been beaten down by the large number of brands in the market? "Discount chains are relevant for the Indian market, always. We are a discount seeking society," says Susil Dungarwal, founder at Beyond Squarefeet Mall Advisory and former CEO of discount chain, Loot.
Still, the online marketplaces that thrived on such a model are now turning away from it. Sadhwani says that is because online retailers have high transaction and delivery costs, which makes the business unviable. "We stay away from malls and rents are low. Scale is our main crux," he says. Its rent to sales ratio is seven per cent.
The chain is present in metros and tier-II towns, the ratio between metro and non-metro being 70:30. "The new and upcoming stores are spread between metros and smaller towns and the store will expand its footprint in all the cities it currently is in apart from moving into smaller towns," Sadhwani adds.
The chain is banking heavily on in-store promotions to boost sales. Explaining how effective these are, Sadhwani says that in the last weekend of May, a 'sports super sale' sold 50,000 pairs of sports shoes. Similarly a flat 50 per cent off promotion in April brought in sales revenue worth about Rs 100 crore, four times normal sales. It does 25-30 promotions in a year, for specific categories and for all merchandise.
Given the big emphasis that young customers are placing on their in-store experiences, the store is working on the same. It has instituted a no-questions policy on returns. "Our merchandising and displays also incorporate clarity on the discounts. We are using customer feedback on shopping experience and working on the common complaints. Complaints are addressed within 24 hours by the store manager," Sadhwani says.
Technology has been a big enabler in building a brand that is more malleable to customer tastes. "Some insights have helped us devise new promotional ideas and category introductions. We get feedback on overall shopping experience, product availability, staff, billing experience and shopping ambience that is used to enhance in-store offerings," Sadhwani says.
Tracking customer behaviour is helping Brand Factory stay abreast of the latest trends, but in a market where retail brands are increasingly hemmed in by rising property costs and falling footfalls, will this be enough to stay the distance?
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The total number of shares of common stock, par value $.01 per share, outstanding as of April 30, 2018 was 37,495,205.
indicators since the second quarter of 2016, the Company has reviewed and updated, as necessary, the assumptions used in determining its undiscounted cash flow projections for each asset group to reflect current market conditions. After reviewing the results of these updated projections, the Company determined that each of its asset groups continue to have sufficient projected undiscounted cash flows to recover the remaining book value of the Company's long-lived assets within such group.
restricted stock units are amortized over a vesting period of up to three years, as applicable, and is determined based on the market price of the Company's stock on the date of grant applied to the total shares that are expected to fully vest. All phantom restricted stock units are re-measured quarterly and classified as a liability, due to the settlement of these awards in cash. In addition to the phantom restricted stock units granted in 2018, the Company granted performance-based and time-based restricted stock units and phantom restricted stock units in prior years. During the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company issued 326,753 shares of common stock due to vestings of restricted stock units.
information becomes available, the Company will assess the potential liability related to its pending claims and revise its estimates. Although historically revisions to such estimates have not been material, changes in estimates of the potential liability could materially impact the Company's results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
The following Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations should be read together with our unaudited consolidated financial statements and notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our audited financial statements and notes thereto included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K as of and for the year ended December 31, 2017. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect our current views with respect to future events and financial performance. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements. See "Forward Looking Statements" for additional discussion regarding risks associated with forward-looking statements. In this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, "company," "we," "us," "our" or like terms refer to Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. and its subsidiaries, except as otherwise indicated. Please refer to Item 5—Other Information for a glossary of terms used throughout this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
In this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, we rely on and refer to information regarding our industry from the BOEM, EIA and IHS-Petrodata, Inc. These organizations are not affiliated with us and are not aware of and have not consented to being named in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. We believe this information is reliable. In addition, in many cases we have made statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q regarding our industry and our position in the industry based on our experience in the industry and our own evaluation of market conditions.
While oil prices have recently increased from previous lows experienced earlier in this downcycle, they still remain below levels that prevailed between 2005 and late 2014. This commodity price driven industry downturn has caused major, international and independent oil companies with deepwater operations to significantly reduce their capital spending budgets for the worldwide exploration or production of oil. Less spending by our customers combined with a global oversupply of OSVs for current market conditions, including high-spec OSVs in our core markets, have resulted in significant reductions in our dayrates and utilization.
The principal question facing the offshore oilfield-related industry is the duration of the current downturn in offshore activities. Our current view is that market conditions will remain weak for all or most of 2018. However, given the recent improvement in oil prices, global economic improvement, growth in oil demand and lower exploration and development costs achieved by our customers, we believe that the necessary elements for improved conditions in our market may be taking shape. While impossible to predict with assurance, this market improvement may take-hold as early as 2019. However, a loss of confidence in the oil price recovery or an inability by our customers to sustain cost improvements could derail or postpone a recovery.
While we have taken extensive measures to reduce costs, these reductions alone will not be sufficient to mitigate the full impact of revenue loss over an extended period of time. Even in light of our currently depressed operating levels, we believe cash generated from operations together with cash on hand and availability under the first-lien credit facility should be sufficient to fund our operations and commitments, including the pending $36.6 million four-vessel acquisition, through at least the end of 2019. However, absent the combination of a significant recovery of market conditions such that cash flow from operations were to increase materially from projected levels coupled with a refinancing and/or further management of our funded debt obligations, we do not currently expect to have sufficient liquidity to repay the full amount of our remaining tranches of 2020 senior notes and 2021 senior notes when they mature in fiscal years 2020 and 2021, respectively. The first-lien credit facility was the first step in addressing the maturities of our unsecured notes. We remain fully cognizant of the challenges currently facing the offshore oil and gas industry and continue to review our capital structure and assess our strategic options.
Includes two owned vessels and four managed vessels supporting the military.
Excluded from this table are 44 new generation OSVs that were stacked as of March 31, 2018. Also excluded are the four vessels included in the pending acquisition from Aries Marine Corporation and certain of its affiliates expected to close in the second quarter of 2018.
This Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations discusses our unaudited consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. In many cases, the accounting treatment of a particular transaction is specifically dictated by GAAP. In other circumstances, we are required to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that we believe are reasonable based on available information. We base our estimates and judgments on historical experience and various other factors that we believe are reasonable based upon the information available. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions and conditions. Our significant accounting policies and estimates are discussed in Item 7 - Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and in Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.
The tables below set forth the average dayrates, utilization rates and effective dayrates for our owned new generation OSVs and the average number and size of vessels owned during the periods indicated. These vessels generate a substantial portion of our revenues and operating profit. Excluded from the OSV information below are the results of operations for our MPSVs, our shore-base facility and vessel management services, including the four non-owned vessels managed for the U.S. Navy. The Company does not provide average or effective dayrates for its MPSVs. MPSV dayrates are impacted by highly variable customer-required cost-of-sales associated with ancillary equipment and services, such as ROVs, accommodation units and cranes, which are typically recovered through higher dayrates charged to the customer. Due to the fact that each of our MPSVs have a workload capacity and significantly higher income generating potential than each of the Company's new generation OSVs, the utilization and dayrate levels of our MPSVs can have a very large impact on our results of operations. For this reason, our consolidated operating results, on a period-to-period basis, are disproportionately impacted by the level of dayrates and utilization achieved by our eight MPSVs.
In addition, we have also historically made certain adjustments, as applicable, to EBITDA for losses on early extinguishment of debt, stock-based compensation expense and interest income, to internally evaluate our performance based on the computation of ratios used in certain financial covenants of our credit agreements with various lenders, whenever applicable. We believe that such ratios can, at times, be material components of financial covenants and, when applicable, failure to comply with such covenants could result in the acceleration of indebtedness or the imposition of restrictions on our financial flexibility.


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SpeechBubbleView Class Reference

#import <SpeechBubbleView.h>

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Public Member Functions

(void) 	- setText:bubbleSize:bubbleType:

Protected Attributes

NSString * 	text

 	the text inside the bubble

CGSize 	bubbleSize

 	the dimensions of the bubble

BubbleType 	bubbleType

 	the type of the bubble

Detailed Description

A UIView that draws a speech bubble.

Member Function Documentation

          - (void) setText:

          (NSString *)
           text

          bubbleSize:

          (CGSize)
           bubbleSize

          bubbleType:

          (BubbleType)
           bubbleType

Sets the properties of the speech bubble.

You need to make sure that the view is big enough to fit the bubble, i.e. the SpeechBubbleView will not automatically size itself.

Parameters:

	text 	the text inside the bubble

	bubbleSize 	the dimensions of the bubble

	bubbleType 	the type of the bubble (left-hand or right-hand)

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

Classes/SpeechBubbleView.h

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