TAIWAN is an island nation with a land area of about 14,000 square miles, i.e. about the size of West Virginia, and estimated population of over 22 millions, or 1/12 of US population, in 2002. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and separated from southern China by the 100-mile-wide TAIWAN STRAIT.
The heavily forested hills and mountains of central and eastern Taiwan reach their summit at YU SHAN (13,113 feet); there are about 70 peaks exceeding 10,000 feet. The broad coastal plain in the west supports most of the island's population and is the chief agricultural zone. Natural disasters such as TYPHOONS AND EARTHQUAKES are common. Taiwan has a semitropical climate and rainfall ranging from moderate to heavy. With abundant sunshine and rainfall, the island is AGRICULTURALLY VERY PRODUCTIVE. Today, in terms of land use, arable land accounts for 24% of total land area, while forests and woodland still take up 55% of Taiwan.
For some time, the Japanese as well as the Chinese had known the existence of the island of Taiwan and had visited or even used it as their base of activities. In 1544, the Portuguese sailing in the western Pacific "discovered" Taiwan, and called it ILHA FORMOSA, the beautiful island. Ever since, Taiwan is better known as "FORMOSA" to the Westerners. Once known to Europeans as well as East Asians, Taiwan increasingly became a prize in the international competition for territorial expansion. As a result, Taiwan and its people had tragically come under ONE ALIEN RULE AFTER ANOTHER IN THE MODERN CENTURIES.
The EUROPEAN Era (1624-1661) The Spaniards and Dutch struggled for the control of western Taiwan in the early 17th century. The Dutch ultimately emerged victorious as the sole colonial rulers of western Taiwan in 1642. The Dutch colonial authorities encouraged southern ETHNIC HAN Chinese from the other side of the Taiwan Strait to settle and farm in western Taiwan plains.
II. The Era of KOXINGA and his descendants (1662-1683) In 1662 a Ming Chinese general Cheng Chen-kung or better known as Koxinga led about 25,000 followers to invade Taiwan and succeeded in expelling the Dutch from the island. Using Taiwan as their base of military operations, Koxinga and his successors resisted the Manchus, who had conquered China in 1644, until they were defeated by the Manchu forces in 1683.
III. The MANCHU Era (1683-1895) With some reluctance, the Manchu rulers of China incorporated Taiwan into their vast empire. In spite of the danger involved in crossing the Taiwan Strait and the initial Manchu imperial restrictions on emigration to Taiwan, the people from southeastern China took the risk to reach Taiwan for opportunities of a better life. In the early years the vast majority of the immigrants were men and many of them subsequently married aboriginal women. As the Manchu court relaxed its emigration regulations, Han women and even children joined the immigration waves from the mid-18th century on. By 1893-95, Taiwan's population had increased to about 2.5 million inhabitants. Taiwan had essentially become A SOCIETY OF IMMIGRANTS. Due to the fact that from the beginning the Manchu government had adopted a passive policy toward the island and its people, Taiwan had remained very much a frontier society. But this would change once Japan secured Taiwan as a result of its military victory over Manchu China in 1895.
IV. The JAPANESE Era (1895-1945) As the only non-Western colonial power, Japan was determined to make the administration of Taiwan, Japan's first colony, a success. The Japanese had to employ much brutal military force to suppress Taiwanese armed resistance. Having sacrificed hundreds and thousands of lives in their fight against the Japanese, the thinking Taiwanese ultimately realized that it was futile fighting the preponderant modern Japanese military force. The struggle against the Japanese colonial ruler consequently became a non-violent political movement by the early 1920's. Some limited political gains were won but as Japan returned to militarism and imperialism in the 1930's, even the mild political form of resistance was brought to an end. On the other hand, in spite of Japanese colonial exploitation, much material progress was made on Taiwan. Public health standards were raised. Education for children was popularized. Transportation and communication network was established. Law and order were maintained. This is not to say that the Japanese colonial rule was for the good of the Taiwanese. Whatever progress made in Taiwan was a by-product of Japanese exploitation of Taiwan's human and natural resources for the benefit of Japan itself.
The CHINESE NATIONALIST Era (1945-1987) Japan's defeat by and surrender to the United States ended Japanese rule in 1945. What followed was the arrival of Nationalist Chinese military forces in Taiwan to take control of the island. Initially the Taiwanese considered the Chinese as their liberators and welcomed them. Unfortunately Chinese corruption and mis-rule turned many of the Taiwanese against their new rulers in the FEBRUARY 28 INCIDENT of 1947 during which tens and thousands of Taiwanese leaders were massacred. Defeated in the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party (also known as Kuomintang or KMT for short), and his 1.5 million soldiers and other followers retreated to Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek used Taiwan chiefly as a base for his anti-Chinese Communist campaign. To solidify its control over Taiwan and its people, the KMT regime imposed martial law on Taiwan and white terror prevailed for years in the 1950s. Development of Taiwan and welfare of the people of Taiwan were neglected until the late 1960's when it became clear that the Communist regime in China would be around for some time to come. Only then that the KMT government began to pay more attention on Taiwan's economic development. With the hard work of the people, by late 1980's Taiwan was ranked as ONE OF AISA'S FOUR NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZED ECONOMIES. For example, by the mid-1990's Taiwan had become the world's leading manufacturer of computer chips. Interestingly, Taiwan has also become ASIA'S KINGDOM OF FLOWERS, particularly because of its well-known cultivation and export of orchids throughout the world.
VI. The TAIWANESE DEMOCRATIC Era (1987- present) Political reforms on Taiwan came much slowly in Taiwan. They came about only because of rising Taiwanese consciousness as well as expanding middle classes' demand for freedom and democracy. After decades of struggles, pro-democracy activists finally formed the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 1986. In the late 1987, the KMT regime finally lifted martial law, which had been in existence for nearly 40 years. More rapid democratic progress came about once the first native-born President Lee Teng-hui came to power in 1987. In the next decade and half Taiwan's voters directly elect the president, the lawmakers, and all other elected offices. The KMT lost control of the executive branch of the government in 2000 when DPP presidential candidate Chen Shui-bian won the presidential election by defeating his two rivals, one the official KMT candidate and the other who left the KMT to run as an independent candidate. A peaceful transfer of power took place from KMT's Lee Teng-hui to DPP's Chen Shui-bian. Winning the presidency with only about 40% of the total votes cast, President Chen encountered continuing opposition from the KMT and its sprinter groups, the People First Party (PFP) and the New Party (NP). After a hard-fought campaign and survival from an attempted assassination against him and his running mate, Annette Lu, President Chen won his re-election on May 20, 2004 by defeating Lien Chan, the KMT presidential candidate and his running mate, PFP chairman James Soong. Extremely disappointed for having lost the election by less than 30,000 votes out of a total of nearly 13 million votes cast, Lien Chan and ten and thousands of his die-hard supporters went on a protest that lasted for more than a week. They demanded a vote recount while they also went to court claiming that the election was unfair even though they were not able to substantiate with evidence. Chen's winning the election resulted from a rising number of voters who have identified with Taiwan. Indeed, Chen had gained 1.5 million votes more than the votes he got in 2000 election. Taiwan has become so democratic and free that America's Freedom House recently rated it as ONE OF ASIA'S TWO MOST DEMOCRATIC AND FREE COUNTRIES. [The other is Japan.] By the late 1990's TAIWAN'S PER CAPITA INCOME RANKED AS ASIA'S 3RD HIGHEST after Japan and Singapore.
VII. Concluding note: After nearly four centuries of alien rule, Taiwan's people have finally established at the turn of the new century a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Determined to defend Taiwan as a free and democratic country, the Taiwanese people have stood up against the Chinese military threat and rejected Communist Beijing's repeated demand that Taiwan become a part of the un-free and un-democratic People's Republic of China. They are truly THE MASTER OF THEIR OWN FUTURE ON TAIWAN.
Beijing has never tired of claiming that Taiwan is part of China, despite the fact that Taiwan is by most standards an independent, sovereign state and the fact that the great majority of the people of Taiwan do not wish to live under communist rule. More importantly, China has nearly 500 missiles targeting Taiwan and has repeatedly threatened to take the island by force if it does not willingly become part of China.
China's ambition to annex Taiwan is real. The design to annex Taiwan, in more ways than one, resembles Meiji Japan's scheme to annex Korea about a century ago. It is, therefore, essential that we understand the route Japan took to annex Korea, which it then ruled until 1945 when Korea was liberated at the end of World War II. The Japanese case should serve as a lesson not only for Taiwan but also for the US and China.
Japan formally annexed Korea through 1910's Treaty of Annexation. Prior to this, it was mainly by resorting to war and diplomacy that Japan had increasingly brought Korea into its sphere of influence. As Asia's sole emerging, modern military power, Japan fought two wars over control of Korea. In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 to 1895, Japan decisively defeated China and forced it to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki, in May 1895.
In addition to ceding Taiwan and Penghu, China agreed to relinquish its suzerainty over Korea. Japan was thus able to gradually bring Korea under its imperial wing. However, Japan still did not have a free hand over Korea on account of the fact that imperial Russia, likewise, had territorial designs over Korea as well as Manchuria. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 to 1905, Japan defeated Russia and compelled it to acknowledge its "paramount political, military and economical interests" in Korea, according to the Portsmouth Peace Treaty of Sept. 5, 1905.
However, to complete its dominance over Korea, Japan had to seek the diplomatic support of other major powers. In early 1902, through the Anglo-Japanese Naval Alliance, Japan secured Britain's acceptance of its interests in Korea, in return for acknowledging Britain's interests in China and later India.
Of equal importance to Japan, however, was US acknowledgement that Japan would enjoy dominance over Korea in return for recognizing US interests in the Philippines. US Secretary of War William Taft reached an agreement on the matter with Prime Minister Katsura Taro in July 1905. US President Theodore Roosevelt subsequently confirmed the agreement.
With the major powers' explicit support, Japan imposed a protectorate on Korea through the Protectorate Treaty of November 1905. Objecting to this development, the Korean royal family dispatched envoys to the Hague Peace Conference in 1907, but the conference refused to consider the protest. Failure of the international community to come to Korea's aid ultimately emboldened Japan to force a treaty upon Korea in August 1910 providing for complete annexation.
Western countries, including the UK, the US and Russia, supported Japan's annexation of Korea as a policy that would help stabilize East Asia, which was seen as beneficial to all the major powers involved.
Japanese colonialists and imperialists believed that Korea and Japan had deep historical and cultural ties and that a big-brother relationship existed between Korea and Japan to justify the annexation. Koreans, however, did not approve; they resisted Japanese colonial rule by various means. Resistance culminated in a large-scale, anti-Japanese demonstration on March 1, 1919. Japan's brutal response resulted in the deaths of thousands of demonstrators. Clearly, the Koreans were hoping that the demonstration would be seen to have been inspired by the principle of self-determination, which US president Woodrow Wilson announced in 1918, and which therefore might win international support.
Unfortunately, no major powers or the newly created League of Nations showed any sympathy for Korea. Consequently, for 35 years, Koreans suffered under harsh colonial rule until liberation.
In the early 1940s, an increasingly militaristic and expansionist Japan attacked Western colonies, including the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaya. So in the long run, the interests of the Western powers were not served but damaged by sacrificing Korea in their appeasement of Japan.
Is the international community making the same mistake in their acquiescence toward the claim that Taiwan is a part of China?
Let us examine China's scheme to annex Taiwan. There are two major similarities between the Chinese and the Japanese scenarios. First, China is without doubt the dominant Asian power today as Japan was nearly a century ago. With its military might and growing economic power, China has the kind of leverage that Japan enjoyed in the early 20th century. Second, like Japan, China today is resorting to diplomacy as well as the threat of force to annex Taiwan. Beijing has claimed that China went to war against Japan for the sake of liberating Taiwan from Japanese colonial rule as well as to resist Japanese aggression against China. After Japan's defeat, according to the Chinese, Taiwan reverted to them. It was only because of the Chinese Civil War and its aftermath that Taiwan remained a separate jurisdiction. To annex Taiwan, Beijing insists that it will resort to force, if necessary.
In reality, according to the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty between Japan and the Allies, Japan renounced sovereignty over Taiwan but designated no recipient.
China, over the years, has manipulated all countries that have diplomatic relations with it into accepting its "one China" policy, which states that there is only one China and Taiwan is part of China. In addition, Beijing has done its best to diplomatically isolate Taiwan by opposing Taiwan's efforts to join the UN and other international organizations, including the World Health Organization.
In spite of these similarities, there are at least two essential differences between the Chinese case and that of Japan. First, unlike Korea a century ago, Taiwan has enjoyed significant support from the US. While the US does not have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, it nevertheless has become Taiwan's closest and most important military ally. By virtue of the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, the US is obligated to come to the aid of Taiwan if and when the nation is attacked by China.
In reminding the Chinese of its commitment to Taiwan, the US must have learned from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1991 that ambiguity can only encourage an aggressive country into miscalculating the US' position.
In any case, it is not only the legal duty of the US to protect Taiwan in case of a Chinese invasion, but also its moral responsibility to do so. Any weakening of support would contribute to other countries turning against Taiwan, as seen recently in certain countries' negative response to Taiwan's plan to have a national peace referendum. No democratic country, especially the US which has made democracy and human rights the core of its foreign policy, should assist Beijing in coercing, however subtly, Taiwan to accept Chinese annexation. No country should sacrifice democracy and the human rights of the Taiwanese under the pretense of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
In addition to strong US support, the people of Taiwan enjoy what the Koreans lacked a century ago. Like all other peoples, the people of Taiwan are entitled to the UN-guaranteed right of self-determination in a new era of human rights and democracy. Whatever future relationship Taiwan will have with China requires the approval of its people. There is no better way than calling a referendum to reach an unchallengeable decision on such a fundamental issue.
It would be on the consciences of democratic nations, particularly the US, if Taiwan is left without a choice and forced to buckle under Beijing's threats.
The Korean resistance against the Japanese should serve as a lesson for China not to resort to coercion in its attempt to bring Taiwan under its control. For all parties involved, the consent of the Taiwanese people is essential.
Chen Ching-chih is professor emeritus of history at the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and a researcher at the Los Angeles-based Institute for Taiwanese Studies. The article had first been published on Taipei Times.


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Our Glass Lighthouse Stein holds 16 oz. of your favorite beer or other beverage. Gifts for Professionals proudly presents this Lighthouse Stein ready to be engraved for the lighthouse lover! This Stein is made of glass and pewter. It's safe to put in both the dishwasher or the microwave! One of many glass steins, you'll enjoy shopping for more Engraved Beer Glasses & Steins!
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Living in luxu-tree! Britain's best treehouse… that comes with log burner, 60-inch plasma TV and a jacuzzi
A builder today unveiled Britain's most luxurious treehouse complete with a log burner, 60-inch plasma TV – and a jacuzzi.
Chris Whalley, 54, created the incredible hideaway for £60,000 by crafting it almost entirely from drift wood gathered from a nearby beach.
The holiday home in Blean, Kent, has plumbing and electricity and comes with all the creature comforts of a five-star hotel including a romantic log burner and tree-themed bathroom sink.
Chris Walley with his luxury treehouse, which he created for just £60,000
But amazingly it sits a staggering 20ft above the ground making it the tallest habitable tree house in Britain.
Talented Chris, who runs a holiday letting business, started designing his high-tech treehouse on a computer in March this year.
To keep costs down he used scraps of wood from a builders' merchants and piles of driftwood collected from nearby Whitstable beach.
Chris during construction of the holiday home, which was made partly out of driftwood
The builder did not used scaffolding, but instead shimmied up and down the tree with ropes
He even managed to build the treetop cabin without using any scaffolding by shimmy-ing up and down the tree with ropes.
Chris and wife Michelle, 48, who have six children, also salvaged enough scrap materials to build cupboards, a table and bed.
The finished product now proudly sits around a 25ft red cedar tree among the holiday log cabins Chris and Michelle built six years ago.
Almost every feature in the house, including the tree trunk sink and the concrete- wood affect kitchen work top are one of a kind bespoke items worth more than £1,500.
The pad promises the finest egyptian cotton linen, Waters and Noble bath robes and towels and top of the range kitchen crockery.
The tree-themed sink and bathroom bathroom in the luxury treehouse
The living room complete with log burner
The highlight of the treehouse – a hot tub in the garden
Grandfather-of-four Chris revealed he was inspired to build the luxury home after a little girl on holiday in one of his lets nagged him for a tree house.
He said: "So one night me and Michelle were staying in the log cabin, and sat in the hot tub with a glass of wine and I said 'I'm bored' – I needed something to do.
"I said I wanted to build a treehouse at the top of the garden and that was it.
"I built it from scratch. It was a bit ambitious and I'm glad it's over – it's half-killed me.
"There are several treehouses in Britain, but none that are habitable.
"People often have to go abroad to France if they want to stay in one. We have had nothing but good responses so far."
Chris first had the idea for his tree house two years ago when a family with young children came to stay in his log cabins.
One of the young girls was trying to climb the tree and Chris told her it wasn't safe but if she came back next year he would build her a tree house.
Last year the holiday makers returned to the log cabin and it had a children's tree house for their youngsters to play in.
Excited Chris then decided he could do more with the sturdy tree and started his luxury project.
The couple's dreams were almost dashed before they got off the ground after Blean parish council and angry neighbours objected to the plans.
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Chris said: "Everyone who returned to the site said they loved the children's tree house and it was a pity that they couldn't stay in there.
Bookings are now taking being taken with customers from as far away as Australia and the US branching out for the added luxury.
The treehouse, is available for between £150 and £200 a night, has already scored an impressive five-star score on its Trip Advisor reviews.
Chris and Michelle Whalley put in a planning application for their tree house in 2010.
Blean Parish Council received several complaints and objections which the couple took on board before the application was sent to Canterbury City Council planning committee.
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The tree hideaway is now the most viewed holiday let on TripAdvisor.
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Q: Local minimum and maximum points of $f(x)= \frac{x^2}{x-5}$ Trying to find the local minimum and maximum points of the function
$$f(x)=\frac{x^2}{x-5}.$$
I have tried desmos calculator and notes.

A: Hint:
Write $x-5=y$
For $y>0\iff x>5,$  use AM-GM inequality.
What if $y<0?$

A: $$\left(\frac{x^2}{x-5}\right)'=\frac{2x}{x-5}-\frac{x^2}{(x-5)^2}=\frac{x(x-10)}{(x-5)^2},$$
which gives $x_{min}=10$ and $x_{max}=0$.
Id est, $(10,20)$ it's a minimum point and $(0,0)$ it's a maximum point.
Also we can use the following way.
If $(x,k)$ is an extremum point in our case then the equation
$$\frac{x^2}{x-5}=k$$ or
$$x^2-kx+5k=0$$
has one real root, which gives  $\Delta=0$, which is $k^2-20k=0$ and from here
we can get the answer.

A: With the techniques from calculus, you can find local minima and maxima using Fermat's Theorem:

If $f$ is continuous on $[a,b]$ and differentiable on $(a,b)$, then the derivative at any local extremum is 0.

Thus take the derivative, and set it equal to zero.  Doing this gives
$$ 0 = \frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}x} \left( \frac{x^2}{x-5} \right) = \frac{2x(x-5) - x^2}{(x-5)^2} = \frac{x^2 - 10x}{(x-5)^2} \iff x \in \{0, 10\}.$$
Note that $0^2/(0-5) = 0$, and $10^2/(10-5) = 20$.  Thus the extreme points are
$$ (0,0) \qquad\text{and}\qquad (10,20).$$
It can be confirmed that these are a local maximum and minimum, respectively, by applying the second derivative test, or by noting that the first derivative changes sign (from positive to negative, and from negative to positive, respectively) at these points.  You can also read this off the graph, if you are willing to trust technology, or check the left- and right-hand limits at the asymptote---the fact that
$$ \lim_{x\to 5^{-}} \frac{x^2}{x-5} = -\infty $$
and that
$$ \lim_{x\to -\infty} \frac{x^2}{x-5} = -\infty,$$
combined with the fact that this function is continuous on the interval $(-\infty, 5)$, indicates that the single local extremum in this interval must be a maximum.  The other extreme value can be checked by similar reasoning.

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Perky and flirty! This skirt stands out, literally. Fashioned of a tight weave knit that creates a fluffed out look. Finished with box pleated waistband, and zipper closure. So light and comfy. Opaque. Unlined.


One of the best known examples of relict damp grassland on Weald clay in Surrey, Blindley Heath supports a number of rare plants and invertebrates, as well as protected species of reptiles and amphibians.
A hidden gem on the edge of Godstone, the reserve consists of a an open area of grassland with a small area woodland, a brook and several ponds.
A lovely spot for a picnic or a quiet stroll, also listen out for beautiful song of the nationally scarce nightingale.


The story of gin, a spirit known for its checkered past and colorful reputation, takes us from the battlefields of the Dutch Republic through London's slums to the speakeasies of Prohibition-era America. Join us in this masterclass to explore both gin's history and its current renaissance, including cutting-edge gins utilizing unique blends of botanicals. You'll move from an overview of gin's evolution into a comparative tasting, and conclude by learning about pairings featuring the many possibilities for gin-based cocktails. Leading the class is David McNicoll, New York-based brand ambassador for Brockmans Gin, whose many bonafides include co-founding the Scotch Whisky Club of New York.


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Partage de l'héritage de François de L'Estang
Nouhant,[1] 15 May 1650 (notarized copy, 14 September 1665)
Transaction between Louise d'Harzillemont, widow of François de L'Estang, seigneur of Bouis, and Philippe de L'Estang, sieur of Doulaye and Bouis, regarding the division of their common inheritance
This document details the division of the assets held by François de L'Estang, seigneur of Bouis in Auvergne, upon his death. His widow Louise d'Harzillemont retired to a property owned by the Harzillemont family in Picardy and decided to sell to her brother-in-law Philippe de L'Etang part of her share of the common inheritance.
François de L'Estang and his brothers Philippe and Gilbert appear to have been cousins of Pierre de Lauzanne (1590-1642), seigneur of Bouis, Puy-Malsignat and de L'Estang. Pierre and his wife Louise d'Haultefaye had seven sons, including Claude (1626-1692), the patriarch of a Lauzanne family branch established in Auvergne in the area of Puy-Malsignat. Claude and Louise's third son Sébastien (1627-1695) left Auvergne for Brittany, where he acted as captain in the Mazarin regiment and founded the Brittany branch of the Lauzanne family. The sixth son of Pierre and Louise, Philibert (1632-1684), seigneur of Saigne Vieille and Rochegude, viscount of Vaurousset, became the patriarch of another Lauzanne family branch in Auvergne and Limousin. He married Anne d'Anglars de Rochegude in 1676, granddaughter to Annet d'Anglars and Anne de Rochegude, whose marriage contract can be found here.
The document reproduced here is part of The Lauzanne Family Papers, an archive of documents of the Lauzanne family and other allied families established in Auvergne held at the Newberry Library. Numerous documents pertain to Pierre, his sons, and their progeny, such as a confirmation of the nobility of the Lauzanne family obtained by Sébastien in 1667, and leasing agreements for the seigneurie of Saigne Vieille signed by Philibert and his wife Anne.
There are about 500 documents directly related to the Lauzanne family in this archive spanning the 16th to the 20th century. The earliest Lauzanne document, dated 2 October 1535, confirms the rights of Jacques de Lauzanne (b. 1505) to the seigneurie of Sermur, while the most recent is a letter dated 1965. Important figures of the Lauzanne family include François-Guillaume de Lauzanne (1674-1733), whose documents pertain mostly to the administration of his seigneuries of Puy-Malsignat and la Maisonneuve, and a different Pierre de Lauzanne (1730-1792), who was brigadier and maître des eaux et forêts d'Auvergne. Many letters sent to him still bear original red seals. Amable-Joseph-Philippe de Lauzanne, known as Frédéric (1807-1873), plays a role in many of the family documents, partly due to an inheritance received from his uncle Amable-Jacques de Soubrany de Bénistant in 1842, his involvement in several other inheritance legal cases, and the extent of his assets.
The earliest documents in the entire collection are related to the Langeac family, including several documents on vellum from the 14th and 15th century. They are in the collection due to the alliance of Françoise de Vichy to François de Lauzanne in 1584. Françoise was the daughter of Françoise de Langeac and François de Vichy, and heir to the seigneurie of the Puy-Malsignat. Six Langeac family documents are found in our digital collection.
[1] Commune in Limousin, départment Creuse, arrondissement Aubusson, canton Évaux-les-Bains.
- Desan, Suzanne, and Jeffrey Merrick. Family, Gender and Law in Early Modern France. Philadelphia: Penn State University Press, 2009.
- Lauzanne, Hugues de. Généalogie de la famille de Lauzanne. Moulins: Crépin-Leblond, 1924.


Here is our trends presentation for 2018 - ten things to think about, including the convergence of ecommerce and retail, the rise of 'voice', the growth of shared digital experiences, the coming of the blockchain and more.
I'm conscious that I don't update this blog as much as I used to, or as much as I should. Part of it is wondering what the focus should be, now that every campaign is digital, but I'll be trying a few new ideas in 2018. Please keep following!
Probably not what Kevin Systrom had in mind when he founded Instagram.


Beautiful bunads for festive occasions.
At Nordaker Bunader, we specialize in folk costumes (bunads) from Rogaland, Norway.
Here on our website we are pleased to present our range of costumes and accessories.
We offer a choice of seven ladies' and two men's costumes, as well as shirts, hats, shoes and other accessories.
You will find us in downtown Stavanger, at Steinkargaten 29, between Østervåg and the quayside, not far from the Norwegian Petroleum Museum.
Our ladies' costumes have historical links to seven different places in Rogaland – from Suldal in the north to Bjerkreim in the south.
We have a range of costumes.
The embroidery is based on a motif from a bonnet found in Erfjord.
The embroidery is based on a motif from a bonnet found in Frafjord.
The embroidery is based on a motif from a shawl found at the Løland farm in Suldal.
The embroidery is based on a motif from a christening bonnet found in Bjerkreim.
The embroidery is based on a motif from a bonnet found in Jelsa.
The embroidery is based on a motif from a shawl found in Austre Bokn.
The embroidery is based on a motif from a shawl found at the Vandvik farm in Suldal, the neighbouring farm to Løland.
Our men's costumes have black or red jackets.
Our children's costumes are copies of adult costumes from Rogaland.


For transformer manufacturers, test laboratories, power utilities and others with a need to measure capacitance and dissipation factor at high voltages, Megger's new CDAX 605 test set provides a convenient, cost-effective and versatile solution. Faster and easier to use than even self-balancing capacitance bridges, more versatile and at least as accurate, the innovative CDAX 605 combines an exceptionally wide measuring range with fully automatic operation.
Ideally suited for tests on power and instrument transformers, liquid and solid insulation, cables, shunt reactors, capacitors and bushings, the CDAX 605 provides direct readings of capacitance, dissipation factor, inductance and ratio without the need for bridge balancing or calculations. It achieves an accuracy of 0.02% for capacitance over the range 0 to 100 µF, and 0.002% for dissipation factor from 0 to 100. Absolute current and voltage levels are measured with an accuracy of 0.5%. Like a traditional bridge, the CDAX 605 works with an external reference and high-voltage source, but with this innovative instrument, the reference can be either a capacitor or a resistor, and the measurement object can be capacitive, inductive or resistive.
This is a significant benefit, as calibrated standard capacitors are typically only available in a limited range of values, which means that with conventional measurement techniques the test current for high ratio devices like capacitive coupled voltage transformers (CCVTs) can be undesirably low. Irrespective of the type and value of the reference used with the CDAX 605, no recalculation of results is needed. Megger's new CDAX 655 high-voltage capacitance and dissipation factor test set features compact yet robust construction, and weighs only 4.4 kg. Despite its small size and weight, however, it accommodates all standard test configurations, including UST-R, UST-B, UST-RB, GST-GND, GSTg-R, GSTg-B and GSTg-RB, with three measurement inputs. Designed for use with an external PC, the CDAX 655 is supplied with software that provides a convenient and intuitive user interface and has integrated data logging facilities. LabView and C# communication interfaces are also available to further increase the versatility of this innovative instrument.


The Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, inhabited the Paris area from around the middle of the 3rd century BC. Businesses may also be social non-profit enterprises or state-owned public enterprises operated by governments with specific social, a business owned by multiple private individuals may form as an incorporated company or jointly organise as a partnership.
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A sole proprietor has unlimited liability for all obligations incurred by the business, partnership, A partnership is a business owned by two or more people. In most forms of partnerships, each partner has unlimited liability for the debts incurred by the business, the three most prevalent types of for-profit partnerships are, general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships. Corporation, The owners of a corporation have limited liability and the business has a legal personality from its owners.
Corporations can be either government-owned or privately owned and they can organize either for profit or as nonprofit organizations. A privately owned, for-profit corporation is owned by its shareholders, a privately owned, for-profit corporation can be either privately held by a small group of individuals, or publicly held, with publicly traded shares listed on a stock exchange. Cooperative, Often referred to as a co-op, a cooperative is a limited-liability business that can organize as for-profit or not-for-profit, a cooperative differs from a corporation in that it has members, not shareholders, and they share decision-making authority.
Cooperatives are typically classified as either consumer cooperatives or worker cooperatives, cooperatives are fundamental to the ideology of economic democracy. In contrast, unincorporated businesses or persons working on their own are not as protected. Franchises, A franchise is a system in which entrepreneurs purchase the rights to open, franchising in the United States is widespread and is a major economic powerhouse.
One out of retail businesses in the United States are franchised and 8 million people are employed in a franchised business. Real estate businesses sell, invest, construct and develop properties — including land, residential homes, retailers, wholesalers, and distributors act as middlemen and get goods produced by manufacturers to the intended consumers, they make their profits by marking up their prices.
Most stores and catalog companies are distributors or retailers, transportation businesses such as railways, airlines, shipping companies that deliver goods and individuals to their destinations for a fee. Massage can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, knees, forearm, feet, aquatic massage and bodywork is performed with recipients submersed or floating in a warm-water therapy pool.
In distinction the ancient Greek word for massage was anatripsis, archaeological evidence of massage has been found in many ancient civilizations including China, India, Japan, Korea, Egypt, Rome, Greece, and Mesopotamia. The Nei-jing is a compilation of knowledge known up to that date. Massage is referred to in 30 different chapters of the Nei Jing and it specifies the use of different massage techniques and how they should be used in the treatment of specific ailments, and injuries.
Traditional Thai massage is based on a combination of Indian. Jivaka is known today as Father Doctor in Thailand, BC, A possible biblical reference documents daily treatments with oil of myrrh as a part of the beauty regimen of the wives of Xerxes. BC, Hippocrates wrote The physician must be experienced in many things, BC Charaka Samhita believed to be the oldest of the three ancient treatises of Ayurvedic medicine, including massage.
Sanskrit records indicate that massage had been practiced in India long before the beginning of recorded history, AD, Dr Sun Si Miao introduces ten new massage techniques and systematized the treatment of childhood diseases using massage therapy.
AD, China establishes a department of massage therapy within the Office of Imperial Physicians, middle-Ages, Medical knowledge, including that of massage, made its way from Rome to Persia in the Middle Ages. Many of Galens manuscripts, for instance, were collected and translated by Hunayn ibn Ishaq in the 9th century. Later in the 11th century copies were translated back into Latin, and again in the 15th and 16th centuries and this renewal of the Galenic tradition during the Renaissance played a very important part in the rise of modern science.
One of the greatest Persian medics was Avicenna, also known as Ibn Sina and he was the foremost philosopher of medieval Islam and also a great philosopher, logician and medic. AD, Evidence of massage abortion, involving the application of pressure to the pregnant abdomen and it depicts a demon performing such an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the underworld.
Cities generally have complex systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, housing, a big city or metropolis usually has associated suburbs and exurbs. Such cities are associated with metropolitan areas and urban areas.
Once a city expands far enough to another city, this region can be deemed a conurbation or megalopolis. Damascus is arguably the oldest city in the world, in terms of population, the largest city proper is Shanghai, while the fastest-growing is Dubai.
There is not enough evidence to assert what conditions gave rise to the first cities, some theorists have speculated on what they consider suitable pre-conditions and basic mechanisms that might have been important driving forces. The conventional view holds that cities first formed after the Neolithic revolution, the Neolithic revolution brought agriculture, which made denser human populations possible, thereby supporting city development.
The advent of farming encouraged hunter-gatherers to abandon nomadic lifestyles and to settle near others who lived by agricultural production, the increased population density encouraged by farming and the increased output of food per unit of land created conditions that seem more suitable for city-like activities. In his book, Cities and Economic Development, Paul Bairoch takes up position in his argument that agricultural activity appears necessary before true cities can form.
According to Vere Gordon Childe, for a settlement to qualify as a city, it must have enough surplus of raw materials to support trade and a relatively large population. To illustrate this point, Bairoch offers an example, Western Europe during the pre-Neolithic, when the cost of transport is taken into account, the figure rises to , square kilometres.
Bairoch noted that this is roughly the size of Great Britain, the urban theorist Jane Jacobs suggests that city formation preceded the birth of agriculture, but this view is not widely accepted. In his book City Economics, Brendan OFlaherty asserts Cities could persist—as they have for thousands of years—only if their advantages offset the disadvantages, OFlaherty illustrates two similar attracting advantages known as increasing returns to scale and economies of scale, which are concepts usually associated with businesses.
Their applications are seen in more basic economic systems as well, increasing returns to scale occurs when doubling all inputs more than doubles the output an activity has economies of scale if doubling output less than doubles cost.
To offer an example of these concepts, OFlaherty makes use of one of the oldest reasons why cities were built, in this example, the inputs are anything that would be used for protection and the output is the area protected and everything of value contained in it. Murphy, Great bordellos of the world. McGinn, The economy of prostitution in the Roman world: The University of Michigan Press, Bennett, Sisters and workers in the Middle Ages.
University of Chicago Press, Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England. How 'horizontal collaborators' in Paris brothels enjoyed a golden age entertaining Hitler's troops. Amsterdam was granted city rights in either or , from the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely from trade with the Hanseatic League 2. Most stores and catalog companies are distributors or retailers, transportation businesses such as railways, airlines, shipping companies that deliver goods and individuals to their destinations for a fee 4.
AD, Evidence of massage abortion, involving the application of pressure to the pregnant abdomen and it depicts a demon performing such an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the underworld 5. The Oude Kerk was consecrated in A woodcut depicting Amsterdam as of ; the famous Grachtengordel had not yet been established. Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange by Emanuel de Witte , ; the Amsterdam Stock Exchange was the first stock exchange to introduce continuous trade in the early 17th century.
Gold coins minted by the Parisii 1st century BC. The Eiffel Tower , under construction in November , startled Parisians and the world with its modernity. Massage is to work and act on the body with pressure. Drawings of accupressure points on Sen line s at Wat Pho temple in Thailand. Massage room in Shanghai, China.
A woman gets a massage. A city is a large human settlement. The waterfront of Alexandria , a modern city with at least 23 centuries of history. Hillside housing and graveyard in Kabul. Downtown Pittsburgh sits at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, which become the Ohio. Kinshasa ends and fields begin.
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Inhabitants are known in English as Parisians and in French as Parisiens and they are also pejoratively called Parigots. The Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, inhabited the Paris area from around the middle of the 3rd century BC. Businesses may also be social non-profit enterprises or state-owned public enterprises operated by governments with specific social, a business owned by multiple private individuals may form as an incorporated company or jointly organise as a partnership.
Countries have different laws that may ascribe different rights to the business entities. The word business can refer to an organization or to an entire market sector or to the sum of all economic activity.
Compound forms such as agribusiness represent subsets of the broader meaning. Businesses aim to maximize sales to have their income exceed their expenditures, resulting in a profit, the owner operates the business alone and may hire employees. A sole proprietor has unlimited liability for all obligations incurred by the business, partnership, A partnership is a business owned by two or more people. In most forms of partnerships, each partner has unlimited liability for the debts incurred by the business, the three most prevalent types of for-profit partnerships are, general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships.
Corporation, The owners of a corporation have limited liability and the business has a legal personality from its owners. Corporations can be either government-owned or privately owned and they can organize either for profit or as nonprofit organizations. A privately owned, for-profit corporation is owned by its shareholders, a privately owned, for-profit corporation can be either privately held by a small group of individuals, or publicly held, with publicly traded shares listed on a stock exchange.
Cooperative, Often referred to as a co-op, a cooperative is a limited-liability business that can organize as for-profit or not-for-profit, a cooperative differs from a corporation in that it has members, not shareholders, and they share decision-making authority. Cooperatives are typically classified as either consumer cooperatives or worker cooperatives, cooperatives are fundamental to the ideology of economic democracy.
In contrast, unincorporated businesses or persons working on their own are not as protected. Franchises, A franchise is a system in which entrepreneurs purchase the rights to open, franchising in the United States is widespread and is a major economic powerhouse. One out of retail businesses in the United States are franchised and 8 million people are employed in a franchised business.
Real estate businesses sell, invest, construct and develop properties — including land, residential homes, retailers, wholesalers, and distributors act as middlemen and get goods produced by manufacturers to the intended consumers, they make their profits by marking up their prices. Most stores and catalog companies are distributors or retailers, transportation businesses such as railways, airlines, shipping companies that deliver goods and individuals to their destinations for a fee.
Massage can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, knees, forearm, feet, aquatic massage and bodywork is performed with recipients submersed or floating in a warm-water therapy pool. In distinction the ancient Greek word for massage was anatripsis, archaeological evidence of massage has been found in many ancient civilizations including China, India, Japan, Korea, Egypt, Rome, Greece, and Mesopotamia.
The Nei-jing is a compilation of knowledge known up to that date. Massage is referred to in 30 different chapters of the Nei Jing and it specifies the use of different massage techniques and how they should be used in the treatment of specific ailments, and injuries.
Traditional Thai massage is based on a combination of Indian. Jivaka is known today as Father Doctor in Thailand, BC, A possible biblical reference documents daily treatments with oil of myrrh as a part of the beauty regimen of the wives of Xerxes.
BC, Hippocrates wrote The physician must be experienced in many things, BC Charaka Samhita believed to be the oldest of the three ancient treatises of Ayurvedic medicine, including massage.
Sanskrit records indicate that massage had been practiced in India long before the beginning of recorded history, AD, Dr Sun Si Miao introduces ten new massage techniques and systematized the treatment of childhood diseases using massage therapy. AD, China establishes a department of massage therapy within the Office of Imperial Physicians, middle-Ages, Medical knowledge, including that of massage, made its way from Rome to Persia in the Middle Ages. Many of Galens manuscripts, for instance, were collected and translated by Hunayn ibn Ishaq in the 9th century.
Later in the 11th century copies were translated back into Latin, and again in the 15th and 16th centuries and this renewal of the Galenic tradition during the Renaissance played a very important part in the rise of modern science. One of the greatest Persian medics was Avicenna, also known as Ibn Sina and he was the foremost philosopher of medieval Islam and also a great philosopher, logician and medic. AD, Evidence of massage abortion, involving the application of pressure to the pregnant abdomen and it depicts a demon performing such an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the underworld.
Cities generally have complex systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, housing, a big city or metropolis usually has associated suburbs and exurbs. Such cities are associated with metropolitan areas and urban areas. Once a city expands far enough to another city, this region can be deemed a conurbation or megalopolis. Damascus is arguably the oldest city in the world, in terms of population, the largest city proper is Shanghai, while the fastest-growing is Dubai.
There is not enough evidence to assert what conditions gave rise to the first cities, some theorists have speculated on what they consider suitable pre-conditions and basic mechanisms that might have been important driving forces. The conventional view holds that cities first formed after the Neolithic revolution, the Neolithic revolution brought agriculture, which made denser human populations possible, thereby supporting city development. The advent of farming encouraged hunter-gatherers to abandon nomadic lifestyles and to settle near others who lived by agricultural production, the increased population density encouraged by farming and the increased output of food per unit of land created conditions that seem more suitable for city-like activities.
In his book, Cities and Economic Development, Paul Bairoch takes up position in his argument that agricultural activity appears necessary before true cities can form. According to Vere Gordon Childe, for a settlement to qualify as a city, it must have enough surplus of raw materials to support trade and a relatively large population.
To illustrate this point, Bairoch offers an example, Western Europe during the pre-Neolithic, when the cost of transport is taken into account, the figure rises to , square kilometres. Bairoch noted that this is roughly the size of Great Britain, the urban theorist Jane Jacobs suggests that city formation preceded the birth of agriculture, but this view is not widely accepted.
In his book City Economics, Brendan OFlaherty asserts Cities could persist—as they have for thousands of years—only if their advantages offset the disadvantages, OFlaherty illustrates two similar attracting advantages known as increasing returns to scale and economies of scale, which are concepts usually associated with businesses. Their applications are seen in more basic economic systems as well, increasing returns to scale occurs when doubling all inputs more than doubles the output an activity has economies of scale if doubling output less than doubles cost.
University of Chicago Press, Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England. How 'horizontal collaborators' in Paris brothels enjoyed a golden age entertaining Hitler's troops.
Amsterdam was granted city rights in either or , from the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely from trade with the Hanseatic League 2. Most stores and catalog companies are distributors or retailers, transportation businesses such as railways, airlines, shipping companies that deliver goods and individuals to their destinations for a fee 4.
AD, Evidence of massage abortion, involving the application of pressure to the pregnant abdomen and it depicts a demon performing such an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the underworld 5. The Oude Kerk was consecrated in A woodcut depicting Amsterdam as of ; the famous Grachtengordel had not yet been established.
Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange by Emanuel de Witte , ; the Amsterdam Stock Exchange was the first stock exchange to introduce continuous trade in the early 17th century. Gold coins minted by the Parisii 1st century BC.
The Eiffel Tower , under construction in November , startled Parisians and the world with its modernity. Massage is to work and act on the body with pressure. Drawings of accupressure points on Sen line s at Wat Pho temple in Thailand.
Massage room in Shanghai, China. A woman gets a massage. A city is a large human settlement. The waterfront of Alexandria , a modern city with at least 23 centuries of history. Hillside housing and graveyard in Kabul. Downtown Pittsburgh sits at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, which become the Ohio.
Kinshasa ends and fields begin. Ancient Egypt is a canonical example of an early culture considered a civilization. Aristotle Altemps Inv Acropolis Athens in Nadi, Suva, Viti Levu Island, etc.
Bora Bora, Mo'orea, Papeete, Tahiti, etc. Franceville, Libreville, Moanda, Port-Gentil, etc. Isfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Tehran, etc. Douglas, Port Erin, etc. Hawally, Kuwait City, Salmiya, etc. Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng, Vientiane, etc.
Bitola, Mavrovo, Ohrid, Skopje, etc. Blantyre, Lilongwe, Zomba, etc. Paul's Bay, Valletta, etc. Darkhan, Erdenet, Ulaanbaatar, etc. Mandalay, Naypyidaw, Nyaung Shwe, Yangon, etc. Rundu, Swakopmund, Walvis Bay, Windhoek, etc.
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Billion EURO-contract for PUMA IFV
--- Quote from: KMW ---Billion EURO-contract for PUMA IFV
Munich, July 6, 2009 - Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has received the largest single order in its recent history with a commission for series production of the Puma Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV).
PSM GmbH (Project System and Management), a joint venture in which KMW and Rheinmetall AG of Düsseldorf each hold a 50% stake, was awarded a contract by the Federal German Defence Technology and Procurement Agency (BWB) for the delivery of 405 newly developed combat vehicles. The total contract value is approximately EUR 3.1 billion. The delivery of the IFVs to the German Bundeswehr will start 2010.
The Budget as well as the Defence Committee of the German Parliament (Bundestag) have previously given the green light for the start of what is currently the largest European armaments project for land forces.
The PUMA contract is of key significance both for the Bundeswehr and the industry. It sets unique technical standards and will ensure that decisive system skills are retained in Germany, which are vital for maintaining our international competitiveness, said Frank Haun, CEO of KMW, on signing the contract.
Puma sets new standards - best possible protection for crew
The Puma is the most important modernisation project in the Bundeswehr's armaments procurement programme. It offers its occupants until now unequalled protection against mines, anti-tank weapons and improvised explosive devices commonly encountered in modern conflict areas. Its air portability, its mobility in difficult terrain and its scalability all go to make the Puma a vehicle that will take on important tasks in international conflict management while providing its occupants with the best possible degree of protection. It is also without equal in terms of endurance and firepower. The menless turret design developed by KMW sets new standards, as does a decoupled running gear that is completely isolated from the vehicle bodypan, which means that even at high speeds noise and vibrations inside the vehicle can be reduced in comparison with existing IFVs by around 90 percent.
More than 30 years after the Marder IFV entered service with the Bundeswehr, the Puma, with its extended scope of performance, establishes a completely new vehicle category. In international comparison it is taking a leading position among armoured combat vehicles.
In September 2002, the German Parliament gave the go-ahead for the new IFV by issuing the development order. It was decided to procure five pre-production series vehicles with a value of around EUR 350 million at the end of 2004. These preseries vehicles are now in service with the Bundeswehr for trials and optimisation having successfully completed numerous tests in March 2009.
Source: http://www.kmweg.de/gb/pressenews_detail.php?id=143


Selling a home is never easy - and if you have to sell by a certain deadline then you could really be hurting your chances of selling for a good price, or selling at all. Most often people don't need to operate within a certain time frame, unless they already have another place to live. But if you're living the military life then you know timing isn't something you always have control over. Luckily, there are a few last minute things you can do to make your home sell faster!
The first thing anyone sees when coming to your home is the front yard. That's why curb appeal is so important! You only get one chance to make a first impression. How is your home's curb appeal? If the paint is peeling on your shutters or your door looks like it's been through a few winters, then someone coming to your home could think that the inside will be shabby is well. It's setting their expectations to dislike your home before they even walk in.
So how can you improve your curb appeal? There are lots of things you can do - and you don't even have to break the bank! If you have some money to spend, replacing your front door, windows, and shutters and hiring a landscaper can make your home look beautiful in an instant.
If you don't have money to spend, head over to Home Depot and start DIY'ing! Simply throwing on a new coat of paint and planting some trees and bushes could make a big difference fast. In just one weekend the outside of your home could look brand new.
This one is easy in theory, difficult in practice. Neutralizing a home to help it sell is a MUST - short time frame or no. A person needs to walk into a place and feel like they can sit down, plop their feet on the coffee table, and call it home right away. That's how you get a house sold quickly. But if you have photos of your family on every wall, your favorite flowered wallpaper in the bathroom, and toys littering the bedrooms, then this will be hard to do.
There's no need for a big budget on this one. The first thing you should do is clean up any clutter that exists in your home. That goes from kids toys to your clothes and storage boxes. If you need to, rent out a short-term storage locker to pack these things away and make your home look clean and organized. You'll need to pack it all before you move anyway, so this will just give you a head start.
If you have a little more money to spend, the next thing you should do is take down any patterned wallpaper (this is always a matter of personal style so you're better of not having it there) and paint any bright colored rooms. Typically soft beiges, blues, and whites are colors that anyone can appreciate. If the incoming buyers want something more unique, let them take care of that after they've bought your home.
Are there any known issues with your home such as a damaged roof or leaky faucets? If there is anything you know about that needs to be fixed, just take care of it now. It will likely come up in inspection anyway and that gives the potential buyers a chance to walk away from a contract.
Even small repairs matter. If someone starts to fall in love with your home but notices the cupboard door doesn't shut all the way, that small detail could instantly make them worry that there are much bigger problems lurking behind the walls. Don't let their imaginations run wild! Make small fixes so they can trust that the home has been well taken care of.
This is by no means necessary and definitely requires more wiggle room in your budget. However, if you're really desperate to sell and you have some extra money, staging a home is a great way to neutralize the space and show buyers how it could look. Staging is done by professional interior designers so you can be sure that your home will look as good as new - at least when it comes to the furniture and decor.
This is also a good option if you've already moved out. Rooms tend to look bigger with furniture in them so that's a bonus. Plus, it's another way you can avoid a possible buyer having to use his or her imagination. The quicker they can see themselves in your place, the sooner they'll sign on the dotted line.
Buying a home is a daunting process and ends in a major commitment. Even if someone falls in love with your home they will still deal with anxiety over making such a large purchase. But if you make these small changes, you will create a home that is warmer, more inviting, and that looks to be problem-free. This will be the difference between you selling your home quickly or having it sit on the market for months or even years!


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Home US News Tennessee Commission votes to remove KKK leader's statue from the State Capitol
Tennessee Commission votes to remove KKK leader's statue from the State Capitol
The statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest was voted to be removed from the State Capitol building after months of debate. The Tennessee Historical Commission finally announced that the statue of the confederate general and one of the earliest KKK leaders will be removed from the State Capitol.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first KKK Grand Wizard who led the confederate troops to Fort Pillow following a massacre that left almost 300 union soldiers dead. 200 soldiers among them were Black. He is known as one of the most racist historical figures.
There have been various attempts in the past to remove the statue but they never saw the light of the day. The movement to remove Forrest's statue from the Capitol building gained momentum over the summer after the Black Lives Matter protests spread widely across the country following George Floyd's death.
The Tennessee Historical Commission voted 25-1 for the relocation of Forrest's bust to the Tennessee State Museum. Republican Gov. Bill Lee supported this move. He claimed that Forrest is known as a leader who inflicted pain, brutal crimes, and sufferings on the African Americans. The pain is very real for the fellow Tennesseans and it gets doubled whenever they walk in the halls of the Statehouse. The bust needs to be removed as it is a bitter remembrance of the massacre by him.
The new location of Forrest's statue is still undecided. Some leaders are trying to halt the statue's removal by arguing that it can't be done without following proper procedure. Lt. Gov Randy McNally and House Speaker Cameron Sexton both have requested the Attorney General of Tennessee to issue a statement regarding the commission's vote to move the statute.
Herbert Slatery III, the Attorney General of Tennessee is also authorized to determine the new location of the statue. However, McNally has suggested that the statue should remain in the building as it adds a different angle to American history altogether. He also claimed that the left-wing activists, who are pushing an anti-American and anti-history agenda across the country, are responsible for this act. They will not stop here and will find other means to engrave their agenda of anti-American history.
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Charlton Athletic must prove a point at Huddersfield Town
CHARLTON make their 36th league visit to Huddersfield eager to prove a point.
Phil Parkinson's side have the fourth best away record in League I, but have so far failed to beat any of the sides in the top half of the table on their own turf.
Their wins have come against Stockport, Wycombe, Southend, Tranmere, Hartlepool, Leyton Orient and Brighton.
Meanwhile Town, who have picked up 24 points away from home compared to Charlton's tally of 28, are aiming for a first win home or away against a side currently in the top six.
Charlton have been victorious on their last two visits to the Galpharm – 2-1 in 1999-2000 and 3-0 in 1997-98.
Overall the South-East Londoners have 10 wins in the series, with Town chalking up 16.
The last of those was in 1996-97, when Darren Bullock and Andy Morrison gave Town a 2-0 win on the opening day of the season.
The first meeting in Huddersfield was in December 1936, when Charlton won 2-1.


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Tel Aviv - Yafo Mentorship Programme
Women4Climate Tel Aviv-Yafo 2022
Women4Climate is an international program, a joint initiative of C40 and the L'Oréal Foundation. The municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo, as a committed member of C40, is proud to launch the third cohort of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Women4Climate mentorship program.
The purpose of the program is to encourage and support entrepreneurship and innovation among women on environmental and sustainability issues that contribute to the city's climate preparedness plan. Women participating in the program will be working on important areas including energy efficiency and the promotion of renewable energies, the promotion of sustainable transportation, reducing waste to landfill, green construction, promoting urban ecosystems, preparing for extreme weather events, and supporting social and gender equality in the context of the climate crisis.
Women participating in the program will have access to intensive professional training sessions, the municipal databases and climate plan, and support from a team of mentors, as well as an introduction to the entrepreneurship and technology scene in Israel. These opportunities will provide tools for success in the world of climate entrepreneurship. Participants will also have access to joint international training and networking opportunities with women climate leaders part of the global Women4Climate network.
The program is promoted under the leadership of the Environment and Sustainability Authority, The platform, Tel Aviv Global and Tourism, The Municipal Resilience and Social Equality Authority and CITYZONE.
In memory of Dr. Shimrit Perkol Finkel, an environmental entrepreneur who was a graduate of the programme and who has left a legacy of ground-breaking innovations and striving for excellence.
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APPLICATION GUIDELINES TEL AVIV-YAFO
8 November 2022 - Applications and Submissions open
7 December 2022, 11pm IST - Closing of Applications
Mid-December 2022 - Virtual panel interview for shortlisted candidates
December 2022 - Launch of programme
May 2023 - End of mentorship programme
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Merida,
Yucatán's SEFOTOUR reports strong numbers for 2019
Travel to Yucatán is up as The tourism board SEFOTOUR is reporting strong numbers for 2019. Overall growth increased by 13.5%, and 27% in April alone. Arrivals at the Mérida International Airport has May as the best month in 50 years of history, according to figures from ASUR.
The statistics were announced by Secretary of Tourism Development for the State of Yucatán, Michelle Fridman Hirsch, as part of a presentation on the results of the tourism promotion work done under her administration to date.
Accompanied by leading industry partners of the Yucatan Tourism Board (SEFOTUR), the Secretary began the presentation with a recap of all efforts undertaken in the past eight months, pointing to the excellent results recorded as evidence of the intensity of the state's promotional undertakings.
At the end of 2018, Yucatán reported an average increase of 12.6% in overnight visitors, of which, international tourism grew by 35.9%, an important figure for the balance between the national and international markets for the destination.
During the first four months of 2019, the state registered an increase of 90,000 tourists and 51,000 new seats on airline routes. Commenting on the performance of the seven most recently inaugurated air routes, Fridman Hirsch said that "these new routes have shown an excellent performance in occupancy.
"Today, Yucatán is more and better connected with new markets, which has allowed us to increase the arrival of more tourists to the state, so we have worked on strengthening our presence through national and international markets in North America, South America and Europe," she added.
Regarding the growth of Mérida International Airport, Mr. Hector Navarrete Muñoz, director of Aeropuertos del Sureste (ASUR), commented on growth over the past eight months, noting that it reached 16.41% in April and 18.25% in May (the highest in the airport's history) and representing an average growth during the Easter holiday season.
According to the official data from DATATUR, Yucatán recorded a 27% increase in the arrival of visitors with overnight stays in April, which means an arrival of almost 100,000 tourists more than the same period last year, reaching a total of 674,263 tourists.
Regarding hotel occupancy, the state has recorded increases every month, despite a 2.4% increase in the number of rooms available. "According to DATATUR, Mérida was ranked first of the top 5 cities with the highest hotel occupancy in Mexico, and under the 'Yucatán Meetings' brand, we have strengthened the segment of meetings, which has grown by 31.9% in number of tourists with respect to the same period of 2018," she Fridman added.
Source: Travel Pulse Canada
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These flaked almonds are ideal for muesli and cake-decoration. You can also snack on them. These almonds are the same as the whole blanched almonds, with the same creamy flavour. In fact, being sliced, the flavour is even more enhanced and pleasant.


In early solar system, massive planets like Jupiter and Saturn stirred up trouble in their cosmic neighborhood, causing smaller bodies to collide with each other and form meteorite minerals, new research shows.
In the very early solar system, newly formed massive planets like Jupiter and Saturn stirred up trouble in their cosmic neighborhood, causing smaller bodies to collide with each other, new research shows.
In the disk of material surrounding the very newly formed sun — a swirling cloud of dense gas and dust that eventually gave birth to Earth and the other planets — rocky bodies from the inner solar system experienced violent collisions with icy bodies from the outer solar system, according to new research paper published today (July 1) in the journal Science Advances. To reach each other, these clumps of matter would have traveled across billions of miles of space.
This discovery comes from a detailed analysis of two samples of what scientists call chondrite meteorites that fell to Earth from space. Chondrites are among the largest class of meteorites and some of the oldest solid materials found in the solar system. These particular chondrite meteorites have their own names — Vigarano and Kaba — to distinguish them from others that have been collected.
Vigarano and Kaaba also contain chondrules — small, round, glassy pellets embedded in chondrites. Chondrules formed when molten droplets rapidly cooled in outer space, and they constitute up to 80 percent of primitive meteorites, according to Yves Marrocchi, a cosmochemist at the Centre of Petrographic and Geochemical Research (CRPG) in France and lead author of the new study.
Chondrules were a part of the protoplanetary disk, from which Earth and the other planets in our solar system formed.
Prior research had suggested that magnetite — a primary mineral among meteorite minerals formed during chondrule formation — present in chondrules was the result of cold water circulation, according to Marrocchi. However, the new study found that the chondrules embedded in Vigarano and Kaba contain high-temperature magnetites.
"This implies that these chondrules were formed under oxygen-rich conditions during impacts between planetesimals," Marrocchi told Eureka Sparks.
The composition and shape of the meteorite minerals present in the primitive meteorites revealed to Marrocchi and his colleagues that Vigarano and Kaba formed at high temperatures, he said. Marrocchi explained that, in order for magnetites to form at a high temperature, the environment of the protoplanetary disk needed to be oxygen-rich, which only occurs when there are collisions between planetesimals.
"When you produce a collision between small planets, you will produce what we call a plume of gas, which is just the vapors resonating from the collision," Marrocchi said, adding that the magnetites are then formed from the gases released during the collisions.
The results shed new light on the conditions of the early solar system. The researchers found the composition of these magnetites can only be explained by invoking a collision between rocky planetesimals from the inner solar system and icy bodies from the outer solar system. Using astrophysical models, the researchers then concluded that there was a lot of scattering between the inner and outer parts of the solar system, due to the early formation of giant planets, Marrocchi said.
"This implies that chondrules are not primitive dust formed in the disk but, to the contrary, are byproducts of collisions between planetesimals in the early evolution of the solar system," Marrocchi said.
Next, the researchers hope to better understand the kinetics, composition of gas, and duration of such collisions. If high-temperature magnetites are, in fact, found in other types meteorites, it will indicate that these collisions are the main process that drives chondrule formation, Marrocchi said.
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I love caramelized onions, they give such an amazing flavor to any meal, whether a burger, quiche, soup or this potato dish. Roasted peppers, mushrooms or beets can be added to the potatoes , I just happened to have cherry tomatoes on hand. You could also toss through some baby spinach or arugula while the potatoes are still warm, so that the leaves wilt a little. My French Onion Soup or French Onion Toast recipes will give you a very good description of how to caramelize onions properly.
2 pounds of baby potatoes cut in half- red or white will do.
1/2 cup of coarsely chopped fresh dill, parsley, chives, basil or tarragon- use which ever ones are your favorite, mix them up.
1. In a heavy thick bottomed pan, heat 2 tablespoons of oil over medium-low heat; cook onion, stirring often, until light brown, about 45 minutes, to caramelize onions properly it takes time.
2. Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Toss potatoes in a medium bowl with 1/4 cup of olive oil, 1 teaspoon of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
3. In another bowl toss cherry tomatoes( I used yellow but red are fine) with 2 tablespoons of olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
4. Sprinkle the hardier herbs on the bottom of a parchment lined baking sheet, then top with the potatoes and cherry tomatoes.
5. Roast until the potatoes are tender and brown on the edges, 30-35 minutes, the tomatoes will be ready at the same time.
6. Transfer the potatoes, caramelized onions and roasted cherry tomatoes to a serving bowl and toss with the 1/2 cup of coarsely chopped dill, parsley, chives, basil or tarragon. Do not transfer over the hardier herbs that were baked in the oven, they will be too tough. They were placed on the bottom of the pan to transfer some flavor to the potatoes and tomatoes. This dish can be served hot or just at room temperature.
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It's David against Goliath. Annraí O'Toole, Chief Executive Officer of Cape Clear Software, is taking on IBM in a battle for the future of SOA. What makes this interesting is that most companies of Cape Clear's size and stature (which is to say, small) are going out of their way to align themselves with Big Blue.
It's David against Goliath. Annraí O'Toole, Chief Executive Officer of Cape Clear Software, is taking on IBM in a battle for the future of SOA. What makes this interesting is that most companies of Cape Clear's size and stature (which is to say, small) are going out of their way to align themselves with Big Blue. Not Annraí. He's using his company blog and all the other marketing tools at his disposal to bring the titan down -- or at least, bring down the buyer's costs.
"We set out to radically simplify this whole middleware muddle," he explains, pointing to Cape Clear's Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product and agile approach to implementation. "We believe you can build complex systems in less time and at less cost. You don't need an army of people to make that happen."
O'Toole argues that IBM has ceased being innovative on the software front. He thinks its product organizations are "carrying 20-30 years of software baggage and they are offering their customers nothing new."
Result? Customers spending "an absolute fortune on software and an even bigger amount on services from IBM to actually get anything to work," he adds. "And so, we're coming along and saying it's about time to re-inject a bit of innovation and actually give customers some real choice based on some real software that solves their problems quicker, better, faster. We're out there and we are deliberately taking an anti-IBM approach. It isn't about people. It isn't about an army of consultants. It isn't about that other IBM. It's about great product … totally based on open standards, embodying a whole new architecture and a whole new way of thinking about tying systems together and exposing them as services."
It isn't easy being David, of course. No one, as they say, ever got fired for betting Goliath will crush the little punk. What's more, not all IT decision-makers and decision-influencers crave simplicity. Complexity, as many have decided, is their real meal ticket.
But something is changing in the marketplace, says O'Toole. "Now IT is being driven increasingly by business. The business people are banging on the table saying they want things done faster and cheaper." Cape Clear, in fact, now has an impressive set of clients.
All that said, David actually has a healthy respect for his giant opponent and can appreciate the irony of IBM's mere existence being his best marketing weapon. As O'Toole puts it, "Their vindication of the [SOA] category is fantastic."


Day in, day out, Executive Secretaries and PA's provide high level support for top executives. They work usually with very little supervision, anticipating needs and managing the day to day demands of busy and challenging workloads competently and often with little acknowledgement or encouragement!
This interactive and enjoyable Anderson training course seeks to develop and stretch the skill-set of EAs and PAs. This training course will help them to understand how to work with different leadership styles and at the same time develop the competence, confidence and mindset to achieve excellence and to recognize their value to their organisations.
This Anderson training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes a raft of techniques to engage all learning styles such as innovative and fun group and individual exercises and discussions, presentations by the Trainer, case studies, videos and all presented in a safe and confidential environment to support learning.


These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording SatG (details in the Discography below).
20 members play this tune.
[SatG] Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford. The Star above the Garter. Fiddle music from Kerry, played by Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford. Denis Murphy (fiddle), Julia Clifford (fiddle).
[JW 1] John Williams. John Williams. John Williams (accordion, concertina). For this tune: (concertina), with Micho Russell (whistle).
[BRny 1] Brian Rooney. The Godfather. Brian Rooney (fiddle).
[AJK] Alan and John Kelly. Fourmilehouse. Alan Kelly (piano accordion), John Kelly (flute, whistle).
[MaRaf] Mary Rafferty. Hand-Me-Downs. Mary Rafferty (accordion, concertina, flute, whistle). For this tune: Mike Rafferty (flute).
As tune #31 in volume 4 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.


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Pont-de-Vaux ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Ain in der Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Sie gehört zum Kanton Replonges im Arrondissement Bourg-en-Bresse.

Geografie
Pont-de-Vaux liegt an der Saône und am Fluss Reyssouze, der hier in die Saône mündet. Die Gemeinde liegt im Westen der Bresse, etwa 45 Kilometer nordwestlich von Bourg-en-Bresse. Umgeben wird Pont-de-Vaux von den Nachbargemeinden Saint-Bénigne im Norden und Nordosten, Gorrevod im Süden und Südosten, Reyssouze im Westen und Süden, Fleurville im Westen und Nordwesten sowie Montbellet im Nordwesten.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Kirche Mariä Himmelfahrt
 Wassermühle
 Markthalle
Siehe auch: Liste der Monuments historiques in Pont-de-Vaux

Persönlichkeiten
 Barthélemy-Catherine Joubert (1769–1799), General
 Antoine Chintreuil (1814–1873), Maler

Gemeindepartnerschaft
Mit der deutschen Gemeinde Dornhan in Baden-Württemberg besteht seit 1995 eine Partnerschaft.

Weblinks

Ort in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Ort an der Saône

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Zip lining...it's all good, until you come to a stop. Now what? See what this guy did in today's "Video of the Day"
It's back to work in Washington, with some heavyweight issues awaiting. Tax Reform is on the front burner in the Senate. NBC News Radio's Bill Zimpfer breaks it down with Tony from Washington.
Animation rules the Thanksgiving Box Office and Mariah Carey cancels more Christmas shows. That and more in today's Entertainment News.
President Trump's appointment of his budget director as interim director of a consumer financial protection agency championed by Democrats was challenged in a lawsuit filed in federal court Sunday night. CBS News Senior Business Analyst Jill Schlesinger breaks it down with Tony.