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POULIN DE COURVAL, FRANÇOIS-LOUIS, naval officer; b. 30 Oct. 1728 in Quebec, son of Louis-Jean Poulin de Courval and Françoise Foucault; d. in the autumn of 1769 at La Rochelle, France.
François-Louis, only son of Louis-Jean Poulin de Courval, studied at the Jesuit college in Quebec. Bishop Pontbriand [Dubreil] planned that he enter the priesthood, but by his own admission the young man had a much greater inclination for a military career. In 1746 he succeeded in convincing his uncle and guardian, Claude Poulin de Courval Cressé, to let him take part in the expedition which Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Roch de Ramezay* was mounting to besiege Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Upon his return to Quebec in November 1746, his guardian had Poulin de Courval follow the courses in pilotage which the Jesuit Joseph-Pierre de Bonnecamps* was giving at the college in Quebec. The following spring he began sailing between Canada, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), France, and the West Indies as a naval officer. He wanted to be freed from his uncle's guardianship, and on 30 Sept. 1748 obtained from the Conseil Supérieur letters of emancipation and benefit of age.
In 1752 Poulin de Courval became a captain in command of a merchant-ship and sailed the seas for some years. In the spring of 1756 his ship ran aground in the St Lawrence. He then entered the service of the king of France, who had just declared war on England. An experienced captain, Poulin de Courval made several crossings between Canada and France. During one of these crossings his ship, the Diamant, was captured; the wounded Poulin was taken prisoner to England, where he spent eight months. After being freed towards the end of 1758 he took the ship Bienfaisant, with a cargo of supplies and munitions, to Canada. He reached Quebec on 17 May 1759 and took part in the defence of the town. On 28 July he made an unsuccessful attempt to set fire to the English fleet by means of rafts used as fire-ships. A month later, while at Saint-Augustin (Saint-Augustin-de-Québec), he was the victim of an unlucky accident; a French soldier, taking him for an Englishman, fired upon him, hitting him in the thigh. Consequently Poulin de Courval was unable to take part in the final combats which were to decide the fate of the colony.
In the autumn of 1760 he arrived in La Rochelle, where he stayed for several months; from there he went to "take the waters" nearby to cure his bad leg. His stay at the spa put him 4,000 livres in debt. Anxious to pay these debts, he fitted out a privateer towards the end of 1761. Just as he was to sail, he received an order to go to Brest, where he was appointed a fire-ship captain in the Marine. In the spring of 1762 he sailed for Newfoundland with Charles-Louis d'Arsac* de Ternay in the expedition to destroy the English settlements there.
Poulin returned to France in the summer of 1762 to seek help for the expedition, and received command of the frigate Zéphir. Just as he was leaving the port of Brest to sail to Newfoundland, he was attacked by three English ships and forced to surrender. He was imprisoned in England for a month, then returned to France, thanks to the peace. As a consequence of this battle the Duc de Choiseul awarded him the cross of the order of Saint-Louis and a gratuity of 3,000 livres.
In 1763 Poulin de Courval received command of the flute Garonne and was commissioned to take the new governor, Gabriel-François d'Angeac*, and his officers to the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. He returned there in 1764 with a cargo of provisions. Apparently during one of these voyages he made a survey of the possibilities for fishing, agriculture, and lumbering on Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. But the supplying of these islands was always a precarious matter. During the winter of 1765–66 the situation at Saint-Pierre became critical, and Versailles asked the port authorities of Rochefort to send help, despite the difficulties of navigation in that season. This perilous mission was entrusted to Poulin de Courval, who knew the waters well. He successfully carried it out, reaching Saint-Pierre at the end of the winter of 1766. This final exploit earned him the rank of lieutenant-commander in the Marine and a gratuity of 600 livres.
Worn out by his numerous sea voyages, his military campaigns, and his wounds, François-Louis Poulin de Courval died at La Rochelle in October 1769. A few years earlier at Saint-Pierre and Miquelon he had married Marguerite Leneuf de Beaubassin, who in May 1769 bore him a son in La Rochelle.
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An affiliate of Austin, Texas-based real estate investment firm World Class Capital Group has paid $1 million for the 63,740-square-foot A-AAA Key Mini Storage facility at 3951 Lamar Ave. in Oakhaven.
The entity, WC Memphis Storage II LP, bought the property in an Oct. 23 special warranty deed from CSMC 2007-C3 Lamar Storage LLC, an affiliate of Miami Beach, Fla.-based special servicer LNR Partners, which took ownership following a foreclosure earlier this year.
The property's previous owner, Memphis Storage I LP, defaulted on $1.3 million loan through Column Financial Inc. dated May 9, 2007. The loan was assigned to numerous banks before winding up with the special servicer.
Built in 1973, the Class D warehouse mini storage facility sits on 5.7 acres on the south side of Lamar Avenue (called Highway 78 by the Shelby County Register of Deeds). The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $1.3 million.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
– Daily News staff
Memphis-based EdR, one of the nation's largest developers, owners and managers of collegiate housing, reported increased revenues in the third quarter.
The student housing real estate investment trust posted revenue of $44.2 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30, a 34.4 percent increase from $32.9 million in the third quarter of 2012.
Core funds from operations in the quarter were $8.7 million, up 47.4 percent from $5.9 million in the third quarter last year.
EdR recorded same-community revenue growth of 5 percent for the 2013-2014 lease term, with a net rental rate increase of 2 percent.
During the third quarter, EdR completed its previously announced $56.2 million acquisition of the Retreat at State College, a 587-bed community serving Penn State University. The company also acquired the Cottages on Lindberg, a 745-bed community serving Purdue University, for $36 million.
EdR also delivered five new owned development communities with 2,750 beds for an aggregate cost of $192.4 million. Those communities opened 92.4 percent leased.
Through the first nine months of the year, EdR reported revenue of $131.8 million, up from $99.2 million over the same period last year.
– Amos Maki
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the long-term ratings of Memphis-based First Horizon National Corp. and its subsidiaries.
Moody's affirmed the financial strength rating of First Horizon subsidiary First Tennessee Bank, but the bank's baseline credit assessment was lowered. And the bank's long-term deposit rating also was downgraded.
Moody's said the downgrade mostly reflects the drag of First Horizon's legacy mortgage banking business on the company's performance.
– Andy Meek
The State Collaborative on Reforming Education – or SCORE – has included a Memphis charter school, Freedom Preparatory Academy, among the finalists for its third annual SCORE Prize.
The Nashville-based education reform collaborative, founded and chaired by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, gives an annual award to the elementary, middle and high school in the state that shows the most dramatic improvement in student achievement, as well as one school district in the state.
The collaborative awards the winning schools with $10,000 each, and the school district gets $25,000.
Freedom Prep is the only Memphis school among the finalists. The winners were to be named Monday, Oct. 28.
The school opened in the fall of 2009. It is the school Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam picked to sign into law the bill that did away with limits on the number of charter schools in the state.
The sixth- through ninth-grade school is in the old Lakeview Elementary School in the Westwood area.
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A ballet-based fitness studio will open at the revamped Overton Square Wednesday, Oct. 30.
Cardio Barre, an exercise franchise that offers a ballet-based strengthening and lengthening cardio workout, will open on the second floor of the former ice-skating rink and Palm Court space.
Cardio Barre Memphis will offer free classes Wednesday, Oct. 30, through Sunday, Nov. 3. The class schedule and rates can be found at cardiobarre.com.
Memphian Angela Copeland is launching a career-coaching practice called Copeland Coaching.
Copeland Coaching is offering help at all stages of the job search, including networking, interviewing and negotiation, and is helping professionals of all levels who want a career change.
Copeland also has written an e-book, "Breaking the Rules and Getting the Job," that provides practical advice for job-seekers. The book was released Monday, Oct. 28, and is available at copelandcoaching.com.
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The Nissan plant in Tennessee that makes the all-electric Leaf stands to benefit from an announcement last week that eight states will work together to dramatically increase the number of zero-emission cars on the nation's roads. But Tennessee isn't among the states signing the agreement, and Republican leaders say they have no plans to do so.
Meanwhile, a state program offering a $2,500 incentive for electric vehicle purchases expired in January, and Gov. Bill Haslam's administration has made no moves to revive it.
Nissan makes the Leaf and its lithium-ion batteries at its sprawling plant in Smyrna, a Nashville suburb. The Japanese automaker sold more than 16,000 Leafs through the first nine months of the year – three times as many as through the same period a year ago.
Governors from eight states representing 23 percent of the U.S. auto market pledged Thursday to get 3.3 million zero-emission vehicles on roadways by 2025 in an effort to curb greenhouse gas pollution from transportation sources.
Each state has already adopted rules to require a percentage of new vehicles sold to be zero emission by 2025. California's mandate calls for growing the zero-emission vehicles from the current level of less than 2 percent to more than 15 percent, or 1.5 million vehicles.
The other states involved in the agreement are Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont.
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U.S. factories barely boosted their output in September, adding to other signs that the economy was slowing even before the government shutdown began on Oct. 1.
Manufacturing production rose only 0.1 percent, the Federal Reserve said Monday. That's down from a 0.5 percent gain in August, which was slightly lower than previously reported.
Automakers boosted their output in September, but the gain was offset by declines at makers of computers, furniture and appliances.
Overall industrial production increased 0.6 percent in September, mostly because of a 4.4 percent jump in utility output. Utilities had fallen for five months. But September was unseasonably warm, likely increasing air conditioning use.
Mining output, which includes oil production, rose 0.2 percent, its sixth straight increase.
Factory output is the largest component of industrial production. It had shown signs of rebounding over the summer, raising hopes that factories would help drive economic growth in the second half of the year.
But several reports suggest businesses and consumers had both grown more cautious right before the 16-day partial government shutdown. And overall hiring has slowed. Those factors could keep the economy weak until next year.


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Gdańsk (Danzig in German) is a port city on the Baltic coast of Poland. Gdańsk is situated at the mouth of the Motlawa River, connected to the Leniwka, a branch in the delta of the nearby Vistula River, whose waterway system supplies 60% of the area of Poland and connects Gdańsk to the national capital in Warsaw. This gives the city a unique advantage as the focus of Poland's sea trade. Together with the nearby port of Gdynia, Gdańsk is also an important industrial centre. Historically an important seaport and shipbuilding centre, Gdańsk was a member of the Hanseatic League. At the center of its Main Town, reconstructed after WWII, are the colorful facades of the Long Market, now home to shops and restaurants.
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Amsterdam is the capital of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is the country's largest city and its financial, cultural, and creative centre. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, and seven of the world's 500 largest companies, including Philips and ING, are based in the city. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city in which to live by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and 12th globally on quality of living for environment and infrastructure by Mercer. Amsterdam derives its name from the city's origin as "Dam" of river "Amstel". In the past, the name was "Amstelredamme" which later changed as "Amsterdam". The city is one of the most popular destinations in Europe, attracting over 7 million international travellers annually. The city is colloquially known as ''Venice of the North'' because of its lovely canals that criss-cross the city, its impressive architecture and more than 1,500 bridges. There is something for every traveller's taste here; whether you prefer culture and history, serious partying, or just the relaxing charm of an old European city!
The capital of Portugal, Lisbon (Portuguese: Lisboa) has experienced a renaissance in recent years, with a contemporary culture that is alive and thriving and making its mark in today's Europe. Perched on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, Lisbon is one of the rare Western European cities that faces the ocean and uses water as an element that defines the city. Lisbon enchants travellers with its white-bleached limestone buildings, intimate alleyways, and an easy-going charm that makes it a popular year-round destination.
Stockholm - Sweden's capital and largest city, and the most populous city in the Nordic region. Without a doubt, Stockholm is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. The city is made up of 14 islands connected by some 50 bridges on Lake Mälaren, which flows into the brackish Baltic Sea, and passes the Stockholm archipelago with some 24,000 islands and islets. The city is a cosmopolitan place with both classical and modern architecture, and a captivating Old Town, Gamla Stan. Today, the area is an atmospheric mixture of buildings surrounded on all sides by a latticework of medieval lanes and alleyways.
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of 159.2 km2 (61.5 sq mi) with a population of 412,144. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, 80 km (50 mi) south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Tallinn is ranked as a global city and has been listed among the top 10 digital cities in the world. Tallinn is a European Capital of Culture for 2011, along with Turku, Finland.
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. Finland's major political, educational, financial, cultural, and research center as well as one of northern Europe's major cities, Helsinki was ranked the most liveable city in the world, in 2011. Approximately 75% of foreign companies operating in Finland have settled in the Helsinki region. The nearby municipality of Vantaa is the location of Helsinki Airport, with frequent service to various destinations in Europe and Asia. Today, Helsinki pulls off the trick of being something of an international metropolis while still retaining a small-town feel. The best time to visit is in summer, when Finns peel off their overcoats and flock to outdoor bars and cafes to enjoy the sunshine.
Barcelona – Spain's enchanting capital, second largest and most populous city. It is a huge city that vibrates with life, and there's certainly not another city in the country to touch it for its sheer style, looks or energy. It is one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair and cultural centers, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities. Barcelona is home to masterpieces of many great architects – the most famous of which is Antoni Gaudí.
Warnemünde is a seaside resort and a district of the city of Rostock in Mecklenburg, Germany. It is located on the Baltic Sea and, as the name implies, at the estuary of the river Warnow. Founded in about 1200, Warnemünde was for centuries a small fishing village with minor importance for the economic and cultural development of the region. Today, it's known for its long beachfront and marina, a cruise-ship stop.


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Yemenis want to be heard. They need to be heard. Thus I have asked Yemeni friends of mine, men and women, to tell their stories, to give a personal account of their experiences of the war in Yemen and to send me pictures that illustrate their texts. I will post them here on this website, one by one. I hope their writing will have an impact.
Layla M. Asda (26) is doing her Master in International Development and Gender at the university of Sana'a. She is ready to take her country forward. But she is stranded in the war. As million of other young Yemenis. In her text she gives a painfully detailed account of how the war affects her and her country. And she appeals to the war faring fractions to realise that there is no point of waging wars. It only creates destruction, hatred and the urge for revenge.
"It's raining!" I felt happy because "rain is what I adore", I thought to myself as I heard the sounds of thunder. Yes, it turned out to be rain – but a different kind of rain: It was raining missiles!
My dear country is under attack. It's war and it has opened the doors wide open to misery for us. My country has made it into the news which is not promising or cheerful at all, as it's not because of news of discovery or invention but news of destruction and suffering. It feels devastating to see it in the news and all we see is wrecks and death. We usually see and read news about wars in other places, but just to hear or read about it is one thing, to live it is a completely different story.
War is killing every beautiful thing inside us and inside our country. It is heartbreaking to lose that feeling of safety, to be in constant worry about your loved ones, to live endless terror unable to even have the slightest mean of life. Life has become a bleak vision for us, something we fantasise about. And that is how it's like to be in a war. The air vanishes and we can listen to our hearts beating heavily as the bombardment begins, and we wonder whether it's our turn coming up to join the victims under the ruins. The air disappears at the very thought of it. The kids shiver with great fear telling us that they don't want to die. My little brother Anas tells me that he doesn't want to sleep because he is terrified of the sounds of bombs. Once he asked me bitterly why his childhood was filled with war. Innocently he explained to me that his childhood is supposed to be about playing not fear: "I want to play with joy, not with fear!", he said.
Unfortunately, our house is located close to a missile base (the Faj Attan area) which has been targeted the most. Hell is what we have seen: During one of the airstrikes a smell of gas covered the whole area and almost suffocated us. It was dreadful, death was hovering over our heads.
When the big bomb hit we were at home, a horrifying sound shock the house followed by the sounds of glass breaking everywhere. The pressure pushed me over the broken glass. I didn't know where my mother was. I started screaming for her to run away with me but no answer came. The thought struck me for a moment, I became paralysed with horrible fear. What if my mother is hurt, God forbid? After moments of terror that felt like ages, I heard her sobbing cries in the other room. I then knew that she was sound. It was the happiest moment in my life.
Then we had to flee our house. It has been 83 days since we left our home. I miss my home, every single corner of it.
Unluckily, there is no safe place anywhere. We moved to our grandparents' house, which is also located close to many of the target places. When they hit the former President's House, we ran away to the room we thought might be safe. Then another missile hit and we again ran away to another room. And we kept going like this until we almost ran outside into the yard which is also very dangerous. But we did it impulsively, it was a moment your mind stops thinking and only aims at running away even though nowhere is safe.
Other places were targeted in one day, a day of terror. I was asleep when suddenly a huge explosion hit very close to us. I jumped out of my bed, rushed out of the room but I saw nothing, it was completely dark though it was morning. I couldn't breathe and my legs couldn't carry me anymore and I fell down, then I fainted.
Sometimes we try to forget that we are living in a war and act normally. We try to summon beautiful moments of our previous life before the war and a wave of nostalgia overwhelms us with melancholy about our life. We recall funny situations to grasp a laugh, but behind every laugh there is a feeling of bitterness and our hearts ache with pain tearing us down with despair. That war has stolen our life.
Thousands have been killed, they are just numbers in the news you read. But they are souls to those who lost their loved ones. Numerous people have lost their jobs and I'm one of those. Prices have doubled and lots of people can't feed their children any longer. This gives the alert that famine is knocking at the door if hasn't already entered without asking. According to the UN report, almost 20 million people (80% of the population) are facing starvation. The blockade imposed on us is killing us. Almost all basic needs are gone: There is no electricity, no water, no gas, no petrol, no diesel, not to mention the spread of diseases. Food, medicine and medical supplies are starting to vanish from the market and it will only be a matter of weeks till everything is gone. There are thousands of internally displaced persons, aid is restricted, though there are local initiatives and foundations to provide help. But the need is too high to meet.
Other governorates are far much worse off than we could ever imagine. In Sa'ada, Aden and Taiz, for instance, the situation is catastrophic especially because of the internal conflict. It is horrifying as no aid is even able to reach these places. Hospitals have called for relief because they are out of medical supplies. Dead bodies are everywhere. Thousands, who were lucky enough to be able to leave, fled their houses. Death in my country has many forms: those who don't die of the Saudi shelling or the internal conflict will die of hunger or epidemic diseases such as dengue fever that has started spread.
No words are able to capture the sufferings and pain that Yemenis endure.
At the beginning of the war I started to frantically read political analysis trying to figure out how long this cursed war would last, and here we are; we marked over 100 days and yet there is no sign of an end. There are only signs of despair and death that are waving in the horizon.
I'm doing my master in international development. I had dreams and many plans for my country. I was eager to participate in the development of my country. But now, I ask myself, how can we think of development when there exists only destruction?
A picture of a house in Old Sana'a. Because of the shelling of the historic old city of Sana'a, houses began falling one after another. The house in the picture is among the houses that got affected severely and it began to fall. (Taken by Ahmed Shahari, my cousin)
It is a nightmare that refuses to end. I wake up every morning just to discover that this nightmare is still haunting me. Every day that passes, I ask myself as well as people around me, when this war will end. I ask people because I wish that they would tell me that it will be soon – even if it is a lie. Then I would live holding onto the lie so tight to my heart with a glimmer of hope that it will become real and war will end and I hope that I witness this moment in my lifetime.
I wish that all people who sparked this war realise that there is no point of waging wars. War only generates hatred and revenge and promotes destruction of humans and homes. We curse this war a zillion times because it has stripped us of joy; it took away our souls and deprived us of life.
I don't know how long we'll continue like this. I'm not sure how long people will be able to bear the burden of this misery. Peace is what we need. Our voices need to reach out. Yemenis want to see their country flourish with development, not with war. War indeed has changed Yemenis, but it taught them how to survive and to never give up their dreams.
I want to live safely in my house. I want my hopes and dreams of a better future back, and I want my plans for my country back. We just want to live peacefully. Is this too much to ask? We deserve to live!


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Action Alert: Sign and Circulate the Jobs Not Wars Petition!
One of the best ways to reduce the deficit is to put people back to work. It's time to invest in our people, and our communities. Let's create stable jobs at living wages, rehabilitate our nation's infrastructure and invest in programs that serve the needs of people and communities, and develop a sustainable economy that protects the planet.
That's why I'm asking you to sign the Jobs not Wars Petition.
The extreme right has used the fiscal crisis over the last four years to force deep cuts in discretionary spending on programs that make up the social safety net. Now, they have their sights set on Social Security and Medicare.
I need your help to make a clear statement to those in Congress, and the administration, to Move the Money from wars and weapons to fund jobs and human services.
Peace Action's Move the Money Campaign has been all about building common cause with unions, environmental advocates and anti-poverty and civil rights activists.
When I told you about our petition campaign last month there were just over 80 groups gathering signatures. There are now 135 endorsing organizations working to remind Congress and the Obama administration we need to fundamentally change federal budget priorities from wars and ever more deadly weapons to jobs and meeting the needs of our communities.
So please sign the Jobs not Wars Petition. Once you have, please forward this email. Ask your friends and family to join you in signing the Jobs Not Wars Petition. Post this link http://bit.ly/jobs-not-wars-PA on your Facebook page and tweet it to your social network. There is strength in numbers.
In November, we voted to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and end the wars in order to reinvest in our communities.
The pressure we are building is having a real impact on the debate on federal spending priorities. With decisions on the debt ceiling and sequestration and votes ahead on both the 2013 and 2014 budgets, it's critical we keep pressing.
Humbly for Peace,
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The Rick Nash situation continues to snowball this morning, as both he and Jeff Carter have been reported missing from Blue Jackets practice. The sense is that it's a maintenance day, considering Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch followed up with news that Nash's agent was unsure as to why his client was MIA.
Whatever the case, this has sent the social media world into a frenzy, as expected.
Via TSN.ca, Portzline also reports that the five teams on Nash's "go-to list" are likely the Bruins, Kings, Rangers, Sharks and the Leafs.
Pavel Kubina is also missing practice for the Lightning, and they were pretty frank about addressing the situation.
From the team's official Twitter account;
Kubina being held off the ice to protect the team's interests. Has been asked for teams he would be willing to move to.
That may be the first time I've ever seen a team officially come out and say that over the internet.
It's no secret that Ales Hemsky is likely on his way out of Edmonton. Watching him last night, I was blown away by the amount of skill at times, despite him being in midst of a not-so productive season. I've always been a pretty big fan of Hemsky, so while I don't see him as a great fit with the Leafs, I'd likely change my tune if it were to go down. He isn't big and scary like Dustin Penner, but he also isn't terrible at hockey like Dustin Penner.
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Leafs play awful, win 4-3 in OT (Pension Plan Puppets)
Joe Colborne interview (The Leafs Nation)
Marlies this and that (Kyle The Reporter)
Leafs chasers are struggling too (The Sun)
How many top six forwards do the Leafs actually have? (Michael at VLM)
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Wal-Mart will offer health insurance benefits to same-sex couples and domestic partners starting in 2014.
The nation's largest retailer, the second-largest employer behind only the federal government, said domestic partners of its U.S. employees will be eligible starting Jan. 1 in a postcard mailed to workers this week.
The change will cover same-sex couples, as well as domestic partners of opposite genders who have been living together and in a committed relationship for at least a year.
The move comes just months after the Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, which previously defined marriage as between a man and a woman. The ruling meant that married same-sex couples in a dozen states and the District of Columbia are now eligible for more than 1,000 spousal benefits previously off limits under DOMA.
Related: DOMA ruling's overlooked benefit: Immigration rights
Since Wal-Mart (WMT) operates in all 50 states, it was important to the retailer to develop a single definition for all workers and have consistency across the country, according to spokesman Randy Hargrove.
"Given the diverse world we're in, we wanted to have a comprehensive benefits packages that appeals to a contemporary workforce," he said. "We want to attract and retain the best workforce."
Hargrove said that about 1.1 million associates and their family members enroll in Wal-Mart's benefits programs. It's unclear how many people will enroll with the new changes.
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ickens and his contemporaries did not, then, as one over-subtle critic has suggested, deliberately set out "to domesticate death ... and take it in by the fireside" as a ploy for coping with its prevalence in the harsh, urbanizing world outside (Welsh 212). Death was already a familiar presence at the family hearth. What many of them did was just the opposite. Like Josephine Butler, whose daughter's death sent her out to help fallen women, they took their personal grief and channelled it productively into their dealings with the world outside. Mrs Gaskell saw this as the very "secret of comfort": "the sufferer wrestling with God's messenger until a blessing is left behind, not for one alone but for generations" (Mary Barton 366). One way for the writer to invest early death with a positive meaning was by emphasizing the spiritual strength of the dying child, and encouraging others to learn from it.
Concern with this subject is not new in the novel. In the previous century it featured most spectacularly in Clarissa. Clarissa is described as a 'young lady' in the subtitle of Richardson's most famous work, [....]; but in her own and others' estimation, she is often a child. She dies while still in her teens, having refused to accommodate herself to the greed of this world. There is much lingering over her death-bed, both before and after she dies, but everything confirms not her weakness, but her strength. In her last letter to her brother, she insists that her suffering has been productive and that she is happy. (This is in vivid contrast to the almost equally prolonged but wretched struggle put up by the monstrous old bawd, Mrs Sinclair). Clarissa's courageous departure is an instance of the saintly early death syndrome already rampant in religious tracts; but her superiority to those around her is far better demonstrated, through the accumulation of detail in one long letter after another, and through the greater complexity of characterization.
Following the tradition of those early tracts, Mrs Sherwood had exploited younger children's deaths [in The History of the Fairchild Family] to one main end: to direct her child readers' attention to their own spiritual health. A good child like Charley Trueman dies serenely (like Clarissa) to provide a lesson about the rewards of virtue, while a bad child like Augusta Noble dies in agonies (like Mrs Sinclair). Both reassurances and warnings are also given to older readers: parents should realize from such episodes their own responsibility to guide their children well; they should take from them some lessons for their own lives, too. Mrs Sherwood's The Infant's Grave is the story of one bereaved mother who fails to learn. Having been comforted by being told that God planned her child's salvation and that he is now in heaven, the woman goes her way, resuming her life and eventually "the deceitful pleasures of the world" (74). In the midst of these, she dies "an early and sudden death" which "fixed her destiny forever" (75). The ending may — is intended to — shock, but the message is actually positive. There is no reason for parents to dwell morbidly on their losses, but they should not forget them, either; these experiences are valuable, and should aid them in working towards their own salvation. [....]
In the Victorian novel, children generally decline gracefully into death like the dying Clarissa, and readers of all ages are expected to find comfort and spiritual lessons in the manner of their going. Suffused with an angelic light, indicative of their special status, sick children's demeanours become less childlike, more saintly: even Thackeray's spirited Bryan, Barry Lyndon's nine-year-old son, acquires a different kind of spirit on his death-bed. A halo of bright curls, sunlight or lamplight is apt to grace the sick-bed pillow, confirming the child's holy condition and destination. Instead of protesting that he wants to stay in this world, like Tommy Anderson in Fielding's Tom Jones, Lucie Darnay's son in A Tale of Two Cities obediently and bravely prepares to leave his parents and sister: "I am called, and I must go!" Appearance and behaviour like this both help to soften a mother's grief, so that "those were not all tears of agony" that ran down Lucie's cheeks as "the spirit departed from her embrace that had been entrusted to it" (240).
Novelists who describe the experience of a child's death in more detail emphasize the value of the young life less superficially. Not unexpectedly, in view of Mrs Gaskell's own recent loss [of her infant son William], a more profoundly moving episode occurs in Mary Barton itself. Here, attention is drawn to the preciousness of Mrs Wilson's little boy by the intensity of the struggle to give him up. At last the desperate mother hands her dying son, whose twin brother already lies dead from the "ghoul-like fever," to her sister-in-law:
May happen yo'd better take him, Alice; I believe my heart's wishing him a' this while, for I cannot, no, I cannot bring myself to let my two chiler go in one day; I cannot help longing to keep him, and yet he sha'nt suffer longer for me. (270)
Alice accedes, and the boy soon expires in his aunt's arms. A mother who thus commits "her child, a portion of her own being, to the corruption of the grave ... resigning the life which out of her own life had been created, unto the Creator of all" has the comfort of knowing she has made a great sacrifice: the foregoing quotation is taken from Dinah Mulock's mid-century best-seller, John Halifax, Gentleman, in which Ursula Halifax is elevated to the status of the mourning Virgin when her blind daughter Muriel is consigned to God again (292).
That acceptance was the common, if difficult, goal is amply attested to in Augustus Hare's collection of Epitaphs for Country Churchyards, published in 1856. Anonymous verses such as this could be read on many a country tombstone:
Weep not, dear mother, weep not, I am blest,
And I must leave heaven did I return to thee;
For I am where the weary are at rest,
The wicked cease from troubling. Come to me.
In the service of this goal, there clearly was a temptation to prettify, even falsify the whole experience of child death. Emily Brontë is unusual in daring to show, in Linton Heathcliff, a young invalid's tyranny, and a far from graceful decline from pettishness to moroseness and apathy. It was only much later, with Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, that such realities would be squarely faced again. Perhaps in reaction to Mrs Sherwood's more grisly episodes, some children's writers avoid the experience itself and dwell on the charming accoutrements of such a death. At the end of "Bertha's 'Good-Night'" in The Girls' Birthday Book of 1860, the true nature of Bertha's sleep is glossed over:
You might have seen on that bed a few days after a pretty white coffin, with silver nails and figures of winged angels, and the name of Bertha on it; and inside, under that beautiful lid, lay a lovely, lovely figure, strewed over with sweet-smelling violets. (188)
In another story intended primarily for girls, "The Weeping and the Smiling Child" (in Mrs Gatty's Aunt Judy's Christmas Volume for Young People, 1870), the smiling child in a white muslin dress 'sleeps' among gorgeous flowers in the glimmer of candlelight; her selfish sister, suffering torments of guilt as she kneels by the coffin, is the unenviable weeper. Both more and less than fairy-tale endings, in which a Snow White or a Sleeping Beauty is restored to this world again, flowery tableaux like these seem designed to hide the frightening facts of physical suffering and decay, rather than help children and their parents to face them. This is the kind of "mystification" that has elicited some scathing analyses of children's literature in recent years (see Rose 11).
However, elsewhere there is restraint in the use of the conventional formulae, a freshness of approach, and a reassurance that does not preclude a full acknowledgement of the realities involved. Dickens's most notorious child's death-bed scene, Little Nell's in The Old Curiosity Shop, may seem a poor example to give here. But the physical details of Kit's and his companions' journey — their slow, hushed progress through the white wintry landscape, the snow on their eyelashes, and the numbing of their limbs — prepare us with delicacy not only for the presence of death, but also for its emotional toll. The scattering of winter berries and green leaves on Nell's couch is not simply (as Barbara Hardy suggests [66]) part of the blurred pathos of the scene: it reminds us of this journey, and works on a symbolic level to hint more subtly at the new life which the narrator promises for her. [....] Having overcome his own reluctance to let Nell go, which lingered even after Forster jogged his arm about her, Dickens finally comes to the point himself with repeated assertions of her death (652-54). Some self-pity may inform his threnody for dead innocence; but the rhapsodic commentary which punctuates these assertions, in the narrator's and schoolmaster's voices, attempts to address rather than obscure the issue of a beloved child's mortality, and, as usual, draw lessons from it. Nell has long been seen as her grandfather's guide; but now she is very clearly the old man's spiritual guide. Dickens goes on to demonstrate that nothing can ever fill the "weary void" Nell leaves in this life (660); but there is, of course, the hope of reunion in the next. The "wrestling" and the "blessing" which Mrs Gaskell talks about are both felt in this episode.
A more strained assent than that found here, or in many of Augustus Hare's epitaphs, informs the brief reference to The Lord's Prayer on Milly Barton's tombstone in George Eliot's "Amos Barton": "Thy will be done" ([....] 114). Milly herself is an adult, of course, but she has been buried with her new baby in her arms, leaving a husband and six surviving children behind. The nineteenth-century tomb of the Walton family at All Saints Parish Church, Kingston-upon-Thames, records, amongst other deaths, those of a young wife and her five-week-old infant, and expresses the further implication of this reference: "Thy will be done O Lord not mine." Another of Hare's epitaphs expands the frequently appended exhortation to the living in a slightly unusual way for such an inscription:
Can aught be more than this?
Yes, Christian, yes!
It is much more to live,
And a long life to the 'good fight' to give.... (62)
Read one way, these words are an encouragement to the mourners, to go on with their own endeavours; but read another way, they hide real bitterness: early death represents a loss of opportunity. Acceptance was not invariably achieved, and Eliot was not the only one to suggest this. Indeed, Nell's grandfather, like (for example) seven-year-old William's mother in East Lynne, soon follows his little angel to the grave. To facilitate acceptance, moreover, was not the novelists' only purpose. Many felt that in certain cases, acceptance was hardly in order — especially not when the death could be laid at a society's door.
Death was no respecter of class: Prince Albert died of typhoid in 1861, and was nearly followed by the Prince of Wales in 1872; his sister, Princess Alice, along with a small daughter, died from diphtheria in 1878. But, inevitably, it dealt most savagely with the under-nourished, badly-housed and over-worked. Chadwick had pointed out in 1842 that the age of death could vary considerably between adjoining drained, partly drained and undrained streets even in the same locality, and therefore between the different classes of people inhabiting them. Nor was age always a factor: large families of children were orphaned as epidemics swept rapidly through the overcrowded and insanitary areas of the industrial cities, killing young adults in their prime. Nevertheless, a disproportionate number of very young children perished. As well as the dreaded typhoid and cholera, the childhood diseases of scarlet fever, measles and whooping cough are all cited in Registrars' notes in the Quarterly Returns as causes of alarming increases in the death rates in urban areas. In the Spring Quarter of 1846, for example, 118 people died in Sheffield South, 41 of them under the age of one. The whole figure was found to be "very considerably above average ... which must be attributed principally to the fact that measles has scarcely ever been known so prevalent and fatal as during the last 3 or 4 months" (Registrar General's Quarterly Tables 1842-48).
Again, much was achieved simply by showing the child character's own positive attitude to death. It reminded people that the children of the poor had more chance of misery in adult life. The novelists showed young people like Mrs Gaskell's Bessy Higgins in North and South, or Dickens's Jenny Wren in Our Mutual Friend, actually wishing themselves well out of it: "Have pity on me. Take me up and make me light!" cries the latter to the angels she sees during her "chilled, anxious, ragged" and suffering childhood (290). Even reformers like Annie Macpherson, the revivalist and social worker who helped Dr Barnardo from the sixties onwards, sometimes felt that early death could be a special mercy for them, considering the imminent temptations of alcohol and other vices. Another epitaph from Hare's collection illustrates this attitude well:
Here innocence and beauty lies, whose breath
Was snatch'd by early, not untimely death;
Hence was she snatch'd, just as she did begin
Sorrow to know, — before she knew to sin.
Death, that can sin and sorrow thus prevent,
Is the next blessing to a life well spent. (15)
Andersen's "The Story of a Mother," in [a] collection dedicated to Dickens (A Christmas Greeting to My English Friends, 1847), exactly captures the mood of the times. Here, a mother makes extraordinary sacrifices to try to recover her child, but gives up her quest at the very end when she discovers that her daughter's future in this world might have been nothing but "sorrow and distress, horror and wretchedness":
Then the mother wrung her hands, fell on her
knees, and prayed to our Lord: "Oh hear me not
when I pray against Thy will, which is the best!
hear me not! hear me not!¾ (47)
The sentiments in this passage perhaps owe something to Wordsworth's much earlier "The Two April Mornings," in which a village schoolmaster tells of his acceptance of his nine-year-old daughter's death; perhaps, too, to the ending of Chapter 71 of The Old Curiosity Shop. But now, the stress is as much on the wickedness of the world as on the child who has left it.
Andersen was particularly pleased with the tale, recording his satisfaction that this and another story of resignation had "given many grief-stricken mothers consolation and courage" (The Complete Fairy Tales 1084). But not everyone approved of robbing death of its sting in this way; should not society be improved instead? Charles Kingsley thought so. On behalf of the Ladies' Sanitary Association, he spoke furiously against such a point of view: "I would rather have the living child, and let it take its chance, than let it return to God — wasted. O! it is a distressing thing to see children die." (Sanitary and Social Essays 262-63). The child must be preserved for the struggles of life, he says: guarded against evil, yes, but not by sending the soul back precipitately. Dickens, who sees to it that Jenny Wren is cured of morbid tendencies, was foremost among those who begged "men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts" (Bleak House 705) to look unnecessary death in the face. He wanted them to see it for what it was: the Evangelical politician, Henry Drummond, talking specifically of working children's premature deaths, uncompromisingly and emphatically termed it "WHOLESALE MURDER!" (24).
Deaths of this kind are therefore presented with unbridled indignation by the Victorian novelists. Pathos comes in, of course, in fact it is sharpened by the sufferer's victim status, and played upon in order to manipulate the reader's response. The dying child is still seen as brave and strong, and there is still a hope of better things to come. The aim, however, is not "Comfort in Sorrow" (the heading for the chapter following Bessy's death in North and South). The author wants to criticise rather than console, to rub the public's averted nose in the stink of the back-alleys. Prevention is the "blessing" aimed at here. Such is preeminently the case with Jo, the poor crossing-sweeper in Bleak House, who has no family to weep for him anyway, and whose case is treated as representative of all those from the squalid tenements of Tom-all-Alone's. These are the destitute, who live like bewildered, driven animals while the Chadbands and their likes are squabbling among themselves, and self-righteously blaming others for their condition. As Dickens pointed out much earlier, Jo's "whole material and immaterial life is wonderfully strange; his death, the strangest thing of all" (274). The strangeness that readers are asked to note here is the inhumanity of society, of course; it is pointed up vividly by Jo's attitude when he is at his last gasp: he is not afraid to die, just very anxious to be "laid along" with that one kind gentleman who "wos very good" to him (704). This detail is far more telling than his well-known repetition of the beginning of The Lord's Prayer.
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For the purposes listed under letter a) and b), your Data will not be processed for longer than the time required to manage your participation to the Calzedonia Loyalty program. In any case, information about your purchases and your interactions with us will not be processed for longer than 12 months from the date of collection. In the event that you decide to leave the Calzedonia Loyalty Program, your Data will be deleted within the following 12 months. For the purpose under letter c), you Data will be retained until you revoke your consent to receiving commercial communication; for the purpose under letter d), your Data will be retained for 12 months except for purchasing history which will be retained for 3 years.
For the purposes of the management of the Calzedonia Loyalty program and for administrative purposes, we may communicate your Data to our service providers (e.g. IT services) and to the companies that manage the Calzedonia points of sale, present in the various countries where the Calzedonia Loyalty program is active, who will be acting as data processors, and to other third parties where there is a legal obligation to do so. A complete list of such companies will be made available by sending a written request to the following contacts.
Your Data may be transferred outside the territory of the European Union, even to countries where the level of protection of personal data may be lower than that guaranteed by European legislation. Such transfer shall, in any case, be subject to adequate safeguards for the protection of your Data and, in particular, to the standard contractual clauses approved by the EU Commission by Decision 2021/914/EC.
You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, limitation of and opposition to the use of the Data by us, as well as the right to request the transfer to you of some of the Data.
Right of access The data subject has the right to obtain from the controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and the following information: - The purpose of processing; - The categories of personal data concerned; - The recipients or categories of recipients to whom the Personal Data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients of third-party countries or international organisations, with confirmation as to whether adequate safeguards are in place; - Where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period; - The existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing concerning the data subject or to object to such processing; - The right to lodge a complaint with a Supervisory Authority; - Where the personal data have not been collected from the data subject, any available information on their source; - The existence of an automated decision-making process, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the rationale, the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.
At any time, you may check, modify or revoke your consent in relation to the purposes set out under letters (b) e (c) (including by declaring that you do not wish to receive commercial information by email and/or text messages). Regarding the registration carried out by website you can change your preferences:
Regarding the registration carried out in each point of sale:
Fort the purposes under letters (a) and (b) Calzedonia S.p.A. and UAB Sunshine Baltics Lithuania will be acting as joint data controllers. The data controller for the purposes under letters (c) and (d) is Calzedonia S.p.A.
You may exercise your rights by writing to the data controllers, and/or Data Protection Officer at the address below:
Calzedonia S.p.A.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Registered office: Via Portici Umberto Primo 5/3, Malcesine (Verona) - Italy
Data Protection Officer of Calzedonia S.p.A email@example.com
UAB Sunshine Baltics Lithuania
Registered office: J. Basanaviciaus str. 26, 03224 Vilnius, Lithuania
This Privacy Notice may be subject to changes and updates as a result of changes concerning the way we process your Data or other information provided to you hereunder. Any changes will ensure, in any case, the full protection of your rights. If any changes are made that may limit the guarantees for the protection of your Data or your rights with respect to the current version, before the processing of your Data begins in the new manner, you will be promptly informed through the contacts provided and you will be guaranteed the right to cancel from the Calzedonia Loyalty Program, in any case, to modify your consents and preferences. In any event, we invite you to review the updated Privacy Policy published on the Site from time to time.
For any other information relating to the Calzedonia loyalty card, the Customer can consult the website www.calzedonia.com, contact customer care, or at any Calzedonia store participating in the initiative.
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Bail was set at $20,000 for a 25-year-old man who was arrested on Friday, May 10 for causing a disturbance and damage at a liquor store.
At 7:15 pm officers of the SMPD went to a liquor store at 2616 Main Street in order to investigate a disturbance report. When they arrived they saw the owner of the store on the ground wrestling with a man whom they deemed to be the suspect.
The officers recognized this man as someone who had been the subject of several other radio calls in recent weeks.
The officers detained this suspect in handcuffs and spoke with the owner of the liquor store who told them that he had returned from his lunch break and discovered the suspect in the store.
He recognized the suspect as someone who had previously stolen cash from the store.
The suspect was in the process of cursing out an employee of the store, so the owner escorted this suspect outside. The suspect immediately returned to the store and attacked several bags of potato chips and glass jars, spilling the contents onto the floor.
It was at that point that the owner wrestled the suspect to the ground and held him there until the officers arrived at the scene.
The officers arrested this man (who refused to disclose any address that he might have) and he was charged with assault, battery, vandalism, resisting officers, and a probation violation.
Editor's Note: These reports are part of a regular police coverage series entitled "Alert Police Blotter" (APB), which injects some minor editorial into certain police activities in Santa Monica. Not all of the Mirror's coverage of incidents involving police are portrayed in this manner. More serious crimes and police-related activities are regularly reported without editorial in the pages of the Santa Monica Mirror and its website, smmirror.com.


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Space shuttle retirement museums announced BY WILLIAM HARWOOD STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION Posted: April 12, 2011 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL--Ending months of suspense, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Tuesday announced the winners of a national competition to display the agency's three space shuttles after the fleet is retired and decommissioned later this year, choosing sites in Florida, California and, as expected, the Washington, D.C., area.
The shuttle Atlantis will remain at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a final flight in late June while the Endeavour, awaiting launch April 29 on a space station resupply mission, will be displayed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. "First, here at the Kennedy Space Center where every shuttle mission and so many other historic human space flights have originated, we'll showcase my old friend, Atlantis," Bolden said, standing on a podium in front of Atlantis' open processing hangar. "Not only will the workers who sent it into space so many times have a chance to still see it, the millions of visitors who come here every year to learn more about space and to be a part of the excitement of exploration will be able to see what is still a great rarity, an actual flown space vehicle. "The California Science Center in Los Angeles, only a few miles from the site of the old Rockwell (International) plant where the shuttle was developed and from where its construction was managed, will be the new home for the shuttle on the launch pad, preparing for its final mission, Endeavour. "The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, will get Discovery, our most traveled orbiter. And New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum ... will get Enterprise, our prototype orbiter that tested the aerodynamics of the craft before it flew into space." Other shuttle artifacts will be displayed at museums across the country. Shuttle simulators will be displayed at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum of McMinnville, Ore., and Texas A&M's Aerospace Engineering Department. The Museum of Flight in Seattle, which bid for one of the space shuttles, will receive a full fuselage shuttle trainer and the National Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, another unsuccessful applicant, will display a crew compartment trainer and nose cap assembly. Flight deck commander and pilot seats will be displayed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston while orbital maneuvering system rocket engines will be sent to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., the National Air and Space Museum in Washington and the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. In addition, heat shield tiles will be offered to interested schools and universities.
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., praised the decision to display Atlantis in Florida, saying "it's only fitting that Kennedy Space Center is the final home of one of these great spaceships, Atlantis," he said. "We all hope that generations of visitors and generations of Americans will enjoy and learn by understanding this magnificent program, America's space exploration program." But the decision was a major disappointment to supporters of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, home of the shuttle mission control center and astronaut training facilities, the National Museum at Wright-Patterson and the other unsuccessful applicants. In a post-announcement teleconference, a reporter asked "What do you say to Houston? Obviously we have the history, we're the fourth largest city in the nation, we have a great international airport, we have a pretty diverse community. I don't know where we failed." "Houston did not in any way, shape or form, fail," said Olga Dominguez, NASA's associate administrator for strategic infrastructure. "It has always been a critical piece of NASA's shuttle and space program. We just did not have enough to go around." Another reporter pointed out that 61 percent of the nation's population lives within a one-day drive of the Wright-Patterson museum "and what they offer is totally open and free to the public, which some of these other places aren't." Dominguez said, "again, part of what we did for our criteria was to collect the best value for the American public as far as educational and outreach, as well as the size of domestic population and the other factors we discussed. I wish we had enough orbiters to send to every (organization) who applied and was qualified. But we only have three." U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, reportedly wants an investigation by the General Accountability Office. "NASA ignored the intent of Congress and the interests of taxpayers," he said, according to The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. "NASA was directed to consider regional diversity when determining shuttle locations. Unfortunately, it looks like regional diversity amounts to which coast you are on, or which exit you use on I-95. Even more insulting to taxpayers is that having paid to build the shuttles, they will now be charged to see them at some sites." But Wright-Patterson Air Force Base museum director Jack Hudson took the decision in stride, telling the Middletown Journal "we respect the decision and wish the winners the best." In a taped message from orbit, space station flight engineer Catherine "Cady" Coleman, told the shuttle work force "we will miss the capabilities and the beauty of the space shuttle. It has been a national icon for innovation and exploration for 30 years. But its legacy and yours lives on with the work we do here on the ISS. The retirement of the shuttle fleet should not be seen as an end. It represents the next step in extending humanity's reach farther into space." |


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The Planning Department maintains the Town's Official Zoning Map and can help you determine your zoning district. To view the map, visit the Maps and GIS page.
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Zoning is a device used by local governments to regulate the use and development of land for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of its citizens.
The extraterritorial jurisdiction or ETJ is the land area within a 2 mile perimeter area around the Town of Clayton corporate limits. The Town enforces land development regulations (buildings and zoning) within the ETJ. To view a map which identifies the Town limits and its ETJ, visit the Maps and GIS page.
Access the Planning Department's Maps page, where you can view a map that shows the Town Limits and ETJ boundaries.
If you don't know the address of your property, contact the Planning Department. We can help you determine the address, or assign one if needed.
If you are located within town limits or within the Town's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ), zoning regulations of the town apply to you. To view a map which identifies the town limits and its ETJ visit the Maps and GIS page.
First determine your Zoning District by viewing the Town's Official Zoning Map, or by contacting the Planning Department. Then, visit Section 155.202 of the Unified Development Code (UDC), "Permitted Land Uses," for details on uses permitted on that property. For a definition of each type of use in the chart, and some additional standards, go to Section 155.300 of the UDC, "Use Interpretation".
View the UDC, or you can contact the Planning Department for help determining allowed uses.
Remember that before building or placing a new use on the property, you must receive the appropriate permits and approvals. Contact the Planning Department to discuss this process.
Building setbacks are based on your Zoning District and sometimes, on what subdivision you are located in or whether or not you are in an Overlay District. It is recommended that you contact the Planning Department to determine your setback requirements.
You will have to hire a private surveyor. The Town of Clayton does not provide property surveys. Any information provided by the Town or Johnston County, including GIS information, is intended for reference purposes only.
First, you will need to get a zoning permit (zoning compliance permit) from the Town of Clayton Planning Department. Planning Department staff will help you determine the location for your fence and make sure you do not encroach into any easements or buffer areas.
Also, if you build a fence on the property line, it becomes shared property between you and your neighbor(s). Please note that unless you have recently had your property surveyed, your estimate of the location of the property line may be off by a few inches.
Not every type of fence material is permitted - talk with staff to confirm that the type of fencing you want to put up, and the desired height and location, is permitted.
The Planning Department is responsible for most town maps. Please visit the Department's Maps and GIS page for a complete list of maps available to download.
These types of restrictions are a civil matter and do not involve the town. You should check the deed of the property in question for information on restrictions. Any further questions should be directed to your attorney.
Depending on the size of your property and the zoning district your property is located in, you may be able to subdivide your property. Since subdividing a property can be a complicated process, please contact the Planning Department for more information and assistance.
A subdivision occurs when a parcel of land is divided from a larger area. The purpose of a subdivision is to split a large tract of land into smaller ones that are easier to develop and can be developed independently of one another to increase growth and maximize the use of space.
All signs are subject to the rules and regulations of the zoning code (Unified Development Code) and require a sign permit. For a copy of the application which includes the formula for calculating the amount of signage you can have, visit the Permits and Applications page.
You can also contact the Planning Department for help in determining the signage that will be permitted on your property or business.


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Microsoft is launching IoT Central today, a new Internet of Things (IoT) service that gives enterprises a fully managed solution for setting up their IoT deployments without needing the in-house expertise necessary for deploying a cloud-based IoT solution from scratch. It's basically IoT-as-a-Service.
In addition, the company is bringing its Azure Stream Analytics to edge devices, making it easier to provision new IoT devices, and it's launching a completely new analytics service for time series data.
The two most important new services here are probably the launch of IoT Central service and the new Azure Time Series Insights tool. As Microsoft's director of IoT Sam George told me, the idea here is to provide a number of new offerings that are complementary to the company's existing Azure IoT Suite. While IoT gives many companies an opportunity to differentiate their services from competitors, it still takes a specialized set of skills to enable this. "While we find that IoT is a big differentiator, one of the things we're finding in the broader market is that there is still a broad set of skill sets needed to implement IoT solutions," George said.
IoT Central, then, is meant to simplify the deployment of these IoT solutions. "Customers here don't need any cloud solutions expertise," said George. Instead. IoT Central is fully managed by Microsoft and provides a fully featured solution that abstracts all of the underlying infrastructures away and lets business focus on analyzing their data. It comes with pre-configured solutions for many typical use cases. What users lose, though, is the flexibility to choose their own storage service or analytics engines, for example.
Azure Time Series Insights, which is now available in preview, is actually a new database offering from Microsoft that is based on the same technology the company itself uses to log every single event on Azure (and we're talking billions of events a day here). While there are plenty of exceptions, IoT data tends to arrive in a time-based fashion and Time Series Insights is purpose-built to store and interactively visualize and analyze this type of data to find anomalies. For developers, the service also offers an API to integrate it into existing workflows.
Microsoft also announced that its Azure Stream Analytics service can now run on edge devices. This basically means that those devices will be able to run real-time analytics locally without having to send all their data to Azure first. While the cloud solution is meant to parse data from millions of devices, a single device doesn't actually produce all that much data, and even a very basic Raspberry Pi has enough power to run this service locally. Thanks to this, these devices can function even when they don't have a reliable connection to the internet.
As George told me, Microsoft believes that as IoT becomes a more mature technology, more and more of the intelligence will get pushed out to the edge — and stream analytics marks Microsoft's first effort in this area.
Microsoft, of course, isn't the only company playing in this field. George believes that it does have a leg up on its competitors like Google and AWS, though. "When we look across the industry, we see that there are now three hyper-scale clouds on the planet," he noted. "We're the only cloud vendor in IoT with a focus on both solutions and deep on-premises support with the likes of Azure Stack. We feel this really differentiates us from the competition."