Lawrence asked Randy when the new jazz nightclub was expected to open downtown because _ didn't know.
Option 1: Lawrence
Option 2: Randy
Answer: 1<|endoftext|> The White House projects the change will impact an estimated 1.3 million previously-exempt employees.

Although the FLSA applies to almost all employers, the law contains exemptions for certain types of employees at small-market broadcast stations.  The Final Rule does not affect these broadcast industry-specific exemptions, but will affect many other currently exempt employees in the broadcast industry who, unless they receive salary raises, will soon become eligible for overtime pay.

This Advisory only addresses federal law.  Some state laws impose stricter standards than federal law as to which employees are exempt from overtime pay.  Employers must ensure that they also meet the requirements of any applicable state or local employment laws.

The FLSA requires employers to pay non-exempt employees an overtime rate of 1.5 times their regular rate for all hours worked over 40 hours per workweek.  However, the FLSA exempts from its overtime rules certain classes of employees who are paid on a salary basis and who also meet specific “white collar” duties tests.  The Department of Labor’s Final Rule increases the minimum salary required for these classes of employees to be deemed exempt from the FLSA’s overtime rules, but does not alter the duties tests for those exemptions.

Beginning January 1, 2020, employees classified as exempt from overtime under the “executive”, “administrative”, or “professional” (“EAP”) exemptions must receive a guaranteed weekly salary of at least $684 ($35,568 annually) to continue to be exempt.  The previous minimum salary to qualify as exempt was $455 per week ($23,660 annually).  This salary level is tied to the 20th percentile of wages for full-time salaried employees in the country’s lowest-wage Census Region.  The Final Rule allows employers to use nondiscretionary bonuses and incentive payments (including commissions) to satisfy up to 10% of the salary exemption threshold. Such payments must be made on an annual or more frequent basis.  For EAP employees, employers may make one catch-up payment within one pay period after the end of each 52-week period to achieve the required salary level for the EAP exemptions.

The other affected employee exemption is the “highly compensated employee” (“HCE”) exemption.  An HCE is an employee who customarily and regularly performs one or more duties of an EAP employee (but not all of them) and is compensated at a specified higher minimum salary level.  The minimum total annual compensation to qualify an employee for the HCE exemption will be $107,432 annually, effective January 1, 2020 (up from $100,000 under the current regulations).  This compensation level represents the 80th percentile of wages for full-time salaried employees nationally.  Employers may make a yearly catch-up payment in order to achieve the minimum annual compensation level to qualify that employee for the HCE exemption.

The January 1, 2020 effective date represents the first time that these salary thresholds have been updated since 2004.  A Final Order issued in 2016 by the Department of Labor under the prior administration would have, among other things, automatically updated the minimum salary and compensation thresholds for EAP and HCE exemptions every three years.  That rule was permanently enjoined by a federal court.  Under the 2019 rule, the Department of Labor states that it intends to update these levels “more regularly in the future”.

To assist broadcasters in adapting their operations to these new salary thresholds, below is a brief overview of each of the exempt classifications for white collar employees and their respective “duties” requirements, broadcaster-specific insights for each classification, and a discussion of special exemptions that may be helpful to broadcasters, including the statutory exemption for certain employees of small-market broadcast stations.

General Exemption Requirements

For an employee to be exempt from the FLSA’s overtime rules under the EAP test, the employer must pay the employee on a salary basis.  This requires the employee be paid a predetermined and fixed salary that is not subject to reductions based on variations of quality or quantity of work performed.  However, an employer is not required to pay an employee for workweeks in which the employee does no work for that employee to still be considered salaried under the EAP test.

As a result, EAP-exempt employees must receive their full salary for any workweek in which work is performed, regardless of the number of days or hours worked or the quality of the work product, although there are certain instances in which deductions from pay are permissible.  For example, employers may make deductions from an exempt employee’s pay when an exempt employees misses work for one or more full days for personal reasons or for sickness or disability where the employee does not yet qualify for paid leave or has exhausted all available paid leave under the employer’s paid leave policies.  Docking an exempt employee’s pay for a partial-day absence, however, would violate the salary basis test and negate the employee’s exempt status, resulting in the employer facing potential liability for back overtime pay.  An employer that regularly practices improper salary deductions may negate not only the exempt status of the employee from whom the improper deduction was made, but also the exempt status of any similarly-situated employees subject to that same policy.

Executive, Administrative, and Professional Exempt Status: Beginning January 1, 2020, to qualify for the EAP exemption, an employee must meet ALL of the following requirements:

(1) Pursuant to the salary basis test, the employee must be paid a predetermined and fixed salary that is not subject to reduction because of variations in the quality or quantity of work performed.  The amount of weekly salary paid must be at least $684 ($35,568 annually); AND

(2) The employee’s job duties must primarily involve executive, administrative, or professional duties as defined by the regulations.  The tests used for determining whether the duties an employee performs qualify as executive, administrative, or professional are discussed in more detail below.

Highly Compensated Employee Exempt Status: To qualify for the HCE exemption, an employee must meet ALL of the following requirements:

(1) The employee must be paid total annual compensation of at least $107,432 and receive a salary of at least $684 per week.  Note that this means a significant portion of the employee’s compensation could come in the form of ad sales commissions or nondiscretionary bonuses;

(2) The employee’s primary duty involves performing office or non-manual work; AND

(3) The employee must customarily and regularly perform one or more of the exempt duties or responsibilities of an EAP-exempt employee.

Duties Tests

Be aware that job titles do not determine whether an employee qualifies for exempt status.  In addition to earning at or above the new minimum salary level, an exempt employee must perform the duties or responsibilities of one or more of the following types of employees to qualify as an exempt EAP employee.

Administrative Employee (must satisfy ALL):

(1) The employee’s primary duty must be in the performance of office or non-manual work directly related to the management or general business operations of the employer or the employer’s customers; AND

(2) The employee’s primary duty must include the exercise of discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance.

Note that the regulations emphasize duties that involve the exercise of discretion with respect to matters of significance.  For example, administrative employees who have the discretion to commit the employer in matters of financial significance (such as through purchasing or budgeting) are generally classified as exempt.

Executive Employee (must satisfy ALL):

(1) The employee must have a primary duty of managing the enterprise or a department or subdivision of the enterprise; AND

(2) The employee must customarily and regularly direct the work of at least two employees and have the authority to hire or fire (or the employee’s opinions on hiring, firing, or other status changes of employees must be given particular weight).

Remember that this is a conjunctive test.  It is not enough for an employee to direct at least two other employees.  Employers must consider factors such as an employee’s position in management and the employee’s role in retaining, releasing, or otherwise affecting the status of other employees.

Professional Employee (pick one):

(1) Learned Professional – The employee’s primary duty requires performance of work that is predominantly intellectual in character, which entails the regular exercise of discretion and judgment, and that requires knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study.

(2) Creative Professional – The employee’s primary duty requires work that is original and creative in a recognized field of artistic endeavor.  This includes such fields as music, writing, acting, and the graphic arts.  This exemption category tends to be particularly useful to broadcast stations given the amount of creative effort involved in running a broadcast business.

(3) Teachers and employees practicing law or medicine – A class of employee not likely to be found at your average broadcast station.

The Professional Employee classification provides many options for qualifying a broadcast station employee as exempt.  Common broadcast jobs that may fall within the Professional Employee category are photographers, designers, some forms of on-air talent, digital media creators, and investigative journalists.  However, given the wide variety of job duties at a broadcast station, many of which involve creative effort, decisions should be made on a case-by-case basis.  Factors to consider in making such decisions include:

  •

 The White House projects the change will impact an estimated 1.3 million previously-exempt employees.

Although the FLSA applies to almost all employers, the law contains exemptions for certain types of employees at small-market broadcast stations.  The Final Rule does not affect these broadcast industry-specific exemptions, but will affect many other currently exempt employees in the broadcast industry who, unless they receive salary raises, will soon become eligible for overtime pay.

This Advisory only addresses federal law.  Some state laws impose stricter standards than federal law as to which employees are exempt from overtime pay.  Employers must ensure that they also meet the requirements of any applicable state or local employment laws.

The FLSA requires employers to pay non-exempt employees an overtime rate of 1.5 times their regular rate for all hours worked over 40 hours per workweek.  However, the FLSA exempts from its overtime rules certain classes of employees who are paid on a salary basis and who also meet specific “white collar” duties tests.  The Department of Labor’s Final Rule increases the minimum salary required for these classes of employees to be deemed exempt from the FLSA’s overtime rules, but does not alter the duties tests for those exemptions.

Beginning January 1, 2020, employees classified as exempt from overtime under the “executive”, “administrative”, or “professional” (“EAP”) exemptions must receive a guaranteed weekly salary of at least $684 ($35,568 annually) to continue to be exempt.  The previous minimum salary to qualify as exempt was $455 per week ($23,660 annually).  This salary level is tied to the 20th percentile of wages for full-time salaried employees in the country’s lowest-wage Census Region.  The Final Rule allows employers to use nondiscretionary bonuses and incentive payments (including commissions) to satisfy up to 10% of the salary exemption threshold. Such payments must be made on an annual or more frequent basis.  For EAP employees, employers may make one catch-up payment within one pay period after the end of each 52-week period to achieve the required salary level for the EAP exemptions.

The other affected employee exemption is the “highly compensated employee” (“HCE”) exemption.  An HCE is an employee who customarily and regularly performs one or more duties of an EAP employee (but not all of them) and is compensated at a specified higher minimum salary level.  The minimum total annual compensation to qualify an employee for the HCE exemption will be $107,432 annually, effective January 1, 2020 (up from $100,000 under the current regulations).  This compensation level represents the 80th percentile of wages for full-time salaried employees nationally.  Employers may make a yearly catch-up payment in order to achieve the minimum annual compensation level to qualify that employee for the HCE exemption.

The January 1, 2020 effective date represents the first time that these salary thresholds have been updated since 2004.  A Final Order issued in 2016 by the Department of Labor under the prior administration would have, among other things, automatically updated the minimum salary and compensation thresholds for EAP and HCE exemptions every three years.  That rule was permanently enjoined by a federal court.  Under the 2019 rule, the Department of Labor states that it intends to update these levels “more regularly in the future”.

To assist broadcasters in adapting their operations to these new salary thresholds, below is a brief overview of each of the exempt classifications for white collar employees and their respective “duties” requirements, broadcaster-specific insights for each classification, and a discussion of special exemptions that may be helpful to broadcasters, including the statutory exemption for certain employees of small-market broadcast stations.

General Exemption Requirements

For an employee to be exempt from the FLSA’s overtime rules under the EAP test, the employer must pay the employee on a salary basis.  This requires the employee be paid a predetermined and fixed salary that is not subject to reductions based on variations of quality or quantity of work performed.  However, an employer is not required to pay an employee for workweeks in which the employee does no work for that employee to still be considered salaried under the EAP test.

As a result, EAP-exempt employees must receive their full salary for any workweek in which work is performed, regardless of the number of days or hours worked or the quality of the work product, although there are certain instances in which deductions from pay are permissible.  For example, employers may make deductions from an exempt employee’s pay when an exempt employees misses work for one or more full days for personal reasons or for sickness or disability where the employee does not yet qualify for paid leave or has exhausted all available paid leave under the employer’s paid leave policies.  Docking an exempt employee’s pay for a partial-day absence, however, would violate the salary basis test and negate the employee’s exempt status, resulting in the employer facing potential liability for back overtime pay.  An employer that regularly practices improper salary deductions may negate not only the exempt status of the employee from whom the improper deduction was made, but also the exempt status of any similarly-situated employees subject to that same policy.

Executive, Administrative, and Professional Exempt Status: Beginning January 1, 2020, to qualify for the EAP exemption, an employee must meet ALL of the following requirements:

(1) Pursuant to the salary basis test, the employee must be paid a predetermined and fixed salary that is not subject to reduction because of variations in the quality or quantity of work performed.  The amount of weekly salary paid must be at least $684 ($35,568 annually); AND

(2) The employee’s job duties must primarily involve executive, administrative, or professional duties as defined by the regulations.  The tests used for determining whether the duties an employee performs qualify as executive, administrative, or professional are discussed in more detail below.

Highly Compensated Employee Exempt Status: To qualify for the HCE exemption, an employee must meet ALL of the following requirements:

(1) The employee must be paid total annual compensation of at least $107,432 and receive a salary of at least $684 per week.  Note that this means a significant portion of the employee’s compensation could come in the form of ad sales commissions or nondiscretionary bonuses;

(2) The employee’s primary duty involves performing office or non-manual work; AND

(3) The employee must customarily and regularly perform one or more of the exempt duties or responsibilities of an EAP-exempt employee.

Duties Tests

Be aware that job titles do not determine whether an employee qualifies for exempt status.  In addition to earning at or above the new minimum salary level, an exempt employee must perform the duties or responsibilities of one or more of the following types of employees to qualify as an exempt EAP employee.

Administrative Employee (must satisfy ALL):

(1) The employee’s primary duty must be in the performance of office or non-manual work directly related to the management or general business operations of the employer or the employer’s customers; AND

(2) The employee’s primary duty must include the exercise of discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance.

Note that the regulations emphasize duties that involve the exercise of discretion with respect to matters of significance.  For example, administrative employees who have the discretion to commit the employer in matters of financial significance (such as through purchasing or budgeting) are generally classified as exempt.

Executive Employee (must satisfy ALL):

(1) The employee must have a primary duty of managing the enterprise or a department or subdivision of the enterprise; AND

(2) The employee must customarily and regularly direct the work of at least two employees and have the authority to hire or fire (or the employee’s opinions on hiring, firing, or other status changes of employees must be given particular weight).

Remember that this is a conjunctive test.  It is not enough for an employee to direct at least two other employees.  Employers must consider factors such as an employee’s position in management and the employee’s role in retaining, releasing, or otherwise affecting the status of other employees.

Professional Employee (pick one):

(1) Learned Professional – The employee’s primary duty requires performance of work that is predominantly intellectual in character, which entails the regular exercise of discretion and judgment, and that requires knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study.

(2) Creative Professional – The employee’s primary duty requires work that is original and creative in a recognized field of artistic endeavor.  This includes such fields as music, writing, acting, and the graphic arts.  This exemption category tends to be particularly useful to broadcast stations given the amount of creative effort involved in running a broadcast business.

(3) Teachers and employees practicing law or medicine – A class of employee not likely to be found at your average broadcast station.

The Professional Employee classification provides many options for qualifying a broadcast station employee as exempt.  Common broadcast jobs that may fall within the Professional Employee category are photographers, designers, some forms of on-air talent, digital media creators, and investigative journalists.  However, given the wide variety of job duties at a broadcast station, many of which involve creative effort, decisions should be made on a case-by-case basis.  Factors to consider in making such decisions include:

  • How much of the employee’s work requires invention, imagination, originality, or talent?
  • Does the employee offer a unique interpretation of news items, or is the


 access to the individual sub-system managers.
The engine can be used to deploy the ORM beans by registering the available deployment descriptors at the deployment manager.

A typical flow of using the ORM engine would look like this:

ORMEngine engine = ORMEngine.newInstance(props);

// deploy the ORM deployment descriptors

// use the engine to lookup ORM Object factories and work with them

The ORM engine can be configured with properties that must be passed at its instantiation.

3.2 Logging

The ORM engine uses the Apache Commons Logging framework as logging API. This framework serves as an abstract API, which can be implemented by arbitrary “adapter” classes to support specific logging framework implementations. For example, there may by an adapter that uses the Apache Log4J logging framework to handle the log messages.

The ORM engine uses the "sql" logging category for logging the generated SQL statements and transaction boundaries, using DEBUG as log level.

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SACRAMENTO (AP) — California state senators advanced a last-minute internet privacy bill Tuesday ahead of a deadline while acknowledging it would need changes if it becomes law.

The bill would let consumers ask companies what personal data they collect and opt out of having their data sold, among other privacy provisions.

Lawmakers voted to pass the measure, AB375, out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The bill is aimed at keeping a related initiative off the November ballot. Lawmakers negotiated it with San Francisco housing developer Alastair Mactaggart, who spent millions of dollars to place the initiative on the ballot. He said he would pull the measure from the ballot if the bill is signed into law by the Thursday deadline to withdraw initiatives.

The bill now moves to the Senate Appropriations Committee, a spokeswoman for co-author Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, said. The full Assembly and Senate each plan to vote on the bill Thursday. Gov. Jerry Brown’s office has not said whether he will sign it.

Lawmakers can more easily amend laws they pass than alter voter-enacted initiatives.

Lawmakers say the legislation will affect every California consumer and will likely inform legislation throughout the country.

Mactaggart said he supports the bill and his initiative, though he believes the legislative process is better tailored for enacting such policy. He said he has been pushing legislators to address the issue.

Those who spoke against the bill, including the California Chamber of Commerce, said they favored it over the initiative and urged future changes.

“Although AB375 is deeply flawed, the privacy initiative is even worse,” chamber lobbyist Sarah Boot said.

The bill has unclear language and could prevent companies from providing loyalty programs and notifications to customers, Boot said.

The bill would let consumers ask companies such as Google and Facebook what personal data has been collected, why it was collected and what categories of third parties have received it.

Consumers could also ask companies to delete their information and refrain from selling it.

Companies could offer discounts to customers who allow their data to be sold and could charge those who opt out a reasonable amount based on how much the company makes selling the information.

The bill would also bar companies from selling data from users under 16 without consent.

Assemblyman Ed Chau, an Arcadia Democrat and the chief bill author, said he doesn’t like the rushed process forced by the ballot measure deadline, but he stressed that his bill gives Californians important privacy protections.

Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson of Santa Barbara, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, cited negotiations late Sunday night that led to amendments to narrow technology companies’ liability in the event of data breaches.

Consumers could sue under the bill if their data was not encrypted or redacted and the company that collected it did not have reasonable security measures in place to protect it.

Amendments suggested by Mactaggart were scrapped ahead of the committee hearing after a coalition funded by technology giants decried them, demonstrating their influence in the Capitol.

Jackson and the other Democrats on the committee supported the bill, but she said she believes it still has an “enormous” number of problems lawmakers would need to address before it takes effect in 2020.<|endoftext|>Nelson is a much bigger person than Samuel, so _ wants a to buy a smaller car from the dealership.
Option 1: Nelson
Option 2: Samuel
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 application developers. It provides methods to initialize the whole system and gives access to the individual sub-system managers.
The engine can be used to deploy the ORM beans by registering the available deployment descriptors at the deployment manager.

A typical flow of using the ORM engine would look like this:

ORMEngine engine = ORMEngine.newInstance(props);

// deploy the ORM deployment descriptors

// use the engine to lookup ORM Object factories and work with them

The ORM engine can be configured with properties that must be passed at its instantiation.

3.2 Logging

The ORM engine uses the Apache Commons Logging framework as logging API. This framework serves as an abstract API, which can be implemented by arbitrary “adapter” classes to support specific logging framework implementations. For example, there may by an adapter that uses the Apache Log4J logging framework to handle the log messages.

The ORM engine uses the "sql" logging category for logging the generated SQL statements and transaction boundaries, using DEBUG as log level.

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SACRAMENTO (AP) — California state senators advanced a last-minute internet privacy bill Tuesday ahead of a deadline while acknowledging it would need changes if it becomes law.

The bill would let consumers ask companies what personal data they collect and opt out of having their data sold, among other privacy provisions.

Lawmakers voted to pass the measure, AB375, out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The bill is aimed at keeping a related initiative off the November ballot. Lawmakers negotiated it with San Francisco housing developer Alastair Mactaggart, who spent millions of dollars to place the initiative on the ballot. He said he would pull the measure from the ballot if the bill is signed into law by the Thursday deadline to withdraw initiatives.

The bill now moves to the Senate Appropriations Committee, a spokeswoman for co-author Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, said. The full Assembly and Senate each plan to vote on the bill Thursday. Gov. Jerry Brown’s office has not said whether he will sign it.

Lawmakers can more easily amend laws they pass than alter voter-enacted initiatives.

Lawmakers say the legislation will affect every California consumer and will likely inform legislation throughout the country.

Mactaggart said he supports the bill and his initiative, though he believes the legislative process is better tailored for enacting such policy. He said he has been pushing legislators to address the issue.

Those who spoke against the bill, including the California Chamber of Commerce, said they favored it over the initiative and urged future changes.

“Although AB375 is deeply flawed, the privacy initiative is even worse,” chamber lobbyist Sarah Boot said.

The bill has unclear language and could prevent companies from providing loyalty programs and notifications to customers, Boot said.

The bill would let consumers ask companies such as Google and Facebook what personal data has been collected, why it was collected and what categories of third parties have received it.

Consumers could also ask companies to delete their information and refrain from selling it.

Companies could offer discounts to customers who allow their data to be sold and could charge those who opt out a reasonable amount based on how much the company makes selling the information.

The bill would also bar companies from selling data from users under 16 without consent.

Assemblyman Ed Chau, an Arcadia Democrat and the chief bill author, said he doesn’t like the rushed process forced by the ballot measure deadline, but he stressed that his bill gives Californians important privacy protections.

Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson of Santa Barbara, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, cited negotiations late Sunday night that led to amendments to narrow technology companies’ liability in the event of data breaches.

Consumers could sue under the bill if their data was not encrypted or redacted and the company that collected it did not have reasonable security measures in place to protect it.

Amendments suggested by Mactaggart were scrapped ahead of the committee hearing after a coalition funded by technology giants decried them, demonstrating their influence in the Capitol.

Jackson and the other Democrats on the committee supported the bill, but she said she believes it still has an “enormous” number of problems lawmakers would need to address before it takes effect in 2020.<|endoftext|>The Famous Birthdays: Celebrity birthdays and famous people biographies

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The bushes were resilient but the vegetables were vulnerable. Therefore the vegetables  perished in the flood as they were the _ ones.
Option 1: resilient
Option 2: vulnerable
Answer: 2<|endoftext|> want desperately to hold onto the past while simultaneously taking steps into the unknown future in which each must stand on his own in either success or failure.

The group includes Eddie (Steve Guttenberg), a spoiled mama's boy who still lives at home although he's engaged to be married to a never fully seen woman named Elyse. The marriage hinges upon whether or not Elyse can pass a brutal test of Baltimore Colts football trivia. She fails the test but Eddie goes ahead with the wedding ceremony anyway.

Shrevie (Daniel Stern), is the one married man in the group. His wife (Ellen Barkin), doesn't understand the connection Shrevie has with his buddies. Shrevie, an obsessive-compulsive record collector and music fan, works in an appliance store and seems happiest when he's talking music with the diner guys.

Boogie (Mickey Rourke) is a smooth-talking ladies man who works in a beauty parlor by day and attends law school classes at night. He's also a man with a gambling addiction who finds himself in over his head with debts he cannot pay. He's eventually taken under the wing of Bagel (Michael Tucker), an older diner regular, who pays off Boogie's debts in return for work from the young man.
Fenwick (Kevin Bacon) is an underachieving guy with a drinking problem. Although not formally educated, Fen has more innate knowledge about "stuff" than his peers but he has no drive to apply this knowledge to anything productive and instead lives off of trust-fund money.

Tim Daly is Billy, the only member of the group to leave town for college. He returns for Eddie's wedding and discovers that his platonic girlfriend is now pregnant, the result of a one-night stand in New York. Billy is an earnest young man who is determined to do the right thing.

Modell (Paul Reiser) is the least developed character but he does have several very funny lines ("You know what word I'm not comfortable with? Nuance.").

The final major player in the film is the Fells Point Diner where the guys hang out for late night bull sessions. They smoke, consume plates of french fires with gravy (with a cherry Coke) and relive their glory days. Much of this dialogue was improvised by the actors who spent a lot of time hanging out together and getting to know each other before the cameras ever started rolling.

DINER is a warm, funny, heartfelt coming-of-age film that never becomes overly sentimental. The film has a terrific soundtrack of period rock and r&b songs and the art direction is first rate. The clothes, cars and settings are all authentic and I'd forgotten just how good the film looks.

When Judy and I visited Baltimore last year, I was determined to eat at the Fells Point Diner. The concierge at our hotel swore it was a great place to eat and we hailed a cab and headed off for breakfast one morning. When we arrived at the location (not on the waterfront as in the film but in a dense, urban neighborhood), the diner was long closed and out of business. Someone needs to update their website.

There's a scene in the film in which Boogie is confronted by Tank, a gambling enforcer, outside of the beauty parlor where Boogie works. When I saw the scene this time, I immediately recognized it as a street that Judy and I had walked along near the Walters Art Museum (which was really interesting). Of course, I didn't recognize the street when we were there but I instantly knew it when I saw the film.
DINER had a huge influence on me and my buddies. We saw the film many times over the years and would regularly quote dialogue from the movie. We saw parts of ourselves reflected in the characters and their situations although we did not grow up in Baltimore in 1959. That doesn't matter. What the men in DINER experience is universal.
How big an influence was DINER? Well, when Judy and I were planning our wedding we had a great meeting with our photographer Mark Gaynor. He empathized that he loved to do creative, original, imaginative work, not the standard posed wedding stuff. We were his customers and he would take any pictures we wanted. I asked for two things from him and he delivered.
First, I asked that he photograph all of the groomsmen, ushers and myself in front of Dirty Martin's hamburger joint on the Drag. If any local restaurant would qualify as our "diner" it would be Dirty's. We've been regularly eating there since we were at Austin High in the '70s. Mission accomplished.
Second, I asked if he would do the "DINER shot" (see image above) of the men around the table staring into the camera with blank expressions. He did so and we have that picture (along with others from the wedding) framed and on display in our home. The shot includes myself along with my best pals: the late Ray Kohler, Steve Cook, Terry Porter and Robert "Smiley" Morgan.
How many other people have asked for that iconic image to be recreated as part of the most memorable day of their life? I don't know if there's anyone else out there who had this idea but I do know one thing.
The guys at the diner would be proud.

No comments:

Post a Comment<|endoftext|>The most important goal to be addressed in succession planning is whether to keep the business in the family or sell it to a third party.

Extraordinary commitments and compromises often will need to be made in order to perpetuate the business. In considering ownership it is essential that the family’s goals are not in conflict with each other. If the present owner’s goal is to husband the company’s assets to buy him out so he can retire, then the successors goal cannot be to leverage the business assets so that added capital can fuel growth. Both goals can be met, but the needs of the senior generation must be prioritized and clarified in the terms of the succession plan.

Most parents want to distribute their assets equally to all children. This need is often magnified when the major asset is the family business. Often absentee ownership (child outside of the business) hampers the decision making process as the needs of those in the business are different than those outside of the business.

For example, whenever a company makes a capital investment and increases debt, the ability to service the new debt and continue to pay out to non-working owners may become difficult. The owner in the business, additional capital investment is needed to grow the company. The non-business owner, the increased debt could reduce profits thereby reducing their annual distribution. In this case equal ownership presents a major challenge. Left on its own, the difference between their needs often results in serious conflict between the siblings and can have a far-reaching impact upon the family. It is important to treat siblings fairly. Often the solution is to treat each child equitably, while at the same time, not being required to treat each child equally. Or, if equal, provide ways in which the company can fulfill its requirements without sacrificing the future of the business.<|endoftext|>Win32 Python: getting user’s display name using ctypes

import ctypes

def get_display_name():
	GetUserNameEx = ctypes.windll.secur32.GetUserNameExW
	NameDisplay = 3

	size = ctypes.pointer(ctypes.c_ulong(0))
	GetUserNameEx(NameDisplay, None, size)

	nameBuffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(size.contents.value)
	GetUserNameEx(NameDisplay, nameBuffer, size)
	return nameBuffer.value

If you look at the GetUserNameEx documentation, the Requirements section says “DLL: Secur32.dll”. This lets us know how to import the function using ctypes. In the Unicode and ANSI names row, you’ll notice that the Unicode version of the function is GetUserNameExW; this is in line with most of the Win32 API having A (ANSI) and W (wide character) versions.

>>> GetUserNameEx = ctypes.windll.secur32.GetUserNameExW

Now look at the declaration for GetUserNameEx. The function takes an EXTENDED_NAME_FORMAT, an LPTSTR (alias for TCHAR *, which is itself an alias for wchar_t * in Unicode environments), and a PULONG (alias for unsigned long *).

  __in     EXTENDED_NAME_FORMAT NameFormat,
  __out    LPTSTR lpNameBuffer,
  __inout  PULONG lpnSize

Let’s find out which EXTENDED_NAME_FORMAT we need.

typedef enum  {
  NameUnknown            = 0,
  NameFullyQualifiedDN   = 1,
  NameSamCompatible      = 2,
  NameDisplay            = 3,
  NameUniqueId           = 6,
  NameCanonical          = 7,
  NameUserPrincipal      = 8,
  NameCanonicalEx        = 9,
  NameServicePrincipal

 want desperately to hold onto the past while simultaneously taking steps into the unknown future in which each must stand on his own in either success or failure.

The group includes Eddie (Steve Guttenberg), a spoiled mama's boy who still lives at home although he's engaged to be married to a never fully seen woman named Elyse. The marriage hinges upon whether or not Elyse can pass a brutal test of Baltimore Colts football trivia. She fails the test but Eddie goes ahead with the wedding ceremony anyway.

Shrevie (Daniel Stern), is the one married man in the group. His wife (Ellen Barkin), doesn't understand the connection Shrevie has with his buddies. Shrevie, an obsessive-compulsive record collector and music fan, works in an appliance store and seems happiest when he's talking music with the diner guys.

Boogie (Mickey Rourke) is a smooth-talking ladies man who works in a beauty parlor by day and attends law school classes at night. He's also a man with a gambling addiction who finds himself in over his head with debts he cannot pay. He's eventually taken under the wing of Bagel (Michael Tucker), an older diner regular, who pays off Boogie's debts in return for work from the young man.
Fenwick (Kevin Bacon) is an underachieving guy with a drinking problem. Although not formally educated, Fen has more innate knowledge about "stuff" than his peers but he has no drive to apply this knowledge to anything productive and instead lives off of trust-fund money.

Tim Daly is Billy, the only member of the group to leave town for college. He returns for Eddie's wedding and discovers that his platonic girlfriend is now pregnant, the result of a one-night stand in New York. Billy is an earnest young man who is determined to do the right thing.

Modell (Paul Reiser) is the least developed character but he does have several very funny lines ("You know what word I'm not comfortable with? Nuance.").

The final major player in the film is the Fells Point Diner where the guys hang out for late night bull sessions. They smoke, consume plates of french fires with gravy (with a cherry Coke) and relive their glory days. Much of this dialogue was improvised by the actors who spent a lot of time hanging out together and getting to know each other before the cameras ever started rolling.

DINER is a warm, funny, heartfelt coming-of-age film that never becomes overly sentimental. The film has a terrific soundtrack of period rock and r&b songs and the art direction is first rate. The clothes, cars and settings are all authentic and I'd forgotten just how good the film looks.

When Judy and I visited Baltimore last year, I was determined to eat at the Fells Point Diner. The concierge at our hotel swore it was a great place to eat and we hailed a cab and headed off for breakfast one morning. When we arrived at the location (not on the waterfront as in the film but in a dense, urban neighborhood), the diner was long closed and out of business. Someone needs to update their website.

There's a scene in the film in which Boogie is confronted by Tank, a gambling enforcer, outside of the beauty parlor where Boogie works. When I saw the scene this time, I immediately recognized it as a street that Judy and I had walked along near the Walters Art Museum (which was really interesting). Of course, I didn't recognize the street when we were there but I instantly knew it when I saw the film.
DINER had a huge influence on me and my buddies. We saw the film many times over the years and would regularly quote dialogue from the movie. We saw parts of ourselves reflected in the characters and their situations although we did not grow up in Baltimore in 1959. That doesn't matter. What the men in DINER experience is universal.
How big an influence was DINER? Well, when Judy and I were planning our wedding we had a great meeting with our photographer Mark Gaynor. He empathized that he loved to do creative, original, imaginative work, not the standard posed wedding stuff. We were his customers and he would take any pictures we wanted. I asked for two things from him and he delivered.
First, I asked that he photograph all of the groomsmen, ushers and myself in front of Dirty Martin's hamburger joint on the Drag. If any local restaurant would qualify as our "diner" it would be Dirty's. We've been regularly eating there since we were at Austin High in the '70s. Mission accomplished.
Second, I asked if he would do the "DINER shot" (see image above) of the men around the table staring into the camera with blank expressions. He did so and we have that picture (along with others from the wedding) framed and on display in our home. The shot includes myself along with my best pals: the late Ray Kohler, Steve Cook, Terry Porter and Robert "Smiley" Morgan.
How many other people have asked for that iconic image to be recreated as part of the most memorable day of their life? I don't know if there's anyone else out there who had this idea but I do know one thing.
The guys at the diner would be proud.

No comments:

Post a Comment<|endoftext|>The most important goal to be addressed in succession planning is whether to keep the business in the family or sell it to a third party.

Extraordinary commitments and compromises often will need to be made in order to perpetuate the business. In considering ownership it is essential that the family’s goals are not in conflict with each other. If the present owner’s goal is to husband the company’s assets to buy him out so he can retire, then the successors goal cannot be to leverage the business assets so that added capital can fuel growth. Both goals can be met, but the needs of the senior generation must be prioritized and clarified in the terms of the succession plan.

Most parents want to distribute their assets equally to all children. This need is often magnified when the major asset is the family business. Often absentee ownership (child outside of the business) hampers the decision making process as the needs of those in the business are different than those outside of the business.

For example, whenever a company makes a capital investment and increases debt, the ability to service the new debt and continue to pay out to non-working owners may become difficult. The owner in the business, additional capital investment is needed to grow the company. The non-business owner, the increased debt could reduce profits thereby reducing their annual distribution. In this case equal ownership presents a major challenge. Left on its own, the difference between their needs often results in serious conflict between the siblings and can have a far-reaching impact upon the family. It is important to treat siblings fairly. Often the solution is to treat each child equitably, while at the same time, not being required to treat each child equally. Or, if equal, provide ways in which the company can fulfill its requirements without sacrificing the future of the business.<|endoftext|>Win32 Python: getting user’s display name using ctypes

import ctypes

def get_display_name():
	GetUserNameEx = ctypes.windll.secur32.GetUserNameExW
	NameDisplay = 3

	size = ctypes.pointer(ctypes.c_ulong(0))
	GetUserNameEx(NameDisplay, None, size)

	nameBuffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(size.contents.value)
	GetUserNameEx(NameDisplay, nameBuffer, size)
	return nameBuffer.value

If you look at the GetUserNameEx documentation, the Requirements section says “DLL: Secur32.dll”. This lets us know how to import the function using ctypes. In the Unicode and ANSI names row, you’ll notice that the Unicode version of the function is GetUserNameExW; this is in line with most of the Win32 API having A (ANSI) and W (wide character) versions.

>>> GetUserNameEx = ctypes.windll.secur32.GetUserNameExW

Now look at the declaration for GetUserNameEx. The function takes an EXTENDED_NAME_FORMAT, an LPTSTR (alias for TCHAR *, which is itself an alias for wchar_t * in Unicode environments), and a PULONG (alias for unsigned long *).

  __in     EXTENDED_NAME_FORMAT NameFormat,
  __out    LPTSTR lpNameBuffer,
  __inout  PULONG lpnSize

Let’s find out which EXTENDED_NAME_FORMAT we need.

typedef enum  {
  NameUnknown            = 0,
  NameFullyQualifiedDN   = 1,
  NameSamCompatible      = 2,
  NameDisplay            = 3,
  NameUniqueId           = 6,
  NameCanonical          = 7,
  NameUserPrincipal      = 8,
  NameCanonicalEx        = 9,
  NameServicePrincipal   = 10,
  NameDnsDomain          = 12

We want NameDisplay, which—according to the documentation—is “a ‘friendly’ display name (for example, Jeff Smith


Donald was not old enough to drive but Leslie was, so _ was drove them to store because they could drive on their own.
Option 1: Donald
Option 2: Leslie
Answer: 2<|endoftext|> Illinois (something like a Mormon version of Williamsburg, Virginia), to Martin’s Cove, Wyoming, the site of a terrible handcart disaster in 1856 that has been converted into a faith-promoting heritage site. These and other hallowed places allow Utah Mormons to commemorate the “pioneer trek” to the Great Basin. The sacred narrative of getting to Utah is more important than Zion itself.

The other church program is the worldwide creation of temples: those special-use limited-access buildings used for rituals (not the regular open-access church buildings used for Sunday services). In the pioneer period, temples were grand edifices that echoed Utah’s mountains in their architecture. Each was different. But since 1997 the Church has built or authorized the construction of one hundred “mini-temples,” most of them beyond the Mormon Culture Region. In the pursuit of globalization, it is no longer practical or financially feasible for the church to continue erecting temples on the scale of the landmark pioneer structures.

As designed by church architects, the mini-temples accord to standard floor plans and contain standard furnishings. From a certain angle, they are not so different from hotel conference centers. The sacred temples are sealed off from nature—no sunlit windows or fresh-air conduits. Mormonism, a movement that began with an outdoorsy prophet who encountered God in a woodlot, who used magical rocks to translate scriptures buried in a holy hill, who led the Latter-day Saints to a unique Center Place in North America on the borders of the Lamanites, is now managed by a global corporation that manufactures generic, fungible, sacred space with plush carpeting and upholstery. That, too, seems very American.

Are you hoping just to inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off?

Mostly I want to tell a great American story. In the process I’m willing to challenge some popular notions held by Mormons about their history. But I’m not obnoxious about it. By temperament, I’m both a contrarian and a reconciliator. I don’t belittle religion. Anti-Mormonism pisses me off.

In the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, the US Protestant establishment vilified Utah Mormons as foreign, deviant, dangerous, violent, secretive, conspiratorial, theocratic, repressive, despotic, anti-democratic, un-American, un-Christian fanatics who followed a false prophet, read phony scriptures, worshiped in strange buildings, lived in desert communes, grew long beards, and kept women in political and sexual oppression. They were variously likened to “Oriental,” “Asiatic,” “Turkish,” and “Mohammedan” peoples.

In 1902, when the Utah legislature elected LDS Church apostle Reed Smoot as senator, the US Senate refused to seat him for four years while it conducted hearings and investigations on the question: Can a faithful Mormon also be a loyal American? Traces of these attitudes persist. The media routinely conflates the LDS Church with Mormon fundamentalists (more properly called fundamentalist believers in late-period Joseph Smith).

Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing?

I wanted to reach two entirely different lay readers: local Mormons who could use something besides insular, faith-promoting history; and non-Mormons outside Utah who could use an informed, even-handed historical account of life “behind the Zion Curtain.”

The timing seemed right. The past ten years has been something of a Mormon moment in American media culture. Think about it: the 2002 Winter Olympics, the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping, the Warren Jeffs trial, Mitt Romney’s past and present bids for the GOP nomination, American Idol runner-up David Archuleta, the PBS documentary The Mormons, HBO’s adaptation of Angels in America, HBO’s original series Big Love, Richard and Joan Ostling’s investigative nonfiction Mormon America, John Krakauer’s polemical nonfiction Under the Banner of Heaven, David Ebershoff’s experimental fiction The 19th Wife, Brady Udall’s tragicomic novel The Lonely Polygamist, the continuing controversy over Prop. 8 in California, and, reportedly, an upcoming off-Broadway “Mormon musical” by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who already produced a South Park episode about Mormonism.

As a history professor, I also had numerous professional audiences in mind:

• Environmental historians (who generally downplay religion and culture)
• Utah historians (who too often underplay non-Mormons and native peoples in the state’s past)
• Mormon historians (who too rarely engage with outside scholarly trends)
• Local historians (who seldom ask large-scale questions despite doing fantastic archival research)
• Historians of the United States (who generally overlook the Great Basin)
• Religious studies scholars (who generally know less about Mormonism than other US religions, and who might be interested in the racial and environmental aspects of Mormon history)
• Native American historians (who generally know less about the Great Basin and Mormon-Indian relations than other western regions and federal-Indian relations)
• Historians of the American West (who often lose interest in the story of Mormonism after 1890, when the LDS Church disavowed plural marriage)
• Historians of “collective memory” (who might be interested in a book-length study of a “memory site” that doubles as a natural landform)
• Cultural historians (who might be intrigued by the geographic dimension of “playing Indian,” and the interplay of religion and landscape)
• Folklorists and toponymists (who might be curious to see how an environmental historian uses their work)
• Historical geographers (who should be interested in an in-depth, longterm study of place-making, its context, and consequences)

Where does the book’s title come from? What alternative title would you give?

An alternative would be “A Memorial of Place and Displacement.” Not a marketable title, but a literal summation of the project. “On Zion’s Mount” is more metaphorical, and has multiple possible meanings. The phrase comes from a Mormon hymn:

High on the mountain top a banner is unfurled.
In Deseret’s sweet, peaceful land,
On Zion’s mount behold it stand!

(“Deseret” was the name of the polity Mormons hoped to establish in the Great Basin.)

How do you feel about the cover?

Love it! The designer, who has an exceptionally cool name—Annamarie Why—did a terrific job with the layout and typography. I also like the name of the art piece: “Tip Top of Timp.” It’s fitting that this painting does not replicate the normative front-side wide-angle view of the mountain; instead, it shows an aspect of the backside. The painter, Roman Andrus, has personal significance to me. He was the leading portraitist of his generation in Provo, Utah, and did a large color study of my maternal grandfather (a man of the nineteenth century, the son of a polygamist). That portrait hung the living room of my childhood home—a room that had a picture window facing Mount Timpanogos.

Is there any book out there you wish you had written?

I wish I’d written The Epic of Gilgamesh. It also deals with place-making and the profaning of sacred space. The Mesopotamian epic has all the elements for a timeless meditation on religion and environment—totemic animals, animistic rivers, prophetic mountains, sacred forests, sacralized buildings—in addition to great descriptions of sex and violence. Certainly the story has more staying power than any history book!<|endoftext|>Looking for ultra simple website to be built. I would like to have the website live especially within the next two to three weeks max. Already have purchased domain. Would also need some stock photography as well as content if you can provide that as well.

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 Illinois (something like a Mormon version of Williamsburg, Virginia), to Martin’s Cove, Wyoming, the site of a terrible handcart disaster in 1856 that has been converted into a faith-promoting heritage site. These and other hallowed places allow Utah Mormons to commemorate the “pioneer trek” to the Great Basin. The sacred narrative of getting to Utah is more important than Zion itself.

The other church program is the worldwide creation of temples: those special-use limited-access buildings used for rituals (not the regular open-access church buildings used for Sunday services). In the pioneer period, temples were grand edifices that echoed Utah’s mountains in their architecture. Each was different. But since 1997 the Church has built or authorized the construction of one hundred “mini-temples,” most of them beyond the Mormon Culture Region. In the pursuit of globalization, it is no longer practical or financially feasible for the church to continue erecting temples on the scale of the landmark pioneer structures.

As designed by church architects, the mini-temples accord to standard floor plans and contain standard furnishings. From a certain angle, they are not so different from hotel conference centers. The sacred temples are sealed off from nature—no sunlit windows or fresh-air conduits. Mormonism, a movement that began with an outdoorsy prophet who encountered God in a woodlot, who used magical rocks to translate scriptures buried in a holy hill, who led the Latter-day Saints to a unique Center Place in North America on the borders of the Lamanites, is now managed by a global corporation that manufactures generic, fungible, sacred space with plush carpeting and upholstery. That, too, seems very American.

Are you hoping just to inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off?

Mostly I want to tell a great American story. In the process I’m willing to challenge some popular notions held by Mormons about their history. But I’m not obnoxious about it. By temperament, I’m both a contrarian and a reconciliator. I don’t belittle religion. Anti-Mormonism pisses me off.

In the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, the US Protestant establishment vilified Utah Mormons as foreign, deviant, dangerous, violent, secretive, conspiratorial, theocratic, repressive, despotic, anti-democratic, un-American, un-Christian fanatics who followed a false prophet, read phony scriptures, worshiped in strange buildings, lived in desert communes, grew long beards, and kept women in political and sexual oppression. They were variously likened to “Oriental,” “Asiatic,” “Turkish,” and “Mohammedan” peoples.

In 1902, when the Utah legislature elected LDS Church apostle Reed Smoot as senator, the US Senate refused to seat him for four years while it conducted hearings and investigations on the question: Can a faithful Mormon also be a loyal American? Traces of these attitudes persist. The media routinely conflates the LDS Church with Mormon fundamentalists (more properly called fundamentalist believers in late-period Joseph Smith).

Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing?

I wanted to reach two entirely different lay readers: local Mormons who could use something besides insular, faith-promoting history; and non-Mormons outside Utah who could use an informed, even-handed historical account of life “behind the Zion Curtain.”

The timing seemed right. The past ten years has been something of a Mormon moment in American media culture. Think about it: the 2002 Winter Olympics, the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping, the Warren Jeffs trial, Mitt Romney’s past and present bids for the GOP nomination, American Idol runner-up David Archuleta, the PBS documentary The Mormons, HBO’s adaptation of Angels in America, HBO’s original series Big Love, Richard and Joan Ostling’s investigative nonfiction Mormon America, John Krakauer’s polemical nonfiction Under the Banner of Heaven, David Ebershoff’s experimental fiction The 19th Wife, Brady Udall’s tragicomic novel The Lonely Polygamist, the continuing controversy over Prop. 8 in California, and, reportedly, an upcoming off-Broadway “Mormon musical” by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who already produced a South Park episode about Mormonism.

As a history professor, I also had numerous professional audiences in mind:

• Environmental historians (who generally downplay religion and culture)
• Utah historians (who too often underplay non-Mormons and native peoples in the state’s past)
• Mormon historians (who too rarely engage with outside scholarly trends)
• Local historians (who seldom ask large-scale questions despite doing fantastic archival research)
• Historians of the United States (who generally overlook the Great Basin)
• Religious studies scholars (who generally know less about Mormonism than other US religions, and who might be interested in the racial and environmental aspects of Mormon history)
• Native American historians (who generally know less about the Great Basin and Mormon-Indian relations than other western regions and federal-Indian relations)
• Historians of the American West (who often lose interest in the story of Mormonism after 1890, when the LDS Church disavowed plural marriage)
• Historians of “collective memory” (who might be interested in a book-length study of a “memory site” that doubles as a natural landform)
• Cultural historians (who might be intrigued by the geographic dimension of “playing Indian,” and the interplay of religion and landscape)
• Folklorists and toponymists (who might be curious to see how an environmental historian uses their work)
• Historical geographers (who should be interested in an in-depth, longterm study of place-making, its context, and consequences)

Where does the book’s title come from? What alternative title would you give?

An alternative would be “A Memorial of Place and Displacement.” Not a marketable title, but a literal summation of the project. “On Zion’s Mount” is more metaphorical, and has multiple possible meanings. The phrase comes from a Mormon hymn:

High on the mountain top a banner is unfurled.
In Deseret’s sweet, peaceful land,
On Zion’s mount behold it stand!

(“Deseret” was the name of the polity Mormons hoped to establish in the Great Basin.)

How do you feel about the cover?

Love it! The designer, who has an exceptionally cool name—Annamarie Why—did a terrific job with the layout and typography. I also like the name of the art piece: “Tip Top of Timp.” It’s fitting that this painting does not replicate the normative front-side wide-angle view of the mountain; instead, it shows an aspect of the backside. The painter, Roman Andrus, has personal significance to me. He was the leading portraitist of his generation in Provo, Utah, and did a large color study of my maternal grandfather (a man of the nineteenth century, the son of a polygamist). That portrait hung the living room of my childhood home—a room that had a picture window facing Mount Timpanogos.

Is there any book out there you wish you had written?

I wish I’d written The Epic of Gilgamesh. It also deals with place-making and the profaning of sacred space. The Mesopotamian epic has all the elements for a timeless meditation on religion and environment—totemic animals, animistic rivers, prophetic mountains, sacred forests, sacralized buildings—in addition to great descriptions of sex and violence. Certainly the story has more staying power than any history book!<|endoftext|>Looking for ultra simple website to be built. I would like to have the website live especially within the next two to three weeks max. Already have purchased domain. Would also need some stock photography as well as content if you can provide that as well.

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Life and Times of Michel Haché-Gallant

Life and Times of Michel Haché-Gallant

natalie (View posts)
Posted: 25 Aug 2006 4:37PM GMT
Classification: Biography
Edited: 11 Oct 2006 6:41PM GMT
Surnames: Hache, Gallant
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Life and Times of Michel HachÃ©-Gallant

Major credit must be given to Fr. Patrice Gallant, author of "Michel HachÃ©-Gallant et ses descendants", volumes I and II, from whose works the author of this biography has liberally quoted, making up much of the body of the article, and to Rob Ferguson, author of "The Search for Port La Joye", published in the Spring/Summer 1990 volume of The Island Magazine, providing much of the "Aftermath" information.

Special thanks are extended to Benjamin E. Achee, Jr. for his permission to include information from his Achee//Gallant/Hache web page in this biography.

This is a biography of Michel HachÃ©-Gallant, (1662-1737), who at the time of his death was the patriarch of a large, extended family of Acadian colonists, and who had spent his last 17 years in the French settlement of Port La Joye (near old Fort Amherst which is located on the southeast shore of Charlottetown harbour) on Ile Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island). Beside his considerable progeny, he left behind a farm near the colony's administrative headquarters. Eight years later New England militia put it to the torch.

Father Antoine Bernard, in his book "L'Acadie vivante" gives an inventory of the main Arcadian families from the three Maritime provinces. Leblanc leads with 2,759 families. Arsenault is second with 1,543 families. Third is Gallant, with 1,167 families. If we add to this last count the 369 HachÃ© families mentioned in the inventory, The Gallant and HachÃ© families total 1,536, all descending from the same ancestor, Michel HachÃ©.

Little is known for certain of Michel HachÃ©-Gallant's ancestry. The Honorable Bona Arsenault and Fr. Patrice Gallant, have studied this origin and have come to the same conclusion. This conclusion was given out as pure hypothese, as the documents examined could not give absolute proof. Many circumstantial facts found in the archives of the Court of Justice in Quebec and in the life of Nicholas Denys, tell us that Michel LarchÃ©, known in history by the name Michel HachÃ© surnamed Gallant was thought to have been born about 1662 at St. Pierre, Acadia (near the present St. Peters, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia). It is thought that he was the son of Pierre LarchÃ©, born about 1640, originally from the parish of Saint Pierre in the town of Montidier, bishop's residence of Beauvais, in France.

A recently discovered document in the archives in Paris, lists a Michel Gallant, husbandman (farmer), on the passenger list of the ship "St. Jehan", which sailed for Acadia on 1 April 1636. On a trip to France, Father Patrice Gallant, visited the Village of Montidier, which was restored after having been destroyed during the First World War. He noted being unable to locate any records or knowledge of the names LarchÃ© or HachÃ©, but that there was a burial vault in the cemetery and a monument in the village bearing the name "Galland". He was also able to find the record of a Pierre Galland who was born about the time our Pierre LarchÃ© was. These facts pose the question, was the name Gallant really a surname given in Acadia, or did the name originate in France? The question also arises, was the Michel Gallant, who sailed to Acadia in 1636, really the Pierre LarchÃ© the father of Michel HachÃ©-Gallant? The span of years mentioned would have allowed this.

Pierre LarchÃ© was employed by Nicholas Denys, a persistent, if luckless entrepreneur who in 1650 had established a trading post at St. Pierre, Ile Royale, located beside the present day St. Peter's Canal, on Cape Breton Island. LarchÃ© had been married to an Adrianne Langlois, born abut 1640, but he was thought to have taken a Micmac wife when he was at St. Pierre. LarchÃ© died about 1668 in Miscou, New Brunswick and was dead when his daughter Madeleine was married to Elie Voisen, in Notre Dame Church in Quebec on October 15, 1688.

Nicholas Denys' commercial establishment in Acadia was not mentioned in the census of the time. Not being on friendly terms with those in authority at Port Royal, Nicholas Denys often did business with those at Quebec where he had numerous and well-established friends. Nicholas Denys met with many difficulties from his rivals, who in 1667 captured the establishment he had at St. Pierre in Cape Breton. During that summer Nicholas Denys, who was already 70 years old, crossed to France on one of his rival La Giraudiere's ships. During his absence, his only son Richard looked after his business. Denys returned from France the following spring on a ship that probably went directly to Quebec. The French authorities having restored Denys' former rights at St. Pierre, his son went to get him in a schooner.

It is very likely on the occasion of this voyage that, after the death of their father, Richard Denys would have brought Michel LarchÃ© along with his sister Madeleine, to Trois-RiviÃ¨res in New France, and that Nicholas Denys confided them to his son-in-law Michel Leneuf and his daughter Mary. This would explain the baptismal act of April 24, 1668, if it really is Michel Larche's.

Denys' establishment at St. Pierre was destroyed by fire during the winter of 1668-69. Now ruined, Denys took refuge at Nipisiquit (Bathurst) during the summer of 1669. He died there in 1688 at the age of 90. Incidentally, Deny's trading post at St. Pierre, which was partially excavated by a Canadian Parks Service team in 1985, is one of the most significant 17th-century sites in Atlantic Canada. See historical site at:

At Trois-RiviÃ¨res in New France

Michel LeNeuf, Sieur de la ValliÃ¨re, Landlord and founder of Beaubassin, moved there from Trois-RiviÃ¨res. It was at Trois-RiviÃ¨res on 24 April 1668, that M de la Poterie, father of Michel LeNeuf and of Miss de la ValliÃ¨re, stood with Miss de la ValliÃ¨re as godfather and godmother of a boy named Michel, who was eight years old, came from Acadia and had a father who was French and a mother who was probably Micmac. The baptized child may have been Michel HachÃ©, whom the Sieur de la ValliÃ¨re considered his adopted son, his man of trust.

Michel HachÃ©'s baptismal records still exist in Quebec and state that he was baptized April 24, 1668, when he was eight years old, with documentation that his father was a Frenchman and his mother was an Esquimo (but more likely was a Mexis Indian as there were no Eskimo in this region of Canada).

It is not known if Michel HachÃ© had brothers, but a Madeline LarchÃ©, who may have been a sister, was reported to have married a Elie Voisin, on 15 October 1668, at Quebec with a dowry of 300 pounds. Sir Pierre Denys, son of Simon Denys and husband of Catherine Leneuf, and so brother-in-law to Michel Leneuf, attended Madeline's wedding as principal witness, which supports the hypotheses that Madeline was Michel Larche's sister. Otherwise, why would Sir Pierre Denys, a person of fame in Quebec, future Lord of Perce in Gaspe, have attended the wedding? In the same manner, the presence of Pierre Denys, Catherine Leneuf's husband at the wedding, would point to some relationship between Madeline LarchÃ© and Michel LarchÃ©. Madeline was taken to court 18 July 1678 and was accused of living a scandalous life. She was condemned to

 have keys to their own cells - watch the video to see why), a society that actually works together instead of against each other, people participation and so much more, like a liveable wage, health care, free college and on and on.

    This makes the Untied United Slaves of Amerika look like the slaves and ignoramuses we are. There is a whole different world out there that does not seek to oppress, enslave and subjugate the citizenry.

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Life and Times of Michel Haché-Gallant

Life and Times of Michel Haché-Gallant

natalie (View posts)
Posted: 25 Aug 2006 4:37PM GMT
Classification: Biography
Edited: 11 Oct 2006 6:41PM GMT
Surnames: Hache, Gallant
I just want to pass on my findings
Hope it heps someone!
The following text was found on this sight!

Life and Times of Michel HachÃ©-Gallant

Major credit must be given to Fr. Patrice Gallant, author of "Michel HachÃ©-Gallant et ses descendants", volumes I and II, from whose works the author of this biography has liberally quoted, making up much of the body of the article, and to Rob Ferguson, author of "The Search for Port La Joye", published in the Spring/Summer 1990 volume of The Island Magazine, providing much of the "Aftermath" information.

Special thanks are extended to Benjamin E. Achee, Jr. for his permission to include information from his Achee//Gallant/Hache web page in this biography.

This is a biography of Michel HachÃ©-Gallant, (1662-1737), who at the time of his death was the patriarch of a large, extended family of Acadian colonists, and who had spent his last 17 years in the French settlement of Port La Joye (near old Fort Amherst which is located on the southeast shore of Charlottetown harbour) on Ile Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island). Beside his considerable progeny, he left behind a farm near the colony's administrative headquarters. Eight years later New England militia put it to the torch.

Father Antoine Bernard, in his book "L'Acadie vivante" gives an inventory of the main Arcadian families from the three Maritime provinces. Leblanc leads with 2,759 families. Arsenault is second with 1,543 families. Third is Gallant, with 1,167 families. If we add to this last count the 369 HachÃ© families mentioned in the inventory, The Gallant and HachÃ© families total 1,536, all descending from the same ancestor, Michel HachÃ©.

Little is known for certain of Michel HachÃ©-Gallant's ancestry. The Honorable Bona Arsenault and Fr. Patrice Gallant, have studied this origin and have come to the same conclusion. This conclusion was given out as pure hypothese, as the documents examined could not give absolute proof. Many circumstantial facts found in the archives of the Court of Justice in Quebec and in the life of Nicholas Denys, tell us that Michel LarchÃ©, known in history by the name Michel HachÃ© surnamed Gallant was thought to have been born about 1662 at St. Pierre, Acadia (near the present St. Peters, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia). It is thought that he was the son of Pierre LarchÃ©, born about 1640, originally from the parish of Saint Pierre in the town of Montidier, bishop's residence of Beauvais, in France.

A recently discovered document in the archives in Paris, lists a Michel Gallant, husbandman (farmer), on the passenger list of the ship "St. Jehan", which sailed for Acadia on 1 April 1636. On a trip to France, Father Patrice Gallant, visited the Village of Montidier, which was restored after having been destroyed during the First World War. He noted being unable to locate any records or knowledge of the names LarchÃ© or HachÃ©, but that there was a burial vault in the cemetery and a monument in the village bearing the name "Galland". He was also able to find the record of a Pierre Galland who was born about the time our Pierre LarchÃ© was. These facts pose the question, was the name Gallant really a surname given in Acadia, or did the name originate in France? The question also arises, was the Michel Gallant, who sailed to Acadia in 1636, really the Pierre LarchÃ© the father of Michel HachÃ©-Gallant? The span of years mentioned would have allowed this.

Pierre LarchÃ© was employed by Nicholas Denys, a persistent, if luckless entrepreneur who in 1650 had established a trading post at St. Pierre, Ile Royale, located beside the present day St. Peter's Canal, on Cape Breton Island. LarchÃ© had been married to an Adrianne Langlois, born abut 1640, but he was thought to have taken a Micmac wife when he was at St. Pierre. LarchÃ© died about 1668 in Miscou, New Brunswick and was dead when his daughter Madeleine was married to Elie Voisen, in Notre Dame Church in Quebec on October 15, 1688.

Nicholas Denys' commercial establishment in Acadia was not mentioned in the census of the time. Not being on friendly terms with those in authority at Port Royal, Nicholas Denys often did business with those at Quebec where he had numerous and well-established friends. Nicholas Denys met with many difficulties from his rivals, who in 1667 captured the establishment he had at St. Pierre in Cape Breton. During that summer Nicholas Denys, who was already 70 years old, crossed to France on one of his rival La Giraudiere's ships. During his absence, his only son Richard looked after his business. Denys returned from France the following spring on a ship that probably went directly to Quebec. The French authorities having restored Denys' former rights at St. Pierre, his son went to get him in a schooner.

It is very likely on the occasion of this voyage that, after the death of their father, Richard Denys would have brought Michel LarchÃ© along with his sister Madeleine, to Trois-RiviÃ¨res in New France, and that Nicholas Denys confided them to his son-in-law Michel Leneuf and his daughter Mary. This would explain the baptismal act of April 24, 1668, if it really is Michel Larche's.

Denys' establishment at St. Pierre was destroyed by fire during the winter of 1668-69. Now ruined, Denys took refuge at Nipisiquit (Bathurst) during the summer of 1669. He died there in 1688 at the age of 90. Incidentally, Deny's trading post at St. Pierre, which was partially excavated by a Canadian Parks Service team in 1985, is one of the most significant 17th-century sites in Atlantic Canada. See historical site at:

At Trois-RiviÃ¨res in New France

Michel LeNeuf, Sieur de la ValliÃ¨re, Landlord and founder of Beaubassin, moved there from Trois-RiviÃ¨res. It was at Trois-RiviÃ¨res on 24 April 1668, that M de la Poterie, father of Michel LeNeuf and of Miss de la ValliÃ¨re, stood with Miss de la ValliÃ¨re as godfather and godmother of a boy named Michel, who was eight years old, came from Acadia and had a father who was French and a mother who was probably Micmac. The baptized child may have been Michel HachÃ©, whom the Sieur de la ValliÃ¨re considered his adopted son, his man of trust.

Michel HachÃ©'s baptismal records still exist in Quebec and state that he was baptized April 24, 1668, when he was eight years old, with documentation that his father was a Frenchman and his mother was an Esquimo (but more likely was a Mexis Indian as there were no Eskimo in this region of Canada).

It is not known if Michel HachÃ© had brothers, but a Madeline LarchÃ©, who may have been a sister, was reported to have married a Elie Voisin, on 15 October 1668, at Quebec with a dowry of 300 pounds. Sir Pierre Denys, son of Simon Denys and husband of Catherine Leneuf, and so brother-in-law to Michel Leneuf, attended Madeline's wedding as principal witness, which supports the hypotheses that Madeline was Michel Larche's sister. Otherwise, why would Sir Pierre Denys, a person of fame in Quebec, future Lord of Perce in Gaspe, have attended the wedding? In the same manner, the presence of Pierre Denys, Catherine Leneuf's husband at the wedding, would point to some relationship between Madeline LarchÃ© and Michel LarchÃ©. Madeline was taken to court 18 July 1678 and was accused of living a scandalous life. She was condemned to spend four days in prison and then leave the city of Quebec. On the 15th and 18th of September of the following year, she was again taken to court and