Saturday, January 9, 2010

How To Make A Watercolour Paper Stretcher

News: When handling the U.S. GDP n'amusent anyone.


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quarter revised down again to reach 2.2 points. It is interesting to recall an era U.S. GDP estimate showed an increase of 3.8 points. Therefore the U.S. GDP was revised down by over 40%! But this did not upset the financial markets continue to rise, reaching levels almost never seen in terms of valuation (taking into account inflation). What is surprising is that the reason given for this further decline is "the weakness of investment is much higher than expected." I must admit that this statement is to me an indirect admission of the failure of U.S. financial model. Indeed, the indices we jumped from 70 to 100% within 9 months. Theoretically, the level of indices is meant to reflect the true level of investment but in this case how this can he, with a rebound (taking into account inflation) from one of the largest ever observed on financial markets, we can have a low level of investment also. The answer is very simple investment was completely erased in favor of speculation. I will explain shortly how such a phenomenon is economically feasible. Anyway this poses two problems:

· First overvalued assets poses a risk of blow on the economy in case of 'bubble burst. In addition, companies may not pay dividends without charge social consequences because profits not follow. Indeed, if one takes the case of U.S. corporate profits are still lower by over 80% in 2007.

· I talk a lot with my teachers who are economists and I can also tell you they are not happy because even if everyone is euphoric shows the truth is not very nice to say . Indeed, over the last 6 months colossal resources were deployed: a stimulus plan of 830 billion dollars, a plan to help the banking industry for 730 billion (TARP), the purchase of MBS ( mortgage-backed securities) by the Fed to 1.35 trillion, 65 billion for General Motors, 400 billion for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac etc ... The U.S. has introduced more 30 points of GDP (I think the true number is much higher) in stimulating economic and banking eventually withdraw only 2.2 points of GDP growth, but apart from some economists and managers of large investment funds that long term n 'seems to disturb anyone.

can really worry about this mismatch between means implemented by states and the results in terms of GDP as the absolute economic performance is ridiculous compared to the means employed. One can only worry about too, like many members of the Federal Reserve from late next plans to help real estate or even scrapping

because right now the economy depends only public demand, private demand is insignificant.

Alexandre Letourneau


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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Name Of The French Song In South Park

Sydney! I'm down under mates!

G'Day!




It's been a month since we arrived in Australia in the great and beautiful city of Sydney. It was from the beginning was really impressed by the beauty of the great metropolis of Australia: a beautiful harbor, a city that vibrates with every turn, the beaches!, and not forgetting the famous Opera House which is beautifully illuminated at night.


So we spent the first week touring the city by taking the ferry stops at Darling Point Wharf, located just minutes from our apartment. What is cool here cest ferry boats that are part of public transit such as trains and buses, cest therefore very cheap to board a ferry in Sydney to go: the botanical garden at the Port where there is the Imax largest in the world, and several beaches like Manly. Well the city would sell its ferries to private companies that hope does not happen as prices increase ridiculously (This is a subject frequently discussed here, this and whaleboats''''Japanese smash open sea of Tasmania vessels lutant against illegal fishing whales http://www.youtube.com/watch?v = Y8TLmm0emTY & feature = related ) Oh yes and we found an apartment just the day after our arrival in Sydney in a small apartment tower in a neighborhood just really at Darling Point in ... only 5 minutes by train from the city center or 5 minutes by boat from Circular Quay, or there is the Opera House. The trick is the dimension by cons: a studio that does not do more than 3-4 meters per 6-7 meters! The apartment is about to complete half of my room on the Plateau Mont-Royal! Why it took this apartment? undoubtedly the rooftop terrace with BBQ overlooking the city and the Harbour Bridge!


So Stephanie and I both work in restaurants, she found a job as a waitress just the first day she's gone to wear CV! Me it was a bit more complicated, I had never worked as a server and it is especially this kind of job that travelers with a working holiday visa can be found. Summer has started since December and there are thousands travelers who are looking for jobs, and more students ... after 2 weeks of searching without success I began to seriously worry that I had less money and that Sydney is a city which is very expensive, Our small studio is $ 300 Canadian per week and a transit pass costs $ 40 (per week, everything here is a week!) is by shopping at the $ 2 blind that we did the happy encounter of a Quebec, Marie-Claude, who lived here for 2 months. Thanks to her I work in coffee center tennis courts just 5 minutes walk from our apartment. I like, I'm a bit of everything: lunches, coffee, table service, reservations ... the land is horraire day, 4 days per week to 10 hours per day and is paid minumum wage in cash (equivalent to $ 14 Canadian per hour ) short enough money to pay for the apartment, eating well and I put money aside for travel plans that start in April! On top of that, tomorrow I'm starting to teach English to a couple who will bring me about $ 75 per hour! This is a first for me to teach a language, but thanks to the book that I rented out the library: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning English, esta muy bueno!



In my days off, I am especially busy going to the beach by bike, it's free and 30 degrees cest the only place where you want to find you! We both bought used bikes, the biggest beach in Sydney (and Australia), Bondi Beach, is only 10-15 minutes by bike. The waves are big, I do not teach you anything by telling you that surfing is a popular sport here ... in fact this is not the best beach for swimming because of all you need to watch surfers and jellyfish, I got burn 2 times by those little blue jellyfish and it AC hurts ... So I prefer to swim ride further south to other beaches less crowded (there is also a coastal walk linking all the beaches in Sydney, from Bondi to Maroubra, very nice but not to make after-noon to 35 degrees) or there are small beaches along the harbor and there are no waves and where there are''net''shark, yes of shark nets to swim quietly without taking the risk of be eating a foot. There are all kinds of sharks in Australia, including great white sharks (Jaws! we are gonna need a bigger boat!) North but here there are quite ferocious sharks anyway, last year was a surfer from Bondi lost an arm after a bite of shark teeth, and it seems last week people saw a large shark in the bay next to us.


addition sharks and jellyfish, there are thousands of big bats every evening from 7:30 pm, invade the skies over Sydney and fly to the south to feed on fruit trees, or they may be called by Batman himself! It's quite a spectacle of our terrace, or there are still tens flying a few feet from our heads ... we got mud on top the other day outdoor cinema, do you ever put under a fruit tree that night in Sydney!

Finally everything is fine here, we had a great Christmas together with a couple of France, and New Year watching the fireworks on the terrace of our friend Marie-Claude and Australian boyfriend, it was quite a show while it lasted only 12 minutes, we were about 1.5 million to watch them live from around the area around the city. I have other travel plans that start in April: tour of Australia by plane with my father, surf the east coast to Brisbane, go snorkeling and sailing the Great Barrier Reef and finally take flight to visit Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia for 6 weeks.


Hasta luego!


Jean-Max

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Best Retirement Cartoons



Augustus Theophilus and Clement Machet, and Flavie
Lallement.



Auguste Theophile Horguelin, a teacher at St. Etienne-au-Temple (Marne), born in Vésigneul-sur-Marne March 21, 1845, son of Jean-Baptiste Theophilus and Mary Magdalene Horguelin Victorine Lebl, wife St-Etienne 27 February 1870, Leonie Clement Machet, born in Saint-Etienne July 28, 1851, daughter of Anthony and Stephanie Theodule Machet Rigollet. He married his second wife in Saint-Etienne, 17 August 1896, Elizabeth Flavie Lallement, born Sommauthe (Ardennes) May 7, 1863, daughter Jules Claude and Mary Lally Euphrosyne Couty.


School of Saint-Etienne-au-Temple, 1865.

"The town of Saint-Etienne-au-Temple, near the right bank of the Vesle, is crossed by road from Chalons to Suippes. The main streets are parallel to the river down which many gardens. It has (in 1845) or common house or school house or parsonage, but she has a water mill and wind. There is a fire engine. (...)
This territory contains 1,199 acres, including over 1,100 in arable land, meadows and pastures 8, 6 ordinary wood, 14 in pine woods. (...)
Fifty-five laborers employ 120 two kinds of plows to cultivate this great sketch territory. (...) "(1)

" The mayor and school was not designed by an architect, but by the contractor Chalons Roge, acting in the circumstance of contractor. (...) The receipt books
held April 3, 1884. (...)
The building, siding and stone grit, is simply covered with a gable roof with gables. (...) "(2)

Auguste Theophile Horguelin completed his studies at School teacher training college of Chalons in 1864 at the age of 19. He was appointed a teacher at Saint-Etienne-au-Temple in the fall
October 1864. He remained in that position for 37 years until his death in 1902. (3)


The family of Augustus Theophilus Horguelin.

Horguelin wife Clémence Auguste Machet (February 27, 1870), daughter of the mayor of Saint-Etienne Theodule Machet. Three daughters were born of this marriage.

Louise, born February 16, 1871. She married at St. Stephen June 29, 1898, George Achilles Hurel, born in Bassu (Marne) July 15, 1863, son of Pierre and Marie Hurel Esim Jeanne Deverriere Adelaide.

Leonie, born November 20, 1872. No alliance.

Marie, born April 24, 1876. She married in Saint-Etienne August 8, 1896, Anatole Francois Giraud, the son of Louis and Teresa Giraud Verdy, residing in Bourges.

Machet Clemence died in Saint-Etienne June 19, 1882.

Augustus Horguelin second wife (August 17, 1896) Flavie Lallement, daughter of Claude Jules Lallement residing in Sommauthe (Ardennes). They have one son: Paul Francis Leo, born in Sommauthe June 12, 1899. He married in Cernon-sur-Coole (Marne) August 12, 1929, Marguerite Camille Alzire Brisson Cernon born November 18, 1906, daughter of Leon Edmond Brisson and Marie Voisin Céline Lacroix said.


School Nuisement-sur-Coole (Marne), 1911.

"The common Nuisement, near Coole, 1 KM1 / 2 of the Chalons road to Troyes (...) was (in 1845) a school house, a rectory, a water mill with two rotating and a windmill. (...) This
mountainous territory, but sloping, 6 km long and 3 wide. It contains 1,512 acres, including nearly 1,400 in arable land, 4 in meadows, 2 in vines and 43 in pine woods. (...) Twenty-eight laborers cultivating a large area chalky which they give enough manure to make it productive, especially rye, oats and sainfoin. (...)
They grow like cabbages in Ecury. (...) "(5)

" The school hall was built under the direction of architect Francis Poisel Chalons. (...) The final acceptance inspection took place November 6, 1879. (...)
This product is without doubt one of the most balanced constructions Poisel Francis, to whom we owe many town halls. The building consists of two parts juxtaposed: a body of two-storey building houses the town hall and accommodation of the teacher,
while the classroom is carried on the back in a second building whose axis is perpendicular . The organization of the main facade is common among Poisel: brick and stone siding, three bays, two levels. (...) "(6)

Flavie Horguelin-Lally, director of nursery school in the Rue Saint-Dominique in Chalons (1892-1896), to replace her deceased husband, was appointed a teacher at Saint-Etienne-au Temple-1 July 1902. It remains to that position until 1911. She is then appointed to Nuisement teacher, upon request, to visit his son more easily board, taking the train station Nuisement. She retired in 1921.
Nuisement She died on 1 January 1929, at age 65. (7)



Original parts


Marriage Horguelin-Machet, 1870.

"The year eight hundred and seventy, September 20 February at six o'clock in the evening, before we Auguste Marie Ferdinand White, Mayor, registrar of the town of Saint-Etienne-au-Temple Canton and Borough of Chalons, Marne, have appeared publicly in the common house of the said place, the Augustus M. Théophile Horguelin, a teacher at that place, twenty-four, born in Vésigneul-sur-Marne, Canton Marson, the March 20, eighteen hundred and forty-five, adult son and legitimate deceased Jean-Baptiste Theophile Horguelin, died Nov. 1 audit Vésigneul thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and Mary Magdalene Victorine Lebl, owner Vésigneul-sur-Marne, this present and consenting, first. And Miss Leonie
Clemence Machet, no occupation, aged 18, residing Saint-Etienne-au-Temple where she was born July 8 on the twenty thousand eight hundred and fifty-one minor and legitimate daughter of Anthony and Stephanie Theodule Machet Rigollet, farmers resident said Saint-Etienne, at this present and consenting other. Such appearing
have requested us to proceed with the celebration of their marriage, whose publications have been made in this town on Sundays six and 13 February this year, at noon, as evidenced by the record number of publications been put before our eyes, and in the town of Vésigneul-sur-Marne, on the same days and hours, and that results from the certificate presented to us in the future.
In support of their demand, the parties have given us the birth of the future, the death certificate of his father, the certificate of the publications in the town of Vésigneul-sur-Marne, and the act Birth of the future.
The future spouses and persons present to permit the marriage, challenged by us, pursuant to the law of 10 July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, we said it was made a marriage contract by Mr Morel, notary at Chalons, 14 February, eighteen hundred and seventy, as results from the certificate issued by him on the same day, and we submitted our application.
No opposition to this marriage we have been served, we Vital officer gave the parties have read the documents listed above and the provisions of the Code Napoleon in chapter six, entitled "Marriage," Human Rights and the respective duties of the spouses.
Afterwards, we asked if they want to be appearing as husband and wife. Each of them has responded affirmatively and separately, we pronounced the name of the law that Mr. and Miss Auguste Theophile Horguelin Leonie Clement Machet are united by marriage.
Everything was done publicly, and we have drawn up this act by Louis Gustave Horguelin, thirty four years, and Arthus Theophilus Horguelin, twenty nine years, both farmers domiciled Vésigneul-sur- marl, and brothers of the bridegroom;
Alexis Machet, aged seventy-four years, paternal grandfather of the bride, and Claude Antoine Vitry, aged sixty five years, a great uncle of the bride, both farmers Saint-Etienne-au-Temple.
And have new husband, the mother of the bridegroom, the father and the mother of the bride, and witnesses,
signed with us this note after reading ".


Excerpts from the marriage-Horguelin Lallement, 1896.

"The year eight hundred ninety-six, September 10th August at 10 am in the morning, before we Capitet Jules Mayor officer of civil status of the town of Saint-Etienne-au-Temple, Canton and Borough of Chalons, Marne, have appeared publicly in the hall room of that place, Auguste Theophile Horguelin, Teacher, aged fifty-one years, residing at that place, born in Vésigneul-sur-Marne March 20, eighteen hundred and forty-five, as follows from the vital records that Saint-Etienne, where was solemnized his previous marriage, son of deceased légtime Jean-Baptiste Theophile Horguelin, died audit Vésigneul November 1 mil eight hundred and sixty one, as found in the act of the previous marriage of the future, and Mary Magdalene Victorine Lebl, rentier, resident said Vésigneul; Leonie Machet widower, died in Saint-Etienne on June one thousand eight nineteen hundred eighty-two, as evidenced by the death register of that comune the groom to present and consenting, and proceeding with the consent of his mother, as a result of a deed drawn up by Mr. Clerc, notary Pogny, the twenty-eight last July, recorded on July 30 next to one hand.

And Mary Elizabeth Flavia Lallement, principal resident at Chalons-sur-Marne, thirty-three years old, born in Sommauthe (Ardennes) May 7, eighteen hundred and sixty three, as follows from his act of Birth attached hereto, legitimate daughter of the late Claude Jules Lallement, died April 2 Sommauthe thousand eight hundred and eighty, as is clear from his death certificate attached hereto, and Marie Euphrosyne Couty, no occupation, residing in Sommauthe, present and consenting to the other.

(...) The future spouses (...) said it has been awarded a contract of marriage given by Mr. Remy, notary at Chalons, on the thirteenth power (...) In the presence of

Louis Gustave Horguelin, sixty two years, and Charles Anatole Horguelin, forty eight years, farmers living at Vésigneul-sur-Marne, brothers of the husband, Constant Lallement, thirty-one years, and Joseph Lally, twenty seven years, employees of the railway in the east, the first resident at Chalons, the second at Reims, and brothers of the wife (...) .



From the inspection report of the Academy of Châlons, 1899


§ VI. Wishes of the master (the master sign his wishes. It will not be afraid to be very explicit).

'55. Is in his post early last 34 years.
Never asked anything. Wishes to remain in office even
3 years to get his wife the benefit of
his retirement in case of death. Did that
three years of his current marriage. A. Horguelin. "



Box of Death Flavie Horguelin, 1929.

"You are requested to attend the Convoy Service and Burial of Mrs. Widow
Horguelin, born F. Lallement, honorary teacher, died in Nuisement-sur-Coole, 1 January 1929, at age 65, provided the Sacraments of the Church. Delighted
the affection of his son Paul Horguelin, his brothers and sisters
and all his family: families Lallement Horguelin and to the sincere friendship of his many friends, the esteem of all.
Pray for Her!
The Funeral will be held Friday, January 4, at ten o'clock in the morning, the parish church of Nuisement.




Notes


Commandery of La Neuville-au-Temple (Marne)


Knights of the Temple (later became the Knights of Rhodes and Knights of Malta) owned land in the valleys of the Vesle and Coole, and a hotel in Châlons, called "Hotel of Rhodes' house or Senior levels (parish of Saint-Sulpice). The farm
Valley Vesle encompassed three villages of Saint-Etienne, Dampierre and Saint-Hilaire. Headquarters and the main buildings of the Commandery were located at a place called "La Neuville" in the territory of Dampierre-au-Temple.

In the Valley of Coole, paper Terrier Nuisement (1773) makes several references to the properties of the Temple on this county. There is "the alley of eroding" (corruption of Rhodes) in the village (probable location of the barn). And also pieces of land near or in different places called "the land of Rhodes" or "the Commandery, the Cartier; the "Pre Rhodes' next land of the Lords, and the" land of Rhodes "in Poutiot at the end of oak; the" eft Rhodes "near the village lands of Rhodes" in Nagorno warrens " or "after Billoquet. We also read a piece of land is "an end to the other Miterne and the Commander."

Sources: Louis Grignon, Topography history (...), Châlons, 1889, page 50.

Arch. national Q/1/664, lordship of Nuisement, confession and enumeration Terrier from 1773 to 1777. Register.




Sources


(1) J. Chalette, Dictionary of Commons, Chalons, 1845, page 63

(2) Sylvain Mikus, "The town halls of the department of Marne, the townships of Chalons-en-Champagne in Champagne Genealogy, No. 118, March 2008 page 67.

(3) Communication from Louise Hurel-Horguelin, Landerneau, November 11, 1966.

(4) Arch. Private, MH, marital status, Saint-Etienne-au-Temple, Sommauthe, Cernon-sur Coole, 1870-1929.

(5) J. Chalette, Dictionary of Commons, Chalons, 1845, page 79.

(6) Sylvain Mikus, in: Champagne Genealogy, No. 122, March 2009, page 54.

(7) Communication Jeanne Charlier Nuisement, December 29, 1972.