6. Maximize every "per chance" meeting. You never know when you might meet someone who can help you. Family or friends social events could produce unexpected encounters with people. Don't discount those events. So you're going to a birthday party for your friend's kid. You never know who you might meet. At a family holiday gathering last year, I met someone that has been instrumental in developing our business this year. Who would have thought this could happen by giving him a simple business card.
7. Place yourself at the right place at the right time. Have you been to a job fair or business conference and been disappointed with the networking results? Turn the tables around. Consider volunteering to help out at the job fair or other types of events. This puts you in a better strategic position for presenting your resume or business card. Company representatives might view you differently, if they know you are willing to go the extra mile in helping them make their presence easier to manage. Get involved by visiting Eventme.com, TheLunchClub.net, Craigslist.com or view the calendar of events for JacobJavitsCenter.com to place yourself in opportunities for giving out your business card. Volunteering for events has been a very successful resource for my business partner and I to expanding our business. Zig Ziglar, one of the most successful sales trainers in the world says "if you help enough people get what they want in life, you will get what you want in life".
8. Use "In Your Face" follow up. Did you ever have a job interview or meeting with a recruiter, potential client or employer and wonder why they never called you back? "Out of sight, out of mind" is the operative phrase to remember. Today's economic climate dictates you might be competing with 20, 50, 100 or more other people for the same position or contract. It's quite a task for people to keep track of each individual meeting. So it's up to you to give a person a reason to call you back. Immediately after a meeting snail mail a hand written note thanking the person for their time. Insert your business card. Now you're in the driver's seat in standing out from other people. If you get no response, do it again. Patience and persistence pays off.
9. Use promotions to promote YOU, Inc. Newspapers often have stories of people being promoted to high levels in different organizations? This is an opportunity for you. Consider getting some invitation size blank greeting cards. Use the Internet's search capabilities to find out the address of the company's executive offices. Send the blank invitation type card with a hand written note sincerely congratulating a person on their promotion. Insert your business card. For the cost of a mailing stamp, you have just made someone's day and may create an impression that makes a person feel compelled to respond back to you. Make it a habit to do this once a week. Remember "6 Degrees of Separation". You just never know . . . People open invitation type envelops faster than any others.
10. Brand yourself with a slogan. Print a slogan on your business card that answers the question "Why should I hire you? Or "What makes you different from everyone else?" A catchy phrase or slogan insures people ALWAYS associate a company name with their product or services. People remember even after the commercial is over. That's called branding. Companies pay big bucks to advertising agencies to come up with these lasting slogans. Consider doing the exact same thing on your business card. This is your insurance people remember you, after you meet. Don't just put Hortence Smiley, Accountant on your business card. Add something like "Financial Services With Integrity". A slogan makes all the difference between getting hired or not, because people will remember you long after a meeting.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using Orchard.ContentManagement.Drivers;
using Orchard.ContentManagement.MetaData;
using Orchard.ContentManagement.MetaData.Builders;
using Orchard.Core.Contents.Extensions;
using Orchard.Data.Migration;

namespace Datwendo.ConnectorListener {
    public class Migrations : DataMigrationImpl {

        public int Create()
        {
            SchemaBuilder.CreateTable("SubscriberPartRecord", table => table
                    .ContentPartRecord()
                    .Column<int>("SubscriberId", c => c.WithDefault(0))
                    .Column<int>("PublisherId", c => c.WithDefault(0))
                    .Column<int>("ConnectorId", c => c.WithDefault(0))
                    .Column<string>("ContentTypeName", c => c.WithLength(255).WithDefault("ConnectorNotification"))
                    .Column<bool>("TriggerWorkflow", c => c.WithDefault(false))
                    );

            ContentDefinitionManager.AlterPartDefinition("SubscriberPart",
                builder => builder.Attachable(false));

            // to avoid duplicate subscribers/publishers in table
            SchemaBuilder.ExecuteSql("ALTER TABLE Datwendo_ConnectorListener_SubscriberPartRecord ADD CONSTRAINT uc_sb_subscriber_publisher UNIQUE (SubscriberId,PublisherId)");

            ContentDefinitionManager.AlterTypeDefinition("ConnectorListener", cfg => cfg
                   .WithPart("SubscriberPart")
                   .WithPart("CommonPart", p => p
                       .WithSetting("DateEditorSettings.ShowDateEditor", "false")
                       .WithSetting("OwnerEditorSettings.ShowOwnerEditor", "false"))
                   .Creatable(false)
                   .Draftable(false));

            SchemaBuilder.CreateTable("NotificationPartRecord", table => table
                    .ContentPartRecord()
                    .Column<int>("PublisherId", c => c.WithDefault(0))
                    .Column<int>("SubscriberId", c => c.WithDefault(0))
                    .Column<int>("CounterId", c => c.WithDefault(0))
                    .Column<int>("IdxVal", c => c.WithDefault(0))
                    .Column<int>("StateCode", c => c.WithDefault(0))
                    .Column<int>("DataType", c => c.WithDefault(0))
                    .Column<string>("SecretKey", c => c.WithLength(400)));

            ContentDefinitionManager.AlterPartDefinition("NotificationPart",
                builder => builder.Attachable(true));

            ContentDefinitionManager.AlterTypeDefinition("ConnectorNotification", cfg => cfg
               .WithPart("NotificationPart")
               .WithPart("CommonPart", p => p
                   .WithSetting("DateEditorSettings.ShowDateEditor", "false")
                   .WithSetting("OwnerEditorSettings.ShowOwnerEditor", "false"))
               .Creatable(false)
               .Draftable(false));

            return 3;
        }
        public int UpdateFrom1()
        {
            SchemaBuilder.AlterTable("NotificationPartRecord", table => table
                    .DropColumn("Key"));

            SchemaBuilder.AlterTable("NotificationPartRecord", table => table
                    .AddColumn<string>("SecretKey", c => c.WithLength(400)));
            return 2;
        }

        public int UpdateFrom2()
        {
            SchemaBuilder.AlterTable("NotificationPartRecord", table => table
                .DropColumn("Index"));
            SchemaBuilder.AlterTable("NotificationPartRecord", table => table
                .DropColumn("Status"));
            SchemaBuilder.AlterTable("NotificationPartRecord", table => table
                .AddColumn<int>("IdxVal", c => c.WithDefault(0)));
            SchemaBuilder.AlterTable("NotificationPartRecord", table => table
                .AddColumn<int>("StateCode", c => c.WithDefault(0)));
        return 3;
        }

        public int UpdateFrom3()
        {
            SchemaBuilder.AlterTable("NotificationPartRecord", table => table
                .AddColumn<int>("DataType", c => c.WithDefault(0)));
            return 4;
        }
    }
}

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This object lesson makes an analogy between Jesus and the sun and Christians and the moon. It helps kids to learn what why Jesus didn't take us straight to heaven as soon as we became Christians.
Several white shirts for kids to slip on (large undershirts are easy to get on an off over their other clothing).
· Plug in the black light near your teaching area.
"That's why God didn't take you straight to heaven when you became a Christian.
This object lesson teaches about our new, resurrection bodies by using a simple science experiment. You will demonstrate how ultraviolet rays change the color of UV-sensitive beads and how medicine bottles block UV rays. The beads will represent our spirit, and the bottles will represent our earthly bodies (which keep our spirit from showing its full potential).
Color Changing UV Beads (available from www.stevespanglerscience.com for about $7 per 250 beads) – you will want enough so that each child can have at least 8-10 beads.
Prescription medicine bottles (the translucent, brown type) – enough so that each child can have one. It's best if the bottles have lids that aren't child-proof, since the kids will be opening and closing them on their own. However, if you can only get bottles with child-proof lids, you can still use them if you help the kids open their bottles when it comes time.
· Put at least 8-10 beads in each of the bottles, and then close the lids.
· Keep one bottle for demonstration, and put the rest to the side. You'll probably want to wait until the end of the lesson to pass them out, because they can become a noisy distraction if you pass them out too soon.
This object lesson teaches about how appearances can be deceiving when it comes to salvation. Just because we go to church and hang out with Christians doesn't mean we are necessarily going to be saved, and it's what is inside us that makes the difference.
· Position the container on the display table where it can be seen by everyone.
This object lesson teaches about how the Body of Christ is connected and emphasizes how God uses our imperfect parts and our struggles to join us to others. It uses the metaphor of a jigsaw puzzle.
· Set up projector and screen.
· "Those are good responses. In addition to what you've said, I can think of three good reasons God leaves us with our struggles.
o They keep us in communication with Him. While we are struggling, we pray more and with more intensity. If it weren't for our difficult times, God might never hear from some of us!
o They are a greenhouse for spiritual growth. Do you know what a greenhouse is? (Listen for responses, and add if necessary: a greenhouse is a house made of glass or plastic that lets sunlight in and keeps it in to help plants grow better in a warm, tropical environment.) When we submit our difficult areas to God, we learn spiritual lessons that we couldn't learn if everything was easy.


It is important that we are able to have competent and dependable people in our company if we are going to hire some employees to help us out. The services that our employees are able to give us are something that should be given a lot of importance as it would affect the quality of our operations and the productivity that we are going to have. In order for us to be able to find the employees that would have the best quality, it is important that we should be able to give them the proper tests to help us get to know more about them. We should know that there are integrity tests that would be able to determine the honesty and integrity of our applicants as well as other traits that we should be looking for in them.
It is important that have these tests so that we can be sure that the people that we are going to hire would not cheat, lie, steal or cause any kind of problems while they are in our company. We should do some research on the different types of tests that we are able to give as we need to make sure that we are able to have ones that could give us the proper information that we need from all of our applicants. These tests are considered as personality tests and they are something that could also help us have some knowledge on the attitude that people would have in doing their job. See page below for more information about honest and integrity tests.
Being able to properly give out tests to our employees would help us assess their personality and work ethic much better. We should know that there are tests that we are able to find online that we can give to all of our applicants and they are surely something that can give us interesting results about them. We should also have tests done that would be able to determine the potential of all of our applicants as we need to make sure that we they are able to properly contribute to the productivity that we are going to have in our business. Being able to properly test out all of our employees would give us a lot of assurance that we are able to be successful in working with them. We should look for tests that are also reliable so that we can be sure that the results that they are able to give us about our applicants are reliable. To learn more click on this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_integrity_testing .
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COMMONWEALTH vs. JOSEPH BROOKS.
Norfolk County
Present: FIELD, C.J., LUMMUS, QUA, COX, & RONAN, JJ.
A verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree was warranted by evidence that the defendant, when arrested by two police officers with companions and placed in an automobile, retained possession of a revolver which he had been carrying; that later, when one of the officers was back of the automobile and the other was getting out of it, the defendant jumped up from his seat, called on the second officer to drop a revolver which he had in his hand, held back his companions, folded back the front seat and leaning over it, fired twice at that officer, killing him, the second shot hitting him as he was falling; and that the defendant later stated that he "would have shot" the first officer "too."
INDICTMENT, found and returned on May 27, 1940.
The case was tried in the Superior Court before Dowd, J.
J. D. Smith, for the defendant.
G. W. Arbuckle, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.
QUA, J. The defendant has been convicted of the murder in the first degree of Edward F. Lee, a police officer of Milton, on May 16, 1940. Sentence of death has been imposed, and execution of the sentence has been stayed in accordance with G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 279, Section 4, as amended by St. 1935, c. 437, Section 3, and the record on appeal has been transmitted to us in accordance with G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 278, Section 33E, as amended by St. 1939, c. 341. We have not been asked to order a new trial upon any of the grounds upon which we are specifically authorized to do so by the 1939 amendment, and upon consideration of the whole case we are satisfied that justice does not require the exercise
of the additional powers conferred upon us by that amendment. We have considered all questions of law fairly raised. The only question argued by the defendant upon his assignments of error and the only question upon which he seeks our decision is whether there was any evidence that the murder was committed with the "deliberately premeditated malice aforethought" which will support a conviction in the first degree under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 265, Section 1.
There was ample evidence upon which the jury could find these facts: Late in the evening of May 15 the defendant and one Papineau obtained possession of an automobile, one Zukauskis joined them, and all three began riding about in the automobile. The defendant was carrying a revolver. He announced to his companions that he was going to make "a couple of hundred dollars" that night robbing gasoline stations, "or know the reason why." Between one o'clock and two o'clock on the morning of the sixteenth the three men were arrested by officers Slack and Lee for stealing the automobile. The officers "frisked" the three men, but for some reason failed to find the defendant's revolver. The prisoners were then placed in the rear seat of a police "prowl car." The defendant sat in the middle. Papineau and Zukauskis sat at the ends. Officer Slack drove, while officer Lee sat at his right on the front seat with his body turned to the left, so that he was able to cover the prisoners with his revolver. Upon arrival in front of the Milton police station Officer Slack got out of the car on its left side and started to go around the back of it. At the same time Officer Lee opened the door on his side and backed out of the car to the sidewalk. At that moment the defendant jumped up from the rear seat, pushed or held back the two other prisoners, folded forward the right half of the front seat, and leaning over it, shot Officer Lee twice, and was then himself shot and wounded by Officer Slack, firing in through a window of the car. Before the defendant fired he shouted to Officer Lee, "Drop that gun, you son of a bitch."
From the nature of the wounds in Lee's body and from
other evidence it could have been inferred that one of the defendant's shots was directed almost horizontally, but that the other was directed downward when Lee was "bent over, or fallen, or was slumped to the ground." Each wound was sufficient to cause death. There was testimony that two or three seconds elapsed between the defendant's two shots. Later at the hospital the defendant said, "I shot the officer. I shot the cop. I am responsible for everything. It is all my fault." He also said, "I would have shot the other guy too, but he shot too fast. What did he have, a cannon?" To fire the defendant's revolver, using it as a "double action," required a pull on the trigger of fifteen and one half pounds, and using it as a "single action" required a pull of nine pounds.
It has long been settled that the word "deliberately" in the expression "deliberately premeditated malice aforethought" as used in our statute does not mean slowly. It has reference to the purposeful character of the premeditated malice rather than to the time spent in premeditation. After the exhaustive discussion of this statutory phrase in Commonwealth v. Tucker, 189 Mass. 457, at pages 486-496, it would be superfluous to attempt further definition. We merely quote the summary of the court's conclusions as expressed by the court itself on pages 494 and 495 of that case: "In substance . . . while it must be shown that a plan to murder was formed after the matter had been made a subject of deliberation and reflection, yet in view of the quickness with which the mind may act, the law cannot set any limit to the time. It may be a matter of days, hours, or even seconds. It is not so much a matter of time as of logical sequence. First the deliberation and premeditation, then the resolution to kill, and lastly the killing in pursuance of the resolution; and all this may occur in a few seconds."
In the case at bar the jury could find from the conduct and admissions of the defendant, that although he knew he was under arrest he concealed, or at least failed to reveal, the fact that he still controlled a deadly weapon; that he waited until a favorable opportunity when Officer Lee was
getting out of the automobile and Officer Slack was going around it on the other side; that he then performed a series of acts -- jumping up, pushing the other prisoners back out of the way, tipping the front seat forward and leaning over it, demanding that Officer Lee drop his revolver, and then twice aiming his own revolver and exerting the pressure upon the trigger necessary to discharge it -- and that all these acts were done in pursuance of a predetermined purpose to escape by killing the officers. This was enough to justify a verdict of guilty in the first degree. Commonwealth v. Vandenhecke, 248 Mass. 403, 405, 406. Commonwealth v. Bartolini, 299 Mass. 503, 515-516.
Judgment affirmed.

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text:
Paris Reborn and Destroyed
By Alexandra Schwartz
Place Saint-André-des-Arts. c. 1865. © Charles Marville Marville/Musée Carnavalet/Roger-Viollet/The Image Works.
The Paris we know is shaded white and gray, a city of zinc roofs and pale stone façades fitted with iron balconies and crosshatched with whitewashed shutters. Its parks are laced with gravel paths that leave your shoes coated in a fine chalky film. In the blue hour of middle evening, just after the sun has set but before the light has finished draining from the streets, the roofs glow blue, sometimes so intensely that the blank walls below pick up the color and reflect it, giving the city a submerged quality, as if it had sunk quietly to the ocean floor.
Aside from that phosphorescent flush, the work of a few intrepid graffitists, and the ghoulish green light projected by the electric crosses marking the entrances to pharmacies, most buildings are blank, the color of a wishbone picked dry and left out to bleach. Paris is serious about keeping its dignity austere. A law passed in the eighteen-eighties prevents anyone from posting anything on any building in the city under any circumstances. That's why the startling thing about a photograph of the Place Saint-Andre des Arts, taken around 1865, isn't the two covered wagons resting on wooden wheels in front of the building, or the horses hitched to them, but the building itself, which is covered in words: ads for carpenters, for leather, for wine, for a steam bath on Rue Monsieur le Prince and a humbler "water bath" on Rue Larrey. "MECHANICAL BEDS AND ARMCHAIRS FOR THE ILL AND WOUNDED," reads the text above a fresco of a patient propped up with the help of one of the fabulous machines.
The picture was taken by Charles Marville, a photographer hired by Paris's historic-works department in the late eighteen-fifties to capture before-and-after shots of the city as it was razed and rebuilt during the Second Empire. The first Bonaparte had chosen to remake all of Europe. His nephew, Louis-Napoleon—who returned from years of exile to become President of the Second Republic briefly before being crowned emperor, as Napoleon III—began by setting his sights on a single city. To mastermind his project, he chose Georges-Eugène Haussmann, a career bureaucrat and an early ally, giving him free reign to demolish, align, remodel, expand, and evict on a scale that still seems close to insane. A project of this magnitude needed documenting, not least for propaganda purposes. The camera, barely two decades old, was the obvious tool.
As the exhibition of his photographs at the Metropolitan Museum makes clear, Marville was the right man for the job. For starters, he was a local. His father was a tailor, his mother a laundress. He grew up on a cramped street near the Louvre that later vanished to make way for one of Haussmann's imperial avenues. Like Baudelaire, his contemporary, Marville honed his eye on Paris; the city taught him to see. He knew its places and its people, but he had ambitions beyond the practical realm of his upbringing. If he had reservations about scrapping the last name he was born with, Bossu—the word means "hunchback"—he was cured of them by Victor Hugo, who published his novel about the bossu of Notre Dame in 1831, around the time that Marville chose his alias. He was eighteen, an art student at the Academie Suisse, and apparently not bothered by the idea of making a clean break with his family's history. Marville understood tradition without getting too sentimental about it. You can hear some of the romantic eagerness of a self-made man in his chosen name, which sounds like a mashup of ma ville and merveille: Marville, my marvellous city.
It's hard to fathom just how enormous an undertaking the remaking of Paris was. In the early eighteen-thirties, seven hundred and eighty-five thousand people lived there. By 1851, the year that Louis-Napoleon staged his coup, there were more than a million. (New York had half as many.) That number only grew as workers started flocking to the city once construction was under way. Paris had long been in bad shape, much of it a medieval warren of "cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want," as Dickens put it in "A Tale of Two Cities." Napoleon III didn't come up with the idea of renovating the city; important projects had begun in the eighteen-thirties and forties. But he and Haussmann changed the scale of the operation by many orders of magnitude. Crumbling houses were extracted like so many rotting teeth, and replaced with Haussmann's signature apartment buildings, with their tall windows to let in fresh air and sunshine. Narrow, filthy streets were razed to make way for wide boulevards—the better for the swelling bourgeois class to stroll along on a warm spring day, and for the military to roll its cannons down should an uprising need to be quashed.
Some of Marville's photos capture the profoundly surreal quality of the transformation. Here is Boulevard Henri IV, at the eastern edge of the Marais, looking like a location for "There Will Be Blood": just dirt and rubble under a flat sky, plus a couple of horses loitering in front of a lonely building that wouldn't seem out of place in an abandoned frontier town. In the distance, at the Place de la Bastille, the tapered July Column could be a derrick gushing oil. The image is just as weird as anything Dali ever made. Here are the Carrières d'Amérique, the quarries in the newly incorporated Nineteenth Arrondissement, which were exploited, for their gypsum and millstone, to make new buildings in the city center. Broken-off railroad ties litter the ground in front of yawning ditches. It's a desolate, scorched-earth kind of place. Today, the Buttes-Chaumont Park, one of the greenest spots in Paris, is there. Here are the barracks of the Fifth Arrondissement's calf market, with its heavy wooden beams and stone pillars, abandoned because the emperor has decided, reasonably enough, that livestock shouldn't hang out in the center of the city anymore. And here is Napoleon III's pet project, the brand-new building of Les Halles market, light streaming through its glass roof. It's exactly the structure the emperor had in mind when he demanded that his architects make him "umbrellas of iron": modernity incarnate.
For the viewer accustomed to Paris's relentless beauty, it's easy to be fooled by what seems familiar in Marville's pictures. Many of them capture a certain sheen on the cobblestones, like the one in the Ned Rorem song "Early in the Morning," about a woman eating croissants at a cafe on Rue François-Premier (a Haussmannian street if ever there was one) while she waits for her lover to show up: "They were hosing the hot pavement / With a dash of flashing spray / And a smell of summer showers / When the dust is drenched away."
The glisten caught by Marville's camera is no flashing spray, however, but raw sewage, left festering on the cobblestones to splash up under carriage wheels and seep into the soft soles of shoes and the hemlines of dresses. Marville's Paris was more Middle Ages than New Wave, and you can bet it didn't smell like summer showers. In "Tableau de Paris," his rollicking, pungent chronicle of the city in the late eighteenth century, the writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier describes the "cadaverous odor" emanating from churches full of decomposing bodies awaiting proper burial, and the putrid fosses d'aisances, indoor pits where a household's excrement was collected. The air reeks constantly of shit, Mercier tells us. The pits are badly made, not to mention terribly maintained, and their contents run into neighboring wells used by bakers turning out their daily loaves: "Oh superb city! What foul horrors are hidden in your walls!" After cadavers stolen or bought by young surgeons eager for anatomy practice are hacked up, the discarded parts often wind up in the fosses—a dash of literal spleen to season Baudelaire's metaphor.
For relief, turn to Marville's photos of public pissoirs, one of Haussmann's more ingenious projects for cleaning up the streets. Seen through Marville's lens, they become sculptural, even elegant, objects, equal parts form and function. The stalls are organized in a row or an artful ring, and blocked off from prying eyes by a metal fence that shields a body from knees to neck. Each is topped with an ornate street lamp, markers of Paris's emerging status as the City of Light. "Step right up," the lamps say. "No shame in availing yourself of a functional sewage system. This is what progress is all about."
Napoleon III liked to play up the humane goals of his grands travaux. In an 1850 speech, he announced that his government would "open up popular quarters which lack air and light, so that sunlight may penetrate everywhere among the walls of the city just as the light of truth illuminates our hearts." There was truth behind the treacle. Disease was flushed out, dark alleys were illuminated, running water was installed, public parks were built, transportation was improved. But, as David Harvey points out in his excellent study "Paris, Capital of Modernity," the notion that the remaking of Paris was a project that only Napoleon III's prophetic vision and Haussmann's skill could have achieved was also convenient hype, "a founding myth [that] helped secure the idea that there was no alternative to the benevolent authoritarianism of Empire." Haussmann, Harvey writes, was prepared "to ride roughshod over the opinions of others and make absolutely no concessions to democracy." The reconstruction of Paris, with its insistence on order, scientific planning, and the unstoppable march of progress, was, in many ways, a project directly inherited from the Enlightenment. It was also a pitch for the benefits of despotism.
Haussmann relied on what he called percements: wide avenues that would pierce through the clotted chaos of the city, clearing out everyone and everything in their way. It's a violent word. Paris, for Haussmann, was a boil to be lanced. (In his memoirs, Haussmann unsurprisingly served the idea with a benign spin: "It is easier to cut through the center of the pie than through the crust.") Thousands of people were displaced as the city's new byways sliced straight through the places they had lived for generations. Who were they? What did they think and feel about the convulsions that their city was made to undergo?
In Marville's first years working for the city, his shutter moved too slowly to capture people as more than faint smudges, ghostly blurs haunting the edge of the frame. Even after shutter speed had been shaved down to seconds, he liked to take pictures in the early morning, when he had the streets to himself. His photographs have some of the idyllic emptiness of the drawings made a century earlier by the Grand Tourists visiting Rome, as if teeming Paris were in the same state of picturesque abandonment.
To get a sense of the people Marville avoided, better to look to Daumier, Marville's exact contemporary and just as much a documentarian with his sketchpad as Marville was with his camera. People were Daumier's raison d'être, and he captured so many splinters of life, as it was disrupted by Haussmann, that the composite portrait is as gloriously messy as Marville's photos are poised and still. In one drawing, from the early eighteen-fifties, a family stands on a strange street, fresh from being relocated after the "expropriation" of their home. Carriages rumble by. Madame, in her cape and bonnet, and Monsieur, in his top hat, pitifully clutching the family birdcage, stare, open-mouthed and saucer-eyed, at the new neighborhood they're supposed to call home. Their little son, absorbed by some worm or rock on the ground, has already adjusted to the change of scene, as children do. The bewilderment of the parents is extreme—one more second of gaping and they'll be run over by a horse and cart—but so is the elation of the wizened couple in a second Daumier sketch, standing in nightcaps at their open window and grinning like they've just won the lottery. In a sense, they have. To their left, workers are taking pickaxes to a neighboring building. The sickly plant on their sill is suddenly blasted with sun. For the first time in their lives, they can see the city below.
"Old Paris is no more (the form of a city / Changes more quickly, alas! than the human heart)," Baudelaire wrote. Marville kept his cards closer to his chest. His job was to record his city's rebirth, not to lament its passing, though that distinction isn't always so clear. The most unsettling photograph in the Met exhibit is from 1876, showing the ongoing construction at the Avenue de l'Opéra. By the time it was taken, Napoleon III had died in exile, and Haussmann had fallen out of favor, accused of spending exorbitant amounts on civic projects. (Haussmann, with his potato-shaped head and unfortunate neckbeard wrapped like a bandage around his jaw, was an easy mark for Daumier; in one caricature, he is given a beaver's body from the neck down, looking like one of Maurice Sendak's wild things grown to paunchy middle age as he hulks over an apartment building, fussily clutching a trowel.) Prussia had gone to war with France and won. The revolutionary Commune had briefly introduced socialist rule to Paris before being violently suppressed.
Still, the reshaping went on. The Opéra and its surrounding neighborhood were the jewel in Haussmann's crown, a prime showcase for the upscale conformity he prized, and for once Marville focusses his camera on a group of people, two dozen or more, gathered at the site. They stand in a line on what, until recently, was the working-class neighborhood of Butte Saint-Roch and is now a pile of rock and dust. Others perch like buzzards on top of the surrounding decrepit buildings marked for destruction, peering out over the immediate void. If they squint, they might just be able to see the delicate trees that line the completed boulevard in the foreground and the little dog that sniffs at the new sidewalk, signs of the kinds of people who will soon move in to take their place. It's a knotted, ambivalent image. We have reached the end of the play, and the chorus has come out, at last, to tell us what we are supposed to remember, what moral we should have perceived. What kind of song are they singing? Something happy, or furious, or wistful, or none of the above? There's no way to tell. We have to be content with knowing that they were there.
Alexandra Schwartz has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2016.
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This post provides an update on the ZLog project, including the latest performance enhancements, and where we are heading next. If you aren't familiar with ZLog it is a high-performance distributed shared-log. It is unique in that it maintains serializability while providing high append throughput, which makes it an ideal candidate in building things like replicated state-machines, distributed block devices, and databases.
The design of ZLog is based on the CORFU protocol, but adapted for a software-defined storage environment. In our case this environment is the Ceph distributed storage system. For a lot more information about the motivation behind ZLog and how it is mapped onto Ceph please check out this previous post on the design of ZLog.
Last year the ZLog project was selected for funding by the new Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS), an organization at the University of California, Santa Cruz that funds research projects with potential for making open-source contributions. Since funding has started we've had numerous students contribute to ZLog, as well as providing funding for myself to expand and further develop the project. The ZLog project is development in the open on GitHub.
Up until recently there has been a single implementation of ZLog (version 1), and now we are excited to debut the second version of ZLog which provides a significant performance boost over version 1. In the remainder of this post I'll describe the two versions, and preview the upcoming version 3 which offers further performance improvement.
The design of ZLog stripes a logical log across a set of Ceph object storage devices avoiding coordination in the common fast path. We provide here the result of performance benchmarks run on a single OSD. The ZLog implementation is based on the Jewel release and we use the default configuration of Ceph with the FileStore backend. The hardware is an HP Proliant system, with two high-performance NVMe devices generously contributed by CROSS founding member SK Hynix.
The following graph summarizes the performance results for a range of log entry sizes. Small entries of 256 bytes see a speed-up of 1.36 using ZLog version 2, and users writing 4K entries will see a speed-up of 2.45. The performance difference between version 1 and version 2 becomes large with increasing entry sizes where we observe a speed-up of 10.3 for 32KB entries. This isn't surprising, given that version 1 stores log entries in LevelDB or RocksDB which are not optimized for storing large values. However, version 2 introduced many implementation challenges that forced us to work with the less performant version 1 until recently.
Version 1 of the ZLog stripes a log (an ordered set of blob entries) across a fixed set of objects in Ceph. This set is referred to a stripe. Within an object each entry (both the bytes associated with the entry, and metadata maintained by ZLog) is stored in LevelDB or RocksDB (the omap interface in RADOS). Since omap can grow without bound, there is little benefit to ever changing the stripe (in practice it can be expanded or shrunk to handle cluster hardware changes). The primary impact of this design on performance can be observed by the graph above: large entry appends perform poorly due to the limitations of the underlying key-value database.
Version 2 decouples metadata management from log entry management, keeping all values in LevelDB or RocksDB small, and storing the variable sized log entries in a bytestream interface (e.g. a POSIX file). This significantly increases performance, especially for large log entries. However, this design also introduces implementation challenges that extend into the client itself: when objects grow too large a new stripe must be created. Coordinating this among clients has been a challenge, but the current implementation is stable and has been running now for some time.
The final version of ZLog that we will be investigating in the coming months completely eliminates the use of LevelDB and RocksDB, using instead a very compact in-memory index. Through a proof-of-concept implementation we have seen nearly double the performance over version 2, but the implementation requires modifications to Ceph itself and will take some time to implement.


First of all, I am not a big fan of implementing Service REST API due to complexity in implementation over easiness with SDK. I would vouch for SDK's instead going through this lengthy route until unless you have any business compelling reason. The reason is, it would be confusing for the beginners, lot of time spent on testing, lesser samples to refer and why reinvent the wheel. I would focus on the outcome rather going through some complex route of getting the things done.
Let me know why you one have to choose this raw implementation over SDK's and advantage? I understand, we can avoid bulky SDK references but interesting to hear the use case around this. Feel free to drop your comments on this.


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Denzil Smith
Denzil Leonard Smith is an Indian film and stage actor and producer. Born to Anglo-Indian parents in Mumbai, he is known for his stage and screen roles as a character actor. Smith has acted in over 50 plays and 60 films.His film credits include Tenet (2020), Viceroy's House (2017), Brahman Naman (2016), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), The Lunchbox (2013), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Frozen (2007) and Paap (2003). His notable television roles include Netflix's Delhi Crime (2019), ITV's Beecham House (2019), Amazon Prime's sitcom Mind the Malhotras (2019) and P.O.W.- Bandi Yuddh Ke (2016-2017) on Star Plus. He has a long-standing association with both Motley Productions for Waiting for Godot and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and PrimeTime Theatre for Guahar, August: Osage County and Sammy. Notable international productions include Merchants of Bollywood (2007-2010) and Life of Buddha (2014).


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Florentine Sophie (Florrie) Rost van Tonningen (née Heubel, 14 novembre 1914, Amsterdam - 24 mars 2007, Waesmunster) était l'épouse de Meinoud Rost van Tonningen,  du Mouvement national-socialiste aux Pays-Bas (NSB) et président de la banque nationale, la Banque des Pays-Bas, pendant l'occupation allemande (1941-1945). Parce qu'elle continuait à soutenir et à propager les idéaux du national-socialisme après la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la mort de son mari, elle fut surnommée, aux Pays-Bas, « La Veuve noire » (« De Zwarte Weduwe »).

Jeunesse
Florentine Heubel était la plus jeune fille de Gustav Adolph Heubel, banquier de la firme Jan Kol & Co, et de l'aristocrate Cornelie van Haren Noman. Elle avait une sœur aînée, Annie (née en 1906), et deux frères, Dolf (1904) et Wim (1910). Elle grandit à Hilversum. Lorsque la jeune princesse Juliana se rendit dans la ville, Wim et Florrie furent invités à jouer avec elle. Dans les années 1930, elle participait avec Wim aux activités de la Nationale Jeugdstorm, organisation de jeunesse du NSB conçue selon le modèle des Jeunesses hitlériennes. Elle entreprit l'étude de la biologie à l'université d'Utrecht, montrant un intérêt particulier pour l'éthologie.

Au cours de l'été 1936, lors d'un séjour à Berlin dans le cadre de ses études, elle fut impressionnée par Adolf Hitler, « la camaraderie, la discipline et l'engagement » du mouvement nazi. Un an plus tard, elle partit en voyage avec Wim aux Indes néerlandaises, où son frère aîné Dolf travaillait comme ingénieur agronome. Quand elle revint aux Pays-Bas, elle quitta le NSB parce qu'elle pensait qu'il ne respectait pas les idéaux de l'eugénisme, et que son chef, Anton Mussert, ne partageaient pas suffisamment ses préoccupations. En 1939, son frère lui présenta Meinoud Rost van Tonningen, qui à l'époque était déjà un élément important et influent du NSB. Lors de l'invasion allemande des Pays-Bas le 10 mai 1940, elle était à Berlin.

Mariage
Le 21 décembre 1940, jour du solstice d'hiver, Heubel épousa Meinoud Rost van Tonningen. Les antécédents familiaux des époux avait été vérifiés et approuvés sur demande par Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS allemand, faisant de leur union le premier mariage SS aux Pays-Bas. Ils eurent trois fils, Grimbert (1941), Ebbe (1943) et Herre (1945), qui prirent ouvertement dans les années 1980 leur distance par rapport aux opinions politiques de leur mère. Le 28 avril 1945, alors qu'elle donnait naissance à son plus jeune fils sur l'île de Terschelling, son frère Wim, combattant dans les forces SS, tombait au combat près d'Elst. Elle fuit aussitôt que possible par Cuxhaven vers Goslar en Allemagne, où ses parents avaient une propriété. Son mari fut capturé et emprisonné le 8 mai par les forces canadiennes.

Immédiatement après la guerre, Meinoud mourut dans la prison de Schéveningue, dans l'attente de son procès ; il aurait sauté par-dessus la balustrade d'un escalier. Florentine Rost van Tonningen-Heubel contesta jusqu'à sa mort la thèse du suicide, affirmant qu'il avait été assassiné et que ses camarades de prison pouvaient en témoigner. Le motif aurait été que son mari, en tant que président de la Banque des Pays-Bas, savait trop de choses sur les transactions illégales dans lesquelles étaient impliquées des personnes importantes. En 2000, lors d'une émission télévisée Het zwarte schaap (Le Mouton noir), A.J. van der Leeuw, ancien employé du RIOD (Institut National de Documentation de Guerre) émit l'opinion que Meinoud Rost van Tonningen avait peut-être été poussé à se suicider en prison.

Dans son livre biographique In Search Of My Weddingring (À la recherche de mon alliance),  Rost van Tonningen-Heubel a accusé le Prince Bernhard de porter la responsabilité principale de la mort de son mari, comme il avait été responsable des Forces de Résistance, affirmant que ses archives privées contenaient des preuves.  Peu de temps avant sa mort, van der Helm a également reçu son alliance en or, qui a été embrassée par Adolf Hitler à Berlin lors de son mariage en 1940 et qu'elle a considéré ensuite comme sacrée.

Période d'après-guerre
Après la mort de son mari, Rost de Tonningen-Heubel resta active au sein de plusieurs mouvements d'extrême-droite. Au départ, elle était placée sous curatelle, comme de nombreux anciens nationaux-socialistes. Son curateur était Leo Anton Block, greffier du Sénat, qui a placé les trois fils de Rost van Tonningen-Heubel sous la tutelle vigilante de son beau-frère Nico, lequel était au service de la reine Juliana. Son fils Grimbert quitta sa mère et alla vivre dans la famille Fentener van Vlissingen.

En 1952, elle déménagea de La Haye à la villa « Ben Trovato » à Velp. Elle rapprochait le nom de la villa (T)rovato de celui de son époux ROst VAn TOnningen, y découvrant un signe surnaturel. En ce temps, elle avait une entreprise privée de matériel de chauffage. En 1968, elle est apparue dans le documentaire portrait d'Anton Mussert du réalisateur Paul Verhoeven (1901-1975), la première fois qu'elle a fait une apparition publique nationale. Plusieurs fois, elle a été reconnue coupable de distribution de propagande et de l'organisation de réunions nazies. Le domicile de la veuve a été à plusieurs reprises fouillé par la police, mais sans résultat, et a été plusieurs fois la cible d'incendiaires, a-t-elle écrit dans son livre Op zoek naar mijn huwelijksring (À la rechercha à mon alliance).

Relations
Elle maintint des contacts avec de nombreux éminents ex-nazi et sympathisants nazis ou négationnistes, comme le professeur français Robert Faurisson, David Irving, Gudrun Burwitz (fille de Heinrich Himmler), Miguel Serrano, Colin Jordan, Ilse Pröhl (veuve de Rudolf Hess), Gertrud et Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Erich Priebke, Matt Koehl, leader du mouvement néo-nazi américain The New Order, Thies Christophersen, Franz von Papen, Léon Degrelle, Hjalmar Schacht, Ernst Zündel, le général Otto-Ernst Remer, Udo Walendy, Horst Mahler, les membres du Vlaams Blok et de nombreux autres. À partir de 1990, elle eut de nombreux contacts avec le journaliste Willem Oltmans.

Pension
Jusqu'à sa mort en 2007, elle reçut une modeste pension de veuve de l'État néerlandais parce que son mari avait été député. La révélation au grand public de ce fait en 1986 causa une grande émotion. Néanmoins, cette pension fut maintenue après une audition à la Chambre basse. En 2000, âgée de 85 ans, la Veuve noire parut dans le show télévisé Het Zwarte Schaap (Le Mouton noir) du groupe VARA. Elle s'y défendit si farouchement que le producteur pensa un moment abandonner la diffusion de l'émission. Elle avait prévu de quitter sa villa pour s'installer dans un appartement à Arnhem, mais les protestations contre sa venue l'en empêchèrent. Peu après, considérant qu'elle ne pouvait plus vivre aux Pays-Bas, elle partit « en exil » en Belgique. Jusqu'à sa mort, elle aura défendu les idées du national-socialisme.

Décès
Florentine Van Tonningen-Heube est morte le 24 mars 2007 à son domicile de Waesmunster, à 92 ans. Une semaine plus tard, elle fut enterrée à Rheden. Dès 1996, elle y avait acheté un emplacement et une pierre tombale portant son nom, sa date de naissance et l'inscription « La vérité rend libre ». Les résidents des environs craignent que la tombe n'attire des rassemblements ou pèlerinages d'extrémistes de droite.

Références

 - F.S. Rost van Tonningen parlant sur le premier rencontre de Adolf Hitler (néerlandais / sous-titré en anglais)
 - F.S. Rost van Tonningen parlant sur Heinrich Himmler (néerlandais / sous-titré en anglais)

Collaborateur néerlandais pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Personnalité du Mouvement national-socialiste aux Pays-Bas
Personnalité néonazie
Personnalité condamnée pour contestation de crimes contre l'humanité
Personnalité féminine néerlandaise
Étudiant de l'université d'Utrecht
Naissance en novembre 1914
Naissance à Amsterdam
Décès en mars 2007
Décès à Waesmunster
Décès à 92 ans

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The Parish Community School is an affordable parent taught educational cooperative serving families and vulnerable youth in a safe, supportive environment focusing on educating the whole person.
The Parish Community School dreams of providing a dynamic and unique place of learning where families partner to educate their own children as well as at risk students from the community, changing the course of lives.
Students attend class 4 days each week (Monday-Thursday) while one parent from each family is required to volunteer at the school 2 days each week. Members of the community school are Christian families, who work together to share the responsibility of educating their children. All required core classes will be provided for students in grades PreK(4)-12th, as well as Art and P.E.


There comes a point in every NASCAR season where I'm reminded of the simplest concept about taking in a race weekend from the couch. That concept is as follows: the absolute best way to learn and learn more about NASCAR is watching practice broadcasts. At this point in the season I'm in a decent routine to follow along with the race weekend to where I don't have to consciously block out time to watch the races and qualifying, it just casually falls into place.
We're at that point already this season, mainly because it is the third triple header weekend in a row, and I'm totally down with it. Usually it goes like this: Friday morning rolls around and while I'm working I can follow along either on the radio or on Twitter when the cars get unloaded and on shook down on track. After work and a little down time, it's about time to catch some of qualifying which leads right into the truck race. Last night I went out and had dinner without keeping track of time and as soon as I got home the Truck Race pre-race show was kicking off. Luckily I caught the whole race and went on with my Friday night.
Saturday, however, is a different story. Saturday is when the most pivotal and intriguing part of the whole race weekend takes place. Folks I'm talking about Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Practice airing on Fox Sports 1. As sure as my Keurig is pumping out cups of coffee, my TV is turned on with FS1 on the cable box. My coffee and I are greeted by the always assuring voices of a healthy mix of Larry Mac, DW, Adam Alexander, Jeff Gordon, Mike Joy, Vince Welch, and now Regan Smith.
Are you looking for insights into the technical side of the sport like setups and engineering? Larry Mac has you covered. Looking for random factoids? Darrell Waltrip's got you covered. Looking for legitimate racing stories from the booming era of NASCAR? Jeff Gordon is your guy. Vince Welch is like the cool Uncle and Mike Joy is like the extremely nice second cousin that is entertaining at holidays but you kinda wonder what they do in their free time. (Side note- Mike Joy apparently started the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 1993? Talk about a random factoid.) Verdict is still out with Regan, but it's his first year so give him a chance. Personally I'd rather have Landon Cassill on the broadcast but who knows if he actually has any interest in TV.
What I'm getting at is that NASCAR Practice broadcasts are packed to the brim with information. Whether you're a new follower trying to learn the sport or an in-depth follower, you can learn something damn interesting that you won't hear at any other point in the race season. It's extremely casual in that the commentators aren't just talking to fill airtime like they have to do sometimes during races. Because of this they also have time to go as in-depth as they want without the fear of losing viewers' attention.
I understand that this is a weird concept to grasp but when you turn on the FS1 practice broadcast you'll see what I mean. As a matter of fact you don't even have to have your full attention on it. It's perfect to have on in the background too and when you hear something that peaks your interest from the other room, you'll understand what I'm saying. Watching a cup series practice broadcast is like a real life mashup between a Racing Reference and Wikipedia page with all of the links that put you in the racing rabbit hole for a solid two hours.
Since I've used half of today's cup practice time to type this, I'll have you know that MENCS Final Practice will air today from 2:30-3:20 pm Eastern leading up to the 4:00 Xfinity Series race. Let's see what we can learn.
Is Austin Cindric Attempting To Sabotage His Roush Fenway Racing Season?


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using System.Numerics;

namespace HackerRank.Algorithms.Warmup
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Extra Long Factorials Challenge
    /// Description: Calculate huge factorials > ulong
    /// Problem Statement: https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/extra-long-factorials
    /// </summary>
    class ExtraLongFactorials
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Naive Algorithm, for faster algorithms have a look at prime factorization based ones.
            // http://www.luschny.de/math/factorial/conclusions.html
            int n = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
            BigInteger sum = 1;
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Jeff Bezos: A Down-to-Earth CEO Reaching for the Stars
Washington Post owner says the key to success is staying "forever young."
Jeff Bezos Talks Media, Technology, SpaceABC News sits down with Amazon's CEO and the new owner of the Washington Post.ABC News
Sept. 25, 2013 — -- You could say that Jeff Bezos is a very down-to-earth guy. The CEO and founder of Amazon.com, and now the owner of The Washington Post, makes great small talk about hair (or his lack thereof), the weather and jokes about the audio guy's being named Mike.
But once you start asking one of America's most noted entrepreneurs and richest men questions, you realize he's reaching for the stars. Quite literally.
Bezos, 49, answers questions about his vision for the company, the future of the technology industry and his investments without even a pause. He carefully explains why he has made certain business and technology choices, without making bold or airy statements as many technology executives are prone to do.
He explains complex ideas and plans in a basic and understandable way with a clear vision that it is all about moving forward and not standing still.
ABC News sat down with him earlier this week to learn more about the company's new Kindles, but also about his vision for technology, media and science. Below are some of the most interesting comments.
On the Washington Post
Bezos changed the book industry and it's clear he has now set his sights on doing the same for the newspaper industry.
When asked about his new $250 million investment and whether he was surprised by anything about his new company, he said he knew what he was getting into.
"I knew the quality of the people would be very high; I spent two days there," he said. "The business challenges in the newspaper industry have nothing to do with the quality of the people. These are big industry wide trends.
"What we need to do is always lean into the future."
"What we need to do is always lean into the future, when the world changes around you and when it changes against you -- what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind -- you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy."
Bezos Says Washington Post Could Take a Page From Amazon
Some of Amazon core business strategies and pillars can translate to the Post, Bezos said. "Customer centricity, willingness to invent, willingness to be patient, work together to allow companies to do things that they otherwise could never do. And I do think that could be applicable to a wide number of industries."
On BlackBerry
The connection between newspapers and BlackBerry isn't hard to see.
On the heels of BlackBerry's announcement that it will lay off 40 percent of its workforce and go private, Bezos talked about being "forever young."
"Forever young. If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant," he said. "You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young."
"What are you doing to stay forever young."
And, yes, we asked Bezos about his plans to make an Amazon smartphone, which has been rumored for a long time. "We won't comment on future roadmap," he said, though hinting that any future Amazon product would have the same kind of synergy of services, software and hardware.
"Our basic approach lends itself to a lot of different things. We want to give people premium products at affordable price points, we want to pack a lot of hardware into those devices," he added. "One thing we do differently is we don't want to make money when we sell the device, we want to make money when people use the device."
On Space
Yes, Bezos is quite literally reaching for the stars.
Bezos explained that he has an investment in Blue Origin, a company that has plans to take tourists up to sub-orbital space. The engineers are in Seattle and the launch operations team is in West Texas, who are working on their third development vehicle.
"I can't wait to fly."
"Personally, I can't wait to fly," he said.
When asked when we are going, he said, "When do you want to go?"
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The Kenya Film Classification Board Corporate Communications Manager, Nelly Muluka, today represented CEO Dr. Ezekiel Mutua at the Lake International PanAfrican Film Festival (LIPFF) opening forum taking place in Nakuru County.
In the discussions that sought to identify 'The Role of Government in Promoting Film in Kenya', she emphasized the Board's commitment to support the film industry. Ms. Muluka also cited collaborations with strategic partners through which the Board is contributing to the growth of the creative industry.
"KFCB has been at the forefront in identifying and nurturing talent by offering a level playing ground for all stakeholders through initiatives such as the Sinema Mashinani," she added while inviting players in the creative industry to take advantage of the Nairobi Film Centre that will offer a platform on which they will nurture their talents.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign raised $10 million in the first quarter of the year, leaving his re-election operation with $28 million in cash, his campaign disclosed on Sunday.
Trump has opted – unlike presidents before him – to begin actively fundraising in the early part of his first term. He could use some of the money which he has already raised to help Republicans in the upcoming midterm election in November.
During the first quarter of the year, Trump spent about $834,000 on legal expenses – down from the $1.1 million he spent in each of the previous two quarters, according to disclosures filed with Federal Election Commission.
Trump's campaign has used millions of his campaign cash in the past year to pay legal fees – including some fees associated with responding to the Russia investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. His campaign spent over $3 million in 2017 in legal fees.


For the soil and drainage poor gardener, a raised garden bed offers the opportunity to perfect your environment and control many of the factors that are otherwise left up to nature. Building a raised garden bed allows you to optimize soil nutrients and drainage, even as you prevent soil erosion and save your back from added strain during weeding and harvesting.
The first step to building a raised bed is choosing a location that fits the needs of whatever you choose to grow—ideally you want a spot that receives full sun for about six to eight hours out of the day. It's also important to remember that just because a bed can correct poor drainage, that doesn't mean you should set it in a marshy area.
The second thing you'll want to consider is your choice of the material used to build the raised bed. Many materials can be used to form the framing, some of which are more cost effective than others. On the inexpensive side, concrete blocks work well, as does pressure-treated lumber. On the more expensive side of things, decorative stone or brick also work well.
For the more ambitious gardener, installing an irrigation system can make your raised bed even lower maintenance, micro-sprinklers or hose systems often work the best and don't wet the foliage (which can cause mold). Since an irrigation system is optional, you can either put one in place before adding soil to the bed, or simply count on hand-watering through the dry season.
The next thing you will need to do is fill the bed with a sandy clay loam soil that's been well-mixed with compost or other organic matter. After planting, you can add mulch (try pine straw or mini pine bark nuggets) as the finishing touch, an especially important one to raised beds, which can be prone to drying out.
For a raised garden bed that's ornamental—to be planted with flowers and other beautiful plants—aesthetics are of course the most important consideration in plant selection and layout. Trellises and stakes will help conserve space, as plants climb instead of sprawl. Once you're ready to plant, add seedlings of various varieties and next year, you'll have a bonus: The soil in raised garden beds heats up faster than the rest of the landscape, so you get on average a two-week head start in planting.
Now the only thing that's left to do is stand back and admire your work. And of course enjoy the flowers, plants, and vegetables that are now inhabiting your new raised garden bed!


VANISHING POINT: Will the RIAA and MPAA Wipe International Music Off the Globe?
In Hollywood and the Recording Industry Association of America's unchecked attempt to keep the world safe for Lady Gaga and Harry Potter, we're seeing the beginning of the possible destruction of the web as a site for virtual libraries, archives, and—most important—community.
I woke up the morning of January 17, 2012, and met with the Greedhead (our label) intern and began packing shirts, CDs, and vinyl to bring on tour with us.
Harry Bertoia first gained fame as an industrial designer, creating the wireframe "diamond chair" for Knoll in 1952. Its success enabled Bertoia to pursue his passion as an artist, which took an immediate turn with his creation of sound sculptures, which he named Sonambient.
Gil Scott-Heron's explosive memoir The Last Holiday is a must for any Scott-Heron fan. Published posthumously, it covers his life from childhood through his career up until the 1980s.
There's a lot of cachet and much romance tied to the notion that a certain type of rock 'n' roll savantism can be evoked from picking up an instrument without training.


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Bob Dylan - "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" lyrics
Bob Dylan:
Well, they'll stone you when you're trying to be so good
They'll stone you just like they said they would
They'll stone you when you're trying to go home
And they'll stone you when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
Well, they'll stone you when you're at the breakfast table
They'll stone you when you are young and able
They'll stone you when you're riding in your car
And they'll stone you when you're playing your guitar
Well, they'll stone you when you're walking on the street
They'll stone you when you're tryin' to keep your seat
They'll stone you when you're tryin' to make a buck
Then they'll stone you and then they'll say "good luck"
They'll stone you and they'll say that you are brave
They'll stone you when you're sent down in your grave
Original key is F. I've like to sing it in the key of D though
which accounts for the chords in parenthesis. Plus it makes the diminished
chords a little easier to play!


Make your way to the Historic Downtown District at 6 pm on All Hallows' Eve for an event to remember. Haunting in the District started in 2002 as a safe alternative for families looking to trick-or-treat. It has evolved into a tradition-worthy Halloween extravaganza.
Don your best disguise, and come enjoy the petting zoo, photo booth and face painting. Be sure to catch the free magic show and dancers performing Thriller. There will also be a haunted house and candy galore!
We look forward to hosting you in our boo-tiful downtown. It will be a scream!


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Winner Achievements
Here's what your funding helped to achieve for conservation in 2017
Hope for Madagascar's most threatened ecosystem as Lake Ambondrobe is declared a Ramsar Site (May 2017). This is a great triumph for 2016 Whitley Award winner Juliette Velosoa, who has been using the critically endangered side-necked turtle, locally known as 'rere', as a flagship species to protect wetlands, their extraordinary biodiversity and the valuable freshwater they provide, which are crucial for communities living nearby.
Deforestation rates have slowed in Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo. 2011 Whitley Award winner, Hotlin Ompusunggu, reported a 90% decrease in illegal logging since2007, in which time the number of loggers has dropped from 1,350 to 140. This vital habitat is home to endangered species including hornbills, gibbons, clouded leopards and 10% of the global population of orangutans.
Designation of a new World Heritage Site in July 2017: the globally important, but little known, Landscapes of Dauria are now legally protected. Stretching across the Russia-Mongolia border, the area is a crucial stopping point for three million migratory birds. This is a major step forward in the region's conservation, and was celebrated by 2013 Whitley Award winner, Eugene Simonov, who has been championing Daurian conservation for over a decade.
A long-term amphibian monitoring programme has been initiated in Ghana by 2016 Whitley Award winner Gilbert Adum. As a result, in 2017 his team re-discovered Allen's Slippery Frog, (Conraua alleni), 30 years since it was last recorded in Ghana and previously been declared extinct. Three new frog species not previously recorded in the Sui Forest were also documented the West African Brown Frog (Aubria subsigillata), Hallowell's Sedge Frog (Hyperolius concolor), and Striped Spiny Reed Frog (Afrixalus dorsalis). Now aware of their existence, conservation measures will be put in place to secure these populations.
A breakthrough for shark research in the Caribbean as Standard Protocol is established to monitor sharks across four countries. 2011 Whitley Gold Award winner Rachel Graham, Director of MarAlliance, has been leading efforts to conserve Belize's top marine predators for over 25 years. A network of monitors comprising over 100 traditional fishers and 39 partners has subsequently been developed to monitor marine mega-fauna in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.
Over 12,000ha of unique coastal forest in Tanzania have been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and is now under community management. 2016 Whitley Award winner, Makala Jasper, has been working to conserve endangered miombo woodlands and coastal forest habitats by empowering local villagers to take control of, sustainably manage and economically benefit from protected forests. Makala has helped the villagers establish Tanzania's only FSC certified sustainable timber harvesting programme increasing local income. Communities now recognise the benefits of using the forest resources sustainably and want to protect it.
Over 50ha of degraded forest has been restored and another 100ha reclaimed from encroaching coffee and palm oil plantations in the Leuser Ecosystem, the only place in the world where four Critically Endangered and iconic species still survive together – the Sumatran orangutan, tiger, elephant and rhino. 2015 Whitley Award winner, Panut Hadisiswoyo and his team have planted 51,550 trees in the tropical lowland rainforest, helping safeguard the area's precious biodiversity.
Double Whitley Gold Award winner Çağan Şekercioğlu's ground breaking research led to the discovery of world's first migratory brown bears, moving seasonally between feeding and breeding sites. Çağan deployed GPS collars fitted with cameras – a first – to track 29 bears and film their movements. The discovery underlines the importance of Cagan's work to conserve a 28,543 hectare habitat corridor between Turkey and Georgia.
After ensuring the Ocean was added to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, 2010 Whitley Award winner Pablo Borboroglu is now working alongside the government of Argentina to foster the designation of five new oceanic Protected Areas including an expansion of the Biosphere Reserve created with WFN support in 2015 to secure critical breeding and feeding habitat for Magellanic penguins in South America.
In a landmark decision, bats – a vital pollinator species – received international support at the 12th Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). 2004 Whitley Award winner and 2012 'Year of the Bat Ambassador', Rodrigo Medellin, importantly identified four species of migratory bats whose populations are at risk of extinction from wind turbines, with hundreds of thousands killed each year. Because of Rodrigo's findings, in October 2017 the proposal to incentivise cooperation and improve safeguards to protect these species across their range has been adopted at an international level by 126 countries.
After three years of campaigning the government of Colombia banned the trade of mota fish indefinitely in August 2017 following research conducted by 2007 Whitley Gold Award winner Fernando Trujillo. His work proved these fish contain toxic levels of mercury from illegal gold mining, making them unsafe for human consumption. The mota trade not only risks the health of the nation's people but fuels the illegal hunting of Amazonian pink river dolphins whose carcasses are used as bait to catch mota fish. Now the trade has been halted, the killing will stop.
Orangutan photo courtesy of Gita Defoe
Whitley Awards
Winner Achievements from 2015
Results from the field
Recent Winner Achievements
News from our winners
2017 Winners hit the headlines
The 2017 Whitley Award winners return home with a raised profile


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Costco raised its minimum wage to $17 an hour
Oct 27, 2021, 7:22 PM | Updated: 8:07 pm
Costco increases minimum wage to $17 per hour.(Photo: Deseret News)
(Photo: Deseret News)
BY BY NATHANIEL MEYERSOHN, CNN BUSINESS
(CNN) — Costco this week raised its starting wage for hourly store workers in the United States for the second time this year as businesses hike pay to draw and retain workers amid a labor shortage.
Costco told employees last week that it would increase its minimum wage from $16 an hour to $17 starting on Monday. Costco has around 180,000 US employees, and 90% of them work hourly. Costco's new starting wage puts the chain— which has among the lowest turnover rates in the retail industry— $2 per hour above Amazon, Target and other top retailers' minimum wage, and $5 an hour above Walmart's.
Costco's latest pay bump comes as many retailers, restaurants and other service sector employers raise pay, offer signing bonuses and sweeten their benefits packages in response to struggles hiring workers.
Costco raised its minimum wage to $14 in 2018 and $15 in 2019. In February, the Issaquah, Washington-based company hiked it to $16 an hour. Business Insider first reported its most recent increase.
"These increases are part of Costco's continuing efforts to ensure our hourly wages remain extremely competitive in the retail industry," Costco CEO Craig Jelinek said in a memo to employees.
There is pressure on companies to raise wages as they compete for labor. Average hourly pay for retail workers increased 3.8% in September from the same time last year, according to the latest data from the Labor Department.
Amazon, Target, Best Buy and others have raised their starting wages to $15 an hour in recent years. Amazon said in April that it's increasing hourly pay between $0.50 and $3 for 500,000 employees.
Walmart raised its minimum wage from $11 to $12 last month, while CVS and Walgreens said in August they would increasing starting pay to $15 an hour.
Wages in September across the private sector grew 4.6% from a year earlier.
Eric Levenson, Melissa Alonso and Chris Boyette, CNN
Five former Memphis police officers indicted on charges of murder
The former officers were each charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault among other charges.
PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer
Most economists think the economy will slow further in the current quarter and slide into at least a mild recession by midyear.
Clare Duffy, CNN
Meta says it will restore Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts
It was not immediately clear whether Trump will return to the Meta platforms. Twitter restored Trump's account in November.
Kevin Liptak, Jamie Gangel and Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN
Clinton, Bush and Obama turned over all classified records, representatives say
The discovery of classified documents in former Vice President Mike Pence's Carmel, Indiana, home was the third such case in recent months.
Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN
M&M benches spokescandies for Maya Rudolph
After causing outrage by making over the Green M&M, M&M'S says it is taking a step back from its candy reps.
Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Evan Perez, CNN
Classified documents found at Pence's Indiana home
A lawyer for former VP Mike Pence found about a dozen documents marked as classified at Pence's Indiana home last week and gave them to the FBI.


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package com.alibaba.json.bvt.parser;

import java.util.LinkedList;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

import org.junit.Assert;

import com.alibaba.fastjson.JSON;

public class JSONLexerTest_6 extends TestCase {

    public void test_scanFieldString() throws Exception {
        Exception error = null;
        try {
            JSON.parseObject("{\"values\":[\"abc\"]}", VO.class);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            error = ex;
        }
        Assert.assertNotNull(error);
    }

    public static class VO {

        public MyList<String> values;

        public MyList<String> getValues() {
            return values;
        }

        public void setValues(MyList<String> values) {
            this.values = values;
        }
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("serial")
    private class MyList<T> extends LinkedList<T> {

    }
}


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The Jarvis Family and Other Relatives
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Jacob Steiner Family
Jacob Steiner (1734-1801), a miller, was one of the men who came to Wachovia in 1755, and in 1766 was one of those selected to begin construction of the town of Salem. He married Catharina Beroth (1742-1810) in 1771, and settled in a house near the mill. The Moravian records describe the tragic death of their young son Jacob, who fell into the mill-race and drowned.
Children of Jacob Steiner and Catharina Beroth
Anna Elisabeth Steiner (1773-1842) m. Conrad Rothhaas
Jacob Steiner (1776-1777)
Abraham Steiner (1778-1779)
Johann Heinrich Steiner (1781-1796)
Johannes Steiner (b. & d. 1785)
So far as we know, they had no descendants with the Steiner surname.
©, 2001-2007
Faye Jarvis Moran and Elizabeth H. Harris
faye@fmoran.com, ncgen@mindspring.com
Records of the Moravians in North Carolina, 12 volumes; Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission
Forsyth County cemetery records
This page was created on June 19, 2001.
Return to List of Family Names
Return to the Jarvis Family Homepage


Not many of us enjoy getting stopped and frisked. Would you be comfortable if a robot performed a task? No necessarily but the FRSK04 aims to do the job. The robot has mechanical hands that are activated when the suspect is in the proper position. The audio playing during the process stops when the process ends.
Will robots like this become a thing in the future? Probably not, but stranger things have happened in the past. More information about this robot is available here.


We are passionate about helping people like you achieve the personal & business goals you dream about. These could be to pay off the mortgage earlier, buy a better car or house, take more holidays, fund the children's education, a long and comfortable retirement or any one of a hundred other things.
So how do we do that? We use our skills with numbers alongside a series of processes, systems & tools to help our clients use their business as a means to achieve their goals. And all without the need of a magic wand!


BelindaGrace is one of Australia's most popular Clairvoyant Healers, authors and presenters. She presents seminars, workshops, and courses in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Her first book 'You Are Clairvoyant' is a best-seller and has been published in the USA and Italy.


Police got the call around 2:30 and found 25-year-old Cequan Lenard Scales in the parking lot with a gunshot wound.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A 25-year-old is dead after being found shot outside Absolute Ultra Bar in Winston-Salem early Sunday morning.
Police got the call around 2:30 and found Cequan Lenard Scales in the parking lot with a gunshot wound.
Investigators say Scales was shot when people in the bar were walking out after it closed and an altercation started. Shots were fired during the altercation and Scales was shot, police say.
At this time police are not releasing any more information as the investigation is still on-going.
Anyone with information is asked to call Winston-Salem Crime Stoppers at: 336-727-2800.


No vehicles longer than 18' or higher than 6'3"
From Intercontinental Airport (IAH): Exit Bush Airport and follow the directional signs to 1-59 South. Follow I-59 South to downtown Houston and take the Jackson Street exit toward George R. Brown Convention Center. Make a slight left onto Jackson Street. Turn right onto Commerce Street. Turn left on La Branch Street. Turn left on Dallas Street and the hotel will be on the left.
From Hobby Airport (HOU): Exit Hobby Airport and follow the directional signs to I-45 North. Take I-45 North to the downtown destinations/Scott Street split. Follow the split to the Pease Street exit and continue to Austin Street. Turn right on Austin Street. Turn right onto Dallas Street and the hotel will be on the left.


Trip cancelled due to operational reasons.
On arrival at Immingham Dock we quickly had our passports checked and were driven by the helpful DFDS staff to the Fionia Seaways where we were shown to our cabins.
After a good night's sleep and a hearty breakfast, we were escorted to the bridge by 07:00 where we were made welcome by the ships officers. The conditions were good for observation with the sea fairly calm and the skies clear.
As we travelled east we encountered a number of Gannet, Fulmar, and Kittiwake. At 09:15 two dolphins briefly broke the water at just under a kilometre from the ship, but dived before full identification was possible.
With most seabirds at their breeding sites, numbers were relatively low but we did have a hitch-hiking female Reed Bunting keeping us company for some time on the Bridge deck before it left to continue its migration. After a pleasant evening meal we retired to our cabins and prepared for an early start the next morning. We gained access to the Bridge at 05:00 the next day and enjoyed looking at the unfolding archipelago leading into Gothenburg port.
We decided to spend the day on board and after a morning of data entry, spent a very pleasant and warm afternoon on the Bridge deck. Here we were able to practice our ID skills on the various races and ages of gulls, which were around the port as well as watching the land birds on the adjacent island. We also found the superb driving skills of the Port's drivers fascinating as they loaded trailer after trailer with impressive speed and accuracy. It was better than watching Top Gear!
The next morning started with thick fog and so we did not begin watching until it had cleared sufficiently, which meant we were not on the bridge until 06:50. As we travelled westwards the weather improved and most of the day was clear sky and calm seas. Just after midday we had good, if fleeting, views of two Harbour Porpoise, which we suspect had been sleeping on the sea before being wakened by the ship's approach.
A couple of hours later we had the best cetacean sighting of the trip when we watched 5 Bottlenose Dolphin feeding at about 200 metres from the ship. Luckily for us they were swimming in parallel to the ship's course and we were able to watch them and their accompanying seabirds for about 20 minutes.
We closed the survey at 19:45 when the light made it impossible to identify anything accurately. We thanked Captain Valter Fransson and his officers and left the Bridge to prepare for our arrival and disembarkation back at Immingham.


"Bristol Rovers" lost to "Roterham" in the final round and lost its chances to enter the zone of transfer matches. Now the team is absolutely weak, having not won for 4 rounds in a row and it will hardly take itself in hands.
"Wigan" will try to win, as it doesn't want to give the first position to the direct competitor "Blackburn". "Wigan" understands very well that "Blackburn" will score points in the final match, so the team must be strong now. We bet on the win of the away team for 1.6.
Here you will find the FOOTBALL prediction for the match of Bristol Rovers & Wigan of the League One, England. The prediction is prepared by our analytical team and is based on the latest news of the League One, Bristol Rovers and Wigan stats and lineups, insider news and our team's expert analysis. We publish our free betting tips and FOOTBALL predictions to help you win more. You can use the information from this Bristol Rovers - Wigan match preview for your own purposes. The odds are valid at the moment of publication.


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St Hilda's, is part of the Anglican Catholic Church within Australia. St Hilda's Parish believes, teaches and practices the authentic Christianity of the early Church, as expressed within the Anglican tradition. At present our parish has a small congregation. But, by God's mercy, we hope to grow in grace and numbers and spread the good news of who Jesus Christ is and what he has done for the human race. Welcome to our blog, feel free to contact us for more information. God Bless...
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Sermon Notes from Advent Sunday
"The day is at hand" +
In the Epistles of St Paul "the Day" often has reference to the return of Christ and final Judgement. Judgement is one of the main themes of Advent . And when St Paul first preached the Gospel, this theme was clearly present (Acts 17:31, 24:25).
Does Judgement, from God's perspective, apply to what the world calls victimless crimes? Sexual impurity, drunkeness, envy/jealousy? Yes, as we see in today's Epistle. It's easier for people to see validity of judgement of sins against loving neighbour, but they inwardly rebel against the idea that God punishes the other sins, that they should even be considered sins at all. "No harm, no foul." However, their conscience can still prick them when they do these things, despite this attitude. Why? Where is the sin?
For a start, they are often not victimless, even in the conventional sense. And they are usually strongly associated with sins more obviously harmful to others.
Drunkenness in one person often claims the life of another, or seriously injures them, as the alcoholically-enhanced road toll reminds us, and as do the scenes of drunken brawls, whether at schoolies venues, as we have seen recently, or elsewhere.
Jealousy can seldom help but break out in gossip and back-biting. It is unusual for it to remain a purely hidden vice of the mind.
The scandal of the abuse of children and minors by RC clergy is due to the same domino effect of sin. The abuses noticeably peaked between the late 60s to the 80s, but were below general community averages before and after this time. Why? They were partly the result of a dangerous change in the choosing and education of seminarians (trainee priests) that occured in the 60s. What was this change? The Church institutions relied on the advice of so-called experts on human sexuality. These experts didn't explicitly teach potential priests to abuse the young, nor did they instruct seminaries to choose paedophiles or ephebophiles. What they did do was teach seminarians and others that traditional sexual morality was foolishly restrictive and that pornography and seeking pleasure for its own sake were ok. And they counselled against allowing through men into the priesthood who they found believed in the classical teaching on these issues, labelling them as too rigid. And, too make things even worse, they told bishops they could cure the abusive clergy, while telling each other that the age of consent should be abolished. These experts based their beliefs on the work of a man called Kinsey. Kinsey, who deliberately set out to overturn concepts of sexual perversion, has been shown to have used scientific fraud to make such perversions appear much more common and therefore normal than was truly the case. And, worse still, he has been shown to have used at least one paedophile rapist, working even on infants, to get his data. He couldn't bring himself to stop at so-called victimless crimes. In each case, we find that the philosophy of the only bad sex is non-consensual sex (rape) leads to rape anyway.
So, victimless crimes do in fact lead quite naturally to victims, offending against love of neighbour.
The second point to make about these sins is that love of neighbour not the only love. Love of God, love of self, are part of the great commandment. Human dignity is the missing ingredient in so many people's ethical thinking: the good life is not just about maximising feelings of happiness or pleasure and minimising feelings of unhappiness or pain. "You owe it to yourself" is an old saying. How can one sin against oneself? "You are not your own, you were bought with a price" (1 Corinthians 6:20). Twice-purchased, by creation and redemption. We belong to God. Self-destruction, self-dehumanisation is an insult to Him, a defacing and defilement of his work of art. Fulfillment of our humanity requires that the reason rules the passions, that the will governs instincts. It also requires that sexual faculties which are designed for creating new life, forming loving unions and sealing the mutual gift of the whole self in a marriage, are not squandered on mere pleasure for self. When we degrade ourselves, we defile God's image, God's gift of spiritual life.
The morality which denies all of this, and judges actions only on how they maximise pleasure or feelings of happiness in the greatest number, is utilitarianism or consequentialism. Why does utilitarianism-consequentialism fail? It cannot make any sense of purely internal sin, despite the essence of morality, of human goodness, obviously being dependent on motive. It cannot even explain why a bedridden man who has secret murder fantasies impossible to fulfill is being a bad man. Or why a hypocrital woman who is outwardly polite and "nice" to a colleague at work but inwardly despises her for her less fashionable dress sense, is being a bad person. Or why a child who chooses not to steal something only because they know they would get caught and punished, is not virtuous.
It is not enough to avoid inflicting pain on others, as essential as that is to goodness. It never has been.
The last point to make is that in itself, such holy Judgement would be Bad News for us. But it does not exist by itself! It exists in the context of the Gospel of Justification. Justification is the declaration of innocence based on forgiveness, the act of judgement that is actually mercy. A blessed paradox. The "good news" about Judgement? Grace, forgiveness, renewal, are freely available. Evil deeds are forgotten, it's as if they never occurred. Good deeds are enabled, prepared, given by God in Christ, but credited to us as if our own.
Thanks be to God. +
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Thursday, 02 August 2018 15:12
Francois Marine integrates ShipServ procurement platform
Maritime e-procurement company ShipServ reports that it has completed the integration of its e-commerce platform with Francois Marine Services' new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, to streamline the logistics company's ability to process transactions and respond to RFQs.
Procurement survey highlights lack of structured data for analysis
ShipServ has released the results of a survey of 100 maritime buyers across different sectors, pointing to an industry-wide lack of structured data for analysis of procurement trends and optimisation of processes.
iMarine launches maritime procurement app
iMarine Software has launched a new app to allow shipping companies to manage procurement on mobile devices via its Cloud-based software platform.
Lady A gets software for her purchasing
UK-based Marine Software Ltd reports that it has completed the installation of its Marine Purchasing (MPSWin) package for the superyacht Lady A, to add to the existing Marine Planned Maintenance (MPMWin) system already in use.
Pleiades Shipping signs for iMarine e-Commerce
Greece-based shipowner Pleiades Shipping has agreed a deal with iMarine Software to connect its software systems to the Seaproc e-procurement hub.
ShipServ restructures organisation
ShipServ reports that it has restructured its business to create two new divisions, respectively focusing on 'Solutions' and 'Customer Engagement and Service Operations'.
RS Components joins Moscord purchasing platform
RS Components, a distributor of engineering and electronic components, reports that it has begun trading on the Moscord maritime e-Commerce platform, allowing users to choose items from RS Components' catalogue of products and have them delivered to any harbour around the globe.
Wednesday, 09 May 2018 15:53
Kinnetik Solutions agrees Wrist partnership
Maritime e-procurement company Kinnetik Solutions has announced a partnership with the Wrist Ship Supply Group, the world's largest ship supplier, which will see Wrist integrate its global platform with Kinnetik's Cloud-based software platform.
Maritime e-procurement platform launched
Singapore-based Moscord has introduced a new procurement platform to connect buyers and suppliers in an online community, developed over the last year and a half.
Thursday, 08 March 2018 16:58
ShipServ and IB in integration agreement
ShipServ and fleet management software company IB have announced a partnership agreement, which will see ShipServ's e-procurement system integrated with IB's InfoSHIP maritime software package.
Inmarsat bond issue follows $8.5m Vizada discount