The Thanksgiver is a Good-doer. In any situation, he who gives Thanks to God always does the good thing. When you do not know what to do giving thanks to God is always the good thing to do.
It is the Attitude of Gratitude that enhances Altitude. If you want to enhance your Altitude have the Attitude of Gratitude. The Thanksgiver will soar with God. Thanksgiving brings you to cruising altitude. Remember, you must reach cruising altitude before the cabin service can begin. If you want Heaven to serve you, be a Thanksgiver and reach cruising altitude so your provisions can be served! People often say, "I don't even know what to pray for." But God already knows what you need. As soon as you reach cruising altitude, your answer will come out. The Thanksgiver will ARISE!
Thanksgiving is the act of grateful Heirs making their claim! Anyone can think about God's attributes and works, and remain unaffected by Him. But the Thanksgiver is a Beneficiary. Thanksgiving files the claim. When the actions of life are against you, Thanksgiving has an overcoming reaction that will KEEP you. God is looking for a Thanksgiver who will react to the actions of life, with thanks to God, so that He may be the KEEPER of that person! The Thanksgiver isn't thanking God for life's trials, but through life's trials.
You will never find a Thanksgiver where you last saw him. Because God will move him forward. God will make him to appreciate. The Appreciator will appreciate. For you can never rise above your appreciation of God. If the value of your circumstances depreciates, be a Thanksgiver and express your gratitude to God through the situation. For he who appreciates God will himself appreciate. The key to seeing your own value appreciate is to give appreciation to the One who owes you nothing, but gives you all. When you lift up your voice in Thanksgiving to God your life will be lifted up. Your life will follow the direction of your appreciation. When your Thanksgiving goes up you will follow. For God is the Thanksgiver's KEEPER!


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A Quiet Wedding
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Charles W. Adams of the Diebold Lock and Safe Company, was married Saturday evening in Reno to Miss Marie Kemble of Redding, Cal. The ceremony was performed at the Methodist parsonage by the Rev. Dr. Phelps. The wedding was a very quiet one, only a few friends being present. Dr. Roscoe gave the bride away and Miss Webb was a very pretty bridesmaid.
Mr. and Mrs. Adams leave this morning for Salt Lake on their wedding trip.
Source: Reno Gazette-Journal, September 22, 1902.
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Mrs. D.D. Rorick and little girl departed Tuesday for Oxford Junction, Iowa, where they expect to remain for some time visiting at the home of Mrs. Rorick's relatives. (Hand County Press, March 16, 1893)
Some time ago J.T. Rorick, publisher of the Bad Axe Democrat, sold out his profitable newspaper property and located in the state of Washington. It is now reported that Mr. Rorick has discovered that all that glitters is not gold, and that he is about to return to Michigan.—Caro Advertiser. (Port Huron Daily Times, August 7, 1893)
Mrs. Ed. Freedman of West Pittston, Pa., is visiting her brother, Emmett Van Sickle, the jeweler. (Port Jervis Tri-States Union, August 8, 1893)
Rev. Mr. Adams Is Dead At M'Keesport, Pa.
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Rev. A.J. Adams, brother of John D. Adams, and George H. [sic] Adams, died at McKeesport, Sunday, at the age of 76 years. John D. Adams left, to-day, for McKeesport to attend the funeral, which will be held there at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning,
Rev. Mr. Adams was a Baptist clergyman who has been heard from the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of this city. He was retired by old age two yeas ago. He was a son of the late Rev. Chauncey Adams, and after graduating from Lewisburg college was ordained pastor of the Lafayette, N.J. Baptist Church, where his father was also ordained. The parent was pastor of that church in 1845.
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Untitled (Alvah Hovey Adams & Ethel Davis)
The wedding of Miss Ethel Davis, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J.T. Davis, and Alvah H. Adams, son of the Rev. and Mrs. A.J. Adams, took place at noon Tuesday, at the bride's home at Library. The fathers of the young couple performed the ceremony. After a trip to Chautauqua Mr. and Mrs. Adams will reside on South Evans avenue, McKeesport.
Source: Pittsburgh Press, July 17, 1910.
Untitled (China Shower for Ethel Davis)
Miss Ethel Davies [sic], a teacher of the Fourth Ward schools, Braddock, was given a china shower on Monday afternoon by her pupils, in teh [sic] school room at 4:30 o'clock. The engagement of Miss Davies and Alvah H. Adams, of McKeesport, was announced a week ago. Miss Davies is a daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. James T. Davies of Library, Pa. Until last fall, the Rev. Mr. Davies was pastor of the First Baptist Church, of this city.
Source: Pittsburgh Press, May 29, 1910. Note that Davis is spelled Davies throughout the story.
Mrs. [sic] Ethel Adams
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Word was received in McKeesport of the death of Miss Ethel Adams, at Sunny Rest sanitarium, White Haven, yesterday, of tuberculosis. She was a daughter of Rev. A.J. Adams, retired, McKeesport, and had been a teacher in the public schools of that city.
Source: Pittsburgh Daily Post, August 22, 1909.
Mrs. R. Adams Is Dead At Lapeer
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Was Cousin of Late Ross Grover and Well-Known in Flint.
Lapeer, Mich., March 9.—Mrs. Reedly Adams died at her home here yesterday after an illness of one year. She leaves her husband; one son, Richard Adams of this city; one sister, Mrs. L.H. Post of Kane; and one brother, Nelson Groover of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 from her late home.
Mrs. Adams was a cousin of Ross Groover of Flint, who, with his two children, died within the last three weeks.
Source: Flint Journal, March 9, 1918.
Died In Detroit
Lapeer, Mich., Feb. 26.—Word was received in Lapeer Wednesday of the death of William Nelson Groover, which occurred at his residence in Detroit, Tuesday. Mr. Groover was at one time a resident of Lapeer. The funeral will be held Friday from the residence. He was a member of the Union Masonic lodge. Mr. Groover was the father of Mrs. Reed Adams of this city.
Source: Flint Journal, February 26, 1914.
Judson Sutton Adams
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Judson Sutton Adams, aged 37, a well-known real estate man and church worker of McKeesport, died Friday night in the Pittsburgh Hospital. His body was removed to his home in Arlington avenue, McKeesport, yesterday. Mr. Adams was a member of the Fifth Baptist Church, McKeesport, where he served a number of years as a deacon. A few years ago he was secretary of the Pittsburg Baptist Association. He was association agent of the Baptist Young Peoples' Union of Western Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Sons of Veterans. Mr. Adams was born at New Baltimore, Pa., October 3, 1875. He leaves a widow, who was Miss Camilla Walhour, formerly a public school teacher of McKeesport; two children, Ethel and Camilla Adams, and a brother, A.H. Adams, all of McKeesport.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 1, 1912.
J.D. Adams, War Vet, Dies On Birthday
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Well-Known Resident One of First Letter Carriers in City
WAS 85 YEARS OLD
John D. Adams, of 10 Knapp avenue, well known Civil War veteran and Commander of General Lyon Post, 266, G.A.R., died at the Middletown Sanitarium at 9:30 o'clock on his 85th birthday Thursday night after several weeks illness.
Mr. Adams was born near Sussex, N.J., Nov 27, 1839, oldest son of Rev. Chauncey M. and Charity [sic] Adams. He was president of the First New Jersey Cavalry Veterans' Association, of Trenton, N.J., and of Letter Carriers' Association, 526, of this city. Mr. Adams was one of Middletown's first postmen.
Mrs. Adams, formerly Mary E. Demarest, died here Dec. 24, 1905. Mr. Adams is survived by one son, Charles A. Adams, vice-president and general manager of the Middletown office of Berry and Company, and one daughter, Miss Emma D. Adams, teacher in the Middletown High school.
The funeral will be held at the residence, 10 Knapp Avenue, 11 o'clock Monday morning, with interment in Hillside Cemetery at the convenience of the family.
Source: Middletown Daily Herald, November 28, 1924.

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November 19, 2013 12:07 PM ET
Former House Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas) wore a relieved expression this morning at the Hay Adams Hotel where he was spotted dining with a plump man named "Ames."
When approached by a few journalists, DeLay rose, smiled and relented to answering a couple of questions. At this point in the meal, there was no food in front of the former House Whip known as "The Hammer." Just black coffee.
The first question: "How does it feel to be free?"
"It's not quite finished, but it has been appealed," he said, calling the decision a "wonderful, wonderful Godsend." Rolling his eyes, he said they "finally got it right."
In mid-September, DeLay's conviction for funneling corporate funds to Texas candidates during the 2002 election cycle was overturned, bringing him one step significantly closer to freedom. During the appeal process, the ex-congressman was out on bail and hoping to avoid the three-year prison sentence he received.
These days, DeLay said he spends the majority of his time in Houston, not Washington. His friend, Ames, said Washington ought to be shut down. DeLay grinned, and, at least visibly appeared to agree with the sentiment.
In other DeLay news, he laughed when asked if he'd watch "Alpha House," the new Amazon series on lawmakers living in a townhouse on Capitol Hill. He said he watched the first episode of the Netflix drama "House of Cards" but had to cease watching because it was "too raunchy." On a more serious note, he insinuated that the drama of "House of Cards" was way too close to reality. "I want to know who in the Whip's office talked to them," he said.
Actor Kevin Spacey is so good in his role as House Whip, isn't he?
DeLay replied, "Yeah, unfortunately."
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Did you know your camera probably records its serial number in photos?
That's news to me. Seems the bad privacy news just keeps falling out of the trees. Perhaps it is because I've been attentive to such issues lately.
My repeated point: We need to understand the technology so we can respond intelligently.
Today's news from Bruce Schneier is on a web site that offers to help you find your stolen camera by telling them your serial number and they will look to find where on the 'net photos from that camera have been posted. See his post Stolen Camera Finder.
Seems your camera, whether digital camera or cell phone, embeds data in the picture about the settings on your phone (aperture, speed, exposure, flash, etc) along with manufacturer and model. This is the EXIF data. Seems the phone's serial number is also embedded in the file.
I looked at pictures on my computer and can easily see the setting data – just right-click on the picture and choose properties. Using just Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office Picture Manager I can not see the serial number, but I am confident it is there.
Other than the entertaining option of seeing if your stolen phone has been used to post picture and thus try to track down the phone, what are the other implications?
Security in your ministry. If someone finds a picture that is of serious concern to them (you know what I mean), they could scour the 'net for other photos coming from that phone. Could backtrack from an unknown phone or location to known organization. There are organizations that probably don't particularly want to reveal that much information. If you are in this category, you know it.
In addition to the visible info, the embedded data can identify you and link photos together. Keep in mind some phones now include 'geolocation' information. That means exact tracking data, perhaps to include longitude and latitude.
If none of those issue I mentioned earlier are of concern, that's fine. If some of those issues area a big deal in your life, you need to do more research and figure out how to deal with this.
While such analysis doesn't reveal the camera's serial number, it does allow determination as to whether different images came from the same camera. So if there is even one available image that is known to be from "person X", any anonymously posted photo with the same fingerprint will have come from the same camera, and would suggest an association with the same person.
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rect and control the separate States; the composition of Congress and the Legislatures; the difference between the two parties, into which the whole country is divided, the Whigs and the Democrats; the nature of the popular vote; of the administration of justice; juridical and congressional eloquence, &c. But upon one point I must add at least a few words, namely, upon Slavery, which prevails indeed only in the Southern States, yet, in consequence of their connection with the northern States as a political corporation, it becomes a national affair; and lately, especially by the unexampled spread of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," substantially a tolerably true representation of life in the slave States, has also awakened the attention of Europe in a high degree.
Slavery is without question the greatest political and social difficulty in the Union, which gives occasion to continued agitation in Congress, and throws the apple of discord from year to year into the Church itself, and in 1850 brought us to the brink of a formal dissolution of the Union.
The leaders of the two great political parties, Clay and Webster on the side of the Whigs, Cass and Buchanan on the side of the Democrats, at that time employed all the power of their eloquence and statesmanship to carry through the so-called Compromise Measures, and thereby save the Union. But the agitation respecting it continues yet in both Church and State, and broke out again last winter in stormy debates in Congress upon the Nebraska bill, and will only come to a quietus with the removal of the evil itself. That there should exist in the United States over three millions of negro slaves, who can be bought and sold as dead merchandize, stands certainly in palpable contradiction to their fundamental maxim, that all men are free and equal, or as one might better express it, are created for freedom. But how and in what manner this evil, which was not created by them, but inherited, which has rooted itself into the very heart of the country, and become interwoven with all the material interests of the South, is to be gotten rid of, is one of the most difficult questions that has ever been presented to the skill of the Statesman for solution.
There are, generally speaking, upon this subject, three parties in the Union. 1.) The Abolitionist of the North, especially of New England, who regards slavery as sinful per se, and urges its immediate abolition, which is again separated into two quite distinct branches, the one proceeding upon scriptural grounds, the other, in the most radical excess, upon other grounds, such as the emanicipation of women, and losing itself in open infidelity, therefore does far more injury than good to the cause. 2.) The Secessionists of the South, particularly of South Carolina, who, embittered by the overbearing attacks of the Abolitionists, threaten Congress with a separation from the confederacy, and the formation of separate southern rcpublics. Many of these defend Slavery as a necessary social offset to the democracy of the north, as a conservative element, with an appeal to the insurmountable difference between the African and Caucasian race; to the miserable condition of the emancipated negro, and even to the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament, and to the Epistle of Paul to Philemon. 3.) The Union party, by far the most influential, composed of Whigs and Democrats together, who hold up the Union at all hazards from patriotic and material considerations, and prefer to give slavery over to the legislation of its own States, and leave them decide their own fate. The most of its advocates believe that slavery will gradually die out of itself, and that an immediate emancipation, without a previous education on the part of the slave, would rather operate for their injury than for their advantage. indeed it will, in the course of time, as it has already done in the Northern States, which would perhaps already have taken place in Maryland and Kentucky, had not the Abolitionists in their overbearing judgment of the slaveholder called forth a re-action. But so much appears clear to me from the standpoint of religion and of humanity, that it is the duty of the State and the Church, in a quiet way, and without prejudice to the rights of the slaveholder, to prepare for the gradual emancipation of the slaves, by presenting this as the most reasonable demand of freedom, and by the enactment of laws,
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But in the event of a general abolition of Slavery, the great difficulty still remains, whether the African race upon the whole can stand beside the Caucasian in the full enjoyment of equal rights, mingle with them and wholly fulfill their destiny. As is known, there exists in the free States an insurmountable barrier between the whites and emancipated negroes, and even the most zealous Abolionist with all his loud talk about absolute equality of all men, would scarely at any price allow himself to unite his fortune for life with a negro woman. I doubt whether an Englander or a German would do it. The condition of the free negro in America is upon the whole a pitiable
one, and not seldom worse than that of their enslaved brethren at the South, at least in cases where piously disposed masters—and of these, thank God, there are not a few-s0 carefully attend to, and kindly treat them, that often they are quite unwilling to accept of proffered freedom. It therefore seems to me, that the same urgent duty rests upon the Northern States, by wise laws to better the social condition of the free negroes, and to raise them to the true dignity of human beings, as it rests upon the Southern States to promote the gradual emancipation of the slaves.
As yet I see but one bright spot in the dark tragical picture of slavery, that is the American Colonization Society, with its established negro-republic in Liberia upon the western coast of Africa. In this Colony whose progress has hitherto been fortunate beyond all expectation, and which has some of its warmest and most liberal patrons among the slaveholders themselves in the Southern States, there is made at least a beginning of a thorough bettering of the condition of the negro, and the foundation laid at the same time for the general christianization and civilization of the native wild negro tribes, in a land whose climate the Caucasian race could as little endure, as the negro could hitherto, whilst in contact with the whites, raise himself to an equal social signification and dignity. And it would seem in this case, that God designs anew to reveal his
wonderful wisdom, by which he knows how to bring good even out of evil, in that He designs by means of the christianized and civilized negro to kindle the light of the everlasting Gogpel in the heart of that consecrated terra incognita, and so to turn the fearful curse of American slavery, that heavy guilt of European and American Christendom--for it was introduced into the new world under Spanish, French, Danish and English influence—into an inestimable blessing for the heathen and barbarous people of Africa.
3. NATIONAL CHARACTER AND SOCIAL CONDITION. The United States presents, in the next place, a wonderful mixture of nations from every quarter of the heavens, and a journey through it is in a certain sense a journey through the world, and in so far one of the most interesting and instructive that can be made. For there Englishmen, Scotchmen, Irishmen, Germans from all districts, Swiss, Hollanders, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Italians, Swedes, Norwegians, Poles, Magyars, with their well known national prejudices and weaknesses have peaceably settled down together in an equality of social and political rights. To these European nationalities must be added also the red aborigines of the country, who retire continually deeper into the forests and prairies of the west, and, in spite of every attempt to christianize and civilize them, approach, by the means of internal wars, epidemics and poisonous liquors, continually nearer to their tragical fate of entire extinction ; further, the swarthy sons of Africa rejoicing in the childlike serenity of their existence, and even in the condition of freedom, bowing instinctively before the superiority of the whites; finally, also the emigrant from the celestial empire, with his oblong-drawn eyes, his complacency of mind, his mechanical culture, liis industry and love of money, drawn thither by the yellow gold of California.
We have also in America an ethnographical panorama, which one may see pass before his eyes even in a walk of a few hours upon Broadway, New York, Chesnut street, Philadelphia, or upon the markets of San Francisco. But not only
nationalities of the old world, but sectional peculiarities, manners and customs, which have outlived themselves in their primitive situations, are propagated yet in part with the most remarkable tenacity. In Virginia, you meet with the English gentlemen of the age of Elizabeth and the later Stuarts; in Philadelphia, with the Quaker from the days of George Fox and William Penn; in East Pennsylvania, with the Palatine and the Suabian from the beginning of the last century; in New England, with the Puritan from the times of Cromwell and Baxter; on the banks of the Hudson and in New Jersey, with the genuine Hollanders ; in South Carolina, with the Huguenots and the French noblemen of the seventeenth century, or at least very characteristic remains of them, which in Europe have already become much more defaced. From this it may appear, with what cautiousness and limitation the descriptions of so many European travellers must be taken, who take up a particular phase and make it the measure of their judgment for the whole. By this treatment one may trace out their contradictory statements.
But what is most remarkable, over this bundle of diversities there prevails yet a higher unity, and that in this mixture of people there are seen already the fundamental outlines of a peculiarly American national character. err very much who see in the United States merely the faint echo of European nationalities, and allow themselves to deny to that country a self-existent, historical future. Whoever with open eyes steps upon the soil of the new world will soon come in contact with the impulse of a powerful, fresh and thoroughly national life, which immediately takes up all foreign elements and assimilates them into its own organism. The digestive faculty of the American is truly wonderful. How many thousands and millions of Europeans has his stomach already taken up, and yet he has only become the more firm and healthy.
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WASHINGTON – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in coordination with the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) and the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), hosted the nation's annual election security exercise last week, bringing together federal, state, local, and private sector partners for the fourth annual Tabletop the Vote. More than 1,000 participants ran through hypothetical scenarios affecting election operations to share practices around cyber and physical incident planning, preparedness, identification, response, and recovery.
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Larreule ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques in der Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Die Gemeinde gehört zum Arrondissement Pau und zum Kanton Artix et Pays de Soubestre (bis 2015: Kanton Arzacq-Arraziguet).

Die Einwohner werden Larreulais und Larreulaises genannt.

Geographie
Larreule liegt ca. 20 km nördlich von Pau in der historischen Provinz Béarn am nördlichen Rand des Départements.

Umgeben wird Larreule von den Nachbargemeinden:

Larreule liegt im Einzugsgebiet des Flusses Adour. Der Luy de Béarn fließt durch das nördliche Gemeindegebiet zusammen mit seinen Nebenflüssen Gez und Uzan.

Geschichte
An einem Standort, der Barbapodium genannt wurde, ist am Ende des 10. Jahrhunderts nach der Einigung zwischen Wilhelm II., Graf der Gascogne, Centulle III., Vicomte von Béarn, Arcius Raca, Bischof von Lescar, und Garcie-Loup, Vicomte von Louvigny eine Benediktinerabtei mit dem Namen Sanctus Petrus de Regula errichtet worden. Gleichzeitig wurde den Mönchen erlaubt, das umliegende Waldland zu erschließen. Es sollte eines der drei wichtigsten Abteien des Béarn werden. Zu Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts unterhielt das sehr florierende Kloster ein ansehnliches Landgut und konnte als einziges den gewünschten örtlichen Zehnt eintreiben. Am Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts gründeten die Benediktiner leicht unterhalb des Klosters, rund 100 m entfernt, eine Bastide, aus der sich schrittweise die Gemeinde entwickelte. Die geografische Lage war ideal, lag die Bastide an einer Strecke von Pilgern auf ihrem Weg nach Santiago de Compostela. In der Volkszählung des Béarn im Jahre 1385 wurden in Larreule 32 Haushalte gezählt und die Zugehörigkeit der Bastide zur Bailliage von Pau festgehalten. Das 15. Jahrhundert markiert den Beginn des Niedergangs der Abtei. In den Hugenottenkriegen wurde die Abtei im Sommer des Jahres 1569 nach einem Angriff von protestantischen Truppen unter Gabriel de Lorges, Graf von Montgomery, zerstört. Eine Anordnung kündigte am 2. Oktober 1569 die Beschlagnahme der kirchlichen Güter an. 1620 wurde die katholische Religion wieder eingeführt, aber die Abtei konnte nie wieder an ihre vormalige Blütezeit anknüpfen. Eine neue Kirche ist in der Folge auf den Trümmern errichtet worden. 1773 wurde die Abtei aufgelöst, ihre Archive wurden nach Lescar und alle sonstigen Güter in das Priesterseminar nach Pau verbracht. In den Wirren der Französischen Revolution wurden 1789 und 1790 alle Gebäude der ehemaligen Abtei außer der Kirche zerstört und die Steine verkauft. Die Archive wurden ebenfalls in dieser Zeit vernichtet.

Toponyme und Erwähnungen von Larreule waren:
 Barbapodium, Liserat und Regula (10. Jahrhundert, laut Pierre de Marcas Buch Histoire de Béarn, S. 267),
 Conventus Reulœ Silvestrensis (1291, Gascognische Rollen, Archiv der englischen Verwaltung der Gascogne),
 Le mostier de Larreule de Saubeste (1343, Manuskript von 1343, Blatt 33),
 La Reule (1385, Volkszählung im Béarn),
 La Reula (1538, Manuskriptsammlung des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts),
 La Reulle (1750, Karte von Cassini) und
 Lareulle (1793 und 1801, Notice Communale bzw. Bulletin des lois).

Einwohnerentwicklung
Nach einem ersten Höchststand von rund 500 Einwohnern in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts fiel die Einwohnerzahl mit kurzen Erholungsphasen bis zu den 1950er Jahren auf ein Niveau von rund 175 Einwohnern zurück, das bis heute gehalten wird.

Sehenswürdigkeiten

Pfarrkirche Saint-Pierre von Larreule
Die heutige Pfarrkirche ist dem Apostel Simon Petrus geweiht. Das ursprüngliche Gotteshaus war Teil der Abtei von Larreule und ist im 12. Jahrhundert errichtet worden. In den Hugenottenkriegen wurden im Jahre 1569 das Langhaus, die südliche der drei Apsidiolen und der Kreuzgang zerstört. In der zweiten Hälfte wurde eine Sakristei anstelle der südlichen Apsidiole gebaut, am Ende des gleichen Jahrhunderts wurde die westliche Wand der Kirche errichtet. Das romanische Langhaus wurde nicht wiederhergestellt, und von dieser Zeit an dient das ehemalige Querschiff als Hauptschiff. Hiermit bekam die Kirche eine Nord-Süd-Ausrichtung mit einem flach abgeschlossenen Chor im Norden. Die ursprüngliche Apsis ist heute eine Kapelle, die Maria, der Mutter Jesu Christi gewidmet ist, die ehemalige nördliche Apsidiole eine Kapelle zu Ehren des heiligen Josefs. Beide Kapellen sind mit einem Kesselgewölbe versehen. Nach der Aufgabe der Abtei 1773 wurde die frühere Abteikirche die Pfarrkirche von Larreule. Viele heutige Ausstattungsgegenstände stammen aus dem 12. bis 20. Jahrhundert und sind als nationale Kulturgüter registriert.

Am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde der viereckige Glockenturm gebaut, der auf der südlichen Fassade herausragt. Er besitzt eine Wandöffnung in Rundbogenform an jeder Seite und ist mit einem mit Schiefer gedeckten Helm versehen. Der rechte von zwei Strebewerken trägt eine Inschrift, die schwierig zu entschlüsseln ist. Die neun Buchstaben könnten auf den vierten Abt der Abtei mit dem Vornamen "Richard" und dem Zunamen "Squirs", dem Namen der Abtei, die Larreule im 11. Jahrhundert entgegenwirkte.

Drei Säulenkapitelle auf den Eingangsbögen der Kapellen sind Überbleibsel der ursprünglichen Kirche aus dem 12. Jahrhundert. Das Kapitell der Marienkapelle zeigt zwei Personen in einem dichten Flechtwerk, die mit kurzen Tuniken bekleidet sind. Auf einem der beiden anderen Kapitelle sind zwei Szenen aus dem Martyrium des Johannes des Täufers dargestellt, Salome, den Kopf des Heiligen tragend, und die Himmelfahrt des Johannes, fortgetragen von zwei Engeln. Der Abakus des Kapitells auf der rechten Seite ist verziert mit einem Flechtwerk und einem Dämonenkopf auf der Ecke. Das Kapitell selbst ist ausgeschmückt mit Blättern und Blattwerk, die Figuren umschlingen.

Im Chor der Kirche befindet sich der Hauptaltar mit einem Gemälde des Malers Chavauty aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, der Mariä Aufnahme in den Himmel darstellt. Der Schrein des Tabernakels aus dem 18. Jahrhundert wird von zwei Pilastern an den Seiten und oberhalb einem Geländer eingerahmt. Die beiden Seitenteile werden an den Enden mit Schlangensäulen abgeschlossen. Das Dekor der Tür und der Seitenteile ist mit Flachreliefs ausgearbeitet. Auf der Tür ist eine Monstranz abgebildet, auf dem linken Seitenteil Marias Himmelfahrt und auf dem rechten Seitenteil ein Engel.

Auf dem Seitenaltar der Kirche fällt der Blick auf ein Gemälde aus 18. Jahrhundert, das den gekreuzigten Christus darstellt. An der Spitze des Retabels erscheinen die Heiligen Petrus und Paulus mit ihren Attributen Hahn bzw. Helm. Dazwischen schaut Gottvater herunter, mit einem Globus in seiner linken Hand. Das Retabel ist generell reich verziert mit Blumen, Voluten, geriffelten Säulen, Zierstreifen.

Die Kirche bewahrt seit dem 17. Jahrhundert eine Statue des heiligen Lupus, der zur Heilung von Krankheiten, wie Geschwüre, Kropf oder Lepra angerufen wurde. Die 1,20 m große Figur trägt eine Mitra. Seine rechte Hand scheint ursprünglich einen Krummstab oder einen Stab gehalten zu haben, der heute verloren gegangen ist. In der linken Hand hält er ein Buch, das seine Aufmerksamkeit auszulösen scheint. Die Statue war so verehrt, dass vor ihrer Restaurierung der Mantel des Heiligen in einem schlechten Zustand gewesen war, weil die Gläubigen ihre Taschentücher an ihm gerieben hatten, bevor sie diese an die Kranken aufgetragen haben. Unterhalb der Kirche befindet sich eine Quelle, die dem heiligen Lupus gewidmet ist. Eine Legende besagt, dass sie im 11. Jahrhundert an der Stelle entsprang, als ein Bischof namens Ezzelin kurz zuvor seinen Stab dort in die Erde gestoßen hatte. Bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts war Larreule das Ziel von Wallfahrten, um für die Heilung von Krankheiten zu bitten.

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur
Die Landwirtschaft ist traditionell der wichtigste Wirtschaftsfaktor der Gemeinde.

Sport und Freizeit
Der Fernwanderweg "GR 65" von Genf nach Roncesvalles führt durch das Gemeindegebiet. Er folgt ab Le Puy-en-Velay der Via Podiensis, einem der vier historischen Jakobswege in Frankreich.

Ein 9,1 km langer und ein weiterer 10,2 km langer Rundweg führt von Larreule durch die umliegenden Wälder und Felder mit Gelegenheit zum Picknick am Ufer des Uzan.

Verkehr
Larreule wird durchquert von den Routes départementales 32 und 262.

Weblinks

 Website des Tourismusbüros Arzacq-Morlanne en terre de Soubestre (französisch)

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Ort in Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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With training contract application season being in full swing, many may wonder how to effectively deal with a large number of firms that offer such positions. With the number of training contracts closing in on the 6000 figure and the number of firms offering trainee roles being also considerably large, one might wonder how to ever sort out a reasonable list of firms which one should be applying for.
Whether we're talking about vacation schemes or training contracts, the following principles are great for sorting out which firms interest you the most and are the most compatible with, in my experience. Of course, some might have other methods and may disagree with my proposals, but that's the beauty and advantage of there being multiple opinions and methods, ultimately the applicants benefitting the most.
Firstly, in order to narrow down a large number of firms, you have to take a structured approach. The best way to organise the information you gather through research is a table. This table, preferably in an electronic format as this can be much more easily added to, deleted from or generally edited, should contain all the research you have on the firms you're planning to apply to. Once all this information is collected one can make a reasonably informed decision as to which firms fit their preferences best , therefore, be applying to.
1) On the left-hand side, one would enumerate the firms one's seen offer vacation schemes or training contracts.
2) Up top, list the most important attributes you want from a firm and – then check each box if the firm reaches that requirement you've made and at the end see which have the most checks.
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That's a structured way of seeing which firms fit you the most. Are you interested in more commercially-oriented work or do would you rather prefer a firm focused on personal legal services? Would you rather work at London's famous international firms or are you more fit for a national or regional practice? Would you be happy to be one of 100 trainees the firm takes on or one of say 8? All these questions can be answered with the help of this table.
Another advice I would give you in this direction is not to reduce your number of applications. Indeed, having fewer applications, up to 5 or 10 let's say, gives you more time to focus on each one. However, given the huge level of applications, I think that intentionally restricting the number of firms you apply to is wrong, because it reduces your chances of success. Of course, you could strike gold and be shortlisted for interview on your first application, but you may as well have to submit in excess of 20 and not get any success. Apply to as many as possible, while of course submitting well-researched and structured applications. You will 100% not be called for an interview if you do not submit an application.
Here's an example of the table below. Please note these are fictitious statistics only purposed to showcase how the table would look like.
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to give. The best part about these irregulars is that they're the same exact irregulars as the "Future" or "Will" tense. Get the unbiased info you need to find the right school. Both regular and irregular verbs use the same set of endings, and any stems that are irregular in the simple future are also irregular in the conditional. The conjugation of the conditional tense is fairly straightforward, because all three types of verbs (-ar, -er and -ir) use the same ending, and the ending is applied to the infinitive rather than to a portion of the verb. the conditional tense. to hate. E to IE Irregular Spanish Verb Conjugation, © 2019 U.S. Institute of Languages. imaginable degree, area of Sciences, Culinary Arts and Personal The best part about these irregulars is that they're the same exact irregulars as the "Future" or "Will" tense. Like the future tense, the conditional tense is extremely easy to conjugate in that all three verb forms (-ar, -er and -ir) use the same endings; these endings are added on to the end of the infinitive. Not sure what college you want to attend yet? ), caber (to fit): cabría, cabrías, cabría, cabríamos, cabríais, cabrían. Remember the "nosotros" ending for the "would" or conditional tense is "íamos". There are only 12 irregular verbs for the conditional tense in Spanish. You can test out of the En un mundo ideal, nosotros no ________________ (tener) que estudiar. The list below is ordered by frequency of use. © copyright 2003-2020 Study.com. Yes: No: dando: dado : Remember: these verb charts are only a tool to use while one is learning the language. Others add in a letter in addition to the elimination of the vowel. 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There are only 12 irregular verbs for the conditional tense in Spanish.As the Spanish future tense is formed in exactly the same way as the Spanish conditional tense, these 12 irregular verbs apply equally to both tenses.The 12 irregular verbs for the two tenses and the associated prefix are:Here are a few examples of the irregular conditional verbs in action:Now that you know how to conjugate the conditional tense, let's take a look at a few situations where you can use it. Their endings are regular, but their stems change in the same way they change in the future tense. Additional information. Secondly, the conditional is also used to describe an action that depends on a condition. Use the conditional tense to talk about intentions and ambitions that may happen in the future. The same twelve common verbs that are irregular in the future tense are also irregular in the conditional tense. 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Overview: The Stanford Basic Income Lab is seeking to recruit up to two graduate students to assist with an extensive review and mapping of research on Universal Basic Income (UBI). The ideal candidate will be trained in Politics, Sociology, Public Policy, or Economics (and related fields) and have a strong interest in learning more about UBI.
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The research project, described below, is already underway but will be ongoing as new literature results from current experiments become available. This research position will likely span three to four quarters depending on how many weekly hours the graduate student is able to devote to the project. The Lab will prioritize applicants that can dedicate at least five hours per week to this project, and that are interested in working with BIL for at least three quarters.
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After I closed the cover of The Life We Bury, I visited Goodreads to click I'm finished. I read one book! I'm ahead of schedule! Woohoo! Look at me go. This year, I've pledged to read 12 books. Surely I can read one book a month.
In 2014, I read 17 books after pledging only 12 (overachiever!). So in 2015, I upped my goal to 24, which I accomplished (go, me!). In 2016, I thought I'd go for more: 35. That's more than 1 book every 2 weeks.


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Q: Load-Balancing into Multiple Database What is the best way to load-balance requests into multiple SQL database from .Net environment?
We have a web application that keep surprising us with upcoming traffic. Now, we moved logs/analytics outside our operational database.
I am using SQL SE 2014 (uniondb package). 4 DBs, ~1.5T volume per one. I am not using any cluster-replication solutions as my clients come and go. We plan on moving to Azure in the following year (but it will definitely take time).

A: Have you tried NetScaler?
See the following document - Scaling and Optimizing
Microsoft SQL Server with
Citrix NetScaler

Scaling-up helps Microsoft SQL database servers take
  advantage of faster CPU, memory and I/O; however, server connection
  capacity remains a bottleneck which effectively limits the number of
  databases that can be hosted on a server. NetScaler's SQL connection
  management effectively scales-up database infrastructure in several
  ways.
Load balancing – With SQL transaction awareness, NetScaler can route
  one client's many SQL transactions in a single connection to several
  different servers, allowing for more optimal load balancing of SQL
  traffic.

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Charles Franklin, the pen-name of Frank Hugh Usher, (22 October 1909 - 1976) born in Leicester, Leicestershire, a British writer of mystery novels and spy novels.  He also wrote under the pen-names Frank Usher, and Frank Lester.

Biography
Little interested in the whodunit, still in vogue in England in the immediate post-war period, he followed in the footsteps of Peter Cheyney and David Hume and showed a clear penchant for Noir fiction and, less surprisingly, from the 1960s, for spy novels.

Under the pseudonym Charles Franklin, he published his first novel, Exit Without Permit, in 1946, with his most famous recurring hero, Grant Garfield, a young and intrepid lawyer, sometimes assisted in his twelve investigations, by his charming secretary Barbara Wenthworth. After abandoning Garfield, he wrote three novels for Inspector Jim Burgess, and three others for the spy Maxine Dangerfield, a kind of female James Bond. He also published under Charles Franklin's name historical works dealing with famous legal or criminal cases.

Under his birth name, he was the author of the adventures of Daye Smith, a portrait painter and amateur sleuth. He also used this name for his fantasy short stories and a short series of spy novels centred on the duo of Amanda Curzon and her sidekick Oscar Sallis.

Works

Novels

Grant Garfield series

Inspector Jim Burgess series
 Guilt for Innocence (1960)
 Kill Me and Live (1961)
 The Bath of Acid (1962)

Maxine Dangerfield series
 The Dangerous Ones (1964)
 On the Day of the Shooting (1965)
 The Escape (1968)

Other novels

Daye Smith series (by Frank Usher)

Amanda Curzon and Oscar Sallis series (by Frank Usher)
 The Man From Moscow (1965)
 No Flowers in Brazlov (1968)
 The Boston Crab (1970)
 Deadly Legacy (1971)

Other novels by Frank Usher
 Fear Runs Softly (1961)
 Body in Velvet (1963)

Geoffrey Slade series (by Frank Lester)
 The Corpse Wore Rubies (1958)
 Death in the South Wind (1958)
 The Golden Murder (1959)
 Death of A Pale Man (1960)
 The Bamboo Girl (1961)
 Hide My Body (1961)
 Fly Me a Killer (1962)

Other novels by Frank Lester
 Death of a Frightened Traveller (1959)
 Lead Me to the Gallows (1962)
 Finch Takes to Crime (1963)

Short stories by Frank Usher

Other publications by Charles Franklin
 The World's Worst Murderers (1965)
 The World's Famous Trials (1967)
 The World's Greatest Scandals (1967)
 Spies of the Twentieth Century (1967)
 They Walked a Crooked Mile: an Account of the Greatest Scandals, Swindlers and Outrages of All Time (1967)
 World Famous Acquittals (1970)

References

Sources

British detective fiction writers
20th-century British writers
1909 births
1976 deaths
20th-century pseudonymous writers


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Tigray – a challenge to the UN day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict Tigray: Fears of Escalating Violations
From Apologies to Atrocities: How to make sense of leadership statements in Ethiopia
By Jan Nyssen On June 19, 2021
By Jan Nyssen and several colleagues that co-authored but preferred to remain anonymous.
In a speech to assembled Ethiopian ambassadors in January 2019, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed would make a prescient remark regarding Tigray. Alluding to the role of soldiers during the battle of Adua in 1896 and later, during the Eritrean war, Abiy said: "This hasn't been researched, but it's obvious. From the battle of Adwa during the time of Menelik, to the later wars, many people from central Ethiopia – Oromos, Amharas – have been going to Tigray to fight. They were there for the war with Eritrea, and there's been a military presence in Tigray for the 30 years since. So, if you're wondering what the proportion of Oromo in Tigray is, leave it for DNA to find out. [Hilarity in the audience] It's probably wrong to say this, but: those who went to Adwa, to fight, didn't just go and come back. Each of them had about 10 kids." [Loud laughter of the audience and applause]. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-RF8E4ov0)
On March 21 2020, during a parliamentary session in which he was questioned on sexual violence in Tigray, Abiy replied: "The women in Tigray? These women have only been penetrated by men, whereas our soldiers were penetrated by a knife". (https://twitter.com/womenoftigray/status1374723950786318336?s=20 , video includes English subtitles).
Earlier that year, after the first reports of the deliberate targeting of women had begun to emerge, an Ethiopian general is filmed addressing a group of officers. Berating his cohorts, he says: "why are women being raped in Tigray, at this time? We might expect this during war time and it is not manageable but why is it happening now in the presence of federal police, in the presence of an official administration?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX-GmMwEF10)
The rest of the video has been cut by the Ethiopian Broadcast Commission which first broadcast it, but it would appear to be an admission of what had been going on. An admission later echoed by the Ethiopian Minister for Women's Affairs and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission. (Addis Standard reports)
What are we to make of these statements? How are we to interpret words which, from the Prime Minister himself, seem an open acknowledgement, even an endorsement, of military tactics and strategy that holds, as its central pillar, the use of rape in war? How can the world reconcile these kinds of statements? How will the people of Tigray – and in particular the women – live with what has been said, and what has been admitted; and above all, if Abiy wins the election in June 21, how will the the rest of Ethiopia live with a Prime Minister who has endorsed a culture of rape?
PM Abiy Ahmed with military commanders, Office of the Prime Minister, Ethiopia, February 14, 2019, (Public domain)
Abiy Ahmed was appointed Prime Minster of Ethiopia on April 2 2018. He arrived on the scene talking hope, reconciliation, reform and much anticipated change. He seemed to embody everything Ethiopians hoped for. He was half Oromo half Amhara; a Christian, though Protestant, but he acknowledged his Islamic ancestors. He seemed to be the new 'unity in diversity' figurehead incarnate. A new Ethiopia in the making. Who could object? He embarked on a series of tours around the country to explain himself then to the diaspora, to neighbours, and to the world. He moved fast, making changes addressing all the grievances over corruption and the past 'misdeeds' of the former government. He released prisoners, called back banned political parties and enjoined Ethiopians to address their past and atone with one another over historical events, and then move on.
The man with a PhD in Peace and Conflict studies it seems was putting in place the main steps for future reconciliation and state rebuilding. The world held its breath; he 'made peace' with Eritrea, he talked of Rwanda, he reminded the world of the evils of genocide and the need not to demonize and to transcend all differences. He appointed several women into his cabinet, a first for Ethiopia. He was applauded at home and abroad he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
It was a moment of pride for the country for him. Much was written: articles, blogs, Twitter, Facebook all were euphoric. Ethiopia reasserting her honor, her history of internationalism and defender of universal values. A founding member of the United Nations a great contributer to Peace-Keeping operations since 1950. Abiy, the ex military man now statesman was bringing back this honor to Ethiopia, to the Ethiopian army, to its people.
As the war unfolded in Tigray, the reports of atrocities and their specific intentions seemed to follow the textbook example of all that has been written and researched on the use of rape in war, and on violations of international protocols and treaties governing conflict. AP Africa correspondent Cara Anna described the horrors of sexual violence in Tigray on CBS News. Aljazeera and Reuters detailed the sexual slavery in Tigray. Helen Clark and Rachel Kyte called the world to action: "The world knows enough to say that war crimes are happening in Tigray. We should not need to wait until we are able to conduct full and thorough investigations before we act to stop rape as a weapon of war. We should not have to count the graves of children before we act to stop starvation crimes." The Red Cross also condemned this horrific sexual violence in the strongest terms.
With each report and social outrage, there was denial and counter accusations of 'fake news' and 'alleged' rapes and claims of a 'western' smear campaign against the integrity of Ethiopia. The cries of pain and testaments of Tigrayan women, now scorned and dismissed as propaganda.
As activists and human rights lawyers examine the evidence from Tigray and other places where women continue to suffer the onslaught of violence and ethnic cleansing, the academics remind us: governments don't outsource violence to militias; they model it.
On June 19th the world will be commemorating International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. A day agreed on by all member states of the UN to condemn and call for the end of conflict-related sexual violence, including rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy and enforced sterilization; and to honour victims, survivors and those fighting to end these most terrorizing and destructive of crimes.
As activists and human rights lawyers examine the evidence from Tigray and other places where women continue to suffer the onslaught of violence and ethnic cleansing, the academics remind us: governments don't outsource violence to militias; they model it. Data on government and militia attacks against civilians in civil wars from 1989 to 2010 show that when governments target civilians — whether through massacres, ethnic cleansing or deliberate bombing and shelling — they generally do so through both their regular military forces and militia forces. And when states decide not to target civilians, militias generally hold back as well. They may influence militia behavior through training or through more informal diffusion — or both. Studies show that when governments train militias, militias are more likely to target civilians both with sexual violence and other kinds of violence."
On June 17 The African Union announced the opening of the official Commission of inquiry into Tigray. As they begin to collect the statements from Tigrayan refugees and victims of sexual violence, they would be wise to also consider the various speeches and statements of Abiy Ahmed himself.
Jan Nyssen is professor of geography at Ghent University (Belgium) and has carried out research in Tigray since 1994.
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I remember when traveling was fun. It was never easy but there was still some excitement about going to the airport. You never knew what kind of restaurants you might encounter or travel pillows might be in the kiosks. The duty free shops were always fun to browse. Now, it's an amalgamation of lines, strip searches, and everyone carrying over-sized bags. Times have changed. It's not that new places aren't exciting to encounter or spotting celebrities in first class isn't entertaining; it's that the shine has worn off the glamour of getting there.
There's an old proverb which tells us that "getting there" is the essence of the journey. Within the art of travel, we learn about ourselves. Truths, which remain conveniently hidden at home, emerge when we are moving between baggage claim and that next stop. Car commercials endlessly recycle a version of this message year after year. Like all clichés, there's a degree of truth underlying this essential premise. Despite the hardships, misdirection, and inevitable inconveniences; there is something instructive about the journey.
It is possible to miss the lesson. Whether through poor timing, distraction, or simply being unprepared; whatever we're supposed to learn can be lost. If we're not listening, looking, or aware the "getting there" can be gone in an instant. Schedules need to be met. Connecting flights wait in distant terminals. We're busy people. We have our own distractions. Who wants to listen or look at the inane scenes of life being acted out at the café across the terminal, be forced to watch the family fighting at check-in, or witness business men awkwardly gather to be the first people on the plane. There seems nothing to learn in this chaos. The lessons come later, when you're on the road and have more control. Isn't that the key word, "control"? We need complete "control" of our surroundings to really take in what the cosmos may be saying? God isn't in this chaos, right? God speaks in our ability to control what we observe. This is what we lead ourselves to believe. If God is here, God isn't speaking to me. By this point in the journey, my walls are so high and heavily guarded I don't notice the red flags being raised all around me.
Alarm bells are ringing everywhere. God is here, at work, and on the move. No, this isn't one of those "God is about to do a great thing" stories. Sight is not restored to the blind, the lame do not walk, nor is a school for deaf children built in Kenya. What I want to share is the kind of story that normally slips under the radar. It is a story of everyday me running headlong into the work of an extraordinary God in the most ordinary of ways, shapes, and places. I almost missed everyday God at work. I wasn't ready. There were countless red flags, signs, symbols, and calls for preparation. I wasn't listening or looking. That's ok. God was looking for me.
We come from a religious tradition which believes God (through the work of the Holy Spirit) travels ahead of us. God, in one form or another, is always on the move. The Spirit precedes us, wherever we go, bringing God's grace to places we've yet to arrive. So when you step off the ferry or out of an airplane, the Holy Spirit has already arrived on an earlier flight. It's like an advance team. God has been moving in ways we can't imagine or understand. The Holy Spirit is working on our behalf before we even fully grasp the reality of God.
Wherever we are, whether it's walking down the street in front of our homes or traveling hundreds of miles away, we are always responding to something God's already done. We encounter the results of God's presence in our lives. It's like walking on a hiking trail and coming on a camp site. You can tell when people were last there. There is evidence of recent use. Someone was there before you. Our lives are like this as well. In different situations and settings, both large and small, we discover that "God was here". Traces of divinity were left, evidence of grace can be seen, and the unmistakable presence of the Holy Spirit lingers. God was in this place. God is here. Now what do we do?
The first place I go after a flight, ferry, or car ride of any length is to the restroom. There is no explanation required. Last weekend, returning from Newark to Charlotte, I stuck to my usual routine. I was the third from the last person off the plane (I always sit at the back) and made a b-line for the nearest restroom. I should also tell you every seat on the plane was full. It took nearly as long to deplane as it did to fly from Newark to Charlotte. That's an exaggeration but it seemed like it took forever. It always feels like it takes longer to leave a plane than it does to board one? I knew the moment I crossed the threshold of the walkway the first bathroom I saw would be my destination. My fear was that I would have to wait on some of the same people once I found the bathroom.
After I walked the fifty feet or so the bathroom, everything worked out fine. Except for one thing; there was someone walking around the restroom talking. Was it some random crazy person? I'd encountered my share of mentally ill people in public places. As I walked to the sink, I listened to what this guy was saying, "This is the time, the place, to be blessed in Jesus Christ. Yes, now is the time and place to be blessed in Jesus Christ today." It sounded like one of my standard benedictions.
God went ahead of me, even into the bathroom, and blessed the journey, time, and place. I received that blessing, this man's benediction, as I went on my way.
Who am I to judge another person's joy? Who am I to limit the scope of God's blessings? I am in no place to judge someone else's joy or limit when or where God's blessings may be shared. From the bathroom at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport and all points between, there are places where God is coming toward us and meets us before we are yet home.
In that moment, when we encounter Christ's blessing, Christ comes, and the waiting is over. Our journey and all that accompanies it seems less relevant. Where Christ is, where the Spirit's blessing rests, there we find our home. Christ has found us, met us, and wherever we are, we're home. Our journeys are defined not by what we've seen, by staring up at the Red Woods or across the Grand Canyon but by our ongoing encounters with the risen Christ. When we're traveling, waiting, and have written God's presence off as an afterthought amid life's mundane duties; we miss Jesus when the blessings show up.
A parable that seems to be about brides, midnight runs for oil, sharing or not sharing, wisdom, and foolishness, is really a story about waiting for Jesus to arrive. It's a story about getting caught up in the waiting and missing the blessing.
We wait for ferries to load, airplanes to takeoff, baggage to arrive, and packages to be delivered. Matthew's community was waiting for Christ to return. Many thought it would happen in their lifetime. Imagine their growing impatience. When they sang "soon and very soon", they really meant it. We become frustrated if the ferries are delayed or our packages are held up. Waiting, while a part of life is not something we do well.
Here's the thing: it is in the midst of our waiting that Christ arrives. We are not much different from Matthew's community. We are still waiting on Christ to return. Here is the Good News: Christ is still coming. You will meet the Risen Christ in innumerable forms. He comes in unexpected ways, singing blessings in airport bathrooms, and countless other forms of embodied grace.
My question is this: are you waiting for Christ? Do you expect to encounter Christ? Are you listening for Christ's blessings in out of the way places? If not, what's holding you back? Are you waiting and watching for Christ in "this time and place"? Wouldn't it be great if the waiting ended with us? What's stopping us from bringing Christ's blessings into the world (like the man working at the airport in Charlotte)? Perhaps we're simply traveling with too much baggage.


Successful business in the West does not prepare a company to effectively manage the differences in language, business culture, manufacturing and commercial practices in China. Western companies who plan to compete in China using their domestic business and operations model will struggle. Western companies who think and act like Chinese companies while successfully integrating their own best practices will succeed.
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package synapticloop.linode.api.response;

import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.junit.Test;

import synapticloop.linode.exception.ApiException;

/**
 * This is a generated test class for the Api api calls, this was
 * automatically generated from the linode api documentation - which can be
 * found here:
 * http://www.linode.com/api/utility
 *
 * @author synapticloop
 */

public class ApiGeneratedResponseTest {

	@Test
	public void testApiSpec_spec() throws JSONException, ApiException {

		new ApiSpecResponse(new JSONObject("{" +
				" \"ERRORARRAY\":[]," +
				" \"ACTION\":\"account.info\"," +
				" \"DATA\":{" +
				"  \"VERSION\":3.3," +
				"  \"METHODS\":{" +
				"   \"account.info\":{" +
				"    \"DESCRIPTION\":\"Shows information about your account such as" +
				"     the date your account was opened as well as your network" +
				"     utilization for the current month in gigabytes.\"," +
				"     \"PARAMETERS\":{}," +
				"     \"THROWS\":\"\"" +
				"    }," +
				"    \"api.spec\":{" +
				"    \"DESCRIPTION\" : \"Returns a data structure of the entire" +
				"     Linode API specification.\"," +
				"     \"PARAMETERS\":{}," +
				"     \"THROWS\":\"\"" +
				"   }" +
				"  }" +
				" }" +
				"}"));

	}

};

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I'm not a morning person. I'm sure I've mentioned this a few dozen times by now but it's still the truth. It used to take me a solid hour to be in a public-facing mood but I've managed to decrease my amount of wake up time by having a constant routine I go through whether it's Monday or Saturday. It's a way for me to jump start my morning and get ready for the day. Besides preparing me for human interaction, it also gets my body ready for the day since one of the steps in my routine is to eat breakfast. I cannot make it in the morning without food. Sometimes I don't have a huge appetite but I always have to eat something or I'll get woozy and even more cranky which is never a good thing from me in the morning. So to win your morning, I've decided to share my morning routine with you guys so you can see what the first hour or so looks like in my life.
1. Wake up. Lay in bed for 15 more minutes inwardly complaining about having to wake up and finally roll out of bed.
2. Go to the bathroom and do whatever I need to in there. If I start making myself presentable, the chances of me going back to sleep are much less.
3. Make my bed. I cannot get through the day without a neat bed. I've tested this one out and went without making my bed a few times. I failed miserably at life. I can't get productive. I crawl back in thinking I'll just work from my pillow and nothing good ever comes from it. There's something spectacular about a made bed even if the rest of the room is a disaster.
4. Make breakfast. My appetite in the morning bounces all over the place. Sometimes I want a giant breakfast with all the fixings, other days I want something simple. There are often days that I've overslept or I'm running late and I need something to grab and run. That's where belVita comes in. belVita breakfast biscuits are delicious and easy for a quick morning. There are also a ton of varieties to choose from which is always a plus in my book. Two of my personal favorites are the Chocolate bites and Cinnamon Brown Sugar. I've even got my 12-year old cousin munching on belVita lately and he's the pickiest eater.
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