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"The Innocence of Father Brown" (1911) is the first collection of stories starring the empathetic detective Father Brown. Sherlock Holmes might be sexier, but GK Chesterton's atmospheric Father Brown stories are the best the genre has ever seen. "The Blue Cross" "The Secret Garden" "The Queer Feet" "The Flying Stars" "The Invisible Man" "The Honour of Israel Gow" "The Wrong Shape" "The Sins of Prince Saradine" "The Hammer of God" "The Eye of Apollo" "The Three Tools of Death" "The Sign of the Broken Sword" Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown. Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.
It is many years now since this colossus of crime suddenly ceased keeping the world in a turmoil; and when he ceased, as they said after the death of Roland, there was a great quiet upon the earth. But in his best days (I mean, of course, his worst) Flambeau was a figure as statuesque and international as the Kaiser. Almost every morning the daily paper announced that he had escaped the consequences of one extraordinary crime by committing another. He was a Gascon of gigantic stature and bodily daring; and the wildest tales were told of his outbursts of athletic humour; how he turned the juge d'instruction upside down and stood him on his head, "to clear his mind"; how he ran down the Rue de Rivoli with a policeman under each arm. It is due to him to say that his fantastic physical strength was generally employed in such bloodless though undignified scenes; his real crimes were chiefly those of ingenious and wholesale robbery. But each of his thefts was almost a new sin, and would make a story by itself. It was he who ran the great Tyrolean Dairy Company in London, with no dairies, no cows, no carts, no milk, but with some thousand subscribers. These he served by the simple operation of moving the little milk cans outside people's doors to the doors of his own customers. It was he who had kept up an unaccountable and close correspondence with a young lady whose whole letter-bag was intercepted, by the extraordinary trick of photographing his messages infinitesimally small upon the slides of a microscope. A sweeping simplicity, however, marked many of his experiments. It is said that he once repainted all the numbers in a street in the dead of night merely to divert one traveller into a trap. It is quite certain that he invented a portable pillar-box, which he put up at corners in quiet suburbs on the chance of strangers dropping postal orders into it. Lastly, he was known to be a startling acrobat; despite his huge figure, he could leap like a grasshopper and melt into the tree-tops like a monkey. Hence the great Valentin, when he set out to find Flambeau, was perfectly aware that his adventures would not end when he had found him.
But how was he to find him? On this the great Valentin's ideas were still in process of settlement.
There was one thing which Flambeau, with all his dexterity of disguise, could not cover, and that was his singular height. If Valentin's quick eye had caught a tall apple-woman, a tall grenadier, or even a tolerably tall duchess, he might have arrested them on the spot. But all along his train there was nobody that could be a disguised Flambeau, any more than a cat could be a disguised giraffe. About the people on the boat he had already satisfied himself; and the people picked up at Harwich or on the journey limited themselves with certainty to six. There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow lady going up from a small Essex town, and a very short Roman Catholic priest going up from a small Essex village. When it came to the last case, Valentin gave it up and almost laughed. The little priest was so much the essence of those Eastern flats; he had a face as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling; he had eyes as empty as the North Sea; he had several brown paper parcels, which he was quite incapable of collecting. The Eucharistic Congress had doubtless sucked out of their local stagnation many such creatures, blind and helpless, like moles disinterred. Valentin was a sceptic in the severe style of France, and could have no love for priests. But he could have pity for them, and this one might have provoked pity in anybody. He had a large, shabby umbrella, which constantly fell on the floor. He did not seem to know which was the right end of his return ticket. He explained with a moon-calf simplicity to everybody in the carriage that he had to be careful, because he had something made of real silver "with blue stones" in one of his brown-paper parcels. His quaint blending of Essex flatness with saintly simplicity continuously amused the Frenchman till the priest arrived (somehow) at Tottenham with all his parcels, and came back for his umbrella. When he did the last, Valentin even had the good nature to warn him not to take care of the silver by telling everybody about it. But to whomever he talked, Valentin kept his eye open for someone else; he looked out steadily for anyone, rich or poor, male or female, who was well up to six feet; for Flambeau was four inches above it.
He alighted at Liverpool Street, however, quite conscientiously secure that he had not missed the criminal so far. He then went to Scotland Yard to regularise his position and arrange for help in case of need; he then lit another cigarette and went for a long stroll in the streets of London. As he was walking in the streets and squares beyond Victoria, he paused suddenly and stood. It was a quaint, quiet square, very typical of London, full of an accidental stillness. The tall, flat houses round looked at once prosperous and uninhabited; the square of shrubbery in the centre looked as deserted as a green Pacific islet. One of the four sides was much higher than the rest, like a dais; and the line of this side was broken by one of London's admirable accidents—a restaurant that looked as if it had strayed from Soho. It was an unreasonably attractive object, with dwarf plants in pots and long, striped blinds of lemon yellow and white. It stood specially high above the street, and in the usual patchwork way of London, a flight of steps from the street ran up to meet the front door almost as a fire-escape might run up to a first-floor window. Valentin stood and smoked in front of the yellow-white blinds and considered them long.
Aristide Valentin was unfathomably French; and the French intelligence is intelligence specially and solely. He was not "a thinking machine"; for that is a brainless phrase of modern fatalism and materialism. A machine only is a machine because it cannot think. But he was a thinking man, and a plain man at the same time. All his wonderful successes, that looked like conjuring, had been gained by plodding logic, by clear and commonplace French thought. The French electrify the world not by starting any paradox, they electrify it by carrying out a truism. They carry a truism so far—as in the French Revolution. But exactly because Valentin understood reason, he understood the limits of reason. Only a man who knows nothing of motors talks of motoring without petrol; only a man who knows nothing of reason talks of reasoning without strong, undisputed first principles. Here he had no strong first principles. Flambeau had been missed at Harwich; and if he was in London at all, he might be anything from a tall tramp on Wimbledon Common to a tall toast-master at the Hotel Metropole. In such a naked state of nescience, Valentin had a view and a method of his own.
In such cases he reckoned on the unforeseen. In such cases, when he could not follow the train of the reasonable, he coldly and carefully followed the train of the unreasonable. Instead of going to the right places—banks, police stations, rendezvous—he systematically went to the wrong places; knocked at every empty house, turned down every cul de sac, went up every lane blocked with rubbish, went round every crescent that led him uselessly out of the way. He defended this crazy course quite logically. He said that if one had a clue this was the worst way; but if one had no clue at all it was the best, because there was just the chance that any oddity that caught the eye of the pursuer might be the same that had caught the eye of the pursued. Somewhere a man must begin, and it had better be just where another man might stop. Something about that flight of steps up to the shop, something about the quietude and quaintness of the restaurant, roused all the detective's rare romantic fancy and made him resolve to strike at random. He went up the steps, and sitting down at a table by the window, asked for a cup of black coffee.
It was half-way through the morning, and he had not breakfasted; the slight litter of other breakfasts stood about on the table to remind him of his hunger; and adding a poached egg to his order, he proceeded musingly to shake some white sugar into his coffee, thinking all the time about Flambeau. He remembered how Flambeau had escaped, once by a pair of nail scissors, and once by a house on fire; once by having to pay for an unstamped letter, and once by getting people to look through a telescope at a comet that might destroy the world. He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. "The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic," he said with a sour smile, and lifted his coffee cup to his lips slowly, and put it down very quickly. He had put salt in it.
"Do you play this delicate joke on your customers every morning?" inquired Valentin. "Does changing the salt and sugar never pall on you as a jest?"
"I zink," he stuttered eagerly, "I zink it is those two clergy-men."
"The two clergymen," said the waiter, "that threw soup at the wall."
"Threw soup at the wall?" repeated Valentin, feeling sure this must be some singular Italian metaphor.
"Yes, yes," said the attendant excitedly, and pointed at the dark splash on the white paper; "threw it over there on the wall."
"Yes, sir," he said, "it's quite true, though I don't suppose it has anything to do with the sugar and salt. Two clergymen came in and drank soup here very early, as soon as the shutters were taken down. They were both very quiet, respectable people; one of them paid the bill and went out; the other, who seemed a slower coach altogether, was some minutes longer getting his things together. But he went at last. Only, the instant before he stepped into the street he deliberately picked up his cup, which he had only half emptied, and threw the soup slap on the wall. I was in the back room myself, and so was the waiter; so I could only rush out in time to find the wall splashed and the shop empty. It don't do any particular damage, but it was confounded cheek; and I tried to catch the men in the street. They were too far off though; I only noticed they went round the next corner into Carstairs Street."
It was fortunate that even in such fevered moments his eye was cool and quick. Something in a shop-front went by him like a mere flash; yet he went back to look at it. The shop was a popular greengrocer and fruiterer's, an array of goods set out in the open air and plainly ticketed with their names and prices. In the two most prominent compartments were two heaps, of oranges and of nuts respectively. On the heap of nuts lay a scrap of cardboard, on which was written in bold, blue chalk, "Best tangerine oranges, two a penny." On the oranges was the equally clear and exact description, "Finest Brazil nuts, 4d. a lb." M. Valentin looked at these two placards and fancied he had met this highly subtle form of humour before, and that somewhat recently. He drew the attention of the red-faced fruiterer, who was looking rather sullenly up and down the street, to this inaccuracy in his advertisements. The fruiterer said nothing, but sharply put each card into its proper place. The detective, leaning elegantly on his walking-cane, continued to scrutinise the shop. At last he said, "Pray excuse my apparent irrelevance, my good sir, but I should like to ask you a question in experimental psychology and the association of ideas."
The red-faced shopman regarded him with an eye of menace; but he continued gaily, swinging his cane, "Why," he pursued, "why are two tickets wrongly placed in a greengrocer's shop like a shovel hat that has come to London for a holiday? Or, in case I do not make myself clear, what is the mystical association which connects the idea of nuts marked as oranges with the idea of two clergymen, one tall and the other short?"
The eyes of the tradesman stood out of his head like a snail's; he really seemed for an instant likely to fling himself upon the stranger. At last he stammered angrily: "I don't know what you 'ave to do with it, but if you're one of their friends, you can tell 'em from me that I'll knock their silly 'eads off, parsons or no parsons, if they upset my apples again."
"Indeed?" asked the detective, with great sympathy. "Did they upset your apples?"
"One of 'em did," said the heated shopman; "rolled 'em all over the street. I'd 'ave caught the fool but for havin' to pick 'em up."
"Which way did these parsons go?" asked Valentin.
"Up that second road on the left-hand side, and then across the square," said the other promptly.
"Thanks," replied Valentin, and vanished like a fairy. On the other side of the second square he found a policeman, and said: "This is urgent, constable; have you seen two clergymen in shovel hats?"
The policeman began to chuckle heavily. "I 'ave, sir; and if you arst me, one of 'em was drunk. He stood in the middle of the road that bewildered that—"
"Which way did they go?" snapped Valentin.
"They took one of them yellow buses over there," answered the man; "them that go to Hampstead."
Valentin produced his official card and said very rapidly: "Call up two of your men to come with me in pursuit," and crossed the road with such contagious energy that the ponderous policeman was moved to almost agile obedience. In a minute and a half the French detective was joined on the opposite pavement by an inspector and a man in plain clothes.
"Well, sir," began the former, with smiling importance, "and what may—?"
Valentin pointed suddenly with his cane. "I'll tell you on the top of that omnibus," he said, and was darting and dodging across the tangle of the traffic. When all three sank panting on the top seats of the yellow vehicle, the inspector said: "We could go four times as quick in a taxi."
"Quite true," replied their leader placidly, "if we only had an idea of where we were going."
"Well, where are you going?" asked the other, staring.
Valentin smoked frowningly for a few seconds; then, removing his cigarette, he said: "If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing, keep behind him. Stray when he strays; stop when he stops; travel as slowly as he. Then you may see what he saw and may act as he acted. All we can do is to keep our eyes skinned for a queer thing."
"What sort of queer thing do you mean?" asked the inspector.
"Any sort of queer thing," answered Valentin, and relapsed into obstinate silence.
The yellow omnibus crawled up the northern roads for what seemed like hours on end; the great detective would not explain further, and perhaps his assistants felt a silent and growing doubt of his errand. Perhaps, also, they felt a silent and growing desire for lunch, for the hours crept long past the normal luncheon hour, and the long roads of the North London suburbs seemed to shoot out into length after length like an infernal telescope. It was one of those journeys on which a man perpetually feels that now at last he must have come to the end of the universe, and then finds he has only come to the beginning of Tufnell Park. London died away in draggled taverns and dreary scrubs, and then was unaccountably born again in blazing high streets and blatant hotels. It was like passing through thirteen separate vulgar cities all just touching each other. But though the winter twilight was already threatening the road ahead of them, the Parisian detective still sat silent and watchful, eyeing the frontage of the streets that slid by on either side. By the time they had left Camden Town behind, the policemen were nearly asleep; at least, they gave something like a jump as Valentin leapt erect, struck a hand on each man's shoulder, and shouted to the driver to stop.
They tumbled down the steps into the road without realising why they had been dislodged; when they looked round for enlightenment they found Valentin triumphantly pointing his finger towards a window on the left side of the road. It was a large window, forming part of the long facade of a gilt and palatial public-house; it was the part reserved for respectable dining, and labelled "Restaurant." This window, like all the rest along the frontage of the hotel, was of frosted and figured glass; but in the middle of it was a big, black smash, like a star in the ice.
"Our cue at last," cried Valentin, waving his stick; "the place with the broken window."
"What window? What cue?" asked his principal assistant. "Why, what proof is there that this has anything to do with them?"
"Proof!" he cried. "Good God! The man is looking for proof! Why, of course, the chances are twenty to one that it has nothing to do with them. But what else can we do? Don't you see we must either follow one wild possibility or else go home to bed?" He banged his way into the restaurant, followed by his companions, and they were soon seated at a late luncheon at a little table, and looked at the star of smashed glass from the inside. Not that it was very informative to them even then.
"Got your window broken, I see," said Valentin to the waiter as he paid the bill.
"Yes, sir," answered the attendant, bending busily over the change, to which Valentin silently added an enormous tip. The waiter straightened himself with mild but unmistakable animation.
"Ah, yes, sir," he said. "Very odd thing, that, sir."
"Indeed?" Tell us about it," said the detective with careless curiosity.
"Well, two gents in black came in," said the waiter; "two of those foreign parsons that are running about. They had a cheap and quiet little lunch, and one of them paid for it and went out. The other was just going out to join him when I looked at my change again and found he'd paid me more than three times too much. 'Here,' I says to the chap who was nearly out of the door, 'you've paid too much.' 'Oh,' he says, very cool, 'have we?' 'Yes,' I says, and picks up the bill to show him. Well, that was a knock-out."
"What do you mean?" asked his interlocutor.
"Well, I'd have sworn on seven Bibles that I'd put 4s. on that bill. But now I saw I'd put 14s., as plain as paint."
"Well?" cried Valentin, moving slowly, but with burning eyes, "and then?"
"The parson at the door he says all serene, 'Sorry to confuse your accounts, but it'll pay for the window.' 'What window?' I says. 'The one I'm going to break,' he says, and smashed that blessed pane with his umbrella."
"I was so knocked silly for a second, I couldn't do anything. The man marched out of the place and joined his friend just round the corner. Then they went so quick up Bullock Street that I couldn't catch them, though I ran round the bars to do it."
"Bullock Street," said the detective, and shot up that thoroughfare as quickly as the strange couple he pursued.
Their journey now took them through bare brick ways like tunnels; streets with few lights and even with few windows; streets that seemed built out of the blank backs of everything and everywhere. Dusk was deepening, and it was not easy even for the London policemen to guess in what exact direction they were treading. The inspector, however, was pretty certain that they would eventually strike some part of Hampstead Heath. Abruptly one bulging gas-lit window broke the blue twilight like a bull's-eye lantern; and Valentin stopped an instant before a little garish sweetstuff shop. After an instant's hesitation he went in; he stood amid the gaudy colours of the confectionery with entire gravity and bought thirteen chocolate cigars with a certain care. He was clearly preparing an opening; but he did not need one.
"Oh," she said, "if you've come about that parcel, I've sent it off already."
"Parcel?" repeated Valentin; and it was his turn to look inquiring.
"I mean the parcel the gentleman left—the clergyman gentleman."
"For goodness' sake," said Valentin, leaning forward with his first real confession of eagerness, "for Heaven's sake tell us what happened exactly."
"Well," said the woman a little doubtfully, "the clergymen came in about half an hour ago and bought some peppermints and talked a bit, and then went off towards the Heath. But a second after, one of them runs back into the shop and says, 'Have I left a parcel!' Well, I looked everywhere and couldn't see one; so he says, 'Never mind; but if it should turn up, please post it to this address,' and he left me the address and a shilling for my trouble. And sure enough, though I thought I'd looked everywhere, I found he'd left a brown paper parcel, so I posted it to the place he said. I can't remember the address now; it was somewhere in Westminster. But as the thing seemed so important, I thought perhaps the police had come about it."
"So they have," said Valentin shortly. "Is Hampstead Heath near here?"
"Straight on for fifteen minutes," said the woman, "and you'll come right out on the open." Valentin sprang out of the shop and began to run. The other detectives followed him at a reluctant trot.
Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break—a group of two figures clerically clad. Though they seemed as small as insects, Valentin could see that one of them was much smaller than the other. Though the other had a student's stoop and an inconspicuous manner, he could see that the man was well over six feet high. He shut his teeth and went forward, whirling his stick impatiently. By the time he had substantially diminished the distance and magnified the two black figures as in a vast microscope, he had perceived something else; something which startled him, and yet which he had somehow expected. Whoever was the tall priest, there could be no doubt about the identity of the short one. It was his friend of the Harwich train, the stumpy little cure of Essex whom he had warned about his brown paper parcels.
Now, so far as this went, everything fitted in finally and rationally enough. Valentin had learned by his inquiries that morning that a Father Brown from Essex was bringing up a silver cross with sapphires, a relic of considerable value, to show some of the foreign priests at the congress. This undoubtedly was the "silver with blue stones"; and Father Brown undoubtedly was the little greenhorn in the train. Now there was nothing wonderful about the fact that what Valentin had found out Flambeau had also found out; Flambeau found out everything. Also there was nothing wonderful in the fact that when Flambeau heard of a sapphire cross he should try to steal it; that was the most natural thing in all natural history. And most certainly there was nothing wonderful about the fact that Flambeau should have it all his own way with such a silly sheep as the man with the umbrella and the parcels. He was the sort of man whom anybody could lead on a string to the North Pole; it was not surprising that an actor like Flambeau, dressed as another priest, could lead him to Hampstead Heath. So far the crime seemed clear enough; and while the detective pitied the priest for his helplessness, he almost despised Flambeau for condescending to so gullible a victim. But when Valentin thought of all that had happened in between, of all that had led him to his triumph, he racked his brains for the smallest rhyme or reason in it. What had the stealing of a blue-and-silver cross from a priest from Essex to do with chucking soup at wall paper? What had it to do with calling nuts oranges, or with paying for windows first and breaking them afterwards? He had come to the end of his chase; yet somehow he had missed the middle of it. When he failed (which was seldom), he had usually grasped the clue, but nevertheless missed the criminal. Here he had grasped the criminal, but still he could not grasp the clue.
The two figures that they followed were crawling like black flies across the huge green contour of a hill. They were evidently sunk in conversation, and perhaps did not notice where they were going; but they were certainly going to the wilder and more silent heights of the Heath. As their pursuers gained on them, the latter had to use the undignified attitudes of the deer-stalker, to crouch behind clumps of trees and even to crawl prostrate in deep grass. By these ungainly ingenuities the hunters even came close enough to the quarry to hear the murmur of the discussion, but no word could be distinguished except the word "reason" recurring frequently in a high and almost childish voice. Once over an abrupt dip of land and a dense tangle of thickets, the detectives actually lost the two figures they were following. They did not find the trail again for an agonising ten minutes, and then it led round the brow of a great dome of hill overlooking an amphitheatre of rich and desolate sunset scenery. Under a tree in this commanding yet neglected spot was an old ramshackle wooden seat. On this seat sat the two priests still in serious speech together. The gorgeous green and gold still clung to the darkening horizon; but the dome above was turning slowly from peacock-green to peacock-blue, and the stars detached themselves more and more like solid jewels. Mutely motioning to his followers, Valentin contrived to creep up behind the big branching tree, and, standing there in deathly silence, heard the words of the strange priests for the first time.
The first he heard was the tail of one of Father Brown's sentences, which ended: "... what they really meant in the Middle Ages by the heavens being incorruptible."
"Ah, yes, these modern infidels appeal to their reason; but who can look at those millions of worlds and not feel that there may well be wonderful universes above us where reason is utterly unreasonable?"
"No," said the other priest; "reason is always reasonable, even in the last limbo, in the lost borderland of things. I know that people charge the Church with lowering reason, but it is just the other way. Alone on earth, the Church makes reason really supreme. Alone on earth, the Church affirms that God himself is bound by reason."
"Yet who knows if in that infinite universe—?"
"Only infinite physically," said the little priest, turning sharply in his seat, "not infinite in the sense of escaping from the laws of truth."
"Reason and justice grip the remotest and the loneliest star. Look at those stars. Don't they look as if they were single diamonds and sapphires? Well, you can imagine any mad botany or geology you please. Think of forests of adamant with leaves of brilliants. Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire. But don't fancy that all that frantic astronomy would make the smallest difference to the reason and justice of conduct. On plains of opal, under cliffs cut out of pearl, you would still find a notice-board, 'Thou shalt not steal.'"
"Well, I think that other worlds may perhaps rise higher than our reason. The mystery of heaven is unfathomable, and I for one can only bow my head."
"Just hand over that sapphire cross of yours, will you? We're all alone here, and I could pull you to pieces like a straw doll."
"Yes," said the tall priest, in the same low voice and in the same still posture, "yes, I am Flambeau."
"Come, will you give me that cross?"
"No," said the other, and the monosyllable had an odd sound.
"No," he cried, "you won't give it me, you proud prelate. You won't give it me, you little celibate simpleton. Shall I tell you why you won't give it me? Because I've got it already in my own breast-pocket."
"Really, you're as good as a three-act farce," he cried. "Yes, you turnip, I am quite sure. I had the sense to make a duplicate of the right parcel, and now, my friend, you've got the duplicate and I've got the jewels. An old dodge, Father Brown—a very old dodge."
"Yes," said Father Brown, and passed his hand through his hair with the same strange vagueness of manner. "Yes, I've heard of it before."
"You have heard of it?" he asked. "Where have you heard of it?"
"Well, I mustn't tell you his name, of course," said the little man simply. "He was a penitent, you know. He had lived prosperously for about twenty years entirely on duplicate brown paper parcels. And so, you see, when I began to suspect you, I thought of this poor chap's way of doing it at once."
"Began to suspect me?" repeated the outlaw with increased intensity. "Did you really have the gumption to suspect me just because I brought you up to this bare part of the heath?"
"No, no," said Brown with an air of apology. "You see, I suspected you when we first met. It's that little bulge up the sleeve where you people have the spiked bracelet."
"How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?"
"Oh, one's little flock, you know!" said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. "When I was a curate in Hartlepool, there were three of them with spiked bracelets. So, as I suspected you from the first, don't you see, I made sure that the cross should go safe, anyhow. I'm afraid I watched you, you know. So at last I saw you change the parcels. Then, don't you see, I changed them back again. And then I left the right one behind."
"Left it behind?" repeated Flambeau, and for the first time there was another note in his voice beside his triumph.
"Well, it was like this," said the little priest, speaking in the same unaffected way. "I went back to that sweet-shop and asked if I'd left a parcel, and gave them a particular address if it turned up. Well, I knew I hadn't; but when I went away again I did. So, instead of running after me with that valuable parcel, they have sent it flying to a friend of mine in Westminster." Then he added rather sadly: "I learnt that, too, from a poor fellow in Hartlepool. He used to do it with handbags he stole at railway stations, but he's in a monastery now. Oh, one gets to know, you know," he added, rubbing his head again with the same sort of desperate apology. "We can't help being priests. People come and tell us these things."
"I don't believe you. I don't believe a bumpkin like you could manage all that. I believe you've still got the stuff on you, and if you don't give it up—why, we're all alone, and I'll take it by force!"
"No," said Father Brown simply, and stood up also, "you won't take it by force. First, because I really haven't still got it. And, second, because we are not alone."
"Behind that tree," said Father Brown, pointing, "are two strong policemen and the greatest detective alive. How did they come here, do you ask? Why, I brought them, of course! How did I do it? Why, I'll tell you if you like! Lord bless you, we have to know twenty such things when we work among the criminal classes! Well, I wasn't sure you were a thief, and it would never do to make a scandal against one of our own clergy. So I just tested you to see if anything would make you show yourself. A man generally makes a small scene if he finds salt in his coffee; if he doesn't, he has some reason for keeping quiet. I changed the salt and sugar, and you kept quiet. A man generally objects if his bill is three times too big. If he pays it, he has some motive for passing unnoticed. I altered your bill, and you paid it."
"Well," went on Father Brown, with lumbering lucidity, "as you wouldn't leave any tracks for the police, of course somebody had to. At every place we went to, I took care to do something that would get us talked about for the rest of the day. I didn't do much harm—a splashed wall, spilt apples, a broken window; but I saved the cross, as the cross will always be saved. It is at Westminster by now. I rather wonder you didn't stop it with the Donkey's Whistle."
"With the what?" asked Flambeau.
"I'm glad you've never heard of it," said the priest, making a face. "It's a foul thing. I'm sure you're too good a man for a Whistler. I couldn't have countered it even with the Spots myself; I'm not strong enough in the legs."
"What on earth are you talking about?" asked the other.
"Well, I did think you'd know the Spots," said Father Brown, agreeably surprised. "Oh, you can't have gone so very wrong yet!"
"Do not bow to me, mon ami," said Valentin with silver clearness. "Let us both bow to our master."
As Ivan explained to the guests, their host had telephoned that he was detained for ten minutes. He was, in truth, making some last arrangements about executions and such ugly things; and though these duties were rootedly repulsive to him, he always performed them with precision. Ruthless in the pursuit of criminals, he was very mild about their punishment. Since he had been supreme over French—and largely over European—policial methods, his great influence had been honourably used for the mitigation of sentences and the purification of prisons. He was one of the great humanitarian French freethinkers; and the only thing wrong with them is that they make mercy even colder than justice.


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Bilohorivka (, ; ) is an urban-type settlement in Sievierodonetsk Raion (district) in the Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at about   NW from the centre of Luhansk city and at about  WSW from Sievierodonetsk. The population is  As of January 2023, Bilohorivka is one of a few settlements in the Luhansk Oblast, which is still under control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who are regularly repelling  attempts by Russian forces to storm the settlement.

History

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
According to the Governor of Luhansk Oblast Serhiy Haidai, a school in Bilohorivka was bombed by a Russian airstrike on 7 May 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where up to 60 people died, although only 2 were confirmed. On 12 May 2022 a Russian battalion tactical group attempted to establish pontoon bridges to cross the Siverskyi Donets River. They were destroyed by Ukrainian forces, with great losses of life and equipment in the ensuing Battle of the Siverskyi Donets. The settlement would later be occupied by Russia after the Battle of Lysychansk.

On 19 September 2022, it was confirmed that Ukrainian forces had regained full control over the settlement. On 20 September 2022, Serhii Haidai, the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, said that "Bilohorivka was Ukraine's last stronghold in Luhansk Oblast. It was the area of constant heavy fighting. Our defenders have squeezed the invaders out and are in full control of the town. However, it is still under artillery fire. The town no longer exists because the invaders razed it to the ground."

Russia claims that Russian forces recaptured Bilohorivka on 3 February 2023, however, as of 7 February 2023, Ukrainian forces maintain control of the settlement.

References

Sievierodonetsk Raion
Urban-type settlements in Sievierodonetsk Raion

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"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time," was a remark attributed to British statesman Sir Edward Grey on the eve of the First World War. It is not certain whether Grey, who was the Foreign Secretary, in fact made such a statement. Nevertheless it has earned considerably historical and popular attention as an expression of popular perception of the war.
This was the opening gambit for the recent writing competition run by mardibooks and IdeasTap as a memorial to all those who served in the First World War and gave their lives in this and other conflicts. Emanating from this brief, there were many fine short stories, fictional and non-fictional which addressed in a creative and interesting manner, the notion of war and peace, personal and private, from many perspectives, locations and periods, real and imagined.
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April Public Holidays In South Africa
The Public Holidays Act (Act No 36 of 1994) states that whenever a public holiday falls on a Sunday, the Monday following it will be a public holiday.
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South Africa has 12 public holidays as determined by the Public Holidays Act (Act No 36 of 1994) [PDF]. The Act determines whenever any public holiday falls on a Sunday, the Monday following on it shall be a public holiday.
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Q: How can I manage multiple end-user-style localhost applications? Over time I have installed applications that offer or require an interface runs through the browser on localhost (for example, Transmission web interface, StackApplet configuration, Veracity web interface). I also develop software that I test via localhost.
Of course, all these applications must run on different ports, and if there happen to be conflicts it is up to me to resolve them by configuring the application in question. But I have no localhost "manager" that I could use to:

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*require applications register themselves against (e.g. for port allocation)

*record port allocations (if the underlying application doesn't have the functionality to register itself)

*start/stop the web services

*control port access from other machines on the network/Internet

*other things I haven't thought of ;)

As more end-user-style applications offer web interfaces, it looks like I'll end up running a little multi-application web server for myself. How can I (easily) manage this?

A: Juju would be good for this for one major reason, with the local provider each of those applications would be in their own separate LXC container, so they could be isolated amongst themselves.
Juju would handle the management of those services (the starting and the stopping) and the port registration. Most charms allow you to set a config option for which port to listen to so you could keep those nice and managed.
The other plus would be the ability to then push those applications to another machine/cloud when you're done developing them.
A minus would be overhead, do you really need an entire container for your torrent web interface?, etc. But on the other hand if they all share one mysql instance then that might make more sense.
Control port access to other machines on the network would be tricky, the local provider is kind of designed for you to develop these apps from your local machine, and not so much to have other machines on the network access these services, however if you know how to configure LXC networking properly you should be able to do this. See also:

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*How do I run Juju on a local server?

*https://jujucharms.com/docs/stable/clouds-LXD

*Juju with KVM and LXC in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (example of running MediaWiki on your laptop in a form you could deploy to the cloud)

A: Sandstorm is a self-described "personal cloud platform" for "self-hosted federated web apps". In other words, it's a platform specifically designed this use-case in mind.
As of writing (August 2014):

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*it is still in development (functional, but, for example, doesn't yet guarantee sandboxing)

*does not yet have a PPA or .deb installation process (uses an installation script instead)

*requires that apps are appropriately ported

*already (kind of) supports Mailpile (one of the applications that got me thinking about this) as well as Tiny Tiny RSS, MediaGoblin and others

*doesn't seem like porting of less sharey/federated applications is likely (e.g. StackApplet configuration)

*doesn't have the port-from-laptop-to-public-cloud use-case that Juju does

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Q: How to change the fill color of a Vector Drawable based on dark or light theme in Android I have a vector drawable file in my Android Studio project which is a white circle
<vector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:width="79dp"
    android:height="79dp"
    android:viewportWidth="79"
    android:viewportHeight="79"
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I want to have the circle change the fill color based on the light or dark theme
I already created a custom style in both light and dark theme files
<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
    <style name="Theme.ESP8266App" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.DarkActionBar">
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    </style>

    <style name="blankButton">
        <item name="android:fillColor">#FFFFFF</item>
    </style>

</resources>

<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
    <style name="Theme.ESP8266App" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    </style>

    <style name="blankButton">
        <item name="android:fillColor">#121212</item>
    </style>

</resources>

But I can't figure out a way to include this style in the vector file.


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Global Immunization Newsletter
A significant change in the polio eradication and broader global health landscape is the Mid-term evaluation of the implementation of the Strategic Action Plan on Polio Transition (2018 - 2023). The evaluationprovides recommendations to support polio transition stakeholders to strengthen health systems, boost essential immunization coverage and maintain responsive surveillance.
The polio transition process aims to repurpose the network and infrastructure developed over the 30+ years of eradication efforts, to support national health priorities and maintain a polio-free world.
WHO's management response to the evaluation, published in September 2022, lays out a roadmap for polio transition efforts from 2023 and beyond, in collaboration with national governments and partners. The response objectives are aligned with the IA2030 and other key agendas, reflecting the value of transitioned essential functions to ensure strong surveillance and immunization systems.
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Efforts to lure international tourists paying off
Melissa Nelson Gabriel
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Scott Wassner is accustomed to seeing a lot of visitors from Texas, Louisiana and Georgia while working on Pensacola Beach. More and more, however, the jet ski rental operator is seeing plenty of tourists from Germany, England, the Middle East and China as well.
"People might not think it's the case, but we get a lot of foreign tourists," Wassner said on a recent afternoon as he readied jet skis for rental at Bonifay Water Sports. "It's still mostly people from Texas, but I do see people from all of the world," he said.
Tourism booming according to Visit Pensacola study
That's good news for Steve Hayes, president of Visit Pensacola. Hayes' office promotes the Pensacola area and has increased its efforts to lure foreign visitors to the region.
The international market represents a very small part of the area's' total visitation right now, but there is a lot of potential for growth, said Hayes, who is promoting international tourism in part by inviting international tour company representatives to check out the area.
"We are being discovered by the international market. We are getting those international visitors who have been to Disney and maybe other places and Florida and want to see something new," he said.
Indoor sports facility could be on horizon
London-based Funway Holidays began including Pensacola in the its travel packages after company representatives visited the area.
Pensacola is quickly becoming a popular detestation for the company's clients, said Melissa Tilling, a company spokeswoman.
"The appeal is an enticing blend of history, which Brits love, fabulous beaches, which Brits love, and Southern hospitality," she said.
The company's customers often include Pensacola with New Orleans and other destinations in the South.
"Other destinations in Florida have bigger European arrivals, but the market is always seeking new opportunities," she said. "Over the last three years, we have seen strong growth in the Panhandle as customers are exploring the South."
Beach visitors encouraged to use SunPass to ease congestion
London-based Bon Voyage Travel also includes Pensacola in many of its travel packages, said Theresa Wilson, a spokeswoman for the company.
"One area that is particularly booming for us is the Deep South and we are finding more and more people want to combine that with a beach stay. Pensacola is our go-to beach," she said.
Wilson said the company has also noticed a trend of customers wanting to see different parts of Florida.
"People are still looking for guaranteed weather, so Florida is always on the list, but they've done Disney and Miami and are keen to explore areas like Pensacola."
Susan Teel, spokeswoman for Gulf Islands National Seashore, has noticed an increase in interest in the park from international travel writers and journalists. She said she has handled requests from journalists from England and other European countries.
Santa Rosa tourism shifts to shoulder season
"We don't really collect information about where visitors are from, but I have noticed more requests from international reporters in the last year. The fact that those reporters are wanting to do stories about the park, I think that shows an increase in interest from those areas," she said.
Hayes estimated international tourism represents less than 2 percent of overall visitation to the Pensacola area.
Many of the area's international visitors are from European countries, Hayes said. Canadians who winter in Pensacola are also a big part of the area's international market.
"We are not investing a lot of resources on international tourism, but we are being strategic and targeted about it," said Hayes, who said the efforts seem to be making a difference.
"What we've found is that international visitors stay longer and spend more money in the area and that is good thing."
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After uploading videos to Cloudinary, they can be manipulated in many ways.
The syntax for transforming and delivering videos is generally the same as that for images, and you can apply the majority of available image transformations to video as well. For example, you can resize, crop, rotate, set video quality and format or use auto quality and/or auto_format, add text or image overlays to your videos, and more.
There are also a number of special options you can use for transforming and delivering video content. For example, you can adjust their size, shape, speed, duration, quality, and appearance. There are also some features that are specific to audio.
This section introduces you to the basics of Node.js video streaming and manipulation.
For complete details on all video manipulation functionality, see Video manipulation and delivery and the Video transformation reference.
You can optionally specify all of the above transformations within a cloudinary.video method, which automatically generates an HTML5 video tag including the transformation URL sources for the main formats supported by web browsers (webm, mp4 and ogv), as well as a poster thumbnail image. This enables the browser to automatically select and play the video format it supports. The video files are created dynamically when first accessed by your users.
For details, see the video tag documentation and the HTML5 Video Player blog post.
This section provides examples of using Node.js to apply some of the video transformation features mentioned in the previous section.
The following example resizes the dog video to 40% of it's original size and rotates it by 20 degrees. It also adds a semi-transparent cloudinary logo in the bottom right corner, using a southeast gravity with adjusted x and y coordinates to reach the corner of the rotated video.
The following example adjusts the brightness of a skiing video, and sets its radius to max in order to give a telescope-like effect. It then appends a copy of the video in reverse, and the plays forward again, but in slow motion.
The following example generates a <video> tag for a video whose first 10 seconds will loop continuously in an HTML5 video player with default controls. The video is cropped to 360X480, using the pad cropping method, and it is generated at 70% quality to control file size.


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Cheryl lives with her partner Harry in Rye, where she is a Town Councillor and currently Vice Chair of the Council's Planning Committee.
Cheryl is also a member of the Rye Neighbourhood Plan Working Group (RNP), Human Resources and Heritage Centre Options Working Groups.
Jonathan has lived in Guestling with his wife Elaine for the past 11 years and has lived in the Hastings and Rye area for 35 years. Jonathan is a Retired Nurse and worked at the Conquest Hospital for 28 years.
As Secretary of UNISON Hastings & Eastbourne Healthcare Branch, he has supported staff and campaigned to protect the NHS services locally.
Elaine was born in Hastings and has lived in the area all her life. For the past 11 years she has made Guestling her home with her husband Jonathan.
Elaine is the Manager of Christians Against Poverty Life Skills courses in Hastings, and is a member of the Circuit Leadership Team for Hastings, Bexhill and Rye Methodist Churches.
Nick lives in Icklesham with his wife Kim, where he is a Parish Councillor and currently Chair of the Council's Planning Committee.
Nick is the Manager of Hastings Christians Against Poverty Debt Advice Centre, a Senior Street Pastor and an Elder at St Helens Anglican Church in Hastings.
Nick is also Secretary of The Icklesham Trust and Treasurer of the Icklesham Community Land Trust Ltd.
James is originally from South London and is proud to have made Rye his home for more than 25 years.
James is a retired builder and furniture maker.
James says "I will always fight against inequality in our country and it is really important that the villages of Brede, Broad Oak and Udimore get their voices heard at Rother District Council".
Beverley was born in Hastings and has lived in Sussex all her life. Her home is now in Sedlescombe with her husband James and 2 young children.
Beverley spent 15 years working in the education sector. Supporting young people into education and employment and was an Education manager for the local authority prior to giving up work to be a full time mum. Beverley is a member of the Sedlescombe School PTA.
Beverley says "As a local girl & mother of 2 young children, I want our community to be the best place for my family to grow up in".
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Bob is very interested in the environment and is a volunteer at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and other conservation organisations.
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Over the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to attend several events. The evens were both Trade shows and Expos. I define Trade Show somewhat differently than an Expo. An Expo tends to be cross industry and a Trade show tends to be more vertical in nature.
An Expo's value is typically the concentrated focus which is helpful, because you have experts in product delivery and service together to share industry best trends and practices. You know, stuff to help your grow and expand your business.
A cross industry perspective is the value of an Expo. Unlike a trade show, you have multiple industries instead of one that support, supply, work with and purchase from.
There was a security conference which talked about risk management and the state of uncertainty. An Expo which represented a cross section of business and industry in a market area. A Trade Show in technology service and support. Then off to another industry Trade Show and finally to a Business Development industry focused event.
The Business development event was by far the bestest. Okay "bestest" is not really a word, but the event, if you could call it that, was a conglomeration of medical people and up and coming businesses working in an accelerator to create new and innovative solutions to improve, streamline and create efficiencies that save organizations time, money and most of all lives.
At the end of the day, if you can succeed in business by helping others and increase the quality of lives, that is a pretty good achievement.
The Business Development event is somewhat of a cross mix between a Trade Show and Expo.
It was organized by government sponsored organization whose goal was to take existing businesses, put them together to nurture their growth and then place them in front of the medical community and business leaders to showcase what they developed, kind of like a graduation ceremony, and take feedback to grow further and present an opportunity to present and hopefully sell their solution to their industry.
What made this event great was the mix of people and business and the anticipation. Most of all was the atmosphere of community. That we are all working to address a growing challenge that transcends borders and cultures. Medical issues are foremost in all societies. Everyone gets older and at some point we want to improve the quality of our lives and those we love.
So, you might ask, what does this have to do with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions?
There are needs to have innovation, industry focus, and cross community collaboration. Any business needs support of others in their same industry to share challenges and find solutions. They need cross industry support to help them with their challenges, supply goods and services, and provide solutions.
Businesses also need incubator type of organizations to provide a fresh look, a new set of eyes, to develop new and innovative solutions to the challenges they face. These incubators or accelerators need funding, government support, and industry nurturing to be effective.
It takes much more than throwing money at a problem to find a solution. It also takes a leader with vision.
It also takes a community.
It takes questions, a lot of questions to find the answers to questions not yet asked. It takes a cross section of industry to observe and think of new ways to solve the challenges of business. All too often a closed industry of technologists keeps coming up with new ways to solve the same problem, which is not really a problem. Inventing a better mouse trap when a trap is not what is needed. Mice are not the issue after all.
I know of an ERP solution provider that takes the time to provide a user forum to educate their users and take their challenges to heart and create updates that address those challenges. New features are created to address their real-world struggles.
They are smart enough to know that if they want to be of value they need to provide value.
I have also seen screens and field prompts that were clearly written by technical people. The prompt asks a question in reverse. Instead of simply asking if a product in their catalog should be available on their Internet web site. A simple Yes/No question. They ask if the part should not be excluded. A reverse answered question. They should just ask if they want the item to appear. Instead they ask if the item should be excluded. So, to get the item listed, they have to answer "No".
Users should not have to figure out logic questions to get their work done. In the end most businesses just want their systems to work so that their people remain productive. Customer service needs to be knowledgeable about their products, availability and to serve their customers well. The other departments of business need to service the customer service department and those who directly face the customers. All employees, even those who sweep up the shop floor contribute to the ability of your organization to serve your customers.
A good solution is one that looks beyond itself to drive efficiency and collaboration in the Enterprise. Dolvin Consulting works with your team and industry experts to find solutions to your challenges. Contact us today to see how we can help. That is why we do what we do.


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Q: Google sheets add value to itself in same cell I cannot find this question anywhere online somehow. On google sheets, I'd like to add a number to itself as I am typing it in. That is if cell C1 has the value of 23, and I select C1 and type 13, the new value of C1 would be 36, the sum of the new and previous values.
Is there any way I could do this? I would've thought there was some "add" mode I could turn on to do this or some shortcut like typing in "++23" but nothing seems to work and I can't find any help online for a somewhat simple task.
Thanks in advance.

A: Assuming your sheet is 'mySheet' and the cell is C1, Try
function onEdit(event){
  var sh = event.source.getActiveSheet();
  var cel = event.source.getActiveRange();
  if (sh.getName()=='mySheet' && cel.getA1Notation()=='C1'){
    cel.setValue(1*(event.value)+1*(event.oldValue))
  }
}

explanation
Note that the event structure is as follows
var event = {
    "authMode": {object},
    "range": {
      "columnStart": int,
      "rowStart": int,
      "rowEnd": int,
      "columnEnd": int
    },
    "source": {Spreadsheet_object},
    "oldValue": "string",
    "user": {
      "nickname": "string",
      "email": "string"
    },
    "value": "string"
  };

So I use oldValue and value to obtain the expected result.

A: You could also use single incursive formulating
Go to your google sheet document
Go to file > Settings

Then go to the Calculation tab and enter the following settings.

*

*Recalculation - On Change

*Iterative Calculation - On

*Max number of iterations - 1

*Threshold - 0.05

Now you can reference cells to themselves, having a running total.

The Formula in the Running Total Cell
=IF(B2 = -1,0,B2 + A2)
If the VALUE is -1, reset to 0, if it isn't add its value to whatever value I am.
Be warned, if you leave a value in this cell and update the spreadsheet anywhere else, it will continue to add that same value in the running total. Because we set the recalculation setting to "On Change".


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// open and close the left panel
function openNav() {
    document.getElementById("mySidenav").style.width = "400px";
    document.getElementById("map").style.marginLeft = "400px";
}
function closeNav() {
    document.getElementById("mySidenav").style.width = "0";
    document.getElementById("map").style.marginLeft= "0";
}

// change attraction image while change the name of the attraction in the combo box
function attractNameChange(){
    document.getElementById("attracImage").innerHTML = combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].value;
    ClearMarkers(parkMarker);
}

// function for the show attraction button
// clear former show attraction marker on map, add new show attraction marker on map,
// and show all the detailed information of the attraction on the left panel
function ShowAttraction() {
    if (showMarker !== null){
        ClearMarkers(showMarker);
    }

    document.getElementById("attracName").innerHTML = combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].text;
    document.getElementById("attracDescrip").innerHTML = combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].descript;
    document.getElementById("attracWeb").innerHTML = combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].website;

    placeShowMarker(combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].latitude, combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].longitude);

}

// show marker on the map, connecting with the show attraction button.
function placeShowMarker(Lat, Lng) {
    var img ={
        url:"http://www.myiconfinder.com/uploads/iconsets/256-256-56165014858e6dbadaf3ba00d782f125.png",
        scaledSize: new google.maps.Size(50,50)
    };
    var markerOptions = {
        position: new google.maps.LatLng(Lat, Lng),
        map:map,
        animation: google.maps.Animation.DROP,
        icon: img
    };
    var marker = new google.maps.Marker(markerOptions);
    showMarker.push(marker);
}

// function for the add attraction button
// clear former show attraction marker on map
// and add the chosen attraction to the trip plan
function AddAttraction() {
    if (showMarker !== null){
        ClearMarkers(showMarker);
    }

    document.getElementById("attracName").innerHTML = combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].text;
    document.getElementById("attracDescrip").innerHTML = combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].descript;
    document.getElementById("attracWeb").innerHTML = combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].website;

    placeAddMarker(combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].latitude, combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].longitude);
    trip.push(combo.options[combo.selectedIndex].text);

}

// show marker on the map, connecting with the add attraction button.
function placeAddMarker(Lat, Lng) {
    var img ={
        url:"https://cdn0.iconfinder.com/data/icons/material-design-flat/24/location-512.png",
        scaledSize: new google.maps.Size(50,50)
    };
    var markerOptions = {
        position: new google.maps.LatLng(Lat, Lng),
        map:map,
        animation: google.maps.Animation.DROP,
        icon:img
    };
    var marker = new google.maps.Marker(markerOptions);
    attracMarker.push(marker);
}

// function for the clear markers button
function ClearMarkers(markerArray) {

    for (var i = 0; i < markerArray.length; i++){
        markerArray[i].setMap(null);
    }
    markerArray.length=0;

    document.getElementById("attracName").innerHTML = null;
    document.getElementById("attracDescrip").innerHTML = null;
    document.getElementById("attracWeb").innerHTML = null;
}


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Q: JTable always using fixed size I have a JTable which has scroll pane. Scroll pane is added to JTabbedPane. JTabbedPane is added to JPanel which is in JFrame.
Problem is JTable should occupy entire space width but JTable always places in center and other components gets added to its right. If I make JTable occupy entire width by using     table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(table.getPreferredSize());
scrollbar is not visible. How to make JTable occupy entire space and other components getting added to its bottom?

A:
If I make JTable occupy entire width by using
  table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(table.getPreferredSize());

This is for JTable with a few, fixed rows and columns, or in the case that on apps startup is there intialized JTable with fixed number of rows and columns.

How to make JTable occupy entire space and other components getting
  added to its bottom?

and your comment

Using Grid Layout videopanel.setLayout( new GridLayout(1,1));

*

*change GridLayout to BorderLayout (by assuming that there is JPanel placed in Tab)

*put JScrollPane (contains JTable) to the BorderLayout.CENTER area

*put other JComponents to separate JPanel, this JPanel (contains other JComponents) put to the BorderLayout.SOUTH area.

A: Which layout are you using to place component on JPanel.
please have a look into the following URL
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/table.html


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Chainalysis Raises $170M at $8.6B Valuation
Chainalysis raised $170 million in a Series F funding round led by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC that doubles the company's valuation to $8.6 billion since June of last year, according to multiple media reports on Wednesday (May 11).
Launched in 2014 and headquartered in New York, Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks and businesses worldwide to help them discover and stop cybercrime and money laundering.
The startup, founded by Chief Technology Officer Jan Moller, Chief Strategy Officer Jonathan Levin and CEO Michael Gronager, has over 600 employees and operates in more than 70 countries. The funding news was first reported by The Information, citing unnamed sources with insider details.
See also: Blockchain, Digital Currencies Meeting Need for Financial Innovation
"Nobody knows how cryptocurrency will evolve in 2022, but one thing remains clear, it's here to stay," Levin wrote in the recent PYMNTS eBook, "Endemic Economics: 32 Payments Execs on the 'Next Normal' That Never Happened."
Chainalysis has raised more than $536 million to date, including a $100 million Series E in June 2021 led by Coatue. The company also raised $100 million in a Series D funding round in March 2021.
"The future of finance and national security will be based on blockchain data-driven decisions. We've harnessed the transparency of blockchains to provide actionable insights into markets, threats, and business opportunities," Gronager said at the time of its Series E.
The startup has been backed by Accel, Addition, Benchmark, Coatue, Paradigm, Ribbit and other venture capital firms.
Read more: Complying with Crypto Sanctions and AML Regulations Is Complex, But Not Impossible
Andrew Fierman, head of sanctions strategy at Chainalysis, recently told PYMNTS that crypto is actually more transparent than a lot of companies and individuals realize, although the scrutiny and compliance regulation debate would make many think otherwise.
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This is not a bug. Any player kicked during conquest will not get the reward, even if you invite him back before conquest ends.
If the player "fallen angel20" did not log in during the time between the end of the conquest and the moment he was kicked from the alliance he would also not receive any rewards. Therefore do you know whether "fallen angel20" did log in after the conquest end and before he got kicked from the alliance?
Sorry to hear that. No, this is not written somewhere, this is an edge case. But I will add it to the Conquest overview thread in the Faq section.
Thanks for making us aware. I will forward the feedback to the developers.


This page displays sold house prices for Sandling Lane in Maidstone.
Sandling Lane in Penenden Heath, Maidstone consists mainly of semi-detached houses and flats. Properties on Sandling Lane typically have values around £250,000 - £300,000, but larger detached houses can command upwards of £400,000.
Map showing Sandling Lane in Maidstone.


With high quality wax containing Tea Tree essential oil and disposable treatment heads to eliminate the risk of cross contamination associated with traditional waxing methods, highly recommends this method for large area (legs, back and arms).
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Due to the influx of emails that I have been receiving concerning dreams of things, places and people of the past, such as dreaming of your former school, your childhood home, a previous job, old apartment, etc.
Such dreams are indicators that the spirits of setback and delay have been released against you in the realm of the spirit. However, the flip side to such dreams is even more interesting in that when you experience such dream, it is a clear understanding and a heads up that a breakthrough, miracle, positive change, etc. is pending.
If you are experiencing such dreams, you must begin waging war via prayer against the spirits of delay and setback that's working overtime to interrupt what God has set aside just for you. I have counsel with many folks who were frustrated with their Christian walk in that every time something was about to come through for them everything would just fall apart. I, in turn, would ask them, "Have you been experiencing dreams where you saw yourself in your former primary or high school uniforms or attending your former schools including college, what about dreams where you always find yourself at your parents home or grandparents home even though you don't live there anymore." Some of the more evident signs are being together with your ex-husband/wife or even former relationship.
Well, 9 out of 10 times the answer would be yes! You see my friend, anything or anyone in a dream that is taking you back to areas of life that you've either already accomplished, or you're done with, symbolizes spiritual delay and setback, attempting to hijack the victim's spiritual blessings that are pending release in an attempt to prevent physical manifestation.
Scripture reminds us that there is a time and season for every purpose under the sun, Eccl. 3:1. Your spiritual blessings that have been assigned to your life before the foundation of the world according to Ephesians 1:3-4 and are released according to the law of Eccl 3:1. Satan, in his attempt to make sure you never connect with those appointed times, again, releases his spirits of delay and setback to hinder your progress and elevation.
This will explain why carbon copies always show up in your life to delay you from connecting with God's original for your life. This is typical behavior just when things are on the verge of turning for you. Carbon copies (the wrong people, places, and things) are intended to delay you from what was designed to advance you…..Glory to God I am feeling this one tonight!!!!!!
Please, whoever you are maybe reading this post tonight, this is not an accident or by chance that God has inspired you to read this post. I strongly advise you to take a critical review of your dreams in search of the signs I have mentioned above and began to wage war on these stealth spirits that secretly invade our lives via our ignorance of their signs and intent.
I will repeat it; scripture did not say the people of God are destroyed because of fornication, adultery, lying, cheating or whatever else we categorize as sin. Instead, it plainly said that it was as a result of a LACK OF KNOWLEDGE!
Begin fighting now, and I mean right now in prayer targeting the spirit of delay and setback with the word of God. Speak, Proverbs 6:30-31, Joel 2:25, Psalm 115:14 and many other scriptures and at the same time asking God to reroute you to your divine time, seasons and appointments all to collide with your appointed physical manifested spiritual blessings.


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Management Information System (MIS) Specialist -Re-advertisement
Somalia Country Office
Somalia is amid major new political and security developments that will offer a greater possibility for peace and security than the country has seen in over 20 years. The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), established in 2012, and the international community have driven a process of rebuilding of functioning government institutions and processes through Somalia's peacebuilding and state-building priorities under the Somali Compact (2013-2016), based on the Busan "New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States" agreement. The Somalia National Development Plan (2017-2019), builds on this foundation laid by the Compact and sets the priorities for national recovery and development in full collaboration with national and regional governments. A landmark electoral process in late 2016 and early 2017 resulted in a peaceful transfer of power to a new President and government, in place since February and March 2017 respectively. The government has set out an ambitious agenda for its term (the period to 2021). At the London Somalia Conference in May 2017, a Security Pact was agreed by Somalia and the international community, which will allow for sustainable, long-term security based on mutual accountability.
The functional objective of UNOPS in Somalia is to deliver projects in an efficient and effective manner, to achieve the development outcomes sought by the Government of Somalia and the donor community. The aim of UNOPS in Somalia is to provide implementation services to the Government of Somalia, the donor community, and partner agencies in the reconstruction and development of the country. In doing so, UNOPS aims to exceed client expectations in the delivery of quality services throughout the country.
Job Specific
The MIS Specialist will provide coordination support to the project and will report to the Head of Programme. She/he will proactively coordinate and liaise with relevant government stakeholders and working group focal points on all biometric registration-related matters, specifically pertaining to enhancing the efficiency on the side of UNHRS19. The MIS Specialist will also work closely with all projects requiring support on the use of systems such as UNHRS19 or other biometric registration and verification activities.**
Purpose and Scope of Assignment :
The purpose of the MIS Specialist role is to:
Develop and implement all sorts of Project Management Information Systems as per the project's requirements.
Maintain contact with field teams to ensure the timely flow of the project data.
Measure progress according to monthly timelines, identifying gaps in delivery, proposing solutions in collaboration with the relevant Project Managers.
Troubleshoot & solve problems when roadblocks are encountered at the field level to ensure the delivery of quality information.
Manage gathering of impact, effect & human interest data from the field, ensure accuracy and quality assure of information;
Engage in the strategic examination of organizational engagement in Somalia, development revision & monitoring of the strategic plan.
Ensure linkages to policy, strategy, crosscutting issues & synergies between regional initiatives.
Assist the PMs in the development of regional, personal & thematic plans to achieve stated goals & objectives, including developing background & contextual components of work plans.
The MIS Specialist will be expected to manage the duties of the Biometric Registration Mentors and to work in close collaboration with the counterpart staff in the police and military under the general supervision of the UNOPS Head of Programme.
Support the day-to-day performance and outputs of the biometric system that will ultimately enable efficient and effective disbursement of military and police stipends.
Manage all systems related functions of the biometric registration system, including regular maintenance and upgrades to the system.
Ensure timely synchronization of biometric registration and verification kits with the database.
Undertake full responsibility of all biometric devices, including registration/verification kits and other biometric devices.
Responsible for asset management of all biometric and ICT devices and machineries.
Build the capacity of the national counterpart so that they are able to use the HRS system and all hardware and establish the sustainability and future improvement of the systems and databases.
Conduct necessary training to staff in the management of the systems and databases as related to their work performances and outputs.
Lead, coach, and mentor the biometric registration and mentoring teams.
Provide the system with user manuals, including the development of forms and reports.
Work closely with the FGS and FMS military and police and provide support, updates, and reports when required. This will require regular field missions to all the Federal Member States in Somalia.
Perform other duties as and when required.
Impact of results
The MIS Specialist has a major role that directly affects the ability of the FGS and FMS (military and police) to effectively and efficiently disburse stipend payments in a timely fashion, which will have a direct impact of the delivery of safety and security services to the broader Somalia.
Master's Degree in Management of Information System, Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other relevant disciplines is required.
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other relevant disciplines with a combination of two (2) additional years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advance university degree.
Software Engineering Certificate with extensive years of MIS experience may be accepted in lieu of the education requirements outlined.
A minimum of five (5) years' relevant work experience in the development of Project Management Information Systems in Dot Net Framework that includes systems for Contract Management, Procurement, Asset Management Human Resource Management in desktop solutions, and web applications is required.
Experience in the implementation of Biometric identity systems and Installing and Supporting Network segments for both LAN & WAN is an asset.
Knowledge of ISO 27001 security standard and its implementation is an advantage
Expertise in 24/7 availability to support hosted services in multiple client's data centers.
Knowledge of Administration of Databases using Microsoft SQL Server is an asset
Experience in Key roles in DATA Center Services including SAN, Redundancy, Clusters load balancing, and failover. Antivirus, malware Security system, deployment, and management in networks is desirable
Strong knowledge and proficiency in Dot Net environment and SQL server databases including programming languages like C#, VB.NET, Javascript, JQuery, Ajax is an advantage.
Database management including timely back-ups and sync of data is desirable
Experience of working with Government, United Nations, or aid agencies in conflict and/or post-conflict situations is desired.
Language Requirement:
Fluency in written and spoken English Language is required.
Qualified and potential candidates should apply using this Vacancy Announcement Link:
https://jobs.unops.org/pages/viewvacancy/VADetails.aspx?id=20213
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