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Doxo Makes It Safe, Secure, and Simple to Pay All of Your Bills from a Single Account
By: Ashley Dull
In a Nutshell: Payment platform doxo provides secure solutions aimed at simplifying the bill-paying process for parties on both sides of the transaction — billers, as well as their customers. Acting as a secure intermediary that facilitates payments between biller and consumer, doxo allows users to pay all their bills from one account with a single login. Billers partnered with doxo can take advantage of real-time payment tracking, free ACH, and the opportunity to build their own billing network among the growing total of more than 4 million consumers who currently use doxo to pay their bills. //
If you feel like there's almost always a bill you're forgetting to pay, you may be right. According to Jim Kreyenhagen, VP of Marketing for doxo, half of all income spent in the US on an annualized basis goes toward paying bills — that's $3.9 trillion annually — with the average American household paying 10 bills per month.
Although there's probably nothing that can make paying bills fun, doxo offers a solution that makes the process significantly safer — not to mention 10 times simpler than logging into 10 different accounts every month to pay 10 bills.
By serving as a platform that allows customers to pay all of their bills with a single, secure login, doxo removes the stress of making monthly bill payments and facilitates a faster and more secure process for all parties involved.
We spoke with Kreyenhagen about the biller industry in the United States, how doxo works, and what's on the horizon for the company as it grows its network of 50,000 billers and 4 million customers.
Bills, Bills, Bills: The Biller Market Breakdown in the US
With a growing collection of 50,000 participating billing companies in its network, doxo currently boasts the largest directory of billers available to make payments to using its platform. The company estimates it has roughly 250,000 billers nationwide — a collection that ranges from big-name billing behemoths to small-town utility service providers, Kreyenhagen said.
Jim Kreyenhagen, VP of Marketing for doxo.
In the utilities sector, for example, even rural utility services with a customer base as small as 5,000 are using doxo's billing platform. The same is true with other services that need paying, like electric, waste, and gas.
"And then when you add these really fragmented markets, like your homeowners' associations or the rent you might pay, you really expand rapidly," said Kreyenhagen.
More than 4 million people currently use doxo to pay their bills. The company's goal, Kreyenhagen said, is to map out and connect with all 250,000 billing companies across the country, thus creating a more secure and efficient network for its users.
Consumers Receive the Benefits of doxo-Powered Security
The personal information we provide in billing transactions is not information we would readily share via vulnerable pathways. It isn't easy to keep this info secure when making payments across multiple platforms.
The typical household pays an average of 10 bills on 10 websites, Kreyenhagen said, and often, users will have the same username and password to track those 10 websites. "We're all told not to do that, but we know consumers do it a lot. They're already putting themselves at risk by not using best practices when they're signing up accounts," Kreyenhagen explained.
"A local water company or gas company or your local township that is trying to get you to pay online is not necessarily going to be able to afford or manage best practices around user data or security," he added.
Doxo provides an opportunity for consumers to consolidate their bill payments into a single account — acting as the digital age version of a fireproof filing cabinet with a sturdy padlock.
"We feel, philosophically, that the best solution is going to be one that, for a consumer, is centralized on single service," Kreyenhagen said. "A single service that's well-funded and big is naturally going to have the best security."
Doxo fits that category by investing in its security platforms, being PCI compliant, and adhering to the standard regulations and best practices required for a high-volume payer of bills. "We take protecting consumers data very seriously," Kreyenhagen said.
Biller Partnerships and doxoPLUS Subscription Service Help Consumers Cut Fees
Billers who join doxo receive free ACH transfers, which can result in reduced payment processing fees for the consumer who uses their bank account to pay bills.
More than 50,000 companies are available to receive bill payments through the doxo platform.
"Billers can choose to pay all of their customers' fees for them — and as an added benefit, they can also cover the cost associated with that customer if they pay other bills," Kreyenhagen said, citing a doxo-partnered West Virginia gas provider as an example.
"Mountaineer Gas uses doxo to do all of their electronic billing and payments, which means their customers can pay their other bills — and not just Mountaineer Gas — through bank transfers without incurring any type of fees," Kreyenhagen explained.
Consumers who don't have access to waived-fee bill payments through billers like Mountaineer Gas have the option to take advantage of doxo's new subscription service, doxoPLUS.
"If you think about trying to pay eight to 10 bills: if the fee of those eight to 10 bills is, let's say, $3 each — that adds up monthly. Paying $30 a month in fees is expensive. We recognize that for consumers who do want to consolidate their bills under a single account, it would be great if they had an umbrella subscription service with a single flat fee," said Kreyenhagen. "We started a service called doxoPLUS, where for a fee of $4.99 a month, they're able to pay all of their bills under that subscription. Currently, doxoPLUS is being offered only to a subset of users as a test, but doxo has plans on expanding the offering to all users later this year."
Multi-Payment Accessibility: Mobile Bill Pay, Coinstar Partnership on the doxo Horizon
As doxo focuses on growing its biller network, the company will also continue to expand its range of payment and accessibility options for consumers. The company already strives to set itself apart by allowing its customers to use a credit card for their bill payments.
"If you look at the average family household with $59,000 in annual income and $500 in savings, sometimes they need to put their bills on their credit card," said Kreyenhagen, adding that the company accepts any type of card, including debit cards, and credit cards, as well as paying directly from a bank account.
In 2018, doxo will expand its mobile app to include all of its services for smartphone and tablet users. The company also recently announced a partnership with Coinstar, which will allow users to pay their bills using cash at Coinstar kiosks.
"We put that control in the consumer's hands," Kreyenhagen said.
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Despite being perhaps the oldest text in the canon, the book of Job contains many detailed, even scientific, insights into the extraordinary creative and sustaining power of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Many of these are things humanity did not really understand until recent centuries.
In His speech to Job, God tells of setting limits on the seas (Job 38:8-11), and included with that are the tides, which are affected by the orbit and phases of the moon. People have been able to grasp what is happening to a degree and can create simple models of the forces and effects, but can in no way truly replicate what God has done.
He portrays light and darkness as having dwelling places where each belong (Job 38:19-20), a description that, with what men have discovered, makes little sense to us. But because He created them, He looks at light and dark from an entirely different vantage point. He speaks of treasuries of snow and hail, rather than precipitation that happens in the right atmospheric conditions (Job 38:22). He declares that He determines the path of lightning bolts (Job 38:25).
He relates how the constellations are all under His command, and He moves them at will (Job 38:31-32). He rhetorically asks, "Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule over the earth?" (Job 38:33). Obviously, we cannot, but He understands how the heavenly bodies influence the earth in terms of its orbit, climate, tides, tectonic plates, and any number of other aspects. We have nowhere near the computing capacity even to begin to keep track of all the variables. Yet, He not only knows all these things, but is also sustaining and guiding all the complex equations and forces simultaneously, without any error.
As if the macro view of things were not enough, He then discusses what He does for the individual parts of the creation on earth. Though not stated directly, we can infer from His words that He hunts the prey for the lions (Job 38:39-40), part of His work of sustaining. He provides for the young ravens when they cry out to their Creator (Job 38:41). We do not normally think of the animals doing that, but He describes it in this way. He knows when each mountain goat is about to be born and when each doe is about to give birth (Job 39:1-4). He describes the uniqueness of the donkey, the ostrich, the horse, the hawk, and the eagle—the strengths and characteristics that He gave each one, as well as those He purposefully left out (Job 39:5-30).
The book of Job does not even mention the human body, the pinnacle of God's physical creation, except perhaps in Job's affliction. However, anyone who has researched into the human body or how to keep it healthy appreciates how intricate its organs and systems are and how a proper equilibrium is required to keep everything running smoothly. The variables and interdependencies are so complex that the more we discover, the more we are in awe of the genius behind it—and the more we realize we do not understand.
Perhaps David said it best in describing himself as "fearfully and wonderfully made" (Psalm 139:14). Yet, he also asked His Creator, "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?" (Psalm 8:4; see also Psalm 144:4). The best and highest creation on earth is still not worthy of contemplation by this Being—except that the Creator loves His creation. He takes a keen and deliberate interest in us, and that is why we have not destroyed ourselves. He is sustaining His creation and moving it toward a magnificent goal.
The Bible contains many more scriptures and examples from the natural world of God's creative prowess, but this should suffice to remind us of the awesome intellect and limitless ability of this Being in whom "we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28).
Notice how definitive and absolute the terms are here. Jesus Christ is the firstborn, the One who holds preeminence over all creation. He created all things, including every seat of authority, whether angelic or human. As mentioned in Hebrews 1, all things were created through Him and for Him because He is the heir of all things. He existed before everything else, and in Him all things consist. In Him or by Him, everything is held together, which harkens back to Hebrews 1 and the fact that He is maintaining, guiding, sustaining, and propelling all things.
With all this in mind, consider the next verse, Colossians 1:18, which shows a specific area that our omnipotent Creator is intently focused on: "And He is the head of the body, the church. . . ."
As the apostle John writes, "In the beginning was the Word" (John 1:1), who is our Creator (verse 3). The Word, the Creator of the physical realm, took on flesh (verse 14), becoming a living sacrifice as an example, then a substitutionary sacrifice, which cost Him His life. He was resurrected by the Father, and from heaven, He poured out His Spirit on those He called, creating the church age. He once again has the glory He held before, and He is using that same proven, overwhelming intellect and skill in sustaining, guiding, and propelling the spiritual creation of His brothers and sisters. He is in the process of creating the age when we will join Him in His glory. He is still revealing Himself to us as Creator, but He has given us the eyes to see some of His spiritual creation as it takes place.
More on this in Part Three.


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The Fellowship of the Ring; A meek hobbit of the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring and the dark lord Sauron. The Two Towers: While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard. The Return of the King: Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. Peter Jackson directs these action adventure movies starring Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchet and more. This special edition of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy includes extended edition of the movies on 15 Blu-Ray discs.
As the triumphant start of a trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring leaves you begging for more. By necessity, Peter Jackson's ambitious epic compresses J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Lord of the Rings, but this robust adaptation maintains reverent allegiance to Tolkien's creation, instantly qualifying as one of the greatest fantasy films ever made. At 178 minutes, it's long enough to establish the myriad inhabitants of Middle-earth, the legendary Rings of Power, and the fellowship of hobbits, elves, dwarves, and humans--led by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and the brave hobbit Frodo (Elijah Wood)--who must battle terrifying forces of evil on their perilous journey to destroy the One Ring in the land of Mordor. Superbly paced, the film is both epic and intimate, offering astonishing special effects and production design while emphasizing the emotional intensity of Frodo's adventure, and ends on a perfect note of heroic loyalty and rich anticipation.
After the breaking of the Fellowship, Frodo and Sam journey to Mordor with the creature Gollum as their guide in The Two Towers. Meanwhile, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) join in the defense of the people of Rohan, who are the first target in the eradication of the race of Men by the renegade wizard Saruman (Christopher Lee) and the dark lord Sauron. Fantastic creatures, astounding visual effects, and a climactic battle at the fortress of Helm's Deep make The Two Towers a worthy successor to The Fellowship of the Ring, grander in scale but retaining the story's emotional intimacy.
The extended editions of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings present the greatest trilogy in film history in the most ambitious sets in DVD history. In bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's nearly unfilmable work to the screen, Jackson benefited from extraordinary special effects, evocative New Zealand locales, and an exceptionally well-chosen cast, but most of all from his own adaptation with co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, preserving Tolkien's vision and often his very words, but also making logical changes to accommodate the medium of film. While purists complained about these changes and about characters and scenes left out of the films, the almost two additional hours of material in the extended editions (about 11 hours total) help appease them by delving more deeply into Tolkien's music, the characters, and loose ends that enrich the story, such as an explanation of the Faramir-Denethor relationship, and the appearance of the Mouth of Sauron at the gates of Mordor. In addition, the extended editions offer more bridge material between the films, further confirming that the trilogy is really one long film presented in three pieces (which is why it's the greatest trilogy ever--there's no weak link). The scene of Galadriel's gifts to the Fellowship added to the first film proves significant over the course of the story, while the new Faramir scene at the end of the second film helps set up the third and the new Saruman scene at the beginning of the third film helps conclude the plot of the second.


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Julian Ignacy Nowak (ur. 10 marca 1865 w Okocimiu, zm. 7 listopada 1946 w Krakowie) – polski polityk, premier, lekarz i lekarz weterynarii, mikrobiolog, założyciel Unii Narodowo-Państwowej w 1922 roku, zastępca członka Wydziału Stronnictwa Prawicy Narodowej w 1910 roku.

Życiorys
Julian Ignacy Nowak urodził się 10 marca 1865 r. w Okocimiu, pow. brzeskim, w Galicji, w Cesarstwie Austriackim. Rodzicami Juliana byli: Kazimierz (zm. 1922), właściciel gospodarstwa rolnego o powierzchni kilkudziesięciu morgów, które odziedziczył po swoim ojcu Macieju. Matką natomiast była Teodozja z domu Siewakowska (1838–1914). Pochodziła ona z drobnoziemiańskiej rodziny, która wywodziła się z Królestwa Kongresowego, lecz Teodozja urodziła się w Małopolsce. Julian był najstarszym z dziesięciorga dzieci Kazimierza i Teodozji.

W latach 1886–1893 studiował medycynę na UJ, uzyskując tytuł doktora. W 1896 uzyskał habilitację z anatomii patologicznej. Od 1899 piastował stanowisko profesora nadzwyczajnego Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, a od 1906 profesora zwyczajnego. W 1912 uzyskał doktorat z medycyny weterynaryjnej na Akademii Medycyny Weterynaryjnej we Lwowie. W latach 1911–1912 był dziekanem Wydziału Lekarskiego, a w latach 1921–1922 był rektorem UJ.

Działał w stowarzyszeniach zawodowych. Był prezesem krakowskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego. Przyczynił się do budowy siedziby Towarzystwa – Domu Lekarskiego. Od 1931 był członkiem PAU.

W 1905 wszedł z listy "Czasu" do Rady Miejskiej Krakowa, w której pozostawał do 1935. Od 9 do 22 listopada 1914 pełnił funkcję komisarza rządowego dla Krakowa, a od grudnia 1914 do 1916 roku był pierwszym zastępcą prezydenta miasta Krakowa. Od 1903 działał w Krakowskim Towarzystwie Rolniczym, którego w latach 1921–1927 był wiceprezesem. Zastępca kierownika Oddziału Dochodowego Departamentu Skarbowego Sekcji Zachodniej Naczelnego Komitetu Narodowego w 1914 roku. Był członkiem Stronnictwa Prawicy Narodowej.

W 1922 (od 31 lipca do 14 grudnia) był premierem pozaparlamentarnego gabinetu, a także od 31 lipca do 21 sierpnia tegoż roku ministrem Wyznań Religijnych i Oświecenia Publicznego. Sympatyzował z PSL "Piast" (nie zrywając jednocześnie kontaktów z konserwatystami krakowskimi), które w latach 1922–1927 reprezentował w Senacie RP. Zasiadał w senackiej komisji ds. Oświaty i Kultury.

Jako naukowiec zajmował się badaniem organizmów i chorób zakaźnych. Wydał m.in. "Atlas Mikrobiologiczny" (był autorem ponad 50 publikacji).

Miał dwie córki Wandę i Krystynę.

Został pochowany na Cmentarzu Rakowickim, w pasie 15, płn.

Ordery i odznaczenia
Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (11 listopada 1936)
Order Korony Żelaznej III klasy (1914, Austro-Węgry)

Upamiętnienie
Tablicę poświęconą pamięci tego wybitnego naukowca odsłonięto 28 marca 2016 przy ul. Czystej 18 w Krakowie. Wmurowano ją w ścianę kamienicy, w której 100 lat temu z inicjatywy prof. Juliana Nowaka otwarto Instytut Weterynarii i Medycyny Doświadczalnej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oraz Zakład Produkcji Surowic i Szczepionek Weterynaryjnych. Fundatorem tablicy jest Stowarzyszenie Miłośników Ziemi Okocimskiej.

Julian Nowak w filmie
Julian Nowak to jeden z głównych bohaterów filmu Śmierć prezydenta w reżyserii Jerzego Kawalerowicza. Jego rolę grał Czesław Byszewski.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 "Kto był kim w II Rzeczypospolitej", pod red. prof. Jacka. M. Majchrowskiego. Warszawa 1994.
 "Poczet sołtysów, wójtów, burmistrzów i prezydentów Krakowa" Kraków 2010 s. 791

Linki zewnętrzne
 Portret Juliana Nowaka autorstwa Stanisława Wyspiańskiego z 1904 [dostęp 2014-01-09]
Publikacje Juliana Nowaka w serwisie Polona

Absolwenci Akademii Medycyny Weterynaryjnej we Lwowie
Absolwenci i studenci Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego (okres zaborów)
Członkowie Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności
Politycy Stronnictwa Prawicy Narodowej
Polscy lekarze weterynarii
Ministrowie II Rzeczypospolitej
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Komandorskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (II Rzeczpospolita)
Pochowani na Cmentarzu Rakowickim w Krakowie
Polscy mikrobiolodzy
Ministrowie wyznań religijnych i oświecenia publicznego
Politycy Unii Narodowo-Państwowej
Premierzy II Rzeczypospolitej
Rektorzy Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Senatorowie I kadencji (1922–1927)
Radni Krakowa (zabór austriacki)
Radni Krakowa (II Rzeczpospolita)
Urodzeni w 1865
Urzędnicy Naczelnego Komitetu Narodowego (sekcja zachodnia)
Zmarli w 1946
Biografie kanonu polskiej Wikipedii
Ludzie urodzeni w Okocimiu

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Степа́нова — женская форма русской фамилии , также топоним.

 Известные носительницы

 Степанова, Ангелина Иосифовна (1905—2000) — советская актриса.
 Степанова, Анна Матвеевна (1816—1838) — русская актриса и певица.
 Степанова, Антонина Яковлевна (1927—2019) — советский и российский художник по стеклу.
 Степанова, Варвара Фёдоровна (1894—1958) — советская художница-авангардистка, представительница конструктивизма, дизайнер и поэт.
 Степанова, Вероника Сергеевна (род. 2001) — российская лыжница.
 Степанова, Галина Николаевна (Прозуменщикова; 1948—2015) — советская пловчиха.
 Степанова, Евгения Акимовна (1900—1988) — советский историк.

 Степанова, Епистиния Фёдоровна (1882—1969) — «Мать-героиня».
 Степанова, Зоя Михайловна (род. 1953) — российский политик, депутат Государственной Думы.
 Степанова, Зоя Петровна (1928—2017) — советская актриса театра и кино.

 Степанова, Кира Валерьевна (род. 1993) — российская гребчиха-байдарочница.
 Степанова, Лариса Петровна (псевдоним Лариса Катаева; род. 1947) — советский и российский поэт и эссеист, журналист, редактор.
 Степанова, Лидия Ильинична (1899—1962) — советский режиссёр документального кино.
 Степанова, Любовь Александровна (род. 1966) — российский тренер по скалолазанию.
 Степанова, Марина Ивановна (род. 1950) — советская легкоатлетка.

 Степанова, Ольга Николаевна (Ольгина; 1867—1925) — русская оперная певица.
 Степанова, Раиса Николаевна (1950—2008) — советская легкоатлетка.
 Степанова, Розалия Михайловна (род. 1934) — русскоязычная эссеистка и писательница.
 Степанова, Светлана Степановна — российский искусствовед.

Топоним
 Степанова — деревня в Кудымкарском районе Пермского края. См. также
 Степанова памятка

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Q: Customize Nexus UI using a Docker container is there a way to customize the Nexus UI Nexus UI? I need to add some links to the imprint page of our organisation... I am using the docker-nexus3 image and I am trying to find the location of the frontend's *.html or *.js files there... However, I am not able to find them anywhere.
I've manually searched for the file and also used the "find" and "grep" command inside the container, e.g.
find / -name *.js
find / -name *.html

and
find / -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H "label-1154"

Thanks!

A: I strongly discourage you to continue on that path. You won't find any of those js/html files as the only ones that do exist will be dynamically generated by the java application in a tmp directory when it starts and will be trashed on each reboot.
Nexus has a branding capability that you can enable in Administration > System > Capabilities. Once done, you can click on it, then on the settings tab where you can enter content for a header and a footer. Both field accept html content.
Note that this capability used to be available for the OpenSource Version but is now reserved to the Pro version. Meanwhile, I still have it enabled on all my open source instance and the groovy script we use to automate this does not seem to fire any errors.
If you are interested in automating this, here is the groovy script to register in Nexus that you can find in an ansible role we use to install nexus (disclaimer: I'm the author).
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
import org.sonatype.nexus.capability.CapabilityReference
import org.sonatype.nexus.capability.CapabilityType
import org.sonatype.nexus.internal.capability.DefaultCapabilityReference
import org.sonatype.nexus.internal.capability.DefaultCapabilityRegistry

parsed_args = new JsonSlurper().parseText(args)

parsed_args.capability_properties['headerEnabled'] = parsed_args.capability_properties['headerEnabled'].toString()
parsed_args.capability_properties['footerEnabled'] = parsed_args.capability_properties['footerEnabled'].toString()

def capabilityRegistry = container.lookup(DefaultCapabilityRegistry.class.getName())
def capabilityType = CapabilityType.capabilityType(parsed_args.capability_typeId)

DefaultCapabilityReference existing = capabilityRegistry.all.find { CapabilityReference capabilityReference ->
    capabilityReference.context().descriptor().type() == capabilityType
}

if (existing) {
    log.info(parsed_args.typeId + ' capability updated to: {}',
            capabilityRegistry.update(existing.id(), Boolean.valueOf(parsed_args.get('capability_enabled', true)), existing.notes(), parsed_args.capability_properties).toString()
    )
}
else {
    log.info(parsed_args.typeId + ' capability created as: {}', capabilityRegistry.
            add(capabilityType, Boolean.valueOf(parsed_args.get('capability_enabled', true)), 'configured through api', parsed_args.capability_properties).toString()
    )
}

To enable branding with some content, here is an example json payload the script is expecting:
{
    "capability_typeId": "rapture.branding",
    "capability_enabled": true,
    "capability_properties": {
        "footerHtml": "Your footer content",
        "headerHtml": "Your header content",
        "footerEnabled": true,
        "headerEnabled": true
}

With some extra work, it is possible to add the script and the configure payload to the image, then create an entry point script which will configure nexus with your defaults if not already initialized (on the same idea you can find in the official mysql or postgres images for example).
The global workflow is:

*

*Check if data directory is empty else start nexus normally

*If empty set var to allow scripts in nexus

*Start nexus for provisioning only

*Capture generated admin password on disk

*copy the script through Nexus API

*call the script with the relevant payload

*optionally remove the script through API

*optionally disable scripting

*Restart nexus normally

I have applied the above recipe to an image build we use on production which basically does the same thing but with much more scripts and a lot more data to pre-provision the instance (users, repositories, roles, permissions, content selectors....) if it starts from scratch. I unfortunately cannot share that entire work as is but below is a stripped down (not tested) version of the entrypoint for an example. Hope it can help.
entrypoint.sh
#!/usr/bin/bash
set -e

# Read or set default admin password
NEXUS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${NEXUS_ADMIN_PASSWORD:-changeme}

# Set nexus REST api base url
nexus_rest_url="http://localhost:8081/service/rest"

call_api() {
  method=$1
  path=$2
  params=$3
  content_type=${4:-application/json}
  password="${5:-${NEXUS_ADMIN_PASSWORD}}"
  nexus_auth="admin:${password}"
  if [ ! -z "${NEXUS_ENABLE_DEBUG_PROVISIONNING+x}" ]; then
    echo curl -u "$nexus_auth" --write '\n%{http_code}\n' --fail --silent -H "accept: application/json" \
    -H "Content-Type: ${content_type}" -X ${method} "${nexus_rest_url}${path}" ${params:+-d "$params"}
  fi
  if result=$(curl -u "$nexus_auth" --write '\n%{http_code}\n' --fail --silent -H "accept: application/json" \
    -H "Content-Type: ${content_type}" -X ${method} "${nexus_rest_url}${path}" ${params:+-d "$params"}); then
    if [ ! -z NEXUS_ENABLE_DEBUG_PROVISIONNING ]; then
      echo "$result" | sed '$d'
    fi
  else
    >&2 echo "Failure: code=$result"
    exit 1
  fi
}

# Helper function to read the content of groovy script and workaround needed escapes for json
load_script_content() {
  script_name="$1"
  sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' -e 's/\n/\\n /g' ${NEXUS_SCRIPTS}/${script_name}.groovy
}

# Helper function to upload new scripts in nexus
upload_script() {
  script_name="$1"
  script_content=$(load_script_content $script_name)
  json_payload='{"name": "'"${script_name}"'",  "content": "'"${script_content}"'",  "type": "groovy"}'
  echo "Uploading script $script_name"
  call_api POST /v1/script "${json_payload}"
}

# Get a list of all nexus scripts to upload
list_nexus_scripts() {
  script_list=$(find ${NEXUS_SCRIPTS} -name "*.groovy" -exec basename {} \;)
  echo ${script_list//.groovy/}
}

# We only try to initialize nexus if we were called with the default command
if [ "$1" = 'start-nexus-repository-manager' ]; then
  # Check if the current data folder is empty
  # i.e we simply check if it contains the blobs directory
  # If it is empty, we start nexus manually and initialize
  # with the sent data
  if [ ! -d /nexus-data/blobs ]; then
    echo "Nexus data dir is empty. Starting initialization routines"

    echo "Make sure /etc directory exists in ${NEXUS_DATA}"
    mkdir -p ${NEXUS_DATA}/etc

    echo "Allowing nexus to register groovy scripts"
    echo "nexus.scripts.allowCreation=true" >> ${NEXUS_DATA}/etc/nexus.properties

    echo "starting nexus for the first time"
    $SONATYPE_DIR/nexus/bin/nexus start

    echo "Waiting for nexus to fully start and be available (max 2mn)"
    try_delay=5
    max_time=120
    try_counter=0
    while ! ([ -f ${NEXUS_DATA}/log/nexus.log ] && grep -q "Started Sonatype Nexus OSS" "${NEXUS_DATA}/log/nexus.log"); do
      (( try_counter = try_counter + 1 ))
      if (( try_counter * try_delay > max_time )); then
        echo -ne "\n"
        echo "Error: nexus did not finish starting after 2mn. Stopping. Dumping nexus log file for further debugging"
        cat "${NEXUS_DATA}/log/nexus.log"
        exit 1
      fi
      echo -n "."
      sleep $try_delay
    done
    echo -ne "\n"
    echo "Nexus started."

    # Get admin password from generated file
    NEXUS_ADMIN_PASSWORD="$(cat ${NEXUS_DATA}/admin.password)"

    # See the above functions. Set NEXUS_SCRIPT in your
    # Dockerfile and upload the scripts there
    echo "Uploading all defined scripts to nexus"
    for script in $(list_nexus_scripts); do
      upload_script $script
    done

    # Created from existing script call for your case
    echo Configure branding
    call_api POST /v1/script/create_repos_from_list/run @${NEXUS_SCRIPTS}/branding_payload.json

    # Set NEXUS_DELETE_PROVIONNING_SCRIPTS to a non empty value to delete
    if  [ ! -z "${NEXUS_DELETE_PROVIONNING_SCRIPTS+x}" ]; then
      echo "Deleting grooyy provisionning scripts in nexus"
      for script in $(list_nexus_scripts); do
        call_api DELETE "/v1/script/${script}"
      done
    fi

    # Set NEXUS_DELETE_PROVIONNING_SCRIPTS to a non empty value to disable
    if  [ ! -z "${NEXUS_DISABLE_GROOVY_AFTER_PROVISIONNING+x}" ]; then
      echo "Disabling further declaration of groovy scripts in nexus"
      sed -i 's/\(nexus\.scripts\.allowCreation=\).*/\1false/' ${NEXUS_DATA}/etc/nexus.properties
    fi

    echo "Restarting nexus after initial provisionning"
    $SONATYPE_DIR/nexus/bin/nexus stop
  fi
fi

exec "$@"

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Honeoye, New York
Built, 2003
View from street
View from shore
Lightwell void bringing light and air to center of house
This house is built into the hill-side of one of Upstate New York's Finger Lakes. On approach from the top of the hill, the sloped roof becomes the primary image of the house. The house appears as almost a generic, white, vernacular house. It echoes nearby agricultural buildings. Its white roof and walls reflect sunlight to reduce solar heat gain during the summer months. The pitched roof is elongated to mirror the slope of the site and frame the view toward the lake. An open light well brings natural light and air into what is typically the darkest part of the house, while also allowing snow, rain, and fog to occupy the house's center. This central void provides passive ventilation by pulling air up into the house while bringing light and air into the basement, allowing for an additional guest room.
After The End.
We were taught to dismantle things, to take buildings apart piece by piece in order to look at their makeup. . . . Were schooled in techniques of indecision, formal analysis, cultural criticism, theory, diagram, filmic operation, animation, scripting, didactic process: the disciplinary narratives of the neo-avant-garde. Our teachers were masters of instability, doubt and meaninglessness. Nothing was more important than nothing. Solidity was sublimated. Ground was displaced. Structure and gravity were non-topics. Building codes were too boring to be bothered with. Familiarity required systematic acts of defamiliarization. The vernacular wasn't considered architecture, better to be ignored. Architecture, like art, was a problem of overcoming the horror of individual will, idiosyncrasy, and expressionism. So we were taught to make machines and elude ourselves with their inhuman techniques and autonomous systems. Everything was flawed from the outset. Never say "I," always use the third person. Don't take criticism personally. Don't try to solve social problems (they are not the problems of architecture). Use "void" whenever and as much as possible. Architecture is the history of representation, of abstraction through mediums. (Think perspective, orthographic projection [i.e. plans], axonometry, collage, photography, digital models, rendering, etc.). Avoid commerce. Don't think about architecture through skills, craft, physicality, or the base materialism of buildings (these are so-called vocational concerns, not disciplinary or conceptual problems).
In this way, we were sucked into a neurotic black hole, seduced by academic games of negation, anti-architecture. Although we loved and love playing amongst the smoldering ruins, eventually (perhaps out of sheer exhaustion) it seemed that our problem became the exact opposite of the one laid out by our teachers: to collect and gather the leftovers from the neo-avant-garde and attempt to weld them back together. To engage the world, the real, gravity, craft, economy, commerce, data, the generic, and the vernacular all while still acknowledging and employing the disciplinary history handed down to us. We settled into a space that oscillates between the real and the representational. When we started our office, there was no need to further dismantle architecture, it was already game over. We felt we were tasked to start again, to produce and assemble an architecture of collected fragments and overturned bits, everything made available to us within the diffuse field of dead ends we grew up within.

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At ISH 2019, visitors can immerse themselves in oases of well-being that offer a spa experience for all the senses. This also includes tools that provide pleasant support for the daily ritual in the bathroom.
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The boutique hotel "The Tortue" in Hamburg with products by Bette provides relaxation in a luxurious setting.
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The premium owner-occupied apartments of Friends Tower in Munich are fitted with showers by Bette.
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In the rooms at the Parisian Le Cinq Codet hotel a bathtub by Bette plays the main role.
You can take a shower anytime. Those who appreciate luxury and coziness can't do without them: The bathtub is returning to the bathroom as a freestanding feature.
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In the spring the sanitary, heating and air-conditioning technology sector looks to Frankfurt/Main once again: The world's leading trade fair for the combination of water and energy ISH takes place there from March 14 to 18, 2017.
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Regional Disparities in the Indian Innovation Ecosystem
Current Issue Features
Published on 27-Mar-2019
By Amit Kapoor and Chirag Yadav
in Current Issue, Features
Although certain states and industries in India are pioneering innovations, significant regional and sectoral disparities persist. Dr Amit Kapoor and Chirag Yadav explore the innovation landscape in India and make policy recommendations to bolster innovative capacities and drive greater economic prosperity.
The 21st century has seen profound technological innovations with developments like automation and artificial intelligence (AI) making new forays into the industrial processes. With the world innovating at such a breakneck speed, no country wants to be left in the lurch. As this author has argued elsewhere (2018):
Most significantly, China has laid out a plan to become an "innovative nation" by 2020 and an "international innovation leader" by 2030 in its current Five-Year Plan.1 Even resource-dependent countries like Saudi Arabia are making a conscious move towards greater innovation.2
These countries are beginning to recognise the fact that building a competitive advantage based on factor endowments (cheap labour in the case of China and oil reserves for Saudi Arabia) cannot be sustained in the long run.3
A transition to a knowledge-based economy with greater emphasis on innovation to drive economic growth and competitiveness is imperative to move out of the middle-income status.4 In fact, there is irrefutable evidence that the competitiveness of a nation, or the productivity with which it utilises its resources, is highly correlated to its level of innovation. A country's competitiveness is defined by the World Economic Forum as "the set of institutions, policies and factors that determine the level of productivity of a country".5 Increased productivity leads to growth, resulting in improved income levels which in turn translates into greater well-being.
When firms innovate, they derive prosperity by creating value-adding products through efficient utilisation of their resources. This ability to innovate increases their productivity and in turn, enhances their competitiveness. So, innovation should be considered as the basis for creating prosperity.
Recognising the importance of innovation in enhancing the competitiveness of nations, the Global Innovation Index (GII) was constructed by researchers at Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to provide detailed metrics about the innovation performance of 126 countries. These nations represent 90.8% of the world's population and 96.3% of global GDP. Its 80 indicators explore a broad vision of innovation, including political environment, education, infrastructure and business sophistication.6
The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) published by the World Economic Forum, on the other hand, ranks countries based on 12 pillars of competitiveness including infrastructure, ICT adoption, macroeconomic stability, skills, product market, labour market, financial system, market size, business dynamism and innovation capability, to mention a few. It emphasises the role of human capital, innovation, resilience and agility as not only drivers but also defining features of economic success.7
Figure 1 shows the link between competitiveness and innovation at the global level using the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) and the Global Innovation Index (GII) scores of over 120 nations. The coefficient of determination between the two turns out to be a high 0.88.
Source: Global Competitiveness Report 2018 and Global Innovation Report 2018
I have suggested elsewhere (2018):
Considering the importance of innovation in the progress of a nation, India cannot afford to lag behind in the race of innovation. The country failed to benefit from the first industrial revolution due to its colonial past. It is, therefore, a rare opportune moment for India to accelerate its development process and move into the next stage of growth by focusing on strategies to foster its innovative capacity.3
The first half of this article concentrates on an assessment of India's performance in the Global Innovation and Competitiveness Indices, through comparison with other countries. The subsequent sections reflect on the innovation landscape in India across sectors and regions, finally culminating with some policy recommendations that can help augment innovation and herald economic prosperity.
The Innovation Environment in India
India's performance on the innovation front has not been historically promising, as revealed by the trends in the Global Innovation Index (GII). In GII 2018, the country ranked 57 out of a total of 126 countries. Figure 2 shows the performance of the BRICS nations — (Brazil, Russia. India, China and South Africa — between 2013 and 2018. It is quite apparent that India has been the worst-performing nation of the group for a large part of the period and has only managed to better Brazil recently. In fact, until 2015, India's scores fell quite drastically, which explains why its recent scores are hardly different from those in 2013.
Source: Global Innovation Index Reports
Why is India's performance so lacklustre as compared to the other countries? To begin with, as compared to the rest of the world, India devotes only a small percentage of its total expenditure to research and innovation. India's gross expenditure on Research and Development (R&D) as a proportion of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has consistently fallen in the last decade after reaching a peak of about 0.85 and has now settled below 0.7.8 This is very low in the global context as can be seen in Figure 3. Again, among the BRICS nations, India spends the lowest on R&D.
Source: UNESCO 2015
Curiously, it is not the government but the private sector that is holding back the expenditure on R&D. Compared to the global spending patterns, the private spending in India towards R&D is seriously lacking as illustrated in Figure 4. Compared to 77% in China, the share of private expenditure going towards R&D in India is merely 43.5%. Clearly, India is failing to provide the enabling conditions for adequate private investment in innovation.
It is not the government but the private sector that is holding back the expenditure on R&D. Compared to 77% in China, the share of private expenditure going towards R&D in India is merely 43.5%.
As far as the number of researchers is concerned, India presents a worrisome trend as well. The country had about 216 researchers per million people in 2015 while the world average had already crossed 1277 in 2010. At the other extreme, countries like Israel had over 8255 researchers per million. Thus, the Indian innovation ecosystem is at a very nascent stage.9
However, in such a vast landscape, it would be a mistake to make sweeping generalisations. India did achieve excellence in sectors like the pharmaceuticals, automobiles and Information Technology (IT). More than half of the business R&D expenditure is distributed across just these three industries. These are also the fastest-growing sectors in India, making significant forays into the world market.10
Innovation at the Sub-National Level
Just as the innovation ecosystem in India varies across sectors, Indian states present similar disparities. Across the globe, there are some regions which have been more creative and innovative than the others. The key is to identify factors that enable innovation and to then leverage them to build regional competencies and drive competitiveness.
One of the common ways to assess the innovation ecosystem across regions is through the number of patents filed. Using patent filings as a proxy for innovation suffers from limitations. Whenever patents are filed by businesses, they are done from the location of the company headquarters instead of the place of innovation. Hence the number of patents cannot capture the full extent of innovation taking place in a country. Nevertheless, despite all its imperfections, it is one of the best proxies for innovation.
Based on data from the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DIPP), it can be concluded that patent filings are highly concentrated around southern and western India with Delhi being the only outlier. The latter has the highest number of patent filings per lakh of population followed by Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. This is because the major Indian cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad which are the leaders in innovation are located in these states.
The country had about 216 researchers per million people in 2015 while the world average had already crossed 1277 in 2010. At the other extreme, countries like Israel had over 8255 researchers per million.
The rest of India seems to be seriously lacking. In absolute terms, while Maharashtra filed about 3600 patents in 2016-17, Uttar Pradesh, a state that dominates the former in terms of population, filed merely 637 patents. Surely, such high levels of disparities cannot be attributed to factors like skewed location of company headquarters. States like Uttar Pradesh are simply unable to provide enabling conditions for greater innovation. Be it human capital, policy, infrastructure or funding – the drivers of innovation are weak across most Indian states.
One of the most basic conditions that sets the wheels of innovation in motion is the availability of human capital. Silicon Valley, for instance, stands out because of the presence of world-class research universities like Stanford and the University of California – Berkeley in its vicinity. Similarly, in India, innovation gravitates towards states that manage to produce a healthy supply of human capital.
To assess the performance of Indian states on human capital, an aggregate of a set of three indicators is taken: number of students in engineering and technology per lakh of population, number of full-time researchers per lakh of population and the pupil-teacher ratio in higher education.
Based on this measure, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Telangana and Karnataka form the top five states with respect to human capital. Apart from Maharashtra, these states file the highest number of patents as well. Once regions have an adequate supply of human capital, the next inevitable enabler to drive innovation is the provision of commensurate infrastructure.
Figure 5 puts this in perspective. It shows the number of research and development labs set up across states as of 2018. This includes both government-funded and privately-funded labs. The typical southern and western concentration is evident from the figure. With greater availability of human capital and prevalence of research labs, i.e. greater investment in research, innovation is bound to concentrate around these regions.
Source: Department of Science and Technology (2018 Data)
Parallels with China
India is not unique in the regional spread of innovative capacity. China also displays a similar spatial distribution with respect to innovation. Figure 6 shows how patent applications in China are highly concentrated in coastal areas. Innovative activities are much less intense in the western inland regions. This trend is very much akin to India, where patenting activities are significantly concentrated in the southern coastal states with the only exception of Delhi.11
Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Telangana and Karnataka comprise the top five states with respect to human capital. Apart from Maharashtra, these states file the highest number of patents as well.
Incidentally, the top three Chinese provinces registering the highest number of patent applications – Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang – account for about half of the country's patent applications. Likewise, the top three Indian states by number of patent application – Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka – account for more than 56% of the country's patent applications.
Therefore, regional disparities in innovative activity experienced by India seem to be a general trend in emerging economies around the world. In contrast, the geographical spread of patenting activity spans more regions in developed economic blocs like the US and EU.
Source: China Statistical Yearbook 2017
This, however, does not imply that the lesser innovative regions in India remain complacent about driving their innovative capacity. To begin with, India needs to improve its spending on R&D if it aims to be an innovative economy.
Coming to more specific concerns, there remain multiple challenges with the Indian education system. First, the education system is not industry-oriented and hence produces students with low employability, forcing industries to give them months of intensive training to improve their productive capabilities. Secondly, the focus of the Indian education system is on quantity — the numbers of hours taught — rather than on the quality of education imparted. As a result, the human capital produced by the states is hardly satisfactory to cater to global innovation standards. Even though India produces the highest number of engineering graduates in the world, a study by Aspiring Minds on the programming skills of Indian engineers found that only 1.4% of them could write functionally correct and efficient code.12
In order to resolve this challenge, industry and academia need to work together to design syllabi and curricula to enhance the employability of graduates. Also, the focus of universities should be on the quality of education imparted by the professors rather than the time spent with students. This will improve the quality of human capital while ensuring the professors have more time to focus on their research.
Even though India produces the highest number of engineering graduates in the world, a study of the programming skills of Indian engineers found that only 1.4% of them could write functionally correct and efficient code.
A second challenge that needs to be considered pertains to industry-academia linkages. Indian universities tend to work in silos and their lack of synergy with industry results in research that has little commercial value. There is also a lack of clarity on ownership of intellectual property rights on innovations resulting from the collaboration between industry and academia. To encourage greater innovation, such issues need to be addressed.
Finally, states that are lagging in innovation need to draw inspiration and insights from their southern counterparts and begin working towards addressing their deficiencies. Only governments can enable conditions for greater innovation. Therefore, they need to provide determinants like adequate human capital, proper infrastructure and attractive opportunities for businesses within their regions. Only by working along these lines can India drive innovation and further prosperity.
Dr. Amit Kapoor is Honorary Chairman at the Institute for Competitiveness, India and an affiliate at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School.
Chirag Yadav
Chirag Yadav is a senior researcher at the Institute for Competitiveness.
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1See the U.S-China Economic and Security Review Commission Staff Research Report on the 13th Five Year Plan by Katherine Koleski, Research Director and Policy Analyst, Economics and Trade: https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/The%2013th%20Five-Year%20Plan_Final_2.14.17_Updated%20%28002%29.pdf
2See 'Saudi Arabia embraces AI-driven innovation' by Catherine Jewell: https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2018/05/article_0002.html
3Some parts of the article has been taken from the author's blog published on: https://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/we+for+news+english+blog-epaper-wenwblog/universities+should+consult+industry+on+designing+courses+to+make+students+employable-newsid-103611488
4See World Bank definition: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/223546-1206318727118/4808502-1206318753312/slknowledgechapter1.pdf
5See https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/what-is-competitiveness/
6The Global Innovation Index is a measure of innovation co-published by Cornell University, INSEAD and WIPO: https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/Home
7The Global Competitiveness Index is a measure of competitiveness of countries published by the World Economic Forum: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GCR2018/05FullReport/TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2018.pdf
8Data taken from the Estimates of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
9UNESCO 2018, "R&D Data Release", UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2018, Accessed on October 4, 2018, http://uis.unesco.org/en/news/rd-data-release
10See The UNESCO Science Report Towards 2030, Chapter 22, India by Sunil Mani: http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/unesco-science-report-towards-2030-part2.pdf
11Data taken from China Statistical Yearbook 2017
12See 'Is India Prepared to Enter the Age of Automation? 'by Aspiring Minds: https://www.aspiringminds.com/automata-national-programming-report


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History of Hawaiian Village
The Hilton Hawaiian Village:
From its historic roots among mosaic lokoi'a fishponds and cottages in the Pi'inaio Stream Delta, to the present day, the resort is one of the world's largest and most iconic hotels.
A quaint neighborhood welcomes it's first guests
The Niumalu Hotel opens on the site where Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort now stands. It replaces quaint clusters of cottages known as Cressaty's Court and Hummel's Court at Kalia, in the gorgeous, historic Kalia section of Waikiki.
Tourism takes off
The post-war boom economic boom fuels interest in Hawaii as a vacation destination. Sensing an opportunity, Fritz B. Burns and Henry J. Kaiser purchase the Niumalu Hotel and eight oceanfront acres of the John Ena Estate. A year later construction begins on thatched-roof guest cottages with 70 guest rooms and suites.The Tapa Room, gardens and three swimming pools are also complet-ed in 1955.
Ocean Tower, now known as Ali'I Tower, is completed. The Geodesic dome showroom is erected in just 20 hours! It opens on Feb-ruary 17 for the premiere of 'Around the World in 80 Days' and the Symphony Poly-nesia, starring the famed Alfred Apaka.
The King is in the building
Conrad Hilton, great-grandfather to socialites Paris and Nikki Hilton, purchases half of the Hawaiian Village Hotel from Henry J. Kaiser. That same year Elvis Pressley films his hit movie, "Blue Hawaii" at the resort. The King stays on the 14th floor of the Ocean Tower (Ali'i Tower) in the Mahele Suite.
The Rainbow's beginning
Rainbow Tower opens featuring the world's largest ceramic tile mosaic. 286 feet high by 26 feet wide, with more than 16,000 colorful tiles, the spectacular mosaic deco-rates both ends of the building. To learn more about the Rainbow Mosaic click here.
Everything gets bigger in the 80's
Tapa Tower is opened on the site of the former Village Tower, bringing the total number of hotel rooms to 2,614. The Bali and Tapa Café restaurants also open in the Tapa Tower. Plans for a $100 million architectural renewal begin.
Excellent service gets an excellent upgrade
Ocean Tower is renovated and "rebuilt" with two additional floors. Renamed the Ali'i Tower, it becomes the Village's exclusive "hotel within a hotel" for guests who desire higher levels of service, such as private con-cierge service and registration.
New century, new milestones
The 25-story Kalia Tower opens culminating what was the first major resort development in Waikiki in more than a decade. The tower offers tropical gardens, spacious walkways, waterfalls and Hawaiian art, creating a new gateway to the Village.
Going to the Chapel
After years of planning and nine months of construction, the $6 million Ocean Crystal Chapel opens with a lavish grand opening ceremony. Set amid lush landscaping and waterfalls, the chapel seats 85 people, offers stunning visuals and hosts countless Big Days.
The year we let it slide
The 5,000-sqare foot Paradise Pool opens, boasting the longest water slide in Waikiki at 77 feet. After splashing down, guests can partake in the The Waikiki Starlight Luau, which debuts on the Rooftop Garden. Featuring an expanded buffet dinner and Polynesian extravaganza, the experience is much more than "dinner and a show".
The Hilton Hawaiian Village celebrates its 50th anniversary! Following its debut at No. 8 in 2010, Duke Kahanamoku Beach moves up five places to No. 2 on Dr. Beach's annual Memorial Day list for America's top 10 beaches. Some things just get better with age.
Rebirth of the Rainbow
Millard Sheet's famous Rainbow Mural is completely renovated using 31,000 digitally-reproduced tiles and new LED lighting. The $4.25 million renovation takes more than two years to complete.
Signature skin care arrives
The Hilton Hawaiian Village develops and launches a signature skin and hair care line, anuenue Rainbow. Featuring beneficial botanicals such as mango, pineapple and ginger root, and an island-inspired scent, the Coconut Papaya collection is available in-room and at retail.


While r.a.m has been involved in track making and arranging for SCEJ game titles, including DEPTH and other SweepStation series, ICO, and TVDJ, he also contributed many of his rave/electro numbers to the beatmania series (4th MIX to THE FINAL), its sequel beatmania IIDX (8th style, 10th style), DJ TROOPERS, and DDR. In parallel with that, he produced many pieces for 1st to 3rd albums under the name wize as a member of a Drum 'n' Bass unit [cycle] and a popular house unit [cargo]. The group cargo maintained the top spot on the iTunes dance chart for seven consecutive weeks and became the face of the Japanese club scene. Although he hadn't released his work independently nor made public appearances, his first solo work was released exclusively for online distribution in January 2010. Immediately after the release, it hit 1 on the iTunes dance chart and 15 on the all genre chart to let everyone know his activities were in full-swing.


RALEIGH, N.C. -- N.C. State's Tammy Gibson scored seven of her 25 points in the final three minutes, including a pair of clinching free throws with 17 seconds to play, lifting the Wolfpack to an 86-83 upset of third-ranked Maryland last night.
Gibson, a sophomore guard who was named the ACC Player of the Week for her career-high 30 points a week ago at Duke, converted a backcourt steal for two and then hit a three-pointer, as the Wolfpack (16-10, 7-8) overcame a 10-point deficit in the final four minutes.
"The game was lost in a 10-second stretch," said coach Chris Weller, whose Terps (22-4, 12-3) lost for the third time in their past five games.
The 10-second turnaround began when State's Rhonda Mapp, the ACC's top scorer and rebounder, hit a three-pointer to pull the Wolfpack within 81-77 with 3:05 to play. Gibson stole the inbounds pass and put it back up for an 81-79 game before Maryland could call time out with 2:56 remaining.
"I don't feel like we played poorly, but silly mistakes killed us," Weller said. "We're going to talk about this one a lot on the bus."
Malissa Boles, Maryland's leading scorer with 23, scored the Terps' last basket with 2:38 to play for an 83-79 lead. Gibson hit her fourth three-pointer of the game to make it 83-82 with 2:17 remaining.
Maryland got one shot before a layup by Teri Whyte gave the Wolfpack its first lead since 8:26 of the first half, 84-83 with 1:33 remaining.
The Terps got two more opportunities, but Limor Mizrachi stepped in the backcourt for a turnover -- the Terps' 24th, a season high -- and Boles was called for going over Gibson's back.
After Gibson's one-and-one, Mizrachi got off a desperation three-pointer, but Whyte rebounded for the Wolfpack.
Reynolds Coliseum fans poured on the court. State had outscored the Terps 15-2 in the final four minutes.
Since the Feb. 11 loss to Virginia, the Terps' two wins -- over Duke and Georgia Tech, teams they beat by more than 20 earlier in the season -- were by fewer than 10.
Maryland's loss assured No. 1 Virginia (13-1 in the ACC) a tie for the regular-season title. The Cavaliers could wrap it up tonight against No. 25 North Carolina.
Jesse Hicks, Maryland's Naismith Award finalist, got her fourth foul with 14:49 to play. She left the game and finished with a season-low six points and five rebounds in 18 minutes.


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from fabric.colors import green, yellow, red
from fabric.contrib.project import rsync_project
from fabric.contrib.console import confirm
from contextlib import contextmanager as _contextmanager

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rsync_excludes = ("*_local.py", "*.pyc", ".git/*", "*node_modules*", "composer.phar", "adminer.php")

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	env.settings = 'production'
	env.user = 'razorflow'
	env.hosts = ['examples.razorflow.com']

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	upload_app ()
	print(green("##################################################################"))
	print(green("## Finished deploy without any known errors. Please still test. ##"))
	print(green("##################################################################"))

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	rsync_project(
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		local_dir=".",
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var Class = require('./Class');
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var DashboardStore = require('../../stores/DashboardStore');
var UserStore = require('../../stores/UserStore');

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      newClass: ''
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    DashboardActions.removeClass(index, name, UserStore.getState().user.email);
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  componentDidMount: function(){
    DashboardStore.addChangeListener(this._onChange);
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Published: December 18, 2017 11:20 am Updated: Dec. 18, 2017 11:26 a.m.
Some Twitter fighting went on last week over the rumor Gordon Hayward wouldn't show up for last Friday's Jazz-Celtics game. But he did, to talk with media about his departure from Utah.
He didn't say anything unexpected. Hayward never does. He noted it was a hectic week back in July, that he didn't decide to leave until the last minute, and that he remains friends with former teammates, etc.
Jazz fans were ready to feel insulted if Hayward hadn't appeared. But he went to dinner with assistant coach Johnnie Bryant and Joe Ingles, and the next night was at TD Garden.
I understand why Jazz fans were irritated about Hayward's possible non-attendance, though I'm not convinced a player is actually obligated to make nice with his former team — even one that is treated as well as Utah treated Hayward.
The non-controversy was never the most important thing on Earth. I know Hayward didn't want the drama. But to his credit, he arrived and did the work. Hayward didn't owe the Jazz or their fans, but he needed to address it because it was the right thing. Considering how he made Utahns wait on his free agency decision until the last minute (which he maintains was necessary), showing up was a smart gesture.
He is hoping this is the last of it, and Ingles echoes that sentiment. Note to both: Not so fast. There's still the return trip to Utah on March 28. If Hayward is back, he'll have to deal with the same questions ... one more time.
None of the media want to go over that material again, but it's not like they can ignore it.
So maybe we'll see you in March, Gordon. Then we can all move on. Please.


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Facebook Foible Foils FMLA Fight
Wendy Barnett worked as a nurse in the psychiatric unit at Aultman Hospital. When her boss, for whom she did not care, was fired, Barnett sent the following email through Facebook to 14 people, including 9 present or former coworkers:
Lisa got officially ax (sic) today! I am singing DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD THE WICKED WITCH, DING DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD.
How poetic this comes the same day Sexton died, I would much rather get f..cked up the ass with hot pepper than endured what that souless (sic) bitch put me through for 4 years…including turning me into the board…God does grind a fine mill when revenge is taken on by him…back when I was off due to drug accusations and praying, and praying, never would I have imagined she lose (sic) her job, marriage, and family, friends all at the same time! Karma Now I should tell you how I really feel!
Love and fuzzies, Wendy
The hospital undertook a full investigation upon learning of the email, which Barnett initially denied writing. When one of the hospital's vice presidents contacted Barnett for a meeting, Barnett, sensing that her termination was on the horizon, called in sick and asked for a medical leave. Despite receiving a medical certification from Barnett's doctor, the hospital proceeded with the termination.
The trial court rejected Barnett's Family and Medical Leave Act claim, both because it made its decision to terminate before she had ever requested a medical leave, and because she lied about being the author of the email rant during the hospital's investigation.
As the Sixth Circuit said … bluntly, "[A]n employee may not insulate [herself] from a pending dismissal by opportunistically invoking the FMLA." … In this case Defendant has put forth uncontroverted evidence that Plaintiff lied repeatedly to her superiors regarding her conduct, and that she was terminated for her dishonesty…. The uncontroverted evidence in the case is that her lying was the motivation for her termination.
Yesterday, I made the point that even though people like to treat social media as the new kid on the block, it is really nothing more than a communication tool, to which all of the old rules of the workplace apply. This case helps illustrate that point. The hospital fired Barnett not because of her email rant, but because when confronted with the email, she compounded her problems by lying about the authorship of the email.
Old rules + new technology = same result.
Written by Jon Hyman, a partner in the Labor & Employment group of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz. For more information, contact Jon at (216) 736-7226 or jth@kjk.com.


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ACM BDIOT 2023 : ACM--2023 7th International Conference on Big Data and Internet of Things (BDIOT 2023)---SCIE
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Now, Tolman has the opportunity to provide that assistance as an intern with NMCRS New River. As a student in the social work program at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Tolman is required to complete a volunteer internship related to her coursework. Tolman began her year-long internship with NMCRS last May as a client services assistance and a caseworker. She is working toward her Level III casework certification. "I'm trying to do a little bit of everything here because that's how you learn." Tolman plans to continue volunteering even after her internship concludes in May. "I love the Society too much to stop volunteering!" she said.
"The Society has done so much for me," Tolman said. "I'm learning more about service members and the financial hardships they have while serving on active duty. For someone who's engaged to marry an active duty Marine, it's interesting to see what kinds of situations people can get themselves into. Not only is volunteering here teaching me about financial things I need to be aware of in my own relationship, I can educate others about their financial responsibilities and what they should be doing to advocate for themselves." Tolman and her Marine fiancé plan to marry in 2018.


Did you know the Chevy Bolt EV has a famous grandparent? Built by General Motors and Boeing the Lunar Rover "Moon Buggy" cruised the surface of the moon for the first time in 1971.
The Bolt was Born late in 2016. With a base sticker price of $37,495 and Federal Tax Credits for buying an electric vehicle Bolt is affordable to the average consumer. By comparison, the Tesla D costs between $71,070 and$120,170 depending on battery size.
There is not much of a family resemblance between the Moon Buggy and the Bolt EV. The grandparent could traverse 57 miles on a single recharged. A single charge was all there was because the batteries could not be recharged. The Bolt covers 238 miles on a charge.
The Moon Buggy topped-out at less than 9 mph. The EV can hit 92 mph. The Lunar Rover put out .25 hp times four motors. Its descendant produces 200 horses.
The Moon Buggy was 492 lbs. with an overall length of 10'2″. Bolt EV weighs 3563 lbs. by 13'8″ long. The rover had a seating capacity of two and 4.6 cubic feet of storage. The Bolt seats five and has 56.6 cubic feet of storage.
Electricity can be created from many sources.
Electric cars use their fuel more efficiently.
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Low uptake of pensions, longer life expectancy and increasing pressure on the State to fund longer retirements ...When will the message get through that the current system is not going to be sustainable in the future, asks Niall Fitzgerald, head of retail pension sales at Zurich?
The maximum State contributory pension in Ireland for a person aged 66 or over is €238.30 per week which equates to €12,434 a year.Photograph: Shutterstock.
How much is the State pension and what will I be entitled to on my retirement, are questions people often ask when thinking about their financial future. The first thing a person should think about when considering their retirement is how much of a drop in income they going to experience and how they will live on their reduced earnings.
The saying 'time is money' is very true, especially with regard to our working lives. But equally it can be applied to our time in retirement. After working hard for most of your life, it would be nice to have the money you need to live the life you've always dreamed of when you reach retirement.
Unfortunately, people aren't thinking that far in advance and don't think about how they will live with a reduction in income. Equally, they do not consider how many years they need to support themselves in retirement, says Niall Fitzgerald, head of retail pension sales at Zurich.
"In addition to the lack of thought around a drop in income, many don't know whether they're actually entitled to the maximum contributory State pension. It's quite a complicated structure that's based on your average yearly PRSI contributions, so many people don't know if they are eligible"
There is a significant rise in the number of people set to be dependent on the State pension and this growing number is a direct result of the decline in private pension uptake. The CSO's Quarterly National Household Survey shows that 36% of workers will rely on a State pension as their only form of income in retirement - a figure that is up from 26% in 2009**. In addition to day-to-day living expenses, for some people their mortgage won't be fully paid off either, and this is a very important factor when considering how much a person will need in retirement.
"At Zurich, we describe the State Pension as a lifeboat rather than a yacht - it's a prevention against poverty," Fitzgerald says. "The bottom line is it's important to save for retirement. Any savings will increase an individual's standard of living beyond the State pension."
"If we assume the State pension age is 68, that could mean a person has to supplement their income for 25-30 years," says Fitzgerald, who points out that the number of pensioners will increase by 70% by 2050. "It's not just the State pension that will be under pressure. The strain on the public health system down the line is going to be extreme as the demographic gets older."
A sharp fall in pension coverage is cause for concern for all of us but the decline in private pensions is particularly impactful for Irelands' millennials. 14.1% of workers aged 20-24 years have a pension, while just over one third (36%) of workers aged 25-34 reported having a pension. Pension coverage was greatest among workers aged 35-44 years where total pension coverage was 55.3%*.
In order to secure a financial future, starting a pension is one of the smartest financial decisions you can make. When choosing a pension, having all the information you need is key. Sound advice is invaluable, so it's a good idea to seek advice from a financial broker or advisor. "A good financial advisor can explain the various products available, the different investment options within these, as well as measure the client's expectations for retirement and make recommendations based on those," Fitzgerald says. "This ensures that upon retirement the individual attains the benefits most suitable for them."
* Source: Department of Social Protection, 2017.
** Source: CSO Quarterly National Household Survey, 2016.
*** Source: Press Release Population and Labour Force Projections 2016-2046.


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