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Source: Tevin Wang, a&s Asia
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Despite 360-degree cameras are mostly installed indoors. They are great fits for retails, especially. We take a closer at how business intelligence (BI) is achieved.
360-degree cameras are designed for areas with the need for more or less total coverage — an overview of all activities — and with tight budgets for surveillance, such as retail stores. Customers deploy 360-degree cameras for 2 main reasons: first, for situational awareness because 360-degree technology provides end users with coverage that has no blind spots and retrospectively analyzes a scene with speed and accuracy that no analog cameras could accomplish. Secondly, "this development is fuelled by network video enabling advanced video processing and analytics applications," said Petra Bennermark, Product Manager, Axis Communications. "This is particularly true for the retail sector where panoramic cameras are used to monitor aisles, shelves and racks." In other words, BI application integration is one of the most significant reasons for retailers to move to network video.
Improved Business Intelligence
Retails owners are no longer limited to counting people as customers come through the front door Through path analysis, queue counting, and dwell time, marketing and business intelligence is hugely enhanced. 360-degree cameras not only offer economic alternatives but also enhance sales and efficiency.
Profit first, security second
At any retailer, security cannot interfere with profitability. Explaining the business case for security must account for retail priorities. In retail, the loss prevention department is usually the main decision-maker who determines how budgets are spent on security technologies. The motivation for these decision-makers is to combat shrink. They do not put in a camera or an alarm because it's necessary. Instead, they invest in technology when it has a proportional impact on shrink or produces a return of investment (ROI) in a one- to three-year time frame.
Added-benefits Attract Attentions
Retailers reveals more interests when security proves to be an investment, rather than a high one-time cost. Reducing operational costs is one clear way security can provide benefits. In the longer term, ROI can be demonstrated through cost reduction of manpower, such as security guards and more.
For example, a great numbers of components make up the path to sales such as merchandising, adequate staffing, environment, and how long a customer must wait for assistance. By a holistic view of surveillance, 360-degree cameras, with the help of video content analysis combined, count customers entering pre-defined directions, calculating waiting time for customer service, and counting vehicles and their wait time in the drive-through area. Such video analytics provide data necessary to minimize wait times and maximize staff. In other word, the integrated analysis transforms video into a continuous stream of business intelligence such as daily traffic distribution, sales conversion rate and average service time. Such valuable Information on traffic, conversion, staffing levels and sales empowers strategies on how and when to staff. Stores can compare this information with the number of sales and adjust work schedules to ensure proper staffing for better customer service. The entire solution is beyond security system and evolves thereby as a management tool to optimize operations.
More than PoS Integration
Management efficiencies can also be delivered through security aiding business systems. Via the integration of point of sale (PoS) systems with surveillance systems, comprehensive and actionable information can thus be gathered. For example, there is a great tendency that more loss at the register than internal and external theft combined. These losses might not always be intentional, they can be generated from mis-scans on bar codes or ringing up a single item when it should be multiple. If the PoS improperly registers these incidents, it's a loss.
The integration of 360-degree cameras and PoS can correlate transactions from cash registers with the video monitoring. The combo also allows centralized management so all system administration can be undertaken from the headquarters while each store manager can leave the investigative work to central control and focus time on the daily management of the local store instead. Still store managers do have access to video evidence so that it can be used in connection with events such as shoplifting or payment disputes
"The best uses for panoramic is in which have a very large space to cover with minimum mounting points, for example, parking lots, campus quads and lecture halls, cafeterias and building lobbies, large industrial spaces, large retail space and storage yards," said Becky Zhou, VP of Sales, Asia Pacific, Arecont Vision. "Compared with traditional monitoring, at those areas, we can use least camera and see the largest space. And as our panoramic camera has highest resolution (40MP), we can see the detail clearly. In some entrances, we can use the WDR panoramic camera, which can show the perfect panoramic image."
As 360-degree cameras change the perspectives for security personnel who "see" video, installers should pay closer attention when deploying them. First, Installers must be conscious of where the camera is being mounted and of what type of material they are mounting a camera on. As certain 360-degree cameras are designed to blend into the decor and need to be mounted at harder ceiling material like drywall or sheetrock, plenum space where air circulation is used might not be a good option. In other word, aesthetics play an important part in many installations, especially when mounted at eye level or just above eye level in a wall.
Since a 360-degree camera covers a wide area in all directions, ceiling or mounting height is important and cameras should be positioned strategically to provide the best coverage for the area. Apart from this, how the camera is going to be powered with PoE and how it would connect to the management network should be given some thought.
Due to possible resolution drop at the edge of fisheye lens, user should make the area of interest the centre of the image. Thus, the height and location for installation should be carefully considered.
Another consideration for installing 360-degree cameras is light variations in a given scene with such a large field of view. Very bright lights often blow out a scene or create lots of shadows, and many 360-degree cameras cannot pick up information because the image is either too dark or too bright. The brightest and darkest areas will be a challenge for the camera to resolve. Installers should consider the entire scene when placing a camera — how much light will be visible and what in your scene is important to see for total situational awareness. When a 360-degree camera is installed under a bright environment which uses lamps with low frequency, flicker might occur. Low light sensitivity of 360-degree cameras should be put into agenda, and "the monitoring area better have sufficient lighting," recommended Aaron Yeh, Director at Surveon Technology.
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Australian pop band Eliza & The Delusionals release its debut full length album Now And Then in May 2022. The album came along as many have in the wake of the recent and ongoing global pandemic. The songwriting had begun in various stages of development prior to the pandemic and some prior to the group having embarked on the first leg of a big tour of North America in January and February 2020 with The Silversun Pickups. But the period of lockdown and then the prolonged time of not being able to tour with anything resembling reliability left the band with time to hone the songs and create an album that is brimming with a sense of nostalgia and reconnecting with a time in life and a time period in the early 2000s when perhaps if you were a kid in Australia or the USA, depending on life circumstances, you had the time and the ability to allow your imagination and your heart to take in experiences that stimulated both. Connecting with that headspace lending your current self the tools to navigate bringing a bit of that mindset into life today. In the fuzzy and chiming guitar work and singer Eliza Klatt's melodious and exuberant vocals one hears an introspective articulation of a desire to liberate one self from one's own limitations and of those imposed on you by circumstance. In this interview we were able to talk with Klatt about the origins of the band and its path to touring in support of its full-length debut.
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Seeing the Mountains by Rail
by Daniel Jackson
The Tweetsie Railroad caters mostly to families with small children, and it's been a place where young rail lovers may have taken their first train ride.
Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.
Blue Ridge Scenic Railway in Blue Ridge, Georgia.
Three Rivers Rambler.
Great Smoky Mountain Railroad.
One hundred years ago, the prime mode of transportation from the Great Smoky Mountains to the big cities was a steam locomotive. Today, riding historical and tourist lines in the area is a connection to that past.
Here are the places to see the area's tunnels, rivers and mountains at a slower pace.
Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
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Riding a train is an experience of extremes. My wife and I heard the train we were about to ride at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum before we saw it. We had just pulled up to the museum and saw the rail yard with cars on display when the train's horn sounded and we looked up to see the 4501 steam locomotive pull smartly into the station, smoke rising from its stacks.
It's a monolithic thing, rumbling, smelling of sulphur. A toot of its horn goes right through your chest. God forbid if you ever got in its way.
But the sound dampens as we climbed aboard and found our upholstered seats.
We were there to ride the Missionary Ridge local, a three-mile trip one way to the museum's restoration shop. Though the track be short, those miles were steeped in history dating back to the Civil War.
The movement of the train begins almost imperceptibly at first. Then it builds up steam and power, crossing a road, with the red flashing lights and urgently clanging bell. The beast lumbers, grinding, creaking.
We were off down the raised railroad bed over the Chickamauga Creek; the stress of modern life slipping away under the calm of the rocking of the train and the scenery. On a longer trip, it might be a good place for a nap.
The biggest feature of the trip is the Missionary Ridge Railroad Tunnel, cutting its way 980 feet through Missionary Ridge—ground the Blue and Grey fought over during the Civil War.
It's a narrow tunnel for the train, with less than 10 inches of clearance in some places, and it was one of the first tunnels ever hewn in Tennessee, according to its nomination for the National Register of Historical Places.
Inside the tunnel, the dark walls blur by and show it craggy surface inches away.
The Missionary Ridge Local is the shortest trip that the Tennessee Valley Rail Museum offers. It runs excursions to nearby Chickamauga and Summerville, Georgia. It also offers a 50-mile trip exploring the Hiwassee River Gorge.
Riders can ride rail cars pulled by diesel or steam locomotives.
For an extra fee on the Missionary Ridge local trip you can sit in the locomotive one-way. It's a completely different experience sitting within the guts of the beast. As you near the hand-hewn tunnel you hold your hat and brace for the damp air. You feel the rush as you look out the window over Chickamauga Creek and see nothing but water below.
Craggy Mountain Line
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The Craggy Mountain Line is keeping Asheville's mass-transportation heritage alive along its 3-mile stretch of track.
Rocky Hollifield, president of the Craggy Mountain Line, said the line got its start with volunteer effort, years of work and lots of prayer. Today, the trolley runs every other Saturday on the last surviving stretch of a network of trolley lines that once ran through Asheville, which at one point in the 20th Century had one of the largest trolley networks in the nation.
Craggy Mountain Line uses a trolley line running along the French Broad River that once linked to the city's center in the early 1900s.
It took years before Craggy Mountain Line could send its first trolley rolling down its track. It had to navigate federal, state and local regulations. It had to become a bonafide, operating railway, not just a private organization. Teams of volunteers needed to take a motorcar down the abandoned rail bed and cut away vegetation with machetes and chainsaws.
Volunteers run the trolley today.
It takes riders on a trolley ride on a steep, 3.5 percent grade with tight curves along a brook. It flattens out to run by the French Broad River and next to industry—giving riders a different view of Asheville—one that residents from a century ago might recognize.
Craggy's most popular event is a jingle bell ride around Christmas time, mimicking a sleigh ride with bells and caroling.
The goal of any trip on the track is to let people experience old-fashioned fun, Hollifield said.
"We love to see kids and families come and have a good time," Hollifield said. "I like to see families put their cell phones up and talk and visit and have a good old time together."
In its rolling stock, it has New York City subway cars and even some trollies that ran in Asheville.
Eventually Craggy Mountain Line would like to run a full train on the route and more rides. It is in the process of refurbishing rail cars, hoping to turn one into a museum and another a gift shop.
Three Rivers Rambler
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All different kinds of people take historic rail rides. Just look at the mix that climbed aboard the train at Three Rivers Rambler in Knoxville, Tennessee.
"In one weekend we had a field trip for preschoolers, an outing for senior groups, a charter for an African-American fraternity, and a steam-punk style wedding," said Karen C. Bishop, vice president of Gulf & Ohio Railways, a holding company that owns the Three Rivers Rambler.
In a sense, Three Rivers represents beginnings. As part of its trip, the rambler crosses the 3RR bridge, a structure built at the point where the French Broad and Holston rivers meet to make the Tennessee River.
"The Rambler ambles along at 10 miles an hour through countryside riders wouldn't otherwise see," said Bishop. "It's a unique perspective and a deliberate way to slow down and spend time with your guests and companions."
The ride runs along some of the landmarks of Knoxville, including Neyland Stadium, home of the University of Tennessee's football team. As it rolls along the river, it passes industry and a farmhouse belonging to an early settler of Knoxville.
In the nearly 20 years that the Rambler has chugged through Knoxville, it's become a city tradition, Bishop said, where riders board passenger cars manufactured in 1925, pulled buy a steam engine born in 1890.
Recently, Three Rivers Rambler purchased The Mississippi, a locomotive that is said to be one of the earliest locomotives in the United States. It was manufactured in England and pulled cars in Mississippi. During the Civil War, Confederate troops used it during the battle of Vicksburg. Later in the war, Union troops used it to pull supply trains.
Three Rivers is currently working to restore the locomotive that Bishop calls "an American treasure."
She said the locomotive is "too fragile to operate. We are cosmetically restoring it and plan to put it on eventual public display."
After riders disembark, Bishop said there is plenty still to do in the area, such as Knoxville's downtown market square, its zoo and—if a train isn't enough travel in a day—the Star of Knoxville steamboat.
Tweetsie Railroad
Blowing Rock, North Carolina
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While a train chugging along at 25 miles per hour was a heart-throbbing speed demon for our ancestors, today, we see the train as a way to slow down. "Riding in an open-sided train car allows you to not only see the countryside; you can smell the leaves, hear the birds and the steam locomotive, all at a leisurely pace," said Cathy Robbins, marketing director for Tweetsie Railroad.
The Blowing Rock amusement park not only offers a three-mile loop pulled by steam locomotives on its narrow-gauge track, but also features live shows, the Deer Park zoo, and amusement rides all infused with a Wild West aesthetic plopped in the mountains.
Tweetsie caters mostly to families with small children, and it's been a place where young rail lovers may have taken their first train ride. "We are seeing third- and fourth-generation visitors at Tweetsie Railroad," Robbins said.
Tweetsie's track is a narrow-gauge railroad, meaning the rails are spaced closer together than the standard distance for full-sized rail.
While it might be smaller, it's no novelty, because engineers relied on these narrower railroads to connect the region.
"Narrow gauge railroads were most often constructed in mountainous terrain, since the tracks - being narrower - required less space to be cut through mountains," noted Robbins. "Also, narrow-gauge trains can accommodate sharper turns than can standard gauge equipment, which is also an advantage when building a railroad in difficult terrain."
While Tweetsie's ride takes visitors through mountain views and over a high wooden trestle on a track it laid down on its property, one of its locomotives spent its career in the area. The No. 12 "Tweetsie," named so for its whistle, was the steam train that ran between Boone, North Carolina, and Johnson City, Tennessee, on a narrow-gauge track active between 1916 and 1940.
As a result, the little engine that could—and still can—is registered with the National Register of Historic places. While most of Tweetsie's riders come in summer and fall to experience the cooler temperatures of its mountain elevation, it also offers seasonal rides, such as its Ghost Train around Halloween and a Christmas-themed ride.
The Great Smoky Mountain Railroad
Bryson City, North Carolina
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There's a chance that you've already seen a portion of the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad on the silver screen: Its rail line was the scene of the edge-of-your-seat bus and locomotive crash that set the stage for the rest of the 1993 Harrison Ford movie "The Fugitive."
Who could forget Ford, playing Dr. Richard Kimble in a yellow prison jumpsuit and shackles, shuffling away as a derailed locomotive barrels after him?
Good chance that a trip on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad these days will be less eventful—but no less memorable—than Dr. Kimble's. Great Smoky Mountain Railroad travels over 53 miles of track that run through two tunnels and over 25 bridges.
Located in Bryson City, North Carolina, Great Smoky Mountain Railroad offers two different trips pulled by both diesel and steam.
The Nantahala Gorge Excursion runs 44 miles and makes a stop at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. The Tuckasegee River route runs 32 miles and stops in Dillsboro. The Tuckasegee route also passes the spot shown in "The Fugitive."
Great Smoky Mountain Railroad also offers seasonal events, like The Polar Express—a 75-minute ride complete with cocoa and Santa Claus—and a Peanuts-themed "Pumpkin Patch Express" in October that transports riders to a pumpkin patch.
All of this happens on a rail line that reached the area in the 1880s. Before then, Western North Carolina lay landlocked with wagon the go-to transportation of the day. The train changed everything for the dwellers of the mountains. But in order for the train to run, the mountains had to be tied down with track, bored through with blasting and pickaxes.
After passenger rail service through Bryson City ceased in 1948, Great Smoky Mountain Railroad brought rail excursions back in 1988, where it's been steaming along for 30 years.
Great Smoky Mountain Railroad suggests you book tickets in advance.
Great Smoky Mountain Railroad also has a train museum featuring 7,000 Lionel model trains. For the more outdoor-minded, Bryson City also offers rafting on the rivers and the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians.
Blue Ridge Scenic Railway
Blue Ridge, Georgia
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Nestled in the Chattahoochee National Forest, the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway takes its passengers on a trip north for 26 miles that meanders by the Toccoa River and then stops at two towns that straddle the state line: McCaysville, Georgia, and Copperhill, Tennessee.
It's quite the change of pace from Atlanta, a mere hour-and-a-half drive away.
Blue Ridge became a town to serve the travelers seeking the area's mineral springs, according to the Fannin County Chamber of Commerce. Those early visitors relied on the rail to the mountains. Today, more people know the area for Springer Mountain which is the terminus of the Appalachian Trail—another route that offers travelers the slow, scenic route.
In 2016, Patriot Rail Company, a Jacksonville, Florida, company that operates a series of short line and regional freight railroads, purchased the rail line that had been staffed by volunteers.
Visitors can disembark and enjoy the two-hour stop in McCaysville and Copperhill to shop for antiques, grab a bite to eat or take in the town.
The rail suggests people buy tickets in advance, pick up their tickets two hours before, and board 45 minutes before the train is scheduled to pull out of the historical train station. Like a good railway, it keeps its schedule.
The Blue Ridge Scenic offers a primer class, where riders can ride in a car with reclining seats and munch on snacks. In addition, Blue Ridge Scenic offers a shorter "Santa Express" around the holidays.
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Sometimes, the train isn't the destination. It's the journey. While there are several places where you can hop in the car, drive, park, buy the ticket and take a ride, there are fewer places where you can still travel by train to visit the Smokies.
Amtrak, the train system that's a federally-chartered corporation, doesn't exactly go through the Smoky Mountains, but it comes close.
The Crescent Train runs from New Orleans to New York, cutting close to the southeastern edge of the Smokies. The train stops in places like Greenville and Clemson, South Carolina, and Gainesville, Georgia.
Before Amtrak operated today's Crescent train, the Richmond and Danville Railroad shuttled passengers on "the Washington and Southwestern Vestibuled Limited," a train that helped passengers ride in style along the same route starting in 1891. Back then, the train included running water, a library and sleeping and dining cars.
Today, the Crescent Train also includes the modern necessity of WiFi. It offers a menu written specifically for this route, and includes a signature dessert—a pecan tart served with whipped cream.
According to the schedule of the train, it pulls into Greenville at 4:54 a.m. and 10:53 p.m.
American rail planners in the 1990s finally began to embrace a model created by the Japanese Shinkansen "bullet train" network established in 1964.
High-speed rail projects expand tourism options
Progress comes paradoxically slow for high-speed passenger rail projects in the United States, but it does come nonetheless—and once a proposed $9 billion project connects Atlanta to a nearby Tennessee town, it certainly won't be the Chattanooga Choo-Choo the Andrews Sisters were singing about.
Nine years ago, studies began on the possibility of connecting Atlanta with Chattanooga via high-speed passenger rail. Long a laggard in the implementation of such technology, American rail planners in the 1990s finally began to embrace a model created by the Japanese Shinkansen "bullet train" network established in 1964.
A 1991 Act of Congress ultimately resulted in the creation of Amtrak's Acela Express, still the country's fastest train. From Washington, D.C. to Boston—with 14 stops in between—it reaches speeds of up to 150 miles an hour and can make the 457-mile trip in less than seven hours.
A route for the proposed Atlanta-Chattanooga connection was recently selected and measures out to a slightly more manageable 120-mile stretch; next-generation locomotives could almost double the Acela's top speed, putting Atlanta and its airport within easy reach of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park region—and vice versa—for commuters and tourists alike.
Beginning at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the route would basically parallel Interstate 75, with stops in downtown Atlanta, Cumberland, Town Center, Cartersville, Dalton, Chattanooga's Lovell Field Airport and downtown Chattanooga some 90 minutes later.
Connecting the two cities opens up a world of options for travelers hoping to explore more of Southern Appalachia's scenic beauty without resorting to automobile travel.
Those options would help ease congestion at Hartsfield-Jackson—the world's busiest airport—as well as on Atlanta's notoriously busy highway system, lowering pollution in the process.
Far from losing business, however, Atlanta could find itself the center of a national hub of high-speed rail connections, thanks to the 2009 U.S. Department of Transportation High-Speed Rail Strategic Plan.
The plan would, among other things, link much of the Eastern Seaboard with the Midwest and the Southeast, in theory beginning at the Acela terminus in Washington, D.C. and skirting the eastern and southern slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains from Raleigh, North Carolina, through Charlotte and on to Greenville, South Carolina, before reaching Atlanta.
From Atlanta, the network will head south to Miami, and west to Houston via Birmingham and New Orleans.
The route from Atlanta to Chattanooga was chosen mostly because demand on the regional air and highway transportation system routinely outstrips capacity.
A Georgia Department of Transportation report says that between 7,000 and 11,000 people could ride the new trains daily, which would run hourly or more frequently during peak times.
The trains would also be completely separated from vehicular traffic, meaning no roadway crossings, ever; much of European railroading has been built around this safety-conscious concept, but the U.S. has more than 200,000 at-grade crossings that result in countless accidents and deaths each year. No crossings also allows the train to maintain its higher speed.
Capacity issues, though, weren't the only reason the Federal Railroad Administration selected the corridor.
Although scenic and excursion railroads—featuring antique hardware and oft-rustic rides—have been all the rage of late and an economic boon to the once-booming communities that rode those rails to prosperity a century ago, the FRA has something far more futuristic in mind.
Among the options for the route's trainset is a Maglev system that utilizes electricity to power magnets that propel the train over a monorail.
Such systems are currently in regular operation in Shanghai, China and Aichi, Japan, and can reach speeds of over 300 miles per hour, truly making Tennessee, as the old song goes, not very far.
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Q: Core Data store corruption A handful of customers for my iPhone app are experiencing Core Data store corruption (I assume so, since the error is "Failed to save to data store: Operation could not be completed. (Cocoa error 259.)")
Has anyone else experienced this kind of store corruption? I am worried since I aim to soon push an update which performs a schema migration, and I am worried that this will expose even more problems.
I had assumed that the Core Data/SQLlite APIs use atomic operations and are immune to corruption except if the underlying filesystem experiences corruption.
Is there a way to reduce/prevent corruption, and a way to reproduce the corruption so I can test this (I have been unsuccessful thus far).
Edit:
Also getting this error: "The database at /var/mobile/Applications//Documents/foo.sqlite is corrupted. SQLite error code 11, database disk image is malformed."

A: It happens to me when I manually overwrote my Base.sqlite without deleting Base.sqlite-wal and Base.sqlite-shm. Indeed, these files are new SQLite 3.7 features, maybe added in iOS 7.
To resolve the problem, I deleted Base.sqlite-* and sqlite regenerated them from my new base version.

A: The error you're getting is defined in Foundation.h
NSFileReadCorruptFileError = 259, // Read error (file corrupt, bad format, etc)
I've never encountered it with an actual store but I have hit something similar with bad permissions (on the Mac.) I haven't seen anyone mention a similar error online either. The error prevention systems in Core Data are fairly robust.
I would guess that the easiest way to create this would be send the persistent store to look at the wrong file such as accidentally targeting it at a text file. If it expects an SQL store but finds something else it will complain that the file is corrupt. That's just a shot in the dark.
Edit
This will be hard to track down because errors like this are so rare in Core Data that there aren't any tools to assist finding the problem.
I would recommend:

*

*Checking upstream of where the error is coming from code. Perhaps something is throwing the store off or is causing it to look in another place.

*Check anywhere you might do something non-standard. For example, if you generate your own entity map in code, its easy to throw it off if your not careful.

A: Also attempt to replicate the error by filling the drive on the Device -- you should receive a disk full error instead of the database corrupting, but it may be possible to get a corrupted database in this manner.

A: For clarity, using Xcode 7.2.1, SQLite data store, Core Data object graph, for a prototype app.
My problem was detailed by the Xcode terminal as:

CoreData: error: (11) Fatal error.  The database at
  /Users/etc/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/etc/data/Containers/Data/Application/etc/Library/Application Support/com.etc.etc/etc.sqlite is corrupted.
  SQLite error code:11, 'database disk image is malformed'.

Effectively my app was able to load and read the SQLite data, but was unable to save.
This answer by SO user software evolved made sense to me. While using Simulator I was fairly certain I had interrupted a save operation on a managed object context with private queue concurrency type NSPrivateQueueConcurrencyType.
Further investigation (using SQLiteManager) revealed the SQLite table I had been saving to at the time was the cause of this problem.
I could have easily deleted the app (no public release yet) however I wanted to understand at least how to repair this problem.
Notes from this experience:

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*In the app delegate under the UIApplicationDelegate Protocol - (void)applicationWillResignActive:(UIApplication *)application, if your managed object context hasChanges be sure to include a database save method;

*If using more than one queue, use the Home button to trigger the delegate method in item 1 before clicking the stop button in Xcode;

*Repair the damaged database file - I developed a solution detailed below from the answer outlined on this webpage Fixing the SQLite error "The database disk image is malformed".

SQLite Database File Repair Method:

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*Open terminal [terminal/sqlite commands];

*Navigate to the appropriate file location [cd];

*For backup purposes, make a copy of the 'malformed' database file (e.g.dbMalFormedBU.sqlite) (that can be deleted later if the repair is successful) [cp];

*To be certain, delete the dbMalFormed.sqlite-shm and dbMalFormed.sqlite-wal files [rm];

*Open your 'malformed' database file [sqlite3 dbMalFormed.sqlite];

*Clone your database file [.clone dbMalFormedNew.sqlite];

*Exit SQLite3 [.exit];

*Delete the old 'malformed' database file [rm dbMalFormed.sqlite);

*Rename the new database file to the name used previously [mv dbMalFormedNew.sqlite dbMalFormed.sqlite].

A: I experienced that error when trying to get the persistent store coordinator.
Multi-threading was the problem in my case. Fixed it wrapping the whole method with a @synchronized(self) {} block.
- (NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *)persistentStoreCoordinator
{
    @synchronized(self) {

    // Quickly return persistent store coordinator if available
    if (__persistentStoreCoordinator != nil) {
        return __persistentStoreCoordinator;
    }

    // Persistent store coordination initialization, to be performed once
    // ...

    }
    return _persistentStoreCoordinator;
}

A: Are you ever interacting with the database using the sqlite API? Or have you used any non-Apple tools to create your seed database?

A: I experienced "Core Data store corruption" when I was preloading the database with a separated thread(not main thread) and it has been really difficult to find this bug since only a few of my customers will crash their app because of this.

A: I recently ran across this problem. In my case I was performing a search and iterating over the objects to transform the data to XML and KML. I would then spawn the email handler and attach the files. Then I would update a field in the objects and finally save to the backing store (SQL Lite). The worked fine in 3.x. In 4.x it broke.
It was stupid on my part to do all the email handling before altering and saving the DB. Moving all non essential code to the point after the save cleared up this problem.
This problem would totally corrupt the SQL DB. In my case the error is:
 File at path does not appear to be a SQLite database

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Inside The Woodlands
Township looks at $77.7 million budget for 2010
By Alan Fossler on July 31, 2009 at 3:33 AM
The Woodlands Township has proposed its inaugural 2010 community-wide budget of $77.7 million, to be funded for the first time through property taxes.
The proposed budget includes overtime for sheriff office deputies to patrol village centers, the possibility of 15 new deputies in a single division in The Woodlands, three new firefighters and new dispatching equipment.
About 175 residents turned out for a Town Hall meeting Wednesday to learn how their tax dollars will be spent. About 20 speakers expresses concerns on a range of topics, including law enforcement, senior tax exemptions, park spending, a future ice rink, transportation options or a museum district, and budget reserves.
Rick Thomas, a resident of Panther Creek, said:
I have seen a lot of money going into recreation, when I think people here would prefer safety.
Others asked the board to adopt a property tax exemption for senior citizens, an action the board previously put off until the 2011 budget.
The proposed tax rate for the $77.7 million budget is 32.8 cents per $100 of assessed value, which would mean a tax bill of $902 on the average $275,000 home.
This would replace the current assessment rates paid to three property owners associations of 32 cents per $100 of assessed value for The Woodlands Association for newer villages, 16.25 cents per $100 of assessed value in The Woodlands Community Association for older villages and 30 cents per $100 of assessed value for The Woodlands Commercial Owners Association for businesses in the central business district.
A public hearing on the proposed budget is at 9 a.m. Aug. 19 at the township offices, 10001 Woodloch Forest Drive, Suite 600. The adoption of the budget is scheduled for 9 a.m. Aug. 26 at the same location.
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Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Skotty, Feb 29, 2016.
When it comes to climate change, periodically the topic of cows comes up. Eat less meat. Cows are contributing to climate change. This argument has always bugged me, and it's time for a deeper dive into this topic to determine if cows are a problem, how big of a problem they are, and get real about possible solutions and the tradeoffs involved.
The first big question to ask gets right to the heart of the matter -- how does a cow contribute to climate change? I can understand the problem with fossil fuels. We are digging up carbon that has been buried for a millennia or longer and introducing it into the atmosphere. What is going on with a cow? It's born, it eats, it grows, and eventually dies. It's part of a shorter term cycle. How is this adding to the problem? Where is the extra carbon coming from? Was it just laying on the ground? Is it in the plants they eat? What if we are growing more plants to feed the cows? Wouldn't this offset the problem to some degree? If a cow is to be a problem, it has to be freeing carbon that was somehow trapped in something other than the air and introducing it into the air, in a way that is out of balance. And maybe that's the case. But someone really needs to explain this more openly so everyone understands. But for now, just to be cautious and for the sake of further argument, lets just assume that this is really happening.
Next question. How big of a problem can this be? The easy way to look at this is at the individual level. As a beef eater and milk drinker (did you think of that? we need cows for milk too), how many cows am I responsible for? I will take a deeper dive into this in the days ahead.
Next question. How is this different from any other mammal on the Earth? Expected answer -- it's probably not. This would suggest we could make tradeoffs. How many mammals, or pounds of mammals, or however you want to measure it, should be allowed for each human adult? Is it fair trade to allow cats and dogs to be euthanized at the pound instead of giving them a life in my home if I want to eat more meat? Can I choose to have 1 less child and eat more meat? Some amount of this -- lets call it mammal carbon -- should be okay; in cyclical balance; otherwise, every giraffe and panda on the Earth would be contributing to climate change just out of their very existence. Are you going to point your finger at a panda and blame it for contributing to climate change? So how much mammal carbon can I be responsible for without getting things out of balance? Logically, each of us should have some carbon budget, of which we can allocate however we like. Maybe there could even be a cap and trade system. Want to eat more meat but you are at your budget limit? Buy credits from a petless childless EV-driving vegetarian.
We have now wrapped back around to looking at the overall greenhouse gas problem. We need to be clear and reasonably certain on how big of an impact each facet of the issue is, in order to know where we need to focus our efforts. The cow issue needs more attention, either to lend it it's due credit, or perhaps to discredit it's often stated significance. Where is the scientific research on the impact of livestock on global greenhouse gas emissions? I'm not interested in what Greenpeace or the cattle industry has to say. It needs to be peer reviewed science. I will be searching for this in the days ahead. Please feel free to share any links or information you may have as well.
It is indeed a real issue. I'd recommend watching 'Cowspiracy', which addresses many of your concerns (it is on Netflix). Also check out their website which links to all scientific studies used in the documentary.
I haven't checked out Cowspiracy yet, but I will. However, I will admit that through name alone it immediately starts setting off my BS/bias alarms, so I will be looking at it with a very skeptical eye.
It is something written by folks at the ILRI, the International Livestock Research Institute. Are they biased? What I've found hasn't set off any of my unfair bias detectors yet.
The ILRI is the International Livestock Research Institute, which "works to improve food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for better and more sustainable use of livestock."
The ILRI is a member of the CGIAR consortium. Well, who are they?
CGIAR is "the only worldwide partnership addressing agricultural research for development, whose work contributes to the global effort to tackle poverty, hunger and major nutrition imbalances, and environmental degradation."
Seems reasonable so far, but I will need to dig deeper.
Estimates of global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions attributable to livestock range from 8 to 51%. This variability creates confusion among policy makers and the public as it suggests that there is a lack of consensus among scientists with regard to the contribution of livestock to global GHG emissions. In reality, estimates of international scientific organizations such as the International Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are in close agreement, with variation mainly arising on how GHG emissions are allocated to land use and land use change. Other estimates involve major deviations from international protocols, such as estimated global warming potential of CH4 or including respired CO2 in GHG emissions. These approaches also fail to differentiate short-term CO2 arising from oxidation of plant C by ruminants from CO2 released from fixed fossil C through combustion. These deviances from internationally accepted protocols create confusion and direct attention from anthropomorphic practices which have the most important contribution to global GHG emissions. Global estimates of livestock GHG emissions are most reliable when they are generated by internationally recognized scientific panels with expertise across a range of disciplines, and with no preconceived bias to particular outcomes.
In 2010, global ghg emissions for the entire transportation sector was 14%. So, Livestock produce roughly the same amount of ghg emissions as all of the cars, planes, trains, buses, big rigs, boats and supertankers on Earth.
@Skotty You are suspecting bias and at the same time confirming your own bias by judging before looking at the evidence. The title might not convey 'seriousness' but in my opinion it is a well researched documentary. One of the major studies is by the USDA, highlighting the huge impact animal agriculture has on greenhouse gases. That is mostly methane, not CO2. Methane, albeit short lived, is 25 times more potent than co2. But the impact goes much further if we all start realizing that every second we loose an acre of rainforest, almost exclusively to make room for grazing animals, namely cows. Co2 is released by burning the forest and the carbon capturing capacity of the now gone trees is lost forever.
afaik the real issue with cows and other large animals isn't their own waste emissions but the water and energy spent keeping them alive during the growing process and harvesting process. For the large animals you pay for all the energy spent growing grain and then feed that to the cows. It's like Cows are the Toyota Mirai of food. You pay to change the energy type multiple times thus it is never as good as just using the grain in the first place.
I still eat Beef but I'm willing to concede it's inefficient and I'm willing to eat more Chicken than Beef. Maybe I'd be healthier if I removed some meat from my diet but I grew up eating meat with nearly every meal and it'd be a big loss in comfort and a strong will would be required.
This topic also re-emphasizes something I feel strongly about -- you often hear about climate change, and about how you can (and should?) use less energy, be more efficient, drive less, eat less meat. These are all good for mitigating the issues, but they often don't address the core problem, which is why these activities were dirty in the first place. As this pertains to beef, the core solution is not to just stop eating meat, it's to fix what's making meat production greenhouse gas emitting in the first place, at least as much as it can be. How clean can it be made, and how do we enforce it? More questions to consider.
Skotty, there is no question that the ILRI is biased. It is funded by the livestock industry. Businesses like factory agriculture are not going to spend money on publicizing the idea that their product has a negative impact on the environment. That is not "conspiracy theory" thinking, that is simply rational analysis.
Based on what I have been reading for many years now, there is no question that livestock production is a significant contributor to human-caused climate change. Americans, on average, consume far more protein than they need for good health, and the vast majority of that protein is beef/pork/chicken. There are many compelling arguments to be made for consuming much less animal protein, and reducing environmental damage is one of them.
And I am very sad that lamb has higher calculated emissions than beef.
Depends on what you mean by "bias". If it's just taken to mean having preference, that's fine as long as it doesn't lead to intentional dishonesty or unintentional misrepresentation of reality. And I'm not smelling any of that on what I've seen so far from the ILRI. Their arguments seem sound and rational. They don't seem to be denying there's an impact, and they seem sincere in their desire to have it accurately represented and in their mission to reduce that impact.
Coming back to this forgotten topic -- how much of the problem is attributable to the cow vs to how the cow is managed?
If the cow itself is a problem, is a cow somehow special where it's a much bigger problem than other types of animals?
If the cow itself is a problem, and if a cow is comparable to other animals, then we would need to look at all animals, not just cows.
How many cows are there?
Lets compare that to something similar, like Bison.
Were Bison causing global warming problems back before they were slaughtered to near extinction?
Do we need to start getting rid of pet dogs?
And how much do people themselves supposedly cause just from being alive?
More questions that can help put the cow situation into at least some kind of context. Something that has been sadly lacking from much of the material coming from the anti-cow crowds. If you want to make a solid case for cows being a problem, we need better evidence. And it needs to broken down, so we can better understand exactly how much problem the various aspects of it contribute. How much is cow poop? How much is land management? How much is transportation, if that's getting lumped in, which I would guess it is? How much is processing? How much is meat packaging?
I left this topic for awhile after being underwhelmed with the available information I could find, but I need to get back to it. This problem needs to be broken down and understood. I don't think the current stop-eating-meat vs laissez-faire debate is helpful. It needs to be broken down to understand how much the various aspects of it can be improved and to arrive at some level of meat production that is reasonable.
Does breathing contribute to CO2 buildup in the atmosphere?
You can't compare them directly like that. Cows don't eat fossilized carbon. If you see one that is busy digging a mine to go chew on some coal, please stop it.
Cows eat plants that, if there weren't cows to eat, they would have eventually died, decomposed, and emitted exactly as much CO2 as the cow does when eating those plants. A cow cannot directly cause any net CO2 to be released into the atmosphere, than planting a tree can remove net CO2 away from it. (When the system is in equilibrium).
Now, there are other bad aspects to cows other than direct CO2 emissions - like non-renewable energy use during mining operations, and CH4 from cow flatulence & cow manure. Though the latter is actually a usable and manageable resource. In fact I charged my Tesla from it a little while ago... getting 0.8 mpcd... miles-per-cow-per-day .
The point is - if you see any study that's showing direct CO2 emissions from cows (as opposed to energy-based CO2 emissions), you have to take it with a grain of salt. It's the cow equivalent of leaving out the well-to-wheel formula for fossil fuel mining & refining when comparing ICE & EV emissions.
Cows actually do eat fossilized carbon. Lots of natural gas is used to create fertilizer, to grow grains for feed.
We don't HAVE to do it that way, but without a price on carbon it's most profitable to do it that way. From the chart above, it looks like we should be feeding them lentils if we can't just let them graze. And of course, raising them in parts of the world without enough naturally-occurring surface water is just dumb.
"Dickson noted that although the oceans presently take up about one-fourth of the excess CO2 human activities put into the air, that fraction was significantly larger at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. That's for a number of reasons, starting with the simple one that as one dissolves CO2 into a given volume of seawater, there is a growing resistance to adding still more CO2."
The farts of those bisons from the western plains were absorbed by the massive forests and a pristine ocean so as not to be of concern. Our cow farts (and more -- feed for them etc.) are adding to all other other activities, plus instead of forests to filter them we have built cities spewing their own carbon into the air, and we also have an ocean saturated in CO2.
As a beef eater and milk drinker (did you think of that? we need cows for milk too), how many cows am I responsible for?
You may want to look at the studies of what eating red meat, and drinking milk, do to your heart. That's probably more of an immediate concern to you than your contribution to climate change. Plus, once you get the heart/meat/milk balance down to a rate that won't affect your health, you'll probably be at a rate that's not too bad for the environment too.
I thought the big climate change effect from cows was from the methane, not the CO2. They belch a ridiculous amount and it goes straight into the atmosphere. Turning vegetation into natural gas takes millions of years (and it mostly stays underground until someone digs it up), but cows do it pretty much in real time.
The "Cowspiracy" movie covers the issue of "sustainable beef" and the answer is no.
If beef is raised on pasture only (and the pasture isn't fertilized) then it has lower CO2 production but still significant global warming impact. Plus, there's not enough pasture raise anywhere near the amount of beef we consume today. Best to just say no to beef and other met.
It's not healthy to eat meat, it's not good for the environment and there are significant ethical issues in raising farm animals.
There's a lot of CO2 emitted in growing and harvesting the grain that cows eat (and they only convert about 3% of it into usable meat).
Things aren't always as black and white as people make it out to be.
You dont have to agree that Allen's solution is the ONLY way to solve it, but so far, there are no others.
This guy is a crackpot whose theories have been thoroughly debunked.


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Q: Entity Framework - Loading only certain rows in navigational property I have the classes
Address
PeopleAddress    //join table with a column called current
People           // my main table, with a IList<PeopleAddress>

modelBuilder.Entity<People>()
            .HasMany<PeopleAddress>(m => m.CurrentAddresses)
            .WithRequired()
            .HasForeignKey(m => m.PeopleId);

I (always) want to load only PeopleAddress's in people where PeopleAddress.Current == 1.
rows with PeopleAddress.Current == 0 is not required for the application.
How do I achieve this? Is this possible? Thank you.
PS: I  cant not use Include as the context is instantiated in a lot of places and I need to do it in  OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)

A: For this to work lazy loading should be disabled giving you full control of which data is loaded.
Do the query on the PeopleAddress table and make sure the People data gets loaded as well via the navigational property in PeopleAddress.
public virtual People People { get; set; }

PeopleAddress.Include(pa => pa.People).Where(pa => pa.Current == 1)

A: Try it
context.People.Include("PeopleAddress")
              .Select(t=> new { t,
                                PeopleAddress= t.PeopleAddress
                                                .Where(p=>p.Current==1)});


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Tucked away on a small side street near Leicester Square, the Photographers' Gallery is Britain's leading centre for contemporary photography.
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This compact venue with its defined collections lends itself to short visits and is great for filling in an hour or so in the centre of town. Having said that, the reputation of this small gallery is high, hosting as it does the Deutsche Börse Prize, the photographer's equivalent of the Turner. This is accessible art in every respect.
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Q: use javascript/jquery/PHP to call automatically img link 1.jpg, 1.1.jpg, 1.2.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg ... instead call them in each links I'm using fancybox and to display my gallery i call all images like that

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Can I use javascript, jquery, php ... in my page to call images present in my folder in ascending order, I mean: 1.jpg, 1.1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, 4.1.jpg, 4.2.jpg, ... automatically without to set the numbers in each links like that

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UPDATE QUESTION
Can I generate my gallery directly with PHP without changing my structur ?


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Congressmen Request Federal Investigation of Comey, Clinton, Lynch, McCabe, Strzok, Page
By Susan Jones | April 19, 2018 | 7:08am EDT
(Photo: Screen grab/C-SPAN)
(CNSNews.com) - Eleven House Republicans on Wednesday sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and U.S. Attorney John Huber, formally asking them to investigate three members of the Obama administration -- former FBI Director James Comey: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; former Attorney General Loretta Lynch; and FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, all for "potential violations of federal statutes."
"We write to refer the following individuals for investigation of potential violation(s) of federal statutes," the letter says. "In doing so, we are especially mindful of the dissimilar degrees of zealousness that has marked the investigations into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, respectively.
"Because we believe that those in positions of high authority should be treated the same as every other American, we want to be sure that the potential violations of law outlined below are vetted appropriately."
The 11 Republicans say Comey's decision not to seek charges against Clinton's mishandling of classified emails suggests "improper investigative conduct, potentially motivated by a political agenda." They also said Comey appears to have leaked classified information when he leaked memos detailing his conversations with President Trump.
The Republicans referred Hillary Clinton for "disguising payments to Fusion GPS on mandatory disclosures to the Federal Election Commission."
They want Loretta Lynch investigated for "her decision to threaten with reprisal the former FBI informant who tried to come forward in 2016 with insight into the Uranium One deal."
They want former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe investigated for lying and leaking to the press, as outlined in a recent report from the Justice Department inspector general.
The Republicans want FBI agents Strzok and Page investigated for "their interference" in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server.
And finally, the letter asks Sessions, Wray and Huber to investigate "all DOJ and FBI personnel responsible for signing the Carter Page warrant application that contained unverified and/or false information."
Appearing on Fox News Wednesday night, Rep. DeSantis said, "This is all about equal application of the law."
"Comey, he's out on this book tour, acting like his values trump all, but yet he testified in front of the Congress that he didn't exonerate Hillary until after the interview (with Clinton), when we know evidence has come out that he exonerated her two months before with the memo.
"Then you look at somebody like Andrew McCabe. He rushed in to prosecute Michael Flynn. They went in, they interviewed Flynn and prosecuted him for false statements. McCabe lied to the FBI, it is documented now, multiple times. Is there a different set of rules for McCabe?" DeSantis asked.
Appearing with DeSantis on "Hannity," Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said, "If lies were music, Jim Comey would be Beethoven. But when you lie to Congress, it's a crime. When you leak information that's classified, it's a crime. And when you allow your personal politics to dictate the outcome of an investigation before even conducting the investigation in earnest, that could be obstruction of justice.
"And so in Congress, we didn't want to just sit around and hope that Jeff Sessions and others would seriously look into these matters. We wanted to specifically detail the violations of law and then demand action from our attorney general, because we cannot allow this to stand," Gaetz said.
The letter referring members of the Obama administration for prosecution was signed by DeSantis and Gaetz, as well as Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Dave Brat (Va.), Jeff Duncan (S.C.), Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Andy Harris (Md.) Jody Hice (Ga.), Todd Rokita (Ind.), Claudia Tenney (N.Y.), and Ted Yoho (Fla.).


Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe's Office announced Monday that the Massachusetts Appeals Court upheld a contempt judgment against the witness in a local murder trial.
According to a release from the DA's Office, John Viust was called as a witness in the first degree murder trial of Robert Vacher. Viust was appointed an attorney and the court ruled that he had Fifth Amendment privileges. When the court offered immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony, he still refused to testify prompting the judge to hold him in contempt, the release said.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court upheld the court's contempt judgment and rejected Viust's claims that the judgment was made in error.
On the contempt judgment, Viust was sentenced to 90 days in the Barnstable House of Correction. According to the DA's Office, he was to serve that time following a sentence he was serving on a unrelated matter.
The Vacher case gripped the Cape when the then 20-year-old was arrested and charged with the 2008 robbery and murder of 16-year-old Jordan Mendes in Hyannis. Mendes's body had been discovered in a ditch in Hyannis. He had been shot, stabbed and then set on fire. In November 2011, Vacher, who was Mendes's cousin, was found guilty of his murder in the first degree.


Banswara (Rajasthan) - It was another flagship scheme for rural India, only this time the setting changed from a poverty-stricken region of Andhra Pradesh to a tribal heartland in Rajasthan.
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is back to showcasing its "pro-poor" agenda by launching a livelihood mission even as it battles widespread public perception that it has lost the plot.
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi last week travelled to the tribal heartland of Banswara district to inaugurate the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) which officials say is a "revolutionary" measure. It aims to enhance the incomes of 70 million below-poverty-line (BPL) rural households through self-managed self-help groups (SHGs). It provides for training in income-enhancing skills and financial subsidies so that the rural family comes out of poverty.
Banswara has over 72 percent tribal population and low levels of literacy. Located on the southernmost part of Rajasthan, it has several tribal districts in its vicinity, including Jhabua, Dhar and Barwani in Madhya Pradesh and Dahod in Gujarat besides Rajasthan's Dungarpur and Udaipur.
"The scheme had to be launched from an area which has problems of poverty and illiteracy. Banswara, along with neighbouring districts, is part of the state's tribal subplan," Raghuvir Singh Meena, the Congress MP from Udaipur, told IANS. He said Rajasthan was chosen as a state for the launch of the scheme as it has sincerely implemented other central government schemes.
The livelihood mission seeks to build on the wide acceptability of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which was launched in 2006 by the UPA in its first term in Anantpur, one of the most backward regions of the country in Andhra Pradesh.
NREGA, which guarantees 100 days of employment a year to rural households, is believed to have contributed to the Congress' electoral success in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls.
Asked if NRLM would benefit the Congress, Meena said, "People appreciate those who work."
With the Congress out of power in tribal dominated states, including Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, Rajasthan emerged as a preferred choice. According to the 2001 census, the female literacy in Banswara is just 28.43 percent while the average literacy figure stands at 44.63 percent compared to the national rate of 64 percent. The national figure has now risen to 74 percent. Former rural development minister C.P. Joshi also pushed for the scheme to be launched from his native state of Rajasthan.
"There are a large number of vacancies in schools here and medical facilities are not enough. The launch of NRLM from this district signifies the commitment of the Congress to reach out to the tribals and poor," Rajasthan Tribal Area Development Minister Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya told IANS.
NRLM aims to reach all blocks of the country by the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-17) and aims to involve at least one member of the 70 million rural BPL families, preferably women, in SHGs.
Local people in Banswara did seem to be aware of NRLM and said any programme that helps them organise SHGs and enhances their skills was welcome.
"If we can borrow money to buy a buffalo, we can have surplus milk for the family. If all surplus milk is pooled together, it can be sent to a dairy and can earn us money," Geeta, a resident of Banswara, told the visiting IANS correspondent.
NRLM will also involve the private sector in training and job placement of rural youth. "If industry wants people with a particular skill, it can train local youth," the official added.
Ministry officials said NRLM was "a revolutionary step" and its core belief was that the poor have a strong desire and innate capability to come out of poverty.


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Najemnik (tytuł oryginału: El Mercenario) – hiszpańska seria komiksowa z gatunku heroic fantasy i science fantasy autorstwa Vicente Segrellesa, publikowana pierwotnie w latach 1980–2003. Jej cechą charakterystyczną, rzadko spotykaną w komiksach, jest wykonanie każdej planszy w technice malarstwa olejnego. Ostatni, specjalny 14. tom ukazał się w 2014 i ma charakter ilustrowanej powieści z opisami fabuły zamykającymi wątki z poprzednich epizodów.

Historia publikacji
Seria początkowo publikowana w odcinkach w czasopiśmie "Cimac", od 1982 ukazywała się w formie indywidualnych tomów nakładem wydawnictwa Norma Editorial. Została przetłumaczona m.in. na język angielski, chorwacki, francuski, niderlandzki, niemiecki, portugalski, włoski. Po polsku ukazuje się od 2018 nakładem wydawnictwa Kurc.

Fabuła
Seria toczy się w świecie przypominającym średniowieczny i opowiada o przygodach tajemniczego najemnika z Krainy Wiecznych Chmur, w której walczy z ludźmi, potworami i kosmitami. Często towarzyszy mu uratowana wcześniej z opresji piękna kobieta.

Tomy

Przypisy

Hiszpańskie komiksy
Komiksy fantasy
Science fantasy
Komiksy przygodowe

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Q: Запуск процессов из строки и перенаправление вывода Написал функцию bash для запуска комплекса программ.
BIN_DIR=./bin
LOG_DIR=./log
function Run(){
   CFG="$2"
   echo $CFG
   if [ -z "$CFG" ]; then
      CFG=$(Config $1) #формируем дефолтную строку для конфига
   fi

   CMD="${BIN_DIR}/$1 $CFG >${LOG_DIR}/${1}.log 2>&1" #перенаправление
   echo $CMD #отладочный вывод что мы там запустили
   $CMD& #фоновый процесс
   sleep 1
}

Запуск
# 1 - имя приложения; "2" если конфиг передан строкой с пробелами
Run $1 "$2"

Программы валят весь лог в stderr, почему-то при запуске процесса через скрипт вывод не перенаправляется.
UPD
Пробовал перенаправлять только поток вывода
2>${LOG_DIR}/$1.log

Тоже не работает. Не понимаю что я не так делаю, почему валидная строка запуска в консоли работает, а в скрипте нет.

A: перенаправления файловых дескрипторов — это синтаксические конструкции языка.
когда вы пытаетесь интерпретировать переменную, содержащую строку, в которой (строке) содержится и вызов какой-то программы (скрипта, функции), и данные синтаксические конструкции, они (конструкции) передаются вызываемой программе (скрипту, функции) простыми аргументами.
чтобы программа bash произвела полноценный синтаксический анализ интерпретируемой строки, содержащейся в переменной, надо воспользоваться встроенной командой eval:
eval $var

иллюстрирующий пример:
#!/bin/bash

f() {
  echo "количество аргументов = $#"
}

c1="f abc"
c2="f abc 2>/dev/null"

$c1 # выведет "количество аргументов = 1"
$c2 # выведет "количество аргументов = 2"
eval $c2 # выведет "количество аргументов = 1"

A: Я смог обойтись и без eval просто разнес формирование команды и сам вызов.
CMD="${BIN_DIR}/$1 $CFG"
echo $CMD
$CMD >${LOG_DIR}/${1}.log 2>&1&
#$CMD $>${LOG_DIR}/${1}.log &


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Q: Uncaught Error: Class "APP\Utilities\Asset" not found in In the asset file in utilities, I put the namespace APP\Utilities correctly, but when I use the asset::get() object, for example, it gives an error.
#Meanwhile, I am just learning MVC :)


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Роберт Мудрый (;  — ) — король Неаполя и граф Прованса в 1309—1343 годах из Анжуйской династии (Анжу-Сицилийский дом).

Наследник неаполитанского престола
Третий сын Карла II, короля Неаполя в 1285—1309 годах, и Марии Венгерской.

У Роберта было два старших брата Карл Мартелл и Людовик. Людовик избрал духовную стезю, стал епископом Тулузы. Карл Мартелл, унаследовав от своей матери права на престол Венгрии, после смерти короля Ласло IV вступил в борьбу за венгерскую корону, был коронован, но умер, не добившись желаемого. Сын Карла Мартелла Карл I Роберт продолжил борьбу за Венгрию, добился короны, но был вынужден пожертвовать ради этого своими династическими правами в Неаполе. Таким образом, Роберт, будучи третьим сыном, стал в итоге наследником Карла II.

Когда при посредничестве папы был заключён мир в Ананьи (1295 год), по которому Хайме II Арагонский отказывался от Сицилии в пользу Анжуйской династии, Роберт женился на Иоланде, сестре Хайме II. Но подписанный мир и заключённый брак не принесли Роберту Сицилии: сицилийцы не признали произошедшей за их спиной передачи острова из рук в руки и избрали своим королём Федериго II, младшего брата Хайме II. По договору в Калтабеллоте (1302 год) Карл II и Роберт признали Федериго II пожизненным королём Сицилии, что фактически означало их отказ от продолжения борьбы за остров.

Царствование в Неаполе и борьба с гибеллинами в Италии
Роберт, вступив на престол Неаполя в 1309 году, оказался на долгие годы главным вождём партии гвельфов в Италии.

В 1311—1313 годах Роберт воевал с императором Генрихом VII, по примеру императоров X—XII веков решившим добиться реальной власти в Италии. В мае 1312 года Генрих VII, временно смирив ломбардские города, вступил в Рим. Но правый берег Тибра с собором святого Петра находился под контролем неаполитанских войск под командованием Иоанна Ахайского, брата Роберта, и Генрих VII не смог сломить их сопротивления. В результате Генрих VII короновался в Сан-Джованни-ди-Латерано 22 июля 1312 года и покинул Рим навсегда.

После смерти Генриха VII 24 августа 1313 года Роберт продолжил войну с гибеллинами в Северной Италии. В 1317 году папа Иоанн XXII за заслуги Роберта перед Святым престолом возвёл его в сан сенатора Рима. В последующие годы Роберт добился подчинения Генуи (1318) и Брешии (1319).

В 1328 году Роберт успешно противостоял следующему императору Людвигу Баварскому, а в 1330 году нанёс поражение сыну Генриха VII Иоанну Богемскому, вынудив его покинуть Италию.

Роберт и Возрождение
Роберта высоко ценили Петрарка и Боккаччо как высокообразованного монарха и покровителя искусств. Петрарка добивался чести выступить перед Робертом перед тем, как направиться в Рим для получения венка на Капитолийском холме в 1341 году. Он же посвятил Роберту поэму «Африка», увидевшую свет уже после смерти как короля, так и автора.

Семья и наследники
Роберт был женат дважды.

От своей первой жены Иоланды Арагонской (1273—1303), дочери Педро III, короля Арагона (с 1276) и Сицилии (с 1282), Роберт имел двух сыновей:

 Карл Калабрийский (1298—1328), герцог Калабрии и наследник престола, умерший раньше отца и оставивший после себя несколько дочерей. Одна из них Джованна I (1328—1382) стала преемницей Роберта на неаполитанском престоле.
 Людовик (1301—1310).

Вторым браком Роберт был женат на другой принцессе из Арагонского дома — Санче (1285 — 28 июля 1345), дочери короля Майорки Хайме II (1243—1311), о детях от этого брака нет сведений.

Предполагается, что от внебрачной связи с графиней Аквино имел дочь Марию Аквино, которую вывел влюблённый в неё Боккаччо в своих произведениях под псевдонимом Фьяметта. Казнена по обвинению в соучастии в убийстве.

Родословная

Ссылки
 SICILY/NAPLES: COUNTS & KINGS

Анжу-Сицилийский дом
Герцоги Калабрии
Правители Неаполитанского королевства XIV века


I've been using this Easy Chicken Curry Recipe for a couple of years now. I just recently realized that I hadn't shared it here!
It's a fairly quick and easy recipe to make. It's a favorite with my family, too. It has a spicy flavor, but it's not spicy hot. I don't like spicy hot food, and this recipe is perfect to me.
In a large skillet, cook the onions and curry paste in 1 tablespoon of oil. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, for 5 minutes.
Add remaining oil, cubed chicken, and season with salt & pepper.
Cook the chicken until golden on all sides. Add carrots, broccoli, garlic, & basil. Cook & stir for 2 minutes.
Add chicken broth, tomatoes, and coconut milk. Bring to a simmer.
Let simmer for about 20 minutes, until chicken is cooked through and sauce has begun to thicken.
This recipe serves 6-8 people when served over rice.
If you happen to have leftovers, it's good the next day, too!


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Stelis sexmaculata är en biart som beskrevs av William Harris Ashmead 1896. Stelis sexmaculata ingår i släktet pansarbin, och familjen buksamlarbin. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Pansarbin
sexmaculata