How can we explain children's attraction to the animal kingdom? What is this irresistible appeal, this enchantment that almost every child feels before the world of animals?
To be sure, the young child is by far more irresistibly drawn to animals when in the presence of his parents, so much so that without it, the appealing charm of animals not only disappears, but is transformed into terror. Just as for Adam the intimate dialogue or familiarity with God is the condition and, so to speak, the "sphere" in the context of which the naming of the animals can take place (Adam is instructed by God to name the animals and the animals "are brought in front of him" by God), in the same way, the confident intimacy between the child and his parents and their reliable presence are for the child the necessary context of his curious opening to the "marvelous mystery" of the world of animals. The parents—and the mother in particular, as the one who represents God's intimacy, God's closeness and reliability—are the condition for the child's opening to the animal kingdom. For, in a sense, the animal kingdom is able to represent or symbolize the other crucial side of the Divine Other: absolute Difference.
Human existence is firstly and above all the adventure of a progressive entering into friendship with God, and of an ever-growing deepening of this relationship; since it is truly an adventure, it is filled with wondrous discoveries, precisely because it is unraveled in time through the mediation of the world. The world of animals plays an irreplaceable, marvelous role in this story of getting to know God through the world. Animals played this role in the very beginning and continue to do so wherever an ounce of purity remains unspoiled in the human heart. It is preserved in the heart of children, who—after all—take the purest delight in animals.
The animal kingdom too—to be sure—has suffered the consequences of the fall. A sinister shadow dwells in the world of wild nature alongside its splendor—though not in the same degree and mode as happens in the human world. Light and shadow: for all of creation—not only the human—"waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God" (Rm 8:19). Nothing is anymore as it should and could have been. All creatures long for their liberation: the lion and the eagle no less than the human. They wait to be fully "freed" through the very liberation of the human, for whom they have been created.
But in the child, because of his innocence, something of the primordial encounter between Adam and the animals, something of that dawn-like wonder, is renewed and kept alive. What does the child see when his father brings him to the zoo for the first time and, looking at the elephant, the child points his little finger toward him and, filled with awe, he "says its name"? What is the child seeing? And what is that which irresistibly compels him to talk to the elephant, as if trying to establish a kind of friendship, a kind of communion?
Identity and difference, sameness and difference: this is the profound reason for that particular feeling we cannot describe, but we all remember, that unfathomable mélange of awe and attraction, of wonder and fear, we have felt in front of animals (it would be interesting here to explore how different species affect us). Of course, this mixed feeling of fear and attraction, of awe and love, is different from the one the same child will feel the day when he falls in love for the first time. The feelings in each case are qualitatively incomparable. They belong to a different order. The animal is not a person. Nonetheless, the child tries instinctively and immediately to establish something like a friendship, or at least a peaceable coexistence. And if it is true that an animal cannot be the kind of "helper" that the woman will be one day, it is also true that there is another irreplaceable quality in the living image of the animal—in all animals in some sense—–that is lacking in the woman, precisely because of her incomparably greater likeness to Adam: the woman—no matter how beautiful she is—cannot fly. The eagle can. And this is why it will become spontaneous for the "grown" child to see integrated in the woman—through poetic, metaphorical imagination—all the inexhaustible, inaccessible qualities proper to those animals that enchanted him in his childhood: the flight of the eagle, the gaze of the cat, the elegant dance of the ibex who jumps with amazing nimbleness from rock to rock, among the abysses, the rapid, noble running of the "mare of the Pharaoh's chariots"… Yes, it is true: as we already said, the woman for the man (and the man for the woman) is, more than anything else in the visible universe, that other, who can at the same time be impenetrably "other" and no less than intimately "close." To explain further, the other person, as a spiritual mystery, can be more impenetrable than animals (i.e., only a person can have secrets!), but also—in the measure she loves you and opens up to you—she can welcome you into herself and share herself with you at a much deeper level. But the woman can't (and will never be fully able to) be a substitute for the inexhaustibly rich world of qualities proper to the animal kingdom, qualities that in the very moment in which they make a certain animal more distant, at the same time open up the beholder to horizons of endless transcendence. To be "friend" of the eagle means for the child to be sure that "one day I will fly too, and I will fly through you and with you: you will lift me up to the sky." Tomorrow the child will "refer" these words metaphorically/spiritually to his first girlfriend. But—perhaps—they won't have the same "literal power," the same "primordial" power that they had in his heart and imagination when he was still a little child.
In this way, there is a sense in which even the grown man still needs the eagle and the mare. He still needs to pass through the eagle in order to fully understand the woman, no less than he needs the woman in order to spiritually and symbolically integrate in his actual experience—that is, as opposed to just in his imagination or dreams—the promise enfolded in his encounter with the eagle: the promise to fly with the eagle once he will have tamed her; the promise to run with the mare once he will have tamed her. On the one hand, the flight of the young man who falls in love is less real because it is metaphorical, but, on the other hand, it is more real because the promise is no longer just in potency, but is, in a way, actualized. It is not accidental or without importance that the lovers in the Song of Songs cannot reciprocally sing of their beloved but through a metaphorical recapitulation of the qualities proper to animals and plants in the only one beloved. Indeed, it is in the human beloved that all the images receive their full disclosure. But it is also true that without the experience of the world, which gives the lover/poet the creative capacity of seeing in the Beloved what is visibly not there (i.e., the woman does not fly!), the lover who beholds would actually be unable to see all that he sees in his beloved. To call to mind Dostoyevsky, when Grushenka calls Mitya "my hawk," she does this because of qualities of his character and behavior that could be perfectly and analytically described using conceptual language. That is, there is something common between the hawk and Mitya Karamazov, and these similar features could be even better described through a plain, non-metaphorical description of him. But what the metaphor does is something more: it does not refer simply to what he already possesses, but—in addition to that—it refers to that which belongs to the animal and which is not properly Mitya's. No matter how much Mitya's way of moving is similar to the "swooping-down-on-its-prey" of the hawk, Mitya is not (and will never be), properly speaking, a hawk. He will never "suddenly land" like a hawk does.
All of this shows well the irrepressible nostalgia and almost need to integrate animals into the realm of interpersonal communion, a nostalgia that doesn't die with the end of childhood.
The central point is this: The similarity between man and woman is greater than between man and animal. Yet this is precisely the reason why the animal can be all the more precious: its greater—even disturbing, sometimes—dissimilarity, better points to the mystery of God's irreducible Difference. The monster of the sea, for example, opens to the sublime, to the mystery of the utterly indomitable incomparably better than any human other. Here, the scales lean more radically than anywhere else in favor of difference, dis-proportion; here, kinship is felt as almost absent. But this is exactly what makes irreplaceable the encounter with this particular animal, and—similarly—with the whole of the animal kingdom, which is as such closer to man than the lower spheres (e.g., plants, rocks, etc.), but further from man than the woman. It is here where the secret of the utterly special, all-precious attraction of the child to animals must be found. The mystery of the other, qua same and different, is here infinitely inferior in what concerns the likeness, but in a certain respect superior as to the difference—even when considering the bodily aspect alone.
We therefore must dare say: the child "is initiated"—in a sort of pre-conscious manner—to religious wonder more profoundly by far through the encounter with wild animals than through the encounter with his school playmates. The image of the Mystery qua Mystery is incomparably deeper here precisely because the difference between the child and the animal is incomparably greater. To explain further, since every creature is an image of God, the more a creature is perceived as foreign, wild, untamable and mysterious, the better it makes visible the ungraspable and untamable mysteriousness of God. Of course, without the premise of the primordial relationship with mother and father, this wonder would be turned into distress and horror. However, there seems to be a moment, a kairos in the development of human consciousness, in which animals receive a kind of superior enchanting power. And rightly so: because in the animal is visibly represented the utter Difference of the Great Other better than in any "helper like him." Both person and animal make God present and visible. And the "personal other"—to be sure—represents him with an incomparably greater similitude, since God is a Person (or, more precisely, a communion of Persons). However, the "dissimilar symbol," the animal, thanks to and not in spite of its dissimilarity, better opens up to another fundamental dimension of the relationship with God: awe in front of His utter Difference. The feeling of the divine distance is, in fact, not less important than that of His closeness in the development of the religious sense. God is the intimior intimo meo. But, even more than that, He is the three times Holy, the One in front of whose face even the Angels cover their eyes with their wings…. The sacred authors who gave us the Holy Scriptures knew this very well. And this is why no people shows in the same way as Israel did—simultaneously the deepest sense of God's utter Transcendence and an incredibly rich repertoire of zoomorphic metaphors to represent Him in His relating to His created partner, as Israel did.
To conclude: If we reflect on the order of creation, we see that for Adam the animal makes God visible iconically in a way that is different from the woman: the animal makes God more visible precisely through those qualities of his that distinguish him from both man and woman. This primordial fact is somehow ever grasped by the child. The eagle flies, the child will never fly. The worm creeps, enters the earth, the child doesn't. The ibex jumps in such a way that the child will never be able to; but the child—unlike the adult—doesn't take for granted the renunciation of all these wonderful, different ways of "living in the world" that the animal world reveals. He doesn't forsake the wonder that these creatures elicit. He doesn't experience this as simply foreign, having nothing to do with him because he is human. The process of differentiation is in the child not "only" immature; but also—precisely thanks to this immaturity—more open and yearning for communication and integration. The eagle exists. What a marvel! The Eagle exists and I want her to be MINE, I want to be ONE with HER, I want to be LIKE her, even though I understand I am just a child… and I will never be an eagle…but behold: if I talk to her, if we become friends, if I tame "her," maybe one day I will fly on her back; I will fly one day with you. You, one day, will take me to Heaven with you… (cf. Deuteronomy 32:11)!
Rev. Paolo Prosperi FSCB is an Assistant Professor of Patrology and Systematic Theology at the John Paul II Institute in Washington, DC.


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#LSA19: Demystifying the All-in-One Solution — Selling the Full Stack
February 27, 2019 | Contributed by: Charles Laughlin
Today at LSA 19 we had a breakout focused on how to sell full stack software solutions – those digital equivalents of a Swiss Army knife.
The full stack concept makes a lot of sense, at least on paper.
Why not make it easy for SMBs to run their business in the cloud with one login, one bill and one place to go for help?
The challenge is that sales organization, particularly local media organizations, struggle with selling these full stack products. How do you boil down a simple sales message about a solution that does 16 different things?
The panel was designed to unpack how to sell these solutions without getting bogged down in long, unproductive conversations.
The LSA's Tech Adoption Index small business survey has consistently demonstrated through three waves of data that small business operators are looking for a single solution that does all or most of what they need to do to run their businesses, from marketing through payroll.
As the chart below shows, 65% of small business decision makers would welcome one login and one bill for all of their cloud software requirements. this as the highest reading among the three waves of Tech Adoption Index surveys.
Yet today very few SMBs actually take full advantage of all in one software, even when it's offered by a solutions provider they already use. One case in point is Zoho, which calls itself the "Business Operating System." When Zoho's president Raj Sabhlok spoke at LSA 18 in Chicago, he acknowledged that the average Zoho One customer used four apps, when the entire suite includes more than 40 available apps. This utilization rate is fairly typical.
Today, after I set the scene with a short deck laying out the pros and cons of selling the full stack, we had a Q&A with Eran Feldman from Camilyo, one of the companies out there pitching all in one platforms, and Francisco Sánchez Fernández, the CMO of Seccion Amarilla. His company is the leading directory publisher in Mexico and has been selling the full stack for the past 18 months.
Francisco said the initial experience was a disaster. Reps got bogged down in the weeds of the individual components of the stack. After pausing and retraining, the reps focused on doing a needs analysis and applying the piece of the solution that addresses their most pressing need. Francisco used the example of barber shops. Talk to them about online scheduling and the sale is much easier.
Then Seccion Amarilla uses after sales service reps (which they call "experts") to drive more engagement with the platform.
Perhaps the biggest benefit of selling the full stack for Seccion Amarilla is the impact on churn. Francisco said customers on the all in one platform are churning at a rate of 3%, which is enviable by any standard.
The conversation also addressed how automation and DIY would ultimately factor into selling the full stack. Both panelists acknowledged that the economics of selling a monthly subscription product are challenging with a process heavily reliant on human capital.
Francisco said Seccion Amarilla will adopt DIY this year and expects about 10% of its customer to come in through that channel.
Contributed by: Charles Laughlin
Charles Laughlin, senior analyst with the LSA, is a seasoned journalist with more than 20 years experience covering the industry.
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As imagined by an unknown artist (c. 1910), the future of New York is filled with low-flying bi- and tri-planes and train trestles that run through skyscrapers. The above postcard is part of the Walker Evans collection of 10,000 currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art here in NYC. I recommend visiting by tri-plane as the elevated trestle is normally congested.
Doesn't this sorta remind you of GM's Futurama from the 1939 World's Fair?


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Kirkdale Cave was discovered by quarrymen in 1821 and documented by William Buckland in 1822.
It had been used a hyena den and contained bones from animals such as elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses and bison from around 125,000 years ago.
This was controvesial at the time as the church was of the position they were deposited by the biblical flood.


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Giampietro Campana, ou Giovan Pietro Campana, (né en 1809 à Rome et mort dans la même ville le ), créé marquis de Cavelli en 1849, est un aristocrate italien connu pour avoir réuni au  la plus importante collection d'objets d'art de toutes époques mais principalement d'objets d'art antique, connue sous le nom de Collection Campana. Elle  fut vendue et dispersée dans différents pays d'Europe. La France en acquit une grande partie en 1861 pour le musée Napoléon III.

Vie privée

Campana épousa Emily Rowles en 1851, dont la famille anglaise lui permit de créer des liens avec Louis Napoléon Bonaparte : en effet ce dernier a été aidé par la famille  lors de son exil en Angleterre. Il est possible que ces liens aient amené l'empereur à être sensible au sort de Campana et à celui de sa collection.

Constitution de la collection

Le marquis Giampietro Campana était directeur du mont-de-piété à Rome, charge qu'occupèrent son père et son grand-père, et se prit de passion pour les nombreuses découvertes archéologiques de son époque faites en Italie. Très rapidement, et profitant d'une manière pas toujours légale de ses fonctions, il constitua une très importante collection d'objets d'art antique, mais particulièrement d'objets provenant de fouilles étrusques, romaines et grecques. Il finança aussi des fouilles, comme à Cerveteri, sur le site de la ville étrusque de Caeré aux alentours de 1844, notamment dans la Nécropole de Banditaccia.
Il collectionna également de nombreux tableaux et objets d'orfèvrerie qu'il achetait en puisant dans les fonds du mont-de-piété.

Sa collection, particulièrement célèbre, bénéficiait également des ateliers de restauration du marquis. Les frères Pennelli, en ce qui concerne les terres-cuites, étaient ainsi fameux pour leurs reconstitutions des objets de terres-cuites déjà connues des contemporains de Giampetro Campana. Ainsi Salomon Reinach dit croire . Pietro et Enrico Pennelli seront les auteurs du faux sarcophage étrusque acquis par le British Museum en 1871.

Fin de vie
Ses malversations financières découvertes, Campana est arrêté en 1857, puis condamné à vingt ans de prison et emprisonné. Sa collection est saisie par l'État pontifical en 1857, mise en vente et dispersée dans plusieurs pays en 1861 (Russie, Grande-Bretagne, Belgique, France).

En 1859, Campana est libéré moyennant l'abandon de tous ses biens au Vatican et sa condamnation est commuée en peine d'exil à vie et de déshonneur. Campana parcourt alors l'Europe en continuant à vivre sa passion pour l'art  notamment à Naples, Paris, Genève, Londres, Bruxelles ou Dresde.

Après l'unification italienne, Campana peut revenir en 1871 s'installer à Florence, qu'il quitte après la mort de son épouse Emily en 1876 : il revient à Rome, où il tente vainement de réclamer au pontificat les bénéfices réalisés sur les ventes de sa collection. Il y meurt en 1880.

La collection Campana en France

La partie la plus importante de la collection Campana fut achetée par la France en 1861 sur l'intervention personnelle de Napoléon III conseillé par Émilien de Nieuwerkerke, surintendant des Beaux-Arts :  œuvres d'art et 641 tableaux, pour  francs-or, une somme considérable pour l'époque, et partagée entre le musée du Louvre et de nombreux musées de province. En 1975 un regroupement partiel est effectué au  musée du Petit Palais d'Avignon pour les tableaux des primitifs italiens. La Collection Campana constitue aujourd'hui la majeure partie des céramiques étrusques et grecques du musée du Louvre ainsi que le fond des bijoux d'or étrusques du musée.

Pastiches, imitations et faux

L'engouement au  des riches voyageurs du « Grand Tour », pour les parures étrusques, fit naître des bijoux « à l'étrusque », des pastiches, des imitations avouées ou même des faux destinés à tromper les collectionneurs. L'atelier Castellani a ainsi  « restauré à l'étrusque » le collier Campana du Louvre, en 1859, en vue de la vente de la collection Campana à Napoléon III.

La plupart des bijoux articulés, prétendus d'origine étrusque, ne sont en fait que des assemblages par des fils d'or de conception moderne d'éléments antiques prélevés sur des boucles d'oreille.

Une exposition au musée du Louvre, en collaboration avec le Musée de l'Ermitage, donne pour la première fois (2018) une vue de l'ensemble de la collection en présentant la personnalité romanesque de Campana, l'histoire de la collection, la reconstitution de salles du musée Campana à Rome, le goût du collectionneur pour les pastiches et les faux.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

°Jean-Luc Dousset. "Giampietro Campana la malédiction de l'anticomane" Éditions !Jeanne d'Arc, .
 Ida Caruso, « Antique et presque antique » in Les bijoux étrusques comme source d'inspiration et de falsification pour les Castellani (traduit par Giovanna Léo), 79
 Gertrud Platz-Horster, L'orfèvrerie étrusque et ses imitations au XIXe siècle (traduit par Françoise Gaultier et Catherine Metzger), 91.

Articles connexes
 Augusto Castellani
Collection Campana
 Musée du Louvre

Liens externes

 Musée du Petit Palis - Avignon : Le marquis Campana, collectionneur insatiable

Naissance à Rome
Collectionneur italien d'œuvres d'art
Archéologue italien du XIXe siècle
Étruscomanie
Noblesse italienne du XIXe siècle
Marquis italien du XIXe siècle
Naissance en 1809
Décès en octobre 1880

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Q: Updating shapefile metadata to show up in ArcCatalog? I am attempting to update the metadata for a variety of shapefiles to change the information under 'Summary' (or 'Purpose'), 'Description' (or 'Abstract'), etc. in ArcCatalog's Description tab.
I am using ArcMap 10.4 and am working in C#.
I can already update the Metadata itself and I can see that my changes have been applied to the shapefile's .shp.xml file, but this doesn't consistently change the info in ArcCatalog's Description tab. Looking at several shapefiles I have been given, it seems that there is some other setting that dictates where the ArcCatalog pulls its information from.
For example here are two different paths for two different shapefiles from where ArcCatalog gets the Description:

idinfo/descript/abstract
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The values for those elements are unique to the file, so there is nowhere else the data could be getting pulled from.
What do I need to set in my shapefiles to make ArcCatalog look at a consistent location for it's sections?

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Source – Bickerstaff next up for Lakers interview
May 10, 2019 Sports 0 Views Los Angeles Lakers will interview former Memphis Grizzlies coach J.B. Bickerstaff for his headcoaching position on Friday, a source that was confirmed to ESPN. The Lakers have regrouped since Wednesday's breakdown with the main coordinating candidate Tyronn Lue. Bickerstaff will be the sixth candidate to interview Lakers' vacancies created by Luke Walton's resignation last month. He joined Monty Williams, Juwan Howard, Jason Kidd, Lue and Frank Vogel. Bickerstaff was fired as a Grizzlies coach in April. He had just finished his first full season at work after taking over as middle manager in the 2017-18 season. The 40-year-old Bickerstaff was 48-97 in two seasons with Grizzlies, who never do the playoffs. His only other NBA coaching experience was as interim in the Houston 201 5-16 as he went 37-34. Lakers interview process is expected to include the control owner Jeanie Buss, chief Rob Pelinka, team advisor Kurt Rambis, head of special projects Linda Rambis and Chief Operating Officer Tim Harris and Lakers co-owner Joey Buss (CEO of the organization's G League affiliate) and Jesse Buss (Lakers Scouting Director). The Los Angeles Times first reported Lakers planned interviews with Vogel and Bickerstaff. Information from ESPN's Dave McMenamin and Adrian Wojnarowski were used in this report. Source link
May 10, 2019 Sports 0 Views
Los Angeles Lakers will interview former Memphis Grizzlies coach J.B. Bickerstaff for his headcoaching position on Friday, a source that was confirmed to ESPN.
The Lakers have regrouped since Wednesday's breakdown with the main coordinating candidate Tyronn Lue. Bickerstaff will be the sixth candidate to interview Lakers' vacancies created by Luke Walton's resignation last month. He joined Monty Williams, Juwan Howard, Jason Kidd, Lue and Frank Vogel.
Bickerstaff was fired as a Grizzlies coach in April. He had just finished his first full season at work after taking over as middle manager in the 2017-18 season.
The 40-year-old Bickerstaff was 48-97 in two seasons with Grizzlies, who never do the playoffs. His only other NBA coaching experience was as interim in the Houston 201
5-16 as he went 37-34.
Lakers interview process is expected to include the control owner Jeanie Buss, chief Rob Pelinka, team advisor Kurt Rambis, head of special projects Linda Rambis and Chief Operating Officer Tim Harris and Lakers co-owner Joey Buss (CEO of the organization's G League affiliate) and Jesse Buss (Lakers Scouting Director).
The Los Angeles Times first reported Lakers planned interviews with Vogel and Bickerstaff.
Information from ESPN's Dave McMenamin and Adrian Wojnarowski were used in this report.


Formerly a Spanish colonial territory, and since 1975 occupied by Morocco, the Western Sahara – at the western edge of the continent – has been called Africa's last remaining colony. With the beginning of a guerrilla war against Morocco in 1975, most of the Western Saharan population – the Sahrawis – had to flee across the border into south-western Algeria, settling in refugee camps. Most of the refugees expected this to be a short-lived episode abroad, before they would be able to return to their home country. No one knew that the camps they were setting up near the city of Tindouf would still be the focus of the Sahrawis' political, social, cultural and economic life more than forty years later.
These camps have been established mostly independently by the refugees themselves, with support from Algeria. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was initially not involved. Even though the Sahrawis do not have control over their own country, they proclaimed the independence of the Western Sahara on 27 February 1976. Its sovereignty is recognised today by approximately 40 countries, though its status remains unresolved.
Not anticipating to remain in exile for long, one would expect the Sahrawis to establish only the most basic infrastructure in the camps. The earliest photos seem to confirm this assumption: rows of uniform tents in the desert sand, providing shelter for the refugees and protecting them from the harsh environment. Except for a central open space, no other facilities seem to exist. But this assumption turns out to be deceptive. Besides several clinics to deal with injuries and diseases (measles and diphtheria were spreading in the early days of the camps), the refugees immediately started setting up their own schools and training additional teachers to provide comprehensive education for the young. Furthermore, community meetings, recreational activities, as well as courses in craft were set up.
While the provision of housing and medical aid might obviously be considered a necessary response to emergency and immediate crisis, the activities of schooling and recreation seem to fall into a category of improvement or upgrading. Even if in hindsight, and with our contemporary notion of humanitarian action, the provision of schooling comes as no surprise, it is evidence of a specific strategy that the Sahrawis employed for their life in exile, and that we will come to observe throughout the camps: to provide the full spectrum of activities of everyday life in the camps, while being prepared to abandon them if the opportunity arose to return to one's homeland in the Western Sahara. The strategy is not about establishing the minimum level to guarantee survival, but at providing the maximum possible, to allow a full life from the very beginning. The temporary, something that might be understood as a bare response to an emergency, and the permanent, tendencies of normalisation and initiatives of upgrading, are therefore not opposites or antitheses, but always coexist simultaneously.
Today, more than forty years later, six camps – Boujdour, El Aaiún, Awserd, Smara, Dakhla and Rabouni – in an area with one of the most relentless climates on this planet, are inhabited by altogether 160,000 Sahrawis. Smara is the largest camp with approximately 40,000 inhabitants, and covering an area of some 12 square kilometres. From one of the few hills in the mostly flat landscape, you can see the camp stretching out to the horizon. A relatively dense fabric of single-storey buildings, huts and tents is interspersed with larger institutional facilities such as schools and clinics, and denser clusters of shops and small markets. Over the years, Sahrawi families have constructed residential compounds that often consist of a number of huts arranged around a small central open space. The huts, built of adobe bricks, are typically monofunctional: one hut for cooking, one for washing, one for sleeping, one for drinking tea and receiving guests. Depending on the size and financial situation of each family, these compounds can consist of one or two huts, or grow to include up to seven or eight buildings.
Given their long history, the fact that temporary architecture such as tents are still evident in the camps requires explanation. Primarily, there are functional considerations. In the heat of the summer, when temperatures rise above 50° Celsius, the tents provide a comfortable night-time climate, as they cool quickly and allow a breeze to enter. They also reference the nomadic tradition of the Sahrawis, alluding to the era before their country was lost to Morocco. Beyond questions of culture and comfort, another reason for using tents is symbolic. The tents serve as an architectural signifier of the fact that the Sahrawi refugees have not surrendered to life in exile, but instead are still struggling for a return to the Western Sahara. The tent – signifying temporality – is a building type that signals that the situation is not settled. It expresses through architecture the ongoing political demand of the Sahrawis to return to their home country. A political claim is communicated through an architectural type.
Stepping into one of the huts, you are surrounded by decoration: tapestry and curtains on the walls, carpets on the floor, and textile coverings for the cushions around the walls, that act as seating. All of this decoration is easily movable. If the opportunity of return to the Western Sahara suddenly arose, it could simply be placed on the back of a pick-up truck and transported. This decoration is in line with the notion of temporality. Things become more complicated when the decor changes medium. When inhabitants of the camps start decorating their buildings with stucco or plaster, we can ask if this represents the first step towards permanence. Have the people who embellish their interiors with stucco – with motifs ranging from the simple to the funny to the outright kitschy – resigned themselves to life in exile and given up on any return to the Western Sahara?
One way to resolve this tension is by using designs that reference the political, such as the national flag or the shape of the country's territory. But another way of seeing it is to question the supposed dialectics between permanent and temporary. A typical scene in the camps is that of a residential building with carefully sculpted columns, arches or similar architectural detailing, while solar panels are lying outside in the sun, generating energy for a TV or the fridge. While the care for the architectural elements might represent permanence and the transportable solar panels might represent the category of the provisional, this scene in fact teaches us that the permanent and the temporary are not binary opposites, but always co-exist. They are just different material expressions of the same motivation: to create a liveable environment that supports personal expression and development, starting from the very first day. This tension also shows how every architectural element, every detail, has additional messages and meanings. Architecture is never neutral, never innocent.
Driving from the Algerian city of Tindouf to the east, you pass miles of uninhabited Saharan desert. The landscape is barren, dominated by sand and gravel, and mostly flat. With no trees in sight, the only vegetation is some ankle-high dusty shrubs, fighting to survive in the harsh desert climate. Approaching the Sahrawi camps, you pass a key element that belongs to the defining features of refugee camps worldwide: a checkpoint controlling access to the camps. This particular checkpoint, though, differs from virtually all such comparable posts in the global matrix of camps: whereas nearly everywhere else, the checkpoints are operated either by security personnel of the hosting country, in this case Algeria, or by UNHCR, this checkpoint is manned by Sahrawi soldiers, that is, the refugees themselves. It is not Algeria that determines who can enter the camps and who can't, it is the refugees. The local population of the camps can decide who has access to them. What seems like an insignificant, and mostly administrative, detail, in fact is the first evidence to a unique situation that the Sahrawi refugee camps represent: rather than being spaces of absolute control and of the refugees' reduction to mere recipients of aid, they tell a story of self-reliance and (semi-) autonomy. They show how the camp can be conceived as a political project or as a tool of social emancipation.
Already evidenced by the refugee-controlled checkpoint at the camps' entrance, the Sahrawis live in a territory from which Algeria has ceded most of its control. The partial autonomy has led to an extensive administrative structure with its respective spaces mainly in Rabouni, the administrative centre for the camps. When walking through Rabouni, you pass, among others, the Ministry of International Affairs, and the Ministries of Health, of Defence, of Planning. Rabouni also houses the main national hospital, the national museum and the national archive. A large central market is at the main transport hub, where every day hundreds, if not thousands, of Sahrawis arrive to work at the ministries.
Just a few hundred metres to the east of Rabouni, an innocent-looking gate gives passage to the institution that is the key to this matrix of governmentality: it is the Parliament of the Sahrawis. From here, the refugees govern themselves. Political representatives, voted in through an election process taking place in the camps, debate and dispute the policy questions of the Sahrawi people. What emerges is unique for refugee settlements: a seat of government for a refugee nation where refugees govern themselves. A refugee camp as a capital for a nation in exile. What also emerges in the exceptional situation of life in the camps, is a certain kind of normality: people arriving in the morning, going to work, having lunch in the canteen of their ministry or in a sandwich shop, and returning home in the evening. It is the normality of participating in a self-governed life and being able to shape it – though of course bound by life in exile. Not only in charge of their own lives, the refugees are also developing expertise and experience in running a country. They are using this time of living in the camps to prepare themselves for the nation yet to come. The time in the camps has not been spent idle and wasted. Rather, it anticipates and prefigures the nation.
This specific concept of a nation, developed in the camps, is marked by hybridity, however. Shortly after fleeing to the camps in Algeria, the refugees declared the independence of, and their sovereignty over, the Western Sahara on 27 February 1976. While the Sahrawis' authority over their country is recognised by around 40 nations, it cannot be exercised by the refugees given the ongoing occupation by Morocco. So the sovereignty is confined to the area of the camps, which of course is only implicit, and could be described as a 'borrowed sovereignty', as they are within another sovereign nation, Algeria. Nevertheless all the elements of a sovereign nation, in terms of a political and a legal system, governmental institutions and embassies, and civic order, exist. We could therefore see the concept of the nation developed by the Sahrawis as novel in the sense that it severs the conventionally firm link between territory and authority. In the camps, new forms of the nation state are being invented.
The Sahrawi camps are spaces in which inhabitants are in charge of their own lives – at least to the extent possible with the continuing occupation of their home country. It is a space that has given rise to a novel system of administration, and new social structures, where nomadic traditions have transformed into modern concepts of family structures and new identities have been created. In stark contrast to the common conception that these camps are usually spaces where politics is prohibited, within the Sahrawi camps politics is both facilitated and promoted. Not only is the Sahrawi population encouraged to engage themselves in political matters, but the camps themselves are seen and used as political projects in their anticipation of the Sahrawi nation state of the Western Sahara. The Sahrawi camps, therefore, give us proof of the camp as a form of urban space. At a time when spaces of control and surveillance are multiplying in our cities, where gated communities and corporate compounds withdraw ever more space from public and political interaction, the opposition of the urban condition to camp spaces becomes less and less valid. Maybe the Sahrawi camps represent a spatial quality that is in fact more urban than many of our cities.
At the risk of compounding the injury done to the most abused book title in the history of architecture: can we imagine a Learning From the Camps? Can we see the Sahrawi camps not only as a unique phenomenon in a global landscape of camps, but also as a paradigm that could act as a model for other refugee settlements? Could we translate some of these understandings to other camp locations in the world, or even the European context?
While the Sahrawi camps were mostly self-initiated and self-constructed, with support from Algeria, it is usually UNHCR that is responsible for planning and setting up refugee camps. In the case of people fleeing from conflict, UNHCR negotiates with the local government (or private landowners) to secure a piece of land on which the refugees can be housed. The planning strategies of a camp are formulated in accordance with local rules and interests, but are shaped by a central planning document that UNHCR has devised for itself, the UNHCR Handbook for Emergencies. This handbook lays out the general planning principles and services that need to be provided in camps. What becomes obvious – and not surprisingly – is the quantitative and technical logic of the document. It is guided by questions such as 'How many litres of water per day?', 'How many square metres of space per person?', 'How many schools per camp?' The notions of cultural and recreational activities, of social exchange, or of political engagement do not play a role in these planning strategies, and hence, are mostly not considered. The UNHCR guidelines understand the camp as a technical device for protecting and saving lives. What the Sahrawi camps teach us is that we should rather consider a refugee camp as a proto-urban space, where urban qualities need to be considered from the very first moment. It also shows us that the refugees can be entrusted with shaping their own spaces to a much larger extent than we might want to think. Instead of UNHCR officials planning a camp for refugees, residents can be involved in this process themselves. This should extend to the management of the camp and the provision of services such as schools or clinics, thus preventing the camps from turning into NGO-cities, as is otherwise the case.
One large difference of the Sahrawi camps is their demographic homogeneity. The camps are exclusively inhabited by the same ethnic group, speaking the same language, practising the same religion, having fled the same conflict, and being united by a shared political agenda. Few other camps can exhibit this homogeneity that has also given rise to a strong loyalty among its population. The biggest challenge would therefore be to realise these notions of agency in the far more heterogeneous environment evident in other camps.
In an oddly twisted way, the Sahrawi camps mirror some key elements of the economist Paul Romer's concept of Charter Cities. These are newly founded cities with their own 'charter', that is, governed by their own set of laws different from those of the country they are located in. In contrast to Romer's concept where these cities, in the Global South, are in fact set up and controlled by Western powers, and used for a developmentalist agenda – an approach that has obviously led to accusations of neo-colonialism – in the case of the Sahrawi camps, it is the inhabitants who are governing their own urban settlements. But instead of being engines of neoliberal market development as envisaged by Romer, the Sahrawi camps are locations of political and social emancipation. Thinking along the lines of Jean and John Comaroff's Theory From the South that suggests how Africa in specific and the Global South in general can be seen as a source of theory and explanation for contemporary global transformation processes, why not turn Romer's idea of Charter Cities on its head. Instead of imagining more and more pockets of the neoliberal West established in countries of Africa that also risk bringing more inequality and consumerism – why not establish new cities in the Global North that share some of the direct democratic, emancipatory and egalitarian principles of the Sahrawi camps, and allow us to rethink the notion of the nation state, and hence also of the citizen?


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{
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        /// <summary>
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        /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param>
        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
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Before the commencement of the project, their website hosted three legacy partner websites. The legacy websites had differing user interfaces, making information difficult to find and leading to a disjointed user experience. Our client approached us with the goal of creating a new partner website that would contain the combined information of the three legacy websites.
Our clients partners had to visit as many as three different websites to get the information they wanted.
The legacy websites had differing navigation systems, content structures and content types. The user experience was inconsistent, and the brand identity of the three websites was weak.
The legacy websites weren't responsive for mobile devices and didn't meet modern user experience standards.
One of the primary challenges of completing the website redesign project for our client was the fact that they are a major corporation with a complex structure. The legacy websites each had their own sets of stakeholders, and we had to connect with all of them to collect information and establish the requirements of the new client partner website. We also had to create a logical website structure that would allow users to easily find information formerly available on three separate websites.
The legacy client partner websites utilized fairly old web technology. The websites utilized Classic Active Server Pages — a product that Microsoft last updated in 2000 — for their business logic. Our redesigned website would need to utilize the same software and business logic. In addition, their partner websites did not run on modern content management systems. We needed to add a page authoring interface to the new partner website's administrative module.
TA Digital began the project by analyzing the existing client partner websites to learn more about how the existing solution worked and how it satisfied the needs of the business and its partners. We proposed a solution and obtained agreement from all client stakeholders before proceeding. We would continue to communicate frequently with client stakeholders by phone and email during the project. In our communication, we described our progress and received clarification about their content migration requirements.
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For partners who rely on the ability to access information from the legacy client partner websites, we've made that information easier to find by adopting a new modern interface for the new partner website. Our redesigned interface organizes information in the way that modern Internet users have come to expect, and it works on the wide variety of devices that people now use.
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The Latest: Dalvin Cook out for game with shoulder injury
November 28, 2021, 7:11 p.m. ·12 min read
___ 7:10 p.m.
Minnesota Vikings running Dalvin Cook has been taken off the field on a cart after injuring his shoulder in the third quarter against the San Francisco 49ers.
He is out for the remainder of the game.
Cook went down after losing a fumble and stayed on the ground for a while before being taken to the locker room with an undisclosed injury.
Cook had 10 carries for 39 yards and six catches for 64 yards before getting hurt.
Odell Beckham Jr. has his first touchdown of the season, and his first as a Los Angeles Ram.
Beckham caught a 54-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford on the opening play of the fourth quarter. The Rams added a two-point conversion on a Stafford pass to Cooper Kupp, cutting the Green Bay Packers' lead to 36-25.
The Packers had pursued Beckham after the Cleveland Browns released him earlier this season, but he chose the Rams instead.
Beckham entered the day with just 19 catches for 250 yards this season. He had two catches for 18 yards two weeks ago in his Rams debut, a 31-10 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
Matthew Stafford has thrown a Pick-6 for a third straight game, and now the Los Angeles Rams could be heading toward their third straight loss. Stafford attempted to throw a pass to Cooper Kupp late in the third quarter, but Rasul Douglas stepped in front of it and scored his first career touchdown on a 32-yard interception return.
Douglas' touchdown extended Green Bay's lead to 36-17. The Packers have scored 16 points off three Rams turnovers.
In the Rams' two games leading up to this one, San Francisco's Jimmie Ward scored on a 27-yard interception return and Tennessee's Kevin Byard reached the end zone on a 24-yard interception return.
The Rams lost 31-10 to the 49ers and 28-16 to the Titans.
The Green Bay Packers extended their lead over the Los Angeles Rams early in the third quarter despite losing Randall Cobb to a groin injury.
Cobb caught four passes for 95 yards and a touchdown in the first half but isn't playing the second half. The Packers still reached the end zone on the opening drive of the second half, with Aaron Rodgers throwing a 5-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Dillon.
That drive included a 12-yard completion from Rodgers to Josiah Deguara on fourth-and-2 from the Rams' 21-yard line.
Green Bay leads 27-17 midway through the third quarter ___
Teddy Bridgewater has returned to the game for the Denver Broncos on the first series of the second half.
Denver's starting quarterback had left in the first half with a lower leg injury and Drew Lock filled in while he was out, leading the Broncos to a touchdown and a 14-0 lead.
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has struggled against the Denver defense all day, but managed to throw one TD pass before halftime to cut the lead in half. ___
Green Bay's offense ended its recent penchant for slow starts as the Packers grabbed a 20-17 halftime lead over the Los Angeles Rams.
The Packers scored on four straight possessions to build their lead, though big plays by their defense helped them start the first two of those drives inside the Rams' 30-yard line. Heading into Sunday, the Packers had scored a total of 13 first-half points over their last three games.
Aaron Rodgers has gone 15 of 24 for 199 yards with a touchdown pass and touchdown run. Randall Cobb has four catches for 95 yards and a touchdown. Davante Adams has caught five passes for 80 yards.
Los Angeles' Matthew Stafford is 9 of 14 for 154 yards and two touchdowns, though he also fumbled to set up Green Bay's first touchdown. Van Jefferson and Darrell Henderson caught Stafford's touchdown passes.
Aaron Rodgers' injured toe couldn't prevent the reigning MVP from running for a touchdown on third-and-goal.
Rodgers made it around the right end from 1 yard out for his third touchdown run of the season, tying Aaron Jones for the team lead. The Green Bay Packers lead the Los Angeles Rams 7-0 late in the first quarter.
Rodgers didn't practice all week due to a toe injury. Rodgers said this week it's a fracture that involves his pinky toe.
The Packers' touchdown drive started at Los Angeles' 6-yard line, thanks to a big play from their defense. Rashan Gary sacked Matthew Stafford and hit the quarterback's elbow, producing a fumble that Preston Smith recovered.
The Denver Broncos lost starting quarterback Teddy Bridgewater to an lower right leg injury when he was blindsided by safety Derwin James Jr. in the first quarter in Denver.
Bridgewater was replaced by Drew Lock, who fumbled on his second snap but led the Broncos to their second touchdown of the game. Left tackle Calvin Anderson was injured on the play and carted off with left knee injury.
The Broncos lead the Chargers 14-0 early in the second quarter.
4:30 p.m. The Baltimore Ravens began the season with a host of injuries at running back.
Now, with a win Sunday night against the Cleveland Browns, the Ravens will have the best record in the AFC and have the inside track to claim the No. 1 seed and a first-round bye.
The Ravens are a 7-3 on the season. A win puts them at 8-3.
The Tennessee Titans had the best record coming into the weekend but lost to the New England Patriots. The Patriots and Titans are both 8-4.
Cam Newton has been benched.
The Panthers quarterback was yanked from the game in the fourth quarter with Carolina trailing 30-10 to the Miami Dolphins and replaced by P.J. Walker. On his first possession, Walker threw an interception.
Newton has struggled all afternoon, completing just 5 of 21 passes for 92 yards and has been intercepted twice. Newton has not handled Miami's pressure well, and he has a career-low 5.8 QB rating.
Barring a miraculous comeback, Newton will have lost his last 10 starts with the Panthers dating back to the 2018 season.
The Tennessee Titans have outgained the New England Patriots 237-67 on the ground early in the fourth quarter — and are losing by 13 points.
The Patriots lead 26-13 behind three Titans turnovers, including a Ryan Tannehill interception in the red zone.
Dontrell Hillard has run for 131 yards and a touchdown and D'Onta Foreman has 81 yards rushing for the Titans in the absence of Derrick Henry.
Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones will be playing Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams after missing only one game due to a sprained medial collateral ligament.
Jones practiced on a limited basis this week and had been listed as questionable on the Packers' injury report. The Packers have declared him active for Sunday's game.
Packers outside linebacker Rashan Gary (elbow) and wide receiver Allen Lazard (shoulder) also are returning from one-game absences. The Packers won't have cornerback Kevin King, who is dealing with injuries to his hip and knee.
Carson Wentz has thrown three touchdown passes in the first half to give Indianapolis a 24-14 lead over Tom Brady and the injury-depleted Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense.
Linebacker Devin White started the game despite being listed as questionable with an injured quadriceps. But he left the game in the first half with a hip injury. He has not returned. Defensive tackle Vita Vea also left briefly after losing a tooth and starting cornerback Jameel Dean has been ruled out with a right shoulder injury.
The Colts lost 2020 All-Pro defensive tackle DeForest Buckner late in the first half with a right knee injury. He is listed as questionable.
All of it occurred on a day Robert Mathis, the Colts career sacks leader with 123, was inducted into the team's Ring of Honor.
Cincinnati running back Joe Mixon has had a huge first half.
Mixon rushed 20 times for 117 yards and had a 1-yard touchdown plunge as the Bengals rolled to a 31-3 halftime lead over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Mixon's hot start followed a 123-yard, two-TD performance in the Bengals' 32-13 win over Las Vegas last Sunday. The five-year veteran has at least once touchdown in his last eight games, and at least one rushing touchdown in the last five.
It's his third 100-yard game of the season.
Dolphins cornerback Xavien Howard recorded his 25th career interception in his 67th NFL game in the first half against Carolina Panthers.
The former second-round pick from Baylor is the fastest player to record 25 interceptions since 1990, surpassing Marcus Peters (68 games).
The Dolphins have intercepted Cam Newton twice and blocked a punt for a touchdown and lead Carolina 21-10 at halftime. Miami is seeking its fourth straight win.
Linebacker Tae Crowder made a goal-line interception on the final play of the first half to preserve the New York Giants' 3-0 lead over the Philadelphia Eagles in a defensive struggle between the NFC East rivals.
Faced with a third-and-goal at the 1 with :08 showing on the clock, Jalen Hurts was under pressure rolling to his right and threw the ball almost right at Crowder who intercepted and fumbled out of bounds on his return as the clock ran out. It's the first time the Eagles have been shutout in the first half this season.
Graham Gano kicked a 35-yard field goal for the Giants in the first quarter and missed another from 51 yards, ending a streak of 12 in a row.
It was doink, and doink again for Tennessee kicker Randy Bullock.
Bullock clanged it off the right upright on an extra point after the Titans scored in the second quarter that would have tied the game with the Patriots 7-7. Then he did the same thing on a 44-yard field goal attempt on Tennessee's next possession for another miss.
Bullock had been 18 of 20 on field goals and 28 of 30 on extra points this season.
The Patriots lead 13-6 late in the second quarter.
2:10 p.m. Titans coach Mike Vrabel is still perfect with the red challenge flag this season. This one he didn't even think he needed to throw.
Tennessee was on the Patriots 1-yard line when Ryan Tannehill connected with Nick Westbrook-Ikhine. The receiver slipped and fell before reaching the goal line, but he reached for the end zone while he was on the ground. He was ruled down at the 1, but Vrabel argued with the officials that he hadn't been touched before the ball crossed the plane of the goal line.
When he couldn't persuade them to correct the call on their own, he reluctantly threw the flag. Vrabel is 4-for-4 on challenges.
The Cincinnati Bengals are off to a hot start against the Pittsburgh Steelers, leading 17-3 early in the second quarter.
The Bengals (6-4) took the opening kickoff and went 75 yards, with Joe Mixon rushing for 49 yards on seven carries, and quarterback Joe Burrow finishing it with an 8-yard scramble for the touchdown.
On the second play of the Steelers' first possession, Ben Roethlisberger was picked off by Cincinnati's Eli Apple, who returned it 50 yards to the Pittsburgh 5. But the Bengals had to settle for an Evan McPherson field goal after Burrow was sacked for a 12-yard loss.
After Chris Bosworth got Pittsburgh (5-4-1) on the board with a 41-yard field goal, Burrow threw a 32-yard scoring pass to Tee Higgins.
The Bengals, who beat the Steelers by double digits in September, are going for their first season sweep since 2009.
The New York Giants lead the Philadelphia Eagles 3-0 at the end of the first quarter behind a 35-yard field goal by Graham Gano that was set up by a 20-yard flea flicker screen pass to tight end Evan Engram.
Philadelphia's best drive ended when nickel back Darnay Holmes intercepted Jalen Hurts at the 5-yard line.
On the injury front, Eagles center Jason Kelce is questionable to return with a knee injury. Giants linebacker Trent Harris is questionable to return with ankle injury.
Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers head to Miami fighting for their playoff lives — and looking to snap a dubious streak.
Newton has lost his past nine starts as the Panthers starting quarterback going back to 2018. His previous win as Carolina's starting quarterback came Nov. 4, 2018, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Panthers (5-6) are tied for 10th in the NFC.
Newton was terrific in the previous Dolphins-Panthers meeting in 2017, completing 21 of 35 passes for 254 yards and four touchdowns. Newton also carried five times for 95 yards in the 45-21 win.
The Dolphins started the season 1-7, but have rallied to win three straight games.
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Q: DHCP client doesn't get address I'm trying to use a Phytron MCC-1 motor controller which gets its IP only via DHCP (no manual setting). I setup isc-dhcp-server on ubuntu as such:
# /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
option domain-name "example.org";
option domain-name-servers ns1.example.org, ns2.example.org;

default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;

ddns-update-style none;

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
        default-lease-time 21600;
        option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
}

host phytronmcc1 {
        hardware ethernet 00:50:c2:b2:11:75;
        fixed-address 192.168.0.30;
        option host-name "phytronmmc1";
}

I want to use the dhcp server on enxd8eb97b9a6d4:
$ ifconfig
enp0s25: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 134.158.40.174  netmask 255.255.248.0  broadcast 134.158.47.255
        inet6 fe80::193c:fd36:6263:9faf  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 70:5a:0f:ee:1e:80  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 129829774  bytes 87461213325 (87.4 GB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 435  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 34660884  bytes 3579056486 (3.5 GB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device interrupt 20  memory 0xd2200000-d2220000

enxd8eb97b9a6d4: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.0.31  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255
        ether d8:eb:97:b9:a6:d4  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 2563  bytes 117898 (117.8 KB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 4950  bytes 1034703 (1.0 MB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 1905619  bytes 23318260587 (23.3 GB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1905619  bytes 23318260587 (23.3 GB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlp62s0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether fa:5e:ff:b8:4a:22  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Now the syslog seems fine, except I don't see the device:
# /var/log/syslog
dhcpd[22892]: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server 4.3.5
dhcpd[22892]: Copyright 2004-2016 Internet Systems Consortium.
sh[22892]: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
dhcpd[22892]: All rights reserved.
dhcpd[22892]: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
dhcpd[22892]: Config file: /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
sh[22892]: Config file: /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
sh[22892]: Database file: /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases
sh[22892]: PID file: /run/dhcp-server/dhcpd.pid
dhcpd[22892]: Database file: /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases
dhcpd[22892]: PID file: /run/dhcp-server/dhcpd.pid
dhcpd[22892]: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file.
dhcpd[22892]: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file.
dhcpd[22892]: Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
dhcpd[22892]: Listening on LPF/enxd8eb97b9a6d4/d8:eb:97:b9:a6:d4/192.168.0.0/24
dhcpd[22892]: Sending on   LPF/enxd8eb97b9a6d4/d8:eb:97:b9:a6:d4/192.168.0.0/24
sh[22892]:    in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment
sh[22892]:    in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment
dhcpd[22892]:
dhcpd[22892]: No subnet declaration for wlp62s0 (no IPv4 addresses).
dhcpd[22892]: ** Ignoring requests on wlp62s0.  If this is not what
dhcpd[22892]:    you want, please write a subnet declaration
dhcpd[22892]:    in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment
dhcpd[22892]:    to which interface wlp62s0 is attached. **
dhcpd[22892]:
dhcpd[22892]:
dhcpd[22892]: No subnet declaration for enp0s25 (134.158.40.174).
dhcpd[22892]: ** Ignoring requests on enp0s25.  If this is not what
dhcpd[22892]:    you want, please write a subnet declaration
dhcpd[22892]:    in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment
dhcpd[22892]:    to which interface enp0s25 is attached. **
dhcpd[22892]:
dhcpd[22892]: Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
dhcpd[22892]: Server starting service.

Using wireshark only shows 2 frames:
Frame 7219: 188 bytes on wire (1504 bits), 188 bytes captured (1504 bits) on interface 0
Ethernet II, Src: Trendnet_b9:a6:d4 (d8:eb:97:b9:a6:d4), Dst: Broadcast (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff)
    Destination: Broadcast (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff)
    Source: Trendnet_b9:a6:d4 (d8:eb:97:b9:a6:d4)
    Type: IPv4 (0x0800)
Internet Protocol Version 4, Src: 192.168.0.31, Dst: 192.168.0.255
User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 17500, Dst Port: 17500
Dropbox LAN sync Discovery Protocol

Frame 7138: 60 bytes on wire (480 bits), 60 bytes captured (480 bits) on interface 0
Ethernet II, Src: Phytron-_01:75 (00:50:c2:b2:11:75), Dst: LLDP_Multicast (01:80:c2:00:00:0e)
    Destination: LLDP_Multicast (01:80:c2:00:00:0e)
    Source: Phytron-_01:75 (00:50:c2:b2:11:75)
    Type: 802.1 Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) (0x88cc)
Link Layer Discovery Protocol
    Chassis Subtype = Network address, Id: 0.0.0.0
        0000 001. .... .... = TLV Type: Chassis Id (1)
        .... ...0 0000 0110 = TLV Length: 6
        Chassis Id Subtype: Network address (5)
        Network Address family: IPv4 (1)
        Chassis Id: 0.0.0.0
    Port Subtype = MAC address, Id: 00:50:c2:b2:11:75
        0000 010. .... .... = TLV Type: Port Id (2)
        .... ...0 0000 0111 = TLV Length: 7
        Port Id Subtype: MAC address (3)
        Port Id: Phytron-_01:75 (00:50:c2:b2:11:75)
    Time To Live = 120 sec
    System Description = MCCe
        0000 110. .... .... = TLV Type: System Description (6)
        .... ...0 0000 0100 = TLV Length: 4
        System Description: MCCe
    End of LLDPDU

So, obviously the device is there but doesn't get an IP. Is it my DHCP configuration ? Something else ? Anything I can try ?


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Largest Renewable Energy Asset Management Group joins the RED Platform operated by Restart Energy
Alive Capital, the largest renewable energy asset management group in Romania, with a portfolio of 308.85 MW, has just become the next energy producer to partner with Restart Energy's RED platform.
With the promise of closing the gap between energy producers and consumers, the Restart Energy Democracy (RED) is the EU's fastest-growing private energy supplier. RED's innovative platform inherently improves transparency and efficiency, and that (coupled with the fact that more than 27,000 households are already onboard) has inspired multiple companies in Romania and abroad to join Restart Energy as loyal partners.
As a renewable energy producer and expert asset management group, Alive Capital is among the most promising partnerships to date.
Today, Alive Capital is a registered and operational company on the most important centralized energy markets (managed by OPCOM) and, just a few years since being founded, they now set the standard for the efficiency of integrated management programs for renewable energy producers across Romania.
At its core, Alive Capital is a team of multidisciplinary professionals that focus their knowledge of energy, engineering, and finance to ensure that their customers get the most competitive prices, the most long-term predictability, and the most overall stability. Their vision has led to them rapidly expanding from just a few small clients into a multi-national portfolio that includes foreign clients, private investors, banks, institutions, and multiple technologies.
Specializing in renewable energy, Alive Capital focuses their efforts on wind, solar, and hydro generated power. And, as a partner with Restart Energy, their knowledge, infrastructure, and expertise will prove paramount to the mutual growth of both companies.
Although the Romanian electricity sector remains complex, with partners like Alive Capital next to RED, Restart Energy is confident that the platform will continue growing strong. One thing that makes this newfound partnership so powerful is that the visions of Alive Capital and RED align perfectly, with both putting integrity, responsibility, and transparency at the top of their list of values.
As a partner with Alive Capital, RED will continue working towards the ultimate goal of becoming the top choice for clients in deregulated energy markets around the world. With plans to expand within the United Kingdom and abroad to exciting new locations such as Asia, RED's partnership with Alive Capital will prove extremely valuable in Restart Energy's continued growth and success.
Importantly, it should be noted that potential franchise partners will need to own (this is not a form of payment to us) a certain number of RED MWAT tokens, in order to qualify for our various franchise tiers — the secret to our award-winning growth as a business!
About Alive Capital
Alive Capital is a Romanian company founded in 2013, by specialists with decades of experience in the electricity business. We started initially with the objective to provide integrated management services for producers of renewable energy sources in Romania.
Today, 4 years from our founding, Alive Capital has become a reference on the Romanian market in terms of high standards and maximum efficiency of the services we offer to renewable sources electricity producers, as well as other customers.
For more information, please visit their website.
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This statistic reflects the annual evolution of the number of people working in the companies dedicated to the sale and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles in Spain between 2008 and 2016. In 2016, these companies had a total of 320,800 employees, which meant an increase of more than 5,000 people compared to the figure recorded just a year earlier.
Sale and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles includes activities such as wholesale and retail of new and second hand vehicles, repair and maintenance of vehicles and wholesale and retail of spare parts and accessories for motor vehicles and motorcycles. It also includes intermediaries in the wholesale and retail trade of vehicles, wholesale car auction and internet wholesale companies and, finally, the companies of washing and waxing of vehicles.


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