After careful consideration the angel left to visit the homelands of the devil and saw that he was still thrilled to bits with his buckwheat and oats. He was so pleased with his lot that he was singing to himself nearly the whole day: "Oats and buckwheat, buckwheat and oats, oats and buckwheat, buckwheat and oats." The angel realized then that the devil was never simply going to part with these crops and thought up a clever switching trick. The angel went to the devil and said: "No, oh devil, these aren't oats and buckwheat, but nettles and thistles." The devil looked at her as if she had gone mad and went on singing; "Buckwheat and oats." The angel kept on responding: "Nettles and thistles, thistles and nettles," all day long. One night when the devil had slept badly and heard the angel calling out again: "Nettles and thistles, thistles and nettles", he became so confused that he sang back "Nettles and thistles, thistles and nettles." The moment the devil sang this, the angel gave the devil the nettles and thistles and rushed off with the oats and the buckwheat, thereby safeguarding the staple food crops for the people of The Low Countries.
In former times nettles were useful plants: people made ropes and cloth from them. When the devil discovered the switching trick, he was beside himself with rage. In revenge he added a fiery itch to the nettles. Ever since then people sting their fingers when they pluck nettles and then they itch for hours. This is the fiery revenge which the devil added to the vital, many-sided nettle. Thereafter it was considered to be one of the devil's plants.
After touching stinging nettles our skin pricks and stings. But if you pick a stinging-nettle, grasp a leaf or leaves near the stem and pluck them with an upward movement, then you won't sting yourself! This is because the small needles containing the burning poisonous materials stand upright. Should you still manage to sting yourself, then it helps to rub your skin with the crushed leaves of plants growing nearby. Ground ivy and plantains help in particular. The itching fades quickly because these plants contain antibodies. Although not a popular plant, stinging-nettles have many uses. The new young top shoots in particular are used in soup and tea because of their cleansing properties. They contain vitamins A and C. Woods with an abundance of stinging-nettles are also home to many butterflies, including the red admiral, the peacock and the tortoiseshell. All these leave their eggs on stinging nettles. The caterpillars eat their fill of stinging nettle leaves. Various small birds such as the nightingale nest in the protective environment of stinging-nettle woods. The plant fibres can be used to weave nettle cloth for making into garments.


Spring is almost here and after a snowy, icy winter it's time to welcome the sunshine and each new morning as the days grow longer. For those of us who love to garden this is a busy, happy time with lots of planning and much to do. This article will hopefully encourage you to start your own vegetable garden this Spring.
Scarlet runner beans – best if you can trellis at the end of the bed to save space.
Only grow vegetables you and your family enjoy!
Begin with one bed (4 x 4 or 4 x 8), go at your own pace and enjoy your achievements.
If you have the time and space, once your new garden is flourishing, add a second raised bed. Try growing a few kale plants or greens. As these grow quickly they are easy to start from seed. There is much to learn about gardening but the important thing is to start and secondly not to be overwhelmed. I have gardened all my life and learn something new all the time. Have fun with your garden and spend time looking at what other people are doing and visiting local nurseries. Very best wishes for a great summer in the garden.
Raspberry canes in raised bed, Fall – Skimmerhorn Winery, Creston, B.C.


text:
package txmgr

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"testing"

	"github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric-protos-go/common"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric-protos-go/ledger/queryresult"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric-protos-go/ledger/rwset"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric-protos-go/peer"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric/common/flogging"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric/common/ledger/testutil"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/ledger"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/ledger/internal/version"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/ledger/kvledger/bookkeeping"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/ledger/kvledger/txmgmt/privacyenabledstate"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/ledger/mock"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/ledger/pvtdatapolicy"
	btltestutil "github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/ledger/pvtdatapolicy/testutil"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/ledger/util"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric/internal/pkg/txflags"
	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)

func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
	flogging.ActivateSpec(
		"lockbasedtxmgr,statevalidator,statebasedval,statecouchdb,valimpl,pvtstatepurgemgmt,valinternal=debug",
	)
	exitCode := m.Run()
	for _, testEnv := range testEnvs {
		testEnv.stopExternalResource()
	}
	os.Exit(exitCode)
}

type testEnv interface {
	cleanup()
	getName() string
	getTxMgr() *LockBasedTxMgr
	getVDB() *privacyenabledstate.DB
	init(t *testing.T, testLedgerID string, btlPolicy pvtdatapolicy.BTLPolicy)
	stopExternalResource()
}

const (
	levelDBtestEnvName = "levelDB_LockBasedTxMgr"
	couchDBtestEnvName = "couchDB_LockBasedTxMgr"
)

// Tests will be run against each environment in this array
// For example, to skip CouchDB tests, remove the entry for couch environment
var testEnvs = []testEnv{
	&lockBasedEnv{name: levelDBtestEnvName, testDBEnv: &privacyenabledstate.LevelDBTestEnv{}},
	&lockBasedEnv{name: couchDBtestEnvName, testDBEnv: &privacyenabledstate.CouchDBTestEnv{}},
}

var testEnvsMap = map[string]testEnv{
	levelDBtestEnvName: testEnvs[0],
	couchDBtestEnvName: testEnvs[1],
}

///////////// LevelDB Environment //////////////

type lockBasedEnv struct {
	dbInitialized      bool
	name               string
	t                  testing.TB
	testBookkeepingEnv *bookkeeping.TestEnv
	testDB             *privacyenabledstate.DB
	testDBEnv          privacyenabledstate.TestEnv
	txmgr              *LockBasedTxMgr
}

func (env *lockBasedEnv) getName() string {
	return env.name
}

func (env *lockBasedEnv) init(t *testing.T, testLedgerID string, btlPolicy pvtdatapolicy.BTLPolicy) {
	var err error
	env.t = t
	if env.dbInitialized == false {
		env.testDBEnv.Init(t)
		env.dbInitialized = true
	}
	env.testDB = env.testDBEnv.GetDBHandle(testLedgerID)
	require.NoError(t, err)
	if btlPolicy == nil {
		btlPolicy = btltestutil.SampleBTLPolicy(
			map[[2]string]uint64{},
		)
	}
	env.testBookkeepingEnv = bookkeeping.NewTestEnv(t)

	txmgrInitializer := &Initializer{
		LedgerID:            testLedgerID,
		DB:                  env.testDB,
		StateListeners:      nil,
		BtlPolicy:           btlPolicy,
		BookkeepingProvider: env.testBookkeepingEnv.TestProvider,
		CCInfoProvider:      &mock.DeployedChaincodeInfoProvider{},
		CustomTxProcessors:  nil,
		HashFunc:            testHashFunc,
	}
	env.txmgr, err = NewLockBasedTxMgr(txmgrInitializer)
	require.NoError(t, err)
}

func (env *lockBasedEnv) getTxMgr() *LockBasedTxMgr {
	return env.txmgr
}

func (env *lockBasedEnv) getVDB() *privacyenabledstate.DB {
	return env.testDB
}

func (env *lockBasedEnv) cleanup() {
	if env.dbInitialized {
		env.txmgr.Shutdown()
		env.testDBEnv.Cleanup()
		env.testBookkeepingEnv.Cleanup()
		env.dbInitialized = false
	}
}

func (env *lockBasedEnv) stopExternalResource() {
	env.testDBEnv.StopExternalResource()
}

//////////// txMgrTestHelper /////////////

type txMgrTestHelper struct {
	t     *testing.T
	txMgr *LockBasedTxMgr
	bg    *testutil.BlockGenerator
}

func newTxMgrTestHelper(t *testing.T, txMgr *LockBasedTxMgr) *txMgrTestHelper {
	bg, _ := testutil.NewBlockGenerator(t, "testLedger", false)
	return &txMgrTestHelper{t, txMgr, bg}
}

func (h *txMgrTestHelper) validateAndCommitRWSet(txRWSet *rwset.TxReadWriteSet) {
	rwSetBytes, _ := proto.Marshal(txRWSet)
	block := h.bg.NextBlock([][]byte{rwSetBytes})
	_, _, err := h.txMgr.ValidateAndPrepare(&ledger.BlockAndPvtData{Block: block, PvtData: nil}, true)
	require.NoError(h.t, err)
	txsFltr := txflags.ValidationFlags(block.Metadata.Metadata[common.BlockMetadataIndex_TRANSACTIONS_FILTER])
	invalidTxNum := 0
	for i := 0; i < len(block.Data.Data); i++ {
		if txsFltr.IsInvalid(i) {
			invalidTxNum++
		}
	}
	require.Equal(h.t, 0, invalidTxNum)
	err = h.txMgr.Commit()
	require.NoError(h.t, err)
}

func (h *txMgrTestHelper) checkRWsetInvalid(txRWSet *rwset.TxReadWriteSet) {
	rwSetBytes, _ := proto.Marshal(txRWSet)
	block := h.bg.NextBlock([][]byte{rwSetBytes})
	_, _, err := h.txMgr.ValidateAndPrepare(&ledger.BlockAndPvtData{Block: block, PvtData: nil}, true)
	require.NoError(h.t, err)
	txsFltr := txflags.ValidationFlags(block.Metadata.Metadata[common.BlockMetadataIndex_TRANSACTIONS_FILTER])
	invalidTxNum := 0
	for i := 0; i < len(block.Data.Data); i++ {
		if txsFltr.IsInvalid(i) {
			invalidTxNum++
		}
	}
	require.Equal(h.t, 1, invalidTxNum)
}

func populateCollConfigForTest(t *testing.T, txMgr *LockBasedTxMgr, nsColls []collConfigkey, ht *version.Height) {
	m := map[string]*peer.CollectionConfigPackage{}
	for _, nsColl := range nsColls {
		ns, coll := nsColl.ns, nsColl.coll
		pkg, ok := m[ns]
		if !ok {
			pkg = &peer.CollectionConfigPackage{}
			m[ns] = pkg
		}
		sCollConfig := &peer.CollectionConfig_StaticCollectionConfig{
			StaticCollectionConfig: &peer.StaticCollectionConfig{
				Name: coll,
			},
		}
		pkg.Config = append(pkg.Config, &peer.CollectionConfig{Payload: sCollConfig})
	}
	ccInfoProvider := &mock.DeployedChaincodeInfoProvider{}
	ccInfoProvider.AllCollectionsConfigPkgStub = func(channelName, ccName string, qe ledger.SimpleQueryExecutor) (*peer.CollectionConfigPackage, error) {
		fmt.Printf("retrieveing info for [%s] from [%s]\n", ccName, m)
		return m[ccName], nil
	}
	txMgr.ccInfoProvider = ccInfoProvider
}

func testutilPopulateDB(
	t *testing.T, txMgr *LockBasedTxMgr, ns string,
	data []*queryresult.KV, pvtdataHashes []*testutilPvtdata,
	version *version.Height,
) {
	updates := privacyenabledstate.NewUpdateBatch()
	for _, kv := range data {
		updates.PubUpdates.Put(ns, kv.Key, kv.Value, version)
	}
	for _, p := range pvtdataHashes {
		updates.HashUpdates.Put(ns, p.coll, util.ComputeStringHash(p.key), util.ComputeHash(p.value), version)
	}
	require.NoError(t, txMgr.db.ApplyPrivacyAwareUpdates(updates, version))
}

type testutilPvtdata struct {
	coll, key string
	value     []byte
}

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Jews from the mountain village of Maswar in northwest Yemen, 1902. Photo: Hermann Burchardt; published in the German journal Ost und West (Berlin), 1902: 340. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
UCLA International Institute, February 1, 2019— "Yemeni memories often run counter to the Zionist narrative and counter to much of the academic literature written by the community. These memories represent the emergence of double consciousness that manifest in a desire to become Israeli, but to remain Yemeni," said Ari Ariel recently at the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES). The academic literature on Yemeni-Jewish migration and identity is incomplete, he argued. Using migrants' memoirs and Yemeni-Jewish cultural practices, he described the malleability of Yemeni Jews' identities in both Yemen and Israel.
Ariel teaches Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Iowa. He was the featured speaker at an Averroës Lecture cosponsored by CNES and the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
Academic accounts of Yemeni-Jewish migration usually explain this migration in four ways: Messianic impulses, longing for Zion, Muslim oppression of Jews or rising Muslim-Jewish tensions. However, historical accounts provided by the speaker did not fit into these categories.
In one such example, a man decided to leave Yemen to teach abroad. He arrived in New York and moved to the Lower East Side to be closer to the Jewish community. However, they did not accept him until he was able to cure the local rabbi's son of jaundice using traditional medicine. The community embraced him, and he was able to settle comfortably. Nevertheless, his stay was short-lived and he returned to Yemen.
Neither Palestine nor Israel is mentioned in this story, and the significance of migration memoirs show that the return to Yemen is not an isolated case, remarked Ariel. "Yemeni Jews traveled to various places and created numerous networks during the 19th and 20th centuries," he noted.
The singular focus on Yemeni migration to Palestine and Israel to the exclusion of all other destinations removes the significance of migration to other places, as well as the frequent return home of Yemeni migrants, claimed Ariel. "Stories of return migration require that we assess our understanding of Yemeni history as well as the history of migration to Palestine and Israel," he commented.
Yemeni-Jewish identity faces contradictory requests and constraints. "Israeli society demands that Yemeni Jews become Israeli and only allows a limited space for the preservation of a pre-migrated culture," remarked the scholar. "Muslims, on the other hand, claim that authentic Yemeni [identity] is in opposition to Israeli identity." Yemeni Jews caught between these positions have embraced Israel, he said, but hope to remain Yemeni at the same time.
Women's memoirs highlight the contradictions between the way that migration to Israel has changed Yemeni's food consumption and other traditions. This prompted a call for the preservation of Yemeni food customs, but ultimately ended in the homogenization of Yemeni cuisine. "Yemeni Jews did not know or like olives; they thought they looked like goat dung," mentioned the scholar. Many also found that their traditional food was used differently in Israel. In one account provided by Ariel, he described a Yemeni woman refugee who became sick at the sight of a Yemeni spread being placed on top of Israeli food.
The preservation of Yemeni-Jewish identity in Israeli society has posed challenges for Yemeni Jews. Whether this situation changes remains to be seen. The cultural gap that this group has overcome represents a semi-acceptance of Israeli tradition and assimilation into the Israeli community, observed Ariel. However, the limited space for ethnic differences has resulted in a single, flattened Yemeni identity. "Hopefully, migrants will continue to insist on maintaining their Yemeni culture," concluded the speaker.


text:
Q: Add minutes where we have same datetime in list I have the following list:
List<DateTime> list =
    new [] { "12:00", "12:00", "12:00", "12:30", "12:30", "14:00" }
        .Select(DateTime.Parse)
        .ToList();

I need some function which can make this list in this way:
{ 12:00, 12:01, 12:02, 12:30, 12:31, 14:00 }

So, if there are the same DateTime I should increase minutes by 1 for each one.

A: Assuming times is sorted in ascending order, this should work:
private static IEnumerable<DateTime> NewTimes(IEnumerable<DateTime> times)
{
    var current = DateTime.MinValue;
    foreach (var time in times)
    {
        if (time > current) current = time;
        yield return current;
        current = current.AddMinutes(1);
    }
}

A: You can use LINQ and do it like this (assuming your timestamps are of type DateTime)
    public static IEnumerable<DateTime> MakeUnique(IEnumerable<DateTime> timestamps)
    {
        return timestamps.GroupBy(t => t).SelectMany(g => g.Select((t, i) => t.AddMinutes(i)));
    }

It works by first grouping your timestamps into groups that have the same timestamp. Then for each group it looks at the group as a list and adds x number of minutes where x is the index in the list. So the first one gets 0 minutes added, the second gets 1 minute added and so on. Then it uses SelectMany to flatten the smaller lists back into a single list.

A: If you're happy to NuGet "System.Interactive" to get the Scan extension method for enumerables, then this also works:
IEnumerable<DateTime> output =
    list
        .Scan((a, x) => x > a ? x : a.AddMinutes(1.0))
        .StartWith(list.First());

A: This does the job with .Aggregate:
List<DateTime> list =
    new [] { "12:00", "12:00", "12:00", "12:30", "12:30", "14:00" }
        .Select(DateTime.Parse)
        .ToList();

List<DateTime> output =
    list.Skip(1).Aggregate(list.Take(1).ToList(), (a, x) =>
    {
        a.Add(a.Last() >= x ? a.Last().AddMinutes(1.0): x);
        return a;
    });

That gives me:
{ 12:00, 12:01, 12:02, 12:30, 12:31, 14:00 }

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text:
Q: Как при записи в файл пропускать дублирующее значение? Подскажите как при записи в файл не допускать дублирующее значение
есть файл
    1<|>Petro Boiko<|>bridun<|>
    2<|>Petro<|>petro<|>
    3<|>Petro<|>petro<|>

    $data = file("file.txt", FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);

foreach($data as $rows)
    {
    $row = explode("<|>", $rows);
    if (!strripos($rows, "<|>")) continue;
    }

//////////////////////

if (is_writeable("file.txt"))
    {
    $f = fopen("file.txt", "a+");
    $write_text = "$max<|>$name<|>$mess<|>\n";
    }
//////////////////////

    if (in_array($row[2], $rows))
        { //Если уже есть в массиве

        // удаляем строку

        echo ("Запись существует.");
        }
      else
        {
        fputs($f, $write_text);
        fclose($f);
        echo ("Запись добавлена.");
        }

          //else echo ("Не удалось записать в файл");
        }
    }


text:
Search Used Car
Research & Reviews
Side-Crash Testing Predicts Your Odds of Dying
February 19, 2011/Steve Tackett
Home/Editorials
MOTOR MATTERS DOWN THE ROAD BY CHERYL JENSEN
It seems that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has a pretty good crystal ball with its side-impact crash tests. In a recent study, researchers found that drivers of vehicles that receive a Poor rating in the IIHS side-impact test are three times more likely to die in real-world crashes than drivers of vehicles that get a Good rating.
A vehicle's structure — not just how many airbags it has — plays a key role. Specifically, the study found that a driver's odds of dying when another car crashes into the driver's side are 70 percent less if the driver is in a vehicle that was rated Good in side-impact protection than if that driver were in a vehicle that was rated Poor.
A driver of a vehicle rated Acceptable is 64 percent less likely to die in that side crash than a driver of a vehicle rated Poor. And a driver of a vehicle rated Marginal is 49 percent less likely to die than one in a vehicle rated Poor.
Women need to know that the results apply to them as well, since the insurance institute uses a crash test dummy the size of a small woman in its tests. That is important since the heads of shorter drivers are more likely to be hit in a side crash, especially when hit by the vehicle the height of a sport-utility vehicle or pickup truck.
The insurance institute's test involves a 3,300-pound deformable barrier the height of one of those taller vehicles hitting a vehicle on the driver's side traveling at 31 mph.
This chance-of-dying study looks at the side-impact ratings a bit differently than usual. The usual ratings look at several ways people are protected in a crash, including by airbags and structure. This analysis looked at the importance of a vehicle's structure, not its airbags, in a side crash and what its structure means to the risk of dying in a real-world crash. The study looked at the risk to the driver only, not the other occupants.
Side crashes can be particularly deadly because the sides of vehicles don't have as much space as the fronts of vehicles to absorb crash energy and protect occupants.
That is one reason why airbags are so important.
The institute already knows that it helps to add side airbags to vehicles, especially those with head protection, said Adrian Lund, the institute's president. But the institute's side-impact tests, he said, were intended to do more. They were intended to motivate improvements to a vehicle's side structure because airbags and structure are complementary.
Side airbags are not enough on their own, Lund said because they don't control how far one vehicle crashing into another vehicle intrudes into the compartment that is supposed to be protecting the occupants.
"And structure is not sufficient either because you aren't going to be able to protect the head," he said.
So the purpose of the analysis was to see if the institute's testing was resulting in improvements over and above what the airbags were doing, Lund said. It found that a vehicle with a Good rating for structure affords significantly more protection. The IIHS took its crash test data for vehicle intrusion only and compared it to federal data on side crashes from 2000 to 2009. Only vehicles with standard side airbags to protect both the head and torso were included to better focus on structure.
Lund's advice for shoppers is this: "Even if the cars you are choosing among all have airbags, take the one that has a Good rating from the insurance institute because it matters." For more information, visit www.iihs.org. — Cheryl Jensen, Motor Matters
Copyright, AutoWriters Associates Inc., 2011
Lexus: Leader in Utility Vehicle Hybrid Segment with RX 450h
More Electric Brands Charging into the EV Car Market
1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Well Maintained by Original Owner
It's Not Just All Tow and Haul with 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty
Alternator Should be Replaced with High-Quality Brand
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text:
Parsons Nabiula (2 January 1930 – 19 February 2005) was a Filipino swimmer. He competed in two events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Career
In his early years, Nabiula competed in the Manila-based Private Schools Athletic Association.

Nabiula competed in two swimming events at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia representing the Philippines. Nabiula failed to advance from the first round of the men's 200 meter breaststroke after he and Brazilian swimmer, Octávio Mobiglia, were disqualified. They competed in Heat 1, which was contested by seven swimmers.

In the men's 200 meter butterfly event, Nabiula competed in Heat 2 and finished fifth among six swimmers by clocking 3 mins and 3.2 seconds. He only bested Shamsher Khan of India. He failed to progress to the final round by failing to finish among the top eight swimmers of the first round.

References

External links

1930 births
2005 deaths
Filipino male swimmers
Olympic swimmers of the Philippines
Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing
Asian Games medalists in swimming
Swimmers at the 1954 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for the Philippines
Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games
21st-century Filipino people
20th-century Filipino people

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I hope everyone has a safe and happy celebration, whether you're dancing in a 12-foot tall cocktail glass for the benefit of jaded sophisticates, or sitting home alone drinking with your cats like a normal person, and wish you guys a better -- a much better! -- New Year.
Thanks to the International Date Line (motto: "Find your Pacific Islander match now!") I entered 2018 a day ahead of everyone back in the States. It wasn't encouraging. Trump was still president, Paul Ryan was still a dickhead, and Netflix still had international streaming restrictions on most of the movies I wanted to watch. I'm willing to give this new year a reasonable chance at being less than totally sucking, but after enduring 2017, I'm not holding my breath. Anyway, best New Year's wishes to Scott, Mary and Sheri and all the fine commenters at WoC. May 2018 be backpain free, provide full employment, and make every stray cat healthy and loved by a family that isn't allergic.


text:
Reno man convicted on beating, strangling 7-year-old boy
Marcella Corona
mcorona@rgj.com
A Reno man was recently convicted of child abuse charges after a 7-year-old boy was beaten, strangled and nearly drowned for several months last year.
Robert Downs, 38 was convicted on multiple counts of child abuse and one count of first degree kidnapping after a four-daytrial was held in Washoe County District Court.
His mother, Allison Alamo, 32, was also prosecuted for failing to protect her son. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 60 to 150 months in prison. Her sentence was later suspended, and she was granted probation.
The abuse was initially reported May 16, 2013 at the Macgregor Inn apartments on 1661 E. Sixth Street, where the boy, his mother and Downs resided.
The boy was found inside with obvious signs of abuse, including bruises from head to toe and eye injuries consistent with strangulation, officials from the Washoe County District Attorney's Office said in a news release Friday.
An investigation revealed that the boy had been abused and neglected over the course of several months by Downs, officials said.
The boy was punched and choked to unconsciousness. He was also tied by his hands and feet, gagged with a rag and submerged in water to near drowning, officials said.
Neighbors testified they recalled hearing "what sounded like animal abuse coming from the apartment," officials said.
The boy has since been reunited with his father in the United Kingdom and was allowed to testify via Skype.
Downs faces up to 20 years in prison for each of the three counts of abuse and a potential life sentence for kidnapping.
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During the sixty years that the Jesuits were permitted to labour among the natives of California, fifty-six members of the Society of Jesus came to the peninsula, of whom sixteen, two as martyrs, died at their posts. Fifteen priests and one lay brother survived the hardships, only to be subjected to enforcement of the brutal decree launched against the Society of Jesus by King Carlos III of Spain. The Jesuits of lower California were placed on board a ship in February, 1768, and brought to Mexico whence, with the Mexican religious, those who outlived the cruelties inflicted on the way thither were shipped to Europe. The missions meanwhile were left in charge of military officers called comisionados, who for a year mismanaged the temporalities regardless of the rights of the Indians.
Immediately after the decree of expulsion had been published at the capital in Mexico (July, 1767). Viceroy De Croiz requested the Franciscans of the Apostolic Missionary College of San Fernando in the city of Mexico to accept the missions of California. Their superiors acquiesced reluctantly, for they were not in a position to furnish the requisite number of missionaries. To be able to comply with the demand, five flourishing Indian missions in the Sierra Gorda were surrendered to the Archbishop of Mexico. Fifteen volunteer friars, led by the famous Junipero Serra, finally arrived at Loreto on Good Friday, the 1st of April, 1768, and were at once assigned to deserted missions. They were given charge of the spiritual affairs only, to the amazement of the Indians who had been accustomed to receive food, clothing, and presents as well as religious instruction from their spiritual guides. When, however, the inspector-general, Don José Galvez, arrived in July, 1768, with almost unlimited power to remedy the irregularities brought on by the sudden change, and discovered from personal observation how the comisionados had squandered the mission property, he at once turned it over to the Franciscans who, thereafter, could manage the missions as freely as the Jesuits had done. The friars continued the system of their predecessors and sought, though in vain at various places, to repair the damage wrought during the misrule of the secular officials. A year after their arrival another mission as founded to the north of Santa María at Velicatá under the patronage of San Fernando. The fathers were about to establish five additional missions in obedience to the orders of the viceroy, who had already named the patron saints, when the hostility of Governor Barri frustrated the plan. From a report, the only general one we have concerning Lower California during the mission period, which Father Francisco Palou, then superior, or presidente, of the missions, sent to Mexico, we learn that the Franciscans, from April, 1768, to September, 1771, baptized 1731 persons, nearly all Indians. During the same period they blessed 787 marriages and buried 2165 dead.
As early as 1768, the Dominican vicar-general, Father Juan Pedro de Iriarte, sought permission from the king to found missions in Lower California, and succeeded in obtaining a royal decree to that effect on the 8th of April, 1770; but the Franciscan College of San Fernando, deeming the territory too sparsely populated for two different missionary bands, offered to cede the whole peninsula to the Dominican Order. An agreement between Father Raphael Verger, the guardian of the college, and Father Juan Pedro de Iriarte, the vicar-general of the Dominicans, was accordingly drawn up on the 7th of April, 1772, and approved by the viceroy Bucareli on the twelfth of May, 1772. Nine Dominicans Fathers and one lay brother landed at Loreto on the 14th of October, 1772, but refused to accept control of the missions until their superior, Father Iriarte, should arrive. The latter some time after suffered shipwreck and was drowned in the Gulf of California. Father Vincente Mora was then appointed superior or presidente, whereupon Father Francisco Palou began the formal transfer at Loreto in May, 1773, and repeated the ceremony at each mission as he travelled north on his way to Upper California. Thirty-nine friars Minor had been active on the peninsula during the five years and five months of Franciscan rule. Four of them died, ten were transferred to Upper California, where Father Junipero Serra had begun to open a much larger field for his brethren, and the remainder returned to the mother-house.
When a sufficient number of religious had arrived, Father Serra, in compliance with the rules of his apostolic college, which forbade a friar to live alone, placed two fathers at each mission. To these the governor assigned a guard of five or six soldiers under a corporal. The latter generally acted as steward of the mission temporalities subject to the missionaries. For the erection of the temporary church and other structures at each mission, and for the purchase of agricultural implements and church-goods, the Government, out of the revenues of the Pious Fund, paid to the procurator of the Franciscan college in Mexico the sum of one thousand dollars. Each missionary was allowed an annual stipend of four hundred dollars. The money was likewise paid to the procurator who would purchase the articles designated by the missionaries. Money was never sent to the missionaries in California. When a site had been selected for a mission, the temporary buildings were constructed. As soon as practical, permanent structures took their place, and were built of adobe or sunburnt brick, or in a few cases of stone, generally in the form of a square. The church was located usually in one corner, and adjoining this stood the quarters of the missionaries to which women or girls had no admittance. Then followed the rooms of the attendants and cooks, who were Indian youths selected from among the converts. The sides and rear of the mission square, enclosing a courtyard called the patio, contained the shops, storerooms, granary, stables, and apartments for the young women. This last-named part of the mission was called the monjério or nunnery, and the inmates went by the name of nuns, though of course they were not nuns in reality. The monjério was an important and necessary institution of the mission system and due to the carnal propensities of the Indians. According to this arrangement girls twelve years of age and more, and younger girls who had lost both parents, made their home at the mission in the charge of a trustworthy matron, where they lived pretty much like the girls at an orphanage or boarding school. During the day, when not occupied at work in their shops, they were permitted to visit their parents in the neophyte village, but at night they had to rest in the mission building under the eyes of the matron. Young men too, though not kept so strictly, had their quarters in another section of the mission buildings in the charge of the missionary. When a young man wished to marry he approached the missionary, who would direct him to make the selection, and if the girl consented the pair were married with solemn ceremonies at Mass after the banns had been published. A hut in the village was then assigned where they lived, subject to the regulations of the community.
Each great mission family was comprised of many hundred, sometimes two or three thousand natives, good, bad, and indifferent. Excesses were necessarily to be expected, especially in the neighbourhood of white people. To prevent disorders, the missionaries, with the approval of the viceregal government, drew up what may be called police regulations, for the transgressions of which various punishments were meted out, of a kind which would impress the dull and rude nature of the Indians. The missionary dictated the punishment which was ever tempered with mercy. When simple reproof availed nothing, the whip was applied. This was the only correction, besides fasting, which affected the lower class natives of the Pacific Coast. This manner of punishment had been introduced by the Jesuit founder of the Lower California missions, Father Juan María Salvatierra, about seventy years before, as the only means to make the rude creatures grasp the wickedness of a deed. The number of lashes to be administered was governed by law, and might never exceed twenty-five for one offense, nor more than once a day. The chastisement was not applied by the missionary, but by an Indian chief or other native official, nor was it so readily inflicted as malevolent and ignorant writers would have the world believe. The stories of cruelty prevalent among closet historians were either manufactured or exaggerated out of all resemblance to the truth by the enemies of the friars, because the latter stood between white cupidity and Indian helplessness. At times the culprit would be locked up, but that was a penalty he courted, as it relieved him from work, for which the Indian had an innate aversion. If the offense was of a serious nature, or a crime against the natural or the civil laws the delinquent had to be turned over to the military authorities. Inasmuch as the missionary considered himself, as regards the neophytes, in loco parentis, and was so recognized by Spanish law, he acted in that capacity. It was this fatherly treatment which gained for him the veneration of the converts which "approached adoration."
It was Mexican independence of Spain that put an end to the prosperity of the missions and the happiness of their inmates. With the advent of Echeandia, the first governor under the Mexican flag, began the decay of those homes of peace for nearly thirty thousand neophytes. In 1835 secularization completed the ruin. According to the intent of the Spanish laws which always recognized the Indian's right to his land, secularization meant nothing more than the turning over of the spiritual affairs of the mission from the respective religious order to the bishop of the diocese, while the Indians retained control of the temporalities in severalty or as a whole. To this manner of secularization the friars made no objection. Secularization as practiced by the Mexicans and Californians was the turning over of the mission or Indian property to the control of hired commissioners appointed by the governor without regard to the wishes of the rightful owners, the Indians, placing the missionary on a level with the secular priest, and leaving it optional to the Indians whether they would practice their religion or not. This kind of secularization, which was disguised confiscation, encountered the fierce opposition of the Franciscans, because the friars insisted that the land and all it produced, along with the live stock and buildings, belonged to the Indians and must be held sacred to the rightful owners; that the neophytes were incapable of managing their property and therefore it should be left in charge of those who, with the aid of the natives, had accumulated its wealth without salary or compensation for the benefit of those same Indians, inasmuch as the hired officials were both incompetent and unworthy of the trust, because they were not looking to the welfare of the rightful owners, but only aimed at enriching themselves. As no court existed to which appeal could be made, the friars were powerless to secure the rights of their wards. The result was similar to that experienced in lower California. The Indians gradually disappeared; the mission property was squandered; the mission buildings given over to destruction; the missionaries one by one died amid the few faithful who shared the poverty of the beloved padre, and the land once cultivated by the neophytes passed into the hands of the avaricious.
For Lower California: Torquemada, Monarchia Indiana (Madrid, 1723), 3 vols; Díaz, Historia Verdadera (Madrid, 1632); Vetancurt, Crónica (Mexico, 1697); Mendieta, Historia Ec.ca Indiana (Mexico, 1870); Tello, Crónica (Guadalajara, 1891); Venegas, Noticia de la California (Madrid, 1757) 3 vols.; Clavijero, Historia de la California (Mexico, 1852); Baegert, Nachrichten (Mannheim, 1772); Alegre, Historia (Mexico, 1841), 3 vols; Palou, Noticias de la Nueva California (San Francisco, 1874), 4 vols.; Palou, Relación Histórica, Vida de la P. Serra (Mexico, 1787); California Archives (U.S. Land Office, San Francisco), 300 vols. In addition, for Upper California, cf. Santa Barbara Mission Archives, 2000 documents; Archives of the Archbishopric of San Francisco, 8 vols.; H.H. Bancroft, History of California (San Francisco, 1886), 7 vols.; Englehardt, The Missions and Missionaries of California (San Francisco, 1908).
MLA citation. Engelhardt, Zephyrin. "California Missions." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03177b.htm>.


Graphic design. Also known as communication design, is the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content. The form it takes can be physical or virtual. The experience can take place in an instant or over a long period of time. The work can happen at any scale, from the design of a single postage stamp to a national postal signage system. It can be intended for a small number of people, or can be seen by millions. It can also be for any purpose, whether commercial, educational, cultural, or political.
Whatnot. Also known as personal projects / sometimes to do with speculative design*, the projects shown in this section range from quantum physics art installations to pottery creations by Ina Salarich.
* Speculative design is a critical design practice that comprises or is related to a series of similar practices known under the following names: critical design, design fiction, future design, anti-design, radical design, interrogative design, discursive design, adversarial design, futurescape, design art, transitional design etc.
step further, towards imagination and visions of possible scenarios. Speculative design is also one of the most representative examples of the new interaction between various disciplines. It is therefore interesting to see how new designers view their practice: they call themselves trans-disciplinary, post-disciplinary or even post-designers, quite often even simply – designers. Sometimes they do not even declare to be acting from the design perspective at all.


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Weekend of Photography
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Presented by the Coastal Camera Club of Lewes and not affiliated with the community.
The Coastal Cameral Club presents a "Weekend of Photography". This is our Virtual Photo Beach Bash.
This year there are two events, presented as online Zoom webinars!
Saturday, February 27th starting at 3:00PM EST: "The Heart of the Photograph" with David duChemin, lasting about 2 1/2 hours including Q&A.
Sunday, February 28th starting at 3:00PM EST: "Putting more Emotion into your Wildlife Photographs" with Kristi Odom, lasting about 2 1/2 hours including Q&A.
The Coastal Camera Club is located in Lewes, Delaware, USA.
Prior to COVID-19, our club hosted the Photo Beach Bash in late winter to early spring on one weekend day at a conference hotel in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. A large in-person conference is obviously not going to happen this season. Thus, we will hold a virtual event using Zoom. There will be two speakers on two different afternoons over one weekend in late February 2021.
This event will be free of charge to the first 500 people who sign up on Eventbrite. All who register will receive an opportunity for a free download of two of David duChemin's e-books.
The Coastal Camera Club is a tax exempt 501(c)3. We would greatly appreciate tax exempt donations using the DONATE link below. All those who donate will be automatically entered to the following three raffles:
(1) a giveaway of one signed copy of David's newest book, The Heart of the Photograph, from which he shamelessly stole the name of his lecture;
(2) a signed print from Kristi Odom, and
(3) a raffle for a zoom portfolio review with Kristi.
The winner of David book will be drawn at 8pm on the 27th and Kristi's two prizes will be drawn on the 28th at 8pm. Winners will be notified by email.
https://www.coastalcameraclub.com/about/donate/
In addition, the CCC is holding our regular club meetings via zoom for the foreseeable future. Any interested photographers are welcome to join our club by going to our website at CoastalCameraClub.com/join-us/.
Saturday February 27, 2021 starting at 3PM, lasting about 2 1/2 hours including Q&A.
"The Heart of the Photograph", David duChemin
Illustrated by inspiring photographs from around the world, "The Heart of the Photograph" Virtual Lecture with David duChemin is a 90-minute conversation (including Q&A time) exploring ten powerful ideas about the creation of more engaging photographs. This webinar will discuss techniques and ways of thinking about the creation of images designed to engage human imagination and emotion, including questions of vision and intent, the use of space and time, the creation of depth, and the use of point of view. David will also discuss mood and mystery, storytelling, and what this all means for our choices of moments as well as more practical considerations, like the more creative use of exposure tools, composition, and more. This will be a compelling lecture with (and about) heart that you will remember for a long time.
As part of the "Heart of the Photograph" virtual lecture, David will provide free downloads of two of his best-selling eBooks (a $42 value) to every guest, and see above for the raffle of one signed copy of his newest book, "The Heart of the Photograph", from which he shamelessly stole the name of this lecture. In addition to the free downloads, this presentation will be recorded and made available so you can go back to experience it again, and those who are unable to attend can still benefit from the presentation.
David duChemin is a best-selling author, award-winning photographer, and leading expert in the field of creativity. With over 35 years experience making photographs, his calling is to help photographers make photographs that are more than just sharp and well-exposed. David teaches how to make photographs that light a spark in people, that communicate clearly, that captivate imaginations and grab the attention and hearts of the people who will see them. As an international workshop leader and author of best-selling books like "Within The Frame" and "The Soul of the Camera" (both published in over a dozen languages), he's taught students this incredible craft on all seven continents.
Sunday February 28, 2021 starting at 3PM, lasting about 2 1/2 hours including Q&A.
"Putting more Emotion into your Wildlife", Kristi Odom
Kristi's years of photographing personal projects and conservation work have taught her a unique way of seeing emotion and have forever changed how she approaches photographing wildlife. Animals have a different way of showing and expressing emotion. How do you take an emotion and make it two dimensional? How do you get people to connect and feel when they look at an image? Learn tips and tricks on how to put more emotion into your wildlife photography ultimately creating a more impactful image.
As part of her talk, Kristi will raffle off one signed print and also raffle off a private portfolio review of your work via zoom for some very lucky people.
Kristi's presentation will be recorded and made available so you can go back to experience it again, and those who are unable to attend can still benefit from the presentation.
About Kristi
Kristi Odom is an internationally acclaimed photographer, a Nikon Ambassador, and a motivational speaker. A photographer and filmmaker, her work focuses on connecting people emotionally to animals and celebrating those who have a connection to the natural world. While she is based in Denver Colorado, she runs an adventure company with her husband, taking photographers all around the world, providing guests with life-changing experiences, while teaching advanced photo skills.
Her accolades include over 60 international photography awards including two Nature's Best Photography awards, which exhibited her images at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Her work has appeared either online and/or in print for the following clients: National Geographic, Nikon, Forbes, Rolling Stone, Microsoft and Outside Magazine.
February 27 @ 8:00 am
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Indie Music Album Reviews
Winter and The Waves - Winter and The Waves
Winter and The Waves
self-released; 2015
By Mikhail Schilkey
Every once in a while you come across a band where it really is all in the name. The post-rock project, Winter and the Waves, is one of those bands: the name conveys a soundscape of stark and sterile-white beaches, where the crashing waves paint the frozen rocks with one sheer layer of ice after another.
The self-titled EP Winter and the Waves is very much straightforward post-rock, and very much the product of a one-man operation. Sole member Kyle Wesley piles loop upon loop and polished layer after layer, ultimately building miniature epics that vary between eerie and triumphant.
While the melodic and harmonious nature of the tracks could draw apt comparisons to a litany of post-rock bands—from Mogwai to Godspeed You Black Emperor—Wesley deviates from some of genre standards. He doesn't take forever to build the tracks to crescendo, and the tracks themselves aren't as long as meandering as many post-rock bands. There's also a "cleanness" to the music—perhaps an aspect of self-recording and pouring over every element, perhaps just what he's going for. Either way, it's nice to be able to pick all of the individual instruments and elements out of the line-up, although it comes at the expense of the music feeling like it's evolving naturally.
Tightly constructed orchestration shines on the first track, "Hello Yesterday," the EP's longest and most nuanced. The song builds with keys and guitar before handclaps and a fluttering guitar part (akin almost to very early era U2) comes in alongside a bass line that could have been taken from a Final Fantasy video game soundtrack.
The second and third tracks are all about the guitar resonance and harmonics. Track two plays out like a dystopian waltz with ominous and slow burning bass notes lending a creepiness similar to the Virgin Suicides Soundtrack by Air—before the song falls into an overdrive guitar march to the end. The third track is pretty and, while it doesn't really go anywhere, it showcases cool reverb effects that make the guitar chords sound almost like an organ.
At the end of the day, it's a super cool instrumental EP, painstakingly crafted in a Chicago apartment. The music is good, but the recording, mastering and production process is what makes for a nuanced wall of sound where you can pick out and appreciate the various elements.
My only gripe is that the album is so short! I'd love to hear a few more tracks and to be able to better nail down just what Wesley is going for with Winter and the Waves. I'd highly recommend this to any fans of post-rock or ambient guitar music.
Winter and the Waves EP by Winter and the Waves
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Lot 33*
Vlaho Bukovac
(Croatian 1855-1923)
Reclining nude 127 x 97 cm. (50 x 38 1/4 in.)
Sold for £ 100,800 (US$ 136,937) inc. premium
19th Century Paintings
14 Jun 2006, 10:30 BST
Vlaho Bukovac (Croatian 1855-1923)
Reclining nude
signed, inscribed and dated 'Bukovac. 1887/Paris' (lower right)
127 x 97 cm. (50 x 38 1/4 in.)
A.Kidson, Vlaho Bukovac and his patrons in the north of England, The British Art Journal, Volume VI, No.3, pp5-12.
Vlaho Bukovac, Retrospektiva, Moderna Galerija, Zagreb, 2000
This painting meets the description of the work entitled Une Fleure which Bukovac exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1887. It is illustrated in the book Le Nu Ancienne et Moderne, (Chef d'euvres de toutes les Ecoles du Monde entier) Paris, 1898, by E. Bernard. This book is not easily accessible but Vera Kruzic Uchytil, the Bukovac scholar, describes the work: 'A naked woman is reclining on an overhanging rock on the shore. She is lying on a thin, transparent veil leaning backwards. Her head is turned towards the viewer and she is looking at a flower in her left hand which she is holding towards her lips. With her right hand she is holding a cloth which covers the lower part of her body. She is surrounded by landscape greenery.' We do not know for sure whether the painting illustrated is the present work or another version of it, but the whereabouts of the Salon picture has remained unknown for many years and the emergence of this painting on the market is therefore significant.
Vlaho Bukovac studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and worked in Paris where he earned a reputation as a painter of female nudes, and in the 1880s he formed a strong association with England which continued for much of his life. This began when the London dealers Vicars Brothers bought his Salon exhibit The White Slave in 1884 and showed it in London, describing it as 'the picture which created so great a sensation in Paris last season'. They charged a shilling admission to see the painting in the red velvet splendour of their basement room in the gallery just off Piccadilly, and many were happy to pay.
Vicars subsequently sold The White Slave to the collector, philanthropist and industrial magnate Samson Fox of Harrogate (a forbear of the Fox acting family). He was to acquire many more works by Bukovac, and together with his friend and fellow industrialist Richard LeDoux of Liverpool, became one of Bukovac's most significant patrons. The painter came often to England from Paris to stay with the two families, and was accepted into their social circle. Through them further commissions followed and in the closing years of the century he enjoyed considerable public success.
Their acquisitions were varied; Bukovac painted a number of large-scale biblical subjects and Fox is know to have bought the massive canvas Suffer the Little Children, a work which illustrates the extent to which Bukovac was influenced by the French academic tradition of Bouguereau and his circle. Photographs of the interiors of Fox's and LeDoux's homes show many works by Bukovac, and while some are accounted for today, the whereabouts of others remains unknown. In 1893 Bukovac left Paris for good and returned to his homeland before taking up residence in Prague where he taught, but he continued to visit England until shortly before the outbreak of the First World War.
Bukovac was the subject of an exhibition, Searching for Blaise, Vlaho Bukovac and his Northern Patrons, which took place at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 12 November 2005- 3 January 2006, the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate 14 January – 19 March 2006 and Bonhams, 23 – 29 March 2006.
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Have you ever gotten into a small airplane or helicopter with a pilot who didn't give a good safety briefing? Or maybe you were a second pilot, along for the ride and were left unsure of who would be handling which flying duties during the flight.
For a seasoned pilot or passenger with experience in multiple aircraft types, the preflight briefing is probably not a very big deal. For others, though, the lack of a preflight briefing can incite confusion, discomfort, and fear, even among the most relaxed of passengers. And at the very least, the absence of a preflight briefing can leave both passengers and pilot-passengers who are otherwise comfortable in the aircraft confused about what their role might be on that particular flight.
Some passengers are good at hiding their uncertainty about flying in a new airplane and will exude confidence regardless of the briefing and whether they're comfortable or not; others will show their anxiety physically and will speak up. Regardless, you want every passenger to be completely comfortable in your airplane from the beginning, which is why a passenger briefing is so important. While your briefing will change based on the comfort level and experience of your passengers, make sure you don't skip over it entirely.
Everyone will feel better if a professional safety briefing is given.
Associated federal aviation regulations for the particular flight, like seatbelt use, child restraints, lap children cell phone use, or a sterile cockpit rule.
Anything interesting they might expect to see like landmarks or familiar places.
Having a second pilot in the aircraft with you doesn't free you of the need to brief. While both of you might be familiar with the aircraft and the local area, when flying with another pilot it's especially important to brief each other on the division of responsibilities. Who will act as pilot in command? Will the pilot in command change if an emergency occurs? Will one pilot watch for traffic while the other monitors radios? Who will be on the controls during which portions of the flight?
What happens if one of you disagrees with the other when it comes to making decisions about fuel stops, delays, or taking action to circumnavigate weather conditions? It's not uncommon to see pilots disagree about how bad the weather is, whether the winds are bad enough to land on a different runway, even where to park when you get to your destination. Determining all of those things beforehand will help the flight go smoothly so that your attention isn't diverted to these things during the flight.
Ensure your pilot passenger is, in fact, familiar with the aircraft's emergency egress procedures, and be sure that there is no confusion about who is flying the airplane during normal or abnormal events. If one of you is a safety pilot while the other is practicing IFR approaches, for example, you need to be sure that you have a system for the positive exchange of controls and collision avoidance.
One final thought: A thorough passenger brief is not only required by the FAA in certain instances, but it will set the tone for professionalism at the beginning of the flight and is especially important if there is a tendency for the operation to become casual, so although you might be tempted to forego the SAFETY briefing for the sake of time or because you don't want to make your pilot-passenger sit through it, think twice about doing it. Accomplishing a briefing will establish the atmosphere for the flight from the start, and you want it to be a safety-oriented one.


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Network Analytics Market Size
Global Network Analytics Market By Component (Software and Services) By Application (Network Performance Management, Risk Management and Fault Detection, Customer Analysis, Quality Management, Compliance Management and Others) By Deployment Type (On-premise and Cloud) By Organization Size (Large Enterprises and Small & Medium Enterprise) By End User (Telecom Providers, Managed Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers and Others) By Region, Industry Analysis and Forecast, 2019 - 2025
Published Date : November-2019 | Number of Pages : 337 | Format : PDF
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The Global Network Analytics Market size is expected to reach $3.7 billion by 2025, rising at a market growth of 18.3% CAGR during the forecast period. Network analytics tools are essential tools for communications service providers (CSPs) as they work to address the global convergence marketplace dynamics, where digital networks and other technological advances intensify the blurring of industry boundaries and extend their competitors' ranks. The resulting challenges include rising data traffic, declining revenue per user, and growing service quality demands of consumers.
Global Network Analytics Market Size
Major investments are required in the new world of convergence, both to introduce the enabling technology required to manage network expansion and regulation, and to develop the capabilities of CSPs to properly manage the quality of service. Network analytics for CSPs can provide invaluable assistance in efficiently targeting all forms of investment. This helps CSPs to be smarter about where they spend their money and, at the same time, prioritize the quality of service problems that may need to be addressed.
Network analytics requires all the big data user-facing accoutrements. Such features include detailed dashboards, robust ad-hoc querying and reporting, and versatile and interactive visualization tools to analyze relationships, patterns, and abnormal incidents. Network managers can gain deeper visibility into network performance with the help of big data principles that apply machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Nevertheless, big data will produce huge amounts of information that could overwhelm IT teams. As a result, network managers are generally advised to focus on the actionable intelligence that big data provides instead of slogging through large amounts of data. Network analysis tools should also be combined with other technologies, such as submitting network incidents to a network operations center or intrusion detection and prevention systems.
Global Network Analytics Market Share
Based on Component, the market is segmented into Software and Services. On the basis of component, services segment to record a higher rate of growth over the forecast period as compared to the network intelligence solutions segment. The category of services has a significant influence on the development of the market for network analytics. With the rising adoption of network analytics solutions by companies across major application areas, demand for services is increasing. Based on Application, the market is segmented into Network Performance Management, Risk Management and Fault Detection, Customer Analysis, Quality Management, Compliance Management and Others. Based on Deployment Type, the market is segmented into On-premise and Cloud. Based on Organization Size, the market is segmented into Large Enterprises and Small & Medium Enterprise. Based on End User, the market is segmented into Telecom Providers, Managed Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers and Others. Based on Regions, the market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, Middle East & Africa.
Free Valuable Insights: Global Network Analytics Market to reach a market size of $3.7 billion by 2025
Network Analytics Market Cardinal Matrix
The major strategies followed by the market participants are Product launches and Partnerships & Collaborations. Based on the Analysis presented in the Cardinal matrix, Siemens AG, Honeywell International, Inc., IBM Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Cisco Systems, Inc., and Accenture PLC are some of the forerunners in the Network Analytics Market. The market research report covers the analysis of key stake holders of the market. Key companies profiled in the report include Cisco Systems, Inc., Extreme Networks, Inc., IBM Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., SAS Institute, Inc., Nokia Corporation, Accenture Plc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, NetScout Systems, Inc. and Ericsson AB.
Recent Strategies Deployed in Network Analytics Market
» Collaborations, Partnerships, and Agreements:
Oct-2019: Extreme Networks came into partnership with Broadcom, a provider of enterprise campus networking solutions. Through this partnership, Extreme Networks to power its family of edge, access, and campus networking solutions so that it can provide enterprise partners and customers with powerful segmentation, security, policy, resiliency, telemetry, and performance advantage solutions.
May-2019: Nokia teamed up with Telefónica Spain and in this collaboration, Telefónica has been using its Deepfield Cloud analytics platform. The platform helps in improving its visibility and automation in real time in its Fusion network.
Apr-2019: SAS partnered with Siemens in order to provide access of SAS advanced and predictive analytics in MindSphere to customers for increasing the adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning in Internet-of-Things environments.
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A review of Linux desktop environments
June 17, 2016 by Noah
The next version of Fedora (24) is coming out soon, so I decided a couple weeks ago that I'd take a tour of all the different desktop environments and see if I like any of them enough to switch from Xfce. My original desktop environment of choice was GNOME 2, and I had jumped ship to Xfce after GNOME 3 was released because I was no fan of the tablet-focused, feature-stripped interface of the new desktop and GNOME 2.32 was, in my opinion, the pinnacle of the desktop metaphor for Linux.
At the time I switched, Xfce was on version 4.8 and was a little bit clunky and somewhat of a step back from what GNOME 2 had to offer; however, I somewhat liked the Xfce panel better than the gnome-panel when it came to customization. In the GNOME 2 panel, you could drag and drop applets wherever you want them, but they'd sometimes "move around" if the panel or other applets changed size (for example, by increasing your screen resolution or by the Notification Area showing fewer tray icons than it did when you put your panel together). In Xfce, the placement of each applet was an explicit configuration, i.e. you'd need to insert a Spacer Applet set to expand to fill as much space as possible if you wanted left-aligned and right-aligned applets on the same panel.
I loved the GNOME 2 two-panel layout, so I always configured my Xfce desktops to match:
This blog post won't be very screenshot heavy, but I link to the websites for all the desktop environments if you haven't seen what they look like, so you can check them out.
Here's how my desktop environment tour went.
I was never particularly a fan of the K Desktop Environment, despite it technically being my first desktop environment (when I was first getting into Linux, I used some sort of "Which Linux distro is for me?" quiz which recommended I go with Kubuntu, a spin of Ubuntu that ships with KDE). But that was back in the KDE 3 days, and I had long since stopped using KDE when the KDE 4 drama unfolded (a lot of people ranted about KDE 4 about as much as they rant about GNOME 3). KDE is now on version 5 and I hadn't given it a deep dive in years so this was the first one I checked out; KDE and GNOME have always been the "big two" desktop environments for Linux.
It's not an awful desktop environment, but it has the problem of "way too many configuration options" and configuring things is a complicated, unintuitive mess. The GNOME 3 developers have been leaning towards "take away as many customization options as possible," which is the opposite extreme of this spectrum, and that isn't any good either. The KDE settings GUI just gives you way too many options to mess around with and potentially break your desktop with. I mostly ignored all of those and wanted to configure my panels how I like them (two-panel style).
I added a second panel to the top of my screen and started moving widgets around. For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to have left-aligned and right-aligned applets on the same panel. There was a "spacer" applet, but it couldn't expand like the one in Xfce does. The only way I could find was to use the Window List applet, which seems to automatically push the left away from the right, but I don't want a window list on my top panel. Dragging applets to reposition them was clunky too and wouldn't always do what I wanted.
As for the desktop itself, KDE has a bunch of random widgets (like an analog clock or comic strip) like Windows Vista had. I could easily live without such widgets, since no other desktop environments have them, but I played around with them since they were there. It seemed that once I dragged a widget to a spot on my desktop, I couldn't figure out any way to reposition it. So if I dropped an analog clock in the wrong spot, the only way I could find to fix it was to delete it and drop a new one. I tried right-clicking all over it, managed to open its settings window (which was just settings for the widget itself, not where it's positioned), but couldn't move it.
There's probably stuff buried in the documentation for both of these problems, but I shouldn't have to go hunting for that stuff. If right-clicking all over the place and trying all the other usual things doesn't work, that's just bad design IMHO.
As a smaller bit of annoyance I find it weird that Konsole (KDE's terminal emulator) defaults to remembering the dimensions of the last window you had open, instead of always defaulting to a standard 80x24 character dimension like most other emulators I've seen do (GNOME Terminal, XFCE Terminal, xterm, iTerm2 on Mac, even Command Prompt on Windows). The option to make KDE always use the default size is buried somewhere and it seems to move around from version to version so it took a bit of Googling before I found where they hid it this time.
LXDE and LXQt
I also installed and poked around at LXDE and LXQt. These two desktops are quite similar; the first one prefers the GTK+ toolkit and the latter uses Qt. The Raspberry Pi's default distribution, Raspbian uses LXDE by default.
I didn't get too far into playing with these. They're both extraordinarily minimalistic desktop environments and are a huge step backwards in the desktop metaphor, moreso than Xfce is. They had the feeling of "this must've been what the very first desktop environments were like"; barely functional and with no bells and whistles.
Finally, I landed on the MATE Desktop Environment. MATE began its existence as a fork of GNOME 2, for the people who loved that desktop and didn't want to switch to GNOME 3. At first I thought that this project might not have gone anywhere, and that it was mostly just people delaying the inevitable, but MATE sees active development and they're almost finished updating all their components to use GTK+ 3 to catch up with GNOME 3 and Cinnamon.
The default layout in MATE is extremely similar to my preferred layout in Xfce (which makes sense because I always make Xfce look like GNOME 2), so there's a lot less steps for me to customize my desktop after a fresh install. It has a bunch of other nice bells and whistles too that came from years and years of polish when it was called GNOME.
I figured this is the one I would stay on and go with the MATE spin of Fedora 24, but then all its weird quirks and little papercuts started to get to me. Xfce has its quirks too, but I know how to work around them (mostly comes down to text colors in the panel not fitting my theme, so I keep a .gtkrc-2.0 config for adjusting the panel colors as needed). But some of MATE's quirks can't be worked around, such as its weird window manager behavior.
MATE's window manager was forked from Metacity. When I originally switched to Xfce, xfwm4 was pretty on par with Metacity, but then Xfce got updates to add new features to it such as window snapping behaviors like in Windows 7: drag a window to the top of the screen and it maximizes the window. MATE's window manager has no such features.
But even before xfwm4 had those features, it still had one where you could drag a maximized window from one monitor to the top of the second and it would re-maximize itself on the new monitor. MATE's doesn't do that, either.
MATE has focus stealing prevention, where a new window doesn't automatically steal your focus, but it's overly zealous; it won't even let a window steal the focus when that's explicitly what you wanted. For example if I get a message on Google Hangouts, and I click on the pop-up notification, I want the Hangouts window to come up, but it doesn't in MATE, making the notification pop-up next to useless. Xfce on the other hand allows every window to steal the focus, which can be annoying sometimes (i.e. when installing VirtualBox extension packs, the sudo password window gets its focus stolen by the VirtualBox "Installing..." window), but more often than not it works okay.
Then it had weird theming quirks. On Xfce I tend to bounce between Bluebird and Ambiance (Ubuntu's default black/orange theme). Bluebird works okay under MATE, but Ambiance had a tendency to make the "Applications/Places/System" applet have a black background despite nothing else on the panel being affected. Google Chrome also had a weird issue where the window would turn purple, despite not having any purple element in my GTK theme at all.
The last straw was when I wanted to use Chrome this morning and I only turned on one of my monitors (because the other one takes 30 seconds to turn on). Chrome opened in the off-monitor, and in Xfce I'd be able to right-click it on the task bar, click "Move" and move it to my on-monitor. Under MATE, this worked but the window took up the whole screen (not maximized, covering my panels), and when I'd maximize the window it would pop back to the off-screen. I also couldn't simply resize the window; clicking and dragging its edges did nothing. So I tried right-clicking Chrome and telling it to "use system title bar and borders" thinking I'd have better luck resizing it then. This made it snap back to the off-screen, only now, the "Move" option was greyed out when I right-clicked its task bar entry. I had to turn on the other monitor, wait 30 seconds for its "Energy Star" logo to come on, and go from there. Ugh.
So I'm back to Xfce
When Fedora 24 is released I'll be installing the Xfce spin as usual. I thought I'd like MATE, but I guess I had been away from GNOME 2 for so long that I forgot how quirky it actually was, and Xfce has actually become a more usable desktop environment in my opinion, despite its relatively slow development cycle (a major release only ever comes every couple of years).
Aside: Cinnamon
I didn't actually play with Cinnamon this time around, but I had tried to run Cinnamon on a Macbook Pro earlier this year, still under Fedora 23. It was okay for the most part, but configuring its panels was a pain in the ass similarly to KDE; the panel goes into "edit mode", and it color-codes various segments of it (left, middle, right) where you can drag applets, but I found myself struggling with it for way longer than I should have to get a panel layout that resembled GNOME 2's default layout.


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Contributor April 5, 2016
José Otero-García, Rural Development state director for Puerto Rico. (Credit: © Mauricio Pascual)
Agricultural Under Secretary Lisa Mensah announced Monday that $5.8 million nationwide in competitive funding is available to help start, improve or expand cooperative businesses in rural areas.
"Cooperatives have long been a key resource for small and midsized producers working together to access new markets or to market value added products," said Mensah. "This funding helps them continue their crucial role supporting farmers and other businesses that create jobs, provide services and improve the quality of life in rural America."
José Otero-García, USDA Rural Development State Director for Puerto Rico said that the Rural Cooperative Development Grant Program (RCDG) provides funding to non-profit cooperative develop centers and institutions of higher learning. Grants may be awarded for up to $200,000 and matching funds are required equal to 25 percent of the total project cost.
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I did a fun project at Thirsty Fellow! They needed more photos for their social media and since they know I'm a visual communications major they asked me to come in and take some! I had a lot of fun with it and being able to take photos of what ever I wanted but I did come into some lighting issues. I was having to take glasses inside/outside turn them around to get the logos to look the way I wanted. in this instance I would have really loved to have had one of the lighting kits with me enhance the photos. over all I do thing they turned out good/ could be better but the thirsty fellow staff really liked them and they are being used on their social media pages!
I am super excited about some upcoming events that are going to help me get more into wedding photography! First is that one of my professors invited me to help him photograph a wedding at the end of the month in Charleston. It is going to be a huge wedding at the cigar factory with tons going on so it is going to be challenging but very good experience. A couple reasons this is such a great opportunity, one – it will finally give me some experience to make sure I'm on the path I think I want, and two it will give me some material for both my portfolio and wedding Instagram!!! I am pretty excited as you can tell. Another great opportunity coming up is that I will be interning with a local wedding photographer here in the fall. I really love her work because it is so light and airy. I have attached some of her work so that you all can have a little taste and ill keep you updated as it gets closer and I know more about the internship!!!
Hey guys! I have been working in the studio a lot for one of my final projects so I have a little preview for you all! I had my friend kendall come in and model and it went surprisingly well. She was very omfortable in front of the camera and is very photogenic. I had a lot of fun with this shot but I do think it looks a little but more like senior portraits than a magazine ad. I'm definitely going to have to work on styling kendall better for my next few shoots with her to make them look more high end that how these came out. Also I need to change up my shutter speed because I did get a small black line on the bottom of my pictures when it was set at 250 but I can change that for next time. I hope you like these and ill update you after my next time in the studio!
Man oh man. My weeks are getting really busy at this point in the semester. I have already had to start working on my final projects in three different classes. For my ARTS 361 class we are creating a book. I will be using the photos I took in Haiti for that class, so at least that clears up a little of my time to actually photograph my other final projects. Within my book I will be turning some of the portraits I took into "paintings" using Photoshop and then framing them onto some kind of background. Over the past week I have spent hours searching google for backgrounds I will be using. I am still mocking up so many options to see what I will like best. Do I want to use a vintage floral wallpaper or so I want to do with a more traditional wallpaper. OR do I go with some fun palm leafs to tie it in with Haiti even more; and then do I go with a muted, monochrome look or do I pull color into it. So many options I have to work with and so little time before everything is due.
In one of the classes I am taking at school, I have an upcoming assignment of on location lighting for a group portrait. This project makes me a bit anxious because we will only have two lights and must have three or more people in the frame. I learned a lot from my last portrait assignment such as to focus on the shadows of the nose. For this assignment I am going to pay extra special attention to each persons noes and make sure my lighting is flattering on all three of my subjects. I will be using three girls from my sorority who raised huge amounts of money for Dance Marathon and CMNH as my subjects. I will also be doing this in the house to emphasize that they are sorority girls who did this for philanthropy. I have been looking up lots of reference photos of group portraits to inspire me with poses and lighting angles. Here are some of the photos I am going off of going into my actual shot which will be Friday morning. Tune in next week for an update on how it went!
Little update: I went to Haiti! I worked on a mission trip with Greek impact and Filter of Hope over my spring break. While I was distributing water filters and spreading the gospel, I managed to get a few really good portraits done. I ended up taking about 50 pictures a day and they progressively got better as the days went on. I had a little bit of trouble figuring the optimal settings for the environment and fast pace I was in. First, I started in Manual but with ISO 100 all my photos were turning out super dark and unusable. I then switched to Auto ISO and while the photos were turning out better my aperture was locked on F 8.0 which was not preferable. I had to do a little experimenting and even texted one of my professors for advice. In the end I started using Priority settings and an ISO +1600. Once I was in my grove I started getting some pictures I am really happy with. I think this was a learning experience of still getting to know all of my camera options and also taught me that I like taking pictures on the go and un-staged. Here are just a few of my favorite captures from my trip! Enjoy!
This Photo was taken at the natural portrait gallery in Washington, Dc over winter break. I was really drawn to this piece of art work by its use of the light map created to simulate a United States Map. inside of each states border there are Tvs showing something that represents that state. For example, Georgia was showing the 96′ Olympics and Idaho just had potato's on the screen. To be honest this photo was taken with an iPhone 8 so I'm pretty impressed with how it came out. I didn't have my camera on me that day but their were still so many opportunities to take photos that I wasn't going to pass on. This picture in particular really spoke to me because of the contrast between the low light of the room we were in and the bright lights and screens. I also enjoyed my cropping because I chose to only show the east coast which is where I call home. I hope you enjoyed this weeks blog post and come back from more!


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Reilly states case for UW System's future (AUDIO)
April 28, 2011 By Bob Hague
Kevin Reilly brought his opposition to a controversial proposal, which would separate the University of Wisconsin Madison campus from the system he oversees, before an audience of Madison movers and shakers on Wednesday. The UW System President told members of the Madison Rotary that everyone wants what's best for the Madison campus – and the end of giving all UW campuses greater flexibility. "The family feud we find ourselves in, if I can call it that, is about the means to those ends, separating UW Madison off from the rest of the campuses or keeping an integrated system," said Reilly, who pitched his alternative to UW Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin's Badger Partnership plan, the Wisconsin Idea Partnership. "The deep budget cuts that we face in this budget will effect every campus, and every campus needs the tools, the flexibilities to react to those cuts. All the campuses need them."
In response to a question from the audience, Reilly said the Wisconsin Idea Partnership is not just a reaction to Martin's plan – and that he and the UW Board of Regents have been asking for this sort of thing for years. "Now Governor Walker has said he's willing to give it to UW Madison but not the rest of the campuses. The Wisconsin Idea Partnership presses to have that done for the rest of the campuses," Reilly explained. "The New Badger Partnership, until the point where the governor announced his budget, was thought to be about getting the flexibilities, not spinning Madison off from the rest of the system."
Harry Peterson, chief of staff to Martin's predecessor John Wiley, accompanied Reilly to the Rotary luncheon. "I believe that Biddy Martin's proposal for the UW Madison, to break off of the UW System and become a public authority, is not a good idea for our university," said Peterson. "I not only think it's not a good idea, I think it's a very bad and dangerous idea, one which puts the university you and I love at very considerable short and long term risks."
In response to another question, Reilly said he told the UW System Board of Regents about the plan to separate the Madison campus as soon as he learned about it, during a February 10th phone conversation with Governor Scott Walker. "I can't imagine what motivation I would have not to tell them that," said Reilly. "I would have been an idiot not to tell them. There's no reason it was good for me not to tell them that, so I don't know were that comes from, honestly. Reilly and Peterson together addressed the Rotarians for more than 40 minutes Wednesday, a week after Martin had addressed the same organization.
AUDIO: Reilly, Peterson (42:00)
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