A decades-old fisherman's paradise is luring visitors and new residents with its many recreational offerings and simple lifestyle.
Perhaps it's a sunrise casting a myriad of colors impossible to describe over its placid surface. Or maybe it's a view of happy kids frolicking along the shoreline – delightfully splashing water without a care in the world. And then again, it could be watching a fisherman expertly setting the hook on a crappie that will be batter-fried and shared with friends and family before the sun has time to set.
Traversing the twisting roads around Weiss Lake, it seems like the spirits of Ansel Adams and Norman Rockwell have taken up refuge here to present the perfect Kodak or Americana moment at every turn. As if on cue, as I type this from a shallow pull-off where the lake offers an isolated pier backdropped by a small island, an egret alights, adding even greater depth to the scene.
[/s2If][s2If is_user_logged_in()]With 447 miles of shoreline, Alabama's Weiss Lake is a multi-faceted oasis set in the middle of prime farming land that blends scenic beauty, outdoor recreation and simple living. Its 30,000-plus-acre reservoir is flanked by Lookout Mountain to the west and other Appalachian foothills to the southeast. It's fed by three main waterways – the Coosa, Chattooga and Little rivers – as well as waters from other tributaries, including Yellow Creek with its spectacular, lake-entering waterfall.
"Weiss Lake is a place people can come and enjoy and make lifelong memories," says Thereasa Hulgan, executive director of the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce.
It was the tagged crappie that first lured me to Weiss Lake in the mid-1980s. Though I lived only 35 minutes away growing up, I primarily fished in the Tennessee River and Lake Guntersville. When organizers launched the "Crappie-thon," I found myself dragging an old, co-owned, 14-foot aluminum boat across Lookout Mountain in hopes of a large cash prize.
While neither I nor my fishing buddy Kenny Bell caught a tagged crappie, we soon discovered something else about the lake. When the crappie season slowed with rising temperatures and humidity, the many shallow-water sloughs were great for bass fishing. For years, Weiss Lake's bass fishing has been overshadowed by that of Lake Guntersville, which lies less than an hour to the west. But that is changing.
Leesburg Mayor Edward Mackey has been working with the chamber, the Weiss Lake Improvement Association and community leaders to bring attention to Wiess Lake's "other" game fish. He hopes improvements to the multi-purpose Leesburg Landing will make Weiss Lake a regular stop on the Alabama Bass Trail Tournament starting in 2015.
"We are working to get a new parking lot built to accommodate 200 boats and add two more boat launches," Mackey says. Leesburg Landing currently includes a large, new pavilion for weigh-ins, an RV park and primitive campground, bath houses with showers, a nature trail and paved walking track.
While many anglers have been coming to Weiss Lake for years and know all the fishing hotspots, first-time visitors to the lake can increase their chances of catching their limits of whatever fish they want to tackle by hiring an expert.
Of course, fishing isn't the only recreation the lake offers. Weiss Lake is a water-lover's dream with swimming, pleasure boating, sailing, canoeing, kayaking, paddle boarding … you name it. Don't want to drag a boat to the lake? Most types of watercrafts are available for rent, making it easier for the novice to enjoy the lake.
Weiss Lake is one of several lakes built and operated by Alabama Power Company. Though years in the making, Alabama Power officially broke ground on the lake in 1958 with the first of seven hydroelectric projects on the Coosa River. Electricity production began in 1961.
Building the lake was a massive undertaking as its reservoir encompassed many small communities and prime bottomland farming areas. Land had to be acquired and cemeteries relocated or raised. Several islands were formed within the lake's boundaries – and some are still used today for agriculture.
Weiss Dam is a concrete and earthen gravity dam, 126 feet high, named after Fernand C. Weiss, a former chief engineer of Alabama Power.
Weiss Lake banks on its small-town charm – actually three small towns – Leesburg, Centre and Cedar Bluff. While there are the usual fast-food offerings in Centre, mom-and-pop establishments still rule the area in both the restaurant and lodging categories. You can find a smattering of barbecue, hamburger and pizza joints, a steakhouse or two and meat-and-three country fare – nothing too fancy, but good food served with a heaping side of Southern hospitality. If you want upscale dining, you'll need to drive to Gadsden or Rome – both less than an hour away.
Lodging is slightly more diverse. Visitors seeking more than a motel can opt for The Secret Bed and Breakfast – just outside Leesburg proper on the bluff of Lookout Mountain – or the lake's crown jewel of family recreation – Chesnut Bay Resort. Condos, cabins and lake houses also are available for rent.
But many people choose to stay in the locally owned hotels scattered around the lake. They are a throwback to the once-popular roadside motels that dotted this country's landscape before the bigger chains came to dominate the lodging industry. "It amazes me the number of people who want that experience," Hulgan says. "It does kind of take you back in time." (There is only one chain hotel in the immediate area).
And then there are the campgrounds and RV parks of all shapes and sizes. In fact, there are approximately 15,000 campsites around the lake. Most are micro-communities with many regulars who return several times a year – year after year. I personally have visited several campgrounds, including one run by Chesnut Bay Resort, Driftwood Campground, Bay Springs Motel and Campground and Weiss Lake Lodge (where we took in a game of miniature golf). One great thing about the lake is people staying on the water always seem relaxed and, well, neighborly, even to a stranger.
Each year, 100,000 people visit Weiss Lake (Hulgan assures me this is a conservative estimate because keeping count is difficult with so many entry points to the lake), and the state of Alabama estimates the tourism impact on Cherokee County at $87 million.
Each summer, visitors and sailors flock to the area for the Weiss Lake Regatta under the direction of the Rome Sailing Club, which has called Weiss Lake home since 1985.The two-day invitational regatta takes place in August and is one of several events sponsored by the Rome Sailing Club, which was originally organized in Rome, Ga., in 1955. Other social activates include the annual Commodores Ball, Fish Fry, Steak Cook Out and the Low-Country Boil.
Enjoy the lake by renting a boat or personal watercraft: See bayspringsmarina.com, littlerivermarinaandlodge.com, leesburgal.com (Leesburg Landing) and chesnutbayresort.com.
Get the most from your fishing trip by hiring a guide: See marinas and weisslakefishingguides.com, pattrammellfishing.com, fishbama.com and weisslakecrappieguides.com.
Lodging: See Visitors> Accommodations at cherokee-chamber.org.
Cedar Bluff was founded in 1832 on the site of a former Native American village. It played an integral part in the Civil War as Union Gen. Tecumseh Sherman camped some of his 60,000 troops here (as well as in Leesburg) prior to the March to the Sea.
The town, which has a population of approximately 1,800 full-time residents, offers great lake access for fishermen and boaters as well as several places to shop and eat.
This town is in the geographic center of Cherokee County, hence the name, with Old English flair. Founded in 1840, it serves as the county seat and largest town on Weiss Lake with a population of about 3,500 residents. It's quaint downtown area offers boutique and antique shopping as well as a must-visit history museum.
Among the most popular eateries are Tony's Steak Barn, Bar-B-Que Place & More, Real Pit Bar-B-Que, Lanny's Diner and the Gridiron – a sports bar/restaurant for those who want to catch the end of the game or grab a brew.
Leesburg has been a community since the mid-1830s and officially incorporated in 1958. With a mix of industry, small businesses and lakeside living, it's a fairly busy hub. Leesburg's main intersection – U.S. Highway 411 and Alabama Highway 68 – creates easy access to Gadsden, Ala., and Interstate 59.
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May 30, 2009 / 4:54 PM / 11 years ago
Protestant fraternity returns to Irish spiritual home
Carmel Crimmins
BOYNE VALLEY, Ireland (Reuters) - For John McAdam, the Orange Order's new lodge on the banks of the Boyne river is a homecoming, spiritually as much as physically.
Members of the Orange Order march past an ice cream vendor on their way to a ceremony to mark the formation of Boyne Loyal Orange Lodge 1690 on the banks of the Boyne river, Co.Louth, Ireland, May 30, 2009. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
Hailing from a farming community in County Cavan in the Irish Republic, McAdam's membership of an organisation rooted in Northern Ireland's Protestant community is unusual and not something he normally trumpets when he is south of the border.
But this day was different.
Grappling with a huge drum, which will beat out the time of the march, McAdam is thrilled at the prospect of parading in the Republic and, most importantly, at the site of the Battle of the Boyne, the core of his community's cultural identity.
"Just the fact that we are here, down south. I love it," said the plant manager, who has been living in England for 16 years. "It's in my manor, if you know what I mean."
The Orange Order's origins date from the 17th-century battle for supremacy between Protestants and Catholics.
William of Orange, originally of the Netherlands, led the fight against his Catholic father-in-law, King James.
William's final victory over James along the Boyne in 1690 sealed the religion's supremacy in Britain and Ireland.
Every year, members of the Order, wearing orange sashes, and black bowler hats, celebrate the battle in marches across Northern Ireland.
The ceremony on Saturday was the first in living memory to take place at the site of the battle and a sign of how cross-border relations have improved since a 1998 peace deal ended three decades of conflict between pro-British Protestants and pro-Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland.
The violence killed 3,600 people.
LEAVE THINGS BE
Robert Saulters, grand master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, is full of praise for the Dublin government's help in setting up the Boyne Loyal Orange Lodge 1690, one of around 50 lodges in the Republic.
The Order wants to rebuild a large obelisk by the river that marked the battle. The Irish Republican Army blew it up in 1923.
"We were delighted with the work the southern government have done," Saulters said.
But not everyone is comfortable with the Order's presence.
Many pro-Irish nationalists regard the Battle of the Boyne as a crucial step towards the institution of full British rule in Ireland up until the early 20th century.
The Orange Order's parades, with their distinctive soundtrack of thunderous drums and pipes, are seen by many Catholics in Northern Ireland as a triumphalist display.
Despite the 1998 peace deal, entrenched sectarianism in the province means that the parades often spark violence.
In Drogheda, close to the Boyne Valley, some residents said the Orange Order was entitled to celebrate its history.
"I think it's a good idea. It shows we have moved on," said Tony, 75, who declined to give his last name.
But not everyone in the town, which has a memorial to 10 IRA members who died on hunger strike in 1981, approved.
"After all these years they should just leave things be," said Joe, a retired builder. "They are only stirring up trouble."
"If they rebuild that obelisk it will just be blown up again."
Editing by Michael Roddy

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Pedigree Profile: American Lion
by Roger Lyons
American Lion doesn't have linebreeding that is intense enough for full compliance with the rules of pedigree correctness (that's PC for short), but what he has will no doubt satisfy the linebreeding pedigree consultants until the preferred kind comes along. Tiznow's sire, Cee's Tizzy, is bred In Reality over Northern Dancer, so, in the vernacular, he's a "close genetic relative" of American Lion's dam, Storm Tide. Yes, she has Northern Dancer on one side of her ancestry and In Reality on the other, but, really, it's not that close. I mean, In Reality is the paternal great-grandsire of her second dam. That's getting a bit fast and loose with the concept of linebreeding if you ask me.
Besides, Storm Tide's breeding is a cross of two ancestors that contribute very favorably to Tiznow's foals–no, not Northern Dancer and In Reality. His numbers with both those ancestors are really quite moderate, as are his numbers with Mr. Prospector. It's understandable. Northern Dancer and Mr. Prospector are both represented by a wide range of descendents. You don't expect any stallion to work well enough with all of them that he would have a good strike rate on an aggregate basis.
What Tiznow likes in Storm Tide's ancestry is her sire Storm Cat and her broodmare sire Carson City–and, even more to the point of what's working for American Lion, the combination of the two. Largely by virtue of that cross, Storm Tide scores at the 99th percentile of mares that have produced foals by Tiznow through 2006, as to how well her ancestry matches what he likes in a mare. Never mind the linebreeding. That's a red herring.
Through his 2006 crop Tiznow has sired superior runners out of four of his 18 mates with Storm Cat in their ancestries (not counting Storm Tide). Those include dual-G1 winner Folklore, dual-G2 winner Informed, G2 winner Tiz Wonderful, and listed stakes winner Tiz Now Tiz Then, the last of these being the only one whose dam did not have Storm Cat in direct male descent. This looks like a simple nick between Tiznow and Storm Cat.
He's also sired superior runners out of two of five mates that had Carson City in their ancestries. Those two were G1 winner Bullsbay, out of a mare by Carson City's son, Lord Carson, and listed stakes winner Lady Chace, out of a mare by Carson City. This looks like a simple nick between Tiznow and Carson City.
It's not incidental, though, that these two simple nicks add up to some seriously potent speed. The numbers suggest, in fact, that Storm Tide's cross might be an extreme expression of a broader pedigree context involving Storm Cat and other strains of Mr. Prospector. It happens that the dams of Folklore and Tiz Wonderful are both bred Storm Cat line over Mr. Prospector line, the same broad sire-line cross as the dam of American Lion. Tiz Now Tiz Then is out of a mare by Seeking the Gold, and his second dam is by Storm Cat. Thus, even though Tiznow's numbers with Mr. Prospector generally are only average, from nine mates of Tiznow bred from crosses of Storm Cat and Mr. Prospector, three produced superior runners by him, not counting American Lion. Speed is the common denominator of that sire-line combination. Note, too that Tiz Wonderful is out of a mare by Hennessy, an especially speed-oriented strain of Storm Cat.
I'm not going to keep up the pretense that In Reality doesn't figure in this at all. After all, Folklore's third dam is by In Reality, which almost certainly contributes to the speed delivered by Folklore's dam. That's far from saying, though, that, as a function of linebreeding, it invokes an abstruse blood affinity. It's just a very effective method of inbreeding that very effectively reinforces speed. This is further supported by G2 winners Bear Now and Tizfiz, two of Tiznow's four superior runners with In Reality in their ancestries. Both are out of mares whose dams are by speed influence Crafty Prospector, whose broodmare sire is In Reality.
I have a theory about Tiznow, which might be wrong, and, if it is, somebody who knows better should correct me on it. The reason why so many of the Tiznows–American Lion, for example– like to be on the front, or close to it, is not that Tiznow is a natural sire of speed. If that were the case, he would get some sprinters. His value lies elsewhere. The key is that his big horses get their speed from their dams, and Tiznow's job, which he does extremely well, is to carry that speed farther than you'd otherwise expect it to go. That's why American Lion is one horse that's not going to stop in deep stretch at Churchill Downs on Saturday.
Posted by Roger Lyons on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 7:18 am.
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All the Horses are Linebred
Now I've heard everything. I didn't get this at some obscure website specializing in pedigree correctness (PC for short, please) that hardly anybody reads. No, it came from none other than a Blood-Horse pedigree column, a publication that–well, obviously, I still read it.
It goes like this. The reason why La Troienne is such an important influence is that her sire, Teddy, traces four generations back to Ormonde, and her second dam, Lady of Pedigree, is by a sire whose second dam is Ornament, a full sister to Ormonde. In other words, she's linebred through full siblings. That's around the twelfth generation of contemporary horses, and, when mares with La Troienne are crossed with stallions whose pedigrees contain these two ancestors, we're told, the foals will light up the tote boards.
Yes, good horses all have linebreeding within 12 generations, but so do all of the bad horses. The reason they're all linebred is that they are all products of pedigree. You carve out a population of horses, define a range of performance that favors those horses, close the book around their ancestries, and call it pedigree. Then, 200 years later all of the descendents of those horses are linebred, especially as defined in broad strokes by its advocates.
Besides its role in signifying commercial value, pedigree is a set of rules enforced by the Jockey Club, and ubiquitous linebreeding is an historical consequence of the enforcement of those rules. The advocates of linebreeding conclude that it facilitates the breeding of good horses, but that is generally not what rules are about. Rather, rules pose a challenge to the playing of the game.
Suppose there were no rule in the game of basketball that says you have to dribble the ball, that you can't just tuck it under your arm and saunter down court. Basketball would be much more boring and tedious than it is. The rules are meant to challenge the players, to make the game harder to play and more interesting to watch.
That's exactly what linebreeding is in today's thoroughbred racing and breeding environment. Racing and breeding without linebreeding would be like golf without the rough, sand traps, and water hazards. It would be like tennis without a net, like basketball without dribbling. Linebreeding and those pedigree patterns that are trotted out ad nauseum are the rough, sand traps, and water hazards of thoroughbred breeding.
If those distant ancestors of La Troienne were the key to Distorted Humor's response to certain of her strains, then he would have a similar response to any expression of La Troienne's influence. As I showed in a previous post, however, that is not the case. It's not about some distant blood affinity. It's about the variety of ways in which different descendents of La Troienne express her influence in regard to specific traits. By way of generational variation, some of those descendents contribute La Troienne's influence in ways that are favorable to foals by Distorted Humor. Others contribute it in ways that are unfavorable to his foals, and those same ancestors interact with other stallions differently.
Any specific method of linebreeding will have harmful effects in a lot of pedigree contexts. Those who look at the twelfth generation and assume that everything they find there has some absolute value never notice the problems that have sprung up along the way, such as the negative effect mares in descent of Better Self (by Bimelech, a son of La Troienne) have on Distorted Humor's foals, which I pointed out previously. Above all, no method of linebreeding has value in and of itself. Whether a method is beneficial or harmful depends on its pedigree context.
Jack Werk's clients valued his advice so highly because he understood what so many pedigree consultants don't get–to the extent that rules are in force, the onus is on making moves in the game. The hard part is to hit the jump shot off the dribble, to come up with a Lookin at Lucky amid the hazards of linebreeding.
Posted by Roger Lyons on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 11:56 am.
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Pedigree Profile: Super Saver
Super Saver is not the first runner his dam, Supercharger, has had by Maria's Mon. There was a 2003 gelding named Hedge Fund that ran 48 times, won four races, was second 13 times, and was third four times. He won just over $144,000–a useful runner, effective only as a sprinter.
My point in mentioning Hedge Fund is this. My statistical profiles at this time of year take into account the dams of foals by a stallion through last year's three-year-old crop (2006). I add the dams of current-year three-year-olds as a group around mid-year because by then many of the offspring have had a chance to race. However, Super Saver's dam is included as the producer of a superior runner even though Super Saver is a current three-year-old. That's because Supercharger is represented by a runner born prior to 2007.
Super Saver's dam takes Maria's Mon to a record of 2/4 with A.P. Indy mares. Forget about how many foals there were. It's the number of mares that matters. No matter how many foals a mare produced by Maria's Mon, the question is whether or not at least one of them was a superior runner, and Super Saver certainly is. The other A.P. Indy mare that produced a superior runner by Maria's Mon is Flirtatious, dam of Wait a While, which won three G1 stakes and five G2 stakes. You could safely say it's the nick.
You could say it's linebreeding involving the genetic relationships organized by Raise a Native and Buckpasser, but not as safely. Maria's Mon's sire is by Wavering Monarch, bred on a Raise a Native-Buckpasser cross. Supercharger is inbred to Buckpasser and is out of a mare by Mr. Prospector. That's definitely linebreeding, but the numbers say Maria's Mon is only 5/66 with mares that cross Raise a Native and Buckpasser, and that is just average for Maria's Mon.
Besides, Maria's Mon's numbers with both Raise a Native (16/256 through males) and Buckpasser (7/97 through females) lack lustre. He does much better with Northern Dancer through females, at 5/27, and Supercharger's second dam is by Northern Dancer. That could be an important factor, but it doesn't point to the linebreeding.
On that basis, Supercharger ranks at the 93rd percentile of mares that had foals by Maria's Mon through his 2006 crop, as determined by a formula that evaluates strike rates with the individual mares' ancestors. Indpendently of the Buckpasser thing, it's a good profile. But there is also a blip in the numbers relating to the position of Buckpasser as the sire of her third dam, Numbered Account.
Maria's Mon sired foals out of nine Buckpasser-line mares, and not a single one produced a superior runner. and the same goes for the 13 mares whose dams were from Buckpasser line. However, two of the ten mares whose second dams were by Buckpasser mares produced superior runners–that is, foals inbred to Buckpasser 4×4 through their third dams, including Latent Heat, winner of the Malibu S (G1). Then there is Supercharger herself, which is one of eight mares that produced foals inbred to Buckpasser 4×5 through their fourth dams, including Super Saver. These two positions of Buckpasser as a sire in the female line have a combined strike rate of 3/18 for Maria's Mon, against a strike rate of 5/103 in all other positions combined (including the multiple occurrences through mares inbred to Buckpasser, as in the case of Supercharger).
For Maria's Mon, no other placement of Buckpasser in the ancestry of his mates comes close to this, and overall Buckpasser has a strike rate at the low end of Maria's Mon's average. Nevertheless, the numbers suggest Buckpasser could be a highly favorable factor for Maria's Mon as the sire of the third or fourth dam of a mare. In fact, both Super Saver and his dam are inbred to Buckpasser through their female line.
Sometimes it's the nick. Often it's an ancestor with no special genetic relation to the sire. Sometimes it's a very discretely defined method of inbreeding. Sometimes it's even linebreeding, but, frankly, not very often.
Posted by Roger Lyons on Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 9:24 am.
Pedigree Profile: Awesome Act
In 1997 Crypto Star, winner of the Arkansas Derby (G2) at nine furlongs, was not the only runner by Cryptoclearance to have won a stakes at that distance. However, despite the perception of Cryptoclearance as a stamina influence, only one other of his offspring had won a stakes beyond 8.5 furlongs. That was Kingdom City, which happened to be entered in the undercard on Derby Day that same year. He had won the Round Table S. (G3) at nine furlongs two years before, but was not the same as a five-year-old. Neither of them fared very well on Derby Day 1997.
That distance barrier for Cryptoclearance remained intact only until the following year when Victory Gallop won the Belmont. The only other offspring of Cryptoclearance to win a stakes beyond nine furlongs was Volponi in the 2002 Breeders' Cup Classic.
Needless to say, Crypto Star didn't take my money that Derby Day. Betting that a horse's performance, especially in the Kentucky Derby, will be anomalous to its breeding is like drawing to an inside straight. No, I'm no fool, I found a much smarter way to lose my money.
One horse that won't get my money this year is Awesome Act. I just can't back a horse in the Derby with 4×2 inbreeding to Mr. Prospector, especially one that has not yet won a stakes at nine furlongs. Oh, and did I mention? The only runner by Awesome Again and inbred to Mr. Prospector to have won a stakes beyond 8.5 furlongs was Awesome Gem, which won the Hawthorne Gold Cup H. (G2), but that horse is inbred 4×4 and it was in the mud.
That analysis could easily go wrong for me because Awesome Act has already proven he's exceptional in other ways. Through his 2006 crop Awesome Again has sired superior runners out of only six mares with Mr. Prospector in their ancestries, that from 103 opportunities. So, in that sense, what Awesome Act has done so far makes him a rarity.
One way in which Awesome Act is typical of his breeding is that his dam is out of Coup de Folie, by Halo, and that's the kind of family that's almost indifferent to the stallion that's been selected for it. It's a good thing, too, because Awesome Again has had a superior runner from only one of 26 of his mates that had Halo in their ancestries, and the eight additional mares that had Halo's dam, Cosmah, descending in some other way all failed to fire.
No matter how Awesome Act might fare in the Derby, Awesome Again has already established his credentials as a versatile sire that can get classic-distance runners. Besides Awesome Gem, he's sired Ghostzapper (Breeders' Cup Classic–G1), Ginger Punch (Personal Ensign S.–G1), Rumor Has It (Kentucky Cup Turf S.–G3–and three other stakes beyond nine furlongs), and Hotstufanthensome (Mac Diarmida H.–G3); and nine furlongs is a piece of cake for many of his runners. However, if you check CompuSire online, you'll see that the nearest inbreeding among the classic-distance stakes winners–outside of Awesome Gem–was 5×4 to Raise a Native in the ancestry of Hotstufanthensome. The rest, by today's standards, were outcrosses.
Clearly, Awesome Act's breeding does not fit the profile that is typical of the best offspring of his sire, especially those that won at classic distances. The question is, how exceptional can he be?
The one other thing that worries me is Volponi, that anomalous son of Cryptoclearance. Nobody was more shocked than I was when he won the Breeders' Cup Classic because, you see, he's inbred 3×4 to Mr. Prospector!
So, while I won't be backing Awesome Act, I completely agree with Frank Mitchell when he says, "you just never know."
Posted by Roger Lyons on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 12:09 pm.
What Linebreeding Really Is
Most people think of inbreeding and linebreeding as two different things–inbreeding as a duplication of ancestors within four generations and linebreeding as a duplication of ancestors outside of that generational distance. Consequently, inbreeding is considered more intense than linebreeding because it involves less generational distance from the new individual.
What geneticists mean by linebreeding, however, has nothing to do with generational distance, and I know Blood-Horse pedigree columnist Les Brinsfield will back me up on this. It's formed by the cross of two or more ancestors that share relatives on both sides of their ancestries. It's what's sometimes called crossing close genetic relatives. The generational distance of these ancestors from the new individual is irrelevant. The most intense form of linebreeding, in fact, consists in breeding a mare to her full brother. Clearly, linebreeding is a specialized form of inbreeding.
Well, then, if that's what linebreeding really is, why is it that you can go to commercial breeding sites all over the internet and find it defined incorrectly–as a function of generational distance?
First, it's important to understand that pedigree has no place in the science of inheritance. It has nothing whatever to do with genetics or its terminology. It was created out of whole cloth in the middle of the industrial revolution as part of an institutional structure for the new pure-breeding model. This was a time, don't forget, when naturalists all over Europe, including Charles Darwin well into the 19th century, were preoccupied with exploring the biological frontiers of hybrid breeding–of crossing different varieties.
Besides wanting to see how weird a pigeon could look, they were interested in where to draw the lines between species. They had spirited debates in the Royal Academy about whether species difference should be inferred from the infertility of offspring, on the one hand, or, on the other hand, the inability of manifestly differing parents to reproduce at all. Hybrid breeding of English racehorses had been the dominant approach earlier in the 18th century, but the new pedigree breeding was at best tangential to prevailing, early 19th-century scientific interest.
At mid-century when Darwin was focused on how species adapt to their environments, the English Jockey Club had its hands full trying to adapt the racing environment to unanticipated changes in the population of pedigreed horses–and in such a way as to sustain the pretense that the horses were actually getting better in some absolute sense. Meanwhile, successive generations of horsemen since the first half of the 19th century have complained that the horses are not what they used to be, and they've been right all along.
Historically, the emergence of pedigree is understandable only from the standpoint of its commercial utility. Its form of development has been oriented, first and foremost, toward limiting the size and regulating the commercial value of living populations. The changing conditions of racing that at any given time reflect the thoroughbred population's capacity for performance, the forms of genetic representation, typographical conventions, statistical formulations, cataloguing styles, pedigree analysis, and the terminology in which thoroughbred horses are discussed all comprise the system of signifying practices we call pedigree.
What does it all signify? It very convincingly signifies commercial value even if it's not that good at predicting performance.
The new sense of pedigree, as represented by the English Stud Book, had much to do with the emerging industrial values of efficiency and scale, but it was also a form of commercial packaging. For the most part, science is welcomed to the party only at times when commerce has run so far afoul of biology that something needs to be fixed.
It's not surprising, then, that linebreeding would be understood one way in a system of practices whose purpose is to represent its measurable effects and quite another way in a system whose purpose is to invest it with commercial value. Accordingly, linebreeding is a salient technique in the packaging of pedigree. Because inbreeding has a bad name in the world at large, commercial breeders, whether of dogs, cattle, whatever, don't want to say the animals they're selling are inbred. Instead, they say their animals are linebred, and they're careful to make sure the breeding fits the definition that's been especially adapted to the commercial interest in pedigree. It's really just inbreeding packaged to sell.
To their credit, thoroughbred breeders are not so squeamish about inbreeding, but the commercial motives underlying pedigree so forcefully distort language and sense that the perception of linebreeding as a specialized–and often more intense–form of inbreeding has been almost hopelessly suppressed.
Posted by Roger Lyons on Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 11:00 am.
Odysseus/Devil May Care, Take Two
In a recent post about the breeding of Odysseus and Devil May Care, I argued that Odysseus is not bred to win a major stakes beyond 8.5 furlongs, as Devil May Care had just done. So, you can imagine how eagerly I anticipated Odysseus' start in the Bluegrass Stakes (G1). Or perhaps, instead, you imagine trepidation. Either way, I was looking forward to it.
I didn't expect him to win, but didn't expect him to run last, either. Then came the sad news of the bone chip, which might well have happened during the race. As so often happens in racing, some questions never find ultimate answers, but that misfortune pales by comparison with the bad luck for Padua Stables, and I'd rather have been proven wrong than have it turn out that way.
In any event, my quarrel with his pedigree has largely, but not exclusively, to do with his close inbreeding to Mr. Prospector (3×3), based on Malibu Moon's past success and opportunity. Statistical information like that only tells you what to expect based on a norm. Strictly speaking, you can only hypothesize. You can say something like this: if Odysseus is able to win a major stakes at 10 furlongs, then he is not at all typical of his breeding. Any given horse can become an exception to its breeding, but most don't.
In that same post I also argued that Devil May Care is much more likely than Odysseus to be exceptional relative to the past performance of Malibu Moon's Mr. Prospector inbreds. First of all, her inbreeding to Mr. Prospector is at 3×4, which is a huge difference. Secondly, she comes from the Roberto sire line, with which Malibu Moon has had good success from opportunity.
Of Malibu Moon's five SWs inbred to Mr. Prospector, Devil May Care's breeding is exceptional, especially in regard to her pattern of inbreeding to Mr. Prospector, and readers of my last post (if there are any) might guess exactly how. Odysseus' dam is by Conquistador Cielo, by Mr. Prospector, which means Mr. Prospector is returned by the sire line of the dam. Devil May Care, on the other hand, is out of a mare whose second dam is by Mr. Prospector. That is to say, Devil May Care is inbred to a sire in the female line–the pattern shared by Eskendereya (inbred 4×4 to Northern Dancer) and Real Quiet (inbred 4×3 to Raise a Native).
The numbers are important. Of all the foals Malibu Moon has sired out of mares in some descent of Mr. Prospector, only five mares had Mr. Prospector as a sire in the female line. Two of those mares had foals inbred at a distance of 3×3. Throw those out because it's too close. The foals of only three of those five mares were inbred at the much more effective distance of 3×4, like Devil May Care. So, Devil May Care comes from precious little legitimate opportunity.
We don't know what is typical for that kind of breeding. It's a new thing for Malibu Moon. Devil May Care has already gone farther in a major stakes than any other of Malibu Moon's Mr. Prospector inbreds when she won the nine-furlong Bonnie Miss S. (G2). She's done enough already, but, if she wins the Oaks, her pedigree is the new take on how to get a very high-class Malibu Moon runner inbred to Mr. Prospector.
Posted by Roger Lyons on Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 11:30 am.
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Inbreeding to a Sire in the Female Line
Sid Fernando recently posted on Eskendreya at his Sid Fernando + Observations blog, and he included a link to something he posted on Eskendereya at WTC's Who's Hot blog just after the Fountain of Youth, and I went back and read it again. In that earlier post Sid draws a parallel between the pedigrees of Eskendereya and Real Quiet. What do they have in common? Inbreeding to a sire in the female line.
That way of putting it is easier than saying "inbreeding to the sire of a mare in the female line," which is more accurate. I recall that many years ago David Dink, in his broad study of inbreeding for the Thoroughbred Times, chose the simpler expression, so I'll use it, too. David did a study so broad that it was almost guaranteed not to find any effects of inbreeding, but, as I recall, he did a special installment on inbreeding to a sire in the female line because it was the only pattern of inbreeding that actually did get results that exceeded opportunity.
Just before re-reading Sid's post from late February, I had posted some comments on Eskendereya (my last post), among which was the observation that Giant's Causeway really didn't have a very good strike rate with Northern Dancer, that he liked Raise a Native a lot more, and that's true. However, after re-reading Sid's post, which was about inbreeding to Northern Dancer in the female line of Eskendereya, I checked the numbers for occurrences of Northern Dancer as a sire in the female line of mares that have produced foals by Giant's Causeway. Sid is going to like what I found.
Giant's Causeway had 12 mares whose dams were by Northern Dancer–inbred 4×3 to Northern Dancer. The only mare to produce a superior runner was the dam of Aragorn, a dual-G1 winner. The story is high quality, low frequency, but that's not the end of it.
He sired foals out of 16 mares whose third dams were by Norther Dancer–inbred 4×4 to Northern Dancer. Two of those mares produced superior runners, including G1 winner Frost Giant and Model, a listed stakes winner. It seems fair to assess that provisionally as high quality, average frequency, especially since it's Eskendereya's pattern. He won't be included in my tallies until after the classics.
Giant's Causeway sired foals out of six mares whose fourth dams were by Northern Dancer–inbred 4×5 to Northern Dancer. Two of those mares produced G1 winners, including Red Giant and Internallyflawless. Unequivocally, that generational distance yielded high quality, high frequency.
Clearly, as far as Giant's Causeway is concerned, there is something special about mares with Northern Dancer as a sire in the female line, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that this approach does have broad effects for certain sires, as David Dink's study found and as is suggested by Sid's comparison. After all, Raise a Native is the key sire in Real Quiet's female line. It's not just a Northern Dancer thing, but generational distance could be a factor, especially in regard to frequency.
Posted by Roger Lyons on Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 3:19 pm.
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Miami, November 10, 2016 – Royal Caribbean International celebrated the homecoming of Harmony of the Seas with a spectacular naming ceremony, befitting the world's largest cruise ship. Hosting the highly-anticipated ceremony was Brittany Affolter from Teach For America Miami-Dade, who was selected as Godmother of Harmony of the Seas for her work in inspiring South Florida's next generation to dream big, think differently and challenge the status quo. Royal Caribbean conducted a six-week search and received nearly one thousand nominees for the honor usually reserved for celebrities and royalty. To further welcome the ship to her new homeport in South Florida, singer-songwriter and Miami native Jon Secada, took center stage, performing some of his greatest hits.
Royal Caribbean International celebrated the homecoming of Harmony of the Seas with a spectacular naming ceremony, befitting the world's largest cruise ship. Hosting the highly-anticipated ceremony was Brittany Affolter from Teach For America Miami-Dade, who was selected as Godmother of Harmony of the Seas for her work in inspiring South Florida's next generation to dream big, think differently and challenge the status quo.
Royal Caribbean International celebrates the naming ceremony on Royal Caribbean's newest ship Harmony of the Seas and her godmother Brittany Affolter.
Fireworks at the naming ceremony of Royal Caribbean... International's newest ship Harmony of the Seas.
Captain Gus Andersson, Michael Bayley, President and CEO of... Royal Caribbean International and Brittany Affolter after the naming ceremony on Royal Caribbean's newest ship Harmony of the Seas.


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Is This What They Have Planned For the USA? . . . South Africa - The First Country Built on "Critical Race Theory" - Officially Implodes
Posted By: SpaceCommando
Date: Sunday, 18-Jul-2021 19:13:39
Posted on Revolver.news - July 16, 2021
South Africa is disintegrating.
After the jailing of Jacob Zuma, supporters of the former president took to the streets, ostensibly to protest but actually to simply plunder at will. The official death toll already runs into the dozens, but in a country as violent as South Africa (57 murders a day) the real toll will likely never be known for certain.
Rioters have plundered shops and entire shopping malls. When they run out out of normal goods, they steal livestock. When it's too heavy to carry by hand, they bring a forklift.
The meltdown in South Africa isn't a natural disaster or a random fluke. It's a choice. South Africa was the first modern nation to be refounded on the anti-white principles of critical race theory, and now it is reaping the whirlwind of that choice.
South Africa did everything that is being done in America right now. As a hyperdiverse multiethnic, multilingual society, South Africa has followed almost every prescription embraced by the globalist ruling class.
This is about more than riots. This wave of violence will eventually peter out. But there is no reason to be optimistic when that happens. There will be no sense of having survived a calamity, and having a chance to rebuild. When this wave of burning and looting and killing are over, there is nothing to look forward to but the next wave.
The specter of doom hangs over South Africa. The optimism that peaked when the country hosted the 2010 World Cup is now gone. Despite being warned for years about failing water infrastructure, local governments ignored the problem and now the country has routine, severe water crises. South Africa began experiencing rolling blackouts in 2007, and has battled them ever since. Even the government says the blackouts will likely continue for at least five more years. Hint: Bet your money that they last even longer.
Despite being the "economic superpower" of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa's brain drain is significant and accelerating. Those who have options are abandoning the country. More than four percent of all deaths are murders, and the murder rate is somehow still rising; last year it rose by 8.4 percent. But it's not just about day-to-day violence. It's the expectation for what is to come.
South Africa's dominant African National Congress party is corrupt and ineffective, but its most dangerous rival is one of the most radical political parties to enjoy representation on Earth. The Economic Freedom Fighters vow to seize white-owned land (without payment), nationalize the banking and mining sectors, and double welfare payments.
But EFF isn't a radical outlier in South African politics. It's the natural endgame for the country's post-apartheid ideology. For decades, the South African economy has been shaped by a policy known as Broad Based Black Economic Employment. Despite its name, there is nothing "based" about BBBEE. Instead, the policy uses the same tactics to achieve "equity" that activists in the United States are demanding . . .
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Q: Find the distribution parameters On STAT101 your assessment is based on:
Final Exam 50%
Learn based on-line assessment 30%
Assignments 20%
Consider three random variables $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ which respectively represent the exam, on-line assessment total and assignment scores (out of 100%) of a randomly chosen student. Assume that $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ are independent (this is clearly not true, but the answers may be a reasonable approximation).
Suppose that past experience suggests the following properties of these assessment items (each out of 100%): $E \left ( X \right ) = 61$, $sd(X) = 20$, $E(Y) = 72$, $sd(Y) = 22$ and $E(Z) =65$, $sd(Z) = 24$.
a) Find the distribution parameters, $E(T)$ and $Var(T)$, for the total mark, $T$, where:
$T = 0.5X+0.3Y+0.2Z$.

A: Here are some hints that will hopefuly guide you to the answers.
The expectation $E(T)$ can be obtained using the linearity properties of the expected value.
The variance $\mbox{var}(T)$ can be obtained using the expression of the variance of a sum of random variable and using the independence of $X$, $Y$, and $Z$ to determine the value of the covariance terms that appear.

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What new Apple product are you most looking forward to in 2019? [Poll]
Chance Miller | Jan 20 2019 - 6:56 am PT
2019 is shaping up to be a busy year for Apple. In addition to the normal iPhone updates, reports also suggest that the company has new iPads, accessories, and more in store. What are you most excited to see in 2019?
A report last week suggested that Apple will announce a new entry-level iPad, as well as the iPad mini 5, during the first half of 2019. The new iPad mini will likely focus on performance improvements, with analyst Ming-Chi Kuo saying the device will feature a cheaper display panel and an upgraded processor.
Details about a new "entry-level" iPad are more unclear, but that seemingly references the $329 iPad. One report has said the 9.7-inch iPad will be replaced by a 10-inch iPad, suggesting a slight chassis redesign with smaller bezels.
In addition to the new iPad hardware, Apple has also promised that its "modular" Mac Pro is a 2019 product. We still don't know much about the new Mac Pro. Apple first teased the new machine in 2017 and updated us on the process last year.
Further, in conjunction with the new Mac Pro, Apple is planning a new "Pro" display for its users. The company discontinued its Thunderbolt Display in 2016, but has since promised to make a reentry into the professional display market. Ideally that product will launch alongside the Mac Pro.
Of course, 2019 will also bring the introduction of the iPhone XS and iPhone XR successors. A report from The Wall Street Journal suggested that the iPhone 11 will stick with a dual-camera system, whereas the iPhone 11 Max will adopt three cameras. The iPhone XR successor (iPhone 11R?) is said to see an upgrade to dual-cameras, but is expected to stick with LCD for another year.
In terms of accessories, Bloomberg reported last year that Apple has "premium AirPods," a second-generation HomePod, and over-ear headphones coming in 2019. Details on all of these remain sparse, but they are seemingly somewhere on Apple's roadmap for this year, barring any delays.
Other potential updates include a new 12-inch MacBook, updated MacBook Pros, a refreshed iMac line, and spec-bumped iPad Pros. The jury is still out on what these updates might bring, but we'll likely learn more as 2019 progresses. There is also the Apple Watch Series 5 looming as well.
Last but not least, of course, is AirPower. A report last weekend said the wireless charging mat was nearing production. Further, the iPhone XS Smart Battery Case website briefly mentioned the accessory, suggesting that all hope is not yet lost.
What are you most excited to see in 2019? Let us know in the poll below and elaborate down in the comments.
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Koinonia, the Greek word translated "fellowship" in the New Testament, is an extremely important concept. It means literally, "sharing in common." It is also translated by the terms "communion, communicate, companion, contribution, distribution, partaker, and partner" in the New Testament. Christian fellowship is a matter of two or more people sharing, that is, giving and taking, the blessings each has received from the Lord, whether those blessings take the form of knowledge, encouragement, or material assistance.
The person and work of Jesus Christ is the common basis for fellowship. Believers are bound together by their common faith (Titus 1:4), their common experience of salvation (Jude 3), and their common conviction and commitment to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Their fellowship is "in the gospel" (Phi. 1:5). People who would otherwise have little in common by virtue of their various backgrounds, personalities, preferences, and social circumstances, find common ground in the gospel of Jesus Christ. He is "what they have in common." When a common love for the Savior prevails - when the common basis of our involvement with one another is our mutual agreement concerning the cross of Christ and a consensus for the glory of God, fellowship is sweet. Any other "common ground" of interaction among believers is not Biblical koinonia.
The principle of koinonia is simply this: It is only in the corporate body of the saints that any believer can live the Christian life. There is no place for a spiritual "Lone Ranger." The three little words, "with all saints," in Ephesians 3:18 indicate that outside of the fellowship of other believers, no one can come to the level of understanding that he should. With the exception of the apostles who received "direct" revelation, God does not give all the truth on every subject to any one person. He made us to need each other. Through the practice of giving to others what He has taught me, and taking from them what He has taught them, I grow toward spiritual maturity. God's blessings upon me as an individual are not intended to be "consumed upon my own lusts," but to be passed on to others. Both the self-absorbed mentality that hesitates to give to others and the proud spirit that refuses to take from others are contrary to the principle of koinonia. The Christian life is not a solo-flight.


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package com.rgi.store.tiles.tms;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.activation.MimeType;
import javax.imageio.IIOImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.imageio.ImageWriteParam;
import javax.imageio.ImageWriter;
import javax.imageio.stream.ImageOutputStream;

import com.rgi.common.coordinate.Coordinate;
import com.rgi.common.coordinate.CoordinateReferenceSystem;
import com.rgi.common.coordinate.CrsCoordinate;
import com.rgi.common.util.MimeTypeUtility;
import com.rgi.store.tiles.TileStoreException;
import com.rgi.store.tiles.TileStoreWriter;

/**
 * TMS
 * implementation of {@link TileStoreWriter}
 *
 * @author Luke Lambert
 *
 */
public class TmsWriter extends TmsTileStore implements TileStoreWriter
{
    /**
     * Constructor
     *
     * @param coordinateReferenceSystem
     *             The coordinate reference system of this tile store
     * @param location
     *             The location of this tile store on-disk
     * @param imageOutputFormat
     *             Image format for used for output
     */
    public TmsWriter(final CoordinateReferenceSystem coordinateReferenceSystem,
                     final Path                      location,
                     final MimeType                  imageOutputFormat)
    {
        this(coordinateReferenceSystem,
             location,
             imageOutputFormat,
             null);
    }

    /**
     * Constructor
     *
     * @param coordinateReferenceSystem
     *             The coordinate reference system of this tile store
     * @param location
     *             The location of this tile store on-disk
     * @param imageOutputFormat
     *             Image format for used for output
     * @param imageWriteOptions
     *             Controls details of the image writing process.  If null, a default ImageWriteParam used instead
     */
    public TmsWriter(final CoordinateReferenceSystem coordinateReferenceSystem,
                     final Path                      location,
                     final MimeType                  imageOutputFormat,
                     final ImageWriteParam           imageWriteOptions)
    {
        super(coordinateReferenceSystem, location);

        if(!location.toFile().canWrite())
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Specified location cannot be written to");
        }

        if(imageOutputFormat == null)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Image output format may not be null");
        }

        this.imageOutputFormat = imageOutputFormat;

        try
        {
            this.imageWriter = ImageIO.getImageWritersByMIMEType(imageOutputFormat.toString()).next();
        }
        catch(final NoSuchElementException ex)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format("Mime type '%s' is not a supported for image writing by your Java environment", imageOutputFormat.toString()));
        }

        this.imageWriteOptions = imageWriteOptions;
    }

    @Override
    public Coordinate<Integer> crsToTileCoordinate(final CrsCoordinate coordinate, final int zoomLevel)
    {
        return this.profile.crsToTileCoordinate(coordinate,
                                                this.profile.getBounds(),    // TMS uses absolute tiling, which covers the whole globe
                                                this.tileScheme.dimensions(zoomLevel),
                                                TmsTileStore.Origin);

    }

    @Override
    public void addTile(final CrsCoordinate coordinate, final int zoomLevel, final BufferedImage image) throws TileStoreException
    {
        if(coordinate == null)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Coordinate may not be null");
        }

        if(image == null)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Image may not be null");
        }

        if(!coordinate.getCoordinateReferenceSystem().equals(this.profile.getCoordinateReferenceSystem()))
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Coordinate's coordinate reference system does not match the tile store's coordinate reference system");
        }

        final Coordinate<Integer> tmsCoordinate = this.crsToTileCoordinate(coordinate, zoomLevel);

        this.addTile(tmsCoordinate.getX(),
                     tmsCoordinate.getY(),
                     zoomLevel,
                     image);
    }

    @Override
    public void addTile(final int column, final int row, final int zoomLevel, final BufferedImage image) throws TileStoreException
    {
        if(image == null)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Image may not be null");
        }

        final Path tilePath = tmsPath(this.location,
                                      zoomLevel,
                                      column).resolve(String.format("%d.%s",
                                                                    row,
                                                                    this.imageOutputFormat.getSubType().toLowerCase()));
        try
        {
            final Path parentPath = tilePath.getParent();

            if(parentPath == null)
            {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format("A parent directory does not exist for the tile z: %d, x: %d, y: %d.", zoomLevel, column, row));
            }

            // Image will not write unless the directories exist leading to it.
            if(!parentPath.toFile().exists())
            {
                final boolean directoryFound = (new File(parentPath.toString())).mkdirs();

                if(!directoryFound)
                {
                    throw new TileStoreException(String.format("Image directory does not exist. Invalid directory: %s", parentPath.toString()));
                }
            }

            try(final ImageOutputStream fileOutputStream = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(tilePath.toFile()))
            {
                this.imageWriter.setOutput(fileOutputStream);

                try
                {
                    this.imageWriter.write(null, new IIOImage(image, null, null), this.imageWriteOptions);
                }
                catch(final IOException ex)
                {
                    if(this.imageWriteOptions == null || !this.imageWriteOptions.canWriteCompressed())
                    {
                        throw ex;   // If this isn't an issue caused by compression options being set, rethrow the exception
                    }

                    this.imageWriter.write(null, new IIOImage(image, null, null), null);
                }

                fileOutputStream.flush();
            }
        }
        catch(final IOException ex)
        {
            throw new TileStoreException(ex);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Set<MimeType> getSupportedImageFormats()
    {
        return TmsWriter.SupportedImageFormats;
    }

    private final MimeType        imageOutputFormat;
    private final ImageWriter     imageWriter;
    private final ImageWriteParam imageWriteOptions;

    /**
     * Image MimeTypes supported by the TMS tile store
     */
    public static final Set<MimeType> SupportedImageFormats = MimeTypeUtility.createMimeTypeSet(ImageIO.getReaderMIMETypes());
}

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package com.hazelcast.client.cache.impl.nearcache;

import com.hazelcast.cache.ICache;
import com.hazelcast.cache.impl.HazelcastServerCacheManager;
import com.hazelcast.cache.impl.HazelcastServerCachingProvider;
import com.hazelcast.client.cache.impl.HazelcastClientCacheManager;
import com.hazelcast.client.cache.impl.HazelcastClientCachingProvider;
import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.HazelcastClientProxy;
import com.hazelcast.client.test.TestHazelcastFactory;
import com.hazelcast.config.CacheConfig;
import com.hazelcast.config.Config;
import com.hazelcast.config.InMemoryFormat;
import com.hazelcast.config.NearCacheConfig;
import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
import com.hazelcast.core.LifecycleEvent;
import com.hazelcast.instance.LifecycleServiceImpl;
import com.hazelcast.internal.adapter.ICacheDataStructureAdapter;
import com.hazelcast.internal.nearcache.NearCache;
import com.hazelcast.internal.nearcache.NearCacheInvalidationListener;
import com.hazelcast.internal.nearcache.NearCacheManager;
import com.hazelcast.internal.nearcache.NearCacheTestContext;
import com.hazelcast.internal.nearcache.NearCacheTestContextBuilder;
import com.hazelcast.spi.serialization.SerializationService;
import com.hazelcast.test.AssertTask;
import com.hazelcast.test.HazelcastParametersRunnerFactory;
import com.hazelcast.test.HazelcastTestSupport;
import com.hazelcast.test.annotation.SlowTest;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameter;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameters;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.UseParametersRunnerFactory;

import javax.cache.spi.CachingProvider;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import static com.hazelcast.cache.CacheUtil.getPrefixedCacheName;
import static com.hazelcast.client.cache.impl.nearcache.ClientNearCacheTestSupport.generateValueFromKey;
import static com.hazelcast.client.cache.nearcache.ClientCacheInvalidationListener.createInvalidationEventHandler;
import static com.hazelcast.spi.properties.GroupProperty.CACHE_INVALIDATION_MESSAGE_BATCH_ENABLED;
import static com.hazelcast.spi.properties.GroupProperty.CACHE_INVALIDATION_MESSAGE_BATCH_FREQUENCY_SECONDS;
import static com.hazelcast.spi.properties.GroupProperty.CACHE_INVALIDATION_MESSAGE_BATCH_SIZE;
import static java.lang.String.format;
import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

/**
 * Test that Near Cache invalidation events are delivered when a cache is:
 *

 *
cleared

 *
destroyed (with Cache.destroy()

 *
destroyed by its client-side CacheManager.destroyCache

 *

 * and not delivered when a cache is closed (Cache.close()).
 * Respective operations are tested when executed either from member or client-side Cache proxies with the exception of
 * CacheManager.destroyCache, in which case the Near Cache is already destroyed on the client-side and the listener
 * registration is removed before the invocation for destroying the cache is sent to the member, so no event can be
 * received.
 */
@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
@UseParametersRunnerFactory(HazelcastParametersRunnerFactory.class)
@Category(SlowTest.class)
@SuppressWarnings({"ConstantConditions", "WeakerAccess"})
public class ClientNearCacheInvalidationTest extends HazelcastTestSupport {

    static final String DEFAULT_CACHE_NAME = "com.hazelcast.client.cache.impl.nearcache.ClientNearCacheInvalidationTest";

    // time to wait until invalidation event is delivered (when used with assertTrueEventually)
    // and time to wait when testing that no invalidation event is delivered (used with assertTrueAllTheTime)
    static final int TIMEOUT = 10;

    // some events are delivered exactly once, some are delivered MEMBER_COUNT times
    // we start MEMBER_COUNT members in the test and validate count of events against this number
    static final int MEMBER_COUNT = 2;

    static final int INITIAL_POPULATION_COUNT = 1000;

    // when true, invoke operations which are supposed to deliver invalidation events from a Cache instance on a member
    // otherwise use the client-side proxy.
    @Parameter
    public boolean invokeCacheOperationsFromMember;

    @Parameter(1)
    public InMemoryFormat inMemoryFormat;

    @Parameters(name = "fromMember:{0}, format:{1}")
    public static Collection<Object[]> parameters() {
        return asList(new Object[][]{
                {false, InMemoryFormat.BINARY},
                {false, InMemoryFormat.OBJECT},
                {true, InMemoryFormat.BINARY},
                {true, InMemoryFormat.OBJECT},
        });
    }

    private TestHazelcastFactory hazelcastFactory;
    private NearCacheTestContext<Integer, String, Object, String> testContext;

    @Before
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public void setup() {
        hazelcastFactory = new TestHazelcastFactory();

        HazelcastInstance[] allMembers = new HazelcastInstance[MEMBER_COUNT];
        for (int i = 0; i < MEMBER_COUNT; i++) {
            // every instance should have its own getConfig() call because an existing EE test relies on this
            allMembers[i] = hazelcastFactory.newHazelcastInstance(getConfig());
        }
        waitAllForSafeState(allMembers);

        NearCacheConfig nearCacheConfig = createNearCacheConfig(inMemoryFormat);
        ClientConfig clientConfig = createClientConfig()
                .addNearCacheConfig(nearCacheConfig);

        HazelcastClientProxy client = (HazelcastClientProxy) hazelcastFactory.newHazelcastClient(clientConfig);
        CachingProvider provider = HazelcastClientCachingProvider.createCachingProvider(client);
        HazelcastServerCachingProvider memberProvider = HazelcastServerCachingProvider.createCachingProvider(allMembers[0]);
        HazelcastClientCacheManager cacheManager = (HazelcastClientCacheManager) provider.getCacheManager();
        HazelcastServerCacheManager memberCacheManager = (HazelcastServerCacheManager) memberProvider.getCacheManager();

        CacheConfig<Integer, String> cacheConfig = createCacheConfig(inMemoryFormat);
        ICache<Integer, String> cache = cacheManager.createCache(DEFAULT_CACHE_NAME, cacheConfig);
        ICache<Integer, String> memberCache = memberCacheManager.getCache(getPrefixedCacheName(DEFAULT_CACHE_NAME, null, null));

        NearCacheManager nearCacheManager = client.client.getNearCacheManager();
        NearCache<Object, String> nearCache = nearCacheManager.getNearCache(
                cacheManager.getCacheNameWithPrefix(DEFAULT_CACHE_NAME));

        SerializationService serializationService = client.getSerializationService();

        NearCacheTestContextBuilder<Integer, String, Object, String> builder
                = new NearCacheTestContextBuilder<Integer, String, Object, String>(nearCacheConfig, serializationService);
        testContext = builder
                .setDataInstance(allMembers[0])
                .setNearCacheInstance(client)
                .setDataAdapter(new ICacheDataStructureAdapter<Integer, String>(memberCache))
                .setNearCacheAdapter(new ICacheDataStructureAdapter<Integer, String>(cache))
                .setMemberCacheManager(memberCacheManager)
                .setCacheManager(cacheManager)
                .setNearCacheManager(nearCacheManager)
                .setNearCache(nearCache)
                .setInvalidationListener(createInvalidationEventHandler(cache))
                .build();
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() {
        hazelcastFactory.shutdownAll();
    }

    @Override
    protected Config getConfig() {
        return super.getConfig()
                .setProperty(CACHE_INVALIDATION_MESSAGE_BATCH_ENABLED.getName(), "false");
    }

    @Test
    public void putToCacheAndGetInvalidationEventWhenNodeShutdown() {
        Config config = getConfig()
                .setProperty(CACHE_INVALIDATION_MESSAGE_BATCH_ENABLED.getName(), "true")
                .setProperty(CACHE_INVALIDATION_MESSAGE_BATCH_SIZE.getName(), String.valueOf(Integer.MAX_VALUE))
                .setProperty(CACHE_INVALIDATION_MESSAGE_BATCH_FREQUENCY_SECONDS.getName(), String.valueOf(Integer.MAX_VALUE));
        HazelcastInstance instanceToShutdown = hazelcastFactory.newHazelcastInstance(config);

        warmUpPartitions(testContext.dataInstance, instanceToShutdown);
        waitAllForSafeState(testContext.dataInstance, instanceToShutdown);

        NearCacheConfig nearCacheConfig = createNearCacheConfig(inMemoryFormat)
                .setInvalidateOnChange(true)
                .setLocalUpdatePolicy(NearCacheConfig.LocalUpdatePolicy.CACHE_ON_UPDATE);

        CacheConfig<String, String> cacheConfig = createCacheConfig(inMemoryFormat);
        final NearCacheTestContext<String, String, Object, String> nearCacheTestContext1
                = createNearCacheTest(DEFAULT_CACHE_NAME, nearCacheConfig, cacheConfig);
        final NearCacheTestContext<String, String, Object, String> nearCacheTestContext2
                = createNearCacheTest(DEFAULT_CACHE_NAME, nearCacheConfig, cacheConfig);

        Map<String, String> keyAndValues = new HashMap<String, String>();

        // put cache record from client-1 to instance which is going to be shutdown
        for (int i = 0; i < INITIAL_POPULATION_COUNT; i++) {
            String key = generateKeyOwnedBy(instanceToShutdown);
            String value = generateValueFromKey(i);
            nearCacheTestContext1.nearCacheAdapter.put(key, value);
            keyAndValues.put(key, value);
        }

        // verify that records are exist at Near Cache of client-1 because `local-update-policy` is `CACHE`
        for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : keyAndValues.entrySet()) {
            String key = entry.getKey();
            String exceptedValue = entry.getValue();
            String actualValue = getFromNearCache(nearCacheTestContext1, key);
            assertEquals(exceptedValue, actualValue);
        }

        // remove records through client-2 so there will be invalidation events
        // to send to client to invalidate its Near Cache
        for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : keyAndValues.entrySet()) {
            nearCacheTestContext2.nearCacheAdapter.remove(entry.getKey());
        }

        // we don't shutdown the instance because in case of shutdown even though events are published to event queue,
        // they may not be processed in the event queue due to shutdown event queue executor or may not be sent
        // to client endpoint due to IO handler shutdown

        // for not to making test fragile, we just simulate shutting down by sending its event through `LifeCycleService`,
        // so the node should flush invalidation events before shutdown
        ((LifecycleServiceImpl) instanceToShutdown.getLifecycleService())
                .fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleEvent.LifecycleState.SHUTTING_DOWN);

        // verify that records in the Near Cache of client-1 are invalidated eventually when instance shutdown
        for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : keyAndValues.entrySet()) {
            final String key = entry.getKey();
            assertTrueEventually(new AssertTask() {
                @Override
                public void run() throws Exception {
                    assertNull(getFromNearCache(nearCacheTestContext1, key));
                }
            });
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void putToCacheAndDoNotInvalidateFromClientNearCacheWhenPerEntryInvalidationIsDisabled() {
        // we need to use another cache name, to get the invalidation setting working
        String cacheName = "disabledPerEntryInvalidationCache";

        NearCacheConfig nearCacheConfig = createNearCacheConfig(inMemoryFormat)
                .setName(cacheName)
                .setInvalidateOnChange(true);

        CacheConfig<Integer, String> cacheConfig = createCacheConfig(inMemoryFormat);
        cacheConfig.setName(cacheName);
        cacheConfig.setDisablePerEntryInvalidationEvents(true);

        final NearCacheTestContext<Integer, String, Object, String> nearCacheTestContext1
                = createNearCacheTest(cacheName, nearCacheConfig, cacheConfig);
        final NearCacheTestContext<Integer, String, Object, String> nearCacheTestContext2
                = createNearCacheTest(cacheName, nearCacheConfig, cacheConfig);

        // put cache record from client-1
        for (int i = 0; i < INITIAL_POPULATION_COUNT; i++) {
            nearCacheTestContext1.nearCacheAdapter.put(i, generateValueFromKey(i));
        }

        // get records from client-2
        for (int i = 0; i < INITIAL_POPULATION_COUNT; i++) {
            final Integer key = i;
            final String value = nearCacheTestContext2.nearCacheAdapter.get(key);
            // records are stored in the cache as async not sync, so these records will be there in cache eventually
            assertTrueEventually(new AssertTask() {
                @Override
                public void run() throws Exception {
                    assertEquals(value, getFromNearCache(nearCacheTestContext2, key));
                }
            });
        }

        // update cache record from client-1
        for (int i = 0; i < INITIAL_POPULATION_COUNT; i++) {
            // update the cache records with new values
            nearCacheTestContext1.nearCacheAdapter.put(i, generateValueFromKey(i + INITIAL_POPULATION_COUNT));
        }

        int invalidationEventFlushFreq = Integer.parseInt(CACHE_INVALIDATION_MESSAGE_BATCH_FREQUENCY_SECONDS.getDefaultValue());
        // wait some time and if there are invalidation events to be sent in batch
        // (we assume that they should be flushed, received and processed in this time window already)
        sleepSeconds(2 * invalidationEventFlushFreq);

        // get records from client-2
        for (int i = 0; i < INITIAL_POPULATION_COUNT; i++) {
            String actualValue = nearCacheTestContext2.nearCacheAdapter.get(i);
            String expectedValue = generateValueFromKey(i);
            // verify that still we have old records in the Near Cache, because, per entry invalidation events are disabled
            assertEquals(expectedValue, actualValue);
        }

        nearCacheTestContext1.nearCacheAdapter.clear();

        // can't get expired records from client-2
        for (int i = 0; i < INITIAL_POPULATION_COUNT; i++) {
            final int key = i;
            // records are stored in the Near Cache will be invalidated eventually, since cache records are cleared
            // because we just disable per entry invalidation events, not full-flush events
            assertTrueEventually(new AssertTask() {
                @Override
                public void run() throws Exception {
                    assertNull(getFromNearCache(nearCacheTestContext2, key));
                }
            });
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void when_shuttingDown_invalidationEventIsNotReceived() {
        populateMemberCache();

        if (invokeCacheOperationsFromMember) {
            testContext.dataInstance.shutdown();
        } else {
            testContext.nearCacheInstance.shutdown();
        }

        assertNoFurtherInvalidation();
    }

    @Test
    public void when_cacheDestroyed_invalidationEventIsReceived() {
        populateMemberCache();

        if (invokeCacheOperationsFromMember) {
            testContext.dataAdapter.destroy();
        } else {
            testContext.nearCacheAdapter.destroy();
        }

        assertLeastInvalidationCount(1);
    }

    @Test
    public void when_cacheCleared_invalidationEventIsReceived() {
        populateMemberCache();

        if (invokeCacheOperationsFromMember) {
            testContext.dataAdapter.clear();
        } else {
            testContext.nearCacheAdapter.clear();
        }

        assertNoFurtherInvalidationThan(1);
    }

    @Test
    public void when_cacheClosed_invalidationEventIsNotReceived() {
        populateMemberCache();

        if (invokeCacheOperationsFromMember) {
            testContext.dataAdapter.close();
        } else {
            testContext.nearCacheAdapter.close();
        }

        assertNoFurtherInvalidation();
    }

    /**
     * When CacheManager.destroyCache() is invoked from client-side CacheManager, an invalidation event is received.
     * When invoked from a member-side CacheManager, invalidation event is not received.
     */
    @Test
    public void when_cacheManagerDestroyCacheInvoked_invalidationEventMayBeReceived() {
        populateMemberCache();

        if (invokeCacheOperationsFromMember) {
            testContext.memberCacheManager.destroyCache(DEFAULT_CACHE_NAME);
        } else {
            testContext.cacheManager.destroyCache(DEFAULT_CACHE_NAME);
        }

        assertLeastInvalidationCount(1);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private <K, V, NK, NV> NearCacheTestContext<K, V, NK, NV> createNearCacheTest(String cacheName,
                                                                                NearCacheConfig nearCacheConfig,
                                                                                CacheConfig<K, V> cacheConfig) {
        ClientConfig clientConfig = createClientConfig()
                .addNearCacheConfig(nearCacheConfig);

        HazelcastClientProxy client = (HazelcastClientProxy) hazelcastFactory.newHazelcastClient(clientConfig);
        NearCacheManager nearCacheManager = client.client.getNearCacheManager();
        CachingProvider provider = HazelcastClientCachingProvider.createCachingProvider(client);
        HazelcastClientCacheManager cacheManager = (HazelcastClientCacheManager) provider.getCacheManager();

        ICache<K, V> cache = cacheManager.createCache(cacheName, cacheConfig);
        NearCache<NK, NV> nearCache = nearCacheManager.getNearCache(cacheManager.getCacheNameWithPrefix(cacheName));
        NearCacheInvalidationListener invalidationListener = createInvalidationEventHandler(cache);

        NearCacheTestContextBuilder<K, V, NK, NV> builder = new NearCacheTestContextBuilder<K, V, NK, NV>(nearCacheConfig,
                client.getSerializationService());
        return builder
                .setNearCacheInstance(client)
                .setNearCacheAdapter(new ICacheDataStructureAdapter<K, V>(cache))
                .setNearCacheManager(nearCacheManager)
                .setNearCache(nearCache)
                .setInvalidationListener(invalidationListener)
                .build();
    }

    private void waitEndOfInvalidationsFromInitialPopulation() {
        assertTrueEventually(new AssertTask() {
            @Override
            public void run() throws Exception {
                long invalidationCount = testContext.invalidationListener.getInvalidationCount();
                assertEquals(INITIAL_POPULATION_COUNT, invalidationCount);
                testContext.invalidationListener.resetInvalidationCount();
            }
        });
    }

    private void assertNoFurtherInvalidation() {
        assertNoFurtherInvalidationThan(0);
    }

    private void assertNoFurtherInvalidationThan(final int expectedInvalidationCount) {
        AssertTask assertTask = new AssertTask() {
            @Override
            public void run() throws Exception {
                long invalidationCount = testContext.invalidationListener.getInvalidationCount();
                assertEquals(expectedInvalidationCount, invalidationCount);
            }
        };

        assertTrueEventually(assertTask);
        assertTrueAllTheTime(assertTask, TIMEOUT);
        testContext.invalidationListener.resetInvalidationCount();
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("SameParameterValue")
    private void assertLeastInvalidationCount(final int leastInvalidationCount) {
        AssertTask assertTask = new AssertTask() {
            @Override
            public void run() throws Exception {
                long invalidationCount = testContext.invalidationListener.getInvalidationCount();
                assertTrue(format("invalidationCount is %d, but should be >= %d", invalidationCount, leastInvalidationCount),
                        invalidationCount >= leastInvalidationCount);
            }
        };

        assertTrueEventually(assertTask);
        assertTrueAllTheTime(assertTask, TIMEOUT);
        testContext.invalidationListener.resetInvalidationCount();
    }

    protected ClientConfig createClientConfig() {
        return new ClientConfig();
    }

    protected NearCacheConfig createNearCacheConfig(InMemoryFormat inMemoryFormat) {
        return new NearCacheConfig()
                .setInMemoryFormat(inMemoryFormat)
                .setName(DEFAULT_CACHE_NAME);
    }

    protected <K, V> CacheConfig<K, V> createCacheConfig(InMemoryFormat inMemoryFormat) {
        return new CacheConfig<K, V>()
                .setName(DEFAULT_CACHE_NAME)
                .setInMemoryFormat(inMemoryFormat)
                .setBackupCount(1);
    }

    private void populateMemberCache() {
        // make sure several partitions are populated with data
        for (int i = 0; i < INITIAL_POPULATION_COUNT; i++) {
            testContext.dataAdapter.put(i, Integer.toString(i));
        }
        waitEndOfInvalidationsFromInitialPopulation();
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private static <K, V, NK, NV> NV getFromNearCache(NearCacheTestContext<K, V, NK, NV> nearCacheTestContext,
                                                      Object key) {
        if (nearCacheTestContext.nearCache.getInMemoryFormat() == InMemoryFormat.NATIVE) {
            key = nearCacheTestContext.serializationService.toData(key);
        }
        return nearCacheTestContext.nearCache.get((NK) key);
    }
}


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Q: skaffold init with helm charts I'm trying to perform skaffold init. I'm getting this message:

FATA[0000] one or more valid Kubernetes manifests is required to run skaffold

I guess skaffold is looking for kubernetes manifests. However, I'm using helm charts in order to run and deploy my artifacts on kubernetes.
I mean, I don't have and will not have any "valid" kubernetes manifest since I'm using helm charts.
How could I proceed with init?

A: As of now, it is not possible to generate skaffold.yaml file through skaffold init when we want deployment through helm. But, Skaffold does support Helm for deployment. We can manually create skaffold.yaml file and update the deployment section based on the options available for helm.
Also note that we need to update image and pullpolicy in deployment.yaml, and few changes in values.yaml.
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