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"Girl in a Folk Costume () is a painting by the Latvian painter Jānis Tīdemanis from 1930. Description The painting is oil on plywood, and has dimensions 59 x 48 centimeters. The painting belongs to the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. Analysis The picture depicts a young girl with plaits in a stylized folk costume with bright color on a dark background. The artist uses thick brushstrokes, and large areas of color.Meitene tautas tērpā, dom.lndb.lv. References Category:1930 paintings Category:Latvian paintings Category:Paintings in Latvia "
"Christopher Winter (fl. 1716–1723) was an English pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for sailing in Spanish service and launching the career of Edward England. History Winter was active in the Nassau, Bahamas area in 1716. The following year King George offered a pardon to all pirates who surrendered within a year. Winter kept active, capturing a merchant ship near Jamaica and forcing one of its crewmen, Edward England, into piracy. England embraced piracy and Winter returned with him to New Providence. Finally electing not to accept the pardon,Gosse claims Winter did accept the pardon, but reneged on it and served Spain anyway. Winter sailed with Nicholas Brown to Cuba where they converted to Catholicism and signed on as guarda costa privateers with the Spanish. Winter began attacking English ships and settlements off Jamaica, raiding them for slaves which he took back to Cuba. Governor Nicholas Lawes of Jamaica complained to Spanish officials in Trinidad and Cuba and even sent the warship HMS Happy to demand the return of Winter, Brown, and the ships and slaves they’d captured. The Spanish sheltered Winter and Brown, claiming “as for those English Fugitives you mention, they are here as other Subjects of our Lord the King, being brought voluntarily to our holy Catholick Faith, and have received the Water of Baptism.” Winter is recorded as active in Spanish service through 1723; despite being called among “the most notorious rogues and renegades of all,” his further activities are not known, and he “otherwise remains a footnote in history.” See also *Charles Vane, Edward England’s captain after leaving Winter, and who also reneged on the King’s pardon References Category:18th-century pirates Category:Year of birth missing Category:Year of death missing Category:British pirates Category:Caribbean pirates "
"The Radek Maneuver is a scale-up-then-scale-down tactic used in the administration of web services, specifically those deployed under a cloud computing paradigm (by a provider e.g. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or Microsoft Azure). History Developed by Olivier "Radek" Dabrowski in the mid-2010s, the Radek Maneuver was originally conceived of in using and maintaining applications running on a PaaS system. Execution The Radek Maneuver consists of a series of steps, usually executed via the PaaS or web portal interface. The tactic should be used when a service is misbehaving or otherwise experiencing errors, and the suspected cause is the underlying cloud layer, rather than the application layer. This includes networking issues and other "bad box" problems. The steps are as follows: # Identify the application or service which is misbehaving. # Increase the compute resource (number of CPU cores, amount of ram) for the instance on which the application is running. This is also known as scaling up. # Wait for the application to re- deploy and stabilize. # Scale back down to the original instance size. Principle of action This scale-up-scale-down method is understood to shift the application to a different physical machine underlying the PaaS service or application virtual machine. While this layer of the cloud computing stack is generally out of the access of an application developer (instead in the hands of the cloud provider), the maneuver allows troubleshooting and dodging errors in that layer. References Category:Cloud computing "