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These are the pictures of security during the inauguration that you didn't see
By Natasha Noman
Much like everything President Donald Trump touches, his inauguration didn't come without controversy.
The inauguration of Trump — with record-low approval ratings for an incoming president and likely record-low turnout for his ceremony — drew a number of protests.
And where there's protest, there's often law enforcement.
In accordance with inauguration protocol and in anticipation of demonstrations, Washington, D.C., was not short of security in its many forms.
There were violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement Friday: Police let off flash-bangs, fired pepper spray canisters and arrested around 100 people.
Around 28,000 officials were employed as part of the inauguration's security plan. These included police from departments within and outside D.C., the Coast Guard, the National Guard, Transportation Security Administration personnel and Secret Service, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said one week before the ceremony, NPR reports.
Here are 24 photos of just some of the inauguration's sprawling security plan in action.
Law enforcement gather amongst BLM protesters
A law enforcement officer looks on
Law enforcement on the streets of Washington, D.C., on Friday
Security personnel interspersed amongst the inauguration crowd
A member of inaugural security looks on at the crowds
A police officer wearing a balaclava walks through the streets of D.C. on Friday.
A member of inaugural security personnel stands in the aisle
Riot police wearing riot gear in Washington, D.C., on Friday
A member of the inaugural security force stands amongst Trump supporters
Security surveys the scene from a distance
A member of inaugural security personnel
Inaugural security personnel walks with a sniffer dog
Military personnel congregate around a vehicle in Washington, D.C.
Riot police respond to a fire started by protesters
A member of the U.S. military surveys the area
High-level security in the streets of Washington, D.C., during Inauguration Day
Law enforcement officers stand with batons in their hands.
Riot police wear headgear in Washington, D.C.
Riot police raise their shields
Smoke from a protester fire billows in the background
Riot police walk through the streets of Washington, D.C., amongst protesters on Inauguration Day.
Smoke from a protester fire rises in the background as riot police respond.
Riot police engage with protesters holding signs


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MicroFreedom
Screenshot of the original MicroFreedom Index
MicroFreedom, also known as the MicroFreedom Index is a website dedicated to providing resources to study current and past micronations.
1 Creation
2 Departure of Scharff
3 Updated site
4 Categorization of micronations
5 MicroFreedom today
MicroFreedom was originally created by Steven Scharff as a result of his a long-standing interest in micronations stemming from a childhood visit to the United Nations Headquarters and reading about the Principality of Sealand.
This fascination prompted Steven to found his own micronation called the Principality of Nova Arcadia in 1994. Included on the Nova Arcadia website was a single page of links dedicated to other micronations, new country projects, and other alternative forms of government.
Due to the high number of questions he received about the list of micronations, as well as his own devotion to the subject, Steven expanded the single page of links into an entire website dedicated to the study and preservation of information about micronations, and on 18 January 1999, MicroFreedom was born.
Departure of Scharff
Due to his longstanding experience cataloging and studying micronations, Steven was invited to be the keynote speaker at MicroCon 2015, a gathering of unrecognized countries in Anaheim, California. He presented a history of micronations and their evolution through time and as a result of the resulting press attention, he felt it was time to pass the torch to someone who was more involved in the current state of micronationalism.
Steven put out feelers on Facebook to see who might be willing to take up the mantle of MicroFreedom and serve as his successor. Travis McHenry, having been greatly influenced by MicroFreedom and Steven's work, felt a calling to step forward and take over where Steven left off.
Updated site
Screenshot of the updated MicroFreedom site
Throughout 2016 and 2017, Travis re-created Steven's list of micronations on an entirely new website that was both mobile friendly and featured a fresh graphical interface. The new site also features an interactive map overlay that displays all the micronations in the database on a searchable Google Map.
As part of the database compilation, Travis also developed a mobile app that would allow anyone with a cell phone to see what micronations might be near them from anywhere in the world. However, the cost of hosting the app was deemed too expensive and although it remains ready to launch, it has been postponed indefinitely.
Categorization of micronations
Under Steven Scharff, the micronations were primarily categorized by the type of project they represented. The primary categories were:
Actual Small Countries
Self-Proclaimed States
Model Countries
New Country Projects
Sedition and Exile Groups
When Travis took over the site, he simplified the categories and separated each micronation based on the amount of time they had existed. As the vast majority of micronations last less than a year or two, it made little sense to fill up the primary list with dead links and out of date information. To combat this issue, he created three categories based on the longevity of the nation:
Distinguished nations
Emerging nations
Defunct nations
MicroFreedom today
MicroFreedom continues to be a resource for new micronationalists and for those interested in studying micronations that may have existed in the past. The defunct nations section contains archived websites and additional information about many micronations that have otherwise disappeared completely.
List of micronations
MicroFreedom Site
Original MicroFreedom Index
Retrieved from "https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?title=MicroFreedom&oldid=9754"

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Android has a lightweight mechanism for remote procedure calls (RPCs) — where a method is called locally, but executed remotely (in another process), with any result returned back to the caller. This entails decomposing the method call and all its attendant data to a level the operating system can understand, transmitting it from the local process and address space to the remote process and address space, and reassembling and reenacting the call there. Return values have to be transmitted in the opposite direction. Android provides all the code to do that work, so that you can concentrate on defining and implementing the RPC interface itself.
An RPC interface can include only methods. All methods are executed synchronously (the local method blocks until the remote method finishes), even if there is no return value.
The inner classes have all the code needed to administer remote procedure calls for the interface you declared with the IDL. Both inner classes implement the IBinder interface. One of them is used locally and internally by the system; the code you write can ignore it. The other, called Stub, extends the Binder class. In addition to internal code for effectuating the IPC calls, it contains declarations for the methods in the RPC interface you declared. You would subclass Stub to implement those methods, as indicated in the diagram.
Typically, the remote process would be managed by a service (because a service can inform the system about the process and its connections to other processes). It would have both the interface file generated by the aidl tool and the Stub subclass implementing the RPC methods. Clients of the service would have only the interface file generated by the aidl tool.
• Clients of the service (on the local side) would implement onServiceConnected() and onServiceDisconnectedn methods so they can be notified when a successful connection to the remote service is established, and when it goes away. They would then call bindServicen to set up the connection.
• The service's onBindn method would be implemented to either accept or reject the connection, depending on the intent it receives (the intent passed to bindService()). If the connection is accepted, it returns an instance of the Stub subclass.
• If the service accepts the connection, Android calls the client's onServiceConnected() method and passes it an IBinder object, a proxy for the Stub subclass managed by the service. Through the proxy, the client can make calls on the remote service.
This brief description omits some details of the RPC mechanism. For more information, see Designing a Remote Interface Using AIDL and the IBinder class description.


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6 Most Famous Indian Paintings that You Should Know About
While we are inundated with a special piece of art every day, there are certain special artworks that have transcended time and culture to claim their stake in Indian art history. For many years, the masterpieces have held the attention of the art connoisseurs for their ethereal beauty and the story they hold within. Every stroke of brush, every drop of colour brings the canvas alive.
Let us look at some of the most famous Indian paintings.
Horses by M F Hussain
When you talk about Indian art, Indian artists and famous Indian paintings, you cannot miss referring to Maqbool Fida Hussain, one of the most prolific and celebrated artists in the world from India.
This painting by the Indian maestro perfectly captures the power, and energy of the three horses through its bold outlines. Rated among Hussain Saab's one of the best works of his life, this painting was placed on auction at Christie's in London in 2008, and it fetched more than Rs. 1 crore, a testament to the beauty of the art and the artist's brilliant artistry.
Shakuntala by Raja Ravi Verma
One of the most iconic paintings of India, Shakuntala is made by the renowned and the celebrated artist, Raja Ravi Verma. One of his countless masterpieces, Ravi Verma, depicts Shakuntala as an important character in the epic mythology Mahabharat who is pretending to be removing a thorn that pricked her foot. However, she is searching for her lover and husband, Dushyanta. The twist and the turn of the head and the body perfectly captures the real essence of the narrative.
Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore
If you are looking for the best Indian art paintings of all time, you cannot look past this iconic piece of art by Abanindranath Tagore. The founder of Bengal School of Art, Abanindranath's Bharat Mata depicts a woman wearing a saffron-coloured saree and looks like a Sadhvi, holding a book, a piece of white cloth, a garland and sheaves of paddy in her four hands.
The painting holds an important place in Indian history and it is said to have inspired many nationalists during India's fight against the British for Independence. It evoked a sense of patriotism and deepest emotions amongst people to fight for their rights.
Another interesting story attached to the painting is that, Sister Nivedita, a renowned freedom fighter from Bengal admired the painting so much that she wanted to carry it from Kashmir to Kanyakumari to spread the national fervour all over the country and awaken the country's men and women and inspire them to fight for Bharat Mata, their homeland.
Bapuji by Nandlal Bose
We all know that Mahatma Gandhi was one of the greatest freedom fighters in the world. His philosophy of non-violence and Satyagraha was and is an inspiration to many. However, not many people know that Gandhiji or Bapu, as he was fondly known, was also an inspiration and a muse for many artists back in the day, including the legendary Indian artist, Nandalal Bose.
An artist from Shantiniketan, Bose, once stated that Bapu is an inspiration for all artists. And, inspired by his life and work, he created the famous linocut portrait of Mahatma Gandhi depicting his walk during the Dandi March with the word, 'Bapuji' inscribed on it. Created in 1930, the portrait is considered to be one of the best Indian paintings and it is on permanent display at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi.
Three Pujarins by Jamini Roy
An eminent artist from Bengal, Jamini Roy is counted among the early modernists of Indian art in the 20th century. He created this masterpiece, featuring three almond-eyed priestesses and named it Three Pujarins at a time when it was difficult to think of a priest being a woman in India.
Jamini Roy was greatly inspired by the folk-art tradition of Bengal, and he always experimented with vibrant colours and developed his unique style of painting and all his works over the years are a visual feast that till date continues to inspire modern aspiring artists in Bengal and all over India.
Bindu by S H Raza
Syed Haider Raza is one of the most popular Indian artists who is credited to popularise Indian iconography worldwide. Throughout his long and illustrious career, all of Raza's work had one focal point of energy, i.e., the bindu or shunya.
Raza's first solo exhibition was held in 1946, and throughout his career, his art continued to evolve. However, by the 70's, he found the motif that would make him a legend that he is today when you created his masterpiece the Bindu.
Apart from these masterpieces, the Indian artists have created many other stunning pieces of art. You can enjoy seeing them and get to know about the beautiful story behind them at the various art galleries around India.


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Curry for Change
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Last month, Brits across the country gave back to the nation that gave them their love of spice by partaking in Curry for
Change month. Find Your Feet, a small charity which raises funds for the most remote areas of India, Nepal, Malawi and Zimbabwe, started the Curry for Change initiative as a way for Brits to eat well and feed others simultaneously.
Find Your Feet declared June Curry for Change month, and a variety of eateries across London hosted workshops, special menus, and feast-ivals to raise money for the charity. The campaign kicked off with a special masterclass by Vivek Singh (founder of Cinnamon restaurant group), Dhruv Baker (Masterchef 2010 winner) and Anjum Anand (founder of Spice Tailor) during which guests were able to sample the trio's signature dishes and learn some top tips.
For those feeling as though they've missed out now that June has come to an end, Curry for Change still offers curry supper club packs, encouraging diners all over the country to host an evening of spice to help the hungry. The pack is free and includes a variety of recipes, spices, entertainment and donation forms. Those who are less able in the kitchen also have the option of ordering in pre-prepared gourmet meals from Cook, who will donate a portion of the profits to the campaign. Anyone who acts as a curry host before November 30th will also be in with a chance of winning an exclusive personal cookery class with expert chef Anjali Pathak.
For more information visit the Curry for Change website and sign up for a free event pack for a night of food and fundraising.
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est un film japonais réalisé par Yōji Yamada, sorti en 2002.

Ce film est le premier volet d'une trilogie, La Servante et le Samouraï constitue le second volet, Amour et Honneur le troisième.

Synopsis
Samouraï quelque peu hors du rang depuis que sa femme est décédée d'une terrible maladie, Seibei élève avec ses très maigres moyens ses deux jeunes filles et s'occupe comme il le peut de sa mère, une vieille femme qui n'a plus toute sa tête. Déconsidéré par l'ensemble des membres de sa classe, Seibei demeure un incompris : comment un samouraï pourrait-il en effet se contenter d'une vie aussi morne et difficile ?

Fiche technique
 Titre : Le Samouraï du crépuscule
 Titre original :
 Réalisation : Yōji Yamada
 Scénario : Yōji Yamada et Yoshitaka Asama
 Production : Hiroshi Fukazawa, Shigehiro Nakagawa et Ichirô Yamamoto
 Musique : Isao Tomita et Yōsui Inoue
 Photographie : Mutsuo Naganuma
 Montage : Iwao Ishii
 Pays d'origine : Japon
 Langue : japonais
 Format : Couleurs - 1,85:1 - Dolby Digital -
 Genre : chanbara, drame, jidai-geki
 Durée : 129 minutes
 Date de sortie :  (Japon)

Distribution
 Hiroyuki Sanada : Seibei Iguchi
 Rie Miyazawa : Tomoe Iinuma
 Nenji Kobayashi : Choubei Kusaka
 Ren Osugi : Toyotarou Kouda
 Mitsuru Fukikoshi : Michinojo Iinuma
 Hiroshi Kanbe : Naota
 Miki Itō : Kayana Iguchi
 Erina Hashiguchi : Ito Iguchi
 Reiko Kusamura : la mère d'Iguchi
 Min Tanaka : Zenemon Yogo
 Keiko Kishi : Ito Iguchi âgée
 Tetsurō Tanba : Tozaemon Iguchi

Autour du film
 Le film est inspiré des trois romans ,  et  de Shūhei Fujisawa.

Récompenses
 Nikkan Sports Film Award 2002 : meilleur film
 Prix Mainichi du meilleur film 2002
 Prix du meilleur film des Awards of the Japanese Academy 2002
 Prix du meilleur film asiatique lors des Hong Kong Awards 2004
 Nomination à l'Oscar du meilleur film étranger en 2004

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Critique Sancho does Asia
 Critiques Hk Mania

Film japonais sorti en 2002
Film d'action japonais
Film dramatique japonais
Hong Kong Film Award du meilleur film asiatique
Film de samouraï
Film se déroulant au Japon
Film nommé aux Oscars
Prix Mainichi du meilleur film
Film réalisé par Yōji Yamada
Japan Academy Prize du film de l'année
Film en japonais
Adaptation d'un roman japonais au cinéma
Chanbara

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Alastor aegyptiacus är en stekelart som beskrevs av Blüthgen 1955. Alastor aegyptiacus ingår i släktet Alastor och familjen Eumenidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Steklar
aegyptiacus


"All these farmers all helping each other... I was in awe."
"I remember as a little dude on the farm, we had threshing groups, threshing grain. My dad owned a threshing machine and one year we threshed with 15 different farmers. One guy would have thirty acres of oats, and you had forty, and I had fifteen.. we'd all change work. For me to look at all those farmers and that big machine, and just to see the whole process going on with the community, these farmers all helping each other. I was in awe."
wigenerations "I reached out to Arno because he was a former white supremacist now doing peace work. I had so many questions that needed answers."
wigenerations "Food sovereignty: the right of people to healthy, culturally appropriate food."
wigenerations "Everything began to change. I realized I couldn't see what the other kids were seeing."
wigenerations "I dedicate my life to helping educate others about native people and what we're all about."
wigenerations "There was a recognition that everybody came from somewhere..."


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Q: YII2 Modal Ajax bom dia !
Sou um tanto quanto novo em questão de programação,mais ainda no Yii2, e eu sei que existem alguns guias de como usar Ajax no Yii2, porém sao poucos e eu ainda nao consigo compreender com facilidade,até mesmo sem o Yii2 nao compreendo ajax muito bem.  HOJE estou me guiando por este topico :
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36106325/yii2-form-in-modal-window
e encontrei a seguinte dificuldade:
Após abrir o Modal com o formulario, preencher os campos e dar um submit, eu nao consigo renderizar o formulario de volta no Modal.
OBS: Gostaria de pedir também, se nao for tão incomodo, se alguem poderia fazer ou me mostrar um guia em pt-br simples de usar ajax no Yii2 ou ate mesmo fora dele, desde já , agradeço imensamente !
Ah, a  rede da minha empresa bloqueia o acesso via composer para obter extensões do repositório
Gatilho do Modal no Index :
<?php echo Html::a('',
                    ['atividade2','id' => $model->id_atividade],
                    [
                        'title' => 'Atividades',
                        'data-toggle'=>'modal',
                        'data-target'=>'#modalvote',
                    ]
                   );
?>

Create form dentro do modal :
<?php

use yii\helpers\Html;
use yii\widgets\ActiveForm;
use yii\helpers\ArrayHelper;
use app\modulos\GPS\models\GpsResponsaveis;
use app\modulos\GPS\models\User;
use app\modulos\GPS\models\GpsPrioridade;
use app\modulos\GPS\models\GpsStatus;
use app\modulos\GPS\models\GpsAtividades;

/* @var $this yii\web\View */
/* @var $model app\modulos\GPS\models\GpsSolicitacao */
/* @var $form yii\widgets\ActiveForm */
$this->title = 'Criar Atividade';
$this->params['breadcrumbs'][] = ['label' => 'GPS Solicitação', 'url' =>                                 ['index']];
$this->params['breadcrumbs'][] = $this->title;
?>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"     href="codebase/fonts/font_roboto/roboto.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="codebase/dhtmlxcalendar.css"/>

    <?php
        $form = ActiveForm::begin();

        $sol_id = Yii::$app->request->get('sol_id');
        $sol_area = Yii::$app->request->get('sol_area');
        $model = new GpsAtividades();

     ?>

        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×    </button>

Criar Atividade

    <?= $form->field($model, 'responsavel')-    >dropDownList(ArrayHelper::map(User::find()->where(['id_area' => $sol_area])-    >all(), 'id', 'nome'),
    array_merge( ['prompt' => 'Selecione'] ) ); ?>

<?= $form->field($model, 'data_objetivo')->textInput(['maxlength' => true]) ?>

<?= $form->field($model, 'prioridade')->dropDownList(ArrayHelper::map(GpsPrioridade::find()->all(), 'id_prioridade', 'nome_prioridade'),
    array_merge( ['prompt' => 'Selecione'] ) ); ?>

 <?= $form->field($model, 'descricao')->textArea(['maxlength' => true]) ?>

    <?= Html::submitButton('Criar Atividade', ['atividade','sol_id' =>         $sol_id,'class' => 'btn btn-success']) ?>

<?php ActiveForm::end(); ?>

Controller , Actions relacionadas com o Modal :
// Renderiza o formulario no modal
public function actionAtividadeView()
    {
       $model = new GpsAtividades();

       return $this->renderAjax('createAtividade', [
                'model' => $model,
        ]);

    }

// Trata o post , salva e deveria renderizar o modal, ainda nao tratei par retornar preenchido, só gostaria no momento que ele retornasse para o modal
public function actionAtividade()
    {
       $model = new GpsAtividades();

       if ($model->load(Yii::$app->request->post())) {

            $model->id_solicitacao = Yii::$app->request->get('sol_id');

            $model->save();

            Yii::$app->getSession()->setFlash('success', "Atividade     Criada");

               return $this->renderAjax('createAtividade', [
                  'model' => $model,
               ]);

          } else {
              Yii::$app->getSession()->setFlash('error', "Não foi possivel     executar esta ação");

              return $this->renderAjax('createAtividade', [
                  'model' => $model,
               ]);
        }

    }

**Aceito criticas construtivas :) **

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Ethical Shopping
Deep cultural rooted vegan handbags with a hint of colour
Conscious high-quality fashion accessories for every mood and occasion
Ourgoodbrands
Kantala is nature and culture. The vegan handbags carry certifications for high ecological standards and exist to represent Sri Lanka's natural beauty and vibrant, colourful culture. From the plant to the handwoven methods, Kantala is determined to preserve the traditions of 300-year-old techniques and empower the artisans to gain in knowledge and fair employment.
Kantala is probably the most natural and vegan handbags brand we have ever come across.
It borrows the name "Kantala" from nature: "Agave cantata", also known as the "Hana plant", which is the primary material for the vegan handbags. The Hana plant is an incredibly sustainable plant, which grows abundantly and re-grows, forming a rosette of thick leaves which can reach up to 2 meters in length.
During the harvesting process of the Hana plant, the artisans do not use machinery and manually extract the fibre from the leaves by using wooden tools, which have remained the same for over three centuries. The fine white colour fibre is then dyed and woven into mats.
Today the brand offers a range of totes, handbags, wristlets and purses made from mats woven with the fibres extracted from of the Hana rosette.
A fusion of vegan materials
These cheerful masterpieces also use other natural sourced fibres, like Piñatex™, a textile made from pineapple waste fibres which are considered to be a revolutionary leather alternative. And Kantalas' logo is printed on upcycled polished coconut shells. Further enhancing the ethical credentials of the products, Kantala uses WFTO Fair Trade guaranteed handloom for lining in its products.
On top of that, Kantala also uses a combination of vegetable dyes (such as pods from the belleric tree) and eco-friendly reactive dyes, which are both OEKO TEX 100 and ISO certified.
Since dyeing processes are the number one pollutant in the fashion industry, using natural and responsible dyes is one of the reasons why Kantala received the 2016 award for "Sustainable Sourcing" from the Good Market in Sri Lanka.
As additional certifications, the brand is PETA-Approved Vegan, meaning no animals are harmed in the process of making Kantala handbags. Also, Kantala is a Good Market Sri Lanka approved vendor, a well-earned certification as a "good for people – good for planet" organisation.
Handbags with natural beauty and vibrant culture
Kantala is not just very vegan, but also a deep cultural rooted brand. The designs are inspired by a 300-year-old Sri Lankan weaving technique, where the handwoven Hana mats are the centrepiece of the vegan handbags.
The village of Henavala is where the master artisans craft with precision, passion and pride. The mats still today retain the simple and eco-friendly process introduced by their ancestors. From over 95 families residing in the village, only around 10 families are actively engaged in the craft. Most of the young folks leave town to find more lucrative jobs while only the older generation engaged in the craft. Back in 2013, when Kantala first started working with the artisans of Henavala, only 8 artisans were engaged with Kantala and the average age of an artisan was 60 years.
However, thanks to Kantala's involvement with the craft, creating sustainable income for the artisans and giving a new dimension to the handwoven Hana mat in the world of fashion accessories, interest in the craft has been steadily growing. As at the end of 2017, there were 22 artisans engaged with Kantala and the average age of the artisans had dropped to 50 years.
2017 was the breakthrough for the brands' expansion. Kantala completed a successful crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, raising over USD 40,000 with contributors from the United States, Europe, Sri Lankan and Australia. The funds from the campaign were utilized to participate at the Pure London trade show in February 2018, fund the setup of weavers co-operative and procure a fibre extraction machine.
Kantala's works with its suppliers, including the traditional artisans on fair trading principles. Not content merely satisfying the minimum requirement, Kantala pays its artisans 15% above the inflation-adjusted rural income receivers mean income. Additionally, they facilitate an open dialogue with the artisans, sharing knowledge and information and ensure payments are made in a timely manner to its artisans.
2018 – Expanding beyond Sri Lanka
This February, Kantala participated in Pure London, which is the largest gathering of fashion brands in London, to launch the Autumn/Winter 2018 collection to retailers.
Kantala has launched its second IndieGoGo campaign to give consumers the opportunity to pre-order products from the Autumn/Winter 2018 collection at a 15% discount from retail prices.
Is there any other similar brand you know or are curious about? Comment below, and we will make it happen!
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Leather has been a valuable resource for centuries. From the papyrus pages of Homer's Iliad and the Ancient Greek banks of Mesopotamia to the ruins of Pompeii and waterways of the ancient Moors in Morocco, there is clear evidence that humans have been using leather for many things like clothing, writing, tribal drums, tools, flasks and even vessels and water pipes, namely by the Phoenicians. But in order for that animal hide to last, it needed to be preserved. So in primitive times, natural things like ash, animal products and smoke were smeared, wafted and soaked upon the resource to ensure a more durable product. Known as tanning, this process evolved in tandem with the growing study of chemistry.
Evidence of the more innovative process of using vegetables and minerals to tan leather dates back hundreds of years when Colonial America was growing and the craft was turning into a profitable and vital industry. The bark of Hemlock trees because of its high tannin content was harvested and then used. So naturally as the demand for more trees grew, so did the need to migrate businesses away from the cities and into the forests of the Northeast.
By the 1800s the industry was booming, but the onslaught on the Hemlock, the rising costs amid hard economic times and the awareness of the damage the waste was doing to water supplies resulted in a sharp downturn in the industry and the way in which tanning was done by the early 1900s. This shift triggered the usage of more synthetic materials and chemicals like chromium to tan leather, a trend that has remained today.
But it also prompted others to rethink the process of vegetable tanning and develop more environmentally-friendly ways of doing it because it still resulted in the strongest, most durable leather that could last for generations.
Today, only about 10-20 percent of the world's leather is tanned using vegetables. The cost and length of time it takes to complete the process has dissuaded many manufacturers from using it and instead turn to the synthetics and chemicals to preserve leather much like high fructose corn syrup has often replaced natural sugar.
But Italy and companies like Blackwood have remained steadfast in preserving the traditional, more natural process.
Vegetable tanning is environmentally-friendly because it involves only natural ingredients, and the leather can be recycled. The natural tannins, derived from different parts of plants including woods, barks, fruits, fruit pods and leaves, change with age, developing a rich patina and earthy scent. Hemlock bark is known to produce a rich, brown color, while oaks result in a more golden color. Hundreds of other trees like chestnut and mimosa have also been used.
You might be wondering how animal hide plus tree bark results in durable, pliable leather. When the hide is soaked in a bark solution, the powerful tannins bind to the collagen proteins in the hide and coat them, causing them to become less water-soluble and more resistant to bacterial attack. The process of soaking the hides in this solution also causes the hide to become more flexible.
The process is rather complicated and because of the multiple treatments required sometimes in order to ensure that the tannin molecules take their places in just the right way, a lot of work from highly skilled craftsmen is also involved.
In an effort to make the process more efficient, it was discovered in the mid-1800s that by adding the mineral known as chrome to a tanning solution, the process became much more automated and cut the time needed to only a day from the previous two months. However, with the more efficient process came a less durable and less sustainable product.
Like Italy, Blackwood believes that quality should not be sacrificed for the sake of efficiency. The Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium, which is comprised of more than a dozen tanneries, all operating in Tuscany, in the area between Pisa and Florence, shares the same standards of production.
It is this philosophy and passion that Blackwood also brings to every product it creates, resulting in crème de la crème of leather products.


Belonging to Mota Kandagra, one of the adversely affected villages as a consequence of industrialization along the coastal region of Kutch district, Gujarat, Minal, 11, and Sonal, 13, remember the joyful lives they led just two years ago. They never knew what hunger was. They went to the local school, played with their friends and were loved and treated well. Their father had a small farm and was a successful farmer.
Today Sonal, Minal and their mother have to work as manual workers on others' fields to ensure that the family has enough to eat, and their two younger brothers go to school so that one day they could deliver the family from the current poverty and misfortune. This is just one of the several instances quoted by a recent Bank Information Centre (BIC)-sponsored study, which has found a sharp rise in child labour in the villages wherever industrialization has taken place.
Quoting villagers, the study says, following industrialization in the region, dependence on fishing as also farming and other occupations for livelihood has gone down, forcing children into labour force. "Earlier they used to catch Rs 100,000 worth of fish and now that has fallen to Rs 40,000", the study quotes a fisherman from Sangarh as saying.
"With the depleted grazing lands and decreasing agricultural productivity in the vicinity, the cattle have to be taken farther from the area for grazing, and the extra burden falls on the children", the study, carried out by a team led by prominent Gujarat-based activist Prasad Chacko, says, adding, what is deplorable is that industries in the region have not made little effort to build new schools in the area either.
An influential NGO headquartered in US, BIC claims to advocate for "the protection of rights, participation, transparency, and public accountability" in the governance and operations of the World Bank Group-funded projects.
Pointing out that many now children drop out after they go to higher primary levels, the study says, children aged 9-12 "have to travel approximately two to three km, and most parents do not want to send their daughters outside the village because "they do not feel safe". It quotes people from Tunda village that industry owners were requested to provide school buses, but without any success.
In fact, the situation is particularly precarious for girls, the study points out. "In all villages, researchers learned that many adolescent girls are being employed as wage labour on sapling plantation sites that belong to the companies and as domestic labour in the apartments of the staff of the company", the study says, claiming instances of "sexual abuse".


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That's an eclectic mix of bits and bobs!!


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Product Support SSL - green padlock but Moz say there's an 804 error?
Hi, my site has a green padlock and no SSL errors but Moz are reporting an 804 error. I use CloudFlare with fairly complex settings.
I've read this thread but it's quite old and I don't understand which parts of it are still valid. I'd love to know whether this can be sorted before I spend hours setting up Moz's features as if they can't crawl my site then I would obviously need to cancel my subscription.
Hi there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here.
Thanks for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble! I took a look at your Moz Pro subscription and your campaign, and it looks like this has to do with SNI compatibility on your site.
In general, SNI is a totally acceptable security configuration, but our crawler simply isn't equipped to be able to handle these settings.
The good news is that our team has been working hard on a new crawler that will support this configuration and this crawler is currently in its Beta phase. We started this thread to keep our community updated on the progress of our new crawler. If you're interested in being a part of the beta testing, the link to the sign up page is here: http://goo.gl/forms/LCvL9Ix8JDHfbAvr1. Our team will be in contact after you've filled out that form when we are ready to add additional users into the Beta.
We will be rolling the new crawler out to all of our users once it's out of it's Beta phase, but I don't have an exact timeframe of when that will be at this time as it's still being worked on.
In the meantime, I apologize for the inconvenience and feel free to let us know at help@moz.com if you have any questions or need any additional clarification.
Hi Tawny, thanks for your reply. I am still evaluating Moz and am disappointed not to be able to use all the functionality while this issue is being fixed. If I continue beyond the free trial, is it possible to get a temporary discount until I can use all the Pro features?
I do understand if this means that you need to cancel your subscription with us, though.


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Léa Garcia (born March 11, 1933) is a Brazilian actress. She is known for her numerous television and film roles. Her breakout role was in the Oscar-winning Black Orpheus, in which she portrayed Serafina, Eurydice's cousin.

Television roles
 2007 Luz do Sol - Edite (Babá)
 2006 Cidadão Brasileiro - Dadá
 2001 O Clone - Lola
 Você Decide
o 1999 Juízo Final
o 1996 O Professor
o 1996 Retrato em Preto e Branco
 1999 Suave Veneno - Selma
 1997 Anjo Mau - Cida
 1996 Xica da Silva - Bastiana
 1996 O Campeão
 1995 Tocaia Grande
 1994 A Viagem - Natália
 1993 Agosto - Sebastiana
 1990 Araponga - Mundica
 1990 Desejo - Mariana
 1989 Pacto de Sangue - Rute
 1988 Abolição
 1987 Helena - Chica
 1986 Dona Beija - Flaviana
 1983 Bandidos da Falange - Gladys
 1980 Marina - Leila
 1978 Maria, Maria - Rita
 1976 Escrava Isaura - Rosa
 1975 A Moreninha - Duda
 1974 Fogo Sobre Terra - Lana
 1974 Feliz na Ilusão (Caso Especial)
 1973 Os Ossos do Barão
 1972 Selva de Pedra - Elza
 1972 Meu Primeiro Baile (Caso Especial)
 1971 O Homem que Deve Morrer - Luana
 1971 Minha Doce Namorada
 1969 Acorrentados - Irmã Serafina

Film roles
 2006 Memórias da Chibata - 35mm - Avó de Juca
 2006 Nzinga
 2006 Mulheres do Brasil - Eunice
 2006 The Greatest Love of All - Zezé
 2006 Memorias da Chibata - Zeelândia
 2005 Vinícius
 2005 As Filhas do Vento (Daughters of the Wind) - Jú
 2002 Viva Sapato!
 1999 Orfeu - Mãe de Maicol
 1998 Cruz e Sousa - O Poeta do Desterro - Carolina
 1984 Quilombo
 1978 A Deusa Negra
 1978 A Noiva da Cidade
 1977 Ladrões de Cinema
 1976 Feminino Plural
 1974 O Forte
 1969 Em Compasso de Espera - Zefa
 1964 Santo Módico
 1963 Ganga Zumba - Cipriana
 1960 Os Bandeirantes - Herminia
 1959 Black Orpheus - Serafina

References

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1933 births
Living people
Brazilian film actresses
Brazilian television actresses
Actresses from Rio de Janeiro (city)


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Deeper practical cooperation, new thinking and new measures needed to further consolidate the comprehensive strategic partnership
The 15th China-EU Summit, due to start on Sept 20 in Brussels, will be the second of its kind this year and the 10th China-EU Summit to be attended by Premier Wen Jiabao. It will be an important meeting during which the two sides will seek to build on past achievements and work toward new ones.
Since its launch in 1998, the China-EU annual summit has played a strategically important role as the top-level political dialogue mechanism between the two sides. Especially since 2003, when it was decided at the sixth summit that China and the European Union would forge a comprehensive strategic partnership, China-EU relations have made rapid progress.
First, political mutual trust is being steadily consolidated. China and the EU enjoy close high-level exchanges and growing strategic mutual trust. The two sides have agreed on building China-EU cooperation into a model for 21st-century international cooperation. EU leaders have said on multiple occasions that the EU and China are partners and that mutual benefit is a key feature of EU-China relations. Thanks to concerted efforts from both sides, an all-dimensional and multi-tiered architecture of dialogue and cooperation, covering more than 60 fields, has taken shape. It follows the strategic guidance of the annual summits and is supported by the three pillars of High-level Economic and Trade Dialogue, High-level Strategic Dialogue and High-level People-to-People Dialogue.
Second, practical cooperation has yielded rich results. The EU has been China's top trading partner for eight consecutive years while China has been the EU's No 2 trading partner for nine consecutive years. Last year, bilateral trade topped $567.21 billion, having more than quadrupled since 2003. That translates into a daily trade volume of $1.48 billion. Over the last two years, Chinese investment in EU countries has boomed. EU surveys show that 74 percent of the interviewed enterprises see the Chinese market growing in importance in their global strategy. The two sides are working together not only in the traditional economic and trade fields, but also in new areas such as urbanization, energy and climate change, where new partnerships have been forged.
Third, people-to-people exchanges keep growing. Over 5 million people travel between the two sides every year. We have more than 400 pairs of twin cities. More than 230,000 Chinese students are studying in EU member states, 1.5 times the figure 10 years ago, while the number of European students in China exceeds 30,000, seven times that of 2003. Activities such as the Year of Youth and the Year of Intercultural Dialogue have been held successfully. As affinity between people holds the key to state-to-state relations, such cultural and people-to-people exchanges have consolidated the popular support for China-EU relations.
China and Europe are "neighbors from afar". Both sides need one another for their development. Cooperation between China and Europe has brought tangible benefits to the people of both sides, and contributed to world peace, stability and sustainable development. In echoing the call of the times, the China-EU relationship is now one of the most important relationships in the world.
First, it is a relationship of a strategic nature. China and Europe are at the two ends of the Eurasian continent and are the largest developing country and the largest bloc of developed countries. Together, they have one-fourth of the world's population, one-tenth of the world's landmass, and one-third of the world's GDP. China and the EU are two pillars of a multi-polar world and their relationship has ramifications for the whole world.
Second, it is a relationship of cooperation. China and Europe moving ahead together can create an inexhaustible driving force for the upgrading of bilateral ties. There are many converging points between China's 12th Five Year-Plan (2011-15) and Europe 2020 Strategy and these offer both sides major opportunities. China and Europe need each other as development partners. The growing cooperation provides a strong boost to our respective development.
Third, it is a relationship of mutual benefit. Economically, China and Europe are competitive in a complementary way, making mutual benefit a major feature of the bilateral ties. It has often been said that good things happen when "designed in Europe" meets "made in China" and when "technology from Europe" meets "the market in China". As bilateral cooperation deepens, Chinese enterprises are increasing their presence in Europe. The combining of Chinese wisdom with European ingenuity will undoubtedly produce success stories.
Given the differences in social systems, historical backgrounds, cultural traditions and development stages, it is not surprising that relations experience ups and downs from time to time. At this moment, there are discordant notes in bilateral relations. In the context of the prospects for a global economic recovery remaining uncertain and slower growth in bilateral trade, China and the EU have even more reasons to work together to address the challenges of the times rather than giving a free pass to protectionism. China and the EU stand to lose from confrontation and gain from cooperation.
China and the EU, as two major forces on the world stage, share unprecedented opportunities and challenges alike. Be it in the context of the evolving international situation or our respective need for development, it is a must for our two sides to shape a strategic partnership of mutual respect and mutual benefit. We need to seize the opportunities, move ahead with the times, and deepen practical cooperation with new thinking and new measures in a bid to further consolidate the comprehensive strategic partnership.
China will continue to attach strategic importance to its relationship with the EU and prioritize the relationship in China's diplomatic agenda. Despite international concerns over the ongoing sovereign debt issue, the EU is still a major force in the world as the most integrated regional organization of developed countries. To address the issues at hand, the EU has launched a series of major measures, and individual member states are making increasingly intensive reform efforts. China looks forward to the fruition of these efforts. We are convinced that stronger cooperation between China and Europe can help Europe out of the crisis and neutralize the negative impacts of the debt issue on China-EU economic and trade cooperation.
China and the EU need to stick to a strategic perspective when we look at each other and accommodate each other with an open mind. We should treat each other as equals and with respect in our quest for common development. We should crack the thorny issues in our relations with a cooperative approach and do our best to expand common interests. In the face of differences and frictions, the two sides need to deal with them in a constructive manner through friendly consultations to uphold the broader interests of China-EU cooperation. We hope the upcoming summit will lend fresh impetus to China-EU relations.
The author is China's vice-minister of foreign affairs.
: Deeper practical cooperation, new thinking and new measures needed to further consolidate the comprehensive strategic partnership


A pretty picture. For more pretty pictures, see here.
Simxon applies the general principle that what SimScale can do, Simxon can do, too (in most cases, Simxon's in-house computer with 16 3.4 GHz cores will be used).
In addition, Simxon can do everything that the software system OpenFOAM (read more here) can do.
- meaning that already on the first delivery, the customer is close to having the entire procedure templated or automated!
A standard delivery is sparse when it comes to documentation. Further documentation may be produced by the hour.
I discovered that the sharp transition between water and air required by the VOF theory could without detection blur and ruin the whole analysis. Quantifying this erroneous behavior and displaying it graphically proved to be an indispensable quality check.
Large regions of air at standstill could develop an instability that no one else seems to have documented (possibly an attractor). Entering a very small amount of nonlinear Darcy seepage behavior quenched the problem.
Swarms of simulation data have been collected and handled by statistics analysis software (see here).
And then there is of course more deliberate scripting and automation.
Finally, I have invented a CFD teaching device which has attracted some positive attention.
Do not hesitate to bring forward any wish of having existing procedures modified to serve a special purpose. Until now, I have programmed in bash, Python, Visual Basic, Matlab, Fortran, C, C++ and C# to get things done.
My old-school upbringing tends to make me frown at today's idiom of spray-painting millions of cells onto an unprepared geometry and then mindlessly turn the crank. In Gmsh (see also here), I believe to have found a tool that I can use for the rest of my career. Especially when heading towards automation, it is a very bad idea not to create meshes and leverage symmetries according to a plan.


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Sergio Ramos Reveals Past Links To Man United
By BF Staff | August 9, 2017 | 0
REUTERS/Sergio Perez
Thought of going up against Manchester United may have reminded Sergio Ramos about his past transfer links, as the Real Madrid captain reveals interesting facts behind his links to the Manchester side.
Ramos talked about his past links to the Premier League giants back in 2015. The Spaniard was heavily linked with a switch to Old Trafford back then, and was widely expected to be unveiled as a Manchester United player.
However, the negotiations reportedly broke down unexpectedly leading to Ramos signing a new contract with the Galacticos.
Speaking about the links, the Spanish international recently revealed rather interesting facts.
Confirmed: Global Superstar Close To Manchester United Move
The Los Blancos skipper admitted he had an offer on the table, confirming the speculations. Further, the Galactico proceeded to thank the Red Devils for the offer, and expressed his admiration for the club as well.
"I want to thank Manchester United for that offer in 2015 because I consider them a real club.", said the Spanish defender.
Ramos is considered the best defender of the current age of football by a majority of football fans around the world, and even back then, it was no different. The arrival of the World Cup winner could've changed where Jose Mourinho's side stand right now, but the fans were left disappointed.
Meanwhile, this has went on to anger a wide number of the Reds fans as they believe the former Sevilla man used the opportunity to renew his contract at the Spanish capital by teasing a move away from Madrid. However, much of that is mere speculation.
The 31-year-old is a huge fan favourite among the fans, and would definitely be glad that their side managed to keep him.
Written by Ashish Sreejith
Have had two addictions in life- playing football and watching football. Usually described as introverted but not when it comes to speaking and writing about the beautiful game of football.
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This story started slow for me, but it was completely worth it in the end. The suspense and the characters really drawn you in. The story is twisted and it will have you begging for more with each page. I read it in one sitting, because I couldn't put it down. I needed the ending! I was addicted! The perfect blend of suspense, romance, revenge, and action. I will be suggesting this story to everyone. This story was truly fantastic!


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Longing to experience the sacred as I navigate through life, I have read hundreds of spiritual books, traveled to many holy places, met with dozens of beloved teachers, and sat in meditation until my legs (or entire body) fell asleep. Many of the methods have worked and at times they haven't. But in my quest for the sacred within, I have discovered one way that allows me to experience the divine and go beyond the veil of my own limited beliefs and illusions. That way is the role of midwife to my heart.
My most profound experiences as a midwife to my heart emerge when I am able to step out of the way and be overwhelmed by something far greater than my own opinions, fears, doubts, and worries. Being a midwife of my heart has humbled me, awakened me, challenged me, and healed me. I am being called to show more vulnerability, expand my definition of extended family, and share my deep awareness and emotions with other midwives of the heart. It is our profound connections, our deep desires, and our wild cosmic hearts that connects us in the vastness of inner abyss.
My life and my work has been about being a midwife to the wild and wonderful ─ to the unknown and the uncertainty. Being a midwife to my heart requires a delicate blend of curiosity, courage, trust, wisdom, and the willingness to sit in the pain and discomfort. It's a willingness to bear witness to what's happening on the inside and take a deep dive within. As my heart expands, a new way of being is born ─ breath by breath. Every moment becomes sacred and tender.
Being a midwife to my heart can mean risk getting hurt and being mocked. But not doing it means losing some of the most meaningful connections possible. It means charting new waters, leaning into joy, daring greatly, loving deeply, living courageously, and sharing my heart with those who have earned my trust.
The birth of more love, more joy, more peace, and more connection is worth the effort. By being a midwife to my heart, I've birthed many meaningful relationships. I have lost some too. Yet, being a midwife to my heart has taught me to appreciate each person and the role they played in birthing new life in the world.
Perhaps you feel called to be a midwife of your heart ─ to the wild, the wonderful, and the unknown. Being a midwife of my heart is a journey and I don't know where it is going to take me next. I'm ready for new birth and more connection. You are invited to join me in exploring what is too deep for words and too powerful for meaning, yet a miraculous experience of the heart.
Have you experienced being a midwife to your heart? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
I listened with my whole body. I noticed I took longer pauses and was willing to sit in the quiet. I had to break all my routines in order to deeply connect with my inner self. I stopped my world and I noticed I wasn't as busy as I once believed. As I sat in the emptiness, emotions rose and connections to mySELF deepened.
All of this inner work has allowed me to connect, expand, and co-create in new ways. I have emerged from my time of stillness with incredible meditations that I will be sharing at my upcoming Wild Cosmic Heart Retreat in Hawaii at Kalani Oceanside, November 3 – 9, 2013. Take a deep dive into your heart in a magnificent tropical setting!
Let's expand together in Hawaii!
Fill yourself up with compassion with each breath.
What do you look like when you are living with compassion?
Show yourself some compassion right now.
Allow your hand to move and breathe compassion into your body.
Notice your body and breathe compassion.
Let compassion move your hand.
How are you transmitting compassion?
What is your message of compassion today?
Take a deeper breath in and out.
When you see the world with compassion, what's possible?
And take a nice big breath.
Be compassionate to you, always.
Beam compassion with every interaction.
As Pema Chödrön writes, "Just as nurturing our ability to love is a way of awakening bodhichitta, so also is nurturing our ability to feel compassion. Compassion, however, is more emotionally challenging than loving-kindness because it involves the willingness to feel pain. It definitely requires the training of a warrior.
Stay with your breath. Stay with yourself. Stay with compassion.
Once I get hooked on a song, I play it until I can't hear it anymore. It becomes my theme song and I never know how long it will last. My latest theme song is Glitter by Pink. I play this song on my iPod every day while riding the subway and hit the repeat button so it just keeps looping back to that song.
Have you ever looked fear in the face and said I just don't care?
What's your theme song these days?
While visiting a youth program in the Bronx last month, a young boy looked up at me and asked, "Do you want to join our popcorn ceremony?" I told him I would love to join his popcorn ceremony and asked him to tell me more about it. "Well, it's very special", he told me. "First, you have to have all the ingredients, put them on the table, pour the special corn in the popper, wait a few moments because at first it seems as though nothing happens because the popcorn is so quiet. Then, it gets very loud and the corn pops like crazy. Look, we can even dance while it's popping." A few boys start swinging and swaying as the popcorn maker shakes on the table. After a few sporadic pops, the boy opens the lid and ever so gently pours the popcorn into a striped glass bowl. He then whispers thank you to the popcorn, takes a handful, and passes it around to the other boys in the group. Each boy is careful to only put what fits in their hands to eat and they keep passing the bowl around. We pass the bowl around at least ten times.
I have been to wedding ceremonies, prayer ceremonies, fire ceremonies, and even tea ceremonies, but this was my first ever popcorn ceremony! Given the right attention, openness, reverence, could more of what I experience be ceremony? If young boys can pay attention to their popcorn and create a ritual out of that, could I be more mindful of the rituals I create in my life?
"We have popcorn ceremony every day. Will you come back?" Yes, I will.


I love cinnamon and the warm smell when it bakes. It's so comforting and homey!
Snickerdoodles are easy to make and even easier to eat! The cookies are vanilla-based with just a touch of salt to balance out the sugar. Rolled in cinnamon sugar and baked, the surface has a somewhat cracked appearance.
Because they're not overly sweet, it's easy to eat one after another. After another, after another. I can vouch for that. The last time I made Snickerdoodles for a birthday party, I had to send the leftovers back to school with The Pretty One so I didn't eat them all. Well, I sent the leftovers that were left over AFTER I ate quite a few of them. They're really "that" good.
This recipe comes from my friend, Jennifer's, family cookbook. The Pretty One requested Snickerdoodles for Christmas dessert one year. I don't think I'd ever made them, so I pulled out Jenn's cookbook and tried this recipe. I've never tried another one since!
The size of the cookie is up to you, and you'll need to adjust the baking temperature based on that. You can roll teaspoons of dough between your hands before rolling in the cinnamon sugar, or you can use a small cookie scoop (my preference) and roll in the cinnamon sugar.
Bake til the cookies are set and just starting to brown around the edges. Let them rest on the cookie sheet for 3 minutes, then remove and finish cooling on a rack.
Mix 1 1/2 cups sugar, margarine, shortening and eggs in large bowl.
Shape dough. Roll rounded teaspoons into balls between your hands or us a small cookie scoop.
Mix 3 Tablespoons sugar with 3 teaspoons cinnamon.
Place about 2 inches apart on lightly greased cookie sheet. If making the cookie scoop size, dip a glass bottom in the cinnamon sugar and lightly press the cookie down. It'll bake more evenly if you do that.
Bake until set, 8-10 minutes. Let set on cookie sheet for about 3 minutes, then remove and finish cooling on a wire rack.
Yield: About 30 cookies if using the cookie scoop.


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Q: Several issues considering an iPhone wake-up light app I want to build an iPhone app, it's a simple concept. You know those wake-up lights, that function as an alarm clock but then with a fading light? That's what I want for an app.
There are two issues: screen locking and brightness setting. First of all, I like to prevent the screen from locking so the wake-up animation is still visible when you actually wake up. Second, I would like to set the brightness of the screen so when sleeping the screen is dim, but when waking the screen fades to a brighter level.
Unfortunately, I read all around the internets which stated that this impossible. You can prevent the app from locking with one single line of code, but you can't set the screen brightness programmatically without using a private api (which is not allowed for publishing).
Is there some sort of work-around to programmatically show the application on the screen when the alarm triggers, circumventing the lock screen? Could this perhaps be achieved with a local notification? Is there some other sort of nifty code to make the screen as dark as possible when sleeping, but putting it back to life (showing the app) when waking?
I hope some bright folks out here can help me out, because so far my concept seems impossible. Mucho kudo's for the chap that can help me out!
Bye,
Reinder

A: Simple answer: what you want is just not possible with the current public APIs of the iOS SDK.

A: The wake up screen isn't possible using public APIs.
You can simulate turning the brightness down (and back up) in your app by simply painting the entire view black, or using very very dark colors (and displaying no status bar or a black status bar).  But note that turning off the auto-lock timer all night may kill the users battery.


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Q: Can I use LINQ to check if objects in a list have a unique ID? say I have a list containing objects like this one:
public class Person
{
    private string _name;
    private string _id;
    private int _age;

    public Person
    {
    }

    // Accessors
}

public class ManipulatePerson
{
    Person person = new Person();
    List<Person> personList = new List<Person>;

    // Assign values

    private void PopulateList();
    {
        // Loop
        personList.Add(person);

        // Check if every Person has a unique ID
    }
}

and I wanted to check that each Person had a unique ID. I would like to return a boolean true/false depending on whether or not the IDs are unique. Is this something I can achieve with LINQ?

A: I would use Distinct and then check against the counts for example:
bool bAreAllPeopleUnique = (personList.Distinct(p => p.ID).Count == personList.Count);

However as @Ian commented you will need to add a property to the Person class so that you can access the Id like so:
public string ID
{
    get { return _id; }
}

A 'nicer' way to implement this would be to add a method like so:
private bool AreAllPeopleUnique(IEnumerable<Person> people)
{
    return (personList.Distinct(p => p.ID).Count == personList.Count);
}

NOTE: The method takes in an IEnumerable not a list so that any class implementing that interface can use the method.

A: Note that you can even leverage directly an HashSet<>:
var hs = new HashSet<string>();
bool areAllPeopleUnique = personList.All(x => hs.Add(x.Id));

(and is the code that I normally use)
It has the advantage that on the best case (presence of some duplicates) it will stop before analyzing all the personList collection.

A: One of best ways to do so is overriding Equals and GetHashCode, and implementing IEquatable<T>:
public class Person : IEquatable<Person>
{
     public string Id { get; set; }

     public override bool Equals(object some) => Equals(some as Person);
     public override bool GetHashCode() => Id != null ? Id.GetHashCode() : 0;
     public bool Equals(Person person) => person != null && person.UniqueId == UniqueId;
}

Now you can use HashSet<T> to store unique objects and it will be impossible that you store duplicates. And, in addition, if you try to add a duplicated item, Add will return false.
NOTE: My IEquatable<T>, and Equals/GetHashCode overrides are very basic, but this sample implementation should give you a good hint on how to elegantly handle your scenario.
You can check this Q&A to get an idea on how to implement GetHashCode What is the best algorithm for an overridden System.Object.GetHashCode?
Maybe this other Q&A might be interesitng for you: Why is it important to override GetHashCode when Equals method is overridden?

A: You can use GroupBy for getting unique items:
var result = personList.GroupBy(p=> p.Id)
                   .Select(grp => grp.First())
                   .ToList();


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Germany's Von der Leyen confirmed as next EC president
Alibaba has seen some strategic partners trim their stakes in the company, but that doesn't mean the e-commerce giant has lost its investment allure. Photo: Reuters
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Ko Tin-yau - Mar 26, 2019 5:04pm
Alibaba & Tencent: Should stock sales by partners worry us?
Alibaba's long-time strategic partner Foxconn said last week that it had sold 2.2 million shares of the e-commerce giant in a block trade worth nearly US$400 million. Following the sale, the Taiwan group currently holds 2.6 million Alibaba shares.
Suning.Com (002024.SZ), another Alibaba ally, announced in December last year about a disposal of US$4.25 billion worth of Alibaba shares.
In a strategic alliance move, Sunning paid US$2.45 billion to acquire 1.04 percent stake in Alibaba. A subsequent surge in Alibaba's share price helped Sunning book a profit of over 140 percent on the sale.
In other transactions, Alibaba Group founder and executive chairman Jack Ma and executive vice chairman Joseph C. Tsai said on March 15 that they would sell a total of 30.6 million shares in the next 12 months "for ordinary wealth planning purposes and to meet philanthropic commitments".
In 2014, the two founders pledged to donate 2 percent shares for charity during Alibaba's IPO in the US. The shares being offloaded by Ma and Tsai are worth US$5.4 billion at Friday's closing price. After the disposal, Ma and Tsai will still hold 6 percent and 2 percent of Alibaba respectively.
Meanwhile, Alibaba's arch rival Tencent is also facing some selling pressure from its long term major shareholder.
Naspers, Africa's most valuable company, plans to list its 31 percent stake in Tencent, along with other non-South African internet assets, in Amsterdam. Naspers will own 75 percent of the new company, and float the remaining 25 percent.
The listing is aimed at better reflecting the value of Tencent shares, and reduce Naspers' valuation discount, according to its CEO Bob Van Dijk.
Selling by partners and insiders is often seen as a negative sign, but such conventional thinking may not be correct.
In the cases above, some sellers have specific reason for selling while others may just want to lock in large profit.
In particular, early-stage investors have all reaped huge profit given that the market values of both Alibaba and Tencent have topped US$400 billion. These investors have strong incentive to lock in profits.
In some cases, we have even seen founders offloading shares at low prices. For example, Tencent's Pony Ma began reducing his holdings, via block trades, since 2008 "to improve his personal life". He has sold shares at a low of HK$67 per unit. Since then, Tencent has seen its stock price spike several fold.
This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on March 26
Translation by Julie Zhu
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Hong Kong Economic Journal columnist


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Verizon enters 5G market in Europe with London tech lab to open this April
Verizon Communications plans to advance its 5G efforts by opening a 5G tech lab in London this April as a way of displaying the services the company can offer. The production studio and showroom, Verizon's first outside the U.S., is also aimed at attracting partners for 5G-related projects. The new Verizon lab will showcase services enabled by 5G wireless broadband and invites partners to collaborate on developing new ways to use it. The studio will use 5G to speed up data-intensive content production like motion-capture for entertainment and marketing. It's all part of the company's bet on the new tech.
New facility offers first Verizon 5G-enabled development and collaboration space outside the United States
Showcases existing 5G use cases and experiences & offers co-creation space for 5G-enabled application development
5G-enabled production studio brings next-generation content experiences to Verizon Media customers
European investment enables Verizon to more easily share 5G leadership and expertise with companies based outside the U.S.
Co-located Verizon Business & Media expertise offers unique, holistic approach to both 5G infrastructure & content
"Verizon has proven expertise in delivering 5G in the U.S.," said Tami Erwin, Group CEO, Verizon Business. "One of the best ways of unleashing the true possibilities of 5G is getting it into the hands of innovators and visionaries. Our London facility enables our international customers to benefit from this expertise as they look to deploy 5G-enabled applications and experiences."
"We've pretty much bet the company on this — it's not like we're dabbling," said Toby Redshaw, vice president of innovation at Verizon's business unit.
Carriers banking on a revenue surge from 5G aren't likely to get it immediately from consumers, who are unlikely to pay extra for faster smartphones. They are instead pinning their hopes for sales growth on deals in industries such as logistics, automotive and manufacturing, a market that could ultimately be worth $4.3 trillion according to consultancy KPMG LLP.
The outlook is still early, uncertain and competitive for these 5G services. And European carriers will have significant home field advantages: they already have relationships with the continent's biggest businesses, local cultural and regulatory know-how, and own more local network assets.
But Redshaw says Verizon's advantages include a head start from testing 5G in the field for years back in the U.S., and its larger scale. He was visiting London for the lab's opening and to woo prospective clients, and said he's had recent conversations with a Formula One team and other businesses. The company said the fresh London investment is "significant" but declined to give a number.
Examples of tech on display include cybersecurity visualization software, which lets a user fly around a virtual 3D landscape that represents their company's network to spot potential anomalies. A service called BriefCam can instantly crunch reams of video and apply searches for a range of objects, such as all the red cars in a day's worth of traffic footage, something a police force could find useful.
https://www.verizon.com/about/news/verizon-expands-international-5g-ecosystem
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/verizon-muscles-into-europe-s-5g-race-with-u-k-outpost-1.1387674
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-02-10/verizon-opens-u-k-5g-outpost-eyeing-europe-s-enterprise-market
Importance of FCC C Band Auction for 5G in the U.S.
U.S. District Judge approves T-Mobile- Sprint merger; New T-Mo will be #2 wireless carrier in U.S.
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Q: Why does this @synthesize implementation return an error in Objective-C? #import "CLSViewController.h"

@implementation CLSViewController

@synthesize statusText = _statusText;

- (void)viewDidUnload {
    [self setStatusText:nil];
    [super viewDidUnload];
    // Release any retained subviews of the main view.
    // e.g. self.myOutlet = nil;
}

- (IBAction)buttonPressed:(UIButton *)sender {
    NSString *title = [sender titleForState:UIControlStateNormal];
->  statusText.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ button pressed.", title];
}

@end

The line that says statusText.text = ...
Did I not synthesize it correctly? Removing the = _statusText; from it gets rid of the error, but I thought we were supposed to set it to something.

A: if you want to access the property, you should use
self.statusText.text = ....

you can also access the variable directly using _statusText:
_statusText.text = ....

If you remove _statusText from the synthesize line, the instance variable name will be assumed to be "statusText", so that is why your situation works when you remove it.
@synthesize statusText
....
statusText.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ button pressed.", title]; // this works

IMO you should always access it as a property (e.g. self.statusText) except in init/dealloc since you are declaring it as such.

A: the code:
@synthesize statusText = _statusText;

means statusText is a public field of your class, _statusText is a private symbol.
Because so you have to modify your code like this:
self.statusText.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ button pressed.", title];

or this:
_statusText.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ button pressed.", title];


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Clio pyramidata is a species of sea butterfly, a floating and swimming sea snail, a pelagic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cliidae.

Formae
 Forma Clio pyramidata f. lanceolata Lesueur, 1813
 Forma Clio pyramidata f. pyramidata Linnaeus, 1767
 Forma Clio pyramidata f. tyrrhenica A.W. Janssen, 2012

Distribution
This species has a wide distribution:  subtropical., European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean (Azores, Cape Verde), the Northwest Atlantic (Gulf of Maine), the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and off New Zealand.

Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 21 mm.

Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 3718 m.

References

 Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp
 Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
 Willan, R. (2009). Opisthobranchia (Mollusca). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
 Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
 Janssen A.W. (2012) Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. Bollettino Malacologico 48 (suppl. 9): 1-105

External links
 Clio pyramidata at Marine Species Identification Portal

Cavoliniidae
Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean
Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean
Molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea
Gastropods of Cape Verde
Gastropods described in 1767
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus