Pristine, white bathrooms may be in vogue nowadays, but what about black bathrooms? Bathrooms with a heavy emphasis on black have become pretty popular recently, and with good reason. Making black the focus colour of your bathroom is a simple way to create a dramatic and sophisticated look. So, without further ado, here are our top ways to use black in your bathroom.
Whether you go for tiles or wall panels, one of the most effective ways to incorporate black into your bathroom is to use it on your walls.
Tiles are an excellent option and come in a wide range of different shades and textures. Textured black tiles are a great choice as they add depth and stop the room from looking too flat. Alternatively, you could opt for glossy black metro tiles and combine them with white grout to create a striking contrast.
Plain black walls can look a bit stark, so a great option is to opt for a black wall panel in a textured pattern to add more depth. A black marble effect wall panel is a great way to incorporate black and create a luxurious look in your bathroom. Another attractive option is to opt for a black sparkle effect wall panel, which is perfect for creating a subtle, modern look.
If your bathroom is spacious enough to get away with it, going for black paint all over creates a strong, stylish look. Alternatively, you could limit the black to a single feature wall to create a strong statement, without overpowering the room.
Can't decide between black or white? Meet in the middle and opt for a half-painted wall of black, and contrast with white tiles for a chic, stylish appearance.
Black furniture is perfect for adding a modern look to your bathroom. Black furniture is widely available in different finishes; keep things simple with a black oak finish, or choose a gloss finish for a modern look. A black vanity unit combined with a white basin has a chic appearance that's ideal for a stylish bathroom.
Another great option is to opt for a modern black counter top basin to add a touch of sophistication to your bathroom design.
The bath acts as the main centrepiece of a bathroom, so it's the ideal place to add that pop of black. If you have the space and budget, a black freestanding bath will add a luxurious feel and act as a stunning focal point in your bathroom.
If a freestanding bath is out of reach, that's okay; you can still get the monochrome look with a simple, straight bath. Black bath panels are an accessible and affordable option that still give a contemporary look.
Smaller items in the bathroom can make a big difference to the overall look of the room.
An excellent option is to choose a shower in black to tie in with the monochrome theme. A black shower panel makes a strong visual statement; the luxurious body jets that come with it are an added bonus! Alternatively, you could opt for an electric shower in black to add to the monochrome look.
Another great option to accessorise with black is to opt for a black heated towel rail or radiator. These can be found in a variety of styles and sizes to suit any style of bathroom, be it traditional or modern.
If you're looking for ideas on how to revamp your bathroom, a black colour scheme could be the way forward. This simple, modern design will give your bathroom a sophisticated look that will stay in fashion for years to come.
How would you incorporate black into your bathroom design?


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Blackmon sparks Indiana to 94-66 win over Grand Canyon
December 13, 2014 Mike Miller Men's Basketball 4 comments
He reversed an uneven first-half shooting effort almost single-handedly, darting through a porous Grand Canyon defense and pulling up from deep.
When Indiana wanted — and needed — to pull away, it went to James Blackmon Jr.
The freshman guard scored seven of Indiana's first 10 points of the second half to help the Hoosiers run away with a 94-66 victory over the Antelopes Saturday at Assembly Hall.
Blackmon scored a team-high 18 points for Indiana, which heads into a six-day layoff for final exams with an 8-2 record and a game with Butler looming Saturday in the Crossroads Classic. Indiana committed only four turnovers, the fewest of the Tom Crean era.
Indiana dominated an outmatched and undersized Grand Canyon outfit, outrebounding the Antelopes 52-35. The Hoosiers pulled down 21 offensive rebounds, but scored only 16 second-chance points. IU shot only 38 percent in the first half, while going 7-for-20 from 3-point range over the first 20 minuts. It's shooting misfortune was reversed in the second half, shooting 51 percent (18-of-35) from the field and posting 30 points under the basket.
Troy Williams added 14 points, while Hanner Mosquera-Perea scored 11.
After building its lead to as many as 14 points midway through the first half, Indiana never allowed its advantage to inch any closer than eight points on two occasions. The second of which came in the final two minutes, when Indiana answered on the other end with a 3-pointer from Collin Hartman to boost its lead back to double digits.
Indiana led 42-31 at halftime and shot 6-of-7 from the field in the first five minutes of the second. The Hoosiers scored 27 points in the first nine minutes of the second period to cruise to their eighth win.
There were instances of both the good and bad versions of Williams, who used the mismatch in size and length to his advantage. He finished with eight rebounds and showed poise driving and kicking out to open shooters on the wings. Williams finished with zero turnovers.
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JeffreyV says:
I did not even know that Grand Canyon was a University, let alone had a Men's Basketball Team.
Perhaps a future schedule (perhaps next year?) could include I.U. playing an "all-star" team of SPH players, or…to make in interesting and more competitive, perhaps a competition could be held where all basketball players (including women) from Bloomington (SPH, SRSC, YMCA, Bryan Park, Church-League) could compete to form a squad to play the Hoosiers!
I am very much looking forward to I.U. playing Butler and Georgetown!!! And am hoping the Hoosiers can pull off the upset!!
John Galt says:
Kentucky played Grand Canyon also. This kind of scheduling is not unusual.
Jeffrey, meanwhile UM loses at home to NJIT, so your point is?
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What's the Difference Between French, Swiss, and Italian Meringues?
By the editors of Cook's Illustrated
There's more than one way to beat—and heat—an egg white.
Did you know that there are three basic techniques for making meringue? And that each one originates from a different European tradition? They're differentiated by the extent to which the egg white foam is heated and the meringue's resulting stability. As we alluded to in the title of this post, these three styles are known colloquially as French, Swiss, and Italian meringues.
UNITED NATIONS OF MERINGUES
French meringue—sometimes referred to as "ordinary"—is the most basic of the trio and the least stable until baked. Egg whites are beaten until they coagulate and form soft peaks, at which point sugar is slowly incorporated until the mixture has attained full volume; is soft, airy, and light; and stands at attention when the whip is lifted. French meringue is customarily spooned or piped into different forms, including dessert shells (such as vacherins) and cake layers (as in a dacquoise), and baked, later to be topped with fruit, mousse, or whipped cream. It is also often folded into batters (for lady fingers, sponge cakes, soufflés, and the like) and baked.
Swiss meringue is prepared by gently beating egg whites and sugar in a pan that sits above boiling water, without touching it. When the mixture reaches 120 to 130 degrees Fahrenheit and the sugar is completely dissolved, the mixture is pulled off the heat and beaten vigorously to increase and attain full volume and then at a lower speed until cool and very stiff. Swiss meringue is smoother, silkier, and somewhat denser than French meringue and is often used as a base for buttercream frostings.
Italian meringue (shown below) is made by drizzling 240-degree Fahrenheit sugar syrup into whites that have already been whipped to hold firm peaks. Whipping continues until the meringue is fully voluminous, satiny, stiff, and cool. Italian meringue is often used to frost cakes (alone or as a base for buttercream frostings), to top filled pies, or to lighten ice creams, sorbets, and mousses.
OUR FAVORITE? We find that French is the simplest to make, and we often prefer the results. They're lighter and shatteringly crisp, while the Italian and Swiss methods can be dense and candylike.
MORE MERINGUE FACTS, WHILE WE'RE AT IT...
All three varieties of meringue involve a great deal of sugar for both flavor and texture. While developing our recipe for Classic Meringue Cookies, we were curious as to whether we could prepare a less-sweet meringue from one of the three methods.
Unsurprisingly, when we simply cut back on sugar, our cookies collapsed in the oven. What was going on? In their raw state, the tiny bubbles that form a meringue get their structure from two things: the cross-linking of egg-white proteins and the surface tension of water. As a meringue bakes, its moisture slowly evaporates, weakening its structure. At the same time, the egg-white protein ovalbumin is becoming stronger, providing additional structure for the foam.
Because sugar has a tendency to hold on to water molecules, if there is not enough in the meringue, the water evaporates too quickly, causing the cookies to collapse before the ovalbumin has time to strengthen. We found that cornstarch, which shares the water-clinging property of sugar, could perform the same role in our recipe, allowing us to cut back on sweetness without compromising structure.
HOW TO STORE MERINGUES FOR LONGER PERIODS OF TIME
Many cooks believe that storing meringues on a rainy or humid day is futile because the confections contain a lot of sugar, and sugar is hygroscopic—meaning that it attracts moisture from the air, which causes the cookies to turn sticky and marshmallowy (if you're ever tried to bake meringues in a tropical climate, you'll know this is true). Disproving this theory took just a simple test. We waited for a rainy day and baked up several batches of meringues. As soon as the cookies cooled (after about 10 minutes), we placed them in airtight plastic containers with tight-fitting lids. We put one container in the fridge (a relatively humid environment), one on the counter, and, as a control, one in the freezer (which tends to be arid). Two weeks and several rainy days later, we opened the containers. The cookies stored in the more humid refrigerator and on the counter were every bit as dry and crisp as those stored in the freezer.
BOTTOM LINE: As long as you pack meringues in an airtight container immediately after cooling them, any humidity in the air doesn't matter.
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This multilayered showpiece of meringue and buttercream coated in ganache might just be the best dessert you'll ever make—plus you can prepare it the day before.
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The Apostle Paul is writing to believers in southern Galatia from his home in Antioch, Syria in 49 A.D, prior to the Jerusalem Council meeting which occurred that same year. Paul has just completed his first missionary journey in which he and Barnabas planted churches in southern Galatia at Antioch in Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. This letter is the first of Paul's letters.
In this passage, Paul writes of his confrontation with Peter for the part he played in supporting the Judaizers. This confrontation occurred when Peter came to Paul's church in Antioch, Syria. Paul confronted Peter "because he was to be blamed" for hypocrisy in his relations with the Gentile believers there (v. 11).
Peter was hypocritical because he would fellowship with the Gentiles but then when the Jews from the church in Jerusalem that "James" led came to Antioch he would not fellowship with the Gentiles (v. 12a). Peter was "afraid" about what his fellow Jews would think (v. 12b). These Jews had still not accepted Gentiles as equals in the eyes of God.
Unfortunately, Peter's hypocrisy also influenced Jewish believers in Antioch, including Barnabas, against the Gentiles (v. 13). The basis for this hypocrisy was that Gentiles were not circumcised. Paul, seeing that "they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel", confronted Peter in front of the Jewish believers (v. 14a). He asked Peter if he was free to not live under the Jewish law why did he deny the Gentiles the same freedom (v. 14b)?
Paul continued by saying that Christians, both Jews and Gentiles, are justified by faith not by works, such as circumcision (v. 15a-16). In saying this he referred to Gentiles as "sinners of the Gentiles", perhaps in jest of the derogatory way the Jews themselves had spoken of Gentiles (v. 15b).
To be justified means to be declared righteous by God because of our faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Righteousness can not be earned by good works. Instead, good works come as a result of our righteousness.
So, we do not become Christians and go to Heaven by doing good things, good works. It is only by our faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior that through the grace of God He forgives our sins and we become Christians.


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Winter hats. I'm a chilly person. I mean I'm one of those people who layer clothes and wear thermal socks. Yes, I know there are people who may be in Alaska who are not cold but I, I am just the opposite. I always have so much cold in winter.
And so, of course, I take every opportunity to keep warm. And, it doesn't matter if I need to wear thermal tights (the best winter invention ever) or wool hats.
The good part is that, although many people just wear hats in summer when made from wool they look amazing in winter outfits. They are stylish and chic at once.
It's hard to find a bad winter outfit when one's wearing a good hat.
Although they started to be worn on the primitive era (not as we know them today, of course) and has become popular for women after the Victorian Era, winter hats are a timeless beautiful accessory. It's hard to find a bad winter outfit when one's wearing a good hat.
So if you like to wear hats in winter go for it. After all, the winter sun also has UV rays (of which it is worth protecting the face) and there is no better feeling than having the head and ears snug.
I must confess that I have several wool hats but this one in white is one of my favorites. It looks amazing both paired with skirts and dresses and with pants too, no matter if the look is chic or casual. Actually, it's old, but I spotted a beige one at Zara last week amazing too.
What about you? Are you into winter hats?


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Василь Васильович Шепа (28 березня 1931, Батрадь — 13 березня 2011, Будапешт)  — український агроном-економіст, доктор економічних наук, дійсний член Національної академії аграрних наук України, Народний депутат України 1-го і 3-го скликань.

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Народився 28 березня року в селі Батраді (нині Берегівського району Закарпатської області). Трудову діяльність розпочав на посаді колгоспного рахівника на початку 1950-х років, після закінчення курсів у Львові. З часом працював в Берегівській машинно-тракторній станції, потім головою правління колгоспу «Червоний прапор» у селі Варах Берегівського району, де за його правління господарство стало мільйонером.

В 1968 році захистив кандидатську дисертацію і був призначеним директором Великобактянської науково-дослідної станції, де він став доктором економічних наук, захистивши докторську дисертацію в Москві.

За часів незалежної України обирався Народним депутатом України 1-го і 3-го скликань (фракція Народного Руху України), був радником Президента України Леоніда Кучми з аграрних питань, займався реформуванням земельної галузі в Україні, зробив свій вклад у розпаювання земель, деколективізацію тощо.

Помер 13 березня 2011 року, перебуваючи на лікуванні в Будапешті.

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These fabrics are just a random selection of fat quarters and yardage I bought from my local fabric shop during one of their 99 cent fat quarter sales.
I just cut the fat quarters into fourths and arrange them in whichever way looks best, and sew them together.
It's so hard to look wide awake at 6:30 in the morning!
Yep, just cut the fat quarters into fourths. Though you have to be careful, because not all fat quarters are even. So I actually cut them all to 9 by 10.5 and then just mixed them up on the floor until I was happy with the layout.
I love it. How big did you make it? I may need to try one for my son's teacher especially since he has had her for 2 years and is now moving on to another teacher!
The quilt was around 50 by 60. The fat quarters were cut to 9 by 10.5.
I seem to remember falling for that quilt a couple of months ago, lol. Now, I know there is one VERY happy teacher out there! 🙂 Good on ya – our country's teachers are far too under-valued!
This is the kind of quilt I need to try, a simple square grid. It's still got quite the impact though. The colors/prints you chose are beautiful, and I'm sure his teacher really appreciated it!
Love the bright colors! So cute!
Beautiful! The colors are so summery and fun! Great to do something that special for a teacher. They deserve so much for the difference they make in our kids lives! I'm sure she will treasure it always!
So fun! Love your colors! Thanks for sharing.
So pretty, the colors are beautiful!
Love it, the colors are so summery! What a great gift!
So cute! What a wonderful gift!
Just beautiful!!! The colors are gorgeous for Summer!Great gift.
Very cute! If you have time…please visit my blog…I am having a giveaway to help celebrate the opening of my etsy shop and would love to see you enter!
WIth the millions of quilt patterns out there – I love that sewing squares together is still totally cute! I never tire from it 🙂 Love the fabrics you choose!!!
I love the colors on this one! Great job!!!
This looks awesome! Would love to have you link this up at our summer-themed, Ladies Only Blog Share! Visiting from the Pity Party!
It looks great…you chose great fabrics to combine which is so important in a quilt. And it looks "cheerful" just like a picnic quilt should.
What a happy quilt! I am sure your son's teacher was just delighted with it.
Gorgeous quilt! So classic and bright and fresh!!
How many fat quarters did it take!?
For the size I made, it took about 8 fat quarters. I actually used 15 different prints so the pattern would be varied. I have enough left over for 2nd quilt.
Thank you so much!!! I bought probably 100 fat quarters that were on 90% off Christmas clearance and need things to do with them.
Did you use 8 or 15 fat different quarters?
It's been so long since I made this, it's hard to remember. I'm sorry! I used a handful of fat quarters and cuts from yardage.


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Darnley's Spiced Gin Navy Edition
Darnley's have used the same botanicals as their first Spiced Gin for this Spiced Gin Navy Strength Edition. But they have added a bit more juniper to the recipe and increased the proof to bring you a bold Navy Strength. Darnley's Spiced Gin Navy Edition has a palate of ginger and citrus and a milled peppery finish with notes of cinnamon, ginger and orange rind. Do you want to know more about Darnley's Gin? Click here
Country of origin Scotland
Navy edition
Darnley's Spiced Gin Navy Edition is inspired by the Royal Navy career of their ancestor Sir Rosslyn Wemyss. During his time at sea, ships' ofcers still enjoyed a daily ration of gin which had to pass a gunpowder test to prove it was over 57% alcohol and therefore Navy Strength. Using the same botanicals as Darnley's Spiced Gin, Darnley's have added more juniper to our recipe and increased the proof to bring you a bold Navy Strength gin.
Botanicals: Juniper, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, cumin, ginger, grains of paradise, cassia, angelica root and coriander.
Nose: Clementine, nutmeg, spruce, cinnamon, freshly grated black pepper.
Palate: Ginger, citrus with a sweet and fresh character.
Finish: Cinnamon, ginger, rich fruit, milled pepper and orange rind mixes well with the spice.
Darnley's Gin overview
The Darnley's Gin range has been completely redesigned to more powerfully reflect the quality and craftmanship of their spiritand illustrate the flavours in each expression.
Darnley's Gin began as a Wemyss family adventure, a brother and sister with a background in whisky and wine but were curious about the endless combination of botanicals you can use in gin making and the impact they could have on flavour.
Each bottle of Darnley's Gin begins with the highest quality British grown grain spirit and the finest botanical ingredients sourced from across the world; whether that's cloves from Zanzibar, coriander from Morocco or juniper from Bulgaria.
Distilling Darnley's
Darnley's Gin uses a neutral grain spirit that is made from wheat and grown on a farm outside of Manchester. It is four times distilled before being sent to Darnley's distillery. The botanicals are added to the still and steep for 24 hours in the neutral grain spirit before the 5th and final distillation. This allows the essential oils and flavours to be released from the botanicals.
Darnley's Gin is made in a traditional pot still using the centuries old London Dry method.
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Wemyss Malts is a boutique independent bottler based in Scotland. Wemyss is pronounced" Weems" and is the Scots word for caves. Wemyss is named after the caves on the rocky shore of Fire beside Wemyss Castle which is the historic family home of the Wemyss family. The Wemyss family has a long association with whisky. John Haig, who is the founder of Haig's, built his first distillery on Wemyss land at the turn of the 19th century.
Wemyss Malts today
William Wemyss is the chairman and founder of Wemyss Vintage Malts. He is a direct descendent of the 3rd Earl of Wemyss. The Earls's signature is used on the Wemyss range packaging. Since 2005, Wemyss Malts had been producing blended malts, blended Scotch and Single cask whisky. In 2014, Wemyss Malts opened Kingsbarns Lowland Distillery with the aim of releasing a classic lowland malt in 2018.
Today Wemyss Malts uses the unsurpassed knowledge and expertise of Charlie Maclean. Charlie is a writer and a specialist. His special subject is Scotch whisky. Charlie is an authority on malt whisky having written many books on the subject and granted the rare honor of being elected Master the Quaich, the industry's highest accolade, in October 2009. Charlie had developed the whisky recipes for the blended malts and oversees the cask selection for the single cask bottling range.
The different types of Scotch Whisky
•	Single Malt Scotch Whisky: A Scotch Whisky distilled at a single distillery from water and malted barley without the addition of any other cereals, and by batch distillation in pot stills.
•	Blended Scotch Whisky: A blend of one or more Single Malt Scotch Whiskies with one or more Single Grain Scotch Whiskies.
•	Blended Malt Scotch Whisky: A blend of Single Malt Scotch Whiskies, which have been distilled at more than one distillery.
Besides that, there are also two categories of Scotch Whisky: Single Grain Scotch Whisky and Blended Grain Scotch Whisky.
Short facts on blended whisky
•	The aim with blended whisky is to produce a whisky that is rounded in character and suitable to the majority of consumers.
•	Today over 90% of the Scottish whisky industry comprise of blended malts.
•	Blending is a combination of both art and science. A blender needs to be a flavor expert that can 1) Identify the huge range of flavours and aromas in individual whiskies, 2) Be able to understand at what stage specific flavours originate in whisky production so they can source them again and 3) Understand how individual whiskies will interact when blended together with up to 50 others.
•	A blenders stock is never consistent. They may have to find replacement malts from different distilleries but with similar characteristics.
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My Pop Culture Saviors of 2018: A Belated List
2018 had its challenges -- but it also had some really good keepsakes. Here are some of the people (and things) who kept my year afloat.
1. Kevin Kwan - The author of Crazy Rich Asians and its two sequels became the subject of my Instagram fascination: a writer living a jet-set life, touring the globe on the merits of his writing, and seeing his creation turn into an international, Golden Globe-nominated sensation on the big-screen.
2. Cynthia Erivo - Her role (and singing chops) in the future cult classic, Bad Times at El Royale, caught my attention (along with anyone else who saw Drew Goddard's neo-noir crime thriller) and her fierce supporting role in Widows only cemented my fascination with this Broadway-trained actress.
3. MOBS - They're the Australian synth-pop group that has yet to make a splash in the States, and they hooked me in with their throwback tunes, specifically those on their EP, You Want Beauty, all written from the point of view of characters from 80s movies. But as of this posting, the group has switched record labels, which has led to a repurposed EP called Bad Love that is the only available piece of work now available on Spotify.
4. Roxane Gay - You haven't read her brilliant collection of pop culture essays in Bad Feminist yet? Or her collection of short stories in Difficult Women? Or her painfully raw memoir, Hunger? What are you doing with you life?
5. Dave Holmes - I read his so-relatable-it's-scary memoir, Party of One, two years ago and started listening to his podcast, Homophilia (co-hosted by the equally enjoyable Matt McConkey) last year. And I can't get enough of his insightful, witty, intelligent pop culture thinkpieces at Esquire. In short, I envy Dave Holmes, and I would like his career. Please.
6. Lucas Hedges - I wholeheartedly appreciate and respect a young up-and-coming actor who avoids taking a role on any given CW or Freeform show and opts instead for meaty, award-worthy indie fare.
7. Sideshow Books in L.A. - This small independent bookshop was previously located on Idaho Avenue on the Westside (around the corner from the Nuart Theatre). And when it closed in 2017, I was crushed, thinking it was another nail in the coffin of indie booksellers. But luckily, on one fateful Sunday afternoon, I drove down La Cienega and caught a nondescript sign that read BOOKS in painted letters. I pulled over, walked in, and discovered a new personal haven.
8. Queer Eye's Fab Five - The reboot of the makeover series has successfully recontextualized its format for a post-marriage equality era in America, thanks to the charisma of its lifestyle gurus, Antoni Porowski, Karamo Brown, Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France, and Bobby Berk. Taking the boys out of major metropolitan areas (i.e. NYC) and putting them in the small towns of the South certainly helped. And they helped me feel hopeful again for the future of this country.
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When one nostalgically binges on all seven seasons of The Golden Girls like me (I swear I have a life), you pick up on a few things. Certain patterns appear as you continuously witness the consumption of countless cheesecakes inside a fictitious Miami kitchen and hear one St. Olaf story too many.
Here's what I noticed after playing my DVDs of this 80s classic over the past several months (and if you're already familiar with the following factoids, excuse me for underestimating your fanaticism)...
1. Actor Harold Gould, who played Rose's long-term boyfriend Miles Webber from Season 5 to Season 7 (and throughout most of the short-lived spinoff, The Golden Palace), also appears in the first season as Arnie Peterson, Rose's first serious beau after her husband's death.
2. The same can be said for Sid Melton, who played Sophia's deceased husband Sal (in flashbacks and dream sequences). He also appears in a Season 6 episode as a jester in a medieval-themed restauran…
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But WHAT IS IT about a space where ragtag groups of strangers gather to fluff and fold their delicates? Is it the obvious metaphor of dirty versus clean? The scintillating possibility of people stripping off their clothes for a wash?
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Dream Casting the New "Death on the Nile"
Earlier this year, when the trailer for the most recent Murder on the Orient Express remake was dropped, I was hoping that someone at 20th Century Fox would have the foresight to concoct an Agatha Christie Cinematic Universe. After all, this is the world we now live in -- where every property coveted by a major studio must have the potential to be milked for all it's worth. Plus, as a former child raised by an Agatha Christie fan, I am somewhat familiar with this world, and experiencing new renditions of these titles as an adult is exciting.
And now that Kenneth Branagh's version of the Hercule Poirot mystery has been released (and raking in $150 million-and-counting worldwide), it seems like my prayers are being answered. The studio is going ahead with a "sequel" in the form of a remake of Death on the Nile, another death-filled destination about the Belgian detective taking a river cruise in Egypt and coming across another corpse and another group of suspects.
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a public performance, usually by an individual singer, instrumentalist, or the like; recital: The violinist has given concerts all over the world.
agreement of two or more individuals in a design or plan; combined action; accord or harmony: His plan was greeted with a concert of abuse.
to plan; devise: A program of action was concerted at the meeting.
in concert, together; jointly: to act in concert.
But Cocker proved to be a survivor, bringing his passionate persona to concert halls around the world decade after decade.
She died in 1978—just before Pryor recorded Live in Concert.
Later, she said he invited her to see The Temptations in concert and check out his Vegas stand-up show.
TMZ reported that the five concert venues had cancelled Cosby performances for early 2015.
I was especially attracted to a concert garden where the band, a very large one, was composed of women.
Only two published notices of this concert are in existence at Klin.
He also defrayed the expenses of the Wagner concert at Zurich, a little item of nine thousand francs.
1660s, "agreement, accord, harmony," from French concert (16c.), from Italian concerto "concert, harmony," from concertare "bring into agreement," in Latin "to contend, contest, dispute," from com- "with" (see com-) + certare "to contend, strive," frequentative of certus, variant past participle of cernere "separate, decide" (see crisis).
Before the word entered English, meaning shifted from "to strive against" to "to strive alongside." Sense of "public musical performance" is 1680s. But Klein considers this too much of a stretch and suggests Latin concentare "to sing together" (from con- + cantare "to sing") as the source of the Italian word in the musical sense.


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Looking Back on The Research Report Show Season 1
The Launch The Research Report Show podcast was officially launched on our Varsity Podcasts platform on 14th March 2017. As indicated in The Varsity Podcasts Story, we had experienced some delays and could not launch in late 2016 so finally going live was a particularly special moment for us. The Nitty-gritty We released one…
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In this final Season 1 episode of The Research Report Show (Season 1, Episode 13), Tinashe chats with Vongai Munatsi about her research which explores the Experiences of Shame for Adolescents Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. Shame, together with stigma, can be part of the psychosocial experience of being HIV positive. Enjoy! Alternatively, you can listen to…
In this episode of The Research Report Show (Season 1, Episode 12), Julian chats with Michelle Ngwarai about her research on Infant Wheezing Illness. Multiple studies have investigated the association between Infant stool microbiota (bacteria) and wheezing illness, or asthma later in childhood. However, these studies were often conducted in high-income countries. In Michelle's case,…
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In this episode of The Research Report Show (Season 1, Episode 11), Tinashe chats with Busisiwe Mpembe about her research on The Current Human Settlement Situation in South Africa. This includes reviewing the policies that are currently in place and seeing what the government can include in their current policies to ensure that dignity and…
Research Report S1 E10 – Measures of Energy Poverty in South Africa
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In this episode of The Research Report Show (Season 1, Episode 10), Tinashe chats with Samson Mbewe about his research on uni-dimensional and multidimensional measures of energy poverty in South Africa. Energy poverty occurs when a household cannot afford modern energy services (electricity, oil, gas etc) and tends to have a negative effect on the…
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In this episode of The Research Report Show (Season 1, Episode 9), Tinashe chats with Samantha Sithole about her research on Understanding the Impact of Militarized Conservation on Communities Outside the Kruger National Park. One of the points brought forward by Samantha is that although the discipline of conservation is ridden with complexity, the introduction…
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In this episode of The Research Report Show (Season 1, Episode 8), Julian chats with Paidamoyo Kachambwa about her research on the influence of gut bacteria in infants. One of the drivers behind pursuing this research was that there had been minimal work done in investigating the effect of the bacteria (microbiota) on immune system…
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In this episode of The Research Report Show (Season 1, Episode 7), Tinashe chats with Fadzai Muramba about her research which looks to uncover what the increased presence of Maputi / Puffed Maize in the Harare (Zimbabwe) market means for the urban food system, through a holistic understanding of the practices, motivations and perceptions of…
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In this episode of The Research Report Show (Season 1, Episode 6), Tinashe chats with Kiren Reggo about his research on movement of undocumented Zimbabwean nationals to Cape Town, South Africa and the South African government's response to the influx of such Zimbabwean migrants. Enjoy! Alternatively, you can listen to the podcast on soundcloud or…
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In this episode of The Research Report Show (Season 1, Episode 5), Tinashe chats with Tendai Mushonga about her research on the concept of nation branding and related fields which include marketing, public diplomacy and brand management. Nation branding provides the platform for nations to create strategies to differentiate themselves from other countries. Tendai looks…


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Eric A. Kimmel and Janet Stevens
Meet Eric A. Kimmel and Janet Stevens, the beloved creators of the Anansi books. Read about how they each started in the world of children's books.
Janet Stevens was born in Dallas, Texas, the youngest of three children. Her father was a naval officer and her family frequently moved, so Janet grew up all over the United States from Maine to Rhode Island to Texas—eleven states in all! After graduating from high school in Hawaii, Janet received a B.F.A. from the University of Colorado.
Janet has loved drawing all her life, and especially enjoys drawing animals. So, it is not surprising that her beguiling creatures appear as characters in the books she illustrates.
Janet's books have won numerous awards and have been included on many lists of recommended titles, including IRA-CBC Children's Choices, SSLI Best Books, BCCB Blue Ribbons, Parents' Choice Honors, and the master lists of child-voted awards nationwide. She is a Caldecott Honor winner and a three-time winner of the Colorado Children's Book Award.
Janet lives in Colorado. For more about her, visit www.janetstevens.com.
A note from Janet . . .
• I have always been interested in art and have studied and practiced for many years, in fact since I was a little girl. I am often asked how I learned to draw so well. My answer is lots and lots of practice. I have always loved drawing animals and gradually they took on a book character look. I dressed them up in my clothes and shoes, but they had no place to go. They needed a story. In 1978 I attended a seminar/workshop taught by Tomie de Paola. He encouraged me to give children's book illustration a try. He showed my work to his editor at Holiday House, and she liked it well enough to give me a contract for my first two picture books.
"I hope I always have the opportunity to create books for children so that my animal characters will have homes."
Eric A. Kimmel has published more than fifty books for children. His many prestigious awards include the National Jewish Book Award, the Sydney Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Caldecott Honor for Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins.
Eric A. Kimmel was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1946. A former college professor, he taught classes in children's literature and elementary language arts methods at Portland State University in Oregon until 1993, when he became a full-time writer. Dr. Kimmel attributes his success as an author to his experience as a storyteller, saying, "If a story tells well, it will read well."
Eric travels widely with his wife, Doris, to tell stories, speak about his writing, and explore local wildlife. They have visited Norway, Italy, Singapore, and Borneo, and have seen polar bears in the Arctic, orangutans in the jungle, and whales in Alaska. When not writing, Eric can usually be found watching birds by the Pacific Ocean, baking bread, knitting sweaters for his friends, riding horses, or playing his banjo. He and Doris live in Oregon. Visit him online at www.ericakimmel.com.
A note from Eric . . .
• I grew up with stories, which is why I love them so much. My earliest memories are of my grandmother telling me about the foolish people of Chelm, clever Hershel of Ostropol, or any of several wildly imaginative tales from her native Ukraine, where the hero had to kill a dragon with seven, nine, or twelve heads. Just walking down my block, I could hear five different languages. All of my friends had grandparents living with them who would gladly tell us a story—all we had to do was ask and listen.
• My Uncle Abe gave me a wonderful present when I was seven years old: my own copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales. I read the book until it fell apart! I tried to put the pages back together, but I didn't always get them in the right order. Some of the stories got mixed up, which led me to new, even more interesting combinations. That's when I realized that stories aren't set in stone. They can be switched, changed, expanded, taken apart, and put back together again in a thousand different ways.
• Years of experience as a storyteller have taught me that stories never stay the same. They're alive; they grow and change. You can never tell the same story twice because you're different, the audience is different, and often you discover a new way of telling the story that makes it different. Whenever I set out to write or tell a tale, I never really know how it's going to turn out. That's what makes it so exciting. There's always a new story waiting to be discovered.


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King's '68 struggle for economic justice still marching on
The bonds of memory and today's vast disparities in wealth and well-being tell us that we must continue the struggle launched by workers and by King in the spring of 1968.
King's '68 struggle for economic justice still marching on The bonds of memory and today's vast disparities in wealth and well-being tell us that we must continue the struggle launched by workers and by King in the spring of 1968. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: http://memne.ws/2nSsbD0
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The daily sanitation strike marches resumed March 29, 1968, one day after rioting left Main and Beale littered with bricks and broken glass and dappled with blood.(Photo: Barney Sellers / The Commercial Appeal)Buy Photo
On Feb. 1, 1968, Echol Cole and Robert Walker were crushed to death while riding out a cold, driving rainstorm in the back of an outmoded "packer" garbage truck in Memphis. Unsafe working conditions, racism and abuse had long been intolerable for the city's 1,300 sanitation workers.
On Monday Feb. 12, Abraham Lincoln's birthday, the workers refused to go to work. Later attacked by the police, the news media, and the city government, their fight under the banner I Am A Man for union rights and a living wage marked a turning point for the movements of the 1960's.
In a remarkable speech at Mason Temple on March 18, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., told the workers they had shifted the freedom movement's emphasis from civil rights to economic justice.
"You are reminding, not only Memphis, but you are reminding the nation that it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages," King said. "And I need not remind you that this is our plight as a people all over America."
A long-time supporter of union rights, King decided to make Memphis the first stop in his projected Poor People's Campaign to shift America's priorities from funding war and the accumulation of private wealth to providing housing, health care, education, and jobs or sustainable income for all.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was on a tour of the South to recruit volunteers for his "Poor People's Campaign", spoke to an overflow crowd at Mason Temple March 18, 1968. Crowd estimates ranged from 9,000-13,000. Speaking in support of striking sanitation workers, King called for a general work stoppage by black Memphians if the city did not agree to a union dues checkoff. "Along with wages and other securities, you're struggling for the right to organize. This is the way to gain power. Don't go back to work until all your demands are met", Dr. King told the crowd. He pledged to return to Memphis on March 22 to lead a march that was postponed because of a near record snowfall. The protest was rescheduled for March 28. The march ended in disorder with looting and vandalism along Beale and Main Streets. Police moved in with tear gas and nightsticks. By day's end, one person had been killed and more than 60 injured. King would agonize over what happened and vowed to return to lead a peaceful mass march. On Wednesday, April 3, King again returned to Memphis. That night, more than 2,000 listened as he gave his famous "Mountaintop" speech at Mason Temple. The next day, at 6:01p.m., an assassin's bullet struck Dr. King as he stood on the balcony outside room 306 at the Lorraine Motel. (By Vernon Matthews / The Commercial Appeal) (Photo: Vernon Matthews, The Commercial Appeal)
Fifty years later, earlier this month on Feb. 1, public employees across the U.S. held a moment of silence honoring Cole and Walker. On Monday Feb. 12, advocates of The Fight for $15 will march in Memphis to demand a living wage and union rights.
Workers will unite with faith leaders like Rev. William Barber and Liz Theoharis leading a new Poor People's Campaign. From Memphis, the campaign will go down to Marks, Miss., as King did, to protest the continuing crime of deep, unrelenting and unrelieved poverty in the richest nation in the world.
Today, more people live in poverty in America than in 1968. Now, as then, the majority of the poor are white but poverty's heaviest concentration is among people of color, especially young people and women.
Poverty among black children in Memphis is over 40 percent. Nearly a third of the city's African American population lives in deep poverty, another third lives on the edge of poverty, and while another third is middle class, it remains only an illness or a paycheck away from falling into economic difficulty.
Sanitation workers and supporters line up at Clayborn Temple to begin their march to downtown March 29, 1968, a day after a march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ended in violence. (The Commercial Appeal) (Photo: The Commercial Appeal)
Poverty exists, in part, because most of the new jobs in Memphis, as in America, do not pay a living wage. Workers live under strained economic circumstances while Congress funnels billions in tax breaks to the richest one percent and continues to prioritize military spending over human need.
Overall poverty rates remain about the same today as in 1968, but the percentage of people in "deep poverty" has risen.
According to the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival, 15 million more Americans are poor today than 50 years ago. This does not count the millions of undocumented workers in deep poverty, most of them Latino immigrants, while most Native Americans on the reservations live in catastrophic conditions.
Increased poverty results from many factors, but high among them for employed people is the loss of union rights. The Supreme Court will soon decide whether state "right to work" laws become the law of the land, outlawing mandatory dues for workers represented by a union.
Memphis garbage trucks remained silent and unmanned Feb. 12, 1968 - the first day of a sanitation strike that would mix tragedy and triumph, death and dignity. Almost 1,000 of the city's 1,100 sanitation workers did not report to work after discussions about wages and job conditions broke down between the city and Local 1733 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Sanitation laborers were paid $1.80 an hour and crew chiefs (truck drivers) $2.10 an hour. The minimum wage in 1968 was $1.60 an hour. Two weeks earlier, two sanitation workers were crushed to death in a garbage packer. Worker's compensation was not part of the job package. (Photo: Barney Sellers/The Commercial Appeal)
Demanding dues check off was at the heart of the struggle by Memphis sanitation workers for an effective union. Unions were once a powerful force for worker rights and living wages. Not only in the South but in Wisconsin and other states, anti-union campaigns have decimated the working and middle class.
King called "right to work" a sham providing "no rights and no work." Not until after King's murder did the City of Memphis recognize Local 1733 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
But Tennessee's anti-union laws and political interventions have kept unions weak. Additionally, privatization of public jobs and a new flood of non-union, cheap-wage service economy jobs have kept most Memphis workers mired in the ranks of the working poor.
In the era of President Trump's Republican Party, workers today are using the power of remembering to reinvigorate a movement to end poverty and demand a living wage. Let's make America great again: join a struggle for economic justice and union rights today.
Michael Honey, who teaches humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma, is author of "To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice", and "Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign.
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CHAPEL HILL, NC, March 10, 2009 – Emergency managers and first responders across North Carolina can now interpret weather data from their own pockets using the mobile version of the Renaissance Computing Institute's (RENCI) NC-FIRST Web portal.
The NC-FIRST made-for-mobile resource was launched this week at the annual spring conference of the North Carolina Emergency Managers Association at Sunset Beach, NC. Just like the NC-FIRST desktop version, the mobile resource will allow users to track late-breaking and targeted weather hazards in real time, and allow them to interpret weather data and coordinate response plans.
"The mobile version is a condensed edition of NC-FIRST that was created at the request of our users," said Jessica Proud, RENCI meteorologist and NC-FIRST program manager. "It is designed for hand-held devices, like Blackberries and other smart phones, and includes the same features and technologies as our desktop version."
Those features include radar tracking, weather warnings and watches from the National Weather Service, a text forecast, and information about weather hazards such as tropical storms and hurricanes, thunderstorms, and winter storms.
NC-FIRST includes two components: the weather data Web portal and classroom training on interpreting weather data. The Web portal pulls together a wide range of weather data into an easy-to-use Web environment. It includes desktop conferencing software that helps decipher weather data, understand weather threats and choose actions that minimize threats to lives and property caused by extreme weather.
The NC-FIRST training course is a four-day program design to help first responders understand scientific weather data and is offered through 27 community colleges across the state. The program is taught by meteorologists and was recently incorporated into North Carolina's emergency Management Certification Program.
The NC-FIRST mobile site is aimed at emergency managers with passwords for the site. For more on NC-FIRST, see http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/disaster-and-environmental-research/nc-first.
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Q: How to get every record in a Recordset in VB? Hey here my problems i'm calling a stored proc and I put the record into an ADODB RecordSet.
When i Check the field.count its say i got 6 result which is good. But when i try to loop into that record set it skips one of them. Heres my code
  oRs = g_oSQL.GetRecords("PS_palFetchAllPalette_sel")
        If Not oRs Is Nothing Then
            cmbPallet.Items.Clear()
            oRs.MoveFirst()

            While Not oRs.EOF
                If oRs.Fields.Item("palcode").Value.ToString() <> "None" Then
                    cmbPallet.Items.Add(oRs.Fields.Item("palcode").Value.ToString())
                End If
                oRs.MoveNext()
            End While

A: I think what happens is when you reach your last record with oRs.MoveNext() then you are at EOF so next loop won't happen. try to change the structure of the loop.
With oRs
  Do Until .EOF
     'get your data
     .MoveNext

  Loop

End With

A: I haven't worked with ADODB for a while but wouldn't field.count indicate the number of fields in the recordset and not the number of records returned? You could have returned 0 records but still have the metadata on the query.
Are you sure your check for "None" is working? This would require that palcode not ne empty or Null but have the actual value of "None." Set a breakpoint inside the While loop and see if your are getting what you expected.

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// Copyright 2020 The Chromium Authors
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#include "components/offline_items_collection/core/android/offline_item_bridge.h"

#include "base/android/jni_android.h"
#include "components/offline_items_collection/core/native_j_unittests_jni_headers/OfflineItemBridgeUnitTest_jni.h"
#include "testing/gtest/include/gtest/gtest.h"

using base::android::AttachCurrentThread;

namespace offline_items_collection {
namespace android {
namespace {

// Tests the JNI bridge that creates Java OfflineItem.
class OfflineItemBridgeTest : public ::testing::Test {
 public:
  OfflineItemBridgeTest()
      : j_test_(
            Java_OfflineItemBridgeUnitTest_Constructor(AttachCurrentThread())) {
  }

  const base::android::ScopedJavaGlobalRef<jobject>& j_test() {
    return j_test_;
  }

 private:
  base::android::ScopedJavaGlobalRef<jobject> j_test_;
};

// Verfies a default offline item can be created in Java.
TEST_F(OfflineItemBridgeTest, CreateOfflineItem) {
  OfflineItem item;
  auto* env = AttachCurrentThread();
  auto j_offline_item = OfflineItemBridge::CreateOfflineItem(env, item);
  Java_OfflineItemBridgeUnitTest_testCreateDefaultOfflineItem(env, j_test(),
                                                              j_offline_item);
}

// Verifies OfflineItemSchedule can be plumbed to Java correctly.
TEST_F(OfflineItemBridgeTest, OfflineItemSchedule) {
  // OfflineItemSchedule only on wifi.
  auto* env = AttachCurrentThread();
  OfflineItem item;
  item.schedule = absl::make_optional<OfflineItemSchedule>(
      true /*only_on_wifi*/, absl::nullopt);
  auto j_offline_item = OfflineItemBridge::CreateOfflineItem(env, item);
  Java_OfflineItemBridgeUnitTest_testOfflineItemSchedule(
      env, j_test(), j_offline_item, true /*only_on_wifi*/, 0);

  // OfflineItemSchedule with specific start time.
  auto start_time = base::Time::FromDeltaSinceWindowsEpoch(base::Days(1));
  item.schedule = absl::make_optional<OfflineItemSchedule>(
      false /*only_on_wifi*/, start_time);
  EXPECT_EQ(start_time, item.schedule->start_time);
  EXPECT_FALSE(start_time.is_null());
  j_offline_item = OfflineItemBridge::CreateOfflineItem(env, item);
  Java_OfflineItemBridgeUnitTest_testOfflineItemSchedule(
      env, j_test(), j_offline_item, false /*only_on_wifi*/,
      start_time.ToJavaTime());
}

}  // namespace
}  // namespace android
}  // namespace offline_items_collection


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Make a map representing yourself, using only the information about yourself you want to share.
Example information could include: your first name and last names, where you grew up, favourite food.
Add some information directly to the map, then use assoc or merge to add more.
Use the map you made about yourself in previous exercise.


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package org.jboss.aerogear.unifiedpush.cassandra.dao.impl;

import java.time.Month;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.Stream;
import java.util.stream.StreamSupport;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.jboss.aerogear.unifiedpush.api.Alias;
import org.jboss.aerogear.unifiedpush.cassandra.CassandraConfig;
import org.jboss.aerogear.unifiedpush.cassandra.dao.AliasDao;
import org.jboss.aerogear.unifiedpush.cassandra.dao.DistinctUitils;
import org.jboss.aerogear.unifiedpush.cassandra.dao.model.User;
import org.jboss.aerogear.unifiedpush.cassandra.dao.model.UserKey;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.cache.Cache;
import org.springframework.cache.CacheManager;
import org.springframework.cache.interceptor.SimpleKey;
import org.springframework.data.cassandra.core.CassandraOperations;
import org.springframework.data.cassandra.core.cql.CassandraAccessor;
import org.springframework.data.cassandra.repository.support.CassandraRepositoryFactory;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;
import org.springframework.util.Assert;

import com.datastax.driver.core.Row;
import com.datastax.driver.core.SimpleStatement;
import com.datastax.driver.core.querybuilder.Delete;
import com.datastax.driver.core.querybuilder.QueryBuilder;
import com.datastax.driver.core.querybuilder.Select;

@Repository
class NoSQLUserDaoImpl extends CassandraBaseDao<User, UserKey> implements AliasDao {
	private final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(NoSQLUserDaoImpl.class);

	private static final String MV_BY_PUSH_APPLICATION = "users_by_application";
	private static final String MV_BY_ALIAS_AND_APPLICATION = "users_by_alias_application";
	private static final String MV_BY_ALIAS = "users_by_alias";
	private static final List<Integer> months;

	@Autowired
	private CacheManager cacheManager;

	static {
		months = Arrays.stream(Month.values()).map(month -> month.getValue()).collect(Collectors.toList());
	}

	public NoSQLUserDaoImpl(@Autowired CassandraOperations operations, @Autowired CassandraConfig configuraion) {
		super(User.class, new CassandraRepositoryFactory(operations).getEntityInformation(User.class), operations,
				configuraion);

		Assert.isTrue(
				((CassandraAccessor) operations.getCqlOperations()).getConsistencyLevel() == getConsistencyLevel(),
				"ConsistencyLevel Must be QUORUM");
	}

	@Override
	public List<User> create(Alias alias) {
		List<User> users = new ArrayList<User>();

		if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(alias.getEmail())) {
			// Create user by alias
			users.add(User.copy(alias, alias.getEmail(), User.AliasType.EMAIL.ordinal()));

			// Keep email as lower case so we can later match ignore case.
			if (isLowerCaseRequired(alias.getEmail())) {
				users.add(User.copy(alias, alias.getEmail().toLowerCase(), User.AliasType.EMAIL_LOWER.ordinal()));
			}
		}

		if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(alias.getOther())) {
			users.add(User.copy(alias, alias.getOther(), User.AliasType.OTHER.ordinal()));
		}

		users.stream().forEach(user -> {
			super.save(user);
		});

		if (users == null || users.size() == 0) {
			logger.warn("Attempt to store an alias without a valid AliasType. alias:{}", alias.toString());
		}

		return users;
	}

	public User update(User entity) {
		// Read before write validation.
		User user = findById(entity.getKey()).orElse(null);
		if (user == null) {
			return super.insert(entity);
		}

		return super.save(entity);
	}

	/*
	 * PERFORMANCE, This method might lead to pure performance or OutOfMemory.
	 * Avoid usage as possible.
	 */
	@Override
	public List<Alias> findAll(UUID pushApplicationId) {
		List<Row> rows = findUserIds(pushApplicationId).filter(DistinctUitils.distinctByKey(row -> row.getUUID(0)))
				.collect(Collectors.toList());

		List<Alias> aliases = new ArrayList<>();
		rows.forEach(row -> {
			aliases.add(new Alias(pushApplicationId, row.getUUID(0)));
		});

		return aliases;
	}

	@Override
	public Alias findByAlias(UUID pushApplicationId, String alias) {
		// Always find latest alias assuming users_by_alias is sorted DESC.
		// pushApplicationId should be null only by associate/verify API.
		Optional<Row> row = findUserIds(alias, pushApplicationId).findFirst();
		if (row.isPresent()) {
			UserKey ukey = getKey(row.get());
			return findOne(ukey.getPushApplicationId(), ukey.getId());
		}

		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public Alias findOne(UUID pushApplicationId, UUID userId) {
		// Get all possible aliases for a userId
		List<User> users = getUsers(pushApplicationId, userId);

		if (users == null || users.size() == 0) {
			return null;
		}

		Alias alias = new Alias(pushApplicationId, userId);

		users.forEach(user -> {
			// We ignore User.AliasType.EMAIL_LOWER.
			if (user.getType() == User.AliasType.EMAIL.ordinal()) {
				alias.setEmail(user.getAlias());
			} else if (user.getType() == User.AliasType.OTHER.ordinal()) {
				alias.setOther(user.getAlias());
			}
		});

		return alias;
	}

	@Override
	public Map<String, User.AliasType> findAll(UUID pushApplicationId, UUID userId) {
		// Get all possible aliases for a userId
		Collection<User> users = getUsers(pushApplicationId, userId);
		if ((users == null) || (users.size() == 0)) {
			return Collections.emptyMap();
		}

		Map<String, User.AliasType> aliases = new HashMap<>(users.size());
		for (User u : users) {
			String aliasVal = u.getAlias();
			if (StringUtils.isBlank(aliasVal)) {
				continue;
			}

			int typeVal = u.getType();
			// We ignore User.AliasType.EMAIL_LOWER on purpose
			if (typeVal == User.AliasType.EMAIL.ordinal()) {
				aliases.put(aliasVal, User.AliasType.EMAIL);
			} else if (typeVal == User.AliasType.OTHER.ordinal()) {
				aliases.put(aliasVal, User.AliasType.OTHER);
			}
		}

		return aliases;
	}

	private List<User> getUsers(UUID pushApplicationId, UUID userId) {
		Select select = QueryBuilder.select().from(super.tableName);
		select.where(QueryBuilder.eq(UserKey.FIELD_PUSH_APPLICATION_ID, pushApplicationId));
		select.where(QueryBuilder.eq(UserKey.FIELD_USER_ID, userId));

		// Get all possible aliases for a userId
		return operations.select(select, super.domainClass);
	}

	/*
	 * Remove all aliases according to application id.
	 */
	public void removeAll(UUID pushApplicationId) {
		findUserIds(pushApplicationId).forEach(row -> {
			deleteById(new UserKey(pushApplicationId, row.getUUID(0)));
		});
	}

	/*
	 * Select push_application_id, user_id and alias according to optional
	 * aliases.
	 */
	private Stream<Row> findUserIds(String alias, UUID pushApplicationId) {
		List<String> aliases = optionalAliases(alias, null);

		StringBuffer cql = new StringBuffer("SELECT ") //
				.append(UserKey.FIELD_PUSH_APPLICATION_ID).append(",") //
				.append(UserKey.FIELD_USER_ID).append(",") //
				.append(UserKey.FIELD_ALIAS) //
				.append(" FROM ").append(pushApplicationId == null ? MV_BY_ALIAS : MV_BY_ALIAS_AND_APPLICATION) //
				.append(" WHERE alias IN ('").append(StringUtils.join(aliases, "','")).append("')");
		if (pushApplicationId != null) {
			cql.append(" AND ").append(UserKey.FIELD_PUSH_APPLICATION_ID).append("=").append(pushApplicationId);
		}

		return StreamSupport.stream(
				operations.getCqlOperations().queryForResultSet(new SimpleStatement(cql.toString())).spliterator(),
				false);
	}

	/*
	 * Select user_id from all 12 partitions (by month). For a planet scale
	 * sizing, we can also create MV by day (365 partitions).
	 */
	public Stream<Row> findUserIds(UUID pushApplicationId) {
		StringBuffer cql = new StringBuffer("SELECT ") //
				.append(UserKey.FIELD_USER_ID) //
				.append(" FROM ").append(MV_BY_PUSH_APPLICATION) //
				.append(" WHERE ").append(UserKey.FIELD_PUSH_APPLICATION_ID).append("=").append(pushApplicationId) //
				.append(" AND month IN (").append(StringUtils.join(months, ",")).append(")");

		return StreamSupport.stream(
				operations.getCqlOperations().queryForResultSet(new SimpleStatement(cql.toString())).spliterator(),
				false);
	}

	@Override
	public Stream<UserKey> findAllUserTenantRelations() {
		StringBuilder cql = new StringBuilder("SELECT ")
				.append(UserKey.FIELD_PUSH_APPLICATION_ID)
				.append(", ").append(UserKey.FIELD_USER_ID)
				.append(", ").append(UserKey.FIELD_ALIAS)
				.append(" FROM ").append(MV_BY_ALIAS);

		return StreamSupport.stream(
				operations.getCqlOperations().queryForResultSet(new SimpleStatement(cql.toString())).spliterator(),
				false)
				.map(NoSQLUserDaoImpl::getKey);
	}

	@Override
	public Stream<UserKey> findUserTenantRelations(String alias) {
		Stream<Row> findUserIds = findUserIds(alias, null);
		return findUserIds.map(NoSQLUserDaoImpl::getKey);
	}

	@Override
	public List<UserKey> remove(UUID pushApplicationId, String alias) {
		Stream<Row> findUserIds = findUserIds(alias, pushApplicationId);
		List<UserKey> userKeys = findUserIds.map(NoSQLUserDaoImpl::getKey).collect(Collectors.toList());
		for (UserKey userKey : userKeys) {
			deleteById(userKey);
		}
		return userKeys;
	}

	/*
	 * Remove all available aliases for a user id.
	 */
	@Override
	public void remove(UUID pushApplicationId, UUID id) {
		List<User> aliases = getUsers(pushApplicationId, id);
		deleteById(new UserKey(pushApplicationId, id));

		// Evict available aliases from cache.
		if (aliases != null) {
			aliases.stream().forEach(user -> {
				evict(user.getKey().getPushApplicationId(), user.getAlias());
			});
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void deleteById(UserKey key) {
		// Delete all aliases by partition key
		// Future spring-cassandra versions might handle null clustering key.
		if (key.getAlias() == null) {
			Delete delete = QueryBuilder.delete().from(super.tableName);
			delete.where(QueryBuilder.eq(UserKey.FIELD_PUSH_APPLICATION_ID, key.getPushApplicationId()));
			delete.where(QueryBuilder.eq(UserKey.FIELD_USER_ID, key.getId()));
			operations.getCqlOperations().execute(delete);
		} else {
			super.deleteById(key);
			evict(key.getPushApplicationId(), key.getAlias());
		}
	}

	/*
	 * If lower-case value equals current value, return both alias and
	 * alias.lowerCase()
	 */
	private List<String> optionalAliases(String alias, List<String> aliases) {
		if (aliases == null) {
			aliases = new ArrayList<String>();
		}

		if (StringUtils.isNoneEmpty(alias)) {
			aliases.add(alias);

			if (isLowerCaseRequired(alias)) {
				aliases.add(alias.toLowerCase());
			}
		}

		return aliases;
	}

	private boolean isLowerCaseRequired(String alias) {
		return !alias.equals(alias.toLowerCase());

	}

	private static UserKey getKey(Row row) {
		return new UserKey(row.getUUID(0), row.getUUID(1), row.getString(2));
	}

	// Aliases are cached by pushApplicationId and alias name.
	private void evict(UUID pushApplicationId, String alias) {
		Cache cache = cacheManager.getCache(AliasDao.CACHE_NAME);
		cache.evict(new SimpleKey(pushApplicationId, alias));
	}
}


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Cold and humid Atlantic forest during the late glacial, northern Espírito Santo state, southeastern Brazil
Francisquini, M. I., Lorente, F. L., Pessenda, L. C.R., Buso Jr., A. A., Mayle, F. E., Cohen, M. C.L., Franca, M. C., Bendassolli, J. A., Giannini, P. C.F., Schiavo, J. A. and Macario, K. (2020) Cold and humid Atlantic forest during the late glacial, northern Espírito Santo state, southeastern Brazil. Quaternary Science Reviews, 244. 106489. ISSN 0277-3791
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To link to this item DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106489
The Atlantic Rainforest, covering the area from the northern Espirito Santo to Southern Bahia states, has been considered as a stable forest during Pleistocene Glacial times. Despite the modelling and phylogenetic studies, this hypothesis has never been tested with empirical paleo-data and vegetation reconstruction. By using palynology, radiocarbon dating, carbon and nitrogen elemental and isotope of organic matter, we reconstructed the vegetation dynamics and inferred climatic changes since Late Pleistocene in the centre of this global biodiversity hotspot. Our results show that the forest biome was resilient to Last Glacial Maximum - LGM conditions, but floristics has changed when compared to nowadays. Since late glacial, the dense forest changed from cold to warm specimens. Major vegetation changes also occurred during early and mid-Holocene less humid conditions, with an opening of the forest, suggesting that future drought may have negative impacts and highlighting the importance of forest conservation to keep the Atlantic Rainforest biodiversity.