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What do video gamers think of global warming?
This report investigates climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior among video game players in the United States.
What's in the report?
This report investigates what gamers in the United States think of global warming, exploring climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior. The research will help the video game community, including game companies, designers, programmers, journalists, and players (among others) better understand the gaming user base and identify opportunities to engage them in climate science and solutions.
The report is structured around key findings relating to categories surrounding climate change; attitudes and risk perception, personal and social engagement, to opportunities for action.
Why do video gamers' views on global warming and climate change matter?
3 billion people worldwide, of all ages, nationalities, genders, and socioeconomic statuses, play video games. While they have become a favorite form of entertainment, games also allow players to acquire skills and knowledge about new topics. Gaming's broad and extensive reach creates an enormous opportunity to address climate change within the gaming community.
Through games, players can acquire new knowledge about the climate crisis and can be empowered to take individual and collective action at any scale and in any location. Members of the broad ecosystem of game developers, climate planners, activists, and communicators are excited about the potential of the video gaming community but don't yet understand how to best engage with it.
Section I: Global Warming Attitudes & Risk Perceptions
Section II: Personal and Social Engagement with Global Warming
Section III: Who Should Act on Global Warming?
Section IV: Personal and Collective Actions to Limit Global Warming
Section V: Global Warming's Six Americas
Gamers' attitudes & risk perceptions on global warming
Nearly three-quarters of video gamers (73%) think global warming is happening
Most video gamers think global warming will harm plant and animal species (74%), future generations of people (72%), people in developing countries (69%), the world's poor (69%), people in the US (67%), people in their community (60%), their family (58%), and themselves personally (56%). This shows that people's recognition of the risks of climate change diminishes alongside increasing proximity to themselves.
Personal and social engagement
22% of video gamers have seen or heard content related to global warming as part of gaming in the last 12 months. 13% of video gamers say they took actions based on the content they learned about global warming in a game or gaming stream.
Almost half of video gamers (45%) say they either "often" or "occasionally" discuss global warming with family and friends.
Most video gamers (63%) say they feel a personal sense of responsibility to help reduce global warming.
Who should act?
More than half of video gamers (56%) think the gaming industry has a responsibility to act on global warming and should reduce its own carbon emissions.
Nearly half of video gamers (45%) think the video gaming industry should be doing more to address global warming.
Personal and collective actions to limit global warming
Nearly half of video gamers (44%) would support an organization engaging in non-violent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse, and 38% would personally engage in such non-violent civil disobedience.
About half of video gamers (49%) say they have rewarded companies that are taking steps to reduce global warming by buying their products one or more times in the past 12 months. More than four in ten video gamers (43%) say they have punished companies that are opposing steps to reduce global warming by not buying their products one or more times.
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There is a way to protect or hide this automations (i.e.created by superadmin,etc..)
Thanks

A: If a SFMC user has access to delete Automations in general, this user can then delete any of the Automations in that Business Unit.
There isn't a way to hide them, although you could create a folder called 'DoNotTouch' and ask coworkers not to wreak havoc with anything in it.
Overall I think you have two options here..
1) You remove the access to perform Delete operation on Automation on their Roles, but understand they can still Edit them. Or remove access to create/edit/delete Automations in general.
2) You keep your Automations in top-level BU and revoke other users access to modify/delete Automations in that BU only.

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Bucyrus Railcar Repair is on a roll
Company plans to expand local workforce
Gere Goble
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
BUCYRUS - Less than three years ago, the Cathcart family purchased the old Transco Railway Products site on Hopley Avenue and created Bucyrus Railcar Repair.
The company has grown steadily since then, but is now poised for even more rapid growth — and that will mean more jobs and more infrastructure investment, company leaders said.
Aaron Richardson joined the company as chief financial officer in September.
"We see an enormous amount of growth potential for the business," he said. "We are in the middle of a pretty intense hiring effort locally for additional labor in the Bucyrus shop, where we have a lot of appetite for new people."
Bucyrus Railcar Repair, a subsidiary of Cathcart Rail, now operates eight locations, of which Bucyrus is the largest.
Foot-print-wise, the Bucyrus shop is one of the largest car-repair shops in the country, said co-owner and founder Thom Cathcart — probably in the top five, possibly even No. 3.
"That's because of the addition two years ago of our south shop, the former Ohio Crane facility," he said. "But we never really have manned it up — physically added the people to it, because we've been doing a lot of work to try to get it lined out correctly, and get it prepared. Now, it looks like the business is there, and so we're adding people to actually meet the demand and fill the capacity that we have here.
"So we're adding quite a few positions."
The company expects to employ more than 100 people in Bucyrus either by the end of this year or early 2020, he said.
"We're making an enormous investment in the business right now," Richardson said. "Not just physically, in terms of capital expenditure, but nowhere more so than in people, both the senior management level as well as building in a big way our labor force, so top to bottom. It's an exciting time to be here."
The company's satellite locations also are growing, particularly the company's Marion Intermodal shop.
"We're in pretty large growth at that facility," Cathcart said. "We started out three years ago at Marion where we actually just sent a truck from Bucyrus with two guys in it that went down and did work at the industrial park on the northeast side of Marion."
Marion is now home to a full-service railcar repair shop that employs at least 25 people, he said.
"We're still adding a second shift that will be put in, so we could possibly be at 35 people here within the next two months," Cathcart said.
The Cathcarts — Thom and son Casey — first looked at the 820 Hopley Ave. site in August 2015. They put an offer on it that fall and the deal closed in February 2016, Thom Cathcart said.
Prior to starting the company, Casey Cathcart spent 10 years in investment banking, Richardson said. Thom Cathcart had extensive experience in the railcar industry.
"They set out in 2016 to leverage the combined suite of experience between the two of them to start something and build something really great," Richardson said. "To be perfectly frank, they've accomplished that. This is more an effort of taking what is and continues to be a very successful family-owned company and giving it the ability and resources to grow to a scale that we're all very excited about."
In September, the company added a new senior management team, including Richardson, "to take the Cathcart Rail business, including everything associated with Bucyrus Railcar Repair, to a level where we actually think it can go," the new CFO said. "It's been highly successful to date and we'd like to see it be much larger, on a broader scale. So that's part of what I'm here to do."
What do they do?
"Bucyrus Railcar Repair, which is the main operating business associated with Cathcart Rail, is a railcar repair company," Richardson said. "There are two primary divisions of that. One is our shop business, headquartered in Bucyrus. The property itself is roughly 60 acres. We have an approximately 500-car storage capacity and nearly 40 car spots."
In late September news release, the Ohio Rail Development Commission announced it had approved a $400,000 loan to the company to "offset the costs of rail infrastructure necessary to serve additional customers."
"That is associated with adding about 1,000 feet of track on-property," Richardson said. "More than anything, it simply creates space to operate and supports more car capacity to grow and continue to feed our business. It will serve a number of different goals."
The company's Marion site has a 40-car storage capacity and holds five cars under repair, according to the company's website.
The shop business is primarily focused on large-volume, fleet-owner program work, Richardson said.
Fewer railcars are being built than there were 15 years ago, "so a lot of these cars are getting older now and they're doing a lot more program work," Cathcart said.
More importantly, he said, railroads don't own as many of the cars as they used to: They're owned by third parties, private owners. Those private owners are less likely to turn to the railroads' shops for repair work on their railcar fleets: They favor third-party rail shops such as Bucyrus Railcar Repair.
"We're more in line with the private car owners, and I think that's what's driving a lot of it," Cathcart said. "It's kind of a change in the industry."
After railcars arrive in the shop, workers take the entire body off; refurbish, repair or replace any undercarriage parts that need to be fixed; then blast the under-frame before priming it, coating it and painting it, Richardson said. Any necessary repairs are made to the body before it's replaced on the undercarriage.
The company also repairs damaged railcars, such as those involved in wrecks, but the focus is on the fleet program, he said.
That's what happens at the Bucyrus and Marion shops.
At its satellite locations in Ohio, Florida and Mississippi, the company performs what's called running repair, Richardson said.
"We have the necessary technical certifications to make certain types of safety appliance and running gear repairs," he said. That includes things such as "air hoses, wheels, brake shoes, and ladders, as well as the under frame of the car. It doesn't matter what kind of car it is, these are examples of the types of things that are required to make the car run safely."
The company plans to acquire an operating short-line railroad, Richardson said. The transaction is expected to be complete early in 2020.
Cathcart Rail also has launched another company, Buckeye Railcar Parts, which is housed in half of the south shop in Bucyrus, Cathcart said.
"The way an ideal car repair shop is set up, every bit of your building hopefully has track space in it, to where you can set a rail car," he explained. "The facility across the street was not set up for railcar repair; it was set up for manufacturing cranes, and so there was very limited rail space in the building. And just the way the buildings sits, it's not easy to actually expand into it.
"So it was a whole lot easier to use to just take the manufacturing part that they had and start ... fabricating our own parts here. So we just started another company, doing that. So half of the building is Bucyrus Railcar; the other half is Buckeye."
"I think there was a need for it and I think it's just all come at the same time," Cathcart said of the company's expansion. "We're just going to try to continue to grow and be a part of the community."
In February, Cathcart Rail will move its corporate headquarters.
"The corporate office is going to move to Columbus under our son, Casey, and that's because of a couple of other possible opportunities that we have going on," Thom Cathcart explained.
The main shop and the bulk of the company's workforce will remain in Bucyrus.
So will Thom and his wife, Susan, who have lived in the city since May 2016.
"We do care about the community ... quite a bit," Thom Cathcart said. "We take pride in the fact that we have a facility that we purchased at 820 Hopley that they were going to close the doors on it in October 2015, and it would have just sat vacant. The other facility, at 715 Southern, was the same way; it was going to close in June 2017 and it would have just basically stayed shut down for a while.
"We feel a lot of pride in the fact that we've brought both facilities back to life, and been able to add growth to the community. We have a lot of people that work here that live here in Bucyrus, or they live in Crawford County. Probably well over 90-some percent of people who are here come from the area."
It's the same in Marion, he added.
Richardson echoed that dedication to supporting the community.
"We make decisions that we feel are best for the company and its growth, and certainly consider heavily supporting the regions around us, and doing that because it's where our people come from," he said.
The company tries to be a good neighbor, too.
"We try to keep the facilities maintained and looking better than what they used to look," Cathcart said.
Over the next three years, two new rail yards will be added to the east of the existing Bucyrus facilities, "which will basically clean up some of the areas right now that maybe don't look that good. We just haven't gotten to them yet, in the last three years," he said.
"We've also added some growth I think to a couple of our neighbors; companies that are here," he said. When the Cathcarts took over the facility at 820 Hopley, it was using nine Bucyrus companies as vendors.
"Last count we had, there were 41 that we used in the area — for many different purposes," he said. "So we feel like we've added a lot there."
The Cathcarts and their business have contributed to local projects, including the Schine's Art Park Stage, a bicentennial tree-planting project and the recent Crawford County Council on Aging Thanksgiving dinner.
Bucyrus has been a good place to live and a good place to work, Cathcart said.
"I think the city's been really good to us, has welcomed us with open arms, it seems like," he said.
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Conspiración de la escalera, va ser un esdeveniment ocorregut el 1844 a la Cuba espanyola, particularment a l'àrea de Matanzas. Fruit de la convulsió social que vivia l'illa pel tràfic i esclavització de negres, la Capitania va destapar una «suposada» conspiració dels esclaus per aixecar-se contra els seus amos. La resolució del recent designat Capità General Leopoldo O'Donnell va ser implacable: 3.066 persones van ser encausades, 78 de les quals afusellades, milers empresonades i centenars desterrades. El procés judicial va ser portat per la Comissió Militar de Matances, presidida per Fulgencio Salas.

La crisis de la Trata, o el proleg la conspiració de la Escalera
Cap a la quarta dècada del  va fer crisi el problema de la trata, és a dir el tràfic d'esclaus, que Espanya s'havia obligat amb Anglaterra a suprimir a partir de 1820, però que s'anava tolerant, de manera encoberta, no no obstant un nou compromís, subscrit el 1835. L'oposició, cada cop més vigorosa, dels abolicionistes britànics i cubans, a aquest criminal trànsit, i els interessos en joc dels esclavistes de l'Illa, van produir derivacions socials, econòmiques i polítiques. Socials, perquè els esclaus, creixents en nombre, van conspirar i fins i tot van acudir a la rebel·lió, amb la qual cosa van arribar a constituir una altra vegada, com el 1804 i el 1812, motiu de greu preocupació per als pobladors blancs de l'Illa. Econòmiques, perquè només estaven afectats els interessos dels traficants d'esclaus i dels hisendats cubans, sinó també els dels amos de cafetars, ramaders i línies de ferrocarril. Políticas, perquè les autoritats espanyoles van implicar en el moviment subversiu els cubans blancs anti-esclavistes i els negres lliures, acabalats o de talent, i els negrers, per la seva banda, van abrigar la idea d'incorporar Cuba als Estats Units si Espanya es doblegava, finalment, davant els anglesos i efectivament suprimia l'odiós comerç d'esclaus.

Turnbull i les seves activitats abolicionistes a Cuba
En aquella època ocupava el Ministeri de Relacions Exteriors d'Anglaterra Henry John Temple (conegut com, Lord Palmerston), qui, impulsat pels filantrops anglesos, i tenaç, com era, en els assumptes que emprenia, es va proposar perseguir severament el trànsit negrer i obligar Espanya a posar en llibertat tots els esclaus introduïts a Cuba amb posteritat el 1820. Per tal d'assegurar el millor èxit dels seus plans, Palmerston va nomenar Cónsul General de la Gran Bretanya a l'Havana David Turnbull, abolicionista distingit, qui havia visitat les Antilles, fins i tot Cuba, i estudiant les condicions dels esclaus en les mateixes, fruit de la qual va ser una obra Travels in the West, Cuba; with notices of Porto Rico and the slave trade, és a dir <<Viatge a l'Occident, Cuba, amb notícies de Puerto Rico i de la trata>>, en què es fustigava virilment a l'esclavitud.

L'arribament de Turnbull a l'Havana, el novembre de 1840, va produir una gran alarma entre els traficants i els amos d'esclaus, que clasificaven aquell d'abolicionista del tipus del frare Las Casas. Turnbull, en efecte, a penes va arribar, va començar a desplegar una doble activitat: a) tocant a les introduccions clandestines d'esclaus, b) en la investigació dels que, per haver estat portats a l'Illa amb posterioritat als tractats anglo-hispans, eren de dret lliures. Pel que fa al primer extrem, Turnbull es va posar en contacte amb diversos anti-esclavistes significats, com Domingo Delmonte, i tan bon punt es va possessionar el nou capità general, Jerónimo Valdés, li va dirigir un enèrgic escrit. Pel que fa al segon punt, va realitzar personalment el cònsol anglès les perquisicions necessàries, i en una ocasió es va traslladar a Cárdenas (província de Matanzas), on va interrogar minuciosament diversos negres que prestaven serveis en un nou hotel, per haver tingut notícies que havien vingut de Jamaica, després de 1820, i havien estat reduïts aquí a l'esclavatge.

La reacció dels esclavistes no es va fer esperar, i dos súbdits britànics van ser acusats: l'un, maquinista del ferrocarril de Güines, d'haver causat intencionadament un xoc de trens; l'altre, dedicat als negocis de Camagüey, d'haver proferit, durant un dinar a Vertientes (província de Camagüey), conceptes ofensius per a les autoritats espanyoles. Turnbull no es va desanimar per això, i sense deixar d'interessar-se pels seus compatriotes en desgràcia, va continuar la seva labor contrària a la tracta i per l'emancipació dels negres mantinguts il·legalment a l'esclavitud. El governador Valdés, al principi, va atendre el diplomàtic anglès, quant a la tracta, i fins i tot va arribar a dictar un bàndol, pel qual es donava als traficants d'esclaus, un termini de sis mesos per liquidar els seus operacions. No estava d'acord, però, el Capità General amb la llibertat dels nombrosos negres introduïts després del 1820, ja que estimava que aquesta mesura redundaría en perjudici d'Espanya, bé perquè els propietaris afectats busquessin protecció als seus interessos en l'annexió als Estats Units, bé perquè els altres esclaus, considerant-se lliures també, s'insurreccionessin. Per això, Valdés, sense ser esclavista, va acabar per col·locar-se obertament al grup dels enemics de Turnbull. A aquest efecte, el bàndol abolicionista no va fer efectiu en transcórrer el termini, i es va queixar una vegada i una altra al govern espanyol contra les activitats del cònsol anglès.El govern espanyol, però, es va abstenir d'actuar contra l'enviat britànic, i per contra, pressionat pel gabinet anglès, va arribar a ordenar al Capità General de Cuba la llibertat dels esclaus introduïts a la mateixa després de 1820. Més tard, però, reemplaçat a Anglaterra el fogós Lord Palmerston pel conciliador George Hamilton-Gordon (conegut com Lord Aberdeen), es va procedir al relleu de Turnbull, que va haver d'anar-se'n de Cuba, però va tornar gairebé de seguida, seguint-li el rastre a uns negres anglesos capturats per contrabandistes i internats a la regió oriental. Detingut el tenaç abolicionista pel comandant d'armes de Gibara, va ser traslladat a l'Havana, conduint-se al castell de la Força, on va estar pres una hores fins que finalment se'l va expulsar de l'Illa, aquesta vegada de manera definitiva.

Les activitats antiesclavistes de l'ex cònsol havien determinat notable agitació en contra de l'odiosa esclavitud i un incident en què es va posar en relleu de nou l'elevada talla moral de José de la Luz Caballero, en fer-se aquest que es revoqués un acord de la Societat Econòmica, en què se separava aquell com a membre corresponsal, no perquè s'hagués fet indigne de tal honor, sinó perquè era abolicionista i això desagradava el governador Valdés.

El cens de 1841: notable increment registrat de la població esclava
Per altra banda, les prevencions de Lord Palmerston i de Mr. Turnbull contra la tracta clandestina estaven justificades, ja que a Cuba hi havia un notable increment de la població esclava, com a conseqüència de la introducció clandestina d'africans, malgrat els compromisos subscrits amb els anglesos. En efecte, estudiant el cens aixecat pel governador Valdés, en un dels anys en què actuava Turnbull (1841), s'observa que els barons esclaus havien augmentat a 281.250 i les femelles del mateix estat social, a 155,245, fet que fa un total de 436.495, contra 152.838 negres lliures i 396.291 blancs, d'un i altre sexe. Tot això, sense comptar que molts hisendats deixaven de registrar part dels seus esclaus, per no haver de confessar que s'havien adquirit il·lícitament.

Els esclaus van augmentar encara més, de 1841 a 1843, ja que la correspondència creuada a l'època refereix la sortida de vaixells negrers per a l'Àfrica i la venda, a Cuba, a bon preu, de tot el carregament portat. Tan era així, que en una carta confidencial escrita a finals de l'any darrerament esmentat, es calcula en no menys de 900.000 els esclaus existents a l'Illa, i en uns 400.000, els lliures de color. Encara que aquestes xifres indubtablement exagerades, només cal assenyalar el fet que sumats els esclaus i els negres lliures, segons el cens de 1841, donen un gran total de prop de 600.000, contra una quantitat de blancs no superior a 450.000.

Terror basat en la possibilitat d'una revolta general de negres: l'anomenada Conspiració de la Escalera

El gran augment de la població de color, unit a la prèdica de la igualtat social i al ressentiment que causaven als esclaus els abusos dels seus amos, expliquen el terror basat en la possibilitat d'una revolta general d'esclaus i, com a seqüela, els excessos comesos durant el procés de la Conspiración de la Escalera, sorgida el 1844 i anomenada així per un dels cruels mitjans emprats: el d'amarrar a una escala i assotar amb el fuet els esclaus acusats , fins a obtenir que aquests confessessin o delatessin les persones que es volia comprometre.

Era llavors capità general de Cuba el general Leopoldo O'Donnell, que ocupava el càrrec des d'octubre de 1843, en què havia reemplaçat el substitut interí Jerónimo Valdés. El nou mandatari de l'Illa era un jove autoritari i poc escrupolós, que, tot just possessionat del comandament, estava desitjós d'imposar un càstig exemplar, ja que la població cubana estava esglaiada d'espant, davant la sublevació en massa, ocorreguda a principis de novembre, dels esclaus de l'enginy Triunvirato, els quals havien assaltat altres finques sucreres, donant mort a diverses persones blanques --entre elles, dues dones i un nen-- i cremat alguns bohíos (cabanes), abans de ser continguts per un piquet de cavalleria, sortit, de pressa, de Matanzas.

En els primers dies de desembre de 1843, Esteban d'Oviedo, propietari d'un altre enginy de la zona matancera i amo tristament famós <per les seves crueltats i horrorosa tirania>, va comunicar a les autoritats la revelació que li havia fet una de les seves esclaves de l'existència d'una extensa conspiració, que havia d'esclatar el primer dia de Pasqua de Nadal. O'Donnell va disposar que s'ocupessin militarment les finques del partit de Sabanilla i que es formés consell de guerra a quaranta-un esclaus que apareixien com a capitosts i altres cent, que se suposava partidaris. Quinze dels compromesos van ser executats. Als restants se'ls va condemnar a presó i a patir assots, a les seves finques respectives.

Com O'Donnell va estimar que la conspiració de l'enginy d'Oviedo no era un fet aïllat, i malgrat les indagacions que al voltant d'aquella es van fer no donaven peu als temors del Capità General, aquest va ordenar al fiscal que continués les investigacions i va comissionar a Oviedo i al tinent general de milícies de Matanzas perquè, extra-judicialment, esbrinessin el necessari per tal de trobar el veritable origen dels freqüents conats que s'estaven registrant al camp i que havien afectat els enginys Triunvirat, Acana, Concepción, San Lorenzo, San Rafael, Trinidad i Santa Rosa, aquest darrer propietat de la família Aldama.

Transcorreguts uns dies, Oviedo va informar que un noi de color de 18 anys havia obtingut noves confidències sobre la conspiració; un altre hisendat amo de l'enginy La Andrea, i un tercer propietari del Merceditas, van afegir haver descobert conspiracions en els seus respectius enginys. A les citades no van trigar a seguir les denúncies d'altres hisendats, i llavors el pànic es va fer general. En tal situació els ànims, Anastasio Carrillo, propietari de l'enginy Toro, va escriure al tinent governador de Matanzas en sol·licitud que s'autoritzés els propietaris d'esclaus perquè ells mateixos esbrinessin dels seus serfs, valent-se dels mitjans de correcció necessaris, el pla de la conspiració el descobriment del qual es perseguia. El mateix Capità General participava en la conveniència d'emprar els procediments que proposava Carrillo, ja que en comunicació al President de la Comissió Militar Executiva i Permanent li deia que quan es tractava de la seguretat del país i d'un delicte d'Estat, quins mitjans eren legals i permesos si per endavant existia una convicció moral que han de produir el resultat que es desitjava i era exigit pel bé general. Aquests criteris van ser, doncs, els que van presidir les investigacions en els enginys, així com la instrucció de la causa de la Conspiración de la Escalera.

A Matanzas van ser complicats, en efecte, alguns homes de color lliures, dels quals els fiscals pensaven obtenir diners, doncs els honoraris d'aquests es carregaven les víctimes. Entre els principals encausats hi havia el marró Andrés Dodge, nascut a les Bahames i que s'havia graduat de Cirurgia Dental a Londres, <home seriós, culte, cavallerós en el seu tracte, elegant en la seva indumentària i net en el seu treball i en la seva conducta>, per tot això tenia clientela distingida. Tot i les magnífiques qualitats i el prestigi social que gaudia, Dodge va ser afanyat i assotat amb tanta crueltat que poc va faltar perquè deixés la seva vida al turment. Se l'acusava de ser agent a Matanzas de Blakely, un altre dentista, establert a l'Havana, i qui, després de detingut, va comprar la seva llibertat, encara que més tard va ser tornat a capturar. En el cas de Dodge la injustícia s'explica per la seva condició d'home de certa posició econòmica i pels honoraris que s'havia assignat el fiscal ($14.000), per cobrar els quals va intentar embargar els béns d'aquell, que finalment va ser afusellat.

Implicació d'altres reformistes en el procés

No tan sols moltes persones de color lliures i esclaves foren envoltades en la conspiració; també alguns blancs, d'un ben guanyat prestigi, i entre ells José de la Luz y Caballero, Domingo Delmonte y Afonte, Manuel Martínez Serrano, Benigno Gener, Félix Tanco, Pedro José Guiteras Font i d'altres, a tots els quals se'ls implicà perquè se sabía que eren amics del ex cónsul Turnbull o perquè, ja de paraula, ja per escrit, havíen combatut la trata i abogat per reformes en el regim colonial.

A mitjan 1844, quan es produeixen els tristos successos de l'Escala i ja havia estat afusellat Plácido, va arribar a l'Havana Luz Caballero, des de París, on havia anat a la recerca de salut. Cartes amigues li havien fet saber que se l'acusava estar en connivència amb els esclaus complicats, i que el fiscal de la causa ho citava perquè declarés. Les acusacions, als ulls dels maliciosos, apareixien corroborades per la condemnació que de l'esclavitud havia fet sempre el gran cubà i per la defensa enèrgica que del cònsol Turnbull fes a la Societat Econòmica, incident a què ja ens hem referit.

No era Luz Caballero home que anteposés la seva seguretat personal al seu prestigi, i encara que no ignorava que la substanciació de la causa s'estava duent a terme per mitjans irregulars i tortuosos, va prendre la arriscada decisió de tornar a Cuba.Luz Caballero va arribar a l'Havana tan malalt que del moll va haver de dirigir-se a casa seva i recloure's al llit. Des d'ella, vuit dies més tard, escrivia al capità general:Al mal estat de la seva salut degué Luz no ser conduït a la presó, però va quedar temporalment arrestat a les seves habitacions. El 26 de setembre, el fiscal, Pedro Salazar, li formulava cinquanta-tres preguntes, a les quals va contestar Luz i Caballero amb fermesa i energia. Luz va negar de manera rotunda els càrrecs que se li formulaven va defensar calorosament els altres implicats i va intentar portar a l'ànim del fiscal l'absurditat del pla de conspiració en què es deia participaven els blancs.

L'humanista Domingo Delmonte, un altre dels il·lustres acusats, també estava, com Luz i Caballero, a París, quan va saber, per cartes de Pepe Alfonso, Miguel Aldama i altres amics i familiars, la seva implicació en la famosa causa. Delmonte va pensar a tornar, doncs havia quedat vidu i volia consagrar-se a l'educació dels seus fills a Guanabacoa, però se li va aconsellar que no ho fes, ja que se li estimava el veritable cap de la conspiració i no s'oblidaven les seves idees abolicionistes i els seus estretes relacions d'amistat amb Turnbull i amb un altre antiesclavista no menys distingit, Richard Madden, comissionat anglès davant del tribunal mixt del tràfic. Delmonte va fer, doncs, els seus descàrrecs des de les columnes del diari parisenc Globe i, més tard, escriu una carta a O'Donnell, en què li deia que havia tingut per un greu mal l'esclavitud al seu país (Cuba), però que mai havia abrigat plans violents ni entrat en tractes ni comunicacions íntimes amb gent menuda per a propòsits subversius de cap classe.

Manuel Martinez Serrano i Félix Tanco, enemics reconeguts de la trata, van tenir pitxò sort que Luz i Caballero i Domingo Delmonte, doncs van passar algun temps a la presó. A Benigno Gener, per la seva banda, se'l va capturar tan aviat com va desembarcar del vapor on tornava d'Europa i se'l va conduir al castell del Morro. Pedro Guiteras, que es va presentar davant les autoritats després del seu retorn, va ser destinat a la mateixa cel·la que Gener, fins que se'l va posar en llibertat sota fiança. Finalment Santiago Bombalier i Telesforo Torrea, molt apreciats pels intel·lectuals cubans, van romandre fins al final del procés, al castell de la Punta.

Luz i Caballero considerava, com ja s'ha indicat, una farsa la conspiració, sobretot pel que fa a ell, Domingo Delmonte i els altres reformistes implicats. Per això, en el moment del judici no va concórrer i li va fer dir al seu advocat que lliurava la seva defensa en el mèrit de les actuacions i en la justificació del tribunal. Els altres acusats, excepte Delmonte, Guiteras i Benigno Gener, van acumular, alhora, càrrecs contra el fiscal Salazar, a qui les mateixes autoritats espanyoles havien hagut de suspendre i posar pres, perquè, en absència temporal d'O'Donnell, el recte governador interí Vicente Castro va comprovar les seves atrocitats, entre les quals hi havia haver volgut obligar a l'esclau Miguel Flores a penjar-se, per haver-se negat aquest a ratificar la denúncia que, per extorsió, havia prestat abans contra Luz Caballero.

En junta celebrada pel Capità General O'Donnell amb el President de la Comissió Militar, els fiscals i els defensors, es va encomanar declarar lliures de culpa i pena a tots els blancs inclosos a la causa. No obstant això, quan això es produïa, ja alguns presumptament complicats, tant blancs com de color, havien estat executats, i moltes més, condemnats a presidi o bandejats. A les esmentades víctimes cal afegir els que van morir durant la substanciació de la causa i molts esclaus que van fugir a les muntanyes i que es van suïcidar o van ser capturats o morts.<ref name="Escalera, VI">'Centó Epistolari de Domingo Delmonte. Amb prefaci i notes de Manuel I. Mesa Rodríguez. tom VI. pàg. 165. L'Havana, 1953.</ref>

 Hi va haver, en realitat, una conspiració tan vasta, el 1843-1844?
L'afusellament de Plácido i altres, acusats de conspiradors, les crueltats comeses amb molts altres dels complicats, les il·legalitats que van caracteritzar la substanciació de la causa, l'acusació contra Luz y Caballero, Delmonte i altres, tots els fets en fi , que fan d'aquell moment històric un dels més ombrívols del passat cubà, adquireixen encara més gravetat i semblen més condemnables quan es recorda que la conspiració de 1844 va ser, per a molts una ficció.

Vidal Morales i Morales, un dels investigadors d'aquests successos, no estava convençut que hi hagués hagut conspiració de negres i mulats el 1844. Eusebio Guiteras i Font, contemporani dels successos, estimava que va existir la conspiració el 1844, però no a la amplitud en què es va pretendre. Manuel Villanova Fernández creia, com Guiteras, en una conspiració aïllada, que, com a únic objectiu, perseguia en lliurar-se de les crueltats de majorals i hisendats. Juan Manuel de Ximeno sosté que hi va haver dues conspiracions: una de negres i una altra de mulats; <aquella moguda per la venjança; aquesta, pel desig d'enlairar-se>. A la primera es trobava Miguel Flores, i a la segona, el poeta Plácido. Ximeno assigna també certa influència a les intrigues de Turnbull i assenyala que no ofereix cap dubte la participació dels blancs en els començaments de la conspiració.

 Resum
Resumint els criteris dels que, autoritzadament, van expressar les seves opinions sobre la ficció o realitat de la conspiració esmentada, s'arribà a la conclusió que hi va haver un projecte d'alçament, per a una data que la historiografia no ha pogut precisar, que la sublevació devia començar a l'enginy Trinidad, d'Oviedo, d'on es propagaria a les hisendes més properes, i que l'alçament responia en uns, al desig de millorament social i, en altres, al propòsit d'escapar dels abusos i crueltats d'amos i majorals, però res més.

 Referències

 Bibliografia
 Vidal Morales i Morales, Iniciadores y primeros martires de la Revolución Cubana. tom. 1.
 Francisco González del Valle. Luz, Saco y Delmonte ante la esclavitud negra, Revista Bimestre Cubana, Vol. XLVII, Nº. Març-abril. 1941.
 Joaquín Llaverías Martínez, Centón epistolario de Domingo del Monte. Tom 4 y 5, l'Havana 1938.
 Manuel Mesa Rodriguez, Centón epistolario de Domingo Delmonte''. Tom VI, (1844/45). l'Havana 1953.

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Home > Press > Electronic device detects molecules linked to cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's: An inexpensive portable biosensor has been developed by researchers at Brazil's National Nanotechnology Laboratory with FAPESP's support
An inexpensive portable biosensor has been developed by researchers at Brazil's National Nanotechnology Laboratory with FAPESP's support.
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A biosensor developed by researchers at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (LNNano) in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, has been proven capable of detecting molecules associated with neurodegenerative diseases and some types of cancer.
Electronic device detects molecules linked to cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's: An inexpensive portable biosensor has been developed by researchers at Brazil's National Nanotechnology Laboratory with FAPESP's support
São Paulo, Brasil | Posted on May 20th, 2016
The device is basically a single-layer organic nanometer-scale transistor on a glass slide. It contains the reduced form of the peptide glutathione (GSH), which reacts in a specific way when it comes into contact with the enzyme glutathione S-transferase (GST), linked to Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and breast cancer, among other diseases. The GSH-GST reaction is detected by the transistor, which can be used for diagnostic purposes.
The project focuses on the development of point-of-care devices by researchers in a range of knowledge areas, using functional materials to produce simple sensors and microfluidic systems for rapid diagnosis.
"Platforms like this one can be deployed to diagnose complex diseases quickly, safely and relatively cheaply, using nanometer-scale systems to identify molecules of interest in the material analyzed," explained Carlos Cesar Bof Bufon, Head of LNNano's Functional Devices & Systems Lab (DSF) and a member of the research team for the project, whose principal investigator is Lauro Kubota, a professor at the University of Campinas's Chemistry Institute (IQ-UNICAMP).
In addition to portability and low cost, the advantages of the nanometric biosensor include its sensitivity in detecting molecules, according to Bufon.
"This is the first time organic transistor technology has been used in detecting the pair GSH-GST, which is important in diagnosing degenerative diseases, for example," he explained. "The device can detect such molecules even when they're present at very low levels in the examined material, thanks to its nanometric sensitivity." A nanometer (nm) is one billionth of a meter (10-9 meter), or one millionth of a millimeter.
The system can be adapted to detect other substances, such as molecules linked to different diseases and elements present in contaminated material, among other applications. This requires replacing the molecules in the sensor with others that react with the chemicals targeted by the test, which are known as analytes.
The team is working on paper-based biosensors to lower the cost even further and to improve portability and facilitate fabrication as well as disposal.
The challenge is that paper is an insulator in its usual form. Bufon has developed a technique to make paper conductive and capable of transporting sensing data by impregnating cellulose fibers with polymers that have conductive properties.
The technique is based on in situ synthesis of conductive polymers. For the polymers not to remain trapped on the surface of the paper, they have to be synthesized inside and between the pores of the cellulose fibers. This is done by gas-phase chemical polymerization: a liquid oxidant is infiltrated into the paper, which is then exposed to monomers in the gas phase. A monomer is a molecule of low molecular weight capable of reacting with identical or different molecules of low molecular weight to form a polymer.
The monomers evaporate under the paper and penetrate the pores of the fibers at the submicrometer scale. Inside the pores, they blend with the oxidant and begin the polymerization process right there, impregnating the entire material.
The polymerized paper acquires the conductive properties of the polymers. This conductivity can be adjusted by manipulating the element embedded in the cellulose fibers, depending on the application for which the paper is designed. Thus, the device can be electrically conductive, allowing current to flow without significant losses, or semiconductive, interacting with specific molecules and functioning as a physical, chemical or electrochemical sensor.
About FAPESP
FAPESP (www.fapesp.br/en) is a public foundation, funded by the taxpayer in the State of São Paulo, with the mission to support research projects in higher education and research institutions, in all fields of knowledge. São Paulo has a population of forty million and generates 35% of Brazil's GNP. The constitution of the State establishes that 1% of all state taxes belong to the foundation and the government transfers these funds monthly. The stability of the funding and the autonomy of the foundation allow for an efficient management of the resources that has had a sizable impact: while São Paulo has 22% of the Brazilian population and 30% of the scientists with a doctorate in the country, the state responds for 52% of the country's scientific articles published in international journals.
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GOP's candidate gender gap
Column by Sean Evans
GOP's candidate gender gap Column by Sean Evans Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/11/27/column-sean-evans-gops-candidate-gender-gap/2091334002/
SEAN EVANS, Special for the Sun Published 7:00 a.m. CT Nov. 27, 2018
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The 2018 election ushered in 103 female members of the U.S. House, 23 female senators (including Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn), and nine female governors. However, Democrats made the largest gains, electing 35 new women to the House, two new senators, and six new governors. House Republicans saw their female representation decline by almost half. As a result, 87 percent of congresswomen and 75 percent of female senators will be Democrats.
A dilemma for Republicans is that half of the country is female but only 6 percent of House Republicans and 11 percent of Senate Republicans are female. This discrepancy makes it hard for women to identify with the GOP, for their concerns to be heard in party deliberations, and for the GOP to effectively communicate with women. So why aren't there more elected female Republicans?
First, the gender gap means that Democrats have a larger pool of potential female candidates. According to the PEW Foundation, more women identify as Democrats than Republicans (56 percent to 37 percent) and more affluent, college educated individuals, the group most likely to run for office, identify as Democrat (58 percent to 36 percent). Unsurprisingly, then, of the 27 percent of state legislators who are female, two-thirds are Democrats, according to the Center for American Women and Politics. Since state legislators are the farm teams for higher office, Democrats will easily maintain their advantage of females in higher office.
Second, Republicans lack an infrastructure dedicated to electing women. Democrats have teacher unions and feminist organizations that can provide female candidates and organizations, like EMILY's List, that are dedicated to encouraging women to run, training them, and helping them raise campaign funds. Recently, Republicans have tried catching up by creating Maggie's List and Winning for Women but EMILY's List outspent the two organizations tenfold ($5.8 million to $581,000) this election cycle, according to opensecrets.org.
Third, the political cultures of the two parties differ. Democrats value identity politics, which means Democrats will donate and vote for a candidate simply because she is a woman. However, being female may actually hurt Republican women. First, Republican women value family more than politics, which means they are less likely to have the ambition or professional credentials to run. Second, Republicans value ideology more than identity. Since female Republicans are more moderate than male Republicans, many females believe they can't win a primary and don't run. Even if they do run, Republican voters believe they are more moderate — even if they are not — which hurts their chances of winning the primary.
Fourth, female Republicans are less likely to remain in Congress. As more moderate members in a more polarized Congress, they are less likely to be influential, which reduces the benefits of serving, which lead them to retire sooner. Second, moderate female Republicans are more likely to represent swing districts where their moderation is an advantage. However, these seats are more competitive and more likely to flip to Democrats.
Republican leaders are dedicated to increasing the number of female Republicans as Senate leaders rallied behind Blackburn in Tennessee and Martha McSally in Arizona, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant appointed Cindy Hyde-Smith to the Senate, and House Republicans appointed Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to recruit more female candidates. The irony is that President Trump may aid this endeavor as Republican leaders recruit female candidates to counter the harm caused by his sexism. Regardless, a GOP with more Nikki Haleys in office would be a more successful political party.
Sean Evans is professor of political science at Union University. You can write to him in care of Union University, 1050 Union University Drive, Jackson, TN 38305.
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Putin sees no need to tell about the preparation of attempts on his life
MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin does not consider it necessary to mention the cases of the preparation of the assassination attempts on him. In the film, Andrei Kondrashov "Putin", placed in social networks "Vkontakte" and "Classmates", the President philosophically responded to the question about it.
"Think about it need saying?" he said in an interview Kondrashova. "There are a lot of common phrases in this regard, for example, [Kazakhstan President Nursultan] Nazarbayev likes to say "the Throne and the scaffold is always near," – said Putin.
"But that's not it, nor the throne of a mythical," said the President. "I never felt that on the throne of some kind," he explained. "The fact is that when a person makes a choice, he must understand what is connected with it", – Putin said.
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I don't hunt, but my cat does, and I've come to admire her professionalism, judgment and efficiency. Sometimes it's hard to tell that she's working. She sits quietly staring at a pile of leaves, or a rock wall, or a patch of thick grass for hours on end. Experience has taught her that chasing squirrels is waste of time and energy, so she focuses on what works. At the end of the day, there is a pile of small rodents lovingly laid on our doorstep to be admired and possibly served for dinner if we followed the cat's intent. Contrast the cat's approach to the average dog. The average dog dashes madly about the yard chasing squirrels, birds, bees, leaves, its own tail and anything else that moves. The dog will bark and bark and make a great show of its efforts, but at the end of the day the dog will have nothing to show for its work. If you're interested in catching rodents get a cat. If you're interested in showmanship get a dog. PPC firms fall into two camps along similar lines. Those who understand how to make search cost effective for their clients are analytical, empirical and know which rat-holes to avoid (remember "click-to-call"?) Less sophisticated firms focus on the external trappings of "Best Practices" published by the engines. These folks furiously rearrange deck chairs and do a great deal of barking about campaign structure, quality score and conversion funnels. Oftentimes you can tell whether a firm is a "hunter" or a "barker" by the way they go to market. Barkers can promise huge performance benefits without looking at conversion data from the existing program. That's always struck me as an amazing talent. Hunters on the other hand study the data carefully before evaluating the success of a program, and are uncomfortable about promising results recognizing what is and what is not within their control. In some respects, the "dogs" are more comforting, particularly during difficult times. "Look at that! He's chasing everything, he's goin' wild, that's a good boy. He's optimizing, he's fine tuning, he's leveraging, he's bridging gaps between the strategic and the tactical...he's awesome!" Pretty clearly, the right way to evaluate a PPC agency isn't by the number of initiatives they chase, but by the results they generate at the end of the day. Action for the sake of action isn't simply unhelpful, it's a distraction from the tasks at hand. In the next week we'll discuss the right way to evaluate your program in a down economy, and provide more tips on how to distinguish between quality PPC management firms and the barkers.


As UX Designers, we have the power to design a product that can be interacted with million people on the internet. It is our obligation to make sure users can successfully access our website. This means all the users include who have visual impairments, color blind, hearing, cognitive disabilities or problems, who use different devices to access a website, and who uses an old operating system. Yes, there are still people never use a smartphone and don't know how to use computer.
Ony of the keys to success is enhanced color accessibility so that all the users are able to understand the meaning and information that the color assigned to it.
There are mainly three roles to design color on an interface to help users identify information.
The effect of contrast on the visual effect is very important. Generally speaking, when the contrast is large, the image is more clear and conspicuous, and the color is more bright and vivid; while the contrast is small, the whole picture is grayed out. Many websites always have the issue with color contrast. It increases the difficulty of low vision people to read and reduce their cognitive abilities. According to W3C's color contrast rating, it should be 4.5 to 1. This guideline helps users to see and read text on the screen.
There is an issue on the internship page of Urban Outfitters(Figure 1). The heading is too light on a light background so the text is not really readable.
When choosing the color too bright it will make users look away because the color is very glaring(Figure 2). A bright color usually uses at the button, important layout, alerts, navigation in order to grab users' attention. Reading this website is no longer enjoyable.
Color can not only use on visual but also can use on conveying information. Proper use of highlights can attract users' attention. It helps users locate or receive important information so they won't miss it. This also helps users who cannot or hard to distinguish one color from another due to vision problems.
According to Figure 4, users can only tell there is an entry error on the first field from the circle with the exclamation mark that tells them something is wrong.
From Figure 5, because two fields had highlighted, even the second field doesn't have circle alert, users can easily tell the two fields both have issues.
Here is another good example of using a highlight on the right side of the image(Figure 6). It uses the highlight to tell users where to find the CVC number, which is very helpful for people who use a credit card to shop online for the first time, most of them do not know what and where is a CVC code.
While using graphs or charts, people with color blindness can not rely on the color to understand or memorize data. Adding texture, patterns, or icons can make sure these people can distinguish data without having to worry about the color that affects their perception(Figure 7 & Figure 8).
This is a very good example of a website has good color accessibility. The website use three main base colors. Red, white, and dark grey. The ratio is 4.59 to 1. Meanwhile, red is the color grabs the most attention from people. Designers use it as a background color for navigation to tell users where it contains important information they don't want to miss. The designer also highlights the latest articles heading to grab users attention with red highlight. Since red is already used as a highlight, after finishing reading the navigation, the dark grey will be considered as a second priority by users. The whole design is clean and organized which gives users a clear direction to look for the right information.
Maximizing accessibility is our responsibility. Designers not only design product based on their preferences, but to show our respect to our users by making it usable to all of them.


In the United States, April 15th is the day procrastinators everywhere dread. It's the day their individual tax returns are due to be filed. Thankfully, the IRS and most states offer an automatic six month extension of the filing deadline, so they can put off gathering those records for another 6 months.
According to IRS data from 2008, of the 154 million returns that were filed for that year, 10 million of them were filed on extension.


(Kitco News) – If you ever played Candy Crush on your phone, then one Wall Street analyst's analogy might ring very true, which compares cryptocurrencies to tokens in the popular online game.
The one significant difference between the game's tokens and cryptocurrencies is that the latter can be traded.
"If only the founders of Candy Crush had realized that selling the coin could be more profitable than selling the entertainment," said Bernstein. "Change the words 'playing Candy Crush' to 'solving a sophisticated mathematical formula,' and suddenly global currencies have been revolutionized," he said.
Making things worse for digital currencies is that this tradability factor is actually what is driving the classic asset bubble that has formed over the past year, according to the note.
Bernstein added that cryptos' price action matches the five signs of a bubble, which were outlined by financial historian and author Edward Chancellor: increased liquidity and turnover, democratization of the market, growing leverage, and rising new issues.
But, Bernstein also pointed out that the presence of a bubble does not mean that cryptos are no longer viable. Instead, it simply "suggests that the return-on-investment could be considerably lower than investors currently expect," he said.
To improve investors' odds, traders should insist on regulation and oversight of the cryptocurrency market, which would limit fraud. "There are now over 1,300 cryptocurrencies and it seems reasonable to assume all 1,300 are not of equal quality," Bernstein wrote.
The most popular digital currency, bitcoin, has been trading around $8,000 this week, after managing to fall from an all-time high of around $20,000 just within the past four months. Bitcoin was last seen at $8,230.00, up 0.72% on the day, according to Kitco's aggregated charts.


This is an app which helps students in the situation of group projects. By using this app, students can collaborate with other group members without physical meet. It has a whiteboard on which each member can draw their plan and share with other members. It also has chat option so that you can communicate with others in real time.
It's a must have app for the book lovers. By using this app, you don't need to carry any book with you. You just need to download as many books as you want in your smartphone or tablet and read it wherever you want.
This app helps the students to take the voice note of the lectures with them. It records audio in high quality. The lectures can be recorded in real time and can be used for the purpose of revising or to help any friend who could not attend the lectures.
This app lets you to scan any document such as important topic in a book etc. and saves in PDF format.
While reading a book, a student may find some problem in understanding the meaning of certain word, he/she can use this app to find the meaning of that word. It also helps in vocabulary improvement.
This app lets you to stay organized. It is a modern to-do list which helps the students to set regular assignments. Items can be added by voice or text commands.
This app tracks of the deadlines of your tasks and its grades. The schedule needs to be fed into it and it helps to manage your tasks within deadline.


Description: Multiple vulnerabilities were reported in Apple iOS. A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system. A remote user can modify data on the target system. A remote user can cause the target application to crash. A local user can obtain potentially sensitive information. An application can obtain elevated privileges on the target system.
A remote user can trigger a memory handling error in the CoreText component to cause denial of service conditions [CVE-2017-13849].
An application can trigger a memory corruption error in the the kernel component to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges [CVE-2017-13799].
A physically local user can exploit a flaw in the Messages application to access photos on the locked target device via the Reply With Message function [CVE-2017-13844].
A physically local user can trigger a flaw in the Siri component to read notifications on the target system [CVE-2017-13805].
A remote user can create a specially crafted zip file that, when loaded by the target user, will trigger a path handling flaw in the StreamingZip component to modify restricted areas of the file system [CVE-2017-13804].
A physically local user can exploit a flaw in the UIKit component to view characters in a secure text field [CVE-2017-7113].
A remote user can trigger a memory corruption error in the WebKit component to execute arbitrary code [CVE-2017-13783, CVE-2017-13784, CVE-2017-13785, CVE-2017-13788, CVE-2017-13791, CVE-2017-13792, CVE-2017-13793, CVE-2017-13794, CVE-2017-13795, CVE-2017-13796, CVE-2017-13798, CVE-2017-13802, CVE-2017-13803].
A remote user on the local network can cause the Wi-Fi component to reuse a nonce to potentially decrypt Wi-Fi connection data [CVE-2017-13080].
@qwertyoruiopz at KJC Research Intl. S.R.L., Hanul Choi (via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative), Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero, Mathy Vanhoef of the imec-DistriNet group at KU Leuven, Miguel Alvarado of iDeviceHelp INC, Ro of SavSec, YiAYit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit), an anonymous researcher, Duraiamuthan Harikrishnan of Tech Mahindra, Ricardo Sampayo of Bemo Ltd, chenqin of Ant-financial Light-Year Security, and xisigr of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab (tencent.com) reported these vulnerabilities.
A remote user can cause the target service to crash.
Solution: The vendor has issued a fix (11.1).


Think winter and the only thing that comes in mind is winter clothing and accessories that create your own style statement. Hats are such accessories that can cover your head properly and also worn as safeguarding you from the snowy winter. It equally liked by the people of all ages. Especially the younger generation love to wear fur hats as fashion accessories. They want to look trendy and also desire to have a perfect hairstyle when they wear such hats.
The diverse shapes and sizes of hats created of animal skin are popular in countries like Russia, Italy, Germany and several other nations since ages. But the present time's trapper hat was actually developed by Russians in the 20th century. As Ushanka indicates the ear in Russia and it usually made to protect your ears from the chilly cold weather. Such hats are basically made from skins of animals having fur. Usually, it is fox, rabbit, sheep and rabbit skins etc. The animal fur is an ideal source to stay warm during the winters. It is soft and meets all the expectations of the person wearing it.
For those men and women, desiring to be stylish in this winter, the Russian style fox fur hats offer the complete blend of comfort and style. These natural fur hats encompass fur on both the sides of ear and front flaps, with inner polyester lining.
Eastern Europeans may be known to some for being seen swathed head to toe in luxurious furs. In the cold northern world where the winter months are quite unbearable, the Russian fur hat from Amifur provides the one stop solution for them.
No attire looks complete in winter without matching it with fur items and clothing. It gives you a trendy, modish and elegant look. One can definitely wear such hats with all ranges of outfits whether it's formals, jackets, coats and others. The Russian fur hat is uniquely looking for those to go out in winter.
The Russian Fur hats from Amifur encompass several unique and comfy features. Their quality products are enough to stand them on the podium of offering world class products at cost effective prices.


LinkButton control is a control just like a Button control along with the flexibility to make it look like a Hyperlink.ImageButton control is used to post the form or fire an event either client side or server side. Its like a asp:Button control, the only difference is, you have the ability to place your own image as a button.Button control is used to post the form or fire an event either client side or server side. Button control is generally used to post the form or fire an event either client side or server side.


We have a Maltese routine now that we have been here for a while, the most important part is going for our morning coffee in Malta. I guess we are coffee addicted, but we are ok with this. Some mornings in Malta we also shop for the family, take the baby to the playground, others we go swimming off the rocks, (less in winter for sure). sometimes it is just a walk on the seashore with a takeaway coffee.
Malta is a crossroads, we have found food items from almost every corner of the world for sale here. Malta is so close to Italy. Close enough that the towns are littered with Sicilian cafes and baristas that love what they do!
Coffee in Malta is an art form. Yet it is still surprisingly difficult to get a really good one. I guess this really is the same everywhere.
We found the best coffee we could and the guys who run this gorgeous little hole-in-the-wall cafe are almost part of the family now!


The apartment is nicely situated near the center of Kaprun. Everything you need in the apartment er.De ski is also nearby. Winter is Lechnerberg (beginner slopes) within walking distance. less than 5 minutes. Do you want the bus to a different track than the walking distance is also about 5 minutes.


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Hoover Institution Workshops on Authoritarianism and Democratic Breakdown
PLEASE NOTE: In preparation for a significant construction and renovation project that will prepare the Hoover Institution for its second century of activities, the Library & Archives reading rooms will be closed to researchers from December 24, 2018, to the early months of 2020. During this period, our collections and our public services will be unavailable, but our collecting, exhibition program, and other activities will continue.
Please email bronweyn [at] stanford.edu with your fellowship inquiries.
Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba Papers, Box 4, Hoover Institution Archives.
William Russell Philp Collection, Box 1, Folder 5a, Hoover Institution Archives.
Hoover's summer and winter Workshops on Authoritarianism and Democratic Breakdown study the history and development of totalitarian states in order to understand why they came into being, how they work, and the sources of their durability. By bringing scholars together who study different regimes, the workshops promote the comparative study of modes of personal dictatorship, of institutions of coercion and repression, and of the economic and social consequences of totalitarian rule. The workshop's principal resources are the unique and fast-growing holdings of the Hoover Archives. Founded by Herbert Hoover, Hoover Institution Archives holds one of the world's largest and richest private collections of material on totalitarian regimes in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
About the 2018 Summer Workshop:
According to Freedom House, nearly half of the countries of the world are "unfree": that is, they are governed by totalitarian regimes of greater or lesser brutality. Today these regimes and their successors (including Putin's Russia, the countries of the Arab Spring, the Iranian theocracy, and communist rule in China) present major puzzles for Western policy.
Organized by Hoover research fellow Paul R. Gregory, the summer workshop began over a decade ago to study the Soviet Union, and has now expanded to include China, Taiwan, Iraq, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Baltic States; its intention is to encompass other totalitarian regimes, such as Vietnam and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Workshop participants have worked productively in a number of Hoover collections including the records of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, records of the Lithuanian section of the Soviet KGB , the Radio Free Europe–Radio Liberty collection, the Chiang Kai-Shek diaries, the records of the Chinese KMT Party, the archive of the Chief Administration of Labor Camps (GULAG) of the Soviet Union, and the Ba'ath Party papers from the Iraq Memory Foundation Collection.
Participants of the summer Hoover Institution Workshop on Authoritarianism and Democratic Breakdown include graduate and faculty-level researchers who carry out their scholarship year-round. The Hoover Institution and Stanford University are home to some of the world's top experts on totalitarian regimes. The workshop brings them together with prominent scholars from around the world for two weeks every summer to study using Hoover's unique archival holdings, present their work at daily lunchtime seminars, and exchange ideas informally over dinner.
Since its first meeting in 2003, the workshop has brought together more than a hundred scholars from a dozen countries, working on Russia/Soviet Union, China, and other totalitarian regimes. The workshop's output consists of many articles and books written by its participants, including scholarly monographs published or forthcoming in the Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War, books at the Hoover Press and other publishers, and articles in scholarly journals, including Policy Review, and the Hoover Digest.
During each session the workshop typically holds two public lectures. Past speakers, to full auditoriums, have included Anne Applebaum (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History), Stephen Kotkin (Princeton), Robert Service (Oxford), Amir Weiner (Stanford), and Paul Gregory (workshop organizer).
Applicants are encouraged to read about previous workshops (see right sidebar) to learn more about the research topics and approaches that are suited to the workshop.
All applicants are required to submit their applications online with the following:
Two-page CV
A proposal of between 1,000 and 1,500 words describing your research project, and suggestions about Hoover collections you would be interested to use
One letter of recommendation from a PhD supervisor or an established scholar familiar with your research
Application deadline: April 5, 2018 midnight ET
Applicants will receive notifications by May 8, 2018
Applications and recommendations must be submitted online in English
About the 2018 Winter Workshop: Applications for Winter 2018 Workshop Closed
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University are pleased to announce that applications for the 2018 winter Workshop on Authoritarianism and Democratic Breakdown will be accepted from October 10 to November 28, 2017. The 2018 winter workshop will be held at the Hoover Institution on Stanford's campus from January 21 to 31.
Democratic breakdown has not been as amply studied as democratization. How and why do democracies fail? What facilitates the onset of authoritarianism? What role, for example, is played by propaganda and information warfare, populist politics or economics, internal subversion of institutions, the nature of the international system? The workshop's goal is to provide researchers on these subjects time in the unique and fast-growing holdings of the Hoover Archives as well as a group forum for exchange of views.
The workshop is aimed at young scholars (advanced PhD students doing dissertation research and others no more than 10 years beyond the PhD), and open to applicants who work on and come from any world region. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists, or scholars in any field who would benefit from the Hoover collections and group exchange are welcome. All junior scholars have an opportunity to present their work. The workshop also includes foundational seminars led by senior scholars.
Transportation costs and lodging at Stanford are covered. The selected scholars will also be awarded a $500 honorarium.
Brief CV
A proposal of no more than 750 words describing your research project, including the names of Hoover collections you intend to use and why they are necessary for your project
One letter of recommendation sent separately
Application deadline: Closed
Applicants will receive notifications by November 23, 2017
Past Summer Workshops
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The Annual Telemark Festival will be held at Pebble Creek Ski Area on Sunday, March 10, 2019.
The Classic Terrain Race will be held at 1:00 pm. This race brings together the skills of telemarking and cross-country travel. The course is a combination of slalom gates and uphill gates.
After the race, join in the fun of tie-dying your event T-shirt in vats on the deck. A lively post-race party will follow, with an awards ceremony and draw prizes.
Race registration will be held in the Lodge from 10:30 to 12:30. Registration fee is $30. Fee includes a long sleeved T-shirt, race entry, and the post race party. Everyone is eligible for prize drawings, but you must be present to win. Entrants must have a valid lift ticket or season pass.
For those not wanting to race, the Festival is a time for telemark enthusiasts to get together and enjoy the slopes with fellow telemarkers.


Canon has announced its latest addition to the EF lens family, the 24mm F1.4 L II USM fast aperture wide angle prime. The new lens has undergone a complete redesign and now features 13 elements in 10 groups, including two high-precision glass-molded aspheric elements and two UD glass elements, plus a floating focus mechanism to maintain performance across the entire distance range. It also features Canon's brand-new 'Sub Wavelength structure Coating technology to minimize flare and ghosting, and is sealed against dust and inclement weather.


I don't want red mittens, I want white ones!
In this Clubhouse at the Playhouse favorite, a young child drops his mitten in the snow and does not realize it is missing. As woodland creatures seek warmth inside the mitten, it magically grows and grows!


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Lafayette's Reelfish is quite the catch
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Jeremy Papasso / Staff Photographer
The ambitious menu at Reelfish Fish & Chips includes grilled swordfish with fresh asparagus and mushrooms.
Reelfish's clam chowder comes sprinkled with paprika, as well as touch of salt.
Atlantic haddock is one of the many options for the fish and chips basket at Reelfish in Lafayette.
By Clay Fong |
March 26, 2015 at 9:29 a.m.
Reelfish Fish & Chips
Food: 3 stars
Service: 3 stars
Ambience: 3 stars
Price: $-$$
Address: 2770 Arapahoe Road, Lafayette
Contact: 720-630-8053 or eatreelfish.com
Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. daily
Noise level: Low to high moderate, depending on how many customers there are. And I'm not sure if a few rousing sea shanties such as Drunken Sailor would help or hurt tin this case.
Americans don't take their fish and chips nearly as seriously as the British do. After all, there's a Federation of Fish Friers in the UK. This distinguished organization's activities include developing apps to locate nearby chip shops and facilitating meetings between Prince Charles and the Young Fish Frier of the Year. In comparison, American fish and chips are typically a mediocre afterthought carelessly tacked on to menus at bars or chain restaurants.
Reelfish Fish & Chips, the newish fish and chip shop in Lafayette, follows the order-at-the-counter, fast-casual model, and it seeks to go against the tide of indifferent seafood. While the dining room is surprisingly large, meals arrive reasonably quickly at the pickup window. When the dining room is less crowded, servers bring food directly to the table. Regardless of customer volume, the staff uniformly conveys sincere friendliness.
Fish and chips are available as baskets, a full meal including a side and drink, as well as sharable family baskets. You're not stuck with generic white fish for your seafood, as there are several options. These range from Alaskan cod, typically the default for fish and chips, to oysters, shrimp and scallops, among others. Other choices include grilled fish, salads and such daily specials as wahoo tacos.
For small fry, in this case, children and not chips, there's a $4.95 kids menu. The family-friendly vibe is boosted by the availability of coloring sheets, crayons and books. But it's not all for children, as there also are opportunities for adults to sip a local brew, wine or hard cider with their meal.
Our group split a $6.95 New England clam chowder bowl. Sprinkled with paprika and accompanied by oyster crackers, this was an above-average interpretation, although it benefited from a dash of salt. Pure shellfish flavors and a consistency where the potatoes hadn't turned to mush made this creamy-but-not-too-heavy soup taste much more homespun than mass-produced.
A hefty pile of hand-cut, skin-on chips adorned each full meal basket. Deep gold in color and accented by chopped parsley, these were closer in size to American fries than their thicker British cousins. These fries possessed an earthier, more satisfying flavor than those without skin, but they also had a soft texture. As a crispy fry partisan, this wasn't my cup of tea, although these were like catnip to another dining companion.
Vegetable sides helped assuage our consciences as we devoured baskets piled high with fried food. A veggie medley spotlighting zucchini and squash was correctly cooked, for the most part, but it was diminished by underdone carrot. More successful were the greens accented by red onion, which were correctly seasoned and featured a tender, but not overcooked, consistency.
Chip shops live and die by their fish-frying skills. Reelfish does a first-rate job with a lip-smacking thin and crisp beer batter, and a gluten-free version is available. All the seafood arrived piping hot, although the batter's appealing delicacy screams for immediate consumption, as it likely wouldn't hold up as well with a to-go order.
Quantities of fish vary, and there was less seafood with a $17.45 fried oysters meal than with the more common basket of $12.95 Alaskan cod. This isn't a knock against Reelfish; it is an acknowledgment of the economic realities of sourcing sustainable, quality seafood. While the oysters weren't plump and oversized West Coast shellfish, they tasted as good as any you'll find in a landlocked state. Cod possessed a satisfyingly moist and flaky feel and stood head and shoulders above most other versions. Wild salmon, another $17.45 meal, possessed hefty body and a hearty clean taste that wouldn't be out of place at a more formal restaurant.
We ended with the least pretentious dessert ever, a $1.50 Rice Krispies treat. Surprisingly, this was also the best example of this bake-sale staple I've ever had. This sweet was shot through with decadent buttery flavor and an endearingly cake-like density.
All too often, fish and chips have been reduced to a shadow of what they could be. Reelfish's take is a pleasing reminder of how good this dish can be in the right hands. While some might see the prices here as a little high, the seafood's quality and a no-tipping policy are mitigating factors. Reelfish is a must-visit for those wanting something more from their fried seafood and is likely the sort of place that would warrant the Federation of Fish Friers approval.
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Q: How to link two cells in google spreadsheet and is it possible? In google spreadsheet How to link two cells?
For example,  If I click a1 it has to highlight the c1 cell
Is it possible?

A: It is actually possible.
It is similar to linking another spreadsheet using HYPERLINK().
Click on the cell you want to link from > Insert > Link (or cmd/ctrl + k) > "Select a range of cells to link" > Enter cell number > OK > Apply

This will link to a cell in the same sheet.
You can also link to a cell in a different sheet
Goto the cell you want to link to > right click > select "Get link to this cell" (this will copy the cell link to your clipboard) > Insert new link and hit paste > Apply

A: Answer
At this time, it's not possible. The alternatives are to use an add-on or to use Google Apps Script.
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package com.packtpub.rest.ch2.jackson;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonFactory;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonToken;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.packtpub.rest.ch2.model.Employee;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 * This class demonstrates use of both Jackson binding and steaming parser APIs
 *
 * @author Jobinesh
 */
public class JacksonJsonStreamingParserHybridExample {

    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(JacksonJsonStreamingParserHybridExample.class.getName());

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        logger.setLevel(Level.INFO);
        String jsonFileName = "/emp-array.json";
        JacksonJsonStreamingParserHybridExample jsonParserExample = new JacksonJsonStreamingParserHybridExample();
        List<Employee> employees = jsonParserExample.buildEmployeeList(jsonFileName);
        logger.log(Level.INFO, employees.toString());
    }

    /**
     * Reads JSON array of employees from input file using streaming APIs and
     * then builds List<Employee> using binding APIs
     *
     * @param jsonFileName
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public List<Employee> buildEmployeeList(String jsonFileName) throws IOException {

        List<Employee> employeeList = new ArrayList<Employee>();
        Employee employee = null;
        InputStream inpustStream = null;
        JsonParser jsonParser = null;
        try {
            //Finds a resource with a given name.
            inpustStream = getClass().getResourceAsStream(jsonFileName);
            //Creates Streamin parser
            jsonParser = new JsonFactory().createParser(inpustStream);
            ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
            //Continue the parsing till strem is opened or
            //when no more token is available
            while (!jsonParser.isClosed()) {
                JsonToken jsonToken = jsonParser.nextToken();
                // if its the last token then break the loop
                if (jsonToken == null) {
                    break;
                }
                //If this is start of the object, then create
                //Employee instnace and add it to the result list
                if (jsonToken.equals(JsonToken.START_OBJECT)) {
                    //Use the objectMapper to bind the current object
                    //to Employee object
                    employee = objectMapper.readValue(jsonParser, Employee.class);
                    employeeList.add(employee);

                }

            }
        } finally {
            if (inpustStream != null) {
                inpustStream.close();
            }
            if (jsonParser != null) {
                jsonParser.close();
            }
        }
        return employeeList;
    }

}

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White House: Trump interviewing 4 FBI candidates
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Especially since Trump has already settled on a rather "unorthodox" choice for the position, according to a new report by Politico.
At the time, Trump had entered the race for the White House on the Reform Party ticket, but eventually halted his campaign. Comey is expected to testify before the House Oversight Committee next Wednesday. Trump is scheduled to be out of the country for nine days.
Brown also shared what Politico called "a monologue on Lieberman's faults", ending with: "That's all on the record". Even the Senate agreed to adopt Lieberman as the director for his independent nature and best democrats. Joe Lieberman was among his top choices for the job. Tweeting on Friday afternoon, Sanders said that Lieberman failed to meet his bar because he would be "perceived as a political appointee".
Although top Senate Republicans, including Sen. "It's special", Trump said later Thursday at a joint news conference with Santos. John McCain, and did not seek re-election in 2012.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, who succeeded Lieberman to his CT seat, didn't specifically comment on his predecessor, but generally agreed with McCaskill.
The Department of Justice has since appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to head the Russian Federation investigation.
Keating said that he and his colleagues in the Democratic Party want the right person for the FBI Director job. "I worked with her closely in the Senate for eight years".
Lieberman may be respected to some degree.
That might be overstating the case, but surely this is a time to reassure the rank and file at the Federal Bureau of Investigation that their leader won't need any on-the-job training.
"Joe Lieberman has no real law enforcement credentials".
Of Trump's proposed wall along the US-Mexico border, Lieberman said he didn't believe Trump could get Mexico to pay for it "voluntarily under any means that I can see". Chris Murphy. "He's no pushover, as both parties know. But we need a law enforcement professional, not someone who's run for office before", said Sen. "I don't think there's going to be much excitement about that from our side of the aisle".
On Thursday, Trump touted Lieberman, a longtime Democratic senator from CT and Al Gore's vice presidential nominee during the 2000 presidential election, as his top choice.
European Union says Trump agrees that Brexit 'an incident, not a threat'
McMaster says 'not concerned' after Kushner back-channel reports


Graeme McMillan takes some exception to comments made this week by comic book icons Grant Morrison and Tim Burton.
Telltale & Mojang partner for standalone multi-platform game that will be "unique, story-driven interpretation" of the original.
Seth found the new Game of Thrones adventure game to be a unique experience amongst Telltale's wares. Find out why inside.
Play Doctor Who: Legacy this week for some special surprises from Titan Comics! Or just read this article. That too.
Dragon Age Inquisition is an excellent exploration of relationships and consequence - with some dragon-fighting on the side.
Sony goes directly to the fans for the PlayStation Experience - but what will they reveal?
Square-Enix and Disney's mash-up action RPG could add some pretty significant characters to the next iteration.
Take a look at the first two of three new trailers debuting in the course of the next two weeks for Batman: Arkham Knight.
Check out the first trailer for the new Game of Thrones adventure game from Telltale.
We love Shadow of Mordor and its awesome Nemesis System - so much that we want other franchises to steal it!


Abstract. By making a simple box to demonstrate the BRep data structure of the OpenCASCADE. The construction method is different from BRepPrimAPI_MakeBox. In the paper construct the box from vertex, edge to solid, while in BRepPrimAPI_MakeBox from solid, shell to vertex. From the construction, the BRep data structure in OpenCASCADE also can be called the Winged-Edge data structure.
// make vertex of the box.
// make edges of the box.
// set the vertex info of the edges.
// make wires of the box.
// make faces of the box.
// set bottom pcurve info of between the edge and surface.
# Tcl script to test the box BRep data.


How to dye faux leather?
In this post, I will show you exactly how you can dye faux leather items without damaging them, and even better, while giving them a "genuine" look.
Faux leather is a very resistant material, it can last you for years, if you know how to maintain it, without ever showing signs of tearing or stress, but sometimes the color can start fading and weakening, this is why dyeing faux leather can be very important and may even save you a lot of money instead of buying new faux leather items, convenient and also very cheap.
Use this amazing conditioner to prevent cracking and to also maintain your faux leather objects in great condition. Click HERE now!
However in dyeing faux leather, you are going to be faced with two issues, the first one is that faux leather is not real leather, this means that it's totally different in texture and in chemical composition, this also means that what will work for real leather will not necessarily work for faux leather!
Click here to get the best dye for your leather items.
When dyeing faux leather, you are faced with two issues, texture and which dyeing material to use for your fabric.
The second issue is that most faux leather does not absorb coloring chemicals very well!
This is a huge problem when dyeing faux leather because the color is not absorbed, this will mean one thing, the color is going to come off quickly!
This is true, when dyeing faux leather, you must be aware that the color is not going to be permanent and you are going to have , again, fading and weakening color issues later on.
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However, personally I find this to be totally normal because dyeing faux leather can simply mean giving it another chance to be used, instead of buying a new faux leather object again, even better, sometimes, some items may be rare and you may not be able to find them easily, so, there is no harm in trying to give them a second life, and let me tell you that dyeing a faux leather item is an excellent alternative to buying a new one which will only cost you money and use up space in your house.
The first step to dyeing faux leather is to clean the surface perfectly.
The process I'm going to describe to you here is very efficient and will help you dye faux leather quickly and easily, but for it to work, you need to clean the surface perfectly, you must understand that dirt and dusts are going to block the color from being adhered to the surface, which will make it come off very quickly.
A great way to clean faux leather surfaces is to use alcohol or a cleaning product.
Personally, I prefer using alcohol, it is not only very affordable, but it is also very efficient.
However don't think that applying scotch or whiskey is going to solve the problem, the alcohol I'm talking about is pure alcohol, the one you can only buy from drug stores.
However, you need to be very careful because sometimes, when you are dealing with weak faux leather fabric, applying too much alcohol is going to damage it, so, as a rule of thumb, start with as little as possible, only use a few drops, test your fabric first and see whether it's going to come out clean or not, if the fabric holds up and is intact, then, proceed with much more alcohol.
After cleaning your faux leather surface, the next step is to use upholstery paint.
This product is very versatile and can be used wonderfully to color and to dye faux leather objects, however it is a bit expensive, it can even cost more than fifty dollars sometimes, but for the majority of situations, you are only going to require a small spray, which usually costs around ten dollars.
This is all you need to know about dyeing faux leather, the next thing for you is to get the upholstery paint and start testing it on small areas, the hidden ones, for example the inside of a faux leather purse, this is the best way to guarantee that the upholstery paint is not going to wreck your faux leather objects.
Don't forget to use this faux leather conditioner once every 6 months, it will keep your faux leather objects like new: Click here!
Can the dye come off and stain other materials?
If it's applied well, as indicated in the post, and given enough time to dry, then the answer is no.
Hello Jean THanks for the info!
Could you please give me some names of the products That you like to use when dying faux leather. I'm very confuse about what kind of paint is the best.
Chalk paint, acrilic paint, vynil or….
My sofa is a soft brown and I want to paint it white.
Hello. I plan on changing the color of my faux leather sandals is there a specific sort of dye you recommend that way my sandal wont look cheaply painted.
I sincerely don't recommend it! Nevertheless, you can use a brand called Fiebing's.
How soon will the faux leather needed re-painting? I'm considering painting a purse.
Thank you for this valuable info.
When it starts losing its brightness and good looks, that's when you need to dye it, although I don't recommend it.
Thanks for your helpful tips, I too have 2 white faux rocking chairs and I had placed a pair or my black faux pants on top of the chair and has left black ink or penetratings on the chair, I tried cleaning it with water and soap and then with windex, even tried alcohol and the mr. clean sponges. It lighten it up a bit but it is still there. I will try your tips too. but if it doesn't work because so much time has gone by do you think If i dye the whole chair it will cover up those inked areas leaving it looking the same color every where. Also are there companies that come out to do this for you if so who? I'm in Mahopac New York? Any chance you can come over Jean-Marc 😉 ?
Hello Lisa, yes, I think it will be great, hehhe, sorry, I live in Toulouse, France. Try to look for leather repair shops nearby, they will help you with this a lot.
Would you recommend this for faux leather auto seat covers?
Of course, it works very well on any faux leather fabric.
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