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Screen Savor: By the book
Moviegoers seem to love movies about characters that appear to be one thing, but turn out to be another. Best Picture Oscar-winner "The Shape of Water" is a good example. So is "Green Book" (Universal), starring Academy Award-winning actor Mahershala Ali and Academy Award-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen.
Yet another of 2018's movies "inspired by a true story", "Green Book" tells the early 1960s story of the unlikely friendship between two people on opposite ends of the cultural spectrum.
Bronx born and bred Tony (Mortensen) is a crude and barely literate family man. The husband of Dolores (Linda Cardellini) and father of two sons, Tony works as a bouncer as the Copacabana nightclub. When the club closes for a couple months of renovations, he needs to find a way to bring home the bacon, and winning the occasional hot dog eating contest won't cut the mustard.
Tony doesn't have to wait long. He gets a job offer to be a driver for a doctor. When he arrives at Carnegie Hall for the interview, he's surprised that it's not a doctor's office. It is, as it turns out, the apartment of Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), an acclaimed pianist who is embarking on an eight-week concert tour, including several dates in the deep south. After some initial back and forth, Tony accepts the job.
This is where the "Green Book" of the title comes in to play. Essentially a handbook for "traveling while black" in the Jim Crow south, "The Negro Motorist Green Book" was a directory of dining and overnight accommodations where African-American travelers were welcome to stay. As Shirley's driver, there were occasions on which Tony and the doctor were not staying in the same place.
A new twist on a road movie, the pair becomes better acquainted as they travel from New York to Pittsburgh to Ohio, Iowa, Kentucky and then deeper into the south, including North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama. Along the way they learn a great deal about the other. Each, in his own way, attempts to get the other to expand his limited horizons. Shirley, for example, expresses his concern over Tony's diction, correcting him on several occasions, as well as his lack of finesse. When he discovers that Tony has been writing letters home to his wife and kids, Shirley offers his superior writing skills. Tony, on the other hand, who is unabashedly racist, is shocked to discover that Shirley has never eaten fried chicken. The opportunity to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken in Kentucky provides one of the more comical scenes in the movie.
But the movie is definitely more serious than humorous. Shirley's run-in with rednecks in Louisville is eye-opening for Tony who comes to his rescue. Shirley, who is gay at a time when it was even more dangerous to be a homosexual than it was to be black, gets into trouble with another man at a YMCA in Macon, Georgia. Tony, who is unfazed after years of working in nightclubs, bails him out of jail. One night in Mississippi, on the way to a gig in Alabama, the two are pulled over by cops in a "sundown town" (where blacks are expected to leave by sunset) and jailed, leading to the possibility of Shirley missing his gig in Birmingham. Released from jail after Shirley uses his lawyer phone call to ring U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, they face even greater discrimination upon their arrival in Birmingham. But, "Green Book" is a true-blue Christmas movie and the touching finale, which includes Tony being home in time to celebrate the holiday with the family as Dr. Shirley promised, is sure to warm your heart.
Ali's performance is so good that he may find himself with another Oscar nomination. Mortensen, however, is a little disappointing, especially after his Oscar-nominated turn in 2016's "Captain Fantastic". "Green Book" also marks a big step forward for director Peter Farrelly, best known for fare such as "There's Something About Mary" and "Dumb and Dumber".
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Ms. Azima went to Iran in January 2007 to care for her sick, elderly mother. Upon her arrival, her passport was confiscated, and she could not leave the country for almost eight months. She was subjected to interrogations and was told to stop writing about human rights and the social and political situation inside Iran. Ms. Azima was permitted to leave Iran in September, after posting the deed to her mother's house to cover the extremely high bail set by the court.
In a written statement, U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey called Ms. Azima's conviction "baseless." He also said that the Iranian government's action, which forces Ms. Azima to choose between returning to Iran to serve a prison term or forfeiting the deed to her mother's house in Tehran, is "a gross miscarriage of justice." Mr. Casey said that Ms. Azima's sentencing is part of the Iranian regime's continuing crackdown on independent media.


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Kentucky: Send your Christmas tree to sleep with the fishes
Louisville Public Media | By Justin Hicks
Published December 26, 2022 at 10:00 AM EST
Courtesy of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
A screenshot of a video showing Kentucky residents how to donate Christmas trees to become fish habitats.
Christmas has come and gone, but the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources wants your Christmas tree to create fish habitats.
From Dec. 26 until Jan. 15, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources will take real trees without any decorations at drop off sites around the state. Because the sites range from parking lots to public parks, the state says it's best to plan to drop trees off in daylight hours.
Based on previous years, they're expecting to get a little more than 5,000 trees. This year, the trees will then get submerged at various depths in 19 strategically picked lakes.
Kentucky fisheries biologist Jeff Crosby says the trees provide a great fish habitat for fish to spawn or hide from predators.
"It does give them an area to go and seek a little haven or a place to hide for a little bit and also to feed," he said.
The state classifies the trees as "fish attractors" along with objects like large rocks and wooden pallets that are sunk in lakes. The wildlife department provides GPS coordinates for every fish attractor for anglers to use as they become hotspots for bass, bluegill, and crappie.
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If I run the Function Module (of the WS) in SE37 or the WS in SE80 (Test Service definition) it returns a result (the correct result) but if a user calls the Web Service from system X, the result will differ.
In both scenarios the same parameters are used.
Is there a way to trace the user who calls the Web Service from system X ?
For example, every time a user calls the Web Service from system X, a system user from SAP runs the Function Module from the WS and I could trace that system user.

A: You can use SRT_UTIL or SRTUTIL t-code for Tracing Utilities for Web Service. You need to enable tracing by user.

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Exclusive Interview w/ Shazad Latif of Star Trek: Discovery at Paradise City Comic Con
Arlene Allen
Hello, my name is Arlene Allen, and I love all things nerd: genre tv and movies, books, loud rock and roll music, kittens, conventions, books, graphic novels and superheroes, RPG and tabletop games, and did I say books? Oh, yes. I spent 25 years as a librarian (nerd) mainly working with youth (creating nerds), a number of years as a teacher (more nerd indoctrination). I have my own spawn, leveled up to 22 and my partner in nerdiness. As a nerdy writer, I have found a home at Talk Nerdy With Us.
Shazad Latif is known for his recent work on the CBS All Access series, Star Trek: Discovery. However Shazad has been acting since 2009, when he left the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School to appear in the British TV series, MI-5. In addition to many British TV shows, Shazad appeared in the films The Second Best Marigold Hotel and The Man Who Knew Infinity. In 2016 he broke into American television playing Dr. Jekyll in Showtime's Penny Dreadful, followed shortly by an appearance on Still Star-Crossed as Tybalt Capulet. Currently, you can catch him on the big screen with Liam Neeson in The Commuter. Lucky for us, he graciously took time out of his busy convention schedule at Paradise City Comic Con in Miami, Florida to speak to Talk Nerdy With Us.
Of course we have to talk first about Star Trek Discovery! I understand it's already been picked up for Season Two.
It has, it has!
What's the experience been like working in a universe that has spanned decades, generations?
It's funny being part of a series you used to sit around and watch with your grandparents, or your uncles on the TV. I remember it being on after Fresh Prince [of Bel-Air] on BBC2 at 6:30, [Star Trek: The] Next Generation, which is what I grew up with. And then, when you're acting in it years later it almost doesn't make sense. It was an unbelievable experience. It was 10 months–it was way long–usually it's like six months in, normally a long job, but I had such an amazing part. I'm just hoping and…I wish the fans feel something. I hope I make them feel something for the character I'm playing.
https://youtu.be/xsZuvOBHwLg
How do you feel about it being on a streaming service, not on network TV?
The only place I remember it being on regular TV is in Canada. For some reason they've got it on a normal channel. I suppose it's just the way it's going. I don't know why that is or what it is. It would be nice to have it back on terrestrial, like back at home, the same way, but this way you can do more, you can take it deeper and darker, which this series has done.
Yes! Very much so! But it's supposed to lead up to Kirk and Spock, from that era, transitioning from a more military-based perspective to the Prime Directive.
It's the interim. Yes, ten years does still give you a whole lot to do, I mean…we can explore loads. Even within each episode. You can go off on a different theme, or take three episodes to explore it. The writers have done a great job of getting so much in with all of these different characters, even going behind the scenes emotionally, as well as with different strands of story. I think it's great.
Say a few words about your character.
My character, Ash Tyler, has suffered a lot of trauma, and it's nice to see, it's nice to play. I think when you see him in the first few episodes he's a classic sort of action hero, but the whole point is we end up seeing this guy who is very weak, very vulnerable. He suffers a lot, and you see those moments with Michael Burnham–Sonequa's character. She's usually the strong one on the scene, she's usually cradling him or hugging him. I think it's nice to have a male character in this day and age, with all the stuff that's going on, to see someone weak and vulnerable and still be a man. And that's what I wanted to portray.
Let's talk a bit about Penny Dreadful.
Okay, that was one of my favorite jobs. It was a big stepping stone for me, it was the first sort of big American show I did. John Logan, who wrote Any Given Sunday, he's one of my heroes. Also, because I write as well, I was already a huge fan. I was already a huge fan of a lot of the people behind the scenes. And, then again, getting to play Dr. Jekyll, the third most ever played character ever, but with a fresh new take, a very different spin. But actually, historically, in terms of having brown people at that time [represented] correct and that's what I wanted to see in a historical drama. It was very emotional for me, it was a lot of two-handers with Harry Treadaway, who played Frankenstein, and as an actor just having sort of the one set, and the sort of back and forth, back and forth, was like a dream come true. A great job. A very dark job. Six months, but Dublin was great though. But you have to go places and it's you know…yeah.
Harry Treadaway as Dr. Victor Frankenstein and Shazad Latif as Dr. Jekyll in Penny Dreadful (season 3, episode 2). – Photo: Jonathan Hession/SHOWTIME – Photo ID: PennyDreadful_302_0399
The writing on that show–as a writer, it was like, cancel my writing career now, I will never write like that–it was so good.
I know, I know. He's a very special man [referring to Logan]. He's always thinking, always working. He gets very deep, yes. And I've been watching his films my whole life and to end up working with him is… I remember auditioning for him, and leaving the room thinking– because you never know if you're going to get it–Well, I thought, this might be the last time I see him. And I'd said before I wasn't going to say anything, but I left the room with John and I was like, "John, I just want to say your work, I write as well, you're an amazing writer." I turned into a fan for a moment, it was very sweet.
It's really nice when we hear that actors are also fans. And that actually speaks volumes, because you're in the business. You're a professional complimenting other professionals.
Well that's it. When I grew up–I'm a big movie buff from an early age, and then I fell in love with theater when I was young–that's what I dreamed to do. And I'm imitating everyone up until now, when hopefully I know who I am so I can stop that. And you get to a point when you're an artist, you become yourself, you know who you are. But before the age of 17, I was imitating all of my favorite actors and trying to be in the movies.
Do you have a favorite movie?
(laughs)
…Or a list of favorite movies?
I've got a list, I've got a huge list! I could go on! I love Five Easy Pieces with Jack Nicholson. I do love that movie and I think it's a very absurd, beautiful, elaborate study of, you know, of a lot. And it's got table tennis! I love movies with ball games, I love table tennis! If it's in the movie, I love that. I love bowling, if it's got bowling and table tennis… And I love playing them.
Do you have any other projects going on?
Well I just came from the premiere of The Commuter, which is an action movie–
You're in The Commuter (which opens this weekend)?
Yes, I play a Wall Street arsehole, basically. And it's with Liam Neeson. We just had the premiere for that. And then I'm doing another indie movie [Profile], coming out at the Berlin Film Festival, and it's a true story about a journalist, a young female journalist, who goes undercover and is trying to understand why Syrian terrorists are creeping on girls online. It's all filmed on Skype. The director is the guy [Timur Bekmambetov] who did Wanted with James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman. So it's an indie movie, it's told on Skype. It's very innovative. It's going to be difficult to watch, quite tough to watch, but it's definitely going to be interesting.
You can stream Star Trek: Discovery on CBS All Access. New Episodes air Sundays @ 8:30pm ET/5:30 pm PT. And be sure to follow Shazad on Twitter & Instagram.


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New York City Cracks Down on CBD Edibles, Saying the Cannabis Derivative Is Unsafe
For months, the top-selling item at Fat Cat Kitchen was a cookie packed with chocolate chunks, dusted with salt flakes and infused with the stylish cannabis derivative cannabidiol, or CBD. But as of last week, customers won't find the cookie on the Manhattan restaurant and bakery's menu.
On Friday, a health inspector sealed up the restaurant's supply of CBD-infused baked goods in a plastic bag and told Fat Cat Kitchen to stop selling them as part of a citywide embargo on food products containing CBD. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene confirmed on Tuesday that it was ordering restaurants under its jurisdiction not to sell food products containing CBD. In a statement, the health department said that New York City eateries were not "permitted to add anything to food or drink that is not approved as safe to eat." That included CBD, which had not been "deemed safe as a food additive," the department said. The crackdown was first reported by Eater.
CBD is a chemical compound in the cannabis plant that is closely related to tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main component in marijuana. Unlike THC, however, CBD is not psychoactive — that is, it will not get consumers high. In the last few years, CBD has become increasingly popular. It has been hailed as a kind of wonder-drug; a remedy for anxiety, pain, acne, inflammation and insomnia, among other ailments.
With its supposed benefits mounting (despite a relative dearth of strong scientific studies to back all of them up), CBD became an increasingly popular additive in consumer products. It showed up in topical oils, skin creams, and food and drink.
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Whether the compound is legal has been a source of confusion. In June, the federal Food and Drug Administration approved the first CBD prescription drug to be sold in the United States. But the Drug Enforcement Administration has said CBD is illegal because it comes from cannabis, a banned Schedule 1 drug. And on its website, the F.D.A. says products with CBD cannot be sold as dietary supplements or in food that crosses state lines.
New York City is not alone in addressing the use of CBD in food. In Maine, one of 10 U.S. states that has legalized marijuana for recreational use, state health officials recently ordered businesses to remove CBD-infused edibles from stores, The Portland Press Herald reported.


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Big Blue bets big on little Linux
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By Richard Morochove
LAS VEGAS – Why is the world's largest computer company so involved with an upstart operating system created by a university student?
At last week's Solutions 2000 conference for software developers, I was astonished to see the emphasis giant IBM placed on coming out with solutions that are Linux-compatible. If you look at market share statistics for personal computers, Linux is used by a tiny percentage of PCs, even less than the Mac.
Has Big Blue taken leave of its collective business senses? Didn't IBM learn a costly lesson from the billions of dollars it poured down the drain to support the OS/2 operating system? If OS/2 couldn't beat the juggernaut known as Microsoft's Windows, why bet big on little Linux?
IBM's gamble isn't as risky as most bets placed in Las Vegas, if you buy into the company's pervasive computing strategy.
According to Irving Wladawsky-Berger, VP Technology & Strategy, IBM believes we're still in the infancy of the Internet. Today's information highway experience is like a drive along a dirt road in the country, where you're dodging sheep and cows.
Within five years, he sees one million businesses, a billion people and one trillion devices on the Net. Most of these trillion online devices will not be PCs. They'll be handheld computers, like those from Palm Computing, Web-enabled cellular telephones and specialty computing appliances we haven't yet seen.
Wladawsky-Berger says Linux is doing for software applications what the Internet did for networks. To take advantage of the great boom IBM expects in software for Linux, IBM has Linux-enabled almost all of its products, ranging from powerful supercomputers down to a wristwatch.
IBM's Linux watch, announced a few weeks ago, is the smallest device that runs Linux at this time. The watch is just 56mm wide by 48mm long by 12.25mm thick and weighs just 44 grams. It comes with a touch-sensitive display, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, 8MB of flash memory and 8MB of DRAM memory.
The Linux watch is designed to communicate with PCs and cellphones using two wireless methods, infrared and radio frequency.
Of course, you don't need all this just to tell the time. You'll use the smart watch to view condensed e-mail and receive pager-like messages. It also has organizer capabilities such as a calendar, address book and to-do list. Planned future enhancements include access to Internet services for the latest information, such as stock quotes, news, sports scores, traffic conditions and the weather.
Wladawsky-Berger says it won't be unusual to see people talking to their watches on the street, to process their e-mail.
The Linux watch isn't quite ready for prime time. The battery life is short and your wrist would get rather warm. The watch is designed to show how the efficient operating system requires so little code to do its work, it can be easily embedded in low-power computing devices. IBM sees this as a forerunner of pervasive wearable tech, such as smart identification badges. 'Only the deepest sinners know how to repent. We all need Linux.'
John Prial, IBM's Director of Marketing & Strategy, Pervasive Computing, sees most of these new devices communicating wirelessly with other computers at your home, business and across the Internet.
There won't be any one device that does everything well, the digital equivalent of a Swiss Army knife. Rather, we'll use a number of inexpensive computer devices for different purposes.
You'll make a call using a smart cellphone to a businessperson in Japan. Both of you would speak in your native language, while the phone performs speech translation on the fly so you can understand each other.
A bank will give you a wireless handheld banking computer that allows you to access your funds at any time from any place. And, not co-incidentally, it's hoped that the ease of use of the integrated electronic financial services will bind you to the institution and make it less likely that you'll switch your business to another bank.
Your car computer will plot the most efficient route to the concert you wish to see. If traffic jams are so bad that the computer predicts you'll be very late and miss most of the concert, it will place your tickets up for sale on the eBay auction site. Then it will use its stored memory of your preferences to arrange other suitable entertainment for the evening.
Do you really want a computer making these types of decisions for you? Prial concedes that to obtain the greatest leverage from your personal information, you'll need to share your trust with a software application. If the stored profile closely matches personal preferences, then he expects busy people will welcome an electronic assistant to help organize their lives.
For many years, Big Blue practiced account control, using proprietary hardware and software to keep businesses buying only IBM products to ensure compatibility. How is it that IBM, of all companies, would so warmly embrace Linux and Open Source, where any qualified programmer can develop an application that works with standard devices?
"Only the deepest sinners know how to repent," explains John Patrick, IBM's VP of Internet Technology. "We all need Linux."
Richard Morochove, F.C.A., is a Toronto-based computer consultant. A portion of his travel costs were paid for by IBM Canada . You may e-mail comments to [email][email protected][/email].


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As well as my museum volunteering I also volunteer on the access user group at the Globe Theatre. We don't get to the theatre that often but as a family we have benefitted greatly from their relaxed family performances.
I am always interested in visiting and writing about the very best in accessible theatre because it has the power to become truly transformative for many marginalised groups. I think there is much to be shared cross culturally, museums can also take much from the latest technological advances and vice versa.
In 2017 I visited and wrote about the Almeida and their under 25 festival, in particular their audio-described performance of Hamlet for blind and visually impaired audiences which included a touch tour of the stage and props before the show.
You may have noticed theatres promoting audio described, British Sign Language, captioned and relaxed performances. But often there may only be one or two of these special performances for each show run. Last week I got to try out some new tech at the National Theatre in London which I believe will revolutionise how audiences with hearing impairment access the theatre.
Smart Caption Glasses allow users to see a transcript of the dialogue and descriptions of the sound from a performance displayed on the lenses of the glasses. Launched in October 2018 the glasses are a culmination of 4 years of work and testing by the National Theatre (NT) technical team and speech and language experts led by Professor Andrew Lambourne. The glasses were developed with support from Accenture and they are designed and manufactured by Epson.
The technology is custom built using voice following software to track where the show is in the script which is transmitted using Wi-Fi to the glasses. It means they can be used at any performance in any of the NT's three theatres, in any seats and they are free to use.
With 11 million currently living with hearing loss in the UK, which works out at 1 in 6 people, the need is obviously apparent.1 Predictions are that by 2035 there will be 15.6 million with hearing loss which is 1 in 5 people in the UK. I have elderly relations who struggle with their hearing and what you quickly realise is how isolating it can be. Finding it hard to follow conversations, dropping out of the moment. You can easily see how the thought of spending money to see a show you can barely hear would be a waste of money.
The NT recommend you turn up around 30 minutes before the performance so you can pick up your glasses and adjust the settings. I am going to see the musical Hadestown which tells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice where Orpheus journeys to the underworld to rescue his fiancée Eurydice. It is set in the Great Depression with a jazz, blues, folk feel.
The glasses are adjustable for a comfy fit.
The glasses are easily adjustable and since I already wear glasses they can sit on top. I am often wary of wearing glasses over glasses, having not enjoyed a 3D cinematic experience, but these sit over my glasses fine. I try them without my glasses on and actually think it works better over my glasses as it supports them.
You can customise the text using the control unit.
NT staff explain how the control unit works, it sits on a lanyard around my neck. You only need to use the bottom half of the unit, it works like a computer track pad where you move your finger along the surface to move the cursor on the lens and tap to click and select.
This is not a great photo and doesn't represent the clarity – I was just trying to give an idea of how they work.
I was impressed as there are lots of adjustments you can do to make the experience right for you. The friendly NT staff member helping me suggested 3 lines of rolling text will probably work best as it is a musical, but you can also select a single line of text. The menu offers lots of choice: you can change the colour, size, brightness and, perhaps most crucially, position of the text on the screen. I experiment moving it around to see where it suits me best. You can change these settings at any time and since the menu is on your lenses you are not having to use any external screen or interrupt anyone by fiddling with an ipad. There are no lights on the control unit so you can make changes without bothering anyone around you.
You do obviously notice you are wearing glasses but unsurprisingly once the performance starts you begin to forget they are there. The technology is so clever, perfectly in time with the songs and singing. It doesn't run ahead or behind of the flow. Through the whole two hours and 30 minute performance I think there were only 2 tiny glitches where two lines overlay each other but it is such a small moment it doesn't spoil the experience.
Information about the performance is also displayed.
If I was going to be critical the glasses are a touch on the heavy side which didn't bother me until the very end of the performance. I think it is difficult though as I was actively thinking about them a lot in order to review them. If I had any other negative comments it is that the menu disappears quite quickly so if you are not great with understanding how a trackpad works you may struggle with that element of the tech, but I would imagine this is a setting that can be changed.
The technology is really amazing to keep up with the flow of the musical. I also love the extra information that indicates the different styles of music when jazz, folk or blues rhythms are woven into the narrative. It even tells you how long you have for the interval.
To be honest I don't think they will work for everyone, but in reality that is not the point. For the NT it is about a layered, considered, well thought out approach. The Smart Caption Glasses are about choice and the freedom to experience theatre how you want to experience it. The NT will still be running captioned performances but these glasses open up the opportunities to visit. You are not restricted to one or two performances. Traditional Captioned performances display the text above or to the side of the stage. With these glasses you look directly at the action and decide for yourself where you want the text to appear.
Currently they will probably be too expensive for many theatres, but you really feel this is the birth of technology that will no doubt get cheaper and lighter as times goes on. The NT are looking ahead to work on some of their other live experiences including director talks and workshops.
This is life changing technology for those with hearing loss. It is hard to explain when there are barriers to theatre and live performance how important the work of the NT is.
There was not a free seat in the theatre and the audience was enthralled in a beautiful performance by the Hadestown cast. The glasses are so deceptively clever if you think about how they are able to keep up with the speech and singing. I have to applaud the hours and hours of work and research that has gone into them.
Don't forget the hire of the glasses is free, bookable via the website when you have bought your tickets. There is a YouTube instruction video (see below) and I highly recommend giving them a go, you have absolutely nothing to lose from trying them out.
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Competitions & awards
Euromaglia received the 303 Tuscans Ethical Fashion award
Euromaglia S.r.l. is an Italian company specialized in refined textiles created thanks to performing processes and to the workmanship of highly-qualified professionals. The quality of Euromaglia products is granted by a strict production control from the raw materials up to finished textiles. Spring/Summer 2016 collections make use of sustainable materials such as wool, organic and recycled cotton, milk fibres, recycled polyester and regenerated wool.
Re.Verso for a circular economy
Today, style, quality and a respect for the environment are no longer dissociable. For Re.VerSo™, all three of these fundamental qualities are essential to produce high-end and innovative textiles that meet all the criteria of the fashion industry.
Menswear fabrics
Lanificio Comero Flexo collection
Woolen mill Comero Biella Italy is specialises in the production of classic fabrics for menswear as well as womenswear. High end products, easily renewed from collection to collection with fine fibres and high performance stretch fabrics which maintain the appeal of timeless Italian style. Comero collections are entirely produced in our Gattinara mill situated between the plains of Novara and Vercelli, closely linked to the Biella area. These wool and fabric manufacturing areas boast centuries of tradition and are the place where the passion in their family business has matured artisan experience, research and technological innovation in order to transform the finest fibres into fabrics that speak of the style and quality of the "made in Italy" brand.
Lanificio Luigi Colombo - ethical production of fabrics Made in Italy awarded by "303 Tuscans"
Lanificio Luigi Colombo is the world's top producer of cashmere and high quality fibres. Knowledge of raw materials, high technology and experience in traditional craftsmanship are the distinctive elements of a philosophy built on values that create culture and culture that creates quality.
Ermenegildo Zegna wool mill received "303 TUSCANS" award for ethical fashion
The importance of selecting the best natural fibres directly from the markets of origin, has been the cornerstone of Zegna's pre-eminence in the luxury fabric market. A positive and fair relationship with the communities, regions and countries was essential for the success and for the constant improvement of fibres.
ANGELICO Spring-Summer 2019 Collection - Natural summer performance
This will be a season of movement, starting with the delightfully undulating structures and finishes that bestow performance on the summery elegance chosen by Angelico to dress active days. Brightness and innovation accompany the collections of traditional fabrics and K1, the creative range that includes jersey.
Loro Piana remains focused on its most iconic heritage fabrics: ZELANDER®, naturally resistant for dynamic lifestyles past and present
Following the new corporate textile campaign for the fabric Tasmanian® launched last July, Loro Piana continues to focus its energies on the excellence and exceptional, timeless performance of its most iconic fabrics. At the Milano Unica fair, for the SpringSummer 2019 collection, the spotlight will be on Zelander®, a family of fabrics made of New Zealand merino wool, characterised by their extraordinary resilience, as well as their lustre, elasticity and exquisitely warm, soft feel. These properties are all highlighted by studies carried out on the fabric's outstanding performance, and by the refined, unique spinning and weaving techniques used by Loro Piana that guarantee the wearer will enjoy pure wool garments providing the utmost comfort and a perfect fit. This applies particularly to the Natural Stretch version: its rippling capacity means the wool has a natural "internal memory", allowing the fibre to "remember" and return to its original shape, even after movements, wringing or crushing.
The Milan Debut of the Vitale Barberis Canonico Supersonic Man
The Vitale Barberis Canonico wool mill, one of the oldest in the world with more than 350 years' history and with the thirteenth generation of the same family at the helm, presents the new Spring/Summer 2019 collection at the Milano Unica XXVI edition. For this collection, the designers were inspired by the colours, the surroundings, and the graphics of NOMADISM: from the desert Tuaregs, to the Mongolian populations of the tundra, to the Maasai of the African uplands, a nomad by his very nature is constantly on the move. The animate and inanimate things all around him must be suited to his predisposition to travel. Most of all, his clothing.
Excellence in textiles, a full-on experience at Milano Unica Spring/Summer 2019
The path through the pavilions of Milano Unica leads visitors on a journey through all the product categories typifying excellence in materials, tradition and creativity, Italian and European.
Lanificio Luigi Ricceri - the highest craftsmanship quality
Since 1925, Lanificio Luigi Ricceri has been located in Prato, in Via Bologna. Founded by Luigi Ricceri and carried on by his son Georgio, the company is now run by the founder's grandsons Francesco and Luigi.
Menswear exports outside the EU-28 accounted for 23% of total clothing exports last two years
The report provides an in-depth analysis of the EU Textile & Clothing external trade for 2015-2016. It includes trade trends by sector (i.e. fibres, yarns, fabrics, carpets, technical textiles, home textiles, home textiles, workwear, men & womenswear), by products and by EU main trading partners.
Italian suit linings by Brunello S.p.A
The development of Brunello fabrics involves a huge variety of yarns: silk, cupro, viscose, acetate, cotton, wool, elastan, nylon, polyester and new fibres, some of which are spun specifically for us. Over and above classic compact cloths and dobbies, creative fantasy versions range from traditional jacquard to piazzato fabrics, free patterns, checks, pin-stripes, conventional and ink jet prints and cloth or yarn dyed. This is combined with our accurate finishing techniques and allows Brunello the prestigious Marks & Spencer accreditation, which has been met for many years. This mix of innovation and creativity ensures that Brunello fabrics are original and unique.
Re.Verso ™ by Filpucci – The excellence of being increasingly smart
For the most important national fashion and lifestyle event, the company from Tuscany - world leader in the manufacturing of high-end creative yarns for knitwear with unique products – has once again renewed its inexhaustible research vocation, which has always been its hallmark. On June 28th, at Sala Riunioni Area Monumentale (1st floor), Filpucci is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the press conference: "Fifty years of Filpucci - History tells the future", with talks by Raffaello Napoleone, Managing Director of Pitti Immagine, Leandro Gualtieri, Filpucci President and founder, and Federico Gualtieri, Filpucci Vice President.
ABC of the men's suit
Shirt Styles, Collars And Cuffs by Oliver Spencer
Oliver Spencer believes the way a man chooses to dress is changing, particularly in the work place. At the centre of this transition is the shirt, a wardrobe linchpin, it's a garment equally synonymous with dressing down as smartening up these days. By combining this shift with the the Oliver Spencer customer - a creative, free thinking and confident man, Oli set out to create their current offering of shirts, each with a distinctive collar style.
Première Vision Paris: 1,898 exhibitors at the heart of international fashion creation
Strategic developments, structural changes, a reorganised offer... next 13-15 September, Première Vision Paris will seek to further promote and coordinate the complementary offer of its 6 shows within one homogenous, coherent and efficient event. This reflects a continuity with prior editions, which saw synergies and transversality strengthened between the show's many activity sectors and know-hows.
Miroglio Textile at Première Vision: Fashion, heritage and sustainability
Constant investment to deliver an increasingly ecologically sustainable printing method and a project dedicated to the importance of our heritage. These are the two objectives for Miroglio Textile in 2016.
Menswear collections
Neo-army inspiration and natural materials by Ermanno Scervino Spring/Summer 2016
The Ermanno Scervino Man for Spring Summer 2016 abandons himself in a glamorous dégagée dimension.
Sewing industry
Miroglio Textile - the European leader in the printed fabrics sector
February, 10-12 Miroglio Textile, textile division of the Miroglio Group, was present at Première Vision Paris with a renewed identity and with 4 collections that concretely demonstrate the distinctive elements of the company: innovation, creativity and smart technology at the service of the fashion industry.
Rabaneda for Spring/Summer 2015
A complex personality, which seems simple to the eyes of a stranger, hiding her beauty and containing her biggest wishes. While observing the others passing by, clearly marked by the ending spring season, she feels how her feelings and passions start swirling within her, trying not to explode.
Do you know what is virgin wool
Virgin wool has two definitions. First, it is the wool taken from a lamb's first shearing. This is the softest and finest wool produced. Second, virgin wool can refer to wool that has never been used, processed, or woven before. This type of virgin wool can come from an adult sheep.
H&M is NO.1 user of certified organic cotton worldwide
H&M is a wonderful example of a company making meaningful change in the textile industry. With its constantly increasing demand for organic cotton, H&M sends an important signal to producers and at the same time makes more sustainable fashion accessible and desirable to a broad target group." says LaRhea Pepper, Managing Director at Textile Exchange.


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The calm after the storm in Inchydoney
By Rose Martin
Rose Martin is refreshed after a weekend in the five-star Inchydoney Island Hotel and Spa, eating home-made breakfast, walking on the beach and dining to sea views.
THE Irish wedding season is in full swing and it took a West Cork hand-fasting to bring me to Inchydoney after many years. Amazingly, I'd never been there before — knowing the Clonakilty area like the back of my hand, I had been on automatic pilot: I had established favourite destinations and most of those were inherited.
You parent as you were parented, so the seaside meant the Long Strand and Warren Strand — my father's Austin A40 Countryman never fancied the curved and congested road to the strand at Inchdoney. And when my own children were in their crab-fishing days, I trod the same old, rutted route.
So, out of the blue, I went to the Inchydoney Island Hotel and Spa — and I'm so glad I did. Now, writing this on the Monday after my Sunday return, the sense of place remains and I feel calm and rested.
Usually, I turn down offers of weekends away — I know, weird, huh? But when you work at full pelt all week, you don't want to pack up and go, find a sitter for the dogs, dodge the housework, garden and washing, and all the other stuff that gets in the way of letting go.
This time, I had no choice. The wedding was a royal command performance —close family friends and the chance to meet up with three generations in one go (it went swimmingly, by the way).
But, after the dress, the ceremony, the food, the wine, the dancing — the winding way back to Inchydoney was the cherry on top of a great day out.
It was quiet and calm as the road wended southwards and the hotel was a beacon of light at journey's end. Weary and worn out, I climbed into a huge bed to the sound of the soft susurration of the sea immediately below.
Check-in had been a brief flight upstairs and down again, so I didn't get a chance to absorb the environment until the following morning — which, amazingly, broke to bright sunshine, a stiff breeze and a hearty breakfast.
Down corridors lined with a quirky choice of art work, you get the sense you're in someone's home — — yes, it's a big enough hotel, but the style is so autobiographical, you feel cosy — welcomed.
And there's the west Cork accent of the staff, the friendliness that even just an hour up the road fades with time and turnover. There, the pace is slower, guests stay longer, people engage — and it shows.
I don't know what the star rating for the Inchydoney is — I know it's probably five-star — but it's not like a five-star of a large metropolis — or, heaven forfend, a flunky-filled, Gulf State gaff, but here the right stuff is high quality and all the rest is relaxed.
So, no silver service nonsense in the dining room, but a superb kitchen that makes its own marmalade, jams, pastries and bread. No huge buffet breakfast, but real quality fruit, overnight oats, and an artisan (I know, but here it means something) fry-up with fresh fish and pancakes and scrambled egg cooked to order. Tea is served in a decent pot and here's where I'd quibble — why, when there's so much of a palaver about estate coffee and quality, do we not get good quality, loose tea? Tea bags are the instant coffee of the tisane world and if there are shrines to proper tea in Paris, why in heaven's name aren't we making a song and dance of it at home?
The morning was spent in walking with dear friends and having coffee in the outside terrace of the bar, which, while windy, was a safe refuge from the squalling waves of children inside — it was that familiar May/ June collision of wedding and Communion season. God help us.
I should devote a whole article to the quality of the sea, sand, beach, tide, water, dunes, atmosphere — but I don't have time and, instead, those of you who haven't been to Inchydoney beach in a while should go again. It is sublime — with a quality of white sand and blue water that I last saw in the Indian Ocean.
Take a long walk behind the hotel, into the dunes, and lose everyone — it's not trying or trekking, just gentle, beachside walking, which, with a fresh breeze, dulled the heat of the sun — so wear sunscreen — we didn't and burned.
In the late afternoon, we took wonderful treatments in the spa, which ironed out the wrinkles of the long week before. Scrubbed, glowing and full of well-being, we joined all the other rejuvenated patrons in sunny, indoor relaxing rooms, where we dozed under glass in much the same way as a tomato plant in a greenhouse.
Magazines abounded and there was a free juice, fruit and tea bar, where you could help yourself all day, if you wished. (Same as the residents' lounge, which offered pastries and sundries throughout the day and had the craziest collection of books you're likely to see outside of a second-hand bookstore.)
That evening, spruced up and shining, we dined in the Gulf Stream restaurant — and late enough, as the room was booked up fairly fast.
A table by the window allowed us watch the sun set over the wide expanse of sea, and, despite the classic number of courses on offer, we took just two. And just as well: starters were delicious scallops with classic black pudding accompaniment and slow-roast pork belly, with trimmings.
Main courses of steak and monkfish came with incredible, oxtail fondant potatoes and pommes puree, respectively, and the vegetables were fresh and local, including wild garlic, served simply wilted. An outstanding meal.
We had spent that whole day, and the following morning, in Inchydoney and still didn't cover everything. We didn't get the surf lessons — or the midnight kayaking — or any other of the list of things on offer through the hotel. But that's for hyperactive types — instead, we got the blessing of calm and rest —which, in this busy world, is enough. n Check out www.inchydoneyisland.com for special offers and for holiday bookings.
* Tomorrow, Inchydoney hosts the only island point-to-point racing in Ireland, when the Carbery Foxhounds event takes place on Beamish's farm, just over the hill from the Lodge and Spa.
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Important Current Affairs Quiz 29th March
The Cabinet has approved the MoU between ________ and South Asian Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) for cooperation on Oil and Chemical Pollution in the South Asian Seas Region.
Answer: The Cabinet has approved the MoU between India and South Asian Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) for cooperation on Oil and Chemical Pollution in the South Asian Seas Region. It will promote cooperation between India and other maritime nation for protection of the marine environment. Indian coast guard will be the competent authority for implementation of "Oil spill contingency plan"
The Cabinet has approved an Integrated Scheme on School Education by combining Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and Teacher Education from 1st April 2018 to ________.
Answer: The Cabinet has approved an Integrated Scheme on School Education by combining Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and Teacher Education from 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2020.The aim is to support the States in universalizing access to school education from pre-nursery to XII across India.The main emphasis of the scheme is to improve the quality of school education.
Read the following statements:-
1. RBI tightened the derivative markets framework to curb speculations and prevent small investors from entering the high-risk space.
2. It also accepted the majority of the recommendations made by the Uday Kotak Committee on corporate governance.
3. It introduced a concept of 'product suitability' under which investors will have to show income or knowledge proof to deal in the derivatives segment.
Which of the above statement/statements is/are correct?
Answer: SEBI tightened the derivative markets framework to curb speculations and prevent small investors from entering the high-risk space. It also accepted the majority of the recommendations made by the Uday Kotak Committee on corporate governance. It introduced a concept of 'product suitability' under which investors will have to show income or knowledge proof to deal in the derivatives segment.
Scientists have discovered a hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet-"K2-229b"- orbiting a dwarf star located how many light-years away?
Answer: Scientists have discovered a hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet-"K2-229b"- orbiting a dwarf star located 339 light-years away. The planet is almost 20% larger than Earth but has a mass which is over two-and-a-half times greater. K2-229b is also the innermost planet in a system of at least three planets, though all three orbit much closer to their star than Mercury.
Ministry of Women and Child Development held ________ National Conclave on Psychological Trauma, Child Protection and Mental Illnesses.
Answer: Ministry of Women and Child Development held First National Conclave on Psychological Trauma, Child Protection and Mental Illnesses. The aim was to provide analysis of research, service provision and clinical practice in addressing psychological trauma in Indian children and adolescents. It provided a common platform for all stakeholders (Clinicians, Government and NGOs)working in this area.
1. China pledged to continue data sharing of Brahmaputra and Kaveri waters.
2. The decision was taken during the 12th meeting of the India-China Expert Level Mechanism (ELM) on Trans-border Rivers. The two-day meeting began on March 28 in Hangzhou.
3. The data on water flows in both rivers is shared during the monsoons, to predict flooding, mainly in the northeast.
Answer: China pledged to continue data sharing of Brahmaputra and Sutlej waters. The decision was taken during the 11th meeting of the India-China Expert Level Mechanism (ELM) on Trans-border Rivers. The two-day meeting began on March 26 in Hangzhou. The data on water flows in both rivers is shared during the monsoons, to predict flooding, mainly in the northeast.
The Sri Lankan government has decided to postpone International Workers' Day events from May 1 to ________ this year.
Answer: The Sri Lankan government has decided to postpone International Workers' Day events from May 1 to May 7 this year. This has been done to avoid an overlap with the Buddhist festival of Vesak. May 1 is significant internationally and commemorates the crucial gains made by working-class struggles.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) which aims to find alien worlds with capacity to harbour life is scheduled to launch on ________ aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Answer: NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) which aims to find alien worlds with capacity to harbour life is scheduled to launch on April 16 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The spacecraft will be looking for a phenomenon known as a transit, where a planet passes in front of its star. TESS will discover a number of planets whose atmospheric compositions.
The US state of New Jersey has declared which month as 'Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month' as part of its effort to promote awareness of the faith?
Answer: The US state of New Jersey has declared April as 'Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month' as part of its effort to promote awareness of the faith. The resolution was adopted unanimously by both the New Jersey House of Representative and the Senate. the move would promote public awareness of the Sikh faith, recognizing important contributions of the Sikh community to US.
RBI has imposed a penalty of Rs. 58.9 crore on which bank for failure to adhere to held-to-maturity (HTM) guidelines?
Answer: RBI has imposed a penalty of Rs. 58.9 crore on ICICI Bank for failure to adhere to held-to-maturity (HTM) guidelines. This is the highest penalty imposed by RBI on a bank for a single incident.Under RBI guidelines banks have to split their holding of government securities into `held-to-maturity' (HTM) and available for `available-for-sale' category.
1. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the continuation of the Credit Guarantee Fund for Education Loans Scheme and continuation and modification of Central Sector Interest Subsidy Scheme.
2. The scheme will cover loans for pursuing professional and technical courses to promote quality education.
3. It will provide education loans to twenty lakh students during this period.
Answer: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the continuation of the Credit Guarantee Fund for Education Loans Scheme and continuation and modification of Central Sector Interest Subsidy Scheme. The scheme will cover loans for pursuing professional and technical courses to promote quality education. It will provide education loans to ten lakh students during this period.
1. EPFO has launched the pensioner's portal through which all EPFO pensioners may get the details of pension-related information.
2. The pensioner's portal is a service where details like pension payment order number, payment order details, passbook information and other related information are available.
3. It provides help to pensioners to know the status of their life certificate.
Answer: EPFO has launched the pensioner's portal through which all EPFO pensioners may get the details of pension-related information. The pensioner's portal is a service where details like pension payment order number, payment order details, passbook information and other related information are available. It provides help to pensioners to know the status of their life certificate.
Which state government has come up with a mobile application to market rare chicken breed — the "Kadaknath"?
Answer: The Madhya Pradesh government has come up with a mobile application to market rare chicken breed — the "Kadaknath". The "MP Kadaknath" mobile app aims to connect poultries that sale the breed with people from other parts of the country. Kadaknath breed is known for its taste and nutritional value, especially high percentage of protein.
NASA has delayed the launch of its much awaited, $________ James Webb Space Telescope — set to be the world's biggest space observatory.
Answer: NASA has delayed the launch of its much awaited, $8 billion James Webb Space Telescope — set to be the world's biggest space observatory — until at least May 2020. The James Webb Space Telescope will be complementing the scientific discoveries of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other science missions. The observatory will solve mysteries of our solar system, according to NASA.
Who has been elected as the new president of Myanmar?
Tin Oo
Win Tin
Win Myint
Htin Kyaw
Answer: Myanmar's parliament has elected Win Myint as the country's next President. Win Myint has been a speaker in the lower house since 2012. Myanmar's President is elected by a joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament from among the country's three Vice- Presidents, representing respectively the Lower House, the Upper House and the military.
Who has been appointed as the new Director of DGHS in the Health Ministry?
Dr Sunaina Khanna
Dr Promila Gupta
Dr Suman Khetre
Dr Prajakta Singh
Dr Sneha Singh
Answer: Dr Promila Gupta will take over as the Director of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in the Health Ministry from April 2. She will succeed Dr B D Athani, currently in charge of the DGHS office. Dr Promila Gupta is now currently the Additional Director of Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Among the following, who has signed an agreement with IFR Information Dissemination Services Ltd to set up two towers about three times the height of the Qutab Minar in the country for publicizing Indian Standard Time?
NBCC (India) Limited
Answer: Two towers, about three times the height of the Qutab Minar, will be erected in the country for publicizing Indian Standard Time. The National Physical Laboratory has signed an agreement with IFR Information Dissemination Services Ltd., will set up the towers. It will use long wave radio technology to offer this time to a range of users, from phone companies to railway stations.
Who has been appointed the chairman of the central panel of the 65th National Film Awards?
Answer: Veteran director Shekhar Kapur has been appointed the chairman of the central panel of the 65th National Film Awards. The central panel comprises a chairperson and 10 other members, including five regional chairpersons who head the respective regional panels. The 11-member committee reportedly includes lyricist Mehboob, actress Gautami Tadimalla and director Rahul Rawail.
NITI Aayog has come up with a mechanism under which 'aspirational districts' will be ranked on ________ indicators based on various data points.
Answer: The NITI Aayog has launched the baseline ranking for 115 aspirational districts. The baseline ranking stands on 49 indicators across five sectors that include health and nutrition, education, agriculture and water resources, financial inclusion and skill development, and basic infrastructure. The ranking was released by Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog.
1. A central task force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has suggested creating a National Artificial Intelligence Mission (N-AIM) will serve as a nodal agency for coordinating AI related activities in the country.
2. The task force was set up by the Union Commerce Ministry in September 2017.
3. The task force members include those from government and the private sector.
Answer: A central task force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has suggested creating a National Artificial Intelligence Mission (N-AIM) will serve as a nodal agency for coordinating AI related activities in the country. The task force was set up by the Union Commerce Ministry in August 2017. The task force members include those from government and the private sector.
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Q: Magento 2 - add rule block above grid filter I have created a product grid and want to add a Rule block above grid content.
After so much research I found that function getMassactionBlockHtml() can be used to call Rule block.
But the function getMassactionBlockHtml() is not getting called in my case.
Below is my grid class with getMassactionBlockHtml() function
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namespace Company\Module\Block\Adminhtml\Listproduct;

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    public function __construct(
        //\Magento\Backend\Block\Template\Context $context,
         \Company\Module\Block\Adminhtml\Magento\Context\Template $context,
        \Magento\Backend\Helper\Data $backendHelper,
        \Magento\Store\Model\WebsiteFactory $websiteFactory,
        \Company\Module\Model\ResourceModel\Listproduct\Collection $collectionFactory,
        \Magento\Catalog\Model\ProductFactory $productFactory,
        \Magento\Framework\Module\Manager $moduleManager,
        \Magento\Catalog\Model\Product\Type $type,
        array $data = []
    ) {

        $this->_collectionFactory = $collectionFactory;
        $this->_websiteFactory = $websiteFactory;
        $this->moduleManager = $moduleManager;
        $this->productFactory = $productFactory;
        parent::__construct($context, $backendHelper, $data);
    }

    /**
     * @return void
     */
    public function _construct()
    {
        parent::_construct();

        $this->setId('productGrid');
        $this->setDefaultSort('id');
        $this->setDefaultDir('ASC');
        $this->setSaveParametersInSession(true);
        $this->setUseAjax(false);

    }

    /**
     * @return Store
     */
    protected function _getStore()
    {
        $storeId = (int)$this->getRequest()->getParam('store', 0);
        return $this->_storeManager->getStore($storeId);
    }

    /**
     * @return $this
     */
    protected function _prepareCollection()
    {

        parent::_prepareCollection();

        try{

            $collection = $this->productFactory->create()->getCollection()
                ->addAttributeToSelect('sku')
                ->addAttributeToSelect('name')
                ->addAttributeToSelect('type_id');

            $collection->joinTable(
                array('cisi' => 'cataloginventory_stock_item'),
                'product_id=entity_id',
                array(
                    'qty' => 'qty',
                    'is_in_stock' => 'is_in_stock'
                ),
                '{{table}}.stock_id=1',
                'left'
            );

            // ---------------------------------------
            $collection->getSelect()->distinct();
            // ---------------------------------------

            // Set filter store
            // ---------------------------------------
            $store = $this->_getStore();

            if ($store->getId()) {
                $collection->joinAttribute(
                    'price', 'catalog_product/price', 'entity_id', NULL, 'left', $store->getId()
                );
                $collection->joinAttribute(
                    'status', 'catalog_product/status', 'entity_id', NULL, 'inner',$store->getId()
                );
                $collection->joinAttribute(
                    'visibility', 'catalog_product/visibility', 'entity_id', NULL, 'inner',$store->getId()
                );
                $collection->joinAttribute(
                    'thumbnail', 'catalog_product/thumbnail', 'entity_id', NULL, 'left',$store->getId()
                );
            } else {
                $collection->addAttributeToSelect('price');
                $collection->addAttributeToSelect('status');
                $collection->addAttributeToSelect('visibility');
                $collection->addAttributeToSelect('thumbnail');
            }

            //echo $collection->getSelect()->__toString();

            $this->setCollection($collection);

            $this->getCollection()->addWebsiteNamesToResult();

            return $this;
        }
        catch(Exception $e)
        {
            echo $e->getMessage();die;
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param \Magento\Backend\Block\Widget\Grid\Column $column
     * @return $this
     */
    protected function _addColumnFilterToCollection($column)
    {
        if ($this->getCollection()) {
            if ($column->getId() == 'websites') {
                $this->getCollection()->joinField(
                    'websites',
                    'catalog_product_website',
                    'website_id',
                    'product_id=entity_id',
                    null,
                    'left'
                );
            }
        }
        return parent::_addColumnFilterToCollection($column);
    }

    /**
     * @return $this
     * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.ExcessiveMethodLength)
     */
    protected function _prepareColumns()
    {
        $this->addColumn(
            'entity_id',
            [
                'header' => __('entity_id'),
                'type' => 'number',
                'index' => 'entity_id',
                'header_css_class' => 'col-id',
                'column_css_class' => 'col-id'
            ]
        );
        $this->addColumn(
            'sku',
            [
                'header' => __('sku'),
                'index' => 'sku',
                'class' => 'sku'
            ]
        );

        $this->addColumn(
            'name',
            [
                'header' => __('name'),
                'index' => 'name',
                'class' => 'name'
            ]
        );

        $block = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('grid.bottom.links');
        if ($block) {
            $this->setChild('grid.bottom.links', $block);
        }

        return parent::_prepareColumns();
    }

    protected function _prepareMassaction()
    {
        $this->setMassactionIdField('entity_id');

        return parent::_prepareMassaction();
    }

    protected function getProductTypes()
    {
        $magentoProductTypes = $this->type->getOptionArray();
        $knownTypes = $this->getHelper('Magento\Product')->getOriginKnownTypes();

        foreach ($magentoProductTypes as $type => $magentoProductTypeLabel) {
            if (in_array($type, $knownTypes)) {
                continue;
            }

            unset($magentoProductTypes[$type]);
        }

        return $magentoProductTypes;
    }

    public function getMainButtonsHtml()
    {
        $html = parent::getMainButtonsHtml();
        $addButton = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('Magento\Backend\Block\Widget\Button')
            ->setData(array(
            'label'     => 'Show Advanced Filter',
            'onclick'   => 'ProductGridObj.advancedFilterToggle()',
            'class'   => 'task'
        ))->toHtml();
        return $addButton.$html;
    }

    protected function _toHtml()
    {
        $html = '';
        //$html = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('mymoudule/adminhtml_myblock')->toHtml() . '<br />';
        $html .= parent::_toHtml();

        return $html;
    }

    public function getMassactionBlockHtml()
    {

        /*if (!$this->useAdvancedFilter) {
            return $this->hideMassactionColumn ? '' :  parent::getMassactionBlockHtml();
        }*/

        $advancedFilterBlock = $this->createBlock('Listing\Product\Rule');
        $advancedFilterBlock->setShowHideProductsOption($this->showAdvancedFilterProductsOption);
        $advancedFilterBlock->setGridJsObjectName($this->getJsObjectName());

        return $advancedFilterBlock->toHtml() . (($this->hideMassactionColumn)
            ? '' :  parent::getMassactionBlockHtml());
    }

}

This is screenshot
I want to show the rule block after click on "Show Advanced Filter"


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The Proclamation of Połaniec (also known as the Połaniec Manifesto; ), issued on 7 May 1794 by Tadeusz Kościuszko near the town of Połaniec, was one of the most notable events of Poland's Kościuszko Uprising, and the most famous legal act of the Uprising. It partially abolished serfdom in Poland, granting substantial civil liberties to all the peasants. The motives behind the Połaniec Proclamation were twofold: first, Kosciuszko, a liberal and reformer, believed that serfdom was an unfair system and should be ended; second, the uprising was in desperate need of recruits, and freeing the peasants would prompt many to enlist.

The proclamation provided the peasants with the personal freedom, right for assistance from the state against the abuses of the Polish nobility (szlachta) and gave them specific property rights to the land they cultivated. Although this new law never fully came into being and was boycotted by much of the szlachta, it also attracted many peasants to the ranks of the revolutionists, resulting in the formation of the famous kosynierzy peasant infantry, the most famous of whom, Bartosz Głowacki, became one of the heroes of the Uprising. It was the first time in Polish history when the peasants were officially regarded as part of the nation, the word being previously equal to szlachta.

This was the second legal act issued by the reformed Polish state (the first being the Constitution of May 3, considered the second oldest constitution in the world, and was the expansion of the 4th act of that constitution. It was also the last legal act of the Commonwealth, and just like the constitution that made it possible, it had a short lifespan and negligible impact on most of Commonwealth citizens. In many places where revolutionary forces could not enforce it, the local szlachta simply ignored the proclamation. However the news of the proclamation spread among the peasantry and was kept alive by the revolutionary and patriotic minded Poles. Over the next several decades, after the partitions of Poland ended the existence of Poland as a separate state, it became one of the symbols of Polish history.

The proclamation specifically granted to peasants:
 limited personal freedom
 reduction of serfdom during the current crisis and promise of further reduction after the end of hostilities
 freeing from serfdom of all peasants conscripted to the military
 the right not to be removed from their land
 limited right to appeal to the state's courts
 introduction of the dozorca office, the first government official representing the peasant will to the government. Dozorca represented about 1000 families, and he was supposed to enforce the proclamation

See also
 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a similar act

References

Further reading
 James S. Pula, Thaddeus Kosciuszko: The Purest Son of Liberty, Hippocrene Books, 1998,  - contains the translation of the proclamation

Quote
Announce to the people that, according to law, they are under the protection of the nation's government; that the person subject to any lord, is liberated.

Kościuszko Uprising
Legal history of Poland
National human rights instruments
Serfdom
1794 in law
1794 in Poland
Proclamations
1794 documents
Polish Enlightenment

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Size of a Direct Mail Advertising Space may come in small, medium or large; depending on the size of your envelope. The size needs to be just right to make your direct mail advertising stand-out among the pile of letters in the mail box.
The equipment room is utilized for keeping electrical equipment in a building. Although their designs vary, some features and specs are mandatory. Get familiar with the size of an equipment room and what elements must be present in it.
Professional office furniture dimensions vary depending on the actual furniture that you have in mind. Conference tables can measure 94.5 inches in length, 41.75 inches wide, 29.25 inches high. File drawers on the other hand can measure 15.75 inches wide, 19 inches deep and 28.5 inches high.
McDonald's is one of the topnotch and popular restaurants in the world. To know how big McDonald's is, it is important to look at the number of employees working for the company.
Standard office door size is approximately 3 feet wide by 7 feet tall. This size is enough to fit two persons through the doors and is also just right to allow persons with disabilities to pass through comfortably.
IKEA is one of the leading retailers of home and office furniture in the world. To know the size of the company, it is important to have idea about the total number of people employed in the firm as well as the number of stores that it operates.
Durations of Radio Advertising Slot come in several options, usually anywhere between ten-second fillers to sixty-second spots. The cost of your radio spot is determined by the duration and the specific time that you want your radio ad to be played.
Brochure sizes come in three basic options: Letter, Legal and Tabloid. Letter size is about 8.5 inches wide by 11 inches long, Legal size is approximately 8.5 inches wide by 14 inches long and Tabloid size is around 11 inches in width by 17 inches in length.
How much does a gold bar weigh? Well, it depends largely on how big or small the gold bar is and what kind of unit measurement is being used.
Although the reporting styles differ, newspaper sizes are standardized. Familiarize yourself with the various newspaper sizes and the different formats. Develop insights into newspaper designs and the ways colored pages are positioned.


Note : This post is just for laugh. No I am not a racist ok?
What's the difference between a Chinese hair saloon than an Indian or Malay(house) saloons? The following is a comparison.
Basically very much the same for their location. One to many in housing areas and shops but you see more Indian barber shops more. Hey it's a job of skill ok? So be proud.
Auntie : Got gf/bf or not?
You : No la. Want study first.
Malay - Dah siap.(Done) and you end up scratching your head because some kutu accompanied you for a week till you get Shieldtox to spray your head.
Ps. Anyone who can find a shop with barber like Don't mess with Zohan for guys let me know ya. The barber must be a model type of girl. I sense my ears are going to be twisted till they fall off soon. It's not for me lol. It's for my hamsap friends.
hello.. me first time coming to yr blog, got yr name via calvin... no regrets.. hehe.. gonna register your name in my blog.. will come often if not daily..
welcome Andy. I am glad you enjoy my posts. Hahaha. I do try to update daily if possible but at times I am just too tired to do so.
I wonder who is that ham sap friend. Can post his photo ar?
Walau. Need anot? Later my puppy kena kidnap and my house set on fire how? I go your kl house stay and kidnap your baby dog isit?
chinese saloon still ok la.
nowdays is young leng lui do the cutting 1 right?
wont have some rubbish conversation.
Isley you mean those "Wei shen sheng, yau jian tou fa ma? Bao ni shuang de" from China type? Maybe you haven't get those auntie before. Hahaha.
=.= unlike most girls...I kinda have phobia going to salon... why? cuz when I was five, my dad brought me to a chinese salon and the barber accidentally snipped my ear and it bled. My telinga din putus, but enough to scare me to death...til now =.= so, unless it's completely necessary to cut my hair,I wun go to salon. My mom still cuts my hair for me and now my husband takes over to trim my hair. LOL. Really save money.
Din putus ok lo. Take care la. You should start going out for salon again. They can't be there always to get your hair done for you one lo.
u wanna wash big head or small head?
Myhorng - lol. You ah... Speechless. I guess you wash both right? See got experience is always different one... hahahaha.


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How to enable tablet mode on Windows 10
Here are all the different ways you can enable Tablet mode on your Windows 10 PC or tablet.
On Windows 10, Microsoft introduces a long list of feature, including tablet mode, which is part of the continuum experience. Tablet mode lets Windows move seamlessly from a traditional windowed environment to a full screen environment to make easier to navigate Windows 10 using touch.
In other words, when using the tablet mode the desktop fades away and everything goes into full screen, apps will launch and stay completely expanded, you'll see a new Start menu that covers the entire screen much like the Start screen in Windows 8.1.
Continuum is a feature that works automatically on 2-in-1 devices, such as Surface Pro 6 and Surface Go, but you can easily enable the feature if you're more comfortable using that mode.
In this guide, you'll learn the different ways to enable or disable tablet mode on Windows 10.
How to enable Windows 10's tablet mode using Action Center
How to enable Windows 10's tablet mode using Settings
The easiest way to enable tablet mode is by accessing the new Action Center (Windows key + A) and clicking tablet mode from the quick action tiles.
Tablet mode button in Action Center
There is an alternative way to enable Continuum and it's by using the settings app:
Click on Tablet mode.
Use the "When I sign in" drop-down, and select the Use tablet mode option.
Tablet mode in Settings
Sign out and sign back in to Windows 10.
Certain devices, such as Surface and other tablets have the ability to switch to tablet mode automatically when a keyboard isn't connected. However, the automated option may not be for everyone, as such you can also configure Windows 10 to switch automatically or ask before switching.
Finally, on the tablet mode settings app, you can also enable or disable whether you like to see or hide the app icons on the taskbar while in tablet mode.
Update October 9, 2018: This guide was originally published in January 2015, and it's been updated to reflect the new changes.
How to watch Google's Pixel 3 event on October 9
Microsoft Project xCloud service streams Xbox games to PCs, phones, consoles
Difficulty level: BeginnerHow-ToWindowsWindows 10Windows 10 Help


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Norfolk teenage football sensation signs for Manchester City
PUBLISHED: 14:54 10 June 2018 | UPDATED: 17:36 10 June 2018
Lauren Hemp's parents, Julie and Kevin, and her sister Amy, in Lauren's bedroom looking through the family photo album. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
Copyright: Archant 2018
As young girls Amy and Lauren Hemp loved a casual game of football in their back garden in North Walsham.
Lauren Hemp aims to make her mark at Manchester City Picture: Tom Flathers/Manchester City
Amy, now 20, blazed the trail with her younger sister, 17, tagging along to training to keep her company.
Amy quit after twice suffering cruciate ligament damage, but Lauren, who used to play for Norwich City Ladies, made stunning progress and has just signed for Manchester City Women's FC.
Julie Hemp, the girls' mother, said her dream had been for both to play football for England. That dream has been put on hold by Amy's injuries.
But her younger daughter is already an England youth international, and the reigning PFA young-female-player-of-the-year has joined one of the biggest clubs in Europe after a breakthrough campaign at Bristol City.
Former North Walsham High School pupil Lauren Hemp has signed for Manchester City Women. Picture: Tom Flathers/Manchester City
Lauren said to play for Man City was a "dream come true".
"I'd like to improve my overall game. I'd also like to become more mature as a player," she said.
"I'm willing to put the hard work in and try my best every single day to become a better player and reach my potential. I'm hard-working, driven and passionate."
The 17-year-old started her career in North Walsham and her parents Kevin and Julie, neither of whom was particularly talented at sport, and sister Amy are incredibly proud of her.
Mr Hemp, 49, said: "I've no doubt that she will play for the England senior team someday, and she will be a world-class player in the future."
His wife, 47, added: "We are so proud of our daughters. Lauren for getting in the England youth team and Amy for what she has done at uni, studying to become a PE teacher. Neither Kevin nor I went to uni."
Lauren captained the England Under-17s at the Euros in 2017 and she is currently part of the England U19 set-up.
The women's World Cup is in August and she's hoping to make the 23-woman squad for France.
Both girls were born at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and grew up in North Walsham.
Both went to Millfield Primary and then North Walsham High School.
Mr Hemp, an after sales service manager for an agricultural firm, said both girls played with boys' teams, and at the Centre of Excellence at Norwich City, before it closed down. Girls were allowed to play with boys up until 13.
Lauren followed her sister's career trajectory and then joined Bristol in the WSL, Women's Super League, shortly after her 16th birthday.
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
North Walsham High School


OK, so I'm not a cosplayer but I didn't know where else to turn and I knew you awesome people would have the answer! My husband is a HUGE Star Trek TOS fan and I'm planning a ST party for his birthday in June. I want to dress as an Orion slave girl, and of course paint myself green. But here's the problem. His party is in the middle of the week, and I will have to go to work the next day at a professional job. So I can't go into my job green!:confused: I need something that is going to be completely washable, but will stay on while at the party (maybe a few hours) without wearing off or cracking, etc.
Have a look around the [URL="http://www.cosplay.com/forumdisplay.php?f=82"]Makeup subforum[/URL], this is their bread and butter.
Short answer: this depends on how careful you're willing to be. There are lots of different kinds of theatrical body makeup, but the easiest to apply and remove is water-based blends like Kryolan's Aquacolor (there are others, that's just the first one I can remember). However, even with a sealing spray which you should definitely apply, it's susceptible to some degree of rubbing off and anything wet that touches it will make it smear. At a party that's tricky.
Oil-based body makeup needs setting powder. It won't smear as easily, but it's more likely to leave a faint tint on your skin and in your pores when you scrub up afterward.
Aaaaaand then there's the option of avoiding the biggest hassles of body makeup by wearing a green body stocking instead and saving the makeup for your hands, face, and neck. Having had some experience with large-scale body makeup, I'd definitely recommend that option. But it's up to you!


The wait is over for those who have been patiently waiting to use Spotify on their Xbox One console. The app has been launched in North America today, with Europe and other regions expected to follow very soon. As the biggest platform for streaming music, with more than 140 million users worldwide, Spotify allows free users and paid subscribers to play a huge catalogue of music on their console, including full soundtracks of videogames.
Aaron Greenberg, the Head of Xbox Games Marketing was the first one to share the news on Twitter. The Spotify Music app on Xbox offers functions such as play music in the background while playing a game, explore playlists, played our saved songs, search for any artist, album, or song, and use Spotify Connect to control the app remotely from our smartphone.
The arrival of Spotify to Xbox One was heavily rumored after some screenshots appeared online that suggested that the app was being tested internally by Microsoft. The platform has been available for PS4 and PS3 since 2015, with Spotify actually managing the renewed PlayStation Music app.
To find Spotify in your Xbox One, search for it in the Entertainment menu of the console, under All apps. For more information, visit the official website of the platform.


Did Cowboys send out smoke screen on Florida State's Jalen Ramsey?
If the Cowboys were attempting to send a smoke screen when it was reported they received an unflattering review on Florida State defensive back Jalen Ramsey, apparently it's not working.
According to reports out of San Diego, the Chargers are poised to take Ramsey with the third overall pick, one spot ahead of Dallas.
NFL Network's Jeff Chadiha is live at #Chargers HQ and said he thinks San Diego is going to go with Jalen Ramsey at 3.
Last week, a report on DallasCowboys.com that the Cowboys were calling around on Ramsey and thought they were going to receive a good report but instead. … "it wasn't glowing." The report said the criticisms were about Ramsey's ability to play cornerback.
Ramsey played safety, corner and nickel back during his three years at Florida State. If taken third he likely would be the first non-quarterback selected. The Rams and Eagles traded into the first two picks and are expected to draft quarterbacks.
If San Diego picks Ramsey, the Cowboys may then take Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliott.
Sports Illustrated has the 6-1, 209-pound Ramsey as the No. 1 player in the draft.


Hello Gentlemen, this is Master Jeff.
I'm not sure why only one of you thought to contact me directly (and thank you for contacting me so I could defend myself). I am not hiding behind anonymity. My website is on the video. My address is on the website, as are my hours of operation (see "schedule" link). I invite any and/or all of you to visit. Bring an Air Soft pistol you don't mind being destroyed. I actually HAVE done all the moves on the videos using Air Soft pistols. I'm betting none of you has. Anyway, they're only good for one or two disarms, so you might want to bring several. I have a camera here and it will be running, but you may also bring your own. Regardless of what happens, I think we'll all have some interesting footage to study and publish on our websites. If you can debunk any of the claims I make, I'll reimburse you for your air travel. If not, then you pay your own. Either way, we'll all learn something. Also, in the spirit of honest, objective combat training, I'll also agree to serve dinner to everyone who participates. I'll also put you up in my own house, where concealed carry is definitely allowed. We can debate combat tactics while we grill out or something.


Sterling Silver St. Christopher Medal 1-3/4" on a 24" Stainless Steel Chain 1655SS. This is a large oval medal, tin cut around the edge and at various points on the figure for brightness. A beautiful detailed engraved image of St. Christopher with the child Jesus on his shoulders.
Christopher is the patron saint of several more things than just travel, though some have an obvious link to the Golden Legend mentioned above and to water. He is patron of mariners, floods, sailors, surfers, boatman, and against hailstorms and against lightning. Relating to carrying the Christ child, St. Christopher is the patron of people who lift and carry, porters, transportation and transportation workers.


Special note: Media be advised, it is our understanding that a pool camera has been pre-arranged to attend this event. A PIO is not scheduled to be at this event. We trust all media will be respectful of the families' wishes and privacy, as well as the arrangement made to have the pool camera in the memorial service.
Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. – Memorial service to honor the missing from the West Salt Creek Mudslide. The service will be held at the Plateau Valley School gymnasium. Family and friends will honor and remember the life of these men and support their families.


GenSix Productions presents an exclusive interview: Giants, Little People & Subterranean Secrets with Steve Quayle & Klaus Dona. Steve Quayle and Klaus Dona discuss lost cities, giant mummies, little people, giants suspended in stasis, underwater pyramids, underground tunnel systems connected to pyramids, ufos, archaeological "out of place artifacts" (known as "ooparts") and much, much more.
The little people that is talked about in the vid . is ,at least to me, identical the that from greers little alien getting analyzed , remember!
A good video over all.


Hanging in there in the Cabanyal.
Moleskine Memories – I have been constantly travelling since 1996. An ever present companion has been my Moleskine notebook beautifully made and sturdy. I don't write a diary as such – just catch thoughts and ideas and moments when I can. In some sense they form the raw material for my songs and other writing. I have got over 20 of these now which I have bequeathed to my daughter Lucy-Jane when I go. This entry is for a few years ago when I was working in Valencia with my good friend Marie and the writer Jason Webster.
Jason knows Valencia intimately . Until recently he lived here writing his fantastically insightful and resonant books on Spain such as Sacred Sierra, Andalus, and Guerra as well as the first novels of his 'Max Camara' detective series which are set in this city.
His love for Spain and Valencia in particular is deep and passionate but it is not so idealised that he is afraid to be critical. He is enraged by the corruption and vanity of many its politicians.
Now living with his family in Bridport in south-west England, he seemed delighted to be back working here with us taking a chance to renew and reconcile his relationship with the place. One of things in Valencia he is most agitated about is the deliberate ruination, so it can be bulldozed for some ego project, of the Cabanyal - a district of once pretty fisherman's terraces that run along the edge of the coast. The local mayor, anxious to push some new grandiose scheme has encouraged itinerant families to move in deliberately turning a blind eye to the drug dens being established in houses they have made derelict. Some of the locals under this pressure moved out others defiantly hung in there including quixotically the Danish consulate!
The houses that remain are lovely, sunburned pinks, ochre and apricots with little terraces with iron balustrades. Even the graffiti looks vibrant and comfortably at home. But patches of broken ground mark where the tide of change has bitten into the community. At night this is not the place to go. Nowadays the Cabanyal is a place caught between the sea and the dreams of concrete vomiting madman. A place where empty buildings that once housed the great sweating bulls that pulled the fishing boats back up the beach and into exile on land, remain as testimony to the ebbing of character and community.