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The results of the Open 4 Business Awards were announced recently at a dinner and ceremony in Weymouth.
Despite a very large number of entries, the award for the best West Dorset Small Business went to Catwards Draughting Ltd www.catwards.com, run by Cathy Warne and based at the Granby Industrial Estate. This was a particularly outstanding achievement as Catwards also won the award last year.


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Q: Determining whether the series: $\sum _{n=2}^{\infty }\:\frac{\cos\left(n\right)}{n^3-n}$ converges I was tasked with determining whether the following series converge:
$$\displaystyle\sum _{n=2}^{\infty }\:\frac{\cos\left(n\right)}{n^3-n}$$
$$\displaystyle\sum _{n=2}^{\infty }\:\frac{1}{n\left(\ln\left(n\right)\right)^3}$$
In the first, I tried employing the integral test which failed, specifically because it is around 2 not 0 as we see in the plain theory. I couldn't find the solution on the given sheet to see whether I was doing it correctly or not. I was suggested that the Maclaurin series might be of use here, but I'm not sure how to employ it.
With the second, I know that it indeed converges, but the solution is so complicated with the Integral Tests that I'm having serious trouble with it.

A: For the first one, you can use the comparison test, since$$n>1\implies\frac{\left|\frac{\cos(n)}{n^3-n}\right|}{\frac1{n^3}}\leqslant\frac{n^3}{n^3-n}\to1.$$
In the case of the second one, the integral test works just fine: since$$\int\frac1{x\log^3(x)}\,\mathrm dx=-\frac1{2\log^2(x)},$$you have$$\int_2^\infty\frac1{x\log^3(x)}\,\mathrm dx=\left[-\frac1{2\log^2(x)}\right]_{x=2}^{x=\infty}=\frac1{2\log^2(2)}.$$

A: For the first one, use the comparison test as Mark Viola suggested:
$$\left|\frac{\cos n}{n^3-n}\right|\le \frac{1}{n^3-n} \le \frac{1}{\frac{1}{2}n^3} = \frac{2}{n^3}$$
Therefore, the series converges.
For the second one, it is a bit easier with the integral test:
$$\sum _{n=2}^{\infty }\:\frac{1}{n\ln^3\left(n\right)} \iff \int_2^\infty \frac{dx}{x\ln^3x} = -\frac{1}{2\ln^2x}\bigg|_2^\infty = 0 + \frac{1}{2\ln^22}$$

A: For the first one:
$$\frac{\cos(n)}{n^3-n}\le \frac{1}{n^3-n}\approx\frac{1}{n^3}$$
which converges as long as the index starts at $1$ or higher, which it does.

For the second one:
$$\frac{1}{(n\ln n)^3}$$
we know that:
$$\ln(n)>1\,\,\,,n>3$$
and so:
$$\sum_{n=3}^\infty\frac{1}{(n\ln(n))^3}\le\sum_{n=3}^\infty\frac1{n^3}<\infty$$
now just check that the $n=2$ term converges:
$$0<\frac{1}{(2\ln(2))^3}=\frac{1}{\ln^3(4)}<1$$
since $$\ln(4)>\ln(e)=1\therefore \ln^3(4)>1$$

A: For the first one,
$\frac{cos(n)}{n^3 -n}$ $\lt$ $\frac{1}{n^3 -n}$
$\frac{1}{n^3 -n}$  = $\frac{1}{n(n^2-1)}$  = $\frac{1}{n(n+1)(n-1)}$
$\Rightarrow$ $\frac{1}{n^3 -n}$ =    $\frac{1}{(n-1)n(n+1)}$ = $\frac{1}{n-1}  - \frac{2}{n}  + \frac{1}{n+1} $
$\Rightarrow$ $\sum_2^n \frac{cos(n)}{n^3 -n}$ $\lt$ $\sum_2^n \frac{1}{n^3 -n}$ =  $\sum_2^n (\frac{1}{n-1}  - \frac{2}{n}  + \frac{1}{n+1}) $ = $\frac{1}{2}$
Second one follows from integral test!

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The appearance at auction of a tile from Frank Lloyd Wright's Freeman House in the Hollywood Hills has exposed the theft of some valuable chairs and lamps by Rudolph Schindler and by Wright.
Reporters Harriet Ryan and Matt Hamilton of the LA Times broke the story, after the L.A. Times received an anonymous email last summer that revealed that some pieces of furniture had been stolen from USC and never reported to the police.
When the reporters approached USC about the tip in January, the university investigated and found that, yes, two of Wright's floor lamps and a cushioned chair designed by Schindler were stolen from a warehouse in 2012.
The furnishings had come from the Freeman House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in the Hollywood Hills that was bequeathed to the USC School of Architecture by Harriet and Samuel Freeman.
The revelation has its roots in a Chicago auction in the summer of 2018. A distinctive cement tile from the house sold for $5,000, prompting concern among Freeman House experts at how the tile wound up for sale. The auction house told the LA Times the seller claimed it had fallen off the garage, maybe after the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
"It's sad to think that even in the decade before these things were stolen, they were just kind of sitting in the dark where no one in Los Angeles, nobody who loves architecture or cares about the history of our city could see them," Ryan said.
The Los Angeles Police Department's Art Theft Detail has initiated an investigation, which is complicated by the fact that many of the faculty and staff that were at the USC School of Architecture at the time the theft took place have gone.


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News » Arney Fender Katsalidis completes Deloitte's national headquarters in Toronto
Arney Fender Katsalidis completes Deloitte's national headquarters in Toronto
by Aline Chahine
| Updated on December 27, 2022
London-based global architecture and interior design practice Arney Fender Katsalidis has completed the 420,000 sq ft national headquarters for Deloitte in Toronto, Canada, setting new workplace standards for the professional services industry. Deloitte Toronto will perform as the firm's national HQ and will be home to 4,000 Deloitte staff, with room for expansion in the 27 storey tower.
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The 16-storey workplace located in downtown Toronto is the second workplace designed by Arney Fender Katsalidis for the internationally renowned firm; Deloitte's Montreal HQ was completed in September 2015.
Arney Fender Katsalidis worked closely with Deloitte to create a workplace that would be a business tool to realise its aim of becoming the employer of choice across its myriad of business units. Deloitte needed a flexible space that fostered creativity, innovation and productivity through inspiring common spaces and bespoke work areas that cater to the needs of every type of employee and service offering.
Earle Arney, Chief Executive of Arney Fender Katsalidis, said:
The charge from Deloitte was clear. Choose a building with great bones and transform the building into a highly connected workplace. What resulted was a four year journey, selecting and modifying a typical high rise in downtown Toronto and giving life to the space by bold and thoughtful adaptions to Deloitte's 16 floors.
Frank Vettese, Managing Partner and Chief Executive, Deloitte Canada, said:
Our vision was to create a more collaborative and inclusive workplace, in order to foster greater innovation and disruption across our organization, which is why we engaged Arney Fender Katsalidis very early on. They clearly understood our vision and brought it to life through their thoughtful design. We've deliberately broken down the physical barriers in order to emphasize social interaction over hierarchy, and in doing so, we've increased the ways in which our people can connect, in both planned and unplanned ways. This is how we are creating greater value and impact for our clients.
As a starting point, Arney Fender Katsalidis developed a podium concept at the base of the tower that allowed the creation of a six-storey contiguous interior atrium to be constructed as the heart for the organisation.
Helping to activate the space, the atrium connects several amenities, including the Wellness Centre, Deloitte Greenhouse (an innovation lab area), Deloitte University, Bistro, Business Lounge, Outdoor Terrace, One Stop Shop and Conference Centre, and the colleague floors.
Arney Fender Katsalidis Director of Interiors and Workplace Strategy, Matthew Kobylar noted:
The atrium is the social centre of the organisation. By dropping in a sculptural stair connecting all floors, it fulfills several project requirements. It helps people to connect physically, but more importantly, the large nature of the landings encourage people to stop on or near the stairs for impromptu conversations with colleagues they've bumped into. The stairs also help to show Deloitte on display, subtly telling the firm's story to clients and colleagues. Lastly, there is an enticing wellness component to the stairs, which encourage colleagues to move throughout the day.
In addition to the creation of the atrium, adding the lower level podium to the existing building allowed Deloitte to "own" the street. Arney Fender Katsalidis set out to invigorate a neglected corner of the city and interact with the local population, and has succeeded with the inclusion of a Deloitte-owned bistro at the corner of Yonnge and Adelaide. The designers have ensured visibility with floor-to ceiling glazed walls and subtle branding, including a large green lamp emblematic of the Deloitte green dot as the focal point.
Arney added,
We learned from our experience in designing art galleries and museums that rely on
choreographed movement through their interiors to heighten the experience. We employed similar
thinking to the design of Deloitte Toronto. Staff and clients alike are invited to walk through the workplace and be exposed to the variety of different business units and see "Deloitte on display". This in turn fosters greater connectivity amongst staff, improved employee engagement and elevated levels of cross-selling; as well as heightening the experience of being part of Deloitte.
The colleague floors themselves were studied in detail to provide a range of spaces to suit the versatile activities of staff and create a flexible workplace, which is a clear step away from traditional professional service offices and an innovative feature for the Canadian market. With over 18 different types of worksettings, an agile working strategy is employed. None of the desks are assigned to staff, but rather can be reserved in advance or ad hoc through Deloitte's specially acquired technology system – a significant investment made to make this way of working work.
Worksetting choices include personal work areas, open plan workstations, enclosed offices, treadmill desks, sit-stand workstations, brainstorming rooms, think tanks, quiet rooms with closed doors, 'work with a view' stations and dedicated quiet zones.
Kobylar said:
In the global race for talent, Deloitte's Toronto HQ proves the firm understands the power of good design to enhance the business' recruitment and retention strategies. The brand and culture is manifest in the design of the space. It doesn't shout Deloitte in obvious brand colours and giant logos everywhere. Deloitte is far too clever for that. What it does is reflect a culture that is about connections and people that work together."
Arney Fender Katsalidis were responsible for Workplace Strategy and Interior Design for the project with Kearns Mancini Architects Inc. as Architect of Record.
Aline Chahine
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Tashi Chhoe Dzong or the Fortress of the Glorious Region is another 'must visit' site. Situated on the west bank of Wang Chhu river, Trashi Chhoe Dzong is the formal coronation site of the fifth King. The Dzong also hosts the annual Tsechu festival. Built in 1641 by the political and religious unifier of Bhutan, Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, it was reconstructed in 1960s in traditional Bhutanese manner, without nails or architectural plans.
Takin Zoo – You will find the National animal of Bhutan "Takin" in this open zoo. Takin is one of the most endangered species of the World and it is available only in Bhutan.
Punakha Dzong: beautiful Punakha Dzong(known as the "the palace of great happiness"),located at the confluence of the Pho Chhu (father) and Mo Chhu (mother) rivers in the Punakha–Wangdue valley. the city's dzong is one of the most picturesque of allBhutan's ancient fortresses The dzong is joined to the mainland by an arched wooden bridge, and contains many precious relics from the days when successive kings reined the kingdom from this valley.
Chimi Lhakhang- Situated at the top of a hillock in the heart of Punakha valley, the Chimi Lhakhang is a site dedicated to Lama Drukpa Kuenley. Known as the 'Divine Madman', Lama Drukpa Kuenley is said to made use of songs, humour and his outrageous behavior to preach his teachings. Chimi Lhathang is actually a temple and is believed to be the temple of fertility. Bhutanese hold a strong belief that Couples who do not have children get blessed by Lama Drukpa Kuenley if they visit the temple and pray for a child. A picturesque rural trail through a paddy field takes visitors to the temple from the road. After crossing the paddy field you will find a tiny stream from where Chimi Lhakhang is a just a short climb away.
After breakfast , start for journey towards the phobjikha Valley , the valley for rare endangered Black Necked Cranes . Soak the beauty of the most beautiful valley and enjoy the serenity and tranquility of the valley and finally return to Punakha.
National Museum of Bhutan: Situated right above Rinpung Dzong in Paro, the National Museum of Bhutan is a house that showcases Bhutan's culture. Built in 1968, the museum stands inside the ancient Ta-dzong building. The museum houses the collection of finest specimens of Bhutanese culture and art and its highlights are paintings and some bronze statues, which are simply masterpieces. The items are demonstrated in large galleries and you can get to know a lot about Bhutan's art and culture from these objects.
Nya Mey Zam Bridge - "The Bridge with No Fish " is the bridge that connects Paro Town to Dzong ..It is one of finest specimens inBhutan and local believes if one sees a fish in the river , it is ill omen..The earlier bridge which could be folded during war was washed away by flood in 1969.
Taktsang Monastery: If you can brave the risky cliffs on a high mountain, Paro will astonish you in the form of Taktsang Monastery. After covering 1200 metres on a fierce cliff you will reach this sacred site, also known as the Tiger's Nest. Take a deep breath after reaching the spot and then comfort your eyes and soul with the stunning view of the scenic surroundings and the valley lying underneath. The Taktsang Monastery was established by Sain Guru Rinpoche who came to Bhutan in 747 CE. Construction of the complex was completed in 1694. Discovering the Tiger's Nest after 3 hours of trekking is real adventure but you may also opt for a horse ride from the parking lot.
Day 7– Paro – Chela-La-Pass - Drive to Chele La Pass which (3,988m) from which on a clear day the view sweeps away to Bhutan's second highest sacred peak, Mt Jhomolhari(7314m).
Paro Airport View Point – This is finest valley view point to look after Paro Valley and Paro Airport . This view point overlooking the Paro river along with the all the Dzongs and Monastry.


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Some Manners Please
It was extremely shocking to see former chief minister and National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah publicly making an obscene gesture in response to some question asked by a journalist, the other day. Farooq Abdullah was apparently miffed by the question as the journalist wanted to know whether the National Conference president was mulling over forming government with the BJP in the state. Jammu and Kashmir is reeling under Governor's rule after the fall of Mahbooba Mufti as chief minister. The state assembly has been put under suspended animation. Some groups are hobnobbing to form the government.
Probably, the question was asked against the backdrop of Farooq Abdullah's show of loyalty towards BJP by not only showering more-than-required accolades on former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who passed away some days back, as "king of hearts" but also raised slogans "Bharat Mata ki jai" and "Jai Hind" with no apparent cause or provocation. Farooq Abdullah, as recorded on video, first ignored the question and left the venue. But he suddenly returned and made an extremely uncivilized and vulgar gesture towards the journalists. It was such an obnoxious act expected only from a lout.
In a civilized political business, politicians are deemed as role models for the society. They set the moral standard for the society by way of their conduct in public life. People follow them and adopt their ways and behavior. The greater the moral conduct of politicians, the more civilized the society is.
But it is sad to note that our politicians do not match even to the lowest levels of morality in public life. They are rotten heads only contaminating and polluting the society. They are opportunists eying only at reaching the highest seats of power. Numerous licentious stories are being associated with their private lives. In 2006, dozens of politicians were accused of being involved in sex scam by the CBI. Muzaffar Hussain Baig, in 2009, caused flutters in the state assembly when he revealed that Dr Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah too were involved in the sex scam. He said that Farooq Abdullah figured at serial no 38 and Omar Abdullah at 102. Omar Abdullah was chief minister then. He was so embarrassed by the expose' that, in full House, he announced to resign only backtrack later.
Public life is always the mirror of one's private life. The two cannot be separated. If you are dishonest and uncivilized in private dealings it gets reflected in public life in one way or the other. When Farooq Abdullah made the obscene gesture so publicly, he, in fact, revealed of the real man inside him.
That Farooq Abdullah is motor-mouthed is a commonly known fact but he will wallow in such a shameful act so publicly and under the gaze of dozens of cameras is quite unacceptable. He should be questioned, and protested against for indulging in such salacious behavior. Ethically and socially our society is orthodox with no approval of moral meanness. The journalists should have registered their protest then and there but it appears that either they could not different properly between the "smartness" and "smuttiness" of the former chief minister instantaneously or they are quite insensitive to such disgraceful actions.
Like any individual a journalist has certain responsibilities towards the society. It is rather a journalist who describes a society. That way his responsibilities are quite sensitive and touchy. Conveying information, ideas and opinions are good but protecting and preserving social and cultural ethos cannot be left to politicians to dictate. Given their greed and lust for power, the politicians, in fact, are the polluters of social culture, violators of human values and societal norms. They need to be put under check by way of exposing and censuring them for whatever nonsense they show of.


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The following excerpt has been edited for concision. Mr Camus's full-length essay can be found in Derek Royal's Visualizing Jewish Narrative (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016).
His Jewish identity certainly made him an "outsider" in his Anglican educational environment but being half immersed in another belief-system than his family's allowed him to put both systems in perspective. As he puts it in an interview for Hy Bender's Sandman Companion, "in a sense, it made [him] view everything as myth". His comics and other writings often feature pagan gods from many different traditions. As for "believ[ing] in a biblical god," he claims in his interview with Elder: "sometimes I do and sometimes I don't". It is as if the spiritual stance he had decided to adopt was the same as Samantha Black Crow's in his novel American Gods—"I […] can believe anything" or the child protagonist's in his semi-autobiographical short story "One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock": "a magnificent anarchy of belief". Being a believer with an outsider's outlook on the belief systems most familiar to him, could easily qualify him as a modern-day Kafka, if it were not for his being absolutely not melancholy about it. He states, in Bender's book: "I actually love feeling like an outsider. For example, I really enjoyed the first six years I spent in the U.S. because everything was so alien. […]" This cheerful embracement of the privileged position of the "alien" often shows on a close analysis of his writings. "Part of Sandman's dynamic stemmed from Neil's discovery and fascination, as both a European and an Englishman, with America," according to Mike Dringenberg, one of Sandman's pencilers, inkers, and co-creators, in Joseph McCabe's Hanging Out with the Dream King. It is even truer with American Gods, as the meditation on American culture is more explicit, as Gaiman emphasizes in Golden, Wagner and Bissette's Prince of Stories: "I don't think American Gods could have been written by someone who was American." Similarly, instances of Gaiman enjoying the feeling of being an outsider can easily be traced as far as religion is concerned. Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament is an anthology of short, black-and-white graphic narratives released in 1987 by Knockabout Comics. These works of ruthless theological satire take their inspiration from the two traditions, in the history of comics, which defined themselves by their offensiveness: underground "comix" and EC Comics horror anthologies. To understand what Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament is all about, it seems particularly relevant to stress that various theoretical works have shown that violence and fear are important aspects of the religious experience. Theologian Rudolf Otto has identified "awe" as a primordial part of the "numinous," the irrational feeling that lies at the core of the rational concept of the "holy". Philosopher René Girard understands ritual murder in primitive and ancient religious communities as an implicit model for the way any human community builds the integrity and harmony that it needs to preserve. It is that essential link that the writers and artists of Outrageous Tales deal with. And this emphasis is made humorous by the way it systematically trivializes Otto's dramatic notion of "awe" or Girard's almost lyrical styling of violence as "the heart and secret soul of the sacred." For instance, awe-related phrases such as "Wrath of God" and "Enormous Boils" or signifiers linked to Girardian violence such as "Human Sacrifice" and "Murder" are listed on the cover, ironically suggesting that those are to be considered as exciting thematic assets of the narratives, in a way that is deliberately reminiscent of exploitation movies' posters. Among Gaiman's six stories for the anthology, five are adapted from the Book of Judges. The first chapters of this Book depict Yahweh's recurrent punishments against the Israelites. Gaiman and Mike Matthews's rendering of those chapters makes as clear as possible the tyrannous absurdity, from the point of view of a modern outsider, of Yahweh's behavior. Matthews visually emphasizes the gory aspects of every massacre. The penultimate panel, notably, shows Shamgar, one of the Judges, standing on top of a mountain of corpses. The panel would look like one from a warlike heroic-fantasy comics-series if it were not for the iconic style in which it is drawn, and the anachronistic and misspelled colloquialisms printed in Shamgar's speech balloon, which make him sound like a lampoon of a dumb action hero. That hypotextually rich depiction satirically suggests a purposeful likening of the Old Testament wars to the combat trances of comic-book barbarian heroes. Gaiman has given to this biblical passage a visually embodied narrator who is typical of the horror-host tradition launched by EC Comics in the early 1950s. The character is even named "the Bible Keeper" in an obvious allusion to the Crypt Keeper, who was the host of EC's Tales from the Crypt. By this narrative conceit, Gaiman suggests that, not only is the Book of Judges a typical barbarian fantasy but also, in a way, a collection of gruesome horror tales Dr Fredric Wertham would have strongly disapproved of.
In the issue "A Parliament of Rooks", Cain, Abel, and Eve are having a "tea party" with a baby dreamer. Cain suggests that as "old storytellers" (an intertextual allusion to their editorial past as horror-hosts), they should tell stories to their guest. Eve and Abel successively narrate their origin stories, which are similar to their Genesis counterparts'. Eve's story is recognizable but strangely different from the best-known Genesis tale. The story starts with a hermaphrodite Adam, Adam's first wife, Lilith is "expelled from Eden," and a new wife is made. She is also expelled, or destroyed, and finally God makes Eve. This version of the story is "what the Midrash states" (i.e. The Alphabet of Ben Sira and Genesis Rabbah). The "esoteric" nature of that Jewish lore confers numinosity to the comic-book character of Eve. Gaiman's intimate yet detached knowledge of the Jewish sacred texts gave him assets to create some powerful details in his syncretic Sandman mythos. As to Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament, the main difference between Gaiman and the other writers is that most of the others wrote about very famous stories: Creation, the Garden of Eden, Sodom and Gomorrah. Gaiman chose books that are known mostly to people who read or studied the Old Testament. Both as a Jewish author and as a Western popular culture author, Gaiman could not have ignored the founding text of the rich Jewish storytelling tradition of which he is part. However, as an author who also has the passion of creative retelling he sometimes pays his debts in quite unexpected ways. Ways that are sideways: an outsider's ways.
Cyril Camus teaches English in Toulouse, France, training students for the admission tests of business schools. He is a former teaching assistant and doctoral student at the Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, where he wrote a thesis on Neil Gaiman's works in comics, literature and cinema, which earned him a Ph.D in Studies of English and English-Speaking Cultures. He participated in Northampton University's Magus conference on Alan Moore in 2010, and wrote several articles on Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, and postmodern fantasy in comics, literature and cinema, which were published in the French journals Otrante and Caliban, the US journals Shofar and Studies in the Novel, the British journal Studies in Comics, and in books published in Britain, such as Mountains figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) and Visualizing Jewish Narrative (Bloomsbury, 2016). A book adapted from his Ph.D thesis is due to be published in mid-2018 by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes.


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Bouilly-en-Gâtinais is een gemeente in het Franse departement Loiret (regio Centre-Val de Loire) en telt 313 inwoners (2005). De oppervlakte bedraagt 16,3 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 19,2 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwoneraantal van Bouilly-en-Gâtinais vanaf 1962.

Bron: Frans bureau voor statistiek. Cijfers inwoneraantal volgens de definitie population sans doubles comptes (zie de gehanteerde definities)

Gemeente in Loiret

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Q: Use librdkafka in a C++ project (VS2013) I'm trying to use librdkafka, I had a hard time compling it, but I think I manage to do it, here are the generated file after compilation :

Now I've been trying for hours but I cannot successfully link it into a C++ Project on Visual Studio 2013.
Can someone explain what do I have to do with those files ?
Good evening everyone.

A: From your Visual Studio project you should reference the librdkafka.redist NuGet package.
After NuGet restore your project should be automatically set up to link with librdkafka.
See kafkacat for an example that does this.


Cloud-based backup systems? There's a lot of them out there.
Cloud-based backup systems to which the Service Provider has no access? There's fewer of those. The difference is that the data owner holds the keys. No-one learns anything from data stored by Marpx Privacy™ Level Three customers on the Service Provider's site.
Cloud-based backup systems to which the Service Provider has no access AND there are a great many possible keys? We are talking of the security offered by patternless content when there are 78 billion keys in the public product. MarpX Privacy™ for Government starts at 3.5 trillion possible unique keys, and rises out of sight when the restraints are fully removed from our Extreme Encryption. There are NO cloud-based backup systems like that out there right now.
Cloud-based backup systems to which the Service Provider has no access AND there a are great many possible keys AND authorized people can search or research the full text of every backed-up file, no matter how large the archive? There's NO cloud-based backup systems like that out there, but there should be!
By the way, how about a different key for every file in the archive? Why not?
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This blog focuses mainly on ceramics, my own and sometimes that of other ceramists. This post is an exception.
I saw the movie The Social Network this evening and I thought it was brilliant. In fact I think it is probably as close to flawless that a movie gets. Superbly scripted by Aaron Sorkin, of The West Wing fame and excellently acted by Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Arnie Hammer and Justin Timberlake in this superb ensemble piece directed by David Fincher, who is probably best known for an earlier masterpiece Fight Club. It is the story of Facebook told in a brilliantly edited, and extremely witty work which never falters. I have nothing but praise for this movie and my reason for posting it here is just to urge you to go and see it. If I have seen a better film in recent years, I cannot remember it.
Today was my first day back in the studio after my overseas trip. As is usual for me I started off by carrying out a number of tests. New shapes, new materials and different combinations of the materials I have been working with over the past few years. The tests are firing tonight and I will post any that come up trumps for all to see in the near future. It's good to be back.


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> "Error while performing action: URL 'Directory Name' does not exist"
I don't know anything about RapidSVN, but it sounds like the directory name in the repository might not be "Directory Name" but might in fact be "Directory%20Name". I don't know how that would have come to pass if you didn't mean for that to occur, but perhaps RapidSVN does not properly handle items whose names contain spaces.
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Strange as it may seem I've never had a whole lobster before and given the fantastic weather this weekend it seemed a perfect opportunity to pig out on seafood.
Where we live in Reading, Berkshire we have the most fantastic fishmongers, Frosts. They have a shop in the town centre in Smelly Alley (Union St), so named because of the wonderful smell of fish the shop imparts into the narrow alley, everyone in Reading knows Smelly Alley. So I gave them a call on Thursday and ordered a fresh Crab & Lobster for the weekend, they come ready cooked and you can have them cut/dressed if you want but I think its better to get in there and do it yourself.
You can also find their website here: Smelly Alley Fish Company. If you live locally they will deliver for free and I can heartily recommend them.
So on Saturday we had Lobster for lunch, I made some fresh Alioli and then turned half of it into Marie Rose sauce, topped that off with some slices of fresh baked Sourdough bread, lemon and a glass of wine and you have the makings of an amazing lunch on a scorching hot day.
Slowly drizzle the oil onto the egg yolks whilst gently whisking, do this by hand, the only time I've ever messed up Alioli/Mayonnaise is when using a machine, do this until all the oil is incorporated.
Add the additions for your chosen sauce then whisk again until incorporated, the quantities are really whatever you fancy, adjust to taste, make sure you taste it. I made Alioli then split in half, added the tomato sauce etc for Marie rose.
Having never consumed a whole lobster I was a little unsure how to tackle it and had to resort to YouTube, just Google how to eat a lobster!!! In the end its pretty simple. Twist/Pull off the claws & legs, remove the tail, open up the main shell and eat it all, well, excluding the shell, gills, etc. The claws, legs were soft enough to use the kitchen scissors and as explained by the youTube video, its a little messy.
The more observant amongst you will notice she's missing a claw (it was a she, plenty of nice roe inside the main shell, tail), somehow I managed to scarf that before the picture was taken.
Sadly I forgot to take a shot of the crab, it was just a lovely as the Lobster.


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Lord Ashcroft: A seven point campaign memo for Lynton Crosby
Lord Ashcroft: Was it really 'Brexit wot lost it' for Labour?
Lord Ashcroft: The limits of tactical voting – why all Brexiteers should vote Conservative tomorrow
Red Swan…or Tory landslide…or…
Lord Ashcroft: Would victories for Johnson and Trump herald the triumph of conservatism?
Subject: CAMPAIGN MEMO TO LYNTON
From: LORD ASHCROFT KCMG PC
Dear Lynton,
Congratulations on your appointment. As you probably know, I argued against it. Nothing personal: I wanted to avoid a repeat of 2010, when the campaign was "run" by a group of people with different ideas, none of whom had ultimate authority. It seemed to me that bringing another player to the table which already accommodates David Cameron, George Osborne, Grant Shapps, Andrew Cooper, Stephen Gilbert, Craig Oliver and (sometimes) Steve Hilton could only make this problem worse – especially since the party at last seemed to have landed on a workable strategy, has a campaign plan to go with it and, importantly, is working in harmony.
But now that the decision has been made, I am, as someone who only wants a Conservative majority, keen to help. Here are a few points to bear in mind as you prepare to settle in.
1. We need to reach out, not just consolidate
To win a majority, we need to attract people who thought about voting Conservative in 2010 but decided against it, not just keep existing Tories on board. An obvious point, but one with important implications. As I found in my Project Blueprint research, these 'Considerers' – who did not vote Conservative in 2010 and would not do so tomorrow, but may do so in the future – trust Cameron and Osborne more than Miliband and Balls to run the economy, but do not think the Tories stand for fairness or opportunity. There are as many former Liberal Democrat voters who might be persuaded to switch to us as there are 2010 Tory voters who might switch to UKIP, and we need them both.
2. We're right on the deficit, but to what end?
The voters who are in play agree with us intuitively on deficit reduction, however much they may dislike some of its consequences. But they usually see cutting the deficit only as a means of avoiding a Greek-style catastrophe, rather than part of a bigger plan. It is not clear to them what prize austerity will bring in a second Cameron term. For some, the need to take the unpalatable medicine will be reason enough to vote Tory; others will want to be presented with more than a necessary evil.
3. It's about anxiety as well as aspiration
Re-establishing ourselves as the party of aspiration does not mean presenting ourselves as the party of rugged individualism. As my Blue Collar Tories research found, many people – I called them the Suspicious Strivers – hold Conservative values but see the Tory Party as being for people who have achieved material success; less so for those who do the right thing and have little to show for it. They feel their position is precarious. What the strivers want, as much as anything, is reassurance – that doing the right thing will be worth their while, and that if they needed help, deserving cases would get priority.
4. Be positive, and don't rely on Ed Miliband
David Cameron is the Conservatives' biggest single asset and continues to trounce Ed Miliband in the leadership ratings. But while many people will vote Conservative because of Cameron, others will vote Labour despite Miliband. Aggressively pointing out his flaws, which they can see anyway, will not change their vote – but, as in 2010, it will represent a missed opportunity to show why they should support us instead.
5. Take a measured approach to the defectors
Around a third of 2010 Conservative voters say they would not vote Tory in an election tomorrow – but they are more likely to say they don't know how they would vote than that they would support a particular party, and they are as likely to say they would go to Labour or the Lib Dems as to say they would go to UKIP. Europe is a major issue for some of them, but not all, or even most. Some have lost out from the cuts, some feel no party is on their side in life, some are worried about particular issues. Most would rather see a Conservative government than any of the alternatives. Direction and grip are the best antidotes.
6. The Liberal Democrats are not finished yet
I would be surprised if the Lib Dems really do only achieve only the 9% vote share that polls currently suggest. Incumbency is still likely to work to the advantage of sitting MPs; my polling in marginal seats has found that when asked specifically about their own area, people in Lib Dem-held constituencies are much more likely to say they will stay with the party.
While Conservative-inclined voters think the Liberal Democrats have too much power within the government, most others think they have too little. Some are so frustrated with the compromise of coalition that they are put off the Conservatives altogether. But many, including many who voted Tory, are glad the Lib Dems are there, however ineffectual they seem to be.
7. It can be done
To win a majority, the Tories need to keep their loyalists, win back their defectors, keep those who have been attracted since 2010 and win over those who are only considering the party. Though it may not be possible to appeal to every part of this Conservative universe at the same time, I concluded in Project Blueprint that we could square the circle if we applied four tests for all activity. Does it show the right priorities for the country? Does it show strong leadership? Does it show we're on the side of the right people (and if necessary, make the right enemies)? Does it offer some reassurance about our character and motives?
Finally, I know you understand as much as anyone that it's never a good thing when the adviser is the story. That being the case, I'm sure you'll get on with the job and stay out of the limelight. Meanwhile, I'll be following progress closely and will no doubt have more to say as things unfold.
Lord Ashcroft


Xylem's new Flygt 4220 mixer enhances the resilience and sustainability of wastewater treatment plants, enabling operators to easily manage changing mixing conditions by simply adjusting the mixer output. As the Flygt 4220 can be controlled to deliver only the output required, a plant's energy consumption can be significantly reduced.
In this video, the Flygt 4220 mixer was placed in a 16-ft long by 13-ft wide by 15-ft deep anoxic tank, replacing an existing compact mixer that drew a continuous 1.3 kW. Right away the new mixer was drawing a cool 0.53kW to produce the same thrust as the original did for 1.4kW. Eventually, it was discovered that the mixer could be run at much lower speeds and still maintain adequate mixing. In the end, the new mixer was turned down from 180 to 100 RPM where it drew a mere 0.10kW while still providing sufficient mixing in the experimental tank.


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def join_sql_columns(columns_dict, set_index=None):
    def columns():
        for col_name, col_expression in columns_dict.items():
            if set_index is not None:
                col_expression = col_expression[set_index]

            if col_expression == col_name:
                yield col_name
            else:
                yield '{0} AS {1}'.format(col_expression or 'NULL', col_name)

    return ',\n            '.join(columns())

class Queries(object):
    client_columns = {
        'client_id':                   (None,                          'client_id'),
        'class_id':                    (None,                          'class_id'),

        'ua_class':                    ('"Crawler"',                   'client_classification'),
        'ua_class_code':               ('"crawler"',                   'client_classification_code'),
        'ua':                          ('name',                        'name'),
        'ua_engine':                   (None,                          'engine'),
        'ua_version':                  ('ver',                         None),
        'ua_version_major':            ('ver_major',                   None),
        'crawler_last_seen':           ('last_seen',                   None),
        'crawler_respect_robotstxt':   ('respect_robotstxt',           None),
        'crawler_category':            ('crawler_classification',      None),
        'crawler_category_code':       ('crawler_classification_code', None),
        'ua_uptodate_current_version': (None,                          'uptodate_current_version'),
        'ua_family':                   ('family',                      'name'),
        'ua_family_code':              ('family_code',                 'name_code'),
        'ua_family_homepage':          ('family_homepage',             'homepage'),
        'ua_family_icon':              ('family_icon',                 'icon'),
        'ua_family_icon_big':          (None,                          'icon_big'),
        'ua_family_vendor':            ('vendor',                      'vendor'),
        'ua_family_vendor_code':       ('vendor_code',                 'vendor_code'),
        'ua_family_vendor_homepage':   ('vendor_homepage',             'vendor_homepage'),
        'ua_family_info_url':          ('"https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/bot-detail?bot=" || '
                                        'REPLACE(family, " ", "%20") || "#id" || udger_crawler_list.id',
                                        '"https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/browser-detail?browser=" || '
                                        'REPLACE(name, " ", "%20")'),
    }

    crawler_sql = """
        SELECT
            %s
        FROM
            udger_crawler_list
        LEFT JOIN
            udger_crawler_class ON udger_crawler_class.id = udger_crawler_list.class_id
        WHERE
            ua_string = ?
    """ % join_sql_columns(client_columns, 0)

    client_sql = """
        SELECT
            %s
        FROM
            udger_client_regex ur
        JOIN
            udger_client_list ON udger_client_list.id = ur.client_id
        JOIN
            udger_client_class ON udger_client_class.id = udger_client_list.class_id
        WHERE
            ur.rowid=?
    """ % join_sql_columns(client_columns, 1)

    os_columns = {
        'os_family':                  'family',
        'os_family_code':             'family_code',
        'os':                         'name',
        'os_code':                    'name_code',
        'os_homepage':                'homepage',
        'os_icon':                    'icon',
        'os_icon_big':                'icon_big',
        'os_family_vendor':           'vendor',
        'os_family_vendor_code':      'vendor_code',
        'os_family_vendor_homepage':  'vendor_homepage',
        'os_info_url':                '"https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/os-detail?os=" || '
                                      'REPLACE(name, " ", "%20")',
    }

    os_sql = """
        SELECT
            %s
        FROM
            udger_os_regex ur
        JOIN
            udger_os_list ON udger_os_list.id = ur.os_id
        WHERE
            ur.rowid=?
    """ % join_sql_columns(os_columns)

    client_os_sql = """
        SELECT
            %s
        FROM
            udger_client_os_relation
        JOIN
            udger_os_list ON udger_os_list.id = udger_client_os_relation.os_id
        WHERE
            client_id = ?
    """ % join_sql_columns(os_columns)

    device_columns = {
        'device_class':           'name',
        'device_class_code':      'name_code',
        'device_class_icon':      'icon',
        'device_class_icon_big':  'icon_big',
        'device_class_info_url':  '"https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/device-detail?device=" || '
                                  'REPLACE(name, " ", "%20")',
    }

    device_sql = """
        SELECT
            %s
        FROM
            udger_deviceclass_regex ur
        JOIN
            udger_deviceclass_list ON udger_deviceclass_list.id = ur.deviceclass_id
        WHERE
            ur.rowid=?
    """ % join_sql_columns(device_columns)

    client_class_sql = """
        SELECT
            %s
        FROM
            udger_deviceclass_list
        JOIN
            udger_client_class ON udger_client_class.deviceclass_id = udger_deviceclass_list.id
        WHERE
            udger_client_class.id = ?
    """ % join_sql_columns(device_columns)

    devicename_sql = """
        SELECT
            id AS regex_id,
            regstring
        FROM
            udger_devicename_regex
        WHERE
            os_family_code = ? AND
            os_code IN ('-all-', ?)
        ORDER BY
            sequence
    """

    marketname_columns = {
        'device_marketname':       'marketname',
        'device_brand':            'brand',
        'device_brand_code':       'brand_code',
        'device_brand_homepage':   'brand_url',
        'device_brand_icon':       'icon',
        'device_brand_icon_big':   'icon_big',
        'device_brand_info_url':   '"https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/devices-brand-detail?brand=" || '
                                   'REPLACE(brand_code, " ", "%20")',
    }

    marketname_sql = """
        SELECT
            %s
        FROM
            udger_devicename_list
        JOIN
            udger_devicename_brand ON udger_devicename_brand.id = udger_devicename_list.brand_id
        WHERE
            regex_id = ? AND code = ?
        LIMIT 1
    """ % join_sql_columns(marketname_columns)

    ip_columns = {
        'ip_classification':              'ip_classification',
        'ip_classification_code':         'ip_classification_code',
        'ip_last_seen':                   'ip_last_seen',
        'ip_hostname':                    'ip_hostname',
        'ip_country':                     'ip_country',
        'ip_country_code':                'ip_country_code',
        'ip_city':                        'ip_city',
        'crawler_name':                   'name',
        'crawler_ver':                    'ver',
        'crawler_ver_major':              'ver_major',
        'crawler_family':                 'family',
        'crawler_family_code':            'family_code',
        'crawler_family_homepage':        'family_homepage',
        'crawler_family_vendor':          'vendor',
        'crawler_family_vendor_code':     'vendor_code',
        'crawler_family_vendor_homepage': 'vendor_homepage',
        'crawler_family_icon':            'family_icon',
        'crawler_family_info_url':        '"https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/bot-detail?bot=" || '
                                          'REPLACE(family, " ", "%20") || "#id" || udger_crawler_list.id',
        'crawler_last_seen':              'last_seen',
        'crawler_category':               'crawler_classification',
        'crawler_category_code':          'crawler_classification_code',
        'crawler_respect_robotstxt':      'respect_robotstxt',
    }

    ip_sql = """
        SELECT
            %s
        FROM
            udger_ip_list
        JOIN
            udger_ip_class ON udger_ip_class.id=udger_ip_list.class_id
        LEFT JOIN
            udger_crawler_list ON udger_crawler_list.id=udger_ip_list.crawler_id
        LEFT JOIN
            udger_crawler_class ON udger_crawler_class.id=udger_crawler_list.class_id
        WHERE
            ip = ?
        ORDER BY
            sequence
    """ % join_sql_columns(ip_columns)

    datacenter_columns = {
        'datacenter_name':       'name',
        'datacenter_name_code':  'name_code',
        'datacenter_homepage':   'homepage',
    }

    datacenter_sql = """
        SELECT
            %s
        FROM
            udger_datacenter_range
        JOIN
            udger_datacenter_list ON udger_datacenter_range.datacenter_id = udger_datacenter_list.id
        WHERE
            iplong_from <= ? AND iplong_to >= ?
    """ % join_sql_columns(datacenter_columns)

    datacenter6_sql = """
        SELECT
            %s
        FROM
            udger_datacenter_range6
        JOIN
            udger_datacenter_list ON udger_datacenter_range6.datacenter_id = udger_datacenter_list.id
        WHERE
            iplong_from0 <= ? AND iplong_from1 <= ? AND iplong_from2 <= ? AND iplong_from3 <= ? AND
            iplong_from4 <= ? AND iplong_from5 <= ? AND iplong_from6 <= ? AND iplong_from7 <= ? AND
            iplong_to0 >= ? AND iplong_to1 >= ? AND iplong_to2 >= ? AND iplong_to3 >= ? AND
            iplong_to4 >= ? AND iplong_to5 >= ? AND iplong_to6 >= ? AND iplong_to7 >= ?
    """ % join_sql_columns(datacenter_columns)

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Girard College Founder's Hall, Philadelphia, PA (Classroom Oculus)
Established in 1848, Girard College in Philadelphia was one of the first progressive institutions of its kind in America, offering free housing, holistic support, and education to orphaned children. The oculus above used to cast light onto the books and papers of these students, illuminating new landscapes of ideas.
I hope this site might shed similar light onto ideas that are not new, but remain persistently obscured and themselves orphaned by the forces of convention, habit, and the glare of late capitalist markets and mindsets.
While commonweal and the various systems that thwart and support collective care and stewardship might be unifying themes, the subjects are simply my interests.
Currently, these include the nonprofit sector, arts and heritage, commoning, resource sharing, collective organizing, economic and political theory, history and philosophy of science, horticulture, behavioral sciences, woodworking, historic preservation, and systems thinking, among others.
The writings here do not aspire to scholarly rigor or expertise. They are thought experiments, observations, and reflections on the writings of others, encountered in the work on my various projects. For the reader, I hope these writings might cast light into a previously dark corner.
— Thaddeus Squire, Spring 2020
The photographs that you find throughout this site are public domain and have been drawn from the Historic American Building Survey (HABS), a project of the Library of Congress. HABS was begun in 1933 as part of Roosevelt's New Deal and seeks to document for public benefit the diversity of America's built environment–a commoning project as wondrous as it is impossible. Each of the buildings depicted carries some personal meaning for me, though the reader will need to apply their own interpretive imagination.


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https://celticswire.usatoday.com/2019/03/05/brad-stevens-kyrie-irving-spoke-for-long-time-after-loss-to-rockets/
Brad Stevens, Kyrie Irving spoke for long time after loss to Rockets
Prior to the Boston Celtics matchup against the Golden State Warriors, Celtics head coach Brad Stevens would speak to reporters about superstar point guard and team leader Kyrie Irving, whose had a roller coaster season in his second season with Boston. Per Stevens, it's hit Irving that while the season hasn't been ideal, that there's still plenty of time for the Celtics to correct it and the two had a long conversation following Boston's loss to the Houston Rockets on Sunday.
Stevens on talking to Kyrie: "We talked for a long time after the Houston game, and you could tell that was something that really hit him in that moment."
— Mark Murphy (@Murf56) March 5, 2019
Perhaps hoping to shield his floor general from further criticism but at the very least painting the picture of Irving's mental state, Stevens would note that Irving has "shouldered a heavy, heavy [workload]" this season and that the combination of his on-court role, the off-court attention and the Celtics struggles has affected the All-Star at times.
Brad Stevens on Kyrie: "He has shouldered a heavy heavy load … and there's a lot of stress that comes with that. And I think he would be the first to tell you that this year hasn't gone exactly how he hoped, but this year is not over."
— Tom Westerholm (@Tom_NBA) March 5, 2019
Ironically, though Irving is the undisputed leader of a championship-contender for the first time in his career, he's had four seasons with a higher usage rate. Still, considering how Irving has taken the challenge to be an all-around player, work on his conditioning in ways he never had before and his neophyte status in his role as leader, it's easy to see how this has been one of his most demanding seasons both on the court.
Off of it, this is the first time that Irving has been a player with this so much relevance. Therefore, he's never had to deal with the type of media speculation regarding his free agency decision and playing future.
Nonetheless, Irving — as Stevens previously mentioned — remains hopeful that the Celtics can right their ship.
He's shown confidence in the team's potential, especially in a seven-game playoff series. Furthermore, on Monday, Irving was graceful and candid in his responses to the media, likely trying to smooth over his relations with the Celtics faithful, locker room and personnel all at once after bristling over questions regarding his playing future and remaining silent about his thoughts on what's been ailing Boston on the court.
It could be coincidence that Irving's change in demeanor happened so quickly after he and Stevens' conversation but more than likely, the two events aren't unrelated.


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Q: Change from single URL to Excel List in Python Scraper I have a python scraper that can currently only search one website at a time.
I have a list of 6-700 websites a day that are all identical in an excel list.
I'm trying to find a way to change from a single website - to multiple websites held in a  single column within a .xlsm file
I have previously written code to manually open 50 tabs at a time (see example1)
but would like to incorporate that code or a version of, into my scraper if possible.
(Example1)
import webbrowser
import xlrd
file_location = "C:\Python27\REAScraper\ScrapeFile.xlsm"
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(file_location)
sheet = workbook.sheet_by_name("Sheet1")

url_column = 3
for row in range(1, 1000):
    if row % 1 == 0:
        raw_input("Paused. Press Enter to continue")
    url = sheet.cell_value(row, url_column)
    webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)

Below is the py scraper
import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import csv
import lxml
import xlrd

page = urllib2.urlopen(quote_page)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'lxml')
titleTag = soup.html.head.title
titleTag = titleTag.text.strip()
p_class = soup.find('p')
p_class = p_class.text.strip()
d_class = soup.find('div', class_="property-value__price")
d_class = d_class.string.strip()
e_class = soup.find('p', class_="property-value__agent")
e_class = e_class.string.strip()

print titleTag, p_class, d_class, e_class
with open('index2.csv', 'a') as csv_file:
    writer = csv.writer(csv_file)
    writer.writerow([titleTag, p_class, d_class, e_class])

As stated, I can get the single website to work, but not in a range or from an excel sheet. I've tried looking at automate the hard stuff, p.t.h.w, 100's of reddit & google searches....just looking for some assistance if possible.
Cheers :)

A: Your question is quite broad and it could easily turn into entire programming tutorial, so here are few points to get you started.

*

*First file looks OK. You are correct to open Excel file and read rows in loop. What you are missing is that instead of opening new web browser tab, you should call you scraper function.

*You can simply paste entire scraper code in place of webbrowser.open_new_tab(url) call in first file. Better yet, put it in function and call that function in first file. Better yet, keep scraper in separate file and make it importable module. Creating python modules might be daunting task, so you may want to defer it until you feel more comfortable with language.

*Target CSV file is opened in append mode, which means that no data will be overwritten - that is good. Depending on how much data you gather from one site, you might want to use separate file for each loop iteration. This requires storing file name in variable instead of hardcoding it. You might look into os module to learn how to check if file exists, how to create directory for all these CSV files etc.

*Instead of hardcoding number of rows to read, you should read them until you find empty cell or some out-of-bound exception is raised.

*Questions like that are probably better suited to reddit or similar programming-learning community.


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Dianne Phillips Honored for Pro Bono Work on Behalf of Children with Special Needs
BOSTON (March 4, 2020) – The Federation for Children with Special Needs has selected Holland & Knight Partner Dianne Phillips to receive its 2020 Founders Award. The award honors Ms. Phillips for her career-long commitment to providing pro bono representation that has benefited children with special needs and others.
In particular, the award recognizes Ms. Phillips's involvement in representing a group of limited English proficient (LEP) parents in a lawsuit that claimed a school system failed to provide adequate translation and interpretation of documents and discussions during meetings, including involving special education services. As a result of this federal court action, the school system has substantially revised its policies and procedures, hired trained interpreters and trained bilingual staff, all to better serve LEP parents.
"Dianne has helped so many children – some with special needs, some unaccompanied minors, and others – that she truly has changed lives for the better," said Pamela Nourse, executive director of the Federation. "On behalf of the Federation board and staff, we are proud to honor Dianne."
"To have my efforts on behalf of special needs children and their families recognized in this way is truly an honor," said Ms. Phillips. "The Federation does wonderful work and I am proud to have played a role, however small, in helping them fulfill their mission."
The award will be presented at the Federation's annual gala on Friday, May 8, at the Marriott Long Wharf in Boston. Learn more about the gala here.
Dianne R. Phillips
Linda Butler
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Animal Protection Coalition, Inc.
501(c)3 Public Charity Tax ID# 35-2135030
The Animal Protection Coalition, Inc. was established in December of 2000 by Suzanne deVaucenne, after she rescued two neglected and extremely ill French Poodle puppies from an Indianapolis pet store. Suzanne, a lifelong animal lover, humane educator and animal welfare advocate decided to become a louder voice on behalf of all animals.
In addition to providing a safe haven for homeless animals in need of rescue, the Animal Protection Coalition focuses on adoption, rehabilitation, and education. Supporting hopes of improving animal welfare in Indiana, we also have a history of working to help prosecutors, humane societies, animal shelters, and animal control officers with the enforcement of current Indiana animal welfare laws.
Our past President, Anthony R. Caldwell had an extensive background in law enforcement, science, health and research. He was elected President of Animal Protection Coalition, Inc. in 2003. He was one of the original founders of the Indiana Horse Rescue in 1998. IHR, an equine rescue organization dedicated to preventing unnecessary slaughter and abuse of horses, joined forces with Animal Protection Coalition, Inc. in 2002.
APC experienced substantial growth as a powerful advocate for animal welfare in the State of Indiana. In 2006 Cast-A-Way Critters joined the APC Team. We continue to strive to help animals in need an hope that you would support us in our endeavors.
President: Kathryn Caldwell
Vice President: Kimberly K Moore
Sec/Treasurer: Alesia Brown
Director: A. Gene Watchbaugh
Board Advisors & Administrators
Legal: Marvin Coffey
Medical: McDavitt Veterinary Clinic
Division Managers
APC Cast -A- Way Critters: David Dahms
Indiana Horse Rescue: Kathryn Caldwell
916 S Prairie Ave
Frankfort, IN 46041-7438
e-mail - animalprotectioncoalition@gmail.com
To use PayPal for donations, please go to PayPal use INHorseRescue@gmail.com as the email
address for donations. The PayPal logo link is not working at this time
Animal Protection Coalition, Inc. prohibits discrimination in employment, adoptions, volunteer opportunities, educational programs, and activities on the basis of race, national origin, color, creed, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, associational preference, or any other criteria protected by law.


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The Daily Heller: Buttonmania!
By Steven HellerPosted September 17, 2020 ∙ 3 min. read
Buttons with pin backs were essential pop culture apparel long before many of you were born. They were used to identify, advertise, protest, show allegiance and entertain. Buttons represented commerce, politics, religion, ideology and just about anything that society threw out in the public sphere. They were awards and rewards, fads and fancies. As a young politically minded kid, I'd scoop them up from campaign offices and hawkers on streets and in storefronts. As a slightly older hippie, I'd frequent the various button shops in the East and West Village. I'd cover my army surplus jacket with them, adding an extra few pounds to the garment. There was no shortage of buttons to be had. I loved the lenticular ones that showed two messages when rocked back and forth. My most treasured button was given to me by John F. Kennedy during his primary election campaign. During the subsequent presidential election, I would go to Nixon headquarters, take handfuls of "Nixon's The One" pins and quickly dispose of them in garbage cans nearby.
I still have a few antique buttons I've collected over the years, but most were thrown out long ago. This is why I'm so glad to have Button Power (Princeton Architectural Press) by Christen Carter and Ted Hake. This is an orgy of button love, including chapters on Arts, Campaigns, Nature, People, Places, War and Anti-war, and more, more, more. Two essays provide history and context. One is a brief history of the Pin-Back button; the other is Randolfe Wicker's recollection of his seminal store, Underground Uplift Unlimited, the primary outlet in the Hippie Sixties. In fact, I knew Randy and his partner back then, and sometimes wondered what happened to him (I seem to recall that when buttons lost favor, his shop became a lighting store).
We all have tasted the fruit of and felt the pin-prick of buttons. Nonetheless, I asked Carter, founder of the popular Chicago-based Busy Beaver Button Company (where I've ordered buttons for various celebrations) and chief tour-giver of the Button Museum, what's so special about them. She responded: "There's something about them being an intentional object, as in thoughtful with the design, the messaging and getting them made for a specific reason. And then, this object calls attention to itself and the wearer. Plus, they are shareable because they are created in multiples and accessible ([they] cost pennies!). There's a gift aspect of the object itself and of the idea expressed on the button. But ultimately I think the charm is how buttons connect people through expressing the things we care about." He said to beware: His answer might be too serious. But it sounds good to me. "It's kinda a chicken and the egg situation, but since buttons create community … buttons can be aspirational."
Along those lines, they can also be confrontational, as was my personal favorite button. Although I don't see it in the book, it read, "I Am An Enemy of the People." My parents hated it.
Posted inDesign Books ∙ History ∙ The Daily Heller
Steven Heller has written for Print since the 1980s. He is co-chair of SVA MFA Designer as Entrepreneur. The author, co-author and editor of over 200 books on design and popular culture, he is the recipient of the Smithsonian Institution National Design Award for "Design Mind," the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement and other honors. He was a senior art director at the New York Times for 33 years and a writer of obituaries and book review columnist for the Times. His memoir, Growing Up Underground (Princeton Architectural Press) will be published in 2022.
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Here's What The American Chemical Society Learned When It Launched A Content-Marketing Studio
A nearly 150-year-old association innovates with a big investment in a fast-growing form of advertising.
Here's What The American Chemical Society Learned When It Launched A Content-Marketing Studio
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What's the new currency of advertising? It's content. Ad spend is declining across the media industry—except in content marketing.
From native posts to ebooks and even lush print magazines, the form is booming. In fact, the global content marketing industry will grow at an annual rate of 16% per year through 2021, reaching $412 billion by the end of 2021, according to a report published last November by the British market-research firm Technavio.
Media companies, knowing marketers are dissatisfied with traditional approaches, are pivoting accordingly. They use their brand credibility to create meaningful customer relationships for sponsors and advertisers by telling stories—not about the advertisers, but about the advertisers' customers and the interests and values they share.
Across the media industry, news-gathering operations are creating specialized content studios to serve this growing market. This trend is seen in the non-profit space as well—associations, societies, academies, institutes and the like. One example is the C&EN BrandLab, a content studio for the American Chemical Society's Chemical & Engineering News, which reaches the society's membership of 156,000 scientists, as well as millions of people in the worldwide chemical community.
The BrandLab launched in April 2017 to serve the marketing needs of chemical and pharmaceutical companies, and help transform part of the nearly 150-year-old ACS into a marketing-agency startup. At last month's Association Media & Publishing Conference, held in Washington, D.C., the BrandLab gave a presentation on the lessons it's learned from its foray into content marketing. Here are some highlights.
Like virtually all content studios, the C&EN BrandLab uses its position as a media organization—possessing an audience, plus journalism skill and established market credibility—to develop, create and distribute marketers' stories. "You might think that marketers know their audiences, but it's always a surprise how much they can learn from what we know," says Senior Content Editor Jeffrey Lee, who gave the AM&P presentation along with his colleague, Account Manager Kirsten Dobson.
And then, according to the presentation, the statistical context is compelling: In addition to the spending prediction, Lee and Dobson cited data indicating that 70 percent of advertisers are shifting to content marketing, and that 35 percent of publishers established a brand studio in 2017. Combine these trends with C&EN's market credibility and distribution channels, and it becomes a business opportunity with great clarity.
Among the 10 lessons C&EN learned in the year after launching a brand studio:
Find the right business model and scale smart. Lee said that after piloting the concept with a couple of clients, the BrandLab scaled up and went to work, bringing on a five-person team that includes Executive Editor Raj Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Director for Global Advertising Sales and C&EN Marketing Stephanie Holland, and Creative Director Kay Youn in addition to Lee and Dobson.
Sell solutions, not products. Here, Lee and Dobson covered a lot of the techniques essential for any salesperson to be successful: Be consultative; study the marketing needs of clients and prospects; ask questions; carefully define success. One thing that C&EN does differently, though, is establish an internal "owner" for each of eight steps in the sales and execution process, from consultation through to creating a plan that includes timelines and deliverables.
Tailor content to the buying cycle. This seems like a simple notion, but it isn't. The content-marketing method has to match the marketing goals, and the content itself has to align with the buyer universe and the purchase cycle. Of course, there are many stages, and here too, the BrandLab has mapped products to cycles and audience segments. "At the end of the day," says Dobson, "they're still going to ask, 'When am I going to sell my product?'"
Don't lower editorial standards. Quality editorial rings true, Dobson and Lee said in their presentation, and internal research has shown their readers get something out of native advertising. Beyond that, it comes down to basic journalism: Don't run thinly veiled marketing pitches and be prepared to push back on marketers who want that. Have clear ethical guidelines. Branded content should have the same standards as any other, with air-tight editing, fact checking and proofing. "With great content and great execution comes great results," Lee says. "A recent ebook [the title was "The Modern Chemist's Guide to Hydrogen Peroxide and Peracetic Acid"] smashed records in terms of the number of leads it generated.
Audience always comes first. Brands that start with their audience's pain points in mind tend to do best, Dobson says. Ask what's truly "native" for your audience. "Stand by your commitment to your readers and your credibility will pay off," she added.
Don't forget distribution and discoverability. Great content that no one reads doesn't have much value. Great content, the C&EN BrandLab team learned, will produce trickle-down revenue for other channels and activities. And in turn, those other channels—live events, special reports, social media, and others—serve as their own distribution options. Still, the BrandLab's formula is to ensure that it feeds its distribution channels with 70 % content and only 30% promotional material.
Create once, publish everywhere. The BrandLab tries to be platform agnostic, knowing that one size does not fit all. Develop cornerstone content, Lee suggests, and then reuse it as appropriate in webinars, social media, quizzes, events, and elsewhere. And what's more, as a piece of cornerstone content is used in multiple ways, more metrics are available to share with the sponsor.
Design (with purpose) sells. Great design sets you apart from the competition, but design without purpose is merely aesthetics, Dobson and Lee said in the presentation. Advertisers need to be able to see themselves in comps, mockups, media kits and more.
Collaboration is key. Branded content campaigns are not like organic editorial content, or traditional ad campaigns, in the sense that the sponsor expects deep involvement and signoff, as well as regular communication as a project moves forward. This can be a planning and coordination challenge, but in the end, it's the difference between a positive client experience and the alternative. If there is an agency as a middle man, make sure nothing is lost in translation, Dobson and Lee cautioned.
Educate the market. Education underlies just about everything the BrandLab does, and it takes a lot of forms, from promoting thought leadership to using content in advertiser promotions, reinforcing brand and category leadership, and generating and nurturing sales leads.
In the end, they concluded, be nimble. Be prepared to adapt. "With certain clients, we pitched five different ideas and ended up using one of them," Dobson and Lee said.
Written by Tony Silber and originally published on Forbes
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"They still haven't found the bodies," Claudio Rodriguez told Infobae.
By JOE GOLDMAN
BUENOS AIRES -- Nearly two weeks after Argentina's navy lost contact with a submarine in the Atlantic Ocean, relatives of the 44 crew members on board are expressing their frustration with the investigation into their disappearance.
The brother of the chief machinist on the missing vessel, Hernan Rodriguez, told Argentine news website Infobaehe was angry with Argentina's naval authorities and government.
"They still haven't found the bodies," Claudio Rodriguez told the Infobae last week. "When they do, and when they bring them home -- that is, if they can -- I, as family, will expect that some of the top brass pay for this."
Itatí Leguizamon, a lawyer whose husband, German Suarez, was aboard the submarine, told "La Noche de Mirtha", a national television talk show, on Saturday that the Argentine government had sent contradictory signals.
She told the show it had frozen the crew members' assets, which she claimed was typically done when people are believed to be dead.
"At the same time, the navy is telling us they are not dead, that they still hold out hope that they survived," Leguizamon told "La Noche de Mirtha."
Last week, Leguizamon told ABC News that authorities said they believed there had been an explosion on board.
Sound heard in Argentine sub search was likely 'explosion'
Leguizamon also said that her husband had expressed his doubts to her about the safety of the submarine, the ARA San Juan.
"He had the sensation every time he boarded [the submarine] that it was like a Russian roulette," she said.
Marta Vallejos, whose brother, Cesar Vallejos, was on board, began a fast on Sunday and told reporters outside the base the next day that she would continue "until all the crew members return home."
Vallejos asked Argentina to unite behind the missing submariners "so that a miracle can happen." She said she supported the Argentine navy and had faith the crew members -- who she called "very professional, well-trained and prepared for situations like this" -- would all come home safely.
The navy said today that some more specialized equipment had arrived at the search area off Argentina's coast, where the submarine went missing during a trip from the country's southern tip to Mar del Plata, a city farther north on Argentina's coast. The search, navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said, was now concentrating on about 1,544 square miles of water and involved 28 ships, nine airplanes, and over 4,000 people from 18 countries.
The navy has said that the vessel's last communication took place on Nov. 15 and that its commander had complained of battery and electrical issues before the vessel disappeared.
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PHOTO: This undated handout photo made available by the Argentine Navy on Nov. 17, 2017, shows the ARA San Juan submarine.
Last week, officials said a sound had been detected near the vessel's last known location that suggested an explosion had occurred soon after the submarine went missing. On Monday, they said that water had entered the submarine's snorkel and short circuited the battery.
Argentina's President Mauricio Macri has barely addressed the topic of the submarine in public. Last week, he held a contentious meeting with family members in Mar del Plata, Argentina, where relatives have congregated at a naval base. On Friday, he gave a three-minute statement at navy headquarters without taking any questions. Argentina's Defense Minister Oscar Aguad has also made few statements in public.
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This photo provided by the Argentine Navy shows U.S. Navy members searching for Argentina's missing ARA San Juan submarine as they fly over the Southern Atlantic, after leaving a base in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, Nov. 27, 2017.
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The liaison said he has regularly briefed the relatives before updates on the search have been shared with reporters.
Leguizamon, whose husband was on board, told reporters outside the base on Monday that she had been blocked from entering the base in Mar del Plata because of her public statements, although she did not say who was preventing her access.
But the navy liaison denied the military had stopped her.
"We don't deny any family members entry to the base," he said. "But there are divisions and hard feelings, especially when aired in public."


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Q: Проблема отправки писем. Bitrix У меня странная проблема происходит с классом CEvent::Send. Организовал рассылку писем адресам, которые берутся из input. input добавляются динамически по кнопке (нажал добавить email появился еще input). Все адреса собираются в один массив и добавляются 'EMAIL' => $values Затем происходит отправка писем, письма приходят адресатам но их слишком много (я насчитал порядка 100) хотя кнопку "отправить email" нажал один раз.
Код:

function addUsesOutSystem() {
        var valInput = {};
        var i = 0;
        $('.edd').each(function() {
            valInput[i] = this.value;
            i++;
        })
        var data = {
            'action' : 'addUsesOutSystem',
            'valInput' : valInput,
            'IBLOCK_ID' : '<?=$_REQUEST["IBLOCK_ID"]?>',
            'ELEMENT_ID' : '<?=$_REQUEST["ELEMENT_ID"]?>'
        };
        $.ajax({
            url: "/api/",
            type: "POST",
            data: data,
            success: function(json){
                console.log(data);
                $('.but').html(data);
                // alert(data);
                if (!json.error) {
                    $('.yes2').html('Отправлено');
                }else {
                    $('.yes2').html('Не отправлено');
                }
                return "";
            }
        });
    }

Код обработчик этой функции:

if ($_POST['valInput']) {

                $values[] = $_POST['valInput'];
                $arSelect = Array("ID", "IBLOCK_ID", "NAME", "DATE_ACTIVE_TO", "DATE_ACTIVE_FROM", "PROPERTY_*");
                $arFilter = Array("IBLOCK_ID"=> $_REQUEST["IBLOCK_ID"], '=ID' => $_REQUEST['ELEMENT_ID']);
                $res = CIBlockElement::GetList(Array(), $arFilter, false, false, $arSelect);
                while($ob = $res->GetNextElement()){
                    $arFields = $ob->GetFields();
                    $arProps = $ob->GetProperties();
                    $arFields['PROP'] = $arProps;
                    $arNelikvid = $arFields;
                }

                $textItem = '';
                if (!$arNelikvid['PROP']['template_mail']['~VALUE']['TEXT']) {
                    $arPorText = array();

                    $arPorText['TEXT_POST'] = COption::GetOptionString('sinergo_post', 'TextPost6');
                    if (COption::GetOptionString('sinergo_post', 'ValPost6')) {
                        $arSelect = Array("ID", "IBLOCK_ID", "NAME", "PROPERTY_POST");
                        $arFilter = Array("IBLOCK_CODE" => 'POST_COMPANU', '=ID' => COption::GetOptionString('sinergo_post', 'ValPost6'));
                        $res = CIBlockElement::GetList(Array(), $arFilter, false, false, $arSelect);
                        $arResult = array();
                        while($ob = $res->GetNextElement()){
                            $arFields = $ob->GetFields();
                            $arPorText['POST_VALUE'] = $arFields['PROPERTY_POST_VALUE'].': '.$arFields['NAME'];
                        }
                    }

                $arSelect = array('SELECT' => array('UF_SHORTNAME', 'UF_DIRECTOR', 'UF_NAME', 'UF_MIDNAME', 'UF_SHORTNAME'));
                $rsUsers = CUser::GetList(($by="id"), ($order = "asc"), $filter, $arSelect); // выбираем пользователей
                while($reg = $rsUsers->Fetch()){
                    $arUses[] = $reg;
                }

                $arPorText1 = array();
                foreach ($arNelikvid['PROP'] as $arNelikvidProp) {
                    if ($arNelikvidProp['CODE'] == 'ADMIN_PROC') {
                        if ($arNelikvidProp['VALUE']) {
                            $filter = Array(
                                "ID" => $arNelikvidProp['VALUE']
                            );

                        }else{
                            $filter = Array(
                                "ID" => '1'
                            );
                        }
                        $arSelect = array('SELECT' => array('UF_SURNAME', 'UF_NAME', 'UF_MIDNAME', 'UF_SHORTNAME', 'UF_MOBILE'));
                        $rsUsers = CUser::GetList(($by="ID"), ($order = "asc"), $filter, $arSelect); // выбираем пользователей
                        while($reg = $rsUsers->Fetch()){
                            $adminProd = $reg;
                        }
                        $arPorText1['ADMIN_PROC_EMAIL'] = $adminProd['EMAIL'];
                        $arPorText1['ADMIN_PROC_PHONE'] = $adminProd['UF_MOBILE'];
                    }
                }

                foreach ($arPorText1 as $code => $val) {
                    $textItem = str_replace('#'.$code.'#', $val, $textItem);
                }

                foreach($arUses as $usesItem){
                    $textItem= str_replace('№В-0', '№ '.numMail().'В-0', $textItem);
                    $textItem = str_replace('#POST_ADDRES#', 'Директор', $textItem);
                    $textItem = str_replace('#COMPANU_ADDRES#', $usesItem['UF_SHORTNAME'], $textItem);
                    $textItem = str_replace('#FIO_ADDRES#', $usesItem['UF_SURNAME'].' '.$usesItem['UF_NAME'].' '.$usesItem['UF_MIDNAME'].' '.$usesItem['UF_DIRECTOR'], $textItem);
                    $arEventFields = array('TEXT' => $textItem, 'EMAIL' => $values, 'ELEMENT_ID' => $_REQUEST['ELEMENT_ID']);

                }
                CEvent::Send("Invitation_procedure_illiquid_assets", "s1", $arEventFields, "Y", 35);

                $json = array(
                    'error' => false
                );

            }else {
                $json = array(
                    'error' => true
                );
            }

A:
письма приходят адресатам но их слишком много

Вот тут
$rsUsers = CUser::GetList(($by="id"), ($order = "asc"), $filter, $arSelect);

в качестве фильтра вы указываете $filter, который нигде не объявлен. В итоге вместо избранных вы получаете ВСЕХ пользователей.