Fixed an issue where rows in list view could show incorrect information.
Fixed an issue where the cloud / share icon wouldn't always be shown in icon view.
Possible performance improvements when viewing large notes and text documents.
For clarity "Rename" item in the File menu now includes the name of the list to be renamed.
Fixed a crash that could occur while updating search suggestions.
Fixed an issue where it wouldn't always be possible to move an item to Deleted Items.
Fixed a crash that could occur when saving thumbnails to iCloud.
Quick Look previews for vCards will no longer be shown as these will crash the app.
Fixed an issue on High Sierra where PDFs set to auto-scale may not always be scrolled to the top when first viewed.
Fixed an issue where importing a single file with the Import View would copy rather than move the original file when appropriate.
When importing a single file, any tags already on the file will now be shown in the Import View.
Fixed an issue where the default import destination would be selected in Import View but not necessarily used.
Fixed an issue that could occur after clicking Save when there are uncommitted tags on the Import View.
Fixed an issue dragging items whose original files do not exist from the list view.
Fixed an issue where clicking a favorite folder's icon would not select the favorite when the folder has no subfolders.
Improved animation when removing favorite lists.
Improved the appearance of text from Safari dragged, pasted or added via the Services menu.
Fixed an issue where notes and rich text documents with attachments may not be scrolled to the top when first viewed.
Fixed an issue where tags would not be included on exported notes.
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Fixed an issue where thumbnails for notes and rich text documents would not be cropped correctly when the original images are not 72dpi.
When there is no free text in the search field, but there is an individual content term, this will now be used when highlighting found text within documents – otherwise the free text will be used.
Fixed an issue where using the Add to Keep It service for files with the "Show import view" option enabled would do nothing.
Improved the appearance of the name field in the Share extension when the name spans more than a single line.
Fixed an issue where Quick Look previews of note files could be flipped.
Fixed a crash that could occur when importing some Together notes.
Fixed an issue importing Evernote files.
Fixed an issue dragging items to the Finder from icon view on macOS Sierra.
Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging items for some files whose original application is not installed.
Fixed a crash that could occur when switching lists.
Fixed an issue where a thumbnail won't be generated for a newly saved web PDF or archive.
Fixed an issue where the preview could show "No Item Selected" when the main window is minimized.
Fixed an issue where a saved search couldn't be removed.
Background colors can now be changed and are honoured in rich text files.
Options for the item list have been moved from General preferences to the View Options popover. Click the list icon above the list to see that, or choose View > Show View Options from the menu.
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Items in the list now animate when added / removed / renamed.
Performance improvements in the items list when importing and downloading items from iCloud.
Switch to icon view using the View menu or using the View Options popover.
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Web Links can now be saved as Web Archives in addition to single-page and paginated PDFs. Set the default format in Import preferences.
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It's now possible to customize the fonts and colours of standard styles by clicking the Edit Styles button in Fonts preferences or by choosing Format > Styles > Edit Styles from the menu when editing a note.
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Choose Edit > Find > Find from the menu to find text within PDFs.
"Manage Stationery" is now shown in the Add toolbar menu.
All thumbnails will be updated at startup.
Improved the appearance of the Info toolbar button.
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Fixed an issue restoring note windows tabbed with the library window.
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Video Board XE site has been just started. VBXE, created by Electron/Taquart, is a programmable, FPGA based graphics subsystem for Atari XE computers with its own 512 KB memory and blitter. It replaces standard GTIA, giving a possibility to use two 256-color palettes selected from 65536 available colors in Graphics 8 mode resolution. More info at project site, created by Izi (currently only in Polish).
no dobra, jest wersja beta, a kiedy finish ?
a bedzie ta zabawka w glucholazach?
Pajero;- ale ostatecznie jedzieta, czy nie??


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Zidane is the 11th coach to return for a second spell at Real Madrid
There are countless motives which must have driven Florentino Pérez to recover Zidane for a second stint on the Real Madrid bench. Before Zizozu, 10 coaches have been lured back to the Bernabéu – all under different circumstances and with mixed results – it turned out well for half of them.
Jacinto Quincoces (Salió en 1946 y volvió en 1947)
Quincoces was the first to return for a second spell. After guilding the team to lift the Copa in 1945-46, he returned but enjoyed less success the second tome around – he won just five out of 18 gamesand was replaced by Michael Alexander Keeping, who remained in the post until 1950.
Baltasar Albeniz (Salió en 1947 y volvió en 1950)
He also won the Copa in his first season (1946-1947) and like Quincoces, had a nightmare when he came back in 1950-51, lasting just 16 games before being replaced.
Miguel Muñoz (Salió en 1959 y volvió en 1960)
Muñoz occupied the Madrid bench for the first time in 1959 solely on an iterim basis to cover for Luis Carniglia who'd fallen ill. From that provisional role would come a longer lasting one – he was back a decade later in 1960 to embark on one of the most glorious eras in the club's history: he stayed in the job until 1974, winning the league nine times, two European Cups, several other, now-defunct trophies – including the Intercontinental Cup. Even today, he is the most honoured Real Madrid coach of all-time.
Luis Molowny (Left in 1974 and returned in 1977, 1982 and 1985)
Molowny took over from Muñoz in 1974 and toasted a Copa del Rey triumph in his first season. At the end of the year, he returned to his previous post coaching the reserves but would be hired by the senior side three more times. He substitutedMiljan Miljanic in 1977 and won back-to-back league titles. On express petition by the board, he also took over from Boskov, and guided the team to the 1981-82 Copa del Rey final. He came to the rescue again in April 1985 to replace Amancio; he completed that season and another one, winning one league, a League Cup and two UEFA Cups.
Di Stéfano (Left in 1984, returned 1990)
Between 1982 and 1984, Di Stéfano worked wonders for the team just as he had as a player. His side didn't win anything but he was thought highly enough of to return at the end of 1990 and in March 1991 his team won the Spanish Super Cup.
Leo Beenhakker (Left in 1989, returned 1992)
In his first three seasons he won three Ligas, the Copa del Rey and two Spanish Super Cups. It was always going to be difficult to live up to that when he returned to the club in 1992, taking over from Radomir Antic; his Madrid side ended as runners-up to Barça in LaLiga by just one point, lost the Copa del Rey final to Atlético) and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup in the semi-finals.
Del Bosque (Left in 1994, returned in 1996 and 1999)
A club man through and through like Molowny, Del Bosque oversaw a handful of first team games when the club was without a coach in 1994 and 1996. In 1999, after John Toshack was sacked, he finally was handed a real opportunity which he grasped – his Madrid collected seven trophies (two Champions Leagues, two leagues, one Intercontinental Cup, a European Super Cup and a Spanish Super Cup).
John Toshack (Left in 1990 and returned in 1999)
His team won the league and set a points record but he was unable to carry that success through in his second season. He was back in 1999 but it didn't work out,apart from handing Iker Casillas his first team debut Tosh has a miserable few months and was sacked in November.
José Antonio Camacho (Left in 1999 and returned in 2004)
Two quite similar spells: in 1999 he hardly lasted a month in the post and in 2004, just six games… In both cases he left after failing to see eye to eye with the board.
Fabio Capello (Left in 1997 and returned in 2006)
He was brought in in 1996 and took the team to the league title in his debut season. He did it all over again in 2006-07, bringing the team back into contention when they were all but written off. He was criticized for his team's playing style and was offloaded ahead of the following season.

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Retailers Closing the Most Stores
By Evan Comen and Michael B. Sauter	March 21, 2017 6:00 am | Last updated: January 12, 2020 1:47 pm
Source: Vanity, Inc. / Wikimedia Commons
6. Vanity
> Closings: 137
> Total stores: 137
> Industry: Women's clothing
Based in Fargo, North Dakota, Vanity has sold women's clothing in malls throughout the United States for over 50 years. In early 2017, however, Vanity announced its intention to close all 137 of its locations after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Vanity's bankruptcy announcement comes at a time when more and more consumers are doing their shopping online rather than at the mall, which Board Chairman Jim Bennett cited as a primary reason behind the company's poor sales performance. The company has indicated on its website that liquidation sales have begun and that all sales are final.
5. Crocs
> Industry: Specialty footwear
Crocs, Inc. revenue fell by roughly 5.0%, or $54.4 million, between 2015 and 2016. In the wake of falling sales, Crocs announced in March 2017 the promotion of a new CEO, several changes to its executive team, and a number of future store closings. Current President Andrew Rees will assume the CEO role as well. The company will also establish a new e-commerce division and close 160 of its retail locations by the end of 2018. Crocs is one of many retailers that are doubling down on e-commerce while slimming their brick-and-mortar operations. While the company's retail sales fell by 5.0% between 2015 and 2016, Crocs's e-commerce sales increased by 7.9%.
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Source: Phillip Pessar / Wikimedia Commons
4. Wet Seal
> Industry: Women's apparel
Wet Seal filed for bankruptcy protection in February for the second time in its history, claiming assets valued between $10 million and 50 million and liabilities between $50 million and 100 million. The teen clothing chain joins a number of brick-and-mortar retailers struggling with the growing trend among shoppers of purchasing items online. Like most retailers, Wet Seal has its own web option for customers, although its efforts to grow online sales clearly have not kept pace with the declining in-store sales.
According to court documents, Wet Seal's largest creditor is FedEx Corporation, which is owed $608,977. Creditors with the largest unsecured claims also include Celebrity Pink, GF Holdings, and Google.
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GSMA: CEPT has work to do in terms of mobile broadband spectrum
The GSMA's deputy chief regulatory officer said the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) must do more to ensure adequate spectrum is available to meet growing consumer demand for mobile broadband access.
John Giusti said CEPT had taken a positive step by identifying additional spectrum that could be utilised for wireless data services at a recent meeting in Bergen, Norway. However, the GSMA believes CEPT must do more to ensure European countries have flexibility to utilise spectrum in alternative bands to match consumer demand, he added.
Giusti was referring to CEPT's identification of L-band spectrum between 1427 MHz and 1518 MHz as a potential means of offering mobile broadband services. The CEPT is due to recommend use of this spectrum at the forthcoming World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15) in November.
"Europe has shown strong leadership for this band, which has made it highly likely that this band will have widespread support at WRC-15," Giusti said, noting that global harmonisation of L-band "will drive economies of scale that will benefit consumers around the world."
However, Giusti said the GSMA was disappointed by a separate CEPT decision "to oppose any use of the 2.7-2.9 GHz band for mobile broadband," noting that such spectrum "is only lightly used in most countries in Europe and around the world and would be an attractive capacity band to help tackle the growing need for high bandwidth mobile data."
The GSMA deputy chief regulatory officer also commented on spectrum decisions taken at a European Commission (EC) level.
While on the one hand the GSMA "welcomes the lead taken by Europe in promoting the use of a significant amount of C-band spectrum, from 3.4-3.8 GHz, for mobile broadband," the association is keen to see the EC "take a more flexible approach regarding use of UHF spectrum below 700 MHz" to meet growing consumption of mobile multimedia content.
Giusti said that the GSMA accepted that "some free-to-air traditional broadcast delivery will remain essential" on UHF, but also believes "there should be flexibility in how UHF spectrum is used in order to maximise the benefit of this spectrum for the citizens of Europe."
Not enabling such flexibility means that "Europe runs the risk to [sic] fall behind other regions in the mobile internet race," Giusti explained.
Andrus Ansip, the EC's vice president for the Digital Single Market, recently told FierceWireless:Europe that spectrum fragmentation must be addressed in order to promote consistent regulations covering the region's mobile markets. The commissioner said spectrum is vital for connectivity, and predicted the value of spectrum enabled services will grow from €500 billion ($564 billion) today to "approximately €1 trillion by 2023."
- see this GSMA statement
GSMA mobile IoT project backed by major EU operators, infrastructure companies
Qualcomm agrees €139M L-band spectrum deal with Vodafone UK and Three UK
GSMA tells Arab States to allocate UHF spectrum for mobile
GSMA DG says EC must back plans for joint mobile and broadcast usage of UHF frequencies


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All is True @ Broadway Cinema
All is True is the obvious culmination of Kenneth Branagh's career – after thirty years of making Shakespeare films, he has finally cast himself as Shakespeare. From Branagh's silicone-augmented performance to the Patrick Doyle score to the sun-bathed bucolic backdrops, All is True is a Branagh film through and through, for good and for ill. …
Twelfth Night (Shanty Productions)
Twelfth Night is Shanty Productions' debut film, as well as the feature debut of director/adaptor Adam Smethurst. It's quite a launch for an independent film company, with a truly excellent cast, fine use of the West Sussex countryside, and an effective publicity machine. And while the film betrays some awkwardness in its execution and some …
The Tempest (Donmar/Illuminations) @ BBC iPlayer
In the final entry in Phyllida Lloyd's Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy, it is Harriet Walter's turn to take the stand for a testimony at the start of the performance. The oldest prisoner at 66, 'Hannah' was the getaway driver for a politically motivated bank robbery which ended with two police officers dead. Refusing to recognise the …
Henry IV (Donmar/Illuminations) @ BBC iPlayer
Following the release of Julius Caesar in cinemas last year, Phyllida Lloyd's 'Donmar Trilogy' is finally available on BBC iPlayer, giving me the chance to belatedly catch up with Henry IV and The Tempest. The films, with live camera direction by Rhodri Huw, offer an extraordinary document of an extraordinary theatrical event, and one can …
Veeram @ Ulster Museum
One of the many advantages of Ramona Wray and Mark Thornton Burnett hosting this year's British Shakespeare Association conference in Belfast was that, in line with their research interests, the conference featured an extraordinary line-up of international Shakespearean film. I didn't get to all, but I was pleased to catch the British premiere of Veeram, …
King Lear @ The BBC
Richard Eyre is quite well-represented in the category of made-for-TV films of King Lear; he directed the screen version of his own National Theatre production back in 1998 and now, twenty years later and with a more substantial budget, he directs a rare one-off television film. That budget doesn't particularly register in the cramped sets, …
Julius Caesar (Donmar/Illuminations) @ The Broadway, Nottingham
I missed all performances of Phyllida Lloyd's Shakespeare Trilogy when they originally played at the Donmar and, latterly, King's Cross, so I was thrilled to hear that they would be coming to cinemas. The suddenness of Julius Caesar's appearance, and the relative lack of marketing, were hugely disappointing, however. Whereas NT Live and Live from …
Macbeth (GSP Studios) – private pre-release screening @ The Courthouse Hotel, London
Macbeth is a play that has a strong association in the imaginary with its implied landscapes. The images of the heaths, mountains, caves and woods of Scotland, first captured in engravings of scenes from the play in the eighteenth century, and culminating in films such as those of Roman Polanski (1971) and Justin Kurzel (2015), …
Richard II (National Theatre/Illuminations) on DVD
We owe Illuminations a huge debt of gratitude. Its ongoing 'Screen Plays' series, reviving and making available classic television productions, has already brought us An Age of Kings and The Wars of the Roses, and now it delivers a beautifully transferred recording of Deborah Warner's seminal Richard II, the 1997 television version of the 1995 …
Black (dir. Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah) @ Broadway Cinema
Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's Black is painful and upsetting. It's hardly the first film to reimagine Romeo and Juliet as an urban gang war, a setting that reappears from West Side Story to Romeo and Juliet in Harlem, and canonised as a reading by Baz Luhrmann's inescapable film (quoted visually here in a …
The Bardathon is Dr Peter Kirwan's Shakespeare review blog. Originally set up in 2006 to chronicle the RSC Complete Works Festival, The Bardathon chronicles new productions of early modern plays around the UK, as well as related films, documentaries, books and events. The blog aims to combine the analysis of academic criticism with the quick format of the journalistic review. Please feel free to comment with your own views!
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This 3.3 "D" wide bore shakuhachi is very deeply resonant with a husky sound and look. This is a 100% natural jinashi shakuhachi. No oils or lacquers of any kind. No bore adjustments. Only regular node removal. I bound the top to secure a small crack which is guaranteed for life. Holes are off-set for standard right-hand on bottom players.


Latest menswear arrivals from Norse Porjects have just landed in store, offering clean, simple basics with particular attention to fabric and detail. With a variety of tees, sweats and accessories available, Norse projects is the perfect solution for timeless, minimal menswear. Shop the range here.


Founded in 1857, Borden is a heritage American brand with a high level of consumer awareness. With an entirely new executive team onboard, Borden is ushering in an era of rejuvenation as it looks to grow, innovate with new products and foster a People First culture. The company is seeking a Graphic Designer for the Communications team who will play a critical role in maintaining the visual identity of the New Borden.
The Graphic Designer will lead design and creative initiatives for internal communications, public relations and executive communications. This person will be able to take written or spoken ideas and convert them into creative materials that visually convey the concepts desired to achieve company goals. Designs should inspire, inform and captivate Borden employees and other key audiences.
The Graphic Designer will deliver against brand strategy and ensure continuity in the companys messaging by partnering with the Senior Director of Corporate Communications, the executive team (including the CEO and CHRO in particular), and agency partners.
This role will be responsible for creating and maintaining internal communications materials that promote employee engagement as well as public relations materials to attract interest in the company. Graphic design work will span: PowerPoint presentations, the company intranet, fliers, posters, videos, invitations, emails, the company newsletter, advertisements and more.
Note: The person in this Graphic Designer (Communications) position will work closely with the Marketing Graphic Designer to ensure brand consistency; the Marketing Graphic Designer will be responsible for designing POS materials, labels, and other customer- and consumer-facing collateral.
Creative development for: PowerPoint presentations, advertisements, the employee newsletter, social media, intranet, emails, event collateral, retail and promotional items, video graphics and more.
Ensure creative is consistent with the master brand architecture and positioning.
Work to identify and develop new methods to drive creative efficiencies.
Catalog all assets, presentations, creative, artwork, etc., in a logical and easily accessible manner; ensure assets are up to date.
Identify and address branding issues in relation to design and graphic assets.
Consistently demonstrate integrity, professional maturity, commitment and accountability.
Stay up to date with the latest trends in design, the CPG and dairy industries to keep Borden on the cutting edge of innovation.
Foster strong working relationships across the company, collaborating with the executive team, marketing, sales, communications and agency partners to ensure creative supports business objectives and is on brand.
Seek internal alignment and approvals that meet/exceed deadlines.
4+ years of graphic design experience required.
Bachelors degree required with emphasis in fine arts, design or graphics or equivalent number of years of experience, plus three years of graphic design experience.
Expert proficiency with Adobe CS, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, PowerPoint and MS Office. Video editing, illustration and animation expertise a bonus.
Passion for thoughtful graphic design and brand building.
Experience with integrated marketing work across print, digital, social and experiential.
Knowledge of production procedures, timelines and printing terminology.
Excellent organization skills, reporting skills, attention to detail and ability to effectively collaborate, communicate and influence others.


The pair were consistently excellent throughout the division, winning two classes and placing second in the Under Saddle on Tuesday, then won yet another class on Wednesday with a score of 91. The last class of the division was not as perfect, the pair were only able to post a score of 78.
Colvin made another trip to the center of the ring with the Ingram's Antinore to pick up the Championship in the 3'3" Green Hunter division and the PNHS Green Hunter 3'3" Perpetual Trophy. Antinore won two over fences classes in the division, was first in the Under Saddle, and was second and fourth in the other two over fences classes for the Championship honors.
"This is the second year that the Ingram's have owned him," said Colvin. "He did the 3' last year and I did him in the 3'3" this year. Martha Ingram shows him in the Amateurs and he is really sweet for her. He is the perfect horse, he is so consistent, and jumps right around. He is pretty automatic. Martha and John [Ingram] are both really good riders, so you don't really have to do much to get horses ready for them to ride. It is just getting them a little less green.
Clairvoyant with Christina Serio in the irons for owner Wendy Janesky, won the $15,000 USHJA Green Hunter Incentive Stake with a score of 90. Hemingway, owned by Stephenie Bulger and ridden by Sandra Ferrell placed second with a score of 89 points. Colvin placed fifth with Antinore.


Florence is considered by many to be an open-air museum. If you are interested in architecture, for example, you don't need to visit any museums: many of the palaces and squares are masterpieces of their own.
Designed by Michelozzo, Andrea di Cambio and Brunelleschi, among many others, many of the great palaces and piazzas in Florence are spectacular to behold. The main squares often display statues by Giambologna or Michelangelo. Ponte Vecchio, Old Bridge, is a treasure to admire.
Piazzale Michelangelo is the place to go to get all those beautiful panoramic views of the city and catch a stunning sunset. The viewpoint is to the south of the historical center, here's how to get there either by foot or bus!
Looking for the perfect photo opportunity...or maybe just the most perfect gold "bling" to take home as a souvenir of Florence? Ponte Vecchio is the best place to get both! Connecting the Uffizi to Palazzo Pitti, this bridge is an everlasting symbol of Florence and its endurance over natural and man-made disasters.
Stand in the center of Piazza della Signoria, in the shadow of the imposing Palazzo Vecchio and you will find the ghosts of Florence's past political might. Surrounded by art, architecture and history, this sqaure is the political heart of Florence.
This Florentine square is responsible for connecting the corners of the extended city, all in front of the amazing San Marco church. Almost every tourist passes through these streets heading off to the Accademia, Piazza SS Annunziata or the Duomo of Florence.
Touted as perhaps one of the most beautiful city squares in Florence, Piazza della Santissima Annunziata is shrouded in mystery & elegance. Use our guide to walk around the square and discover its hidden secrets and graceful symmetry.
Situated in an area called Oltrarno, Piazza Santo Spirito boasts a lively atmosphere both day & night. Home to markets & fairs, the square is a meeting point for the young at heart, artists and intellectuals, both Italian & non. The Piazza looks upon the elegant Basilica of Santo Spirito, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.
Love panoramic views? Follow our recommendations on your visit to Florence and climb the Tower of Arnolfo, Giotto's Bell Tower and the Tower of San Niccolò! Enjoy some of the most extraordinary views of Florence from above and create even more special memories of your time in Florence.
The foundation was built by the Romans, with the decumanus and cardo passing through this square. Today, with its many cafes and street artists, it is an inviting piazza. From here you can head in all directions to explore the beauty of Florence.
Piazza Santa Maria Novella is a beautiful square, recently cleaned up and fixed up, that stands before the beautiful church of Santa Maria Novella.
Visit the Medici Villa at Castello and its splendid Italian garden. Designed by Tribolo, the same architect of the famous Boboli Gardens in Florence, the garden's many statues and fountains, the Cave of Animals, secret gardens and more are a delight to enjoy a quiet day during your trip to Florence. Just a bus ride away, and entrance is free!


You can add style and a retro feel to your event with our Pie and Mash Horse Boxes.
Eat Square has taken a couple of horse boxes and converted them in to catering trailers. Done in a retro style they bring a great feeling of tradition to any event.
Available for corporate events, weddings and private catering we tend to offer mostly pie and mash from these. However we can serve other foods and cater for most needs.
For corporate catering its easy to give your guests vouchers to redeem or have specific meals already decided in advance.
Whatever the occasion we can also provide staff to circulate with canape at the beginning before we open the pie and mash trailer for service.
Desserts can also be served from the trailer or at table as required.
For pie and mash weddings we can serve your guests from the hatch at a rate of about 2 a minute. So for a wedding party of 60 it is possible to have everyone served in just half an hour.
With price for pie and mash starting at just £10 a head this is a great way to provide traditional fare for your big day.
Read more about Eat Square wedding catering here.
Like to run your own pie and mash trailer business?
Eat Square offer pie and mash catering trailers as a franchise business. Just follow this link for details.


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A Memorial for the New Economy
Chinar Shah
On the 8th of November 2016, the Government of India demonetised all circulating 500 and 1000 rupee banknotes without warning. This move suddenly invalidated these notes, deeming them unusable in exchange for any goods or service. Instantly, India's heavily cash dependent economy found itself in an unstable position. In the months following this announcement, over a 100 people died as a consequence.
As a society we quickly memorialise the consequences of human conflict, natural disasters, and even of random acts of violence, but financial collapses and its human toll are often ignored or rendered invisible. Within this context, A Memorial for the New Economy proposes a publication as a memorial - one that is neither a grand proclamation, nor a fixed monument, but instead a document dependent on systems of distribution, access and exchange.
Chinar Shah is an artist, writer, academic, and occasional curator. Her work deals with photography and its implications in moments of violence and conflict. She is the founder of Home Sweet Home, an exhibition series that uses domestic spaces to show works of art. She also teaches at the Srishti Institute for Art, Design and Technology (Bangalore, India) and is the co-editor of Photography in India: From Archives to Contemporary Practice (Bloomsbury, UK, 2018).
A Memorial for the New Economy - Chinar Shah
Embroidery: Chinar Shah, Radha Agarwal, Siddiq S, and Aafreen Hand Works
Photography: Mitul Kajaria (Navajivan Trust)
This publication is free, and is hosted online. To download, please click on the following links:
A Memorial for the New Economy.zip (200 MB)


Energy work is one of the principles of successful use of psychic abilities. But energy work can also be dangerous when one doesn't know the principles of safe energy manipulation. Learning these is another step in successfully developing your own psychic powers.
There's a lot of dangers in the field of psychic energies. Knowing the principles of working with psychic energies is a step towards safe psychic development. I remember when I was just starting out – I often suffered from psychic overloads, when I had too much energy in my system and it couldn't handle them.
But I also remember when I pushed to far, and I spent too much energy on making psiballs. This resulted in catching cold and flu a way to often. But with time, the more I read and knew, the more skilled I was in manipulating psychic energies – this resulted in quite safe energy work I perform these days. You should learn some principles as well.
Below are general guidelines for your psychic energy practice. Keep them in mind if you want to stay safe.
Grounding – releasing energies when you have too much of them is an important thing in psychic work. You can either release all the energies, or just part of them, or even specific energies, like these charged with negative emotions that may get you dirty.
Beware of people – when you go among people, set up psychic shield. People who aren't aware of the energies around them and within them, will not try to control them. Thus, they will often project tons of negative energies towards the world. And intentionally or not, you will pick these energies up – I don't need to mention that they can screw up with your entire energy system and emotional state, right?
Don't take too much – when you draw energy from sources like trees, lake or ocean, don't take too much of them. I mean, when you're beginner, take small pieces, but regularly. After few weeks, take more energies, and continue taking more and more, but within reasonable period of time. Take your time, let your energy body get use to larger amounts of psychic energies within you.
Stress not, worry not – don't worry, don't stress, don't be afraid, think in positive way. Negative emotions drain your Chi, your psychic energies that are already stored. The more you worry, the less energies you have, and this gives problem when it comes to using psychic abilities.
Clean yourself – once a week, perform cleansing of your chakras and energy channels. A lot of energetic dirt gets stored within your chakras, and this may turn psychic abilities impossible for you. Just as you clean your physical body each day, you should cleanse your energy body from time to time.
Eat well – junk food, fast food and food prepared with microwave isn't the best choice for you. Keep this in mind, and take care of your diet. Eat well, make sure you eat both meal and vegetables, and when you eat, turn your eating into a magical ritual. This will open you to more psychic energies, and it will improve your psychic abilities.
Meditate a lot – when you meditate, your energies calms down, and you open yourself to the greater psychic energies "from the above". But it also relaxes your mind, and relaxed mind is important in psychic work. So meditate a lot, or at least once a day.
Go for a walk, face the Mother Nature – psychic energies are everywhere, but the more Mother Nature you see, the more energies you face. Go for a walk to a park, or a forest, walk by the beach, spend some time admiring the beauty of the world around you. This is a method of opening yourself for more psychic energies.
This is it – with the tips above, you will keep your energies at bay, and you will constantly develop your energy body further and further.
Do you have another tips and advices regarding safe energy work? What about you? Do you stick to the guidelines above?
One of the most vital components of mastering psychic powers is practicing them!
Psychic ability requires conscientious practice, like learning a musical instrument. Unlike music, however, progress can be hard to measure because it's difficult to know how or when psychic phenomena will happen. The aggravation level can be high, so the key to success is to not give up.
Don't let frustration or failures make you stop. Try your hardest to be realistic. You can't expect to practice for a few days, then master all your innermost psychic abilities! Psychic abilities, even for those who have developed them to a high degree, can be random and inconsistent. The secret is to learn to recognize when your psychic powers are working… and that comes with experience.
Oh, I couldn't think of better comment, thanks Abdul!


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more... Get Wired • Gear • Gear Blog • Pickups & Accessories • Strings • July 2010
String Myths, Part 1
Wallace Marx Jr
Stevie Ray Vaughan's influence on gear and gearheads has been gigantic. Back in the '80s, it seemed as if he almost single-handedly resurrected the Stratocaster, helping boost vintage Strats into a mythic realm. And who else did more to bring the worship of vintage Fender amps to a whole new level?
In one of his earliest major interviews, around 1983, Stevie Ray Vaughan let out a bit of personal information that has had an effect on gear and gearheads to this day. Talking about his now well-known '59 Strat—even then completely trashed—he told the interviewer what string gauges he was using: .013 to .052. The interviewer was surprised and asked him to repeat it. Yep, 13s. I remember reading that interview as a teenager and my jaw dropping.
No one used strings that thick. But now that Stevie Ray did, it started to creep into the consciousness. Thus became the mantra, myth, truth, cliché—whatever you want to call it—in strings: heavier is better. Surely, heavy strings produce better tone. And, surely, only a great player will be able to handle the thicks. So, it follows that if I play heavy strings I am great. The debate goes on. You hear it all the time. "Anybody tried 12s?"
Some myths are meant to be explored, so let's look at some of the great players and the gauge strings they used. Starting with Stevie Ray, we find that, according to most available published information, he did indeed play some of the heaviest gauges available, most consistently 13s. He even went thicker, an astounding .018-.072 at one point. However, on the brown '63 Strat known as Lenny, SRV switched to lighter strings to get a lighter tone. Some nights when his fingers were thrashed he'd go down as light as 11s—back into mere mortal territory. It was rumored that he went to lighter strings later in his life, but I haven't been able to substantiate this.
Swing to another god of guitar, James Marshall Hendrix, undisputed King of Gigantic Tone. One might assume that from gigantic strings come gigantic tone, but check this little tidbit from the absolute must-have book Jimi Hendrix: Musician by Keith Shadwick: "Hendrix described the setup on his Strat around 1967 as 'Fender light-gauge strings, using a regular E-string for the B and sometimes a tenor A-string for a [high] E to get my kind of sound on the Stratocaster. [I] put the strings on with a slightly higher [action] so they can ring longer.' This particular string-swapping routine was a popular modification at the time. It resulted in a set of stings as light as possible, aiding not only the string bending but also finger vibrato. On a later guitar, his black Strat, the surviving strings indicate he preferred 'light' gauges, .009" to .038"."
Now go back to the roots. Early on in rock history, flatwounds were all there were. It wasn't until 1959 when Ernie Ball put together his first sets that you could get some medium or light-gauge strings. Here's another mind- blower: until guys like Ernie Ball came around, aspiring string-benders like Chuck Berry found a secret weapon—banjo strings. Yes, that ultimate rock tone that Chuck Berry got on songs like "Johnny B. Goode," "School Days," and "Sweet Little 16" was derived from 8-gauge or lower banjo strings.
Some more:
Jimmy Page: well-known user of 8-gauge strings.
Danny Gatton: played 10s with a wound G, also played 9s.
Jeff Beck: "On my early stuff, I was playing the thinnest strings you could get, .008s," Beck told Fender.com. "And then the Jimi man came along and told me, 'You can't play with those rubber bands. Get those off there.' So my string gauges have been creeping up ever since. Now I've got .011, .013, .017, .028, .038, and .049. I'm trying to get heavier on the top end."
Billy Gibbons: hipped to light-gauge 8s or 9s by B.B. King. King's take on it is that it takes a lot less stress and strain to play the light stuff. Gibbons' custom set from Dunlop has a 7-gauge high E!
Brian Setzer: 10s straight out of the box.
Peter Frampton: 8s back in the Comes Alive days.
Carlos Santana: 9s
Allan Holdsworth: 11s
Eddie Van Halen: well-known for using 9-gauge.
James Hetfield: .009-.042
As you can see, a lot of the great players of our time have used some pretty everyday-player gauges. This is not to say that heavy strings don't produce a different tone. The point is that the gauge of your strings is not the gauge of your greatness.
Back in the '80s when I read that SRV interview, I immediately went out and got a set of 13s put on my yellow '79 hardtail Strat. The guy at the store looked at me oddly, wondering what I was up to. What I was up to was sticking my nose where it didn't belong. What I failed to remember was that Stevie Ray was a pro playing at a pro level. He played gigs every night for years to get to the point where he needed 13s. Needed, not wanted. Because of the style he had developed and the level he was playing at, SRV had to have those strings to get through the gig. Other strings would break under the strain and not produce the tonal heights he was looking for. Me? I was just a kid playing in my bedroom. When I got the Strat home with the 13s on it, I plugged it into my Peavey Classic 2x12 and tried—really tried— to play "Love Struck Baby." Didn't happen. I could barely chord with those monsters, let alone bend. Lesson learned.
Wallace Marx Jr.is the author of Gibson Amplifiers, 1933– 2008: 75 Years of the Gold Tone. He is a lifelong musician and has worked in all corners of the music industry. He is currently working on a history of the Valco Company. He is a children's tour guide at the Museum of Making Music, a struggling surfer, and he once hung out with Joe Strummer.
Recent Articles by Wallace Marx Jr
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Electric Bass Origins, Part 2: The First Guitar
Electric Bass Origins, Part 1
The Origins of Obsession
Must We Restore?
The Pickup Story, Part I: the 1920s
The Pickup Story, Part III: The Road to the Humbucker
The Pickup Story, Part II: De Armond Guitar Microphones
Doing Your Homework, Part 2
Tone Capacitors for Stratocaster, Part 3


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Labour Party Pakistan leader killed in suicidal attack
By Farooq Tariq
Comrade Abdullah Qureshi (72) is no more with us. A member of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) provincial council of Labour Party Pakistan (LPP), he died in a suicidal attack. He was one the most well known senior Left leaders in the Swat Valley.
The Musharraf dictatorship claims that one of the main reasons for the imposition of the emergency decree on 3 November 2007 was to free the valley from religious fanatics. At present, while religious fundamentalists control the majority of the valley, a military operation is being launched against them.
Before the Swat Valley was incorporated into Pakistan, the Nawab had the ultimate power in the valley. Abdullah Qureshi was the pioneer of Left politics in the valley. Born in 1935, he came from a working-class background. He organized the first organization "Swat Rorwali" (Swat Goodwill) in early 1950s. The organization spoke against the Nawab of Swat; consequently he was arrested several times for organizing people's resistance against the king. He was deported from the valley in the early '60s and his nationality was revoked. Comrade Abdullah Qureshi then settled in Gojaranwala in Punjab. He was a close friend of Ajmal Khatak and Sikander Khan Khalil, leaders of National Awami Party (NAP), Pakistan's main Left party in the 1960s.
In 1968, the Swat Valley formally joined Pakistan. Comrade Abdullah Qureshi went back to Swat to organize the NAP. He was elected general secretary of NAP Swat. By 1974 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto banned the party and Abdullah Qureshi was one of those arrested. He then went to join Awami National Party (ANP), the new name of the banned party. Yet he was unsatisfied by the party's ideological confusion and wanted more socialism. Later he joined Pakistan National Party of Bazinjo.
Comrade Abdullah withdrew from Left politics after the fall of Soviet Union. However in 2006 he joined the Labour Party Pakistan after it organized a large May Day rally of over 600. Many came from small industrial units all over the valley. The flowering of red flags inspired him to join the party even at his age.
During the second NWFP provincial conference in June 2007, he was elected as one of the 21 member of NWFP LPP Council. Within the year, he had organized the party in different parts of the Swat Valley; the LPP became the valley's main Left party. Most of the Left activists joined the LPP after his decision.
Hakim Bahudar, peasant secretary of the LPP and member of LPP national committee, was his close friend. He remarked that Abdullah Qureshi "was very much inspired by LPP activities for some time. He was a regular reader of the weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd (Workers Struggle). After his decision to join LPP, the party became very respected and prestigious throughout the valley. He was the symbol of Left politics in the valley."
Abdullah Qureshi was killed in a suicidal attack near NangoLai area check post. He was passing through the area when an attacker blew himself up, resulting in the killing of several civilians. The incident happened on 9 December 2007, the day when LPP fourth conference was taking place in Lahore. Because of roadblocks and the military operation in the Swat Valley, he and other delegates were unable to attend. Only Comrade Hakim Bahadur made it to the emergency conference.
The family did not want to disclose the news earlier because they feared more attacks. They fear it was a targeted attack because of his Left ideas. The family is investigating this aspect and has asked LPP NWFP to help. Now, with the permission of the family, the LPP is announcing his death with great pain.
Although Comrade Abdullah Qureshi was only a member of the LPP for 16 months, his whole life was devoted to Left ideas. He worked under the most difficult circumstances. He joined the LPP while there was an upsurge of religious fundamentalist ideas in the valley. He did not care about his life but more about socialist ideas. The LPP will hold memorial meetings all over Pakistan for Comrade Abdullah Qureshi.


Yesterday I ate at one of my favorite Italian restaurants. I had eaten there many times before but the experience this time was different. After ordering I received a vacuous bread basket with precisely two pieces of bread. At the end of my meal I was offered two biscotti…and no more.
Only the manager could offer an explanation: As a means of containing costs the decision had been made to capitate biscotti and bread distribution.
I was disappointed. I had been eating here for years. When Colic Solved was released, my publication party was held here. After all those anniversaries, New Year's celebrations, and birthdays, I'm shortchanged on cookies?
It's remarkable how a great experience can be shadowed by something so small.
Then I got to thinking: Perhaps I'm a two biscotti physician. Like this restaurant there are times when I don't finish well. I may do a phenomenal job with assessment and diagnosis only to delay a callback on biopsies or x-ray results. Perhaps I get it all right but fail to get the detail right on the home health orders. Are there small pieces missing in my encounter that represent everything a parent remembers?
I know that there are and I know there are things I have to work on.
There's a lot we can learn from a restaurant. I don't want to be a two biscotti physician.


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Q: Changing parent class attribute only for a specific input textbox The below JavaScript code works but it changes for entire page:
$('.myFormInputWrap').css('float','none');

A: You can find closest div with the specified class which is parent of your input element:
$("#qty").closest('div.myFormInputWrap').css('float','none');

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Elevator Pitch In the emerging IT management category ITOA (IT Operations Analytics) Nexthink provides a very different view and, when integrated into ITSM, can provide a real-time analytical interface into processes for proactive, rather than reactive management.
As ITOA is a new category, it requires financial commitment from other departments to cover this level of end-to-end management and analytical capability – Probably not for the very small organisations.
Primary Market Focus Based on the information provided, Nexthink's customer base is more focussed on larger companies.They are classified for this review as:Specialised tooling, requiring integration to ITSM.
Nexthink provide End-User IT Analytics – the tool analyses data from all the endpoints and extrapolates information from that perspective to identify trouble spots.
They turn the end-user and endpoint data into a level of intelligence and insight to sit alongside IT Service Management and offer a level of integration with known vendors to complement them in a number of areas.
There is something always beguiling when products talk of heat-maps and show dynamic visions of where network paths are failing, and to see it in real-time brings out the magpie in technical reviewers.
Starting at the top, they provide a customisable dashboard that would catch the eye of CIOs and the review got to examine a little more breadth to the product.
In essence a driver agent is sent to all target endpoints and it sends the real-time data back to their own engine where the information can be shown in a dashboard display of high level information about the number of issues. The collector can even send back information when the endpoint's CPU is overwhelmed.
Applications for end-points can be profiled before a rollout – for example testing out builds on particular hardware to see how effective the build is for machines.
Once you come away from the high level dashboard, there are detailed "heat-maps" that begin to show you where issues are building up, and specific trouble area can be drilled into. These lower level graphics are typically what operations centre staff and advanced technical support will get the real value from.
The level of intelligence to extrapolate information, purely from the end-point perspective is what makes the product stand out.
Whilst the product can stand on its own merits, its real value is when it is integrated with ITSM and their partnership framework opens up the right doors for the company. Nexthink have integrated with leading ITSSM tools including BMC/Remedy, LANDesk and ServiceNow.
Their value is to help organisations to see the big picture and enlightened organisations are realising that they need this more holistic view.
Nexthink have worked to develop an ITSM Solution Pack that maps their capabilities with 17 of the 28 ITIL 2011 processes.
They are not an ITSM tool, but they recognise that the real value of their product comes with integration into key ITIL processes.
They have also developed a Nexthink Security Solution Pack and have mapped the product with leading security standards.
They bring in the information to help build up their picture of the end-point interactions.
Nexthink have integrated with Event Correlation Engines with companies such as BMC, CA/Nimsoft, HP and IBM).
Because they report the global end-user events, they can correlate those to show in real time which server is affected (the Nexthink collector is only placed on endpoints).
Nexthink can also add an extra measure of vulnerability assessment and can assist with compliance testing.
An ideal area for consideration is the use of Nexthink for large, complex Transformation projects – combined with standard ITSM tooling the combination can provide much better guidance on what is going to be involved with a large transformation project.
Innovator of End-user IT Analytics for security, ITSM and workplace transformation.
Self-learning and artificial intelligence constructs meaningful patterns and IT analytics – patterns are analysed in real time (every minute), enterprise wide.
What makes Nexthink unique is the real-time analytics of all executions and all network connections and the corresponding visualisation that provides new visibility and insight at that moment in time.
Nexthink is the innovator of End-user IT Analytics for security, ITSM and transformation. Nexthink turns end-user and endpoint data into intelligence and insights. Our software uniquely provides enterprise-wide, real-time analytics covering all endpoints, all users, all applications and all network connections with visibility into your IT infrastructure and service delivery. Nexthink helps IT Departments connect, communicate and collaborate to achieve their major goals and to optimize endpoint security, operations, support, and workplace transformation projects. Nexthink real-time analytics and visualization extend help desk, server monitoring, APM (application performance management) and PCLM (PC lifecycle management) tools and provides essential visibility for IT Governance.


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Klinsmann boosts US hope for World Cup
By AFP, Washington
18th-May-2014
Jurgen Klinsmann has not hesitated to take unpopular decisions in his mission to toughen up the United States team going into the World Cup finals.
The 49-year-old coach, who as a player helped Germany capture the 1990 World Cup and 1996 European Championship, took over the American side in 2011.
The progress may not be clear in the results but Klinsmann has backing for his tactics as he prepares to take on his former country in their opening group.
"One of the reasons we hired Jurgen was to advance the program forward and we've seen the initial stages of that happening on the field and also off the field in various areas," said US Soccer president Sunil Gulati.
"In the past two years he has built a strong foundation from the senior team down to the youth teams and we want to continue to build upon that success."
Klinsmann, who guided the Germans to third in the 2006 World Cup on home soil, was the first non-US coach in 16 years for the Americans, but his success in leading North American qualifying for the World Cup was rewarded with a four-year contract extension last December that will keep him in the post through the 2018 World Cup.
"I am very fortunate to continue the work we started more than 2 ½ years ago," Klinsmann said. "It's exciting to see the progress we have made. We continue to make improvements on all fronts."
Klinsmann has made goalkeeper Tim Howard, strikers Clint Dempsey and Jozy Altidore and midfielders Michael Bradley and Jermaine Jones the "spine" of a US squad that has developed backbone but has been unable to duplicate its run to the 2004 quarter-finals in the past two World Cups.
Klinsmann has juggled lineups often in analyzing talent, a move that upset some players, notably when he benched defender and former captain Carlos Bocanegra just before the first qualifier last year at Honduras.
Klinsmann saw it as another test of character as well as talent.
"All those elements we throw at them now because if we don't do it, it's too late in the World Cup," Klinsmann said in March. "The only way we get them to that next level is to run them through this uncomfortable period, and they have to learn and they have to swim in the cold water. We're going to convince the world later."
The Americans came together to advance and the wisdom of Klinsmann's toughening efforts proved out in the end.
The US are in Group G against Germany, now coached by his former assistant Joachim Loew, Portugal, featuring superstar Cristiano Ronaldo and Ghana.
"The group is a real challenge," Klinsmann said. "But we have built up our self-confidence over the last 2 ½ years and we have the most successful year in the 100 years of US football behind us.
"We have a completely realistic chance of making the knockout phase."


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Tag: RatS
Leave a comment on RatS 2: Matt Taibbi Meets the Censored
censorship, media, MoP, RatS
We had intended to make RatS a regular thing but, like many plans of mice and Marty, it fell by the wayside. Maybe we'll try again.
Matt Taibbi is the nerdish heir to Hunter S. Thompson. He is simultaneously unleashed and meticulous. He also has a habit of pissing off Democrats, and plenty on the left, by suggesting that there is much more wrong with America than Trump and Republicans. Taibbi had the temerity to argue, early and strongly, that Trump's win over Hillary wasn't because of Russian hackers, but because of the general ineptness and meaninglessness of the Democratic Party, and the specific awfulness of Clinton. Taibbi is also a careful and incisive critic of the news media; Hate Inc. is a must.
Recently, Taibbi has been pissing off his one-would-think allies, and pretty much everyone, by arguing that seeking to throw assholes off Twitter and Facebook and the like is dooming us to doom. Somehow he's just not comfortable with Zuck and Jack and their fellow titans acting as our guardian angel censors. Taibbi is now reporting on the early stages of this corporatised censorship, interviewing some of people who have been whacked around. His interviews, and pretty much everything by Taibbi, are well worth reading.
Meet the Censored: Andre Damon
Meet the Censored: Ford Fischer
Meet the Censored: Abigail Shrier (paywalled, and you should pay)
Meet the Censored: Olivia Katbi-Smith (added 02/01/2021)
Meet the Censored: Mark Crispin Miller (added 06/01/2021)


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Q: How to get position of opening/ending HTML tag in Python How to solve this on Python3, using what lib, and using what sample code?
I have html file, at position Line:Col I have middle of html tag
<table ......>; how to get position of <table> tag edges (brackets < >) and position of its </table> tag edges?
(note: several table tags may be one inside another).

A: Like said in this SO answer, you should not use regex to parse an HTML file as the standard is highly irregular. You should instead use an HTML parsing library like html.parser : This library offers you HTMLParser.getpos() which returns you the line number and offset of the tag.

A: This gets you the coordinates of each tag with html.parser, where I monkeypatch the goahead function with a simple modification, calling the custom method get_endpos:
from html.parser import HTMLParser, starttagopen
from html import unescape

class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):

    def __init__(self):
        HTMLParser.__init__(self)

        self.start_tags = []
        self.end_tags = []

        self.last_append = []

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        self.start_tags.append((tag, (self.getpos()[0], self.getpos()[1]),))

        self.last_append = self.start_tags

    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        self.end_tags.append((tag, (self.getpos()[0], self.getpos()[1]),))

        self.last_append = self.end_tags

    def get_endpos(self):
        self.last_append[-1] = self.last_append[-1] + ((self.getpos()[0], self.getpos()[1]),)

    def get_tags(self):
        return self.start_tags, self.end_tags

    def _reset(self):
        HTMLParser.reset(self)

        self.start_tags = []
        self.end_tags = []

parser = MyHTMLParser()

# Internal -- handle data as far as reasonable.  May leave state
# and data to be processed by a subsequent call.  If 'end' is
# true, force handling all data as if followed by EOF marker.
def goahead(self, end):
    rawdata = self.rawdata
    i = 0
    n = len(rawdata)
    while i < n:
        if self.convert_charrefs and not self.cdata_elem:
            j = rawdata.find('<', i)
            if j < 0:
                # if we can't find the next <, either we are at the end
                # or there's more text incoming.  If the latter is True,
                # we can't pass the text to handle_data in case we have
                # a charref cut in half at end.  Try to determine if
                # this is the case before proceeding by looking for an
                # & near the end and see if it's followed by a space or ;.
                amppos = rawdata.rfind('&', max(i, n-34))
                if (amppos >= 0 and
                    not re.compile(r'[\s;]').search(rawdata, amppos)):
                    break  # wait till we get all the text
                j = n
        else:
            match = self.interesting.search(rawdata, i)  # < or &
            if match:
                j = match.start()
            else:
                if self.cdata_elem:
                    break
                j = n
        if i < j:
            if self.convert_charrefs and not self.cdata_elem:
                self.handle_data(unescape(rawdata[i:j]))
            else:
                self.handle_data(rawdata[i:j])
        i = self.updatepos(i, j)
        if i == n: break
        startswith = rawdata.startswith
        if startswith('<', i):
            if starttagopen.match(rawdata, i): # < + letter
                k = self.parse_starttag(i)
            elif startswith("</", i):
                k = self.parse_endtag(i)
            elif startswith("<!--", i):
                k = self.parse_comment(i)
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module.exports = {
  verify: require('./verify'),
  prove: require('./prove')
}


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Using Planning Models to Make Your Operations More Sustainable
For Refineries and Olefins
Patrick Garrett
Product Marketing Manager, Aspen Technology, Inc.
In this blog, I will review some of these areas in a bit more detail since we're not time constrained.
Some of you may have seen our recent webinar, "Track and Reduce Carbon with Unified Planning, Scheduling and Execution" (listen to on demand recording). The webinar focused on how Aspen Unified PIMS™ can be used to reduce carbon emissions. Thanks to everyone who joined and especially to those who submitted questions! My colleague Luca Nicosia, Senior Principal Solution Consultant provided a nice 20-minute demonstration showcasing how to predict and reduce emissions in award-winning Aspen Unified PIMS, such as by modeling the effect of carbon taxation (e.g. EU ETS), considering a different crude slate, and sourcing green electricity.
Typically, the analysis we do with Aspen Unified PIMS is economically focused: We balance tradeoffs between different operating parameters to determine how it affects the gross margin of the asset. It's important to note, however, that Aspen Unified PIMS can be used to make operations more sustainable by improving energy efficiency and enabling sustainability decisions such as sourcing renewable electricity for your plant.
As we more strongly integrate sustainability into our planning, we need to make sure that CO2 emissions are modelled accurately. Recall that CO2 emissions typically come from only a few sources, shown in figure 1 below for refining:
Burning fuel gas for process heat, boilers, etc.
Flaring
Figure 1. Simplified diagram showing emissions points in a refinery. We have a similar diagram for olefins, please contact the author if you'd like to see it.
Model Accuracy
Based on Luca Nicosia's experience in refinery planning and looking at customer models, he told us that the vectors that model utilities had some of the lowest accuracy in the entire model—as low as 70-80% accuracy. This was due to the relatively small effect that energy costs had on overall profitability. However, now that carbon prices are climbing and sustainability goals are becoming more important, we need higher accuracy in modeling emissions. We recommend checking and updating utilities vectors using process data, comparing fuel rate to feed rate or other important operating conditions. Knowing the units at your complex which emit the most CO2 is also very important. For example, the FCC emits 30-40% of the CO2 of the entire refinery, and thus it is very important that the FCC model be accurate.
In order to maximize model accuracy, we recommend considering a new, award-winning technology, Aspen Hybrid Models™ which combines artificial intelligence with the thermodynamic models in Aspen HYSYS®. Finally, we deploy the AI Hybrid Model into Aspen Unified, including for Planning in Unified PIMS for Scheduling, and for Dynamic Optimization in GDOT™.
In summary, starting with your base+delta FCC model in HYSYS, which probably has about a 90-95% accuracy, you could build an AI Hybrid Model and increase the accuracy to over 99%. This accuracy is important as we model carbon emissions, so that we can make the best decisions to balance emissions, profitability, and production rate.
Figure 2. Aspen AI Hybrid Model development workflow.
Once we are confident in the model accuracy, we can begin to analyze the important tradeoffs between emissions, profits, and production rate. In the webinar we discussed a few examples of variables to analyze, such as carbon taxation, crude mix, hydrogen source (green, blue or gray), electricity source, and other various operating changes like cracking severity or product mix. The simplest way to do this analysis, as we showed in the webinar, is to solve the base case, and then add new cases limiting the total plant's max CO2 emissions to 99%, 98%, 97%, etc. of the base case's max, and then examine each case to see what changes the model made to accommodate the lower CO2 emissions. As we force AUP to reduce the total emissions, the optimizer will do so by minimizing the economic loss, and so by trimming the plants where the ratio between marginal profitability and CO2 emissions is lower.
Furthermore, one of the most important variables in analyzing this tradeoff is the carbon price. When we did the webinar on November 30, carbon was about 70 euros per ton, and now on January 3, 2022 it is over 80—it even looked like it was heading over 100 at one point.
Additionally, crude selection has a major impact on product mix, profitability, and emissions. The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) studied "extraction-to-refining GHG emissions" of over 3000 oilfields and considered their emissions (see figure 2). We can add this data to our Unified PIMS model and compare the emissions across different crude slates. Also note the ICCT study includes Scope 2 emissions, not just Scope 1. While it is clear that operating companies cannot do a lot to control the Scope 3 CO2 emissions downstream of their production perimeter, a lot can be done in the areas of Scope 1, Scope 2 and upstream Scope 3.
Figure 3. Extraction-to-refining GHG emissions associated with imported crude oil.
Modeling both the carbon emissions of crude and applying the carbon price to our scope one emissions, Luca showed cases where the carbon tax was at 0, 25, and 50 dollars per ton. As the carbon price increased, the crude slate changed significantly (see figure 5).
Figure 4. Comparing crude selection with carbon tax at 0, 25, and 50 dollars per ton. Notice how the best crude when carbon is free drops down to 4th best crude at $50/ton and the second-best crude drops to 7th.
Finally let's talk a bit about electricity sources. Power generated from coal, natural gas or renewable sources will have a different CO2 impact. As solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable power infrastructure is built around the world, you may be able to purchase that renewable power to run your plant. (Fun fact: I live in Houston and purchase 100% renewable power for my home and my electric vehicle!) Your company may also be building the renewable power generation facilities, like a solar farm or wind turbines, near your refinery or olefins plant.
Let's self-check our knowledge… If we make the electricity on site in our own power plant or cogeneration unit, which scope would the emissions be? Scope 1, right. And if we purchase the electricity, which scope? Scope 2, right. In the analysis below, we included Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions in the model. To do a similar analysis, you will need to add the renewable power as a utility option with associated cost and CO2 emissions yield to the model. Once that is included, as you clamp the overall CO2 emissions, same as above, and you should eventually see the traditional fossil-based electricity reduce and be replaced with renewables, as shown in figure 6. In this case, we reduced CO2 by 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, and 25%.
Figure 5. Example case set reducing CO2 emissions and substituting purchased.
Overall, the model changes required to do the analysis we are discussing include:
Verify CO2 emissions are included in all relevant utility streams (fuel gas, steam, electricity, and to a lesser extent cooling water)
Ensure CO2 emissions for all chems and categories are included in the PIMS model
Designate emissions as Scope 1, 2, and 3. Scope 1 from your own operations, Scope 2 from purchased electricity and heating, and Scope 3 from scientific research, the crude supplier and other industry publications like S&P Global Platts Crude Carbon Intensity
Optional but recommended – update and calibrate all process units' energy intensity in the PIMS model with plant data (note: Aspen Hybrid Models and nonlinear equations can be very useful in this case)
Create cases to study emissions, profitability and production rate (note: parametric analysis can be helpful for this)
Create reports using analytics/visualization tools such as Power BI to view useful data such as overall emissions, emissions by unit, emissions by date, emissions plan vs schedule vs actual, and emissions by Scope 1 vs 2
Need help on where to begin? Start by contacting our Support or Sales resources in your region. If you are ready to start, you can review the sustainability models for refining and olefins (Aspen Unified PIMS and PIMS). Note: these links require a customer eSupport login.
Overall, I am personally very excited and grateful that sustainability is becoming more important globally. I fully believe this is the greatest challenge of our generation. Let's work together to solve it!
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Track and Reduce Carbon with Unified Planning, Scheduling and Execution
Refiners and olefins producers continue to look for innovative ways to reduce carbon emissions. New innovations now enable companies to meet emission targets and still ensure profitable operations. In this on-demand webinar experts discuss how Production Optimization in Aspen Unified™ can be used to predict and optimize the tradeoff between emissions and profits.
AspenTech is a 3x Winner of the 2021 Hydrocarbon Processing Awards
Helping Customers Innovate to Meet Sustainability Goals and Drive Operational Excellence


In a country where political intrigue has often substituted for governance, Kenya's two-year-old National Accord offered a pragmatic solution to ending post-election violence and restoring democratic rule. Now the possibility of a new constitution offers fresh hope that Kenya's bumpy road back to democracy might get smoother. But as the country lurches toward constitutional reform, the tradition of "winner-take-all" politics -- as well as the accompanying fears of "loser-lose-all" outcomes -- is proving tough to leave behind. For Kenya, as with too many African countries, democracy is still thwarted by a zero-sum system that encourages bare-knuckle politics as well as social and ethnic destabilization.


Good Morning Stamping Friends! It is Tuesday and time for another AWESOME sketch from CherylAnn! You have to go over to Try Stampin On Tuesday and join in on the fun this week!!!
I hope you like what you see and will play along with the challenge this week! Thanks for stopping by!


Dear reader, only one week is left until Google will shut down its popular Feed Reader. Since RSS is still relevant, it's time to migrate to another service. There are some alternatives that you could consider, when choosing a new feed reader.
Let's have a look at them.
Feedly became quite popular after Google announced the shutdown Google Reader. They provide an UI that is quite similar to Google Reader, but I don't like to install a plugin to Chrome just to read some feeds. Why can't they provide a simple web interface?
Two other free service are FeedReader.com and digg.com. I did not try them myself yet.
Feedbin and 1kpl.us are paid services. They cost 2$ to 5$ per month.
RSSly is available for free. Currently it only has a German UI.
Since there is not much time left, it's time to chose another feed reader now. You should have a look at the alternatives and export your feeds from Google Reader soon.
I'm still using the Chrome extension (and the Android app) and am happy with both, but I hope the cloud option meets your needs.
Thanks for the hint. That looks much better now.
Good tip, will use it!


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Jubilee Life Insurance
Helena C. Mzena
Ms. Helena C. Mzena is the Chief Executive Officer of Jubilee Life Insurance Corporation of Tanzania Limited,
She Joined Jubilee Insurance in 2011 and has held various senior management positions in both the Jubilee Insurance Company of Tanzania Limited and Jubilee Life Insurance Corporation of Tanzania Limited. Before being appointed as the CEO on 28thof April 2021, she served as the Chief Financial Officer at Jubilee Life Insurance Corporation of Tanzania Limited.
Ms. Mzena is a highly experienced professional with an extensive background in strategy and leadership, she has about 10 years of experience in the insurance industry. She previously worked in various Industry in Tanzania and UK. She worked for Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL), Tanzania, NTT Europe Ltd, UK as well as the UK local authority.
At Jubilee Life Insurance, she has been instrumental in Leadership, Strategy and Business Development, Finance and budgeting, Risk Management, Compliance and Controls and strengthening the Company's Governance structures.
A seasoned professional, Ms. Mzena's holds a master's degree in financial management from Liverpool John Moore University, UK and a bachelor's degree in Finance and Financial Information Systems from the University of Greenwich, UK. She also holds an International Postgraduate Diploma in Life Insurance from the Institute of Insurance and Risk Management (IIRM), a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) UK, she is a fellow member of ACCA, a member of ACPA – Tanzania, she also holds Senior Management Leadership Certificate from Strathmore University Business School and a certified Female Future Leadership program with ATE/ESAMI University Business School.
Jubilee Holdings Ltd, was established as the first incorporated Insurance Company based in Mombasa in August 1937. We have since spread our wings and sphere of influence as the No. 1 Insurance Company in the region with offices in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Mauritius and are recognised as the largest Composite Insurer in East Africa with over 450,000 clients.


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Monkey World at Wareham, Dorset
Enjoy a fun-filled, fascinating day out for all the family at Monkey World – Ape Rescue Centre in Dorset.
The 65-acre park is home to the stars of TV's 'Monkey Life' and 'Monkey Business', and provides sanctuary for rescued and endangered primates from around the world. Some are now part of international breeding programmes for endangered species including Europe's official orang-utan crèche!.
Wed 28 April 2021
Childrens Outings Museums & Attractions
Sat 2 January 2021
Cinderella at the Mayflower Theatre - RESCHEDULED New Date 30.12.21
SeaCity Museum - Southampton - Southampton's Titanic Story - WITHDRAWN
Crafting Live at Sandown Park - RESCHEDULED TO 14.08.21
Enquire about Monkey World at Wareham, Dorset on Wed 28 April 2021


I think I am going to start a new series of posts sharing blogs I've happened upon that I love. Because I am so bad about keeping up with my fav blogs, and have like a gazillion bookmarked already. At least for posterity sake, I will have them listed somewhere else :P And maybe you can glean from this as well :) Please share your favorite blogs too.
To start us off, I just happened upon this one, minutes ago, thus inspiring this blog series :) As I mentioned last week, I stitched my first ever knit stitches with my sis-in-law...did about 10 rows of knit and pearl stitches on a new prayer shawl (she has made several with a prayer group, it's such a lovely thing that I shall add it to my Favorite Things post soon, ...mine was given to me by some lovely ladies I knew when Noah died.) with some lovely pink and white yarn. Anyhoo, I see knitting in my future, as I always have, but much clearly now :) I highly highly doubt I shall ever be so good, but here is the blog I am posting "of interest": By Gum. By Golly.
...Isn't it loverly? I love all things vintage too! I love this trend going on right now of the retro "pin-up" type girls, w/ rolled curled coifed hair and scarves and porcelain faces with ruby red lips. AND modest clothing items such longer A-lined skirts and "trouser" shorts and such. But this blog combines all of that with knitting. How genius. AND.....it just so happens that she is hosting a cool giveaway right now, so check it out!
Fabulous blog isn't it? :) I am loving the vintage trend too!
And welcome to the wonderful world of knitting!
Thanks! :) I'm also fairly new to the CONSISTENT world of blogging, so your blog is inspiration too!


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Steinbrenner: 'We're still looking' as trade deadline nears
PETE CALDERA
@pcaldera
NEW YORK - Money isn't the obstacle when it comes to adding a significant trade piece for the Yankees' pennant push.
It's the asking price in prospects that gives the owner pause.
"We can take on salary. For me, it's more [about] prospects," Hal Steinbrenner told USA TODAY Network on Saturday afternoon, before the Yanks' game against the Rays.
Brett Gardner's bases-loaded single off Dan Jennings in the ninth inning gave the Yankees a 5-4 win before 43,025 fans. It was the Yanks' sixth straight victory, and eighth win in their last nine games.
With his club back in first place on Saturday, the Yankees managing general partner said "we're still looking" to add before Monday's 4 p.m. non-waiver trade deadline.
"You'd like to get another starting pitcher but that's going to cost you," Steinbrenner said. "So, how much am I willing to stomach when it comes to prospects? That's the biggest thing."
Infielders Jorge Mateo and Miguel Andujar, center fielder Estevan Florial and pitchers Domingo Acevedo and Chance Adams are among the Yankees' blue-chip prospects that have drawn the attention of sellers.
Oakland scouts have kept a close watch on the Yankees' minor league system; Athletics right-hander Sonny Gray could be dealt in the next 24 hours and is not eligible for free agency until 2020.
Detroit's Justin Verlander is due $28 million annually in each of the next two seasons and has a vesting option for 2020.
Miami's Dan Straily has been linked to interest by the Yankees, among several other clubs, and isn't free-agent eligible until 2021.
Texas' Yu Darvish is a free agent after this season, while St. Louis' Lance Lynn and Minnesota's Jaime Garcia are also in their free-agent walk years.


Tuesday, September 26, 2017 — Dubai, 26 Sept 2017- Over 4000 visitors attended the opening day of The Big 5 Outdoor Design & Build Show, and co-located events FM EXPO, Gulf Glass and Windows, Doors & Facades Event – more than 30% increase compared to previous edition figures according to dmg events Middle East, Asia & Africa.
The Big 5 Outdoor Design & Build Show is fast proving to be the recognised platform for industry professionals to do business in Dubai and the GCC region, where a thriving construction market is driving huge demand for outdoor specific design and build projects.
Products and services being displayed at the event fall into categories of landscaping, outdoor design & build, water technology & management, infrastructure & urban development – creating a spectacle of colours from children's play areas to the refreshing feel of outdoor cooling facilities.
Speaker Hvorje Cindrić comments that his Day One CPD talk on Cities in Arid Environments called to action architects of developed sub-Sahara cities like Dubai to spread their industry knowledge. He credited them as experts with the ideas that can set architectural standards for rising communities of similar climates.
Describing the outdoor space as having "an impact on how people see and use their city, creating an economic function as well as a great social function", Group Design Director at Cracknell Robert Shakespeare reinforces that combating hot weather in an arid environment, like the one in which Dubai is developing, is key to optimizing public spaces.
Shakespeare's certified discussion favoured the refurbishment of already existing plots to create the best urban landscapes, and considering the 4,000 construction projects currently ongoing in Dubai the chances that building sites lay close to residential areas is high. Enabling integrated growth to take place in urban areas is high on the agenda at the Wallbank Fencing Ltd. stand, offering to contractors an acoustic, high-security, and 95% recycled fencing product.
Sourcing innovative and green solutions for the built landscape is a must for professionals in the industry following the introduction of initiatives such as Dubai Government's Green Building Regulations. To supply this peaking demand, Sustainability and Smart technologies focused CPD workshops will be populate the final day of seminars.
Other workshops will be held by notable figures in the industry including Executive Director of Dubai Properties Sameer KulKarni, Building Physics Consultant at Buro Happold John Sullivan, and Landscape Architect at Khatib & Alami Peter Scott, covering topics of smart and sustainable design and how it leads to public happiness.
The collection of shows running at Dubai World Trade Centre offer over 100 free to attend workshops across the four events, and aside from the education agenda at The Big 5 Outdoor Design & Build show, products and services will continue to be displayed until 5pm on the 27 September 2017.
The Big 5 Outdoor Design & Build Show is organised by dmg events Middle East, Asia & Africa, and is co-located with the FM EXPO, Windows, Doors & Facades Event and Gulf Glass.


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Оге Эмиль Киркегор (, 14 октября 1914, Нёрре Нисум, Дания — 6 октября 1992, Нюкёбинг, Дания) — датский хоккеист (хоккей на траве), нападающий. Участник летних Олимпийских игр 1936 года.

Биография
Оге Киркегор родился 14 октября 1914 года в датской деревне Нёрре Нисум.

Играл в хоккей на траве за «Ориент» из Конгенс Люнгбю.

В 1936 году вошёл в состав сборной Дании по хоккею на траве на летних Олимпийских играх в Берлине, поделившей 7-9-е места. Играл на позиции нападающего, провёл 3 матча, забил 1 мяч в ворота сборной Афганистана.

В 1935—1938 годах провёл 7 матчей за сборную Дании.

Работал врачом в психиатрическом санатории в Дианалунде. С 1 августа 1953 до 1983 года был управляющим директором психиатрической больницы в Нюкёбинге, внедрял новые фармацевтические методы лечения, был сторонником демократического подхода к управлению коллективом.

Умер 6 октября 1992 года в Нюкёбинге.

Семья
Был женат на Гертруде Киркегор, которая работала врачом в той же больнице.

Примечания

Хоккеисты на траве Дании
Хоккеисты на траве на летних Олимпийских играх 1936 года
Врачи Дании

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