Howlite is a fairly plain looking gemstone that is used extensively in beading. Though it can be seen in jewelry, its main claim to fame is as an imitation of other gemstones. Turquoise, lapis lazuli and coral for example.
Natural howlite can look quite good, particularly when used in bead necklaces. When dyed this gemstone becomes even more remarkable, be careful however that you don't overpay for it.
Howlite is a borate mineral that is also known under the names of white howlite, white turquoise and white buffalo stone. It is almost always white or grey with darker stripes lining the stone.
Howlite can occur in crystal form though that is fairly rare and almost all of it is found in a massive form seen towards the right.
It was only discovered in 1868 by Henry How (after whom it is named) when miners called him to a gypsum quarry in Nova Scotia, Canada where it was considered a nuisance.
Howlite has been found in large quantities in California, USA. Sometimes very large specimens of up to 50kg have been found here. It is a fairly fragile stone and has a hardness of only 3 to 3.5 on Mohs hardness scale.
Because the howlite gemstone has a very porous structure it is frequently dyed. This is mostly done to imitate other gemstones such as turquoise and lapis lazuli. In more recent years red coral was added to the list. These imitations can be spotted, but in general they look quite natural. Which unfortunately means that a lot of dyed howlite is sold as if they are the real thing.
Sharp temperature changes can weaken howlite, so keep it away from things like ovens or stoves.
Its low hardness means that it should always be stored away from other gemstones. Preferably in its own compartment. Not only can almost every faceted gemstone scratch or dent it, every metal commonly used in jewelry can damage it as well.
Cleaning should be done with lukewarm water and at most a soft brush or cloth. Make sure you dry it well afterwards and let it air for a few minutes before storing.
Do not use an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner because of the high porosity of howlite. A jewelry steam cleaner should not be used either as the heat could easily damage it beyond repair.
Physical work is not advised while wearing howlite jewelry. Dropping it or bumping into something can easily scratch the stone.
Howlite in its natural white form (under the trade name of white howlite) is mainly used as beads for necklaces. Though pendants or earrings are not unheard of.
Howlite rings are quite popular as well. Though I personally would stay away from them, as they are simply far too easy to damage.
A large amount of howlite is dyed, either to just enhance the looks or to imitate other gemstones. Trying to imitate another gemstone is fine, however there are a number of people that do not disclose that they are selling you dyed howlite. Frequently selling it for far more than natural howlite will ever sell for.
Dyed howlite is sold under several different trade names that are too often used to confuse people. The main culprits are howlite turquoise, turquoise howlite, blue howlite and turquenite. Which are used for a howlite that is dyed to resemble turquoise, seen above. Red howlite is used for howlite that is dyed to resemble red coral.
However even natural howlite has trade names that try to link it to turquoise such as white turquoise, (white) buffalo turquoise and white buffalo stone.
When in fact howlite is not even distantly related to turquoise. The most important thing to remember is that it is always white, grey or brown, if it is any other color it was dyed. If the dealer claims otherwise I advise taking your business elsewhere.
Howlite is quite cheap selling at $2-$3 per carat. Which explains why people are so interested in dyeing and selling this stone as something more expensive. If you are simply looking for the regular stone it makes things easy though, it is not imitated and not enhanced. Though certain dealers do wax their howlite to make it slightly more resistant. Which is a good idea if you intend on wearing it as it is a fairly fragile stone.
Howlite can be found in abundance online, Amazon.com for example has close to 1,000 pieces of howlite jewelry. Many of these are dyed though, finding white howlite is a bit more difficult though by no means impossible.
It will likely take more effort to find it at your local jeweler and it is probably better to head to a store where they sell crystals and 'stones of power'. A handmade jewelry store, particularly those that sell beads, is a good option as well.
Frequently used in gemstone or crystal therapy, howlite is considered a calming stone. It is mainly used to release anger and relieve stress, though it is claimed that it can assist with insomnia as well.
As a calcite mineral it can aid in strengthening your bones as well as teeth, however it should only be used in addition to regular exercise and general health care.


A funky, wine-savvy neighborhood hangout.
This Del Ray restaurant hasn't invested in decor. You wouldn't be surprised if the restaurant showed up in a 1950s movie as a working-class diner. There are two dining areas, the rear one likely to house regulars having a brew or a glass of wine. Upstairs is a wine bar/lounge. The list has many entries priced well under $30, and the restaurant allows diners to bring in wines from the Daily Planet wine store next door for a reasonable corkage fee of $8.


If New Brunswick wants to prove how well its home cardiac care program works, it can offer living, breathing proof.
N.B., for heart surgery on a Friday. The following Tuesday he was back home in Fredericton. This wouldn't have been possible when the centre opened in 1991, according to heart surgeon James Parrott. The average stay back then was two weeks, but as the NBHC gained experience that number was whittled down to 10 days.
Part of that preparation now involves learning how to operate a home care monitoring system. The two-way videoconferencing and diagnostic unit serves as a link between patient and clinicians. Wood credited the system as playing an important role in his convalescence. He said he was apprehensive about leaving the hospital so soon, but found the technology comforting allowing him to recuperate at home.
Wood isn't the only one. More than 1,100 surgery patients in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia have used the system.
Parrott said it had specific design goals when building the unit. More often than not, for example, users and their caregivers would be 65 years old or more, thus probably not very familiar or comfortable with high-tech devices. With that in mind, frills were kept to minimum. To operate, all the patient has to do is plug the system into the phone line, place the electrocardiogram leads on the proper spots, slip the oxygen saturation monitor on a finger and sit in front of the camera. The check is then done face to face over the Internet.
One thing the system hasn't done is reduce the number of times patients access the health care system post-surgery, but Parrott said fewer patients are re-accessing it in a critical state. And while the New Brunswick government may not be saving any money in this respect, patients are. He said patients are spared the four-and-half hour (on average) trip to Saint John for what usually amounts to a 15 minute visit. When you include travel costs, accommodations, etc., the total comes to about $461.
Krisan Palmer, director of telehealth for the Atlantic Health Sciences Corp., credited the projects success to two elements. One, it found a physician, Parrott, to champion the cause. Two, the technology was more than better for the patients.
""We had to make sure everyone was happy with the technology and it was very simple and very user friendly and it worked every time,"" Palmer said.


I'm already listening to Christmas music and stuffing party invitations. It may be a tad early, but it snowed in Nashville this week, so why not! It's my favorite time of year, despite the cold weather. And decorating for Christmas is at the top of my list. So you can imagine how excited (and nervous) I was when the well-known Flower Mag asked me to be a part of their Design School for this year's holiday issue. This part of the magazine has historically featured designers that I really admire and respect, like Joy Thigpen and Amy Merrick. So here I am with the garland I made for the magazine and instructions on how to make your own this holiday season!


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Grieving mum shuts down murder film
Rebecca TriggerThe West Australian
Fri, 12 April 2013 2:27PM
A planned documentary on the horrific murder of a South West teenager has been scrapped after it was publically attacked by the slain girl's mother.
TV production company Beyond International were researching the murder of 15-year-old Eliza Jane Davis, who was choked to death with speaker wire and buried in a shallow grave under a house by her two 16-year-old female friends in Collie in 2006.
The segment was slated to feature on "Deadly Women", a show which according to Beyond's website uses dramatised reconstructions and interviews with forensic experts and a profiler to explore "the psychological motivation that drives women to become murderers".
Eliza's mother Erin Davis wrote on her Facebook page she'd been contacted by a detective informing her about the planned documentary.
"You have no right to exploit me my daughter and need to think of the lives you are tormenting," Ms Davis wrote.
"All you people are sick, if you have a daughter, think about her being strangled by her so-called friends," she said.
"You make me sick thinking your (sic) making money of (sic) people making this sh*t."
The former WA police detective who led the investigation into the murder, Det-Sgt. Darren Kelly, said he had been contacted by the company to take part in an interview.
"I did lots of murders but that was up there in terms of being bizarre and etched in my memory," said Mr Kelly, who left the police service 18 months ago.
"What was bizarre about it wasn't that they were female, more so their age and the whole circumstances of the event."
"You had 16-year-old kids who killed one of their friends effectively in a thrill kill and buried her under the house. You don't see that every day."
WA police director of communications Neil Stanbury said the film company had asked to interview a representative of the WA police but they declined.
"With those approaches we always take into account the interests of victims of crime and in this case we won't be assisting the production company," he said.
Executive producer of Deadly Women, Geoff Fitzpatrick, said it was brought to his attention by WA police yesterday that the planned documentary had caused some distress to the family of the victim and they would therefore not be proceeding with the segment.
He said the show only made 10 to 20 per cent of segments it researched.

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Q: jQuery show/hide is not working in a for loop I have some link in my page which is given as display:none when loading and its id is dynamic.
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On load of page I gave
for (var x = 0; x < data.questions.length; x++) {
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Only the very first link ie. viewFile-0 is getting displayed, all others are hidden
While debugging the code, it is coming to the .show() line but in the page the link is not getting displayed.
Can anyone give me a solution?

A: Since you're using angularjs, I don't see why you need jQuery for that at all.
I think you should try to avoid it and go with an angularjs solution. E.g. ng-show=... with a suitable condition.

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Q: Connecting to my server through SSH using Terminal - permission denied I am trying to get access to my server via SSH using Terminal.
I have created a key in cPanel which required me to set a password. I'm trying to connect in Terminal using this password but it says Permission Denied.
I am trying connect by doing:
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Am I doing something wrong?

A: You can try using following format:
ssh <Your user>@mysite.co.uk

Make sure that your user has correct right to connect via SSH.

A: Server wasn't SSH enabled properly. Switched servers to another provider and did:
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Wigs, Weaves And Woes: Beauty Not Priority In Crisis
By Motlabana Monnakgotla
A salon owner in the township of Soweto in South Africa laments how she has no option but to dip into her savings and await the relief fund promised by the government after the lockdown.
At a time when self-preservation has become far more important than keeping up with the Joneses, retail establishments offering grooming and hair treatment services have taken the cut, not listed as 'essential services' in the 35-day lockdown period in South Africa.
Le Salon is one such, founded by Thembeka Nkosi in South Africa's sprawling township of Soweto in 2014 after she won a national hair competition, and received R10,000 ($536) in cash and a year's supply of hair products and equipment, and she started working with major hair brands.
Nkosi was able to grow her business, but the coronavirus pandemic has now derailed all the progress she made.
"The business has been operating for six years and I employ three people paid weekly based on commissions. Now it is very difficult for the employees and myself because if there is no work, there is no income," laments Nkosi, who is now dipping into her savings to sustain herself.
She urges people to abide by the rules of the lockdown to help flatten the curve, so life can return to normal and people like her can go back to business.
"I had applied for the relief fund promised by the government for small businesses, but the problem is that the money is needed now. We are not open now and not having an income now, but we'll wait for that money which will help when we reopen, however, the problem is now!"
Before the lockdown, Nkosi had a couple of orders for wigs and is currently working on them.
"Luckily, I had enough stock [hair to make wigs], but even though I can't deliver them, hopefully, after the lockdown, people will be able to get their hair. I will also lower prices when we reopen and work long hours to generate the money lost."
Hopefully, she will be able to make up for lost time.
The $600 That Sparked A Telecom Trade: This Entrepreneur Represents Everything The Digital Age Stands For
Nigeria's API fintech, Okra secures $1million pre-seed investment


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Alfred A. Tomatis (1. ledna 1920 Nice – 25. prosince 2001) byl francouzský lékař, specialista ORL a vědecký pracovník. Získal doktorát z medicíny na pařížské lékařské fakultě. Je autorem alternativního lékařského postupu založeného na slyšení a poslouchání, kterému se podle jeho tvůrce říká metoda TOMATIS nebo podle vědecké disciplíny, jejíž je součástí, audiopsychofonologie (Audio-Psycho-Phonology).

Tomatisovým původním záměrem bylo pomoci profesionálním zpěvákům v jeho rodném městě Nice. Nosnou myšlenkou bylo, že nesprávné slyšení zapříčiňuje mnoho potíží. Poslechový test a později terapie pomocí přístroje zvaného "Elektronické ucho", které Tomatis navrhl, měly tyto potíže pomáhat řešit.

Tomatisův efekt
Svoji techniku upravil i pro řadu dalších různorodých potíží, jako jsou například potíže sluchového zpracovávání, dyslexie, poruchy učení, poruchy pozornosti, autismus, poruchy senzorické integrace a senzomotoriky.

Potvrdilo se, že také pomáhá lidem překonávat deprese, je efektivní při výuce cizích jazyků, usnadňuje rozvoj komunikačních dovedností, podporuje kreativitu a výkonnost v zaměstnání. Metodu vyzkoušelo i mnoho hudebníků, zpěváků a herců, kteří rovněž tvrdí, že přispěla k naplnění jejich profesního potenciálu.

Při metodě TOMATIS se využívají nahrávky od Mozarta a gregoriánské chorály nebo dokonce hlas klientovy maminky (u dětí).

Napsal čtrnáct knih a přes dvě stovky vědeckých článků. Do češtiny nebyl přeložený ani jeden, existují jen překlady do angličtiny, jedná se o publikace "Ear and Language" a "The Conscious Ear".

Život a dílo
Narodil se ve Francii. Odmalička byl obklopen hudebníky. Jeho otec byl operním pěvcem a malý Alfred byl často přítomen při jeho vystoupeních, kdy pozoroval výkony svého otce. Ačkoli celé dětství strávil uvnitř pěveckého světa, nestalo se zpívání jeho životní profesní náplní. Tou se stala medicína. Vystudoval pařížskou lékařskou fakultu a stal se odborníkem v oblasti ušního, nosního a krčního lékařství (otorhinolaryngologie).

Mezi jeho první pacienty patřili pěvci z okruhu jeho otce, kteří měli potíže s hlasem. Brzy zjistil, že klasická léčba není účinná a vydal se jiným směrem. Přišel na to, že mnohé hlasové potíže jsou ve skutečnosti potíže se slyšením. Formuloval pravidlo, které říká, že "hlas nemůže vytvořit něco, co ucho neslyší". Na tomto pravidle postavil svůj výzkum a také terapeutickou metodu. Zjistil, že samotný hlas operních pěvců poškozuje jejich středoušní svaly, protože hlasitost zvuku, která je pro ucho nebezpečná a může ho poškodit, je už na 80 nebo 90 dB a hlasy operních pěvců často dosahují až 150 dB. To znamená, že se snažili vytvářet zvuky, které ale nemohli slyšet.
Aby pomohl svým pacientům, vynalezl přístroj, tzv. Elektronické ucho, které na základě elektronického přepínání, tzv. gatingu, kombinace vzduchového s kostním vedením zvuku a filtrování určitých frekvencí zvuku částečně nebo zcela navrací uchu schopnost slyšet a poslouchat i v oblasti vysokých frekvencí. To se děje prostřednictvím cvičení svalů ve středním uchu, které se tak stávají citlivějšími vůči inkriminovaným frekvenčním pásmům.

Svou metodu pak použil i v jiných případech. Pomohl klientům s potížemi se čtením, s dyslexií, depresemi, různými typy schizofrenie, dokonce klientům s autismem. Zjistil, že tyto potíže mají souvislost s narušením komunikace, což zase souvisí se slyšením a s naším uchem.

Vědecké výzkumy potvrdily, že lidské ucho se začíná formovat už několik dní po oplození vajíčka v děloze a plně vyvinuté je již ve čtvrtém měsíci těhotenství. Věřil tomu, že lze stimulovat a podporovat rozvoj mozku plodu skrze jeho ucho. Příčinu mnoha komunikačních potíží viděl právě už během těhotenství, kdy plod správně nereagoval na matčin hlas. Podle něj je do procesu mluvení a zpracovávání řeči zapojené celé tělo. Tvrdil, že tiché čtení je aktivitou pouze ucha. Doporučoval hlasité čtení alespoň 30 minut každý den, takto by měli číst nejen děti, ale i dospělí. Hlasité čtení jednak stimuluje mozek, ale také je tím nejlepším způsobem, jak se něco naučit, jak si zapamatovat to, co čteme.

Nejkontroverznější část jeho výzkumu se týkala terapií pro autistické děti prostřednictvím filtrovaného matčina hlasu. Elektronické ucho umí nasimulovat zvuk matčina hlasu do podoby, v jaké ho dítě slyšelo, když bylo ještě uvnitř matčina bříška. Přes tento filtrovaný hlas se postupně dítě učí vnímat matčin nefiltrovaný hlas a reagovat na něj. Tomatis vyprávěl, že se často dočkal až překvapivých výsledků, například když dítě začalo plakat štěstím, že poprvé v životě rozpoznalo matčin hlas.

Tomatis soudil, že velká část potíží, jako jsou poruchy učení (např. dyslexie), schizofrenie a deprese jsou zapříčiněny nějakým prožitým traumatem způsobeným narušenými rodinnými vztahy nebo nedostatečnou komunikací uvnitř rodiny. Proto je během terapií nutná spolupráce rodičů nebo prarodičů.

Známé osobnosti o metodě TOMATIS
V souvislosti s využitím metody TOMATIS jsou spojováni někteří významní herci a zpěváci. Například francouzský charismatický herec Gérard Depardieu říká, že metodě vděčí za své profesní úspěchy. Herečka Romy Schneider také absolvovala tento program a dalšími, kdo využili účinky filtrovaných zvuků k podpoře své kreativity a hudebního sluchu, byl anglický hudebník Sting či operní pěvkyně Maria Callas.

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The government and the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India ("IBBI") are aiming at using provisions of the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016 ("IBC") against resolution applicants who have failed to honour their plan, for insolvency resolution of stressed companies, approved by NCLT. The government may invoke Section 74 of the IBC which provides for an imprisonment term which may extend upto 5 (five) years and/or imposition of fine upto Rs. 1 Crore for violation of the provisions of the IBC, against Liberty House and Adani Wilmsr who have withdrawn from their commitments to implement the plan for insolvency resolution of stressed assets.
Adani Wilmar was declared as the highest bidder in August to acquire Ruchi Soya after a long-drawn battle with Patanjali. Later, Adani Wilmar opted out of a deal to buy Ruchi Soya after the committee of creditors backed it, citing delays in closing the resolution process due to Patanjali moving the National Company Law Tribunal to challenge the decision of the lenders which caused deterioration of asset quality. Similarly, Liberty House had refused to honor its commitments from the resolution process of Adhunik Metals and Amtek Auto, citing various reasons. The government is keen to resolve glitches in the IBC implementation process and is seeking to fast-track cases to ensure that the maximum permissible time limit is adhered to. The ministry of corporate affairs has initiated talks with banks to find ways to decide cases at the earliest.


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6 Inspiring #WomenInSTEM Who Are Building the Future
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Learn how CZI grantees are developing technology to revolutionize the field of imaging Cutting-edge imaging tools can help scientists around the world visualize cells, organs, and entire systems within the human body — which can lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of health and disease. That's why CZI's Imaging program…
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How researchers are navigating the challenges and promises of building single-cell catalogues to better understand disease Lisa Dratva, a doctoral student at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, studies how people's immune systems react to COVID-19. She wants to know which T cells activate and fight the virus causing the infection. To…
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Improving access to open source software tools is a cornerstone of our science work at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). These tools, which are built by scientific communities for scientific communities, can help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery by increasing collaboration and reproducibility. Across our different focus areas at…
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Understanding software used by scientists by mining the biomedical literature — At the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), we believe open source tools are critical to accelerating scientific discovery. In an effort to improve our understanding of the impact of software (and scientific open source in particular) in biomedical science, we're releasing the CZ Software Mentions Dataset — a dataset entirely composed…
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The Honda CRF 250RX is a off-road style motorcycle with an MSRP of $8,299 and is new for 2019. Power is provided by a 4-Stroke, 249cc, Liquid cooled, DOHC, Single-Cylinder engine with Electric starter. The engine is paired with a 5-Speed transmission and total fuel capacity is 2.25 gallons. The CRF 250RX rides on Aluminum wheels with a Dunlop Geomax AT81: 80/100-21 front tire and Dunlop Geomax AT81: 110/100-18 rear tire. The front suspension is an Inverted Fork while the rear suspension is a Twin Sided Swing Arm. Front Disc brakes and rear Disc brakes provide stopping power. The CRF 250RX comes standard with an One-Piece, 1-passenger seat.


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By Jonathan Handel
The SAG and AFTRA health plans — still separate even though the respective unions joined in 2012 — have moved closer to merger, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Combining the health plans would fulfill a key promise that animated the union merger and is expected to ease availability of health coverage for SAG-AFTRA members.
Currently, union members' earnings are attributed to either the SAG plan or the AFTRA plan in order to determine whether they have met the minimum earnings thresholds necessary to qualify for coverage. If a member falls short of the thresholds on both plans, there is some ability to cross-credit earnings, but this reciprocity or "combined earnings eligibility," announced in 2013, is seen as a stopgap solution.
"Although the detailed process of establishing a combined health plan for all of our participants has been challenging, I am pleased to report that we have made significant progress toward our objective," said David White, the union's national executive director, in an email to SAG-AFTRA board members Friday, a copy of which was obtained by THR. "Among other points, we are engaged in discussion with management on the final design of the combined health plan."
A SAG-AFTRA spokesperson confirmed the content of the email.
In a key observation, White said that the new plan would be similar to the existing SAG plan. "Based on these discussions, the structure of the new plan will closely resemble the structure of the SAG Plan, with at least two levels of benefits (e.g., Plan I and Plan II) providing coverage for both members and their qualified family members."
Added White, "Eligibility for each tier will depend on the level of a member's covered earnings (as it does today) and the various alternate routes for eligibility for particular groups or individuals will continue as they currently exist for both the SAG and AFTRA Plans."
Unknown at this time whether the qualifying thresholds for coverage would change. Currently, a member has to earn $30,750 in a year in order to qualify for SAG Plan I, the more desirable of the two SAG plans. Qualifying for SAG Plan II requires $15,100 in covered earnings, or various alternate methods involving the number of days worked, the performer's age, or combined earnings eligibility (reciprocity) with AFTRA earnings.
The AFTRA structure is different: rather than two tiers, there is an individual plan, which requires $10,000 in covered earnings, and a family plan, which requires $30,000.
"Our goal is to achieve the best mix of available benefits for participants and the long-term financial viability of the new plan," said White in the email. "Importantly, Union and Management Trustees of both Plans recognize the singular importance of this merger and are meeting regularly to finalize the key decisions and finer details of this process."
White is a member of both the SAG and AFTRA plans' boards of trustees. The plans are legally separate from each other and from the union, and are each governed by boards of trustees that are composed of equal numbers of management and labor representatives.
Although the health plans are now closer to merger, the SAG and AFTRA pension plans are a different matter. Pension plans are much more economically complex than health plans, and so any merger or restructuring of the pension plans remains a future task.
White indicated in his email that additional details on the health plan merger would be announced at the SAG-AFTRA board's next meeting, which is set for July 11.
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You'll have to excuse me but, but, but I don't get too excited over David's emails anymore
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If you are planning your engagement party this year first of all we would like to offer our congratulations! Of course, once your partner has said 'Yes', the next step is to celebrate with your nearest and dearest. If you want to know what the best engagement party trends are for this year then look no further.
If you are after a swanky, cool vibe then a rooftop bar is the perfect setting. You can enjoy stunning views over the capital city and go casual or formal, depending on your guests. For friends you can create a more intimate setting by choosing a bar with old leather sofas and quiet, cosy corners. If it is family and you prefer a more reserved feel then look at bars with sleek furniture that creates a smart lounge-type space.
We can't think of anyone who doesn't like chocolate or champagne and this way you can use both the main ingredients in a variety of ways. For instance, have chocolate dipping stations for children, or set up bars with different chocolate cookies. Include a champagne fountain for a glitzy and glamourous vibe. You can also provide favour bags that combine the two elements such as champagne truffles.
The idea of an engagement party is to celebrate an oncoming wedding, but it is also about the two people in love. Create a cocktail menu that celebrates important dates in your relationship. So for example, a Cosmopolitan could indicate the romantic weekend in New York, and a Bloody Mary could signify the morning after a raucous party where you both met. Use your imagination to tell a good story and combine them with some delicious drinks.
A brunch engagement party doesn't have to take place around 11am, you can use the couple's favourite brunch menus to create a unique party atmosphere. Do the happy pair love pancakes and fresh fruit or are they more savoury-inclined? How about a buffet with mini French Toasts, scrambled egg tarts and cocktail sausages? A brunch party lends itself to some really novel food ideas, whatever time of day it is being held.
We all know that photo booths are so last year. Up the ante by getting a good friend of the couple to go through their photographs (the funnier the better) and blow them up on a blank wall for guests to 'insert themselves' into their lives. Either have a photographer there to capture the images and give every guest one of the photographs to keep when they leave, or use a Polaroid for instant snaps.
Finally, engagements are getting more lavish as the years go by, and many now resemble mini weddings. Whereas years ago you wouldn't get party favours at an engagement party, these days you do. Typically the happy couple will offer their guests something edible and tasty that compliments the party. They might also give out a small item for the home that will remind them of the party, think scented mini candles or hanging heart plaques. Giving a party favour is a great way of thanking your guests for making the effort to attend. If you need chair rental for your party, or any other furniture or catering equipment, get in touch with us.


HJ: Tell us a little bit about yourself.
CP: Ive spent the last three years in Bristol but before that I could be found frolicking around the hills of South West Wales. I started playing around with character design about 4 years ago in Coleg Sir Gar, Llanelli, moving to Bristol really blew my mind the scene here is right up there, everywhere you look theres stickers, tags, pieces its really inspirational, pushes you to get better you know?. I was also really lucky to end up living with Choobi his characters and work rate made me really get my head down.
HJ: Why the name Cons. Pinc?
HJ: Who/What inspired you to start drawing?
Uuum I dunno what made me start but Bristol really made me try and take myself to the next level, when I was living with Choobi we used to have whiteboard battles on one of those wipe clean whiteboards that you draw on with markers, I'd get home one day and there'd be something drawn on it, and I'd change it and draw a character attacking his and it could go on for days, that really helped cause through it we sort of took on each others styles and techniques.
HJ: There is a strong musical theme in some of your work. Has music played a large roll in finding your style?
CP: I guesse it must have a subconscious influence in everything i draw because its always playing when I do.
surfaces. Is this a conscious decision?
CP: No, to be honest I would love to do most of my stuff on canvas with some occasional street naughtiness thrown in, but Im so busy at the moment that I don't often have time for either, so the different sufaces I do stuff on is simply me drawing on whatever is around when I have time.
HJ: Tools for the job. What do you use?
CP: Basically posca paint pens, with acrylic and emulsion paint.
HJ: Do you have any future plans/projects?
CP: Im in the middle of making an animation which is eating all my time at the moment, I really wanna take it (animating) further but that depends on how this one is received, apart from that hopefully a load more canvas' by 2009..
HJ: would you ever consider selling any pieces by yourself?
CP: I have sold a few in the past, but im in talks at the moment with an agency that contacted me, that's pretty exciting cause they can do all the pushing and selling then.
HJ: Websites/Other artists you would like to mention.
CP: Of course I have to mention my partner in crime Choobi, check him out at flickr.com/choobi, we also share a myspace at myspace.com/p_i_n_c.
And just as some shameless self promotion you'll find my stuff at, flickr.com/cons_pinc and myspace/cons_pinc.
CP: Anything on the tru-thoughts label like nostalgia 77, quantic, tm juke, jon kennedy, natural self etc. also I cant stop playing tosca's album J.A.C at the moment.
I would just like to say thanks to Tom aka Cons Pinc for taking the time out for this interview. To everyone else check out his work!


This month marks a quarter-century of PDF! Since June 1993, PDF has provided a rich and powerful format for portable document creation. From the moment PDF was introduced, until the PDF format was made into an open, worldwide standard by ISO in 2008 – the growth in PDF's features and capabilities in its first fifteen years was rapid and revolutionary. The past decade of relative stability has allowed the use of PDF and the availability of different PDF tools to proliferate. Others have looked back on the history and ubiquity of PDF. The Register and Motherboard have spent some good letters and pixels on the history of PDF. Much has been said about the fundamentals and foundations of PDF as a page description language. But PDF is so much more than just markings on a page. Today, I'm going to take you on a journey through an underappreciated but foundational capability in PDF files.
What is marked content? At its simplest, marked content allows a series of drawing operations to be grouped together into a collection. For example, the words of a sentence or the lines that make a shape can be thought of as a single collection of content. These collections are denoted in PDF with marked content sequences. Marked content sequences have been a part of PDF for much of its lifetime. Introduced with PDF 1.2 in 1996, marked content was added to support allowing Acrobat plugins to associate proprietary information with portions of pages. This represented the beginnings of adding structure to the page description model which PDF was founded on.
Grouping drawing elements together to be worked with as a collection. Without marked content, line art can only be represented with its constituent drawing operations: lines, paths, and very simple shapes. Marked content allows grouping these together to form more complex line art, such as charts and graphs. With marked content, charts and graphs and other image items can be moved, copied, and otherwise manipulated as one item – instead of requiring users to tediously select the multiple pieces that make these up in a PDF file.
Describing the logical structure of PDF content. Without marked content, PDF page content can only represent visual elements. Logical structure came into PDF in 1999 with Reader & Acrobat 4.0 and PDF 1.3. With support for properties and property lists, marked content forms the foundation for grouping visual page parts by the document concepts these represent. Because marked content containers are nestable, hierarchical concepts such as chapters in a document can be created. And because logical structure and page drawing content are stored separately in a PDF, users who are interested in the logical structure of a PDF are not required to parse the graphical elements of pages in order to understand the structure.
Standardizing semantic content representation. Marked content and logical structure were brought together in PDF 1.4 in 2001, and a standard set of structure tags created, to form what is known as Tagged PDF. Tagged PDF and its Standard Structure Tags (SSTs) extend the abilities to group and mark up page content into a portable, interoperable series of document semantic concepts. Complex PDF content spanning dozens or hundreds of different image and text operations – such as tables – now has a way to be specified, exported, and re-imported into different applications, as well as transcoded into different formats.
From humble beginnings as a means to allow Acrobat plugins to store their own private information in PDF files, content grouping via marked content has provided the basis for many useful capabilities in PDF. We hope you've enjoyed this brief look into marked content in PDF files, as well as the different capabilities in PDF that build upon the simple but powerful concept of grouping visual elements together into common structures. If you have any questions, comment below or contact us.


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Teen escapes after abduction, assault in Palo Alto
A 17-year-old girl who was reportedly kidnapped in Palo Alto on Tuesday afternoon before being sexually assaulted managed to escape from the suspect's car in Sunnyvale about 90 minutes after the abduction, police said.
Between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., an unknown attacker approached the girl in the 500 block of Arastradero Road near Henry M. Gunn High School as she walked home. The suspect allegedly hit the girl in the face several times and dragged her into his vehicle, according to police.
The suspect then took the victim to another location, where he reportedly assaulted her, police said. About 90 minutes later, the victim managed to flee from the assailant's vehicle and sought aid in Sunnyvale.
Palo Alto police officers and Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety officers are investigating the crime at two separate locations, police said.
The suspect, who is described as a black male between the ages of 20 and 30 with short hair and a medium height and build, was last seen wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt.
Anyone with information regarding the crime is asked to call the Palo Alto Police Department's tip line at (650) 329-2190.
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Welcome to this year's final issue of World Fertilizer. Writing last month, I alluded to Australia's fledgling sulfate of potash (SOP) mining industry and the number of companies seeking to be the first to commercially produce SOP.
Since then the field has narrowed, at least for now – Salt Lake Potash, which held the Lake Way asset in Western Australia and was aiming for 245 000 tpy of production – has gone into receivership with millions of dollars owed to creditors, including government agencies. A buyer for the project is now being sought. Despite this blow to Australia's aim of transitioning from an importer to a leading exporter of the fertilizer, confidence amongst other Australian SOP players about the sector's prospects remains strong.
The regional report for this issue, 'On The Rebound', captures the sense of flux within the wider fertilizer industry: on the one hand, high energy prices, production cuts, plant closures and the CEO of Yara International speculating at COP26 on a possible food crisis next year; on the other hand, strong food commodity prices and yet more green ammonia projects being announced. Turn to p. 10 to read Gord Cope's review of 2021 and his take on what 2022 will bring.
Ever since our first issue was published just over 5 years ago, World Fertilizer has always held a global outlook, and this issue is no exception.
On p. 41, Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH report on a circular economy project in Germany that entails recycling phosphorus from sewage sludge ash. On p. 45, Compressor Controls Corp. (CCC) explain how an "outdated, unsafe, unreliable and energy-inefficient" process air compressor in a fertilizer plant in Asia was transformed into a safe, productive asset.
Returning to another comment piece from earlier this year, in March I highlighted Uralkali's foray into Formula 1 (F1) racing through its sponsorship of the Haas F1 Team. A key aim of sponsorship, according to Uralkali, was to boost sales in key export markets. With only three races left to go in this year's season, on the track things haven't gone well for the team's drivers Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin: Haas is currently bottom of the 10-team Constructors' Championship with zero points. Uralkali's most recent financial results (for 1H21) are more promising. How much of the US$535 million profit achieved can be attributed to Uralkali's branding across the globe-trotting F1 circuit is something for the company's marketing department to decide…
Last year's Christmas and New Year celebrations were markedly different for many people around the world. Hopefully the upcoming festive season will be closer in form and spirit to those of pre-COVID times. Everyone on the World Fertilizer team would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our readers, editorial contributors and advertisers well, and thank you for your continued support.
Nicholas Woodroof - Editor
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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has won 'Central Bank of the Year' award for 2015. Chair Dr Rod Carr comments on the honour.
According to Scott Brown, Managing Director of 1st Contact Accounting, it's not uncommon for contractor and limited company clients to experience stress and frustration, waste vital working hours and risk severe penalties simply because they do not have a streamlined system to manage their business.
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New Zealand business confidence has dropped sharply, mainly because of rising interest rates.
The New Zealand dollar has advanced to an all-time high on its trade-weighted index after disappointing growth data eroded support for the US dollar but dealers are wondering if the Reserve Bank of New Zealand will move to knock the kiwi lower.
The New Zealand dollar has fallen from a two-month high amid speculation the European Central Bank will keep interest rates low for an extended period.
New Zealand's economy grew at a 3.3 per cent annual rate in the first three months of 2014, the fastest first-quarter pace in eight years.
The New Zealand dollar has held near a five-week high after the Reserve Bank's affirmation that it intends to keep raising interest rates briskly.
The New Zealand dollar has surged against other currencies after the Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler raised the official cash rate and kept projected interest rate rises in line with his March projections.
The New Zealand dollar has climbed from a three-month low as traders recovered lost confidence in the local economy, and lowered their expectations for a downgrade to the Reserve Bank's interest rate track.
Finance Minister Bill English has frozen the police budget for the fifth year in a row.
Health and Education take a huge knock in the 2014 Australian budget, and Tony Abbott is certainly getting less applause.
The New Zealand dollar rose to its highest level in almost seven weeks against the euro on speculation the European Central Bank will ease monetary policy at its meeting next month.


I think green beans are my favorite beans. They're so versatile! You can eat them raw, roast them, steam them and serve them as a side, or even turn them into something pretty not-healthy like Green Bean Bacon Casserole (speaking of…I need to work on a healthier version of that recipe!).
You can also eat them in a flavorful 21 Day Fix green bean salad, like the one I'm sharing here.
The 21 Day Fix is one of those eating plans that you'll never go hungry on. That's because most of the foods are very rich in nutrients, and those fill you up faster than the empty calories you consume when you eat sugary, processed foods. This is an example of one those nutrient-rich meals. Pair this with some grilled chicken or the protein of your choice, and you have the perfect dinner.
Plus, this will make great leftovers. Enjoy it all week!
It takes less than 20 minutes to put together and can be enjoyed either warm or cold.
I think you're going to love the healthy salad options below, too!
Pinning! That looks amazing. Great choice!


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Cunningham Takes On A Shark!
Before you start reading the actual news item, just remember this: Neil Cunningham is bonkers!
Remember his first experience of the straights at Le Mans this year, in the Barazi-Epsilon Courage?
"Jees mate. You're going so fast down the Mulsanne, you've only got time to say ****ing hell three times before your braking point! I was so excited afterwards I couldn't send a text message."
And then: "I could smell a good barbecue at Mulsanne Corner. Pork sausages I think. I had a spin at the first chicane on Mulsanne, as I put the power down. That car has got some power. I loved it."
With the Australian's 2007 plans to be announced soon, he's had to be getting on with other things during the winter season – so what better than a spot of surfing off the Canary Islands? "Off Porto Ventura – but the locals call it Suicide Beach…"
Yes… so… what happened?
"I got hit by my board: it's a nasty old cut on my head, which needed 12 stitches."
And here comes the best bit…
"There was so much blood in the water, it attracted a three foot hammerhead shark. The trouble is, when you see one that size over your shoulder, it looks about seven feet long. I thought it wanted to eat me!
"It's amazing how fast you can paddle when you've got a shark near you."
The first vehicle to arrive on the scene was actually a police car - fully equipped with "some wipes and a plaster that you'd put on your little finger."
David Lord took the image of the recovering Neil Cunningham (below) at Donington Park on Thursday.
Fortunately, the bang on the head hasn't knocked any sense into him.
"Everyone has been taking the p1ss out of me," says the unsuspecting Cunningham. "Jonathan (France) said I was really lucky it hit me in the head."


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 zaratyt na stronie Mindat.org
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Węglany (minerały)


We had some very nice weather last week which allowed me to get some work done in the garden and I managed a few harvests. But the last few days have been very wet and at times very windy so work and harvests have stopped for a few days. More rain is on the way though so I doubt that I'll get much done in the garden this week.
The most notable harvest was the Amsterdam Prickly Seeded spinach. It was starting to bolt so I cut it all and netted about 3/4 pound of leaves. That was enough to make a gratin that also included ricotta, feta, and eggs.
The Brussels sprouts are finally starting to size up. The broccoli shoots keep shrinking. And the parsnips are holding well. I removed the rat protection from around the broccoli as part of my garden cleanup which left the plants exposed for a few nights and miracle of miracles the broccoli was not munched. Perhaps the rodents are hibernating.
Also harvested was one more head of Queen of Crunch lettuce which escaped the camera.
Harvest Monday is hosted by Dave on his blog Our Happy Acres. Head on over there to see what other garden bloggers have been harvesting lately.
Maybe the rodents got drowned in their burrows with all the rain? Tee-hee. We got 3.8 inches in the pst week. Yay!
When I grew the Amsterdam spinach a few years back it was one of the most flavorful varieties I had ever grown. I used to overwinter spinach in the greenhouse but now I grow kale, which gives me more from a limited space. I do miss the homegrown spinach though.
Always hate to see the broccoli side shoots shrink. I waver in deciding when to yank the plants. Even the little guys are useful. Usually depends on whether I have something waiting to go in. Happy day on the rodent front!
Hurray for a rodent break! Lovely spinach! I've not grown it for a couple of years due to it's finnickiness but I'm sure I'll give it another go at some point.
We had a very cold week last week so no gardening or harvesting were done. This week is supposed to be going to 'warm' up. Warm as in relative temperatures rather than really 'properly' warm.
We have had non stop rain today. I've never grown Amsterdam spinach and may consider it if I remember. I think the reason I don't grow spinach is because its easy to buy.
I have never known the real parsnip here. I have no idea the taste or how to cook that.


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Whether you're a seasoned cruiser or are yet to step on board, you'll still want to know which cruise ships are the best for this year.
Cruise Critic, a cruise review site and online cruise community, has announced the winners of the 2018 Cruise Critic UK Cruisers' Choice Awards, highlighting the cruise ships that UK travellers rank as particularly outstanding – from excellent service, amazing entertainment to the best dining experiences, cabins and shore excursions.
In the Large Ship category, Royal Caribbean was the top-rated cruise line across most categories, winning six top position awards and three second place awards.
The line's mega-ship, Oasis of the Seas was voted Best Overall, Best Entertainment and Best Shore Excursions. The ship was also named Best for First Timers across all size categories.
The line's Brilliance of the Seas scooped the top ranking for Best Service, and Freedom of the Seas secured the Best Fitness & Recreation award. Oasis of the Seas offers two rock climbing walls, a carousel, a FlowRider surf simulator, a basketball court, mini-golf course, table tennis area and a short zipline.
Celebrity Cruises won the highest ranking for Best Embarkation and Best Public Rooms, along with Best for Families across all size categories; whilst Cunard, whose Queen Elizabeth was ranked second Best Overall, secured pole position in the Best Cabins category.
Norwegian Spirit won the coveted Best Dining and Best for Value awards.
Another big winner, this time in the Mid-Size ship category was Marella Cruises, formerly Thomson Cruises. The cruise line's Marella Spirit secured four top awards, including: Best Overall, Best Service, Best for Valueand Best Shore Excursions.
Brits seem to love the fact that all tips are included in the price of the fare, which bypasses the often confusing mandatory tipping culture on international ships.
Cunard scooped another Best Cabins award, this time for Queen Victoria, as well as the Best Public Rooms accolade. One of the ship's signature features is the stunning three-tier Grand Lobby with its unique artwork, sweeping staircase and sculpted balconies.
The centerpiece of its Royal Arcade on Deck 3 is a custom-built, chiming pillar clock by English clockmaker Dent & Co. – clockmaker to Queen Victoria, whose most famous work is Big Ben in London.
Fred. Olsen's Balmoral was favoured to win the Best Entertainment award. The ship's daytime activities are numerous with everything from port lectures and enrichment seminars to line-dancing classes on offer on sea days.
Hurtigruten's newest ship, Spitsbergen, specifically adapted to reduce fuel emissions and consumption, stole the show in the Small Ship category, winning five top ranking awards for Best Overall, Best Cabins,Best Service, Best Shore Excursions and Best for Value.
Viking Ocean Cruises also continues to impress cruisers with its 2016-launched Viking Sea, which landed three top accolades for Best Dining, Best Embarkation and Best Public Rooms.
All meals are complimentary, including specialty restaurants and all menus include heart-healthy options as well as vegetarian choices. The Chef's Table menu is themed to a certain region or food style, such as Chinese, Norwegian or sweet and salty and menu rotates to a different theme every three days.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Line proved popular again for entertainment, winning the Best Entertainment also in the Small-Size ship category.
The UK Cruise Critic Cruisers' Choice Awards are awarded in three ship classes, based on passenger capacity (Large: 2,000+ passengers; Mid-Size: 1,200 to 1,999 passengers; Small: 1,200 or fewer passengers) and are calculated using the ratings submitted with each Cruise Critic member review.
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I'm so excited to see Royal Caribbean mentioned so many times – we've just booked our cruise with them for just before Christmas and I can't wait!!
Oh that's amazing – you are going to have an awesome time!!
There are some fab ships here, I'm from Southampton so get to see some big ones in the docks. After being on the cruise ship with you back in Oct I was so surprised by just HOW big they were!
Me too Steph – we could have got lost on there couldn't we? I probably would have done had the trip not been organised.
Great to hear Kara – I can't compare Carnival as I haven't been with them before – but I wouldn't mind giving them a try.
It's handy to know isn't it?
I need to forward this to my parents. They love going on a cruise.
Thanks Rachel – hope they find it useful.
We travelled with Royal Caribbean when I was a teenager, it was amazing. Want to take Caspian now. He would love it.
One day I'll do a family cruise too!
We've never been on a cruise but this post is a great comparison point to start with I'd we ever start thinking about going on a cruise!
Glad you think it's useful Cath – thank you!
You and me both Claire!
I am desperate to go on a 'big ship' cruise. I make the Husband watch Jane McDonald's Cruising programme every week. He's adamant he want to go on a smaller ship though. Might have to throw him overboard. Oasis of the Seas is top of my list.
Fantastic Linda! You might have to compromise – an ocean liner this time and then a river cruise next time. I haven't done either yet so I can't comment on which is better!
This is such a perfect post to find as my girlfriends are I are planning a cruise. One of which is a travel agent. I will def be sharing this with her. Thanks for sharing!
That's great to hear – and I hope you both have a wonderful time!


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Q: What else is online that doesn't come under WWW (World Wide Web)? I understand the difference between Internet and WWW, that internet refers to whole network that binds all the machines (servers and clients or hosts) together and differentiates between each of them uniquely by their IP addresses whereas, WWW refers to:

The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by URLs, interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.

But then what else is left that doesn't come under WWW. Everything is accessed via URLs, be it webpages (HTTP), emails (SMTP), files (FTP), etc. and all this comes under web.
So what is it that WWW doesn't consist of?
Also, why do URLs such as https://www.google.com consist of both http (protocol) and www (web)?

A: With the evolution of the internet, the terms have become a little muddied.
When we think of "the web", we generally mean anything that can be accessed and consumed by a web browser.  That isn't to say that is the only means for accessing it - look at Twitter and Facebook. A web browser might not even be the best way to access these services.  But as the comments point out, you can access FTP via a browser and some browsers let you IRC and other traditionally non-web protocols.
And consider services a like WhatsApp - which originated as non browser services, but browser access was added later.  The service is the same, but the means to access it alters over time.
So we might drop to protocol, and say "http" bases services are part of the web.  But many aren't.  http is such a ubiquitous protocol that I wouldn't be surprised if there are more non-web users of http than users of it.
Even SMTP might get encapsulated inside an HTTP service for a portion of its journey - it certainly doesn't become "web" at that point.
To clarify one point in the question - the use of www in a DNS name is meaning less.  It conveys nothing about the service on the IP address it resolves to and is not a standard of any kind.  It is just tradition to use it for websites, but there is nothing to stop it being used as a ftp, message, smtp or any other service.
So my answer is there is no hard and fast rule to describe what is the web part of the internet and what is everything else.  Internet based services might be accessible via traditional web protocols using traditional tools, and they might not, and they might change over time.  It is just the internet now and internet services are exposed via various and multiple protocols and access methods.


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The "CHP Plant of the Year" award for 2011 was bestowed by the trade magazine "Energie & Management" and the German CHP association, Bundesverband Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung (BKWK), in recognition of the contribution to the avoidance of electricity network expansion, high savings in energy costs and a significant reduction in CO2 emissions.
The two award-winning CHP units supply meat processor Wilhelm Brandenburg in Dreieich, Germany, with eight percent of its electricity and 15 to 20 percent of its heat requirements. The REWE supplier decided to deal with the energy bottleneck created by its own steady growth by implementing a comprehensive, long-term combined heat/power generation concept. The concept was developed by the Hamburg energy-trading company EHA Energie-Handels-Gesellschaft, with detailed planning executed by Gita Consult, Nidda. As Wilhelm Brandenburg's energy service provider, EHA will manage the system.
The overall investment will be amortised within five years, thanks to the forty percent reduction in the cost of heat and the financial incentives of the German Combined Heat and Power Generation Act.
At the same time, the plant's two Lambda1 gas-powered engines from MAN will reduce CO2 emission by 266 tonnes per annum. MAN engines enable the downstream fitting of three-way catalytic converters, the optimum prerequisite for achieving the lowest emissions of 100 mg/Nm3 NOX by means of exhaust-gas aftertreatment. "In this way we are able to use catalytic exhaust-gas cleaning to do considerably better than the statutory limits, for example the 500 mg/Nm3 NOX laid down by TA Air for natural-gas-powered engines. Simultaneously, MAN engines convince with their well-known long service lives and low operating costs," says Hubert Gossner, Sales Manager Gas and Diesel Engines in the Power segment of MAN Truck & Bus.
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Will Kelly Clarkson's New Single Hook Up With The Top Of The Charts?
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The ridiculously enjoyable "I Do Not Hook Up" has been teed up the second single from Kelly Clarkson's All I Ever Wanted, and all systems so far seem to be go. The song is (deservedly) gaining steam on radio (it's up to No. 28 on Mediabase's Top 40 airplay chart), and a video for the track (after the jump) illicitly premiered this weekend; it's also been added to MTV's newly re-existent playlist. But will it top the Hot 100 like its pole-vaulting predecessor did?
Last week Mike wrote about the possible demise of the one-hit wonder in current pop, but if you talk strictly about chart performance, it would seem that even the most established pop stars can fill the role of the one-hit wonder for at least the course of an album's promotional cycle. Madonna's follow-up to the Hard Candy lead-in "4 Minutes" peaked at No. 57 on the Hot 100; Mariah Carey's "Bye Bye," which followed "Touch My Body" in the E=MC2 promotional parade, peaked at No. 19. And even successful follow-up singles like Beyonce's "Halo" have had to reach the pop chart's upper echelons at a slower pace than their predecessors.
What's to blame more than anything? Digital-track sales, which seem to peak for established artists before their albums come out–when demand for new material for each artist is at its highest. "Hook Up" hasn't hit the iTunes Top 100 yet, despite it being available a la carte as part of its parent album All I Ever Wanted; this may change soon (the very unscientific "popularity" metrix on iTunes has it outpolling the older "My Life Would Suck Without You"), but one wonders if sales (and illicit acquisitions) of the album won't have the effect of cannibalizing peoples' desire to cop the song for $1.29, thus torpedoing the song's overall Hot 100 potential.
Katy Perry and Lady GaGa have bucked this trend with "Hot & Cold" and "Poker Face" respectively, but there's an important distinction to be made between them and Clarkson; they're both relatively new artists whose initial single-serving hit came after any pre-release hype for their albums. (Which have both sold well–Perry's One Of The Boys is flirting with the million-sold mark after being available for 43 weeks, while GaGa's The Fame has moved 659,000 copies after about half a year in stores. It's probably worth noting that neither of those albums had a week of sales as big as Clarkson's first-week mark of 255,000.) It seems like it's harder for established artists to keep their pop careers, well, established in the singles-driven era for more than the life cycle of a single, which could be a testament to both the center falling away and peoples' increasingly distracted attitude toward pop music.
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Legendary & Warner Bros Officially Announce Godzilla Vs Kong Film
Following Legendary's and Warner Bros. Pictures' 2014 success with the global reinvention of the Godzilla franchise, the companies have come together to create an epic, new shared cinematic franchise. All-powerful monsters become towering heroes for a new generation, revealing a mythology that brings together Godzilla and Legendary's King Kong in an ecosystem of other giant super-species, both classic and new. Monarch, the human organization that uncovered Godzilla in the 2014 film, will expand their mission across multiple releases.
The announcement that the reinvention of monsters continues was made today by Legendary CEO, Thomas Tull, and Kevin Tsujihara, Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros. The initial trio of films are 2017's KONG: SKULL ISLAND; GODZILLA 2 in 2018; and then GODZILLA VS. KONG, arriving in theaters in 2020. While Legendary maintains its new home at Universal Pictures, the GODZILLA films remain in partnership with Warner Bros., who will now also distribute KONG as a part of this franchise. Production on KONG: SKULL ISLAND begins October 19th.
Warner Bros. and Legendary released Godzilla in May 2014 with an agreement to release Godzilla 2 on June 8, 2018. Both films feature the human Monarch organization. Shortly following Legendary's pact with NBC Universal, Legendary acquired rights to additional classic characters from Toho's Godzilla universe, including Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah. This paved the way for developing a franchise centered around Monarch and anchored by Godzilla, King Kong, and other famous creatures.
When Legendary announced films centered on Godzilla and Kong, fans all over the world speculated these two characters might one day meet in the same film. Classic Toho monsters including King Ghidorah, Mothra, and Rodan, as announced at Comic-Con 2014, may also join the Legendary pantheon of giant monster mayhem going forward.
"Audiences really responded to Godzilla," stated Tull. "Today, I'm excited to reveal that film was only the beginning of an epic new entertainment universe. As a lifelong fan of these characters, I've always wanted to see the ultimate showdown, and today we're pleased to be announcing that and more."
"Working with our partners at Legendary, we enjoyed tremendous creative and commercial success with `Godzilla,'" said Tsujihara. "It's great to be able to revisit these characters and help create a franchise with so many creative possibilities for filmmakers. Fans love these big, globally iconic films and it doesn't get any bigger than this."
About the Productions:
KONG: SKULL ISLAND stars Tom Hiddleston, Sam Jackson, Brie Larson, John Goodman, Tian Jing, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, John Ortiz, Shea Whigham, and Toby Kebbell. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and written by Max Borenstein, John Gatins, Dan Gilroy, and Derek Connolly, KONG: SKULL ISLAND will fully immerse audiences in the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island. Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will produce with Mary Parent. Alex Garcia and Eric McLeod will executive produce. Warner Bros. will distribute the film in 3D and IMAX 3D on March 10, 2017.
GODZILLA 2 will be written by Max Borenstein and directed by Gareth Edwards. Legendary is producing with Mary Parent, and Alex Garcia will executive produce. The film is set to be released by Warner Bros. on June 8, 2018.
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Oxford zero emission zone pilot to start in under a month
The Oxford zero emission pilot zone, which will apply to a small number of streets in the city centre, will launch on February 28th. As Oxford City Council has explained, all petrol and diesel vehicles, including hybrids, will incur a daily charge unless eligible for a discount or exemption.
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The zone covers New Road between Bonn Square and its junction with Castle Street; Bonn Square; Queen Street; Cornmarket Street; New Inn Hall Street; Shoe Lane; Market Street, from Cornmarket junction east for 40 metres; Ship Street; and St Michael's Street.
Only zero emission vehicles such as electric cars, vans and trucks can enter the pilot area free of charge.
The council says charges will vary from £2 to £10 per day depending on the emission levels of the vehicle. Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras are being installed to enforce rules within the zone.
Trucks that meet a yet-to-be-defined National ultra-low emission truck standard will have to pay a few of two pounds. Lorries that meet the Euro 4/IV petrol or Euro 6/VI diesel standard will pay double that, with all other vehicles that emit CO2 paying ten pounds.
Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council say the pilot scheme will allow them "to gain useful insights before introducing a larger ZEZ covering most of Oxford city centre next year, subject to further public consultation."
The local authorities state that the aim of Oxford ZEZ is to reduce toxic air pollution in the city and encourage people to make positive changes in travel behaviour.
Commenting on the zero emission zone, councillor Duncan Enright, Oxfordshire County Council's Cabinet Member for Travel and Development Strategy, said:
"This is a proud moment for our city. The first ZEZ scheme in the country is launching in Oxford. We are taking concrete actions to improve air quality in the city and to make it cleaner and safer. I want to thank all the residents and businesses who sent us their feedback on the pilot and worked with us to develop the scheme. Our vision is to create a zero-carbon transport network by 2040 and the ZEZ pilot is an important step towards achieving that vision. We will learn from the pilot and in the coming months we will consult with local communities as we develop plans to expand the ZEZ across the city centre. We hope that residents, businesses and visitors will join us in our journey towards a carbon neutral future."
The RHA's Duncan Buchanan was much less enthusiastic, calling it a "Tax on work" on Twitter.
The facility to make ZEZ payments will be live on the county council's website on the first day of the pilot. From 28 February, ZEZ charges for driving a polluting vehicle can be paid up to six days in advance, on the day the vehicle is driven in the zone, and up to six days after the vehicle has been driven inside the zone.
More information on the ZEZ and the charges, discounts and exemptions available can be found at oxfordshire.gov.uk/zeroemissionzone.
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Q: Merge two CSV files based on a data from a column I have two csv files like below.
CSV1
data13      data23      d      main_data1;main_data2      data13         data23
data12      data22      d      main_data1;main_data2      data12         data22
data11      data21      d      main_data1;main_data2      data11         data21
data3       data4       d      main_data2;main_data4      data3          data4
data52      data62      d      main_data3                 data51         data62
data51      data61      d      main_data3                 main_data3     data61
data7       data8       d      main_data4                 data7          data8

CSV2
id1      main_data1      a1      a2      a3
id2      main_data2      b1      b2      b3
id3      main_data3      c1      c2      c3
id4      main_data4      d1      d2      d3
id5      main_data5      e1      e2      e3

Now my question is, I know how to merge two CSV files when one of the columns is exactly the same in both the files. But my question is a little different. column 4 from CSV1 could contain column 2 from CSV2. I'd like to get a CSV file as below
FINAL_CSV
id1      main_data1      a1      a2      a3      data13
id2      main_data2      b1      b2      b3      data3
id3      main_data3      c1      c2      c3      main_data3
id4      main_data4      d1      d2      d3      data7
id5      main_data5      e1      e2      e3

where:
1. it matches the data from both the columns and gets corresponding rows from the first occurrence and write to the csv file.
2. When there's no match, it can leave the last column in FINAL_CSV blank or write 'NA' or anything of that sort.
3. When data in columns 4 and 5 of CSV1 match exactly, it returns that row instead of the first occurrence.
I'm totally lost on how to do this. Helping with a part of it is fine too. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.
PS- I know data from csv file should be separated by a comma, but for the sake of clarity, I preferred tabs, though the actual data is separated by commas.
EDIT: Actually, the 'main_data' can be in any column in CSV2, not in just column2. The same 'main_data' could also repeat in multiple rows, then I'd like to get all the corresponding rows.

A: A way with (g)awk .
 awk -F, 'NR==FNR{a[$2]=$0;next}
         {split($4,b,";");x=b[1]}
         (x in a)&&!c[x]++{d[x]=$5}
         ($5 in a){d[$5]=$5}
         END{n=asorti(a,e);for(i=1;i<=n;i++)print a[e[i]]","d[e[i]]}'  CSV1 CSV2

Output
id1,main_data1,a1,a2,a3,data13
id2,main_data2,b1,b2,b3,data3
id3,main_data3,c1,c2,c3,main_data3
id4,main_data4,d1,d2,d3,data7
id5,main_data5,e1,e2,e3,

A: Have you considered using pandas? If you are familiar with R, then data-frames should be pretty straightforward. The following gives you what you want:
from pandas import merge, read_table

csv1 = read_table('CSV1.csv', sep=r"[;,]", header=None)
csv2 = read_table('CSV2.csv', sep=r"[,]",  header=None)

print csv1
print csv2

Note that I replaced the tabs with commas and separated on semi-colons as well. The output so far should be:
        0       1   2           3           4           5       6
0  data13  data23   d  main_data1  main_data2      data13  data23
1  data12  data22   d  main_data1  main_data2      data12  data22
2  data11  data21   d  main_data1  main_data2      data11  data21
3   data3   data4   d  main_data2  main_data4       data3   data4
4  data52  data62   d  main_data3         NaN      data51  data62
5  data51  data61   d  main_data3         NaN  main_data3  data61
6   data7   data8   d  main_data4         NaN       data7   data8

[7 rows x 7 columns]
     0           1   2   3   4
0  id1  main_data1  a1  a2  a3
1  id2  main_data2  b1  b2  b3
2  id3  main_data3  c1  c2  c3
3  id4  main_data4  d1  d2  d3
4  id5  main_data5  e1  e2  e3

[5 rows x 5 columns]

Using a left-join:
kw1 = dict(how='left', \
          left_on=[3,4], \
          right_on=[1,1], \
          suffixes=('l', 'r'))

df1 = merge(csv1, csv2, **kw1)
df1.drop_duplicates(cols=[3], inplace=True)

print df1[[0,7]]

Gives the zeroth and seventh column of the merge:
            3       5
0  main_data1  data13
3  main_data2   data3
4  main_data3  data51
6  main_data4   data7

[4 rows x 2 columns]

And to give the output as you want it, do another merge (this time an outer-join) with CSV2:
kw2 = dict(how='outer', \
           left_on=[3], \
           right_on=[1], \
           suffixes=('l', 'r'))

df2 = merge(df1, csv2, **kw2)

print df2[[15,16,17,18,19,8]]

Output:
     0           1   2  3r  4r       5
0  id1  main_data1  a1  a2  a3  data13
1  id2  main_data2  b1  b2  b3   data3
2  id3  main_data3  c1  c2  c3  data51
3  id4  main_data4  d1  d2  d3   data7
4  id5  main_data5  e1  e2  e3     NaN

You don't have to use **kw for keyword arguments. I simply used it to make everything fit horizontally.
I let read_table and merge decide column names. If you assign column names yourself, you will get better looking output.

A: Since the condition for merging seems to be complicated it might be worthwhile to load the data into a database and use SQL. Using SQLite in-memory you can do this like this (assuming comma separated data)
import csv
import sqlite3

def createTable(cursor, rows, tablename):
    tableCreated = False
    for row in rows:
        if not tableCreated:
            sql = "CREATE TABLE %s(ROW INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, " + ", ".join(["c%d" % (i+1) for i in range(len(row))]) + ")"
            cur.execute(sql % tablename)
            tableCreated = True
        sql = "INSERT INTO %s VALUES(NULL, " + ", ".join(["'" + c + "'" for c in row]) + ")"
        cur.execute(sql % tablename)
    conn.commit()

conn = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
cur = conn.cursor()

for filename, tablename in [(path_to_csv1, "CSV1"), (path_to_csv2, "CSV2")]:
    with open(filename, "r") as f:
        reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=',')
        rows = [row for row in reader]
    createTable(cur, rows, tablename)

You can then formulate your join logic in SQL. You can run queries like this:
for row in cur.execute(your_sql_statement):
    print row

The following query gives the desired output:
WITH
MATCHES AS( -- get all matches
    SELECT      CSV2.*
                , CSV1.ROW as ROW_1
                , CSV1.C4 as C4_1
                , CSV1.C5 as C5_1
    FROM        CSV2
    LEFT JOIN   CSV1
    ON          CSV1.C4 LIKE '%' || CSV2.C2 || '%'
),
EXACT AS( -- matches where CSV1.C4 = CSV1.C5
    SELECT      *
    FROM        MATCHES
    WHERE       C4_1 = C5_1
),
MIN_ROW AS( -- CSV1.ROW of first occurence for each CSV2.C1
    SELECT      C1
                , min(ROW_1) as ROW_1
    FROM        MATCHES
    WHERE       C1 NOT IN (SELECT C1 FROM EXACT)
    GROUP BY    C1, C2, C3, C4, C5
)
-- use C4=C5 first
SELECT      *
FROM        EXACT
UNION
-- if match not in exact, use first occurence
SELECT      MATCHES.*
FROM        MIN_ROW
INNER JOIN  MATCHES
ON          MIN_ROW.C1 = MATCHES.C1
AND         (MIN_ROW.ROW_1 = MATCHES.ROW_1 OR MIN_ROW.ROW_1 IS NULL)
ORDER BY    C1

A: Since you originally asked for a Python solution to this I thought I would provide one. The simplest solution that occurred was to first load CSV1 and use it generate a mapping dictionary to use when generating the output from CSV2.
If I understand the input file correctly, only the values to the left of the ; (if there is one) are to be considered. This can be achieved by using split(';') and taking element zero. If there is no ; then element zero will be the entire string. Assignment to the mapper then just needs to follow the rules you've defined (only add if not already there, except when columns 4 & 5 match).
The code below produces your requested output:
import csv

mapper = dict()
with open('CSV1', 'r') as f1:
    reader = csv.reader(f1)
    for row in reader:
        # Column 3 contains the match; but we only want the left-most (before semi-colon)
        i = row[3].split(';')[0]
        # Column 4 contains the target value for output
        t = row[4]
        if i not in mapper:
            mapper[i] = t
        elif row[3] == row[4]:
            mapper[i] = t

with open('CSV2', 'r') as f2:
    with open('FINAL_CSV', 'wb') as fo:
        reader = csv.reader(f2)
        writer = csv.writer(fo)
        for row in reader:
            if row[1] in mapper:
                row.append( mapper[ row[1] ] )
            writer.writerow(row)

The output file:
id1,main_data1,a1,a2,a3,data13
id2,main_data2,b1,b2,b3,data3
id3,main_data3,c1,c2,c3,main_data3
id4,main_data4,d1,d2,d3,data7
id5,main_data5,e1,e2,e3

To address the 'main_data can be in any column of CSV' modification use the following code:
for row in reader:
    for r in row:
        if r in mapper:
            row.append( mapper[ r ] )
            break

    writer.writerow(row)

This will search each entry in the current row of CSV2 and if there is a match (to the original mapper data) append that mapped data to the row. The row will then be written as before.


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The Zoning Board members (not all of them), however, decided to throw up roadblocks, even at one point suggesting that a way forward towards a variance might not be possible.
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She picked up her phone again, staring at the screen for the uptenth time. There was no way this was happening to her. She didn't…
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She picked up her phone again, staring at the screen for the uptenth time. There was no way this was happening to her. She didn't understand what the words meant as she repeated them in her head. But maybe she did...she just couldn't bring herself to believe it.
I think it's best we end things. If we keep on this way, I will just keep hurting you.
That was all he had said.
The only explanation he could give for breaking her heart. There was no please wait for me, Sophie, I will fight for us. No I can't bear to lose you, Sophie, you mean the world to me. He just wanted to end things.
He felt sorry to her.
Sophie could feel the cold tears sliding down her eyes to her chin, and she didn't try to wipe them. She had cried her eyes out just yesterday, she was starting to get used to the coldness of her own tears. She recalled a scene where he had patted her hair and yanking her hair forcibly, her tender frail hands reached for the scissors beside her. Chunk of her hair soon fell to the cold floor. A flash image of the time he had held her wrist ran through her mind; the scissors quickly slashed her wrist in a second. She watched as red blood gushed out of the spot, but she didn't feel a thing. The thought of the wetness of his kisses on her neck suddenly overcame her, even as she tried to stop them. Yet, the memories began to choke her all at once. The voices in her head grew louder, everyone speaking at the same time. With hands covering her ears as she struggled with herself, her demons began to eat deep into her and she couldn't control them anymore.
I'm deeply sorry for hurting you.
She recalled his words. He wasn't truly sorry, otherwise he wouldn't have left her. She was broken because of him and only a simple apology couldn't solve things. He was the cheater and all she did was love him. Malik meant the world to her and without him, there was nothing to live life for. As her hands reached for the scissors again, a cold gentle breeze swept through her. She took a glimpse of her hands and the scissors suddenly appeared scary to her. She didn't feel like dying anymore.
"This isn't you," A feeble voice said in her head, "Wake up, Sophie. You are stronger than this."


As 2018 draws to a close, that means the end of fall sports. This includes football at Mt Vernon.
After a grand total of seven wins versus only four losses, MVs football team had a lot to say about this past season.
Upperclassmen on the team had similar feelings.
This also was an interesting season due to the fact there was a new coach for the team. Coach Kirschner, who came to MV from Ben Davis High School, definitely had an impact on this years team.
Once again, this was agreed upon among the classes.
Though the season ended in some disappointment, it was still considered by the players an overall success, and the way this team is, the next season should only allow for further improvement.


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PERRY COMO GIVE MYSELF A PARTY LYRICS"
gonna take all the loneliness an' sit right down with the blues!
gonna give myself a party, just me an' the blues!
a gift you gave on my birthday with words of "I love you"
so I'm gonna take all the loneliness, sit right down with the blues!
I'm gonna give myself a party, just me an' the blues!
. . . just me an' the blues!
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