INNESTI/GRAFTING, the exhibition at the Italian Pavilion in Venice points out a national attitude to incorporate new architecture with the previous heritage. Curator Cino Zucchi set a botanical-oriented exhibition focused on Milan as a modernity lab, 2015 Expo and a review on the evolution of Italian landscape.
The exhibition curated by Cino Zucchi is dived in three main areas. The first one is focused on Milan 2015 EXPO and showcases the urban concept of the project, the Italian Pavilion, and local sustainable development and future projections of the area after the event. In this section YellowOffice project stands out for imagining a re-use of the Expo site as an pan-religious cemetery where people of all faiths, atheists and agnostics can truly rest in peace beyond any political issue or religious diatribe.
A section of the exhibition is dedicated to Milan as a laboratory of modernity. Here it is possible to discover how the city was grafted starting from the facade of the Duomo – that was designed, built and redone continuously for almost five centuries – until the latest skyscrapers that Rem Koolhas would probably tag as globalized architecture. A quite mesmerising video mapping on a Milan scale model enhances how the urban development caused a continuous layering of different styles since first Roman settlements.
Maestro Gio Ponti once said that the Italian landscape is made "half by God and half by architects". Indeed, the second room of the INNESTI/GRAFTING offers an overview on Italian contemporary landscape featuring the recent work of some of the most influent studios. Here, an animated mosaic by reknown Studio Azzurro features a selection of video-perspectives on contemporary Italian landscape submitted by those who answered to an open call in collaboration with influent blogzine Designboom.
Inhabited landscapes by Studio Azzuro @ Italian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale – Photo by Marina Caneve.
The archifunnel, an expecially designed portal that represents a clear example of grafting, and the aerial bench installation in the garden on the back complete the exhibition at the Arsenale.
Photos: courtesy of Cino Zucchi studio – Videos: courtesy of La Biennale.


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Got to tell you that I enjoyed every second of the drama-the sound of the wings, fantastic.
Now the only thing that troubled me was: did you just happen to have a dead rat in your pockets to lure them in?
In the freezer. It was fresh dead. Frozen, thawed. The water rat had an unfortunate encounter in the pond. Nature is a bit rough. We gathered it up. Froze it for the turkey vulture at the wildlife rescue, but he is afraid of rats. Who knew?
So the local birds can enjoy as they would have benefited originally.
…and there I was picturing you as a mad old lady with pockets full of dead rodents. Phew!
That rat wasn't going to fit in anybody's pocket. Fat rat.
But hey, you never know what's in pockets or freezers.
They left in a hurry. Did something scare them off?
Vultures spook easily, and it is best to get out of the way especially when feeding on roadkill.
That was totally awesome! Were you sitting there with the camera? I still find those birds spooky.
Excellent video! The sound of the birds wings flapping in the wind is very cool.
Very cool! I just got a pic of a turkey vulture sitting in a tree – he was suspicous of me the whole time!
They are pretty suspicious by nature. Now is nesting and pre-nesting time. They do not build a nest, they use existing shelter. In some areas, they even nest on the ground.
The ones in our area are secretive when entering their nest, I can only catch them with a camera setup. If I am watching in person, they stay clear.
I love the placement of the camera right at their level.
I set a gopro hero3 out and watched from a window. I used the wifi feature to activate the camera from my ipad.
I like the angle, too, but it has to be triggered remotely, they won't come in to check out dead things with a person there.


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Facebook has leaked 419 million phone numbers
This isn't even the biggest data mishap the company has been caught up in.
The news: A security researcher discovered a database pulled from Facebook that contained over 419 million phone numbers. The data included Facebook IDs and in some cases names, genders, and countries. Because the server hosting the database wasn't password-protected, anyone could find and access it, according to Sanyam Jain, the researcher who passed his discovery on to TechCrunch. It's unclear who pulled the information from Facebook's systems or why, but presumably it must have been an employee to have that level of access.
Who was affected? The exposed server included 133 million records from US-based Facebook users and 18 million UK users. Another had over 50 million records from users in Vietnam. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to check if your data was among the leaked records.
History repeats itself: Facebook has been involved in so many data leaks it's almost hard to keep count. In March this year, it turned out the company had been storing up to 600 million users' passwords insecurely since 2012. Days later, we discovered that half a billion Facebook records had been left exposed on the public internet.
The granddaddy of them all: The Cambridge Analytica scandal led to a $5 billion fine from the Federal Trade Commission in July, along with a stipulation that top executives will have to attest that the company has protected privacy. We will see what action, if any, is taken in light of this latest leak.
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Florida couple sells everything to sail the world, their boat sinks on day two
Posted 5:49 pm, February 12, 2018, by Tribune Media Wire
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. -- A Colorado couple will have to start over for a second time after an accident left them without a home, according to WFTS.
Tanner Broadwell, 26, and his girlfriend Nikki Walsh, 24, sold almost all of their belongings and bought a 28-foot sailboat in Florida with plans to sail the Gulf. "My boyfriend and I had planned for a year to buy a sail boat, live on it and sail to the carribean (sic)," Wash wrote in the description of their GoFundMe page. "Our future plans were to sail the world one day."
A Colorado couple says the sailboat they sold everything to buy sunk off Madeira Beach, Florida on the second day. (GoFundMe)
But the trip came to an abrupt and dangerous end in only the second night as the couple navigated through John's Pass off Madeira Beach.
"We hit something in about eight or nine feet of water and it stopped the boat completely," Broadwell said.
The couple watched as water rushed inside, destroying everything they owned.
"Everything I've worked for, everything I've owned since I was a child, I brought with me. It's my house. It's just floating away and there's nothing I can do," Walsh said.
The couple told WJAX they are staying with a family member in Jacksonville Beach until they can find another boat and get back on the water.
"The boat sank, but our dreams didn't sink with the boat," Walsh told WFTS.
The couple said they're responsible for getting the wrecked boat out of the water, which could cost up to $6,700.
They have raised more than $13,000 on GoFundMe so far to get the wrecked boat out of the water and to buy a new boat.
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He was mocked for proposing in KFC, but the internet found the South African couple and will give them their dream wedding
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Q: What governs the availability of trade goods? I'm running into problems building up my navy because I don't seem to be able to  buy enough Clipper Convoys. In the trade screen it says 0.0 available for our country. What causes this, and how can I make them available? More broadly, what governs the availability of goods to your country?

A: Trade goods have to be actually produced by another country to be available to buy and they need to produce a surplus, as the first market they satisfy is the national one.
Additionally, the game has a priority order for selling/buying. The first country a nation trades with is the one, in whose sphere they are. Then other countries within the sphere and then finally it goes down the prestige ranking.
Clipper convoys are in high demand in the early game and in low supply later on, as they progressively get replaced by steamers. So unless you make them yourself or sphere a big clipper producer, they are very hard to acquire.
Try to secure one of those (you can check the top producers on the trade screen) or build a clipper shipyard yourself.
Source: http://www.victoria2wiki.com/Trade

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Q: paramiko module is not catching the output I'm trying to get Kafka lags using paramiko module to catch sum of the kafka lag but the output always giving zero using python paramiko ssh module, while manually same command giving the correct result.
    # check list of consumers
        stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command("/home/prduser/kafka_2.12-2.1.0/bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:19092,localhost:29092,localhost:39092 --list")
        list_consumers = stdout.readlines()
        print(list_consumers)
# check lag for each consumer
        for consumer in list_consumers:
            print(consumer)
            # | awk '{sum += $5} END {print sum}'
            stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command("/home/prduser/kafka_2.12-2.1.0/bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:19092,localhost:29092,localhost:39092 --describe --group {{0}} | awk '{{sum+=$5}} END {{print sum}}' ".format(consumer))
            consumer_lag_out = stdout.readlines()
            print(consumer_lag_out)

sample  output

manual shell command :

A: You have double curly-brackets in the second ssh command. Change from --group {{0}} | awk to --group {0} | awk
The full line should be (EDIT: see followup):
stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command("/home/prduser/kafka_2.12-2.1.0/bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:19092,localhost:29092,localhost:39092 --describe --group {0} | awk '{{sum+=$5}} END {{print sum}}' ".format(consumer))

This way, {0} is replaced by format with consumer (which you redacted in the image, but looks like it should start with adapter.). Otherwise, consumer is ignored, and the actual command sent is:
/home/prduser/kafka_2.12-2.1.0/bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:19092,localhost:29092,localhost:39092 --describe --group {0} | awk '{sum+=$5} END {print sum}'

When format encounters double-curly-brackets, it simply strips the outer ones. It will not error in this case. For example:
>>> consumer = "adapter"
>>> print("value = {{0}}, some brackets = {{inside}}".format(consumer))
value = {0}, some brackets = {inside}
>>> print("value = {0}, some brackets = {{inside}}".format(consumer))
value = adapter, some brackets = {inside}

Following up with further comments, newlines should be stripped from original output. While the sample image is redacted so much so it hard to read, a simple POC can illustrate the situation:
>>> lines = ssh.exec_command("ls / | grep etc")[1].readlines()
>>> lines
['etc\n']
>>> consumer = lines[0]
>>> _, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command("ls /{0} | grep init.d".format(consumer))
>>> len(stdout.readlines())
106
>>> # It is unlikely we have 106 files with 'init.d' under /etc/ .. Let's check for errors:
>>> print(stderr.readlines())
["bash: -c: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `|'\n", "bash: -c: line 2: ` | grep init.d'\n"]
>>> # Now let's try without newlines:
>>> _, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command("ls /{0} | grep init.d".format(consumer.strip()))
>>> print(stdout.readlines())
['init.d\n']
>>> # That's more like it.

Therefore, the full line should be:
stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command("/home/prduser/kafka_2.12-2.1.0/bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:19092,localhost:29092,localhost:39092 --describe --group {0} | awk '{{sum+=$5}} END {{print sum}}' ".format(consumer.strip()))


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Q: Activate browser tab using HTML5 Notification I'm using the HTML5 Notification API to show a message if new content is available. I'd like to show the browser tab that caused the notification to be activated when the user clicks the message, but I haven't been able to find an API to do so. I did find the Page Visibility API, but it only seems to send events when tabs change, not allow me to activate a tab.
Is it possible to control the browser like this, or is it simply not allowed?

A: If anything, window.focus() should do it from inside the notification's click event handler.
See https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/#activating-a-notification for details.


DUBAI In late September, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nayhan, President of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, issued a federal decree restructuring the Central Bank of the UAE's board of directors. This has happened concurrently with the appointment of Mubarak Rashed Khamis Al Mansouri as Governor of the institution.
This change in leadership at the Central Bank (CB) comes at a time when the country's banking sector is witnessing phenomenal growth. According to CB data, total bank assets in the nation increased by 14.23 per cent between July 2013 and July 2014. Private financial institutions and the CB alike are included in this statistic.
In addition to an increase in assets, several banks in the UAE anticipate credit growth of around eight to nine per cent for the coming fiscal year. Financial experts attribute such an expectation to the strong, healthy economic activity the country has recently experienced.
Abdulaziz Al-Ghurair, Chairman of the UAE Banks Federation and a prominent Emirati businessman, said the country is not overbanked. Responding to recommendations of consolidating the sector, he added that despite what many believe, most local banks reported double-digit profits in the first half of the year. One specific example is Emirates NBD, the country's largest lender. The bank's net income grew 35 per cent in the past year, reaching nearly $368 million (Dh1.35 billion). This is reported as the highest profitability in the nation since the financial crisis hit in 2009.
Banking and finance is a large but complicated sector in the UAE. The country has the largest such industry in the Gulf region, with Dubai playing host to over 350 local and international institutions.


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A Nemzeti Palotamúzeum (kínaiul: 國立故宮博物院, pinjin: guó lì gù gōng bó wù yuàn, magyaros: kuo li ku kung po vu jüan) Tajvan egyik leglátogatottabb látványossága, a világ egyik legnagyobb kínai műtárgygyűjteményével rendelkezik. A múzeumot a kínai polgárháború során a Kuomintang csapatai által eredetileg a pekingi Tiltott Városból elmenekített műtárgyakból hozták létre.

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The only tunnel connecting the two sides of Sydney Harbour is now flooded and virtually forgotten. It was built between Long Nose Point, Balmain, and Manns Point, Greenwich, from 1913 to 1924 to carry submarine electricity cables for the electric tramway system on the north side of the Harbour. Submarine cables laid across the harbour earlier had suffered damage from ships dragging their anchors.
The tunnel was flooded about 1930, whether intentionally to avoid continual pumping or as the result of a sudden inrush of water is not clear from the records. The cables in the flooded tunnel remained in use until 1969, but are no longer used because ample supplies of electricity are available on the north side of the harbour from Electricity Commission substations. The tunnel may one day be pumped out to recover the valuable copper in the cables.
There is not much outward evidence of this great work. At the Long Nose Point there is the usual pit-head working and-the mouth of the tunnel. At the Greenwich side there are two openings. A shaft nearer the water, which descends directly down into the bowels of the earth, and further up the hill, another opening where the slope downward commences.
The tunnel is perfectly straight, except at Greenwich Point, where it takes a bend to allow an outlet at a suitable spot. From outlet to outlet it measures 1,760 feet. At each shaft it descends steeply into the ground at a grade of 2 in 1, except in a section at the Greenwich end; where a steep cut had to he made to avoid trouble. Here the grade is 1 in 1.3.
On the level of the tunnel it is possible to walk upright with ease. In fact, two or three men could walk abreast, and there is ample room for any working party to repair the cables.
abandonment of the Long Nose end after a considerable distance had been excavated. Work, therefore, went slowly on from the north side until about May, 1915, when a big fissure in the rock about the middle of the Parramatta River was met. The only solution was to seal up the tunnel and patch the fissure. A bulkhead was built into the tunnel to stop the progress of the sand, water and silt, and a staging was built in the middle of the river and drills were bored through the riverbed. With great accuracy these entered the tunnel almost in the centre. Then pipes were entered through the holes, and a cement mixture was gradually pumped into the tunnel about the vicinity of the fissure.
The cement pumping operation was repeated through three other pipes in line with the original ones, and the tunnel was sealed twice and allowed to set. The door was then re-opened, and the silt and sand removed. It was then found that the second sealing showed signs of weakness, and it was thought advisable to abandon the top tunnel and go deeper into the rock. A permanent bulkhead was built into the rock and the tunnel was sealed up with about 15 feet of concrete, and it remains like that today.
R.L. Rankin and the resident engineer, W.R.H. Melville, decided to go with the foreman and have a look at the fissure that had flooded the tunnel. Placing candles on pieces of wood, they swam about 40 feet into the centre of the tunnel. It was a risky job. The surface of the water was less than a yard from the top of the tunnel. If the inflow had suddenly increased, they would have been caught like rats in a trap.
The break-in was later sealed by placing 6-inch pipes, about 15 yards long, into the crevice, and the whole of the tunnel in the immediate vicinity was packed with bags of clay, tightly rammed. In front of this was placed a steel bulkhead with a steel door, and through the bulkhead three-inch pipes were laid right into the crevice, to allow the water to get out. Through the 6-inch pipes cement was pumped until finally it was not possible to shoot any more into the crevice under very heavy pressure. This was allowed to set for about three months, when the bulkhead door was opened, and sufficient of the bags of clay removed to allow the men to reach the crevice, when they found that the inflow had practically stopped. The bags of clay were completely cemented together.
A detour was cut at this point to about 6 feet, to get round the crevice, and when the men had passed it they worked back to the original line of excavation.
The section of the tunnel that had been sealed up was cut through, the detour filled in, and the original straight line of excavation restored. After going about 50 feet past the crevice, they struck another small fissure, which was apparently a section of the original one, and water suddenly flowed in at the rate of about 2400 gallons an hour. This was not sufficient to stop the progress of the work, but pumps were installed to cope with the inflow.
Soon after the men began to work on the up-grade, and here great care had to be exercised to prevent the material falling back on them. The material was cut out by channelling machines, which allowed it to be removed without difficulty. Eventually -it was a great moment -the men broke through. Away in the distance they could see a tiny gleam of daylight. It was the opening at the Long Nose Point side. Their calculations had been made with remarkable accuracy. The centre line, when the tunnel was connected, was only an 1/8th of an inch out, while the levels were absolutely correct.
behind the green doors lie another part of subterranean Sydney.
big enough to take a couple of men and a large power line which the SCC calls a low voltage distributor.
Sydney's electricity comes mainly from Vales Point near Newcastle. It travels in high voltage form to reduce the amount of electricity lost in transit. When it reaches Sydney it goes to substations which break it down from 33,000 to 11,000 volts. One such substation is located at Lincoln Street, Woolloomooloo, which is also the start of the SCC's only tunnel still in use. There is one under the Harbour from Long Nose Point, Balmain, to Greenwich on the north shore, but this is flooded and is no longer used.
To inspect the Woolloomooloo tunnel one needs special permission from the SCC -and a torch. Most of the light bulbs in the tunnel are out of action. The tunnel itself is a fairly roomy cement affair built in the 1950s. For most of its length it is dry but in a couple of places water has seeped through and is beginning to create small stalactites from the cement roof. It would cost a fortune to build today and it is unlikely that more like it will be built.
An electricity cable being pulled in Kent Street, City, in the 1930s.
It carried cables armoured with steel on the outside and wrapped in lead sheath and paper insulation. You can put your hand on the outside of the cable with no ill effect. It feels slightly warm from all the energy deep inside the copper core. The cables have been there for thirty years and are in good shape.
After walking about a kilometre through the tunnel under the Cahill Expressway, one comes out through a green door into the Domain just below the Art Gallery, and stands blinking in the sunlight. From this point the cables go through concrete underground ducts to smaller substations in the city. After removing the manhole covers at the corner of Phillip Street at Martin Place, you can climb down ladders to about fifteen metres below street level. This is the SCC's biggest and deepest pit. It was built as part of the relocation of ducts during the construction of the Eastern Suburbs Railway. There are empty ducts waiting to take a large number of mains in the future. Digging under central Sydney is becoming increasingly difficult and the Eastern Suburbs Railway is probably the last big excavation that will take place there.
By lifting part of the new paving sections in Martin Place you can climb down to inspect the substation that supplies most of the central banking system of Sydney. If the power fails here, then the computers of most of Sydney's head offices stop too. So the board has not one but three transformers. Any fault in the system is reported by an automatic signalling system and shows up on the mosaic board at the SCC headquarters in Goulburn Street. When a fault is reported by a customer, the SCC will isolate the distributor and, if possible, bring supply round by an alternative route to the customer while they fix the fault. The SCC takes great pride in maintaining its service to customers, and workmen in suitably insulated clothing and shoes actually carry out the repairs to Direct Current distributors while the wires are still live. Direct Current is only used to supply a few old buildings around Chifley Square which have lifts needing this form of current. They are being gradually phased out and should soon be gone much to everybody's relief.
When working in the cramped spaces below street level while repairing low voltage distributors, workmen welcome the sight of cockroaches. Their presence shows that there is plenty of oxygen -an important consideration when you are welding wires in a confined space below ground where there could be gas. Not so welcome are the rats which persist in chewing through low voltage cables, particularly around the Opera House. This has a fatal effect on both rats and cables. Another hazard to the electric supply are con-. tractors excavating foundations for city buildings. Nobody has been killed for about ten years, but this is mainly thanks to the SCC signalling system rather than the care taken by the excavation workers. The signalling system automatically cuts off supply before it can travel through the offending machine and kill the operator. The heat from a main is SO great that it can melt a mechanical digger's shovel in a few seconds. A third hazard is water and, given Sydney's occasional downpours, not even the stoutest pump and the 'largest drainage system could hope to deal with this problem completely.
Electricity authorities have been digging up Sydney to lay cables since 1903. In that year, the Electricity Undertaking of the Municipal Council of Sydney began building the Pyrmont Power Station and excavating over forty kilometres of trenches to link the station with the Sydney Town Hall and Darlinghurst. They also dug a tunnel from the Power Station to the nearby Harbour to provide cooling water. The Power Station is now used as a museum but the tunnel is still there.
The official switching on ceremony took place at the Pyrmont Power Station on 8 July 1904.
Pulling electricity cables through ducts over a bridge built over the Warringah Expressway at West Street, Naremburn, in the 1970s.
with a gas leak had started a fire at a broken gas main at the corner of Elizabeth and Park Streets. In the words of the famous headline, it was a small fire and nobody was hurt.
It is not the sort of publicity the gas authority seeks out. But it does serve as a reminder of the huge network of gas pipes beneath our city streets and the patient and normally unpublicised work of the engineers and company staff who put them there.
Although gas pipes are normally laid in trenches rather than large tunnels, the Australian Gas Light Company can fairly claim to have some of the oldest networks of subterranean Sydney. In fact, the gas company has been digging up Sydney streets for well over a hundred years.
The company was given a Royal Charter in 1837 and charged with the responsibility of lighting Sydney's gloomy streets. It turned on the lights on 24 May 1841 to celebrate the birthday of Queen Victoria. The sites for its first gas holder tanks had to be hewn out of solid sandstone at Darling Harbour. By 1925,fthe company could proudly claim to be the seventh largest gas undertaking in the British Empire.
the North Shore. James Walter Fell imported all the necessary equipment and set up the first North Shore Gas works at Neutral Bay. By February 1877, the pipes were laid and the first customers were connected. Unfortunately the start of the service was delayed by a severe drought. Gas tanks -geometers as most people still call them -are like huge inverted cups full of gas sitting on water which keeps the gas in. The trouble was that, in February 1877, the North Shore had no water! Finally the rain came and the North Shore gas service was able to start.
The North Shore Gas Company is now merged with its much larger sister company, the Australian Gas Light Company and together they supply the-whole of metropolitan Sydney.
An electricity cable pit in Campbell Street, City.
Like most utilities that dig trenches and tunnels under Sydney streets, the gas company occasionally digs up forgotten bits and pieces of Sydney's past. One such piece was an old wooden tunnel which came to light while replacing pipes at Chatswood. Nobody in the gas company knew it was there. It was made of red gum and filled with sand to stabilise the pipes it carried inside.
In common with other utilities the gas company has' experienced problems in getting its services across Sydney Harbour. However, the gas company has special difficulties because it produces a product that will cause its pipes to float just below the surface of the water where it would be a danger to shipping. So the board has encased its pipes in concrete at Roseville Bridge and the Spit where it crosses Middle Harbour and has done the same for its pipe under the Parramatta River.
This new pipeline for natural gas was laid at the Australian Gaslight Company plant at Mortlake in the late 1970s.
The gas company's supplies are normally carried in pipes buried in trenches. The building of the Warringah Expressway has provided the board with its only real tunnel to add to the network of walkable tunnels around Sydney. The tunnel in question begins at Mount Street, North Sydney, where it goes down for about 10 metres and then continues under the expressway. The total distance is over 100 metres. As it measures nearly three by three metres, it is quite big enough to walk through and it provides access for the Water Board and electricity suppliers who share the tunnel.
The biggest problem faced is one it shares with all other utilities. There are so many services competing for the limited space under Sydney streets. Subterranean Sydney, in fact, is already seriously overcrowded and the situation in central Sydney is getting worse. When digging trenches for the new pipes needed to supply natural gas in the late 1970s the gas company found great difficulty in finding vacant space. At the corner of Sussex and Market Streets, for example, the gas company had to dig through three streets -the existing one, plus two older ones -before they could find a place to put their pipes.
Despite what most members of the public think, the utilities do co-operate with each other. Every time one of them wants a "street opening" they all meet for discussions and take advantage of the opportunity to carry out maintenance and repairs to their own pipes. It makes good economic sense. Up to a third of the cost of a job can be for restoration of the road surface and the gas company, if not the other utilities, is a private company with shareholders to think about.
The gas company tests its pipes with air before covering over the road. But Murphy's Law, which dictates that what can go wrong will go wrong, operates in the gas industry as well as it does in any other human undertaking. In the case of the gas company, a small leak found after the road surface has been restored means that the men have to start digging up the road once more.
Travelodge Motel. The gas mains are still under there somewhere, but the old gas company records give their location only by the names of streets which no longer exist. SO before they can start on repairs and maintenance, the engineers have to spend time consulting old council street maps to find where the streets used to be.


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Morristown National Historical Park
On January 6th, 1777, George Washington marched north from Valley Forge to the beautiful city of Morristown, New Jersey, for his winter encampment following victories over the British at Trenton and Princeton in 1776. Washington chose Morristown for not one, but two winter encampments in 1777 and also in 1779-1780. The city was picked for its strategic location, being surrounded by mountains and giving General Washington a good vantage point to look out for impending British troops from New York City, but also to protect Philadelphia, where the founding fathers presided. It was in Morristown, during the Continental Army's two encampments, that Washington began training his troops with the help of French General Marquis De Lafayette, as well as added hundreds of new recruits to his army to fight the revolution. Today the area known as "Washington's Headquarters" is a National Historical Park in Morristown, and it includes Ford's Mansion, the Morristown Green, and the museum building itself.
Ford's Mansion at Washington's Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey. Washington and his family quartered in the house during his second winter encampment in 1779. Image from digital commons.
Washington's Headquarters National Historical Park museum building. This building was styled to replicate George Washington's Virginia home, Mount Vernon. Image from digital commons.
Life-sized statues of George Washington and his generals Alexander Hamilton and Marquis De Lafayette on the Morristown green, the site of Washington's first winter encampment in 1777. Image from digital commons
19th century engraving of Ford's Mansion by artists William Croome and Joseph Andrews. The Ford family would continue to live in this house after Washington's departure until the 1870s when it was sold to auction. Image from digital commons
During George Washington's first five month encampment in Morristown in the winter of 1777, he maintained headquarters at Arnold's Tavern on the Morristown Green, which was the central hub of the city, while his troops set up camp outside on the Green itself. The winter was exceptionally brutal, although Washington had faced worse during his Valley Forge encampment, right outside Philadelphia, in December of 1776. The hills surrounding Morristown gave General Washington a good vantage point to watch for the British, who were camped out nearby across the Hudson River to hold New York City. Morristown was also a strategic spot for Washington's men to watch the roads that connect British strongholds from New Jersey to New England, as well as protect Philadelphia from British forces. George Washington used his time in Morristown in 1777 as a chance to reorganize a battered Continental army, as well as rebuild the army with new recruits.
Two years later, in the winter of 1779-1780, Washington sets up his second encampment in Morristown; this time on a 1500-acre section of woods right outside the city known as Jockey Hollow, and Washington held Headquarters inside Ford's mansion. Ford's Mansion was a large, Georgian style home built in 1774 for Colonel Jacob Ford Jr., who was an iron manufacturer. Ford died right around the time Washington began his first encampment on the Green in January of 1777, when thirty five soldiers from Delaware were quartered in his house. Ford's wife, Theodosia Ford, let General Washington use the mansion during his second encampment in the winter of 1779. Mrs. Ford and her two children moved into two rooms, while George Washington, his wife Martha, their five aides-de-camp, eighteen servants, some guards, and a number of visiting dignities took over the rest of the house.
The winter of 1779 was one of the most brutal ever recorded, and mutiny became a problem for General Washington and the Continental Army as early as December. There was very little food for the soldiers, who also had no shoes and slept in cramped unsanitary tents on their beds that were the frozen ground. Washington himself complained of a lack of space inside Ford's mansion for him, his wife, and all their servants. Although challenging, General Washington had an eventful winter in Morristown. Benedict Arnold was court-martialed in Morristown on December 23rd, 1779, and Marquis De Lafayette arrived at Washington's headquarters on May 10th, 1780, to announce that the French would be sending an expeditionary force of about 6,000 men to help fight in the revolution.
Today, "Washington's Headquarters" is a registered National Historical Park in Morristown, New Jersey. The site consists of Ford's Mansion, and the Morristown Green, as well as the actual museum building itself. The Ford family continued to live in their house until 1870 when it was sold to auction. Ford's Mansion is currently decorated to how historians believe Washington and his family kept the house while they lived in it. The Morristown Green, where Washington's men set up camp in the winter of 1777, is home to three bronze life-sized statues of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Marquis De Lafayette. The museum building itself is a Colonial Revival style building designed by John Russell Pope. Pope used the style of Washington's Virginia home Mount Vernon as inspiration for designing the museum building. The museum memorializes General Washington and the Continental Army's two winter encampments in Morristown, and the hardships the United States' first underfunded and under-supplied army had to suffer through and sacrifice in order to help secure the birth of our nation.
1. Ford's Mansion-Washington's Headquarters. Accessed October 15, 2018. https://www.nps.gov/morr/learn/education/classrooms/upload/Winter-encampment-q-B-2.pdf.
2. Letter from George Washington to John Hancock, December 27, 1776. National Archives, Founders Online website. Accessed October 15, 2018. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-07-02-0355.
3. Morristown National Historic Park website. Accessed October 15, 2018. https://www.nps.gov/morr/learn/historyculture/ford-mansion-washington-s-headquarters.htm.
4. The Official Web Site for The State of New Jersey. Accessed October 20, 2018. https://www.nj.gov/state/historical/it-happened-here/ihhnj-er-morristown-winter.pdf.
5. George Washington's Mount Vernon-Morristown, NJ. Accessed October 20, 2018. https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/morristown-nj/.
6. National Parks Traveler-Washington's Headquarters at Morristown National Historical Park Reopens. Accessed October 18, 2018. https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2010/07/washingtons-headquarters-morristown-national-historical-park-reopens6195.
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The Dream Machine is an adventure about invading dreams, made out of cardboard, clay and condoms. Is this what dreams are made of? Here's what we think.
Good art makes you feel something you never knew could be felt. It mixes the chemicals in your brain just so to produce a cocktail of a feeling that's hard to express and harder to recreate. The Dream Machine, with its off-kilter art and tone-defying storytelling, is good art.
With an endorsement like that right out of the gate, it's tempting to think that The Dream Machine affected me deeply. Perhaps it made me shed tears, like Bastion did, or it changed my outlook on the world, like Dark Souls did? No, The Dream Machine did neither, but it did tell me a story I will remember for a while, and in a style that I will remember for much longer.
The game follows Victor Neff as he moves into an apartment building with his pregnant wife Alicia. The couple is getting adjusted to its new home when Victor and Alicia quickly discover that something very odd is happening in the building. As one thing leads to another, Victor discovers "The Dream Machine", an entity that is infecting the dreams of the building's tenants. To stop it, Victor must enter each dream and drive the Dream Machine away.
Our handsome protagonist, in the flesh. Or, well, clay.
Take one look at a screenshot of the game and you'll be looking at its unmistakeable visuals, which were created by photographing real-world objects. Characters are made of clay, and environments are made out of all sorts of objects including cardboard, broccoli and condoms. Each environment in the game, particularly in Episode 5, is an impressive work of art in itself. To be able to play an interactive game in environments like these feels as delightful as it does unusual.
It's not just the medium of creation that makes The Dream Machine's visuals stand out. It's the way the game's locations look tangible and yet unreal at the same time. It's the way the characters pore at you with their empty eye sockets, and the way the game can jolt you right as you're getting comfortable with its eerie world.
The result of The Dream Machine's bold art direction is a timeless look that appears as a blend between the realistic and the stylistic. There's simplicity, but there's also a level of detail that you simply won't find in purely computer-generated graphics.
The unusual style of the game's visuals is balanced by a down-to-earth story that plays out like a psychological fable for adults. Even as Victor invades dreams to try and save the day, we come out learning more about him, more so than the other characters. The game's flow remains engrossing and engaging throughout, thanks to a well-maintained sense of mystery regarding what strange encounter you'll have next.
The Dream Machine's visuals look neither fully real, nor fully artificial, just like a dream.
Puzzles in point-and-click adventure games always make me wary. Most such games come from the old LucasArts school of design, where puzzles are made fiendishly hard and often nonsensical. While The Dream Machine also follows that classic formula, the difficulty of its puzzles felt just right for most of the game.
Part of the reason I feel The Dream Machine earns its puzzles is that it makes good use of dream logic without sacrificing comprehensibility. The chief conceit of Victor hopping between dreams allows for discreet inventories, as well as a wildly imaginative set of locations and objects to play with. At the same time, things just make sense, even when they shouldn't.
The game communicates itself well, thanks to its smart design. It's always clear what you have to do to proceed, and the game's delightful visuals make exploration a joy. The game never seems to nudge you. Instead, it lets you breathe in the atmosphere and discover new places, resulting in a game where progress feels steady yet rewarding.
The nature of the puzzles varies a bit from dream to dream. At one point, the game deliberately and refreshingly contrasts a linear set of puzzles in one dream with a more open-ended set in another dream. One episode is particularly expansive and involves an annoying level of backtracking. This was thankfully addressed in the next episode, which included a limited fast travel mechanic.
You don't need eyes to dream.
As the game progresses, the puzzles do get harder, and I had to consult the internet to figure out the main puzzles of Chapters 5 and 6. It's never fun having to look up solutions to progress, especially when the story has you hooked enough that you want to know what happens next.
The actual act of figuring out a puzzle solution this way adds little to the narrative, so a multi-tier hint system could've been helpful to those of us without the patience for traditional point-and-click puzzle-solving. The game does include an option to have Victor suggest hints, but more often than not, he provided hints when it was necessary to me, and remained silent when I did need a hint.
The Dream Machine is not a horror game, but it maintains a consistently unnerving atmosphere that pervades through its tangible-looking environments. The game's ambient music always verges on the edge of discomfort without quite going all the way there. There are no jump scares, but the game still managed to effectively startle me at moments where it was called for. Not a lot of works manage to blend the whimsically dreamlike with the utterly morbid as effortlessly as The Dream Machine does.
It took over six years for The Dream Machine to be completed, and for a game with such a lengthy development, it remains surprisingly consistent in tone and style throughout. The sole stickler is the technology driving it: Adobe Flash, which is now a relic of a bygone era. Steam's framerate counter jumped all over the place, and I often encountered some characteristic 'Flash' jerkiness when getting Victor to do things. It never really got in the way, thankfully, and I did not encounter any bugs or crashes in my playthrough, so I suppose I shouldn't knock on Flash too much.
The Dream Machine is a meaty, psychological adventure that looks like nothing else you've ever played. It's a game of surprising balance: surreal, yet familiar; humorous, yet deeply morbid; bizarre, yet logical; subdued, yet striking. Through it all, the game cuts a straight and narrow line of being consistently entertaining. Not unlike the best of dreams, then.
The Dream Machine is now available on PC and Mac via Steam. This review is based on a review copy provided by the game's developer. The game is available piecemeal at $3.99 to $5.99, depending on the episode. It can also be bought as a discounted bundle at $19.95. Not a bad price if you're into point-and-clicks.
Stuck in The Dream Machine? Find out the solution in our walkthrough series for the game.
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Addressing India's Air Pollution Control Needs
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In response to increased demand for its environmental technologies and services, Anguil Environmental Systems Inc. (Anguil) is
expanding its' coverage in the Indian market with the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary in the country. On June 22nd, 2020, the articles of incorporation were approved by government officials and Anguil Environmental Systems Private Limited was formed. Since then, Anguil has establish a direct presence by securing an office in Gujarat and hiring several seasoned employees with plans for more hires in early 2021.
Anguil has been serving the global air pollution control market since 1978. With well-established partners already in place and several successful installations throughout India, company executives felt the time was right. "Forming a subsidiary of the United States parent has always been part of the company's overall international strategy" said Chris Anguil, President of Anguil Environmental. "After successfully penetrating the European and Asian markets, we knew India was a priority given the growing demand for pollution control solutions."
Having an established company in the local market allows Anguil technologies to be manufactured utilizing local resources while avoiding substantial international freight costs and duties. Customers can expect a responsive, single source provider for their specific pollution control needs. With a dedicated local team of technical sales, engineering, and service resources at the ground level, the company seeks to serve the nation with the best technology at affordable price.
Make sure to visit our company directory to contact our team in India or see a list of all Anguil locations.
Company Commitment During COVID-19
These are unprecedented times with the global outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19). We want our customers, partners, suppliers, employees and community to know that Anguil is following an existing, robust, business continuity plan for managing situations such as this. In fact, our leadership has been preparing for this disruption in the United States since the virus first hit our offices in China last February. Anguil is also following the recommendations of local, state and federal health officials to protect our employees and surrounding community while continuing to serve our customers to the best of our ability.
As the world continues to grapple with this pandemic, many federal and state agencies are imposing shelter in place restrictions to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. We understand that many of our customers are considered essential businesses in critical infrastructure industries such as Chemical, Defense, Industrial, Energy, and Transportation, and therefore cannot cease operations.
Our number one priority will remain the health and well-being of our team, while doing whatever possible to service our customers, their facilities and production. We are dedicated to remaining flexible in our approach and adjusting accordingly to keep them operational.
Our entire service team and support staff remains healthy and is setup online, ready to assist you via remote connection or teleconferencing. For customers requiring onsite services, we are investigating each situation on a case-by-case basis so please contact our service department.
As a provider to critical business sectors we will continue to operate all of our fabrication facilities including those locations where the population has been placed under a 'stay at home' order. Anguil fabrication facilities will remain open as long as possible for any emergency fabrication needs while trying to maintain production schedules.
We have implemented a work from home policy for all non-essential employees in Accounting, Administration, Purchasing, Sales and Marketing. All individuals in these departments can be reached via phone or email.
Our purchasing department is maintaining constant contact with our major supply chain partners to ensure the continued flow of products and services.
For 40 years and counting, Anguil has taken on complex environmental challenges and stood strong for our customer. That will not change in the face of these unprecedented times.
Should you have any questions, please call the corporate office (800-488-0230). This is a very fluid situation so please revisit this page for future updates.
Chris Anguil, President-Anguil Environmental Systems
Federal Environmental Advisory Committee Welcomes Kevin Summ
Anguil Environmental is very proud to announce that our Director of Marketing, Kevin Summ, was recently selected by the Secretary of Commerce to serve on the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC) for a two-year term. Under the guidance of the United States Department of Commerce, Kevin and his fellow committee members will advise government officials on environmental technologies, trends, policies and markets to improve our nations' reputation as an international leader.
Over the past twenty-plus years, Kevin has been actively involved in the marketing and sale of environmental technologies for various industrial applications. With a solid technical understanding of pollution control systems and the international regulations to which they are applied, Kevin brings a wealth of insight into many of the barriers that US companies face in doing business overseas. This knowledge will be extremely valuable as the ETTAC charter works to provide input on the development and administration of programs to expand US exports of environmental technologies, goods, services and products that comply with US environmental, safety, and related requirements.
"Being one of only forty people appointed to ETTAC speaks to Kevin's experience with the promotion of sound environmental technologies and his dedication to protecting our environment." said Chris Anguil, President of Anguil Environmental Systems. "As a company, we are happy to sponsor Kevin's involvement in ETTAC as their mission coincides with Anguil's pledge to provide environmental and energy solutions that ensure cleaner air and water for future generations."
More information on committee members and the 2018-2020 charter can be found on the International Trade Administration website: https://www.export.gov/ettac
The ETTAC welcomes comments and suggestions from the public. If you wish to make a comment for consideration by the Committee, or for information about previous ETTAC charters, please contact Amy Kreps at amy.kreps@trade.gov
Another Top Workplace Award for Anguil!
Anguil Environmental has been recognized as a Top Workplace in Southeastern Wisconsin by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for the sixth time. Thousands of companies from across the state competed for this award and Anguil was one of the 150 selected. Winners are based solely upon feedback from employee surveys.
"This is our sixth time being honored as a Top Workplace and the recognition has not lost it's significance with management" said Deb Anguil, Chief Operating Officer of Anguil Environmental. "Family culture is one of our core company values. The fact that Top Workplace winners are determined by feedback from employees tells us that our team members feel a part of the family which is very important to organizational growth"
"Anguil is committed to protecting the environment with unmatched engineering, innovative equipment, guaranteed compliance and reliable service." said Chris Anguil, President of Anguil Environmental. "None of that is possible without the dedication and hard work of our employees. On behalf of the ownership at Anguil, I want to thank them for all they do for the company and our customers."
The complete list of winners can be found on Jsonline.com.
See what it is like to be an Anguil Employee.
Anguil Celebrates a Major Milestone
Milwaukee, WI: Starting an environmental company in the late 1970's was not nearly as well received as it would be today, but Gene Anguil, Founder of Anguil Environmental Systems, persevered. Four decades later, Anguil is recognized as a worldwide leader of industrial air pollution control and wastewater treatment technologies. On August 12th, the company is hosting a 40th anniversary party that will be truly international, drawing attendees from across the United States, Asia, and Europe. Held in downtown Milwaukee, the private celebration will be one of the first events in the new wing at Discovery World overlooking Lake Michigan.
Approximately four-hundred people are expected at the Sunday evening party. Guests will consist of employees, both current and former, as well as partners, key suppliers, sales representatives and close family friends. "It's important that we recognize the people and companies that helped us get where we are today," said Gene. "While my wife was our first, and arguably most-important employee, there were also a lot of other vital contributors to our success."
The night will include a multimedia presentation focused on Anguil's Recipe for Success: Vision, Expertise, Leadership, Employees, Resilience, Fun, Community, and Family. Dinner and dancing will follow a series of speeches by key Anguil personnel. According to Chris Anguil, son of Gene and President of the company, "August 12th also happens to be Gene's 80th birthday, so there may be some surprises".
Throughout the past four decades, the company has celebrated countless successes, but also persevered through some challenges. Major milestones include several moves into increasingly larger facilities, the establishment of international operations, development of an extensive global sales representative network, and a continuous garnering of awards like the employee-driven Top Workplace distinction and the Environmental Business Journal Achievement Award. The tragic passing of Gene's oldest son Jeff in 1993, then company President, was one of those challenging moments that tested the company's resiliency while cementing the family culture that still exists today.
The 40th anniversary celebration comes at a time of widespread enthusiasm for the company's mission and steady growth, including the hiring of several third generation Anguil employees, aggressive global sales targets, and the completion of a remodel of their corporate headquarters in Brown Deer. This investment buoys the optimism of employees and the surrounding community, looking ahead to many more years of success.
About Anguil Environmental Systems, Incorporated: Anguil provides environmental and energy solutions that ensure cleaner air and water for future generations. Company values include a commitment to customer satisfaction, high integrity, family culture, continuous improvement, a passion for excellence and organizational growth. The company is uniquely capable of supplying integrated air and water treatment solutions to the global manufacturing sector and industrial markets for environmental compliance.
On vapor combustion applications, Anguil has over four decades of experience with the design, manufacturing, service and installation of thermal and catalytic oxidizers for the destruction of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs), process odors and Nitrous Oxides (NOX). Anguil also specializes in energy recovery systems that reduce a company's operating costs, lower their carbon footprint and decrease energy consumption by utilizing waste heat from manufacturing processes.
On the water side, Anguil Aqua provides turnkey water treatment systems that target solid or liquid pollutants from industrial and remediation applications. As a custom solution company, they can integrate a range of technologies with proven techniques to meet specific site challenges.
Carbon Fiber Market Drives Strong Sales
MILWAUKEE, WI: Anguil recently received the largest order in company history in the carbon fiber market, which reflects industry confidence in their state-of-the-art technical advances revolutionizing carbon fiber emissions treatment. Anguil's air pollution abatement systems offer the industry's most advanced technology for meeting the toughest environmental regulatory standards in the world for controlling air emissions from oxidation ovens and LT/HT carbonization furnaces.
The integrated systems draw upon an enhanced design that help customers in the industry achieve more productive operations, providing significant operating efficiency by reducing energy consumption of typical process equipment by 17%. Rich Grzanka, Vice President of Anguil, focuses on sales of carbon fiber equipment and explained the company's market success: "Tightening of environmental air emission regulations around the world have combined with increased demand for lightweight, yet strong materials like carbon fiber, used in the manufacturing of more efficient aircraft and automobiles, to drive growth in this industry and our business."
Anguil specializes in providing a seamless integrated systems approach to air pollution control for carbon fiber production facilities considering a three-prong approach:
Process Emissions – Oxidation Ovens & Carbonization Furnaces; Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN), Ammonia (NH3), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Tar, Silica
Abatement Equipment – Regenerative Thermal Oxidisers (RTOs), Multi Staged Direct Fired Thermal Oxidisers (MS-DFTO), Secondary Heat Recovery, Particulate Control
Operational & Maintenance Considerations – Designed to Maximize Up Time, Energy Efficiency and Heat Return to Process. Minimize Maintenance Time & Costs.
Anguil celebrated record-breaking sales in 2017, with the carbon fiber market playing an integral role in their success and strengthening reputation worldwide. In 2018, Anguil will continue to focus on the carbon fiber market, demonstrating their long-term commitment to developing state-of-the-art technical advances for the carbon fiber industry. Anguil representatives will be in Paris from March 6th – 8th exhibiting at JEC World 2018, a trade show uniting the global carbon fiber and composites industry. Anguil team members will be on hand throughout the conference at booth R31f to explain how their energy-efficient oxidizer systems are revolutionizing the industry and why they have the highest environmental performance on record.
Anguil Environmental Systems Receives 2017 EBJ Business Achievement Award
MILWAUKEE, WI: Anguil Environmental Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce that they have been chosen as a 2017 Environmental Business Journal® (EBJ) award winner. EBJ, a business research publication which provides high value strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry, honors several companies each year for revenue growth, acquisitions, innovative project designs, technology applications, new practice areas, social contributions and industry leadership. Anguil was honored as a bronze winner in the Midsize Firm category and was lauded for record sales in 2017, family leadership, and its global reach. Anguil celebrates 40 years in business in 2018, and over the past four decades has developed abatement technologies that control volatile organic compounds, hazardous air pollutants, process odors, nitrogen oxides and water contaminants.
"In what is widely regarded as a stable market, a number of companies exceeded the norms of low single-digit growth with double-digit growth or ambitious ventures into new practice areas or technology development," said Grant Ferrier, president of Environmental Business International Inc. (EBI, San Diego), publisher of Environmental Business Journal.
Anguil's EBJ award distinction joins several other major recognitions including: Four-time "Future 50" award winner, two-time winner of WI Exporter of the Year, three-time winner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Top Workplaces awards, recognition by the US Chamber of Commerce as "One of the best managed companies in America," and honored by the Small Business Association with the Jeffrey Butland Family Business Award.
The 2017 EBJ awards will be presented at a special ceremony at the Environmental Industry Summit XVI in San Diego, Calif. on March 21, 2018. The Environmental Industry Summit is an annual three-day executive retreat hosted by EBI, Inc. and 2020 Environmental Group.
Anguil Announces Record Sales Month in December of 2017
MILWAUKEE, WI: Anguil Environmental Systems, a family-owned air and water pollution control equipment supplier, closed out their sales year with a bang, announcing record breaking sales in the month of December, shattering their annual sales goals. In one week alone, they received four orders for eight systems from around the world totaling over $20,000,000 in bookings. The orders were unique in their geographic breadth, diversity of technologies, and scope of the various applications, spanning the carbon fiber, composites, converting, and semiconductor/chip manufacturing industries, underscoring the company's versatility and adoption to global market demands. The technologies ordered included systems processing emissions ranging from 5,000 SCFM up to 200,000 SCFM and span their product offerings, including Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTOs), a multi-stage Direct-fired Thermal Oxidizer (DFTO), rotor concentrators coupled with Thermal Recuperative oxidizers, and heat exchanger systems. All of the orders were placed by existing customers, demonstrating the strength of Anguil's brand reputation and enduring trust in their pollution control solutions. Anguil is celebrating 40 years in business in 2018.
Of the company's recent success, President Chris Anguil said, "While these orders all came in one week, they reflect months, even years, of hard work and dedication to finding the best solutions for our customers. We pride ourselves on the consistent level of service we provide, and this shows our efforts pay off."
These orders are a part of a larger trend of strong sales across all of Anguil's product lines in December. Over $900,000 in aftermarket orders were booked. In addition, almost $1,000,000 in sales were booked for the new Anguil Aqua product line, which specializes in the treatment of industrial wastewater.
Anguil Environmental is an air pollution control, water treatment and energy recovery system provider to manufacturers for industrial applications. Over the past four decades, Anguil has developed a breadth of abatement technologies that control harmful and regulated Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs), process odors, Nitrogen Oxides (NOX) and various water contaminants.
As a custom solution company, Anguil is uniquely capable of supplying and servicing integrated air and water treatment solutions to meet specific site challenges. The company is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin U.S.A. with offices in Europe and Asia as well as an extensive network of agents located domestically and throughout the world. Anguil's mission is to provide pollution control solutions today to help its customers remain profitable tomorrow.
Wrigley Opening Ceremony Highlights Anguil RTO
High-ranking, Wrigley officials from both China and the United States were in attendance for an opening ceremony at the Shanghai plant this past May. Members of the local Environmental Bureau and government leaders in the crowd praised the company for their efforts to reduce air pollutants like Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).
The plant recently commissioned Anguil Environmental Asia to design, build and install a 55,000 SCFM Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer or RTO. The emission abatement system is capable of destroying more than 99% of any harmful emissions coming from the gum making process. RTOs are not only effect at destroying odors and emissions but they are also known for their energy efficient operation. Through the use of ceramic media beds, the device captures waste heat from combustion to preheat incoming pollutants. At 95-97% thermal efficiency, many RTO systems like this oxidizer at Wrigley will self sustain, using no additional fuel for operation.
During the ceremony, Wrigley leaders reinforced their firm stance on environmental protection and commitment to action. All attendees then got a tour of the Anguil RTO and witnessed the system in operation. Anguil personnel were on hand to explain the capabilities and answer any questions.
Anguil Expands Environmental Offerings to Include Water Treatment Solutions
After nearly forty years in the air pollution control industry, Anguil Environmental is announcing the creation of a new water treatment division appropriately named Anguil Aqua Systems. The new initiative will leverage Anguil's extensive engineering experience and process knowledge.
Anguil has spent the past three years researching the market, forming a technical team and expanding their knowledge of water pollution technologies and techniques before officially forming Anguil Aqua. During this time, they successfully completed several water treatment projects in the remediation and industrial manufacturing markets. Building upon these achievements, the company is uniquely positioned to provide single source responsibility for fully engineered, customized and integrated air and water treatment solutions.
For more information visit the Anguil wastewater treatment web pages.


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Van Meter Inc. Repeats As A Top Iowa Workplace
Ranking fourth among Iowa's top midsized companies, this was the fourth straight year Van Meter Inc. has received the honor.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — Van Meter Inc. – No. 28 on Industrial Distribution's 2015 Big 50 List – has been selected as one of Iowa's 2015 Top 150 Workplaces. Top Workplaces are determined based solely on employee feedback. Van Meter Inc. ranked fourth among Iowa's top midsized companies. This is the fourth consecutive year on the Top Workplaces list for Van Meter.
The employee feedback survey is conducted by WorkplaceDynamics, LLP, a leading research firm on organizational health and employee engagement. WorkplaceDynamics conducts regional Top Workplaces programs with major publishing partners across the United States. In Iowa, WorkplaceDynamics partners with The Des Moines Register.
What makes Van Meter a winning workplace? According to Van Meter Chief Operating Officer, Lura McBride, it's the people. "When you hire the right people and create a culture where they can be engaged and understand how they make a difference, everything else takes care of itself," states McBride. "Delivering a positive employee-owner experience is the best way to ensure we deliver an exceptional customer experience."
In 2015, one-hundred percent of Van Meter's employee-owners participated in the company's engagement survey via WorkplaceDynamics. The company reported an engagement score of 80 percent, which is well above the national average of about 30 percent. "We are enthusiastic about our work and our passion is contagious," adds McBride. "Every employee-owner is focused on creating lasting value for the people we serve – our customers, our suppliers, our community partners and one another."
According to McBride, Van Meter focuses on the "total" wellbeing of its people. This encompasses traditional things like heath, wellness and safety, but also includes financial stability, personal growth and development, flexible scheduling to allow for better integration of work and home life, and a very progressive parental leave program. The company recently introduced a new vacation policy called TOTAL (Time Off To Appreciate Life). It is a personal accountability plan where employees take ownership of their time away from work.
The Des Moines Register published the complete list of 2015 Top Workplaces in a special section on Sept. 13. View the list here.
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Everybody seems to be willing to give his opinion about the next Arturia synthesizer.
So take this little survey. And don't forget to answer the "essential" question: should Arturia continue to release virtual synths?
And what about an Elka Synthex?
keep on bringing them synths back arturia, the best idea ever, i had this idea in the early 90', all synths should be re-created with VSTi's.
Re: The Next One ?
Korg PS-3300, obviously missing from this list!
What a nice companion to the Mg Modular V the ARP 2600 would be.
If Arturia were to not continue releasing virtual synths, what would they release? I remember the question of a dedicated hardware box to host the MMV, but the synth would still essentially software. That's a strange question. Are you guys thinking of switching from virtual synths to hair products? I love a quality hair product, but I love the soft-synths more. Maybe something was Lost in Translation.
I've got a really bad Reaktor ensemble of an Arp 2600. The thought of you guys doing it excites me.
It would be wonderful if you would create a specified "format" of design.
As to this I would like to bring your arpegs. to your attention. Your Mini Mg seems to have the best for my purposes. But what would be ideal is an arpeg with hold, build (as the Mini), traspose in either 1/2 or whole steps in inclusion of octive but also the multi strike of a key - which I have yet to see in any softsynth.
Multi-strike would allow you, for example, to press : c, d, g, d, c, c, g in a build mode.
Then to implement this on all of your machines. The arpeg is what is holding me up from purchase of the CS. I wouldn' even bother with the Mini because I own the Mod V if it weren't for the arpeg.
All and all your Softsynths sound great but I find them undependable to use in live situations because the are so incredibly taxing on the CPU. So working to lower the CPU usage would be the best gift you could give users.
It is a real tossup between the ARP 2600 and the OB-X, but I would like to add another vote for the ARP 2600.
I voted for the Matrix/Xpander, having in mind an emulation that should be able to reproduce and import via SysEx the sounds of both the Matrix12/Xpander and the Matrix6/1000.
I still have one Matrix-1000, but would be glad to replace it by software and still use the tons of sounds I've programmed for it.
Second on my list would be the EMS Synthi A(KS), but I'd say leave that one to Gmedia/OhmForce (this time really!).
I don't quite understand the votes for the OB-XA - was there something else than the Van Halen "Jump" brass type sounds that it was capable of?
I was thinking OB-8 as well.
Especially if you can nail THAT warmth !
Of course it should be the ARP 2600. Alot of people have used it. Stevie Wonder, Jean Michael Jarre, lots more. I even heard it was used to make the sounds for R2D2 in the first Star Wars movie!
"i like the way you moog..."


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Q: preg_replace() replace second occurrence This is what I do now:
if (strpos($routeName,'/nl/') !== false) {
    $routeName = preg_replace('/nl/', $lang , $routeName, 1 );
}

I replace the nl with for ex. de . But now I want to replace the second occurrence. What's the easiest way to do this?

A: So firstly you check if there is any occurrence and if so, you replace it.
You could count the occurrences (unsing substr_count) instead to know how many of them exist.
Then, just replace them bit by bit if that's what you need.
$occurrences = substr_count($routeName, '/nl/');
if ($occurrences > 0) {
  $routeName = preg_replace('/nl/', $lang , $routeName, 1 );
  if ($occurrences > 1) {
    // second replace
    $routeName = preg_replace('/nl/', $lang , $routeName, 1 );
  }
}

If you only want to replace the second occurrence (as stated by you later on in the comments), check out substr and read up on string functions in PHP.
You can use the first occurrence, found using strpos as a start for substr and just use that for your replacement.
<?php

$routeName = 'http://example.nl/language/nl/peter-list/foo/bar?example=y23&source=nl';
$lang = 'de';

$routeNamePart1 = substr( $routeName, 0 , strpos($routeName,'nl') +4 );
$routeNamePart2 = substr( $routeName, strpos($routeName,'nl') + 4);
$routeNamePart2 = preg_replace('/nl/', $lang , $routeNamePart2, 1 );
$routeName = $routeNamePart1 . $routeNamePart2;

echo $routeName;

See this working here.

A: You can do that:
$lang = 'de'
$routeName = preg_replace('~/nl/.*?(?<=/)\Knl/~', "$lang/", $routeName, 1 );

\K will remove all on the left from match result.(Thus, all that has been matched on the left with by /nl/.*?(?<=/) will not be replaced.)
I use a lookbehind (?<=/) instead of a literal / to deal with this specific case /nl/nl/ (In this case .*? matches an empty substring.)

A: The answer by @Casimir seems rather applicable to most cases. Another alternative is preg_replace_callback with a counter. In case you need a specific n-th occurence to be replaced only.
#-- regex-replace an occurence by count
$s = "…abc…abc…abc…";
$counter = 1;
$s = preg_replace_callback("/abc/", function ($m) use (&$counter) {

     #-- replacement for 2nd occurence of "abc"
     if ($counter++ == 2) {
          return "def";
     }

     #-- else leave current match
     return $m[0];

}, $s);

This utilizes a local $counter, incremented within the callback on each occurence, and there simply checked for a fixed position here.


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Cyclone Oratia, (Tora in Norway) was an unusually deep European windstorm which affected Western Europe from 28 to 30 October 2000. The storm was the fiercest to hit Britain in October since the Great Storm of 1987, with wind gusts reaching , and gusting at up to  over much of the south of England. Its barometric pressure fell to , over the North Sea making it one of the deepest lows recorded in the country in October. The lowest land-based pressure observation reached  at RAF Fylingdales.  The storm contributed to the Autumn 2000 western Europe floods.

Meteorological history
On 26 October 2000, a deep low pressure centre anchored between Greenland and Iceland, trailing a cold front across the North Atlantic Ocean which spawned three strong storms. Cyclone Oratia developed in the Atlantic to the southwest of Ireland on 28 October 2000 during a strong  upper-level jet. The low explosively deepened, with a  drop in pressure in 18 hours preceding 18:00 UTC on 30 October 2000. The centre of the low pressure passed south of Ireland, undergoing frontal fracture according to the Shapiro-Keyser model of cyclone development, and continued across North Wales and Northern England on a line approximately from Aberystwyth–Manchester–Teesside. The cyclone developed complex mesoscale features such as a sting jet, convective rainbands and inertial gravity waves. Strong winds affected areas on both sides of the English Channel with the worst winds since 1987. The storm produced sustained hurricane-force winds across the North Sea. Oratia began to fill as it approached Norway and was eventually absorbed by another cyclone.

Impact

France
The   French regions principally affected were Brittany, Vendée, Cotentin, Île-de-France, Alsace, and Cambrésis. The passage of the storm left three fatalities. A 30-year-old man was killed as his truck was crushed by a falling tree, a shop owner had a fatal fall while repairing a roof, and a motorist in Normandy succumbed. 7,000 were left without power.
Flights from Paris-Orly and Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport were affected. In Lille trees were uprooted and scaffolding collapsed.

Prior to the storm, a Cypriot freighter with engine damage off the port of Antifer in Seine-Maritime, was towed to Le Havre. A small oil tanker with eight crew was also ailing on Sunday morning near Boulogne, its tanks were empty and there was no risk of oil spill. The Italian Tanker Ievoli Sun ran into trouble in the English Channel during the storm, the crew were evacuated after water intake at the bow, which filled the forward storage area and the bow thruster bay. The ship later sank approximatively  off Casquets in the English Channel, with a  load, including  of styrene,  of trichlorosilane and  of isopropyl alcohol, while under tow. This sparked fears that a leak could cause an environmental problem, a year after the tanker MV Erika caused a severe oil slick off the coast of France.

Netherlands and Germany
MS Flottbek, a Columbian ship flying under Antiguan flag en route from Antwerp to Rotterdam, beached near Zoutelande on Zeeland during force 9 gales on 29 October 2000. The ship was carrying the chemicals phenol and lutensol. Four tugs failed initially to re-float it. Oratia was described by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute as the 35th worst storm since 1910. Five people were injured after lightning caused a fire on an intercity train from Den Helder to Nijmegen half a kilometre from Utrecht Centraal railway station. The Police advised against using roads on the afternoon of 30 October 2000. At several places were trees on the road, with a jetty and many fences tumbling. Roofs, or parts thereof blew away, and also bus shelters. During the passage of Oratia's cold front on 30 October 2000, a harbour Seiche was observed in Rotterdam harbour with a period of 1.5 hours.

In Germany winds up to  were recorded at the Brocken in Lower Saxony, where a man was seriously injured. In Oldenburg, near gale-force winds resulted in two traffic accidents in which a man was seriously injured. In Brunswick, cars were damaged by falling trees. According to the head of the Weser-Ems-crisis center in Oldenburg, police arrived on highway 31 between Riepe and Leer in East Frisia to find heavy gusts had blown a truck off the road. Relatively little damage was caused, estimated at 5,000 marks.
On the coast at Hörnum on Sylt, a rescue cruiser was on alert. At Bremen Airport, the roof of a new building with an area of 100 square meters threatened to collapse. The forests of the mountains remained largely unscathed by the storm. In all forest districts of the Harz, only a few trees were knocked over in the high altitudes. In other mountain forest regions of southern Lower Saxony, such as the Brunswick wald and the Weser Uplands no significant damage was reported. Only isolated trees were knocked down. The German Weather Service announced the autumnal bad weather in Germany would subside by Tuesday, 31 October 2000.

References

External links
Guardian Gallery of October 2000 storm images
Extreme Wind Storms Catalogue: Oratia (Tora)
BBC Weather forecast 29 October 2000

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