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SUCCESSFUL applicants in the Round One of South Gippsland Shire Council's Community Grants Program for 2013/14 gathered at Council Chambers in Leongatha last Wednesday for the announcement of recipients and presentations of funding.
The figure of $150,500 will be distributed between 35 community groups throughout the shire, which include community, cultural and sporting facilities and organisations.
Grants received in Round One range from $1000 to $10,000 and will enable projects as varied as the installation of a new stove, to an electronic scoreboard, a kitchen upgrade and solar energy project to the aiding of a township beautification program and the construction of new sporting club change rooms and facilities.
South Gippsland Shire mayor Cr. Jim Fawcett said that over $2.5 million dollars in grants have been distributed in the last ten years and that Council is pleased to provide this opportunity to give back to the community and to thank them for their support.
Cr Fawcett, along with fellow councillors Moyra Davies, Jeanette Harding, Kieran Kennedy, Bob Newton, Don Hill and Andrew McEwen presented certificates to the successful applicants.
Amongst those successful in their grant applications was the Corner Inlet Men's Shed Group, faring very well in receiving a $10,000 grant which will be used to provide a permanent facility for the group.
Foster Community Association was successful in its application for $9900 towards the Laneways of Foster – Township Beautification Project.
The hosting of Life Aquatic 2014 by Stockyard Gallery attracted a grant of $3000, as did Prom Coast Arts Council to aid in facilitating next year's Great Southern Portrait Prize.
The 1st Foster Scout Group will be implementing a kitchen upgrade and interior painting of the Foster Scout Hall, thanks to a grant of $2500.
As part of the Small Equipment Program, U3A Prom Coast was granted $1500 for the purchase of new chairs for meeting and classes.
Funding of $4000 was received by the Toora Football Club for a new electronic scoreboard.
Friends of Toora Heritage Pear Orchard received $2000 to aid in the hosting of the third annual Pear/Pair Party.
The Terrill Park Section 86 Commitee will be implementing a number of projects including turf wicket cover repairs thanks to $10,000 worth of funding.
The Fish Creek Memorial Hall Committee received $6000 in relation to works required to the hall.
The Welshpool Golf Club received a 'hole in one', with $9400 worth of funding allocated for an update of the Club grounds.
The Australian Volunteer Coast Guard – Port Welshoool Flotilla received $1000 for seating for the Port Welshpool Coast Guard and $1500 towards the hosting of the Sea Days Festival which will take place from January 3 to 5.
Meeniyan Mechanics Institute received $10,000 for refurbishment of the Meeniyan Hall supper room and kitchenette.
The Venus Bay Community Centre received funding of $5940.
Leongatha and District Historical Society received funding of $1500 to install ceiling fans to improve the environment for volunteers and visitors.
The amount of $5000 was allocated to Leongatha Golf Club Inc. for a kitchen upgrade.
As part of the Small Equipment Program, $1000 was distributed to the Lions Club of Mirboo North, $2300 to the Mirboo North Cricket club and $1000 was distributed to the Loch-Nyora Pony Club.
Grants were also distributed to the following:
$2500 to the Mirboo North Arti Gras Sub-Committee;
$10,000 to Mirboo North Kindergarten;
$2200 to Strzelecki Lions Club;
$3300 to Gippsland Hills Group of Country Women's Association (CWA) Vic. Inc.;
$3375 to Poowong Swimming Pool Advisory Committee;
$1400 to Poowong Amateur Basketball Association;
$1500 to the Tour De Tarwin Committee;
$4800 to the Nerrena Public Hall Reserve;
$4000 to the St. Laurence's Parents & Friends group;
$1000 to Milpara Community House Children's Garden;
$5000 to Korumburra Volleyball Inc,;
$1500 to Kongwak Public Hall Inc;
$1200 to Korumburra Croquet Club;
$10,000 to Outtriim Moyarra Kongwak Cricket Club;
$4500 to Outtrim Reserve Committee Inc.;
$4000 to Arawata Community Hall Association (ACHA).
In his closing address, Cr. Fawcett congratulated the successful applicants and announced that Round Two of the Community Grants Program is now open for applications, which must be received no later than March 31. For further details contact South Gippsland Shire Council on 5662 9200 or visit www. southgippsland.vic.org.au


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Q: Append data into another table with the same columns but different order I am using SQL Server, and I want to write a query to append data from Table 1 into Table 2, which already has some data in it.
This is what I am currently using, but this only works when the columns are exactly the same in the exact same order. My 2 tables have the same columns, but the order is different. There is 200+ columns so I do not want to manually reorder them or have to list them in the query.
INSERT INTO table2
    SELECT * FROM table1

This is one way I could do it, but is there a way to append data from table1 into table2 without having to specify each column?
INSERT INTO table2
    SELECT column1, column2 (in the order of table2 columns)
    FROM table1

A: A less tidy but potentially practical way to do this is by building with exec. string_agg is only available on 2017 though
declare @col_names nvarchar(max) = (
  select string_agg(column_name, ',')
  from information_schema.columns
  where table_name = N'table1'
)

exec ('insert into table2 (' + @col_names + ') select ' + @col_names + ' from table1')

for pre-sql server 2017 from comment:
declare @col_names nvarchar(max)
select @col_names = ISNULL(@col_names + ', [' + column_name + ']', '[' + column_name + ']')
from information_schema.columns
where table_name = @dest

A: I agree with Elaskanator's warning about listing out your column names explicitly. However, this method will work.
Create a view (vw_table1) on table1 that has the column order of table2. You will need to specify the proper column order in the view.
INSERT INTO table2
SELECT * FROM vw_table1

If you just need a comma-separated list of columns you can get that a number of different ways...

*

*Query table2 with the Results to Text specified and then replace all spaces with one comma and a spaces for readability.

*Query table2, Copy with Headers to Excel, save as CSV, and copy the first row from the resulting file.

*If you have RedGate, hit "Tab" after the "*" in SELECT * FROM table2 and it will list them out for you.

A: Never write INSERT statements lacking an explicit column list, otherwise in the future if somebody reorders the columns (which in a way also happens when adding new columns in the middle of the table) everything will suddenly start breaking (hopefully, because you could end up inserting values that implicitly convert for a while, causing random failures later that will make your life hell).
If your primary concern is the sheer number of columns making it difficult to write the statement (are you saving data horizontally or something?), then use dynamic SQL to get going in the proper direction:
DECLARE @TableName NVARCHAR(255) = N'MyBigassTable'--SET ME
DECLARE @ColumnList NVARCHAR(MAX) = NULL--build column list string
SELECT @ColumnList = ISNULL(@ColumnList + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) + CHAR(9) + ',', CHAR(9) + ' ') + QUOTENAME(C.name)
FROM--ordering is guaranteed to match with the current table definition, presumably from clustered index on the sys.columns table?
    sys.tables AS T
    INNER JOIN sys.columns AS C ON
        C.object_id = T.object_id
        AND C.is_identity = 0--https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/set-identity-insert-transact-sql
        AND C.is_computed = 0--https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/tables/specify-computed-columns-in-a-table
WHERE T.name = @TableName--beware if you have multiple schemas with the same table name
--form the insert statement
DECLARE @InsertQuery NVARCHAR(MAX) =
    N'INSERT INTO ' + QUOTENAME(@TableName) + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)
    +'(' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)
    + @ColumnList + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)
    + ')' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)
    + 'SELECT' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)
    + @ColumnList
--output results, handling maximum print size limitation
DECLARE @i INT = 1, @Step INT = 4000
WHILE @i < LEN(@InsertQuery) BEGIN
    PRINT SUBSTRING(@InsertQuery, @i, @Step)--you will have to manually fix newlines created by PRINT batches
    SET @i += @Step
END

Sample result
INSERT INTO [MyBigassTable]
(
     [ID]
    ,[Name]
    ...
)
SELECT
     [ID]
    ,[Name]
    ...

Note that CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) is \r\n (carriage return plus newline, or Return) and CHAR(9) is \t (Tab).
Now customize the result for your needs.

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The Walking Dead "The Calm Before"
J.P. Simmons, Staff Writer
The Walking Dead's most recent episode of its ninth season, titled "The Calm Before," is one that is sure to shock both fans and critics and despite low ratings, the show is still capable of gripping an audience.
The episode focuses on the communities of Alexandria, The Kingdom, Hilltop, and Oceanside uniting together for at the fair event that was being hinted at since this season's time jump.
The group agree to shelter Lydia, who left her group of zombie-impersonators known as the Whisperers to be a part of the communities, knowing that her mother, Alpha, will most likely retaliate.
During the fair, Alpha disguises herself as a member of Alexandria to blend in with the townsfolk and talk to Lydia, but she is unsuccessful in trying to change her daughter's mind about returning to the Whisperers.
Alpha then takes Daryl and other survivors hostage and explains to Daryl that she has marked her and the Whisperers' territory and if any of the communities cross into her territory, she will unleash a massive zombie horde on the communities.
The group are then shown the horror that the Whisperers are capable of when they find the territorial boundary.
A majority of The Walking Dead's ninth season has lacked a lot of the charisma and fascinating plot lines that made the show the cash cow that it is today.
The season has mainly presented a huge amount of "filler" episodes that only exist to make up time to steady the pace of the main plot.
This episode, however, which is also the one before the mid-season finale, is one that fans have wanted for a long time. It contains hard suspense, good acting, and a tragic twist that concludes the episode.
Alex McLevy, who writes for The A.V. Club, wrote about the episode with,
"…This episode captured that bleak but vital spirit of the series once more, highlighting the best and worst of its tactics in a way that showcased what can still make it, lo these nine seasons in, feel like the thrilling and strange show, unlike anything else on TV."
With that being said, rating charts show that this episode is the series' lowest rated episode to date.
It seems that interest in the show has waned ever since season five but has still retained status as one of the leading shows on cable TV.
According to CinemaBlend.com, the episode brought in a total of 4.1 million viewers, which is a step down from last weeks 4.5 million.
Though the ratings are low, they are still considered successful compared to other shows that still air.
The season finale airs next week, Sunday.
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Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois insists he would 'never mock the height of a goalkeeper' following criticism of England's Jordan Pickford.
Following Belgium's 1-0 win over England in the World Cup group phase, Pickford was criticised for failing to keep out Adnan Januzaj's winner.
Speaking after that game, Courtois had suggested his height advantage over Pickford of around four inches would have seen him save Januzaj's shot.
"The goalkeeper is 10cm smaller than me," he told Voetball24 .
The Chelsea keeper's comments provoked a reaction from Pickford after the England No.1 delivered a starring role in the Three Lions' penalty shootout victory over Colombia in the last 16.
Pickford produced a flying save before Colombia scored their equaliser and then brilliantly kept out Carlos Bacca's spot-kick in the shootout.
"I have got power and agility," said Pickford on Tuesday after the win over Colombia . "I don't care if I'm not the biggest keeper because it's about being there in the moment and making the save, and I was.
"It is all about the set position and I got a hand to it. I did all my research.
"I was in a massive whirlwind but I saved it with my left hand. I've been criticised for going with my top hand, but as long as you save it, that's all that counts.
However, after helping Belgium to knock out World Cup favourites Brazil in the quarter-finals, Courtois stressed he did not mock Pickford.
Courtois, who made an excellent one-handed stop from Neymar late on, told the BBC : "Can I say one more thing?
"This thing about Jordan… I want to clarify it because I heard a lot of stuff. I never mocked his height, I want to make that clear. I would never mock the height of a goalkeeper – I think that he's a great goalkeeper, he proved that last year.


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Multilateralism in international trade: Reforming the WTO
Since its establishment in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has embodied the multilateral trading system. Despite successes in some areas, including the effective settlement of numerous trade disputes and the conclusion of new multilateral trade agreements, the WTO currently faces serious challenges to its legitimacy and its effective functioning. Of particular concern is the US blockage of new appointments to the WTO's Appellate Body (AB), which fulfils a key role in the WTO dispute settlement system. This impasse could soon paralyse the practical enforcement of multilateral trade rules, which would undermine the rules-based system. In addition, certain countries' contentious trade practices cannot be addressed under existing WTO rules, and rules on transparency are not fully complied with. The WTO has also had limited success in adding new issues to its trade agenda, and the 2001 Doha round was inconclusive. This has led many countries to pursue their own trade agreements outside the WTO's multilateral framework. The EU is a key supporter of the multilateral trading system and seeks to address the challenges that the WTO faces. In September 2018, the Commission published a concept paper on WTO reform, in particular in the areas of rule-making, regular work and transparency, and dispute settlement. Other countries have also been working on WTO reform, sometimes together with the EU. A meeting of 13 WTO members, including the EU, to discuss reform proposals is due to take place in Canada on 24 and 25 October 2018. The European Parliament strongly supports the multilateral trading system and has expressed its support for efforts to reform the WTO. Parliament's International Trade Committee is currently drafting an own-initiative report on the matter. This is a further update of a briefing published in December 2017.
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Световна търговска организация
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The Forest Cloud Journey
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Journey of a space : Forest Cloud On Penang Street
Photos by Daeng S, text by Foci Collective
The idea to move came about when we realized that we needed a bigger space to operate from as the place we were in, which was on Jalan Delima, was getting too cramped. The move also coincided with the expansion of our company, in terms of bringing in more raw materials and machinery.
Together with the guys at Foci Collective, a creative studio specializing in branding, strategy, and creative works, we were bouncing to get the new journey started. After scouting the location together, we finally decided on a location dubbed as the 'heart of Georgetown' - a spot blessed with soothing sunlight, high traffic exposure and wandering tourists.With Foci working closely alongside the creative minds of Empt Studio, an interior design company that we've always adored, our ideas of the space were finally brought to life and officially launched on the 9th of October 2020.
Flow of the space
The space begins with the Experience Store, an area envisioned for the ease of our customer, where one can choose anything from the retail shelf that piques their interest and have it further elaborated by our Product Experts. This flow then continues into the Demo Bar, an island bar curated with pieces of equipment for folks who enjoy the process of brewing, be it home users or even cafe owners.
The Coffee Bar is where we bring together the best of what we do as a Beverage Company, showcasing everything from raw materials like our Coffee, Cocoa, Matcha, and Hojicha to machinery like the Faema E61and SlingShot S64. From filter coffee to specially curated drinks (the likes of Matcha Kombucha, Hojicha Usucha & Dirty Latte), our intention is to educate fellow consumers the flexibility of our raw materials and the creativity we injected into each and every offering onthe menu.
For us, it's important to push the boundaries of the capabilities of ingredients. About 95% of the items on the menu incorporates our raw materials, from drinks to small bites. Collaborations are something we like to nurture at the space as well - take a glance at our Cake Chiller and you'll find selections from notable cafes like 15 Grams, The Alley, Matcho, and Constant Gardener, just to name a few, incorporating and showcasing the best out of our raw materials.
Coffee doesn't become "coffee" until it's roasted
Equipped with a Froco FR15-I, our Roastery is where all the magic happens, where we turn green coffee beans into roasted coffee beans. At the Roastery, we strive to bring the best out of the various seasonal coffee, sometimes having up to 10 coffee from different regions. Connected to the Roastery is our Production Room where we packed our in-house Matcha, Hojicha and Cocoa flown directly in from Japan and Sabah (cocoa) respectively.
Every coffee machine needs a good loving and care as any other machinery. At the Machine Clinic, our technicians put all the care into the machines, from fixing to overhauling, to refurbishing, it's where machines come out feeling fresh.
There's a room in the space where we have fun experimenting, pushing the potential of our raw materials. This room is what we like to call our R&D Lab, everything from our in-house made tiramisu, various cookies, and kombuchas were tried and tested here. Some new and yet-to-be-revealed materials are also being tested here. It also acts as a space where our product experts curate menus for cafes.
Education plays an important role in building the coffee industry. Here at the Academy, we conduct classes to empower the future generations of brewers. This space also functions as an Event Space where workshops and meetings are conducted.
When it's all said and done, we know there's a business to be run. In our Office, this is where the crucial work gets done. Led by our accounts manager and admin, they are the engine that powers the business consistently.
There's a lot more we want to do in the space and we hope to share this journey with you lovely people real soon!
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I have had the privilege to have worked with each of the divisions within Service Alternatives during my time here. I began with SA in 1993 working with at-risk youth and children with developmental disabilities in a variety of settings; group care, staffed residential, family preservation, and support to foster parents.
In 2000, I was offered the opportunity to work as a training specialist with adults with developmental disabilities and the staff that support them. In 2003, I also began working with and training the staff that assist individuals in finding gainful employment.
In 2008, I was promoted to Training Administrator for Adult Supported Living, overseeing all aspects of training and consultation support for that division. In 2011, we were successful in bidding for the statewide DDA Technical Assistance Contract, allowing me to apply those training and consultation experiences to meeting the needs of other providers and agencies throughout the state of Washington.
My wife and I made the move to New Jersey in 2014 to be closer to family and I have been thankful for the opportunity to continue to work for Service Alternatives remotely. Most recently in 2016, I was hired as the Administrator in charge of RIGHT RESPONSE. In that role I oversee all aspects of that program, as well as provide training on the topic of de-escalation and crisis prevention across the nation.
During my time with SA, I have participated in many projects involving curriculum development, positive behavior support, staff development, and consultation for SA employees as well as many individuals, agencies, and companies. I look forward to having the opportunity to serve you.
In my free time, I enjoy walking along the shore, cooking, trying new places to eat, and gaming.
Training to me means the act of passing along the lessons that I have learned, as well as those who have come before me. It also means learning the lessons of the individuals whom I am "training" and adding those to the collective story.


IQ tests and your IQ levels do not stay the same - your IQ results can change over time - and vary with different types of test. So find a word processing specialist in a computer publishing field. You teach them typography while they teach you word processing. If you're new to a firm, do the same thing. IQ tests and your IQ levels do not stay the same - your IQ results can change over time - and vary with different types of test.
Mark Victor Hansen, co-author, Chicken Soup for The Soul, says The Learning Revolution is "an important, world-changing book that will fast-forward us into the 21st century, virtually overnight" - and you can read it FREE on line. IQ tests and your IQ levels do not stay the same - your IQ results can change over time - and vary with different types of test. Find someone who can help, regularly. Someone in the office or only a phone call away. If you want to play golf, take professional lessons - certainly. But find a good player whose style you admire, and ask if you can play a game or two together. The same principles apply if you're learning new technology. No one ever learned to operate a computer solely from a 700-page manual. Each student learned hands-on, with a coach. IQ tests and your IQ levels do not stay the same - your IQ results can change over time - and vary with different types of test.


Falling asleep and staying asleep can feel like a struggle sometimes. Whether it's due to stress, age, or too many cappuccinos, trouble sleeping can take a toll on everything from your health and mood to your ability to successfully complete basic functions like putting on matching socks.
The creativity and wide range of solutions to help people sleep tells you that having trouble sleeping is not a new problem. Melatonin supplementation has been increasingly seen as an effective solution to help with occasional sleeplessness. In fact, more than 1.6 million people are choosing complementary and alternative medicine remedies to improve sleep [source], with melatonin being the most widely used.
But what is Melatonin and how does it work?
Also known as the "sleep hormone," melatonin is a naturally occurring hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain. It regulates your sleep-wake cycle, telling your body when it's time for sleep.
Melatonin also exists in low levels in some foods, like tart cherries and walnuts. It's also synthesized and used as a supplement to help improve the body's sleep-wake cycle.
When the sun sets and darkness begins, signals through our optic nerve instruct our brain to start producing melatonin to prepare our body for sleep. The pineal gland continues to produce melatonin throughout the night until the sun rises, instructing the brain to stop melatonin production.
During the day, there's hardly enough of the hormone in our blood to detect. Bright light works on melatonin the same way it does on vampires, halting it in its tracks.
**Sleep Tip ** Since light stops melatonin production, creating a dark bedroom environment and limiting your exposure to electronics and other bright lights before bedtime can have a dramatic effect on natural melatonin production, and therefore your sleep.
** Sleep Tip ** If you wake up feeling drowsy, open your curtains to let the sunlight in. This will help stop melatonin production, making it easier for you to wake up.
A key factor to enjoying consistent, healthy sleep is having the right amount of melatonin in your body at the right time.
** Sleep Tip ** Eating well, going to bed and waking up at the same time every day, limiting exposure to artificial light one hour before bedtime and a melatonin supplement are ways to reestablish a normal sleep pattern and get a more restful night's sleep.


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Q: How can I run only one instance of Thunar? I have Ubuntu 20.
I want to run only one Thunar instance for user.
I tried: wmctrl - not work, thunar window is not in result
How to do this?

A: Launch or Switch To
If the application by itself does not allow to connect to a running instance when it is run a second time, you can use wmctrl to switch to a running instance if present.
Following one liner will do:
wmctrl -x -a Thunar || thunar

This runs wmctrl, which will switch (-a, activate) to a window with class (-x) "Thunar". If the command fails, i.e., there is no such window, then the command after || is run, the command to start thunar. Find the correct window class (not sure if "Thunar" is valid) in the output of wmctrl -lx.
Adapting the launcher
You now can customize the launcher for Thunar in your menu. Launchers are text files with the .desktop extension. They live (among others) in /usr/share/applications. Copy the launcher of Thunar to your ~/.local/share/applications folder:
cp /usr/share/application/thunar.desktop ~/.local/share/applications

Then edit the copy and change the Exec= line to something like:
Exec=sh -c "wmctrl -x -a Thunar || thunar %U"

You enclose the command (which in reality is two commands) in a call to bash (sh -c) because launchers do not support having more than one command on the Exec is line. thunar %U should be the command that originally appeared in the launcher.
**Adapting a hotkey to launch Thunar"
If you use a hotkey to launch Thunar, you can instead specify sh -c "wmctrl -x -a Thunar || thunar as the command. Now, pressing the hotkey will bring a running instance in front if any is there.
Optional tip
Instead of directly using wmctrl, I use the bash script jumpapp (https://github.com/mkropat/jumpapp), which does the same but on steroids. Subsequent invocations will cycle through all open windows. The script has different options to cope with the particular behaviour of different applications.


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Sarcophaga incisilobata is a species of fly in the family Sarcophagidae. It is found in the  Palearctic .

References

External links
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Sarcophagidae
Insects described in 1896
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Daylight saving comes with pros and cons
Amber Perry
Maluly Martinez Benavides
Now that it's time to fall back into Standard Time, people are often too excited to cash in that extra hour of sleep to question the biannual time change. But in March, when it's time to spring forward with daylight saving time and people lose one hour of precious sleep, they collectively wonder why.
DST was first established during the World War I in an effort to save fuel and dropped shortly after the war ended. People implemented it again during World War II and some states continued to practice DST while others dropped it. Finally, in 1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act, making the beginning and end of DST across the country last six months. Since then, Congress has slowly increased the length of time people spend in DST. In 2005, the Energy Policy Act increased DST from seven to eight months.
American citizens often believe they jump into DST every year to save energy and back to Standard Time to adjust to farmers' daily schedules. An increasing body of research, however, has shown that neither of these reasons hold up. While some studies report small reductions in electricity use during months when Americans adopt DST, more comprehensive studies report an overall increase in energy consumption due to the use of other household appliances such as cooling and air conditioning systems.
The work schedules of farmers around America don't have much to do with falling back into Standard Time either. Many farmers, in fact, have come to oppose the time shift. Dairy farmers, for instance, say adjusting to the time shift can be difficult for cows, whose milking times are changed to match DST in the spring and again to match Standard Time in the fall. Falling back in November is especially problematic because the cows are forced to hold the milk for longer than they are used to, which can lead to health-related issues.
Similarly, forcing people to modify their own circadian rhythms — the regular twenty-four-hour body cycles that involve sleep — twice a year can have severe adverse effects on their health. People's sleep duration and sleep efficiency are reduced after the time change into DST, according to a study in Neuroscience Letters. Researchers think interrupting such regular bodily functions can have severe effects on people's health. Another study in the New England Journal of Medicine, for instance, found there is an increased risk of heart failure during the three weeks after the change into DST and during the first week after the change back to Standard Time.
Most pieces of legislation that have attempted to get rid of time change have come about in the spring and proposed to get rid of DST. Arguments to terminate DST, beyond those that oppose the time change itself, include the fact that schoolchildren need to wait for school buses in the near-dark when dawn comes one hour too late.
But bills that have tried to do away with DST have met heavy resistance. Many people take advantage of an extra hour of daylight and outdoor activities during summertime and don't like the idea of losing it to permanent Standard Time. Texas State Rep. Dan Flynn (R-Canton) tried to introduce a bill last spring that would have kept the state from following the scheduled time change. If it had passed, Texas would have stayed in Standard Time throughout the year, much like Arizona. Ultimately, too many people spoke up against the bill.
Groups that lobby in favor of DST, such as industries that sell and manufacture gear for outdoor activity, often hope to put the extra hour of daylight during DST to good use. DST means people who work a standard day shift get more daylight after work during which they can engage in outdoor leisure activities, such as trips to the mall, barbecues and golf.
Until people agree on the benefits and setbacks of DST, people will have to live life in darkness — at least for an extra hour.


An asset is a profitable business in the Grand Theft Auto series that can be bought or acquired by the player. After the completion of an asset's missions, money that can be picked up by the player is generated by the asset.
Assets are first introduced in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The player can buy other assets after completing the mission "Shakedown". After the purchase of an asset, the player can save his or her progress at the asset (except Phil's Place, since it's not owned by the player). The asset will generate profit once all the missions for the related asset have been completed. The profits are usually in the form of protection money.
¹ Tommy Vercetti takes over Diaz's Mansion and renamed it the Vercetti Estate after the mission "Rub Out".
² Phil Cassidy's missions are unlocked after the mission "The Job".
Assets in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas can be acquired by completing certain missions and a few of them can be bought.
¹ The Johnson House's profit depends on the number of hoods taken over by the Grove Street Families. The maximum profit is $10,000.
There are no purchasable properties in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories so all assets are acquired by completing missions for the business. The profits are usually in the form of protection money.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories expanded the idea of assets into building a business empire that will generate income from many types of businesses.
Assets return in Grand Theft Auto V. Completing side missions is now no longer necessary for assets to generate profits, and money is now collected automatically every week.
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About Lucid Fitzpatrick
Hymn for the Romanticist
Featuring "The GREATEST DEPICTION of MUSIC in All Literature."
Lucid Fitzpatrick's literary love song to music.
Hymn for the Romanticist on Amazon Kindle
Hymn for The Romanticist is the first release from Lucid Fitzpatrick's collection of short stories titled, Hymn. In this collection, Fitzpatrick explores how we experience music and the need for music in human life.
Set against the backdrop of the 2020 pandemic, five creators experience a beautiful work of music in dramatically different ways. Learn how a single piece of music can make a radio host face the consequence of his own compromise, help a struggling author deal with a reality that seems incompatible with the ideals he portrays in the worlds he creates, and leave a ruthless business mogul at the peak of his career utterly defeated.
In Hymn for the Romanticist, the reader meets Deidrick Lourne, a romantic novelist trying to rationalize the idealistic characters in his stories amidst life in isolation and lockdown under the threat of the pandemic. Through Hymn for the Romanticist, Fitzpatrick explores how music can inspire a creator to action even in a world stuck in stasis.
d'Anima, a Novelette
d'Anima by Lucid Fitzpatrick
Lucid Fitzpatrick's Bestselling Debut Novelette
d'Anima is a novelette and serves as Part 1 of the serial novel, Perfect Conductor. d'Anima introduces the reader to one of the protagonists of the series, Mayes d'Anima, and his wife, Helen. d'Anima, a creative genius whose personal mission is to solve the world's energy crisis, finds himself on the brink of exhaustion. As the world's biggest energy tycoon, d'Anima knows what powers a city. As the story unfolds, he begins to discover what powers a man's soul.
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Lucid Fitzpatrick follows the tradition set by the romanticists, Victor Hugo and Ayn Rand. Their work inspired Fitzpatrick to become a writer, and he drew inspiration from their writing. The novels, Toilers of the Sea (Victor Hugo) and The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) are direct influences on the style, characters, and content of the Perfect Conductor series.
Fans of Ayn Rand and Victor Hugo will find Lucid Fitzpatrick's writing both familiar and refreshing.
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d'Anima represents the first step into the world of PERFECT CONDUCTOR.
In a race against time, science, and a city that is about to collapse under its own magnificent growth, Mayes d'Anima struggles against every form of social and political resistance in his life-long mission to solve the world's energy crisis. Desperate for help, d'Anima recruits Melody Casper, a young, brilliant engineer disenchanted by a world that never meets her expectations. As the pair work together to save d'Anima's power plant, the city, and the world, they are met by the equally strong-willed David Lockee and Harold Wilcox. As value is pinned against value, the four discover what it means to have the strongest moral will and the consequences of their unwavering personal conviction.
© Copyright - Lucid Fitzpatrick, 2020


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Die Wahrheit über den Fall Harry Quebert (The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair) is based on the eponymous bestselling novel by Swiss author Joël Dicker, originally published in French as La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert. In his first ever TV series, over 10 episodes each lasting 50 minutes, Oscar-winning French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, maker of Black and White in Colour, The Name of the Rose and Seven Years in Tibet, tells a captivating crime story full of subtle twists and exciting flashbacks. In November 2018, the series successfully premiered on the French TV channel TF1, where the first episode drew an audience of 5.6 million viewers, achieving a strong overall market share of 22.7 per cent.
The drama series stars a glittering cast, too, featuring two-time Golden Globe nominee Patrick Dempsey in the title role as writer Harry Quebert. The role marks Dempsey's first appearance in a TV series since starring in the award-winning US series Grey's Anatomy. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair also stars Ben Schnetzer (from Snowden and Pride) as the successful young author Marcus Goldman, Kristine Froseth (Apostle) as Nola Kellergan, and Damon Wayans Jr., (New Girl) as Sergeant Perry Gahalowood. Other roles are played by Colm Feore (House of Cards) as the wealthy Elijah Stern, Matt Frewer (Timeless) as Nola Kellergan's father, Victoria Clark (Homeland) as the grown-up Jenny Quinn and Wayne Knight (Narcos) as the lawyer Benjamin Roth.
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var ASSERT = require("assert");
var GEOM = require("geoscript/geom");

exports["test: create(point)"] = function() {
    var type = "Point";
    var coordinates = [1, 2];
    var o, g;

    // create a point
    o = GEOM.create({type: type, coordinates: coordinates});
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.Point, "point created");
    g = new GEOM.Point(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(g.equals(o), "equivalent to trad point");

    // create a point with coords only
    o = GEOM.create(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.Point, "[coords only] point created");
    g = new GEOM.Point(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(g.equals(o), "[coords only] equivalent to trad point");

};

exports["test: create(linestring)"] = function() {
    var type = "LineString";
    var coordinates = [[0, 1], [1, 2]];
    var o, g;

    // create a linestring
    o = GEOM.create({type: type, coordinates: coordinates});
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.LineString, "linestring created");
    g = new GEOM.LineString(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(g.equals(o), "equivalent to trad linestring");

    // create a linestring with coords only
    o = GEOM.create(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.LineString, "[coords only] linestring created");
    g = new GEOM.LineString(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(g.equals(o), "[coords only] equivalent to trad linestring");

};

exports["test: create(polygon)"] = function() {
    var type = "Polygon";
    var coordinates = [
        [ [-180, -90], [-180, 90], [180, 90], [180, -90], [-180, -90] ],
        [ [-90, -45], [-90, 45], [90, 45], [90, -45], [-90, -45] ]
    ];
    var o, g;

    // create a polygon
    o = GEOM.create({type: type, coordinates: coordinates});
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.Polygon, "polygon created");
    g = new GEOM.Polygon(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(g.equals(o), "equivalent to trad polygon");

    // create a polygon with coords only
    o = GEOM.create(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.Polygon, "[coords only] polygon created");
    g = new GEOM.Polygon(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(g.equals(o), "[coords only] equivalent to trad polygon");

};

exports["test: create(multipoint)"] = function() {
    var type = "MultiPoint";
    var coordinates = [[0, 1], [1, 2]];
    var o, g;

    // create a multipoint
    o = GEOM.create({type: type, coordinates: coordinates});
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.MultiPoint, "multipoint created");
    g = new GEOM.MultiPoint(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(g.equals(o), "equivalent to trad multipoint");

    /**
     * MultiPoint and LineString coordinates cannot be disambiguated.
     * LineString gets precedence and MultiPoint cannot be created without
     * specifying type in the config.
     */

};

exports["test: create(multilinestring)"] = function() {
    var type = "MultiLineString";
    var coordinates = [[[0, 1], [1, 2]], [[2, 3], [3, 4]]];
    var o, g;

    // create a multilinestring
    o = GEOM.create({type: type, coordinates: coordinates});
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.MultiLineString, "multilinestring created");
    g = new GEOM.MultiLineString(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(g.equals(o), "equivalent to trad multilinestring");

    /**
     * MultiLineString and Polygon coordinates cannot be disambiguated.
     * Polygon gets precedence and MultiLineString cannot be created without
     * specifying type in the config.
     */

};

exports["test: create(multipolygon)"] = function() {
    var type = "MultiPolygon";
    var coordinates = [[
        [ [-180, -90], [-180, 90], [180, 90], [180, -90], [-180, -90] ],
        [ [-90, -45], [-90, 45], [90, 45], [90, -45], [-90, -45] ]
    ], [
        [ [-60, -30], [-60, 30], [60, 30], [60, -30], [-60, -30] ]
    ]];
    var o, g;

    // create a multipolygon
    o = GEOM.create({type: type, coordinates: coordinates});
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.MultiPolygon, "multipolygon created");
    g = new GEOM.MultiPolygon(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(g.equals(o), "equivalent to trad multipolygon");

    // create a multipolygon with coords only
    o = GEOM.create(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.MultiPolygon, "[coords only] multipolygon created");
    g = new GEOM.MultiPolygon(coordinates);
    ASSERT.ok(g.equals(o), "[coords only] equivalent to trad multipolygon");

};

exports["test: create(bounds)"] = function() {

    var b, o;

    // min/max x/y
    b = new GEOM.Bounds({
        minX: -180, maxX: 180, minY: -90, maxY: 90
    });
    o = GEOM.create({
        minX: -180, maxX: 180, minY: -90, maxY: 90
    });
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.Bounds, "[min/max x/y] bounds created");
    ASSERT.ok(o.equals(b), "[min/max x/y] equivalent to constructor");

    // projection
    b = new GEOM.Bounds({
        minX: -180, maxX: 180, minY: -90, maxY: 90, projection: "epsg:4326"
    });
    o = GEOM.create({
        minX: -180, maxX: 180, minY: -90, maxY: 90, projection: "epsg:4326"
    });
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.Bounds, "[projection] bounds created");
    ASSERT.ok(o.equals(b), "[projection] equivalent to constructor");

    // from config
    b = new GEOM.Bounds({
        minX: -180, maxX: 180, minY: -90, maxY: 90, projection: "epsg:4326"
    });
    o = GEOM.create(b.config);
    ASSERT.ok(o instanceof GEOM.Bounds, "[config] bounds created");
    ASSERT.ok(o.equals(b), "[config] equivalent to constructor");

};

exports["test: Point"] = require("./geom/test_point");
exports["test: LineString"] = require("./geom/test_linestring");
exports["test: Polygon"] = require("./geom/test_polygon");
exports["test: Collection"] = require("./geom/test_collection");
exports["test: MultiLineString"] = require("./geom/test_multilinestring");
exports["test: Bounds"] = require("./geom/test_bounds");
exports["test: CircularString"] = require("./geom/test_circularstring");
exports["test: CompoundCurve"] = require("./geom/test_compoundcurve");

if (require.main == module.id) {
    system.exit(require("test").run(exports));
}

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Empicoris rubromaculatus är en insektsart som först beskrevs av Blackburn 1888.  Empicoris rubromaculatus ingår i släktet Empicoris och familjen rovskinnbaggar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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First things first: I know this used to be a common problem. I spent a ton of time researching different cases, but mine seems different.
I got a Limited Edition Vega 64 card with a used PC I bought several months ago. It behaved really well at the beginning, but then the system would occasionally get stuck at a 100% GPU load when playing Witcher 3. Exiting the game or restarting the drivers wouldn't help. Even if nothing else is running and task manager shows 0% GPU usage - the will be running at a 100% and will not stop until the PC is restarted. The problem is that it would also develop color artifacts on the screen when it happens. Then for a little bit this problem went away, until it resurfaced a few weeks ago.
For the last 3 weeks or so the card has been extremely unstable. It would hit a 100% and develop artifacts almost every time I run CSGO. Then it started crashing and resetting the WattMan settings. Now if you see artifacts - it means the card will probably reset itself in a few seconds and both monitors will turn off for a couple seconds, before turning back on.
The biggest problem for me is that recently it started crashing not only in games, but in Solidworks and Keyshot that I have to use for work, which has become completely unacceptable. Sometimes it would suddenly lock to a 100% and start the artifact disco when the only open applications are Chrome or Netflix.
I tried different WattMan settings, including increasing power limit and power save. I tried every driver version between August and December. It is not a mining trojan and It does not seem to be a ReLive issue like in some cases I've seen online. The PSU is pretty new and definitely using two cables to power the GPU, so I would rule it out too.
I am trying to figure out if there is anything i can do aside from spending a bunch more money on a new, inferior GPU (i got a really good deal on this PC as a whole, but i would definitely not be able to buy another high-end card). It seems like it is deteriorating but what could be the issue? Failing HBM? Why does it still lock to a 100%? Can the card be repaired? Is it worth anything as is?
You could try flashing a new BIOS. You can contact the card's manufacturer to see if they'll give you one. Or you can try to find a newer one matching your hardware here.
That will disable the display driver, wait three seconds, then re-enable the driver. That may or may not reset the problem state of your card.


Looking for a complete Professional Laser Light Show package for your mobile DJ or Club applications? Each projector has a maximum of 6 hours on each of them. They are in absolutely pristine/mint condition. Once you receive them you will not be disappointed. These are high powered and breath taking to say the least.
Now on to the good stuff. This listing is for (2) SwissLas/Laserworld RGBW 3.7w/3700mw Projectors. Each unit comes in a maintenance free/dust free/moisture free housing which protects the internals from outside elements. On the bottom of the units have an aluminum heat sink with built in cooling fans for heat dissipation. On the back of the units have a safety on and off keyed switch, an emergency shutoff switch connector plug, adjustable trim pots for RGB color washing, adjustable trim pots for X/Y Scanning, and ILDA connector plugs for software programming.
Both units are 3.7w/3700mw in power that produce very vibrant Red, Green, Blue, White Atmospheric effects plus both units produce full motion animations as well. The seamless animations come from the fast moving Xscan Galvo scanners that have a scan rate of 50 kpps at 4 degrees, 35 kpps at 8 degrees. Each unit has 3 DPSS solid state diodes equipped, Red 640nm/600mw, Green 532nm/1300mw, Blue 445nm/1800mw.
Both units have a beam divergence of 4mm/1.9mrad. Also included in this package is a shock proof/waterproof Pelican brand road case.
Pangolin Professional Flashback 3 Laser Control Software loaded with bunches of atmospheric effects and animations. Very easy to learn, easy to operate. You can even sync music and create custom Laser shows. Free software upgrades for life as well. Emergency shutoff controller, ILDA interlink interface cables, X/Y mirroring interface cable for mirror linking projectors.
The item "Swisslas 3.7with3700mw RGBW Pure Micro Professional Laser Light Show Bundle" is in sale since Sunday, November 18, 2018. This item is in the category "Musical Instruments & Gear\Stage Lighting & Effects\Stage Lighting\ Single Units". The seller is "foru2nv44601" and is located in Alliance, Ohio.


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package brian.numeric.domain;

import brian.functional.InfIterator;

/**
 * Created by Colburn2013 on 5/25/2017.
 */
public class Integral implements NumericDomain<Long> {

    private class Iterator implements InfIterator<Long> {
        long n = 0;
        @Override
        public Long next () {
            long r = n;
            n = n <= 0 ? -n+1 : -n;
            return r;
        }
    }

    public InfIterator<Long> iterator() {
        return new Iterator();
    }

    public static boolean contains(Number n) {
        return n.intValue() == n.doubleValue();
    }
}


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Obamacare's Other Shoe Just Dropped
The Capital Letter: Week of January 11
The Biden COVID Plan: Money for Everything!
The Fed Changed Its Approach to Inflation. Will It Change Its Policies?
Life after Twitter
The Capital Letter: Week of January 4
By Andrew Stuttaford
About Andrew Stuttaford
(Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
Rational (for now) exuberance, irrational vaccine policies, and other dangers.
There was an apocryphal story that used to float around the markets that the morning after the Bolshevik coup, prices rose on the St. Petersburg exchange. Sadly, but fortunately for Mr. Market's frequently battered reputation, it's not true. (The exchange had been closed for quite a while.)
Quite what label to apply to Wednesday's disgraceful "events" (an insurrection, an attempted putsch, a cosplay coup, a riot) will be discussed for a long time after the courts have passed sentence on a good number of the perpetrators. What the full political and thus, by extrapolation, economic consequences might be are also as yet (and probably for some while) unknowable, but, at a guess, they will be to push the political pendulum quite a bit to the left, something that, at some time, the markets will have to consider.
However, looking, say, at the S&P on Wednesday afternoon, investors remained calm (there was a slight sell-off), although the occupation of the Capitol was by no means over by the time U.S. markets closed. The S&P had recovered all its losses within an hour of the opening the next day, and at the time of writing (2 p.m., Friday) was up on the week.
The market's focus had returned to the reality that the Republicans' double defeat in Georgia was going to mean effective Democratic control of the Senate, and to investors that meant another round of stimulus. Daniel Tenreiro discussed this in yesterday's Capital Note, which is (like all issues of the Capital Note, well worth reading—to sign up, go here). Please take a look, in particular, at what Daniel has to say about the "imperial circle," something for which a strong dollar has historically been crucial. At the moment the dollar is . . . not strong.
I was also struck by this:
The "neutral" rate of interest — the price of money set by supply and demand — has been on a downward march for decades. While the neutral rate isn't directly observable, economists peg it at less than 1 percent.
Whether that is (or, more importantly, continues to be) the case is going to matter (#understatement). I have a feeling that unpleasant surprises are coming, but then I almost always think that.
In the meantime, the exuberance, to use a charged word, that we are seeing now can be justified (for now).
Jeff Sommer, writing in the New York Times explains:
Interest rates are extraordinarily low. Although the yield on 10-year Treasury notes has risen lately, the Federal Reserve and other central banks have said they are determined to keep short-term rates low, and when rates are low, stocks and other risky assets are comparatively attractive.
The pandemic is the main cause of global economic troubles and it will eventually end. With vaccinations underway, Wall Street hopes that economic growth in most regions and sectors will surge later this year, along with rising corporate profits.
The chances of at least some further economic stimulus have increased. By sweeping the two contested Senate seats in Georgia, Democrats have gained a tenuous hold on both houses of Congress as well as the presidency. President-elect Biden will very likely be able to deliver more aid to people in need and to local governments, which is expected to increase economic growth.
Truly sweeping legislative changes will be difficult, if not impossible, given the Democratic Party's razor-thin margin in the Senate and reduced majority in the House. While some increased spending is likely, this shaky grip on power implies that big tax increases on wealthy investors and rich corporations may not happen soon.
The election may have delivered something close to a Goldilocks alignment for the stock market. Mr. Biden's cabinet picks so far suggest that he will govern as a centrist, and the market historically has fared well under Democratic presidents who do not have sweeping control of Congress. The possibility that the Biden administration will usher in a more efficient and inclusive government, with more spending and only moderate changes otherwise, is seen as a sweet outcome for stocks.
Much of that is true, although I suspect that the next stimulus will "increase" economic growth only by slowing the decline that would otherwise accompany the intensification of the pandemic. This seems set to continue, helped on its way by the arrival of a more infectious variant of the coronavirus, which cannot be helped, and the generally unimpressive roll-out of the vaccination programs across the nation, which can.
Writing in The New Atlantis, Brendan Foht and Ari Schulman:
Meanwhile, in the U.S. vaccination rollout, overly complex eligibility and prioritization structures, potential punishments for hospitals that violate prioritization guidelines in order not to waste doses, inter-governmental squabbling, other red tape, and simple lack of willpower have left millions of doses languishing in freezers across the land instead of injected into arms. What under the old strain would have been a frustrating delay and missed opportunity, under the new strain could constitute a looming disaster.
Read the whole thing for a useful discussion of the new strain.
And while we're on the subject of the coronavirus, can we get on with following the U.K.'s lead by approving the AstraZeneca vaccine?
For a quick tabloid-style comparison of the Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca vaccines, go here.
Meanwhile, much hangs on that word "centrist," which may mean one thing to a writer for the New York Times, and another to investors. Obviously, tax is going to be one area of focus. But even if a 50–50 Senate will mean a block on the incoming president's more draconian plans in that area, it will not be able to rein in the boost to the power of the regulatory state that is now only weeks away, something not normally associated with economic growth.
That last point would always be worth remembering, but that is even more the case when that regulatory state is, we are told, going to be keenly focused on climate change. Whatever one may think about climate change (FWIW, I'm a lukewarmer), it is very hard to think that the measures designed to control it, measures that in many senses represent an investment in inefficiency, are compatible with boosting economic growth.
Perhaps it's unfair to mention it, but this story from the U.K. (via the Financial Times) is worth pondering:
At three mothballed fabrication yards in Scotland, promises by Boris Johnson that the UK would become the "Saudi Arabia" of wind power rang hollow as their owner BiFab, a producer of giant foundations for offshore turbines, collapsed last month.
The move into administration by the 20-year-old Fife company, which at its peak employed up to 2,000 workers at the three yards, came just a fortnight after the UK prime minister had placed offshore wind at the centre of his "green industrial revolution". Mr Johnson's 10-point plan promised 60,000 jobs and turbines in British waters that would "power every home" by 2030.
BiFab's struggles in recent years, which saw it lose out on lucrative contracts on UK projects to competitors in the United Arab Emirates and China, meant its collapse came as little surprise.
But the demise of the company, which had its roots in the North Sea oil industry, was still a painful reminder of the empty promises made by successive governments that offshore wind would herald a bright new industrial dawn for Britain.
The UK's waters are home to more offshore wind farms than anywhere else in the world but this concentration has not translated into the jobs and manufacturing boom envisaged in the years since the first one came on stream 20 years ago.
Who'd have thunk it?
There's also the little matter of the ongoing, and thoroughly misguided, antitrust attack on Big Tech launched by the Trump administration, which will almost certainly be intensified by a Biden administration — a reminder that "bipartisan" agreement in the political class is all too often a sign of mistakes in the making. And if Big Tech is to be hobbled, it's unlikely to be helpful to markets that, if we're looking at individual stocks, have been driven, to no small extent, by Big Tech.
Capital Matters began the week on a cheerier note (low bar) with John Fund supplying a series of relatively upbeat numbers on the economy. Zachary Evans ushered gloom back into the room with a piece on the possibility that Maryland might have the melancholy distinction of introducing a first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax:
State Senate president Bill Ferguson, a Democrat who represents parts of Baltimore, has championed the tax as a way to help fund an overhaul of Maryland's public-education system. Ferguson's legislation would tax tech companies making over $100 million in global annual revenue and over $1 million in annual gross revenue derived from digital advertising in Maryland, setting tax rates between 2.5 and 10 percent . . .
However, a coalition of Maryland businesses and pro-business groups, including the state Chamber of Commerce, are vociferously objecting to the tax, contending that the financial burden will hit small businesses in the midst of ongoing closures.
Digital ad taxes have been enacted in various European countries, including the U.K. and France, as a way to generate additional revenue to fund expansive welfare states. A number of U.S. states, including New York and Washington, are now considering following Europe's lead in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting blow to state coffers. If enacted, Maryland's proposed tax would be the first such example in the U.S.
Big Tech companies including Amazon, Google, and Apple have responded to the European digital ad taxes by passing off costs to consumers and advertisers. Google, for example, increased advertising prices by 2 percent in the U.K. after the country implemented a tax on digital ads. Amazon increased service fees for independent booksellers by 2 percent in response to the U.K.'s "digital service tax," while Apple regularly adjusts prices for apps in countries that implement such taxes.
Companies would respond similarly in Maryland if the state approves a digital ad tax, according to Margaret Mire, the state-affairs manager at Americans for Tax Reform . . .
Joseph Sullivan, our chart guy, looked at Biden's proposed tax plans (one reason, incidentally, why investors will be watching what a 50–50 Senate actually means):
If the U.S. adopted Biden's proposed federal tax rate, its overall corporate-tax rate would not be "in line" with the rest of the G7. Assuming U.S. state and local corporate taxes stayed the same, Biden's proposal would result in nearly the highest overall corporate-tax rate in the G7, according to data from the OECD. The U.S. would be tied with France. In fact, as the chart above shows, factoring in state and local taxes, the U.S. corporate-tax rate is much closer to the G7 overall corporate-tax average today than it would be if the proposal Joe Biden campaigned on were adopted . . .
Alexander Salter argued in favor of "offering emergency visas to Hong Kong freedom fighters and Uyghur Muslims":
When the West opened up to China, the hope was that political liberalization would follow economic liberalization. That has not happened. Instead, the free nations of the world, led by the U.S., face a Chinese Communist Party hell-bent on maintaining its authoritarian political system by any means necessary. Joe Biden must recognize China for what it is: a transgressor of both international law and human rights. Beijing cannot be an international partner in good standing under its current leadership.
Unfortunately, many Western elites are complicit in China's brutality, particularly the leaders of multinational corporations. New evidence suggests "Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 82 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen." Since many of these companies embrace calls for social-justice stakeholder capitalism, their duplicity in overlooking actual injustice — slave labor — is hypocritical and unconscionable. We cannot rely on woke capital to stand up to the CCP. The task falls on the Biden administration, unlikely as that may seem.
While combating China requires a holistic strategy, the granting of emergency visas is relatively simple and highly effective . . .
Veronique de Rugy was (rightly) unimpressed by the shortcomings in the vaccination program, and unsurprised by them too:
Who is surprised that the federal government fell far short of its promise to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of 2020? I am not, really. There are many factors, including the reluctance of health-care workers to get vaccinated when their turns are up (I think that those who don't want the vaccine now should be free not to take it but go to the back of the line and be accountable for their decision, but that's a topic for another day).
That said, even without this, we shouldn't have been surprised by the slow rollout. It isn't the first time that top-down institutions have failed to roll out whatever products they were designed to get out. Remember the rollout of Obamacare's website?
And yet, forgetting the lessons of the past, we hear many people blaming this on the lack of central planning from the Trump administration . . .
Citing numerous other critics of this roll-out (and Veronique), I, no less unsurprised, echoed this theme:
There are times (clearly) when governments can help with this process — and they have. But there are also times when governments would do better to get out of the way, a reality that, as in so many other instances, does not appear to be sinking in. The failure to accept that there are things which governments do not need to be controlling is something that we have seen repeatedly during this pandemic, and it's a failure that has made things even worse than they were always going to be.
The quicker vaccines are distributed, the more rapidly (obviously) this nightmare comes to an end, as both deaths and new cases ought to decline at an exponential rate. That's too big a prize to sacrifice on the altar of micromanagement, even if it leaves some bureaucrats and politicians feeling that they no longer have the degree of control that is their comfort zone.
And Kevin Williamson, citing a piece by Virginia Postrel that Veronique had discussed in her post, weighed in on this too:
The progressives who believe that a rational central plan can be imposed on society — that the nation can be organized as though it were one big factory — have long recoiled from the complexity, waste, redundancy, etc., that they see in market-driven business operations. But, very often, what seems like waste or inefficiency is the shortest route to a different end: A grocery store assumes that a certain amount of produce will go to waste, but the buyers don't reduce their orders — the little bit extra is used as a hedge against unpredictable swings in demand, a way to avoid the real costs of running out of something and thereby irritating customers. You don't buy your cars from Honda or GM, and you don't buy your milk from a dairy producer. Those extra steps and layers are not inefficiency — they are efficiency that Bernie Sanders doesn't understand.
We have some relatively well-governed states and some terribly misgoverned ones, but none of them is going to get Americans the COVID-19 vaccines as efficiently as Walmart can bring you a pair of socks from the other side of the planet. That's because Walmart isn't Walmart — it is a vast, complex ecosystem of production and distribution involving thousands of firms and millions of workers in dozens of countries.
There are very few simple solutions to complex problems. There are a lot of complex solutions to complex problems.
Those busy dreaming up a Green New Deal might like to bear that point in mind. They won't, however.
Benjamin Zycher called for an end to the sort of discrimination by financial institutions that "socially responsible" investors have been pressing for (and which banks are increasingly going along with):
The opposition to "discrimination" by political activists has not prevented them from applauding constrained access to capital by such politically unpopular businesses as producers of fossil fuels and firearms or operators of for-profit colleges and private prisons. The list of disfavored economic sectors will only grow over time as government engages in ever-more economic favoritism. This problem has become sufficiently acute for some industries that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has proposed a "Fair Access to Bank Services, Capital and Credit" rule that would compel national banks and federal savings associations to make lending decisions based only upon creditworthiness and related criteria, rather than such politicized standards as "reputation risk."
In reality, the proposed rule is targeted at the vast bureaucracy that regulates the everyday operations of banks. Many of these regulators are quite willing to impose their political preferences upon the institutions they oversee; they are all too happy to pretend that they are the legislature, which, having failed to enact the measures preferred by the regulators, must be circumvented.
Regulators monitor lending institutions constantly across many dimensions, sifting through their complex operations to find violations of rules small and large, whether accidental or not. Are lenders free in such an environment to make lending decisions driven solely by considerations of creditworthiness? The question answers itself.
If you want to read a contrary view (also from the right), we published an article on this topic by John Berlau a few weeks ago that you can find here.
At the risk of sounding altogether too pompous, it's worth nothing that at Capital Matters we recognize that there is plenty of room for disagreement on economic matters on the right. We'd like this space to be a place where such disagreements can be aired, if not necessarily resolved.
David Bahnsen questioned the way that some in the securities industry, who have broken the law, can face prolonged bans from the industry even after they have served their sentence or paid their fine:
There also is a violation of a fundamental tenet of law and order involved in the very concept of bans that extend beyond the original penalty (and the longer the ban, the greater the violation), because it tramples on the principle of redemption. Wrongdoing should be punished, but wrongdoers should also be given the chance to earn and experience restoration and redemption. This is a distinctly Christian notion, but also one rooted in the traditions and norms that undergird our social contract. The possibility of rehabilitation is meant to be built into the justice system. Redemption is a worthy, even if all too frequently forgotten, aspiration. There is also a practical matter at play here (and Americans once had a reputation as a practical people): Rehabilitation is made infinitely more difficult when former offenders are denied, by operation of law or regulation, their best chance of earning something akin to a good livelihood.
This article is about white-collar criminals who have worked in the financial sector, but I should stress that the point I am making here is not reserved for them. Up and down the food chain of criminality, people who have paid their debt to society are denied the opportunity to get themselves back on their feet again, by being blocked, as a matter of law or regulation, from countless jobs and professions. While employers should not be coerced into lending a helping hand, the state should not be in the business of holding former criminals down. Of course, some crimes warrant "lifetime punishments" — terrorism, murder, and the like. But a lifetime ban from labor, vocation, calling, from one's area of professional expertise, skill, and passion, turns the Judeo-Christian ethic and traditional American jurisprudence on its head . . .
Tobias Hoonhout looked at a case of "incomplete" reporting on Amazon:
As [economist Michael] Mandel explains in a blog post he wrote in response to the Bloomberg article, while the QCEW suggests one conclusion, other data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that, adjusted for inflation, hourly wages for non-managerial warehouse workers have risen by 11.5 percent since 2013, when e-commerce really took off — eclipsing wage growth in industries such as health care, manufacturing, and retail by multiple points.
Prior to Amazon's founding, the warehouse sector was tiny, often too small to be measured and reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So while the arrival of an Amazon fulfillment center may temporarily depress wages for the small number of existing local warehouse workers, the e-commerce boom has created many more warehouse jobs than previously existed — and many different kinds of warehouse jobs, due to the complexity of an Amazon fulfillment center.
The fulfillment centers "bear the same relationship to ordinary warehouses as jet planes bear to bicycles. Whereas an ordinary retail warehouse is a stopping place for bulk shipments on the way to stores, a fulfillment center dynamically responds to orders from individual customers, integrating many different vendors," Mandel wrote in a 2017 report.
Mandel says he explained this important piece of context to Bloomberg before the article was written, only for the writers to ignore it in their final draft.
"The reporter for the Bloomberg story actually contacted me, and we talked for a long time about this, and I gave him a fair bit of data," Mandel revealed. "They didn't [include it], which I was sort of surprised at."
The Bloomberg story, Tobias notes, was cited in a December tweet by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is still trying to justify her role in sabotaging Amazon's plans for a major headquarters in New York City.
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I should also mention that Daniel Tenreiro has an article in this latest edition of NR (available to NR and NRPLUS subscribers!) on "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Tech."
It's a must read, but here's an extract:
The phrase "robber baron" entered the American vernacular in 1859. Originally a reference to medieval German nobles who ran extortion rackets on the Rhine, the phrase was revived by New York Times reporter Henry J. Raymond to describe railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt. Though "robber baron" now connotes the unscrupulous avoidance of competition in business, Raymond initially used it to describe excessive competition — "competition for competition's sake; competition which crowds out legitimate enterprises." Commodore Vanderbilt, the parvenu son of a ferry operator, had turned the genteel, "legitimate" shipping business into a street brawl. The sheer scale of his wealth — an unprecedented $100 million at the time of his death, roughly $2.5 billion in today's dollars — offended the Times' polite sensibilities.
The same revulsion at big business undergirds a recent report by the House subcommittee on antitrust, which likens Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon to "the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons." Discomfited by the wealth amassed by tech CEOs, the subcommittee calls for a total overhaul of antitrust law to rein in the country's leading businesses. Among its recommendations: break up tech firms, prohibit all their mergers and acquisitions, and bar them from promoting their products over those of competitors. Politicians as far afield as Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Josh Hawley have endorsed these proposals.
The problem for these would-be trustbusters is that antitrust law as it currently exists does not suffice to achieve their ends. Since the publication of Robert Bork's The Antitrust Paradox in 1978, the courts have punished monopolistic behavior only insofar as it harms consumers. By every relevant metric, the tech industry benefits consumers.
So Big Tech's opponents call for a return to a previous era, when antitrust law aimed at a hodgepodge of incoherent, often contradictory goals. Before adopting the consumer-welfare standard, courts at times punished businesses for raising prices, at other times for cutting them. With no clear definition of monopoly, judges could deem anything and everything deleterious to competition — and they did. In 1962, the Supreme Court blocked the merger of Brown Shoe Company, a shoemaker accounting for 5 percent of the national market, with a retailer that sold 2 percent of the nation's shoes. The merged firm would have held 7 percent of the market for a single retail category, with numerous competitors nipping at its heels. The resulting efficiencies would have lowered prices for consumers and freed up capital for investment, but the overweening nature of antitrust jurisprudence allowed the Court to halt the growth of businesses arbitrarily . . .
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Q: lightning-input checkbox margin-right I have a custom table in LWC and standard margin of
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breaks cell center alignment.
I know that since it is a nested component I can't set css directly and I think it is also not possible to change via Styling Hooks?

Edit: just to simplify my question. lightning-input has a default margin-right and I need to get rid of it to center the checkbox in my td table cell correctly

A: Your last screenshot gives it away:
margin-right: var(--lwc-spacingXSmall,0.5rem)

True, 0.5rem is the default. So set your own --lwc-spacingXSmall:
:host {
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}

It's all about the "var" keyword here:

A styling hook is a placeholder in the SLDS style sheet, for example, var(--slds-c-badge--color-background, #ecebea), which enables you to customize the style using the corresponding --slds-c-badge-color-background CSS custom property.

Maybe worth pointing out that the unfortunate "slds-checkbox_faux" seems the result of applying the "label-hidden" variant. I haven't checked, but you could play with other variants and leaving the label empty too.


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