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Pocahontas 'Taking A Hard Look' at Running for President
Boston, MA – Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, better known as 'Pocahontas' to Trump supporters and gun owners, just announced that she will 'take a hard look' at running for the White House after the midterms!
One of the most aggressive anti-gun radicals in the entire US Senate, Warren has a long history of backing universal gun registries as well as legislation to ban the AR15 and 30 round magazines.
The news comes as recent polling from the Boston Globe shows that almost 60% of voters in Warren's own home state of Massachusetts think it would be a bad idea for her to run.
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In fact, only 32% of Warren's own voters think that she should run for the Democratic nomination.
"This was a shocking finding to me, given that Democrats like her so much, and she has been making moves to run for president.
I would have expected her to be leading this list of potential Massachusetts presidential candidates," said David Paleologos, director of the poll.
President Trump, who has long called Senator Warren 'Pocahontas' for her unfounded claims of being a Native American, recently said that he would offer her a million dollars for a DNA test to back up the claim.
I suspect watching her would-be rivals audition during the Kavanaugh nomination drama Sen Warren needs the spotlight.
Warren says she will 'take a hard look at running for president'https://t.co/nur7zk9VPs
— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) September 29, 2018
Warren is expected to be just one member of a crowded field of gun control activists who may seek the Democratic nomination that will possibly include former VP Joe Biden, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, CA Senator Kamala Harris and others.


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"I think the main one is that we forget that we're teammates," said relationship coach Tara Caffelle when asked what the most common mistake she sees couples make. "I'll talk to one member of a couple, and we'll come up with some brilliant discovery, and then they'll say, 'Do you think I should tell my partner about this?' and that's when I wanna smack them on the head and go, 'Well, of course you do!' Like why wouldn't you tell your partner this? This is a piece of you."
Your partner is called a partner for a reason.
You have to remember those early days when you used to tell each other everything. Once distance starts to form between you two, it's easy for it to go unnoticed until it really becomes an issue, and it's also difficult to close once you reach a certain point.
"I think somehow it becomes that we're adversaries in our minds, and we stop thinking about sharing the vulnerable pieces of ourselves or being a team and calling your person," Tara said.
An example Tara used is being too afraid to tell your partner that you've gotten yourself into credit card debt. You need help but you feel guilty and don't want to be judged, so you continue to keep this secret to yourself, only making the problem worse.
"We make all these assumptions, we turn away from our partner and we don't tell them about it, and then we live in these silos of suffering," Tara said.
But if we approached him or her and let them first know how difficult it is to talk to them about it because you're worried about their reaction, they will probably return with compassion and even help you. They will most likely be mad, and rightfully so, since you kept this from them and your financial irresponsibility affects more than yourself.
"And guess what? They probably still love you!" Tara said. "That's the main thing: we forget that we are a team, and it sets us all on weird tracks."


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After being bombarded with complaints about the wording on a scratch-off ticket, self-appointed Texas Lottery watchdog Dawn Nettles has filed a petition with the Travis County District Court.
Nettles, has been monitoring the Texas Lottery Commission's activities for over 20 years and publishing her findings on her Lotto Report website. Her latest beef with the lottery concerns the wording on their "Fun 5" scratch-off ticket. The rules of the game, as printed on the back of the ticket, state: "Reveal a 'money bag' symbol in the 5X box, win five times that prize." But hundreds of players who believed they had won a large prize have been turned away and told they have misunderstood the wording on the ticket.
Speaking of the petition, Nettles' attorney Richard LaGarde said: "We're just trying to get some basic answers. The public deserves to know who is responsible for this situation, and what will be done about it."
Many Fun 5 players believed they had won prizes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but were sadly disappointed when they scanned their tickets and were informed they were worthless.
The new petition requests a court order to depose Texas Lottery Commission representatives, along with the lottery operator GTECH Corporation.
Prior to taking such drastic action, Nettles contacted the Lottery Commission and State officials on numerous occasions and requested someone take responsibility and rectify the problem with the offending ticket. Her pleas fell on deaf ears.
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The former leader of the classic band Television doesn't get much press these days, but he's still a guitarist of incredible power and originality. Verlaine's solo career has been a roller coaster affair, but Dreamtime, his sophomore effort, was filled with just the kinds of edgy lead work that always defined the best of Television. Out of print for several years, Dreamtime gets a welcome return with top notch sound, but, sadly, no bonus cuts.


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The Best Hotels In Sharjah, UAE
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Located on the Persian Gulf, Sharjah is the neighboring Emirate of the ever-so-popular Dubai. Known as the cultural capital of the UAE, there is much to learn about history and traditions from this destination. There are also some top-quality hotels to bed down in, complete with luxuries, pools and plenty more.
Hilton Sharjah
Located on the short end of Khalid Lagoon, this Hilton is everything you'd expect of a five-star hotel. The world-renowned hotel brand opened a branch here in Sharjah to provide the best comforts going. Many guests come on business and stay here because of the convenience of its location, while others come to see the nearby museums or to kick back on the tanning terraces next to the on-site pool!
Hilton Sharjah, Corniche Road, Al Majaz 3, Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, +971 6 519 2222
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72 Hotel
At the crossroads of culture and corporate, 72 Hotel boasts 72 beautifully designed contemporary rooms. Each room is luxuriously furnished with all the right amenities to make a stay here as refined as can be. The modern aesthetic gives it the right amount of contrast with the rest of the city, while the spa, restaurant, coffee shop and gym are bonuses.
72 Hotel, Corniche 110 Street, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, +971 6 507 9797
Golden Tulip Sharjah
The Golden Tulip Hotel can be found at the Al Majaz Waterfront, which is located in the very heart of the city. Only a 20-minute drive from the airport and within walking distance from many city attractions, the hotel is in a very convenient location. Although it may be known for its breathtaking views, the hotel's interior is just as incredible and memorable.
Golden Tulip, Al Fardan Center,Buheira Corniche, Corniche Street, Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, +971 6 519 7777
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Sharjah Grand Hotel
With over 220 newly renovated rooms, the Sharjah Grand Hotel has constructed a new image for itself. Unlike others on this list, this famous hotel is a beach resort that rests on the Arabian Gulf. A large staff makes guests' stay much more enjoyable, while to top off the list of perks, this hotel boasts a secluded beach that can only be enjoyed by guests!
Sharjah Grand Hotel, Al Meena Street, Al Khaledia Suburb, Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, +971 6 528 5557
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Coral Beach Resort Sharjah
The Coral Beach Resort is a family-friendly beach resort that is just a few steps away from the sea. Only 15 minutes away from the city's international airport, tourists have to wait very little time to walk through the doors of this luxury accommodation choice. The elegantly designed hotel provides all the amenities that should come with the package, not to mention virtually unrivalled access to the gulf!
Coral Beach Resort Sharjah, Al Muntazah Street,Sharjah Corniche, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, +971 6 522 9999
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Q: How to properly use sandbox with puppeteer on linux and stop getting insecure? I read docs :
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_suid_sandbox_development.md
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_suid_sandbox.md
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_sandboxing.md
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_sandbox_ipc.md
But can't figure out the way to have a properly configured  sandbox, and no way to find the script update-linux-sandbox.sh on my system.
I've found it here
but I get :
$ ./update-linux-sandbox.sh
/tmp/../out/Debug does not exist. Use "BUILDTYPE=Release ./update-linux-sandbox.sh" If you are building in Release mode
$ BUILDTYPE=Release ./update-linux-sandbox.sh
/tmp/../out/Release does not exist. Use "BUILDTYPE=Release ./update-linux-sandbox.sh" If you are building in Release mode

The only insecure workaround I have is to use :
const browser = await puppeteer.launch(
    {headless: true, args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']}
);

Any idea to do the things properly ?

A: For Debian, in my case version 9 Stretch, the problem seems to be related to sandboxing not being turned on. Chromium will spit out the fatal-message:

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*No usable sandbox!

For a solution until reboot (run from the command-line as root):

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*echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone

For a more permanent solution (run from the command-line as root):

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*echo 'kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1' > /etc/sysctl.d/00-local-userns.conf

*service procps restart

More Debian related info can be found here:

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*https://www.bountysource.com/issues/48328601-chrome-headless-doesn-t-launch-on-debian

*https://superuser.com/questions/1094597/enable-user-namespaces-in-debian-kernel

A: If you're here looking for a way to run Puppeteer in Centos7 without the --no-sandbox arg then the @MevatlaveKraspek answer won't work
I managed to get Puppeteer taking screenshots without the --no-sandbox flag arg by setting a Linux kernel parameter to enable namespacing (on CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708).
As root user run:
echo "user.max_user_namespaces=15000" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
Check it worked with:
sudo sysctl -a | grep user.max_user_namespaces
Now reboot your system and run a script without using --no-sandbox e.g const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
If it still doesn't work you might be using an older Linux Kernel and will require a couple of extra args set in the Kernel.
As root user run:
grubby --args="user_namespace.enable=1 namespace.unpriv_enable=1" --update-kernel="$(grubby --default-kernel)"
Now reboot your system and check the Kernel command line for the 2 params you just added
cat /proc/cmdline
If they are in the command line run a script without using  --no-sandbox again e.g const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
It should work now. If it doesn't you might be using an old kernel which doesn't support namespacing.
You can check your kernel version with:
uname -a
This is my kernel version which I've got Puppeteer running without --no-sandbox arg.
Linux centos7 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64
Hope this helps :)

A: Figured it out : enable user namespace cloning from kernel :
sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1

A: You can try:
As root user run:  echo "user.max_user_namespaces=15000" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
Reload sysctl: sysctl -p

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Star Trek: Into Darkness
….Or, JJ Abrams and Co. Urinate on Trek….Again, Only Worse!
After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.
Writers: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana
OK, let me begin by saying, YES, TREK FANS, THEY REALLY DID IT!!! Our worst fears are realized…..
By now, only people with their heads up their posterior do not know that Khan is in this movie. Yes, that Cumberbatch guy is Khan. John Harrison is like JJ Abrams reputation: BULLSH*T!
I tried to give this Trek incarnation a chance. I really did. I didn't mind the first movie, even with its too much reliance on the Butterfly Effect to explain differences nonsense. Even with the pathetic mockery that was Simon Pegg's portrayal of Scotty. I mean, they killed Winona Ryder! How could I not at least give them the benefit of the doubt?
Well, they wasted it. Once again, JJ Abrams and his writers are hellbent on alienating what is still one of the biggest fanbases in movie history. The only thing is, I think Trek fans are so hungry and desperate for any trek that they will put up even with this insult and bastardization. I mean, they put up with Brannon Braga for how much B.S.? And, so many think just because Abrams had a hit with "Lost" that he can do anything. Sorry, folks. I didn't like Lost. I thought it, like the reboot of Battlestar Galactica, or in comics the Night of Owls/Trial of Owls storyline in Batman, was an interesting idea that went on WAY TOO DAMN LONG and was looking for an ending. I mean, I don't watch TV to get a headache trying to figure out what my show is about. Not entertaining. But, your mileage may vary.
So, we are expected to believe that the Butterfly Effect that gave us Kirk as a dropout in New Trek 1 also moved back Khan's foray into space back to the 1950s (do the math,people, when you see the film. We are expected to believe that this same butteryfly effect makes Spock a supreme badass and James Kirk an uncertain little whiner like Anakin Skywalker. Seriously? Does Abrams have such a dislike for Bill Shatner and the Kirk character he would urinate all over Kirk's essence and make him a mockery?
OK, it wasn't all bad. In fact, up until the last 25 minutes, I was ready to say, 'ok, while not my Trek, it wasn't a complete slap in the face….I might go on…) But then….THEY…DID….IT…. Even with the first opening sequence, I got a feeling that they were going to ruin the greatest Trek movie ever, because I heard "The needs of the many…." But no…they wouldn't…Yep…they would! But first, the good.
The film is visually stunning. Saw it in 3d, even though I hate 3d. However, the 3d in this actually was good. It wasn't overpowering. It wasn't over the top. Also, we finally saw less humanoid aliens in Starfleet. It wasn't portrayed as just a "homo sapiens only" club. I liked the officer caps, even though it isn't Trek. I liked Chris Pike's admiral uniform (basically a mod of Kirk's admiral uniform from Star Trek the Motion Picture). We finally got some Klingon action, though sadly not enough. And, we got to see the Dreadnought class….
The Bad…Or, to Paraphrase the Original Dr. McCoy….
"According to Canon, Star Treks II through IV took a decade to make…Now watch out! Here comes JJ Abrams! He'll ruin them all in just 138 minutes!" (adapted from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
JJ Abrams, whether the Trekkers out there buy it or not, took a dump on Trek with this movie. First, it is a bastardization of the classic episode "Space Seed" mixed with "Star Trek II." And it gets little correct except the names of characters and ships. Some fans may believe the "this is an homage' garbage, but that isn't what it is. It is JJ and co. want to phone it in, so they got lazy and just ripped off the genius of Harve Bennett and Nick Meyer. So much wrong here.
To start with….
Khan is a homicidal, genocidal but charming maniac. Cumberbatch's version might as well be an android. Khan is not to be sympathized with, as we are supposed to do with this version. Sorry, not buying it.
Carol Marcus? Really? So we are going to lay out the groundwork for little David. But seriously, is the CnC of Starfleet's daughter really going to be able to stow away on the flagship? Come on. Also, british? Seriously? And a weapons designer? Which brings me to this….
Too much reliance on the Butterfly Effect to explain so much nonsense…OK, if this timeline is different because of the events of New Trek 1, then only everything after would be effected. But no, we are now led to believe that it changed the nature of the eugenics wars, it turned Khan from Indian to British, it made Spock a badass and Kirk a wimp? Come on now….
Magic blood? Seriously?
And I thought that the use of Leonard Nimoy as Spock.1 was a cute touch in the first New Trek, going back to that well only exposes the weakness of the overall plot and course of this new Trek universe. If you have to keep going back to the original universe to keep this story moving, then the story is very weak. And this version of it really is weak.
Taking the most amazing and poignant scene in Trek and making it a joke. You really did this? Disgusting and shows how little you actually know about the show.
Simon Pegg continues to be a walking talking mockery of James Doohan. While it was toned down in this film, it was still insulting to a very gracious actor and person.
Underwater Enterprise? Enterprise in planet atmosphere? Really? Seriously?
And Starfleet is just now starting the five year deep space missions? Then why in the heck has Enterprise been out exploring?
And what is it with Spock being the main protagonist? Why is he the guy going after the bad guy? It is ridiculous!
This film is an affront to the greatest parts of Trek. No offense to Chris Pine, Karl Urban, and Zach Quinto. They did fine performances as Kirk, McCoy, and Spock. Urban continues to strike the perfect chord in his version of McCoy. Quinto is growing into Spock, as is Pine. His hair and his demeanor were more Kirk this time.
However, the sad and pathetic self congratulating cuteness of what they did with the Khan character and storylines, coupled with the continued ridiculousness of their portrayal of not just Scotty but also Chekov make this film an insult to Gene Roddenberry's vision. To paraphrase a certain political talk show host, "I hope it fails." While many might say, but NewHopePatriotMissile, you still got your trek, and the way they do this allows they still can do Wrath of Khan…" I say, BULLSH*T! This film makes me ill.
I would sooner there be no more Trek than the continued slaps in the face Paramount is putting out with this overrated hack JJ Abrams in control of the franchise.
This film gets 0 out of 5 shields. Don't waste your time. Go out and get Star Trek the Original Series on Blu Ray and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan on Blu Ray and watch true inspired storytelling. This is like a cheap knock off.
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Generally sapui5 application follow the singleton pattern where we have one controller and multiple fragments in xml view controlling the functionality. Supposedly if you are not using the singleton pattern and decide to code your application to have a static header that helps you navigate to the different objects. In this scenario we can have menu that contains orders, parts, reports modelled as objects and each entity has a separate controller. If you have to load a static header for the application you have to add the fragment in each view linked to each separate controller. Hence the header menu code will reside in the orders view, reports view and so on. You will be having multiple instances of the header object that could slow down your ui5 application. How to avoid this situation?
There is a small code change that you have to do in your manifest.json file where we define the routes.
So in this scenario the menu can be treated as an object (controller and a view associated to it)and called in the target of each controller. Hence a single instance of the menu will be available in your application.
Could you please provide us with some more context of your app or a working example?
I have similar requirement, but the second view content over writing the first view content maintained as target. I see only projectVariant" content not the "header" content.
Are you creating multiple applications?
<App id = "app"> .. </ App> in the orders.OrderManagement? Or does it look different?
Some example would be very helpful.
everything is done here in a single app only. that is the fun of using routing. the work is done by routing as it loads two pages instead of one. hence we get one smartist menu controller always loaded with different pages like orders.


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Boeing to Begin Buying Super Hornet SLEP Materials This Summer Ahead Of Expected 2018 Induction of First Jet
Sailors perform maintenance on an F/A-18E Super Hornet from the Top Hatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 USS John C. Stennis' (CVN 74) hangar bay on Jan. 22, 2016. US Navy photo.
Boeing will begin buying material this summer ahead of inducting the first F/A-18E/F Super Hornet into the service life modification program sometime next year, company officials told USNI News.
The Super Hornet life extension program will begin whenever the first jet hits its 6,000 flight hour limit, and the company expects that will happen next year. A Service Life Assessment Program (SLAP) is ongoing to determine what parts of the airplane will have to be replaced, reinforced or otherwise modified to help the jet get 3,000 more hours of life, Boeing F/A-18 and EA-18G Programs Vice President Dan Gillian told USNI News earlier this month.
"We're still working through that but we have a lot of that behind us, with a good understanding of what needs to be fixed," he said.
"The general statement is that, compared to the classic (F/A-18A-D) Hornet, there's not a single center barrel section kind of thing; it's more distributed, smaller throughout the airplane. The big challenge that has really hurt the classics that we're trying to deal with is the unknowns. So our engineering analysis tells us what we should have to change, the tear-down airplane will validate our engineering was right, and then it's dealing with the unknowns."
When the Hornets began their service life extension program in 2012 it quickly became apparent that each airplane had its own unique challenges beyond replacing the center barrel section, and the depots charged with performing the modifications were not equipped to rapidly address these "unknowns" that were unique to each plane and not discovered until workers started pulling the planes apart.
To ensure the Super Hornet life extension work goes smoother, Gillian said Boeing is taking a very data-driven "factory production approach" to preparing for the work.
"Today (with Hornets), when you open and airplane and find a problem, you're now lead-time away from going to order a part to bring it back, compared to using predictive tools and data analytics to have parts available, so when you find a part that needs to be fixed that you weren't expecting, you can deal with it in a shorter turn," he explained.
As part of the SLAP analysis work, engineers gathered as much data as they could about the material condition of the Super Hornets and developed an idea of what the service life modification work would look like, and they are now beginning to open up two learning aircraft in St. Louis to see if their predictions match up to the actual condition of these two planes.
"The learning aircraft were designed to help us get a better feel for the unknowns," Gillian said.
"We do a lot of work with the Super Hornets down at Cecil Field today, that gives us information about corrosion and things like that. And we're partnered with the Navy and helping support the fleet squadrons and [Fleet Support Teams], so there's a lot of information that helps us build, using data analytics, models for what we need to buy and put on the shelf to be ready to deal with unknowns, so we can increase the throughput."
Mark Sears, Boeing's service life modification program director, said in the same interview that as the SLAP work wraps up, "we're finishing our analysis for what material we want to lay in in advance of the first aircraft, and we're facilitizing out St. Louis both from a facility, a tooling and a people perspective."
Sears added that Boeing will begin buying materials for the first plane's life extension work in mid-summer, in anticipation of the first life extension contract coming in early 2018 and the first plane being inducted shortly after that.
Gillian said the first few airplanes would probably take about a year and a half to complete, with Boeing looking to lower that figure as time goes on. He declined to say how long the classic Hornets have taken on average but noted the gap in work for each plane due to having to order parts and wait for them to be manufactured and delivered before the life extension work can continue. Gillian acknowledged that some Super Hornets may be more problematic than others but said he expected a much greater throughput at the depots with the Super Hornets compared to their classic Hornet predecessors.
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Syrian Armed Forces Push ISIS Out of the Ancient City of Palmyra
The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) launched another powerful assault on the defensive barriers of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra (Tadmur), attempting to infiltrate past the Syrian Arab Army's (SAA) frontline defenses at the northern, southern, and western flanks on Sunday morning.
On Saturday morning, ISIS militants attacked the Syrian Armed Forces defensive barriers at the Palmyra National Hospital, where they attempted to break-through the 18th Tank Battalion's fortifications after they took control of the strategic Al-'Amuriyah Housing District to the north of this city in the eastern part of the Homs Governorate.
In addition to their attack on the Palmyra National Hospital, ISIS was able to briefly infiltrate into the northern sector of the city, capturing three residential building blocks after fierce clashes with the SAA's 18th Battalion at the outskirts of Palmyra around 10 A.M. Damascus Time.
However, the SAA's 18th Battalion – in coordination with the National Defense Forces (NDF) and Liwaa Suqour Al-Sahra (Desert Falcons Brigade) – launched a counter-assault on the militants from ISIS at Mount Qassoun located east of the city, resulting in the recapture of the strategic Radio and Television Communication Hill, along with the Palmyra Castle after killing over 40 enemy combatants.
Following their recapture of Mount Qassoun, the Syrian Armed Forces attacked the combatants from ISIS at the ancient aqueducts, where they were able to take full control of this area, including the Palmyra Dam to the west, forcing the militants to withdrawal from the western flank.
According to a military source from Liwaa Suqour Al-Sahra, the Syrian Armed Forces successfully forced ISIS to pull out of the northern sector of Palmyra; this has allowed for the SAA's 18th Battalion to secure all defensive barriers around this ancient city.
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Fierce firefights were also reported at the Al-Hayl and Al-Arak Oil Fields, as the Syrian Armed Forces and ISIS exchange rounds of gunfire and mortar shells for control of this area.
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"In the bustling UK music scene, where genres come and go in what seems like the bat of an eye, there's always a strong focus on the new. New artists. New sounds. New labels. New parties. While this kind of outlook sometimes leads to novelty trumping actual quality, it's not an attitude that's been wholesale adopted by the entire slate of UK music makers. Krystal Klear is a perfect example of those bucking the trend. Although the Irish-born, Manchester-based producer has been celebrated during the past year or so as part of the latest wave of innovative UK artists, even a cursory listen to his output—which includes releases on All City, Eglo, and Dub Organizer—demonstrates that he's not especially interested in making something new. It's not that his music is unoriginal or overly derivative, it's just that Krystal Klear has no qualms about delving into the treasures of the past to find inspiration. As shown on this exclusive mix for the XLR8R podcast series, he's quite comfortable moving through funk, soul, boogie, New Jack Swing, electro, and late-'80s/early-'90s house. More impressively, he manages to do so while also deftly slipping in several of his own retro-inspired productions, including both sides of his recently released"We're Wrong" b/w "From the Start" single. Clearly, Krystal Klear isn't afraid of getting a little nostalgic, but here, he's managed to do so while crafting something that's deliciously funky and refreshingly carefree, not to mention a whole lot of fun."


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Album Review: Barefoot Blue Jean Night
The biggest album of Jake's career is one of the best of all time.
It's been a huge year for Jake Owen. The budding country star has been on the cusp of something big during the early part of his career. Now he's right on the edge of becoming a headlining star. He's already moving past his third record with one last single. Later this year we should get a new single from a new album.
That fourth album could be the one that decides just how high Jake can go.
So we've already heard a number of songs off this record. It came out in August of 2011, but we're going to look back at each of the tracks because it's been a game changer for Jake Owen
The biggest change on this album for Jake was that he relinquished the writing duties. Up to this point he had mostly recorded only his own songs, but for this album he brought in some of the best writers around and it really paid off.
Jake did have one cut on the record and it became a huge single. So there's no doubt he has the writing chops. It will be interesting to see what his next move is.
1. Anywhere With You
Jake recently released the fourth single from this record and the song is this one. It's a good choice. It's about falling in love and being in young love. That's a theme for this record and one that you'll hear throughout.
2. Keepin' It Country
Jake makes no bones about wanting to be a country star. This is his little nod to the crowd.
3. Wide Awake
I have to say that this is my favorite song on the entire album. I love it. There is a really cool hook in the chorus that gets me. It's a great song. It probably won't be a single, but I think it's a really cool song that could have been a big hit. Sometimes there are just too many songs on an album that they can't all be hits. I guess it's a good problem to have.
4. Barefoot Blue Jean Night
This was the single that changed the course of Jake Owen's career. It came out in the summer of 2011 and really took off. It became a fast rising single and introduced the world to a new Jake Owen – the guy that wants to become one of the biggest stars in country music.
5. Heaven
Two years ago I saw Jake in concert. It was just before this album came out and he played two songs. One was this one. This was the song I liked the most of the two. It was weird because I liked the live version so much I kept listening to it and actually kind of like it more than this version. It's interesting that neither this song or the other one Jake played that day became singles.
6. Apple Pie Moonshine
This is a fun song that doesn't mean to be taken too seriously. It's just a fun song with a funny title.
7. The Journey Of Your Life
Here's a change of pace song. It slows things down and it's a noted change for this party boy.
8. Alone With You
This was the second single off the record. It's not my favorite off the record, but people loved it because it went all the way to number one.
9. Settin' The World On Fire
This was the other song Jake played when I was in the crowd two years ago. I wasn't sure how I felt about it at the time, but it's a pretty good song. It's about two lovers feeling like they're the only ones out there.
10. Nobody Feelin' No Pain
This is the classic type of Jake Owen song. You can tell it's one for the live crowd more than it's for radio. People have been loving this one. It's a party song.
11. The One That Got Away
This is the lone song on the record that Jake had a hand in writing. It's actually one of the better songs too. Jake took this single all the way to number one on the charts this past year. It's a great song and a good way to kind of end this record.
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Paul Davies is a singer/songwriter from the leafy London suburb of Kingston. His new single is released on 15th August through his own Jag label, and will be available in all major digital outlets.
"OK" marks the author's first new material since his album, "Tradition In Modern Times", came out last year. The single showcases a stripped-back approach compared to previous releases and a new-found mellowness. Paul describes the song as "a whimsical and dream-like journey into the blue."
He goes on to explain that "the light feel of the song betrays its true origin, as it was actually written whilst watching Alfred Hitchcock's dark thriller, 'Psycho'. I don't think you should read anything into that though!"
The b-side, "KO", is a backwards homage to one of Paul's biggest influences: "The Stone Roses had a massive effect on me when I was growing up and I always loved their experimental side. I was mixing 'OK' and playing around with some backward tracks and ended up playing the whole thing backwards and recording some guitar and vocals over the top. It was great fun!"
For more information contact Jag.
Webpage: www.soundsofjag.co.uk/PaulDavies
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/pauldavies
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/TheDapperMan
Twitter: @thedapperman
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Oh My Heck…..I love Fall!
When Sylvia started displaying the new fall merchandise earlier this month, I was all ready to be done with summer! I'm not kidding! It is so beautiful that I won't mind when the weather decides to get cool. We are working hard every day trying to transform Mini Bazaar from summer to fall. Once we started painting, we couldn't quit. The rich new colors are so fun and look gorgeous with the fall merchandise.
We will begin our Fall/Holiday season on September 9th. Can't wait!
Our "Meet the Staff" segment this month will be on Bobbi Underwood.
She just happens to be my daughter and has worked at Mini Bazaar since she was a little girl. You have probably seen her behind the registers and helping customers regularly since she was a student at Ricks College. Bobbi is married to Jared Underwood and lives right here in Idaho Falls along with their two little boys, Carter & Rook. Jared is an electrician and does finance work as well. They spend a lot of time enjoying sports and especially love baseball.
Bobbi has lots of friends and stays super busy. She loves to clean and make things look nice, and is really good at that. Her house is always tidy and she does a great job making it look beautiful for every season. We appreciate her good nature and all of her hard work at Mini Bazaar. We like to have fun while we're working and she helps us accomplish that, too. Thanks for all you do, Bobbi!
Be sure to stop in and see all the ghouls & goblins we have at Mini Bazaar. We think they are great!


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Orene Askew
Opening Night Party
Orene Askew, aka DJ O Show brings energy and expertise to every event she DJ's and hosts. Making sure folks never want to leave the dance floor. Coming from a diverse background, O Show is driven by her passion. She is Afro-Indigenous and a proud member of the Squamish Nation!
Sasha Argirov
Sasha Argirov is a Canadian filmmaker based in Vancouver. He is a recipient of the Sundance Ignite 2020 grant. His short film, Personals, had its world premiere at the In The Palace Festival in Bulgaria. His first feature film is currently in development.
Allen Baylosis
Allen Baylosis (he/him) is an emerging dramaturg, and a critical, racial, and ethnic performance scholar. His research explores the intersections of minoritarian performances, migration, racial capitalism, and transpacific worldmaking. He is a graduate student at UBC's Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice program. He holds an MA in Performance Studies (NYU) and a BA in Speech Communication (UP Diliman).
Davey Calderon
Davey Samuel Calderon (he/they) is a theatre director, curator, writer, producer, drag artist, dramaturg, and settler on the unceded lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh-speaking peoples. He co-founded the emerging theatre collective New(to)Town Collective. His works, including Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night!, explore the intersectionality of Filipinx and queer identity.
John Paul (JP) Catungal
Metamorpohsis
JP Catungal (he/him) is Assistant Professor in the Social Justice Institute and Academic Co-Lead of the Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement at UBC. His research, and teaching concern community organizing and cultural production among migrant, racialized, and LGBTQ+ communities, and is informed by his own experiences as a queer, first generation Filipinx migrant.
Mahlet Cuff
Guest Curator
Obsidian: Black Queer Cinema: AS I AM
Mahlet Cuff is an emerging curator, writer and artist. She is based in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg, Manitoba). Their curatorial practices focuses on satirical humour as resistance, the reimagining of Black queer diasporic futures, and archival practices. She has curated work for Window Winnipeg, Take Home BIPOC arts house, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg Film Group, and VTape.
Maiden China
Maiden China is a second generation Chinese, trans-femme, non-binary artist living on the stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Her drag explores themes of vulnerability, queer ritual, the concept of the "hyphen", and liminal experience by incorporating elements of classical Chinese opera, glamour, punk, and intimate contact performance art.
Performing since 2016 in so-called "Vancouver, BC", Maiden holds the pageant titles of Mr/Ms Cobalt All Star, and the Dogwood Monarchist Society's Entertainer of the Year 2018. In 2019 Maiden was the subject and a creative director of an award-winning documentary titled Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny, which has screened in over six countries, including BAFTA qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival in Leeds, UK.
She is a member of the House of Rice, "Canada's" only all Asian drag family, as well as a member of the Darlings, a non-binary drag performance collective whose self produced "Quarantine" film series garnered international recognition for digital ingenuity during the COVID pandemic lockdown across 2020/2021.
K.P Dennis
All Boys Aren't Blue
K.P Dennis a Black, non-binary, theatre artist, director, and poet. They were the 2016 Youth Poet Laureate of Victoria, and their work has been featured at Here! Magazine, National Theatre School and CBC GEM. Their poetry is written for performance, and could be described as a queer, afro-surrealist exploration of self, identity, growth, and healing.
D Fretter
D Fretter's mother likes to say he's had a way with words since before he learned to talk. D began writing songs at age 17 after stealing his older sister's guitar. After pursuing music for over a decade, he put down his guitar but held onto his pen and found that some truths sound even more beautiful without a melody. Now as a spoken word artist and poet D has made a name for himself spreading his message of selflove and grounded optimism. Often refered to as a hip-hop Andrea Gibson or a philosophical Shel Silverstein D Fretter shares his work to entertain, encourage, and empower his audience.
May Farrales
May Farrales (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Geography and Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies at SFU. Her teaching and research are animated by questions of racialization, queer politics, and logics of power fundamental to colonial, empire-building, and capitalist projects. Her current research examines racial geographies of settler colonialism.
Human Girl
Director, Cast
Painted Gold
Human Girl is a music producer, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, comedienne, and rising drag performer in Vancouver. Her drag persona was found through the writing and making of Painted Gold, her graduation film from Emily Carr. Human Girl is live on Spotify and all music platforms.
Vinay Giridhar
Emergence: Out of Shadows
Vinay Giridhar is an animator, graphic designer, and illustrator. His animated short film Loves Age was an official selection at the HollyShorts Film Festival. Vinay's work spans art director and graphic design for South Asian Lifestyle Magazine and extensive film and video work. Vinay is originally from Kerala, India and currently lives in Surrey, BC.
Florian Halbedl
Born in Luzern, Switzerland, Florian Halbedl Hess immigrated to Canada in 2000 and shot his first short film for a Vertebrate Biology course at Western University. He has written and directed five short films, which have screened at over sixty film festivals internationally: Whispers of Life (2013), Limina (2016), Henry's Heart (2019), Circle (2021), and most recently 0UTL4W (2022).
Oliv Howe
The Empress of Vancouver
In 1981, the Vancouver Dogwood Monarchist Society crowned Oliv the 10th Empress. Then, Oliv's punk rock energy, fender-fucking performances and DIY glam aesthetic spoke to a political and artistic shift in Vancouver's drag community. Ever since her monumental moment, Oliv has represented the weirdos and freaks, the trans kings and queens and gender queers, busting the binary open. She continues to be a beacon in Vancouver's West End, inspiring the next generation of queerdos.
Fanny Kearse
Fanny Kearse is a Storyteller, Poet, Radical, Mental Health Advocate, Truth Seeker, Elevator of Youth, Slayer of Mountains, The Dream of a Slave. Fanny walked away from nearly a decade as a social worker to pursue lifelong dreams of being a poet and disrupting the system to be more diverse, inclusive and equitable.
Kriss Li
Abolition Film Society
Kriss Li is a multimedia artist who creates fictional narratives, animations, documentaries, and installations that explore structures of power and the hidden sites of greater collective capacities. Kriss's practice is informed by community organizing, especially at Prisoner Correspondence Project, a volunteer-run solidarity initiative for LGBTQ prisoners.
Stéphanie Lamorré
Being Thunder
Stéphanie Lamorré is a French documentary filmmaker and international independent writer/producer/director/cameraperson. She creates films for ARTE TV and CINEMA (France). Shooting solo and often in areas of armed conflict, she covers subjects from modern-day slavery and illegal immigration to social justice issues.
Dylan Murray
Dylan Murray (he/him) is a Vancouver-based director and editor. Dylan graduated from Capilano University with a Bachelor of Motion Picture Arts degree. He is passionate about creating films that highlight LGBTQ2SIA+ narratives, and utilizes the psychological horror genre to explore themes of loss, isolation, and love. He hopes that everyone enjoys his short horror film Submersion.
Reem Morsi
Muslim Mingle
Egyptian-Canadian writer/director/producer Reem Morsi was a professional scuba diver and UN human rights officer. She's worked on features Bootleg, Hysteria, and The Last Mark; award-winning shorts Show & Tell and The Door & Their Feast; and shows for CBC Gem and other broadcasters. Reem is an alumna of the CFC's Director's Lab, TIFF Talents, Women in the Director's Chair.
Venus Noirre
Venus Noirre is a writer whose cultural identity and traumas have led her to share her imperfect words with the world. With no formal writing education, she has published zines, essays and poetry on queer identity, sex work and Blackness. The continuous genocide of Black, Brown and Indigenous bodies in the Americas has forced her re-examine what she shares of herself with her audience. Blackness and autonomy as a Black woman is at the center of her work and she knows that it is essential that she continues telling these stories.
Kwame Edwin Otu
Kwame Edwin Otu is an Assistant Professor at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is also the Guerrant Assistant Professor of Public Health at UVA's Center for Global Health Equity. Otu's research includes issues of sexual citizenship, critical human rights studies, revolutionary black aesthetics, and Afrofuturist practice.
Jonas Pascual
It is art that connects him to his higher self. Jonas Pascual is a 22-year-old Filipino Vancouver-based filmmaker. As a new kid in the film industry he hopes to show the stories in his mind to the world. Just like being queer, his art cannot be expressed in one way—there are too many ideas, stories, and imagination to manifest.
Dave Rodden-Shortt
Dave Rodden-Shortt is a Vancouver-based queer filmmaker. Dave is the founder of Shortt and Epic Productions (2011) and Lantern Films (2015). His work and creativity has won awards, including the Gerry Brunet Award for Best BC Short Film for Under the Rainbow. His latest short film Happytime Social Club, commissioned by B.C.'s Knowledge Network, premiered at VIFF in 2019.
Alex Sangha
Emergence: Out of the Shadows
Alex Sangha is the founder of the Sher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society, a non-profit serving LGBTQ South Asians and friends. Alex produced the award-winning short documentary film My Name Was January. Emergence: Out of the Shadows is his debut feature film as a producer. Alex is the recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada.
Anjalica Solomon
Anjalica Solomon is a genderfluid bird watcher, tree hugger, astrology boyfriend and expansive lover. A multidisciplinary artist born in Chandigarh India and raised on what is colonially known as "Vancouver, BC" on the stolen and unsurrendered territories of the Coast Salish, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations. They are a vocalist, songwriter, lyricist, loop pedalist, poet, playwright, actor, organiser and performer. Their music weaves together rap, hip hop, spoken word poetry, traditional Indian instrumentation and old bollywood styles. They aim to make art that forges a path for queer, South Asian futuristism.
Joseph Sackett
Joseph Sackett is an award-winning filmmaker who has written, directed, and produced projects that have screened in competition at the Festival de Cannes, Slamdance, and Outfest among others. He received his MFA in Screenwriting and Directing from NYU Tisch Grad Film. He is currently in pre-production on his second feature film Cross Pollination.
Ayo Tsalithaba
Atmospheric Arrivals
Ayo Tsalithaba is a visual artist originally from Ghana and Lesotho. Their primary mediums include film, photography, and illustration. Their work explores questions of home, (in)visibility, liminality and (un)belonging as they relate to Black queer and trans African diasporic subjectivity.
Alayna Y
Macaroni Soup
Alayna is a digital artist and animator who specializes in making soup. That is, she throws (the figurative concept of) people, places, and things that make up the world around her into a simmering pot of creations. Much of Alayna's work takes place on traditional Katzie First Nation land.


For shattered or dinged auto glass in Modesto and surrounding areas, call Don's. We're also known for residential glass in the Central Valley area.
Sometimes "good news" is a matter of taking a broad view of things. That's basically the way one has to interpret the National Insurance Crime Bureau's recent report ranking the worst cities for auto theft in 2013. Modesto was third on the list. That's third in the nation. What's "good" about that? Well, it beats Modesto's 2012 ranking, when it was first in the nation, according to Property Casualty 360, a National Underwriters website.
We agree that, overall, that is not "good" news. No one wants their car or truck stolen. If it happens, you may be lucky and get your vehicle back only to find that its windows were broken so the thieves could get in to take your car or truck. Or maybe they were stopped before they got away with the car but after they'd broken the windows. Or maybe they just broke the windows to reach in and steal stuff from inside the car. Whatever, you're now stuck replacing those crashed windows.
You need to call Don's Mobile Glass. We have more than 50 years' experience in the Central Valley with all sorts of glass. We got our start with auto glass, windshields, side windows and the like and we've branched out into residential and commercial glass and into replacement windows. When you need auto glass in Modesto and surrounding areas, call Don's. We'll come to you.
Don's Can Help You With Smashed Car Windows!


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The Religion of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
According to Douglass, a slaveholder who was not religious was "truly a great advantage" to the enslaved. What do you think he meant by that?
Given the emphasis on religion at this time, why do you think he wrote that? How does Douglass describe the impact of the death of a slaveholder upon the lives of the enslaved? Upon Douglass's life in particular? If you could transport back in time and meet Frederick Douglass, what would you ask him and why? What might you tell him, and why?
Porter's Critical Essay "John Updike's 'A&P'"
Frederick Douglass' Autobiography as a Historical Document
Shareholder Suits: Strougo v. Bassini
Right to Inspect Books: King v. Verifone Holdings, Inc.
Declaration of Dividends: Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.
Legal Restrictions on the Acquisition of Shares
Pre-International Systems in Comparison to Modern World
Concepts and Systems of International Relations


Copenhagen Wanderings | Where is Yvette?
We had a five day weekend recently at my university for various reasons (consisting of Holland getting a new king, my university's communist roots so we get off Labor Day even though it's not typically an official holiday, and no one interested in work Monday if we get off Tuesday and Wednesday), and the lure of a nice stretch like that was too much to ignore. So I dusted off my "places I want to visit in Europe while I'm living here" list- you bet there's a list!- and noticed one that fit such a length of time perfectly- Copenhagen, Denmark.
This particular spiral-y tower by the way is the Church of Our Savior, which you can climb up a narrow set of steps which were never planned for tourists and I don't advise if you are claustrophobic. And then the best part is when you go up to the top and it's windy the tower shudders a bit in the wind, which makes you wonder about the old thing's building code.
I walked through Christiana and it turns out it's small enough that if you're not actually interested in drugs it takes all of ten minutes to wander through. I would make an awful hippie; I don't understand people who sit around all day doing nothing with their lives and dedicated pot-smokers usually fall in this category.
Plus hey, the Danish have very good beer, so why not enjoy that?
All in all, a very nice city!


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The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA, ) is a United States Act passed as part of the National Energy Act. It was meant to promote energy conservation (reduce demand) and promote greater use of domestic energy and renewable energy (increase supply). The law was created in response to the 1973 energy crisis, and one year in advance of a second energy crisis.

Upon entering the White House, President Jimmy Carter made energy policy a top priority. The law started the energy industry on the road to restructuring.

Law

PURPA was originally passed with the intention of conserving electric energy, increasing efficiency in facilities and resources used by utility companies, making retail rates for electric consumers more fair, speeding up the creation of hydroelectric energy production at small dams, and conserving natural gas.

The main vehicle that the PURPA law used to try and accomplish these goals was by creating a new class of electric generating facilities called "qualifying facilities" (QFs). PURPA gave QFs special rate and regulatory treatment.

The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) encouraged:

 creating a market for power from non-utility power producers
 increased efficiency by making use of cogeneration
 ending promotional rate structures
 encouraging the development of hydroelectric power
 the conservation of electric energy and natural gas

Non-utility power producers

Energy companies were classified as natural monopolies, and for this reason, most were established with vertically integrated structures (that is, they undertook all the functions of generating, transmitting, and distributing electricity to the customer). Utilities became protected as regulated monopolies because it was thought that a company could produce power more efficiently and economically as one company than as several.

PURPA started the industry on the road to restructuring and is one of the first laws that began the deregulation of energy companies. The provision which enabled non-utility generators ("NUGs") to produce power for use by customers attached to a utility's grid broke the previous monopoly in the generation function.

Ending promotional rate structure

Utilities offered customers a "rate structure" that decreased the cost per kWh price of electricity with increasing usage, with subsequent increments costing less per unit. PURPA eliminated promotional rate structures except when they could be justified by the cost structure of utility companies.

Cogeneration
One provision of PURPA is the requirement for increased use of energy cogeneration. The law forced electric utilities to buy power from other more efficient producers, such as cogeneration plants, if that cost was less than the utility's own "avoided cost" rate to the consumer; the avoided cost rate was the additional costs that the electric utility would incur if it generated the required power itself, or if available, could purchase its demand requirements from another source.  At the time generally, where demand was growing, this "avoided cost" was considered to be the construction and fossil fuel costs incurred in the operation of another thermal power plant.

As an effect, the number of cogeneration plants, which produce electric power and steam, increased. These plants are encouraged by the law, on the basis that they harness thermal energy (in the form of usable steam) that would be otherwise wasted if electricity alone was produced. PURPA also became the basic legislation that enabled renewable energy providers to gain a toehold in the market, particularly in California, where state authorities were more aggressive in their interpretation of the statute. The portion of the act dealing with cogeneration and small power production appears in US code in Title 16 – Conservation, Chapter 12 – Federal Regulation and Development of Power, Subchapter II – Regulation of Electric Utility Companies Engaged in Interstate Commerce, Sec 824a-3 – Cogeneration and Small Power Production.

This led to the establishment of a new class of generating facilities, which would receive special rate and regulatory treatment. Generating facilities in this group are known as qualifying facilities (QFs), and fall into two categories: qualifying small power production facilities and qualifying cogeneration facilities.

A small power production facility is an electric generation facility that produces 80 MW or less and that uses renewable sources (such as hydro, wind or solar) as its primary energy source. A cogeneration facility is an electric generation facility that creates electricity in a very efficient way, meaning that the facility produces both electricity and "another form of useful thermal energy (such as heat or steam) in a way that is more efficient than the separate production of both forms of energy."

Renewable energy

PURPA provided favorable terms to companies that produced electricity from renewable (non-fossil-fuel) resources. California increased wind on the grid from 10 MW in 1981 to 1700 MW in the early 1990s.

Implementation

Although a Federal law, PURPA's implementation was left to the individual states, because needs varied; a variety of regulatory regimes developed in states where renewable power resources were needed, available for development, or the generated power could be transmitted. Little was done in many states where such resources were unavailable, where the demand growth was slower or previously accommodated in planning.

Legacy
PURPA is becoming less important, as many of the contracts made under it during the 1980s are expiring. Another reason for PURPA's reduced significance is that electric deregulation and open access to electricity transportation by utilities has created a vast market for the purchase of energy and State regulatory agencies have therefore stopped forcing utilities to give contracts to developers of non-utility power projects.  However, it is still an important piece of legislation promoting renewable energy because it exempts the developers of such projects from numerous State and Federal regulatory regimes.

This free market approach presented investment opportunity and government encouragement for more development of environment-friendly, renewable energy projects and technologies; the law created a market in which non-utility Independent Power Producers developed, and some energy market players failed.

Critics of PURPA cited that power producers signed multi-year cost of electricity contracts at a time when energy prices were high. When oil prices went down, utilities had to honor the rates of those contracts, leading to high power prices.

PURPA was the only existing federal law that requires competition in the utility industry and the only law that encourages renewables, if it is cost competitive with conventional polluting resources.

Amendment proposals and new legislation
In February 2005, Senator Jim Jeffords from Vermont introduced an amendment to PURPA calling for a Renewable portfolio standard.

PURPA was amended in 2005 by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 in sections 1251 through 1254. There is pending legislation in the US Senate that would amend PURPA to require FERC to develop standards for interconnection of distributed generation facilities, and that would require "electric utilities" meeting the PURPA size requirement (retail sales of more than 500 million kw hrs) to implement those standards.

One proposed law that would amend PURPA is the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013 (H.R. 267).  The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives of the 113th United States Congress on January 15, 2013, and it passed the House on February 13, 2013 by a vote of 422-0.  If enacted, the bill would change some of the regulations in the United States surrounding hydropower by making it easier for smaller hydropower stations to be created.  According to the bill's proponents, current regulations are unwieldy and represent a significant hurdle to creating more hydropower plants.  H.R. 267 would alter those regulations to make it easier for smaller plants to get approval quickly.  Section 3 of H.R. 267 amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to increase from 5,000 to 10,000 kilowatts the size of small hydroelectric power projects which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) may exempt from its license requirements.

See related energy policy contained in 42 USC Chapter 134 – Energy Policy.

In October 2018, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) made suggestions in a report that FERC should modernize PURPA for the energy sector. NARUC's paper "proposes that FERC exempt from PURPA's mandatory purchase obligation those utilities which are subject to state competitive solicitation requirements and other best practices that ensure all technologies access to the market."

2019 FERC notice of proposed rulemaking
In September 2019, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced its intention to update certain provisions of the PURPA law, in a process known as a "notice of proposed rulemaking" (NOPR). One of the original intentions of PURPA was to try to break the U.S.'s dependence on fossil fuels during the 1970s energy crisis. To accomplish that, PURPA encouraged creation of small power production facilities called "qualifying facilities" (QFs). QFs produce power from sources other than fossil fuels, or they make power using a combination of fossil fuels with renewable energy sources.

In the NOPR, FERC asserted that today the country has a high supply of "relatively inexpensive" natural gas due to technological advances and the discovery of new gas reserves. Therefore, FERC wrote, there is no longer the same need now as there was in 1978 to address natural gas shortages. When PURPA was originally passed in the late 1970s, many utility companies were "vertically integrated" and did not want to buy power from third-party independent generators. However, today the system and market is much different: the market has open-access transmission and there is a wholesale market that allows utilities to buy power from independent generators at competitive market prices. Today, most energy production based on renewable resources does not require reliance on PURPA.

In September 2019, during a FERC hearing, its Chairman Neil Chatterjee voiced his support for making changes to PURPA in light of "tremendous technological advances in renewables" since passage of PURPA in 1978. One idea for updating PURPA is to give more flexibility to individual states to use more competitive prices when setting QF rates.

Investor-owned utility companies, represented by their national association the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), supported FERC's proposed updates to PURPA. According to the head of the Edison Electric Institute, PURPA requires utilities to buy energy from QFs at prices that are often higher than market prices, resulting in "billions of dollars in additional consumer costs". EEI also stated it more bluntly: PURPA requires its member utilities to buy power it often doesn't even need at mandatory above-market prices.

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and the American Public Power Association also supported FERC's proposed changes.

A group of opponents, which included eight attorneys general, the FTC, and electric power supply companies, wrote FERC to express their opposition. They laid out their concerns that FERC would be overstepping its authority in making these changes, something legal and renewables groups had argued as well. The states also raised concerns that the rules could harm renewables deployment in their states and others according to the electric industry news site UTILITY DIVE.

See also
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935
Energy Policy Act of 2005
Energy Policy Act of 1992

References

External links
FERC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (168 FERC ¶ 61,184). Docket Nos. RM19-15-000 and AD16-16-000. September 19, 2019.
PURPA at U.S. Code
 PURPA at Union of Concerned Scientists

1978 in American law
95th United States Congress
United States federal energy legislation
Renewable energy policy
Economics of regulation

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One Block—5,649 Laps
Eleven Runners Compete in a 3,100-Mile Race on a Sidewalk Course in Queens
Scott Cacciola
Updated June 22, 2010 12:01 am ET
Dharbhasana Lynn had trouble explaining to his friends back home in New Zealand how he planned to spend his summer. He told them he had decided to enter a road race in New York City, except this race would entail running at least two marathons a day. Every day. For nearly two months.
"Everybody thinks I'm nuts," Mr. Lynn said.
3100 Mile Race, 52 Days, One City Block
The 3,100 mile Self-Transcendence race is under way in Queens. The race, which runs from June to August, is an exercise in pushing the physical and mental limits of the human body. Scott Cacciola reports.


Are you thinking about moving, and wondering how you will like the new location? Or perhaps you are deciding on a place to vacation. This Astrolocality Map Report tells you about your planetary lines from your current residence.
*Although a report does not supplant an in-depth consultation with William Stickevers, this report will give you an additional level of insight in identifying astrologically resonant directions for various activities and endeavors.


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Q: Event willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation isn't calling I have several UIViewControllers on the application. But only on one of them willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation event is calling.
How to make willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation work for all visible views?

A: The RootViewController:
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    NSDictionary *userInfo = @{
        @"toInterfaceOrientation":@(toInterfaceOrientation),
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Other UIViewControllers:
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}

- (void)willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration {
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