Dave Cooper is an environmental activist, food vendor, and organiser of Kentucky's Whippoorwill Festival.
I operated a food stall at a small music festival in Kentucky a couple of summers ago. My food costs were just over $400. After two days of preparation and two days of vending, I had reclaimed just $95.
Food vending can be a tough business, and festival organisers should endeavour to understand the difficulties that vendors face before they start booking them for their event. After all, having happy food vendors means good food and happy attendees.
My unsuccessful food vending experience was mostly due to the bad location of my booth and poor communication. One event organiser told me prior to the festival that there would be only two food vendors total; the other guy was selling beef barbecue, so I planned to sell burritos, quesadillas and vegetarian wraps.
But when I arrived on the festival site the day before the event, I was annoyed to see a third vendor setting up, featuring a very extensive menu. It turns out that this vendor – who was initially contracted to feed the performers and the volunteer staff – was selling to everyone. The unexpected competition, plus the poor location of my booth, meant that I hardly sold anything. I packed up my truck and drove home before the event was even over, and I ended up throwing away most of my food.
In other words, after working for almost four full days I earned a negative $300.
When it rains, no one stands out in the rain to buy burritos. If it's cold, they don't buy ice cream. If it's too hot, they don't buy chilli.
When festival organisers book too many food vendors, sometimes none of the vendors make any money. For the event organiser, that means that most of them won't come back next year.
When there aren't enough food vendors, the lines are too long and / or food runs out. Attendees hate long lines, and going hungry means they won't come back next year.
Vegetarians, vegans and gluten-intolerant attendees often have difficulty finding anything at all to eat at some festivals. Attendees' expectations for the quality of food served at festivals have increased greatly, but I still see food vendors serving pre-grilled hamburger patties that have been sitting in their warming ovens all afternoon.
Food vendors face other challenges besides competition from other vendors. Health Departments can shut down a food vendor down for seemingly minor infractions, such as a personal drink on the food preparation table. In the US, food vendors are not permitted to bring home-prepared foods to an event, unless it was prepared in a certified kitchen. This means that all foods must be made onsite, which can be tricky in an outdoor setting with limited access to electricity, hot running water, and so on. Flies are another issue that can cause the Health Departments to shut down a food booth – but controlling flies in an outdoor setting is the responsibility of the festival site management, not the food vendor.
At any rate, if the Health Department shuts someone down, that food vendor is going to lose a lot of money. Meanwhile, the food vendor is often battling the outdoor summer heat, trying to keep meats and dairy products at safe temperatures in their coolers. This is sometimes difficult, and good food vendors stress greatly over keeping their booth clean and their food safe. If there is one thing that food vendors all want, it is a cheap and plentiful supply of ice.
Some festival organisers may not understand that good food vendors actually need months of preparation time to plan their menus, order food, purchase specific gear, hire their crews, and so much more. In our four-month long talks ahead of a festival last year, myself and three other food vendors discussed which booths would go where, shared tips from previous years, and talked about our menu items so that festival attendees would have a wide variety of foods from which to choose, while making sure that two vendors were not selling the same item. We like to think of this group effort as a kind of friendly competition.
Good communication with food vendors prior to the event is the key to happy vendors and happy attendees. Vending fees should be set to reflect the real risk that food vendors take every time they work an event.


Watercolor on paper. 7" x 4 1/2" 12/1/2013.
As I was walking through the Catalinas the other day, I noticed these two little birds far off on a saguaro branch, chatting away.
Daily Doodle #25. Purchase a print here.
Today, I doodled them into their own private penthouse, enjoying the desert paradise.


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Google knocks Facebook off the referral traffic top spot
About four years ago, social traffic eclipsed traffic from search, across publishers generally. And by "social traffic", I largely mean "Facebook".
That era appears to have passed. According to data from Parse.ly, a real-time analytics platform, Google is back on top:
Conrad Lee, writing on the Parse.ly blog:
[…] after six months of steadily declining numbers, we're now announcing that the decline is significant, and that it has, indeed, affected most of our publishers. Comparing data from February 2017 to October 2017, we have witnessed a 25% reduction in Facebook referral volume.
Lee attributes the change to algorithm changes, and offers some speculation as to what could be driving it. He doesn't see clear evidence in the figures for most of what he suggests, other than one: Facebook focusing on sites with faster load times. What suggests that? Instant Articles referral volume seem to be holding up:
On August 2nd, Facebook announced that the algorithm would prefer articles with low page load times. Facebook's Instant Articles program is specifically designed to address mobile page load times. Even while overall Facebook referral volume dropped by 25% from February to October, the chart below shows that traffic on Facebook Instant pages remained steady.
Facebook's motivation to downplay journalism
My own speculation — and it is just speculation, albeit informed speculation — is that the overall drop is a combination of two things. There's Facebook's well established strategy of getting companies dependent on Facebook traffic – and then turning down organic reach to force them into paying. There's a pattern we're seeing clearly across the industry – and elsewhere.
However, as I suggested on the Media Voices podcast last year, I'm pretty sure that context collapse is a factor here. Facebook is worried about the decline in personal sharing for over a year. One way to encourage that is to reduce the amount of news in the feed, to highlight more personal posts. And people are led by the example of what they see in the feed.
When you add into this equation the severe political pressure Facebook is under around misinformation and hyper-partisan news (the so-called "fake news"), I think we can safely assume that Facebook is beginning to see publishers as more trouble than they're worth. It would certainly explain the recent experiment that's been running in some parts of the world that pushes all articles into a separate feed.
In short, I don't think Facebook traffic is coming back in the way we once had it — and what traffic we do get will require paying for in greater volumes than ever before.
What's the implications of that for publishers?
Business models dependent on Facebook growth are dead in the water, unless you can afford to buy that growth
Publishers will need a renewed focus on SEO — especially those that have been social-first
All publishers should place a greater focus on direct audience engagement and development, as a hedge against algorithmic shifts
I expect the latter two of those to be major components of my work through 2018.
My next SEO for journalists course is running on 28th February. It will be, of course, updated to reflect the latest changes in search over the last few months. I'd love to see you there.
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Facebook asks publishers: are you local?
Twitter closing on Facebook for social traffic
Facebook is the out-of-town supermarket of the web, so let's learn to browse local
Jason Kottke on why Facebook won: […] using Facebook instead of just bookmarks is compelling in the same way that shopping at Walmart instead of small-town shops was in the 80s.
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Will journalists feed the tech backlash — or help explain it?
Towards the end of last year, WIRED published a piece about the arrogance of tech startups that was utterly unimaginable even 18 months ago: As headlines have exposed the troubling

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mews are intended to make sending messages on Slack, Telegram, and Twitter as easy as using console.log.
More information about supported services is available below.
Now that you have a mew, you need to pass it configuration arguments. These are usually pesky (but important) required details like API keys and an identifiers for your recipients. mews are functions, so you just call them as you would any other function.
At this point, your mew becomes a complete, fully grown mew. Complete mews work exactly like console.log does for your program output, which means that you can pass it multiple arguments, objects, or even format strings!
Each mew is actually a curried function. Officially, curried functions are weird monstrosities made of lots of little functions, but as far as we're concerned, they're just really lenient functions that are okay with not getting enough arguments. Where most functions will kick and scream at you, these just give you new functions that remember the arguments you've already provided.
A freshly plucked mew will first take in all the configuration arguments it needs (across multiple calls, if necessary), and if there are any left over, the rest will be treated as output. After that happens, you'll just keep getting back additional complete mews that treat all their arguments as output.
Complex properties are a little scarier, since they modify your current mew.
It's okay, though, because if you use them as simple properties, they'll usually give you a new mew with that setting reset to default.
If all this configuration stuff is too confusing, don't worry about it! You can use mews without worrying about configuring anything at all. Most of the time they're just there for completeness.
Please note that this and all other mews are curried functions, as stated above. Calls always return a partially applied mew remembering provided arguments other than the ones in ...output.
Proof of concept mew that just calls console.log.
mew.err toggle. Print output to STDERR instead of STDOUT.
Sends a message over Slack. The simplest way to use this is simply providing a channel name as details.
apiToken string. A Slack API token. Only tested with the ones provided by Slack Bots, but any other Slack API Token will probably work too.
details This can be an object or string.
string. A shortcut for setting the channel property below.
object. The only required property is channel. See below for interactions between properties.
channel string. The channel you would like to send your message to. Include a @ before usernames to send a DM. You may optionally include a # before channel names. This is required.
name string. A sender name for your message.
icon string. A url to an image file to be used as your message's icon.
emoji string. A Slack emoji to be used as your message's icon. Colons are required.
Providing a string as details is equivalent to providing an object with only a channel property. If you do this, your bot (or whatever entity your API token corresponds to) must be in the channel specified. If you specify any of the other properties, this is not required.
mew.noParse toggle. Disables the full parse mode. This allows you to use Slack's formatting spec.
mew.link_names toggle. Enables channel and username auto-linking. This is only useful when used with noParse, because the full parse mode does this by default.
mew.attachments = '' string. A json string following Slack's attachment spec.
mew.noPreview toggle. Disables all link previews.
Send a message to the account with chatID from the bot with given botToken. Requires the recipient to have messaged the bot at least once.
botToken string. Your telegram bot's API token. BotFather will tell give you this when you create a bot or use the /token command.
chatID string. Your recipient's chat ID, which is usually a positive integer for users, a negative integer for groups, or a name for channels.
mew.noPreview toggle. Disable link previews.
mew.noNotify toggle. Disable notifications for message.
mew.reply_markup = '' string. Configure reply_markup request variable, typically for controlling how a user would reply to your message.
mew.parse_mode = '' string. Actual parse_mode variable as sent in request to Telegram. mew.markdown and mew.html modify this variable for you so you don't have to.
Send a tweet on twitter with the provided app and account details. You can grab some from Twitter's Application Management site.
mew.sensitive toggle. Flags your tweet as potentially containing sensitive content.
mew.replyTo = '' string. The ID of a tweet you would like to reply to. This doesn't do anything unless your tweet text contains @username, where username is the username of the account that tweeted the tweet.
mew.dm = '' string. If this is set, your message will be sent as a DM to a recipient specified by this value. If this value contains only digits, it will be treated as a user ID. If it contains anything other than digits, it will be considered a username. You must include a @ before a username that is all digits (to differentiate it from a user id), but it's optional otherwise.


Rather you are dining along the River Walk or in Downtown there is a wide variety of restaurants to choose from. From BBQ to Tex-Mex, Downtown San Antonio offers an abundance of choices to suit your taste and budget. Be sure to enjoy one of the many dining experiences at one of these fine San Antonio River Walk restaurants.


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Q: Why are epsilon transitions used in NFA? I'm trying to understand how to create NFA-s from regular expressions, but I am really confused from epsilon transitions. I have this example in my textbook , but I don't understand why epsilon transitions are used and how does one know when to use them.

A: In general, espilon-transitions are used when they are convenient. For example, when constructing an NFA from a regular expression, you start by constructing small parts of the automaton corresponding to parts of the expression. To connect them, you need to put a transition. But if there is no symbol to be read there, an epsilon transition is a simple way to do this. They are, however never necessary, you can always find a solution without them.
In your example, just apply the algorithm described in your textbook. It tells you when to use them.
The epsilon transitions

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*from 1 to 2 probably connects the parts for (a|b)* and for ac

*1->5 and 8->1 probably result from the *

*5->6 and 5->7 probably result from the alternative in |

A: Epsilon-transitions in NFAs are a natural representation of choice or disjunction or union in regular expressions. That is, a regular expression like r + s (or r | s or r U s depending on your preferred notation) is naturally represented as an NFA consisting of two independent NFAs, one for r and one for s, joined using e-transitions as follows:
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When used to connect states in more complicated ways, the effect may not be as easy or natural to describe, but essentially these transitions let you choose unconditionally among multiple options. So, if I have seen a part of the input already and there are a few different ways the string could end, I can represent that by using e-transitions to states that handle the different possibilities.
In your example, the e-transitions are not really serving any very useful function and are merely artifacts of the conversion algorithm you have used. That algorithm includes them because, in the general case, they may be useful or necessary. In your specific case this was not true, so they look out of place.

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The grass is turning green, trees are beginning to bud, and the temperature is rising. It's time to open your cottage or summer home!
Camping is a favorite past time enjoyed by many. Early morning walks, fishing, and making S'mores over the campfire can create many fond memories for your family.
Vacation planning: Ten Tips for selecting a kennel for your pet.
Are you going on a trip of a lifetime or a well-deserved family vacation this summer? If so, it can be both exciting and stressful. After months of preparation, there's nothing left to do other than hop on a plane or jump in the car and go. But wait a minute! What about your family pet?
When visiting local businesses in your community, figuring out tips is easy. If you received great service at your favorite restaurant, a 20% tip is appropriate. If you're visiting your favorite watering hole, $1.00 - $2.00 per drink or 10-15% for the entire bill is appropriate.
What about when you're on vacation? The rules may differ depending on where you go.
Summer vacations are right around the corner. It's time for final exams, as well as the annual cleaning of desks and lockers in preparation for the end of another school year.


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Elbert L. (Burt) Rutan
Elbert L. (Burt) Rutan was born at Dinuba, California on June 17th, 1943. As a schoolboy, he designed award-winning model aircraft. He earned his pilot's license at age sixteen and his aeronautical engineering degree from California Polytechnic Institute in 1965.
After civilian employment as an Air Force flight test engineer, he launched Rutan Aircraft Factory in 1974 to market his light aircraft designs which included the VariEze, Quickie and Long-EZ.
In 1982, Rutan founded Scaled Composites, Incorporated and developed prototypes of seven aircraft including the Beech Starship.
On December 23rd, 1986, Rutan's Voyager aircraft returned to its starting point at Mojave, California completing a twenty-five thousand, six hundred mile and two hundred sixteen hour non-stop and unrefueled around the world flight, the first in history.
Burt Rutan's designs are characterized by the use of light-weight composite materials, an innovation which is akin to the transition in aircraft construction from wood to fabric to metal. His genius extends to aerodynamic design, application of new materials and the inspiration to visualize beyond the established limits.
Elected to the International Aerospace Hall of Fame 1988
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Dating in your 20's. It's a comment that is often followed with a sigh and a smile, both riddled with fond memories and lessons learned—or so I've gathered. At 24, I've spent many long evenings talking first dates and heartbreaks and love and lust with friends, and I've spent even more mulling over them by myself. They did what? He said that? God, I'm so in love. How could he? I can't tell them. You will learn to love again.


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SantasHideout.com: Mom's Secret Weapon This Holiday Season!
I am so excited to introduce all you moms (and dads, grandparents, friends...everyone!) to Santa's Hideout! This new FREE site allows your child to create holiday gift lists to send to "Santa". You have access to these lists and can send them to all your friends and family electronically. Think of it as a kind of registry, everyone can keep tabs on what has been bought and what hasn't!
Step 1: In just a few simple steps, parents can create a private, password-protected account and set up individual lists for each child to fill. Lists can be controlled and customized by setting parameters that include gender, number of gifts, price range, types of gifts, quantity and more. Group lists can also be created for those gifts the whole household might share.
Step 3: The child can respond by adding gifts, using a fun, easy-to-use drag and drop interface, and parents are alerted when updates have been made to a list. That's it, set-up is complete!
Everyone can easily purchase items on the child's wish list via Amazon. If you'd prefer to purchase in-store, you can still "check it off the list".
Here's what the kids see!
Santa's Hideout is optimized for mobile use too, so you can access the lists while you're out shopping so you don't forget anything!
Click here to check out the Hideout!
Feel free to visit Santa's Hideout on Facebook or follow them on Twitter to stay up-to-date on any new features and announcements! They're even on Tumblr and Google+!


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Nepali Cabinet to meet on Everest
By Binaj Gurubacharya
November 2, 2009 — 9.35pm
Nepal's Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to melt in the Himalayas, an official say.
The Cabinet will meet at the Everest base camp later this month, just ahead of an international climate change conference next month in Copenhagen, Denmark, Forest and Soil Conservation Minister Deepak Bohara said.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and other Cabinet members will fly by plane to the 5,300 metre camp, the starting point for mountaineers attempting to climb the world's highest mountain.
Bohara said the meeting is an attempt to highlight the problem of melting glaciers in the Himalayas.
Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, creating lakes whose walls could burst and flood villages below. Melting ice and snow also make the routes for mountaineers less stable and more difficult to follow.
Last month, members of the Maldives' government held an underwater Cabinet meeting to highlight the threat of global warming to the world's lowest-lying nation. President Mohammed Nasheed and 13 other government officials donned scuba diving suits and took their seats at a table on the ocean floor - six metres under the surface of a lagoon.
Separately, a renowned Everest climber said he and mountaineering colleagues are planning to travel to Copenhagen next month to highlight the impact of climate change on the mountains.
Appa, a Nepalese Sherpa guide who has scaled the 8,850 metre peak 19 times, said climbers from all over the world will join the campaign.


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Impacting Generations for a Healthy Earth with Makasha Roske
Iroquois wisdom says, "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." In the face of escalating social and ecological breakdown, millions of people around the world are calling for a fundamental system change, not only for our current situation, but initiatives that positively impact generations to come. Codes for a Healthy Earth offers a foundational whole-system framework to support citizens in working together across national, cultural and ideological boundaries for radical system transformation and rapid social and ecological regeneration. Makasha Roske adds a perspective of gifted wisdom and accomplished experience to the conversation.
In 1972 Makasha co-founded World Family and has been a principal focalizer for international festivals and link-ups for world peace including World Invocation Day Festivals, the John Lennon Tribute, Harmonic Convergence, Campaign for the Earth, and the Children's Torch of Hope. In addition, he was a key supporter for the First Earth Run, Live Aid Event, and Birth 2012.
Through entrepreneurial ventures and nonprofit organizations, Makasha has been instrumental in shifting consciousness in the areas of social investing, conscious commerce, health and nutrition, gentle birthing, integral education, and conscious media. His devotion to the younger generations has fueled his co-founding and contributing over the past 3 decades to the growth of his family's youth organization, Earth Guardians. Makasha is the father of 8, grandfather of 23, and great-grandfather of 23. As a guardian of the "new dream", he is passionately committed to whole systems transformation and midwifing a Co-Creative planetary culture in service to the well-being of all life.


Candidate 2, Bjark Ingels Group: Living Tomorrow in Sweden.
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is a Danish company that is working on creating a floating neighborhood in Gothenburg, Sweden, called Living Tomorrow Sweden. BIG has been building student housing in inner city areas for many years, and for this project hit upon the idea of placing housing on barges in the river that runs through Gothenburg. One of the key factors for this project, explains BIG's Jakob Lange, was to use shipping containers, thus enabling owners to ship these 'homes' easily around the world. The containers can be configured together in groups of nine homes – urban riggers – boasting internal courtyard views and interconnected communities, right there on the water.
Each rigger can be clustered to create larger communities. As harbors across Europe and elsewhere become abandoned or fall out of favor, new uses for this space are being explored. Residential dwellings have long been seen as a desirable option, and BIG wanted to take the concept further – building not just student accommodation, but homes that were zero energy, made from upcycled materials and embraced the opportunities offered by new renewable energy technologies such as solar PV panels.
The riggers produce more energy than they consume. The homes are well insulated and made from upcycled shipping containers – a production process that uses one-twentieth of the energy typically required to construct a similar dwelling.
The Gothenburg project will have a green garden route and also allow inhabitants to enjoy the space fully – including sailing and swimming in the water, maximizing the views offered by the harbor, and developing an interconnected energy system whereby each urban rigger can feed or draw energy from their neighbours. Shipping of a prototype urban riggers has already begun, Lange said.
What does the school earn with the rented PV installation if the self consumtion rate is 90%?
How many containers are required to build an urban rigger?
How much do the inhabitants of the 16 houses save thanks to the almost-autonomous mini smart grid?
What percentage of the dealership's energy use is covered by the Intellisol PV installation?
Voting is open until Friday evening, July 8.
If you haven't yet voted to decide who should win the award, you still can do so here.


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A simple script to parse a .NET connection strings config file, containing SQL Server connection strings, and generate a script that:

1. Creates server logins for all users found in the file
2. For each database in the file links each used server login to the orphaned database user.

This script is intended as an aid to developers restoring a database backup to a local development server from another environment (e.g. (a sanitised copy of) the production database).

## Usage

    ruby sql_users.rb path\to\connection_strings.config

By default will output to console.

## Example

If connection_strings.config contains:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <connectionStrings>
      <add name="AdminDbAdminUser"
           connectionString="Data Source=DBServer;
                             Initial Catalog=AdminDb;
                             uid=AdminUser;
                             pwd=Password1"
                             providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
      <add name="PublicDbAdminUser"
           connectionString="Data Source=DBServer;
                             Initial Catalog=PublicDb;
                             uid=AdminUser;
                             pwd=Password1"
                             providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
      <add name="PublicDbPublicUser"
           connectionString="Data Source=DBServer;
                             Initial Catalog=PublicDb;
                             uid=PublicUser;
                             pwd=Password2"
                             providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
    </connectionStrings>

Then script will output:

    USE [master]
    CREATE LOGIN AdminUser WITH PASSWORD='Password1', CHECK_POLICY=OFF
    CREATE LOGIN PublicUser WITH PASSWORD='Password2', CHECK_POLICY=OFF

    USE [AdminDb]
    EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Auto_Fix', 'AdminUser'

    USE [PublicDb]
    EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Auto_Fix', 'AdminUser'
    EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Auto_Fix', 'PublicUser'

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All Eyes on Georgia
Reverend Raphael Warnock (left) and former investigative journalist Jon Ossoff (right), both running for Senator in Georgia. © EPA
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Unlike its Deep South neighbors, Georgia emerged as a battleground in the 2020 election, with two senate seats and sixteen electoral college votes up for grabs. A microcosm of the country in the era of Trump, Peach State politics is cluttered with issues of procedure and power rather than policy: allegations of illegitimacy, voter suppression, and electoral fraud. These developments set the scene as Georgians anticipate the Senate run-offs on January 5th.
To understand why Georgia is in its current position, 2018 is a good place to start. Longtime minority leader of the state's House of Representatives, Stacey Abrams, officially launched her campaign for governor after winning her party primary by a landslide. Her opponent, Brian Kemp, was then the Attorney General, leaving him in the privileged position of overseer of the race he was taking part in.
About a month prior to election day, Kemp halted 53,000 voter registration applications, disproportionately from African Americans, on technicalities provided by the newly enacted "exact match" law. Under this provision, applications could be denied if information did not match in full what was on state records. When the fateful election day came around, the race narrowed to the closest outcome seen in Georgia since 1966, and Brian Kemp won by a mere 55,000 votes. Stacey Abrams and her allies decried Kemp's actions as clever voter suppression, and although she admitted she did not have the votes to win, neither did she formally concede. Instead she clarified in a speech that "concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true, or, proper," and would therefore be an unfitting response to Kemp's "erosion of our democracy".
In response to this contested outcome, Abrams took the offence. She established two new organizations, Fair Fight, which operates in 20 competitive states across the country, and the New Georgia Project, focused exclusively on elections in her state. Allied with various other get-out-the-vote groups, Abrams and her team went to work. The outcome – a total of 800,000 newly registered voters – was astonishing in itself, and a decisive advantage for Joe Biden's campaign. Even as the election results were still coming in, Democratic pundits already expressed hopes of a comeback in the state:
"We've got a very strong ground game in Georgia because of the leadership of Stacey Abrams," said Senator Chris Coons of Delaware to MSNBC just three days into the state's vote count.
Like in Pennsylvania and Michigan, the results in Georgia faced many failed legal challenges by the Trump administration in a desperate attempt to hold on to power. But after a manual recount and a machine audit, Joe Biden's certain victory marks Georgia's first Democratic presidential win since 1992.
The results of all other 2020 senate elections are in. But in Georgia, no candidate in either of the senate races earned a majority of votes, warranting a run-off according to the state's electoral rules. Now that the dust is settled, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff stand as the king-makers of the Democratic Party. Only with both victories can the Senate gain a bare majority. In a 50-50 balance of power, Vice President Kamala Harris would step into her constitutionally outlined role as ex officio president of the Senate and break any ties in the chamber. Ideally, Democrats would be able to operate without obstruction from current Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. But uniting the progressive and moderate wings of the party will be a challenge in itself, especially considering the more conservative outlier Joe Manchin, who has consistently voted against his party about a quarter of the time.
Progressives in particular have quite a lot hinging on the outcome of these races. As the senior Democrat on the Budget committee, progressive leader Senator Bernie Sanders would become the committee's chair in the case of a Democratic majority, assuming he is not given any Biden cabinet position. The Senator has already commented on the possibility, promising a budget "for working families, and not for the billionaire class" under his leadership. In the absence of partisan gridlock in the Senate, progressives are also likely to turn up the heat on their moderate colleagues to push through popular plans such as Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and student debt relief while they have the chance. Moderates, unable to claim that their hands are tied, will be forced to defend their reservations on policy grounds.
While the party takes nothing for granted, Abrams has expressed confidence as Georgia prepares for January 5th. She points to the high number of absentee ballots requested, especially among younger voters, and 85,000 new requests made by people who did not vote in November's general election.
The Republican position is less encouraging. Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are tasked with defending their seats at a time when the Republican Party is disorganized by mixed messaging. The party's ground game appears sabotaged by claims coming from the President and his legal team in the wake of the 2020 outcome. Propagating the "rigged election" narrative at a "Stop the Steal" event in Alpharetta, Trump attorneys advised the President's loyal base not to vote in the upcoming run-offs and shamed Loeffler and Perdue for not supporting Trump's litigations enough.
"This is Georgia. We ain't dumb. We're not going to vote on Jan. 5 on another machine made by China. You're not going to fool Georgians again." jeered attorney Lin Wood, pacing the stage with a signature red "Make America Great Again" hat.
Attorney Sidney Powell provided her own similar advice. "I think I would encourage all Georgians to make it known that you will not vote at all until your vote is secure."
The conspiratorial narrative peddled by the two attorneys complicates matters for other party officials in the lead-up to these important races. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel faced a disheartened and skeptical crowd at a campaign stop in the town of Marietta. When one attendee asked for a reason to go vote if the election is already decided, McDaniel attempted to reassure the audience:
"It's not decided. This is the key. It's not decided. If you lose your faith and you don't vote and people walk away, that will decide it. So we have to work hard. Trust us. We're fighting. We're looking at every legal avenue."
The chairwoman entertained two dissonant stories about American democracy, one that serves the Trump White House, and another that Republicans actually need to win: the elections are rigged from the start to favor Democrats, but your vote also matters and is needed.
The damage done has not gone unnoticed. After Trump himself hosted a rally for Senators Loeffler and Purdue, spending most of his time claiming his own victory and questioning electoral integrity, Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan did not hesitate to call out the President for his "mountains of misinformation." Duncan stated that such claims are in fact hurting the party's prospects. While this may be a short term effect, he clarified, these antics pose a long term challenge for the party as it seeks a new platform and message without Trump. While the President's most loyal supporters chant "Destroy the GOP" in Washington D.C., a sign of the party's implosion, Democrats are focused on increasing turnout of a diverse voter coalition to carry them to the finish line.
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Delogu, Francesco and Cocco, Giorgio (2006) Numerical simulations of atomic-scale disordering processes at impact between two rough crystalline surfaces. Physical Review. B, Vol. 74 , p. 035406/1-13. eISSN 1550-235X. Article.
Numerical calculations have been used to throw light on the mechanical deformation and the atomic mixing processes taking place when two different metallic systems collide at low temperature. To this end, two semicrystals terminating with a free surface were pushed each against the other at a given relative velocity. Surfaces of different roughness were considered under different impact conditions. Simple mechanical loads on plane surfaces did not induce any significant mixing of atomic species at the interface, observed instead in collisions involving either rough surfaces or plane surfaces undergoing a relative sliding. In the case of rough surfaces, the local contact between the semicrystals is initially sustained by surface asperities. The atoms there located experience thus sudden mechanical loads and an unusual localization of kinetic energy, which enhance their mobility and favor the mixing process. A diffuse interfacial region with a disordered structure correspondingly appears. Its structural features were not significantly modified by the thermal relaxation processes occurring after the compressive load removal.


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So, let's set the record straight! Many people, including photographers and models in the industry, confuse Boudoir and Lingerie photography as being one in the same. Let's clarify: BOUDOIR is a French word derived from "bouder", to pout and is defined by Websters Dictionary as, "a woman's dressing room, bedroom, or private sitting room." It is believed men were forbidden to enter the boudoir without invite, since this is where a woman could speak openly with other women about their troubles, including intimacy. Thus, they could "pout" without being witnessed by men. LINGERIE is also a French word and is derived from Middle French, from "linge", or linen and from Latin "linea", from the feminine of "lineus" made of flax or linen, and from "linum", or flax; also, partly from Old English "line"; akin to Old English "līn", or flax. Confused? OK, here's the gist. Lingerie was made of fine linen or flax, hence the lineage described above. Websters Dictionary as: "women's intimate apparel; and linen articles or garments." The confusion comes from most boudoir photography being taken in a "boudoir-style" setting. Boudoir photography features intimate, romantic, sensual, and sometimes erotic images of models in a photographic studio, bedroom or private dressing room environment, primarily intended for the private enjoyment of the subject and his or her romantic partners. Boudoir photography is distinct from Glamour and Art Nude (sometimes called Glamour Nude) photography in that it is usually more suggestive rather than explicit in its approach to nudity and sexuality.
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OK, more info on why we need to get 7-8 hours of sleep every night. If you are not getting enough sleep your health is suffering. There is no way around it. You will not be as healthy as you could be, your performance in the gym will definitely suffer and you could be setting yourself up for heart disease in the future. However, the also point out that sleeping too much can lead to similar problems. Researches aren't sure exactly why too much or too little sleep leads to poor cardiovascular health, but it's something we should be paying attention to now.
Listen to the story from NPR below.


"I can't read social signals. In elementary and junior high, I couldn't ell the difference between genuine attempts at creating connections and setups for practical jokes. So, I started assuming it was all a setup. So, I didn't have much in the way of friends." Autism Speaks, a world autism science advocacy group, says that a diagnosis of ADD or ADHD often changes when it becomes clear that problems stem from an inability to socialize, not an inability to pay attention. People on the autism spectrum can find it hard to understand the actions of others because they can't see things from another person's point of view.
Adam McCrimmon is director of the Autism Spectrum Education, Research and Training Group (ASERT) at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the School and Applied Child Psychology program. He has been researching and treating adolescents and adults on the autism spectrum for almost two decades.
McCrimmon is a leader in his field, exploring resiliency and emotional intelligence in those on the autism spectrum who do not have an intellectual disability. Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify, understand and manage one's own and others' emotions.
ASD make and keep friends.
But McCrimmon says it doesn't matter how many social skills are taught because they will be unused if the biggest challenge facing ASD adults— mental health issues—is not addressed.
Despite a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, Kyle, left, has a job with an engineering firm and owns a condo he bought with his brother Evan, right.


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Monday, Monday! Got to love that day! I hope everyone had an incredible weekend. Life is good on the weekends. Today we continue to talk about how to find gains during the pains.
2. Embrace and Develop Your Creativity – those that make the most of bad experiences are the ones who find creative ways to meet them. They see possibilities within their problems. Neale Walsh said, "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." I love this because it truly does take some stretching, faith, and confidence to jump out of your comfort zone. Creativity usually begins at the end of your comfort zone as well. When you have a bad experience, instead of letting it discourage you or make you angry, let it fuel you.
3. Embrace the Value of Bad Experiences – President John F Kennedy was asked one time how he became a war hero. His response, "It was quite easy. Someone sunk my boat." It is always easier to see something positive in a negative experience long after it happens. What is difficult is meeting the negative experience in the moment, with a positive mind-set. Remember that you will never stub your toe standing still.
Where there is no struggle, there is no process. I can not tell you how much I believe in those words. No pain, no freakin gain!
4. Make Good Changes After Learning From Bad Experiences – James Baldwin said, "Not every thing that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." I was talking about this a few days ago with some co-workers. Sometimes it really does take a bad experience for us to wake up and change. The Law of Pain gives us the opportunity to change our lives around. "A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn." Life is constantly throwing at us the opportunity to learn and grow. But too many times we don't listen to what is being taught, and we don't make the necessary changes to grow.
As I have said before, those that our successful in this life are those that stop being creatures of their circumstances, and they start to be creators of them. Once again, life is going to throw shiz at you left and right, and the moment you except that and start to use those situations as ways to grow and learn, is the moment your life will take a turn for the better. Better in every way. Those who continue to fight through, continue to win!


If you're trying to find simple free knit scarf patterns, this Easy Peasy Scarf would be a great choice. Just cast on 26 stitches and in a couple hours you'll have a completed scarf. Whether you decide to include fringe on your scarf, or go without, you can easily create a scarf for everyone in the family by varying you color choice.
Holding 2 strands together CO 26 sts.
Knit 2 rows. I found this gives the scarf a more secure foundation.
Row 1: K2, (Sl, K1, YO, PSSO both the YO and Knitted St., K2,) repeat from ( ) to end.
Repeat these 2 rows until 48 inches or desired length, Knit 2 more rows, BO Block scarf (sides tend to roll in if not blocked).
Fringe: Cut 28 strands of yarn 8 inches long, fold in half and using a crochet hook, add to both ends of the scarf. I used a solid brown strand of your for the fringe, gives it a more earthy look.
I have been unable to download the pattern for the Irish Shepherd Scarf. Have been able to do others. Please advise or send. Thank you!
The pattern is very easy and the abbreviations are standard abbreviations, but the stitch counts do not add up/line up. I'm going to go through the pattern and see if I can fix it, because I want to use it.
k(knit)2, sl(slip stitch), k1, yo(yarn over), psso(pass slip stitch over) - this means take your slipped stitch and pull it over k1 and yo(yarn over), k2 Yarn Over is a way to increase your stitches. While psso, sl are ways to decrease. Doing this I believe makes your rows appear to move over one each time you do this. When you purl you are purling everything that is on your needle. That includes yarn overs. If ever there is something you would do besides purling it would be in the pattern instructions.
OK, if this is easy why can't I figure it out. I would like to have the creator of this pattern, include definitions on the abbreviated terms and maybe an explanation on those terms. That would make the pattern easier to read and follow. Just a suggestion.
How do you BO (block off)?


Elder Ted E. Brewerton of the Seventy has created the Abbotsford British Columbia Stake, which includes the Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Clearbrook, Langley, Maple Ridge, and Walnut Grove wards, and the Mission branch.
ABBOTSFORD BRITISH COLUMBIA STAKE: (June 12, 1994) Created from the Vancouver British Columbia and Vancouver British Columbia South stakes. President - Andrew Howard Rattray, 44, regional manager of Astra Pharma Inc., former stake president's counselor, high councilor, and bishop's counselor, married Maria Eugenia Gutierrez. Counselors - Brian Douglas Leavitt, 42, manager of finance and administration for British Columbia Hydro, former high councilor, stake mission president's counselor, bishop, ward mission leader, Young Men president, and teachers quorum advisor, married Brenda Elaine Rose; Richard James Haire, 41, owner of Red River Refinishing, former high councilor, bishop, high priests group leader, elders quorum president, and Young Men president, married Peggy Marlene Larence.
CICUDAD OBREGON MEXICO STAKE: (May 15, 1994) President - Fernando Javier Calderon Quintanilla, 46, technical school teacher, succeeding Alberto Santana Guirado; former stake president's counselor, and bishop, married Elba Gallegos Betacourth. Counselors - Gilberto Parada German, 30, salesman, former stake president's counselor, bishop, and elders quorum president, married Regina Beatriz Nunez Martinez; Gumaro Martinez Reyes, 50, produce dealer, former high councilor, bishop, and elders quorum president, married Natalia Villa Cuen.
EL DORADO CALIFORNIA STAKE: (May 22, 1994) President - Melvin D. Knott, 58, manager of program cost control for Aerojet; succeeding Floyd William Andrus; former stake president's counselor, high councilor, bishop and counselor, and high priests group leader, married Marlene Joyce Stroup. Counselors - Robert Wayne Storey, 45, senior probation officer for U. S. District Court, former high councilor, stake mission president and counselor, bishop and counselor, and Scoutmaster, married Christa Moos; William A. Worden, 50, state data processing manager, former high councilor, bishop and counselor, finance clerk, stake missionary, teacher's quorum adviser, and Primary teacher, married Diana Patsy Marshall.
LAYTON UTAH NORTH STAKE: (June 12, 1994) President - Darrell Thompson Parke, 55, management consultant trainer; succeeding Lorin Winslow Hurst Jr.; former high councilor, bishop, high priests group leader, elders quorum president, and gospel doctrine teacher, married Camilla Beal. Counselors - Ricke Dell Hamilton, 45, supervisory attorney for Air Force, former bishop's counselor, stake and ward executive secretary, elders quorum president's counselor, Sunday School teacher, and Explorer leader, married Lila Jean Saxton; Thomas Nielsen Wight, 45, owner of construction company, former high councilor, bishop and counselor, priests quorum adviser, and Scout committee chairman, married Karen Galvez.
LAYTON UTAH SOUTH STAKE: (May 8, 1994) President - Robert Glen Green, 36, market development executive for Apple Computer Co.; succeeding William Clive Barney Jr.; former high councilor, bishop, and Young Men secretary, married Ellison Morgan. Counselors - Ivan Ned Iverson, 51, investments manager for the Church, former high councilor, bishop and counselor, elders quorum president, deacons adviser, and Scoutmaster, married Linda Whitesides; Alex Russell Jensen, 31, Layton city manager, former high councilor, bishop's counselor, elders quorum president, and gospel doctrine teacher, married Jamie Lynne Murphy.
PENASQUITOS CALIFORNIA STAKE: (June 5, 1994) President - Phillip Gail Morris Jr., 40, real estate broker; succeeding Michael Lee Jensen; former stake president's counselor, high councilor, bishop and counselor, elders quorum president, and stake and ward Young Men president, married Mary Margaret Brockman. Counselors - Danny Mason Hair, 42, senior vice president for Zenith Insurance Co., former stake clerk, bishop and counselor, ward executive secretary, high priests group leader, and teachers quorum adviser, married Caroline Belle Welch; Owen Karlyle Fox, 38, independent insurance agent, former high councilor, and bishop and counselor, married Katheryn Luke.
RIALTO CALIFORNIA STAKE: (June 12, 1994) President - Nyles Grant Peterson, 46, dairy adviser for University of California Extension, succeeding Duane Robert Findling; former stake president's counselor, high councilor, bishop and counselor, elders quorum president, and Scoutmaster, married Barbara Jean Bivins. Counselors - Louis Orin Glazier, 61, Municipal Court judge, former high councilor, stake Young Men president, bishop's counselor, branch president, and Scoutmaster, married Alice Jean Udall; Cecil Orus Brown, 45, vice president and manager of Sanwa Bank, former high councilor, bishop and counselor, ward executive secretary, elders quorum president, and Young Men president's counselor, married Karen Diane Holt.
SANDY UTAH COTTONWOOD CREEK STAKE: (May 22, 1994) President - William Russell Walker, 50, vice president of Citibank, succeeding Russell Elmer Tueller; former president of Japan Tokyo South Mission, multi-region agent for welfare services, high councilor, and bishop and counselor, married Vicki Colleen Van Wagenen. Counselors - Allan Forrest Packer, 45, business development manager for Auto-Soft, former high councilor, bishop and counselor, stake and ward Young Men president, high priests instructor, and Scoutmaster, married Terri Anne Bennett; Lawrence Richard Scott, 43, general manager for Holiday Inns Worldwide, former stake president's counselor, high councilor, bishop and counselor, ward clerk, and Young Men president, married Jane Henrie.
SAN PEDRO SULA HONDURAS STAKE: (May 8, 1994) President - Mauricio Sierra Lopez, 41, project manager, architect, succeeding Roberto Ocampo Reyes; former high councilor, bishop's counselor, branch president, and Young Men president, married Maria Trinidad Lizardo de Sierra. Counselors - Jacobo Humberto Carpio Maldonado, sales executive and musician, former high councilor, bishop and counselor, and seminary teacher, married Mercedes Maribel Lazo Meraz; Omar Edurado Burgos Nunez, 33, Church area office project accountant, former high councilor, and bishop, married Brenda Josefina Ramirez Marmol.
SANTEE CALIFORNIA STAKE: (June 12, 1994) President - Chris J Allred, 40, attorney; succeeding Jerald Alden Roy; former stake president's counselor, high councilor, bishop, elders quorum president, and gospel doctrine teacher, married Dawn Renee Webb. Counselors - Harry Brent Ross, 47, franchise business manager, former stake president's counselor, stake mission president, bishop and counselor, ward mission leader, and seminary teacher, married Julie Buchanan; James Parker Little, 32, loan agent for Great Western Bank, former stake president's counselor, high councilor, and bishop, married Kay Marie Evans.
SANTIAGO CHILE INDEPENDENCIA STAKE: (May 15, 1994) President - Celso Morales Montoya, 38, independent electrician, succeeding Luis Neira Lopez; former stake president's counselor, high councilor, and bishop, married Maria Angelica Orellana Viveros. Counselors - Juan Tapia Calderou, 37, tanner, former stake president's counselor, high councilor, stake mission president, and name extraction counselor, married Marta Magdalena Llanteis Venegar; Rene Contreras Mendoza, 41, general inspection agent, former high councilor and bishop's counselor, married Ericka Antonieta Rodriguez Arriagada.
STUART FLORIDA STAKE: (June 5, 1994) President - LaMar D. Brown, 49, divisional vice president of James Mitchell & Co., succeeding Roderick D. Davies; former high councilor, bishop and counselor, and high priests group leader, married Carol Jean Campbell. Counselors - Thomas W. Settle, 47, owner and manager of Rent Wear Inc., former stake president's counselor, high councilor, stake Young Men president, and bishop, married Connie Maria Bone; Ronald C. Hostetler, 30, president of Excell Construciton Services Inc., former high councilor, stake Young Men secretary, bishop, ward mission leader, deacons quorum adviser, seminary instructor, and Scoutmaster, married Shauna Hoglund.
VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA STAKE: (June 12, 1994) President - Cordell Brownie Rolfson, 53, systems consultant, succeeding Jon Frederick Tollestrup; former stake president's counselor, high councilor, bishop, branch president, and Young Men president, married Marilyn Jean Hamshaw. Counselors - Thomas Eldon Walker, 45, dentist, former high councilor, stake clerk, bishop and counselor, branch president, and deacons quorum adviser, married Linda Lucille Davidson; Arthur Lloyd Edgson, 44, lawyer, former high councilor, bishop and counselor, and Sunday School teacher, married DeEtte Moldenhauer.
VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA SURREY STAKE: (June 12, 1994) President - Dennis Albert Wright, retained. Counselors - Alan Craig Herrington, 38, vice president of Nesbitt Thomson, former stake president's counselor, high councilor, stake Young Men president and counselor, and stake missionary, bishop and counselor, married Janice Louise Kenworthy; David Kenneth Walton, 45, office manager for Atkinson & Terry Insurance Brokers, former high councilor, bishop and counselor, elders quorum counselor, and Young Men president, married Mary Polley.


Until recently, the one thing I knew about the Recording Academy was that they put on the GRAMMYs. I was under the impression they only celebrate Top 40 stuff, not the local rising acts I love to support. That changed, though, upon learning that the Academy puts on the Pacific Northwest Songwriter's Summit.
On April 11, the third annual event took place at the EMP Museum. According to the Academy, the day's goal was to "bring together a diverse gathering of music professionals to explore the journey of a song." Unfortunately, I was only available to attend the last two segments of the jam-packed day, but the lineup looked stellar. Speaking on panels about their songwriting processes were Seattle stars such as Shaprece, Tomo Nakayama, The Grizzled Mighty, Porter Ray, Matt Bishop and Erik Blood.
Moderators and additional panelists included industry leaders like Nick Blasko (Artist Manager of Tegan & Sara), Ethan Rudin (Rhapsody), Tim Bierman (Pearl Jam 10 Club), Kate Becker (Seattle Office of Film + Music), Jack Endino (Soundhouse Recording), Jeff Mcilwain (Lusine), Jonathan Zwickel (City Arts) and Jonathan Cunningham (EMP). That's a whole lotta music aficionados under one roof.
After this plethora of panels, the Keynote Presentation was provided by musician and spoken word artist Mary Lambert. Acclaimed DJ and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member Marco Collins, who noted he's been friends with Lambert for the past few years, introduced and interviewed her during the first portion of the presentation. I was relieved that their rapport kept the conversation natural (fun, even) as they discussed issues Lambert is known for tackling in her art – abuse, self-worth, body image and more.
Lambert is invitingly open about the challenges she's faced over the years. She intimated that her initial songwriting sprung from a dysfunctional home and sexual abuse in her childhood, as she'd escape into her room to play tunes on a keyboard. This artmaking has come full circle now, as she once wrote to "play the bad away," and now uses music to share her truth with others who are also suffering.
After the interview, Lambert moved to the grand piano on stage to demonstrate to Collins and the crowd the way she concocts and shakes up songs, much as she once did with alcohol as a bartender. "What is this song calling for or asking?" she questions herself, saying that sharing one's truth "should be organic." Collins then joined the audience, and Lambert moved to the front-and-center mic to lay down a spoken word piece. In curt words and curling tones, she described being a gay woman in this world, challenging homophobes, religious hypocrites, and body-shamers in a matter of minutes.
From there, Lambert returned to the piano for sparkling, soul-pouring performances of a few tunes off her album, Heart On My Sleeve, including "Body Love" and "Secrets." If you're looking for a superheroine, this bipolar, gay woman who has overcome abuse, drug problems, and alcohol addiction is it.
The evening ended with a networking mixer set to the tunes of Hey Marseilles. At first I was surprised they'd have anyone try to follow up after Lambert, but the band's string-laced indie rock proved to be an appropriate soundtrack to the connections and conversations throughout Sky Church. The six-piece is set to tour through parts of Canada and the US this May and June.


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Mr Housbey, from Our Lady Queen of Martyr's Church and one of our Governors, spent the morning in Reception to develop our understanding of 'Gathering' our current RE topic. We learnt about the importance of gathering together and we looked at all the special objects and garments that we might see when we go to Church. Mr Housbey read some stories from the Bible, prayed with us and gave us a special blessing to help us remember the importance of our Parish family at Church.


A draft legislative decree (PDC) is pending before the National Congress which scope is to eliminate the provision for mandatory registration as "support facilities for water transport" of FSRUs (Floating Storage and Regasification Units – i.e., gas vessels) with Antaq (the National Agency of Waterway Transport).
Paragraph 3. An exception is made for the provisions of item I of the head paragraph, with regard to the prohibition on connection to a terminal located on land, in the case of vessels adapted for regasification bottoming operation while bottomed/moored, even when located within the limits of the Organized Port."
Based on the interpretation of this rule, foreign-flagged FSRUs registered as waterway support facilities would not need to comply with the chartering rules governed by Law No. 9,432/1997. This is because, in practice, such infrastructure would be used as port support facilities and not as vessels, which would lead to the conclusion that their operation would not be restricted to Brazilian shipping companies (EBN).
Through PDC 1,091/18, Representative Hugo Leal argues that "the repeal of paragraph 3 of article 2 of Resolution No. 13/16 is necessary to restore competitiveness in the sector and legal certainty in operations, preventing the opening of the market for foreign shipping companies without any investment in Brazil."
The representative also argues that Law No. 9,432/18, upon listing vessels that would not be subject to its provisions (article 1) did not include FSRUs and that, if such exclusion were intended, it should have been expressly referred to in a formal law. For this reason, Antaq was said to have exceeded its regulatory power by passing the resolution challenged, thus violating the principles of public interest, reasonableness, and proportionality.
However, representative Hugo Leal's argument is built on an assumption that, after a more accurate analysis, cannot be sustained: that foreign-flagged FSRUs would be released from the EBN chartering rules only if they were explicitly listed among the vessels excluded from the scope of Law No. 9,432/97.
The focus of the discussion, in fact, should not be on whether or not FSRUs are subject to the terms of Law No. 9,432/97, but rather on the activities they carry out. Attention should be paid to the fact that FSRUs used for receiving, storing, and/or re-gasifying LNG, when connected to land facilities, do not engage in any type of navigation, and are anchored for long periods of time (even decades).
The rule that requires the chartering of foreign-flagged vessels by EBNs, on the other hand, is provided for in article 7 of Law No. 9,432/97, which applies to the transportation of goods in coastal shipping and inland navigation through national waterways, as well as port support and maritime support navigation.
There is no doubt that FSRUs connected to port infrastructures do not carry out the navigation activities listed in Law No. 9,432/97 (maritime support, port support, coastal shipping and deep sea navigation). Thus, even if the FSRUs are not considered excluded from the scope of Law No. 9,432/97, the fact that they do not carry out shipping activities would eliminate, by itself, the requirement for FSRUs flying a foreign flag to be chartered by an EBN, since it would not be subject to the terms of article 7 of Law No. 9,432/97.
Antaq's management has already expressed, in specific cases, the understanding that FSRU does not perform shipping activity, and therefore would not be subject to the chartering rules provided for under Law No. 9,432/97, and could be registered as a port facility under Resolution No. 13/16.
Therefore, the intended revocation of paragraph 3 of article 2 of Resolution No. 13/16 would not have the effect of automatically achieving the objectives allegedly targeted by representative Hugo Leal. This is because, even if the FSRU registration framework is terminated under the aegis of Resolution No. 13/16, the argument that Law No. 9,432/97 would not in any way impose the need for an FSRU flying a foreign flag to be chartered by an EBN for domestic waterway operations, does not lose force. Quite to the contrary, the repeal of this provision would only create a loophole with respect to the regulation of these vessels by Antaq, thus aggravating the legal uncertainty which PDC No. 1,091/18 allegedly seeks to eliminate.
It is also possible to deconstruct the argument that the measure taken by Antaq through Resolution No. 13/16 is an overstepping of the regulatory power of the agency and should be preceded by a formal law. In creating Antaq, Law No. 10,233/2001 attributed to the agency the power to regulate waterway transport and the use of federal waterway infrastructure. Thus, whether or not Antaq has delegated mandate by law to regulate the sector (as done by Resolution No. 13/16) cannot be questioned.
"As the legal mooring of the contemporary Administration is carried out, along with the formal law, by various other sources and mechanisms, the viability of the Rule of Law is not compromised due to the mere fact that the administration exercises broad creative competences by legal authorization."
The measure adopted by Antaq in considering FSRUs as support facilities, contrary to what is argued in PDC No. 1,091/18, complies with applicable legal and constitutional principles. This is because, by reducing the cost and bureaucracy required for natural gas import and regasification projects, it creates an environment of incentives for such projects and (i) promotes economic and social development; (ii) guarantees the national supply of natural gas (and, consequently, the supply of electricity); (iii) promotes free competition among market players, providing a more efficient end-user service; (iv) it does not harm the national naval industry, since there are no FSRUs built by national shipyards; (v) it does not contravene the principles of reasonableness and proportionality, since the analysis of these issues was carried out by Antaq in preparing the resolution and deciding on related matters (as set forth above), and there is no justification in the PDC that demonstrates a breach of these principles; and (vi) serves the prevailing public interest for the various reasons set out in this paragraph.
 Warships and state ships not employed in commercial activity, sport and recreational craft, tourism vessels, fishing vessels, and research vessels.
"Article 7. Foreign vessels may only participate in the transportation of goods in coastal shipping and inland navigation through national waterways, as well as in port support navigation and maritime support navigation, when chartered by Brazilian shipping companies, in compliance with the provisions of articles 9 and 10."
 As defined in article 2 of Law No. 9,432/97.


*** Résumé en anglais seulement ***Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima, an influential figure in the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, made one of his most startling political statements with the compelling pitch-black satire Death by Hanging. In this macabre farce, a Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. At once disturbing and oddly amusing, Oshima's constantly surprising film is a subversive and surreal indictment of both capital punishment and the treatment of Korean immigrants in his country.


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The way to watch Brahmastra for ₹75 on Nationwide Cinema Day
by Editor September 11, 2022 0 Comment
Nationwide Cinema Day is being celebrated within the nation on September 16, i.e., subsequent Friday. On this present day, the Multiplex Affiliation of India is providing film tickets at ₹75 throughout 4000 screens. So, moviegoers would have the ability to watch their most well-liked film on the large display screen at a reasonably inexpensive worth. And a film that will probably be out by then is Brahmastra: Half One, which implies you possibly can watch it for that nominal ticket worth. Let's see the way it works.
However, earlier than that, right here's a run by way of the Brahmastra film synopsis, forged, and why it's being thought of the largest Bollywood cinema in a very long time.
Brahmastra: What's it about and who're all in it?
Extra particularly, it's Brahmastra: Half One — Shiva.
The film is directed by Ayan Mukherji of Yeh Jawani Hai Diwani and Wake Up Sid fame. Each of these films star Ranbir Kapoor within the lead and he would be the protagonist of the Brahmastra: Half One. He will probably be taking part in the titular character of Shiva. He will probably be paired with Alia Bhatt, his spouse in actual life. The movie additionally stars Amitabh Bachchan, Nagarjuna, Mouni Roy, and maybe even Shah Rukh Khan in a cameo.
Now coming to the story, Brahmastra is a fantasy film intertwining the fashionable world and characters with Hindu mythology involving the eponymous Brahmastra, a robust weapon that's believed to be able to destroying the whole lot of creation. There's our hero who's a DJ and likewise learns his management over fireplace and Brahmastra within the journey of self-discovery. There are villains who're in pursuit to pay money for this energy. Within the combine, there's love, romance, magic, and a justifiable share of supernatural.
Brahmastra: The way to guide the film ticket for ₹75 on September 16
Nationwide Cinema Day will probably be held at greater than 4000 taking part screens and can embrace cinema screens of PVR, INOX, CINEPOLIS, CARNIVAL, MIRAJ, CITYPRIDE, ASIAN, MUKTA A2, MOVIE TIME, WAVE, M2K, DELITE and lots of others. pic.twitter.com/nVpM5neXd1
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You must have the ability to snag the Brahmastra film tickets for ₹75 from Bookmyshow and comparable portals. The one catch is that the Rs. 75 ticket worth is unique of taxes and issues like comfort charges that these on-line reserving websites cost. So, your efficient ticket worth might go above ₹75.
Your different possibility is to go to the theatre and buy the tickets over-the-counter.
Now, to keep away from the trouble with the offline purchase, you possibly can guide a Brahmastra ticket on-line at ₹75.
Regardless of the case could also be, we urge you to not pirate the movie.
Brahmastra Torrent Obtain Dangers: Why Ought to You Not?
Like most different in style films, Brahmastra is also accessible for obtain on torrent web sites, telegram channels, and so forth. Nonetheless, right here's why you shouldn't obtain Brahmastra by way of torrent websites:
Initially, it promotes piracy, or in different phrases, theft of copyrighted content material. Your gadgets could possibly be vulnerable to malware or adware assaults too.
In time, it's prone to come out on an OTT platform like Disney+ Hotstar
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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. -- Mileposts and memories matter in times like these.
A calendar year becomes more than an abstract concept when reconciling pain.
Tony Stewart's return to Watkins Glen International this weekend therefore will be considered a major marker in two years of personal and professional tumult for the 44-year-old, three-time Sprint Cup champion.
Retracing footsteps on tarmacs and drives around the old familiar green vistas beyond the upstate road course will undoubtedly conjure memories. Some will undoubtedly be distasteful as the one-year anniversary approaches of an incident that altered Stewart's life forever.
Watkins Glen's significance in this chapter of Stewart's lettered career goes another year beyond that. But Aug. 9, 2014 will be poignant this time around.
At Canandaigua (N.Y.) Motorsports Park, a moment of silence is planned Saturday for Kevin Ward Jr., a successful local racer who was struck and killed by Stewart last year as he confrontationally approached Stewart's race car on foot under caution after the two had wrecked during an Empire Super Sprints race. The tight-knit New York racing community will reach its milepost, perhaps with some of it still sorting feelings over an Ontario (N.Y.) County district attorney's findings that Ward Jr. was under the influence of marijuana at the time of the incident and a grand jury's decision not to indict.
Stewart will reach this milepost needing to deal with it, too, in his own way. Few outside of his most trusted clutch of confidantes will truly know how he's doing. The driver has remained incredibly private on the matter with few exceptions since an emotionally wracked press conference last fall when he returned from a three-race sabbatical during which he mourned, regrouped and dealt with the criminal investigation.
Stewart doesn't often share what he believes or fears or seeks comfort in during times such as these, but he noted the obvious at a Texas Motor Speedway charity event Wednesday: he doesn't relish the prospect of returning to Watkins Glen considering what happened last August.
Certainly, most of that is because of the events of Aug. 9. But the rustic road course likely will remind Stewart of more than one lost year.
Watkins Glen has become emblematic of a near-Shakespearean fall from the giddy heights of a career going gloriously into its twilight seasons to one in which it is more tenuous every week, with every lackluster performance. The question remains whether Stewart, the rugged renegade and versatile champion of stock cars and open wheel, will ever win another Sprint Cup race.
Things were not perfect on-track for Stewart after his most recent Sprint Cup win June 2, 2013 at Dover International Speedway. But they were much better, portended much more promise as he hovered 11th in driver points in late summer. He was two years removed from his third Cup championship, the first by a driver/owner since Alan Kulwicki in 1992, and had just hosted NASCAR's first national series dirt race in more than four decades in a fantastically received truck event at his Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. A tempestuous figure still, his business acumen and burgeoning gravitas as a stakeholder had enabled debate about how he could one day help restore Indianapolis Motor Speedway to its former glory from a leadership position. Things were going so well that it seemed only an ironic sidelight that Ryan Newman – informed two weeks earlier that he would not be re-signed by Stewart-Haas Racing - won the Brickyard 400 at Stewart's boyhood shrine in late July.
But it didn't last. Stewart's life and career were altered on Aug. 5, 2013 when he broke his right leg in a sprint car accident at Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa, requiring numerous surgeries and months of recovery. He missed the final 15 races of the season. The first Cup race he missed in his career came at Watkins Glen six days after the crash.
Stewart had just two top-5s and was 19th in points before reaching Watkins Glen last season and electing not to race in the aftermath of Ward Jr.'s death. Stewart missed three races last August and was hardly a factor in his return except for a fourth-place finish at Martinsville Speedway.
Stewart has labored this season also, conceding earlier this year that he was struggling to adjust to a rules package change that led to a reduction in horsepower in Sprint Cup cars. Entering his first race at Watkins Glen since 2012 – a venue where he is the all-time leader with five wins – Stewart is 25th in driver points with just two top-10 finishes, a sixth at Bristol and a ninth last week at Pocono.
Maybe Watkins Glen will again become the scene of happier times this weekend. But it's been a while. He won four times at the Glen between 2002 and 2007 and amassed his last victory there in 2009. A victory could change many storylines for Stewart and likely assure him a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup for the first time since 2012, his title defense season when he finished ninth overall.
But maybe that's too much to expect considering the layers of emotions and distractions that Stewart knows await him, no matter how much he and his coterie of friends and employees attempt to manage it.
Maybe just reaching not only a one-year, but a two-year milepost will mean something more than anything that happens on the racetrack.


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Q: Delivering string value between 2 different methods I'm starting with java and have a problem by returning the right value through my BMI calculator. I'd really appreciate your help!
Kind regards,
Andy...
public class bmirechner {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String ergebnis ="";
        bmirechner(ergebnis);
        System.out.println(ergebnis);
    }

    public static String bmirechner(String ant){

        int kg=0;
        float length=0;
        double bmi=0;

        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

        System.out.println("Bitte geben Sie ihr Körpergewicht ein.");
        kg = sc.nextInt();
        System.out.println("Bitte geben Sie ihre Größe ein.");
        length = sc.nextFloat();

        bmi = kg/(length*length);

        if(bmi>=18.5&&bmi<=24) {
            return ant="Normalgewicht";
        }
        else if(bmi>=24&&bmi<30) {
            return ant="Übergewicht";
        }
        else if(bmi>=30&&bmi<35) {
            return ant="Adipositas Grad 1";
        }
        else if(bmi>=35&&bmi<40) {
            return ant="Adipositas Grad 2";
        }
        else if(bmi>40) {
            return ant="Adipositas Grad 3";
        }
        else return ant="nicht vorhanden";

    }

}

A: I not very familiar with java but im thinking about the return ant="Normalgewicht"; part. I would write only return "Normalgewicht";

A: in your if statements you have some cases where the code doesn't know what to do
    if(bmi>=18.5&&bmi<=24) {
        return ant="Normalgewicht";
    }
    else if(bmi>=24&&bmi<30) {
        return ant="Übergewicht";
    }

here if you input 24, it will only call the first method. you should change the first if condition to just < 24 rather than <=24.
    else if(bmi>=35&&bmi<40) {
        return ant="Adipositas Grad 2";
    }
    else if(bmi>40) {
        return ant="Adipositas Grad 3";
    }

here you have no way to handle what will happen if 40 is input, as bmi<40 and bmi>40 are exclusive of the value. you probably want to change the last if condition to if(bmi>40).
You also dont need  return ant=" Normalgewicht";, you would rather have return "Normalgewicht"; and have String ergebnis = bmirechner(); in your main method.