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AB-3187 Biomethane: gas corporations: rates: interconnection.(2017-2018)
Date Published: 09/20/2018 09:00 PM
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Assembly Bill No. 3187
An act to amend Section 784.2 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to gas corporations.
[ Approved by Governor September 20, 2018. Filed with Secretary of State September 20, 2018. ]
AB 3187, Grayson. Biomethane: gas corporations: rates: interconnection.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law requires the commission to adopt policies and programs that promote the in-state production and distribution of biomethane, as defined, and that facilitate the development of a variety of sources of in-state biomethane. The commission has adopted 2 decisions implementing these requirements, the 2nd of which adopted a 5-year monetary incentive program effective June 11, 2015, for biomethane projects. Existing law requires the commission to modify the monetary incentive program in specified respects and to extend the program, as modified, until December 31, 2021. Existing law additionally requires the commission, before exhaustion of the funds available pursuant to the biomethane monetary incentive program, and before the expiration of the program, to consider options to promote the in-state production and distribution of biomethane, including whether to allow recovery in rates of the costs of investments to (1) facilitate direct investment in the procurement and installation of utility infrastructure necessary to achieve interconnection between the natural gas transmission and distribution pipeline network and biomethane generation and collection equipment and of gathering lines for a dairy cluster biomethane project, (2) provide for the installation of utility infrastructure to achieve interconnection with facilities that generate biomethane, and (3) ensure that these investments for infrastructure are prudent and reasonable and provide a direct benefit to, and are in the interests of, all classes of ratepayers.
With respect to the requirement that the commission consider options to promote the in-state production and distribution of biomethane, including consideration of recovery in rates of the costs of investments for the 3 purposes described above, the bill would additionally require the commission to open a proceeding to consider those options by no later than July 1, 2019.
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 784.2 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:
784.2.
Before the exhaustion of the funds made available pursuant to the monetary incentive program for biomethane projects adopted in Decision 15-06-029 (June 11, 2015), Decision Regarding the Costs of Compliance with Decision 14-01-034 and Adoption of Biomethane Promotion Policies and Program, and no later than July 1, 2019, the commission shall open a proceeding to consider options to further the goals of Section 399.24, including consideration of whether to allow recovery in rates of the costs of investments to do each of the following:
(a) Ensure that prudent and reasonable investments for infrastructure pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c) provide a direct benefit, such as safety, reliability, affordability, or reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, to all classes of ratepayers and are in the interests of all classes of ratepayers.
(b) Facilitate direct investment in the procurement and installation of utility infrastructure necessary to achieve interconnection between the natural gas transmission and distribution pipeline network and biomethane generation and collection equipment, and of gathering lines for a dairy cluster biomethane project.
(c) Provide for the installation of utility infrastructure to achieve interconnection with facilities that generate biomethane.


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Office workers in London, watch the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's controversial documentary being aired on Netflix Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Britain's monarchy is bracing for more bombshells to be lobbed over the palace gates as Netflix releases the first three episodes of a new series. The show 'Harry & Meghan' promises to tell the 'full truth' about Prince Harry and his wife Meghan's estrangement from the royal family. The series debuted Thursday. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)
Looking for the Vancouver Island content in 'Harry & Meghan'
Glimpses of Meghan's one-time home in Toronto and the family's Vancouver Island retreat shown
There's scant Canadian content in the first three episodes of Prince Harry and Meghan's Netflix docuseries, "Harry & Meghan," but they include brief glimpses of Meghan's one-time home in Toronto and the family's Vancouver Island retreat.
The first half of the docuseries, which debuted Thursday, traces the famous couple's high-profile romance, lambastes the British press and tabloids for their intense coverage of the duo, and documents a litany of racially charged headlines and online comments that began to emerge once they went public with the relationship.
Anyone who watched the Oprah Winfrey interview last year won't find any bombshell revelations about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, says Toronto-based royal expert Patricia Treble.
But Treble was pleasantly surprised to see the inclusion of more casual images that appear to be self-shot videos and selfies, as well as intimate photos of family life with their children Archie and Lilibet.
That includes what appears to be a self-shot image of Meghan early in the first episode in a home on Vancouver Island while Prince Harry is in London. Later, several shots and photos show a happy Meghan in Toronto.
Here's a look at a few of the Canadian moments in "Harry & Meghan":
The "Suits" days: Most of the Canadian content comes in the second episode, where colleagues detail Meghan's acting days with the TV series "Suits." She spent seven seasons on the Toronto-shot legal drama, and the Netflix docuseries includes footage of her on set joking with co-stars including Patrick J. Adams. Colleagues note she was generous with fans, too, and was not shy to let them take selfies with her or put their arms around her.
"My impression regarding Canada is that Meghan has warm memories of her time in Toronto, before her relationship with Harry was being covered by the press," royal watcher Carolyn Harris says after watching those scenes, which describe Toronto as a comfortable haven for actors.
"We see a bit of a contrast between Canada and the United Kingdom as Canada being a place where you can be someone who's on TV and be able to even go about your daily business without a lot of intrusion."
Life in Toronto: The revelation of Harry and Meghan's courtship sparked a media frenzy in the tree-lined downtown residential neighbourhood where Meghan rented a home. We're told in the docuseries that British paparazzi set up camp around the house as they watched her comings and goings, with some neighbours allowing press to install cameras on properties that overlooked Meghan's backyard.
"She talks about how much she enjoyed the neighbourhood that she lived in and being able to go to the grocery store … and all of that changed once she began dating Prince Harry," says Harris, a lecturer at the University of Toronto's school of continuing studies.
Kimberley Ducey, an associate sociology professor at the University of Winnipeg, was struck by how difficult life in Toronto became for Meghan, who at one point says she asked police to disperse media surrounding her home but was told there was nothing they could do. In another instance, we're told gates had to be installed around the "Suits" trailers out of fear someone would break into Meghan's trailer.
"That was interesting, and how the U.K. media kind of moved in on Toronto," says Ducey, co-author with Joe Feagin of "Revealing Britain's Systemic Racism: The Case of Meghan Markle and the Royal Family."
But there are gaps: Harris notes the docuseries does not reveal particulars about Meghan's Toronto social circle beyond the cast of "Suits." That includes no obvious mention of Jessica and Ben Mulroney who attended the royal wedding and were said to be very close friends throughout the duo's courtship.
Scant attention was also devoted to the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto, a sporting event for wounded, sick, or injured military veterans created by Prince Harry. The docuseries includes a few photos but Harris says she's surprised the show doesn't explore the event in greater detail.
"That was their first appearance as a couple," she says.
What's ahead: The final three episodes are set to drop on Netflix on Dec. 15, with the next episode expected to dive into the May 2018 wedding. That could offer more Canadian content since the Mulroney children figured prominently in the wedding party, with then-four-year-old Ivy serving as a bridesmaid and then-seven-year-old twins John and Brian famously holding the veil's lengthy trail.
Harris notes that was followed by a temporary move to Canada to spend winter 2020 on Vancouver Island while they hashed out a plan to step away from royal duties. Harris expects future episodes will return to Canada for that part of their story and "maybe some scenes of them out and about in nature over Archie's first Christmas."
"It's likely we will see more footage from Archie's first Christmas when they were in Canada and then Vancouver Island," says Harris.
"Just as we've had a lot of Toronto early in the series, we're likely going to see more of Vancouver Island later in the series."
—Cassandra Szklarski, The Canadian Press
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Quick Hits: Utley, Hutchison, Int'l Market
By Mark Polishuk | September 17, 2017 at 11:36pm CDT
It was on this day in 1941 that Stan Musial played in his first Major League game, beginning what turned into a legendary 22-year career. It could be said that the Cardinals legend was "The Man" from day one, going 2-for-4 in his first game and posting an 1.023 OPS over his first 49 plate appearances in the bigs. That didn't end up being too far off from the .331/.417/.559 slash line that Musial contributed over his entire career, cementing his place as one of baseball's all-time greats. Here's some notes from around the league…
Chase Utley still enjoys playing but is realistic about the fact that his career is approaching its end, the veteran tells Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register. Utley said he has been approaching his career on a year-to-year basis, and acknowledging that while he still has the desire to play, "I know the market nowadays isn't that friendly to older players. I guess we'll have to wait and see. But I feel personally there's still plenty of ways I can contribute." Utley turns 39 in December, and he entered the day with a .234/.324/.406 slash line in 328 PA for the Dodgers, which includes an .806 OPS in 162 PA at Dodger Stadium. While his days as an everyday player are over, Utley has been regarded as a major behind-the-scenes contributor, with teammates and coaches praising his clubhouse leadership.
The Pirates' decision to outright Drew Hutchison was simply due to a pitching surplus, GM Neal Huntington told Stephen J. Nesbitt of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and other media. "It was more things beyond Drew's control. We traded for him with the idea that he was a controllable, young starter that could fill a rotation spot for years to come," Huntington said. "We just also decided this year that the growth and development of our guys put them ahead of him….we felt like we had guys that we wanted to give the innings to at the Major League level ahead of him. Time will tell if that was the right call." Huntington praised Hutchison and said that cutting ties with him now will give the young righty more time to find another team, rather than waiting until December to be non-tendered.
Thanks to the strict bonus money cap on international signings in the new collective bargaining agreement, teams are already lining up agreements with international players at younger and younger ages, Phil Miller of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. While none of these agreements are technically binding at this point, "teams generally are reluctant to 'raid' each other's committed players," Miller writes, so some deals are being struck years in advance of when these players become eligible to be signed. "Teams are agreeing with players for 2020 now, that's how far out it is," Twins VP of player personnel Mike Radcliff said. "Almost all of the best guys for next [July] are locked up already and off the market….It feels like we spend almost as much time trying to find out who's still available and who's not as we do going to scout players. And it's impossible to know what a 13-year-old is going to turn into. Did you know what you would be when you were 13?"
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Dodgers should he willing to give Utley one last ride in 2018. He has performed well enough this season to earn 1 more year with this group
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Ya I'm pretty sure they will especially if he has a solid postseason. So unless he takes a nose dive from here on I think he has a fair chance for another year.
agentx
Looks like the Law of Unintended Consequences has struck again, this time in relation to international bonus pool reform and the accelerated courtship of progressively younger Latin American prospects.
MLB_in_the_Know
This is more and more of a reason for an international draft.
takeyourbase
Agreed 100%
BlueSkyLA
Easier said than done, or it would have been done already. One of the primary sticking points is what an international draft would do to the already wobbly systems of pro, semi-pro, and amateur baseball in Latin America. The game in Japan and Korea would have to be protected as well, or MLB would simply poach all the best Asian talent out of high school. MLB fans (and team owners) might love it, but fans and owners in those other countries, not so much. No perfect solutions here, just a bunch with a variety of unintended consequences.
Dookie Howser, MD
If teams weren't willing to "poach" the kids with handshake deals, this wouldn't be an issue.
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Even though his BA is down he still gets timely hits, and his defense is excellent
There's a reason Chase Utley will never have to pay for a drink in Philly as along as he lives. He's a throwback gamer who leaves it all on the field. I remember he was always the first to be at the stadium and the last to leave either watching game videos or working on his swing. Guys like him are few and far between. I hope he can play until he's 75 years old, I mean, he's been playing rather well considering he has no cartilage in either of his knees and he's almost 40.
We can also see the impact Utley's had on Cory Seager. He's become Seager's mentor and role model. When you strike out or make a mistake, you don't get angry at yourself, you add it to your experience base and use it to make yourself a better player. A very simple lesson, but very hard to do. If anyone will carry on Utley's total gamer mentality it will be Seager.
Last year Dave Roberts said that Utley is his all time favorite player, so if Roberts has any say in the matter Utley will return for one more year I'm sure.
YawkeysGhost
An assassin on the base paths, he can pay the usual fee to get into Cooperstown, just like the rest of us.
Michael Birks
How many more opposing players does Utley want to hurt?
therealbdavis
Just saying, Geren might leave to manage New York. What if Chase took over his spot? I mean let's face it. We love seeing Chase and A-Gone in Dodger blue but when you have younger guys behind them waiting for spotlight, it's time to hang up the cleats. But instead of losing Chase they should keep him and place him on the staff.


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From Airwheel Electric Self-balancing Scooter, Envision Prospects of Scooter Sector.
Abstract: The scooter has evolved from the single-wheeled one to the twin-wheeled one, and then from the two-wheeled one. The change in purpose of use arises out of the change in the ease of use. Where does the future scooter go? What is it like? The questions like that haunt all the people.
Scooter sector appeared over a decade of years ago, but it thrived in recent years technically. The scooter has evolved from the single-wheeled one to the twin-wheeled one, and then from the two-wheeled one. The change in purpose of use arises out of the change in the ease of use. Where does the future scooter go? What is it like? The questions like that haunt all the people.
Take Airwheel for example. As one of the fastest-growing scooter-maker, Airwheel has gone through all the above changes. And the history of its development and its lines of intelligent scooter goes to tell the development and prospects of the whole sector. Last year, Airwheel launched the two-wheeled scooter S-series, S3 and S3T.
This marked it shifted its focus on public occasion, e.g. in works and police patrol. This year, it wrapped up its 2015 new products release conference after an interval of half a year. At the event, the A3 saw the light of the day. It started to compete with electrically-assisted motor. The previous models tend to be conceptualised as a recreational vehicle, rather than a transport like bicycle and private car.
A considerable amount of people have the misgivings about the halfway blackout when riding intelligent scooter A3. In fact, such misgivings are not in the least needed, for A3 is outfitted with a larger-capacity battery, which provides quite a long range. The user could ride it, threading his way through the moving mass of traffic. Apart from that, it makes a reality a long-distance trip in the city. As the Tesla smart takes a hold in the market and the technology of power storage develops, the quick charge of outdoor charging device will further enable A3 to run far.
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced a swathe of new taxes and spending cuts on Wednesday designed to slash 65 billion euros ($79 billion) from the budget deficit by 2014 as recession-plagued Spain struggles to meet tough targets agreed with Europe.
Rajoy, of the center-right People's Party, proposed a 3-point hike in the main rate of Value Added Tax on goods and services to 21 percent, and outlined cuts in unemployment benefit and civil service pay and perks in a parliamentary speech interrupted by jeers and boos from the opposition.
"These measures are not pleasant, but they are necessary. Our public spending exceeds our income by tens of billions of euros," Rajoy told parliament.
He also announced new indirect taxes on energy, plans to privatize ports, airports and rail assets, and a reversal of property tax breaks that his party had restored last December.
However, he did not touch pensions — keeping one election promise — and said the tax burden was being shifted from direct taxes on labor and income to taxation on consumption.
Outside in the streets of Madrid, hundreds of coal miners who had staged a march from northern Spain protested against cuts in mining subsidies they say will put them out of work, as public discontent over austerity measures grows.
With five years of economic stagnation and recession, unemployment at 24.4 percent and tax revenue falling, Spain is struggling to meet tough deficit cutting targets agreed with the European Union.
The high deficit and weak banks, which will receive up to 100 billion euros in European aid, are now at the center of the euro zone's debt crisis as investors fret that Spain could join Greece, Portugal and Ireland in needing a sovereign bailout.
Madrid's borrowing costs have soared in recent months, with the yield on the 10-year government bond breaching the 7 percent level regarded as unsustainable in the long run. On Wednesday, that yield fell to 6.81 percent.
The EU agreed on Tuesday to give Spain more time, until 2014 instead of 2013, to bring the public deficit down to 3 percent of gross domestic product and relaxed this year's goal to 6.3 percent. However, a European Commission document said even that easier target would be difficult to reach.
With the latest measures, Rajoy completely overhauled his previous budget plan, in which the central government and 17 autonomous regions had put in place some 48 billion euros in savings for 2012, insufficient to bring the deficit into line.
It was not immediately clear exactly how much of the 65 billion euros headline figure was new savings.
Rajoy announced reforms to city hall governments, shutdowns of public companies, reduced benefits for civil servants, budget cuts for political parties and labor unions.
The prime minister, who had pledged in his election campaign last year not to raise VAT, said he now had no choice. The main rate will rise to 21 from 18 percent and the reduced rate to 10 from 8 percent in a move that could further depress consumer spending.
"We are living in a crucial moment that will determine the future of our families, our youth, our social welfare and all our hopes," he said. "That is the reality. We have to get out of this mess and we have to do it as soon as possible."
As Rajoy announced the new austerity measures, hundreds of coal miners marched through the center of Madrid to protest against a previous 60 percent cut in coal subsidies that they say will shut down mines and put them out of work.
The miners, who had walked some 400 km (250 miles) from the Asturias region over 44 days, were joined by thousands of supporters, including labor activists, on Wednesday after receiving a hero's welcome in the capital on Tuesday night as they marched in with lamps lit on their helmets.
Public anger over spending cuts has risen as school and hospital budgets have been hit.
"Without the mines we don't have anything, absolutely nothing in our region," said one of the miners in the protest, Albano Gonsalvez.
With nearly one quarter of the workforce and more than half of young Spaniards without a job, the government said unemployment benefit would fall to 50 percent of previous earnings from 60 percent after the first six months on the dole.
Rajoy said the measure was intended to increase the incentive to look for work.


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India's child workers face uncertain future
New Delhi, October 8 :
Twelve-year-old Indian dishwasher Akhlilesh faces an uncertain future under a new ban taking effect this week outlawing children from working as servants or in the catering trade.
The shy boy, whose boss at the New Delhi tea-stall where he works has told him to leave, does not know where his next stop will be. "I don't what will happen to me. I've been told to look for other work but I don't know what to do — I'll see if anyone will hire me," said he, who ran away from home six months ago after being beaten for breaking a pot.
The Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act 1986 already prohibits employing children under 14 in 'hazardous' jobs such as those in glass factories and slaughter houses. The ban is po-orly enforced in India, home to the world's largest number of child workers. Some 12 million children among a population of 1.1 billion people are employed in India, according to census, although activists say the real number is closer to 60 million.
Now, under an amendment to the law that comes into force on Tuesday, employing children as domestic helpers and in hotels, restaurants and roadside cafes will also be considered 'hazardous'. Activists are doubtful that the legislation, which carries penalties ranging from a prison term of up to two years and/or a fine of up to Rs 20,000 Indian Currency (IC) ($424), will usher in any meaningful change.
"This new rule is a piece of paper, which has no meaning unless translated into serious action," said activist Bhuwan Ribhu of Save the Childhood Foundation, which works to rehabilitate child labourers. Many law enforcement officials will still turn a blind eye to child labour by saying poor children would probably starve if they did not work.
"We will encourage people to inform us or the police if they find children employed," said Ribhu. But "child labour is still tr-eated as a social evil, not as a cri-me by most people," said Ribhu. "Most times police are not willing to act." The federal government says it plans to make use of existing infrastructure to accommodate the children and has launched an 'awareness campa-ign.' Newspaper advertisements informing people about the new act read — 'Don't deny them their childhood."
The federal government has told state governments and charities to make provisions to house child workers in state-run shelters and charities after the ban comes into effect. But it conceded the new rule would not change things overnight. "The government cannot go door-to-door. We can't post a policeman at every house. Some mechanism will evolve automatically," said labour ministry spokesman M L Dhar. Many families routinely employ child servants. They believe they are doing the children a favour by hiring them.
"These runaways have nowh-ere to go. If we don't hire them, they will take to drugs and bad habits," said Akhlilesh's employer. "We have told the boys to leave after the 10th or else the police will harass us for bribes, but they don't want to go. They have nowhere to go."
Poverty and lack of good primary education are seen as main causes of child labour. About 65 million children aged six to 14 were not attending school, according to census figures. "I don't like this work, but what to do? I will starve," said 14-year-old trash-picker Mohan Patel, who lives on the streets.
Mohan, whose bright eyes are a marked contrast to his grubby clothes, earns his living selling discarded plastic bottles he picks up from a railway station. Desp-ite a booming economy growing at more than eight per cent, India has the world's most poor peopl-e, with some 290 million living in poverty, according to the World Bank. "About 70 per cent and 50 per cent parental responses indicate that children are pushed to work in order to maintain income levels for sustenance and survival of the families," says a report by non-profit group Global March Against Child Labour.


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I love singing carols at Christmas (though using the term "singing" may be an optimistic). I love the music. I love the familiarity. I love the warm memories that flood in. I love the memories I have of singing them as a little girl sharing a hymnal with my dad. I love the visions in my head of children's choirs dressed in angel costumes singing, the familiar words being sung as loud as their little lungs would allow. I love how singing carols just makes it feel like Christmas.
But sometimes it also feels just a little empty. Just tradition. Just hoops we step through on the way to Christmas morning and stockings and gifts. I could be singing about Santa Claus or Christ's birth with equal zeal while making out to-do lists in my mind and wondering if I remembered to switch the laundry from the washer to the dryer before we left the house.
Why the emptiness as I consider the birth of Jesus?
The fourth line of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" recently caught my attention and struck my heart. "God and sinners reconciled". It is profound really. The heart and hope of Christmas right there in line 4 of a so familiar Christmas carol.
God and sinners reconciled. God is holy and He is great. He is perfect in all of His ways. He created the universe, mankind, you and me. He created the oceans and their creatures, the skies and their creatures. He placed the mountains and the valleys, the stars and every grain of sand. He holds our very breath and life in His hands. He alone is worthy of all praise and glory.
God is just and all sin – doing what is wrong, going against what God has declared to be right and has written on our hearts to be right– is deserving of God's holy wrath. Any sin at all – any lie or theft, any lusting or sexual immorality, any jealousy or malice or anger or drunkenness – makes us sinners and separates us from God. In God's presence there is fullness of joy. And our sin eternally separates us from His presence and sets our destiny to Hell. There is no amount of right-doing that can erase the penalty due to us for even the wrong-doings in our lives. And I don't know about you, but I have more than a little wrong-doing in my life!
But I go about my days feeling like a good person. In comparison to other people, I feel like I do pretty well. But as I consider the truth that God lays out in His Word, I realize that I am not a good person. As I consider God's holiness and look at my heart against His laws, I can do nothing but conclude that I am a sinner. I have tragic huge, obvious sin in my past that He has dealt with, but I also still have day-to-day, heart level sin rearing its ugly head over and over. Jealousy? Check. Discontentment? Check. Anger? Check. Selfishness? Check. Do I need to go on?
Apart from Jesus Christ, I would have no hope of a relationship with a holy God. By default, by my own ability, I am His enemy. But while I was still His enemy, God did this amazing, profound, astounding work. Jesus Christ came to earth as a baby. Jesus Christ – fully man and fully God – came to earth to live a perfect life, to be crucified as He bore the wrath for the sins of those who would put their faith in Him alone for salvation and to be resurrected. It was God's plan for redeeming mankind since the creation of the world.
Jesus Christ came to the earth to make peace between our holy God and sinful man. By His perfect life and wrath-bearing death, He reconciled sinful me to God. His birth is the beginning of the rescue mission that was planned from the beginning of time. Of course it should be celebrated!
I am convinced that I don't celebrate like I should because I forget my desperate need for a savior. I forget how holy God is and how sinful I am. As I soak in God's word it reminds me of both of these fundamental truths. As I meditate on God's truth I am drawn out of the busy preparations for Christmas celebration and into a place of simply worshiping God in simple awe that Jesus Christ came to save a sinner like me.
How about you? Is Christmas empty for you this year? If you have been saved by Jesus Christ, won't you take time to remember why you needed a savior and what you have been saved from? To remember what it means for God and sinners to be reconciled? If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please consider the hope that is offered to you through Jesus Christ. Hope of being forgiven by God and lead away from sin and death into joy and life. Won't you rejoice with me in Christ's birth this year?


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Spoiler (do inglês, "aquilo ou aquele que vem para estragar, deteriorar ou prejudicar") se refere originalmente a espólio ou espoliação, termo oriundo do meio jurídico e que significa "ato de privar alguém de algo que lhe pertence ou a que tem direito por meio de fraude ou violência; esbulho".

Na utilização popular, passou a designar usualmente qualquer fragmento de uma fala, texto, imagem ou vídeo que faz revelações de fatos importantes ou mesmo do próprio desfecho da trama de obras, como filmes, séries, desenhos animados, animações e animes, conteúdo televisivo, livros e videogames em que, na maioria das vezes, prejudica ou arruína a apreciação de tais obras pela primeira vez (o que, em português, seria um "desmancha" ou "estraga-prazeres"). Por exemplo, revelar que, numa determinada história, o assassino, surpreendentemente, não é o mordomo, destruindo a surpresa de quem assiste à história.

O espoliador pode ser perpetrado de modo inconsciente, ao ser comentado por um indivíduo (interlocutor) despercebidamente, numa conversa, dessa forma o espectador (receptor) pode de forma igualmente inadvertida ser exposto ao espoliador; a espoliação também pode contrariamente ser fruto de uma elucubração intencionalmente planejada e perpetrada.

Quando perpetrada intencionalmente, não é incomum que a espoliação, além de revelar o enredo, seja acompanhada de comentários apreciativos ou depreciativos a respeito da obra.

Os espoliadores são mais comumente procurados por fãs de uma obra após a sua apreciação inicial, muitas vezes servindo nessa perspectiva de obra complementar à original, permitindo a estes estender sua experimentação ligada a obra, ou ainda vivenciá-la de uma perspectiva levemente diferente daquela original de sua primeira apreciação.

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So, you've got this condition that messes with the nerve pathways required for great sex. A whopping 91% of men and 72% of women with MS have reported trouble between the sheets, but most are too embarrassed to talk about it. If that's you, try to think about it like this:
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See Our Sources
Sexual Problems in Men and Women Statistic: National MS Society. "Sexual Problems." nationalmssociety.org
Research About Talking to Physician About Sex Topics: Journal of Clinical Nursing. (2006). "A Comparison of Written Materials vs. Materials and Counselling for Women with Sexual Dysfunction and Multiple Sclerosis," ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bladder Dysfunction Info: Multiple Sclerosis Association of America. "Bladder Dysfunction." mymsaa.org
Extra Info on Body Mapping: National MS Society. "Intimacy and Sexuality in MS." nationalmssociety.orgs
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Q: Perl script with XML Twig seg faulting, child terminated with signal 11 I am trying to run a perl script with a few twigs being constructed in it.
This script should take xml files and give back the version numbers which are present as an attribute in the files.
Every time I try to parse a large file(23 MB) , the script crashes with the following -
"Child 341 terminated with signal 11".

Code to invoke subroutines which will get the required attribute-
my $version = $strm_obj->get_attr(file=>$file1,tag=>"config",attr=>"contentversion");
print "Version of $file1 is $version \n";
my $globalversion = $strm_obj->get_attr(file=>$file2,tag=>"config",attr=>"globalcontentversion");
print "Version of $file2 is $globalversion \n";

Subroutines to get the required attribute -
sub get_attr{
my ($self,%args) = @_;
my $file = $args{file};
my $tag = $args{tag};
my $attr = $args{attr};
my $val;
$self->{_ATTR} = $attr;
$self->{_TAG} = $tag;
test_log(DEBUG,"Value of tag is $tag, attribute is $attr");
my $twig= XML::Twig->new(
        twig_roots => { $tag
                        => sub {$self->get_attr_helper(@_,$tag,\$val); } } )
                       ->parsefile($file);
if ($val){
    test_log(INFO,"value of attribute $attr is $val");
}
if (!$val){
    test_log(INFO,"The attribute $attr that you are looking for, is not present in $file");
    return -1;
}
$twig->purge;
$twig->dispose;
return $val;
}

sub get_attr_helper{
my($self,$obj,$tag,$act_tag,$val) = @_;
my $attr = $self->{_ATTR};
#print "my attr is $attr\n";
for my $node ($tag->findnodes("//$self->{_TAG}")){
    if ($node->att("$attr")){
        $$val = $node->att("$attr");
    }
}
$obj->purge;
}

The xml files are of the following format:
$file1 -
<config contentversion="378">
  <tag1>
  .
  .
  .
  <tag n>
</config>

$file2 -
<config globalcontentversion="378">
  <tag1>
  .
  .
  .
  <tag n>
</config>

I can't really provide the actual xml files here.
I know that this script consumes about 20% memory of my machine at the most (2GB RAM).
I have looked around and have been unable to find a solution to this.
How can I eliminate the seg faults?

A: It's hard to give a specific answer, as segmentation fault means something's breaking messily (it's a memory-based issue).
XML is quite prone to a big memory footprint, and in no small part one of the biggest advantages of XML::Twig is it's ability to parse-and-discard using twig_handlers and purge.
This makes it perfect for partial extraction of things from XML.
I can't see specifically what's giving you a segfault, but then - in perl, you don't often get segfaults it's likely something external.
That aside though - you seem to be doing something quite complicated to extract a version number from your files. (This is assuming I've not misread what you're trying to extract).
Would not something like this suit your needs?:
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Twig;

sub get_attr {
    my ( $self, %args ) = @_;
    my $file = $args{file};
    my $tag  = $args{tag};
    my $attr = $args{attr};

    my $twig = XML::Twig->new()->parsefile($file);

    my $val = $twig->root->first_child($tag)->att($attr);
    #maybe error check to see if 'first_child($tag)' is defined first?

    return $val;
}

Although if your 'doc root' is always that 'config' branch that you're trying to extract, you can simplify further:
my $val  = $twig->root->att($attr);

I've tried this - it works for both samples you've given thus far. If you're still segfaulting though, I'd be thinking in terms of checking what you have installed.
(It might be worth doing a 'twig handlers' approach to trap the tag, but I don't see that's particularly necessary as the big advantage would be purging as you go, which doesn't appear to be necessary given the size of the problem).
There is a bug listed in XML::Twig:
http://search.cpan.org/~mirod/XML-Twig-3.48/Twig.pm#BUGS

segfault during parsing
  This happens when parsing huge documents, or lots of small ones, with a version of Perl before 5.16.
This is due to a bug in the way weak references are handled in Perl itself.
The fix is either to upgrade to Perl 5.16 or later (perlbrew is a great tool to manage several installations of perl on the same machine).
An other, NOT RECOMMENDED, way of fixing the problem, is to switch off weak references by writing XML::Twig::_set_weakrefs( 0); at the top of the code. This is totally unsupported, and may lead to other problems though,

I'm not really sure this applies to you though, because I wouldn't really call '23MB' a huge XML. (Even bearing in mind that the memory footprint of XML is about 10x).

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by Whitney Blalock.
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From the 13th to the 16th of June, the Italian men's fashion tradeshow Pitti Uomo welcomed at least 8% fewer visitors than the 20,565 seen in June 2008. According to the organizers this was an expected decrease, following on from two sets of record figures.
Photo: Francesco Guazzelli
Last year, from the 18th to the 21st of June 2008, Pitti Uomo attracted 35,000 professionals, of which 7,827 buyers came from abroad. That edition of the trade show was considered a success and was followed in January by another edition with another record figure for attendance. Furthermore, from the 13th to the 16th of January 2009 more than 35,000 visitors were present along with a thousand or so exhibitors; a rendezvous marred only by a slight drop in the number of buyers to "only" 22,672.
Germany was the country that was represented the best with 929 buyers, followed by Japan (593) and Spain (547). Coming in afterwards were the Netherlands (422), France (411), the United Kingdom (346), Switzerland (278), China (234), Turkey (229), Belgium (218) and the well represented USA and Russia, with 156 and 143 professionals respectively that made the trip.
In comparison, the spring-summer 2010 show seems much calmer. However, despite this the organizers of Pitti Uomo seem to be highly satisfied with the result obtained.
"These are rather good results and they are better than we expected", commented Raffaello Napoleone, director general of the tradeshow, to the Italian press. "I believe that the exhibitors are all convinced, but we must stay humble, keep listening, and above all work with our partners, with whom we have objectives in common."
By Jonathan Fulwell (Source: Matthieu Guinebault)


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OK Rees bloggers. Let's get down to the facts: affordable housing, livable streets and walkable neighbourhoods. I've just posted a Google image from Joyce station that suggests that we are no where near getting it right. What's up?
Joyce-Collingwood is one of the few areas along the Expo Line in the City of Vancouver that has actually seen a change in land use in response to "rapid transit". The area was formerly zoned industrial and it was only because of the developer's pressure that it changed. He persuaded the council of the day to relax their parking standards – in return for an increased contribution towards the community – in this case a new Community Centre.
The route chosen for the SkyTrain was the former BC Hydro/BC Electric right of way. And the proximity of the houses to those tracks predates the construction of the elevated guideway (in this location in transition to a cut). So the point of view of the image does not really reflect what was planned or changed by the coming of the SkyTrain.
At the next stations along the Expo line towards downtown – 29th Avenue and Nanaimo – no change in land use or density was tolerated by the community. What's up there? NIMBYism.
Walkable neighbourhoods has never meant that ALL the streets in a neighbourhood will offer a 100% pleasant and uplifting experience.
I can think of numerous blocks of numerous streets in Paris and Bordeaux (to name only 2 of many towns I know well) where one side is nothing but the blank wall of a hospital, or high school or some other ancient government building.
But walk a block to another street and everything changes: numerous small stores, cafes etc.
It is the same in the Joyce area.
The photo posted is misleading. The blank wall in the photo is a short one and, on either sides of it, there are views under the SkyTrain guideway to whatever is on the other side.
One block South (of that short blank wall under the guideway) there are buildings with some greenery etc.
Some of the most walkable streets in Europe and Japan, for example, are narrow and–objectively–not pretty at all….yet, to me, they have a vibrancy and a charm in their esthetic disorder that I find infinitely more pleasant than so many bland and sterile streets in the most expensive areas of Vancouver—despite their manicured lawns and monster houses.
Thank you Stephen, Voony, et al who posted on the link I provided above.
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As kids, one of our favorite walks in Montevideo was around the full city block occupied by the penitentiary. As in other cities all over the world, the sidewalks in Montevideo are tiled rather than concrete. So my brother and I would speculate that any raised tile we found on our walk around the walls of the jail might actually be the work of a tunnel digger working from the inside about to punch through to freedom.
But Montevideo was designed for the walking experience of place, rather than to maximize automobile movements. The scale of the block (typically 100 x 100 m) is one important metric supporting that paradigm.
We can't say the same about Vancouver. It is as if the platting here perfectly anticipated the automobile with the rear lane for accessing the garage; the rectangular block with a lower number of intersections per mile if driving parallel to the long axis; and the 1/2-mile spacing of the arterials.
Then, when we turn to Joyce Skytrain the point of the photograph is not the blank wall (I posted the reverse view as suggested by Voony). It is the ENTIRE structure of the Skytrain system. Here I do part ways with many on this blog. I really don't see No3 Road as a good implementation. And, that opinion does not change from the BRT system that Skytrain replaced (after what seemed like too short a trial for BRT).
The BRT No3 Road first. If BRT goes on Broadway and the same scale is achieved (with fences; barrier curbs; curving lanes; etc.) then Broadway will be lost. No3 Road was an automobile desert when the BRT went in and so no one was around to notice or complain. Vancouver Broadway will be a different story.
The Skytrian. I mean really, does anybody really believe that the system works inside the city??? Grade separation? If it is necessary then it means subway. Blocking the view of the sky; erecting those out of scale structures down the middle of neighbourhoods; then plonking the ridiculous stations in the sky (and giving Brentwood a design award? For what? Best Fascist architecture since Mussolini or Franco?)?
No. We've miscalculated the problem and badly botched the solution.
The proof is in the pudding. In the quality of the resulting public realm; in the ability of the neighbourhood to support social functioning; and in the affordability of the housing that gets built.
The way out of this morass is for us to roll up our sleeves; come together over a conversation about values of community and values of place; and about how to make the technology the server not the boss.
We can house 90,000 people within a 10 minute walk of each station; house a total population of 4.3 million; and not build higher than 3.5 stories. 33 feet, that is, or 10 meters. Now, the street ROW will have to increase to 99 feet to ensure solar penetration year long; but that is easily accomplished with standard set-backs. The additional space can go to moving us away from the ridiculous 5-foot wide sidewalk that is only good for walking two-by-two or indian file when we encounter someone coming in the opposite direction.
In reply to Voony I mentioned Blvd. Saint-Germaine clogged with cars in a city that boasts one of the best subway systems in the world; RER commuter rail; and 4 LRT lines. How come so many cars on the Peripherique?
What is the relationship between all those condo towers and the skyrocketing price of housing in our region? I thought the equation was transit = fast & efficient & GHG-free access to affordable housing spread region wide.
It's our watch. How come we are not delivering on the promise?
That's what I see when I look at Joyce Skytrain—and all the rest of them—and rather than TOD, I see NOT-TOD.


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Coping with Coronavirus Well
A new study from Germany looked very specifically at subjective well-being during the early months of the pandemic. Serendipically, a study had begun in December of 2019 looking at how people's coping strategies affected their own evaluations of well-being. This study was able to be adapted in March – May of 2020 to looking at how different people used or didn't use coping strategies to increase their sense of well-being during the uncertainty and limits of the first few months of the pandemic.
Coronavirus, Threat or Challenge?
The study found that people evaluate major events in their lives according to whether the event poses a threat or a challenge, with "threat" suggesting negative outcomes as more likely, while "challenge" suggests that steps may be taken by the individual to make the outcomes more positive.
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Another dimension to this evaluation is "centrality" a measure of how important to one's life the event is likely to be.
People who viewed coronavirus as central would tend to agree to the following statements taken from the Centrality of Events Scale
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How Did MacArthur & Truman Differ on the Handling of the Korean War?
By Nathalie Alonso
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During the Korean War, fought from 1950 to 1953, President Harry Truman and Army General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the United Nations coalition, clashed over the scale of the hostilities. Truman was firm in his commitment to keeping the conflict confined to the Korean peninsula; MacArthur insisted on a full-scale war with China. As a result, Truman fired MacArthur nine months after the war began.
In the aftermath of World War II, the Korean peninsula was split at the 38th parallel into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a Soviet-backed communist state in the north, and the pro-Western Republic of Korea in the south. On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces invaded South Korea with the intent of unifying the peninsula. MacArthur, who had led American campaigns in the Southwest Pacific in World War II and had overseen the post-war occupation of Japan, was chosen to command the U.S.-led United Nations coalition deployed to support South Korea.
Truman's Limited War
The Korean War was fought against the broader backdrop of the Cold War, a state of heightened tensions between the United States and communist Soviet Union. For Truman, the Korean War was therefore a mission to curb the spread of communism as many American leaders feared a North Korean victory would pave the way for Soviet conquests elsewhere. Truman, however, wanted to avoid war with communist China. An outright war with the Chinese, he worried, had the potential to erupt into a third World War. Therefore, Truman was determined to wage a "limited war" in Korea.
MacArthur's Provocations
By October 1950, MacArthur's forces had driven the North Koreans above the 38th parallel. MacArthur then convinced Truman that liberating North Korea was a feasible objective, assuring the president that the likelihood of Chinese intervention was slim. Soon after MacArthur crossed the 38th parallel, Chinese forces invaded and drove the U.N. troops back into South Korea. At that point, MacArthur wanted to bomb China and to enlist the military assistance of the Chinese Nationalists exiled in Taiwan, but Truman refused. In January 1951, China attempted to initiate peace talks. MacArthur responded with ultimatum in which he vowed to cripple China if it did not remove its troops from Korea. MacArthur subsequently criticized Truman's limited war policy in a letter to House Republican Joseph Martin, who shared the general's message with Congress.
Firing of MacArthur
Concerned that MacArthur's unsanctioned actions would trigger a war with China, Truman fired the general for insubordination on April 11, 1951. MacArthur was considered a hero by the American public, however, and so the following day, Truman addressed the nation to explain his decision and justify his policy of limited war. Firing MacArthur, the president argued, was necessary to prevent the conflict from transcending Korea's borders and escalating into a larger, more catastrophic war.
History.com: Truman Relieves MacArthur of Duties in Korea
History.com: Korean War
Encyclopedia Britannica: DouglasMacArthur
SparkNotes: The Korean War (1950-1953) -- MacArthur's Dismissal
SparkNotes: The Korean War (1950-1953) -- Chinese Intervention
Since beginning her career as a professional journalist in 2007, Nathalie Alonso has covered a myriad of topics, including arts, culture and travel, for newspapers and magazines in New York City. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Columbia University and lives in Queens with her two cats.
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Did Germany Declare War on the United States in WW2?
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Q: Using iOS 6 autolayout, what would be the proper way to display somthing above an UINavigationController? In my app, i have a main view controller which sometimes brings a modal view on top of it. This modal view is a UINavigationController with a navigation bar. I want to display an image above the navigation bar, and have the navigation bar appear below the image.
I do not want to subclass anything and the app uses autolayout, i do not want a bunch of delegate callbacks and frame calculations. The view inside the navigation controller (the actual modal content) must still respond to different screen sizes correctly, such as rotation, call status bar etc. Also, no IB solutions please, these views are all managed in code.
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A: I don't think you can do it with your modal view being a navigation controller. I would do it by making that modal controller a UIViewController that you set up as a custom container controller. You can add an image view to the top of this controller's view and add the view of a child view controller (which would be a navigation controller) to the bottom. This would be  a lot easier to do in a storyboard using container views, but it certainly can be done in code.


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Cold weather blast will not leave Med untouched
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A wave of cold weather affecting large parts of France will also hit the Principality over the next few days. Meteo France is forecasting overnight lows of 5 and 6 degrees celsius for Monaco from Wednesday, February 7 until the weekend, with a low of 4 degrees at night on Sunday, following a cold and sunny day with a high of 13. The cold spell is expected to last for at least two weeks.
Twenty-two French departments – including Ile-de-France, which includes Paris – have issued cold alerts for those sleeping rough. This triggering of the emergency warning will involve the opening of an additional 1,000 emergency overnight sleeping places to add to the 13,000 already in place.
The blast of cold air is spreading into France from Eastern Europe, coming into conflict with warmer air from the Mediterranean. Heavy snow and rain can be expected this week across the south and east of France.
Delays at airport Monday evening as storms and 100km/h gusts hit the coast
Michaël Gregorio returns to Monaco
Local News	Staff Writer - September 11, 2017
[caption id="attachment_21501" align="alignleft" width="242"] Michael Gregori. Photo: Erio Tac France[/caption] Espace Léo Ferré's fall programming starts strongly with the return of Michaël Gregorio, who will present his new show "I'm 10 years old". Since 2006 and his debut at the Café de la Danse, more than a million people have appreciated the talent of Michaël Gregorio who takes his impressions, sketches and parodies to the stage. His talent was revealed in the early 2000s in M6's "Seeds of a Star" TV show – which he won twice. Today, accompanied by four musicians, Mr Gregorio entertains for over two hours during a transgenerational experience with a variety of musical styles – Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Johnny Hallyday, Daft Punk, Francis Cabrel, Shakira, Depeche Mode, Jay-Z, and others. To celebrate his 10 years of touring, Mr Gregorio returns with an unprecedented event, during which he revisits the best moments of his first three shows. New sketches, new voices, surprises and guests are also on tap for the Friday, November 3, spectacle at 8:30 pm at Espace Léo Ferré.
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Austrians win closely contested Fireworks Competition
Community	Staff Writer - August 13, 2017
The International Competition of Fireworks reached its climax on Saturday, August 12, with a display from Australia, but it was the Austrians who won the contest. Mayor Georges Marsan, surrounded by members of the jury, warmly praised the work of all the organisations for their technical and artistic prowess. Accompanied by his deputy, André J. Campana, President of the jury, he awarded first place to Steyrfire Austria, followed by Howard and Sons Pyrotechnics (Austrlia) and Arthur Rozzi Pyrotechnics (US). France's 4 Pyragric picked up fourth place. [caption id="attachment_20470" align="alignnone" width="880"] The artificers of Steyrfire Austria with Mayor Georges Marsan and André J. Campana, President of the Jury. Photo: Mairie Monaco[/caption] Following the traditional pattern of four shows, each representing a particular country, France opened the competition on July 22, followed by the Austrians on July 29, then the US on August 5 and finally Australia on Saturday. Each show was evaluated according to strict scoring criteria ranging from pyro-musical design to final bouquet, through synchronisation, originality, choice of colours, choice of music – each criterion being rated from 0 to 10 points. It was a difficult decision in the face of shows that have all shown great qualities, the judges said. There's still time for the general public to have a say with the opportunity to see or review each of the four shows online on www.monaco-feuxdartifice.mc. Viewers can then vote for their favourite. The firework team most favoured by the public will be awarded the Audience Award, which will be announced on Saturday, August 19 at midnight on the official website of the Competition. The jury, chaired by André J. Campana, Deputy Mayor, was composed of Claude Bollati Communal Councillor), Axelle Amalberti-Verdino (General Agent of the Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers – SACEM), Jo Bullit (Artistic Director of the Théâtre Fort Antoine/Artist), Séverine Canis-Froidefond (Director of Urban Planning and Mobility), Edmond Putteto, former head of restaurant at SBM), and finally Danielle Marchadier and Mathis Chatillon, both passionate about fireworks.
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