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Florence cowgirl, cowboy headed to National Finals
July 10, 2019 By Jean Schurman Leave a Comment
Annie Alexander of Florence rounds the second barrel at a barrel race in Hamilton on Saturday where she finished in the money in the youth barrel race. Jean Schurman photo.
Annie Alexander and Taylor Harris, both of Florence, will be making the trek to Rock Springs, Wyoming, for the National High School Rodeo Finals next week. The event will feature more than 1,500 cowgirls and cowboys from 43 states, including Hawaii; five Canadian provinces, Australia, and Mexico. There are approximately 12,500 members in the association. The finals feature two go-arounds a day for six days with the top 20 coming back in the short go.
In addition to the regular rodeo events, there is cow cutting and reined cow horse for both boys and girls, goat tying for the girls, and a queen contest. There is also a light rifle shooting competition. In lieu of money, the contestants win scholarships, plus trophy belt buckles and saddles.
Annie Alexander will be a junior this year at Florence. She is the daughter of Sheryl and Tom Alexander. In addition to rodeo, she is also on the varsity golf team at Florence and qualified for the state golf tournament in both her freshman and sophomore years. She said it is a nice change from the hectic activity at a rodeo.
Alexander has been riding as long as she can remember. She began competing when she was very little and her mother would lead her around the barrels at gymkhanas.
"I never liked to go very fast but one day I just decided I was done going slow," she said. "One day, I decided I wanted to win."
That was in 2016 and she set about training her horse to make her more competitive as well as learning how to ride better to get her horse to perform better. Alexander feels that each stage of her riding life has been a building block and these are all coming together this year. In addition to gymkhanas, she also competed in the Ravalli County Junior Rodeo series each summer and was the all around girls champion last year.
Alexander said her trip to Nationals is a "Cinderella story." The rodeo season begins in August and runs until the first of October and then takes a break for winter. It ramps back up in March and runs until the end of May. Points are accrued for each win or top placing in the rodeos. Once the contestants have reached 70 points in an event, the points are frozen. Then, at the state finals, more points can be won with the top four point winners in each event advancing on. It's difficult to make up points at state if you don't already have 70 points going into the rodeo.
But Alexander did make up the points. She went into the state finals with 53 points. In addition, she was on a new horse, Coco. Although the two hadn't had much of a chance to build a relationship, Alexander felt that she and the horse made that connection. They came in second place in the first go, won the short go, and took second in the average. That was good enough for a fourth place overall finish and a trip to Nationals.
Alexander had an opportunity last winter to compete at Copper Springs Ranch outside of Bozeman in barrel racing and break away roping. This was a qualifier for the American, which is a huge rodeo held at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in March. It is a tournament-style competition where the competitors must move up the ladder and win at each level. Alexander went to Fort Worth for the next level of qualifications and actually ended up in the top 75 barrel racers and the top 50 break away ropers. She thinks that this tough competition last winter helped her throughout the spring and will help at the finals.
Alexander gives a lot of credit to a few people who have helped her along the way. Michelle Gerhard and Randy Sacks have helped her with roping and Donna Toavs has helped train her barrel horses and improved her horsemanship skills.
Alexander will compete in the first performance on Sunday night and then have the rest of the week to relax, settle in and do some more training before competing again the following Saturday morning. Her plan is to come back Saturday night in the short go with a buckle in her sights.
Florence's Taylor Harris picks up the heels after his partner, Nathan Ruth of Big Timber, caught the head in the team roping at the Shelby High School Rodeo earlier this spring. They will compete at the National High School Rodeo finals next week.
Taylor Harris is the son of Monty and Julie Harris. He is a 2019 graduate of Florence High School. He will be competing at the finals in team roping where he is the heeler for Nathan Ruth from Big Timber. The duo finished fourth at the state finals in team roping.
Harris grew up in a rodeo family and was roping by the time he was eight years old. He credits Steve Edwards of Florence and Kory Mytty of Lolo for helping him become the roper he is today. In fact, Mytty, who is the University of Montana rodeo coach, signed Harris to rodeo for the University of Montana rodeo team this fall. He plans on studying heavy equipment operations at Missoula Tech.
Harris said J-Bob Lytle of Cut Bank and Jay Hahnkamp of Melrose, along with Randy Sacks, have all helped him tremendously while on the road. He is competing in the Northern Rodeo Association this year. When he was an eighth grader, he competed in the junior NRA events and made the finals in the break away.


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Mark your calendars for the May session of TalentMine's sponsored SAS Savvy training on "How do you PROC COMPARE your output?." This 30-45 minute webinar begins on Thursday, May 19th at 2:30pm (EST). Who uses PROC COMPARE? Do you use it for qc purpose? Is it easy to use with minimum syntax? Does it have the power to really identify detail differences in which variables and records exist only in one dataset?


What happens if we don't seed/upload/whatever-you-called-it after we download?
Downloaded files missing their extension?
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Is my ISP throttling my torrent downloads?
Transfering task list and downloads to a new computer.


Lazpiur has delivered a production line to the Plant operated by the multinational company Lear in Rabat (Morocco). The machine manufactures fuse boxes for cars. This order is the first phase of the project which will be extended at least next year with the delivery of new machines.
The production line manufactured by Lazpiur includes seven terminal insertion machines in addition to other box transport systems. This line is totally automatic except for the loading of the product.
The line is designed to process several fuse box models with a system that identifies each type of product. Therefore, the machine is able to modify insertion and configuration programs.
The supplied line is only the first phase of a global project. Lear and Lazpiur have already agreed the delivery of the second part of the production line in 2016.
The company from Gipuzkoa is consolidated as a first class supplier for this multinational from Michigan (United States) which has settled in 34 countries. Specifically, the relationship with Lear's Moroccan plant started in year 2010.


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4K Blu-ray benefiting from disjointed digital platforms
4K UHD Blu-ray benefiting from disjointed digital platforms says industry market report
posted on Wednesday, 22nd February 2017 by Steve May
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4K UHD Blu-ray is benefitting from the disjointed approach of digital distribution platforms, but despite strong 4K hardware growth UHD is still some way off mass market adoption. That's the finding of market analyst Futuresource Consulting. Its latest tracking report suggests that UHD as a home entertainment format "has firmly planted its stake in the market; from software to hardware adoption" with "strong growth evident."
Futuresource Consulting have been monitoring the 4K UHD market for over two years.
According to figures, UHD Blu-ray built a leading position in the software market in 2016, with sales elevated by disjointed digital service providers. Limited availability and marketing of content, as well as poorer quality of playback compared to UHD Blu-ray, are cited as reasons for growth.
UHD Blu-ray currently offers the highest quality 4K experience and a greater choice of films.
Futuresource is predicting 8.4 million UHD Blu-ray discs will be sold in 2017, equating to 4 per cent of global Blu-ray sales, with a greater choice of titles from both independents and major studios. However it suggests that the potential launch of a 4K store from Apple, to support the 4K-capable Apple TV streamer, could be a key game changer in the mass market march for Ultra HD availability.
At the end of 2016 Futuresource reports that globally 17 million households had access to streamed 4K UHD content from an OTT/SVoD service with a TV capable of playing it.
Futuresource recorded twelve months of strong progression across all Ultra HD hardware markets, particularly 4K UHD TVs which were a fixture of the 2016 Black Friday promotions. However, many of the sets on offer had either none or a poor quality/early development of HDR. The focus from the industry is now firmly on HDR, it says.
"Unlike the upgrade to UHD resolution, which was a quantifiable improvement, HDR is subjective feature and CES highlighted this is the key industry focus as manufacturers are continuing to push the boundaries in terms of peak brightness, peak black levels and a wider colour spectrum represented," says Market Analyst Tristan Veale.
Panasonic unveils three new 4K Blu-ray players
LG 4K Ultra HD OLED E6 HDR TV review
However abuse of HDR labeling could derail the gravy train, he adds. "Consumers remain largely uneducated about the advantages of HDR and there is a risk of alienating them due to the recent trend of branding displays HDR compatible, ones which can receive an HDR content stream but cannot reproduce it. With this multi-stage introduction of UHD and associated picture improvements, clear information to the consumer is paramount."


A fragment of the Gospel of Mary, discovered in 1896. This very important and well-preserved codex was apparently discovered in the late-nineteenth century somewhere near Akhmim in upper Egypt. It was purchased in 1896 by a German scholar, Dr. Carl Reinhardt, in Cairo.
In the Gospels Mary Magdalene is portrayed as an important witness to and follower of Jesus and appears in extrabiblical literature as well; later interpreters associated her with sexual sin though there is no evidence for this in the Bible.


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Presentation – BMW M3 Touring: sports station wagon
A first for BMW, the 3 Series station wagon is offered in the high-performance BMW M3 Competition M. xDrive Touring version. This model takes on the elegant elements of the M3 saloon at the front, namely the majestic beans, tapered headlights, large side air intakes and the M gills in the side panels, while at the rear we find the four exhaust pipes integrated into the rear apron, two on the left and two on the right. Whichever body color is chosen, the roof will be glossy black and equipped with roof rails with a spoiler at the rear.
An assumed resemblance to the M3 sedan which also lends it a 510 hp six-cylinder engine.
Under the hood is also a 3.0-liter M3 sedan, twin-turbocharged, six-cylinder. It generates 510 hp and a maximum torque of 650 Nm. This engine is mated to an eight-speed M transmission with DriveLogic which allows three gear shifts that can be controlled from the steering wheel using paddles. In order to get the best traction possible, the four drive wheels are managed by the M xDrive all-wheel drive system linked to an active M differential on the rear axle (in Sport mode, you can deactivate the DSC to find yourself at the wheel). For happiness to be complete at the wheel, the exhaust is equipped with electrically controlled valves that generate a beautiful sound and heighten the pleasure of the senses.
A spoiler that extends the roof, four exhaust outlets, a bodybuilder and wide tires, the BMW M3 Competition M xDrive Touring assume its beautiful sporty character.
With a six-cylinder engine developing 510 hp, the BMW M3 Competition M xDrive Touring station wagon is able to perform at a high level from 0 to 100 km / h in 3.6 seconds, and to a speed of 200 km / h in 12.9 seconds. And if that wasn't enough, with the M Experience Pack, the electronically limited top speed of 250 km/h has been increased to 280 km/h. Of course, this kind of sporting prowess will be appreciated on the track or on sections of the unlimited German motorways. To prove the efficiency of the chassis and engine of the BMW M3 Touring, BMW made it to the famous Nürburgring and more precisely the North Ring (Nordschleife) where the race car broke the record for the station wagon class with a time of 7 "35" 060. This is ten seconds less than the previous record set The Mercedes-AMG E63 S station wagon, which nevertheless offers 100 more hp!
The first M3 breakout, this model has an efficient chassis and exhibits very high performance.
This race car features a double-jointed front axle and a five-link rear axle as standard, SelectDrive M suspension with electronically controlled dampers and Servotronic M steering with variable assist. To slow the BMW M3 Competition M xDrive Touring with ease, there is a brake system with two pedal feel settings and an optional M carbon ceramic brake system.
Centered on 19-inch wheels at the front and 20-inch wheels at the rear, the BMW M3 Competition M xDrive Touring Wagon is ready to tackle all types of terrain.
The atmosphere is sporty in the BMW M3 Competition M xDrive Touring. Especially if you opt for the M Carbon bucket seats. It features CRFP structural elements that reduce weight by 9.6 kg compared to the standard M sport seats. The latter is heated and electrically adjustable using memory, and the trimmings feature Merino leather. Driver-facing, the BMW Curved Display comes standard with a 12.3-inch instrument cluster and 14.9-inch infotainment screen. A glass surface tilted towards the driver covers the two screens. A head-up HUD display is also available as an option. The driver also has direct access to the engine, chassis, braking system and M xDrive transmission tuning options thanks to M's control and start-up system and can prioritize different driving modes. The M Mode button on the center console can also be used to adjust the reactions of the driver assistance systems and the content displayed on the information display and head-up display.
With the optional M Carbon (upper) bucket seats, the sporty character is there. But the ambiance is equally pleasant with the standard M sport seats (bottom).
Standard equipment complete with 3-zone climate control, BMW Live Cockpit Navigation Plus with BMW Maps, Hi-Res speakers and the latest generation BMW iDrive combined with BMW Interface 8.0 together with Personal Assistant to enable a better operator – Machine interaction using natural voice and touch commands. The 5G compatible antenna ensures optimal communication between the vehicle and the outside. The BMW M3 Competition M xDrive Touring is also packed with driving aids. Standard are forward collision warning, speed limit display associated with a no-overtaking indicator, lane crossing warning, and parking distance control. As an option, you can choose Drive Assist Pro with steering and lane control assistant, active cruise control (Stop & Go function), active traffic light detection and navigation, and Parking Assistant with Reverse Assist.
A correct luggage compartment that allows you to go on vacation with your family without the risk of leaving things on the sidewalk.
We won't forget to talk about the comfort and practicality of the BMW M3 Competition M xDrive Touring station wagon. Who says the station wagon, says the loading volume and behind the coils (in three 40/20/40 segments) of the seat is a nice 500-liter boxcar compartment, which can increase to 1,510 liters, once the seatpost is folded down. For easier loading, you can count on automatic control of the tailgate and rear window with separate opening. A compartment under the boot floor is used to store the luggage separation net and the luggage cover. As an option, there are anti-slip bars that automatically rise from the floor of the luggage compartment, which prevents the luggage from sliding.
Introducing the M3 in the station wagon chassis, BMW takes on the Audi RS4 Avant, which also has all-wheel drive (Quattro).
Orders for the BMW M3 Competition M xDrive Touring will open from September 2022, and the price of this model is already known. The entry level is offered at €111,950, or €6,750 more than the M3 Competition Sedan, whose entry level does not have all-wheel drive (equipment is billed at €4,500).


social outings which may appeal to other halves as well.
The Guild encourages members to join a local branch and take part in their programme of activities.
Please note the branches operate independently and are run by their own committees. They may charge an additional fee for membership to support their programme of activities.
See where your closest branch meets on this map.
You can also check out our Guild Events and Branch News pages for details of any shows that your local branch is taking part in, or news on your Branch.
We appreciate that there are quite a few "desert areas" across the country. If there isn't a branch in your area and you would be interested in forming one – or perhaps start by meeting up informally with other local members of the Guild – we would be delighted to support you. So please do get in touch with the General Secretary on secretary@flydressersguild.org to talk about how to take your plans further.
You may also wish to read through these guidelines, which cover the considerations and processes required to create a new branch of the Guild.


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The weather's single-handed offensive to re-green Portland has been well and truly underway. As is expected from a day where it rained and blew a gale most of the morning, many of todays migrants came from the sea. The highlight came in the form of a very close Sooty Shearwater, other than this, numbers were remarkably disappointing with: 5 Common Scoter, 3 Great Skuas, 21 Manx Shearwaters and 14 Balearic Shearwaters. 3 Yellow-legged Gulls were mingling with the ever present gull flock. Land-migrants remained thin on the ground even after the deluge had passed with just a single Swift, 2 Willow Warblers and 1 Wheatear.
Ferrybridge suffered a similarly wet fate, however, 13 Sandwich Terns performed well. Other than this, 14 Sanderling and 3 Turnstones were the only additions to the totals.
Moths were also in poor form with just 3 Silver Y, 2 Diamond-back Moths and 2 Dark Sword Grass.


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Q: Bootstrap Modal page.html is not working with ng-include I am calling a Bootstrap Model on hyperlink.
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A: Your best bet is to use the data-target attribute that Bootstrap supports (http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#via-data-attributes).  Use it like data-target="#myModal" and remove the href="".  Then Angular will not attempt to navigate to it.

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The crisis has been resolved, but this respite is temporary. We are bound to have more standoffs and brinkmanship in the months and years ahead. To understand why, you must recognize that, for the tea party, the stakes could not be higher. The movement is animated and energized by a fear that soon America will be beyond rescue.
Cruz dominated the summit's straw poll, taking 42 percent of the vote, more than three times his nearest rival. His fundraising committees reported this week that they took in $1.19 million in the third quarter, double the total in the preceding quarter. Cruz's national approval rating may be an abysmal 14 percent, but to the base of the Republican Party he is an idol.
At the end of the 1961 speech that launched his political career, Ronald Reagan said, "If I don't do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free." But the menace Reagan warned about — Medicare — was enacted. It has provided security to the elderly. There have been problems regarding cost, but that's hardly the same as killing freedom.
For most Americans, even most conservatives, yesterday's deepest causes are often quietly forgotten. Consider that by Reagan's definition, all other industrial democracies are tyrannies. Yet every year, the right-wing Heritage Foundation ranks several of these countries — such as Switzerland — as "more free" than the United States, despite the fact that they have universal health care.
For many conservatives, the "rot" to be excoriated is not about economics and health care but about culture. A persistent theme of conservative intellectuals and commentators — in print and on Fox News — is the cultural decay of the country. But compared with almost any period in U.S. history, we live in bourgeois times, in a culture that values family, religion, work and, above all, business. Young people today aspire to become Mark Zuckerberg. They quote the aphorisms of Warren Buffett and read the Twitter feed of Bill Gates. Even after the worst recession since the Great Depression, there are no obvious radicals, anarchists, Black Panthers or other revolutionary movements — save the tea party.


Ireland is working to act as a gateway for Chinese companies to access the European market, Irish State Minister for Financial Services Eoghan Murphy told China Daily.
Murphy was in Hong Kong to attend the 10th Asian Financial Forum on Tuesday, and discussed payment technology and cybersecurity.
"One of the industries we are growing in reputation is our financial technology and payment sector in international finance services," Murphy said.
"We are looking for new relationships to help existing businesses enhance their business, or help new businesses create opportunities."
The Irish government is working to build an ecosystem based on its talent pool to offer cutting-edge services in fintech and payment services to Chinese companies.
Ireland is banking on the Asian Financial Forum to build connections with the fund industry to cement the country's role as a fund administration and management center.
Murphy said Ireland and China are entering a key period in financial cooperation.
In December, Ireland became the 17th overseas jurisdiction to be granted a Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors quota to invest in the Chinese domestic bond and equity markets. The investment quota was 50 billion yuan ($7.29 billion).
Ireland is also keen to play a part in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
"Ireland has applied for AIIB membership and the process is going in a positive direction. All of this enables Ireland to be important gateway for mainland investors into Europe," he said.


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Phoenix will hold public hearing Thursday on water-rate hike to pay for aging pipes
Nicole Sadek
Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article misspelled Eric Froberg's name and misstated the year when Phoenix water rates would increase under the second option.
Phoenix residents can weigh in Thursday on a proposal to hike water rates by 6.5% over two years.
The proposal comes on the heels of 6% increases in 2019 and 2020.
The Phoenix City Council will vote next month on a rate plan to fund the renovation of water pipes and other aging infrastructure in Phoenix.
The rate increase would fund a $1.7 billion capital improvement program to update the pipes across the city, which see about 4,000 waterline breaks each year.
Most of the city's pipes were installed in the middle of the last century, according to Assistant Water Services Director Troy Hayes.
"We have over 7,000 miles of pipe spread all over 540 square miles," Hayes said, adding that the average lifespan of a pipe is 75 years. "This is a problem that the Phoenix area is going to have to deal with over the next 30 years or so."
Hayes said the city should act now to avoid steep fees in the future.
"We know that if we continually do invest in the infrastructure and we continue to maintain our system that it keeps the cost down," Hayes said. "It's about four times the cost when we have an issue that is unexpected versus when it's planned."
If the council approves the rate increase in March, residents could see changes to their water bills beginning in October, according to interim Water Services Director Eric Froberg.
3 rate increase options
The Water Services Department has proposed three options to increase the water rate over the next two years.
In the first of those options, Phoenix residents would see a 3% increase in 2021 and a 3.5% increase in 2022. The increase would amount to an additional $2.40 per month, or 8 cents per day, for the average household.
The Water/Wastewater Rate Advisory Committee, commissioned by the council to oversee the capital improvement program, recommended this plan.
The Water Services Department has proposed a second plan in which residents' water bills would not be affected in 2021 but would see a 6.5% increase in 2022.
This plan has garnered concern due to the bill spike it would cause next year, according to Froberg.
The final plan does not include a rate hike for 2021 but proposes a 3.5% increase in 2022.
In a public meeting last week, Froberg indicated the final option of just a 3.5% increase would not be sufficient to fund the needed infrastructure upgrades.
"We would go from a very proactive approach … to a very reactive," he said in reference to the third proposal.
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Residents have seen steadily higher rates
The City Council last approved a water rate increase of 6% in 2019 and 6% in 2020.
Along with the proposed 6.5% increase over the next two years, the Water Services Department predicts that rates would again need to increase by 3.5% for three consecutive years beginning in 2023.
"If you don't invest in the infrastructure, there's a high potential that you're going to have problems," Hayes said. "You'll have more main breaks, you'll have more outages and things like that."
The current water and sewer bill for the average Phoenix resident is less than that of residents in Mesa, Glendale and Peoria. Even with the increase, Phoenix bills would still be affordable, according to Froberg.
As part of pandemic relief, the city offered more than 1,700 households water bill assistance, but funding for that program has been exhausted. Additionally, qualifying criteria for utility support will change once the state of emergency has been cleared.
In normal circumstances, low-income families can apply for water bill assistance once a year through Project Assist, Froberg said.
How to attend the online hearings
The Water Services Department will host two more virtual public hearings ahead of the council vote. English-speakers can register to attend at 3 p.m. Feb. 11, and Spanish-speakers can register to attend at 6 p.m. Feb. 18 through phoenix.gov/waterrates.
Department officials also urge residents to complete a survey on its website. Community concerns will then be shared with council members before they make their decision.
A final hearing will take place on March 17. The council will vote immediately following the hearing.
Reach the reporter at nicole.sadek@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter at @NicoleSadek.


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Visualizing Firestorms
by Morgan Stevens October 26, 2021
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I wanted to find one of Brian Doyle's old emails whose subject line, I knew, was "heh heh heh heh." Gmail turned up ten qualifying messages, though their number of hehs varied, and I was grateful for the loose interpretation of my query. I smiled at the revelation, the habit I had never before discerned: ten messages, all aiming to brighten my day with laughter. This fact alone is perhaps sufficient, and I should turn quietly away here, I suppose, but for the fact that I began using Gmail only in 2012, and I wanted to check older emails, too, so I searched another online archive, which turned up an additional nine, going back two further years, to 2010. I know there must be more, as Brian and I became friends at the end of the last millennium, and while our correspondence trickled slowly at first, it soon became frequent, fitful showers, with emails every few weeks, at least, nearly always initiated by him, nearly always including a brief piece of light prose, sometimes formatted in a thin proemic column, always designed to delight and grant insight, eliciting my grins and chuckles, sometimes my tears, always my admiration and wonder. But for now those other probable ephemeral messages remain inaccessible to me, hidden on some remote server somewhere just out of reach.
I pause here for a moment to collect my thoughts and gather my emotions, as it has been eighteen months since Brian died, too young, suddenly, his teeming brain overtaken by a cancer. I write the previous sentence and feel that it is insufficient, too crafted, leaning too hard into something fabricated and feigned, yet I cannot design anything better to explain myself while also informing my imagined reader of the fact of Brian's still-recent death.
Back at it: I have just now (the essay is written in the eternal now) revisited and reread the nineteen Brian Doyle emails with subject lines of variable hehs in order to create this Advent essay to share with you.
Leía solo Blake y Gibbons como niño?
I don't think there's a word for ampersand in Spanish, I can't find one anyway, so I'll abandon my translation here, return it to the vast collection of things left undone. For all his manic finishing of things, Brian was also utterly mellow. I'm sure he wouldn't mind.
Imagine for a moment if all that could be said of us was our average size, and coloring, and eating habits, and predators, and the arrangement of our wings, and what direction we liked to face when basking in the fading autumnal light; would that say anything of what and who and why we are? No? Then join me, for a sidelong moment, right now, in wondering at the vast wealth of what we do not know about even the beings we see every day around us… In a real sense such a roaring absence of knowledge is a great gift, for it leads to wondering, and wonder is a lovely place to be.
The emails remain for me a source of inspiration, but that's an easy word, one we toss back and forth with everything from pop songs to soap commercials. So let me agree that wonder is a lovely place to be, and let me affirm that although I am saddened that there will be no new messages from my dear friend, I trust that he remains somewhere, just out of reach, and I am cheered that his notes still impart a measure of his pure enthusiasm, a better word I think, as it suggests its etymology, through the Renaissance ("literary inspiration") to ancient Greece, when and where to be en-thused was to be "inspired or possessed by God," whom perhaps we experience primarily in each other, as Brian would often say.
Brian Doyle was a dad, a dad, a dad, a husband, a son, a brother, a friend, a basketball nut, and a citizen, who edited the University of Portland's alumni magazine for a quarter century and wrote twenty-eight books of essays, novels, stories, proems, and prayers. His essays, which often appeared in Orion, Harper's, The American Scholar, The Atlantic, and many other journals, were reprinted in the Best American Essays seven times, as well as the Best American Spiritual Writing, the Best American Science and Nature Writing, and other anthologies. He was awarded the Oregon Book Award, the John Burroughs Medal, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and several other prizes. Brian died of brain cancer in May 2017.
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Thanks for bringing Brian's burgeoning brilliance back to us, albeit briefly.
I'm glad you joined me for the reminiscence, Dinty.
Thank you for sharing Brian Doyle's humane spirit, boisterous good will and generous sense of God. A perfect Advent calendar entry for today.
Thanks, Sheela. He's terribly missed.
Essay advent calendar easily translates for me into daily meditations with Patrick. I'm in!
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NEW YORK/HELSINKI – Wireless technology company Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) has filed a lawsuit against mobile giant Nokia (NOK) accusing it of infringing a dozen patents related to the most widespread cell phone standard.
Qualcomm said on Monday it wanted Nokia, the world's No. 1 mobile phone maker, to stop selling or producing products in the United States designed for GSM mobile phone networks (search) and that it was demanding financial damages from the Finnish mobile firm.
The suit comes just days after Nokia and five other high technology companies complained to the European Commission (search) about Qualcomm's market practices, accusing it of stifling competition in the third-generation mobile phone chip market. Qualcomm rejected the accusations.
A Nokia spokeswoman said the company had no immediate comment on the Qualcomm lawsuit, which was filed in San Diego Federal Court (search) on Nov. 4.
Qualcomm dominates the market for technology and chips for CDMA, the mobile phone technology it invented. It said Nokia has used some of Qualcomm's CDMA technology to improve GSM networks so that they too could achieve faster speeds for data services such as video calls and Internet downloads.
GSM, short for Global System for Mobile Communications, has become the dominant mobile phone standard and is used in about two out of every three handsets in the world. The CDMA standard is mostly used in the Americas and parts of Asia.
Shares in Nokia were down 0.4 percent at 14.40 euros by 1343 GMT, compared to a DJStoxx tech index 0.1 percent lower.
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Qualcomm accused Nokia of infringing its patents by making or selling products in the United States that comply with GSM standards. It said the lawsuit affected 11 Qualcomm patents and one belonging to its wholly owned subsidiary, SnapTrack Inc.
"Until recently, we had been led to believe that these issues might be resolved cooperatively and amicably," Qualcomm lawyer and Senior Vice President Louis M. Lupin said.
"However, it now appears that a cooperative resolution of these issues is quite unlikely and we must move forward with the litigation in order to protect our rights and to get these issues resolved," Lupin added in a statement.
Nokia and other companies, including Broadcom and Texas Instruments as well as Ericsson of Sweden complained to the European Commission last month about Qualcomm.
They said it offered preferential terms on royalties of technology patents to manufacturers who also bought its chipsets — hardware inside a mobile phone — and stifled competition, accusations Qualcomm rejected.
All mobile phone chip and handset makers need Qualcomm's CDMA technology for the third-generation successor to GSM, which is called Wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) and UMTS.
Nokia, Ericsson and others say they have contributed significantly to the W-CDMA standard and also expect royalties, which may be hard if Qualcomm sticks to its licensing terms, which Nokia said are "not fair and reasonable."
Nokia has a rocky relationship with Qualcomm. It has struggled for years to get a share in the CDMA mobile market equal to its chunk of GSM sales by using its own CDMA-designed chips rather than Qualcomm's, but has so far failed.
Virtually all its rivals in the CDMA market use Qualcomm chips.


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Q: How to get date ranges over equal consecutive values having a single date I have a table like this:
CREATE TABLE Rates
(
   RateGroup int NOT NULL,
   Rate decimal(5, 2) NOT NULL,
   DueDate date NOT NULL
);

This table contains rates which are valid from a certain due date to the day before the next due date. If no next due date is present, the rate's validity has no end. There can be multiple consecutive due days with the same rate and a certain can appear on different non consecutive due days as well.
The rates are divided into groups. A single due date can appear in multiple groups but only once per group.
Here's some example data:
INSERT INTO Rates(RateGroup, Rate, DueDate)
VALUES
      (1, 1.2, '20210101'), (1, 1.2, '20210215'), (1, 1.5, '20210216'),
      (1, 1.2, '20210501'), (2, 3.7, '20210101'), (2, 3.7, '20210215'),
      (2, 3.7, '20210216'), (2, 3.7, '20210501'), (3, 2.9, '20210101'),
      (3, 2.5, '20210215'), (3, 2.5, '20210216'), (3, 2.1, '20210501');

RateGroup
Rate
DueDate

1
1.20
2021-01-01

1
1.20
2021-02-15

1
1.50
2021-02-16

1
1.20
2021-05-01

2
3.70
2021-01-01

2
3.70
2021-02-15

2
3.70
2021-02-16

2
3.70
2021-05-01

3
2.90
2021-01-01

3
2.50
2021-02-15

3
2.50
2021-02-16

3
2.10
2021-05-01

Now I want a query which folds multiple consecutive rows of a rate group with the same rate to a single row containing the date range (start and end date) where the rate is valid.
This is the desired result:

RateGroup
Rate
StartDate
EndDate

1
1.20
2021-01-01
2021-02-15

1
1.50
2021-02-16
2021-04-30

1
1.20
2021-05-01
NULL

2
3.70
2021-01-01
NULL

3
2.90
2021-01-01
2021-02-14

3
2.50
2021-02-15
2021-04-30

3
2.10
2021-05-01
NULL

How can I achieve this?

A: This can be done with Common Table Expressions
uilizing the OVER Clause
as in the following query:
WITH
    RatesWithBegin AS
        (
            SELECT RateGroup, Rate, DueDate,
                    CASE
                        WHEN Rate = LAG(Rate) OVER (PARTITION BY RateGroup ORDER BY DueDate)
                            THEN 0
                        ELSE 1
                    END AS IsBegin
                FROM Rates
        ),
    RatesFromTo AS
        (
            SELECT RateGroup, Rate, DueDate AS StartDate,
                    LEAD (DATEADD(day, -1, DueDate)) OVER
                        (
                            PARTITION BY RateGroup
                            ORDER BY DueDate
                        ) AS EndDate,
                    SUM (IsBegin) OVER
                        (
                            PARTITION BY RateGroup
                            ORDER BY DueDate
                            ROWS UNBOUNDED PRECEDING
                        ) AS RangeID
                FROM RatesWithBegin
        )
    SELECT RateGroup, MAX(Rate) AS Rate, MIN(StartDate) AS StartDate,
            NULLIF(MAX(COALESCE(EndDate, '99990101')), '99990101') AS EndDate
        FROM RatesFromTo
        GROUP BY RateGroup, RangeID
        ORDER BY RateGroup, StartDate;

How does it work?
RatesWithBegin AS
    (
        SELECT RateGroup, Rate, DueDate,
                CASE
                    WHEN Rate = LAG(Rate) OVER (PARTITION BY RateGroup ORDER BY DueDate)
                        THEN 0
                    ELSE 1
                END AS IsBegin
            FROM Rates
    ),

Here we are using LAG()
to compare the current rate to it's predecessor. PARTITION BY RateGroup makes sure that we don't
mix rate groups and ORDER BY DueDate determines the order at which we look at the rows.
If the current rate is equal to it's predecessor we mark the row with a 0 otherwise with a 1.
The result of this CTE would look like so for the first rate group:

RateGroup
Rate
DueDate
IsBegin

1
1.20
2021-01-01
1

1
1.20
2021-02-15
0

1
1.50
2021-02-16
1

1
1.20
2021-05-01
1

0 and 1 are no arbitrary values; they are needed for the next step.
RatesFromTo AS
    (
        SELECT RateGroup, Rate, DueDate AS StartDate,
                LEAD (DATEADD(day, -1, DueDate)) OVER
                    (
                        PARTITION BY RateGroup
                        ORDER BY DueDate
                    ) AS EndDate,
                SUM (IsBegin) OVER
                    (
                        PARTITION BY RateGroup
                        ORDER BY DueDate
                        ROWS UNBOUNDED PRECEDING
                    ) AS RangeID
            FROM RatesWithBegin
    )

In this CTE we build a running total over the IsBegin column with
SUM(). Due to the value being 1 at the start
of a new range and 0 within a range our running total increments always at the begin of a new
range. This leads to an uniqe number for each range.
With LEAD() we add
the day before the next due date in our range to the output. The result of this step for the first rate group is then:

RateGroup
Rate
StartDate
EndDate
RangeID

1
1.20
2021-01-01
2021-02-14
1

1
1.20
2021-02-15
2021-02-15
1

1
1.50
2021-02-16
2021-04-30
2

1
1.20
2021-05-01
NULL
3

SELECT RateGroup, MAX(Rate) AS Rate, MIN(StartDate) AS StartDate,
        NULLIF(MAX(COALESCE(EndDate, '99990101')), '99990101') AS EndDate
    FROM RatesFromTo
    GROUP BY RateGroup, RangeID
    ORDER BY RateGroup, StartDate;

Now that we have an unique identifier (RangeID) for the date ranges we can do a simple
aggregation with GROUP BY to get our desired result. Since the ranges can be open ended
(no next due date) we use
NULLIF(MAX(COALESCE(EndDate, '99990101')), '99990101')

to make sure that NULL is always treated as the latest possible date.


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The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday proposed to roll back energy efficiency standards on some types of light bulbs, triggering protests from advocates who say the Trump administration's move is costly, unnecessary and possibly illegal.
DOE wants to reverse a 2017 decision made by the department to expand the types of light bulbs covered under stronger standards. Experts at the Appliance Standards Awareness Project say that by 2025, the changes would cause consumers to lose out on $12 billion a year in electricity savings.
The proposed rulemaking would involve rewriting efficiency standards stemming from bipartisan comprehensive energy legislation passed in 2007, the Alliance to Save Energy (ASE), noted. That legislation has led to increased adoption of LEDs and encouraged innovation in new lighting products.
DOE's proposed rollback of light bulb standards puts at risk significant household energy savings and reduced emissions, according to ASE. And the group says the implications go even farther.
"This is about so much more than lightbulbs. It's about progress and innovation and making sure we have practical rules in place," ASE President Jason Hartke said in a statement. "I just don't understand the rationale behind trying to turn back the clock."
The department had determined in 2017, based on the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, that seven additional categories of light bulbs should be covered under stricter efficiency standards starting in 2020, including those used in indoor recessed lighting and candelabra fixtures. Exemptions beyond 2020 were maintained for more than a dozen other bulb categories based on sales data, technical features and other criteria, ASE officials said.
They pointed to research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that showed about 2.9 billion of the total light bulbs sold in 2015 fall under the new categories to be covered starting in 2020 by the higher efficiency standards. For comparison, ASE noted that about 3.5 billion of the most-common A-series lightbulbs were sold in the same year.
The Natural Resources Defense Council estimated the rollback would almost cut in half the number of bulbs to be covered by 2020 energy-saving rules.
"Aside from the monetary benefits for consumers, the aggregate impact is enormous," Hartke said. "This is one of the most significant energy efficiency standards in U.S. history."
Leaders from the Appliance Standards Awareness Project and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy issued a joint statement condemning the DOE's proposal.
The rollback "would cost consumers billions of dollars and increase pollution that harms public health and the environment," the groups said. They estimated U.S. electricity use would increase by 80 billion kWh per year, without the new standards.
DOE's draft rule is open for public comment for 60 days and there will likely be a legal battle over the proposed cuts.
"This is another senseless and illegal Trump administration rollback that will needlessly hike our energy bills and spew tons more pollution into the air," Noah Horowitz, director of NRDC's Center for Energy Efficiency Standards, said in a statement.
Pointing to the 2017 decision to put new categories of light bulbs under the stricter standards, DOE in its proposed rulemaking said the agency determined "the legal basis underlying those revisions misconstrued existing law," and as a result they are being withdrawn.
But according to the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, the rollback plan "is most likely illegal, violating a federal law that prohibits DOE from weakening efficiency standards for products such as light bulbs."
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AI knows when you're going to die. But unlike in sci-fi movies, that information could end up saving lives.
A new?paper published in?Nature?suggests that feeding electronic health record data to a deep learning model could substantially improve the accuracy of projected outcomes.
In trials using data from two US hospitals, researchers were able to show that these algorithms could predict a patient's length of stay and time of discharge, but also the time of death.
The neural network described in the study uses an immense amount of data, such as a patient's vitals and medical history, to make its predictions.
A new algorithm lines up previous events of each patient's records into a timeline, which allowed the deep learning model to pinpoint future outcomes, including time of death.
The neural network even includes handwritten notes, comments, and scribbles on old charts to make its predictions. And all of these calculations are done in record time, of course.
What can we do with this information, besides fear the inevitable? Hospitals could find new ways to prioritize patient care, adjust treatment plans, and catch medical emergencies before they even occur.
It could also free up healthcare workers, who would no longer have to manipulate the data into a standardized, legible format.


While he'll reprise his role as the legendary Italian Stallion, Sylvester Stallone will not return to the Rocky franchise as director on the upcoming Creed 2.
"The character of Adonis Creed reflects this generation and its challenges. I believe it's important for the director to also be a part of this generation like I was in mine, to make the story as relatable as possible. We are extremely lucky to have the talented young filmmaker Steven Caple Jr. step up and accept the role of director. I am confident that he and Michael B. Jordan will hit it out of the park!"


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By Adam Kerr | Oct 16, 2017
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You've probably heard them for their controversial breakout single, "Pumped Up Kicks", or caught them when they performed here at Fort Canning Park in 2012. But five years and two records later, Foster The People are back for another headlining gig on Jan 30 next year, this time at Zepp @ BigBox Singapore.
That one track that helped shoot the now four-piece band into the limelight earned them a Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Song, as well as nods for Grammy, BRIT, NME and Teen Choice awards. In fact, it was touted as the anthem for 2011. Along with other big hits like "Don't Stop (Color On The Walls)", "Houdini" and "Helena Beat", their debut record Torches went on to sell nearly two nearly two million copies and over ten million singles worldwide.
While their sophomore album Supermodel focused on themes of negativity towards pop culture and consumer ideology, their latest release takes a slightly different turn in terms of sound, drawing influences from '80s style R&B, EDM and dance genres infused with their signature pop sound.
Early bird tickets are priced at $138-158 (regular prices are $148-$168) via Sistic from Oct 20.


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Nikolai Semjonowitsch Kardaschow (; * 25. April 1932 in Moskau; † 3. August 2019) war ein russischer Astrophysiker und erster Direktor des Astro Space Center () der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Moskau.

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Nikolai Kardaschow graduierte 1955 an der Staatlichen Moskauer Universität, setzte sein Studium bei Iosif Schklowski am Sternberg-Institut für Astronomie fort und wurde 1962 promoviert.

1963 untersuchte Kardaschow den «Quasar CTA-102» und führte damit die ersten Bemühungen der damaligen UdSSR  in der Suche nach außerirdischer Intelligenz durch. Im Zuge dieser Arbeiten beschäftigte er sich mit der theoretischen Möglichkeit, dass außerirdische Zivilisationen jener auf der Erde Millionen oder Milliarden von Jahren voraus sein könnten. Er entwarf daraufhin die Kardaschow-Skala, um solche Zivilisationen zu klassifizieren. Diese Bemühungen Russlands, außerirdische Intelligenz aufzuspüren, fanden einige Jahre vor den Bemühungen der USA statt. Weitere russische Forscher auf diesem Gebiet waren Wsewolod Troizki und Iosif Schklowski, der ehemalige Professor Kardaschows.

Kardaschow wurde am 12. Dezember 1976 außerordentliches Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften der UdSSR, Abteilung Allgemeine Physik und Astronomie. Am 21. März 1994 wurde er zum ordentlichen Mitglied erhoben. 1990 wurde er ordentliches Mitglied der Academia Europaea. Am 7. Februar 2012 wurde der Asteroid (39509) Kardashev nach ihm benannt. 2014 erhielt er den Demidow-Preis der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Literatur
 David W. Swift: Seti Pioneers – Scientists Talk about Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson 1993, ISBN 0-8165-1119-5, Nikolai S. Kardashev S. 178–197
 Kardashev, N. S.: Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations. Soviet Astronomy, Vol. 8, p. 217, (1964)@ NASA ADS (abgerufen am 2. Februar 2010)
 Nikolaj S. Kardashev: Astrophysics on the threshold of the 21st century. Gordon and Breach Science Publ., Philadelphia 1992, ISBN 2-88124-817-9.
 Nikolaj S. Kardashev u. a.: Radioastronomical Tools And Techniques. Cambridge Sci. Publ., Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-1-904868-29-3.
 Nikolaj S. Kardashev: The Astrophysical Aspects of the Search for Signals from Extraterrestrial Civilizations. in: Samuil A. Kaplan: Extraterrestrial Civilizations - Problems of Interstellar Communication. Jerusalem 1971, keine ISBN, S. 12–58, Online@archive.org, abgerufen am 16. August 2011

Weblinks
 Кардашев, Николай Семенович Eintrag bei der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (russisch)
 Strategies of Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence A Fundamental Approach to the Basic Problem bigear.org (abgerufen am 12. Oktober 2010)

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Mitglied der Academia Europaea
Person als Namensgeber für einen Asteroiden
Träger des Demidow-Preises
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Home » Plays » Broadway » The Great Society
Brian Cox roars his way through with Shakespearean authority as LBJ in this cluttered docudrama depicting the tumultuousness of the U.S. in the 1960's.
Posted on November 6, 2019 by Darryl Reilly in Broadway, Plays
Brian Cox as President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Thomas as Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Gordon Clapp as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in a scene from Robert Schenkkan's "The Great Society" at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (Photo credit: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade)
Darryl Reilly, Critic
Roaring and seizing the stage like the great Shakespearean actor he is, Brian Cox's majesty transcends Robert Schenkkan's The Great Society's lumpiness. His hair darkened, utilizing his distinctive rumbling voice and occasionally employing a slight Texan twang, Mr. Cox's portrayal of Lyndon Baines Johnson goes for the soul of that complex and proud figure, rather than impersonation. Cox's entrancing performance has the essence of a doomed king out of Shakespeare. Initial regal arrogance gives way to pathos as he compromises his principles. There is doddering as events take their toll on his mentality and finally a harrowing acceptance of his egotistical self-imposed failure. Cox's magnificence is the centerpiece of this cluttered historical drama.
LBJ's ambitious social programs in the United States of the 1960's being sidetracked by the folly of the Vietnam War and his mishandling of the unrest caused by the Civil Rights Movement, have been the subject of books, documentaries and television docudramas. Playwright Schenkkan's stage treatment of this material is a clumsy waxworks affair of a multitude of forgotten and remembered personages spouting off during two choppy acts.
Barbara Garrick as Lady Bird Johnson, the First Lady, and Brian Cox as President Lyndon Baines Johnson in a scene from Robert Schenkkan's "The Great Society" at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (Photo credit: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade)
Amidst the superficial panorama, there are effective sequences taking place in the Oval Office, but then there are clunky scenes of protests, police brutality and military battles. Mr. Schenkkan's device of having a soulful Vice President Hubert Humphrey around as an ever-present foil to counter LBJ's hubris is inspired. Schenkkan's sense of history is assured but his grasp of drama is deficient. Most striking is the somber depiction of LBJ's televised March 31, 1968 declination to seek reelection. Instead of this being a powerful finale, it's then followed by a lame imaginary bit. Many incidents would fare better as brief video clips rather than strained onstage episodes.
All the Way was Schenkkan's 2012 regionally produced taut, epic and suspenseful work dramatizing LBJ's battle to obtain Congressional support for his Civil Rights Act of 1964. It reached Broadway in 2014, where it won Tony Awards for Best Play and for Brian Cranston's performance as LBJ and was adapted into a 2016 HBO film. In comparison, The Great Society which also was first performed regionally, is a wayward hodgepodge that doesn't cohere with satisfaction. Embedded within this busy production are resonant sequences but they're not enough to put it over. As with many Shakespeare productions, The Great Society's program includes an insert identifying the large assortment of characters. The principal cast does reasonable facsimiles of the famous figures they portray, with many playing several roles.
Marchánt Davis as Secret Service Agent, Brian Cox as President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Bryce Pinkham as Senator Robert F. Kennedy in a scene from Robert Schenkkan's "The Great Society" at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (Photo credit: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade)
Richard Thomas' Hubert Humphrey conveys weak morality without replicating Humphrey's speech pattern. Expectedly sly and scheming is David Garrison's Richard Nixon. Mr. Garrison is equally malevolent as George C. Wallace. Chicago-accent intact, and domineering is Marc Kudisch's Richard J. Daley. Gordon Clapp as J. Edgar Hoover is more befuddled than vicious. Frank Wood's Senator Everett Dirksen is wily and folksy. Grantham Coleman as Martin Luther King Jr. is suitably fiery. Going a bit overboard with the Boston dialect is the bewigged with flowing locks Bryce Pinkham, who makes a pointed impression as Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Director Bill Rauch's solid staging is at its best when concentrating on the political drama indoors where the combative characters' debates incite interest on the issues of the time. For the outdoor clashes, Mr. Rauch's struggles for crackle despite the inherent insipidness. Rauch does achieve strong performances from the company and momentum in the more contained second act with his focused pacing.
The large, round and raised playing area with its Capitol and White House embellishments created by scenic designer David Korins is an arresting dream-like landscape. The back wall has panels where projection designer Victoria Sagady's accomplished images and news footage are shown. Lighting designer David Weiner crafts the wavering look of a dimension that crosses straightforward reenactment with invented scenes. Paul James Prendergast's searing sound design renders the blaring effects with modulation and his sharp modernistic original score with flair. Besides a bounty of fine dark suits for the men, costume designer Linda Cho's women's wear is stylishly 1960's.
Like the era it presents, The Great Society is crammed with tumultuousness and ends in disappointment. Seeing it in the present, with its collection of divisive issues, a polarized electorate and controversial political leaders, it does have a sense of American history repeating itself.
The Great Society (through November 30, 2019)
Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 West 65th Street, in Manhattan
For tickets, call 212-239-6200 or visit: http://www.greatsocietybroadway.com
Running time: two hours and 40 minutes with one intermission
Bill Rauch
Brian Cranston
Bryce Pinkham
David Garrison
David Korins
David Weiner
Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade
Frank Wood
Gordon Clapp
Grantham Coleman
Linda Cho
Marc Kudisch
Marchánt Davis
Paul James Prendergast
Robert Schenkkan
Victoria Sagady
Vivian Beaumont Theater
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DESPITE suffering the largest defeat for a sitting government in history when her Brexit deal was rejected by MPs, Theresa May continues to cling to office.
On March 27, however, she said she will stand down if MPs back her deal when it's voted on for a third time.
Why will there be a leadership contest?
Just two days before the UK was originally meant to leave the European Union, Mrs May finally pledged to step aside to win over her colleagues.
The UK is currently set to leave on May 22 — but if no deal can be agreed then the UK will be on course to crash out of the union on April 12 without a deal.
How will the Tories choose a new leader?
If there is to be a leadership contest it will last up to six weeks held under the rules set out by the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs.
Candidates will need to be nominated by two fellow Tory MPs and the field is whittled to just two by a series of votes in the parliamentary party in which the lowest ranked candidate is eliminated.
After that ordinary party members to choose and the two candidates will be expected to take part in debate.
Candidates can withdraw at any time leaving the way for the one remaining to the crowned leader.
That happened in 2016 when Andrea Leadsom pulled out and sent Theresa May into Downing Street.
There are a number of possible candidates currently vying for position but there is always a chance an unknown could emerge.
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is still a hugely popular figure among Tory grassroots and the general public, although Michael Gove is the current bookies' favourite.
Sajid Javid is also in the running after he was appointed Home Secretary in the wake of the Windrush scandal and the resignation of Amber Rudd.
Other possible candidates include Dominic Raab, Jeremy Hunt, Amber Rudd and David Lidington.


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Case Addresses Solar Lease, Mineral Owner, and the Accommodation Doctrine
Posted on January 25, 2021 by tiffany.dowell
The El Paso Court of Appeals addressed an interesting and important issue recently in Lyle v. Midway Solar. How does Texas law apply when there is a potential conflict between the operation of a large scale solar facility and the ability of the mineral owner to extract oil or gas?
This dispute involves a 315-acre tract of land in Pecos County.
The Lyles own 27.5% of the mineral rights to this land by virtue of a 1948 deed. There is no current mineral lease on the property, and the Lyles have no current plans to lease their mineral interest or otherwise develop the minerals currently. They have not commissioned any geological studies, and they have not entered into any drilling contracts for mineral extraction. In the past 5 years, the Lyles have not received any offers to lease their mineral interest.
Mr. Drgac owns 100% of the surface estate to the land and has no mineral ownership. In October 2015, Mr. Drgac entered into a solar lease with Midway Solar, LLC, which includes the land at issue. The term of solar lease, when considering the options to renew, is 55 years. The lease gives Midway "free and unobstructed use and development of solar energy resources," and the right to place necessary transmission lines, electrical lines, and cable lines anywhere on the property, subject to Mr. Drgac's consent. The solar lease notes that Mr. Drgac does not own any mineral interest in the property and the mineral owners constitute a title encumbrance. Mr. Drgac agreed to cooperate with Midway to obtain surface waivers from each mineral interest owner.
The lease was then amended to identify "designated drill site tracts" on the leased property for the benefit of "any present or future operator" exploring for oil and gas. Specifically, the lease identified an 80-acre tract at the north end of the property and a 17-acre strip at the south end.
Midway built its solar field, which covers approximately 215 acres of the property, approximately 70% of the surface. When building the facility, Midway left open the two drilling sites identified in the amended lease. A photo of the solar facility is below.
During 2016, Midway obtained surface waivers from 20 individuals who owned mineral interest in adjoining properties. Although some of these waivers indicated the individuals had mineral rights in the property at issue, they actually did not. None of the 20 surface waivers that were obtained and recorded involved mineral owners of the property at issue. The Lyles complained about these waivers, 13 of which were amended to exclude reference to this property. Although Midway amended the content of the waivers, they did not have them re-signed or re-filed in the records. Additionally, Midway filed a "Disclaimer of Interest," stating that they disclaim any suggestion or implication that the waivers give Midway the right to develop the mineral estate on the property at issue.
The Lyles sued Mr. Drgac, Midway, and the twenty people who signed the surface waivers. They sought the following relief: (1) A declaration quieting title in their mineral estate because the waivers created a cloud on their title; (2) Midway and Mr. Drgac breached the 1948 lease by denying the Lyles reasonable access to their mineral by covering 70% of the property with the solar facilities; and (3) All defendants trespassed on the Lyles' mineral estate. They requested both monetary damages and a permanent injunction ordering the removal of the solar facilities. The Lyles settled with 13 of the surface waiver defendants. The remaining 7 of the surface waiver defendants did not enter an appearance on appeal or otherwise participate.
Multiple summary judgment motions were filed. The trial court granted Midway and Mr. Drgac's motion seeking an order stating that the disclaimer of interest filed in the deed records removed any purported cloud of title and requiring a certified copy of the court's order to be filed in the county records. The trial court granted Midway and Mr. Drgac's motion seeking a ruling that the accommodation doctrine applies to the interpretations of the 1948 deed. Finally, the court granted Midway and Mr. Drgac's motion that Midway owed no duty to the Lyles to accommodate their right to use the surface because the Lyles had not developed their mineral estate and had no plans to do so. Additionally, the court dismissed claims against the 7 remaining waiver defendants, despite them filing no summary judgment motion seeking such relief.
The Lyles filed an appeal arguing that the trial court erred in granting summary judgment.
The Accommodation Doctrine
Under Texas law, when mineral and surface ownership is severed, the mineral estate is deemed the dominant estate. This gives the mineral owner the implied right to use as much of the surface as is reasonably necessary to produce the mineral. This right, however, is limited by the "accommodation doctrine." This doctrine essentially holds that when certain facts exist, the dominant mineral estate must accommodate an existing surface use. In order for the accommodation doctrine to apply, a surface owner must prove: (1) the mineral owner's use of the surface completely or substantially impairs the surface owner's existing surface use; (2) there is no reasonable alternative method available to the surface owner by which the existing use can be continued; and (3) there are "alternative, reasonable, customary, and industry-accepted methods available to the mineral owner which will allow the recovery of minerals and also allow the surface owner to continue the existing surface use." If the surface owner meets this burden of proof, the accommodation doctrine may require the mineral owner to utilize the reasonably alternative production method to allow the existing surface use to continue without being substantially impaired. The accommodation doctrine does not apply if the express terms of the parties' deed or contract determines the parties' rights with regard to surface uses. If a deed or contract is silent or ambiguous, the accommodation doctrine could potentially apply. [To read more about the accommodation doctrine, click here.]
Appellate Court Opinion
The El Paso Court of Appeals sided with Midway, finding that the accommodation doctrine applies, but that until the Lyles attempted to develop the minerals, there was no valid legal claim. [View Opinion here.] The deadline to seek review from the Texas Supreme Court has not yet passed, so there could be a petition filed in this case after the date of this blog post.
Trespass and breach of contract claims
First, the court addressed the trespass and breach of contract claims.
Is the accommodation doctrine applicable?
The court agreed with Midway, holding that the accommodation doctrine applies in this case.
The Lyles argue the 1948 mineral deed made the accommodation doctrine inapplicable because it specifically addresses the rights of the mineral lessee. They point to deed language that says, "Grantors further reserve unto themselves, their heirs and assigns, the right to such use of the surface estate in the lands above described as may be usual, necessary, or convenient in the use and enjoyment of the oil, gas, and general mineral estate hereinabove reserved." Courts have previously found the language "convenient" and "necessary" to be imprecise and unclear, allowing the accommodation doctrine to apply. Here, however, the lease also includes the term "usual," the Lyles seek to draw a distinction. They argue that, in 1948 when the deed was signed, vertical drilling was the usual method of extracting minerals, and it is the right to vertically drill that was reserved by the deed. Thus, they claim, it would be improper to allow the accommodation doctrine to limit their right to vertically drill because they can now use directional or horizontal drilling.
The court disagreed. The lease did not use the term "usual" in particular reference to drilling methods, and did not expressly grant the right to use any specific drilling method. Instead, "usual" was used in the more general sense, leaving room for disagreement as to what the term meant and the application of the accommodation doctrine.
The Lyles also relied on a elimination-of-liability provision, which provided: "And neither the Grantors herein nor their heirs, assigns, successors in title, nor any persons holding or claiming under them shall ever be liable to Grantees herein, their heirs, assigns, and successors in title for any damage or injury to the surface estate by reason of such use or for any damage or injury resulting from or claimed to have resulted from the exercise of the rights and privileges hereinabove reserved in connection with the reservation of the oil, gas, and general mineral estate." The Lyles read this to mean they could destroy any surface obstruction without liability, negating the basis for applying the accommodation doctrine.
Again, the court disagreed. The court held this clause only to address what would occur in the event that the mineral owner damaged the surface, but not addressing the claim here, that the surface owner damaged the surface.
Thus, the deed does not preclude the application of the accommodating doctrine.
Is attempt to develop minerals required?
The court held that under the accommodation doctrine, an attempt to develop the minerals is required for legal remedy.
Midway claims that the Lyles must be currently using or planning to use the surface estate for mineral development in order to maintain the claims they have asserted. The Lyles characterize Midway's argument as a ripeness challenge, and respond that they have suffered damage as a result of Midway's construction of the solar field on 70% of the property. They also argue they could not reasonably pursue mineral development due to the solar field.
The court held: "Midway has the right to use the surface. The Lyles also have the right to use the surface, but only as an adjunct to their mineral estate. If the Lyles exercise their right as part of developing the minerals, Midway must yield to the degree mandated by the application of the accommodation doctrine. But if the Lyles are not exercising their right, there is nothing to be accommodated. Stated otherwise, until the Lyles seek to develop their minerals, Midway owes no duty to the Lyles respecting the surface usage."
Were this not the rule, the court reasons, a mineral owner who undertakes no effort to develop his mineral estate could complain about any surface activity that might hinder, at some point in the future, oil and gas exploration. If the Lyles were eventually to seek to develop their mineral estate and present evidence that they were unable to successfully market al ease or otherwise develop the minerals, there could be a different result. That type of evidence, however, simply was not present here.
Are the trespass or breach of contract claims valid?
Even without the accommodation doctrine, the court holds that the Lyles' trespass claim would fail. To prove trespass, a party must show the unlawful entry by the defendant onto the property owned or controlled by the plaintiff which caused injury. Here, both parties have the right to use the surface, and Midway has not encroached on the Lyle's right to do as the Lyles have not actually attempt to exercise their rights. With regard to the breach of contract claim, the Lyles have never sought to use the property for mineral development as allowed under the 1948 deed, meaning the terms allowing use have not been breached. The court dismissed these claims without prejudice.
Quiet title claim
Second, the court turned to the quiet title claim.
The Lyles claim that the surface waivers obtained and filed by Midway clouded their title as they improperly referred to relinquishing surface use on the land at issue. The Lyles want a judgement declaring the waivers invalid, and an order requiring their removal from the public record. Midway argues the waivers do not cloud title and, even if they did, the correction instruments, disclaimer of interest, and trial court order removed any purported cloud.
Did the surface waiver agreements create a cloud on Lyles title?
A party seeking to quiet title must show: (1) it has an interest in the property; (2) title to the property is affected by a claim of the defendant; and (3) the defendant's claim, though facially valid, is in fact invalid or unenforceable. The court found that the agreements claiming mineral rights in the property at issue did cloud title. On their face, it claimed a mineral interest in the land at issue when there was no such interest. The invalidity of these documents would only be known by additional research and the use of extraneous documents. Further, for those 13 instruments in which Midway crossed out the reference to the land at issue, but did not have the signors re-sign and did not re-record the deeds as required by Texas Property Code, a cloud remained.
Did Midway's Disclaimer of Interest solve the cloud?
The court held that Midway's Disclaimer of Interest did not solve the problem. While the Disclaimer made clear that Midway did not have any right or interest in the mineral estate, the waivers did not purport to give Midway these rights. The waivers involved the mineral owners–who did not sign a disclaimer–claiming rights to the minerals. Thus, the waivers simply did not address the actual problem created by the waivers.
Did the trial court's order clear title?
The appellate court held that trial court's order did not solve the issue as it referred to the Amended Petition, which was not filed as part of the deed records. Again, someone looking at the deed records would be forced to do additional research to determine whether the waivers were valid as executed.
Dismissal of Seven Surface Wavier Defendants
Lastly, the court held that the trial court improperly dismissed seven of the surface wavier defendants from the case, despite their failure to seek such dismissal. The court simply lacked the jurisdiction to do so without a motion for summary judgment being filed.
First, this case highlights the potential conflict between a solar lessee and a mineral owner. This has certainly been an issue of concern for solar developers, and it is why many developers require mineral ownership, control, or surface use waivers before developing property. Although this case really does not address the balance between these two competing interests, it does heighten and define the issues that could arise. Also, it seems likely that the case may only make solar developers more adamant about obtaining leases from those who own, control, or can obtain surface waivers for minerals.
Second, this case does make clear that where a conflict arises and the deed does not address the issue, the accommodation doctrine will apply to limit the rights of the mineral owner. How that would play out remains a question as there had been no attempt to develop here, but we do know that the doctrine would be applicable. It is interesting to consider how a court would factor in issues like the ability to directionally drill and the fact that the solar developer intentionally left land bare for use by the mineral owner in its accommodation doctrine analysis. That question, however, remains for another day.
Third, although not the main issue in the case, it also illustrates the difficulty of sufficiently clearing a cloud on title and the importance of ensuring that there is precise language used that will make clear an encumbrance is removed.
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