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package org.apache.lenya.cms.publication;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.util.Iterator;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

import org.apache.cocoon.servlet.multipart.Part;
import org.apache.cocoon.util.AbstractLogEnabled;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.apache.commons.io.output.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.excalibur.source.SourceResolver;
import org.apache.excalibur.source.TraversableSource;
import org.apache.lenya.cms.metadata.MetaData;
import org.apache.lenya.cms.metadata.MetaDataException;

/**
 * Wrapper to handle resource documents.
 */
public class ResourceWrapper extends AbstractLogEnabled {

    protected static final String MEDIA_METADATA_NAMESPACE = "http://apache.org/lenya/metadata/media/1.0";
    private Document document;
    private SourceResolver sourceResolver;

    private static final String MIME_IMAGE_PJPEG = "image/pjpeg";
    private static final String MIME_IMAGE_JPEG = "image/jpeg";

    /**
     * @param document The document to wrap.
     * @param resolver The source resolver.
     * @param logger The logger.
     */
    public ResourceWrapper(Document document, SourceResolver resolver, Log logger) {
        this.document = document;
        this.sourceResolver = resolver;
    }

    protected Document getDocument() {
        return this.document;
    }

    /**
     * @param file The part to write.
     * @throws IOException
     * @throws MetaDataException
     * @throws RepositoryException
     * @throws DocumentException
     */
    public void write(Part file) throws IOException, MetaDataException, RepositoryException,
            DocumentException {

        String mimeType = file.getMimeType();
        String fileName = file.getFileName();
        int fileSize = file.getSize();
        InputStream inputStream = file.getInputStream();

        write(inputStream, mimeType, fileName, fileSize);
    }

    /**
     * Writes the content of the resource from a source.
     * @param sourceUri The source URI.
     * @throws MalformedURLException
     * @throws IOException
     * @throws RepositoryException
     * @throws DocumentException
     * @throws MetaDataException
     */
    public void write(String sourceUri) throws MalformedURLException, IOException,
            RepositoryException, DocumentException, MetaDataException {
        TraversableSource source = null;
        try {
            source = (TraversableSource) this.sourceResolver.resolveURI(sourceUri);
            write(source.getInputStream(), source.getMimeType(), source.getName(), source
                    .getContentLength());
        } finally {
            if (source != null) {
                this.sourceResolver.release(source);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Writes the content of the resource.
     * @param inputStream The input stream providing the content.
     * @param mimeType The mime type.
     * @param fileName The file name.
     * @param fileSize The file size.
     * @throws IOException
     * @throws MetaDataException
     * @throws MalformedURLException
     * @throws RepositoryException
     * @throws DocumentException
     */
    public void write(InputStream inputStream, String mimeType, String fileName, long fileSize)
            throws IOException, MetaDataException, MalformedURLException, RepositoryException,
            DocumentException {
        final ByteArrayOutputStream sourceBos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        IOUtils.copy(inputStream, sourceBos);

        InputStream input = new ByteArrayInputStream(sourceBos.toByteArray());

        MetaData mediaMeta = null;

        OutputStream destOutputStream = null;
        try {
            mediaMeta = document.getMetaData(MEDIA_METADATA_NAMESPACE);
            addResourceMeta(fileName, mimeType, input, mediaMeta);

            destOutputStream = document.getOutputStream();
            IOUtils.write(sourceBos.toByteArray(), destOutputStream);
            document.setMimeType(mimeType);
            document.setSourceExtension(getSourceExtension(fileName));

        } finally {
            if (destOutputStream != null) {
                destOutputStream.flush();
                destOutputStream.close();
            }
        }

        if (getLogger().isDebugEnabled())
            getLogger().debug("Resource::addResource() done.");
    }

    /**
     * Updates the image width and height depending on the content, if possible.
     */
    public void updateImageDimensions() {
        Document doc = getDocument();
        try {
            updateImageDimensions(doc.getMimeType(), doc.getInputStream(), doc
                    .getMetaData(MEDIA_METADATA_NAMESPACE), doc.toString() + " (" + doc.getPath()
                    + ")");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    protected void addResourceMeta(String fileName, String mimeType, InputStream stream,
            MetaData customMeta) throws MetaDataException, IOException {
        if (customMeta != null) {
            customMeta.setValue("filename", fileName);
        }
        updateImageDimensions(mimeType, stream, customMeta, fileName);
    }

    protected void updateImageDimensions(String mimeType, InputStream stream, MetaData customMeta,
            String logInfo) throws IOException, MetaDataException {
        if (canReadMimeType(mimeType)) {
            BufferedImage input = ImageIO.read(stream);
            if (input == null) {
                getLogger().warn("Couln't read image information from [" + logInfo + "].");
            } else {
                String width = Integer.toString(input.getWidth());
                String height = Integer.toString(input.getHeight());
                customMeta.setValue("height", height);
                customMeta.setValue("width", width);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Checks if a mime type denotes an image.
     * @param mimeType The mime type.
     * @return A boolean value.
     */
    public static boolean canReadMimeType(String mimeType) {
        Iterator iter = ImageIO.getImageReadersByMIMEType(translateMimeType(mimeType));
        return iter.hasNext();
    }

    /**
     * Translates the mime type if it can be read, but the tools don't think so. For example, all
     * jpegs from IE are marked as image/pjpeg, which ImageIO doesn't return a ImageReader for, even
     * though the one for image/jpeg works just fine, even for a real image/pjpeg.
     * @param mimeType The mime type.
     * @return The translated or original mime type if no translation was applied
     */
    private static String translateMimeType(String mimeType) {
        if (mimeType.equals(MIME_IMAGE_PJPEG)) {
            return MIME_IMAGE_JPEG;
        }
        return mimeType;
    }

    protected String getSourceExtension(String fileName) {
        String extension = "";
        int lastDotIndex = fileName.lastIndexOf(".");
        if (lastDotIndex > -1) {
            extension = fileName.substring(lastDotIndex + 1);
        } else {
            getLogger().warn("Can't determine extension from file name [" + fileName + "].");
        }
        return extension.toLowerCase();
    }

}

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Surface Transportation Infrastructure
NWRA supports increasing road capacity including a forward-looking view to address future needs.
Apart from the waste and recycling industry and the U.S. Postal Service, no other industry travels every road in America at least once every week. This makes the waste and recycling industry one of the most significant stakeholders in the surface transportation system.
The National Interstate Highway System was created in 1956 thanks to the vision and leadership of President Eisenhower. The United States population was only around 200 million when the system was built in the 1960s and 1970s, however, more than 310 million people use America's roads and bridges today – a load far larger than it was originally planned to handle.
Our nation's roads, bridges, ports and other transportation infrastructure have reached a crisis level that threatens to throttle back our economy and restrict future growth. The highway congestion resulting from this lack of capacity costs the U.S. nearly $80 billion annually in lost productivity and wasted fuel.
Nearly 200,000 miles of major highways require repairs and more than 47,000 bridges are deemed "structurally deficient," all of which impacts our industry's ability to deliver its services that are essential to maintaining the quality of American life efficiently and in a timely manner.
President Trump and congressional leaders have advocated investing more than $2 trillion in America's infrastructure over the coming decade to meet our country's growing needs. This idea has been met with bipartisan interest spanning the political spectrum from conservative to liberal. While some may call this level of investment ambitious, in reality it will just get the U.S. infrastructure back to the level where it should be, considering the country's current population and economic activity.
To fund this program, NWRA encourages Congress to work together and with the Trump Administration to develop an "all of the above" approach. Only a diverse set of revenue and financing streams can adequately supply the funding needed both to build new and repair existing infrastructure vital to our nation.
Introduction of "America's Transportation Infrastructure Act" (ATIA), a five-year (FY '21-'25), $287 billion bipartisan surface transportation bill is an important first step in addressing our nation's transportation infrastructure needs. The bill also will authorize new programs to incentivize key priorities including safety, resiliency, and emission reductions. ATIA increases funding to the existing Highway Safety Improvement Program and supports state-led initiatives to lower driver and pedestrian fatalities.
Members of the waste and recycling industry travel every road in America at least once every week making it one of the most significant stakeholders in the system.
Congestion and needed road repairs impact our industry's ability to deliver its services that are essential to maintaining the quality of American life efficiently and in a timely manner.
NWRA supports safety provisions in surface transportation legislation to support state "Move Over" laws covering the waste and recycling industry.

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July | 2013 | Mochi Woof!
Today was going fine until I started hearing a certain "b" word being thrown around and I started reading the signs–it was bath day, oh no!
With your help, I think I can get out of here, what do you think?
Um, Mommy, I know you're busy trying to make your dissertation deadline, but did you have to scatter things all over my space?
These artifacts are blocking the way to my carrier and I want to go to there…Woof!
Yesterday was a very bad day. Mommy and Daddy said the magic word, "go" so I got all excited that we were going somewhere. When we arrived at our destination, I realized I was tricked! We weren't anywhere fun, we were at the vet! Oh no!!!! Daddy took me to the pet store afterwards for a treat to make it up to me.
Well, until…a certain point anyway. It's all gone now and my teeth are pearly white! Woof!
Shhh,don't bother us right now, Mommy and I are hard at work.
Well, Mommy is writing and I'm being supportive by recharging my energy to play later. Being so cute and playing is a lot of work you know! Woof!
When I travel, I travel in comfort!
I get to take my crate-den with all of my bedding, and I get some kale to munch on (I already ate the stem!)! I know I'm a lucky boy, I can't help but smile! Woof!
I've been really busy lately, too busy to blog in fact. What have I been doing, you ask? Enjoying summer, of course!
Ahhh, how about that sun. I've also had fun spending time with Grandma and Grandpa, Lucille and Boudreaux, and visiting one of my favorite pet stores Paws and Claws! They even featured me on their Facebook page, check it out here! I'll write more soon, as soon as I have a moment, woof!
Have you seen the new cover for Frontline for small dogs? It's got one of my kin on it!
Although, I'd have to say, I would be pretty cute on the cover too…what do you think?
Daddy's working hard, so hard that I'm exhausted. Time to be supportive and catch some zzz's!
Shh, I'm sitting on the carpet underneath Mommy's chair where I'm not supposed to be. She won't notice me immediately because she's busy dissertating, whatever that means.
Lucky for me, how can anyone resist this cute face? Oh, you noticed me, Mommy! Will you give me a chest rub while I'm here? I'll give you a kiss! Woof!
I like eating healthy things! Mommy and Daddy only let me eat things that are good for cute Norwich Terriers. Recently, Mommy decided to look up what kind of yummy fruits and vegetables are good for me to eat and I started trying some. Grandma talks about how eating a rainbow is good for you anyway, so I might as well try it!
You already saw how I like carrots, so here are some of the greens I like to eat. Mommy steamed me these goodies. It's just broccoli and celery. I'm actually much more partial to broccoli than celery. I'll crunch on broccoli raw and eat all the tiny florets that fall to the ground when Mommy is preparing it. Celery…is okay. I like it better when it is steamed, but when it's raw, it HAS to have some peanut butter on it, otherwise YUCK!
Please, please let me have some, Mommy! Go go power of cute puppy dog eyes! Woof!


Como sabeis, entre las mejoras para G3 que prometen convertirlo en el juego que siempre debio ser, además del inestimable parche de la comunidad que lo convierte en algo ya jugable, sin la plaga de bugs que tenía de partida , esta el Quest Pack, de Humanforce, que salió en alemán y se encuentra en proceso de traducción al inglés y del que tenemos hilo en la sección de muy importante de este foro (y del que por cierto hay buenas noticias también, aunque para no doble-postear simplemente que el traductor decía hace nada que pudo recuperar los archivos traducidos que perdió tras estropearse su ordenador y pinta que tendremos la tradu ya en poco tiempo y de ahí al español, jeje); y también, aún más relevante que el Quest Pack (aunque según parece felizmente serán compatibles), el Community Story Project.
El CSP, por abreviar, como muchos de vosotros sabeis pretende mejorar Gothic 3 devolviendole el interés a la trama, reforzando la historia, devolviendo el espiritu de la saga Gothic al juego, esto es, se propone una mejora profunda del juego a todos los niveles, y no sólo añadir un monton de quests, como el Quest Pack y además en este caso saldrá en alemán e inglés, jeje, con lo que la traducción al español no tendrá que hacerse esperar.
Con textos en alemán, pero en un post que os voy a pegar ahora, de World of Gothic, complementario al video, en inglés, se explica como estan progresando, cuales son las mejoras que se plantean o que han ido desarrollando e incluso la traducción al inglés de los textos que podeis ver en el video. Todo se ha hecho con motivo de digamos hacer coincidir con la Pascua este "boletin" informativo especial, pero lo mejor de todo es que lo que se indica aquí es que al ritmo que van, a finales de 2010, quizá coincidiendo con Arcania, no lo sé, es bastante probable que saquen el CSP para para disfrute de todos.
The eastern special already was announced a long time ago and we will disclose a few secrets about the Community Story Project now.
We want to give you a first detailed overview in all parts of the game, we are working on. A new video, which shows these parts, is available in our YouTube Channel. It is the second teaser of the community story project and it shows the recent status of our project. So the scenes of the video don't show a final state.
At the moment we make great progress in almost all parts. The tests of chapter 1 are running now for some time und the tests of the next chapter will start within the next days. The works on Chapter 3 and 4 make advancement and our new storywriters startet their projects successfully.
At the same time we want to do something for the public relations with this Easter special and created a press kit, representing the backgrounds and our project plans in detail. This presskit is send to all known game magazines and will be soon available for everyone.
It is obviously that the game has not only one section, which needed to be revised. Six areas have emerged during the planning phase, which we want to improve.
The atmosphere of Gothic 3 is strongly behind those of its predecessor, which is attributable to a variety of factors. To get the content back on an equal level like the predecessors, we need to improve all of these factors.
The Gothic 3 main story can be summarized in a few words and is told in the game with nor words. Important figures speak only a few sentences with the hero and send him on a mission without explaining the background. The connections between the strands are only curtly explained and there are neither longer quest series nor background information.
Based on a highly upgraded main story we will use, as in the previous parts, chapters to separate important events of the game. Overall, the player is more directed through the game without being shortened in his freedom, which was one of the major changes of Gothic 3. Another principal object is to put the story more towards the add on "Forsaken Gods" and the next part of the Gothic series "Arcarnia".
Gothic 3 has a different faction system compared to the previous parts. The player don't needs to join any interest group and actions of the player against another faction don't create a reaction. There are no large phrases in the course of play.
The new faction system will address these issues. In the course of the game, the player has to join one of the three main groups (rebels, orcs or assassins) and has to select his affinity (magician or warrior). At the same time, there will be more faction-dependent or faction-related quests again. It will be possible to fight with the nordmar orcs against the clans. This was not possible in the game. Also we want to integrate the 3 minor fractions (druids, nordmarer and nomads) into the main story.
In the previous Gothic parts the player could get information in many places about various aspects of the story, monsters and NPCs, or the history of the world. In Gothic 3 this area was greatly neglected and so the world seemed devilish lifeless. Many elements of the game seem to be not finished or have been implemented only half-heartedly. Many questions from previous parts remain unanswered. The history of many places or objects is missing.
All these points we want to tackle and improve. In the game the player will meet old friends, will read more about the game world and will play many unfinished story parts of the previous parts.
The balancing has been improved by the different community patches, which had their peak with the introduction of the Alternative Balancing in version 1.7. However, the patch improved the balancing in terms to leave as much of the game as it was.
The community story project will go a step further. We will improve the balancing and will try to come up to the qualities of Gothic 1 and Gothic 2. Also we will improve some parts, which are not logical or useless. These include a new weapon, chest-, skill-, and magic System.
Gothic 3 had a very good graphic as it was released. However, the world was too colorful and doesn't show the gloomy atmosphere and mood in the world, which is created by a war. Various smaller and larger fan projects have already worked before the Community Story Project was founded.
Based on two of these projects we are working on a dark version of textures. The atmosphere of war will be created by generally darker textures. Also we will revise NPC-, monster textures and effects. To also use newer computer hardware and to give the player an optimal feeling, textures with a higher resolution will replace the most textures. New textured armor and weapons complete this field. Players who do not like the new textures, will have the opportunity to exclude them form the installstion progress.
The music of Gothic 3 was the part of the game that is most been praised by many fans. The soundtrack is epic and there are many songs that fit too many areas of the game (such as for example attack or explore situations, music for various periods of a day and different cities and vegetation sections of the game). However, these songs are distributed irregularly in these different areas so that the music is either very varied but also monotonous or repetitive. You can find the same the same situation by the ambient sounds.
With improved sounds and maybe entirely new songs the community story project will improve this imbalance.
- your friends will be with you.
- Are you prepared to decide the War of the Gods?
En fin, suena impresionante y el video, aunque aun no es una versión definitiva, ya deja ver muchas cosas bien interesantes!!!
Quizá esto podría ir en temas importantes, no?
Sin duda es una gran noticia. Esto puede suponer que el Gothic 3 adquiera la categoría que siempre mereció y nunca pudo tener.
A ver que tal sale el asunto.
Realmente tiene una pinta brutal, sii!!!
1) la historia principal, donde personajes principales nos envian a realizar aventuras con apenas unas palabras, sin más explicaciones, se tratará de ahondar en el trasfondo, de dotar de más interes a las intervenciones de los personajes, sus diálogos, las conexiones entre los diferentes puntos, vaya hacer más densa e interesante la historia y no meramente un ir y venir haciendo aventuras sin trasfondo apenas, además de re-introducir la división en capitulos, ligados a acontecimientos importantes y hacer que la historia apunte más a los juegos posteriores de la saga, FG y Arcania.
2) Las facciones tendrán verdadero peso y las quest iran en muchos casos ligados a ellas, con reacciones a las acciones del personaje jugador y necesidad de ligarse a alguno de los grupos principales, asi como decidir su afinidad, entre mago y guerrero. Además se intentara enlazar mejor a las facciones menores con la historia.
3) Nada de un mundo inerte o semi-vacio, mucha información, referencias, del relato, de los monstruos o personajes no jugadores, así como del mundo de Gothic van a incluirse ahora, completando muchas partes e historias de lugares u objetos que parecen medio hechas o dejadas sin acabar. El mundo ahora será un mundo con un trasfondo vivo y con la posibildiad de encontrarse antiguos compañeros o terminar historias que quedaron pendientes y abiertas en anteriores partes de la saga.
5) Graficos, sí, son magnificos los que hay, pero podrian ser menos coloridos y más cercanos al aspecto sombrio de los anteriores Gothic, asi que opcionalmente se ofrecera la posibilidad (esto podras instalarlo o no, como quieras), de cambiar todas las texturas por otras más oscuras y acordes a la atmosfera de la saga Gothic.
6) La música de G3 es magnifica, pero tanto las canciones como sonido ambiente como estan distribuidas de manera irregular a veces son repetitivas y monotonas, ahora se distribuira y reordenara más logicamente y se incluiran nuevos temas y sonidos!!!
Y bueno, eso es más o menos las principales innovaciones, en una traducción rapidisima y muy por encima, pero que puede ser util para aquellos no muy amigos del ingles, jjee!!!
Una gran noticia, el juego merece tener esa escencia gothic!!!
Jeje, creo que valdrá mucho la pena, la verdad . Ganas tengo de que salga, pero paciencia, cuanto mejor lo hagan más contentos todos !!!
Madre mia que buena noticia si señor!!!
Lo mejor para que se pase rapido es no pensar mucho en el parche, asi se pasan rapido las cosas, hacedme caso esta probado por cientificos (vamos yo xD) y creo que este parche va a ser el que todos emos esperado tanto tiempo, el que leyas en foros que sacarian uno por el estilo y decias... "cuando lo sacen ya abra pasado 100 años" pues esa espera termina aqui señores, yo creo que este sera el definitivo parche, y tal como lo dicen en los foros que he leido, lo admiten, va a ser un gran parche, esperemos que sea asi y cruzemos los dedos para que salga bien.
Un saludo a todos, y que así sea este parche!!!!!!!!!
Es que entre el quest pack y el Story proyect va a ser un juegazo, y como dije antes casi interminable!!!
Y hay que añadir que no existe ninguna herramienta para modders como en oblivion y que son ellos los que han parcheado el juego.
La verdad es que sería una maravilla, esperemos que la cosa llegue a buen puerto !!!
Incluye tambien alguna armadura nueva, os pongo la de chaman.
Magnifica imagen y buenisimas noticias sobre lo que piensan implementar (me encanta lo del buceo y el montar a caballo también, genial que lo consideren). Como tengo en la cabeza las monturas de dragon de un mod o dos de Oblivion la idea me parece fantastica!!!!!
Pues a mi no me parece tan buena idea ya que no se puede explorar de igual manera, a la velocidad que vas se te pueden escapar muchas cosas como son las plantas, o eso o estar bajandote y subiendote del caballo.
Ojala que salga a flote este proyecto porque seria la culminacion de lo que debio ser el Gothic 3, los vicios luego van a ser pocos xD . Pedazo comunidad de modders que tiene el Gothic ehh.
Traigo nuevas noticias sobre el proyecto.
Por supuesto va a ser solo compatible con el 1.74CP y con el QP.
Ademas ya han terminado el capitulo 2 del juego (no se cuantos tendra al final) y han publicado imagenes de nuevas armas.


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Mayor Garcetti's Los Angeles
Mayor Eric Garcetti shares his picks for some of the must-see places in Los Angeles.
Lubov Azria's Los Angeles
Lubov Azria
Lubov Azria is the Chief Creative Officer of BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP. Established in 1989 in Los Angeles by Founder and CEO Max Azria, BCBGMAXAZRIA is recognized globally for its high-quality, chic and sophisticated offerings. Lubov joined the company as a designer in 1991 and was named Creative Director in 1996. During Lubov's tenure, the BCBGMAXAZRIA brand has evolved from an emerging contemporary line to one of America's leading design houses, with collections that include evening dresses, denim, outerwear, footwear, swimwear, handbags and small leather goods. In recognition of her accomplishments as a designer and creative leader, Lubov was inducted into the CFDA in 2010.
Read on for Lubov Azria's favorite places in L.A., from shopping and museums to great dining spots for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Harry Shum Jr.'s Los Angeles
Interview by Izumi Hasegawa
Professional dancer turned actor Harry Shum Jr. has shown his ability on the hit TV series "Glee." Now he has a new adventure: a dramatic role with his Chinese heritage on the new film "Revenge of the Green Dragons." Born in Costa Rica with a father from mainland China and a mother from Hong Kong, Harry was raised in San Francisco and has been enjoying L.A. life very much.
The Scenestar's Los Angeles
Oscar Rangel
Los Angeles is lucky to be one of the music capitals of the world, and musicians -- both popular and obscure -- often perform here. As a result, the city's music venues are an eclectic mix, ranging from those by the beach to a Hollywood cemetery. These are the venues that any music lover visiting Los Angeles should check out on their trip.
Gustavo Dudamel's Los Angeles
World-renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, shares his favorite places to spend a day in L.A. when he leaves the stage.
Jason Bentley's Los Angeles
Jason Bentley
Jason Bentley is the Music Director for KCRW 89.9 FM and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic. Explore Jason's picks for experiencing L.A.'s unique arts and culture.
LeVar Burton's Los Angeles
LeVar Burton, longtime host of Reading Rainbow, shares his favorite places in Los Angeles to take the whole family.


The Tezos Foundation, the non-profit that oversees the development of the governance-boosting blockchain protocol, tezos, has announced the launch of a $50 million venture fund.
Eager to foster its own blockchain ecosystem, money from the fund will be given to startups and developers building on the tezos platform, with capital being drawn from its record-setting $232 million initial coin offering (ICO) earlier this year, as well as undisclosed venture partners and its own holdings.
Designed to enable protocol changes through sophisticated voting, tezos touts governance as core to its offering. Upon its launch, the blockchain is promising to support smart contracts, and use a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm through which users would mine new blocks based on how many coins they hold.
Also addressed in the statements was the recent bitcoin hard fork.
Tezos said while it is currently holding additional Bitcoin Cash tokens, created from the bitcoin it raised in the sale, it plans to gradually sell these assets.
As reported previously, the project netted 65,627 BTC and 361,122 ETH by the time its ICO completed on July 13. Tezos is now the second-highest earning ICO, following a more than $250 million fundraise by the blockchain project filecoin yesterday.
With the update, the project is also proving its continuing communication to users, as it disclosed on July 18 its strategy to diversify its financial portfolio, and its plan to convert its crypto assets to some traditional tools such as cash, bond, stock and precious metal.
As such, the statements shed light on the evolving complexities with ICO funding, given the many different assets involved.


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Disability Activist Melissa Graham
#Olympic #homeless pavilion feels contrived and dumbed down
By Miro Cernetig, Vancouver SunFebruary 1, 2010
It doesn't take long to get that nagging feeling something's wrong inside the Olympics' homeless pavilion — a.k.a. the Downside Eastside Connect, a provincial kiosk that opens today to purportedly show the world the facts of life in our downtown ghetto.
Perhaps it's that staged, glossy photo at the door of the politicians — Housing Minister Rich Coleman and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson — smiling as they dig shovels into the ground to symbolize the construction of 14 social housing shelters. The caption carefully leaves out the fact these projects were started too late to be ready for the Olympics and are years away from completion.
Maybe what grates is those slick, large photo portraits of hand-picked inner-city residents whose stories of living on the streets are condensed into a few lines and conclude with plucky words of how their lives are now on hopeful trajectories.
Where things get totally strange, though, is at the back of the one-room pavilion. A large placard informs you a new library has been created at a nearby location for the Olympics.
But this is not a library of books. Rather what you get to check out, for 30 minutes at a time, is a real, live human being, one of many in a collection, from the Downtown Eastside. These "human books," paid an honorarium for their services, will recite their stories about life in Vancouver's ghetto.
It's well-intentioned, I guess. It's certainly preferable to putting the homeless into red tents during the Games, an exploitative stunt to get press dreamt up by the Pivot Legal Society.
Still, doesn't a human library inevitably hark back to the last century, when explorers brought back human specimens as living museum exhibits? It's sort of a silly device, too, like the notion behind Night At The Museum, the Hollywood film where the statues from the exhibits come to life after hours.
That's what's wrong with the homeless pavilion. It's contrived and dumbed down. Nobody needs publicity shots of smiling politicians, pre-canned 200-word testimonials or human books to find out about life in the city's poorest neighbourhood.
You just need to go outside.
The homeless and destitute still fill our streets. And they will be there in their unnatural habitat, whether you like it or not, for the world to see, during the Games.
They are a daily reminder our governments still have a long way to go in creating the social infrastructure to treat and house the city's homeless, its mentally ill, its addicted and its just plain unfortunate.
Their presence is also evidence of miscalculation.
After a decade of planning and building the Olympics, a multibillion-dollar enterprise that has gone pretty much like clockwork, our leaders only started focusing on the homeless file in the past few years. It had begun to dawn on them it might make for an embarrassing backdrop for Vancouver.
Inside the homeless pavilion, however, you will find no discussion of this political failure. Nor will you find any exhibits telling the ghetto's ugly truths: HIV infection rates that rival those of the developing world, continuing reports of missing women and the psychological scars inflicted by Vancouver's homegrown serial killer, Robert (Willie) Pickton.
No, at its essence the homeless pavilion is what one expects from a government still dealing with a crisis: A public relations exercise. Its intent is to manage anyone who might leave the Olympic bubble and be shocked by the grinding poverty a few blocks from their luxury hotel.
But this spin kiosk won't work.
For one thing, its location — in the courtyard of the new Woodward's complex — means most media won't ever find it. (Though the usual anti-Liberal, anti-gentrification protesters will. They are already planning their predictable protests for when it opens.)
Finally, the homeless pavilion is so heavy-handed, so relentlessly upbeat that any visiting reporter or dignitary who does stumble in will quickly sense they've entered a spin machine. It'll be hard to fool them. After all, they just have to step out, walk a block or two and discover what has been, and remains, Vancouver's greatest social failure.
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Drawing Biennial 2013
18 April - 15 May
Artists & Works
About Juliette Blightman:
Juliette Blightman (b. 1980, Farnham) lives and works in Berlin. Graduated with an MA from Central Saint Martins (2007) and a BA from Byam Shaw School of Art (2004). Awards include the Prix K-way Per4m, Artissima ArtFair, Torino (2016); and Junger Ankauf, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2016). Select works and performances include those held at ArtsCenter, Pasadena; Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien; Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Tramway, Glasgow; The Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London; Royal College of Art, London; Pavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin; Cubitt, London; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Artists Space, New York; and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart. Residencies include Fürstenberg Zeitgenoessisch, Heiligenberg (2014); CCA Andratx, Mallorca (2012); Kunstzeitraum, Pinakothek der Moderne, München (2010-11); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2010); and Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede (2008). Select solo exhibitions include RELATIONS, O-Town House, Los Angeles (2018/19); Nightshift, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney (2017/18); Loved an Image, Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam (2017); Extimacy, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (2016); Portraits and Repetition, South London Gallery, London (2015-16); Come inside, Bitte, Eden Eden, Berlin (2015); and The day grew darker still, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2010). Select group exhibitions include Ribbons with Realism, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Harburg (2019); Oh that I had a thousand tongues, Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Tinos (2018); Juliette Blightman/Ellie Epp, going to go out now, Western Front, Vancouver (2018); Drawing Biennial 2017, Drawing Room, London (2017); Eden Eden Eden, Karma International, Los Angeles (2015);Transparenzen, Kunstverein Nürnberg & Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (2015); 'How To Work (more for) less', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2011); and Nought to Sixty, ICA, London (2008). Her works are held in public and private collections including Arts Council, England; Fürstenberg Zeitgenoessisch, Germany; and Sammlung Philara, Germany.
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Wed 15 May 2013, 20:30
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Abstract : In this paper we present a modification of alternating least squares (ALS) for tensor canonical polyadic approximation that takes into account mutual coherence constraints. The proposed algorithm can be used to ensure well-posedness of the tensor approximation problem during ALS iterates and so is an alternative to existing approaches. We conduct tests with the proposed approach by using it as initialization of unconstrained alternating least squares in difficult cases, when the underlying tensor model factors have nearly collinear columns and the unconstrained approach is prone to a degenerate behavior, failing to converge or converging slowly to an acceptable solution. The results of the tested cases indicate that by using such an initialization the unconstrained approach seems to avoid such a behavior.


Compensation claims involving children in Ireland involve a slightly different procedure than those for adults. Minors – the legal term for children who are under eighteen years of age – are not permitted to engage a solicitor or commence legal action in their own right and therefore have to be represented by a parent or guardian acting as their "next friend" if a claim for compensation is going to be filed before the child reaches the age of majority.
The "next friend" has to seek permission from the District Court before personal injury claims for children can start and also has to accept any financial liability for bringing children personal injury claims in Ireland should the claim be lost. Along with the above, any settlement of a childs injury claim in Ireland has to be approved by a court before payment is made to the court, where it is held for the child until he or she reaches eighteen years of age.
As personal injury claims for children in Ireland cannot begin other than by proxy until a child reaches the age of eighteen, the time restrictions – or Statute of Limitations – for child injury compensation claims do also not start until the child becomes an adult – whereupon he or she has two years from their eighteenth birthday in which to make claims for childrens compensation for the injury they sustained as a child.
It is often wise to pursue children personal injury claims much earlier, as it will make the solicitor's work of collecting evidence in support of the claim more efficient – especially when gathering witness statements when peoples´ memories of an incident will still be fresh. It may also be the case that compensation funds are needed to provide medical and educational support for an injured child – funds which can be released from court on application.
There are several additional differences between the procedures for making compensation claims for children in Ireland and when making compensation claims as adults – for example, online applications for assessment to the Injuries Board Ireland made on behalf of children will be turned down. It is only possible to file an application for assessment of a childs injury compensation claim to the Injuries Board Ireland via the mail.
The amount of compensation for childrens injuries is awarded may also differ significantly; for although children tend to heal far faster than adults – and therefore are incapacitated by their injuries for a shorter period of time – any persistent or permanent affliction will remain with them for the remainder of their lives. It should be taken into account that any injury to a child which may restrict their ability to work later in life may qualify for an award of special damages to reflect the lost opportunity to earn an income.
It's stating the obvious for any parent but, it should always be remembered that if your child has been injured in any form of accident, his or her health and safety is much more important than any potential compensation claim that he or she may have. If the child has been severely hurt, an ambulance (together with the Gardai if appropriate) should be called at once.
It is of paramount importance that you report to the casualty department of the nearest hospital, or at the very least make an emergency appointment with your general practitioner, should your child be injured in an accident. In the case of a road traffic accident, even if you feel that the injuries are not that significant, it is still important that you take your child to see a doctor. Never underestimate the importance of peace of mind to you. The reality is that monetary compensation is not an adequate replacement for your child's health and wellbeing.
Your child's attendance at hospital or with your local doctor will be recorded in his or her medical history and may later be used in evidence to support their claim. You should therefore help your child by ensuring that all injuries and related problems are recorded properly and as soon as possible after an injury has been suffered.
You will need the services of a solicitor if you wish to pursue compensation claims for children in Ireland – at the very least to have a compensation settlement approved in court – and it is often in your best interests to talk about the circumstances of your child's accident as soon their health has been tended to.
Furthermore, if you are approached directly by the negligent party´s insurance company with an unsolicited offer of child injury compensation soon after an accident to your child has happened, a solicitor will be able to advise you whether the offer represents a fair and adequate settlement of compensation or whether you should pursue child injury compensation claims through the Injuries Board Ireland, by negotiation with the insurance company or via court action.
Most parents are so worried by an injury to a child they often – and understandably – neglect to consider the evidence they will need in support of their childs injury compensation claim, indeed possibly because they have also been injured in the same incident. By speaking with a solicitor about claims for childrens compensation at the earliest available opportunity, the solicitor can deal with collecting evidence in support of a claim and allow you to focus on providing care for your injured child.
Childrens personal injury claims are handled in a different manner to those when an adult has been injured in an accident which was not their fault.
It is important to note that each case is different. If your child has been involved in an accident resulting from the negligence of another individual and you feel that he or she may have a possible child injury claim you are advised to discuss all of the points raised in the preceding article with a solicitor at the earliest opportunity.


A Story is marked Stale when it is in an active Workflow State and has not been updated within a certain number of days. The "Days Until Stale" setting is set at the Project level; learn how to set or change the Staleness indicator on your Project.
Setting Story Staleness is a way to is a way add a visible indicator to any Story in a Project that hasn't been worked on recently. If a Story goes Stale, you'll see an hourglass icon appear on the front of the Story with the number of days since it saw activity. You can also search for Stale stories - learn more about finding Stories that have gone stale.
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WANTED! CEREBUS ORIGINAL ART SCANS!
Aardvark-Vanaheim is currently seeking to apprehend high resolution scans of CEREBUS original artwork to replace aged, destroyed, or otherwise inadequate negatives. These scans will be used to produce new, digitally-restored editions of the 16 volume graphic novel series -- 'Legacy Editions' that will honor and illuminate the innovative art that garnered the long-running series its reputation. If you have CEREBUS original artwork in your possession, or can provide information on the whereabouts of any original art, contact Agent Sean immediately: CerebusArtHunt [at] gmail [dot] com
BE ON THE ALERT!
If you have access to any CEREBUS original art we are looking for you! Or more specifically, 600 ppi color scans of your CEREBUS artwork. 1200 ppi scans are even better, if your scanner is capable. If you don't have a scanner with a large enough bed, most office stores with print facilities should be able to help you. Aardvark-Vanaheim will happily reimburse you for any expenses incurred during the scanning, including de-framing.
CLAIM YOUR REWARD!
Any person sending in a scan will receive an official CEREBUS ART DRAGNET certificate signed by Director Sim and Agent Sean. In addition, every scanning contributor will be thanked by name in the resulting CEREBUS Legacy Edition printings.
AGENT SEAN'S PERSONAL MESSAGE TO YOU!
Greetings! My name is Sean Michael Robinson, and I'm heading the CEREBUS digital restoration project, assisted by Agent Mara. Although it's rarely been used to full effect, the past decade's revolution in CTP (Computer to Plate) technology has made it possible for printing to be more faithful to original line art than ever before. Because of this, new editions of the CEREBUS collections sourced from original artwork can have more detail present than any previous printings. The difference isn't subtle as can be seen in the examples below. Keep up to date with our progress in my Weekly Restoration Updates.
EYE-WITNESS REPORTS!
"...an absolutely astounding job. It's like if someone showed you that your beloved copy of Sgt. Pepper was somehow missing half of the instruments and vocals. I'm blown away."
~ Jimmy Gownley (Amelia Rules)
"...If you have any of the original phonebooks on your shelf, you may be wondering why the series might be in such dire need of preservation. The answer is simple: the original photo negatives were already degraded and have since been destroyed in a fire; the original pages are degrading, as well as scattered to the four winds in the hands of private collectors; and the series itself has drifted so far out of public consciousness that there are precious few resources left to be allocated for restoration. Accordingly, this new volume is the result of a crowdfunding effort, in addition to hundreds (thousands?) of dedicated man-hours of volunteer work. The results speak for themselves: This edition of High Society sets a new standard for the restoration of modern-era black-and-white comics. Both the original books and the phonebook reprints are by now yellowing and smudged, with muddy crosshatching and blurry zip-a-tone. The new volume is crisp and white, on superior paper with immaculate digital printing. A side-by-side comparison reveals just how much intense labor went into every single line of this 500-page behemoth..."
~ Tim O'Neil, AV Club
THE EVIDENCE! SEE FOR YOURSELF!
LEFT: current print quality, RIGHT: remastered artwork
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Kanye West Performs as Bottled Perrier, Gives Pro-Trump Rant on 'SNL': Watch The Clips
Paris Close
Kanye West's musical guest appearance on Saturday Night Live was nothing short of odd, but should we expect anything less?
Last night (September 29), the rapper put on some much-talked-about performances during his gig on the weekly comedy sketch series. The wackiest of which was with fellow emcee Lil Pump, who joined the lyricist for a thirst-quenching presentation of their jam "I Love It"... while dressed as popular beverages. We're not joking: Ye hit the SNL stage as a bottle of Perrier and Pump as a life-sized serving of Fiji.
Naturally, the "Black Skinhead" star's night of antics didn't stop there. West, proudly wearing what looked to be his infamous Make America Great Again cap, gave an unending rant on President Donald Trump, which NBC had to cut short due to time.
"I wanna cry right now. Black man in America, you're supposed to keep what you feel inside right now," West began to croon. "And the liberals bully you and tell you what you can and cannot wear, where you and they can't not stare. And they look at me and say, 'It's not fair. How the hell did you get here?'"
"There's so many times I talk to like a white person about this and they say, 'How could you like Trump? He's racist,'" he continued his monologue as SNL host Adam Driver and others stood in amazement behind him. "Well, if I was concerned about racism I would've moved out of America a long time ago."
As expected, Ye's Trump-filled rhetoric received a mixed response from spectators, and incited a racket of boos from the audience (as well as critical opinions from those on social media — including from Trump himself!).
Others, fairly enough, were more pissed by the late arrival of the 41-year-old entertainer's promised Yandhi album, which was due to drop the same night. In other words, the night was filled with meme-able moments.
See the insane speech and what people are saying about it on Twitter, below:
Source: Kanye West Performs as Bottled Perrier, Gives Pro-Trump Rant on 'SNL': Watch The Clips
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Matthew J. Burne and Sloane B. O'Donnell Join Tucker Arensberg
News June 6, 2017
The law firm of Tucker Arensberg, P.C. is pleased to announce that Matthew J. Burne and Sloane B. O'Donnell have joined the firm in the Pittsburgh office in the Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Creditors' Rights Group.
Matt concentrates his practice on representing clients in commercial transactions, restructuring and bankruptcy matters. Prior to joining Tucker Arensberg, Matt served as law clerk to the Hon. Thomas P. Agresti in the Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Matt also practiced in New Jersey representing Chapter 7 Trustees, Chapter 11 Trustees and creditors in various bankruptcy matters.
Matt earned his LL.M. in Bankruptcy from St. John's University School of Law, where he received the Dean's Award for Excellence in the Advanced Bankruptcy Research Seminar. He earned his Juris Doctorate from Barry University School of Law, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Barry Law Review. Matt received his B.S. from Saint Joseph's University and holds a degree in Culinary Arts from the Culinary Institute of America.
Sloane has experience in litigating bankruptcy matters on behalf of financial institutions, including relief from stay and contests to proofs of claims. In state court matters, Sloane has experience representing financial institutions, businesses and equipment lessors in breach of contract actions and recovery matters. Prior to joining Tucker Arensberg, P.C., Sloane worked at a boutique creditor's rights law firm in Pittsburgh.
Sloane earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2015, where she served as the Managing Editor for the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. Sloane graduated cum laude from Washington and Jefferson College in 2012 where she earned her B.A. in English Literature and Political Science.


Please do not forget to bring your signed report card envelope and covers!
Thank you to those who donated to Covenant House! Please remember to bring in your $3.00!
Take a look at the new Spelling Challenge and Writing Challenge tabs!
Report cards have been distributed today.
Parent-Teacher Interviews are tomorrow, Grade 6 students MUST attend the session. Please do not bring siblings.
Visit our Scholastic Book Fair!
Parent Teacher Interviews are on Wednesday, Nov 29. Grade Six students must attend, please do not bring siblings into the classroom.
1. Club Aviva tomorrow. Please wear your gym strip underneath comfortable athletic clothes. Please bring a water bottle and a bagged lunch.
1. Math: WB pg 66 and 67 due Th. Quiz on ratios tomorrow.
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This week we're highlighting the Brooklyn Grange! Whether you're looking to have an educational Saturday afternoon or to get produce for some delicious farm to table cooking, the Grange offers it all.
Start your trip off by picking up a Revel in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, or Bushwick. If you're new to Revel, make sure to watch our instructional video and sign-up for a free in-person lesson if needed. Once you've strapped on your helmet (included with every ride), you're ready to #RevelAndGo.
We recommend taking this trip on a Saturday as the farm hosts an open house and farmers market from 11 AM – 4 PM every Saturday, May through October.
Back in 2010 the Founders of Brooklyn Grange, a farm in New York City, set out to create a more sustainable way to eat produce and to make use of empty city space. Contrary to the name, the flagship location is in Long Island City, Queens and located at 37 Northern Blvd. The founders, Ben Flanner, Anastasia Cole Plakias and Gwen Schantz, have taken urban-farming to a new scale, opening a second space at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Between the two spaces, the farm now grows on 2 acres of New York City rooftop and produces over 50,000 pounds of veggies each year.
Beyond produce, the Brooklyn Grange has a lot to offer. Some of the best skyline views of the city are paired with their unique programming. Here you'll find everything from their annual Pepper Fest (September 22nd) to Monday Evening Yoga. With patches of sunflowers and egg-laying hens on-site, the farmers set out to "transform bare roofs into [complete] ecosystems." With the cityscape as their backdrop, they've created an astonishing place.
All the food is delivered and consumed within a few miles of the farm. If you can't make it to the LIC Brooklyn Grange during their public hours, you can also find their produce weekly at the Greenpoint Farmer's Market. The Grange's sustainable approach and high-quality produce is catching on and can be found at acclaimed restaurants like Balthazar, Augustine, and Roberta's.
While you're visiting the LIC location, you can pause your ride with Revel for only 5 cents a minute. Just remember to drop your Revel back off in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, or Bushwick when you're done!


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IATA says Covid-19 crisis will cost airlines more than $157 billion
The International Air Transport Association forecast Tuesday that the sector will lose $157 billion this year and next due to the pandemic. That's much worse than previous estimates.
"This crisis is devastating and unrelenting," IATA Director General Alexandre de Juniac said in a statement.
De Juniac said that Covid-19 made 2020 the worst financial year on record "bar none." The industry group expects net losses to total $118.5 billion, worse than the $84.3 billion forecast in June. IATA now thinks the airline industry will lose $38.7 billion in 2021, deeper than its previous $15.8 billion forecast.
"We need to get borders safely reopened without quarantine so that people will fly again," said de Juniac. "With airlines expected to bleed cash at least until the fourth quarter of 2021 there is no time to lose."
The coronavirus pandemic has brought the aviation industry to its knees, costing airlines $510 billion in lost sales. Airlines have already cut tens of thousands of jobs, with many more positions that rely on the sector at risk. IATA expects passenger numbers to plummet 60% this year to 1.8 billion, roughly the same number that the industry carried in 2003.
Governments have provided $173 billion in financial support to airlines, without which bankruptcies would have materialized in huge numbers, according to de Juniac. Even with unprecedented support from governments and shareholders, some airlines have had to seek respite from creditors or find new buyers in order to survive.
Last week, Norwegian Air filed for bankruptcy protection having earlier warned that it would need additional cash to continue operating through the first quarter of 2021.
The promise of safe and effective vaccines has fed some optimism that travel can pick up next year. But vaccinating millions of people across borders will take time. "The first half of next year still looks extremely challenging," IATA said.
Carrying freight is the only bright spot in the industry, with cargo revenues expected to increase 15% from 2019 to $117.7 billion, according to IATA. About 50% of all air cargo is moved in the bellies of passenger aircraft, so a steep drop in the number of planes flying caused cargo rates to spike.
While cargo won't replace the precipitous drop in air passenger revenue, it has helped airlines to "sustain their skeleton international networks," de Juniac said.
Passenger numbers are expected to grow to 2.8 billion in 2021, but won't return to the 4.5 billion reached last year until 2024 at the earliest, with domestic markets expected to recover faster than international services, IATA said.
— Rob North contributed reporting.
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Senators rally for 4-2 victory over Panthers
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By Mark Parisi Dec 3, 2013, 11:40pm EST
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Erik Condra prepares to make a "drop a phat beat" joke to Mika Zibanejad.
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It didn't start out great, but it didn't end so badly.
As has happened far too often this season, the Ottawa Senators dug themselves a hole to climb out of. Fortunately, they were able to do so against a weaker opponent then they've faced in the past. But first, how'd they dig it?
Well, the officiating in this one was pretty dubious. Many of the calls were of the ticky-tack variety. With Mike Hoffman already in the penalty box for high-sticking Erik Gudbranson, Jason Spezza was called for goalie interference. Both penalties were correct under a strict interpretation of the rules--Hoffman's stick clearly hit Gudbranson, and Spezza clearly made contact with Florida Panther goalie Tim Thomas--but could have borne further examination, as Gudbranson lifted Hoffman's stick into his own face, and Spezza was not left with much room to try to avoid Thomas.
Regardless, the penalties combined to give Ottawa a 5-on-3 penalty kill. Remember those? Hadn't been one in a while, and you thought the team might be turning the corner, right? It was not to be, as Jonathan Huberdeau slipped a sneaky shot through goalie Craig Anderson.
A word about this goal--Craig Anderson has struggled of late, and desperately needed to get back on track (more on that later), and at first I thought this puck simply went through him. I was ready to give him a Sens Zero right then and there, but on further review, it's actually a really great play by Huberdeau. It's a 5-on-3, so Huberdeau is alone at the side of the net, but instead of just trying to bang it in on the short side before Anderson gets over, he actually shoots at Anderson's right pad (he was on Andy's left side, which meant that he used a ricochet and Anderson's own cross-ice movement to score five-hole. That's kind of badass.
Of course, there was another penalty to kill, and the penalty killers failed on that one, too. This one mostly falls on Erik Karlsson, as he joined his three teammates on one side of the ice, leaving Brian Campbell all alone at the top of the circle. Campbell then skated in unopposed and snapped one far side on Anderson. It was a shot you'd like to see Anderson stop--he was one-on-one with the shooter and obviously wasn't square enough as Campbell had daylight to shoot at, and he hit it.
Pull Anderson.
Head coach Paul MacLean opted not to, and from that point, the Senators started their long climb out of the hole.
It started with a flukey goal, with thinly-veiled Sens Hero Joe Corvo just taking a standard wrister from the point. Thomas apparently just didn't see it, because it sailed into the net. And just like that, the Senators had life. They'd follow with another flukey goal, as Erik Condra found himself open after getting knocked down.
The play went like this: Thinly-veiled Sens Hero Clarke MacArthur gained the zone with his two linemates, and used his speed to create space for Spezza. Meanwhile, Condra drove the net. Spezza dished back to MacArthur. Meanwhile, Condra got knocked down during his drive. Meanwhile, MacArthur began to circle the net, drawing all the defenders towards him. He then reversed the puck to Spezza, who was also behind the net. Defenseman Tom Gilbert, who had knocked down Condra, was out of position from trying to chase MacArthur, and so Spezza tapped the puck immediately to Condra, who snapped it in from a tough angle.
The flukey goals weren't done, as late in the second period, while on the power play, Colin Greening got his second goal of the season. Corvo took a shot from far out, and while trying to jump out of the way, Greening hit it with his knee. The puck then took a high, lazy arc to the net. Not much anyone could do with it. The play was reviewed, but knees are as good as sticks.
And then there was one more fluke: Jared Cowen made a good play! Cowen, who was decent for an entire game for a change, picked up a puck and skated up the offensive zone, finding Bobby Ryan across the ice for an easy tap-in. What's really crazy is that Cowen drew the attention of three Panthers defenders, allowing Ryan to creep up undetected. Now, sure, Cowen jumped into the play by keeping a loose puck in the zone from off the bench, and you generally expect a player to take a slap shot and hope for a rebound in that situation, but none of them even thought to play the pass. The best part of the whole sequence? The celebration. Cowen's obviously a little down on himself, because he gives the most understated fist pump while skating over to Ryan, as if he didn't just make a really great pass. Ryan is having none of it, and moves in to give the maligned Cowen a little extra hug. Aww.
And there you have it. Four straight goals to rally from a 2-0 deficit. It was a win the team needed on a lot of levels. But it sure wasn't perfect. 2-0 against better opponents is still probably a loss, and there were still plenty of passes that hit their targets in the skates, as well as some time spent chasing the puck in the defensive zone. Those mistakes have been happening all year, but they're a little easier to swallow when you outshoot your opponent 45-32.
Sens Hero: Clarke MacArthur
Didn't really get Jason Spezza going per se--though Spezza didn't have a poor game by any means--but with two assists on the first two Senators goals, got his team going, and that's kind of a big deal. MacArthur plays a pretty simple game: Use speed, find open man, look for open space. With so many guys trapped in their own heads, it's a really refreshing thing to see, and it's also probably why it's working so well.
The Hoff Report - Mike Hoffman slotted right into the top six, stealing MacArthur's old spot alongside Kyle Turris and Ryan. How'd he look there? Nervous. Hoffman didn't really do much on the line, but he still had more than a handful of opportunities. One game is not enough to move him off, because you could at least see the potential in his play. A little more time with his linemates and adjusting to the NHL, and those opportunities should turn into scoring chances. That should be good enough. It would be a shame to see him get shuffled just because he didn't produce immediately.
Sens Hero: Joe Corvo
I didn't really want Corvo on this team, but if he keeps playing like tonight, I guess I can be okay with it. Corvo scored the goal that got the Senators back in the game, and it was his shot that created the game-winner. That's not a bad night's work, though he added to it with frequent rushes up the ice. He was like Karlsson-light in that aspect of the game, and it was noticeably helpful to the team's breakout. He also recorded two blocked shots, so it's not like he was messing around in his own zone, either.
Honorable Mention: Craig Anderson
I was none too thrilled with Anderosn's first period, but as play continued, Anderson's confidence seemed to grow like the Grinch's heart. He made two good saves without his stick and shut the door the rest of the way. This was a game that Anderson really needed to get back on track, and by the end, he was playing much more like the Anderson we saw last year. There's still a long way to go, because this game could have easily left him down and out, but it was nice to see him get a little vote of confidence from MacLean, and to see him make good on it.
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Recently retired from his position as Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT, Rodney Brooks' latest startup, Heartland Robotics, aims to revitalize American manufacturing by providing workers with new robotic tools. During his employment at MIT, Brooks served as director of the institution's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory—MIT's largest lab, boasting over 800 people at the time of his retirement. Brooks is also the co-founder and a current board member of iRobot, which has delivered over 6 million robots to American homes, and thousands of robots to help U.S. forces battle roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Earlier in his career, Brooks served on the faculty at Stanford and held post-doctoral positions at both Carnegie Mellon University and MIT.


I have been driving with a hand's free head set for years. I have to admit I'm to the point of feeling like I'm not wearing a seat belt when I drive holding a phone to my ear. I was very recently talking on the phone to Deb Brooks when I hit a curb, which she heard and wrote about (lol). I was driving with my Bluetooth head set and was quickly able to get control of my car as I had both hands on the steering wheel. I rarely drive at night as I know that I'm not a good night driver with my astigmatism. I had dropped my husband off for a sail boat race and was on my way home when this happened. I was fortunate there was no damage to the tire or the car (I was in my husband's car).
This did get me to thinking about our Texas laws on driving with a cell phone. I'm always about less Government interference in our lives but just like the seat belt law saves lives I think it would be good to have a hands free law throughout our nation. I know that New York State has the law and I just think it makes good sense. I am constantly seeing people holding a cell phone to their ear while driving which means they are driving one handed.
As I said I have been driving with a hand's free head set for a number of years. There's a story behind my use of a hands free head set. My sister is a Manufacturer's Representative in Colorado. Quite a number of years ago one of her principles was driving home from work in Boulder. He had stopped to have a few beers on the way home (but was not sloppy drunk.) He was talking on the telephone and dropped his phone as he reached down to get it his truck swerved and he hit a gal on a bicycle and killed her. It doesn't take much alcohol to be considered under the influence and he went to jail for vehicular manslaughter for a number of years. He was wrong to be driving after drinking but I have to think that if he had a hand's free head set that gal would probably be alive today.
From that time on I have driven with a hand's free headset. As I said this was a number of years ago so the first head set's that I used were attached with a wire. I can't tell you how many of those I would go through a year. I was really good at dragging them out with me as I was showing clients. One time I even back tracked and found the headset but it had been driven over a few times.
When I got my first Sprint TREO I also got my first blue tooth head set. If you are going to go to a Bluetooth you are going to want to do some shopping. For me it came down to which one would fit my ear. I had to take several back as they were made for people with bigger ears than I have. I had one that worked for a year or so but it was very delicate and I'm hard on headsets. I was getting very frustrated finding one to fit and saw a gal with one on at a REALTORS®! open house and asked her what kind it was. It was a Plantronics and that is what I have used ever since. (Personally I don't wear mine in public places but that's just me.) My last one lasted almost three years which was a record for me. It broke as I was taking a CRS class down in Houston and on the way home from class that night I stopped in and bought another one. The cool thing is that the technology just keeps getting better and better. This one is even smaller than the last one but sounds better.
That day in our CRS class Alan Hainge had even talked about the blue tooth head sets. He recommended Jabba, Jawbone and Plantronics. The other two were actually supposed to be a little better but they are not better if they won't fit your ear so I stuck with Plantronics.
Would something have happened the other night when I hit the curb; that I don't know but I'm glad that I had both hands on the wheel. We live in a subdivision in a fairly rural area and the roads and the city are just now coming out to us so this was a fairly new road and is not lit very well. I now know to keep that in mind but for me I think my best recourse is to limit my night driving which I try to do. In all honesty since I'm not such a great night driver it would probably be smart for me to stay off the phone completely but I'm not sure that would have helped me to see curb.
If you have not got your hands free head set yet I would strongly encourage you to get one. They are not all that expensive; especially those wired ones. If you do get one have the person at the phone store pair it up for you as they know what they are doing. This is a bit of advice from the experience of trying to pair them. Personally I think a head set whether wired or blue tooth is money well spent and I hope someday it is the law of the land.
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Advance Release! The Leaked IPCC Reports
It is a sign of just how serious matters have become—with the UN COP26 talks on climate in Glasgow this November now regarded by many as a last-ditch effort to achieve a global solution on behalf of humanity as a whole—that the early draft versions of Part II and Part III of the IPCC's, 'Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis', were leaked during the summer.
Metabolic Rift
A bibliography of work utilizing the theory of metabolic rift developed by Marx.
Drop Charges, Release Dr. Binayak Sen Forthwith
We, the undersigned, are dismayed at the continued detention of Dr Binayak Sen, General Secretary of the Chhattisgarh People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), since May 14. Dr Binayak Sen is also the National Vice-President of the PUCL, one of the oldest civil liberties organisations in India
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
The revolutionary forces in Nepal led by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) have been engaged in a country-wide people's war ("jana youdha") against the royal government. Much of the country has been liberated. The palace and the Royal Nepal Army now retain control over the central valley of Nepal and areas adjacent to their fortified bases in the district towns in the countryside, and few other areas
"Note of Dissent" Presented by Comrade Laldhwaj
I am hereby presenting my note of dissent on the wrong charges and wrong actions, which are against the interest of the Party and the revolution, against Com.Laldhwaj, Com.Rahul (Alternate PBM) and Com.Ashok (PBM) by the recently concluded meeting of the politbureau of our glorious Party, I request you to register this formally in the records of the Party and circulate it throughout the Party rank and file in a proper manner
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Central Committee Press Release
We have released this communiqué to clarify our views about the concerns raised from different quarters about our party's internal life and some of the questions of its policies since some time
On Comrade Laldhoj (Baburam Bhattarai)'s Letter and other Activities
Party central Headquarters all of a sudden received a letter of serious nature from comrade Laldhoj, the standing committee member of politburo, in a very sensitive moment when the entire rank of our great and glorious party was going to implement the first historic plan of counter offensive against enemy according to the decisions taken up by the last Central Committee meeting. Party centre would like to clarify the entire party rank on the nature and the questions put forward in it as follows.
Basic Questions for Inner-Party Discussions
The basic questions on which the top leadership of our great and glorious Party, the CPN (Maoist), have had a debate and relative agreement but recurring dispute in one form or other for a long time, can be categorised as (i). ideological/philosophical questions (ii). politico-military questions (iii). organisational questions, and (iv) cultural questions. It is imperative to have a wide inner-Party debate on these questions and arrive at correct revolutionary conclusions
Internal Debate within the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
This past winter we heard reports of a heated dispute within the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the guiding party of the revolutionary struggle in Nepal. The old regime in Nepal, a brutal military dictatorship under King Gyanendra Shah, on February 1st, 2005, carried out a coup against the remnants of legality within that part of the country it still controlled—the central valley of Nepal (containing the capital Kathmandu), and the area immediately surrounding the army's fortified bases elsewhere, primarily in district towns. The rest of the country has been liberated, and is self-governing under revolutionary leadership, with the CPN(M) playing the leading role. But Nepal's limited communication links with the rest of the world are concentrated in Kathmandu, and the royal military government was able to sever all links not under its control at the time of the February 1st coup. Under these circumstances it was not possible to determine the trustworthiness of the various reports of the dispute with the CPN(M) leadership
On December 24, 2004, Maoists in China Get Three Year Prison Sentences for Leafleting
When liberal writers Liu Xiaobo and Yu Jie were recently (and briefly) detained by Chinese police, there was a world wide chorus of denunciation. The liberal writers' endorsement of the U.S. aggression in Iraq made them even more heroic in the eyes of the Murdoch-dominated press. Not surprisingly, there has been no coverage whatsoever of a more egregious case of crackdown on dissent—because it is dissent from the left. On December 21, 2004, four Maoists were tried in Zhengzhou for having handed out leaflets that denounced the restoration of capitalism in China and called for a return to the "socialist road." The leaflets had been distributed in a public park in the City of Zhengzhou on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the death of Chairman Mao Zedong. Two of the defendants, Zhang Zhengyao, 56, and Zhang Ruquan, 69, were both found guilty of libel, and each given a three-year prison sentence on December 24, 2004. The case has since generated a lot of expressions of solidarity in leftist circles within China. Postings to a leading leftist website in China in the last few days have set out an abridged translation of the incriminating leaflet, the commemorative piece titled "Mao Zedong forever our leader," plus a commentary whose author went to Zhengzhou to show solidarity on the day of the trial on December 21. These pieces have been translated by our comrades at the China Study Group, who have asked that we post them here at the MR website. We are glad to do so, believing that a strong case can be made that the story of the left opposition inside China is the most important and least covered in the world
Saul: Opening or Closing Debate?
No doubt, Monthly Review will not want debate on John Saul's contributions to continue indefinitely. At the same time, his recent response to Jeremy Cronin (Monthly Review, December 2002) contains certain allegations about my conduct, which deserve space for a response
Letter of the Fourteen
In his speech at the meeting celebrating the Eightieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Comrade Jiang Zemin openly called for admission of owners of private enterprises to membership of the Party
A Struggle Within the Chinese Communist Party
On July 1, 2001 Chinese Communist Party (CPC) general secretary Jiang Zemin delivered a speech recognized immediately to be of great importance. He advocated the admission of capitalists to the Chinese Communist Party
Letter of Ma Bin and Han Yaxi
Dear Secretary General Jiang and the Party's Central Committee:
We listened to your speech on July l, 2001 and have since then carefully read it again in the past few days. We have many opinions in regard to your "July First" remarks. According to the Party's Basic Statute, as well as the sections on Democrat Centralism of your speech, we feel we should present our comments to you and the Central Committee as well
Annette T. Rubinstein: 95th Birthday Celebration
Annette T. Rubinstein—educator, author, activist—celebrated her ninety-fifth birthday three days early on April 9, at the Brecht Forum's new headquarters. At a gathering of more than two hundred of her devoted family, friends, colleagues, comrades, speakers regaled the audience with personal stories and memories of Annette's fabulous life. John Mage, representing Monthly Review, suggested that she must have had previous lives because "the breadth of vision, the historical understanding, and the contents of the memory could not have been acquired in one lifetime—even hers." Harry Magdoff, via a taped recording, reminded the audience that "Annette in personality, in her life of creativity, activity, and humanism, illustrates the ways of Socialist women and men." He concluded by saying "I love you"—in Yiddish.
Communists Return to Power in Moldavia
The February 25, 2001 electoral victory of the Moldovan Communist party marked the first return to power of a Communist party in any of the sovereign fragments of the Former Soviet Union ("FSU"). If you have left wing politics and can use a dose of optimism, this event is a positive portent for—at last—an end to the Mafia capitalist regimes of "democratic reform" that constitute the glory of the U.S. victory in the cold war. The most interesting question is not what the Moldovan Communists can achieve in their sovereign ministate, but what can be hoped to happen as a result in the rest of the FSU community. But, you ask, in 2001 is the FSU a "community" in the sense that the Soviet Union was in, say, 1988? The only plausible answer is "yes and no." The "no" side is easy enough to lay out, all you need is a current map and almanac. The "yes" side requires more effort


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Wilhelm Benecke (*  in Zawiercie, Russland; † 4. September 1962 in West-Berlin) war ein deutscher Politiker (DVP; FDP/LDP).

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Wilhelm Benecke stammte aus einer alteingesessenen Berliner Familie. Er besuchte das Gymnasium in seiner Heimatstadt. Nach dem Abitur absolvierte er ein Volontariat bei der AEG, um anschließend Maschinenbau und Elektrotechnik, später Mathematik, Physik und Chemie zu studieren. 1908 legte er die Staatsprüfung für das höhere Schulwesen ab. Von 1910 bis zum 1. Januar 1934 arbeitete Benecke als Oberlehrer in Berlin.

Als Freund Gustav Stresemanns beteiligte Benecke sich Ende 1918 an der Gründung der Deutschen Volkspartei (DVP). Von 1919 bis 1934 war er unbesoldeter Stadtrat in Berlin. Am 29. Mai 1923 zog Benecke im Nachrückverfahren für Wilhelm Kahl, der sein Mandat am 25. Mai niedergelegt hatte, in den im Juni 1920 gewählten ersten Reichstag der Weimarer Republik ein, in dem er bis zur Reichstagswahl vom Mai 1924 den Wahlkreis 2 (Berlin) vertrat.

1928 wurde Benecke zum stellvertretenden Bürgermeister des Bezirks Zehlendorf gewählt. Er trat sein Amt schließlich aufgrund seiner Verwicklung in den Sklarek-Skandal nicht mehr an: Namentlich wurde ihm vorgeworfen, die Vertragsverlängerung Gabels zugunsten der Sklareks gegengezeichnet zu haben und diesen so ihre Monopolstellung belassen zu haben. 1929 wurde Benecke vom Dienst suspendiert. Im selben Jahr ging er zusammen mit seinem Freund Gustav Böß auf eine längere Reise in die Vereinigten Staaten.

Am 1. Januar 1934 wurde Benecke aufgrund des Gesetzes zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums in den Ruhestand versetzt. Von 1933 bis 1945 übernahm er Stellungen in der Industrie.

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg beteiligte Benecke sich im Sommer 1945 an der Gründung der Freien Demokratischen Partei (FDP) in Berlin beziehungsweise der Liberal-Demokratischen Partei Deutschlands (LDP). 1946 wurde er in die Bezirksverordnetenversammlung (BVV) Zehlendorf gewählt, die ihn ihrerseits 1950 zum Bezirksbürgermeister wählte. Für die FDP/LDP gehörte er dem Stadtrat von Berlin-Niederschönhausen an. Außerdem saß er von 1950 bis 1958 im Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin.

Wilhelm Benecke starb 1962 im Alter von 78 Jahren in Berlin. Seine Grabstätte befindet sich auf dem Waldfriedhof Dahlem.

Literatur

 Verein Aktives Museum: Vor die Tür gesetzt – Im Nationalsozialismus verfolgte Berliner Stadtverordnete und Magistratsmitglieder 1933–1945, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9, S. 150.

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Reichstagsabgeordneter (Weimarer Republik)
Bezirksbürgermeister des Bezirks Zehlendorf
Mitglied des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin
DVP-Mitglied
FDP-Mitglied
LDPD-Mitglied
Deutscher
Geboren 1883
Gestorben 1962
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