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Battery recycling firm to build Alabama processing plant
Updated: September 10, 2021 September 10, 2021
Li-Cycle's Alabama facility has an initial planned capacity of about 5,500 short tons of lithium-ion batteries per year. | Sergii Chernov / Shutterstock
Li-Cycle will site a lithium-ion battery facility in Tuscaloosa, Ala., the latest node in the company's planned hub-and-spoke model for recycling batteries in North America.
The Toronto-headquartered business on Sept. 8 announced the Alabama plant.
The facility will serve as one of Li-Cycle's "spoke" locations, providing size reduction services for batteries. Material will then be moved to the company "hub" in Rochester, N.Y. That site, which is still being developed, will use hydrometallurgy to process metals recovered from batteries into battery-grade end products, according to Li-Cycle.
The Alabama spoke will be the fourth such North American location, with existing or in-process facilities in Kingston, Ontario; Rochester, N.Y.; and Gilbert, Ariz.
Li-Cycle announced the facility a day before the company reported its third-quarter 2021 earnings. The business recently became publicly traded.
The Alabama facility has an initial planned capacity of about 5,500 short tons of lithium-ion batteries per year when it launches in mid-2022. When its four spoke facilities are all operational, the company anticipates a North American processing capacity of about 27,500 short tons per year, potentially more with a possible expansion of the Alabama plant.
Plans for the fourth U.S. facility were driven largely by the growing electric vehicle market, Li-Cycle noted. But the company processes batteries from consumer electronics as well.
"In our spoke facilities we process any format of lithium-ion battery, from the smallest type of lithium-ion battery all the way up to a full electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack," said Ajay Kochhar, president and CEO of Li-Cycle, during a Sept. 9 earnings call.
The company notes the spoke facilities produce three main streams: mixed copper and aluminum, mixed plastics, and "black mass," which is a mixture of anode and cathode materials from within the battery, Kochhar said.
The Rochester hub will be processing that anode and cathode mixture and produce materials for use in new battery production, according to the company.
During the earnings call, Li-Cycle executives noted the company has achieved R2 certification at some of its completed spoke facilities.
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#ifndef SkImageDecoder_DEFINED
#define SkImageDecoder_DEFINED

#include "SkBitmap.h"
#include "SkRefCnt.h"

class SkStream;

/** \class SkImageDecoder

    Base class for decoding compressed images into a SkBitmap
*/
class SkImageDecoder {
public:
    virtual ~SkImageDecoder();

    enum Format {
        kUnknown_Format,
        kBMP_Format,
        kGIF_Format,
        kICO_Format,
        kJPEG_Format,
        kPNG_Format,
        kWBMP_Format,

        kLastKnownFormat = kWBMP_Format
    };

    /** Return the compressed data's format (see Format enum)
    */
    virtual Format getFormat() const;

    /** Returns true if the decoder should try to dither the resulting image.
        The default setting is true.
    */
    bool getDitherImage() const { return fDitherImage; }

    /** Set to true if the the decoder should try to dither the resulting image.
        The default setting is true.
    */
    void setDitherImage(bool dither) { fDitherImage = dither; }

    /** \class Peeker

        Base class for optional callbacks to retrieve meta/chunk data out of
        an image as it is being decoded.
    */
    class Peeker : public SkRefCnt {
    public:
        /** Return true to continue decoding, or false to indicate an error, which
            will cause the decoder to not return the image.
        */
        virtual bool peek(const char tag[], const void* data, size_t length) = 0;
    };

    Peeker* getPeeker() const { return fPeeker; }
    Peeker* setPeeker(Peeker*);

    /** \class Peeker

        Base class for optional callbacks to retrieve meta/chunk data out of
        an image as it is being decoded.
    */
    class Chooser : public SkRefCnt {
    public:
        virtual void begin(int count) {}
        virtual void inspect(int index, SkBitmap::Config config, int width, int height) {}
        /** Return the index of the subimage you want, or -1 to choose none of them.
        */
        virtual int choose() = 0;
    };

    Chooser* getChooser() const { return fChooser; }
    Chooser* setChooser(Chooser*);

    SkBitmap::Allocator* getAllocator() const { return fAllocator; }
    SkBitmap::Allocator* setAllocator(SkBitmap::Allocator*);

    // sample-size, if set to > 1, tells the decoder to return a smaller than
    // original bitmap, sampling 1 pixel for every size pixels. e.g. if sample
    // size is set to 3, then the returned bitmap will be 1/3 as wide and high,
    // and will contain 1/9 as many pixels as the original.
    // Note: this is a hint, and the codec may choose to ignore this, or only
    // approximate the sample size.
    int getSampleSize() const { return fSampleSize; }
    void setSampleSize(int size);

    /** Reset the sampleSize to its default of 1
     */
    void resetSampleSize() { this->setSampleSize(1); }

    /** Decoding is synchronous, but for long decodes, a different thread can
        call this method safely. This sets a state that the decoders will
        periodically check, and if they see it changed to cancel, they will
        cancel. This will result in decode() returning false. However, there is
        no guarantee that the decoder will see the state change in time, so
        it is possible that cancelDecode() will be called, but will be ignored
        and decode() will return true (assuming no other problems were
        encountered).

        This state is automatically reset at the beginning of decode().
     */
    void cancelDecode() {
        // now the subclass must query shouldCancelDecode() to be informed
        // of the request
        fShouldCancelDecode = true;
    }

    /** Passed to the decode method. If kDecodeBounds_Mode is passed, then
        only the bitmap's width/height/config need be set. If kDecodePixels_Mode
        is passed, then the bitmap must have pixels or a pixelRef.
    */
    enum Mode {
        kDecodeBounds_Mode, //!< only return width/height/config in bitmap
        kDecodePixels_Mode  //!< return entire bitmap (including pixels)
    };

    /** Given a stream, decode it into the specified bitmap.
        If the decoder can decompress the image, it calls bitmap.setConfig(),
        and then if the Mode is kDecodePixels_Mode, call allocPixelRef(),
        which will allocated a pixelRef. To access the pixel memory, the codec
        needs to call lockPixels/unlockPixels on the
        bitmap. It can then set the pixels with the decompressed image.
        If the image cannot be decompressed, return false.

        note: document use of Allocator, Peeker and Chooser
    */
    bool decode(SkStream*, SkBitmap* bitmap, SkBitmap::Config pref, Mode);

    /** Given a stream, this will try to find an appropriate decoder object.
        If none is found, the method returns NULL.
    */
    static SkImageDecoder* Factory(SkStream*);

    /** Decode the image stored in the specified file, and store the result
        in bitmap. Return true for success or false on failure.

        If pref is kNo_Config, then the decoder is free to choose the most natural
        config given the image data. If pref something other than kNo_Config,
        the decoder will attempt to decode the image into that format, unless
        there is a conflict (e.g. the image has per-pixel alpha and the bitmap's
        config does not support that), in which case the decoder will choose a
        closest match configuration.
    */
    static bool DecodeFile(const char file[], SkBitmap* bitmap,
                             SkBitmap::Config prefConfig, Mode);
    static bool DecodeFile(const char file[], SkBitmap* bitmap)
    {
        return DecodeFile(file, bitmap, SkBitmap::kNo_Config, kDecodePixels_Mode);
    }
    /** Decode the image stored in the specified memory buffer, and store the
        result in bitmap. Return true for success or false on failure.

        If pref is kNo_Config, then the decoder is free to choose the most natural
        config given the image data. If pref something other than kNo_Config,
        the decoder will attempt to decode the image into that format, unless
        there is a conflict (e.g. the image has per-pixel alpha and the bitmap's
        config does not support that), in which case the decoder will choose a
        closest match configuration.
    */
    static bool DecodeMemory(const void* buffer, size_t size, SkBitmap* bitmap,
                             SkBitmap::Config prefConfig, Mode);
    static bool DecodeMemory(const void* buffer, size_t size, SkBitmap* bitmap)
    {
        return DecodeMemory(buffer, size, bitmap, SkBitmap::kNo_Config,
                            kDecodePixels_Mode);
    }
    /** Decode the image stored in the specified SkStream, and store the result
        in bitmap. Return true for success or false on failure.

        If pref is kNo_Config, then the decoder is free to choose the most
        natural config given the image data. If pref something other than
        kNo_Config, the decoder will attempt to decode the image into that
        format, unless there is a conflict (e.g. the image has per-pixel alpha
        and the bitmap's config does not support that), in which case the
        decoder will choose a closest match configuration.
    */
    static bool DecodeStream(SkStream* stream, SkBitmap* bitmap,
                             SkBitmap::Config prefConfig, Mode);
    static bool DecodeStream(SkStream* stream, SkBitmap* bitmap)
    {
        return DecodeStream(stream, bitmap, SkBitmap::kNo_Config,
                            kDecodePixels_Mode);
    }

    /** Return the default config for the running device.
        Currently this used as a suggestion to image decoders that need to guess
        what config they should decode into.
        Default is kNo_Config, but this can be changed with SetDeviceConfig()
    */
    static SkBitmap::Config GetDeviceConfig();
    /** Set the default config for the running device.
        Currently this used as a suggestion to image decoders that need to guess
        what config they should decode into.
        Default is kNo_Config.
        This can be queried with GetDeviceConfig()
    */
    static void SetDeviceConfig(SkBitmap::Config);

  /** @cond UNIT_TEST */
    SkDEBUGCODE(static void UnitTest();)
  /** @endcond */

protected:
    // must be overridden in subclasses. This guy is called by decode(...)
    virtual bool onDecode(SkStream*, SkBitmap* bitmap, SkBitmap::Config pref,
                          Mode) = 0;

    /** Can be queried from within onDecode, to see if the user (possibly in
        a different thread) has requested the decode to cancel. If this returns
        true, your onDecode() should stop and return false.
        Each subclass needs to decide how often it can query this, to balance
        responsiveness with performance.

        Calling this outside of onDecode() may return undefined values.
     */

public:
    bool shouldCancelDecode() const { return fShouldCancelDecode; }

protected:
    SkImageDecoder();

    // helper function for decoders to handle the (common) case where there is only
    // once choice available in the image file.
    bool chooseFromOneChoice(SkBitmap::Config config, int width, int height) const;

    /*  Helper for subclasses. Call this to allocate the pixel memory given the bitmap's
        width/height/rowbytes/config. Returns true on success. This method handles checking
        for an optional Allocator.
    */
    bool allocPixelRef(SkBitmap*, SkColorTable*) const;

private:
    Peeker*                 fPeeker;
    Chooser*                fChooser;
    SkBitmap::Allocator*    fAllocator;
    int                     fSampleSize;
    bool                    fDitherImage;
    mutable bool            fShouldCancelDecode;

    // illegal
    SkImageDecoder(const SkImageDecoder&);
    SkImageDecoder& operator=(const SkImageDecoder&);
};

/** Calling newDecoder with a stream returns a new matching imagedecoder
    instance, or NULL if none can be found. The caller must manage its ownership
    of the stream as usual, calling unref() when it is done, as the returned
    decoder may have called ref() (and if so, the decoder is responsible for
    balancing its ownership when it is destroyed).
 */
class SkImageDecoderFactory : public SkRefCnt {
public:
    virtual SkImageDecoder* newDecoder(SkStream*) = 0;
};

class SkDefaultImageDecoderFactory : SkImageDecoderFactory {
public:
    // calls SkImageDecoder::Factory(stream)
    virtual SkImageDecoder* newDecoder(SkStream* stream) {
        return SkImageDecoder::Factory(stream);
    }
};

#endif

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PSR Interviews #1: "Enemies of the American people" – Donald Trump, populism and politics of insecurity – interview with Daniel Béland
Why does Donald Trump want to "depict his opponents as enemies of the American people, who will cheat and do whatever it takes to kick him out of the White House"? What consequences will his actions have on the country's future? Now, when America is facing a profound political change, we decided to discuss Donald Trump's political legacy with Professor Daniel Béland. He'll debate collective threat framing, Trump's populist tactics and the results it may have on the country's society. A fuller analysis of these issues can be found in Prof. Beland's PSR article. But here, we're beginning a short PSR research-based interviews series.
PSR: How would you define populism? What components do you find the most essential?
Daniel Béland: Populism is a slippery and contested concept that can be hard to define. In my article, I draw on the work of Jan-Werner Müller (2016) to stress two main components of populism: its critique of the elites and its claim to speak on the behalf of a people that is both unified and coherent. My article focuses exclusively on right-wing populism, even if left-wing populism shares these two basic characteristics.
How is populism linked to the politics of insecurity?
The politics of insecurity is largely about the framing and reframing of collective threats. In my article, I suggest that right-wing populism defines migrants as a key threat, something obvious in President Trump's rhetoric, which depicts them as "folk devils" who constitute a direct menace against the American people.
What are the major collective threats that have been framed and acted upon during Donald Trump's presidency?
Migrants are only one of the major perceived collective threats President Trump focused on during his presidency and it is the one I decided to focus on in my article. Other collective threats President Trump has referred to include the economic threat stemming from China and the "bad" trade deals with other countries, including Canada and Mexico, a situation that led to the renegotiation of NAFTA. However, these threats are less "personal" and seemingly immediate than the migrant caravan I discuss in my article.
Trump might have lost the popular vote and at the electoral college but right-wing populism and white nationalism associated to him and his faithful base are unlikely to disappear any time soon
If populism is about framing and reframing national identities, what was the major change caused by Trump's rhetoric?
Under Trump, the emphasis on border control has increased well beyond the issue of terrorism, which became such a central issue in the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. For instance, concerns about the US-Mexico border had long existed but President Trump depicted Mexican and Central American migrants who cross the border as an imminent and existential threat to the United States. More recently, in a similar way, the president has also attacked Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA, which he has distorted the image and blown out of proportion to scare voters.
How has the framing of migrants and other collective threats reshaped how Americans regard politics? Will – regardless of his defeat, – the base of Trump supporters reshapes the US politics itself?
President Trump's recent refusal to concede defeat and recognize the clear victory of Democratic candidate Job Biden is part of a broader attempt to depict his opponents as enemies of the American people, who will cheat and do whatever it takes to kick him out of the White House. Clearly the accusations of voter fraud are embedded in racial prejudice, especially when the president targets alleged yet fictional widespread "cheating" in cities with a large black population like Detroit and Philadelphia. Trump might have lost the popular vote and at the electoral college but right-wing populism and white nationalism associated to him and his faithful base are unlikely to disappear any time soon in what remains a highly divided country, in which different narratives about who the people is are now embedded in resilient and highly contentious partisan identities.
The main contribution of my article is theoretical, as it bridges and integrates the literatures on populism and on the politics of insecurity to formulate an integrated framework that other scholars could apply or adapt to a variety of political and geographical settings. This is why the article is not only targeting students of the United States or the politics of immigration but all scholars interested in the insecurity/populism nexus.
Article: Beland D. (2020), Right-Wing Populism and the Politics of Insecurity: How President Trump Frames Migrants as Collective Threats, Political Studies Review 2020, Vol. 18(2), pp. 162–177.
Daniel Beland's podcast: Donald Trump and right-wing populism
Prof. Daniel Béland – James McGill Professor; Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC).
Photo used in the heading image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr (link), license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0), modified.
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From Sweet Dreams to Life Dreams
Our Hope In Action Fund provides beds and mattresses for families in Arizona
On the RoadShelley Callahan | February 16, 2016
Recently, the Children Incorporated staff in North Chesterfield, Virginia welcomed some visitors from Page, Arizona.
Our guests were Elouise Goatson and Evonne Yazzie, the Children Incorporated volunteer coordinators for the Page Unified School District, which includes Page High School, Page Middle School, Desert View Elementary School and Lake View Elementary School. They brought along with them a local parent representative, Stanley John.
The home of some of our sponsored children in Arizona
We were reminded in a very special way of the incredible importance of our sponsors and donors, and what their contributions mean to underprivileged children and families. We were humbled to hear the heartwarming story that Elouise so graciously shared with us that day, tears welling up in her eyes.
Not long ago, Elouise was contacted by a desperate mother of three who was struggling to provide for her kids what is often taken for granted — restful sleep. This family of five was sharing one bed in their tiny and dilapidated home, and the bed had become infested with bed bugs. Elouise contacted Children Incorporated, and our Hope In Action Fund provided new beds and mattresses to all three children.
Due to the urgency of the situation, the merchants at the mattress store provided Elouise and this mother with a huge discount, and Page school employees chipped in to purchase new comforters, blankets, and sheets for each bed. Elouise and her husband purchased new pillows for the family, and they delivered the mattresses to the home themselves.
There are so many children living in poverty, and it is difficult to begin to imagine all the hardships they face as a result. Sometimes, something as simple yet as necessary as restful sleep can get overlooked.
There are so many children living in poverty, and it is difficult to begin to imagine all the hardships they face as a result. Sometimes, something as simple yet as necessary as restful sleep can get overlooked. This is where Children Incorporated's additional funds come in. The generosity of donors to our Hope In Action Fund has fulfilled such essential yet often forgotten needs.
The three kids are sleeping more soundly now than they have in years; they have more energy, and they are better able to concentrate in school. All of this is thanks to you. Your gifts to our Hope In Action Fund have changed the lives of countless children and have given them hope for a brighter future.
Thank you, sponsors and donors, for making stories like this one a reality, for helping us remember that it only takes one – one gift, one helping hand — to respond to a request for help. Your contributions called a community to action. What so many of us take for granted — restful sleep — is no longer a worry for these three children who have the world at their fingertips — and now, sweet dreams, too.
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You can sponsor a child in Arizona in one of two ways – call our office and speak with one of our sponsorship specialists at 1-800-538-5381, or email us at sponsorship@children-inc.org.
February 16, 2016 Spotlight, Arizona, United States
written by Shelley Callahan
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"""Exchange data between I2P and regular TCP sockets."""

import time, threading, sys

import i2p
import i2p.socket
import i2p.select
from i2p.pylib import socket as pysocket   # Import Python socket

def _exchange_data(A, B):
  """Exchanges data A <-> B between open stream sockets A and B."""
  # FIXME: There's recv errors that we should be shutting
  #        down sockets for, but this seems to work OK.
  err = None
  try:
    # Send data from A -> B while available.
    while True:
      # A -> B.
      A.setblocking(False)
      try: s = A.recv(1024)
      except Exception, e: s = None
      if s == '': raise i2p.socket.ClosedError
      if s == None:
        # No data available.  Stop sending A -> B.
        break
      else:
        B.setblocking(True)
        B.sendall(s)
  except Exception, e:
    err = e

  try:
    # Send data from B -> A while available.
    while True:
      # B -> A.
      B.setblocking(False)
      try: s = B.recv(1024)
      except Exception, e: s = None
      if s == '': raise i2p.socket.ClosedError
      if s == None:
        # No data available.  Stop sending B -> A.
        break
      else:
        A.setblocking(True)
        A.sendall(s)
  except Exception, e:
    err = e

  # Re-raise error after finishing communications both ways.
  if err != None: raise err

def _test_connected(B):
  """Raises an error if socket B is not yet connected."""
  [Rlist, Wlist, Elist] = i2p.select.select([B], [B], [B], 0.0)
  if len(Wlist) == 0:
    raise ValueError('socket not yet connected')

class Tunnel:
  def __init__(self, receive, make_send, nconnect=-1, timeout=60.0):
    """A Tunnel relays connections from a 'receive' socket to one
       or more 'send' sockets.  The receive socket must be bound
       and listening.  For each incoming connection, a new send
       socket is created by calling make_send().  Data is then
       exchanged between the created streams until one socket is
       closed.  nconnect is the maximum number of simultaneous
       connections (-1 for infinite), and timeout is the time that
       a single connection can last for (None allows a connection
       to last forever).

       Sockets must accept stream traffic and support the Python
       socket interface.  A separate daemonic thread is created to
       manage the tunnel.  For high performance, make_send() should
       make a socket and connect in non-blocking mode (you should
       catch and discard the i2p.socket.BlockError or socket.error
       due to executing connect on a non-blocking socket).

       Security Note:
       A firewall is needed to maintain the end user's anonymity.
       An attacker could keep a tunnel socket open by pinging it
       regularly.  The accepted sockets from 'receive' must prevent
       this by closing down eventually.

       Socket errors do not cause the Tunnel to shut down.
    """

    self.receive = receive
    self.make_send = make_send
    self.receive.setblocking(False)
    self.alive = True
    self.nconnect = nconnect
    self.timeout = timeout
    T = threading.Thread(target=self._run, args=())
    T.setDaemon(True)
    T.start()

  def _run(self):
    """Manage the tunnel in a separate thread."""
    tunnels = []

    while True:
      # Look for a new connection
      if self.nconnect < 0 or len(tunnels) < self.nconnect:
        (A, B) = (None, None)
        try:
          (A, ignoredest) = self.receive.accept()
          A.setblocking(False)
          B = self.make_send()
          B.setblocking(False)
          if self.timeout != None: t = time.time() + self.timeout
          else: t = None
          tunnels.append((A, B, t))
        except Exception, e:
          try:
            if A != None:
              A.setblocking(False); A.close()
          except Exception, e: pass
          try:
            if B != None:
              B.setblocking(False); B.close()
          except Exception, e: pass

      # Send data between existing connections
      new_tunnels = []
      for (A, B, t) in tunnels:
        # For each connection pair, send data.
        try:
          if t != None: assert time.time() <= t
          # Test whether B is successfully connected
          _test_connected(B)

          # Send A <-> B.
          _exchange_data(A, B)

          if self.timeout != None: t = time.time() + self.timeout
          else: t = None
          new_tunnels.append((A, B, t))
        except Exception, e:
          # Catch errors.  Kill the connection if it's been at
          # least timeout seconds since last non-erroneous call
          # to _exchange_data, or if stream was closed.  This
          # allows stream-not-finished-connecting errors to be
          # dropped within the timeout.
          time_ok = True
          if self.timeout != None:
            if time.time() > t: time_ok = False
          if time_ok and not isinstance(e, i2p.socket.ClosedError):
            # Don't kill connection yet
            new_tunnels.append((A, B, t))
          else:
            # We've only gotten errors for 'timeout' s.
            # Drop the connection.
            try: A.setblocking(False); A.close()
            except Exception, e: pass
            try: B.setblocking(False); B.close()
            except Exception, e: pass
      tunnels = new_tunnels
      time.sleep(0.01)

      # Shut down all connections if self.close() was called.
      if not self.alive:
        for (A, B, t) in tunnels:
          try: A.setblocking(False); A.close()
          except: pass
          try: B.setblocking(False); B.close()
          except: pass
        break

  def close(self):
    """Close all connections made for this tunnel."""
    self.alive = False

class TunnelServer(Tunnel):
  dest = property(doc='I2P Destination of server.')
  session = property(doc='Session name for server.')
  def __init__(self, session, port, samaddr=i2p.socket.samaddr,
               nconnect=-1, timeout=None, **kwargs):
    """Tunnels incoming SAM streams --> localhost:port.

       nconnect and timeout are the maximum number of connections
       and maximum time per connection.  All other arguments are
       passed to i2p.socket.socket().  This call blocks until the
       tunnel is ready."""
    S = i2p.socket.socket(session, i2p.socket.SOCK_STREAM, samaddr,
                          **kwargs)
    S.listen(64)
    self.session = session
    self.dest = S.dest
    def make_send():
      C = pysocket.socket(pysocket.AF_INET, pysocket.SOCK_STREAM)
      C.setblocking(False)
      try: C.connect(('127.0.0.1', port))
      except: pass   # Ignore 'would have blocked' error
      return C
    Tunnel.__init__(self, S, make_send, nconnect, timeout)

class TunnelClient(Tunnel):
  remotedest = property(doc='Remote Destination.')
  dest = property('Local Destination used for routing.')
  session = property('Session name for local Destination.')
  def __init__(self, session, port, dest, samaddr=i2p.socket.samaddr,
               nconnect=-1, timeout=None, **kwargs):
    """Tunnels localhost:port --> I2P Destination dest.

       A session named 'session' is created locally, for purposes
       of routing to 'dest'.  nconnect and timeout are the maximum
       number of connections and maximum time per connection.  All
       other arguments are passed to i2p.socket.socket().  This call
       blocks until the tunnel is ready."""
    S = pysocket.socket(pysocket.AF_INET, pysocket.SOCK_STREAM)
    S.bind(('', port))
    S.listen(4)
    obj = i2p.socket.socket(session, i2p.socket.SOCK_STREAM, samaddr,
                            **kwargs)
    self.session = session
    self.dest = obj.dest
    def make_send():
      C = i2p.socket.socket(session, i2p.socket.SOCK_STREAM, samaddr,
                            **kwargs)
      C.setblocking(False)
      try: C.connect(dest)
      except: pass   # Ignore 'would have blocked' error
      return C
    Tunnel.__init__(self, S, make_send, nconnect, timeout)


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John Lithgow debuts wild Rudy Giuliani impersonation with Stephen Colbert
By Nick Romano October 23, 2019 at 08:50 AM EDT
Show MoreAbout The Late Show
Maybe it's his new movie Bombshell that inspired John Lithgow to add another Republican figure to his Rolodex of impersonations, but we're not complaining.
Lithgow — who portrays former Fox News head Roger Ailes in the film with Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie — transformed into an unhinged, conspiracy theory-spouting Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, during a segment on The Late Show Tuesday night.
Lithgow mocked Giuliani's mannerisms, like the time he shushed a news anchor on camera. He shushed Stephen Colbert before the late-night host could even ask a question. "Your facts are all wrong, so shhhh! Shush it! Zip it! And ask me a question," he said.
Giuliani was the subject of Colbert's segment after spreading already-debunked conspiracy theories, including one where he blamed the Ukraine for the Trump dossier. Just as Laura Benanti appears as First Lady Melania Trump on The Late Show, it seems Lithgow is now taking the role of Giuliani for Colbert's spoof interview segments.
He also brought a new conspiracy theory. "I now have reason to believe that the 2016 election was not hacked by the Russians, it was hacked by [Joe Biden's son] Hunter Biden, who is actually a Men in Black-style alien being operated by a tiny Hillary Clinton in his neck," Lithgow as Giuliani said.
The actor previously portrayed former President Bill Clinton opposite Laurie Metcalf as Hillary Clinton on stage, and joined a live-reading of the Mueller report with Annette Bening and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
The transcription of Lithgow's comments really doesn't do the impression justice. It's all about watching his totally insane body gestures that sells it. Luckily, there's video.
Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie go to war with Fox News in Bombshell trailer
Annette Bening, John Lithgow, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, more doing live-streamed reading of Mueller Report
Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow take on Hillary and Clinton on Broadway: EW review


All Progressives Congress' (APC) efforts to reconcile members aggrieved over its recently conducted primary elections may have hit the rocks, THISDAY findings have shown even as the National Chairman, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, called off the bluff of Governors Ibikunle Amosun and Rochas Okorocha of Ogun and Imo States respectively yesterday, saying the party would win their states in spite of their belligerence.
Oshiomhole had set up six reconciliation committees for the six geo-political zones with a mandate to reach out to aggrieved aspirants in the states and reconcile them with the party.
However, with a few days to the end of their two-week assignment, the committees appear to have ran into troubled waters as most of the aggrieved APC members have refused to be appeased and are bent on working against the party using alternative platforms to actualise their ambitions.
THISDAY gathered that the reconciliation efforts in the party's four most troubled states – Imo, Ogun, Ondo and Zamfara – have hit a brick wall.
Okorocha, Amosun, Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo) and Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara) are the most aggrieved governors elected on the platform of the party, whose spat with Oshiomhole contributed largely to the setting up of the reconciliation committees.
But despite the peace efforts, the loyalists of Okorocha, Amosun and Akeredolu have since pitched tent with other parties rather than remain in APC, where their fate in the 2019 elections have been sealed with the closure of the substitution window.
While Okorocha's son-in-law, Mr. Uche Nwosu, dumped the APC and picked the gubernatorial ticket of the Action Alliance (AA) in order to realise his governorship ambition, Amosun's preferred candidate, Mr. Adekunle Akinlade, and 26 state lawmakers defected to the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) to pursue their aspirations.
Also, following the unresolved internal crisis that is rocking the Ondo State chapter of the party, a senatorial aspirant of the party and Akeredolu's close associate, Dr. Tunji Abayomi, has defected from the ruling party to the Action Alliance.
Meanwhile, aggrieved party chieftains in Zamfara State have also continued with their multiple litigations, which denied the party the chances of fielding candidates in the 2019 elections, despite the threat by the Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) to deal with members, who fail to withdraw their court cases.
Apart from the refusal of APC members to withdraw existing cases from the courts, THISDAY gathered that some party members have also initiated fresh cases against the admonition of the party's NWC.
For instance, while the reconciliation committee led by Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State is busy searching for solutions to the crisis in the party in South-west, a gubernatorial aspirant in his state, Alhaji Idris Durkwa, dragged the party to court over alleged manipulation of the primary election.
The plaintiff in the suit number: FHC/MG/CS/55/2018 instituted before a Federal High Court in Maiduguri prayed for the disqualification of the winner of the primary, Prof. Babagana Zulum.
After listening to the counsel, Justice Jude Dagat adjourned the case to January 17, 2019 for hearing.
It was gathered that with the substitution window closed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the reconciliation committees were left with no carrot to woo party members who lost out in the primaries.
Speaking to THISDAY on the reconciliation efforts, a chieftain of the APC and one of the aggrieved senatorial aspirants in Enugu State, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, rubbished the peace effort, describing it as deliberately ill-time and empty in what they have to offer.
Okechukwu, who is the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), told THISDAY that the party waited until the substitution window had almost expired before constituting the reconciliation committees.
When asked whether he and other aggrieved members have been reconciled, Okechukwu said, "The truth of the matter is that they do not have any card on the table; if the party has foreclosed the chances of substituting candidates, what else do we do?
Okechukwu also said the reconciliation committee in his zone failed to proffer any remedy on the issue of getting the party to refund the monies spent on forms for those who have valid cases.
When confronted with the resistance of the aggrieved party members to the reconciliation move, the National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Isa-Onilu, told THISDAY that the party would not like to preempt the committees' work since the two weeks given to them was yet to expire.
"It will not be proper to jump the gun and begin to speak on the outcome of the reconciliation. We will wait till they submit their report by the end of the week," he said.
The APC spokesman said that aside from the cases involving some of its governors, there were other issues that the reconciliation committee would address in the course of their assignment.
However, while speaking on the party's reconciliation efforts, Oshiomhole said he was impressed by the outcome so far, adding that the peace committees headed by the governors have interfaced with many of the aggrieved members.
"I believe it is working; governors have been helpful, they have been going round the country talking to people. Those who have what I call negotiable grievances, they are sorting them out. But if there are individuals who probably believe that it is either they get what they want or they will port, there is little we can do about that," he said.
Oshiomhole reacted to the defection of aggrieved members to other parties describing it as selfish.
He said there is not much the party can do to satisfy those party men who want to have their way at all costs.
"There is nothing we can do about it. As I said, Nigeria has to move to a level, where rules are what matter not the power of the person. If you are a big person or small the rules are not supposed to discriminate," he said.
On the defection by aggrieved party stakeholders in Imo and Ogun States, Oshiomhole said, "The real headline today is that we will win in Ogun State, and we will deliver Hope Uzodimma in Imo State. Our popularity in Imo State today are increasing, what we don't know and Nigerians always make this mistake that once you are a governor, you have electoral value.
Oshiomhole has declared emphatically that the party would win Ogun and Imo States without their respective governors – Amosun and Okorocha.
He described the governors as poor students of their own history, who had forgotten they lost elections before winning on the platform of the APC.
Oshiomhole spoke after receiving the APC women leaders from Edo State and Abuja, who paid him a solidarity visit in his private office in Aso Drive, Abuja.
Oshiomhole said, "Those who think our political future is tied to them; they are poor students of their own political history. Some of these people who talk as if they are invincible, they have forgotten that they have run elections in the past and lost until they abandoned their parties and joined us. So if they return back, history will repeat itself.
He said, "Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is from Ogun State. The state is one of the most enlightened states in Nigeria. They have a huge history; they are not in a political kingdom headed by one person.
Meanwhile, reacting to the statement credited to Oshiomhole that himself and his Ogun State counterpart, Ibikule Amosun are political liabilities who only have one vote each, Okorocha described the APC national chairman as a political liability who is on a mission to destroy the ruling party.
He added that the national chairman is a victim of his own actions.
The Imo State governor who spoke through his Commissioner for Information, Patrick Nzeh, said that APC had lost no fewer than ten million supporters since the emergence of Oshiomhole as the national chairman.


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This Westbas 29 Offshore is a very practical Scandinavian built motoryacht. Either to be used on the in- or offshore waters. She has ample accommodations below decks with two seperate cabins, large wheelhouse with good headroom and comfortable cockpit. Low enough for passing bridges, sturdy enough for a quick coastal hop to the next port of call. Nicely kitted out, "Destiny" has a heating, hot water, bowthruster, fridge, plotter, etc.
GRP motoryacht Westbas 29 Offshore "Destiny", built in 2001/2002, dim.: 9.00 x 3.05 x 0.95 mtr, CE cat B, Norske Veritas certificate, grp hull, deck and superstructure, dark blue hull, extra large bathingplatform, hardened glass windows in alum. framing, headway: 2,80 mtr, displacement: 3,6 tonnes, fueltanks: 2 x 175 ltrs (s.s.), freshwatertank: 105 ltrs (s.s.), sumptank: 80 ltrs (s.s.), hydraulic wheelsteering, second steeringposition in the cockpit, emergency tiller.
Classic teak interior, 2 cabins and saloon, 4(+1) berths (forward cabin to be converted into double berth, second double berth situated in the cabin underneath the saloon), dinette, headroom: 1,90-2.05 mtr, Mikuni 3kW diesel hot air ducted heating, 1 x u.w.toilet, galley: electric waterpressure system, Coolmatic 12v (42ltr) fridge, 30 ltr boyler hot water system, Wallas 900 two burner petroleum stove, crockery, sliding door acces to cockpit. The dinette converts into a single berth, and the forward backrest of the dinette easily converts into a two-persons seat.
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Trim the fat, boost the nutrients! The batter and frosting are made with canned pears, applesauce and sauerkraut, which replace the oil, butter or margarine found in most cakes. This serves up a healthier, yet rich, dessert that has a half cup of nutrient-rich fruits and veggies per slice!
Preparation Time: Approximately 20 minutes Cook Time: Approximately 30 minutes Preparation: Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray 2 (8-inch) layer pans with baking spray; set aside. Put sauerkraut in a strainer and wash under cold, running water, wring dry and chop coarsely; set aside. Purée pears with their liquid in a blender until smooth; divide in half and set aside. Mix cake mix, half the puréed pears and eggs in the large bowl of an electric mixer. Beat on low speed for 30 seconds and on high for 2 minutes, until the batter is thick and smooth. Fold in the sauerkraut. Pour and scrape the batter into prepared pans and bake in the oven for 30 minutes until a tester inserted into the center comes out with a few moist crumbs clinging to it. Cool in the pans on racks for 20 to 30 minutes, until cool enough to touch. Remove cakes from pans and cool on racks until room temperature. While the cake is baking prepare the frosting. Mix condensed milk, remaining puréed pears, applesauce and cornstarch in a medium saucepan with a whisk, until smooth. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture comes to a boil and thickens. Remove from heat and stir in butter, vanilla and almond extracts, coconut and pecans; set aside to cool. To assemble the cake, place 1 cake layer on a serving plate, top with 1/3 of the cooled frosting. Place the second layer on top. Ice the sides and top of the cake with the remaining frosting. Refrigerate until serving. Cut in 12 wedges and serve.


Xat has added a function that allows each user to create his own macros.
Macros allow short sequences of keystrokes to be used in place of, usually more time-consuming, sequences of keystrokes. In this way, frequently used keystrokes can be automated. What this means for Xat users is that instead of having to retype the same text over and over and over again, a simple macro can be assigned to it.
Instead of typing "1. no spam 2. no flaming, 3. no begging" each time, a user could simply type "/$rules=1. no spam 2. no flaming, 3. no begging" once. That step would create the macro. Once created a user would simply have to type $rules (note that the forward slash is not used here) to have the corresponding message displayed. To delete a macro, simply type /$rules.
Note that macros are stored locally within the cookies of each users computer and that only he will have access to the macro created by him. If you were to delete your cookies, you would also lose the macros that you have created.
Additional information can be found on the Macros page, of the Xat Wiki.


text:
class SearchController < ApplicationController
  def query
    @records = Movie.search(params[:search], index_name: [Movie.searchkick_index.name]).results

    if @records.length == 1
      redirect_to @records.first
      return
    end

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # query.html.erb
      format.json { render json: @records }
    end
  end
end


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text:
"""
Service responses.
"""

import hashlib
from mapproxy.util.times import format_httpdate, parse_httpdate, timestamp

class Response(object):
    charset = 'utf-8'
    default_content_type = 'text/plain'
    block_size = 1024 * 32

    def __init__(self, response, status=None, content_type=None, mimetype=None):
        self.response = response
        if status is None:
            status = 200
        self.status = status
        self._timestamp = None
        self.headers = {}
        if mimetype:
            if mimetype.startswith('text/'):
                content_type = mimetype + '; charset=' + self.charset
            else:
                content_type = mimetype
        if content_type is None:
            content_type = self.default_content_type
        self.headers['Content-type'] = content_type

    def _status_set(self, status):
        if isinstance(status, (int, long)):
            status = status_code(status)
        self._status = status

    def _status_get(self):
        return self._status

    status = property(_status_get, _status_set)

    def _last_modified_set(self, date):
        if not date: return
        self._timestamp = timestamp(date)
        self.headers['Last-modified'] = format_httpdate(self._timestamp)
    def _last_modified_get(self):
        return self.headers.get('Last-modified', None)

    last_modified = property(_last_modified_get, _last_modified_set)

    def _etag_set(self, value):
        self.headers['ETag'] = value

    def _etag_get(self):
        return self.headers.get('ETag', None)

    etag = property(_etag_get, _etag_set)

    def cache_headers(self, timestamp=None, etag_data=None, max_age=None, no_cache=False):
        """
        Set cache-related headers.

        :param timestamp: local timestamp of the last modification of the
            response content
        :param etag_data: list that will be used to build an ETag hash.
            calls the str function on each item.
        :param max_age: the maximum cache age in seconds
        """
        if etag_data:
            hash_src = ''.join((str(x) for x in etag_data))
            self.etag = hashlib.md5(hash_src).hexdigest()

        if no_cache:
            assert not timestamp and not max_age
            self.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'no-cache, no-store'
            self.headers['Pragma'] = 'no-cache'
            self.headers['Expires'] = '-1'

        self.last_modified = timestamp
        if (timestamp or etag_data) and max_age is not None:
            self.headers['Cache-control'] = 'max-age=%d public' % max_age

    def make_conditional(self, req):
        """
        Make the response conditional to the HTTP headers in the CGI/WSGI `environ`.
        Checks for ``If-none-match`` and ``If-modified-since`` headers and compares
        to the etag and timestamp of this response. If the content was not modified
        the repsonse will changed to HTTP 304 Not Modified.
        """
        if req is None:
            return
        environ = req.environ

        not_modified = False

        if self.etag == environ.get('HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH', -1):
            not_modified = True
        elif self._timestamp is not None:
            date = environ.get('HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE', None)
            timestamp = parse_httpdate(date)
            if timestamp is not None and self._timestamp <= timestamp:
                not_modified = True

        if not_modified:
            self.status = 304
            self.response = []
            if 'Content-type' in self.headers:
                del self.headers['Content-type']

    @property
    def content_length(self):
        return int(self.headers.get('Content-length', 0))

    @property
    def content_type(self):
        return self.headers['Content-type']

    @property
    def data(self):
        if hasattr(self.response, 'read'):
            return self.response.read()
        else:
            return ''.join(chunk.encode() for chunk in self.response)

    @property
    def fixed_headers(self):
        headers = []
        for key, value in self.headers.iteritems():
            headers.append((key, value.encode()))
        return headers

    def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
        if hasattr(self.response, 'read'):
            if ((not hasattr(self.response, 'ok_to_seek') or
                self.response.ok_to_seek) and
               (hasattr(self.response, 'seek') and
                hasattr(self.response, 'tell'))):
                self.response.seek(0, 2) # to EOF
                self.headers['Content-length'] = str(self.response.tell())
                self.response.seek(0)
            if 'wsgi.file_wrapper' in environ:
                resp_iter = environ['wsgi.file_wrapper'](self.response, self.block_size)
            else:
                resp_iter = iter(lambda: self.response.read(self.block_size), '')
        else:
            if isinstance(self.response, basestring):
                self.headers['Content-length'] = str(len(self.response))
                self.response = [self.response]
            resp_iter = self.iter_encode(self.response)

        start_response(self.status, self.fixed_headers)
        return resp_iter

    def iter_encode(self, chunks):
        for chunk in chunks:
            if isinstance(chunk, unicode):
                chunk = chunk.encode(self.charset)
            yield chunk

# http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html
_status_codes = {
    100: 'Continue',
    101: 'Switching Protocols',
    200: 'OK',
    201: 'Created',
    202: 'Accepted',
    203: 'Non-Authoritative Information',
    204: 'No Content',
    205: 'Reset Content',
    206: 'Partial Content',
    300: 'Multiple Choices',
    301: 'Moved Permanently',
    302: 'Found',
    303: 'See Other',
    304: 'Not Modified',
    305: 'Use Proxy',
    307: 'Temporary Redirect',
    400: 'Bad Request',
    401: 'Unauthorized',
    402: 'Payment Required',
    403: 'Forbidden',
    404: 'Not Found',
    405: 'Method Not Allowed',
    406: 'Not Acceptable',
    407: 'Proxy Authentication Required',
    408: 'Request Time-out',
    409: 'Conflict',
    410: 'Gone',
    411: 'Length Required',
    412: 'Precondition Failed',
    413: 'Request Entity Too Large',
    414: 'Request-URI Too Large',
    415: 'Unsupported Media Type',
    416: 'Requested range not satisfiable',
    417: 'Expectation Failed',
    500: 'Internal Server Error',
    501: 'Not Implemented',
    502: 'Bad Gateway',
    503: 'Service Unavailable',
    504: 'Gateway Time-out',
    505: 'HTTP Version not supported',
}

def status_code(code):
    return str(code) + ' ' + _status_codes[code]


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Tour beaches in Brazil and ruins in Mexico with Google Street View
Google has added Street View images for several more Brazilian cities and 30 archeological sites in Mexico, including Mayan pyramids and the ruins of Tulum.
By Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy Aug 17, 2012, 10:01am EDT
Source Official Google blog
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Google Street View Mexico Ruins
Google's Street View has long moved past being a way to check out a nearby neighborhood or find a restaurant, bringing us close-up looks at Antarctic cabins and the Kennedy Space Center. The latest Street View imagery expands availability in Brazil, bringing the total of cities included to 70. That includes Brasilia, known for its striking planned architecture, and coastal cities like Salvador and Natal. Google has also added more coverage in Rio de Janeiro, site of the 2016 Summer Olympics, in case all the recent London coverage just wasn't enough. The Street View team has been active in Mexico as well, adding pictures of 30 archeological sites. That means panoramic views of Kukulkan's Temple, the ruins of walled city Tulum, and more. It doesn't appear possible to climb the pyramids themselves — though you can zoom in to see the tops — but we'd be happy to be proven wrong.


Had you heard of lentil pasta? Iratxe told us that she recently discovered it, and thought it was a good alternative to a pot of lentils. She confesses that she loves pasta and often doesn't feel like eating lentils, so when she heard about pasta made with lentil flour, she decided to try it in order to meet her goal of eating more legumes. And she started with a very wholesome salad, with three healthy ingredients: "lentils" (in the shape of pasta), lamb's lettuce and White Tuna. Anyone up for it?
Put some lamb's lettuce in a salad bowl.
Add the boiled lentil pasta.
Add some pieces of pickled jalapeño peppers (optional; if you don't like hot food, better without them).
Chop some gherkins and add them to the salad bowl with the rest of the ingredients.
Add dressing to taste (you can also leave it without dressing, and you'll have a perfect tupperware meal for work, keeping the dressing separate).
Easy and wholesome. Thanks Iratxe!


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Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – June 7, 2011
Tiny, Free and Kick-Ass: 20 More Awesome Apps Under 2 MB – A month or two back, we posted our list of 30 amazing apps under 2MB. We thought it was a pretty fun concept, and apparently you guys agreed, because we got some great feedback, and some excellent suggestions. Our first list was far from complete, of course, so we decided to do some more investigating, and found 20 more great apps. They're all free, all easy to download, and all great at what they do.
Apple iCloud: A Visual Tour – Apple's new Web storage system will sync your music, pictures, and more.
Ready for Firefox 6? Here's What's on the Way – Now in the Aurora channel, this upcoming version of Mozilla's browser is off to a promising start.
Hackers Exploit Flash Bug in New Attacks Against Gmail Users – Adobe today confirmed that the Flash Player bug it patched Sunday is being used to steal login credentials of Google's Gmail users. The vulnerability was patched yesterday in an "out-of-band," or emergency update. The fix was the second in less than four weeks for Flash, and the fifth this year. A weekend patch is very unusual for Adobe.
Fake LinkedIn notifications lead to malware – If the look of the message seems familiar, it is because the scammers have used the legitimate LinkedIn email template and modified it to suit their needs – i.e. they have changed the link behind the confirmation button.
RSA admits SecurID tokens have been compromised – The admission comes in the wake of cyber intrusions into the networks of three US military contractors: Lockheed Martin, L-3 Communications and Northrop Grumman – one of them confirmed by the company, others hinted at by internal warnings and unusual domain name and password reset process.
DIY: Five free web builder CMS tools – Who says your company must be flush with dough to have a respectable website? Get your small shop's website up and running with these free CMS tools that are Jack Wallen's favorites.
Fake AV distributed via user profiles on popular sites – In order to lure people into downloading the PDF exploit that drops and installs FakeRean, these malware peddlers seemingly offer links to sites with adult content. And to make sure that the links to the malicious sites are online at any given time, they have set them up as posts on forums of a variety of online services such as SourceForge, Twitter, Flickr, Stumbleupon, last.fm, Yahoo Answers, and many, many more – or by adding it as profile information.
Apple introduces iCloud – Apple introduced iCloud, a set of free new cloud services that work seamlessly with applications on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and automatically and wirelessly push it to all your devices. When anything changes on one of your devices, all of your devices are wirelessly updated almost instantly.
First social engineering protection appliance – Cyveillance has leveraged its technology and advanced threat intelligence to provide a security solution specifically designed to detect highly targeted social engineering attacks. Once an email has passed through the traditional email gateway, Social Engineering Protection Appliance (SEPA) takes security one step further and inspects all email for indicators of social engineering attacks.
Canonical Partners with ASUS for Ubuntu Linux – Ubuntu Linux set to be pre-loaded on ASUS notebooks – Is 2011, finally the year of the Linux Desktop?
LibreOffice Moves Forward without Apache – The LibreOffice open source office project issued a new release today, further demonstrating the viability of the OpenOffice.org (OO.o) fork. The LibreOffice 3.4.0 release comes in the same week that Oracle announced its intention to move OpenOffice to the Apache Software Foundation.
Microsoft Office 365 Launching June 28 – Office 365 is a cloud-based, monthly-subscription solution that comes in two versions, one for small businesses and one for enterprises. The small business edition is geared towards organizations that have fewer than 25 employees. At $6 a month per user, this version will offer Office Web Apps, Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online, Lync Online, and an external Web site for the subscribers.
Off Topic (Sort of):
Twenty Facts About US Inequality Everyone Should Know – Lavishly illustrated blogpost with some unpalatable data about US inequality. "CEOs in 1965 made 24 times more than the average production worker, whereas in 2009 they made 185 times more."
Average iTunes user never listens to 81% of music library – The online music lockers from Amazon and Google have generated excitement, but new data from Music WithMe shows iTunes users only play a fraction of the music they actually own.
Windows Forecast Shows XP's One-of-a-kind Dominance – At its peak, Windows XP powered more than eight out of every 10 computers worldwide. In November 2007, the earliest month for which Computerworld has Net Applications' data, XP accounted for 83.6% of all operating systems. Although Windows XP's share has gradually declined since then, it still enjoys a slight majority: Last month, XP owned a 52.4% share.
France bans Facebook and Twitter from radio and TV – This means French news organizations are not allowed to urge their audience to "follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/emilprotalinski or "check out my Facebook page at facebook.com/emil.protalinski." Instead, they will have to say "find us on social networking websites" or tell viewers to "check out our webpage at this URL to find links to our pages on social networks."
10 'What were they thinking?' managerial moments – Even the best managers sometimes have a bad day — or a bad moment. Alan Norton shares some of the confounding, over-the-top managerial behavior he's seen through the years.
Today's Quote:
"The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch."
– Michael Friedman
Today's Free Downloads:
SlimCleaner – SlimCleaner is powered in part by the cloud and community intelligence. This software includes a variety of modules that will clean your PC, uninstall unnecessary software, help you decide whether to remove certain programs from running on startup, and more.
Ccleaner – Want to clean and optimize your PC? You've probably heard of CCleaner, arguably the world's most popular tool for doing the job. It clears out temporary files, cleans the Windows Registry, erases browser histories, and so on.
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Stay with us Easter weekend, April 19 - April 21, and enjoy egg-cellent Easter adventures! We will be offering a variety of themed crafts, activities, shows and events for the whole family! Daily activities* are also in full swing. Check out donut decorating, t-shirt coloring, sand art and kids check-in. Plus Aquatopia Indoor Waterpark is always included with your stay.
Enjoy a delicious meal complete with fresh salad and artisan cheese/antipasto display. The yummy dishes don't end there. Be sure to check out our carving station with chimichurri Crusted Baron of Beef and Roasted Caribbean Style Jerk Chicken. Side dishes include truffle mashed potato, shaved brussel sprouts and fresh green beans. And let's not forget about the luscious Easter desserts! No reservations required. Walk-ins welcome.
Looking to capture a memorable photo of your family during your stay at Camelback Lodge? Look no further, we have the perfect photo-hop for you! The Easter Bunny will be in the lobby.
Photo note: photos are no obligation and may be purchased at the Photo Center located in the Arcadia Skills Center.
Join us Easter morning for Pancakes and PJs. Pancake bar is included with the explorers stay. We will have a variety of syrups to drizzle over your fluffy pancakes and tons of toppings! Chocolate chips, fresh fruit, sprinkles, cookies, whip cream and more! PLUS...a PJ contest. We will award the best dressed for multiple categories. *Limit of 2 pancakes per explorer. If you plan on participating in the Easter egg hunt it starts at 9am so don't forget your closed toe shoes. Hop to see you there!
Hop to it! Hunt for Easter eggs of each color and turn in your eggs for an egg-cellent prize!
On the morning of Easter Sunday, we will be holding a non-denominational service for any Lodge explorer who would like to participate. The service will take place on the 4th Floor Ballroom.
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MUSERK AND VIDEO RESEARCH LAUNCH MUSERK V.I.D.
U.S. tech startup Muserk and Japan's Video Research have joined forced to create MUSERK V.I.D.
Managing the global online rights of major broadcasters, networks and production companies of Japan, the J.V. marks the time a global rights management service is being offered to the Japanese market from a company that is owned by both a U.S. and Japanese company.
The company will serve, protect and manage clients' online video rights through Muserk's propriety AI technology, M-Match and M-PAC, which matches data sets including language characters and content tiles uploaded via YouTube and DSPs.
"With this joint venture and the creation of Muserk V.I.D., we expect to see less piracy of Japanese content on all platforms and an opportunity for our customers to monetize their content online through royalty collection," shared Wataru Mochizuki, President of Video Research.
"Video Research is a perfect partner with intrinsic understanding of the needs of Japanese content creators," said Muserk Founder Paul Goldman, who will serve as CEO of the board for the J.V. based in N.Y.
Goldman adds, "Our AI technology was created by a tech team, not from music, but from biotech used to working with petabytes of data, enabling us to create a solution that has the ability for massive scale, speed and machine learning to address Japan's vast amount of content and data complexities."


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Maine hunters are facing a range of new state and local restrictions, including ordinances in 24 southern Maine towns that in most cases restrict hunting to shotguns only. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife announced an assortment of new state laws that take effect next month. Details.
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MSC Cruises' Flagship MSC Virtuosa to perform her inaugural season around the UK this summer!
Short breaks and week-long summer sailings around the British Isles with MSC Cruises, including voyages that depart from the port of Southampton, are now on sale, view the collection online.
Starting 20 May, MSC Virtuosa – the line's recently delivered and newest flagship – will be deployed to the UK for her inaugural season and replace MSC Magnifica to spend summer operating this special range of sailings to some of the UK's most popular ports such as Portland, Liverpool, Greenock and Belfast.
All operations will be conducted in accordance with relevant government requirements and will see the implementation of MSC Cruises' industry-leading health and safety protocol.
Antonio Paradiso, Managing Director MSC Cruises UK & Ireland said: "Following our recent announcement that we intend to offer cruises in the UK we have been overwhelmed by the response from MSC Cruises customers and avid cruisers eager to get back on board and experience a cruise with us this summer. I am personally very proud to be able to bring our newest ship MSC Virtuosa to the UK so that our valued British guests are the first to officially come on board and the first to experience this incredible next generation ship. She is the latest, most-innovative and environmentally advanced to join the MSC Cruises fleet and we couldn't be more delighted to offer UK holidaymakers and their families the chance to discover her world class facilities. We have all been waiting for something exciting to look forward to and this ship has lots of new features for our guests to experience including new speciality restaurants and a brand-new immersive entertainment lounge with a humanoid robotic bartender and much more."
MSC Virtuosa will initially operate six mini-cruises that with embarkation in Southampton will include a stop in Portland. These will be followed by a series of seven-night sailings providing embarkation also in the ports of Liverpool and Greenock, giving holidaymakers across the UK the option to easily escape on holiday with minimal travel.
The range of four-night mini-cruises will offer a late sail from Southampton and will provide the ultimate short getaway for couples or friends in search of a quick escape. The ship will call at the Isle of Portland in Dorset, part of the Jurassic Coast, where guests will be able to go ashore to enjoy the perfect day out at the beach. The itinerary will also include two days at sea so that guests can enjoy the incredible array of facilities that MSC Virtuosa has to offer.
From June 12th, holidaymakers can join seven-night sailings that will include stops in Portland and the cultural city of Belfast and offer multiple ports of embarkation including Liverpool and Greenock, close to Glasgow.
In addition to offering multiple embarkation ports on the 7-night cruises, guests will also be able to go ashore and visit the different destinations. This is a key aspect of a cruise holiday for a rich and complete experience, and MSC Cruises tried and tested 'social bubble' ashore visits deliver the same high standards of health and safety as on board. This is reassuring not only for guests but also the destinations that are visited as healthy guests are visiting their communities and that best practices of health and hygiene will be applied when local attractions are visited.
MSC Virtuosa is designed to offer a dynamic and dazzling guest experience with innovative features and facilities and she is also one of the most environmentally-advanced ships in MSC Cruises' fleet. Some of the highlights include:
An enhanced MSC Yacht Club, with stylish private facilities and accommodation including a panoramic lounge, gourmet restaurant and private pool and sun deck
MSC for Me – the multi-channel digital experience to help guests make the most of their holiday experience
A choice of 10 restaurants and 21 bars including two brand-new specialty restaurant concepts – HOLA! Tacos & Cantina and Indochine
The brand-new MSC Starship Club featuring the world's first humanoid robotic bartender offering a futuristic immersive bar and entertainment experience
A 945-seater theatre and the stunning Carousel Lounge at the aft of the ship with live productions and shows every night
Extensive kids' facilities including with LEGO® play areas and a Chicco baby club
112-metre-long Mediterranean promenade lined with boutiques bars and restaurants topped with a breathtaking LED sky screen with animations throughout the day and night
Five swimming pools including an extensive magrodome pool and a 1,000sqm aquapark
A dedicated entertainment area with an FI simulator, bowling, XD cinema
The luxurious MSC Aurea Spa with full range of treatments and the state-of-the-art MSC Gym by Technogym®
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Cyprus: ExxonMobil to drill during 2020 an appraisal well in Block 10
ExxonMobil's Vice President briefs Ministers in Cyprus on the company's appraisal plan for Block 10 ExxonMobil's Vice President Don Bagley has discussed with Ministers in Cyprus, the company's…
Appraisal results of the Karish North Discovery in Israel
Energean Oil and Gas plc., the oil and gas producer focused on the Mediterranean, is pleased to announce the successful appraisal of the Karish North Discovery, confirming best…
Cyprus: Setback for plans to import gas
Cyprus efforts to import natural gas to power its electricity grid looked set to further delays after complications emerged in the tender process for the construction of an…
Cyprus expecting more discoveries during the next two years
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According to Reuters, Eni has acquired 70% of Edison's stake in Block 12 of its Northeast Ha'py natural gas concession in the Mediterranean, an unnamed EGAS source said.…
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Kingsclere is undoubtedly one of the best equipped and most beautiful private training establishments in the world. The facilities have been constantly updated and improved since the yard was originally built in the late 1860s and, being private, can be used in whatever way and at whatever time best suits the effective training and care of the horses.
Today the yard contains 223 boxes. These are split between 9 separate yards ranging in style from the original brick-built yards to new American barns, allowing horses to be housed in appropriate groupings and conditions.
Within the yard area there are two lunge pits (one covered, one open), three covered horse walkers and a two furlong circular indoor ride, ensuring that horses can be exercised whatever the weather. There is also a digital weighbridge for the monitoring of horses' weight – often an indication of their health and wellbeing.
Kingsclere was one of the first training establishments in the country to be equipped with its own equine swimming pool. This has made it possible to include swimming as an integral part of the training regime of many horses, particularly those that may be mentally or physically fragile and are unable to ensure the rigours of ridden exercise, or those that require additional fittening work.
The yard has a high speed treadmill, which enables horses to be exercised without a rider on their backs. Whilst not a part of every horse's training programme, the treadmill is particularly useful for horses requiring very controlled exercise as part of a rehabilitation programme after injury, for horses which become sour on the gallops, and for those suffering from minor ailments which prevent ridden exercise (such as a sore mouth, girth or back).
The main gallops used on a daily basis are situated less than half a mile from the yard itself. Horses go to and from the gallops via purpose-built tracks and tree-lined avenues within the Park House estate, avoiding the need to contend with traffic on the roads.
The artificial gallops include a four and a half furlong polytrack straight gallop (resurfaced in 2018), a five and a half furlong fibresand gallop, a four furlong circular all-weather gallop and a 3 furlong uphill woodchip gallop. In addition there are three separate grass gallops, a schooling field for the jumpers and a further 15 acres of grass for walking and trotting.
Kingsclere also offers a further 100 acres of downland gallops on nearby Watership Down, which are used regularly for faster work. This area contains a total of eight individual grass gallops, varying in nature and ranging in distance from 5 furlongs to 1 mile 6 furlongs. The turf has been laid for over a hundred years and consequently provides a cushion for the horses, even at times when there is little rain. The area also boasts a mile all-weather gallop, together with extensive schooling facilities for National Hunt horses.
The yard has eight grazing paddocks of varying sizes, allowing horses to be grazed in hand after exercise or turned out in the afternoons or during their post-season break. There are also two turnout pens for more restricted turnout.
The yard has three sets of starting stalls. Over the course of their education young horses progress from following a schoolmaster through a single static stall within the yard area, to walking through a set of stalls on their way to or from the gallops, to jumping out of a further set of stalls and galloping away. This means they are as prepared as possible for their first appearance on the racecourse, and also that any stalls-related problems can be ironed out at home.
The travelling of horses to and from the races is an important function within any racing yard and Kingsclere has three horseboxes which are used exclusively for horses trained at Park House. The vehicles are maintained to meet all welfare requirements and to ensure that transport is safe and comfortable for horses and humans.


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News diary 7-13 June: GB News launches and Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Survey suggests 10% of UK population now willing to pay for online news
CEO interview: How publishing company Outside plans to build the Disney+ of outdoor activities
By William Turvill Twitter
Outside, the owner of VeloNews, Yoga Journal and Ski magazine, has in four years established itself as one of America's largest digital journalism subscription businesses.
The media company, led by tech entrepreneur Robin Thurston, claims to have around 500,000 digital subscribers, as well as 1m more through its magazines.
'We need to charge to survive': Why the Boston Globe's 'dollar a day' digital subscription policy is paying off
Black Ballad raises £335,000 to invest in content and subscriptions technology
Paywall strategy insights: How the FT and Times built successful subscription websites
But for Thurston, a co-founder and former CEO of exercise app company MapMyFitness, this is only the beginning. He believes that his company, taking inspiration from Disney, Amazon and Netflix, can hit between 5-10m subscribers in the next four years.
[This interview first featured in Press Gazette's 'Future of News – US' newsletter. Click here to sign up and receive this content first.]
Press Gazette spoke to Thurston after his company this week announced the launch of Outside+, a subscription that gives customers access to online editorial content across all of the publisher's websites.
The package also includes two print magazine subscriptions, usage of the Gaia GPS software that Outside owns, access to OutsideTV and virtual health and fitness courses. Outside+ replaces its Active Pass subscription, which was similar but did not include the same level of integration between brands or member exclusives.
Thurston says that, with Outside+, he wants to create "one unified platform. We have a single sign-on – you're creating an Outside account, you can use that in every place on the platform."
He believes the product will prove popular because many of Outside's users will have, or will develop, an interest in multiple outdoor pursuits. Outside's titles cover topics including travel, running, climbing, skiing, cycling, yoga, training and healthy eating.
"From our data, we know that we have households getting three of our magazines at home. And so we're like: Wait a minute. Why wouldn't we just offer them something more like Netflix or Amazon Prime or Disney in terms of unlimited access?"
Thurston adds: "I did not create this model. If you ask me, people like Amazon and others like Disney [did]. Even Disney now is adding perk benefits to Disney+ because they know you have to integrate the experience layer with the content layer…
"I think you're going to see a lot more businesses that are what I would call fully integrated within their category – [i.e.] they bring everything from commerce to utility to experience to content together in a way that is hyper-personalised."
How Outside used M&A to build a subscriber empire
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Outside was formerly known as Pocket Outdoor Media.
Over the past four years, the company – which has been headed up by Thurston since 2019 when he joined from personal genomics startup Helix – has acquired a number of established magazines and media brands.
There is likely to be more to come. Thurston says: "We've done a lot of M&A in the last 12 months. I don't know if we'll do that much M&A in the next 12 months, but I think in the long run we will largely use M&A as a way to add value into the Outside+ ecosystem."
In February this year, it bought Outside Integrated Media, the publisher of Outside magazine, and renamed itself.
Today, Thurston says that Outside has "500,000 people in what we would call our digital membership layer," including Outside+ and direct subscriptions to online brands, as well as 1m paying magazine subscribers.
Many magazine publishers appear to have struggled so far to build large digital subscription businesses (Press Gazette's 100k Club ranking is dominated by newspaper or news-focused companies).
Thurston believes that "a lot of magazine companies have made a fatal error" by making their print content available for free online.
"Consumers are savvy," he says. "If you're reading your magazine and you see it free three days later on the web, you go: Well, do I really need to subscribe to the magazine?
"So the first thing that we did, which I still think is different than many print magazine companies, is we said 100% of the content that's in the magazine can never be free on the web. We can't have it anywhere out there for you to get it if we want you to be a print plus digital customer."
Thurston's subscription growth plans – to hit 5-10m paying readers/users – sound ambitious. (The New York Times, with nearly 8m subscribers, is the only journalism company in the world to have reached these heights.)
But, pointing to the fact that Outside's websites attract 200m unique visitors a year, he suggests the target is more than achievable.
"Our view is 5-10m people, of our unique audience, is actually relatively conservative," he says. "We certainly think it's very possible over the next three to four years to get to that level."
Why advertising is still important for Outside
While much of Outside's focus will be on these 5-10m would-be subscribers, the company's non-paying audience will remain important.
As a rule, Thurston says that Outside aims to make around 60% of its online content freely available. This is partly to entice more readers who may become subscribers, but also for advertising purposes.
"We think in five years, advertising might only be 30% of the revenue," he says. "But as we build a network this big, there have been lots of opportunities that have come to us to really leverage our audience into brands that want to be associated with [Outside]. And so we're seeing bigger, larger, strategic advertising deals."
Thurston believes the death of third-party cookies creates an opportunity for Outside because of its large readership and the first-party data it holds.
He says that Outside expects 90% of its users to be logged in to its system while reading content within three years, which would be a major boost to its ad-targeting capabilities.
Thurston says readers will be encouraged to log in so that they can personalise the content they see on Outside websites – e.g. by following certain topics and authors. Logging in also gives them the ability to comment on articles. Here, he once again takes inspiration from the tech industry.
"It's just like Instagram – you can't follow people if you aren't logged in, right? You can look at photos but you can't do anything.
"So I think our view is very similar. We're going to add benefits that essentially attract people to want to synchronise and create an account… And we think we'll be very successful in that as we add more and more things that are only for logged-in users."
Although logged-in non-subscribers are important, Thurston makes clear that attracting paying readers will be the priority.
"Advertising will always be an important component and we certainly see it growing," he says. "But I would say our focus and emphasis is on building a truly unique membership platform that really differentiates us in the market over the long run."
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You may have noticed if your a regular reader of my blog that I've been a little vacant from here of recent. This kind of happened all of a sudden with everything going on in my personal life. I tried to do a cover up with everything and attempt to carry on as normal. But this failed and in fact only made me come down with a bang and possibly feeling worse. I lost all mojo for everything - blogging included. I think writing it down may have helped but I simply didn't know what to say and how.
I think, emphasis THINK, I'm starting to feel better. I'm beginning to feel like blogging again. I'm beginning to think about everything in a more positive way again with my only downer now being work. I only work two days a week and for these two days I feel terrible. Hopefully, situations will improve - I can dream right? But for now, I'm just thinking of happy memories I have and creating a positive environment for Jack.
I hope things start looking up for you and you find your mojo for everything again soon. Sometimes it is good to take a break!
I hope you continue to feel better, and find your blog will help.
Your posts are missed but we can read them whenever you are ready to write! Nothing wrong with taking a break now and again! Hope you continue to feel better!


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Interventions: localized vacuum consolidation of delaminations of the paint surface; plastering the gaps; inpaintings; restoration of the final varnish.
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Interventions: localized vacuum consolidation of delaminations of the paint surface; restoration of the final varnish.
Interventions: localized vacuum consolidation of delaminations of the paint surface; inpaintings; restoration of the final varnish.
Interventions: localized vacuum consolidation of delaminations of the paint surface; plastering of gaps; inpaintings; correction of altered inpaintings; restoration of the final varnish.
Interventions: cleaning of lime spots; inpaintings; correction of altered inpaintings; restoration of the final varnish.
Interventions: consolidation of the support; consolidation of delaminations of the paint surface; several cleaning phases, also with the aid of the stereomicroscope; plastering of gaps; inpaintings; intermediate and final varnishing.
Localized vacuum consolidation of delaminations of the paint surface; plastering of gaps; inpaintings; correction of altered inpaintings; restoration of the final varnish.
Interventions: localized vacuum consolidation of delaminations of the paint surface; correction of altered inpaintings; plastering of gaps; inpaintings; intermediate and final varnishing.
Interventions: consolidation of the support; consolidation of the paint surface with glue impregnation under vacuum; several cleaning phases, also with the aid of the stereomicroscope; plastering of gaps; inpaintings; intermediate and final varnishing.
Interventions: consolidation of the support; sectorial consolidation of the paint surface with glue impregnation under vacuum; several cleaning phases, also with the aid of the stereomicroscope; plastering of gaps; inpaintings; intermediate and final varnishing.
Interventions: consolidation of the support; localized vacuum consolidation of delaminations of the paint surface; several cleaning phases, also with the aid of the stereomicroscope; plastering of gaps; inpaintings; intermediate and final varnishing.


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   * @type {number}
   */
  rolledNumberSum: Ember.computed('rolledNumbers', function() {
    return this.get('rolledNumbers').reduce(function(a, b) { return a + b; });
  })
});