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Battles, Events, DHARMA Initiative
1977 Barracks battle
Roger Linus recognizes Sayid and shoots him
"The Incident, Part 1"
Combatants
DHARMA Initiative vs. Jack and Sayid
Survivors' victory
At least 3 DHARMA members, Sayid is wounded
The 1977 Barracks battle was a battle in which Jack, defending a wounded Sayid shot by Roger Linus, fought several DHARMA Initiative members, killing at least two of them. The battle ended when Hurley, Jin and Miles came in a DHARMA van and helped Jack and Sayid escape. ("The Incident, Part 1")
Lead up
A young Ben is shot by Sayid, the event which led to Roger Linus shooting Sayid at The Barracks. ("He's Our You")
Richard Alpert, using a sledgehammer, revealed an area in the tunnels where a house in the DHARMA barracks could be accessed. After leaving Richard and an unconscious Eloise behind, Jack and Sayid emerged from the tunnels where Jughead was kept into the Goodspeeds' empty home. The two then needed to get out of the Barracks so they could get to the Swan site. Upon seeing the huge number of DHARMA members outside, and with Jack knowing they would be attacked if they were recognized, Sayid suggested they "hide in plain sight". They donned the Goodspeeds' DHARMA uniforms and simply walked through the Barracks, past many security employees including Phil. They had almost made it to the other side of the housing compound until Roger Linus recognized Sayid as the man who shot his son, Ben Linus. ("He's Our You") ("The Incident, Part 1")
Roger aims his gun at Sayid. ("The Incident, Part 1")
The conflict was initiated when Roger recognized Sayid in Horace's uniform and shot him, after a holding him up at gun point for a short time. Jack, who was trying to protect Sayid, shot back, making Roger retreat a short distance and causing a few other DHARMA Initiative members to start shooting at Jack. While attempting to take Sayid to safety, Jack shot and presumably killed two of the DHARMA shooters. Near the end of the firefight, a DHARMA van sped towards Jack and Sayid, and only after Jack shot at it did he realize that the van, which was being driven by Hurley, Miles, and Jin, had come to help them flee. After Jin helped Jack load the wounded Sayid in the van, they drove away from the Barracks. ("The Incident, Part 1")
Kate looks at Jack's wounds shortly after his fight with Sawyer. ("The Incident, Part 1")
A few of the DHARMA shooters were killed, and Sayid was wounded in the battle. Even with their plan to detonate a large explosive now revealed, Jack and Sayid managed to escape the battle and started to head towards the site of the Swan construction. However, as the van was about five minutes away from reaching the site, the group was stopped by Sawyer, along with Juliet and Kate, so that Sawyer could have a conversation with Jack. The two quickly got into an argument over the plan to detonate the thermonuclear core, with Jack claiming it was his destiny to change the past, while Sawyer believed "what's done is done" and they shouldn't try to change the past. A fistfight ensued, and the two had to be seperated by Juliet after many punches had been thrown. With Juliet now on Jack's side, the group continued on to the Swan site, and they still got there on time to detonate the bomb immediately after the Incident. ("The Incident, Part 1")
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Warrenheip (Victoria), Stadt in Australien
Mount Warrenheip, Berg in Australien

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William John Larkin (frequently called Larkins in newspaper accounts) is said have been born in Galway, Ireland; the date of his birth and his parents' names are unknown. A supposed relationship to Michael Larkin, one of the three Fenians hanged at the New Bailey prison, Salford, Manchester, England, on 23 November 1867, has never been established. He was trained at Maynooth seminary, near Dublin, and matriculated in theology in August 1856. In 1860 he was ordained a priest for the diocese of Clonfert and worked as a curate in Eyrecourt in 1860 and 1861. He departed for Australia on the Prince Consort in 1862, as chaplain for the Queensland Immigration Society.
In 1866 Larkin arrived in Wellington in response to Bishop P. J. Viard's request for priests to work among the Irish goldminers of Otago and the West Coast. He was appointed to Hokitika in February 1867, but his strongly voiced support for Irish political grievances soon drew him into disputes with other local Irish clergy. In an effort to resolve this feuding, Viard appointed him to the sole curacy of Waimea in June 1867 and gave him oversight of an outpost church at Staffordtown.
Two incidents brought him to national notice. From October 1867 until August 1868 he and another Irish immigrant, John Manning, were proprietors of a partisan weekly newspaper entitled the New Zealand Celt. As part of its fervid espousal of Irish nationalism, it supported the funeral processions and prayer services in memory of the Manchester Martyrs, held at the strongly Irish settlements of Charleston, Hokitika and Addisons Flat in early 1868. Not long after these demonstrations, news arrived in the colony of the attempted murder of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, in Sydney. The would-be assassin was an Irishman, named Henry James O'Farrell, who was suspected of having Fenian sympathies. A bitter war of words between the New Zealand Celt and the Hokitika West Coast Times led to the arrest on 27 March of Larkin, Manning and five other organisers of the nationalist processions.
Both Larkin and Manning were found guilty on charges of seditious libel on 20 May in a state trial presided over by Judge C. W. Richmond in Hokitika. As they had pleaded guilty, they were given lenient sentences of a month's gaol each. The defence was conducted by R. D. Ireland. Irish miners had raised almost £1,500 in just five weeks in order to bring him over from Australia for the trial.
Larkin had been suspended from his priestly duties by Bishop Viard. After his release from gaol, he stayed on in Greymouth until the end of the year before moving to Dunedin. In 1870 he was appointed to Oamaru, and then moved to Tuapeka, where he was parish priest from 1871 until 1877. He returned to Dunedin and was given an honourable discharge from the diocese in 1879.
By 1885 he was working in the diocese of Chicago in the United States. He was then a chaplain in Fort Lewis, Colorado; this is the last heard of him. Larkin was always a colourful and popular priest. The trouble which arose during his ministry in New Zealand highlighted the intensity of nationalism among small groups of Irish colonists. It also revealed the persistence of prejudice against the Irish among some English migrants.


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Prior to joining the KNXV team, Danielle was a Morning Anchor for KVOA-TV's "Tucson Today." Her anchoring and reporting garnered an Emmy nomination and several awards from the Associated Press, including "Best Serious Feature" for her work chronicling Gabrielle Giffords' recovery, one year after the mass shooting in Tucson.
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It really is those momentous little things that can make an eternal difference, especially if it comes out of the blue with no warning, a lovely surprise that both enriches and encourages you. It's a connection.
I had one of those last week. One of my college roommates whom I've kept in touch with over the years, actually she kept more in touch with me, called me again last week. We had a lovely talk, and we re-connected all over again. We prayed for and with each other. God was there, because he says in his word that where two or three are "gathered" as in our case, over the phone—He is there. We talked a little over an hour and it was very nice. It was an eternal moment in my day.
The important thing is—to connect. In today's world of social media, I love it that Dixie, the paper plate/cup manufacturer has started a campaign to go "Dark for Dinner" on Sundays. Turn off your cell phones and unplug.
Connect. Make a difference in someone's life just by talking to th em in person and not on Facebook. Don't get me wrong, I love Facebook, but I control my scrolling and my posting. Facebook is a great way to connect with people you don't see often or who live far away, or people you have no other way to contact or connect with except through Facebook.
Unfortunately, our cutthroat business society has latched on to the advertising aspects of it. And also unfortunately, that's why I joined Facebook six years ago—to expand the chocolate business I no longer have. But a wonderful thing happened. I am now connected with people I used to know in college and haven't seen in forty years. I am connected with people I've never met, but we are all in the same writing profession and we encourage each other. I find that amazing.
How do you connect? This past weekend, my BFF and I connected, and it was also wonderful.
Look for those eternal moments of connection during your day. Have you encouraged someone? Do you need encouragement? You never know what the day may hold.


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What is a ghost note ?
What is a ghost note and how is it different than holding the previous note ?
guitar technique terminology
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A ghost note is played, but very lightly, and sometimes just sounds from the fretting movement.
I've heard it called an anti-accent or negative accent, and normally heard it used with regard to drumming and other percussion instruments.
edit - holding the previous note is just a longer note, whereas a ghost note is played, just quietly
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A ghost note, dead note, or false note, is a musical note with a rhythmic value, but no discernible pitch when played. On stringed instruments, this is played by sounding a muted string. "Muted to the point where it is more percussive sounding than obvious and clear in pitch. There is a pitch, to be sure, but its musical value is more rhythmic than melodic or harmonic...they add momentum and drive to any bass line." – Håvard Geithus Jul 25 '12 at 18:43
I believe that a ghost note is a very faint note. I play them by either:
Fretting the note without picking it, although that gives a slight metallic attack
Playing it as normal, but very lightly (the side of my thumb works well)
Muting the strings
Not fretting the note, or not fretting it clearly, heavily muting the strings (i.e., scratching)
Picking the note close to the bridge or over the neck, or fretting it higher up on the neck (which makes the note more tinny-sounding than lower in volume)
There's no right way to do this, and it depends on the song.
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Consider pipes, especially from the Scottish tradition. You do not stop the notes, you just keep a long stream of breath, and in fact they developed means to keep the notes going while the piper breathes more normally, i.e. bagpipes. So the notes don't stop. Now, imagine the melody hitting one note over and over. In that styles, you don't have a way to stop the melody. Long tests to take a breath maybe but no quarter note rests. So, you play quick hits on other notes so that you can hit that note again.
That is the ghost note.
Strings don't with like that, so guitarists don't need to do it that often. The one thing that comes to mind is in chicken pickin', where you alternate a ghost note with a loud and clear note to get "bk-bawk!" sound.
In researching this, I saw that some use it as a term for artificial harmonics. I prefer the Rev. Gibbons' term for those, which is "squealers".
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According to The American Academy of Ophthalmology, more than two million Americans age 50 and older have advanced AMD. This condition results in the deterioration of the macula – part of the retina that enables us to see fine details. A person with macular degeneration loses sight in the central part of their field of vision.
Early AMD involves the presence of drusen – fatty deposits under the retina's light-sensing cells. The connection between drusen and AMD is unclear, but what is known is that an increase in their size or presence often raises a person's likelihood of contracting late dry AMD or wet AMD. Vision loss in early dry AMD is usually not present but it can appear and progress with the disease, leading to more significant vision loss.
Intermediate AMD is indicated by the presence of large drusen or pigment changes in the retina or both. There may or may not be any loss of vision.
Late AMD features vision loss as a result of damage to the macula. There are two types of late AMD – Geographic Atrophy, also called "Dry AMD," and Neovascular AMD, also called "Wet" AMD.
Dry AMD involves the deterioration of the macula and the tissue supporting the macula.
Wet AMD involves the growth of abnormal blood vessels under the retina. These vessels can leak and cause damage to the macula. While less common, Wet AMD is a greater threat to vision than is Dry AMD.
Early AMD – Presently there is no treatment for this condition, aside from the recommendation to have a regular eye exam to monitor the disease's progression. Increasing the amount of antioxidant nutrients in your diet, based on your eye care provider's recommendation, should also be considered.
Intermediate and Late AMD – National Eye Institute researchers found that certain nutritional substances in specific doses can slow the progression of Intermediate AMD and Late AMD present in one eye.
Unfortunately, there is no generally-accepted treatment for dry AMD. In many cases of wet AMD, laser therapies to destroy leaking blood vessels can help reduce the risk of advancing vision loss. Recent research has shown that specific dosages of zinc, vitamins A and C, and beta-carotene can help slow late AMD's advancement, but that they appear to have no effect in preventing the disease.
Wet or Neovascular AMD – Several options exist to treat Wet AMD.
Drug Injections into the eye slow the growth of abnormal blood vessels.
Laser surgery differs from the laser used in photodynamic therapy and is often referred to as a "hot" laser. It too is targeted at the blood vessels growing abnormally in the eye.
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We're biased of course – but come on – all five winners from the first International Hairdressing Awards in Madrid last night are either from the UK or reside in the UK. A standing ovation for British hairdressing if you will.
Huge congratulations to the champions Jim Shaw, Steven Smart, Sylvestre Finold, Saco and Angelo Seminara. Special mention to the Sanrizz and Toni&Guy teams too, who we hear from reliable sources on the night, put on fantastic catwalk shows.
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Q: android passing events from child view to parent I have two custom views Child (Relative Layout) and Parent (FrameLayout). When a single tap occurs, I would like to have the child process the event but then still pass it further to the Parent and for any other event in the Child simply pass it further without processing.
The child view is set to match_parent.
This is what I have so far:
public class Child extends RelativeLayout implements View.OnTouchListener {
  private class GestureListener extends GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener {
    @Override
    public boolean onDown(MotionEvent e) {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onSingleTapUp(MotionEvent e) {
        // process the event
        return true;
    }
  }

  public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
    return true;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent e) {
    gestrDetect_.onTouchEvent(e);
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(e);
  }
}

public class Parent extends FrameLayout {
  public Parent(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    setOnTouchListener(this);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event) {
    return gestrDetect_.onTouchEvent(event);
  }
}

While I am getting the single tap up events in the child view, all the other events like fling or scale are not passed to the parent. What is the correct way to handle a certain subset of events in child, while still pass some of them to the parent?
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I have change the code to the following:
public class Child extends RelativeLayout implements View.OnTouchListener {
  private class GestureListener extends GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener {
    @Override
    public boolean onDown(MotionEvent e) {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onFling(android.view.MotionEvent e1, android.view.MotionEvent e2, float velocityX, float velocityY) {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onScroll(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float distanceX, float distanceY) {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onSingleTapUp(MotionEvent e) {
        // process the event
        return true;
    }
  }

  public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
    return gestrDetect_.onTouchEvent(e);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent e) {
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(e);
  }
}

public class Parent extends FrameLayout {
  @Override
  public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event) {
    return gestrDetect_.onTouchEvent(event);
  }
}

And the events are still not passed to the Parent. When I change
@Override
public boolean onDown(MotionEvent e) {
    return true;
}

to
return false;

I am not getting even the singleTapUp event in the child.

A: You need to create your own implementation of the parent ViewGroup and override onInterceptTouchEvent() method (check out this tutorial http://developer.android.com/training/gestures/viewgroup.html).
With this you can determine with methods should be handled by parent and which will be passed down to child.

A: Thing that has worked for me.
/**
 * If set to true the layout will discard all received {@link MotionEvent}'s .
 * As a result none of the children will receive the touch event, instead the parent view will.
 */
public void setPassTouchEventsUp(final boolean passTouchEventsUp) {
    mPassTouchEventsUp = passTouchEventsUp;
}

@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(final MotionEvent ev) {
    if (mPassTouchEventsUp) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return super.onInterceptTouchEvent(ev);
    }
}

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(final MotionEvent event) {
    if (mPassTouchEventsUp) {
        return false;
    } else {
        return super.onTouchEvent(event);
    }
}

When I call setPassTouchEventsUp(true) the ViewGroup will simply not handle any MotionEvent's, notifying its parent view that the events must be processed by superior views/layouts.
This way events "fly through" this ViewGroup up to its parent or whatever there is underneath it.

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Looking for modern kitchen floor tile ideas to revamp your space? Here are 12 creative ideas and styles to get you started. Updated for 2019.
Kitchen offers vast scope for a lady to explore her creativity in cooking. It helps her earn satisfaction and smiles of the loved ones by serving them the delicious food. As the kitchen is the most functional part of the house, which has both dry and wet sections, the designing and flooring of a kitchen should be creative and durable.
Floor tiles remain a good option for kitchens because they come in a wide range of colors and materials. Kitchen tile materials include ceramic, porcelain, stone, slate and marble.
Kitchen floor tile ideas to give a fantastic style to your kitchen with different colors and shapes. The tile with differential is one of the most important design decisions you will make. Tumbled natural stone Slate and tiles are also perfect for fitting in with any kitchen decor. There are millions of tile material options.
Floor tiles should complement the color and designing of the kitchen. As they last for long, go for neutral colors which look excellent with most of the wall colors, sizes and patterns. It makes an illusion of more space in the small kitchens if you opt for big tiles creating fewer grout lines on the floor.
As the kitchen has to face many kinds of daily wear and tear, which makes it essential that the floor tiling should be durable and sturdy to tackle any harsh condition. Companies cater you with ceramic and porcelain kind of tiles in which porcelain is more sturdy and moisture resistant than ceramic. Kitchen tiles should have anti-skid property and easy to clean feature as kitchen floor gets contaminated with water and oil quickly.
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When I first moved in with my guy I created a board on Pinterest where I pinned images of rooms that I really liked (and thought my guy might like, too). I included furniture items that I was drawn to as well as color schemes. Then I presented this board to my other half and had him explain why he did and didn't like each pin (at the time I only had about 20 items pinned). This was a really useful exercise because it helped me understand which things he could tolerate (chevron stripes) and which things he couldn't stand (tufted couches—tear). It also helped us uncover a mutually agreed upon aesthetic that we could use as the base to build our home around.
Buy a sturdy coffee table.
I was set on getting a Lucite coffee table when we first moved in together. Hell bent, as some might say. However, after an enlightening afternoon with my mother (who happens to be an interior designer herself), I learned that having a sturdy coffee table in the living room is important to a guy because as my mother put it, "he needs to feel like he can kick up his feet when he's at home." Naturally the thought of my guy with his feet propped up on my Lucite coffee table brushed through my mind…Terror. I finally folded and we ended up getting a really cool aged metal table that he doesn't need to tiptoe around. I think he really appreciated my ability to recognize his needs and accommodate. The moral? Be practical and considerate, it will always pay off. Oh, and get a sturdy coffee table!
While the idea of living in a Pottery Barn catalogue is alluring, the fact of the matter is that "home" should feel like your home. Think about the things that are special to you as a couple and individually and figure out how to work those elements into your new place. For example, my guy and I love music so we purchased a vintage turntable and now have a wonderful little nook dedicated to our favorite records. Or if you're particularly inspired, give one of those off-the-wall DIYs you saw online a try together as a team (Or perhaps one of Lauren's Crafty Creations). Either way, it will create something special and unique along with a few memories to boot.
In addition to Pinterest, some of my favorite websites to find interior inspiration include Apartment Therapy, decor8, houzz, and Design*Sponge. What are yours?
Do you have any pointers for decorating your home as a couple?
If you have any helpful online resources for furnishing your place, share them below—I am sure your fellow readers will appreciate it!


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Fancy creating your very own mini Apple IIc powered by the awesome Raspberry Pi single board mini PC? If you do then you will be pleased to know that Charles Mangin has created 3D printed files that are now available to download from the Thingiverse website.
To complete the setup Mangin has also created 3D print files for the Apple monitor which are also available to download and can be equipped with a working 2.5 inch LCD screen.
Creating a perfect 1:4 scale model of the original Apple computer that can actually be used once a full-size keyboard and mouse are connected. Watch the video below to learn more and see the miniature Apple system in action powered the a Raspberry Pi.
If you are also looking for a touchscreen display to use with your Raspberry Pi computer, the Pi Foundation has today made available their new 7 inch touchscreen display that is capable of supporting 10 finger touch, and is available to purchase at an amazing price of just £48. For more information jump over to our previous article located here. For more details on Raspberry Pi displays and HATS jump over to our essential guide.


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Boris Johnson agrees trade deal with North Pole
Newly elected UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is celebrating a "massive trade deal" after successful talks with Santa Claus.
The Ulster Fry understands that the two men met in the controversial North Pole President's luxurious grotto in Castlecourt shopping centre earlier this afternoon.
"It wasn't an easy deal," said a Downing Street spokesman, "After a plenary session with the President's elf advisers, the Prime Minister queued for over an hour to get 'face-time' with Mr Claus himself. Then, the talks began in earnest."
Once inside, Mr Johnson spent over 5 minutes striking what his spokesman describes as a "far reaching strategic trade deal."
"Everything was on the table, or around the tree at least," he explained. "Mr Claus demanded unfettered access to UK markets for North Pole toy manufacturers. In return, Boris agreed to leave some milk and biscuits by the chimney on Christmas Eve, plus a carrot for Rudolph."
The talks almost broke down when Mr Johnson was asked if he'd been a good boy in 2019. When he claimed he had, President Claus produced a 'naughty dossier', saying it showed that Mr Johnson had told several fibs throughout the year. Fortunately the Prime Minister pulled a face and looked sheepish, immediately regaining the trust of the room.
On conclusion of the talks, the two leaders shared a photograph, and President Claus presented Mr Johnson with an elaborately gift wrapped selection box.
Speaking outside the grotto, the Prime Minister hailed his first successful trade negotiation.
"I have in my hand a piece of paper, wrapped around a box of chocolate bars, which proves that the UK can be a successful trading nation after Brexit," he claimed, "and all I had to do was pay that auld boy a tenner."
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Published 2:11 pm Thursday, May 9, 2002
By By Buddy Bynum / editor
Harrison Lewis is one. Wade Jones is one. Mitch Stennett is one. Mike McGrevey is one.
When he hosts a radio show on Saturday, May 18, featuring the two candidates for Congress from Mississippi's new 3rd Congressional District Ronnie Shows and Chip Pickering talk show host and community activist Lewis will have pulled off something of a news coup.
He will stage the first live debate between the two candidates in what is expected to be one of the most hotly-contested congressional elections in the country this fall. Neither Pickering, a Republican, nor Shows, a Democrat, drew party primary opposition, clearing the decks for an all-out battle in the redrawn district.
Democrats believe they can pick up enough seats across the country to re-take control of the U.S. House of Representatives and they must pick up seats like this one to do it. Republicans believe they can retain control, but they must win seats like this one to do it.
Lewis' 90-minute "Truthmaster" show airs Saturdays from 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. on local radio station WNBN, 1290 AM, and this one is certain to generate considerable interest among anyone who cares who will be their next congressman.
He told me the other day that call-ins are welcome. The number to call is 483-3401.
Lewis' Coalition for Change has been out registering voters and doing other political groundwork over the past few months and the organization is becoming a force with which local politicians will have to reckon.
As president of the East Mississippi Business Development Corp., Wade Jones is working publicly and, occasionally, very privately, to bring in new industry and better-paying jobs. He is working with Mitch Stennett, who heads the Economic Development Authority of Jones County, and others on an I-59 technology corridor that seems to hold great promise.
The corridor is a 168-mile stretch along I-59 that runs from the Mississippi-Alabama line east of Meridian to the Mississippi-Louisiana line near Hancock and Pearl River counties. Jones and Stennett believe it is an ideal avenue for high-tech commerce, an "expressway into the future."
When you think about that it makes a lot of sense: from Peavey Electronics, Lockheed Martin and Rexel, to name a few, in Meridian, to Howard Industries and its transformers, electronic ballasts and computers in Laurel, to Hattiesburg's polymers and coatings, to NASA-inspired Stennis Space Center's geographic information systems and remote sensing programs.
What Jones, Stennett and others are doing in this field carries huge potential for positive change in east and south Mississippi. The presence of seven institutions of learning in the corridor MSU-Meridian Campus, Meridian Community College, Jones County Junior College, USM, William Carey College, Pearl River Community College and the Center for Higher Learning at NASA can only help.
And then comes Mike McGrevey, who heads the Kemper County Economic Development Authority, the subject of an excellent profile by Meridian's own Bill Johnson in last week's edition of the Mississippi Business Journal. McGrevey, retired military with no prior economic development experience, found his job through a classified ad in The Meridian Star.
Local officials were willing to overlook the fact that he actually lives in Newton County, believing that the man's intelligence, energy and willingness to tackle a daunting economic development task in a small east Mississippi county outweighed where he lived.
He is proving them right in that assessment. Construction of a peak power plant is a cooperative venture providing several hundred construction jobs and 15 or so permanent jobs when the project goes on-line.
McGrevey, a former Mississippi Golden Gloves boxing champion, has the perseverance and competitive spirit to make good things happen in Kemper County.
These folks and many, many others are agents of change in east Mississippi, using their skills, contacts and abilities to produce a better quality of life for people in our communities.


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Here at Fighting 15s we love Aude Historica's figures and dealing with the charming Ugo del Col. But arrivals are a bit sporadic and, as at Christmas, you never know quite what you're going to get. It largely resembles what we order, but there are sometimes interesting variations…
Our latest order has taken something like four months to complete, thanks partly to the Italian shows season and because Aude uses a contract caster. So what was bright shiny and new when we ordered it is a little less hot, and we will have to play catch up to get the latest additions to Aude's range of 15mm First Italian War of Independence 1848 figures and to bring in the promising Colonials range.
None the less, we now have the following new codes in stock for the 1848 range:
AU006 Austrian Hussars
AU007 Austrian dragoons
AU008 Austrian uhlans
BB003 Borbon artillery
BB007 Borbon generals
MI004 Milan "Battalion of Death" and Lombardy Finanzieri
RO004 Roman Republic Garibaldini
RO005 Roman Republic Bersaglieri del Po
RO008 Roman Republic Lancers of Death (Garibaldi's lancers)
TO003 Tuscan Civic Guards in helmets
Packs contain 24 infantry or 12 cavalry, including command, two guns and eight crew, or four mounted and four foot generals. They cost the somewhat princely GBP10.00 per pack including VAT thanks to the appalling exchange rate with the euro. And if you think that's bad, the packs cost 12 euros each direct from Aude. Codes on the packs may be at variance from those on the Aude website, so please go by the description of the contents.
We are in the process of putting some of Aude's better pictures on the site (some don't meet our requirements for quality and level of detail), but they are viewable at www.audehistorica.com
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Here comes Peter Cottontail.... Easter's on its way! And this cute little bunny is a cute little addition to your spring decorations. Plus, he's super easy to make!
Take your pale pink clay and massage it until it is soft. Then, form it into a soft cone about the size of your thumb.
Take your pointed tool and smoosh the top of the soft cone down the middle.
Gently pinch the two sides upward to form long bunny ears.
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Make an even smaller pale pink ball and press this in between the two white balls to form the nose of your bunny.
Add a small white ball for a tail and two tiny black balls for eyes. Finally, use your pointed tool to press indents along the insides of the ears.
Then, simply bake at 275 degrees F for 15 minutes. Too cute!
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Too cute. I love bunnies!
Awe! Could this be any cuter? Plus this would be such a fun craft day thing to do!
I've been wanting to make a project using clay...this is too cute.
If you make one, be sure to send me some pictures so I can feature you on the blog!
I hope you do!! If you make one, be sure to send me some pictures so I can feature you on the blog!
How adorable! Loving all your clay crafts!


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Bo Robinson chef allegedly lifts up co-worker's skirt in pattern of harassment
David Foster, The Trentonian, July 12, 2015
A Bo Robinson chef was apparently serving up something creepy. According to a discrimination lawsuit, Mohamed Abdel Ghani, the then-director of food service at the Trenton halfway house, would continually sexually harass a female co-worker, whose repeated complaints to management were ignored. …. Abdel Ghani and the victim were both employees of Community Education Centers (CEC), the service provider at Bo Robinson…The lawsuit documents the victim complained four times to management, three times to Joe Collier, the shift supervisor of operations, and once to director Mark Salaga, from February 2013 until June 2014…The harassment allegedly continued after the first three complaints, leading to retaliatory measures such as Abdel Ghani cutting her overtime.
Source: Mercer County pulls all of its inmates from Bo Robinson
David Foster, The Trentonian, June 23, 2015
Mercer County has reached its breaking point with the care of its inmates contracted to Bo Robinson. On Friday, the public agency pulled all 12 inmates housed at the Trenton halfway house and sent them to the Mercer County Correction Center in Hopewell. …. Furthermore, Boonin said the county will not send any new inmates to privately-run Bo Robinson until the county regains confidence in the facility. …. Education & Health Centers of America (EHCA) is the nonprofit operator of the halfway houses. Community Education Centers (CEC), a for-profit company that once shared CEOs with EHCA until earlier this year, is the service provider of the halfway houses.
Halfway house employee charged with sexual assaulting resident in Trenton
Source: NJ.com, June 10, 2015
An employee of the Albert M. "Bo" Robinson Assessment & Treatment Center has been charged with performing a sex act on a male resident, police said. … "That afternoon the complainant was removed from the facility, and the employee was suspended from his position and subsequently terminated from his employment," said Charles Seigel, a spokesman for Community Education Centers, which owns and runs the facility.
Bo Robinson service provider CEO denies drug culture claims at halfway house
Source: David Foster, The Trentonian, April 17, 2015
The head of the service provider at Bo Robinson refutes rampant drug use allegations in the wake of two escaped inmates' deaths from overdoses. But he was unable to provide factual evidence showing otherwise. In an interview with The Trentonian on Friday, Community Education Centers CEO James E. Hyman believes recent reports documenting a drug culture at the Trenton halfway house are unsubstantiated….Coming under scrutiny before, the privately run Enterprise Avenue facility has been the focus of a series of Trentonian stories in recent weeks. Bo Robinson inmates Douglas Kelvy and Michael Preston walked away from their approved work site in Burlington on March 13. Four days later, they were both found dead of an apparent overdose in a room at Americas Best Value Inn in Cherry Hill, surrounded by a number of stamped bags and syringes. Both men had opiates and cocaine in their system. In a Trentonian cover story earlier this week, Kelvy's ex-fiancee detailed phone conversations with the inmate shortly before he escaped from Bo Robinson. In the story, she alleged Kelvy told her on a smuggled-in cellphone that he could get any drug he wanted at Bo Robinson and admitted to smoking synthetic marijuana 10 days before he escaped. … Staff members have complained to The Trentonian that they only earn $10 an hour and are underpaid, apparently triggering the contraband and drugs that allegedly make it into the facility….
Charges dismissed in lawsuit involving escape from Newark halfway house
Source: Ted Sherman, Star-Ledger, May 20, 2013
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the state of New Jersey in connection with the death of a 21-year-old Garfield woman allegedly killed by a parolee who escaped the custody of a Newark halfway house nearly three years ago. However, the case will be allowed to continue against the private operators that run the facility. … The lawsuit charged Community Education Centers, the state of New Jersey, the Department of Corrections, the state Parole Board and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey all with failing to prevent Goodell's escape and Tulli's death….
Democrats in Trenton Push New Halfway-House Rules
Source: Sam Dolnick, New York Times, November 20, 2012
Prominent Democrats in the New Jersey Assembly are proposing landmark legislation that would significantly tighten oversight of the state's troubled halfway houses and curb the operations of the politically influential company at the heart of the system….
Executive at Company Tied to New Jersey's Halfway Houses Is Leaving
Source: Sam Dolnick, New York Times, November 8, 2012
Sister of woman allegedly killed by Newark halfway house parolee files wrongful death suit
Source: Alexi Friedman, Star-Ledger, August 24, 2012
The sister of a 21-year-old Garfield woman killed two years ago, allegedly by a parolee who escaped the custody of a Newark halfway house, has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the private company operating the facility, known as Logan Hall. Filed Thursday in Superior Court in Newark, the lawsuit is the second one in less than a week to name Community Education Centers as a defendant. The company runs Logan Hall and New Jersey's biggest halfway house, Delaney Hall, also in Newark.
Garfield woman sues state, operator of Newark halfway house following sister's murder
Source: John Reitmeyer and Melissa Hayes, Record, August 23, 2012
1,200-Bed Halfway House in Newark Is Operating Illegally, Suit Says
Source: Sam Dolnick, New York Times, August 21, 2012
New Jersey Fines Halfway Houses $45,000 Over Escapes
Christie Seeks to Weaken Oversight of Halfway Houses
Source: Sam Dolnick, New York Times, August 8, 2012
Panel hears dueling views of NJ halfway houses
Source: Joelle Farrell, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 20, 2012
New Jersey cases shine spotlight on privately operated halfway houses
At a Halfway House, Bedlam Reigns
Source: Sam Dolnick, New York Times, June 17, 2012
The Bo Robinson center in New Jersey is as large as a prison and is intended to help inmates re-enter society. But The New York Times found that drugs, gangs and sexual abuse are rife behind its walls.
Finances Plague Company Running Halfway Houses
As Escapees Stream Out, a Penal Business Thrives
A company with deep ties to Gov. Chris Christie dominates New Jersey's system of large halfway houses. There has been little state oversight, despite widespread problems, The New York Times found….Since 2005, roughly 5,100 inmates have escaped from the state's privately run halfway houses, including at least 1,300 in the 29 months since Governor Christie took office, according to an analysis by The Times…. By contrast, the state's prisons had three escapes in 2010 and none in the first nine months of 2011, the last period for which the state gave figures….
…Mr. Christie, a Republican who took office in January 2010, has for years championed the company that plays a principal role in the New Jersey system, Community Education Centers. Community Education received about $71 million from state and county agencies in New Jersey in the 2011 fiscal year, out of total halfway house spending of roughly $105 million, according to state and company records. The company first obtained substantial contracts for its "re-entry centers" in New Jersey in the late 1990s, as state financing began increasing sharply. In recent years, it has cited its success in New Jersey in obtaining government contracts in Colorado, Pennsylvania and other states. ….
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\section{Introduction}
Colloidal particles are highly attractive in the food, cosmetics, and medical
industries to stabilize emulsions or to develop sophisticated ways to deliver
drugs at the right position in the human body. The underlying microscopic
processes of emulsion stabilization with particles can be explained by assuming
an oil-water mixture. Without additives, both liquids phase separate, but
the mixture can be stabilized by adding small particles which diffuse to the
interface and stabilize it due to a reduced interfacial free energy. If for
example individual droplets of one phase are covered by particles, such systems
are referred to as ``Pickering emulsions'', which have been known since the
beginning of the 20th century~\cite{Ramsden1903a,Pickering1907a}. Particularly
interesting properties of such emulsions are the blocking of Ostwald ripening
and the rheological properties due to irreversible particle adsorption at
interfaces or interface bridging due to particle
monolayers~\cite{Binks2006a}.
Recently, interest in particle-stabilized emulsions has led to the discovery of
a new material type, the ``bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gel''
(bijel), which shows an interface between two
continuous fluid phases that is covered by particles. The existence of the
bijel was predicted in 2005 by Stratford et al.~\cite{stratford2005} and
experimentally confirmed by Herzig et al. in
2007~\cite{bib:herzig-white-schofield-poon-clegg}.

Computer simulations are promising to understand the dynamic properties of
particle-stabilized multiphase flows. However, the shortcomings of traditional
simulation methods quickly become obvious: a suitable simulation algorithm is
not only required to deal with simple fluid dynamics but has to be able to
simulate several fluid species while also considering the motion of the
particles and the fluid-particle interactions. Some recent approaches trying to
solve these problems utilize the lattice Boltzmann method for the description of
the solvents~\cite{succi01}.
The lattice Boltzmann method can be seen as an alternative to conventional
Navier-Stokes solvers and is well-established in the literature. It is
attractive for the current application since a number of multiphase and
multicomponent models exist which are comparably straightforward to implement.
In addition, boundary conditions have been developed to simulate suspended
finite-size particles in flow. These are commonly used to study the behavior of
particle-laden single phase
flows~\cite{ladd01}.  A few groups
combined multiphase lattice Boltzmann solvers with the known algorithms for
suspended particles~\cite{stratford2005,bib:joshi-sun}.  In this paper we
follow an alternative approach based on the multicomponent lattice Boltzmann
model of Shan and Chen~\cite{shan93} which allows the simulation of multiple
fluid components with surface tension. Our model generally allows arbitrary
movements and rotations of rigid particles of arbitrary shape. Further, it
allows an arbitrary choice of the particle wettability -- one of the most
important parameters for the dynamics of multiphase
suspensions~\cite{Binks2006a}. For a detailed introduction to the method see
Ref.~\cite{Jansen2011}, where
our model has been applied to spherical particles
at fluid interfaces. We have presented a thorough validation of the method for
single particle situations and have shown that a transition from a bijel to a
Pickering emulsion can be found by varying the particle concentration, the
particle's contact angle, or the volume ratio of the solvents. Further, we
investigated the temporal evolution of the droplet/domain growth in emerging
Pickering emulsions and bijels.

Modelling colloidal particles as perfect spheres is a strong simplification of
systems appearing in nature. There, the particles are generally not spherical,
but might show geometrical distortions or fully anisotropic shapes, as is, for
example, common for clay particles. As a first step to investigate the
impact of particle anisotropy on the adsorption and stabilization
properties, this paper focuses on ellipsoidal particles.  In addition to
the properties of spheres adsorbed at an interface, in the case of
anisotropic ellipsoidal particles the orientation becomes important and
the process of adsorption is in this case more
complex~\cite{deGraaf2010a}.  Furthermore the anisotropy of the ellipsoids
leads in general to a deformation of the interface. However, an adsorbed
sphere or ellipsoid with a contact angle $\theta=90^\circ$ does not deform
the interface in absence of an external potential such as gravitation.
For multiple particles capillary interactions, which depend on the
distance and the orientation of the particles, become
relevant~\cite{Lehle2008a} and orientational discontinuous phase
transitions of the particles can be found~\cite{Bresme2007a}.
Experimentally it was shown that the number of ellipsoidal particles
required to stabilize a fluid-fluid interface decreases with increasing
particle aspect ratio and that a tip-to-tip arrangement is
dominant~\cite{Madivala2009a}.

The remaining sections are \RY{organized} as follows: In section
\ref{secsimmeth} the simulation method (lattice Boltzmann combined
with molecular dynamics) is illustrated. Since studying
particle-stabilized emulsions demands an exceptional amount of
computing resources we focus on specific implementation details of our
simulation code in section~\ref{secimplementaion}. In \RY{particular}, we
highlight specifically code improvements that allow to harness the
power of massively parallel supercomputers, such as the Blue Gene/P
system JUGENE at J\"ulich Supercomputing Centre with its ability to
run up to $294\,912$ MPI (Message Passing Interface) tasks in
parallel.  The following section reports on simulations of single
particle adsorption of ellipsoidal particles and the formation of
bijels and Pickering emulsions. Finally, we conclude in
section~\ref{secconclusion}.

\section{Simulation method}
\label{secsimmeth}
The lattice Boltzmann method is a very successful tool for modelling fluids in
science and engineering. Compared to traditional Navier-Stokes solvers, the
method allows an easy implementation of complex boundary conditions and---due
to the high degree of locality of the algorithm---is well suited for the
implementation on parallel supercomputers.
For a thorough introduction to the lattice Boltzmann method we refer to
Ref.~\cite{succi01}. The method is based on a discretized version of
the Boltzmann equation
\begin{equation}\label{eq:LBG}
f_i^c(\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{c}_i,t+1)=f_i^c(\mathbf{x},t)+\Omega_i^c(\mathbf{x},t)
\mbox{,}
\end{equation}
where $f_i^c(\mathbf{x},t)$ is the single-particle distribution function for
fluid
component $c$ after discretization in space $\mathbf{x}$ and time $t$ with a
discrete set of lattice velocities $\mathbf{c}_i$ and
\begin{equation}\label{eq:BGK_colission_operator}
\Omega_i^c(\mathbf{x},t)=-\frac{f_i^c(\mathbf{x},t)-f_i^\mathrm{eq}(\rho^c(\mathbf{x},t),\mathbf{u}^c(\mathbf{x},t))}{\tau}
\end{equation}
is the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision operator.
$f_i^\mathrm{eq}(\rho^c,\mathbf{u}^c)$ is the equilibrium distribution function and $\tau$ is the relaxation time.
We use a three-dimensional lattice and a D3Q19 implementation
($i=1,\ldots,19$).
From \eqnref{LBG}, the Navier-Stokes equations can be
recovered with density $\rho^c(\mathbf{x},t)=\sum_if_i^c(\mathbf{x},t)$
and velocity $\mathbf{u}^c=\sum_if_i^c\mathbf{c}_i/\rho^c$ in the low-compressibility
and low Mach number limit. If further fluid species $c'$ with a single-particle distribution
function $f^{c'}_i(\mathbf{x},t)$ are to be modeled, the inter-species
interaction force
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:sc}
  \mathbf{F}^c(\mathbf{x},t)=
  -\Psi^c(\mathbf{x},t)
  \sum_{c'}g_{cc'}
  \sum_{\mathbf{x}'}
  \Psi^{c'}(\mathbf{x}',t)
  (\mathbf{x}'-\mathbf{x})
  \mbox{ ,}
\end{equation}
with a monotonous weight function $\Psi^c(\mathbf{x},t)$ for the
effective mass is calculated locally according to the approach by Shan
and Chen and incorporated into the collision term $\Omega_i^c$ in
\eqnref{LBG}~\cite{shan93}. In our case, the coupling strength
$g_{cc'}$ is negative in order to obtain de-mixing and the sum over
$\mathbf{x}'$ runs over all sites separated from $\mathbf{x}$ by one
of the discrete $\mathbf{c}_i$.  Colloidal particles are discretized
on the lattice and coupled to both fluid species by means of a
\RA{moving} bounce-back boundary condition~\cite{aidun98,ladd01}\RA{:
  if $\mathbf{x}$ is part of the surface of a colloid then}
\eqnref{LBG} \RA{for adjacent fluid sites $\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{c}_i$}
is replaced with
\begin{equation}\label{eq:mbb}
  f_i^c(\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{c}_i,t+1)
  =
  f^c_{\bar{i}}(\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{c}_i,t)
  +\Omega_{\bar{i}}^c(\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{c}_i,t)
  +C
  \mbox{ ,}
\end{equation}
where $C=\frac{2\alpha_{c_i}}{c_\mathrm{s}^2}\rho^c(\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{c}_i,t)\mathbf{u}_{\rm
  surf}\cdot\mathbf{c}_i$ is a linear function of the
local particle surface velocity $\mathbf{u}_\mathrm{surf}$ and the direction $\bar{i}$ is
defined via $\mathbf{c}_i=-\mathbf{c}_{\bar{i}}$.
$\alpha_{c_i}$ and $c_\mathrm{s}$ are constants of the D3Q19 lattice. The particle
configuration is evolved in time solving
Newton's equation in the spirit of classical molecular dynamics
simulations.
As the total momentum should be conserved, an additional force
\begin{equation}\label{eq:mbb2}
\mathbf{F}(t)=\left(2f_{\bar{i}}^c(\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{c}_i,t)+C\right)\mathbf{c}_{\bar{i}}
\end{equation}
acting on the
particle is needed to compensate for the momentum change of the fluid caused by
\eqnref{mbb}.
The potential between the particles is a Hertz potential which approximates a
hard core potential and has the following form for two spheres with the same
radius $R$~\cite{bib:hertz}:
\begin{equation}
\phi_H=K_H(2R-r_{ij})^{\frac{5}{2}}\quad\mbox{for}\quad r_{ij}\le2R
\mbox{.}
\end{equation}
$r_{ij}$ is the distance between the two sphere
centers and $K_H$ the force constant. For the simulations which are discussed
later in this text a value of $K_H=100$ is used. In the next step the
potential is generalized to the case of ellipsoids with the parallel radius
$R_p$ and the orthogonal radius $R_o$ by
\RB{following the  method which was applied by Berne and Pechukas for the case
  of an intermolecular potential}~\cite{berne72}.
We define
$\sigma=2R$ and $\epsilon=K_H\sigma^{\frac{5}{2}}$
and extend $\sigma$ and $\epsilon$ to the anisotropic case so that
\begin{equation}
\epsilon(\mathbf{\hat{o}}_i,\mathbf{\hat{o}}_j)=\frac{\overline{\epsilon}}{\sqrt{1-\chi^2(\mathbf{\hat{o}}_i\mathbf{\hat{o}}_j)^2}}
\quad\mbox{and}\quad
\label{eq:sigmaaniso}
\sigma(\mathbf{\hat{o}}_i,\mathbf{\hat{o}}_j,\mathbf{\hat{r}}_{ij})
=\frac{\overline{\sigma}}{\sqrt{1-\frac{\chi}{2}(\frac{(\mathbf{\hat{r}}_{ij}\mathbf{\hat{o}}_i+\mathbf{\hat{r}}_{ij}\mathbf{\hat{o}}_j)^2}{1+\chi\mathbf{\hat{o}}_i\mathbf{\hat{o}}_j}+\frac{(\mathbf{\hat{r}}_{ij}\mathbf{\hat{o}}_i-\mathbf{\hat{r}}_{ij}\mathbf{\hat{o}}_j)^2}{1-\chi\mathbf{\hat{o}}_i\mathbf{\hat{o}}_j})}}
\mbox{,}
\end{equation}
with $\overline{\sigma}=2R_o$,
$\chi=\frac{R_p^2-R_o^2}{R_p^2+R_o^2}$, and $\mathbf{\hat{o}}_i$ the
orientation vector of particle $i$.
The scaled potential can be written as
\begin{equation}
\phi_H(\mathbf{\hat{o}}_i,\mathbf{\hat{o}}_j,\mathbf{r}_{ij})
=\epsilon(\mathbf{\hat{o}}_i,\mathbf{\hat{o}}_j)\tilde{\phi}_H\left(\frac{r_{ij}}{\sigma(\mathbf{\hat{o}}_i,\mathbf{\hat{o}}_j,\mathbf{\hat{r}}_{ij})}\right)
\mbox{.}
\end{equation}
$\tilde{\phi}_H$ is a dimensionless function which takes the specific form of
the potential form into account.
In addition to adding the direct interaction described by the Hertz potential we correct
for the limited description of hydrodynamics when two particles come very
close by means of a lubrication correction.  If the number of lattice
points between two particles is sufficient, the lattice Boltzmann
algorithm reproduces the correct lubrication force automatically. The
error that occurs if the flow is not sufficiently resolved can be
corrected by
\begin{equation}
\mathbf{F}_{ij}=\frac{3\pi\mu\RY{R^2}}{2}\mathbf{\hat{r}}_{ij}(\mathbf{\hat{r}}_{ij}(\mathbf{u}_i-\mathbf{u}_j))\left(\frac{1}{r_{ij}-2R}-\frac{1}{\Delta_c}\right)
\end{equation}
in the case of two spheres with radius $R$. We choose a cut-off at $\Delta_c=\frac{2}{3}$ and
$\mathbf{u}_i$ is the velocity of particle $i$.
This equation is generalized to ellipsoids in a similar way as the
Hertz potential using
\eqnref{sigmaaniso}.

\begin{figure}
  \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=5.5 cm, height=5.5 cm]{conwelluplot09abw.ps}
  \end{center}
  \caption{\label{fig:color_contact-angle_and_contact-angle-definition}
    Relation between the particle color $\Delta\rho$ and the contact angle $\Theta$. A linear relation is
    found: $\Theta=243.2^\circ\Delta\rho+90^\circ$.
    Inset: Definition of the contact angle  $\Theta$ for an ellipsoidal
    particle adsorbed at an interface between two fluids.}
\end{figure}

The force in \eqnref{sc} also includes interactions between lattice
nodes outside of particles with a lattice node inside a particle.
To calculate these interactions the lattice nodes $\mathbf{x}$ in the outer
shell of the
particle are filled with fluid densities
\begin{equation}
\rho_{new}^c=\overline{\rho}^c=\frac{1}{N_{NP}}\sum_{i_{NP}}\rho^c(\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{c}_{i_{NP}},t)
\end{equation}
corresponding to the average over the $N_{NP}$ non-particle lattice nodes
adjacent to $\mathbf{x}$ in directions $i_{NP}$.
We consider a system of two immiscible fluids, which we call red and blue fluid, and in which particles are suspended.
By defining a parameter $\Delta\rho$, the particle color, we are able to
control the interaction between the particle surface and the two fluids
and thus control the contact angle $\Theta$ as it is
defined in the inset of
\picref{color_contact-angle_and_contact-angle-definition}. If $\Delta\rho$
has a positive value, we add it to the red fluid component as
$\rho_{new}^r=\overline{\rho}^r+\Delta\rho$.
Otherwise we add its absolute value to the blue fluid as
$\rho_{new}^b=\overline{\rho}^b+|\Delta\rho|$.
In \picref{color_contact-angle_and_contact-angle-definition} it is
depicted that the dependence of the contact angle on the particle color
can be fitted by the linear relation
\begin{equation}
  \Theta=243.2^\circ\Delta\rho+90^\circ
\mbox{,}
\end{equation}
where the slope depends on the actual simulation parameters. For a more
detailed description of our simulation algorithm the reader is referred
to Ref.~\cite{Jansen2011}.

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \subfigure[]
  {\label{fig:speedup-nomd}\includegraphics[height=6.3cm]{speedup-nomd}}
\qquad
  \subfigure[]
  {\label{fig:speedup-md2}\includegraphics[height=6.3cm]{speedup-md2}}
  \caption{Strong scaling of LB3D on the Blue Gene/P before and after the
    optimizations. \subref{fig:speedup-nomd} relates to a system with
    only one fluid component so that the effect of matching or mismatching
    topologies of network and domain decomposition can be examined
    better. \subref{fig:speedup-md2} refers to a system with two fluid
    species and suspended particles as they are of interest in this paper.
    The absolute execution times for small
    core counts did not change significantly.}
\end{figure}

\section{Implementation}
\label{secimplementaion}
\RB{Development of our simulation code LB3D started in 1999 as a
  parallel LB solver capable of describing systems of up to three
  fluid species} coupled by Shan and Chen's aforementioned
approach~\cite{shan93,chen00}. In 2008, a---since then severely
extended---parallel molecular dynamics code\RB{~\cite{plimpton95}} was
integrated into LB3D \RB{using a common} 3-dimensional spatial
decomposition scheme\RB{. It is employed here} to implement \RB{the}
colloidal \RB{particles.}

\RX{The} strong locality of the LB equation~\eqnref{LBG} as well as
the short-range interaction forces relevant in colloidal \RX{systems
  generally allow} for an efficient \RX{parallelization. However,
  while several authors presented highly efficient combined
  single-component LB-suspension codes for the massively parallel
  simulation of blood flows on IBM Blue Gene/P
  systems~\cite{clausen10,peters10}, it still is not trivial to
  achieve good scalability on this platform. For example, the network}
employed for \RB{MPI} point-to-point \RB{communication provides}
direct links only between \RB{nearest} neighbors in a
three-dimensional torus. \RB{Allowing} \texttt{MPI\_Cart\_create()} to
reorder process ranks and manually choosing a domain decomposition
\RB{that fits} the known hardware topology \RB{can therefore increase
  the performance significantly at high degrees of
  parallelism. \picref{speedup-nomd} demonstrates this on the basis of
  strong scaling speedup for a system of $1024^2\times2048$
  lattice sites carrying only one fluid species and no
  particles. Consequently, only \eqnref{LBG} demands significant
  computational effort, which makes possible communication bottlenecks
  more visible. On the other hand, JUGENE, the IBM Blue Gene/P system
  at J\"ulich Supercomputing Centre, consisting of $294\,912$ cores,
  brings to light serial parts of a code which would stay
  undetected at lower core counts. \picref{speedup-md2} visualizes the
  effect of parallelizing a loop over the global number of colloidal
  particles present in earlier versions of our particle-fluid coupling
  routines which---in this strong scaling benchmark---had a visible
  effect only when scaling beyond $8192$ cores. The test system of
  $1024^2\times 2048$ lattice nodes contains two fluid species and
  $4\,112\,895$ uniformly distributed particles of spherical shape
  with a radius of 5 lattice units at a volume concentration of
  $20\,\%$ and is thus} very close to the Pickering systems of
interest\RX{. When} \RA{running on $262\,144$ cores, our two-component
  LB-suspension solver achieves an average of $8.97\times10^9$ lattice
  updates per second (LUPS) in total at a decomposition of
  $32\times16^2$ LB sites per core. This corresponds to
  $3.42\times10^4$ LUPS per core compared to $3.66\times10^4$ LUPS per
  core for the minimum core count of $2048$ or a relative parallel
  efficiency of $93.5\,\%$. On average, for $262\,144$ cores,
  $41.8\,\%$ of the computing time is spent on the Shan-Chen force
  evaluation \eqnref{sc}, followed by $29.6\,\%$ for the
  particle-fluid coupling and $18.7\,\%$ for the LB equation
  \eqnref{LBG}. The remaining costs are mainly caused by
  communication}\RX{.}

While the benchmarks above relate to the pure time evolution, actual
production runs require checkpointing and the output of physical
observables to \RB{disk. Using} parallel HDF5 output, we succeed in
storing fluid density fields of $4.6\,\mathrm{GB}$ size for a system
of $1024^2\times1152$ lattice sites and $454\,508$ particles
in $29\,\mathrm{s}$ (on average) when \RB{employing} the whole
system ($294\,912$ cores). This corresponds to the time required to
simulate about $100$ LB steps \RB{and is acceptable since output is
  required less than once per $100$ to $1000$ time steps}.

\RB{Finally, it is important to be aware of possible peculiarities of
  the MPI implementations found on large supercomputing systems. Due
  to their relatively small size in memory we collect and write
  particle configuration data serially on the root process. When
  running on $131\,072$ cores of JUGENE, we encounter a speedup of
  $77$ when employing the specially optimized
  \texttt{MPI\_Allgatherv()} compared to the more intuitive
  \texttt{MPI\_Gatherv()},} at the cost of requiring one receive
buffer per \RB{task}.

\section{Results and discussion}\label{ch:results}
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \subfigure[]
  {\label{fig:a15h01}\includegraphics[width=0.4\columnwidth]{a15h01.eps}}
  \qquad
  \subfigure[]
  {\label{fig:adsorbmpv}\includegraphics[height=5.5cm]{adsorbmpp.eps}}
  \caption{(a)~Snapshots of the adsorption of an ellipsoid with
aspect ratio $m=2$ and a contact angle $\Theta=90^\circ$ for a starting angle
of $\phi=0.0057^{\circ}$. Every snapshot is related to a square symbol in
\picref{adsorbmpv}. (b)~Adsorption diagram for an ellipsoid with a parallel
diameter $R_p=12$, an orthogonal diameter $R_o=6$, and a contact angle
$\Theta=90^\circ$. $z$ is the distance between the particle center and the
interface, $\phi$ is the angle between the ellipsoid main axis and the
interface normal. The
adsorption trajectories are presented by the dashed lines. The solid lines depict where the particle
would touch an infinitely thin and undeformed interface. The circles
correspond to the stable ($\phi=\frac{\pi}{2}$) and the metastable ($\phi=0$)
equilibrium point. The squares correspond to the snapshots in
\picref{a15h01}.}
\end{figure}
After having discussed the implementation of our program code some of the
results obtained by this program will be presented. We study a system
of two immiscible fluids (called red and blue fluid in the following)
stabilized by prolate ellipsoidal particles. A first step to understand
fundamental physical properties of such systems is the study of the behavior
of a single ellipsoidal particle at a flat fluid-fluid interface.
If the particle touches the interface
the particle is adsorbed \RY{to it}. The binding
energy of the particle is usually of the order $10^{4}k_BT$ so that the adsorption
is an irreversible process.
\RB{This binding energy arises from the fact that an adsorbed particle reduces the
interfacial area between two fluids with repulsive interactions.
The adsorption was studied in Ref.~\cite{deGraaf2010a} using a free energy
method. There, the free energy is calculated for
all particle orientations and particle center-interface distances.
Then, the equilibrium state is found by minimizing the free energy function.
In contrast to our simulations, in the approach given in
Ref.~\cite{deGraaf2010a} the interface is infinitely
thin and undeformable, while we take a finite interface thickness and a interface deformability into account.
}

\RB{
To simulate a single-particle adsorption we use a cubic volume with a side
length of 64 lattice units with two lamellae of different fluids where each
lamella has a thickness of 31 lattice units.
The boundary conditions are periodic in the two directions parallel to the
fluid-fluid interface. Impenetrable walls are installed in the third direction
at $z=1$ and $z=64$ with a thickness of 1 lattice unit each. To keep the interface thin enough the fluid-fluid
interaction parameter between red and blue (\eqnref{sc}) is set to $g_{br}=0.1$.}
Snapshots of the adsorption for a single ellipsoidal particle with a contact
angle $\Theta=90^\circ$ and an aspect ratio $m=\frac{R_p}{R_o}=2$ are shown in
\picref{a15h01} for a starting angle $\phi=0.0057^{\circ}$. $R_p$ and $R_o$
are the ellipsoidal radii parallel and orthogonal to the symetrie axis. It can
be observed that at the beginning of the simulation (first 2600 time steps in
the present example) the particle moves in the direction of the interface
without changing its orientation significantly.  Thereafter ($t=2600...6500$
steps) the orientation changes from $\phi\approx0^{\circ}$ to
$\phi\approx90^{\circ}$ and the particle reaches its equilibrium position.

Each snapshot in \picref{a15h01} is related to a square symbol in
\picref{adsorbmpv}.  Here, $z$ is the distance between the particle center and
the interface, $\phi$ is the angle between the ellipsoid main axis and the
interface normal. The solid lines correspond to the points where the particle
just would touch an infinitely thin and undeformed interface. The dashed lines
correspond to the adsorption trajectories and the two equilibria are
illustrated by \RY{circles}.  The upper \RY{circle} (at $\phi=90^\circ$)
corresponds to the stable point being in relationship with the global free energy minimum
whereas the lower one (at $\phi=0^\circ$) shows a
metastable point.
The value of the $z$ coordinate of the stable and metastable point depends on
the contact angle. In the example shown above both points have the value $z=0$.  If
the adsorption trajectory of the particle starts with $\phi(t=0)=0^\circ$ it
reaches the metastable point. For any other starting angle
($\phi(t=0)\neq0^\circ$) the adsorption trajectory of the particle ends in the
stable point.
The adsorption lines approach attractor lines.
For initial angles much larger than $\phi=0^\circ$ there are two
attractor lines, one on each side. The adsorption trajectories coming from the
respective sides approach this attractor line.  There is a third attractor line
at $z=0$. The adsorption trajectories starting at very small angles approach
this attractor line.
Qualitatively comparable theoretical calculations of the adsorption have been presented in
Ref.~\cite{deGraaf2010a}. Quantitative comparisons are not easily possible since the theoretical approach assumes an infinitely thin and undeformable interface, while our diffuse interface simulations take the interfacial deformability into account.

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \subfigure[]
  {\label{fig:bijel}\includegraphics[width=6.4 cm, height=6.4 cm]{bijel_200000c.eps}}
  \qquad
  \subfigure[]
  {
  \label{fig:pickemul}\includegraphics[width=6.4 cm, height=6.4 cm]{pickering_200000c.eps}}
  \caption{Two snapshots of emulsions stabilized by particles are
    shown for an aspect ratio $m=2$, a volume concentration of
    $C\approx0.2$ and a contact angle
    $\Theta=90^{\RY{\circ}}$. \RY{\subref{fig:bijel}} Bijel for a
    fluid \RY{ratio} of $1:1$. \RY{\subref{fig:pickemul}} Pickering
    emulsion for a fluid \RY{ratio} of $5:2$.}
\end{figure}

In the following we consider emulsions stabilized by a large number of
anisotropic colloidal particles.
\RB{To simulate a bulk system we use a cubic volume with a side length of 256 lattice
units and periodic boundary conditions. To obtain a phase separation the fluid-fluid interaction parameter between red and blue (see \eqnref{sc})
is set to $g_{br}=0.08$. The initial density distributions of the
two fluids are chosen to be random.}

As stated in the introduction we distinguish
between two different phases for these emulsions, the Pickering emulsion and
the bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gel (bijel). The
bijel~\cite{stratford2005} (see \picref{bijel}) consists of two continuous
phases whereas the Pickering emulsion~\cite{Ramsden1903a,Pickering1907a} (see
\picref{pickemul}) consists of droplets of one fluid immersed in a second fluid
phase.  Bijels and Pickering emulsions stabilized by spherical particles have
been investigated in Ref.~\cite{Jansen2011}. In this paper simulation results
for ellipsoids with an aspect ratio of $m=2$ are presented.
The choice of the control parameters decides into which of the two phases the
system evolves. The left plot in Fig.~\ref{fig:phasesandLC} shows the
transition from a bijel to
a Pickering emulsion for an aspect ratio of $m=2$ and a particle volume
concentration of $C\approx0.2$. The two control parameters used for the study
of the phase transition are the fluid ratio and the contact angle $\Theta$.
The squares show the configurations which lead to a bijel whereas the
circles denote a Pickering emulsion.  If the amount of the two fluids
present in the simulation is equal or not too different (e.g. a ratio of $4:3$)
we find a bijel for all considered contact angles. However, if the fluid ratio
is increased we find a Pickering emulsion. For intermediate fluid ratios the
obtained phase depends on the chosen contact angle. For example for a ratio of
$9:5$ we get a bijel for a contact angle of $90^{\circ}$ and a Pickering
emulsion for all higher values of $\Theta$.

To characterize an emulsion the time dependent lateral domain size
$L(t)=\frac{1}{3}(L_x(t)+L_y(t)+L_z(t))$ is calculated. Its Cartesian components ($i=x,y,z$) are defined as
\begin{equation}
L_i(t)=\frac{2\pi}{\sqrt{\langle k_i^2(t)\rangle}},\qquad
\langle k_i^2(t)\rangle=\frac{\sum_{\mathbf{k}}k_i^2(t)S(\mathbf{k},t)}{\sum_{\mathbf{k}}S(\mathbf{k},t)}.
\end{equation}
$\langle k_i^2(t)\rangle$ is the second-order moment of the three-dimensional
structure
function $S(\mathbf{k},t)=\frac{1}{N}|\phi_\mathbf{k}'(t)|$.
$\phi'=\tilde{\phi}-\langle\tilde{\phi}\rangle$ is the Fourier transform of the
fluctuations of the order parameter $\tilde{\phi}=\rho_r-\rho_b$.
\RB{The right plot in \picref{phasesandLC} shows the dependence of the domain
  size on the volume
concentration of particles $C$ for different concentrations between $C=0.08$
and $C=0.24$ for an emulsion with a fluid ratio of $1:1$ and
$\Theta=90^\circ$.

\begin{figure}
  \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[height=5.6 cm]{combiplot.ps}
  \end{center}
  \caption{\label{fig:phasesandLC}
Left plot: Phase diagram demonstrating the transition from a bijel to
a Pickering emulsion. The contact angle $\Theta$ and the ratio between the
two fluids are varied. The squares show the configurations which lead to a
bijel whereas the circles denote a Pickering emulsion. Right plot: Average
domain
size $L$ in equilibrium versus the volume concentration of the particles
\RB{$C$ for a bijel with particles of neutral wettability ($\Theta=90^\circ$).
The plot compares the data for spheres ($m=1$, cubic symbols)~\cite{Jansen2011} with ellipsoids
(here: $m=2$, circles).
The behavior can be
described by $L=\frac{a}{C}+b$ (see solid line ($m=2$) and dashed line
($m=1$)), where $a$ and $b$ are fit parameters.}}
\end{figure}

The results for anisotropic particles (here: $m=2$) and spheres ($m=1$) are compared.
As can be seen in the left inset of \picref{phasesandLC} these parameters for the case of $m=2$
lead to a bijel. For too small volume concentrations such as $C\approx0.04$ there are not
sufficiently many particles available to stabilize the emulsion. The system finally reaches a fully
demixed state.
The simulation data is displayed by circles for $m=2$ and squares for $m=1$ (see \cite{Jansen2011}).
$L$ decreases with an increasing value of $C$. An increasing number of particles
stabilizing the emulsion leads to an increase of the total interfacial area and
thus to smaller domain sizes. The results can be fitted by the
equation $L(C)=\frac{a}{C}+b$~\cite{Jansen2011} (see solid ($m=2$) and
dashed ($m=1$) lines in
the right plot in \picref{phasesandLC}) with values $b\approx11.08$ for $m=2$
and
$b\approx10.85$ for $m=1$. The offset
$b$ is due to the finite system size in our simulation and is
  approximately independent of the particle shape.
The factor $a$ depends on the shape of the particles. For spheres we find
a value of $a\approx3.86$ whereas for $m=2$ we find $a\approx2.20$.
The right plot in \picref{phasesandLC} shows that the domain size $L$ is
larger for
spherical particles than for the case of anisotropic particles. If a spherical
particle with a radius $R$ and a contact angle $\Theta=90^\circ$ is adsorbed it reduces the
interfacial area by an amount of $A(m=1)=2\pi R^2$. If an anisotropic ellipsoid
with aspect ratio $m$ and the same volume as the sphere is adsorbed and
reaches the stable point (see results of the single-particle adsorption
(\picref{a15h01})) the interfacial area is reduced by an amount of $A(m)=2\pi
R_pR_o=2\pi m^{1/3} R^2$. For the example of $m=2$ we obtain a reduction of the interface area of $A(m=2)\approx2\pi1.26R^2$. Thus, if the particle anisotropy increases, the
occupied area $A(m)$
increases. This means that if the particle number is kept constant and the
anisotropy is increased, the particles can stabilize a larger interface
which leads to smaller domain sizes.
As the structure of a bijel interface is quite
complicated and the interfaces are generally curved it is not possible to
utilize the relations given above to derive an exact dependence of the domain
size $L$ on the particle aspect ratio $m$. However, the qualitative difference of using spheres or ellipsoids as emulsion stabilizers can be well understood.}

\section{Conclusion and outlook}
\label{secconclusion}
We have demonstrated simulations of anisotropic ellipsoidal particles
stabilizing fluid-fluid interfaces based on a combined multicomponent lattice
Boltzmann and molecular dynamics approach. We provided a description of the
code implementation and its recent improvements enabling our code for
efficient large-scale \RY{simulations} of Pickering/bijel systems on hundreds
of thousands of cores on an IBM Blue Gene/P system while sampling physical
observables such as density fields or colloidal particle configurations with
sufficient temporal resolution. After basic studies of adsorption trajectories
for single ellipsoids we demonstrated that ellipsoidal particles can lead
to a transition between bijels and Pickering emulsions
depending on contact angle, particle volume concentration or fluid ratio.
Further, we demonstrated that the average lateral domain size of bijels
depends on the particle concentration and can be fitted by a simple $1/C$
relation where the prefactor depends on the particle aspect ratio demonstrating that particles with $m>1$ are more efficient emulsion stabilizers than spheres.

\section*{\RY{Acknowledgments}}
This work was financed by NWO/STW (Vidi grant of J. Harting), by the FOM/Shell
IPP (09iPOG14) and within the DFG priority program ``nano- and microfluidics''
(SPP1264). We thank the J\"ulich Supercomputing Centre for the technical
support and the CPU time which was allocated within a large scale grant of the
Gauss Center for Supercomputing.

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