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About Black Canary
Black Canary is a Dc Comics superheroine who debuted in Flash Comics #86 (August 1947). One of DC's earliest super-heroines, Black Canary has appeared in many team-up titles including Justice Society of America and Justice League of America. Since the late 1960s, the she's has been paired with archer superhero the Green Arrow, professionally and romantically.
At her Golden Age debut, Black Canary was the alter ego of Dinah Drake and participated in crime-fighting adventures with her love interest (and eventual husband), Gotham City detective Larry Lance. Initially, the character was a hand-to-hand fighter without superpowers who often posed as a criminal to infiltrate criminal gangs. Later stories depicted her as a world-class martial artist with a superpower: the "Canary Cry", a high-powered sonic scream which could shatter objects and incapacitate enemies (even ones powerful enough to kill Kryptonians such as Superman). When DC Comics adjusted its continuity, Black Canary was established as two separate entities: mother and daughter, Dinah Drake-Lance and Dinah Laurel Lance. Stories since the Silver Age have focused on the younger Black Canary, ascribing her superhuman abilities to a genetic mutation.
Black Canary has been adapted into various media, including animated films, video games, and both live-action and animated television series, featuring as a main or recurring character in the shows Birds of Prey, Justice League Unlimited, Smallville, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Young Justice and Arrow. The character is ranked the 21st-greatest comic book character of all time by Wizard, and IGN rated her its 11th greatest all-time comic book hero. She was number 6 on Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.
(via Wikia) Black Canary is a superhero vigilante who fights crime using martial arts and a sonic scream attack. She is one of the greatest fighters in the DC Universe, and also a strong tactical mind. Her costume is an attractive black outfit with fishnet stockings and blonde hair, and she is usually seen riding her motorcycle. There have been two Canaries to share the legacy. Dinah Drake was the original during World War II and the Golden Age of heroes. Her daughter Dinah Lance would take the position during the Silver Agewhen she grew old enough. Green Arrow fights alongside her most often as they are romantically involved. She has been a member of the Justice Society, the Justice League, Team Arrow and the Birds of Prey. Black Canary was created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino, first appearing in Flash Comics #86. (1947) Her more recognizable daughter was introduced by Roy Thomas in Justice League of America #220. (1983)
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Since I'm using canvas to pull this off I'm automatically excluding IE8 and lower from the equation (it works great in the IE9 beta), which meant that I could also save out the images as dataURLs. The upshot? You can use the output images the same way you would any other image within a web page; as a CSS background, as source for a canvas animation, and if you really want, you can even Right Click -> Save As to save the filtered image to your hard drive.
FWIW, when I tried viewing/reading this entry in my feed reader (Google Reader), the images all showed your don't-hotlink pic.
The demo is great. I've played around with it in Firefox and Chrome, and the sliders are definitely a better experience.
One quick note: In Chrome, when you set the slider to a different value, the original image flashes before the newly filtered image replaces it. That didn't happen on Firefox when I was setting values via text.
Do any of you know if it's possible to copy an arbitrary element to the canvas? e.g., let's say I have a div with three different images, some borders, a background color, more child elements, etc. and I wanted to copy that entire div to the canvas, then apply a transform. A friend wants a gaussian blur effect over a div like that which has elements that are scrolling sideways. If it was possible to copy an arbitrary element to the canvas and modify PaintbrushJS to use web workers and/or WebGL calls, it might just be fast enough to do in real-time. As far as I can tell, currently you can only insert images and other canvas elements into the canvas element, but maybe a few years from now this would be possible! For now, she'll probably have to fake it by making a pixel perfect layout and making a (or several) large, pre-blurred image that scrolls by. Eww.
@Kevin - Not sure why you're seeing the hotlinked image swap thing, Google Reader works fine on this end.
@Kadir- when Firefox supports input type range, it'll get the sliders too. Sadly that didn't happen for beta 4.
@Nate Bundy - not sure if I care enough about the original image flashing to fix it, it's just a demo page and not the main thrust of the library.
This is really cool. The added effects are really nice and excellent news that it also works in IE9. I do not blame you for excluding IE8 and lower as am not sure how this would function in the dated IE browsers with all the problems they cause. Cool that you can also save the images to data URLs also.
Nice work. Always interesting to see HTML5 / CSS3 demos (the next thing in my 'must learn' pile).
That said, I suspect it will be a while until we can write off making sites which work in IE8, considering how long IE6 is taking to die.
Out of interest, does your demo demonstrate mostly all image manipulation you can do with CSS3, or are there any other filters you have not used?
Great article and great effects. I do all of my own image manipulation and so this one will definitely get saved into my "useful" folder. Thanks!
This is really slick, Dave. And I already have a feature request! For the Color Tint filter, would it be possible to add the option to multiply the tint color on top of the image (a la a Color Overlay layer effect with Multiply blend mode in Photoshop)? I'll confess I have a specific usage in mind for this, but I think it would be a good addition in general. As always, keep up the good work.
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The Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) Benchmark Study provides companies with a readout to help them understand their offerings compared to other organizations in the technology industry. The comprehensive report we received from the benchmark of our Managed Services highlighted Polycom's strengths, as well as opportunities for improvement.
This benchmark re-enforced the importance of focusing on the business outcomes and solving problems for our customers where we go beyond developing, implementing and onboarding a solution, but take it further by creating a relationship to truly ensure customer success. The main takeaway here is that we need to continue focusing on this customer service model.
The question we ask ourselves is, "How do we help customers drive back operational efficiencies and increase adoption while not only meeting their expected return on investment, but exceeding it?" This is how we drive customer success. Polycom does a great job here, in helping customers manage any on-premises solutions they may have while also helping them plan and navigate for the migration to more cloud-based operational systems.
Polycom, like many other managed services organizations, started out with a traditional deploy and support services methodology, but what we are realizing is that our customers are looking for a stronger business relationship. They are looking for someone who can work with them through the transition, who has experience, who has helped others facing the same challenges and knows how to go beyond the IT department to also address the needs of other lines of business across the organization. Many of our customers are both interested in and apprehensive of moving to the cloud, and we help them make the change comfortably.
We are also helping customers in various managed services situations. We tend to see a lot of requests for remote monitoring and management, but we're also seeing an increasing number of customers interested in full private cloud and transformational models. In all these situations, we strive to provide the best experiences possible. We support interoperable solutions that work with various vendors' equipment and solution ecosystems. For example, we regularly leverage Microsoft solutions like Office 365 and Skype for Business to support customer's needs.
Polycom is an expert in the journey to cloud services. We focus on lifecycle management and help customers through the migration to cloud based solutions all the way through adoption and renewal stages and beyond. Our strategic initiative is to develop a holistic solution for our customers and to ensure robust capabilities that drive their success.
Taking the time to participate in this benchmark study shows Polycom's willingness to open up for constructive criticism and feedback which will help us improve the Managed Services that we provide to our customers. Overall, we discovered that Polycom can always evolve to deliver better managed services that meet customer expectations and we are prepared to adapt to this rapidly changing industry. The TSIA benchmark was also helpful in validating Polycom's current strategies and making us more aware of our successes in this area.


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Die im Westen wegen des Zielbahnhofs Lhasa-Bahn, auch Tibet-Bahn, in China Qinghai-Tibet-Bahn, bzw. Qingzang-Bahn genannte normalspurige eingleisige, teilweise elektrifizierte Eisenbahnstrecke in der Volksrepublik China verbindet Xining, die Hauptstadt der Provinz Qinghai, mit Lhasa, der Hauptstadt des Autonomen Gebietes Tibet. Die Gesamtstrecke verläuft über 1956 km.

Sie weist mehrere Weltrekorde auf: Mit einem Scheitelpunkt von 5072 Metern ist sie die höchstgelegene Bahnstrecke der Erde (255 m höher als die Peruanische Zentralbahn), der Neue Guanjiao-Tunnel ist mit 32.600 Metern der längste Eisenbahntunnel des chinesischen Schienennetzes und mit 160 km/h zulässiger Geschwindigkeit gleichzeitig der am schnellsten befahrbare Abschnitt der Bahnstrecke.
Die Fahrt von Xining nach Lhasa dauerte 2015 ca. 17 Stunden. An ihr liegen ebenfalls der höchstgelegene Bahnhof der Welt (Tanggula, 5068 m) und der höchstgelegene Tunnel der Welt (4905 m).

Die Lhasa-Bahn ist eines der größten Eisenbahnbauprojekte, die im 21. Jahrhundert fertiggestellt wurden. Am 15. August 2014 wurde die 253 km lange Bahnstrecke Lhasa–Xigazê als Verlängerung zur zweitgrößten Stadt Tibets Xigazê in Betrieb genommen.

Geschichte
Die Strecke wurde im Wesentlichen in zwei Abschnitten errichtet, die sich heute auch noch in ihrem Ausbauzustand unterscheiden: Der Abschnitt Xining–Golmud–Nanshankou ging bis 1984 in Betrieb. Der technisch aufwendigere Abschnitt Nanshankou–Lhasa (1100 km) durch das Hochgebirge wurde bautechnisch im Oktober 2005 fertiggestellt. Der Probebetrieb begann Anfang Februar 2006, der offizielle Eröffnungszug verließ Peking am 1. Juli 2006, dem 85. Gründungstag der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas (KPCh), und erreichte Lhasa am 3. Juli 2006. Seit August 2006 wird die Strecke fahrplanmäßig befahren.

Strecke

Streckenführung
Die Gesamtstrecke der Lhasa-Bahn beginnt in Xining, jedoch wird häufig Golmud als Anfangspunkt bezeichnet, da die aufwändige Hochgebirgsstrecke im südlich von Golmud gelegenen Nanshankou ansetzte. Die Strecke führt nach dem Kunlun-Pass über die kleinen Orte Budongquan, Wudaoliang, Tuotuoheyan (Gemeinde Tanggulashan) zum 5072 m hohen Tanggula-Pass. Auf diesem Scheitelpunkt verläuft zugleich die Grenze zum Autonomen Gebiet Tibet. Der höchstgelegene Tunnel der Welt liegt beim Pass und Berggipfel Fenghuo Shan (5262 m), nach dem ersten Drittel des Abschnitts zwischen Kunlun Shan und Tanggula-Pass, auf 4905 m Höhe. Die Strecke verläuft nach dem Tanggula-Pass weiter durch die tibetische Hochebene, bis sie nach Damxung ins Tal des Flusses Doilung Qu absteigt und schließlich im Bahnhof Lhasa endet.

Auf der Lhasa-Bahn fahren sowohl Personenzüge als auch Güterzüge in dichter Folge. Als Streckenlokomotive wird auf dem nicht elektrifizierten oberen Abschnitt ausschließlich die Baureihe NJ2 eingesetzt.

Rund 960 km der Strecke zwischen Golmud und Lhasa verlaufen in Höhen von mehr als 4000 m. Hier werden die Züge mit Diesellokomotiven befördert. Der Abschnitt zwischen Golmud und Xining ist dagegen elektrifiziert.

Streckenbau
Technisch stellt insbesondere der obere Abschnitt der Bahn zwischen Golmud und Lhasa eine Besonderheit dar: Ein Viertel der Strecke wurde auf Permafrostboden gebaut. Dieser Boden taut oberflächlich im Sommer kurzzeitig auf. Stabilisierende Vegetation ist kaum vorhanden. Das Wasser kann in dem in der Tiefe weiter gefrorenen Boden nicht versickern, an der Oberfläche bildet sich eine Matschschicht, in die der Oberbau einsinken würde. Es werden daher verschiedene Techniken eingesetzt, um ein Auftauen zu verhindern.

Die Verwendung von Wärmerohren als passives Kühlverfahren hat sich bereits beim Bau der ebenfalls über Permafrostboden führenden Trans-Alaska-Pipeline bewährt. An kritischen Streckenabschnitten wurden verschlossene Stahlröhren zur Hälfte in den Boden versenkt, die eine gewissen Menge Ammoniak enthalten und bei Lufttemperaturen um 0 °C und tiefer als Thermosiphon fungieren. Der durch Sonneneinstrahlung aufgewärmte Boden bringt das flüssige Ammoniak im unteren Teil des senkrecht im Boden stehenden Rohrs zum Verdunsten. Ammoniakgas steigt im Rohr nach oben und kondensiert im oberen Teil des Rohrs, wenn dieses von der kälteren Nachtluft gekühlt wird. Anschließend rinnt das verflüssigte Kältemittel erneut nach unten. So wird das tagsüber aufgetaute Erdreich in der Nacht gekühlt und wieder gefroren.

Da der flüssige Ammoniak nur abwärts rinnt und nicht aufsteigen kann, funktioniert der Wärmetransport nur von unten nach oben. Bei Sonnenschein kommt er zum Erliegen, so dass die Sonnenwärme durch die Wärmerohre nicht nach unten ins Erdreich transportiert wird.

Wird ein kapillar saugfähiges Vlies an der Innenwand des Rohrs angebracht, um den Aufstieg des flüssigen Ammoniaks zu erleichtern, so muss dieses in Höhe der Erdoberfläche enden. Abschattung sowie Wärmetauscher-Rippen im oberen Bereich der Rohre fördern den Wärmeübergang zur Luft.

10.000 solcher Kühlstäbe wurden, etwa drei Meter aus dem Erdreich herausragend, in den Oberbau der Strecke eingebracht.

Zusätzlich wurde der Oberbau in manchen Bereichen als drei Meter hoher Bahndamm aus kopfgroßen Gesteinsbrocken angelegt.
Der als Schotterbett lose übereinander geschichtete Steindamm wird vom kalten Wind des Hochplateaus gekühlt und hält die eingestrahlte Sonnenwärme vom Boden fern.

Aufgrund der globalen Erwärmung wird befürchtet, dass der Permafrostboden in den nächsten 50 Jahren häufiger auftaut und instabiler wird.

Das chinesische Eisenbahnministerium erklärte bereits einen Monat nach der Eröffnung der Strecke, dass der Permafrostboden in Bereichen unter der Bahnlinie nachgebe und sie destabilisiere. Auch traten an Betonkonstruktionen Risse auf. Der fahrplanmäßige Verkehr läuft dennoch seit 2006 ohne größere Unterbrechungen mit der zulässigen Höchstgeschwindigkeit. Die Züge erreichen in Gebieten mit gefrorenem Boden 100 km/h. Das ist die weltweit höchste Geschwindigkeit, die Züge auf gefrorenem Hochlandboden fahren. Auf Streckenabschnitten ohne Permafrostboden sind 120 km/h zulässig.

Weitere Gefahren gingen von Wanderdünen und Yak-Herden aus. Um die Tiere abzuhalten wurden an den gefährdeten Stellen Wälle aus groben Feldsteinen angelegt, die die Tiere nicht übersteigen. Zusätzlich ist die Strecke vollständig eingezäunt und wird ab der Grenze des Autonomen Gebiets Tibet bis nach Lhasa militärisch überwacht. Etwa alle zwei Kilometer befindet sich ein Posten, in der Regel an Unterführungen oder Brückenbauwerken, teils in Zelten, zum geringeren Teil in festen Wachhäusern untergebracht.

Neuer Guanjiao-Tunnel
2014 wurde der 32,645 km lange Neue Guanjiao-Tunnel zwischen Têmqên und Ulan fertiggestellt, welcher eine bestehende Bergstrecke um 36,8 km verkürzt.

Streckendaten Golmud–Lhasa

Streckenerweiterungen
Obwohl die Rentabilität der Lhasa-Bahn bezweifelt wird, begann am 26. September 2010 der Bau der 253 Kilometer langen Strecke von Lhasa zur zweitgrößten tibetischen Stadt Xigazê. Aufgrund der schwierigen Geländeverhältnisse verlaufen 155 Kilometer auf Brücken oder im Tunnel. Die eingleisige Strecke ist für 120 km/h trassiert, die Baukosten betrugen 13,3 Milliarden Yuán (ca. 1,6 Milliarden Euro) und der Betrieb wurde am 15. August 2014 aufgenommen.

An einer weiteren Verbindung, der Sichuan-Tibet-Bahn, die aus dem Südosten Chinas von Chengdu über Nyingchi nach Lhasa verlaufen soll, wird seit 2014 gebaut. Eine Fertigstellung ist für das Jahr 2030 geplant. Auch eine Strecke nach Yadong an der chinesisch-indischen Grenze und eine Verlängerung nach Nepal ist geplant.

Personenverkehr
Die Personenzüge bestehen aus zwei Lokomotiven (ursprünglich drei, dies wurde aber aufgegeben) mit 16 Wagen einer besonderen Bauart für die Tibet-Bahn. Züge bieten jeweils Platz für 930 Reisende. Sie führen in der Regel je einen Schlafwagen 1. Klasse ("Soft Sleeper"), einen Speisewagen und einen Packwagen. Die übrigen Wagen bestehen etwa je zur Hälfte aus Schlaf- und Sitzwagen der 2. Wagenklasse. Eine elektronische Anzeige in den Wagen zeigt die aktuelle Höhe sowie die Geschwindigkeit des Zuges an. Dieses System wird allerdings nicht immer aktiviert, ebenso wie das bordeigene Video-Programm. Pro Wagen gibt es im Durchgangsbereich zentrale Waschbecken sowie eine Hocktoilette. Die Ausstattung der Wagen ist im Übrigen unterschiedlich komfortabel:
 "Soft Sleeper": Vier-Bett-Abteil (zwei Doppelstockbetten) mit Sauerstoffdüse an einem Bettende, Leselampe und kleinem Bildschirm am anderen Ende. Dazu Kopfkissen, Bettwäsche, zentraler Tisch und Kabinentür.
 "Hard Sleeper": Sechs-Bett-Abteil (zwei Dreistockbetten) mit schmaleren Betten und Steckdosen nur auf dem Gang.
 "Seat": Sitzplätze in der Anordnung 2+3.

Aufgrund einer Fahrt auf teilweise über 5000 m besteht die hohe Gefahr der Höhenkrankheit (AMS). Aus diesem Grund werden ab einer Höhe von etwa 3000 Metern Düsen eingeschaltet, die im Gang und den Abteilen zusätzlich Sauerstoff in die Wagen blasen – jedoch verringert dies das Risiko an AMS zu erkranken nur teilweise, weshalb es ratsam ist, sich bereits vorher auf einer entsprechenden Höhenlage zu akklimatisieren. Nach offizieller Aussage werden die Züge zudem von medizinischem Personal begleitet. Jeder Fahrgast muss vor der Fahrt ein Formular unterzeichnen, dass er körperlich und psychisch gesund ist.

Die Fahrt von Golmud nach Lhasa dauert vierzehn (reine Fahrzeit zwölf) Stunden. Von Peking kommend benötigt der Zug 43 Stunden. Zwischen Golmud und Lhasa hält der Zug an mehreren Bahnhöfen.

Wirtschaftliche Bedeutung
Die Lhasa-Bahn wurde seit ihrer Eröffnung am 1. Juli 2006 bis zum 31. Dezember 2007 von 5,95 Millionen Passagieren benutzt. Somit reisten im Jahr 2007 43 % aller Touristen über die Lhasa-Bahn in das Autonome Gebiet Tibet ein. Die Lhasa-Bahn hat dem Tourismus 2007 zu einer Steigerung von 60,4 % verholfen. Im Gütertransport werden ungefähr 75 % aller Waren von und nach Tibet über die Lhasa-Bahn befördert. Im Jahr 2015 überschritt der Tourismus in der Autonomen Republik Tibet erstmals die 20 Millionengrenze und eine weitere kräftige Steigerung ist in der Planung vorgesehen.

In China wird die mit einem Aufwand von 29,46 Milliarden Yuan (ca. 2,9 Milliarden € bzw. 4,6 Milliarden Fr.) errichtete Bahn als Projekt von hoher nationaler Bedeutung, vergleichbar nur mit der Chinesischen Mauer oder dem Drei-Schluchten-Damm, betrachtet.

Dank der Bahn sollen sich Tibets Bodenschätze leichter abtransportieren und Grundstoffe wie Kohle, Stahl oder Baumaterial zu einem Bruchteil der bisherigen Kosten nach Tibet transportieren lassen.

Die Kritik, auch von Tsering Woeser, besagt vor allem, für das tibetische Volk bringe die Bahn einen weiteren, von der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas gewollten Eingriff in die eigene Kultur und erhöhe die politische Kontrolle durch China. Es wird aber auch mit einer Zunahme der Zuwanderung aus dem restlichen China gerechnet, was für die Bevölkerung Tibets einen ungewünschten Eingriff darstelle. Manche Menschenrechtsorganisationen erwarten zudem eine Nutzung der Bahn für militärische Zwecke, da die Transportdauer für Soldaten von Golmud nach Lhasa verkürzt wird.

Diesen Befürchtungen steht gegenüber, dass eine Zuwanderung bisher schon mit einem sehr gut ausgebauten und vergleichsweise billigen Bustransport erfolgt, die Logistik des Militärs stütze sich dagegen auf effektivere und flexiblere LKW-Transporte auf der Straße.

Die Bahn soll zusätzlich aber auch entscheidende Impulse für den Aufbau der Tourismusindustrie erbringen. Im Autonomen Gebiet Tibets leben heute bereits über 30.000 Tibeter vom Tourismus. Nach heutigen Planungen soll sich diese Zahl in den nächsten Jahren vervielfachen. Dies ist Teil der Strategie Tibets, die durch die Viehzucht teils schwer belasteten Hochsteppen durch den Aufbau neuer Arbeitsplätze für Viehzüchter zu entlasten.

Literatur
 NN: Mit der Tibetbahn aufs Dach der Welt. In: mobil 7 (2007), S. 84–90.
 Andreas Gruschke: Abenteuer auf Schienen. Mit Nomaden und Mönchen in der Tibet-Bahn auf der neuen Strecke von Lhasa nach Golmud In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung vom 6. März 2008.

Weblinks

 Bericht von der Eröffnung im ORF
 Internetseite zur Qinghai-Tibet-Eisenbahn eines chinesischen Reisebüros (auf Englisch)
 GPS: Pfad des ungefähren Streckenverlaufs auf Gpsies.de
 Die Qinghai-Tibet-Eisenbahnlinie und ihre Bedeutung für gesellschaftliche, ökonomische und ökologische Veränderungen in der Region auf Chinaweb.de

Einzelnachweise

Bahnstrecke in der Volksrepublik China
Bauwerk in Tibet
Verkehr (Tibet)
Verkehr (Qinghai)

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Brown County sheriff's official says heavy rainfall contributed to the accident, which forced closure of a ramp from Interstate 43 to State 172.
BELLEVUE - Brown County sheriff's deputies and Bellevue firefighters rescued a truck driver from a pond Sunday after his semi-trailer slid off a highway ramp in a downpour.
The truck hydroplaned and slid into a retention pond about 200 yards from the Interstate 43-Wisconsin 172 interchange about 1:15 p.m., news releases from the agencies said.
The truck came to rest partially submerged in about five feet of water, Sheriff's Lt. John Bain said. He said Bellevue firefighters treated the truck driver, who was then taken to a Green Bay hospital for examination.
Information on the driver's condition and identity were not available.
Authorities kept the ramp from northbound 43 to westbound 172 closed while a tow truck pulled the semi from the pond. Bellevue firefighters remained on the scene for about three hours, said Battalion Chief Stefan Schaefer.
The crash was one of two calls Sunday afternoon where Bellevue firefighters had to extricate a person, Schaefer said. The second occurred on Lime Kiln Road; details on that crash were not available.


With special self-balancing technology, you'll be able to enjoy this hovertrax almost immediately. Easy to use, simply climb on board and you're ready to go. For superior comfort and safety, it is equipped with anti-slip, rubber traction pads giving you superior foot control.
Ultra-sleek and stylish, this hovertrax is crafted of steel and accented with front LED lights. Ride it at the skatepark, around campus or just around the neighbourhood.


A proper -- and practiced -- diet is crucial for success in a triathlon.
Keeping energy levels high enough to swim, cycle and run through a triathlon is a fundamental challenge facing every triathlete who chooses long-form races. There are a few options for maintaining the necessary hydration and carb concentrations during an intense event like a triathlon: Apart from consuming water, racers can also drink fluids like sports drinks and eat foods like bananas, jelly beans and energy bars and gels.
Different triathletes prefer different combinations of race-day fuel, and there are several reasons for that. An all-liquid race-day regime can lead to flavor fatigue -- competitors get so sick of the taste of their stock of sports drinks, say, that they avoid drinking them. Too much water in relation to carbohydrates, on the other hand, can make a person hyponatremic (have too few electrolytes) which is also bad. For athletes who stick to the solid stuff, there's the potential issue of food-related gastrointestinal symptoms, which while usually no more than temporary complaints, can still present a serious blow in terms of top performance. It's a delicate balance to strike!
But first let's start pre-race: After carb-loading during the couple of days leading up to the competition, both in food and beverage form, our triathletes are almost ready. The morning of the triathlon, they'll want to wake up with plenty of time to eat a solid breakfast about 3 hours out. This meal needs to be balanced, but carb-heavy -- 2.5 to 3.5 ounces (75 to 100 grams) of complex carbohydrates is a good amount to aim for.
Now that our athletes have a firm base of energy-rich carbs coasting through their digestive systems, it's time to focus on how much they'll consume during the triathlon itself. Simply gulping water can get athletes through shorter and lower-endurance competitions, but long-form triathlons like Olympic distance, half-Irons or Iron distance are serious contests, and athletes need to bolster their carb count with some combination of snacks and sports drinks throughout.
The general rule of thumb is to consume between 1 and 2 ounces (30 and 60 grams) of carbohydrates every hour of the competition. That comes out to roughly one sports drink each hour -- plus any water a triathlete senses he or she needs. On top of that, there's the option of food. Two-to-three medium-sized bananas, a couple of energy bars or gels, a couple of chocolate bars or a jam sandwich are among the many options triathletes can choose from. (However, many multi-sport athletes choose to avoid solid foods since it takes lots of energy to digest them.) The goal, though, is to get plenty of beverages and foods that rank high on the glycemic index, so the simple sugars they hold are released quickly into the bloodstream of the triathlete.
Some competitors may want to load up on solid carbs during the biking phase of the triathlon since the jostling during the running stage can make eating troublesome. But other triathletes won't be bothered by this as much and may want to save a few snacks for the final leg. The most important thing is to work out well in advance what works, and stick closely to that regime during the triathlon. It helps avoid nasty, last-minute surprises -- any serious competitor's worst nightmare.
Morris, Rick. "Marathon Nutrition -- Nutritional Tips for Running Your Best Marathon."


In Conversation with Harry, Aged 5¾.
Random questions from kids are one of the delights of Father/Parenthood. So here's a weekly 'Question of the Week' mini-post to celebrate them.
– Are you better than a clown, Daddy?
– What do you mean, Harry?
– In what way, Harry? At falling over? At juggling? At wearing big shoes?
– All of them, Daddy.
– Well, I guess I've got quite big shoes. And I'm quite clumsy.
– When you fall over a lot.
– Like they do in rugby, Daddy?
– No, in rugby they get knocked over. Clumsy is when you fall over by accident.
– Um. No clowns do it on purpose.
– Are clowns better than you at doing it on purpose?
– Are you OK, Daddy? Do clowns hurt themselves?
– Oh. Are your shoes bigger than a clown's shoe?
– Um. The average size of a clown's shoe is 13, I'm size 11.
– Hmm. Are you better at juggling than a clown, Daddy?
– Hahahahaha. You're a rubbish clown, Daddy.
– Um. I'm not sure how to take that, Harry.
– Can you fall over on purpose again Daddy?
– No. Can we talk about something else?


I'm super excited to share this fun way of giving money! Cash is an easy gift when you are short on time.
I wanted to make a surprise gift for my son's birthday, but with only 45 minutes to spare until he got home from school, my options were limited.
I meant to plan ahead, but with the holidays, family being sick and working… the birthday gift surprise was last on my list.
He turned 12 yesterday and has been wanting cash to save up for an XBox One. Putting some money in an envelope would make him happy, but not be a very exciting birthday surprise for a kid! Here is a fun thing that I did in less than 40 minutes with one trip to the grocery store.
Yep, that is 12 balloons and each one has a one dollar bill attached! I was proud that I was able to pull it off in time.
We had a bike hidden away, so along with cleaning the room, I even had time to get the new bike into his room. Whew!! He walked in 2 minutes later from the bus!
It was a huge hit! He even noticed that I had cleaned his room and said THANK YOU just for doing that. Love that kid!!
And guess who else loved the dangling ribbon and dollar bills? Yes, our new kitty Apollo was in heaven. ha!
I hope you have fun using this idea for your birthday kid too! It would be a fun way to give money for a graduation or any special occasion.
Love this idea! My daughter will be 17 in a few weeks, so I think these $ balloons are just the right style/color/size! Thanks again for all of your wonderful thoughts and recipes and ideas!
Way too cute! I am glad you gave him a little money for his goal and then the bike…The kitty was too cute and your son looks as if he hit the lottery for his birthday!!


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The new gesture controls in Apple's OS X Lion operating system update can take a little getting used to on a MacBook (such as the new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Airs). The reverse "natural" scrolling, for example, has its fans and detractors, and we've previously shown you how to roll back that particular change.
Potentially more annoying is the change from the tap-to-drag trackpad gesture to a new three-finger-drag gesture. In fact, it's probably the single most annoying Lion feature we've found so far.
Traditionally, one could could do a double tap, then hold on the second tap to drag a window or to highlight and select onscreen text. Now, that's been replaced by a three-finger gesture. Hover three fingers on the title bar of a window, or over the corner, and drag them along the trackpad to move or resize that window. The same works for selecting a block of text. Tap once with three fingers, then move over the items you wish to highlight. You can also click down on the trackpad with one finger and drag with a second for either of these moves.
But, especially for those of us who bounce between the Mac and Windows worlds on a regular basis, a little consistency goes a long way. If you want to reactivate the classic double-tap-and-drag gesture, it's possible, but the option is well-hidden. Instead of being in System Preferences under Trackpad, it's actually under System Preferences > Universal Access > Mouse and Trackpad > Trackpad Options. Click the check box that says "Dragging" and you should be all set. The screenshots below show you the menu pages you'll need to find.
Double-tap-to-drag and the three-finger drag can be active at the same time, if you want to acclimate to the new OS X Lion gestures but keep the old ones active in the meantime. What's driving you crazy so far about OS X Lion? Let us know in the comments section below.
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My birthday did not prevent me from fulfilling my call of being there for the needy. Yesterday was one month that the trainees from Ayenya No:1 started their pottery/ceramic training. Hucasdevi Ghana together with Leoron Professional Development Institute in Dubai have adopted Ayenya No:1 to develop it into a tourist attraction centre and also to empower the youth to take up the development of the community upon their shoulders. The first batch of five (5) trainees started their training one month ago with the remaining two starting on Easter Monday.
These five trainees will learn the art and science of pottery and graduate after a year. They will then return to Ayenya to man the ceramic/pottery factory that will built there. They will train five youth each to the expected level and start commercial production. After a month of training the first batch are doing fantastic work and are learning quick. The trainer, Mr Stephen Bonni was very impressed with the rate of learning and their attitude to work and believes that in less than no time they will be up for greater works.
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His mantra is do se zyaada nahi! 😉 Before you think he's been roped in by the Family Planning Commission as their brand ambassador 😆 😆 😆 ….sorry, joke of the century! 😆 ROFL…allow me to elaborate.
Barring his happy and "gay" camaraderie with King Khan 😉 and his fondness for erstwhile-friend-now-turned-foe, Kajol, no other artist has completed a hat trick in Dharma projects where Jo wielded the megaphone.
But since cameos and bit appearances in song and dance sequences can't really qualify as well-fleshed out, significant roles, I'll be discounting those.
Some like Preity, Hrithik, Abhishek, and Kareena might not have had the Midas himself shaping each of their films under the Dharma banner but at least they were more fortunate than say a John, Ajay, Salman or a Saif who were ousted after just one collaboration.
Over time, KJo has gotten less rigid and mellowed quite a bit. He no longer is a jumpy, superstitious 'K'-loving freak. He now ropes in real-life couples (think HSKD) and exes too! (YJHD) He has thankfully moved away from the soppy 'Family is the alpha and omega of life' to some more interesting genres. Thrillers, Romedies etc. I like that he's sourced a fresh pool of talent to make Dharma the wholesome banner that it is and it's heartening to see him hand over the directorial baton to the future of filmmaking in this country.
There's his not-so-good side but overshadowing it is the brilliant side he's revealed to us lately. A true-blue Gemini, wotsay?!?
I walked into the theater thinking I'd see a desi Mentalist. Walked out feeling quite MENTALish. 😀 Steer clear!


Taking his sound straight from 1978, Luxxury (aka Blake Robin) has released a couple singles this summer that also, somehow, remind me of 1991 Will Smith (fka Fresh Prince). I've been searching for a new song that reminds me of "Summertime" in an ephemeral way, and I think this is it. Reading up a bit on this L.A. producer/DJ, it sounds like his live sets would really make you dance your cares away. Good times.


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Book Review - The Sisters Mao
Narrated by three women, and set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution and Europe's sexual rebellion, The Sisters Mao almost feels like two books. One set of Gavin McCrea's characters is shaped by personal concerns, the other, predominantly, by societal forces.
In London, in 1968, sisters Iris and Eva are members of a radical performance collective who squat in a large King's Cross building owned by their mother, Alissa, a celebrity actress. After Eva returns from the French protests of May 1968, the group plan an audacious attack on the West End theatre where Alissa is playing the title role in August Strindberg's Miss Julie.
Through a series of flashbacks, McCrea illuminates the family's past. Iris and Eva's parents had been staunch members of the Communist party until Stalin's purges saw them embrace Maoism. Eventually, they abandon revolutionary politics altogether. Alissa forges a successful theatre career for herself, while Paul closets himself away with a performance artist who outdoes them all. Their daughters are left to their own devices.
McCrea's debut novel, Mrs Engels, introduced us to Lizzie Burns, an illiterate Irish woman and partner of Friedrich Engels. The Sisters Mao, second in a planned "Wives of the Revolution" trilogy, is similarly populated by real and fictional characters. McCrea has said he wants to "cumulatively tell the story of the 20th century through a fictional account of the development of communism". (His third novel will begin in post-communist Russia and end with the 2008 financial crash.)
In this novel he takes us to 1974 Beijing, where Jiang Qing, Mao's fourth wife, is rehearsing a gala performance of a model ballet, The Red Detachment of Women, in honour of Imelda Marcos's state visit. She terrorises everyone involved. The meeting of the two wives is brilliantly realised by McCrea, who recognises that, despite their political differences, they are similarly ambitious and ruthless paramours. We see Jiang at the height of her influence — a crude, cruel despot — and at the end of her life: imprisoned, accused of "counter-revolutionary crimes", writing letters to her late husband.
It took McCrea five years to complete The Sisters Mao. It is impeccably researched and he interweaves the personal and the political to great effect. But the novel is also uneven — by turns frustrating and inspiring — and could have been considerably shorter. Although some may consider his flawed, egotistical narrators nuanced, I found them irritating.
Iris suffers from epilepsy, she sells LSD for a living and inexplicably drugs her co-performers at a crucial moment. The detailed descriptions of acid trips are tedious. Eva is deliberately pretentious, a martyr to the cause modelling herself on "high-powered French intellectuals".
The sisters, who resent their parents and each other, are deeply unsympathetic. Jiang is loathsome. Perhaps that is the point. McCrea is interested in exploring his characters' ambivalence and astute on how political opinions evolve — his fictional creations mellow with age and the possibility of financial security, while in the case of his real-life subjects, power corrupts.
The novel made me recall a well-known photograph of Marcos and Jiang laughing together. By imagining what they shared in that encounter, McCrea humanises them.
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New York City documents show that the chief of an internal watchdog agency briefed Mayor Giuliani and his top aides several times on the background of Bernard Kerik before the mayor appointed his pal commissioner of the New York Police Department in 2000. Edward Kuriansky, then head of the city's Department of Investigation, knew at the time that Kerik had dubious relationships—including with his former best man, who'd been indicted for stock fraud, and two brothers who owned a company with suspected ties to organized crime (allegations that the company denies). The documents, entries from "daily calendars" maintained by Kuriansky, show the investigator was scheduled to attend five meetings with Giuliani to discuss Kerik's NYPD candidacy.


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Q: How does the instruction count increase for thumb as compared to arm instruction set? I read in a research paper that when thumb instruction is used the code size reduces but sometimes this leads to an increased number of instructions thus making thumb slower to execute. But how does the instruction count increase? Is it something like the instructions which are too complex for thumb are split into multiple instructions? This is my intuition. Wanted to verify if I am thinking in the right way.

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Instructions by Arvind Krishnaswamy and Rajiv Gupta at The University of Arizona gives a good study; although it is outdated.  In the mean time, ARM has released the Thumb2 instruction set which has again changed the game.
To summarize some of the paper, there are algorithms (like hashing) which need a lot of registers.  The traditional thumb ISAnote limited register to R0-R8.  If an algorithm causes a spill, it will be significantly slower.  So there are always pathological cases were either ISA can win.  It is also fairly common wisdom on the game boy advance, that thumb mode was faster from normal (slower) memory.  However, from faster internal RAM (one or zero wait state), the ARM mode would run faster.
For the Thumb2 (an improved Thumb ISA), many of the limitations have been removed and it is almost always as fast as (or faster than) ARM mode.  Everything is always relative to,

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There can be no clear answer.  You need to give more details of a system and the task at hand.
Note: ISA is instruction set architecture or the type of assembler/machine code available.

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Bill Stradley is Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
Former Assistant District Attorney, Chief Prosecutor in Harris County, Houston, Texas.
Criminal Attorney in Houston Since 1990.
Bill Stradley has over 25 years of experience trying criminal law cases. In 1997, he became Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and was re-certified in 2002 and 2007.
After graduating from law school, Bill joined the Harris County District Attorney's Office. As an Assistant District Attorney, he prosecuted a wide variety of felonies and misdemeanors and learned the prosecution perspective. Eventually, he was asked to teach other prosecutors the art of jury trial preparation and technique.
In 1995, he started his private criminal defense practice in Houston. He defends a wide variety of state and federal criminal cases in Houston and the surrounding region. He handles serious, difficult cases throughout Texas.
For five years, Bill Stradley served on the Board of Directors for the Harris County STAR Drug Court Foundation located in Houston, Texas. "STAR" stands for "Success Through Addiction Recovery." The purpose of the STAR Program is to bridge the gap between the criminal justice system and various forms of addiction recovery.
Bill's favorite letters are updates from former clients who received appropriate help for their addiction issues, and who have put their lives back together.
In addition, Bill serves as chairperson on one of the regional area State Bar of Texas, Commission on Lawyer Discipline, Grievance Committee panels as one of the lawyer representatives. These panels process complaints that clients have regarding lawyer misconduct and determine the appropriate discipline.
Want more information about Bill Stradley from outside legal websites?
Bill's primary goal is to make his clients feel confident and happy that they hired him as their lawyer. Ethically, no attorney can guarantee a specific result, but he wants his clients to have no regrets in choosing him to be their public face to juries, judges, and opposing prosecutors.
William M. Stradley Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Criminal Law Profile.
AVVO Listing – Perfect 10 Rating.
State Bar of Texas Listing.
Bill is a very personable guy and gets many cases through word of mouth from former clients, judges, police officers, investigators and attorneys who respect his ability, empathy, straightforward nature, and his ability to get results.
Typically, juries are extremely prejudiced against criminal defense lawyers, but Bill's strength in court is his likable, conversational, real talk. He doesn't like blowhards, and guards against coming across as one. He is a friendly guy, but when he talks tough, juries, judges, prosecutors, and clients know it is not an act, that he means what he says, and they listen.
Bill excels in collaborating with other lawyers, and other lawyers often hire him to assist in trying difficult cases.
One longtime District Judge in Houston said after a recent case that Bill is one of best lawyers he has ever seen in trial. Bill's best advocates are his former clients. Read what clients have to say about Bill Stradley.
Bill Stradley is a third generation Houstonian. His father, Bill Sr is Of Counsel to the Mithoff Law Firm and is Board Certified in Personal Injury Law and Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He has practiced law in Houston for over 50 years and is known for his trial ability, legal thought, service to the legal community and just being a decent person.
Bill Jr was president of his high school class at Lamar High School in Houston Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 1987 with an economics degree. He completed his law degree at the South Texas College of Law in 1990, excelling in the school's nationally recognized advocacy program.
Bill met his wife Stephanie at the course taught to prepare for the Texas Bar Exam. They ended up studying together, both passed and clearly make a good team.
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New NSW Police Campaign "It's not your fault"
NSW Police has launched a new video campaign to raise public awareness about the issue of domestic and family violence.
"It's not your fault" is the theme of the campaign, which consists of a 30-second community service announcement (CSA) for TV, as well as a longer version for cinemas and social media.
This is the first time we have ever seen a government CSA that includes a male victim and a female perpetrator. The campaign is still very gender-biased, but it's a HUGE start. Thank you NSW Police.
We question why the NSW Police continue to focus upon the domestic and family violence dynamic that is LEAST likely to occur in Australia. The majority of Australians who have experienced violence from an intimate partner experienced it from a previous partner (1,603,400) or boyfriend, girlfriend or date (1,304,400). Relatively few have experienced it from a current partner (356,700). More Australians have experienced family violence from their father or mother (484,400) than from their current partner.
Let's hope this is the first in a series of CSAs from NSW Police, and that the other larger demographics will be targeted in the future.
Click here to watch the video on Facebook.
NSW Police has today launched a powerful new video campaign to raise public awareness about the issue of domestic and family violence."It's not your fault" is the theme of the campaign, which consists of a 30-second community service announcement (CSA) for TV, as well as a longer version for cinemas and social media.In NSW, police respond to more than 140,000 incidents of domestic and family violence per year. This translates to about 380 cases every day.Today's CSA launch coincides with a state-wide roll-out of a new process for targeting repeat domestic-violence offenders.For over a decade, NSW Police has used a process called the Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP) to deal with high-risk and repeat offenders.The process has recently been adapted to include high-risk domestic violence offenders, and following successful trials in the Central Metropolitan Region, this refinement is now being introduced state-wide."The STMP model will ensure the state's most serious domestic-violence offenders face the highest level of scrutiny by police, and allow us to intervene before they commit their next offence," NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said."This renewed focus on offender accountability is part of our ongoing commitment to providing the utmost level of support to the victims of domestic and family violence."We have made other significant headway. For example, in a world first, NSW police can now record domestic violence video evidence at the time of an incident, which relieves the victim of the emotional burden of giving evidence in court."But a problem of this magnitude won't go away in a hurry. We still have much more work to do, and that includes raising public awareness about the issue through campaigns like the one we are launching today," he said.Members of NSW Police's Domestic Violence Team used their own front-line experience investigating and prosecuting domestic-violence cases to write, direct and produce the community service announcement.The aim of the campaign is to remind people there is no excuse for domestic and family violence, and it is never the victim's fault."Domestic violence is a serious crime and police are committed to bringing offenders to justice," Commissioner Scipione said."Every day police battle the community perception that domestic violence is a 'family matter' or 'private business'."That is most definitely not the case. If you are aware this is occurring in your community, you are obliged to report it, like any other crime."Some may find the images in these videos confronting; we do not apologise for this. Domestic and family violence is a confronting issue, and one we must continue to face head-on," Commissioner Scipione said.NSW Police Force's Corporate Spokesperson on Domestic and Family Violence, Assistant Commissioner Mick Fuller, said it is only fitting the videos were developed by police."Police officers attend hundreds of domestic-violence incidents every day and see first-hand the impact and harm it has on families," Assistant Commissioner Fuller said."Children are the hidden victims of domestic violence, which is why children feature so prominently in the campaign."There are no innocent bystanders in this space. By reporting domestic violence, you could prevent the next homicide," Assistant Commissioner Fuller said.Police are urging anyone with information about domestic-violence crimes to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au/ Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Posted by NSW Police Force on Tuesday, 23 February 2016


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Mini Hexchess on Game Courier
This page is written by the game's inventor, Dave McCooey.
Mini Hexchess
In April 21, 1997, Hans Bodlaender put a board with 37 squares on (t)his Internet Site on chess variants, asking which of his readers would compose a chess variant on the board by way of birthday present (he became 37 years old that day.) Dave McCooey, while thinking about the board, noticed that 37 is a hexagonal number, and that there is a perfect hexagonal board with 37 hexes. (About twenty years ago, Dave had invented a hexagonal chess variant, whose rules also can be found on the Chess Variant Pages.)
Dave wrote:
I couldn't miss the opportunity: the next perfect hex board will be when you're 61.
Players have a king, a rook, a bishop, a knight, and five pawns. The initial setup and form of the board is shown below.
The rules of this game are the same as in McCooey's Hexagonal Chess, with the following differences:
There is no initial double step for the pawns, (and hence no en-passant capture.)
A pawn can promote to a rook, bishop, or knight, but not to a queen. All seven hexes on the opponents side of the board are promotion hexes.
For details and movements of pieces, see McCooey's Hexagonal Chess.
Written by Hans Bodlaender, based on an email of Dave McCooey.
WWW page created on May 6, 1997. Corrected: May 23, 1997.
By Dave McCooey.
Mini HexChess. Small hexagonal chess variant. (Cells: 37)
Daniil Frolov wrote on 2010-08-16 EDTGood ★★★★
I don't like hexagonal variants, but this one was fun to play.
https://www.chessvariants.com/hexagonal.dir/minihex.html
First Created: Thursday, January 4th, 2001
Last Modified: Thursday, January 4th, 2001


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WORMS at a Glance
Sage Ocean
Last Captain Henryw
Senior Officer(s) Dique, Mrpiratedude, Lukeyboi
Politics Autocratic
Shares Jobber's Delight
Flag Affiliation Tide of Terror
Dormant as of 4 March, 2008
How it was Founded
Henryw founded the crew WORMS in 2007 on the Sage Ocean. The whole purpose was to have fun pillaging as a captain of a crew.
Names Don't make a Difference
After about 10 minutes of being in a one-person crew, Henryw wasn't too surprised that there was only one person. He hadn't posted a job offer, told anyone about his new crew right when he founded it, and he wasn't sure how many people in unwanted creatures, his former crew, checked the news and saw his things posted about leaving. Also, he had just come up with the idea that nobody would really want to join permanently because then they might be considered worms themselves and get teased. No one likes getting teased.
This proved to be wrong. Dique sort of proved it wrong, but not really. Dique likes Henryw a lot (because in real life, they're family members). Dique thought that since unwanted creatures had about 8-12 active members and WORMS had one, he should help WORMS. Dique resigned from unwanted creatures, which he had the rank of fleet officer in, and joined WORMS. Because Dique is Henryw's father, he was given the rank senior officer.
Then Lukeyboi came along. Henryw was out pillaging by himself with a jobbing offer posted. Amazingly enough, he had to decline two applications and take down the offer because the ship was full (this was a sloop, so he got 8 people to apply). At the end of the voyage, Henryw divided the booty, proclaimed that the voyage was officially over, and left for his house. At his house, he was wondering whether to do Shipwrightery or Alchemistry next when he suddenly received a tell from Lukeyboi to make him a full member as a senior officer. Henryw thought that he should let Lukeyboi join because it would mean another person and he couldn't do anything major with his ship if it was locked. He invited him to the cottage, made him a full member, and gave him the rank of senior officer, as well as the title of cook.
During the next few pillages, 3 more people joined and Lukeyboi persuaded Henryw to unlock his ship. Lukeyboi proved trustworthy and gained a few more members while Henryw was away doing other things.
Unwanted creatures had a member named Foolinu. When he finally heard about WORMS and that Henryw was the captain, he told the whole crew that he was leaving to team up with me. Later, Sweetannie, Henryw's aunt, also a member of unwanted creatures, told him that Foolinu wanted to join. He was given the rank of pirate, then quickly climbed ranks to officer and fleet officer.
Many more worthy pirates have joined. There are now over 15, probably 20, in WORMS, and none of them seem to care about the name.
When Lovelylass, a royalty of the flag that unwanted creatures was in (and the captain of unwanted creatures), and Henryw were finally on at the same time, Lovelylass invited WORMS to join the flag and the invitation was accepted.
Upon making WORMS join the flag Tide of Terror, Lovelylass sent a flag broadcast saying, "welcome to all the little wormies that joined us today!" This was answered by a flag broadcast saying, "huh?what?"
Retrieved from "https://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/index.php?title=WORMS&oldid=655943"
Defunct Sage Ocean crews


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Implémentation du Jeu de la vie.

Les règles sont disponibles sur [wikipedia].

## Run unit tests

    ./gradlew test

(use .bat on windows)

## Run lint, unit tests and coverage

    ./gradlew

(use .bat on windows)

## Bibliothèques utilisées

* Assertion api: [AssertJ]
* Test runner: [JUnit]
* Linter: [PMD]
* Coverage: [JaCoCo]
* Mock api: [Mockito]

[wikipedia]: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeu_de_la_vie
[AssertJ]: https://joel-costigliola.github.io/assertj
[JUnit]: http://junit.org
[PMD]: http://pmd.sourceforge.net
[JaCoCo]: http://jacoco.org
[Mockito]: http://site.mockito.org/mockito/docs/current/org/mockito/Mockito.html


star-forming region located 4 arcsec north from source 1.
21 members, including NGC 4144.
The redshift of NGC 4144 is small at 316 km/s.
at the ends of the nearly edge on image.
mag fainter at 18" separation.
Discordant Source R2 (Astr. Ap., 3, 292, 1969) rejected.
Bright middle, no bright nucleus. Poorly resolved.


A group of friends from the south suburbs of Indianapolis split a $50,000 Powerball win.
The group appropriately called themselves "The Winners" while claiming the prize at Hoosier Lottery headquarters. They've been playing Powerball and Mega Millions together for four years.
One of the group members bought the Powerball Quick Pick at Casey's in Franklin. The group won $50,000 on the Jan. 16, 2019 drawing by matching 4 of 5 numbers and the Powerball. Madeline, who bought the ticket, checked it with the free Hoosier Lottery mobile app and was in disbelief when she saw the prize amount.
The group's plans for the money varied but including spending it on vacations and college tuition. Before taxes, each group member won $5,555.


Congratulations to Temple ISD for earning 23 academic distinctions for the 2017-2018 School year!
Some impressive STAAR test scores have a lot to do with it. Schools that finish in the top 25% of their peer groups in a number of categories earn academic distinctions. Those categories include Math, Science, English Language Arts (ELA)/Reading, Social Studies, Academic Growth, Closing the Gaps, Postsecondary Readiness.
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Silent Film Fans
For those who have a great appreciation for silent films and the popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
silent film actor
January 21, 2014 by silentfilmfans
On This Day – January 22nd
The following stars passed away on this day, January 22. RIP
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On This Day – January 21st
Lido Manetti was born in Florence, Italy on this day in 1899. He began acting on the stage and then went on to star in Italian silent films. He was scouted by a rep from Universal and came to the United States in 1925. He made a couple of films for Universal and then signed a contract with Paramount. While at Paramount, he took on the stage name Arnold Kent in order to not sound so foreign. His career was picking up and he was acting alongside some of the biggest names in Hollywood: Clara Bow, Pola Negri, Florence Vidor, Louise Brooks and Norma Talmadge. Alas, his rise to fame was to be short lived.
On Saturday, September 29, 1928, Lido was walking down a Hollywood street when he was struck by a car driven by an extra. He died from his injuries at the young age of 29. At the time of his death, he had been shooting The Four Feathers with Richard Arlen and Fay Wray. His scenes had to be reshot with William Powell taking over the part. A tragic ending to a very promising life and career.
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On This Day – January 15
Born in England on this day in 1853, Thomas Ricketts was the first official "Hollywood" director. His life in England is not very well documented (at least that I can find). He immigrated to the United States in 1870 or 1873 depending on which documents you choose.
There is little information about his first wife, Olivia, born in November 1856 in New York. What information I could find, indicated that they married abt. 1878, had a son Frank who died as a child, and a daughter Ethel born in New Jersey abt. 1881. I've been unable to tell if they divorced or if she passed away.
His stage career began in 1882 with the Catherine Lewis Comic Opera Company at the Fifth Avenue Theater in New York. He married stage actress Josephine Ditt in 1905 or 1906. Josephine was born in Illinois on 7 September 1868 to Nicholas and Mary Ditt. Her father was a native of Alsace-Lorraine and immigrated to the United States in 1857.
Thomas' friend, Henry Dixie, had been working with Essanay Studios in Chicago. In 1906 he convinced Thomas to take a extra part in a movie, because as Henry put it, movies were the future. Thomas accepted and ended up staying on to play Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and then to star in The Old Curiosity Shop. Thomas had a comedy he'd written and used on the stage called A Cure for the Goat. Essanay asked him to make it into a 600 foot film and he gladly obliged. He remained with the company for four years as one of their main directors. He's credited as discovering Ethel Clayton, J. Warren Kerrigan, Bryant Washburn and Jack Conway.
With Aubrey Kennedy he helped to organize the American Film Company or "The Old Flying A". He made the company's first six films in Chicago and then moved on to the old Nestor Company on Staten Island. In the fall of 1911 he moved his family to California. It was a split second decision and after arriving in Los Angeles, they realized that they had no idea where they were going to set up a movie studio. A real estate developer happened to overhear them talking at a hotel and suggested Hollywood.
So, they set out for Sunset & Gower where they found a block long property. The owner wanted $50 rent per month for the whole block. They thought that was too much and opted for a lease with an option to buy the whole property for $9000 at the end of one year. They made the deal on a Sunday and by Tuesday the Nestor Film Studio was up and running.
The first movie they produced also happened to be the first true Hollywood-made movie. It was The Best Man Wins (1911) starring Harold Lockwood and Dorothy Davenport. Thomas' wife Josephine also had a role as a vamp. Selig-Polyscope and Bison Film Company were already making films in Edendale, but theirs was the first real Hollywood film. In the next eighteen months, the studio turned out 50-60 films, half of which were directed by Thomas.
S.S. Hutchinson had decided to relocate their Niles, California movie studio to Santa Barbara. They invited Thomas to make a couple of movies – he stayed for four years. While there he made the film, Damaged Goods, with Richard Bennett and his own wife Josephine. It was a huge success grossing $1.5 million in its first run.
Despite all the success with Damaged Goods, Thomas didn't find himself in high demand. He ended up taking a year off. He and Josephine bought a house in West Hollywood on Sweetzer Avenue, a house they would live in for the rest of their lives. After tinkering for awhile, Thomas decided if no one wanted him as a director, then he better start acting again.
He became quite a prolific actor in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the roles were uncredited, but he was never at a loss for work. Any time someone needed an old man, especially an elderly butler, Thomas was there.
He worked up until his death from pneumonia on 20 January 1939. Josephine passed away nine months later on 18 October 1939.
He is buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
Black Oxen (1923) Clara Bow, Kate Lester and Thomas Ricketts, in the type of role for which he became famous
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Gilda Langer – Caligari's Muse
On This Day – January 29th
Silent Film Fans Crossword #1
Alice Day
Alma Rubens
Bille Dove
Dorothy Dwan
Gilda Langer
Marceline Day
Mary Miles Minter
Phyllis Haver
Aileen Manning
Aleqsandre Tsutsunava
Andree Pascal
Anne Cornwall
Arnold Kent
Bebe Daniels
Bertha Mann
Bessie Eyton
Carl Laemmle Sr
Cecil B DeMille
Charles K French
Chester Conklin
David Torrence
Diana Kane
Douglas MacLean
Eddie Sutherland
Edwin Carewe
Eugen Illés
Francis X Bushman
Georges Méliès
Herbert Brenon
Jack Hoxie
Jane Novak
Jessalyn Van Trump
Jobyna Ralston
Joyce Compton
Lido Manzetti
Lya de Putti
Mack Sennett
Madge Bellamy
Mary Pickford
Monte Blue
Natacha Rambova
Nils Asther
Noah Beery Sr
Olaf Storm
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Pauline Starke
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Pyotr Chardynin
Raymond Griffith
Thomas Griffiths
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Virginia Valli
W.C. Fields
Wallace Reid
Zaqaria Berishvili
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Q: Bumping version string using sed/regex/bash script I am currently building a CI pipeline that handles incrementing version from a maven pom.xml file. The pom file looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <artifactId>myApp</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <parent>
        <groupId>com.acme.project</groupId>
        <artifactId>parentApp</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </parent>

    <dependencies>
        <!-- internal libs -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>...

I want to perform the following:

*

*Extract the application version (first occurrence of ),
i.e. 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT and replace it with 1.0.0

*Bump up the version
(1.0.1) and append SNAPSHOT to it (1.0.1-SNAPSHOT)

Since I am using Teamcity, I am limited to using bash/sed/regex for this string manipulation. For step 1 I have done something like this:
sed -i -e '1,/<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT<\/version>/s/<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT<\/version>/<version>1.0.0<\/version>/' pom.xml

The problem is that I am hardcoding the version - this could be 1.0.2-SNAPSHOT, so I need a way to extract this in a flexible way. For step 2, I have no idea how to do it with a primitive tool like sed/regex.

A: with bash and grep
# extract the version
v=$(grep -m1 -o '[^<>]*-SNAPSHOT' pom.xml)
[[ $v ]] || { echo "failed to extract version"; exit 1;}
# bumped version remove -SNAPSHOT suffix
bv=${v%-SNAPSHOT}
# new version (split on last dot)
nv=${bv%.*}.$((${bv##*.}+1))

or driectly with perl
perl -i -pe 's/([^<>]*)(\d+)-SNAPSHOT/$1.($2+1)/e' pom.xml


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Stop saying L.A. Unified has a 'surplus.' The district has savings that will soon be gone
Oct 26, 2018 | 4:00 AM
Students form lines on the playground on the first day of school at Dolores Huerta Elementary in Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times)
To the editor: The L.A. Times reported in a recent piece on labor negotiations with United Teachers Los Angeles that the Los Angeles Unified School District has a surplus of "$1.86 billion, an apparent record."
Describing L.A. Unified's savings as surplus is misleading. It is well known and has been validated by several outside sources, including the California Department of Education and Los Angeles County Office of Education in separate presentations to the district's Board of Education, that a portion of these savings is legally obligated to student programs.
The savings are also being spent to provide a 6% salary raise for teachers, to pay for nurses, counselors and librarians, and to address class size. Further, these savings will be gone within a few years because L.A. Unified is spending $500 million more than it takes in every year.
The L.A. Times has a responsibility to report these facts. Our students deserve nothing less.
Tom Soto, Los Angeles
The writer is an advisory board member for Vision to Learn, the nonprofit founded by L.A. Unified Supt. Austin Beutner.
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Q: Java screen scraping without 3rd party libraries Does anyone knows of some basic Java screen scraping examples, which do not use 3rd party libraries?
I'd prefer this to have no dependencies, to avoid problems with customizing the code later in time.
K


Manchester City went back top of the Premier League table as they tore Maurizio Sarri's Chelsea side apart in a 6-0 win on Sunday afternoon.
Sergio Aguero was the main protagonist for Manchester City in haunting Chelsea's defence as he scored a hat-trick before the 65th minute mark in City's destruction of Chelsea on Sunday before being taken off.
The Premier League champions made a very fast start as Raheem Sterling opened the scoring in the first minute, Aguero missed an open net before netting twice and Ilkay Gundogan added a fourth in the 25th minute.
Sterling added his second of the game, and City's sixth, with 11 minutes to go as once again the away side's defence failed to deal with a ball across the box.
The former Atletico Madrid striker's substitution in the 65th minute earned him an even earlier Man of the Match award than Paul Pogba managed on Saturday in Manchester United's win over Fulham.
Every manager in football history has changed style and formation depending on the opponent. But Maurizio Sarri, who has a grand total of zero trophies in 29 years, knows better. Er, ok mate.
Whatever about learning the "most basic moves" and "primary foundations" of Sarri's football, Chelsea's players seem to have forgotten the basics of defending.
Mad people say Sarri's never achieved anything. He's managed to make me leave a game after 25 minutes, that's fairly impressive.
"It looks like he has turned Chelsea into Arsenal, The Arsenal that used to get battered in big games."
Man City bring on David Silva. They're just taking the piss now.
Aguero's hat-trick meant he'd scored two back to back triples and equalled Alan Shearer's mark of 11 Premier League hat-tricks.
The win takes City back above Liverpool in the race for the league title on goal difference, something they've won the league on before.
It's a day to forget for Maurizio Sarri, that's for sure.


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Allows you to switch Alloy themes from the command line and also supports theme based TiApp.xml files.

## Why?

This was an experiement to solve an issue I have with an app (or series of apps) built from a single code base. I first attempted to solve it with [TiCh](https://github.com/jasonkneen/tich) which kind of works, but isn't great when it comes to having Android sections in the Tiapp.xml file.

The only way to resolve that was to have separate TiApp.xml files for each app. So the solution I came up with was have a "throwaway" tiapp.xml file that can get replaced with the correct one for each theme.

## Install [![NPM version](https://badge.fury.io/js/tith.svg)](http://badge.fury.io/js/tith)

As global CLI:

    $ npm install -g tith

## Usage

This will show the current theme name:
```
$ tith
```
##Switch themes (Alloy)
```
$ tith set <name> <platform>
```
(remember to do a ti clean)

if you omit a platform (ios or android) it'll default to **ios**.

##Theme-based tiapp.xml

A handy feature is the ability to switch tiapp.xml files with the theme change. This means you can have one code base, use themes for different clients / apps and switch the tiapp.xml file to change the app name, id etc.

The simplest way to use the tiapp.xml theming is to place your tiapp.xml file for each theme in the relevant folder. There's support for a single tiapp.xml file, or files per platform.

Valid paths are (in order they are checked):

app/themes/app1/ios/tiapp.xml
app/themes/app1/android/tiapp.xml
app/themes/app1/tiapp.xml

##Theme-based DefaultIcon.png

As of version 1.1.2 you can also theme the DefaultIcon.png -- DefaultIcon.png was added in Titanium SDK 5.0.0+ to auto-generate all required App Icons. Unfortunately DefaultIcon.png isn't supported with themes out-of-the-box with Titanium so TiTh now supports this.

Like the tiapp.xml, just drop a DefaultIcon.png in the theme folder OR the platform folder and TiTh will find this and copy to the project root.

Valid paths are (in order they are checked):

app/themes/app1/ios/DefaultIcon.png
app/themes/app1/android/DefaultIcon.png
app/themes/app1/DefaultIcon.png

##Setting themes

Using the config above, the following will update the theme to **app1** and copy the tiapp.xml file from it's theme folder to the app root.

```
$ tith select app1 ios ;
```

##Clearing themes

To clear the theme, just use

```
$ tith clear;
```

However, if you want to have a default tiapp.xml file when no theme is specified, you can do this by creating a specially named folder in themes folder, prefixed with an underscore. So:

app/themes/_default/tiapp.xml
app/themes/_default/ios/tiapp.xml
app/themes/_default/android/tiapp.xml

(If a theme folder is prefixed with _ then the theme will be cleared in config.json but the tiapp.xml will still be used).

Suggestions, improvements, PRs, welcome!

##License
Copyright 2015 Jason Kneen

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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Загребачка, Загребская жупания () — жупания в северной Хорватии.

Она охватывает территорию вокруг столицы Хорватии — города Загреба, являющегося одновременно и административным центром жупании Загребачка, но не входящим в её состав.

Граничит с городом Загребом, жупаниями Крапинско-Загорска и Вараждинска на севере, с жупанией Бьеловарско-Билогорска на востоке, Сисачко-Мославачка на юге и с жупанией Карловачка на юго-западе.

Административное деление

Загребачка разделена на 9 городов и 25 общин:

Примечания

Ссылки

 Официальный сайт жупании Загребачка


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