How is hawaii going to work?
Ditto for "How is Hawaii going to work?" It's the whole reason I came to the FAQ page.
I know it's not a state and doesn't have a capital - but what about making it to Washington, DC?
Is there a predetermined path across the country that you guys will take? Or are you just going to go wherever your vehicle takes you..
You know how to do it? Become really popular to point where some rich dude is willing to give you airplane tickets to hawaii and alaska so that he(or she) can mooch off of your fame.
Since you are doing Washington DC, you might want to consider the other territories like Puerto Rico and my home, Guam.
Good Luck! I'll be watching.
i hope that you realize that even though juneau is connected to the US by land, you cannot get to it by road, you must either take a boat or plain.
How are you going to afford food? Where are you going to sleep?
i am trying to get you guys some news coverage, b/c this is a very interesting story. although, i think maybe having a plan of where to go next is a good idea, no? and on your site you explained the transportation has to be free, and i would think the only way to get to hawaii in a timely manner would be by plane. so if you someone gave you free airline tickets, would that count? or does that cross the line of hitchhiking?
Y'all should post a checklist of states, because just knowing that you have been to 5 or whatever doesn't tell me if you've seen my state capitol yet!
how do you two decide who gets to wear blue and who gets to wear green?
what a brilliant idea, guys. we'll be following you daily, the use of the tech gear and the idea of 50 states in 59 days is awesome, keep up the great work. what if you meet your future brides this way? will you consider romance on the road?
Where did the suits com from?
Uh ... "Sammy"? "Freddy"? What's up with the new shirts -- did we miss something between Yellowstone and Helena?
are both of you canadian citizens or american?
if canadian how did you get permission to pass the homeland security and immigration proteciton services of the united states of america?
were they not suspicious and refuse you both entry?
please share your border story?
We're both Canadian. Canadians are allowed to go to the USA. You should try it. To be honest I'm not exactly sure what you're asking but it sounds really complicated and awkward. We try to avoid things like that.


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Thread started 07/26/17 4:40am
droppingdishes
Working title of the 1999 album?
From Princevault.com:
"1999 was not included on an early configuration of the album (which was likely given another name at the time), but Prince's management suggested he add an over-arching thematic song to the album, and he wrote the song in response."
Of course the song not only made it on the album, but became it's title track and the first single. And it did end up providing some sort of an overarching theme; it more or less became the theme of the era itself, if you will.
Is there more known about this 1999-less version of the 1999 album, such as a working title?
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Reply #1 posted 07/26/17 4:53am
I've also wondered about this. We've seen early configurations for later albums, and it would be awesome to see earlier configurations (and a title!) to his best album.
Feel free to join in the Prince Album Poll 2018! Let'a celebrate his legacy by counting down the most beloved Prince albums, as decided by you!
Moonbeam said:
Yeah it'd interesting to know what that title would have been; more so, if the album would have been named after one of the other tracks and if so, which one... like, which one stood out in his mind.
laurarichardso
droppingdishes said:
From Princevault.com: "1999 was not included on an early configuration of the album (which was likely given another name at the time), but Prince's management suggested he add an over-arching thematic song to the album, and he wrote the song in response." Of course the song not only made it on the album, but became it's title track and the first single. And it did end up providing some sort of an overarching theme; it more or less became the theme of the era itself, if you will. Is there more known about this 1999-less version of the 1999 album, such as a working title?
Jimmy Jam said it was WB that asked for another track to be added and that was "1999".
soladeo1
The working title for 1999 before it was
1999 was "Lock It Up".
Knightoflight
soladeo1 said:
The working title for 1999 before it was 1999 was "Lock It Up".
IstenSzek
never heard that before. what's the source for that? i could imagine "Turn It Up" though.
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laurarichardson said:
So the label rather than the management. That would be an interesting distinction because that itself could be looked at as some SOTT foreshadowing.
IstenSzek said:
I've never heard of that either. Not saying it isn't possible, but as an artist that went on record saying every great album title needs a song to go with it that seems unlikely unless there's a song called "Lock It Up" hidden away... which in itself would be hilariously ironic.
OnlyNDaUsa
Lock It Up could have been a place holder like "what is the title?" "we do not know" "you need to Lock it up..."
Being a die-hard civil rights champion,
Being a die-hard libertarian,
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Reply #10 posted 07/26/17 6:57am
OnlyNDaUsa said:
That makes sense.... "Wrap it up, B"
RODSERLING
DMSR ?
Oh he was having problems with WB long before SOTT. Check out the podcast below. PJ Jones worked for Cavallo and Fargnoli and they were working with WB to keep Prince in check. George Clinton talks about this in his book as well.
He said they were always bitching about something even when Prince was selling records.
Cavallo and Fargnolli worked with the WB to keep Prince from hooking up Chris Blackwell/ Don Letts as his management. Very shady.
http://podcastjuice.net/category/shows/the-prince-podcast/
RODSERLING said:
That would make sense in my mind. That track is a mission statement for sure.
Good looking out. Yeah, I listened to that podcast on a long road trip a while back. Definitely an interesting perspective, especially because I have also read Don Taylor's book (which mentions Prince only very, very briefly).
But taken at face value and obviously in hindsight, adding "1999" to the album definitely wasn't a bad call.
Reply #15 posted 07/26/17 10:51am
SquirrelMeat
Would be the obvious headliner in light of the content. That or 'Free', as it was one of the later tracks and if any album that get me free to play over two discs.
Reply #16 posted 07/26/17 4:58pm
Cold Computer would have been a cool title, because of the sound basically.
Agreed. It would definitely fit as the title track. I suppose "Automatic" or "International Lover" could also be used, but "D.M.S.R." (maybe in full "Dance Music Sex Romance") sums it up quite well.
SquirrelMeat said:
Yes, I thought about FREE too.
Speaking of DMSR, such a shame it wasn't released just after DELIRIOUS. It could have been a top 40 hit.
bluegangsta
A song with sex in the title and "Work your body like a whore" in the first few seconds (especially by a black artist) would not have even seen the charts in 1982.
Always cry 4 love, never cry 4 pain.
I always felt that Free was such filler on that album.
bluegangsta said:
Not arguing that point.
It would have been edited
BartVanHemelen
Oh for crying out loud. WBR was spending MILLIONS on him and they shouldn't get a say? These are PERFECTLY NORMAL conversations between an artist and arecord company. That's what A&R does.
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Was just going to say that would have been the most likely used title....if not the numbers of the alphabet matching those initials
BartVanHemelen said:
For crying out loud listen to the podcast. Because it is normal for mgmt and record lables to be assholes to the talent does not make it right.
Even Alan Leeds has had bad thing to say about Prince's mgmt and dealing with WB after many key people like Mo Ostein left the company in the 90s.
"Oh he was having problems with WB long before SOTT. Check out the podcast below. PJ Jones worked for Cavallo and Fargnoli and they were working with WB to keep Prince in check. George Clinton talks about this in his book as well.
Cavallo and Fargnolli worked with the WB to keep Prince from hooking up Chris Blackwell/ Don Taylor as his management. Very shady."
I don't disagree, but that never stopped Prince using a lesser song than some singles as the title track, when it fitted with his vision...For You, Empancipation, Around The World In A Day, Planet Earth, Plectrum Electrum.
RodeoSchro
Why do you have to be so dramatic?
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Reply #28 posted 07/27/17 12:38pm
They were not spending millions. Do the videos from that era look like millions were spent?
. Morris got the Time's clothes from second hand stores and Sheila has said the budgets for the albums were small and that was one of the reasons he did not use horns for a long time. No extra money in the budget for horns.
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as a member of Parliament uninterruptedly from 1947 to 1992, when he was appointed senator for life.
Even a cursory look at these dates shows that Andreotti occupied a key position in the Italian government during some of the most momentous events of the Cold war, from the Berlin and Cuban crises of the late 1950s and early 1960s to the new confrontation of the early 1980s and the tumultuous unraveling of the Soviet empire between 1989 and 1992.
Image: Signing of the Agreement between the United States and the countries of deployment of the Euromissiles ("Family Agreement"), Brussels, December 1987. From left: Tindemans, Genscher, Andreotti, Carrington, Van der Broek, Howe, Shultz. Source: Istituto Luigi Sturzo, Busta 172_fascicolo 86_1987. Reproduction of this image without the prior authorization of the Istituto Luigi Sturzo is prohibited. All commercial use is forbidden.
Throughout his long career, Andreotti kept track of his activities by a meticulous organization of his personal and public records, which were organized in a private archive of 3,500 boxes. This huge collection, which clearly has a tremendous historical relevance, was donated by Andreotti himself to the Istituto Sturzo in 2007. Since then the Istituto has been carefully declassifying and reorganizing its contents and opening them to researchers.
In 2015, the Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project and Nuclear Proliferation International History Project and the Department of Political Science at Roma Tre University developed a joint project to identify a number of archival series of particular relevance for the history of the Cold War. The goal was to promote the declassification and cataloguing of these sources.
Our two institutions selected two large series, respectively on NATO and China, and a group of smaller ones on nuclear affairs (EURATOM, nuclear energy, missiles, and disarmament). After the main curator of the collection, Dr. Luciana Devoti, completed the declassification process, researchers from Roma Tre selected a number of significant documents from these series, which were then digitized and annotated in English.
The Wilson Center subsequently prepared these materials for publication on DigitalArchive.org. What follows is a selection of the documents from the NATO series, which was prepared by Dr. Lodovica Clavarino between 2015 and 2016.
At the Istituto Sturzo, the NATO series encompasses 29 boxes that are made up of 155 folders. The materials date from the end of the 1940s up through 2007. There are only a few documents written by Andreotti himself; the vast majority were written by other individuals and institutions and received by Andreotti. This sub-collection includes letters, telegrams, reports, notes, and memoranda written by officials from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) and the Ministry of Defense and various Italian Ambassadors and diplomatic advisers.
Out of this collection, we selected roughly 200 documents to digitize and publish. The selected documents reflect some of the most significant materials in the series and cover a broad range of topics. Some of the highlights include special dossiers prepared by MAE officials for the sessions of North Atlantic Council, special meetings of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs or Ministers of Defense, Andreotti's visits abroad, and visits of important international leaders in Italy.
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Other interesting files include reports from some key embassies, especially from RICA (the Italian Delegation at North Atlantic Council), related to issues such as East-West relations, security, and multilateral negotiations regarding détente and arms control. The collection also includes notes and instructions sent to Italian diplomatic offices abroad.
Some of the main topics covered by the series are NATO's strategic approach and its evolution during the Cold War, transatlantic debates over NATO strategy (especially regarding nuclear doctrines), nuclear-sharing (e.g. the rise and fall of the Multilateral Force project), NATO's enlargement, the establishment of the Nuclear Planning Group, and central issues of the 1970s and 1980s such as INF negotiations and SDI.
Finally, the documents selected for the project highlight the reflections, expectations, and worries of the Italian government regarding NATO security policy from the signing of the North Atlantic Pact to 2007. In short, these materials are an important source to understand the official Italian position as well as how these policies were built.
The Wilson Center and Roma Tre University are grateful to the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for supporting this digitization initiative.
Leopoldo Nuti is the co-director of the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project and professor of history of international relations at the University of Roma Tre.
Lodovica Clavarino is a post-doc fellow at Roma Tre University.


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var builder = new ContainerBuilder();

builder.Register(c => c.Resolve<ProxyGenerator>()
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By supplying the arguments in this order, I'm finding that I get the result that I want, i.e., the exception is logged and the result is processed. If I reverse the order of the arguments, the logging doesn't occur.
My question, then: registered in this way, are the interceptors guaranteed to execute in the same order every time? Or is there a better way to ensure that the order will be what I intend every time?
FWIW, I looked at the IInterceptorSelector interface. Perhaps I'm missing something--which is not unlikely--but it looked like that wasn't relevant in this case. But I'd be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
I can supply a longer code sample if necessary.
musicologyman

A: Yes, the interceptors will be by default executed in the provided order for every intercepted method.
As you correctly noted you can override it on a per-method basis using IInterceptorSelector if needed.

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The victory assured the Warriors (6-3) of their first winning season since 2015. With a victory over Graham next week, the Warriors can clinch a share of the CBC Mad River Division title.
Northwestern senior Eli Berner had 113 yards rushing on 26 carries, including two first-quarter scores.
Warriors quarterback Chris Hart went 5-for-9 for 144 yards and a touchdown. Senior wide receiver Landon Burns caught four of those passes for 139 yards, including a 51-yard TD to give the Warriors a 21-0 lead in the second quarter.
The Cougars (5-4) crept back into the game with a 26-yard TD pass from quarterback Dylan Lemen to Andrew Good. They capitalized on an interception and scored on a 4-yard run by Lemen with 20 seconds remaining in the first half.
The second half was a different ball game as rain poured onto the field. The Cougars had the ball inside the Warriors' 5 in the third quarter, but were stopped on fourth down.
In his last home game, Warriors senior Nathan Snyder saved his best game for last. The defensive lineman had 12 tackles and four sacks, including three big stops during the game-saving, goal-line stand.
The Warriors moved Berner to quarterback in the second half. He mostly ran the ball on read options, helping Northwestern milk the clock. The Cougars had one final possession in the final minute, but were unable to move the ball into Warriors territory.
Northwestern has a chance to make history next week with a win at Graham. The Warriors haven't won a league championship in more than five decades.


Let's explore Multi Company consolidation.
Well, even it is called Multi Company; in fact we can do it not only between different entities, but also branches or different ledgers of the same company as well.
What will happen, when consolidation is run?
3. System will place these balances INTO a GL batch on the Destination Company.
Well, that is all, now we just need to release this batch and will get destination company updated with the account/subaccount figures.
Q: So what actually consolidation is? A: Simple copying of the balances from place A to place B by means of creating a batch at the destination.
Q: When do we need consolidation? A: Anytime when you need to copy balances from company A to some other place B. Which could be reporting ledger within company A or another company or completely different entity.
Q: Where consolidation is run? A: It always run AT THE DESTINATION place. So, in other terms, it is a PULL process. Data PULLED by destination entity from the passive source entity.
Now, when basics are covered let's perform a simple consolidation. For the sake of simplicity, I will create a destination Reporting Ledger within the SAME company and then copy data from ACTUAL accounting ledger into CONSOLIDATION reporting ledger.
Please note, we have to follow setup steps exactly in order to run consolidation successfully.
STEP 1. Mark Source Ledger as CONSOLIDATION SOURCE.
We need to login to a source company and on the Ledgers screen in GL, mark it as a Destination Source.
STEP 2. Create Destination Ledger.
STEP 3. Configure Consolidation Template.
Using Consolidation screen we should configure consolidation process. Here we need to follow the steps exactly.
You should see it like on the screen above.
D. Now press on the magnifying glass at the SOURCE LEDGER.
E. Choose Source ledger. It will be the place where the data are coming from.
F. Choose Period Start and Period To for the data to pull.
We should have something like above. Now can save it.
STEP 4. Configure Subaccount on the source.
Because of the fact that consolidation can be a complicated exercise, when we match multiple segments of the subaccount with each other, we have to configure the matching rule on the source company. In my example I will use simplest scenario with a single subaccount segment. Leaving to the reader to try more complex cases.
In my case I have to enter Consolidation Order = 1 and Number of Characters = 2.
STEP 5. Configure Account matching.
Technically we may have DIFFERENT chart of accounts on the source and destination companies. Therefore we should configure at the SOURCE, what will be the destination Account for each of the source accounts. In my simplest scenario, it will be one to one matching, so all we need to do, is to do provide SAME account as original one for each account we consolidate.
All I did is exported content into an excel file, then added Consolidation Account column, then imported back to the screen J. Saved.
PLEASE NOTE IF YOU DO NOT SEE CONSOL ACCOUNTS, YOU HAVE NOT COMPLETED STEP 3.
STEP 6. Performing data PULL.
Now final step, let's go to Import Consolidation Data screen and pull the data from the source into our desired place.
At the end we should get batches in GL with all the balances sitting there, all we need is to release it.
One important thing about consolidation is - if our fiscal period is closed we should allow posting to closed periods in GL Preferences screen.


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Hilma Shindondola, Armstrong Dlamini, Madalena Esquivel, and Lungelo Sikakane (RAU) on 'Suppressed Voices: Preliminary Findings on Non-Citizens' Problems with Social Services in South Africa .' (No. 2001/25).
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Dr Marks Chabedi (University of the Witwatersrand) on 'State Power, Violence, Crime and Everyday Life: A Case Study of Soweto in the Post-Apartheid South Africa .' (No. 2001/23).
Noor Nieftagodien (University of the Witwatersrand ) on 'A coloured is a "coloured" is a Coloured, or is She? Problematising Coloured Identity in Contemporary South Africa – A View from History.' (No. 2001/22).
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Miles Larmer ( Sheffield University ), on 'The Political Role of Trades Unions in Post-Colonial Zambia and Zimbabwe '. (No. 2001/20)
Marcelle Dawson (Sociology, RAU), on 'Perceiving, Constructing and Experiencing Identity: A Case Study of a South African High School .' (No. 2001/19)
Prof. Neville Alexander ( University of Cape Town ) on 'The Language Question and South African Universities Today.' (No. 2001/18)
Prof. Tina Uys (RAU) and Meera Ichharam (RAU) on 'Towards an Intervention: A Qualitative Study of University Students' Perceptions of HIV/AIDS.' (No. 2001/17).
Dr Tom Bramble ( University of Queensland ) on 'Can Corporatism Survive? A Comparison of Australia and South Africa .' (No. 2001/16).
Dr David Pottie (Electoral Institute of Southern Africa) on 'Elections in Southern Africa : Democratic Consolidation or Low-Intensity Politics?' (No. 2001/15).
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Bernard Nthambeleni ( Vista University ) – 'Sanco and Narco: What we Know About Them, and What we Don't Know.' (No. 2001/6)
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Dr John Pape (ILRIG, Cape Town ) – 'The Myth of Sound Fundamentals: South African in the Global Economy.' (No. 2001/3)
Hilda and Rusty Bernstein – 'Experiences of Fighting Against Apartheid in the 1950s. (No. 2001/2)
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...he should of set up a company and sold it to "the good guys" for $10,000 a time.
Who are "the good guys" again?
It's pretty difficult to tell these days.
Huddleston also fessed up to creating Net Seal, a copy-protection and licensing tool that was used by other malware writers to distribute their creations from 2012 through October 2016 while thwarting pirates.
I don't whether to be amused or surprised (or not) that even criminals don't like their software nicked!
Honor amongst thieves - does not exist.
I wish I could earn money robbing from "the bad guys". It'd be fun. And what are they gonna do about it, call the COPS? OK they'd call the mafia, but still... it sounds like a lot of fun!


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So I'm inviting the nerdier among you to join me on my last long distance journey on this mammoth North American trip. New York to Pittsburgh on an Amtrak train. Leaving New York Penn Station at 10.52am. Get some nosh in advance I've been advised. The train fare can be a bit limited.
Tim is the ticket inspector. With more than a hint of banter and humour.
"You think this is the first time my picture has been taken by someone from England?!" he asks, posing for a few pics like an old pro as the train bounces around the track a bit and he keeps blurring.
Crumbs. What's happened? The six or seven of us left after the mass exodus at Philadelphia station a few hours earlier poke our heads out from our by now, personalised spaces. Footrests up or at ease. Seats reclined. Full body sleepage on the go.


We know that juice comes from fruit and soda is artificial. More specifically, the "sugars" in juice, a.k.a., FRUCTOSE are more "natural" than the high fructose corn syrup in the sodas.
Well even so, the human body isn't designed to process fructose at such high levels. Unlike glucose, which serves as fuel for the body, fructose is processed almost entirely in the liver where it is converted to fat, which increases risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and liver disease. It's easy to drink 2 or 3 cups of juice in the space of a few minutes. However, you'll have a hard time eating the 8 oranges it took to make those cups of juice.
Tropicana, Minute Maid, and other juice brands have spent decades educating us that fruit juice is just as healthy as fruit. According to the USDA, fruit drinks and fruit juice are one of the top 10 calorie sources kids ingest. Sadly, people up to age 30 consume half of their daily recommended fruit servings as juice.
This is simply wrong. Consuming your fruit in liquid form is not a healthy habit. Fruit juice is high in sugar, but low in fiber, which is "juiced out" during production. For example, a cup of orange juice, even 100% and freshly squeezed, has about the same amount of sugar as a cup of sugary soda – 6 teaspoons!
Additionally, liquid calories simply don't satiate as much calories from food that is chewed. This means every time you drink juice, there's a good chance you are consuming empty calories and adding to your waistline.
Some of you may wonder if 100% fruit juice is better than fruit drinks or fruit juice with some sugar added. The answer is yes, because there are some nutrients present in 100% juice that don't exist in fruit drinks. However, the nutrition profile is only marginally better. Both 100% juice and fruit drinks are still closer to cola than they are to fruit.
Want to lose weight? Want to avert type 2 diabetes?
Don't drink juice when thirsty – WATER should be your only source for hydration purposes.
Limit your juice intake to once in a while. Treat it as … a treat.
When you do drink juice, make sure it is 100% fruit juice – the label should state so.
Opt for freshly squeezed juice, not "from concentrate".
Drink juice in small amounts – half a cup is a good serving size. When I rarely opt for juice, I have 1/2 cup and dilute the rest with water.
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Q: Drawing particles One part of my app shows a landscape, but it's kinda boring as of now. Therefore, I'm planning to animate some particles over the screen (think of something like tiny wings - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpmcX-rWGfs). However, i have not yet found any built-in particle system; How can i do this memory-efficiently? I've already implemented my own animation system for some clouds animating over the landscape using CADisplayLink, and it's kind of sluggish (though i hope to make it faster soon). Another very heavy system, like animating 20 small points at a time i suppose, will probably break it.

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I have not yet found any built-in particle system;

There are several "Free" projects that embed particle systems out there, you can visit this video tutorial for a Particle System that will be more than efficient enough for the needs that you mention. That way of making a particle system is basically the same way that Cocos2d is using, so watch the tutorial, and then download the project files, you can easily embed their Particle Emitter in your project.

How can i do this memory-efficiently?

I would recommend you using the "Object Pool Pattern", basically you preallocate a "Pool" of particles, let's say 1000 objects. Then your emitters, ask the pool for particles when they need them. If the pool get's empty you can manage the case accordingly. This may not look efficient from a memory perspective, but it's very efficient performance wise ( to avoid real time allocation of many small objects like particles ).
Some suggestions, when you declare your particle structure try to be lightweight and aligned to powers of 2 ( this will make your structure more cache friendly ), this one is 32 bytes:
struct Particle
{
    CGPoint position;
    CGPoint speed;
    float life;
    float decay;
    unsigned short index;
    unsigned char color_R;
    unsigned char color_G;
    unsigned char color_B;
    unsigned char color_A;
    unsigned char rotation;
};

But depending of your needs, this could be much smaller, maybe you don't really need color/index/etc. You will have to evaluate that yourself.
Finally I would recommend you to take a look at cocos2d CCParticleSystem class, you can download the code here. Their implementation is not that lightweight, but it's quite flexible and can achieve very nice effects.
Good luck with your particles :)

A: You should check out the new book iOS Recipes written by Matt Drance:
http://pragprog.com/titles/cdirec/ios-recipes
Among the recipes is one to make use of the built-in CoreAnimation CAReplicatorLayer to build an emitter in "Construct a simple Emitter".
The book is still in alpha but if you buy it now you get updates as it is finished.

A: Cocos2D is a 2D graphics engine that uses OpenGL ES 1 for rendering. It comes with a built-in particle system. The code of the particle engine is quite simple. It uses VBOs to draw textured quads for the particles. You should be able to adapt that to your own needs.

A: If you want to target iOS5 and above, you can use the built-in facilities of the OS, which is the CAEmitterLayer.


So the countdown has begun, advent calendars opened and gift hunting in full swing. Tomorrow I'm visiting an old friend in her new flat in London. A group of us are going to decorate her tree, she promises festive music and pies. Mince pies. Baubles, tinsel and mince pies; I feel above everything these three bring out my Yuletide spirit the most.
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When a fatty tissue or an organ squeezes through a spot in a connective tissue called a fascia, or in a surrounding muscle, a hernia is caused. There are many different types of hernia, but in men, there are three types that occur most commonly. These are inguinal hernia or inner groin hernia, hiatal hernias or hernias or the upper stomach and incisional hernia, which result from an incision.
Hernias are caused by a variety of reasons, some of the most common being incessant constipation or diarrhea, persistent sneezing or coughing, and in men, most commonly by lifting heavy objects without appropriately stabilizing the abdominal muscles.
One of the most common types of hernia in men is inguinal hernias, making up around two thirds of all adult hernias. These abdominal hernias occur in the inguinal canal, where a man's testicles have to descend before birth. This results in a natural defect in men, known as the internal inguinal ring, and if not sealed properly, could lead to an inguinal hernia. This may cause the abdominal contents like the intestines to protrude through to opening. This may be quite painful.
These hernias are situated in the lower abdomen, near the pubic area, just above the crease of the leg. They have been known to occur on both sides of the pubic area. In this case, they are referred to as bilateral inguinal hernias. This hernia may be so painful that the pain may resonate in the scrotum or upper thigh.
These hernias may either be indirect or direct. Indirect inguinal hernias may take place through a naturally occurring weakness in the internal inguinal ring, whereas direct inguinal hernias may be a result of a weakness in the floor of the inguinal canal, just below the internal inguinal ring. A direct inguinal hernia is more likely to occur in males over the age of 40.
There are several techniques to repair inguinal hernias such as laparoscopic tension-free techniques, tension-free techniques and tension repair. In the tension repair technique, the rate of recurrence is 15%, and the hernia may recur just about any time. But the rate of recurrence in the other two techniques is fairly low in comparison.
Hiatal hernias occur when the upper stomach squeezes through the hiatus. The hiatus is an opening in the diaphragm which the esophagus passesthrough.The diaphragm is the muscle which separates the abdominal cavity from the chest cavity.
Hernias such as these cause conditions like acid reflux, wherein acid from the stomach releases into the esophagus, causing pain, heartburn, and erosion of the esophagus. A hiatal hernia is treated with a sophisticated surgery as a laparoscopic Fundoplication, or minimally invasive procedure. Usually, this surgery requires a shorter hospital stay, and patients usually resume regular activity in a week's time.
An incisional hernia or a ventral hernia occurs in the abdomen in the area where a previous surgery was conducted. Hernias such as these may occur years, months or weeks after the surgery in question and can range in size and complexity from large to small. An incisional hernia may widen over time and be complicated to repair. That is why it should never be ignored and one should see a doctor immediately.
Laparoscopic tension-free and tension-free have a lower recurrence rates as compared to tension repair techniques, which have a 50% recurrence rate.
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Nigerian JF-17 pilots training in Pakistan
07/07/2020- Nigerian Air Force (NAF) pilots and crew for the JF-17 Thunder fighter jet have started their training in Pakistan as Nigeria prepares to take delivery of three JF-17s in November.
This is according to the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, who was speaking on 4 July to personnel of the Air Task Force (ATF) at the end of a three-day operational visit to Maiduguri to assess the conduct of counter-insurgency operations.
He said the Nigerian Air Force has acquired 22 new aircraft and will be receiving another 16, including 12 Super Tucano attack aircraft, three JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighter jets and an additional Mi-171E helicopter.
While JF-17 crews have already started training in Pakistan, Super Tucano crews will soon begin their training. Super Tucano deliveries are scheduled to take place from 2022.
Abubakar added that the NAF's operational capability has been enhanced by the reactivation of about 25 grounded aircraft within the past five years. One of these was the ATR-42 Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft (NAF 930), which had just returned to Nigeria after completing Periodic Depot Maintenance (PDM) in Germany. He added that the aircraft would soon be redeployed to the North East to further enhance the ATF's intelligence gathering capabilities.
Abubakar commended the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole for the successes recorded in its renewed offensive against Boko Haram terrorists/Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) elements in the North East of the country under subsidiary Operations Long Reach I and II, stating that he was pleased with the progress made so far.
Before departing Maiduguri, Abubakar interacted with the crews of all the NAF platforms deployed to the Operation Lafiye Dole theatre, including the Super Puma and Mi-35M helicopter fleets; Alpha Jets and L-39ZA jets; CH-3A unmanned aerial vehicles as well as the Beechcraft King Air and ATR-42 ISR crew members.
The Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole conducted subsidiary Operation Long Reach I from 16-27 June 2020 and commenced the currently ongoing Operation Long Reach II on 2 July 2020.
Auteur Sahel-Elite | Sécurité privéePublié le 7 juillet, 2020 7 juillet, 2020 Catégories Counter-terrorism, Defence, Intelligence, military, SecurityMots-clés JF-17, Nigeria, Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Pakistan, Sadique Abubakar, Super Tucano
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ICYMI: Recapping This Week In Disney—July 8–14
by Laughing Place Staff | Jul 14, 2018 12:42 PM Pacific Time
Tags: 2018 Emmy Awards, D23, Disney News, Disney Parks, Frozen 2, Hocus Pocus, Hollywood Studios, Marvel Studios, Star Wars, Walt Disney World
Did you survive Friday the 13th unscathed? It might not have been a big week for announcements, but this Disney news from this week seemed to cover a fairly broad spectrum. From film and casting announcements to ride malfunctions, this was certainly an interesting seven days for the company.
Hollywood Studios Goes Haywire
It seems that Hollywood Studios missed the memo that July had a Friday the 13th. On Thursday, July 12th nearly every attraction in the park shut down for a few hours due to cooling system problems. Eventually, the system was restored and guests who'd purchased a single day ticket were reportedly offered a full refund or could use their ticket as park hopper for the rest of the day.
Black Widow Movie Gets a Female Director
Deadline reported this week that Cate Shortland has been hired by Marvel Studios to direct a standalone Black Widow film for the MCU. The Australian director is best known for her work on Lore and Berlin Syndrome. Shortland was one of over 40 female directors that the studio considered to helm the project.
Indiana Jones 5 Gets Pushed Back to 2021
This week Disney announced that the fans will have to wait a little longer for the next installment in the Indiana Jones franchise. The film was originally slated for at Summer 2020 release, but has been pushed back a year. Along with this change the company also announced new release dates for Mary Poppins Returns, Jungle Cruise, and Maleficent II.
2018 Emmy Nominations Announced
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced its nominations for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards this past Thursday. As you'd expect, a number of Disney programs earned accolades, including nominations for ABC's black-ish, Jimmy Kimmel Live, How to Get Away with Murder; Disney XD's Big Hero 6: The Series and Star Wars Rebels.
Billy Dee Williams Returns to the Star Wars Universe
Lando Calrissian will reportedly have a role to play in Star Wars: Episode IX and Billy Dee Williams will be back to reprise the iconic character. The actor has recently had to back out of appearances at sci-fi and pop culture conventions due to filming conflicts, and now we know why. Earlier this year, fans met a very young version of Lando in Solo A Star Wars Story. Donald Glover exceeded fans' expectations playing the role of the charming smuggler.
D23 to Host Saturday Morning on the Lot Event
Step back to the good old days of animated television at the Walt Disney Studios lot. By good old days we mean, Disney Channel and ABC shows from the 1997–2007 era. D23 will celebrate the characters and show at this very special event. Several show writers, creators, and actors will participate and share their experiences of bringing your favorite cartoons to life. Fans must have a D23 Gold membership to purchase tickets.
Other Stories of Note
Spirit Halloween Stores have Hocus Pocus POP Figures available for pre-sale. We lost our minds this week when we came across these beauties! The brightly colored figures feature awesome detail and we can't wait to add them to our collection.
Evan Rachel Wood and Sterling K. Brown are in talks to join Frozen 2. The Emmy nominated actors might soon be making their way to Arendelle.
Tickets for Christopher Robin are on sale now. The film premieres on August 3rd and will take the kid in all of us from London to the Hundred Acre Wood and back.
Avengers: Infinity War gets home release dates. The epic film will be available on digital and Blu-ray in July and August, plus Marvel is will release The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron on 4K UHD for the first time as well.
Cate Shortland Reportedly Hired to Direct Black…
Billy Dee Williams Reportedly Returning to the…
"Indiana Jones 5" Officially Delayed,…
New "Solo: A Star Wars Story" Character…
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University of Nottingham > Blogs > Bringing Vikings back to the East Midlands > Lunchtime Lectures > Repton and the Legacy of the Viking Great Army
UoN Blogs / Bringing Vikings back to the East Midlands
February 23, 2018, by Roderick Dale
Repton and the Legacy of the Viking Great Army
By Catrine Jarman, University of Bristol
The Repton charnel burial, (c) Martin Biddle
In 873 the Viking Great Army attacked the monastery in Repton, forcing the Mercian king to flee the country and installing a puppet king in his place. 1100 years later, excavations led by archaeologists Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle at St Wystan's Church in Repton in the 1970s and 1980s uncovered a large defensive ditch, several distinctly Scandinavian graves, and a mound covering a partially ruined building. Inside this, one room was packed with the commingled remains of at least 264 people, around 20 percent of whom were women.
Among the bones were Viking weapons and artefacts, including an axe, several knives, and five silver pennies dating to the period 872-875 A.D. 80 percent of the remains were male, mostly aged 18 to 45, with several showing signs of violent injury. During the excavations, everything pointed to the burial's association with the Viking Great Army, but confusingly, initial radiocarbon dates suggested otherwise. It seemed to contain a mix of bones of different ages, meaning that they could not all have been from the Viking Age. So who were the people buried in the charnel mound?
In my research, I have used bioarchaeological methods – forensic analysis of bones and teeth – to try to learn about their geographical origins and resolve the confusing radiocarbon dates. I can now show that the original dates were affected by something called Marine Reservoir Effects, where consumption of marine foods made their remains seem older than they really were. I have also been able to use strontium isotope analysis to find out about the geographical origins of this group. Recently, in light of newly discovered Viking camps such as that in Torksey, Lincolnshire, doubts have been cast on the nature and extent of the winter camp in Repton. Results of new excavations can now give us a better understanding of this and also, begin to tell us more about the Viking presence in Repton and the legacy that the Great Army left behind.
Catrine Jarman will give a public lecture about her work on the remains from Repton in the Arts Lecture Theatre A30, University of Nottingham, on 28th February 2018 from 1pm. Although the event is fully booked, you can watch the live stream on the Nottingham Lakeside Arts Facebook page, where you can also catch up with many of the previous lectures.
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Bringing Vikings back to the East Midlands is an AHRC-funded project examining how the Viking diaspora in the East Midlands shaped the development of the area. The project aims to encourage creative engagement with the East Midlands' Viking heritage through a programme of knowledge exchange workshops, public seminars, an East Midlands-themed exhibition about Vikings and their legacy, and a website featuring information about the Vikings in the East Midlands.
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Union workers picket Starbucks: 'We can make a change'
Four Los Angeles-area Starbucks stores closed Friday morning as employees gathered on the picket line, joining a three-day national strike by unionized baristas and other workers demanding better treatment for their corporate leaders.
The strike is the second by Starbucks employees in recent weeks over concerns that the Seattle-based chain has unfairly retaliated against unionized workers and failed to negotiate in good faith to win contracts for the first time.
"Right now we're on strike…demanding that you stop closing union shops, that they reopen the shops they've closed and [stop] their anti-union campaign against us," said Tyler Keeling, a union organizer at the Lakewood Starbucks on Candlewood Street. Strikers plan to remain on the picket line through Sunday, forcing all four stores to remain closed.
Starbucks, in a statement, said the company "does not tolerate any illegal anti-union behavior" and had continued to schedule bargaining sessions with union members to "make their voices heard."
"It is unfortunate that Workers United continues to spread misleading claims while disrupting the Starbucks experience that our members and customers have come to love and expect," the statement said.
The other closed stores were at 3390 E. 7th St. in Long Beach and, in Los Angeles, at 138 S. Central Ave. and 3241 Figueroa St.
Veronica Gonzalez, who works at the Figueroa Street location in Cypress Park, joined the picket line Friday with about 10 other workers, standing at the cafe's entrance with signs that read "Strike!" and "No contract, no coffee!"
Every few minutes, drivers honked their horns or waved in support of the baristas.
"Starbucks is doubling down on union busting, so we're going to double down," said Gonzalez, a barista who has worked at the store for three years. "They want to close stores, we'll show them we can close stores too."
Striking Starbucks workers appeal to motorists passing a Starbucks store in Long Beach on Friday.
(Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)
The stores are among 270 Starbucks locations nationwide that have unionized in the past year, part of a wave of labor movements that have swept the country, including a strike by academic workers at the University of California and organized by Amazon warehouse employees. The Workers United union, which represents Starbucks employees, said about 100 U.S. stores were on strike as of Friday.
"Every step we take is inspiring more workers to take back power and create change in the workplace," Keeling said. "We must not sit back and accept these horrible working conditions; we can make a change."
Starbucks, citing safety concerns, recently announced the permanent closure of the first Seattle location to unionize; union leaders noted that the closing fell near the first anniversary of the first Starbucks to win a union election. United Workers described it as part of an "anti-union campaign" by the company.
The chain closed several Starbucks stores this summer, also citing safety concerns, including six in L.A. None of the Los Angeles locations were union stores, but union leaders at the time saw the move as a "response to the spread of the growing trade union movement…all over the country."
The relationship between Starbucks – which opposes unionization – and its unionized employees has become increasingly contentious over the past year, with United Workers leaders asking a federal court to intervene four times in alleged cases unfair labor practices, such as firing union leaders and withholding pay raises. Starbucks has also alleged unfair labor practices by the union.
The company has asked the national labor board to temporarily halt all U.S. union elections, citing allegations that regional labor officials in Kansas improperly coordinated with unionized workers.
"We remain focused on working together … to make Starbucks a company that works for everyone," the company's statement said. Starbucks promoted its attendance at the negotiation sessions; officials planned to appear in more than 75 sessions through the end of the year. But LA-area union leaders said none of the sessions had resulted in meaningful discussions.
"We were literally reading them our pitches and they left while we were still talking," said Josie Serrano, a barista at the East 7th Street store in Long Beach. Other union leaders said that "bargaining sessions at their stores lasted only a few minutes before Starbucks representatives walked out."
"We want them to negotiate in good faith," said Araseli Romero, a 22-year-old shift supervisor at the Central Avenue location. He said the last negotiating session lasted seven minutes before management and lawyers left.
Workers at all four locations argued that there were problems with faulty equipment, that they were understaffed despite employees being available to work, and that they were given too few hours to qualify for benefits.
At the Figueroa Street location, protesters cheered as cars honked and waved, and discussed issues with passersby. A Long Beach driver stuck a thumbs up out the window, yelling, "Let's go!" A Metro bus driver honked his horn as he drove past the cafeteria pickets.
But some did not support the strike as they tried to drink coffee in closed shops. Darren Burtenshaw walks his dog Eros to the Central Avenue store every day and said he was disappointed to see workers taking a stand against a company he considered better than most: offering more than minimum wage and programs to help pay for college.
"They should go to other places and big corporations," the 57-year-old said. Starbucks is "actually doing very well for its employees."
But Gonzalez said that's exactly why he joined the union and was on the picket line: to help people understand the conditions workers really faced.
"They claim to be people over profit, but they really aren't," he said. "We don't see things getting better, and if we're not going to stand up for ourselves, who is?"