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require_relative 'key_value_coding'
require_relative 'properties/property'
require_relative 'models'

module Metro

  #
  # The Model is a basic, generic representation of a game object
  # that has a visual representation within the scene's window.
  #
  # Model is designed to be an abstract class, to be subclassed by
  # other models.
  #
  # @see Models::Generic
  #
  class Model
    include PropertyOwner
    include Units

    #
    # This is an entry point for customization. As the model's {#initialize}
    # method performs may perform some initialization that may be necessary.
    #
    # At this point the model has been created. However, the window and scene
    # of the model will not have been defined and defined properties rely on
    # the window or scene will return nil values. Other properties also will
    # likely not be set.
    #
    # @note This method should be implemented in the Model subclass.
    #
    def after_initialize ; end

    #
    # This is an entry point for customization. After the model's properties
    # have been set and the model has been assigned to the window and scene
    # this method is called. Here is where customization of properties or
    # final positioning can be performed.
    #
    # @note This method may be implemented in the Model subclass.
    #
    def show ; end

    #
    # This is called every update interval while the actor is in the scene
    #
    # @note This method should be implemented in the Model subclass
    #
    def update ; end

    #
    # This is called after an update. A model normally is not removed after
    # an update, however if the model responds true to #update_completed? then it
    # will be removed.
    #
    # @note This method should be implemented in the Model sublclass if you
    #   are interested in having the model be removed from the scene.
    #
    def update_completed? ; false ; end

    #
    # This is called after every {#update} and when the OS wants the window to
    # repaint itself.
    #
    # @note This method should be implemented in the Model subclass.
    #
    def draw ; end

    #
    # This is called after a draw. A model normally is not removed after
    # a draw, however if the model responds true to #draw_completed? then it
    # will be removed.
    #
    # @note This method should be implemented in the Model sublclass if you
    #   are interested in having the model be removed from the scene.
    #
    def draw_completed? ; false ; end

    def self.model_name(model_name=nil)
      @model_name ||= to_s.underscore
      model_name ? @model_name = model_name.to_s : @model_name
    end

    #
    # @return [String] the name of the model class.
    #
    property :model, type: :text

    #
    # @return [String] the name of model as it is used within the view or the scene.
    #   This is the common name, the key within the view file, or the name symbol
    #   name specified in the scene.
    #
    property :name, type: :text

    #
    # @return [TrueClass,FalseClass] true if the model should be saved to the
    #   view file, false when the model should not be savedable to the view file.
    #
    property :saveable_to_view, type: :boolean, default: true

    #
    # The window that this model that this window is currently being
    # displayed.
    #
    # The current value of window is managed by the scene
    # as this is set when the Scene is added to the window. All the
    # models gain access to the window.
    #
    # @see Window
    #
    attr_accessor :window

    #
    # The scene that this model is currently being displayed.
    #
    # The current value of scene is managed by the scene as this
    # is set when the scene is created.
    #
    # @see Scene
    attr_accessor :scene

    include KeyValueCoding

    #
    # Generate a custom notification event with the given name.
    #
    # @param [Symbol] event the name of the notification to generate.
    #
    def notification(event)
      scene.notification(event.to_sym,self)
    end

    #
    # Allows for the definition of events within the scene.
    #
    include HasEvents

    #
    # A helper method that allows the current model to generate another model. This
    # is useful as it allows for the current model to pass window and scene state
    # to the created model.
    #
    # @param [String] model_name the name of the model to be created.
    # @return [Metro::Model] the metro model instance
    #
    def create(model_name,options={})
      # @TODO: this is another path that parallels the ModelFactory
      model_class = Metro::Models.find(model_name)
      mc = model_class.new options
      mc.scene = scene
      mc.window = window
      mc
    end

    #
    # By default a model has no bounds. Each subclass of model will have to
    # define how their bounds are defined.
    #
    def bounds
      Bounds.none
    end

    #
    # Create an instance of a model.
    #
    # @note Overridding initialize method should be avoided, using the {#aftter_initialize)
    # method or done with care to ensure that functionality is preserved.
    #
    def initialize(options = {})
      _load(options)
      after_initialize
    end

    #
    # Loads a hash of content into the model. This process will convert the hash
    # of content into setter and getter methods with appropriate ruby style names.
    #
    # This is used internally when the model is created for the Scene. It is loaded
    # with the contents of the view.
    #
    def _load(options = {})
      # Clean up and symbolize all the keys then merge that with the existing properties
      options.keys.each do |key|
        property_name = key.to_s.underscore.to_sym
        if respond_to? "#{property_name}="
          send("#{property_name}=",options.delete(key))
        else
          options[property_name] = options.delete(key)
        end
      end

      properties.merge! options
    end

    #
    # Generate a hash export of all the fields that were previously stored within
    # the model.
    #
    # This is used internally within the scene to transfer the data from one model
    # to another model.
    #
    def _save
      properties
    end

    #
    # Generate a hash representation of the model.
    #
    def to_hash
      { name => properties.except(:name) }
    end

    #
    # @return a common name that can be used through the system as a common identifier.
    #
    def self.metro_name
      name.underscore
    end

    #
    # @return an array of all ancestor models by name
    #
    def self.hierarchy
      ancestors.find_all {|a| a.respond_to? :metro_name }.map(&:metro_name)
    end

    #
    # Captures all classes that subclass Model.
    #
    def self.inherited(base)
      models << base.to_s
      Models.add(base)
    end

    #
    # All subclasses of Model, this should be all the defined
    #
    def self.models
      @models ||= []
    end

  end
end

require_relative 'ui/ui'
require_relative 'audio/song'


Stephanie and I rode the Rail Trail organized by Liz Mitchell from Snowy River Cycling from 6th -8th October.( Around The Bay Week End ) We rode from Bairnsdale to Orbost along with 80 other cyclists over 3 days, staying in older but very comfortable hotels Bruthern, Nowa Nowa and finishing in Orbost. The cycling was fabulous not hot, delicious fresh food and wonderful social company.
The Rail Trail was in excellent condition, mainly compacted gravel with some tarred parts,the leaf matter and sticks were encountered with some very pebbly stages.The sandy parts were relatively easy to negotiate on our Giant and Mongoose having full suspension mountain bikes. The pace was easy and comfortable and Lycra was optional among many riders. Many cyclists rode older style 27inch road bikes and rode the trail with confidence The distances were perfect just over 100 kms in 3 days with only a few smaller steady climbs.
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More 'Google Edition' rumours: vanilla Android HTC One announcement 'in the next two weeks'
HOME > More 'Google Edition' rumou...
+Martin James May. 24, 2013 at 16:00 More articles by Martin James
HTC has denied it's working on a "Google Edition" of the HTC One. So obviously, it's a cast-iron certainty.
Not only that, but it'll be announced within the next couple of weeks, and will go on sale over the Summer. What does HTC know anyway?
Well, not as much as a certain Russell Holly of Geek.com, the chap who'se dished up the aforementioned details. And maybe we should listen too, as it was the same Holly who revealed the existence of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition for the first time.
It's not Holly himself that's behind the claims, of course. That would be the work of our old friend "sources", with the "sources" also reckoning that like the plain GS4, the vanilla Android HTC One would launch solely in the US initially – which suggests it'll be sold in the same way, namely via Google Play.
The announcement of the non-TouchWiz Google Edition of the Galaxy S4 at Google I/O was received favourably for the most part, leading to speculation that other Android manufacturers could follow suit.
And despite HTC quickly ruling out the HTC One from such treatment (there is already a Developer Edition of the One, after all) rumours of a Sense-less HTC flagship still sprung up anyway a couple of days back.
Based on the comments on that piece a few days ago, though, it seems that rather than release a Google Edition of the One, HTC should roll out its newly announced Japanese variant (the HTC J One) internationally, for the simple reason that it comes with a microSD card slot.
Come on HTC – if the Google Edition HTC One is real, couldn't you sneak an expansion slot on board too, just for us?
Read more about: Android, HTC One
No Blinkfeed! Excellent!!!
shuwaz May. 24, 2013 at 23:05
This could be the push I need to buy one!
Quad-core LTE HTC One XL2 in the pipeline?
Sony Tablet S poised to go on sale in the next few weeks (1 comment)
Nokia scores patent win over HTC, could see the HTC One withdrawn in the UK (10 comments)
Jelly Bean for HTC One X in October
HTC One gold on the cards?

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Q: jQuery Regex from String I have the following Regex that comes from a data Attribute on an HTML Element:
/^$|^[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{4}$/g

When I (manually) do:
/^$|^[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{4}$/g.test('01.2012');

It works and returns true.
When I put the Regex in a Variable like so:
var inputRegex = $(this).attr('data-validation');

And do:
inputRegex.test(input);

I get:

inputRegex.test is not a function.

I know that this is because inputRegex is a String and String does not have a test function, but when I create a RegExp object (new RegExp($(this).attr('data-validation')) it breaks my Regular Expression by escaping:
/\/^$|^[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{4}$\/g/

How can I use the data-attribute value as a Regular Expression? Please note that I cannot do: var regex = new RegExp(string, 'g'); because the Regular Expression(s) come predefined from the attribute.

A: var pattern = '\d+';
var regExp = new RegExp(pattern, 'g');
'1234dasf13241234'.match(regExp)

is it what you need?
var pattern = $(this).attr('data-validation');;
var regExp = new RegExp(pattern, 'g');
regExp.test(input);

in your case

A: This could help
var validation =  "/^$|^[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{4}$/g"; //$(this).attr('data-validation')
var startIndex = validation.indexOf('/')+1
var lastIndex = validation.lastIndexOf('/');
var pattern = validation.substring(startIndex,lastIndex);
var options = validation.substring(lastIndex+1);
var regExp = new RegExp(pattern, options);
regExp.test('01.2012');
// true

A: your problem is that you need to retrieve the regex pattern from a attribute of an element, but it is returning string, and you want the string value to be like inline on your javascript code, like declaring plainly a regex. If this is really what you want to achieve, the closest solution is to use eval function, see updated code below:
var stringreg = "var inputRegex =" + $("#test").attr('data-validation') + ";"
eval(stringreg);
inputRegex.test(input);

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Patron tequila. Photo / Supplied
Handmade With Love In Mexico
With its popularity surging in New Zealand, Patrón's Darren Mynes explains the craft behind this famous tequila
Thursday May 6, 2021
It all starts with a mythical love story involving star-crossed lovers, an evil grandmother and a demon, who devours a beautiful goddess in possession of a magical plant famed for its sweet aroma, honey-like taste and blue-green colour.
The full story is a little more complicated but from that legendary plant, blue agave, we get tequila. Exactly how we get tequila and the 60 hands that go into making each bottle of Patrón we'll get to, but for now some context.
If the last time you drank tequila was with the aid of lemon and salt, then chances are you're missing out on a quiet revolution that is changing the way people view and taste this versatile spirit.
Right now, tequila is the fastest growing spirit in New Zealand. Sales are up 48 per cent meaning its growth is outstripping even gin, the darling of the spirit scene for the past few years.
Driving the growth is the discovery of new tastes, new flavours and new ways of drinking that involve much more than just shots. The at-home cocktail trend, in part driven by successive lockdowns, has also encouraged people to mix their own drinks and opt for more premium brands to create the best tasting drink possible.
But how do you go about choosing a premium tequila? Whether you drink it as a cocktail at home or in a bar, or do as Mexicans do, and sip it neat. It all starts with its origins.
Not all tequila is created equal. The Mexican government recognises two classifications of tequila: 100 per cent agave tequila, in which all sugars must come from the blue agave, and mixto tequila, which must contain a minimum 51 per cent blue agave. Although there are more than 1,700 tequila brands there are only around 140 recognised licensed distilleries with each distiller given a unique number to trace its origin. Every Patrón Tequila is 100 per cent agave tequila and it's this kind you want to opt for.
Just like champagne, tequila has an appellation origin. It can only be produced in five regions of Mexico; Guanajuato, Michoacán, Nayarit, Tamaulipas, or Jalisco. And just like champagne, the terroir of the blue agave can influence the taste.
Harvesting blue agave in Mexico. Photo / Supplied
All Patrón Tequila comes from the highlands of Jalisco where the blue agave is grown primarily by eight families. A real labour of love, the plants (do not call them cacti) take at least six years to grow before they can be hand-harvested.
Here is where the real work begins in a hand-made process that has remained unchanged since the first bottle of Patrón Tequila was made in 1989. As the brand grew, rather than scale up and automate the process, which would have compromised quality, Patrón Tequila just replicated over and over its original small brick ovens and hand-crafted copper stills. Truly handmade, it's this lack of automation that means in order to produce each bottle of Patrón Tequila it must go through 60 hands before being shipped.
It's a lot but certainly worth it. Today, Patrón Tequila has grown to become one of the most recognised and respected luxury spirits in the world with each bottle hand-checked and certified as a mark of its quality and authenticity.
In recognition of the handmade origins of each bottle of Patrón Tequila, Viva is giving away the ultimate prize pack for you and up to five friends.
Saturday Jan. 15, 2022
Monday Jan. 10, 2022
Saturday Jan. 8, 2022
Thursday Jan. 6, 2022
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This learning object covers how to determine the concentration of a substance in a mixture.
Two men are standing in a stream watering their horses. It is a summer day and they have their shoes off and their pants legs are rolled up.
This Italianate style residence at the corner of Broad and Pearl Streets in Spiceland was the first home of Dr. George D. Bailey founder of the Spiceland Sanitarium. Later is was the home of Dr. Jehu Stuart then Dr. Hockett. It was last used as a nursing home and razed in the 1950s.


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The AC - DC Railroad
A few weekends ago, service on Metro-North and Amtrak was thrown into chaos when two trains ripped down portions of the overhead caternary (power line). Trains were cancelled, weekend riders stranded.
Metro-North's service in Connecticut is made all the more challenging by a technological quirk of fate. Ours is the only commuter railroad in the U.S. that operates on three modes of power… AC, DC and diesel.
On a typical run from, say, New Haven to Grand Central, the first part of the journey is done "under the wire", the trains being powered by 13,000 volt AC overhead wires, or catenaries. Around Pelham, in Westchester County, the pantographs are lowered and the conversion is made to 660 volt DC third-rail power for the rest of the trip into New York. Even diesel engines must convert to third-rail, as their smoky exhaust is banned in the Park Avenue tunnels.
And there's the rub: Connecticut trains need both AC and DC, overhead and third-rail, power pick-ups and processors. That means a lot more electronics, and added cost, for each car. While the DC-only new M7 cars running in Westchester cost about $2 million each, the dual-mode M8 car designed for Connecticut will cost considerably more.
So, some folks are asking… "Why not just use one power source? Just replace the overhead wires with third-rail and we can buy cheaper cars." Simple, yes. Smart, no. And here's why.
 There's not enough space to lay a third-rail along each of the four sets of tracks in the existing right of way. All four existing tracks would have to be ripped out and the space between them widened. Every bridge and tunnel would have to be widened, platforms moved and land acquired. Cost? Probably hundreds of millions of dollars, years of construction and service disruptions.
 Even with third-rail, the CDOT would still be required to provide overhead power lines for Amtrak. That would mean maintaining two power systems at double the cost. We're currently spending billions just to upgrade the 80-year old catenary, so why then replace it with third-rail?
 Third-rail AC power requires power substations every few miles, meaning further construction and real estate. The environmental lawsuits alone would kill this idea.
 DC-powered third rail is less efficient. Trains accelerate much faster using overhead AC voltage, the power source used by the fastest trains in the world… the TGV, Shinkansen, etc. On third-rail speeds are limited to 75 miles an hour vs. 90 mph under the wire. That means, mile for mile, commute time is longer using third rail.
 Third-rail ices up in bad weather and can get buried in snow, causing short circuits. Overhead wires have problems sometimes, but they are never buried in a blizzard.
 Third-rail is dangerous to pedestrians and track workers.
The idea of conversion to third-rail was studied in the 1980's by consultants to CDOT. They concluded that, while cumbersome and costly, the current dual-power system is, in the long run, cheaper and more efficient than installing third-rail. This time, the engineers at CDOT got it right.
Not satisfied, some of the third-rail fans tried pushing bills through the Legislature in 2005 to study the replacement scheme yet again. More studies would have meant years of delay in ordering already overdue car replacements. Fortunately, the Legislature dispensed with these nuisance proposals quickly.
Doubtless, we'll have further "wires down" problems in the years to come. Ironically, Metro-North's 97% on-time record has made us come to expect stellar service, despite our ancient infrastructure. But in the long run, service will be faster and even more reliable by sticking with our dual-mode system.
Paying for Transportation: Let's Not Be Fuelish
My father taught me that "there's no such thing as a free lunch". I'm trying to teach my daughter that there's no such thing as a free ride.
With a newly minted driver's license, she's found new freedom behind the wheel… until I ask her to fill the gas tank. Now, as we drive past local gas stations, she's taken new interest in comparison pricing.
A large part of the cost of gas is taxes that subsidize our transportation system. That's why gas is so much cheaper in New Jersey (no taxes)… but also why they have expensive tolls on their highways. Remember… "no free ride".
But as I have written about for five years now, gasoline prices in this country are still too low because they don't ask us to pay for the true costs associated with driving.
How much would gasoline cost if the pump price included the billions we spend each day fighting to keep access to Middle East oil? Or, what if drivers were asked to repay the 40% of all police costs associated with patrolling the roads? Or how about asking motorists to pay at the pump for the land lost to taxation by turning it into highways?
But it gets worse.
In Connecticut we are facing a major funding crisis in transportation because of our over-reliance on the gas tax.
Not even the relatively expensive fares on Metro-North reflect the true cost of running that service, hence the operating subsidy by the state from the Special Transportation Fund (STF). Created in 1984, the STF was to be a "lock box" of money to invest in our state's transportation infrastructure and help cover the cost of transit operations.
But 40% of the STF comes from gasoline taxes. So in 1997 when Governor John Rowland got the legislature to cut the gas tax from 39 cents to 25 cents a gallon, he doomed the fare-paying bus and rail passengers in our state.
Every penny of gas tax raises $15 million in annual revenue. So Rowland's tax-cutting stunt cost the STF $210 million a year, or almost $3 billion to date. That's money that wasn't available to be used to repair our roads, buy new rail cars or buses or keep fares affordable.
And going forward, with automobiles becoming more fuel efficient (i.e. using less gas) and eventually becoming all-electric (using no gas), the STF will have even less funding to maintain the highways and keep mass transit affordable.
And that's not even considering the legislature's recent diversion of $10 million from the STF into the general fund to balance the budget. So much for "lock boxes."
What's the alternative?
Well, tolls would be a good start. But the state's Transportation Strategy Board spent a million dollars to study tolling, only to reject eleven options cited by the consultants. And there are precious few lawmakers in Hartford or Washington willing to suggest tolling our "free-ways", especially in an election year.
Or how about using a VMT (Vehicle Miles Traveled) tax? Motorists would pay for the number of miles they drive: a highway use fee. Of course, the use of GPS to track their travel patterns and charge by time-of-day and congestion probably leaves the libertarians shaking… as if Big Brother doesn't know your every move already by tracking your cell phone.
Or how about what they've done in Portland Oregon, a payroll tax of .07% with proceeds going directly to the transit system, by-passing sticky-fingered legislators.
Someone, somehow is going to pay for our roads and rails. If not in a gas tax, then in some other revenue raising-mechanism. Because, as we must all understand, there is no free ride.
Posted by JIM CAMERON at Monday, July 12, 2010 2 comments:
Labels: CDOT commuter rail Connecticut Metro-North transportation, fuel tax, tolls, VMT


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In this lesson, eighth graders in Katie Quackenbush's Arabic I class continue a unit on hobbies and practice asking and answering questions using "you" and "I." Ms. Quackenbush reviews the lesson agenda with the class and starts students off with a speaking activity in which students in groups pass around a paper bag as music plays. When the music stops, the student holding the bag picks a card from the bag and asks a classmate whether he or she likes doing the activity pictured on it. Ms. Quackenbush assesses student understanding of unit vocabulary and subject-verb agreement in their questions and responses, and provides corrective feedback. After the game, students survey classmates about whether they enjoy doing certain activities in their free time and create a bar graph using the data they have collected. Then Ms. Quackenbush tells students that in the next class they will compare their free-time activities with those of students in Saudi Arabia.


The specific Goal of the adventure was to try and live for at least 12 months continuously in the 18 months, with a less than One Point Zero, personal Ecological Footprint.
That if every 7.6 billion of 'us' lived 'like me' (Ha-ha!) 'WE', as Humanity, would only need one (One Point Zero) planet Earths today to sustain US all.
Today we need One Point Seven planets, and each day this number has been increasing and 1970 was when we 'flew past' the One Point Zero mark unaware of our future trajectory!
So for most western world people this requires a 60—80% reduction in their current, Consumption and Footprint related, activity, and exploring 'A Place' few of would know exists, and even less would have ever been 'There'.
This, Last Frontier Unknown, with the potentially large 'Truth to Power', benefit to society, made for the perfect, phase of life, exploration for me, ?
And for how I got to 'Base Camp': You can read my 12 year, transformation journey, from 'Western world Capitalist' to a 'Without Nature, We are Nothing' Truths, here.
Hmmm, The Challenge: To making The Convenient, Inconvenient' and The Inconvenient, Convenient…. The Personal Revolution we all Fear! Truth to Power!


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Periploca acuminata är en oleanderväxtart som beskrevs av M.A. Rahman och C.C. Wilcock. Periploca acuminata ingår i släktet Periploca och familjen oleanderväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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eCFR
Title 49 Part 373
Title 49 → Subtitle B → Chapter III → Subchapter B → Part 373
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations e-CFR
Title 49: Transportation
PART 373—RECEIPTS AND BILLS
Subpart A—Motor Carrier Receipts and Bills
§373.100 Applicability.
§373.101 For-hire, non-exempt motor carrier bills of lading.
§373.103 For-hire, non-exempt expense bills.
§373.105 Low value packages.
Subpart B—Freight Forwarders; Bills of Lading
§373.201 Receipts and bills of lading for freight forwarders.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 13301, 13531 and 14706; and 49 CFR 1.87.
Source: 55 FR 11198, Mar. 27, 1990, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 61 FR 54708, Oct. 21, 1996.
This subpart applies to motor carriers subject to 49 U.S.C. subtitle IV, part B (secs. 13101-14916).
[81 FR 68345, Oct. 4, 2016]
Every motor carrier subject to §373.100 shall issue a receipt or bill of lading for property tendered for transportation in interstate or foreign commerce containing the following information:
(a) Names of consignor and consignee.
(b) Origin and destination points.
(c) Number of packages.
(d) Description of freight.
(e) Weight, volume, or measurement of freight (if applicable to the rating of the freight).
The carrier shall keep a record of this information as prescribed in 49 CFR part 379.
[55 FR 11198, Mar. 27, 1990, as amended at 56 FR 30874, July 8, 1991; 62 FR 15423, Apr. 1, 1997; 81 FR 68345, Oct. 4, 2016]
(a) Property. (1) Every for-hire, non-exempt motor carrier of property shall issue a freight or expense bill for each shipment transported containing the following information:
(i) Names of consignor and consignee (except on a reconsigned shipment, not the name of the original consignor).
(ii) Date of shipment.
(iii) Origin and destination points (except on a reconsigned shipment, not the original shipping point unless the final consignee pays the charges from that point).
(iv) Number of packages.
(v) Description of freight.
(vi) Weight, volume, or measurement of freight (if applicable to the rating of the freight).
(vii) Exact rate(s) assessed.
(viii) Total charges due, including the nature and amount of any charges for special service and the points at which such service was rendered.
(ix) Route of movement and name of each carrier participating in the transportation.
(x) Transfer point(s) through which shipment moved.
(xi) Address where remittance must be made or address of bill issuer's principal place of business.
(2) The shipper or receiver owing the charges shall be given the freight or expense bill and the carrier shall keep a copy as prescribed at 49 CFR part 379. If the bill is electronically transmitted (when agreed to by the carrier and payor), a receipted copy shall be given to the payor upon payment.
(b) Charter transportation of passenger service. (1) Every for-hire, non-exempt motor carrier providing charter transportation of passenger service shall issue an expense bill containing the following information:
(i) Serial number, consisting of one of a series of consecutive numbers assigned in advance and imprinted on the bill.
(ii) Name of carrier.
(iii) Names of payor and organization, if any, for which transportation is performed.
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Q: How do you limit threads in the ExecutorService? I use the ExecutorService to run many tasks in different threads.
Sometimes, too many Runnable instances waiting in the thread pool may cause the Out Of Memory problem.
I try to write a blocking job executor to solve it. Is there any official solution to do it ?
For example:
    BlockingJobExecutor executor = new BlockingJobExecutor(3);
    for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
        executor.addJob(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(1000);
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                LogFactory.getLog(BTest.class).info("test " + System.currentTimeMillis());
            }
        });
    }
    executor.shutdown();

here is the BlockingJobExecutor class:
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

public class BlockingJobExecutor {

    AtomicInteger counter = new AtomicInteger();
    ExecutorService service;
    int threads;

    public BlockingJobExecutor(int threads) {
        if (threads < 1) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("threads must be greater than 1.");
        }
        service = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(threads);
        this.threads = threads;
    }

    static class JobWrapper implements Runnable {
        BlockingJobExecutor executor;
        Runnable job;

        public JobWrapper(BlockingJobExecutor executor, Runnable job) throws InterruptedException {
            synchronized (executor.counter) {
                while (executor.counter.get() >= executor.limit()) {
                    executor.counter.wait();
                }
            }
            this.executor = executor;
            this.job = job;
        }

        @Override
        public void run() {
            try {
                job.run();
            } finally {
                synchronized (executor.counter) {
                    executor.counter.decrementAndGet();
                    executor.counter.notifyAll();
                }
            }
        }
    }

    public int limit() {
        return threads;
    }

    public void shutdown() {
        service.shutdown();
        try {
            service.awaitTermination(Long.MAX_VALUE, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    public void addJob(Runnable job) {
        try {
            service.execute(new JobWrapper(this, job));
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

}

A: There are two ways that this can happen. You can have too many runnables queued up waiting to run, or too many threads running at the same time. If there are too many jobs queued up, you can use a fixed size BlockingQueue in the ExecutorService to limit the number of items that can be queued up. Then when you try to queue a new task, the operation will block until there is room in the queue.
If there are too many threads running at once, you can limited how many threads are available to run tasks in the ExecutorService by calling Executors.newFixedThreadPool with the number of threads you want.


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Delia Beatriz Bisutti (Buenos Aires, 31 de marzo de 1947) es una política y gremialista argentina de centro izquierda, exmiembro de la Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina representando a la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

Bisutti estudió para ser maestra, y después ingresó en la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Desde muy temprana edad tomó papel activo en los sindicatos, sirviendo como delegada sindical de 1970 a 1989. En 1977, durante el terrorismo de Estado, fue detenida por el gobierno militar, y encarcelada en el clandestino campo de concentración conocido irónicamente como El Sheraton. Su esposo también fue secuestrado y permanece desaparecido.

En 1989, Bisutti fue secretaria general del sindicato de docentes UTE (Unión de Trabajadores de la Educación), parte de la CTERA y de la CTA (sindicatos independientes). Y tuvo una representación en el Comité Nacional de CTERA. Desde 1995, fue miembro del Ejecutivo del partido de izquierda de Buenos Aires: el Frente Grande, y en 1997 fue elegida en la legislatura porteña por el partido como parte del FrePaSo, donde presidió varios comités, incluyendo el de desarrollo económico.

Bisutti había sido crítica en contra de la alianza del FrePaSo con el partido Unión Cívica Radical, que se había derechizado.
En 2001 se afilió al partido Coalición Cívica ARI (Coalición Cívica por una República Igualitaria, en esa época de centro izquierda) y se sentó en el ejecutivo del partido en la ciudad autónoma. En 2003 abandonó el bloque del ARI en esa Legislatura de Buenos Aires. Más tarde, en ese mismo año renunció a su puesto para asumir un papel menor en el gobierno de la ciudad, en el Departamento de Educación, cargo que ocupó hasta enero de 2005.

Bisutti fue elegida diputada por el ARI en las elecciones legislativas de octubre de 2005. Tras la integración del ARI en la Coalición Cívica en 2007, Bisutti y varios de sus colegas dejaron el partido en señal de protesta contra la nueva derechización del ARI. Inicialmente formando un bloque independiente en el Congreso conocida como ARI Autónomo, y en mayo de 2008, anunciaron la formación de un nuevo partido Solidaridad e Igualdad (SI).

En diciembre de 2009, asumió como Diputada de la Ciudad por el partido SI en el bloque de Proyecto Sur. En marzo de 2011 abandonó ese bloque y formó su nuevo espacio: el bloque SI en la Legislatura porteña. Desde allí presidió la Comisión de Desarrollo Económico, siendo vicepresidenta de la de Deportes y Turismo, e integrando las comisiones de Trabajo de Educación y de Derechos Humanos. En mayo del 2011 constituyó desde el SI un interbloque con Nuevo Encuentro.

Véase también
 Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Perfiles de los diputados del ARI, en el sitio web del ARI.
 Perfiles del ARI Autónomo.

Diputados del Congreso de la Nación Argentina por la Capital Federal
Legisladores de la ciudad de Buenos Aires
Políticas de Argentina
Sindicalistas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires
Políticos de Nuevo Encuentro
Políticos del Frente para la Victoria
Políticos del Frente Grande


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This is a list of museums in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 The Herzegovina Museum
 Museum of Sarajevo
 Museum of the Old Bridge
 Museum of the National Struggle for Liberation
 Museum of Modern Art of Republika Srpska
 Museum of Old Herzegovina
 Izetbegović's museum
 Sarajevo War Tunnel Museum
 Svrzo House (Svirzina Kuća)
 Despić House (Despića Kuća)
 War Childhood Museum
 Museum of Crimes against Humanity and Genocide 1992 - 1995
 Museum of the First Proletarian Brigade, Rudo

See also
 List of archives in Bosnia and Herzegovina
 List of libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Museums
Museums
Museums
Bosnia and Herzegovina


Accelerated pairings - what do we want?
The FIDE Swiss Pairings Commission is having another stab at defining a good method of accelerated swiss pairings, although it has already run into some predictable problems. The first is one of defining what a 'good' system is while the second is find a method.
For most people a 'good' system is one that minimises 'junk' rounds, although how this is measured can be tricky. Reducing the average difference of ratings in the early rounds seems to be a good measure, although this may cause unintended side effects. Another measure might be getting approximately the same standings in a N-2 round event as you would in an N round event. And coming at it from a slightly different direction, increasing the number of norms in the event might also be a goal.
As for the method a number of different systems are being trialled. The somewhat discredited bonus point system is being looked at, although the issue of 'bad' pairings when the acceleration stops is already apparent. Graduated bonus points systems (eg 1 bonus for the top half for 2 rounds, dropping to 0.5 for the next 2) are also being trialled, although the results aren't conclusive. Slightly more complicated systems are also being investigated, but for know it is still a work in progress.
The Telegraph newspaper has done a large piece on Magnus Carlsen. It is both a profile and interview, and has already attracted some comment, mainly due to his comments on past World Champions (he could beat Tal 'easily'), and the quality of his current rivals.
Of course he isn't the first chess player to attract attention for such claims, with a young Bobby Fischer making similar claims in his infamous 1962 interview with Ralph Ginzburg. Of course Carlsen is more measured (and polite) in his comments, but is still an interesting exercise to read both interviews side by side. While both interviews show the level of confidence needed to reach the top in international chess, I am sure that Carlsen's interview won't have the same end result as Fischer's interview, which was Fischer refusing to do interviews ever again.
While writing yesterdays blog post about losing on the white side of the Frankenstein-Dracula, I remembered an interesting game I had previously played on the black side of the same opening. It was from the 2006 Chess Olympiad, and was played as part of the PNG v Bermuda match. We lost the match 2.5-1.5, but if I had taken my chances (instead of a repetition), then 2-2 would have been the result on the day.
Competitive games between myself and my son tend to follow the same script these days. I look for the sharpest opening possible, try and hack him off the board, he defends until I make a mistake, and then he moves in for the kill. On rare occasions he either slips up in defence, or I manage to find the right attacking moves, but this is increasingly rare.
The latest example came from a rapidplay game played earlier this week. The Frankenstein-Dracula variation of the Vienna, gives White material at the expense of development. To be honest I think Black has better chances, although in this case once I castled I was more than OK. However I overplayed my hand with a discovered check, and when there was no good followup, Ra1+ just destroyed me.
Earlier this year there was talk the the next World Championship Candidates tournament might be held in the United States. It was an attractive proposition, with two US players in the field (Caruana and Nakamura), and FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov even going so far as announcing it would be in the US (at the closing ceremony of the 2014 World Championship).
However, when it came to finalising the details, the US option disappeared, and the tournament will now be held in Moscow. At the time of the announcement it might have been safe to assume that the US option was just posturing and was never a serious contender, but it may now be for another, far more serious reason.
The US Treasury has announced sanction on a number of individuals, for "providing support to the Government of Syria, including facilitating Syrian Government oil purchases from ISIL". One of the individuals on the list is FIDE President, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. While these dealings are (I assume) in his private capacity as a businessman, the press release does highlight his role as President of FIDE, and also the murder of Larisa Yudina in 1998.
Given the serious nature of these charges, it is of course unthinkable that Ilyumzhinov would have been allowed to travel to the US, and that the source of any funding for the event would have come under very close scrutiny.
I assume at some point FIDE will release a statement on this matter, although for now there is nothing on its official website.
Russia has won both the Open and Womens Sections of the European Teams Championship. For a long time this sort of news would be in the same category as "sun rises in east" and "water is wet". However in recent times the Open team has struggled to match its individual talents, with wins in World Teams (2005, 2009, 2013) being the main exception.
The last time Russia won this event was 2007, and the drought is even longer for the Chess Olympiad (2002). There have been a few theories put about why this is so, but the two I lean towards are (a) the pressure of expectation and (b) they still haven't quite mastered the team oriented approach (+1=3 match results).
On the other hand the Womens Team has bee far more successful. They have won all the events since 2007, with the exception of 2013, and have won the last 3 Olympiads as well. In this case the I suspect the gap in talent between Russia and other teams is a little greater than in the Open section, so individual ability counts for more.
As for the other teams, Armenia finished second on tie-break, ahead of Hungary and France. England seemed happy with their top 10 finish (despite being 5th seed), while Norway had the services of Magnus Carlsen on top board, although the mid table finish, and his own score of 50% showed that it is not only teams that have trouble in this format.
The article "Grandmaster crash: The inside story of how English chess pawned its future" has caused a bit of a stir in English chess circles. Coming soon after a somewhat bizarre AGM (mentioned in the article), it highlights the effect that problems with the English Chess Federation have on English chess itself.
Written by Stephen Moss from the Guardian (who is an active player as well), it has already attracted a bit of blowback in the English Chess Forum, as well as some choice comments below the story itself.
I might be tempted to draw parallels with the Australian chess scene, but in all honesty I would struggle to. The governance systems are different (although Nigel Short's comments on small organisations ring true), but the major reason is that Australia never fell from any great heights in the first place. The ACF has always been a "limited government" style organisation, so the list of things it has failed to do well is actually quite small.
I suspect this will probably blow over in a week or two, and it will be business as usual. Those involved will point out that their small bit of English chess is running well, extrapolate that to "what needs to be improved" and potentially miss the broader picture.
I always have mixed feelings when I come up against opening system I have a fondness for. While it doesn't happen that often (due to my somewhat narrow opening repertoire) I have been on both sides of the Blackmar, the Marshall Gambit, and the Frankenstein-Dracula over the years.
Back in 2003 I must have been on a bit of a 1.d4 d5 bender, as I had a couple of games against the BDM with the Black pieces (not sure where I had stashed my Griuenfeld). One of the games was against many times ACT Champion Milan Grcic, and was essentially decided by one move. On move 13 Gricic chose to attack my Knight and threaten my f pawn with Qf3, but I realised that I could let f7 fall with check as he did not have a decent follow up. I on the other hand had lots of good moves after capturing on d4, and his position fell apart after I played Qxe5 and then Nf3+. A sad defeat for the BDM (which is my main weapon against 1.e4 d5) but an enjoyable win for me.
Having lamented my inability to spot the necessary and spectacular yesterday, today I came across a game by a player who did no miss much when attacking. Alexander Alekhine is rightly regarded as one of the greatest attacking players in history, and has a number of brilliant wins to his name.
The following game is quite famous, and Alekhine considered it one of his best games. The key move is 26. ... Re3 which at the time he thought won in all variations. It turns it it doesn't quite (27. Bf3! gives Black no more than a very complicated draw), what after Reti played 27.Nf3 Alekhine does not miss a trick.
Play through the game below, up until move 19 (which is where I've stopped the game). Up until this point most of White's moves have been either natural or thematic, although the sacrifice on b5 (and the counter sac on f2) are not the most accurate. Now White would love to sac the queen on h7 but obviously at this stage it does not work. On top of that the rook on d1 is under attack, leaving White with a bit of a choice. But it is exactly the fact that the rook is threatened that should provide White with a clue about what to do. Can you find the crusher for White here?
Over the last few days I have been gluing both of these ideas together, to provide a game replay system with online analysis.
One of Nigel Shorts most celebrated game his his famous win against Jan Timman, where he marched his king up the board to assist in a mating attack. However, for every successful king walk, there are probably 100 times as many king 'drags' where the unwilling monarch is forced to walk the plank.
An example of such a situation occurred yesterday in the European Teams Championship, and Short was on the wrong end of the score line. Playing Hrant Melkumyan from Armenia, Short had his king forced up the board, starting on g2 on move 39 and reaching f8 by move 48. After that it was not long for this world, getting checkmated on e6, and move 50.
Chess is one thing you don't retire from due to age (well, not normally). You might choose to give the game away for other reasons, but just being old is not a barrier to continuing to play. Evidence of this is in the World Seniors Championship currently underway in Italy. The tournament is running in 4 sections and interestingly the 65+ section has attracted more entrants (185) than the Over 50 section (100). The Over 50 events is a little stronger in terms of GM's (10 v 7) but both events show that there is a capacity for seniors chess. The Women's section are substantially smaller (27 for both events) but the odd statistic from these events is that there are more titled players than untitled players in both tournaments.
There is the odd Australian and New Zealand player in these events, and you can check out the results here if your wish (the link is the the 50+ Open, but the other tournaments can be found there as well). As someone who reaches 50 years old next year, I suddenly become eligible to play from Jan 1 and depending on work/finances etc I may add the PNG flag to those hanging over the tournament hall.
The 2015 Vikings Weekender has finished in a tie for first place between IM Moulthun Ly and IM Anton Smirnov. Starting the second day on 3.5/4 (along with Michael Kethro), Ly drew with IM Junta Ikeda, while Smirnov could only halve the point with Kethro. Ly then defeated Kethro in Round 6, while Smirnov beat young Canberra player Albert Winkelman. Final round wins over Litchfield (by Smirnov) and Jason Hu (by Ly) left them tied on 6/7 and earning $725 each. IM Junta Ikeda finished outright third on 5.5, while Albert Winkelman finished his excellent tournament with a win to be the best Under 1800 player on 4.5.
The Under 1600 event saw a 4 way tie for first place when draws on the tops boards in the final round saw Thomas Johnston, Jamie-Lee Guo, Tim Pearce and Bazli Karattiyattil all end up on 5.5/7. One other meritorious result in this event was that of local club legend Karl Galli who finished on 4/7, winning the Under 1200 prize.
While numbers were slightly down from last year (52 v 60) the tournament once again proved enjoyable for those that took part. Certainly the tough schedule of 7 games across two days (at 60m+10s) left a number of players looking frazzled by the end, although surprisingly this included some of the younger players as well.
The event was sponsored by the Tuggernanong Vikings Sports Club (Open plus junior prizes) and O2C (Under 1600). The tournament was jointly organised by the ACT Chess Association and the Tuggeranong Chess Club. The tournament will once again be held next year, although it might be slightly later in November, to avoid a clash with end of year school and university exams.
The 2015 Vikings Weekender started with a field of 52 players, down 8 players from last year. Worryingly the drop occurred mainly in the Open section, where despite a prize pool of nearly $2000, only 16 players entered. One theory is that players rated between 1600 and 1800 are staying away because it is too tough, but if this is true, then it isn't a good outcome for Canberra, or even Australian chess.
The small field in the Open means the event is much more cut throat. With very few easy games each point has to be fought over, and a number of players are already looking nervously at the field to come.
After 4 rounds IM Anton Smirnov, IM Moulthun Ly and Michael Kethro share the lead on 3.5/4. Smirnov and Ly drew a 99 move game in round 4, while Kethro scored 3 straight wins after starting the event with a half point bye. IM Junta Ikeda is half a point behind the leaders, his only loss coming at the hands of Smirnov.
In the Under 1600 event, 4 players share the lead on 3.5. Jamie-Lee Guo, Thomas Johnston, Oscar Hellmann and Tim Pearce are all undefeated so far, and look forward to a tough morning round.
Full results and live coverage can be found at tournaments.streetchess.net/vikings2015 You can even replay the live games from earlier in the tournament to see how the leaders made there way to the top. Tomorrows action begins at 10:30am (Canberra time) with Smirnov and Kethro featuring on the top board.
The 2015 Vikings Weekender begins tomorrow and hopefully a last minute rush of entries will lift the field above 60 players. If for some reason you aren't able to make it you can follow it online via tournaments.streetchess.net.
The page contains links to the standings plus live coverage of the top 2 or 3 boards. I have also added a link to the dgt replay system which I am developing, and so you can see games from previous rounds (I have also put up last years round 7 games from the event). This system is still in beta so it is both a service and a test run!
Currently the field is headed by IM's Ikeda, Ly and Smirnov although the $1000 1st prize may lure a few more titled players to the national capital.
A few years there was a marked improvement in the strength of Go playing programs, with the development of the 'Monte-Carlo' search. In a Monte-Carlo search, a move tree is generated to a certain depth (using all legal moves and replies) but when evaluating the leaf nodes a fixed number of games are played to the finish (using random legal moves) and the percentage number of wins is used to score the start position.
On first inspection this looked like it should not work, but for a number of games (including Hex and Lines of Action) it produced good results. However the results when applied to chess have been less promising. I suspect that the reason for this is that in chess all it takes is one mistake to lose, and such a search routine does not overly weight losses. For example, a given position might have 24 moves that lose for player A and 1 that wins, and a random selection would only find 4% of the games winning for player A. On the other hand a human player should find the win 100% of the time, making their opponents previous move bad. For the other games, such dramatic swings are less common (due to the rules of the game) and so an advantageous position more closely matches the eventual outcome.
Another 'remember the position' exercise from a game at the ANU Chess Club. White had been under a lot pressure earlier on, but after the exchange of rooks and some minor pieces, had avided the worst of it. In fact the Black queen, which had come to a4 to threaten the queenside pawns now found itself in a cage, after White blocked the retreat with b5.
Of interest to the kibitzers was how White could attack the imprisoned queen, especially as he only had 10 seconds left (although with a 10 second increment as well). In the end he found the following moves, which while not winning the queen outright, was good enough to win the game (again based on my imperfect memory).
This year is my 8th year of growing my usually voluminous mo, and as the picture to the right shows, I am already off to a good start. However, unlike previous years I will be going for quality over quantity, although for now I am aiming for a huge block of marble, before I chip away to reveal the masterpiece within.
It is of course for a good cause, and I am taking donations. You can visit http://mobro.co/shaunpress either to make a donation, or just to see my somewhat sporadic updates. And thos who wish to check my mo out in person, don't forget to drop into the Vikings Weekender!
One stage that a lot of chessplayers go through when starting out is the 'copy cat' stage. Trying to play risk free chess, they think that copying their opponents move can't hurt. The only problem with this is that chess isn't a symmetrical game, and there are of course some moves that can't be copied (You normally can't meet a check with a check, unless it is chess on TV).
Some openings do lend themselves to symmetry more than others, with the Four Knights Opening and the Symmetrical English springing to mind. Even then one player usually breaks the symmetry around move 10 or so.
The longest "symmetrical" game is the following between Rotlewi and Eljaschoff (according to Tim Krabbe). Even then it is not truly symmetrical (symmetry is broken as early as move 2), although from move 3 the moves match (although if the only condition is that the final position is symmetrical then I have seen plenty of endgame's that end this way.) The other issue with this game is that is was apparently just a very long agreed draw between the two players in the final round of an event. In fact White missed a much stronger continuation on move 13 (demonstrating the danger in copying) with the line 13.Bxe5 Bxe4 14.Bxg7 Bxg2 15.Bxf8 Bxf1 16.Qg7# stopping Black from replying.
A number of years ago I heard a story about Viktor Korchnoi having to ask an arbiter if he could castle when his rook was attacked. It was one of the 'ha ha Grandmasters don't know the rules' stories that you hear every now and then, without knowing whether it is actually true or not.
It turns out there is some doubt about the story, and I have seen a few different versions told. There is less doubt a similar story concerning Yuri Averbakh, who when playing CJS Purdy, thought that Purdy had castled illegally queenside as his rook passed over an attacked square (b8 in this case).
Amazingly, I saw examples of both of these situations in the one game that was played at Street Chess today. On move 13, Alana Chibnall castled kingside while her rook on h1 was attacked by the bishop on c6, and then 9 moves later Miles Patterson castled queenside, with the rook passing over the b8 square that was attacked by the bishop on f4.
When I pointed this out after the games both players simply shrugged, as while unusual, they both knew that castling was perfectly legal in both cases.
Only a week before the 2015 Vikings Weekender begins. It is already shaping up as a strong event (in the Open), and a competitive one (in the Under 1600). The $1000 1st prize in the Open (sponsored by the Vikings Club) is certainly attractive, and apart from IM Junta Ikeda (current top seed), it is expected a few other titled players will be taking part. Thanks to generous sponsorship from O2C the Under 1600 is also offering $500 for first, which is a tidy some for a weekends chess.
The tournament runs over the weekend of the 14 and 15th November at the Vikings Rugby Union Club, Ricardo St, Wanniassa. It will be a 7 round swiss with a time limit of G60m+10s (for both sections). Entry fee is $65 ($45 for juniors & concessions).
You can register for the event (no payment reqd) at http://vesus.org/festivals/2015-vikings-weekender/ If you do not know your ACF ID (or even rating), just put something in, as all the ratings and ID's will be checked prior to the start of the event.
Digging through my old score books I cam across the following game. I can remember being quite pleased with this game, although at the time I knew I was lucky to get away with the win. The exchange sacrifice was of course unsound, but paid off when my opponent moved his king to the wrong square, allowing me to execute a smothered mate a la Philidor. The other thing that stood out was the look of surprise on my opponents face when the Queen went to g8. I'm not sure whether this was because he had never seen this checkmate before (unlikely), or simply that he missed the finish in this case.
One of the features of the play of Jose Capablanca was his use of the 'petit combination'. This was a short tactical sequence that was designed to create a positional advantage. It usually involved a brief investment of material, which was then won back a few moves later, with an improved position being the ultimate reward.
Here is a more recent example of such a combination (based on a game I saw last night, but I suspect not an exact replica). White has just swung the rook to b1, offering the knight on c3. After 1. ... Qxc3 2. Rxb8+ Nxb8 3.Qe8+ Bf8 4.Qxe6+ Kg7 5.Bf1 White has a much better position, and won soon after (I think the Black king was checkmated on h4 at the end).
Interestingly, more recent examinations of Capablanca's games has shown that in some instances his opponents missed better defences, which would have thrown some doubt on the soundness of the combination. And so it was in the position (although maybe not the actual game). Instead of recapturing on b8, Black could have surrendered the exchange with 2. ... Bf8 gaining an extra tempo to capture the pawn on d3 (Qe1+ is also a threat), with plenty of play.
Inspired by the Anand - So game from the Bilbao Masters (where 6 queens were used at various stages), I went looking for games where 6 queens were on the board at the same time. In the past such games were as rare as rocking horse poop, and the ones that did exist were considered either faked or arranged. Despite the vast number of games played, and recorded in databases over the last 20 years, the number of games has not really increased. I only found 3 games, from 1992, 2000, and 2009. The game from 1992 seemed real up until a point, but the triple promotion to end the game looked entirely contrived. The game from 2000 certainly looked pre-arranged, as the game was drawn after 16 moves. This left the following game from 2009. While it was also a draw the length of the game, and indeed the moves at least makes it look like the only genuine 6 queen game on record.
When FIDE implemented faster times for the Chess Olympiad a number of years ago, there was quite an outcry against it. Chess was a serious game requiring serious thinking time, and a push to faster time limits was just a gimmick.
These days the outcry seems to have died down, and it seems that almost every big event is introducing their own time controls. Only having increments after move 40 (or even 60) seems to be a thing at the moment, as time scrambles are back in fashion.
The latest tournament to try a faster time control is the Zurich Challenge, which is moving to the even faster time limit of 40m+10s per game. So spectators won't feel cheated, they are planning to play two rounds a day under this format, so there will be around 4 hours of chess.
In my opinion this is veering very close to a rapidplay event, and in fact is rated as such. A number of years ago I experimented with 40m+30s per move (for a weekend event) but a number of players felt that this was too fast for "real" chess and the experiment was not repeated.
But it is the sponsors right to organise events however they wish, and if a player does not like the time controls they can always pass on the event. However looking at the invite list (Anand, Nakamura, Kramnik, Aronian, Giri and Shirov) it seems that the fast time control is something they can live with, although it is also a time control they all look comfortable at.
The final event of the 2015 ACT Interschool Series was held today, with Lyneham High qualifying to represent the ACT at the 2015 Australian Schools Teams Championship. They are joined by Radford College (Secondary Girls), Kaleen Primary (Primary Open), and Caroline Chisholm (Primary Girls) as representatives from the ACT.
Full results can be found at the ACT Junior Chess League web page.


The Rhos-on-Sea based outfit scooped the top accolade at the equivalent of the Oscars ceremony for sports clubs.
Club Mirror is the trade magazine for social, entertainment and sports and fitness clubs across Britain.
The cricket club had already enjoyed a successful year having scooped a CAMRA award and Cask Mark status before the top accolade.


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La baria (pronunciata barìa, chiamata barye in diverse lingue straniere; ) è l'unità di misura della pressione nel sistema CGS. È uguale a 1 dine/cm2.

1 Ba = 0,1 Pa = 0,1 N/m2

dove:

 il pascal (Pa) è l'unità del Sistema Internazionale (SI) della pressione
 il newton (N) è l'unità SI della forza
 il metro (m) è l'unità SI della lunghezza

Un multiplo della baria (megabaria, MBa) è equivalente ad un'altra unità di misura della pressione, il bar. Si ha quindi:

106 Ba = 1 MBa = 1 bar

Note

Voci correlate
Sistema CGS
Sistema internazionale di unità di misura

Unità cgs
Unità di pressione


Jaylen Williams had 11 points Saturday.
LYNCHBURG, Va. – Host University of Lynchburg completed a sweep of its ODAC men's basketball series with Shenandoah University by downing SU 96-70 Saturday afternoon at Turner Gymnasium.
Lynchburg (19-5, 10-5 ODAC) jumped out to a 31-11 lead over Shenandoah (5-18, 1-13) and kept up the pressure throughout. The hosts shot 52 percent from the field (38-of-73) and had seven of their 12 3-pointers in the first half.
Trailing by 16, 48-32, at the break, Shenandoah scored 11 of the initial 17 points of the second to cut the deficit to 11 points following a Jason Tate layup at 16:08.
SU was able to force a turnover on Lynchburg's ensuing possession, but missed a layup on its offensive end and then gave up a 3-pointer following a pair of missed Lynchburg free throws.
The 3-pointer, by Reggie Davis at 15:26, started a 16-2 run for the hosts that effectively sealed the contest.
Christopher Chaney led the visitors with 20 points with Jaylen Williams and Jalyn Jarrett each adding 11. Williams also had eight rebounds.
Shenandoah shot 39 percent (27-of-68) for the game and saw Lynchburg grab 46 of the game's 81 rebounds.
Shenandoah completes its season with home games Wednesday versus Virginia Wesleyan and Saturday versus Randolph.


Roy De Young Jr. Photo Credit: COURTESY: Roy De Young Jr.
MAYWOOD, N.J. -- A 69-year-old Maywood man who went into cardiac arrest Monday in the Paramus ShopRite wasn't breathing and had no pulse when veteran Maywood Firefighter Roy De Young Jr. brought him back to life with a defibrillator.
"I'd done CPR once before, but never this," De Young told Daily Voice a short time later. "We just had [defibrillator] class last year, so I'm grateful.
"This made a nice refresher course."
De Young, a Maywood DPW foreman, was off work Monday when he visited the supermarket "for a few things."
As he headed toward the express aisle, he saw a lane shut down and people standing in a circle.
The victim was on the floor -- no breath, no pulse, "not a darn thing," De Young said -- with a ShopRite employee on his knees next to him.
"I used to be an EMT," the worker told De Young.
"Together we lifted the guy's shirt and started CPR -- still nothing," he said.
Another worker came running with a debrillator.
"We shocked him and he came back," said De Young, 45. "Paramus police and EMS showed up and took over from there.
"He never spoke at all -- he gurgled at first," the veteran firefighter told Daily Voice. "But his condition improved.
De Young was only 16 years old when he became a firefighter.
"It's pretty much common sense when something like this happens -- as long as you stay cool and collected," he said.
The key, De Young said, is keeping the crowd back.
"All I can say is I was in the right place at the right time," he said.
"I still had to pay for my $41 in groceries, though," De Young added with a laugh. "I'm just glad it worked out well in the end."


How can a designer put this out? I realize CDs don't have the real estate of an LP anymore... but these examples are just huge wastes of space.
I don't know, I thought some of these weren't bad -- the first is pretty, and the flaming lips and leonard cohen ones are retro/homage. Certainly better than one of the ones you thought was "best".
I kind of dug the Springsteen and Cohen. Springsteen's album is as bleak and datk as the cover suggests, while Cohen seems to be luxuriating in his status as the grand old man of music. To each his own I guess.
i get what you mean..
i long for the days of good album covers. every picture told a story..
I sometimes wonder what the justification is for some of the album art I see, and I don't even mean the newer albums either, but some of the older ones that have been around for a long time, does the image convey anything about the album?
That is what I try to do with my cover art, or at the very least it's very stylish and, well, graphicy in its design.
At least I try to put some thought into what I build for my CD projects.
I got the Springsteen and the Leonard Cohen on vinyl. The Dylan was a waste of plastic. Didn't anyone tell you that CD's are totally 20th century? Get hep, honeybuns.
Totally saving this to share with my 2D design students.


John Coltrane is one of the most well-regarded saxophonists ever to pick up the instrument. He was a vital band member with Miles Davis and a force of his own as a solo artist. I used his Ballads album to serenade my children when they were babies and I still find myself playing it when I need a bit of serenity.
John was also quite spiritual. He recorded several albums that were spiritually inspired. In one of his seminal works, A Love Supreme, he wrote a Psalm and then, in the studio, put the words on his music stand and played them I first heard about this when I was 15 and playing the sax several hours a day. I couldn't fathom someone playing words instead of music. However, I did read John's Psalm and listen to the music and I did hear it.
Just a few weeks ago, Dan Colman made a video at OpenCulture, that shows you John's original words overlaid with the music. I found it mesmerizing to watch as I could put myself in the head of this musical genius and look at the words float by as the notes come out.
My thanks to David in Cincinnati for pointing me at the OpenCulture post.


Here are some main, current, group pages: the WUaS G + https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts - and WUaS's G + company page - https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts - both of which you can find via my name, Scott MacLeod, at WorldUniversityAndSchool@gmail.com. And here's the WUaS Google Group page - http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School (best accessed in Chrome). Let WUaS know here if you'd like to be on the email list at the email above or here - worldunivandsch@scottmacleod.com. And here are the WUaS groups in LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/World-University-School-4024337 (connected with my LinkedIn page - http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod), as well as in FB - https://www.facebook.com/groups/48753608141/ (which may be archived), and in Academia.edu - http://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/ScottMacLeod, and in Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch. Please join or add them, or create your own WUaS group, as well, for learning and teaching!
Google "World University and School" to visit WUaS. World University & School is a wiki (editable web pages) with open, free teaching and learning content, which is potentially in all languages, nation states, subjects and at all levels. There's kids' teaching and learning content there, too, and all of this content will grow. Its web address is http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University. It's like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware (with 1900 courses online), which all of us can create together. You can teach to your web camera and post this to a video streaming web site like youtube.com (which you'll find here on the FREE Educational Software page at WUaS), or learn from the abundant content already posted to WUaS, as well as add web links to the WUaS wiki. Degree- and credit-granting are planned for some years in the future.
This 'You at World University' is the page where you can orchestrate your education, teaching and learning. It's a budding academic social networking site, like G +, and through it, you will be able to participate in the interactive WUaS community, register for classes, generate your transcript, if you matriculate in the Bachelor's, Ph.D., Law or MD programs, see your grades. It's also one of many places where you can suggest how learning at WUaS can be both more fun and innovative.
Like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course, Ware, WUaS is open and free. Add your name, your avatar's name, or you pseudonym, and an email address, etc., below, to find your way into the worldwide, all languages and countries, WUaS community.
3.47 Select Tests, Exams, etc.
3.49 Select Theses, Dissertations, Papers, etc.
Create your own web page here, with information about what you know, would like to teach, and would like to learn.
Add a link to a page on your own web site or Facebook page about what you know or want to know.
World University & School Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141.
If you want to add your contact information for further communication, feel free to add an anonymous avatar's name and email address.
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I'm curious about ways, in this WUaS information technology planning phase, in which open source grading, and importantly, secure registrar/transcript (for accredited universities in many languages software can be programmed / coded with Intuit's Quickbooks Premier Online + for donor outreach, paying interns and employees, for the WUaS bookstore / computer store / musical instrument store, for taxes in many languages (e.g. TurboTax +), and Quickbooks' history of integrated finance software in many, many languages, at World University and School's - 'You at WUaS' - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University - and to define further what WUaS will need IT-wise in its academic registrar, and how to get there. WUaS would like You at WUaS to become a robust social networking site for students, for the conference method, and for musicians, perhaps building on the conference method and G+ video conferencing.
Check out the wiki information technologies and data plan at WUAS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Information_Technologies_and_Data_Plan. Eventually WUaS wants 'secure registrar' - https:// (e.g. like Vanguard Mutual Funds) and Wikipedia openness - in all 3000-8000 languages and 220-ish countries.
... will look to integrate Academia.edu's paper publishing at WUaS, perhaps here at 'You at WUaS' - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University.
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LMP dates are only accurate if you have the perfect cycle which most woman don't. This document reflects emerging clinical and scientific advances as of the date issued and is subject to change. For instance, one study found a reduction in the need for postterm inductions in a group of women randomized to receive routine first-trimester ultrasonography compared with women who received only second-trimester ultrasonography 5. Risk of late-preterm stillbirth and neonatal morbidity for monochorionic and dichorionic twins. This is interesting to me because it is inverted in my case! I want to go by mine too! Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol ; What to Expect When is your baby due? Calculate estimated due date EDD and gestational age based on: My EDD lines up exactly with my procedure.
Pregnancy dating ultrasoundFirst Trimester, Dating Ultrasound, Advanced Women's ImagingMethods for Estimating the Due Date - ACOG I'm 11 weeks if I go by my last menstrual period () however 3 weeks ago my It measures the baby's size and is far more accurate. will be going by and follow suit if he or she has made you feel LMP dates are best. Hiya everyone I was just looking over my hospital notes and remembered that ive had 3 different due dates this pregnancy, My first was. Just wanting to know if any others have had an EDD from a scan that was different to the EDD calculated based on their LMP (last menstrual period). Which was correct in the end – the LMP due date or the estimated date of the scan? Was your LMP or ultrasound more accurate, comment. Calculating Conception - American Pregnancy AssociationLMP or Ultrasound More AccurateMethods for Estimating the Due Date - ACOGDue Date Calculator The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that ultrasound-established dates should take preference over menstrual dates when the discrepancy between ultrasound dating and LMP is. Greater than 5 days before 9 0/7 weeks of gestation by LMP ; Greater than 7 days from 9 0/7 weeks to 15 6/7 weeks by LMP. If the ultrasound date is within seven days of your LMP date, we would stick with your LMP date. Ultrasounds done later in the pregnancy are less accurate for dating, so if your due date is set in the first trimester, it shouldn't be changed. Confirming the location of your pregnancy. Your doctor may have concerns that your pregnancy is located in the fallopian tube (ectopic pregnancy). This ultrasound will check if your pregnancy is developing normally within the uterus. Determining the number of babies present.
Logically, one might imagine we represent a pregnancy by how much time has elapsed since conception. Femur length was slightly less accurate than crown-rump length or BPD. Created by scrooks96 Last post 2 years ago. Sperling L, Tabor A. Babies grow at different rates in the womb just like they do on the outside. Clinical management guidelines for obstetricians-gynecologists. Just wondering if I should just assume I'll be "overdue" because of my ultrasound. LMP-based estimates were 0. If he's measuring behind from your LMP you have to give him time. Morin L, Lim K. First trimester ultrasound screening is effective in reducing postterm labor induction rates: Pregnancy recipes Pregnancy week by week Pregnancy due date calculator Baby eye colour predictor. I had another transabdominal ultrasound at 9 weeks 1 day and the tech said 8 weeks. Medical professionals use a standard set of up to three methods to date pregnancies: Hi, Just thought I would post this to find out what everyone else thinks. Conceptional age, menstrual age, and ultrasound age: Accuracy of gestational age estimation by means of fetal crown—rump length measurement.
I had the same problem based on my lmp my due date would be 3/8/ s calculation based on the ultrasound just to make sure baby is fully. When I got my dating ultrasound done they said I'm due September 21! I know it's not Today is my due date and I'm still pregnant. Unless you know when you ovulated or you have fairly regular cycles, LMP is not accurate. Calculate delivery due date, gestational age and other important dates during pregnancy using LMP, ultrasound dating, or date of conception (IVF). Raise your question or find answers in existing discussions. first child LMP date was 26/12, ultrasound date was 19/12, he was born 20/ The Pregnancy Due Dates Calculator Calculates pregnancy dates, forward from (LMP), current gestational age (GA), OR expected due date to determine the. Do you go by LMP or Ultrasound? - May Babies, Forums, What to ExpectHow Doctors Date Pregnancies, Explained - Dating your Pregnancy, The MotHERS Program™Predicting delivery date by ultrasound and last menstrual period in early gestation. First trimester ultrasound is the most accurate time frame for pregnancy dating and can increase the accuracy of the EDD even if LMP is known; Consider a pregnancy without a dating ultrasound prior to 22 0/7 weeks 'suboptimally dated' (refer to Related ObG Topics below) Mean sac diameter is not recommended for dating. Dating ultrasound is the most accurate without a doubt. Lmp is based on 14 day ovulation. Not every woman ovulates than. If lmp waa accurate enough they wouldn't waste your time with a . Pregnancy dating ultrasound vs lmp. Enrich your pregnancy. Note that spontaneous onset of sonography in order to predict your remaining length of ultrasound use. Enter date of the earlier in early in days of your due to determine the ultrasound. Serial quantitative measurements of illinois is between 18 and your last menstrual records in our.
Pregnancy Due Date Calculator: Please fill out required fields. When it's that big a difference you go by your ultrasound as you probably ovulated late, when it's only a couple days it doesn't really matter. Add 40 weeks to the date. Accurate determination of gestational age can positively affect pregnancy outcomes. I dont know where it went?! Chorionic gonadotropin secretion by human embryos in vitro.


It is not at all rare to get into heavy weather. Or to have to cross some uncharted shoals. In those cases it is sensible to have a pilot on board.
The benchmark: existing or targeted standards – they will receive all necessary complements or will be put into practice in the first place, respectively.
It is important to me to deliver, practical answers to practical issues, to solve all upcoming problems and to keep the overview even in difficult situations.
Sometimes a single conversation will suffice. In other cases it may make sense to get together several times at defined intervals. Conducting workshops with several participants may be helpful in getting the project underway and the whole team back on course. And in cases of project supervision, I will be on the navigation bridge, as it were, right by your side for a defined period of time.
Which measures will be the most appropriate for your project can only be determined in each case individually. I'm at the ready as your pilot!


Hello everyone ... I'm looking to get a new house that already has a lot of panels... Any idea on the ability to change them out for new ones??
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