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Olfa Hammami, Leila Dhouibi, Patrice Berçot, El Mustafa Rezrazi, Ezzeddine Triki, "Study of Zn-Ni Alloy Coatings Modified by Nano-SiO 2 Particles Incorporation", International Journal of Corrosion, vol. 2012, Article ID 301392, 8 pages, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/301392
Study of Zn-Ni Alloy Coatings Modified by Nano-SiO 2 Particles Incorporation
The aim of this research work was to codeposit nano-SiO2 particles into Zn-Ni alloy coatings in order to improve some surface properties. It had been investigated the effect of loading the plating bath with nanoparticles on composition, morphology, phase structure of deposits, and their subsequent influence on the corrosion process in corrosive solution of 3% NaCl and the thermal stability of deposits at C. It was found that Zn-Ni alloy composites contain a higher percentage of Ni with incorporation in the deposit of 1.54% of silica. X-ray diffraction measurements revealed that the alloys consisted of two phases, pure zinc and phase. Electrochemical characterization of the composites had been carried out through potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The composites exhibited higher values of microhardness and better corrosion resistance in corrosive media.
1. Introduction
The need for coatings with improved resistance to highly aggressive environments is high as a result of a growing demand for extended safe service life of industrial objects. Composite electrodeposition is a valuable new surface intensification technology to obtain composite coatings allowing to codeposit inorganic and organic particles into the coatings in order to improve the surface properties. Several studies showed that electrochemically embedded particles impart special properties to composite coatings produced, which can meet the industrial request such as wear resistance, self-lubrication, and corrosion resistance [1–3]. Currently and for the foreseeable future, the most important types of nanoparticles are simple oxides, such as Al2O3, TiO2, and SiO2 used in established applications [4–6]. The electrodeposition of Zn-Ni-SiO2 has generated amount of interest in the past years due to the attractive properties of Zn-Ni-SiO2 coating, the introduction of this alloy into industrial practice has been extremely successful. In addition, it has been observed that varying the electroplating bath chemistry, conditions, and deposition parameters may give rise to a wide variation in properties of the resulting deposits.
Zn-Ni-SiO2 coating has recently been used to replace cadmium plating which is widely used in the aerospace industries (i.e., landing gear, hydraulic actuators, high-performance fasteners, break, and fuel lines) because of its excellent corrosion resistance. The relation between our work and existing works on Zn-Ni-SiO2 composite coating is to replace the coating with Zn-Ni-SiO2 alloy as this coating shows great promise from the corrosion resistance point of view, representing a real challenge. Zn-Ni-SiO2 coating system may also find a wide range of advanced applications in marine industry, so we found it interesting to study this type of composite coating in 3% NaCl.
The particles of SiO2 are hydrophilic and hence incorporate hardly into the surface of cathode. The main purpose of this research work was to codeposit nano-SiO2 particles into the Zn-Ni alloy coatings under direct current in order to improve the surface properties and the corrosion resistance in aggressive media.
Then, the composite coatings had been characterized from compositional (EDX), morphological (SEM), structural (XRD), and depth profile (GDOES) points of view. In the meantime, electrochemical properties of the composite coatings had been studied by potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.
2. Experimental
2.1. Electroplating Process
The chemical compositions of the basic electrolyte of Zn-Ni alloys deposition is given in Table 1 [7]. All experiments were carried out in duplicates, and the ability to reproduce of these measurements was found satisfactory.
Galvanostatic measurements were performed on steel rod cathode which was placed in a PTFE mount for obtaining cross-sectional area of 0.2 cm2 in contact with solution. The deposition was done on steel (STUB 100CR6) substrates. The chemical composition of STUB 100CR6 steel was 98.6% Fe, 0.95% C, 0.2%, Mn 0.15% Si, and 0.015% S (wt%). Initially, the steel samples were mechanically polished with successively finer grades of emery paper. They were then washed in deionized water. This procedure was repeated until a clear and smooth surface was obtained. To obtain fixed hydrodynamic conditions, the Zn-Ni coatings were deposited on a rotating disc electrode (RDE) with a constant rotation velocity of 1000 rpm. The deposition experiments were performed at a current density of 25 mA/cm2, and the plating time was 15 min. The SiO2 powder (AEROSIL 200) with a mean diameter of 12 nm was used as received without any pretreatment.
Before electrodeposition, the nanoparticles were dispersed in the bath by ultrasonic wave for 30 min. Particles with concentration of 5 g/L were maintained in an electrolytic bath in suspension by continuous magnetic stirring of 200 rpm for at least 24 hours before deposition.
2.2. Elesctrochemical Measurements
For electrochemical measurements (anodic polarization curves and impedance spectra), the coated samples were exposed to 3% NaCl solution (, T = 25°C). These studies were performed respectively with potentiostat PGP 201 and interface Solartron SI 1287/SI 1250 in a thermostatic three-electrode cell. The working electrode was a coated sample, the counter electrode was platinum with an area of 1 cm2 and the reference electrode was saturated calomel SCE (Hg/Hg2Cl2/KCl saturated). The deposition and potentiodynamic stripping processes were performed in a nonagitated electrolyte at room temperature.
2.3. Characterization Studies
An X-ray diffraction investigation of Zn-Ni electrodeposits was carried out using an X-ray diffractometer D8 (Advance Bruker) equipped with a copper anode generating Ni-filtered CuKα radiation (l = 1.5405 Å, 45 KV, 40 mA). The quantity of Zn and Ni in the coatings and their thicknesses was determined by means of Fischerscope X-Ray XDAL fluorescence. Surface morphology of the deposits was followed with electron microscope at 15 KV. Measurements of the Vickers microhardness (HV) of deposits were performed in the surface by using as HMV-M3 SHIMADZU Microhardness tester under 25 g to 100 g load for 10 s, and the corresponding final values were determined as the average of 5 measurements.
Glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy (GDOES); the distribution of species in the deposit, was determined by depth profiling using a Jobin Yvon GD-Profiler instrument equipped with a 4 mm diameter anode and operating after optimization at a pressure of 650 Pa and a power of 30 W in an argon atmosphere. This low power was retained to decrease the speed of abrasion of the deposits with low thickness and to obtain maximum information at the surface. Quantified compositional results were evaluated automatically utilizing the standard Jobin Yvon quantum Intelligent Quantification software. The instrument was calibrated with standard known composition. Depths were calculated using relative sputter rates, obtained from the sputter yields of each major element with corrections for composition and discharge conditions.
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Behavior of SiO2 Nanoparticles in the Plating Solution
In Table 2, we regrouped zeta potential and electrophoretic mobility measurements of particles suspended in the electroplated solution diluted 100 times. By observing the movement of particles under the influence of an electric field in the airframe microelectrophoresis "Rank Brothers II," we can determine the effective charge of particles and calculate the electrophoretic mobility of the particle and its corresponding zeta potential.
We noted negatively charged particles of SiO2. This type of oxide is hydrophilic, so it always interacts with the electrolyte, and therefore chemical and physical adsorption of electrolyte ions onto the particle occurs. This adsorption and the initial particle surface composition determine the particle surface charge, which induces a double layer of electrolyte ions around the particle. In electrolytes, double layers play a major role in the interactions between particles and also between particles and the electrode [8]. SiO2 has a negative surface charge at pH 6.7, and therefore zinc or nickel ions should surround the particles to give them an overall positive surface charge. According to some authors, this may lead to codeposition at the negatively charged cathode [9].
The absolute value of the zeta potential is a very important factor for the degree of particles incorporation. In fact, zeta potential determined the static electricity force among nano-SiO2 particles and influenced greatly the character either agglomeration or dispersion among the nanoparticles [10]. When the nanoparticles of SiO2 became close to the cathode, the repulsion force among the double-charge layers of nanoparticles and increased the possibility of conglobation among nanoparticles decreased. In addition, the positive/negative of the zeta potential value on the nanoparticle surfaces had the crucial influence to the interaction among nanoparticles and cathode surface during electrodeposition. So the stability of the composite electrodeposition solution could be characterized by the zeta potential on the nanoparticle surfaces. It can be seen from Table 2 that, in pH 6.7, the value of zeta potential was lower than 25 mV, showing that, in the composite electrodeposition solution, the conglobation trend among nanoparticles increased and the dispersibility of the composite electrodeposition solution was weakened [10].
3.2. Compositional Analysis, Morphology, and Depth Profile of Deposits
Table 3 showed a comparison between Zn-Ni deposits composition electroplated at 25 mA/cm2 for 15 min. The X-ray fluorescence analysis of the composite coatings revealed about a double percentage of Ni in the alloy composite in comparison with Zn-Ni alloy coating. The Ni content of Zn-Ni alloy deposits plays a major role in controlling the phases present and the grain size [11]. In the electrodeposition of Zn-Ni/SiO2 composites, a phenomenon of induced codeposition was observed, since SiO2 increased the percentage of Ni in the alloys, Ni cations simultaneously accelerated the codeposition of SiO2 [12].
The ratio of the less noble metal Zn to the more noble metal Ni in the deposit () is larger than in the bath (R). This phenomenon is known as ''anomalous codeposition," fully described by Brenner [13].
The surface morphology of Zn-Ni alloy coating showed branched acicular crystallite structure (Figure 1(a)), as proved in our anterior results [7]. The surface of the composite coating (Figure 1(b)) seems to keep the same appearance with piled and smooth grains. EDS analysis of the composite coating surface revealed a silica content of 1.54%.
Figure 2 showed the GDOES depth profile of the wt.% amount of the selected elements: zinc, nickel, silicon and iron for the Zn-Ni composite coating. The distributions of the different species are revealed clearly with sharply defined interface between the deposit and the substrate. The thickness of the composite measured by GDOES correlate very well with the one obtained by X-ray fluorescence (approximately 7 μm). Zinc and nickel species are incorporated relatively uniformly along the cross-section as depicted in Figure 2. Just in the outer region of the film, we confirm the presence of silicon which decreased until a depth of approximately 0.5 μm.
3.3. Phase Structure and Microhardness
Figure 3 showed the XRD patterns for the plated Zn-Ni alloy coatings. It is clear that no significant change of phases content in spectra resulted from loading the plating bath with nano-SiO2 particles. Only the diffraction lines of zinc and γ phase of Zn-Ni alloys were observed. However, the peak of Fe (211) in the Zn-Ni/5 g/L SiO2 alloy composite diffractogram disappeared giving rise probably to a deposit covering the surface of steel better than Zn-Ni alloy coating. We noted that Zn-Ni alloy coating and composite coating had approximately the same thicknesses.
Crystallite sizes of the coatings were calculated from the X-ray peak broadening of the (330) diffraction peak using Scherrer's formula [14]: where K is the Scherrer factor ≈1, D is the crystallite size, is the incident radiation wavelength, β is the integral breadth of the structurally broadened profile, and is the angular position.
Zn-Ni alloy deposit exhibited a crystallite size of 50 nm, whereas the crystallite size of Zn-Ni composite coating decreased to 26 nm. We could explain this evolution by the fact that the nanoparticles of silica might perturb the crystal growth by increasing the number of nucleation sites and consequently a reduction in the grain size occurs as reported by Pavlatou et al. [1]; namely, the growth of the electrodeposited layer is a competition between the nucleation and crystal growth. Nanoparticles provide more nucleation sites and hence retard the crystal growth; subsequently the corresponding Zn-Ni matrix in the composite coating has a smaller crystal size.
Vickers microhardness (HV) values of Zn-Ni alloy deposits are shown in Figure 4.
The evolution of coatings hardness showed an increase from about 140 HV for pure Zn-Ni alloy to about 396 HV for samples prepared with SiO2 particles. We can conclude that the microhardness was affected by the incorporation of this type of nanoparticles into deposits. In turn, crystallite size is an important variable affecting the hardness value [15]. In fact, smaller crystallite size implies a greater number of grain boundaries that impede dislocation motion and then creates harder materials.
3.4. Thermal Stability
The thermal stability of Zn-Ni alloy electrodeposits is important to their general evaluation for future applications, particularly in applications where the coatings are expected to perform at elevated temperature such as on some automotive parts. In this study, in order to evaluate the stability of the deposits, we followed the microhardness evolution of deposits treated at 200°C continuously for 30 min, 2 hours, and 24 hours (Figure 5).
After annealing at 200°C, deposits revealed reduced hardness values after 30 min of thermal treatment, especially the hardness of composites alloy. The reduced hardness could be attributed to surface oxidation phenomena or a rapid grain growth and a decrease of internal stresses as reported by Apachitei et al. [16]. Further heating for 24 hours at 200°C led to stable Vickers microhardness of composite deposits. These values were maintained higher than those of Zn-Ni alloy coatings.
3.5. Corrosion Behavior of Zn-Ni Alloy Deposits in 3% NaCl Solution
3.5.1. Potentiodynamic Polarization Studies
Figure 6 showed the anodic polarization curves elaborated at v = 25 mV/min of steel substrates coated with Zn-Ni alloy coating immerged in 3% NaCl. Distinct peaks were observed which could be attributed to the dissolution of Zn-Ni alloy components [17, 18] in the corroding media.
Based on previous results [7], we could make a qualitative estimate of Zn-Ni alloy structure. The two first peaks corresponded to the dissolution (dealloying) of Zn from η and γ phases which were situated at, respectively, −800 and −615 mV/SCE, whereas the third peak corresponded to the dissolution of Ni from their phases (Table 4). We noted that the intensity of the first peak relative to Zn-Ni alloy composite decreased. This evolution suggests a reduce of the electrochemical kinetics of Zn-Ni composite. In fact, an increase in life of the protective coating would simply depend on the life of the more electronegative phase, which is a Zn-rich η phase [19]. Dissolution of this phase would expose the nickel-rich phase to the environment.
As mentioned in Table 4, there was a clear shift for second and third peaks toward the noble direction (Table 4), giving rise to an increase in corrosion resistance of Zn-Ni composite coating. Moreover, the corrosion potential shifted to positive values (Table 4) indicating a change in the content ratio in the alloy and higher corrosion resistance compared with the Zn-Ni alloy coating.
We followed the loss of metal from Zn-Ni alloy deposit by stripping with X-ray fluorescence. In comparison with Zn-Ni alloy coatings, we noted that the dezincification rate of Zn-Ni alloy composites decreased from 24% to 2% until the last remaining phase (α-phase).
3.5.2. Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
EIS was used to evaluate the barrier properties of the coatings after 24 hours of immersion in 3% NaCl and to determine their polarization resistance. Figure 7(a) presented a comparison of Nyquist responses obtained for Zn-Ni alloy coatings and Zn-Ni alloy composites elaborated under the same quantities of electricity. Three semicircles are generally observed in the complex-plane representation of the EIS data; the enlargement of the curves at high frequency (Figure 7(b)) showed the third semicircle.
The Nyquist-like diagram of the samples is characteristic of electrode process under kinetic and charge transfer control. The polarization resistance values could be approximately determined by fitting the Nyquist response to an equivalent circuit consisting of three RC components: the first time constant (, ) was attributed to the protective coating properties, (, ) an intermediate relaxation attributed to charge transfer which produced in the film defaults with was the charge transfer resistance, and was the double-layer capacitance at the interface. This time constant was probably due to the heterogeneity of the film which can result from the existence of high- and low-density zones inside the film. The third time constant (, ) in the low-frequency part (1–10−2 Hz) could be attributed to the deposited corrosion products [20]. In all cases, the proposed model was in total agreement with the experimental data. The values of Zn-Ni alloy coatings, determined by fitting with the model and summarized in Table 5, was estimated from the addition of (). From Table 5, we noted that values of this system, which reached 6.5 Ω·cm2, were seen to improve, while their capacitance decreases. In the meantime, we noted an increase of value of Zn-Ni alloy composite denoting the decrease of the corrosion intensity.
Composition analyses of deposits immersed in 3% NaCl for 24 h (Table 5) showed that composites dissolve slower than Zn-Ni alloy coatings and keep a higher percentage of Ni in the deposit.
MEB micrographs indicated that Zn-Ni alloy coating immersed in 3% NaCl for 24 hours suffered from defects with grains of salt deposited in clusters on the surface (Figure 8(a)). However, micrographs of Zn-Ni alloy composite showed a reduction in the defects sizes (Figure 8(b)) and the deposit seemed to keep the same appearance represented in Figure 1(b). EDS analysis showed that the nanoparticles of SiO2 were still incorporated in the composite, while their percentage decreased to 0.8%. In fact, the incorporation of nanoparticles in the deposit may be helpful to segregate the corrosion products appeared in a thin layer in Figure 8(b). This is confirmed by composition analyses showed in Table 5, which proved a decrease of the percentage of Fe and Cl in the composite in comparison with Zn-Ni alloy coating. Several hypotheses have been developed assuming that the decrease of corrosion intensity may be related to the structural and/or electronic properties of the passive oxide particles [21].
4. Conclusion
This work represented the electrodeposition and the corrosion behavior of Zn-Ni alloy deposits elaborated in absence or in presence of 5 g/L of nano-SiO2 in the plating bath. This study was made to evaluate the influence of nanoparticles addition on some properties such as hardness, morphologic, structure characteristics, and corrosion resistance. In comparison with Zn-Ni alloy coatings, the results revealed that Zn-Ni alloy composites: (i)revealed a higher percentage of Ni and an incorporation of 1.54% of silica in the deposit, (ii)formed a mixture of two phases, zinc and γ phases, with smaller crystallite size, (iii) exhibited higher values of microhardness and were thermally stable up to 24 hours at 200°C, (iv) revealed better corrosion resistance in corrosive media of 3% NaCl. This behavior indicates that Ni content, morphology, and the content of nanoparticles in the composite are responsible for the observed corrosion behavior.
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support provided by "Action Intégrée Franco-Tunisienne du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes Français et du Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche Scientifique et de la Technologie Tunisien."
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On June 4th, 2009, Scott Neel (the director) and Marmot Athlete Kevin Jorgeson will be hosting the California Premiere of Rocky Mountain Highball at the Rialto Theatre in Berkeley. This event is produced by the Yama Studio is presented by the American Alpine Club, Climbing Magazine, Urban Climber, Vertex Climbing Center, Marmot, and Berkeley's Marmot Mountain Works.
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Starring Fred MacMurray
Season 6 (CBS) (1965-66) (color)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
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Start of the Color Episodes
Syndication Package 2 starts here:
CBS Thursdays 8:30 pm EST (32 episodes) [185-216]
6.1 [--] My Three Sons: THE FIRST MARRIAGE (color #1)
16Sep65 CBS Thur
Vera Miles ....Ernestine Coulter
Tim Considine ....Mike Douglas
Annabelle Garth ....Lucy
Jennifer Lea ....Marion
Meredith MacRae ....Sally Ann Morrison Douglas
Barbara Perry ....Mrs. Thompson
Sandra Wirth ....Blonde
The wedding of his eldest son starts Steve Douglas thinking about his age.
6.2 [--] My Three Sons: RED TAPE ROMANCE (color #2)
23Sep65 CBS Thur
Vera Miles ....Ernestine Coulter
Virginia Gregg ....Mrs. Miller
Steve Douglas explores the possibilities of adopting 10-year-old Ernie, but runs into objections from Uncle Charley.
6.3 [--] My Three Sons: BROTHER, ERNIE (color #3)
30Sep65 CBS Thur
Vera Miles ....Ernestine Coulter
Virginia Gregg ....Miss Miller
John Gallaudet ....Judge Leland
Ernie's adoption into the all-male Douglas household is threatened by an adoption regulation that there must be a
lady of the house.
6.4 [--] My Three Sons: ROBBIE AND THE CHORUS GIRL (color #4)
14Oct65 CBS Thur
Pamela Austin ....Dawn
Joel Donte ....Danny
Robin Grace ....Wanda
Yale Summers ....Phil
Arline Hunter ....beauty
Laurie Mitchell ....gala girl
Uncle Charley has Steve Douglas worried about son Robbie's late dates with a flashy chorus girl.
6.5 [--] My Three Sons: THERE'S A WHAT IN THE ATTIC (color #5)
21Oct65 CBS Thur
Ernest Anderson .... Sergeant Foley
Jon Silo ....lion tamer
Quintin Sondergaard ....Policeman
Late one night, Steve sleepily investigates young Ernie's ridiculous report about having seen a lion in the house.
6.6 [--] My Three Sons: OFFICE MOTHER (color #6)
28Oct65 CBS Thur
Joan Blondell ....Harriet
Barry Brooks ....Joe
Lee Meriwether
Andrea Sacino ....Laura
Steve Douglas hires a grandmother as his secretary, only to find her running his office like a kitchen.
6.7 [--] My Three Sons: MARY LOU (color #7)
04Nov65 CBS Thur
Patty Ann Gerrity ....Mary Lou
Rand Brooks ....Frank
Ilana Dowding ....Nell June
Chip makes a date with a beautiful older woman who is almost in high school.
6.8 [--] My Three Sons: MONSTERS AND JUNK LIKE THAT (color #8)
11Nov65 CBS Thur
Bill Corcoran ....Pete
Wayne Heffley ....Harry
Kym Karath ....Pammy
Joan Vohs ....Mrs. King
Quintin Sondergaard ....Policeman
Stephen McEveety ....boy
Florence Ravenel ....woman
Steve Doon being his slave.
6.9 [--] My Three Sons: CHARLEY AND THE DANCING LESSON (color #9)
18Nov65 CBS Thur
Joanna (Cook) Moore ....Helen Saunders
A seductive dance instructor signs Uncle Charley up for a lifetime membership in a dance club.
6.10 [--] My Three Sons: MY SON, THE BALERINA (color #10)
25Nov65 CBS Thur
Jeanette Nolan ....Madam Irina
William Boyett ....Coach
Sharon Farrell ....Cathy
Robbie is so eager to make the track team that, to improve his timing, he agrees to join a ballet class.
6.11 [--] My Three Sons: THE ERNIE REPORT (color #11)
2Dec65 CBS Thur
Guest Cast: no details
Ernie feels neglected when the other members of the family are busy with various girl friends and he is left alone.
6.12 [--] My Three Sons: THE HONG KONG STORY (color #12)
9Dec65 CBS Thur
Maurice Dallimore ....Atherton
Frances Fong ....Lucy
Harold Fong ....Lin
David Fresco ....tailor
Nancy Hsueh ....Lo An
Tommy Lee ....Max
George Takei ....Won Tsun
The Douglas family visits Hong Kong and Uncle Charley hunts for his Oriental sweetheart of 30 years ago.
6.13 [--] My Three Sons: MARRIAGE AND STUFF (color #13)
16Dec65 CBS Thur
Dana Dillaway ....Mary Jane
Chris Noel ....Margie
James Victor ....Teddy
Steve's unusual behavior convinces his family that he is planning to be married-secretly.
6.14 [--] My Three Sons: DOUGLAS A GO-GO (color #14)
23Dec65 CBS Thur
Ilana Dowding ....Kathy
Jean Engstrom ....Mrs. Hargrove
The Douglas family bravely accepts the challenge when 13 year old Chip decides to give a party--with girls.
6.15 [--] My Three Sons: CHARLEY, THE PIGEON (color #15)
30Dec65 CBS Thur
Tom Alexander....Bill
Booth Colman ....Kramer
Quinn O'Hara ....Donna
Chips Swanson ....Boy
Uncle Charley limbers up his billiard cue to get revenge after two girl pool sharks take $50 from Robbie.
6.16 [--] My Three Sons: WHAT ABOUT HARRY? (color #16)
6Jan66 CBS Thur
Guest Cast: no details
A huge shaggy stray dog adopts Steve Douglas and disrupts the neighborhood with his howls when Steve tries to
leave the house.
6.17 [--] My Three Sons: FROM MAGGIE WITH LOVE (color #17)
13Jan66 CBS Thur
Dana Wynter ....Maggie Bellini
Lou Krugman ....Armand
Jonathan Lippe ....Photographer
Danielle Aubry ....Michele
Noel Drayton ....Higgins
Hubie Kerns ....Chauffeur
One of the world's ten richest women sets her sights on Steve Douglas by showering his family with costly gifts.
6.18 [--] My Three Sons: ROBBIE AND THE SLAVE GIRL (color #18)
20Jan66 CBS Thur
Sherry Alberoni ....Ruth
Benson Fong ....Ray Wong
Hank Jones ....Pete
Oaky Miller ....Student
Beulah Quo ....Alice
Irene Tsu ....Terry
Robbie is the unwilling beneficiary of an old Chinese custom when the girl whose life he saves insists
on being his slave.
6.19 [--] My Three Sons: STEVE ANDF THE HUNTRESS (color #19)
27Jan66 CBS Thur
Terry Moore ....Eleanor
Steve Douglas is tempted when a beautiful female explorer invites him to go along on an African safari.
6.20 [--] My Three Sons: ROBBIE, THE COLLEGE MAN (color #20)
03Feb66 CBS Thur
Suzanne Benoit ....Jane
Hank Jones ....Art
Dorothy Love ....Mrs. Harper
Barbara Pepper ....Mrs. Brand
Tim Rooney ....Bert
Bob Turnbull ....Mr. Miller
College man Robbie takes on a heavy workload of waiting on tables and other chores so that he can rent a room away
from home.
6.21 [--] My Three Sons: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY CHIP? (color #21)
10Feb66 CBS Thur
Jay North ........... Jeff
Ivan Bonar .......... Dr. Clark
Jerry Davis ........ Mark
Charles Herbert ..... Ed
Pitt Herbert ........ Sid
Harold Peary ........ Joe
Michael Rupert ...... John
When Chip adopts a shoulder-length hair style, Steve decides not to be a strict father but to give the boy more
6.22 [--] My Three Sons: ROBBIE AND THE LITTLE STRANGER (color #22)
17Feb66 CBS Thur
Tina Cole ............ Joanne
Karen Green .......... Eileen
Hal Stalmaster ....... Borden
Robbie Douglas has a spat with his girl while babysitting for friends, and then has to take the baby home with him.
6.23 [--] My Three Sons: CALL HER MAX (color #23)
24Feb66 CBS Thur
Seymour Cassel ...... Coach Gregson
Kaye Elhardt ........ Katherine
Kipp Hamilton ....... Maxine
Gregg Irving ........ Rosen
Maura McGiveney ..... Gladys
Two tomboys, a lady engineer and a member of a girls' hockey team prove tough to handle for both Steve Douglas and
his son Chip.
6.24 [--] My Three Sons: KID BROTHER BLUES (color #24)
03Mar66 CBS Thur
Elaine Devry ....Helen
Susan Gordon ....Shelly
Johnny Jensen ....J.J. Parkhurst
Donald Losby ....Tim
Keva Page ....Norma Sue
Mary Jane Saunders ....Charlene
Bill Willis ....Howie
Robbie Douglas learns how much of a pest a kid brother can be when Chip and Buddy break up his date with a pretty girl.
6.25 [--] My Three Sons: ROBBIE'S DOUBLE LIFE (color #25)
10Mar66 CBS Thur
Lori Martin ....Mary Sue
Vicky Albright ....Rebecca
Robbie has a wonderful time going steady with two girls simultaneously -- until the two ladies compare notes.
6.26 [--] My Three Sons: OUR BOY IN WASHINGTON (color #26)
17Mar66 CBS Thur
Tol Avery ....Paul
Susan Silo ....Janine
Maurice Marsac ....Ambassador
Billy Holms ....Messenger
Ernie sends a thank-you note to France for the Statue of Liberty, and the French government invites the Douglas
family to visit Washington.
6.27 [--] My Three Sons: ERNIE AND THAT WOMAN (color #27)
24Mar66 CBS Thur
Tamara Asseyev ....Bernardine
Vicki Cos ....Melissa
Ann Marshall ....Ruth
Fourth-grader Ernie gets involved with a conniving older woman in the sixth grade.
6.28 [--] My Three Sons: THE STATE VERSUS CHIP DOUGLAS (color #28)
31Mar66 CBS Thur
Charles Herbert ....Ralph
Flip Mark ....Fitzgibbons
Jimmy Mathers ....Norman
Tim Graham ....Mailman
Douglas Chip demands a jury trial when brother Ernie accuses him of taking a valuable penny from his coin collection.
6.29 [--] My Three Sons: A HUNK OF HARDWARE (color #29)
07Apr66 CBS Thur
Ernie packs a suitcase, ready to leave home, after he fails to win a cup for the family trophy shelf.
6.30 [--] My Three Sons: THE WRONG ROBBIE (color #30)
14Apr66 CBS Thur
Mary Kate Denny ....Cynthia
Jim Henaghan ....Marv
Eve McVeagh ....Clara
Melinda Plowman ....Julie
Walter Reed ....Dean of Men
Sarah Selby ....Dean of Women
Fredd Wayne ....Dr. Killebrew
Cissy Wellman ....Marcia
Clifford Sales ....Letterman
Jeanine Cashell ....Girl
A boy who looks just like Robbie almost ruins Robbie's reputation before the deception is uncovered.
6.31 [--] My Three Sons: THE WHEELS (color #31)
21Apr66 CBS Thur
Robbie loses his driving privileges after the campus beauty queen gets a ticket while driving his car.
6.32 [216] My Three Sons: LONDON MEMORIES (color #32)
28Apr66 CBS Thur
Anna Lee ......... Louise Allen
Nora Marlowe ..... Mrs. Carsten
Ben Wright ....... Sir Walter Marsden
Richard Peel ..... Freddy
Nelson Welch ..... Customer
John Barclay ..... 2nd Customer
The Douglas family returns from a trip to Britain, and Steve finds himself carrying a torch for a lovely widow.
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#818 closed task (fixed (in master))
Revise definition and operation of cache in slay_power()
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The slay_power() function (in obj-power.c) currently caches all 65536 combinations of brands and slays, to avoid looping over all 500-odd monsters more often than is necessary. In practice, <100 artifact weapons means almost no duplication occurs, and the cache is largely redundant.
With the advent of POWER_PRICING in [b7469a4] (SVN r1284), it becomes useful again - otherwise we loop over all monsters every time the player sells an ego weapon with a slay on it (which happens quite a bit in most games). So ideally we need to cache the slay permutations found in ego-item.txt, by
(1) using the eval_info() post-processing function called during init_info() of ego-item.txt to store those specific permutations in the cache.
That defines the cache and solves most of the problem, but it would be nice if we didn't recalculate the power of artifacts when they're sold. This would be achieved by
(2) adding artifact power to the artifact_type structure (just as monster power was added to the monster structure) - but we need to be careful to call store_base_power() when randarts are *not* used!
Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by magnate
- Status changed from new to assigned
comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by takkaria
Do you really need to add artifact power to artifact_type? AFAICS it'd be easier just to recalculate on sale-- is it really worth optimising for this case?
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by magnate
No, we probably don't, you're probably right. In any event, this ticket divides neatly into the two halves, so we can do the first half and then wait for people's feedback to see if we need do to the second bit.
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by magnate
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- Status changed from assigned to closed
Cache fixed in [75cb81e] (SVN r1371). Can always reopen if feedback indicates a need to store artifact power in the a_info structure.


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An intimate knowledge of what software has been purchased—and more importantly, what has been deployed—is crucial to surviving an audit. What was once a messy guessing game is now a more civilized approach thanks to Ivanti solutions.
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UCLA Alum Gets Lots of Love for Valentine's Day Google Doodle
According to a report in the Marin Independent Journal, it took 52-year-old animator Michael Lipman about 200 hours to put together the Google Doodle that adorned the search giant's home page on February 14. In case you missed the sweet concoction, it's embedded below.
Lipman got the Google gig on account of a personal referral. Although the one-time UCLA fine arts and animation student has worked for other big-time Silicon Valley clients such as Apple and Mondo Media, this week's audience was no doubt his largest. He told reporter Gary Klien that singer Tony Bennett, who provided the music, expressed an interest in also doing the artwork. In the end, Lipman won out.
Besides serenading the Internet keywords populace, Lipman also likes to evaluate Tequila bottle brands for a web show called "The Tequila Whisperer."


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By Amanda K Sharp,
Published:10/17/2013 Last Updated:09/10/2014
Compiler Methodology for Intel® MIC Architecture
This chapter is intended for users that are new users of Intel compilers or are not very familiar with common compiler options used to control optimization, vectorization, and floating point calculations. It is important to understand basic use of the compiler, optimizations, vectorization, and the set of essential compiler options and their use. This chapter also covers important environment variables and pragmas/directives to control compilation and runtime characteristics.
If you are looking for information on configuring your workstation or host for Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors (software drivers, firmware, Getting Started for your hardware configuration) GO HERE instead: Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Developer's Quick Start Guides (Windows and Linux)
Users should learn how to get started compiling with the Intel® C/C++ Compiler and the Intel® Fortran Compiler. You should also be able to answer the question "where can I find product documentation for my compiler?".
Intel Compilers come with extensive documentation on compiler usage, compiler options, and language and library runtime details. In addition, Samples and Tutorials are available with the compiler for both C++ and Fortran to help you get started.
Documentation: The compiler product User and Reference Guide also contains extensive documentation. Open the "Getting Started" document using the paths and links below:
Locate the "Getting Started" document for your compiler (Fortran or C++). The following hyperlinks will only work if you are viewing this page from a system that has the Intel compilers installed in the default path of /opt/intel:
where <path to docs> is by default in directory /opt/intel/composerxe/Documentation/en_US
If for some reason you cannot access this directory with a web browser, you can also find this information online. Visit
If you are able to access the document on your computer, you should familiarize yourself with the "Getting Started" content available in your product documentation. Bookmark this HTML page. Scrolling down, find the reference to the "User and Reference Guide" document.
Whether online or from the installed documentation on you system, once you have found and opened the "User and Reference Guide" document, you will notice a navigation sidebar on the left-hand-side of your window. If you are completely new to Intel compilers, start with the chapter "Getting Started". Before moving on, the following topics should be well understood:
The information in the compiler User and Reference Guide is information generic to applications running on either Intel® Xeon® processors or the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor. In subsequent chapters we will explore information unique and specific to programming for the Intel® Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel® MIC Architecture).
Samples: The best way to learn a new compiler is to try some simple programs as you explore compiler options and usage. Do not try complex applications until you are comfortable with the compiler and it's options. Samples are installed under the same root path as your compilers. By default, this compiler root path directory is /opt/intel/composerxe/Samples/en_US/[C++ | Fortran]. Of course, if you have some simple applications you may wish to use these as you become familiar with the Intel compiler. Samples are also referenced by the compiler Tutorials (see below).
Tutorials are ideal for those seeking a step-by-step method to learn compiler features using supplied Samples.
A list of tutorials for all Intel Developer Tools
The Release Notes include information about system requirements, product installation, new and changed features, and notes about features and problems not described in the product documentation.
How-to videos contain detailed instructions on how to use the Intel Compilers within a specific environment or how to perform very basic optimization techniques. The Intel Software Tools webinars provide comprehensive overviews on vectorization and threading.
You should be able to start creating or converting code to the Intel® C/C++ and Fortran compilers. You should be familiar with the source file 'compilervars' to set your path and library paths for correct use of the compiler. You should be familiar with essential compiler options such as -O, -x, -ax, -qopt-report, -fp-model, -ansi-alias, -prof-gen/-prof-use, -ipo, -ip, -qopenmp, -parallel, -restrict and others. You should be familiar with compiler directives/pragmas such as loop count, distribute, unroll, unroll_and_jam, and inline.
It is essential that you read this guide from start to finish using the built-in hyperlinks to guide you along a path to a successful port and tuning of your application(s) on Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors. The paths provided in this guide reflect the steps necessary to get best possible application performance.
The next chapter, Efficient Parallelization covers parallelization techniques.
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Apple will be reporting its financials for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 on July 24. Here are some insights into what to expect from the consumer electronics giant this earnings season.
The iPhone 4S was launched last October and drove Apple's revenue growth for the following two quarters. However, as consumers gear up for the launch of the next iPhone — the iPhone 5 — in October 2012, iPhone sales in the last quarter are expected to be relatively lower.
Apple always offers low guidance numbers, and then positively surprises analysts with better actual figures. However, it will be difficult for it to beat Wall Street consensus analyst estimates, given a slowdown in iPhone sales as well as a general macroeconomic weakness in China and Europe.
Since the iPhone accounts for a major portion of Apple's overall profits, this will probably lead to significantly lower revenue numbers compared to last quarter.
The iPad 3 has been seeing some crazy sales numbers since its launch in March. This will be the first full quarter since the launch of the tablet, and we expect the revenue growth to be driven primarily by the launch of the iPad 3.
The iPad's launch in China, particularly, could drive a huge jump in revenues.
Estimates suggest that Apple sold nearly 29 million iPhones in the June quarter, down from 35 million in the March quarter. However, it is expected to have sold around 15 million iPads this quarter, which could potentially compensate for the fall in iPhone sales.
The coming year is going to be very eventful for Apple, as it launches the next iPhone in October, possibly the iPad Mini before the end of the year, as well as the next version of the iPad in March 2013.
Other Stuff
Apple will also have sold a ton of Macs, iPods and other auxiliary stuff, and will also generate some revenue from iTunes and the App Store, but that is insignificant compared to its iPhone and iPad sales.
Analyst expectations point to estimated revenue of $37.2 billion in Q3 FY12, with earnings per share of $10.35.
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Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have been utilized to produce natural gas from shale for less than a years in a lot of parts of the United States. Nevertheless, some basic declarations can be made about the efficient life of a normal well. As explained in the previous Article, these wells will yield at a rapid rate right away after drilling and the yield decrease quickly throughout the very first year then more slowly over time.
The return throughout the very first month after completion will reveal how important the well will be. The lower yield wells produce one to two million cubic feet per day. Lots of wells yield in between 3 and five million cubic feet daily. However enormous wells could produce as much as twenty million cubic feet each day. The more the well yields in the first month, the better it generally will be over time.
The normal well may yield as much as half of its gas in the very first five years of production. Wells may then continue to produce for an overall of twenty to thirty years however at cheaper and lower production rates. Careful with production and royalty expectations is recommended! Long-term guarantee from shale formations in the United States is not offered.
Throttling New Wells
In the initial days of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing of shale, it was customary practice to enable the well to produce at full capacity as soon as it was put on the line. This provided fast income for the business and maximized the numbers in their next shareholder report.
Research shows that the production throttling of new well can lead to a more productive well lifetime and greater restorative of gas. The theory behind this is that quick preliminary production permits the pore areas in the shale to deflate unevenly. Pores near the good collapse first as the gas quickly relocate to the well which triggers more distant gas to be caught within the formation. Slowing the production rate allows the pores to deflate more evenly and enables an organized, more effective and more complete gas healing.
This concept remains to be shown, but some manufacturers are starting to use it. A second reason to throttle the gas is that it allows the company to strategize its drilling rates and production better, match them to transmission capacity and prevent the needs of the market.
New Gas from Future Technologies
Current innovations are recuperating a little percentage of the gas that is kept in the rocks. Throughout the next twenty to thirty years brand-new techniques for extracting gas from the Earth could be established. It is possible that these brand-new approaches could be used to rework existing wells and restore their efficiency. Time will tell.


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- melt chocolate and remaining s.c.milk over LOW heat, add last tsp. of vanilla
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This folk art inspired bird needle minder is a colorful way to keep track of your needles. Made of smooth enamel with a strong magnet, it's the perfect addition to your needle minder collection.
A needle minder, or needle keeper, is a handy tool for keeping your needle safe (and out of your couch cushions) when you're stitching. Put the enamel side on top of the fabric in your hoop, with the magnet on the back. The magnet is strong enough that your needle will stick to the enamel side when you're not using it. (For more on how to use a needle minder, see this blog post.)
- Size: Approx. 1-1/4 inch wide by 1 inch high
- Materials: Hard enamel & polished silver plating
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I made an iPhone app called Escape for the IMAGINE Festival: Film, Technology, and the Body in Action. Co-presented by Dance Films Association and Earthdance, IMAGINE took place in late September 2017. Users downloaded the app, and then explored the grounds of Earthdance, receiving custom, location-based text messages.
So often our cell phones are instruments of compulsion and anxiety and distraction. I wanted to see if I could transform the object into something slow, tranquil, and embodied. I'm interested in mindfulness in the digital realm, and in challenging the binary between the natural world and the digital one. I want our technology to bring us into more presence with our bodies and with each other, and Escape was an experiment in that direction.
The app used small bluetooth-enabled devices called beacons (mine were from Estimote), to send location-specific text messages to participants at 20 spots on the grounds of Earthdance in Western Massachusetts. I labeled each beacon with a sticker so I could tell them apart and name them.
Founded by a group of artists in 1986, Earthdance is a very special community, often associated with contact improvisation. I spent my week in residence there poring through old scrapbooks and photo albums, exploring the grounds, and most importantly, talking to residents and other people affiliated with the place over the years about their memories and favorite spots on the 175 acres that encompass Earthdance. I used this research to inform the selection of the sites that would send text messages, and the content of the messages. I wanted the app to call attention to histories of the place that might not be evident to a visitor, and to celebrate the beauty of the place and the beauty of our bodies. I hoped the app would be an invitation to notice.
Earthdance resident Trish helped make a beautiful map that would help users navigate to the various spots where text messages were embedded. We had a few loaner phones for people who wanted to participate but didn't have iPhones.
The library became my studio for the week and I stayed in a tent cabin, a magical temporary home.
Earthdance resident Natasha sent me a few photos from her experience with the app, giving weight with a few friends to what I called "the Bruce tree", and admiring the "knobby tree" from below.
(Click here to read the text messages that were sent from specific locations during the festival weekend.)


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Increase the font size of the N9 conversation view.
If you care about the readability more than you care about the eye candy then that's for you ;-)
1) You need to enable developer mode and ssh to the N9.
2) # mkdir -p /usr/share/themes/blanco/meegotouch/libmessagingwidgets0/style/
3) # vi /usr/share/themes/blanco/meegotouch/libmessagingwidgets0/style/libmessagingwidgets0.css
4) Insert the following lines:
BubbleItem MLabelStyle#BubbleItemMessageIncoming {
font: $FONT_FAMILY 32px;
BubbleItem MLabelStyle#BubbleItemMessageOutgoing {
font: $FONT_FAMILY 32px;
BubbleItem MLabelStyle#BubbleTimeStampLabelOutgoing {
font: $FONT_FAMILY light 32px;
BubbleItem MLabelStyle#BubbleTimeStampLabelIncoming {
font: $FONT_FAMILY light 32px;
5) # su - user
6) $ killall -KILL messaging-ui
7) Enjoy :-)
Got married!
MMS support development to be suspended until the end of February.
The gitorious repository now contains a broken mms-manager, a non functional mms-ui (because I changed the DBus interface ;-)), a preliminary mms viewer and a broken network connection manager. How pretty is that ? ;-)
I've been redesigning the DBus interfaces and I think I reached something. The UI can be easily adapted after that.
However, I'll be on vacation until the end of February. I can't work on mms until I'm back.
I'll try to commit and push the code I have on my laptop but the stuff will still be broken.
This is just a quick status.
Good wishes for the newly married couple ;-)
mms-support progress
Hi again!
I'm still working on the MMS support for fremantle.
I've created a gitorious mms-support repository that hosts all my code. Clone it and check ;-)
git clone git://gitorious.org/mms-support/mms-support.git
I've improved the parser a bit. It should be capable of parsing the headers in my operator's notify-ind.
I've also implemented a wap push handler (Interface stolen from Frals ;-)) and managed to receive the notify-ind on my N900 :-D
There's also an untested connection-manager using libconic (Untested because there's no UI yet to configure it). I hate using conic for such things but it's the only available public interface :-(
I need to figure out how fit the whole thing together.
And no UI of any kind yet.
More posts later.
mkmms available.
As promised yesterday, I'll start cleaning up my code a bit preparing to post it here.
Here's mkmms. It's a minimalistic application that allows you to create an MMS and attach ONLY 1 file which can be jpg, png, gif or txt (I hadn't tested anything beyond jpg).
Note that it's alpha quality.
There's also a parser that will print some info about any MMS passed as an argument but it's commented out.
Use it like this:
./mkmms <to address> /home/mohammed/me.jpg m-send-req.mms subject
It needs QtCore and only that.
Don't ask about the license. It uses some bits from Qt extended, some from mmsdec and some are my own but you should be OK if you assume GPL for now.
I wrote it to make sure the MMS library works and to generate MMS messages to test.
Next, I need to clean up my sending code and post it.
Now a bit about MMS:
MMS is just a bunch of attachments cooked together using the WSP encapsulation protocol.
A typical MMS consists of a header and a body. The header contains the From, To, CC, BCC, Subject, ... parts.
The body contains the actual parts. A part can be a video, an image, some text or anything (Not exactly sure).
Now there's something called SMIL out there.
SMIL is some sort of XML that tells the "phone" how to render the MMS. MMS can contain a SMIL part and that's usually the first part of the body (I think the standard demands it being the first part) but it doesn't have to be there.
For now, I'll ignore something called SMIL at all.
Next: Sending MMS to the actual gateway.
Not First MMS sent via N900 (Fremantle)
I've spent the past few days trying to get MMS to work on the N900.
EDIT: Seems frals has managed to beat me!
I started by trying to enable receiving so I can try to monitor DBUS and see what's going on. This failed and my operator (Elisa Finland) sent me an SMS stating that they can't send me the MMS configuration and I have to send an MMS first (According to Google translate's Finnish to English translation).
I then decided to try implementing sending.
I needed a custom MMS encoder so I can build my MMS. I also discovered that I know nothing about these things and started working on an MMS encoder/decoder.
I used a sample MMS, enjected my number and kept trying.
After long hours of working, I managed to hear my N95 vibrating and it was it :-D
This is just a proof of concept. Sending works. I need to figure out how to receive the wap push notification and how to bring up the GPRS connection in a clean way.
I'll post detailed instructions and the code I used when I get some sleep ;-)
Here's the HTTP headers sent:
Content-Type: application/vnd.wap.mms-message
User-Agent: NokiaN95_8GB/31.0.015; Series60/3.1 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
x-wap-profile: http://nds1.nds.nokia.com/uaprof/NN95_8GB-1r100.xml
Accept: */*, application/vnd.wap.mms-message, application/vnd.wap.sic
Accept-Charset: utf-8\r\nAccept-Language: en
Ah, and I didn't yet parse the reply I've received from elisa's server ;-)
Booked my tickets (Summer 2009) :-)
To Cairo and beyond (-:
Too bad I'll transit for one hour in Charles De Gaulle again. I'd rather be prepared to lose my bags :-)
And did I say from 10.07.09 to 09.08.09 ?
Katoob, the baby has a new father.
This post has a bit of my history and emotions. It can be skipped!
The summary is: Katoob has a new maintainer.
Yes, a long time.
Back in 2002, Gtk 2.x was just released. Efforts were spent porting, rewriting and redesigning parts of GNOME. The aim was GNOME 2.0 and later on 2.x
Previously, we had Gtk which did not support Arabic at all.
At that time, the only usable Arabic capable GUI editor was a closed source one, Axmedit. I was also trying to learn programming and write something useful. Katoob was born at that time. The aim ? provide the Arabic user with something usable and the secret agenda was me learning Gtk and get my hands dirty with C. Not having enough skills to contribute to something as large as GNOME.
It wasn't called Katoob (Which means something like an exaggerated writer in arabic). Me and Alaa wanted to call it gDhad (G is for GNU, Gtk, GPL, ... and Dhad is the letter. Arabic is known as the language of "dhad") but a miscommunication lead to that name.
Arabeyes hosted the project in the beginning. The problem was it was released after the first version of GNOME2. I missed a contest.
The problem is that it was already used by a few of my friends. A lot of testing has been done in the beginning. I still remember feeding it various media files as well as random garbage to see what will happen.
Years later, the whole thing grew into a pile of spaghetti code. It was the time for me to start learning C++. What else can I use to learn it ?
Then 0.5 was born. A bit cleaner, C++, Gtkmm and moving it to my own place. It even survived my migration from CVS to SVN last year.
It also started to be used by more people.
As I become busier with work and as my interests have started to change, I found myself incapable of maintaining it. It's actually a motivation problem more than anything else. I'm not involved into Arabization issues (I was never involved but people claimed I was ;-)) and I wasn't getting enough testing.
I don't use it a lot anymore. Everything supports Arabic now. I don't think we need that project anymore.
I can also use Emacs to read and write Arabic
Now, Fred Morcos decided to step up and maintain it. Good luck to him. At least I found someone to take care of the baby.
Automatically insert a statement in each function in C++
And I thought I'll never do such things again ?
I wanted to insert a debugging statement at the beginning of each function.
for i in *.cc *.c; do sed -i -e 's/\([a-zA-Z0-9 _*:~]*([^).]*) *{\)/\1 \nprintf("%s\\n", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__); /g' $i; done
It can probably be used to insert anything too.
It's dirty but it worked for me. Just keep a backup or make sure the latest code is in any RCS just in case.
It only failed with a function that was commented using C++ style comments "//".
I didn't try it with class methods defined inside header files
Katoob 0.5.9 is out
This is a recommended update.
tarball, md5sum and gpg signed md5sum file
* Enchant is now used for spell checking instead of aspell
* The iso-codes package can be used to display friendly names for the spell checker dictionaries.
* The recent menu is displays the name of the file not the full path.
* Opening a non-existing recent file triggers an error.
* Better quality Arabic translation (Thanks Khaled Hosny).
* Maemo support.
* libcurl is now used for the network.
* Cairo is not used anymore to draw the extended toolbar extra icons.
* Make the buttons in the dialogs HIG compliant
* Pressing Escape will close the spell checking dialog
* We now use the gtk printing capabilities for printing.
* Syntax highlighting now depends on gtksourceview2 and it's been rewritten.
* We now save the documents every minute and recover any files when we start.
* We also autosave if we crash.


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Jessica Alba 'Self-Conscious' Before Having Children: 'What Was I Thinking?' Says Actress
Jessica Alba 'Self-Conscious' Before Having Children: 'What Was I Thinking?' Says Actress
Jessica Alba is no stranger to being in the limelight; after her success on "Sin City," her fame increased exponentially. However, in a new interview, Alba revealed that she had a great deal of self-consciousness about her body before having children with her husband, Cash Warren.
"I was a lot more critical of my body when it was probably pretty awesome," Alba admitted to Health magazine. "It's like, why did I not ever wear jean shorts? That's so crazy. I was so skinny! I didn't have any cellulite … what was I thinking?!"
In 2009, she was part of People magazine's "World's Most Beautiful People." She was photographed along with husband Cash Warren and spoke about her first pregnancy with daughter Honor Marie.
"Pregnancy is the most beautiful thing that can happen to you. Everything in my face is puffed up. I have the face of a teenager. I feel like I'm 16 again," Alba told People at the time.
Obviously pregnancy helped Alba gain more confidence in her appearance, even though she did not necessarily need it, judging from comments made by fans.
"I was more willing to wear short skirts after I had my kids," she told Health. "But I remember I was 28 or 29 at an MTV award thing, and my girlfriend Kelly was like, 'You should wear a short skirt, because you are not going to be this age forever.' Now I'm a lot more confident in my skin – because who cares? At the end of the day, it's so much time spent on something that really doesn't matter that much."
Instead, Alba is busy at work on several projects and enjoying raising her two daughters, Honor and Haven, with Warren. Family is very important to the actress and has helped ease her concerns about her appearance or image. One aspect of family life that Alba enjoys is feeding them fresh, organic, unprocessed food. In fact, Alba has written a book entitled "The Honest Life: Living Naturally and True to You."


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Lovebox as a festival has been going since 2002 when Groove Armada and Jools were sitting in a pub, lamenting the London party scene. They were playing gigs and clubs everywhere, but thought there might be a way to put on a different kind of show in London, with more exciting line-ups which soon became a reality.
This is the 1st time I had been to a festival like this, forget the foody festivals, design festivals this was a real all or noting kinda festival.
WTF!! At least a 100 deep queue just to get in!! Good job I booked VIP passes. You see this is the year of the 40s and I'm going hard celebrating the year as its my last, I don't know why, I just want to (mid life crisis call it). Its been a tough few years at home, work and health trying to manage the family dynamic, my mental strength, anxiety and emotions so the last thing I needed was a field of 100,000 people dancing and partying all day.
This is exactly what I NEEDED!! If I had hair then it was fully let down as we snaked down the side of the queue to the VIP section (did I mention we had VIP) the sounds of the different tents was incredible it was a mash up of sounds, smells, backgrounds, a real sensory experience.
We headed to the VIP area to get a drink settle in get our bearings and plan of attack of who we wanted to see and on what stage. I was only their for Wu-Tang nothing else mattered, I'm going where the vibe was. The drinks were flowing cigars smoking and the music BANGING! The Wu were everything I would expect, the energy was live - we weren't necessarily the old boys of the crowd but old heads mixed with new heads and everyone 3yrs old to 53 years had there W''s up.
For a few hours my troubles had gone, what pain, what stress, what anxiety. Surely it's all in my head!! Yes it was, it was in my head, neck, shoulders, back hips and knees. I was seizing up. Thankfully I had seen and experienced the festival down pour "dancing in the rain just not naked (for those of you who don't know the song)
Take a listen.
The constant reminder that my pains are always with me even if I am distracted. I could have easily done day 2 but that would have been a 2-step too far me. I was crying out for more Lovebox but was desperate for my pillbox. Just not the illegal kind!!
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The Curious Boys Club
March 2019