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Hilbert's Building Blocks
Investigating space curves to construct 3-D forms
I have been interested in the area of computer generated forms, mostly
from the architectural viewpoint, for a long time. Most recently I have
been investigating fractals as a way of generating 3-D forms. Not having
a lot of luck in getting results that could suggest reasonable 3-D forms,
I moved back to some earlier work I did in 2-D with Hilbert curves, spirolaterals,
space filling curves, and recursive designs.
The image above on the left is the space filling curve designed by the
German mathematician David Hilbert. The adjacent image shows the three
line segment "generator" for the Hilbert curve. The generator is connected
to another generator by a connecting line segment. By definition, this
type of curve will always remain in a two dimensional plane.
If you break the generator into forward moves and turns, and then modify
the angle of the turn, the lines segments will cross each other. This crossing
enables the curve to trigger a move to another "level". This enables the
determination of the curve height.
Variations can be developed by using a turning angle other than 90 degrees.
Two such variations are shown below.
The second part of the this investigation is the interpretation of the
curve once it is generated. Each of the line segments and their vertices
can be interpreted in three dimensional, architectural terms:
Select one the above variations to view these interpretations individually
and in combination.
walls, each line segment is constructed as a vertical plane
floors, for each set of line segments, the minimum and maximum extends
are found and constructed into a horizontal plane
floor blocks, the horizontal floor plane is constructed into a volume
extended walls, walls are constructed from the bottom and the top,
starting at their beginning level, extending either to the bottom or top
columns, volumes are constructed at the vertices of the line segments
and the floor blocks
beams, volumes are constructed along each line segment at the wall
The more I worked with these variations and their interpretations, the
more sculptural the forms became, further studies will continue in both
the sculptural and architectural form possibilities.
The next set of forms will use spirolaterals and more generalized recursive
curves for the initial form generation.
The forms currently only exist in this digital studio. My next goal
is to generate STL files of the forms to send to a rapid prototyping system.
Another possible direction would be to rewrite the generation software
in AutoLisp for use within AutoCAD R13. This would also allow for the automation
of the rendering of each variation.
The entire idea of generating forms from specifications, have software
develop alternative interpretative forms, then going to physical models
is very intriguing; these concepts will continue to be the general direction
of this investigation.
A program written in MicroSoft QuickBASIC is used to generate all of the
three dimensional components required for a particular variation in a 3D
DXF format. The DXF file is then imported into AutoDesk 3D Studio for rendering.
No manual modeling is required.
These Web pages were constructed for use with Netscape 1.1.
The initial programs which I wrote for the two dimensional versions and
interpretations were upgraded to handle three dimensions by Amy Ferguson,
a Teaching Assistant in the College of Architecture. She also did some
exhaustive studies of the variations possible and some of the studies leading
to the renderings produced here.
For further information or comment contact: Robert
Last update: Friday, December 29, 1995
Copyright 1995 Robert J. Krawczyk All Rights Reserved


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Bannerman's Castle, one of today's modern ruins and one of the few castles left in the United States. Finished in 1918 this castle was home to the world's largest arms dealer and was his home and warehouse. Francis Bannerman is known to have bought most of the military surplus left after the Spanish-American War. This castle was his legacy.
"Resting in the Hudson River, on Pollepel Island, is a crumbling hulk of intricate concrete and brickwork that was once Bannerman's Arsenal. In 1900, Francis Bannerman VI bought the island to store ammunition for his prosperous military surplus business; more specifically, when he bought 90% of the US army surplus after the Spanish-American War ended and needed a place outside of New York City to store it all. The arsenal (sometimes referred to as "Bannerman's Castle") was constructed from 1901 to 1908, and was modeled similar to the architecture of an old Scottish castle.
A storm in 1950 sunk the ferryboat that served the island, Pollepel, and the arsenal was left more or less abandoned since then. On August 8th, 1969 a large fire destroyed much of the buildings. Neglect of the already burned and rotting wood roofs caused the deterioration of almost all the buildings except for the remaining stone walls. Submerged bulkheads and other structures make the surrounding area very dangerous for boaters; the island remains private property and is watched closely by preservation groups."
Some of the black and white photos are taken by photographer Shaun O'Boyle whose work consists of photographing abandoned edifices, or Modern Ruins as he calls them. Others have been taken fron the Bannerman Castle Trust archives.Bannerman Castle Trust: _URL_

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Published: 2011 Juni
Institution: Institut AIFB, KIT
Erscheinungsort / Ort: Karlsruhe
Numerous forms of policies, licensing terms, and related conditions are associated with Web data and services. A natural goal for facilitating the re-use and re-combination of such content is to model usage policies as part of the data so as to enable their exchange and automated processing. This paper thus proposes a concrete policy modelling language. A particular difficulty are self-referential policies such as Creative Commons ShareAlike, that mandate that derived content is published under some license with the same permissions and requirements. We present a general semantic framework for evaluating such recursive statements, show that it has desirable formal properties, and explain how it can be evaluated using existing tools. We then show that our approach is compatible with both OWL DL and Datalog, and illustrate how one can concretely model self-referential policies in these languages to obtain the desired conclusions.
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BASIC COURSE DESIGN
The following diagrams are given as a guide to locating the lure machine and pulleys for a continuous loop and a take up course plan. There are three basic possibilities when locating the lure machine for a continuous loop course; in line with the course, outside the loop and inside the loop. While these course plans are a simple box for illustrative purposes, there are many possible variations to any of these configurations and are limited only by the number of corner pulleys available for use. The last diagram shows a take up configuration with three corner pulleys located in front of the lure machine. The three pulleys are used to keep constant tension on the string and prevent a backlash from occurring. You may get away with using only two corner pulleys in front of the lure machine.


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|Peking Duck sliced and prepared|
|Literal meaning||Beijing Roast Duck|
The dish is prized for the thin, crisp skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and little meat, sliced in front of the diners by the cook. Ducks bred specially for the dish are slaughtered after 65 days and seasoned before being roasted in a closed or hung oven. The meat is eaten with pancakes, scallion, and hoisin sauce or sweet bean sauce. The two most notable restaurants in Beijing which serve this dish are Quanjude and Bianyifang, two centuries-old establishments which have become household names.
Duck has been roasted in China since the Southern and Northern Dynasties. A variation of roast duck was prepared for the Emperor of China in the Yuan Dynasty. The dish, originally named "Shaoyazi" (燒鴨子), was mentioned in the Complete Recipes for Dishes and Beverages (飲膳正要) manual in 1330 by Hu Sihui (忽思慧), an inspector of the imperial kitchen. The Peking Roast Duck that came to be associated with the term was fully developed during the later Ming Dynasty, and by then, Peking Duck was one of the main dishes on imperial court menus. The first restaurant specialising in Peking Duck, Bianyifang, was established in the Xianyukou, Qianmen area of Beijing in 1416.
By the Qianlong Period (1736–1796) of the Qing Dynasty, the popularity of Peking Duck spread to the upper classes, inspiring poetry from poets and scholars who enjoyed the dish. For instance, one of the verses of Duan Zhu Zhi Ci, a collection of Beijing poems was, "Fill your plates with roast duck and suckling pig". In 1864, the Quanjude (全聚德) restaurant was established in Beijing. Yang Quanren (楊全仁), the founder of Quanjude, developed the hung oven to roast ducks. With its innovations and efficient management, the restaurant became well known in China, introducing the Peking Duck to the rest of the world.
By the mid-20th century, Peking Duck had become a national symbol of China, favored by tourists and diplomats alike. For example, Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State of the United States, met Premier Zhou Enlai in the Great Hall of the People on July 10, during his first visit to China. After a round of inconclusive talks in the morning, the delegation was served Peking Duck for lunch, which became Kissinger's favourite. The Americans and Chinese issued a joint statement the following day, inviting President Richard Nixon to visit China in 1972. Peking Duck was hence considered one of the factors behind the rapprochement of the United States to China in the 1970s. Following Zhou's death in 1976, Kissinger paid another visit to Beijing to savor Peking Duck. Peking Duck, at the Quanjude in particular, has also been a favorite dish for various political leaders ranging from Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Raising the duck
The ducks used to prepare Peking Duck originated in Nanjing. They were small, had black feathers, and lived in the canals around the city linking major waterways. With the relocation of the Chinese capital to Beijing, supply barge traffic increased in the area. Often these barges would spill grain into the canals, providing food for the ducks. By the Five Dynasties, the new species of duck had been domesticated by Chinese farmers. Nowadays, Peking Duck is prepared from the Pekin duck (Anas platyrhynchos domestica). Newborn ducks are raised in a free range environment for the first 45 days of their lives, and force fed 4 times a day for the next 15–20 days, resulting in ducks that weigh 5–7 kg (11–15 lbs). The force feeding of the ducks led to an alternate name for the dish, Peking Stuffed Duck (simplified Chinese: 北京填鸭; traditional Chinese: 北京填鴨; pinyin: běijīng tián yā).
Fattened ducks are slaughtered, plucked, eviscerated and rinsed thoroughly with water. Air is pumped under the skin through the neck cavity to separate the skin from the fat. The duck is then soaked in boiling water for a short while before it is hung up to dry. While it is hung, the duck is glazed with a layer of maltose syrup, and the inside is rinsed once more with water. Having been left to stand for 24 hours, the duck is roasted in an oven until it turns shiny brown.
Peking Duck is traditionally roasted in either a closed oven or hung oven. The closed oven is built of brick and fitted with metal griddles (Chinese: 箅子; pinyin: bì zi). The oven is preheated by burning Gaoliang sorghum straw (Chinese: 秫秸; pinyin: shú jiē) at the base. The duck is placed in the oven immediately after the fire burns out, allowing the meat to be slowly cooked through the convection of heat within the oven.
The hung oven was developed in the imperial kitchens during the Qing Dynasty and adopted by the Quanjude restaurant chain. It is designed to roast up to 20 ducks at the same time with an open fire fueled by hardwood from peach or pear trees. The ducks are hung on hooks above the fire and roasted at a temperature of 270 °C (525 °F) for 30–40 minutes. While the ducks are cooking, the chef may use a pole to dangle each duck closer to the fire for 30 second intervals. Almost every part of a duck can be cooked. The Quanjude Restaurant even served their customers the "All Duck Banquet" in which they cooked the bones of ducks with vegetables.
The cooked Peking Duck is traditionally carved in front of the diners and served in three stages. First, the skin is served dipped in sugar and garlic sauce. The meat is then served with steamed pancakes (simplified Chinese: 春饼; traditional Chinese: 春餅; pinyin: chūn bǐng), spring onions and sweet bean sauce. Several vegetable dishes are provided to accompany the meat, typically cucumber sticks. The diners spread sauce, and optionally sugar, over the pancake. The pancake is wrapped around the meat with the vegetables and eaten by hand. The remaining fat, meat and bones may be made into a broth, served as is, or the meat chopped up and stir fried with sweet bean sauce. Otherwise, they are packed up to be taken home by the customers.
Whole Peking Ducks can be ordered as takeaways. The ducks can be reheated at home with an oven, grill or boiling oil. When an oven is used, the duck is heated at a temperature of 150 °C (300 °F) for 20 minutes, and then at 160 °C (325 °F) for another 10 minutes. The grilling method involves filling the duck with boiling water before placing it on a griddle, 70 cm (28 in) above the cooking fire. The boiling water is replaced every 3–4 minutes until the duck's skin is piping hot. To reheat the Peking Duck with oil, the duck is sliced into thin pieces and placed in a strainer held over a wok of boiling oil. The duck is then rinsed several times with the oil.
Notable restaurants
A number of restaurants in Beijing specialise in Peking Duck. Examples include Quanjude, Bianyifang, Changan Yihao (長安一號), Beijing Xiaowangfu (北京小王府) and Dadong Kaoyadian (大董烤鴨店). Some restaurants, in particular Quanjude and Bianyifang, have long histories of serving high quality duck that they are now household names, or laozihao (老字號), literally "old brand name". In addition, Quanjude has received worldwide recognition, having been named a China Renowned Trademark in 1999. Duck Chang's Restaurant, established in 1975 in Virginia, USA, was the first Chinese restaurant to prepare and serve Peking Duck without a 24 hour advanced notice.
Crispy aromatic duck
See also
- Chinese cuisine
- Mandarin cuisine
- Pekin duck, which is the animal used for Peking Duck, and, which is also served as "Long Island duck" in the USA
- Peking duck, the popular playground game
- Roast goose
- Zhangcha duck
- Peking Duck, Chinatown Connection 2005. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
- "品味北京五大百年名吃 (500 year old delicacies of Beijing)". Xingchen Food Network (in Traditional Chinese). China News Information Centre. 2006-09-22. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- "北京特產 (Specialties of Beijing)" (in Traditional Chinese). Xinhua. 2004-04-08. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- "Slicing through the secrets of Peking Duck". Adelaide Review. 2005. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- "Peking duck". Encyclopædia Britannica.
- "A Cultural Classic: Peking Duck". Globe Trekker.
- "History of the Peking Duck". SilkRoad. Archived from the original on 2007-08


text: Pens replaced hand-cut quills as writing instruments in 1780, when the first steel pen point was made in England. But it was 100 years before the commercial pen was a common item. The fountain pen was invented in the 1830s but was not made in quantity until the 1880s. All types of old pens are collected. Float pens that feature small objects floating in a liquid as part of the handle are popular with collectors. Pencils were supposedly invented in 1565, the eraser added in 1858, and the automatic pencil invented in 1863. Advertising pens are listed in the Advertising section.


Switching User IDs
If you share a computer with other users, or have more than one User ID, you may need to switch to a specific User ID when you want to access your mail server and other databases. To be able to switch User IDs, you must have the User ID stored locally on the computer, on a server that you can access, or on removable media.
About this task
Note: Roaming users cannot switch User IDs.
 1. Click File > Security > Switch ID. (Macintosh OS X users: Notes > Security > Switch ID.)
 2. Enter the User ID file path, or select the User ID that you are switching to from a directory. For Notes Federated Login, specify your login name.
 3. Enter the password for the User ID.
You can also switch User IDs by specifying a different User ID in a Location, and then switching to that Location.


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First Nations Information Governance Centre (n.d.). The First Nations Principles of OCAP®: Understanding OCAP®. _URL_
The OCAP® principles are a set of standards developed to protect First Nations' control, access, and possession of information about their communities. To be OCAP® compliant, each of the four main components (ownership, control, access, and possession) must be respected and fulfilled.
Anyone who is planning on conducting research with Canadian First Nations should familiarize themselves with OCAP® principles.


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The name Virginia ranked 379th in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of 2000-2003 Social Security Administration statistics and 35th in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.
This name is highly rated in the 1990 U.S. Census popularity survey of all ages, but after 1960 does not appear in the state data listing the most popular baby names.
This name was first spelled Verginia, and was the feminine form of an ancient Roman clan name, Verginius. Over time its spelling changed due to its association with the Latin term virgo, meaning ''maiden.'' This meaning has driven the use of the name ever since.
In 1587, this was the name given the first baby born to English colonists in the New World, Virginia Dare. Both the baby and her home colony were named for Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen of England.
The state of Virginia still proudly bears this name. Virginia Dare's fate was different. She and the rest of the colonists on Roanoke Island mysteriously disappeared within three years of her birth, creating the legend of The Lost Colony which has been reinacted in a grand pageant every summer since 1937.


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sec_rgy_pgo_get_by_eff_unix_num-Returns the name and data for a PGO item identified by its effective UNIX number
_TAG_ void sec_rgy_pgo_get_by_eff_unix_num( sec_rgy_handle_t context, sec_rgy_domain_t name_domain, sec_rgy_name_t scope, signed32 unix_id, boolean32 allow_aliases, sec_rgy_cursor_t *item_cursor, sec_rgy_pgo_item_t *pgo_item, sec_rgy_name_t name, boolean32 *overridden, error_status_t *status);
An opaque handle bound to a registry server. Use sec_rgy_site_open() to acquire a bound handle.
This variable identifies the type of the principal, group, or organization (PGO) item identified by the given name. The valid values are as follows:
The UNIX number identifies a principal.
The UNIX number identifies a group.
Note that this function does not support the value sec_rgy_domain_org.
A character string (type sec_rgy_name_t) containing the scope of the desired search. The registry database is designed to accommodate a tree-structured name hierarchy. The scope of a search is the name of the branch under which the search takes place. For example, all names in a registry might start with /alpha, and be divided further into /beta or /gamma. To search only the part of the database under /beta, the scope of the search would be /alpha/beta, and any resulting PGO items would have names beginning with this string. Note that these naming conventions need not have anything to do with group or organization PGO item membership lists.
The UNIX number of the desired registry PGO item.
A boolean32 value indicating whether to search for a primary PGO item, or whether the search can be satisfied with an alias. If TRUE, the routine returns the next entry found for the PGO item. If FALSE, the routine returns only the primary entry.
An opaque pointer indicating a specific PGO item entry in the registry database. The sec_rgy_pgo_get_next() routine returns the PGO item indicated by item_cursor, and advances the cursor to point to the next item in the database. When the end of the list of entries is reached, the routine returns the value sec_rgy_no_more_entries in the status parameter. Use sec_rgy_cursor_reset() to reset the cursor.
A pointer to a sec_rgy_pgo_item_t structure to receive the data for the returned PGO item. The data in this structure includes the PGO item's name, UUID, UNIX number (if any), and administrative data, such as whether the item, if a principal, may have a concurrent group set. The data is as it appears in the registry, for that UNIX number, even though some of the fields may have been overridden locally.
A pointer to a sec_rgy_name_t character string containing the returned name for the PGO item. This string might contain a local override value if the supplied UNIX number is found in the passwd_override or group_override file.
A pointer to a boolean32 value indicating whether or not the supplied UNIX number has an entry in the local override file (passwd_override or group_override).
A pointer to the completion status. On successful completion, the routine returns error_status_ok. Otherwise, it returns an error.
The sec_rgy_pgo_get_by_eff_unix_num() routine returns the name and data for a PGO item. The desired item is identified by its type (domain) and its UNIX number.
This routine is similar to the sec_rgy_pgo_get_by_unix_num() routine. The difference between the routines is that sec_rgy_pgo_get_by_eff_unix_num() first searches the local override files for the respective name_domain for a match with the supplied UNIX number. If an override match is found, and an account or group name is found in that entry, then that name is used to obtain PGO data from the registry and the value of the overridden parameter is set to TRUE.
The item_cursor parameter specifies the starting point for the search through the registry database. It provides an automatic place holder in the database. The routine automatically updates this variable to point to the next PGO item after the returned item. The returned cursor location can be supplied on a subsequent database access call that also uses a PGO item cursor.
Permissions RequiredThe sec_rgy_pgo_get_by_eff_unix_num() routine requires the r (read) permission on the PGO item to be viewed.
There are several different types of cursors used in the registry Application Programmer Interface (API). Some cursors point to PGO items, others point to members in a membership list, and others point to account data. Do not use a cursor for one sort of object in a call expecting another sort of object. For example, you cannot use the same cursor on a call to sec_rgy_acct_get_projlist() and sec_rgy_pgo_get_next(). The behavior in this case is undefined.
Furthermore, cursors are specific to a server. A cursor pointing into one replica of the registry database is useless as a pointer into another replica.
Use sec_rgy_cursor_reset() to renew a cursor for use with another call or for another server.
The idl file from which dce/pgo.h was derived.
The local group override file.
The local password override file.
The call was successful.
The cursor is at the end of the list of PGO items.
The specified PGO item was not found.
The DCE Registry Server is unavailable.
sec_rgy_pgo_add(), sec_rgy_pgo_get_by_id(), sec_rgy_pgo_get_by_name(), sec_rgy_pgo_get_by_unix_num(), sec_rgy_pgo_get_next(), sec_rgy_pgo_id_to_name(), sec_rgy_pgo_id_to_unix_num(), sec_rgy_pgo_name_to_id(), sec_rgy_pgo_unix_num_to_id(), sec_rgy_cursor_reset().


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The default logging configuration for Azure Web Apps in an environment in DXP has the following setting:
- Application logging is enabled, and logs are stored in the BLOB storage with 90 days retention.
You can access application logs for environments from the DXP Management Portal, as a live stream or downloaded for offline analysis.
The configuration above is applied to environments during provisioning and you can change it for the Integration environment. Contact Optimizely to change any of the following for Preproduction or Production environments:
- Get access to web server logs.
- Temporarily change logging level.
- Temporarily enable detailed error messages.
- Temporarily enable failed request tracing.
See also: Troubleshooting DXP
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Detailed Distribution Map Information This map reflects the specimen location information from the Wisconsin Botanical Information System database and attemps to line up the original Town-Range Survey map from 1833 to 1866 with a computer generated table grid over the map of Wisconsin. Because the original Town Range lines are inexact, these "dots" might be somewhat skewed. Also townships near the borders of the state might only be partial, so the "dot" might center outside the state's boundry.
Holding the mouse over the "dot" identifies the Town-Range. Clicking(new window) on the "dot" will link to a list of all specimen accession numbers for this location. You can then link to the individual specimen's label data. Arrange this window side-by-side with the specimen-list window so you can easily go back and forth between this map and the specimen's data.


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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A sequence of positions on a chess board, which sequence includes each square precisely once, and where successive positions are a knight's move away from one another.
- n. A similar sequence on a board of any size or shape.
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Community Blog Deploy an Image using Ansible and Jenkins
Deploy an Image using Ansible and Jenkins
In this tutorial, you are going to deploy an image that consists of Tomcat, Java, and MySQL using Ansible and Jenkins on Alibaba Cloud.
By Nadaraj Prabhu, Alibaba Cloud Community Blog author.
In this tutorial, you are going to deploy an image using DevOps tools and provision a corresponding infrastructure. The image will consist of Tomcat, Java, MySQL and will be running on an Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance. As an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool Ansible and an open-source Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD) Tool Jenkins are being used to for previsioning.
Before we get any further, let's discuss Jenkins a bit more. Well, you may ask, what exactly is it?
Jenkins is an open-source automation server that can help you to reliably build, test, and deploy software as well the infrastructure behind an application. Jenkins is a continuous integration build tool that builds and releases application code after any change is made to the code and, pushed to the code base. It saves development time by running automated testing against the code at every change pushed to the repos.
First, you'll require few prerequisites to be established to achieve the environment.
1. You need at least one Jenkins Server (for a Master only or a Master/Slave setup).
Then, once you've got the Jenkins server master/slave (agent) environment set up, make sure the agents are up and running fine by checking the status of the server. In my setup, in particular, I'm using a master node as Jenkins server and an agent machine for Ansible. If you prefer, you can have only one machine by installing Ansible on the master itself.
2. After that you'll want to install Ansible Tool in the master and agent machines.
 - Ansible: Ansible is a powerful tool for IT automation and can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it. But, know that Ansible is cumbersome to maintain and it reuses scripts in the long run.
It helps if you perform the same set of tasks across different servers/environment from the centralized location where Ansible is installed. Ansible is completely agentless, which is an advantage over other Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Chef or Puppet. With Ansible, you do not need to have an agent be installed on client systems where the automation is taken through provided SSH communication between the client and server. All the automation will be easier when there are hundreds of instances in the specified region. Ansible playbooks are written are YAML/YML language.
When comes to Ansible, you'll also need to be familiar with the following:
 - Control node: The machine where Ansible is installed and responsible for servers you are managing
 - Inventory: The file that defines the hosts and groups of hosts upon which commands, modules, and tasks in a playbook operate. The file can be in one of many formats depending on your Ansible environment and plugins. It's used to create project-specific inventory files in alternate locations.
 - Playbook: Part of Ansible's configuration, deployment, and orchestration language. They can describe a policy you want your remote systems to enforce, or a set of steps.
Install Ansible and the Ansible Alicloud Module
First of all, you'll want to install the Ansible plugin on Jenkins. To do so, follow these steps:
1. Click Manage Jenkins in the Dashboard.
2. Click Manage Plugins and look for the Ansible plugin on the search bar which is on the top right of the page.
3. Select Ansible and click Download now and install after restart.
Note: Don't install the Ansible Tower, which is not required for current setup you are doing in this tutorial.
After the Ansible plugin is installed in Jenkins, you'll want to go on to the next steps for installing Ansible in the Client/Agent machine.
Install Ansible in the Client/Agent machine
Alibaba Ansible Modules are frequently updated, hence I recommend that you refer to the GitHub link for the most up-to-date version.
1. Open a terminal window in the agent machine and execute below commands.
 - If you're using CentOS 7.4, you'll want to use this command:
sudo yum check-update; sudo yum install -y gcc libffi-devel python-devel openssl-devel epel-release
sudo yum install -y python-pip python-wheel
 - If you're using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, use this command:
2. Enter the following commands to install the required packages Ansible for Alibaba:
sudo pip install ansible
sudo pip install ansible_alicloud
sudo pip install ansible_alicloud_module_utils
Configuring the Ansible Playbook.
I have created an Ansible playbook script to provision an Alibaba ECS, which you can find here. You can fork the source code and modify the parameters values as per your environment.
 alicloud_access_key:
 alicloud_secret_key:
 alicloud_region: e.g. - ap-south-1
 alicloud_zone: e.g. ap-south-1a
 password:
 image: "m-a2d4qmk8v2w9s5wmh0rw"
Note: I'm importing an image from Alibaba Application Stacks provided by Zhuyun, which you can find here. It consists of Linux, Nginx, MySQL and Jdk-Tomcat (Nginx1.6-jdk1.7-tomcat7-mysql5.5-vsFTPd2.2.2).
Generate Access key and Secret
Now, it's time to generate an access key and secret. To do this, you'll want to follow these steps below:
1. To obtain an access_key and secret_key, you'll want to go to the Alibaba Cloud console and select Resource Access Management (RAM) in the Product menu
2. Click the Users option on the left navigation pane, and then select Create User.
3. Create a new user, providing a login name and display name. Then, under Access Mode, check Programmatic Access. Note that you are not required to provide Console Password Logon access to this user.
4. Copy the AccessKeyId and AccessKeySecret, which will be your alicloud_access_key and alicloud_secret_key value in the playbook.
Note: The AccessKey information will not be available again after the dialog box is closed. Therefore, it is important that you copy and save this information before you close the dialog box.
5. Provide the appropriate permissions to provision resources like VPCs, V-Switchs, Security groups or an ECS instance. I have provided AdministratorAccess, which happens to provide full access to Alibaba Cloud services and resources.
The Regions and Zones of Alibaba Cloud
1. To get the full list, you can use the Alibaba Cloud Cloud CLI tool. It will spit out a wall of JSON, so it is also helpful to be on *nix and have the jq tool available. Given all that, all you need is this short shell script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
for region in $( aliyun ecs DescribeRegions | jq '.Regions.Region[].RegionId' )
 echo $region
 reg=$( echo $region | sed s/\"//g )
 echo '---'
 for zone in $( aliyun ecs DescribeZones --RegionId $reg | jq '.Zones.Zone[].ZoneId' | sort )
 echo $zone
 echo ''
2. If you want to provision resource in below region/zone, then you'll need to complete real name registration, which you can do at this Link.
alicloud_region: cn-beijing
alicloud_zone: cn-beijing-a
Shown below is the Image ID of each region (for the Linux, Nginx, MySQL and Jdk-Tomcat Image). For this, of course, you'll want to change the image ID according to your region.
Create and Deploy an Alibaba VM using Jenkins job
To create and deploy an Alibaba VM using Jenkins job, follow these steps:
1. From Jenkins dashboard, select New Item.
2. Enter a name, select Freestyle project, and then click OK.
3. (Optional) Under General, provide a brief description for your reference.
4. Select the Source Code Management (SCM) tab on the top or scroll down and enter the following information:
SCM: - Git
Repository URL: - your GitHub link with modified parameter
e.g. _URL_
Credentials: - none (since it's a public repository, if private then store your credentials in Jenkins)
Branch Specifier (blank for 'any'): - */master
5. Next, skip build trigger for now and go to build environment. There are number of settings available when you create a new project. On this configuration page, you also have the option to Add build step to perform extra actions like running scripts. Rather, I will execute a shell script, which will download the Ansible Playbook file from GitHub. You can use the following commands:
sudo apt-get update (Optional)
sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev python-pip (Optional)
sudo pip install ansible[azure]==2.7.0rc2 (


Bizarre Event, Twisted Facts and Weird phenomenon
4th monolith in new england - twist of creation - myterious strange monoliths
Incredible stories
Strange Mysterious Monoliths appear all over the World
What are the strange mysterious monoliths appearing all over the world? Could they be an extraterrestrial device, a form of futuristic art or a simple global prank? Let's check all the appearances to date and decide if they are real of fake.
1. The Mysterious Monolith from Utah desert
The first metal monolith was found in November, 2020, by a team of biologists surveilling the Utah dessert and analyzing the fauna. However, during their trip, they noticed something peculiar in the middle of nowhere. They shared the pictures of the mysterious monolith on the social media, hoping that someone will know what the object is. The structure was between 10 – 12 feet and appeared to be made of aluminum. Many viewers saw a strange similarity with the famous monolith from the SF movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". In the movie, the strange monolith is meant to show itself to evolved beings to reveal them the meaning of life. Our monoliths are not as smart as the object in the movie, but it's worth checking out.
People started to visit the metal column and take picture with it. However, after a few days, a team disassembled the structure during the night, claiming that the metal structure was sparking too much attention and the people who came to visit it started to leave trash in the nature. Here is the video and you can see that the monolith is just an empty metal structure.
2. New mysterious strange monoliths appear in the world, in Romania
Soon, a new monolith appeared, this time, in Romania. In the town Piatra Neamt, people noticed in a natural protected area a tall strange-looking metal structure. It was 9ft tall, but it looked more rudimentary and the wielding were visible all over its surface. It was quite obvious that the metal structure was man-made, and it disappeared after the Utah monolith was taken down.
Strange Monolith appear in Romania - twistofcreation
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3. Metal Monolith appears in California
And when we thought that the series of crazy monoliths ended a new metal column was found in California. The 3rd monolith was found in Pine Mountain in Atascadero. The three-sided object measured roughly 10ft and it was similar in shape and structure to the other monoliths. This object was first spotted by a hiker. Later, the monolith was taken down and removed by four men, at night.
It appears that these objects are becoming a trend and it is obvious by now that they are made by humans, but the question remains: Why?
4. 4th Monolith appears in New England – Mysterious Strange Monoliths
A new monolith appeared on the south coast of England sparking the curiosity once again. On the Isle of Wight, Tom Dunford spotted a new strange monolith while walking his dog. He was aware of the stories with the metal structure so he took pictures and videos of the newest metal object. The new monolith is 10 ft tall and has a very reflective surface, almost like a mirror. Now we can say that these monoliths are no longer mono, since they are not one of a kind.
We wonder if these monoliths will keep showing up everywhere in the world. Hopefully, we will find out what is their purpose and if they mean anything or are simple jokes.
5. Monolith appears in Belgium, in a potato field
After the monoliths from United States, Romania and UK, more monoliths appeared around the world. The people of a small town in Belgium were surprised to find a metal monolith in the muddy soil of a potato field, this week.
Later, more monoliths appeared, one in the town of Fayetteville and another one in Colombia. Check the posts from witnesses, below. The monolith from Chia, Colombia has a golden finish and the visitors believe it is controlling all of them, and that is cute…. 🙂
6. New Monolith found on a deserted beach in Romania, Constanta
This week, a new monolith was discovered on the Vadu beach in Constanta, Romania. This is the second mysterious strange monolith appearing in Romania. The size and shape is the same as usual, but this time the witness could also see car trails in the sand. This demonstrates that the metal structure was delivered using a car, and not an UFO.
Black monolith on deserted beach Constanta, Romania - twistofcreation
But if an actual extraterrestrial monolith were to show up in the future, we can definitely say that nobody will take it seriously. 🙂
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text: By Earl Grier, School Director of Commonwealth Connections Academy Creating an organizational structure and finding work areas for teachers are always questions to be answered when establishing a cyber charter school. Allowing teachers to work from home, establishing satellite centers, and housing everyone in a central location are but three options. Virtual school directors find that helping to create a sense of community for staff is often as important as creating one for students and parents. By housing the staff in one location, as we do at Commonwealth Connections Academy, you are able to provide teachers with the opportunity to share ideas, supplement each otherâ€™s experience and expertise, and have an atmosphere of collegiality. Teachers working in a common setting have commented on their improved effectiveness as a result of working in direct proximity to their peers and the school director. Parents have also noted the increased availability, professionalism and responsiveness when teachers are working in a common setting.


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Starting with Windows XP, run-down protection is available to kernel-mode drivers. Drivers can use run-down protection to safely access objects in shared system memory that are created and deleted by another kernel-mode driver.
An object is said to be run down if all outstanding accesses of the object are finished and no new requests to access the object will be granted. For example, a shared object might need to be run down so that it can be deleted and replaced with a new object.
The driver that owns the shared object can enable other drivers to acquire and release run-down protection on the object. When run-down protection is in effect, a driver other than the owner can access the object without risk that the owner will delete the object before the access completes. Before the access starts, the accessing driver requests run-down protection on the object. For a long-lived object, this request is nearly always granted. After the access finishes, the accessing driver releases its previously acquired run-down protection on the object.
To start sharing an object, the driver that owns the object calls the ExInitializeRundownProtection routine to initialize run-down protection on the object. After this call, other drivers that access the object can acquire and release run-down protection on the object.
A driver that accesses the shared object calls the ExAcquireRundownProtection routine to request run-down protection on the object. After the access is finished, this driver calls the ExReleaseRundownProtection routine to release run-down protection on the object.
If the owning driver determines that the shared object must be deleted, this driver waits to delete the object until all outstanding accesses of the object are finished.
In preparation to delete the shared object, the owning driver calls the ExWaitForRundownProtectionRelease routine to wait for the object to run down. During this call, ExWaitForRundownProtectionRelease waits for all previously granted instances of run-down protection on the object to be released, but prevents new requests for run-down protection on the object from being granted. After the last protected access finishes and all instances of run-down protection are released, ExWaitForRundownProtectionRelease returns, and the owning driver can safely delete the object.
ExWaitForRundownProtectionRelease blocks the execution of the calling driver thread until all drivers that hold run-down protection on the shared object release this protection. To prevent ExWaitForRundownProtectionRelease from blocking execution for excessively long periods, drivers threads that access the shared object should avoid being suspended while they hold run-down protection on the object. For this reason, accessing drivers should call ExAcquireRundownProtection and ExReleaseRundownProtection within a critical region or guarded region, or while running at IRQL = APC_LEVEL.
Run-down protection is particularly useful for providing access to a shared object that is nearly always available but might occasionally need to be deleted and replaced. Drivers that access data or that call routines in this object must not try to access the object after it is deleted. Otherwise, these invalid accesses might cause unpredictable behavior, data corruption, or even system failure.
For example, an antivirus driver typically stays loaded in memory when the operating system is running. Occasionally, this driver might need to be unloaded and replaced with an updated release of the driver. Other drivers send I/O requests to the antivirus driver to access the data and routines in this driver. Before sending an I/O request, a kernel component, such as a file system filter manager, can acquire run-down protection to guard against premature unloading of the antivirus driver while it handles the I/O request. After the I/O request completes, run-down protection can be released.
Run-down protection does not serialize accesses to a shared object. If two or more accessing drivers can simultaneously hold run-down protection on an object, and accesses to the object must be serialized, some other mechanism, such as a mutual-exclusion lock, must be used to serialize the accesses.
An EX_RUNDOWN_REF structure tracks the status of run-down protection on a shared object. This structure is opaque to drivers. The system-supplied run-down protection routines use this structure to count the number of instances of run-down protection that are currently in effect on the object. These routines also use this structure to track whether the object is run down or is in the process of being run down.
To start sharing an object, the driver that owns the object calls ExInitializeRundownProtection to initialize the EX_RUNDOWN_REF structure associated with the object. After initialization, the owning driver can make this structure available to other drivers that require access to the object. The accessing drivers pass this structure as a parameter to the ExAcquireRundownProtection and ExReleaseRundownProtection calls that acquire and release run-down protection on the object. The owning driver passes this structure as a parameter to the ExWaitForRundownProtectionRelease call that waits for the object to run down so that it can be safely deleted.
Run-down protection is one of several ways to guarantee safe access to a shared object. Another approach is to use a mutual-exclusion software lock. If a driver requires access to an object that is currently locked by another driver, the first driver must wait for the second driver to release the lock. However, acquiring and releasing locks can become a performance bottleneck, and locks can consume large amounts of memory. If used incorrectly, locks might cause drivers that compete for the same shared objects to become deadlocked. Efforts to detect and avoid deadlocks typically require the diversion of substantial computing resources.
In contrast to locks, run-down protection has relatively lightweight processing time and memory requirements. A simple reference count is associated with the object to ensure that deletion of the object is deferred until all outstanding accesses of the object are completed. With this approach, atomic, interlocked hardware instructions can be used instead of mutual-exclusion software locks to guarantee safe access to an object. Calls to acquire and release run-down protection are typically very fast. The benefits of using a lightweight mechanism, such as run-down protection, can be significant for a shared object that has a long life and is shared among many drivers.
Several other run-down protection routines are available, in addition to those that were mentioned previously. These additional routines might used by some drivers.
The ExRundownCompleted routine updates the EX_RUNDOWN_REF structure to indicate that the run down of the associated object has completed.
The ExAcquireRundownProtectionEx and ExReleaseRundownProtectionEx routines are similar to ExAcquireRundownProtection and ExReleaseRundownProtection. These four routines increment or decrement the count of the instances of run-down protection that are in effect on a shared object. Whereas ExAcquireRundownProtection and ExReleaseRundownProtection increment and decrement this count by one, ExAcquireRundownProtectionEx and ExReleaseRundownProtectionEx increment and decrement the count by arbitrary amounts.


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Storage overview
The storage APIs present in Arm Mbed OS are:
 - KVStore: a common interface for components presenting set/get API.
 - File system: a common interface for using file systems on block devices.
 - Block device: a common interface for block-based storage devices.
Additionally, the following PSA-compliant APIs are present in Mbed OS:
The KVStore API is a common get/set API implemented by several classes. It gives you the flexibility to build a storage solution by allocating several combinations of objects.
Classes that implementing the KVStore API are:
 - Tiny Database Storage (TDBStore).
 - FileSystemStore.
 - SecureStore.
The KVStore static global API is the only API applications should use to access the instances of KVStore components allocated by the selected configuration.
Declaring a file system
The FileSystem class provides the core API for file system operations. You must provide a block device to back the file system, which provides the raw storage for the file system. When you declare a file system with a name, you can open files on the file system through the open and fopen functions or through the File class's open function.
File systems
File systems are the strongest persistent storage solutions in Mbed OS, providing an extensive POSIX API. We highly recommend using the little file system for embedded applications because of to its resilience to power failures.
 - LittleFileSystem - The little file system (LittleFS) is a fail-safe file system we designed for embedded systems, specifically for microcontrollers that use flash storage.
 - Bounded RAM/ROM - This file system works with a limited amount of memory. It avoids recursion and limits dynamic memory to configurable buffers.
 - Power-loss resilient - We designed this for operating systems that may have random power failures. It has strong copy-on-write guarantees and keeps storage on disk in a valid state.
 - Wear leveling - Because the most common form of embedded storage is erodible flash memories, this file system provides a form of dynamic wear leveling for systems that cannot fit a full flash translation layer.
 - FATFileSystem - The FAT file system is an established disk-oriented file system that you can find on most operating systems, including Windows, Linux, macOS and Mbed OS.
 - Portable - Due to its support across operating systems, the FAT file system provides access to storage from both the embedded system and your PC.
 - Embedded - Built on the ChanFS project, the FAT file system is optimized for embedded systems.
 - LocalFileSystem - The LocalFileSystem is a symbiotic file system that connects to the Mbed board's interface chip if the interface chip has built-in storage. The features available on the LocalFileSystem is dependent on the board's interface chip. Note: The LocalFileSystem is only available on the LPC1768 and LPC11U24.
Note: Some file systems may provide a format function for cleanly initializing a file system on an underlying block device or require external tools to set up the file system before the first use.
The LittleFileSystem
Microcontrollers and flash storage present three challenges for embedded storage: power loss, wear and limited RAM and ROM. This file system provides a solution to all three of these problems.
Power loss resilience
Microcontroller-scale embedded systems are usually without a shutdown routine, rely on power loss to shut down and notably lack a user interface for recovery. With a file system that is not resilient to power loss, you rely on luck to not end up with a corrupted file system. The combination of persistent storage and unpredictable power loss creates bugs that are difficult to notice and ruin the experience of unlucky users.
We built this file system with a structure that is resilient to power loss. It uses checksums to limit the assumptions of how the physical storage reacts to power loss. It provides copy-on-write guarantees and keeps the storage on disk in a valid state.
Wear leveling
Flash storage presents its own challenge: wear. Flash is a destructive form of storage, and continuously rewriting data to a block causes that block to wear out and become unwritable. File systems that don't account for wear can quickly burn through the blocks that store frequently updated metadata and result in the premature death of the system.
We accounted for wear when we built this file system, and the underlying structure of the file system reactively mutates as the underlying storage develops errors throughout its lifetime. This results in a form of dynamic wear-leveling that extends the lifetime of the physical storage proportionally to the size of storage. With this file system, you can extend the lifetime of storage by increasing the size of storage, which is cheaper than upgrading the storage's erase cycles.
Bounded RAM and ROM
File systems normally target operating systems where the scale of resources available is foreign to a microcontroller. A common trend of embedded Linux file systems is RAM usage that scales linearly with the size of storage, which makes rationalizing RAM usage in a system difficult.
We optimized this file system to work with a limited amount of RAM and ROM. It avoids recursion and limits dynamic memory to configurable buffers. At no point during operation does it store an entire storage block in RAM. The result is small RAM usage that is independent of the geometry of the underlying storage.
The "little" in the little file system comes from the focus on both keeping resource usage low and keeping the scope self-contained. Aside from the three targeted issues above, there is a heavy restriction against bloat in this software module. Instead, we push additional features to separate layers in the BlockDevice API that drives the Mbed OS storage stack. This gives Mbed OS a tool for remaining flexible as technology used by IoT devices develops.
The FATFileSystem
The FAT file system is an established disk-oriented file system that you can find on Mbed OS, Windows, Linux and macOS. Due to its age and popularity, the FAT file system has become the standard for portable storage, such as flash drives and SD cards.
The primary feature of the FAT file system is its portability. With support across PC operating systems, the FAT file system lets you access storage from both the embedded system your PC. This gives users a way to get information onto and off of the device.
The Mbed OS FAT file system is built on the ChanFS project. It is optimized for embedded systems and is one of the smallest FAT file system implementations.
C++ classes
The FileSystem class provides the core user C++ API. Mbed OS provides File and Dir classes that represent files and directories in a C++ API.
Declaring a block device
The BlockDevice class provides the underlying API for raw storage that you can use to back a file system. The BlockDevice API is a standard block-oriented interface built around three modes of operation: read, erase, and program. However, the rules behind this API is flexible enough to allow support for a large range of different storage types.
Mbed OS provides standard implementations for the more common storage media, and you can extend the BlockDevice class to provide support for unsupported storage. Additionally, Mbed OS contains a handful of utility block devices, such as the SlicingBlockDevice and ChainingBlockDevice, to give you better control over storage allocation. These utility block devices can be stacked to provide relatively complex storage architectures through relatively simple components.
Block devices
Mbed OS has several block device implementations for common forms of storage:
 - SPIFBlockDevice - Block device driver for NOR-based SPI flash devices that support SFDP. NOR-based SPI flash supports byte-sized read and writes, with an erase size of about 4kbytes. An erase sets a block to all 1s, with successive writes clearing set bits.
 - DataFlashBlockDevice - Block device driver for NOR-based SPI flash devices that support the DataFlash protocol, such as the Adesto AT45DB series of devices. DataFlash is a memory protocol that combines flash with SRAM buffers for a programming interface. DataFlash supports byte-sized read and writes, with an erase size of around 528 bytes or sometimes 1056 bytes. DataFlash provides erase sizes with and extra 16 bytes for error correction codes (ECC), so a flash translation layer (FTL) may still present 512 byte erase sizes.
 - SDBlockDevice - Block device driver for SD cards and eMMC memory chips. SD cards or eMMC chips offer a full FTL layer on top of NAND flash. This makes the storage well-suited for systems that require a about 1GB of memory. Additionally, SD cards are a popular form of portable storage. They are useful if you want to store data that you can access from a PC.
 - HeapBlockDevice - Block device that simulates storage in RAM using the heap. Do not use the heap block device for storing data persistently because a power loss causes complete loss of data. Instead, use it for testing applications when a storage device is not available.
 - FlashIAPBlockDevice - Block device adapter for the FlashIAP driver, which provides an in application programming (IAP) interface for the MCU's internal flash memory.
Utility block devices
Additionally, Mbed OS contains several utility block devices to give you better control over the allocation of storage.
 - SlicingBlockDevice - With the slicing block device, you can partition storage into smaller block devices that you can use independently.
 - ChainingBlockDevice - With the chaining block device, you can chain multiple block devices together and extend the usable amount of storage.
 - MBRBlockDevice - Mbed OS comes with support for storing partitions on disk with a Master Boot Record (MBR). The MBRBlockDevice provides this functionality and supports creating partitions at runtime or using preformatted partitions configured separately from outside the application.
 - ReadOnlyBlockDevice - With the read-only block device


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Protecting the property rights of women and children in Mozambique
Evictions, confiscation of property and discrimination are among the experiences increasingly reported by widows and orphans in Mozambique. An FAO-commissioned report offers recommendations to secure women's and children's rights to property and inheritance.
Many women and children in sub-Saharan Africa have long experienced insecure rights to property and inheritance. But in some countries, the situation is being exacerbated by early deaths from disease and conflict, as well as the loss of the extended family support systems that once functioned as social safety nets for widows and orphaned children.
This is the case in Mozambique. Despite recent economic growth, Mozambique remains one of the poorest countries in the world. This, combined with the severe impact of HIV and AIDS, has had a serious impact on food security and the socio-economic well-being of rural families. Although AIDS-related deaths in Mozambique are declining, they increased from 10.3 percent to 12.5 between 2001 and 2007.
Amid the AIDS epidemic, many widows and children have been unable to inherit, or protect their inheritance of, land, livestock, housing and agricultural tools. This has left them without access to the basic means to sustain their livelihoods and avoid extreme poverty and hunger.
Widows in Mozambique have told of being evicted from their houses or run off their land by their late husbands' relatives. They have recounted how relatives have removed cattle, bicycles and other assets of value from their households.
Orphaned children who have lost both parents have reported seeing relatives take much of their parents' property from them. Often, the families that were supposed to take care of the orphans discriminated against them, providing them with less nourishment and schooling.
The FAO-commissioned report, Children and women's rights to property and inheritance in Mozambique, is based on research conducted from 2006 to 2007 by Save the Children. While the report says revamping national laws can help to protect the property rights of women and children, it also stresses the "urgent need to look beyond legal arguments and consider the community and cultural contexts as well."
In Mozambique, for example, inheritance issues, and disputes over property, are seen by many as private, family matters. This kind of cultural information should be taken into account when dealing with property grabbing from widows or orphaned children.
Despite strong condemnation of individual cases of property grabbing from widows or orphaned children, there has been little active opposition from community members or leaders who do not want to interfere unless asked. Also, relatives tend to go unpunished when they grab property from children, as adults often do not perceive a need to account for their acts towards children.
The report advocates sensitizing and building the capacity of judges, religious leaders, traditional healers and other leaders in the community to address challenges related to women's and children's property rights.
As actors most likely to be involved in local conflict resolution, community leaders and judges are in the position to ensure recognition of both formal and customary laws, and to try to reconcile the two in mediation with family councils or in community courts, where inheritance disputes are most commonly handled.
The report was produced as a resource for government institutions, non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations, and is based on research conducted in four provinces of Mozambique in 2006-07. Its main purpose is to propose possible entry points for interventions, key messages and activities aimed at improving women's and children's property and inheritance rights and access.
In addition to capacity building, the report recommends revising national property rights and inheritance laws; encouraging families to make out wills and put legal documents like birth certificates and land deeds in order; expanding paralegal assistance for victims of property grabbing; and boosting communication and education of community members, including children.
The report recommends pointing out to community members that tradition calls for the care and protection of widows and orphaned children, and that women need access to land and property to support their livelihoods, and to take care of their children. It also recommends that family members who assume care of orphaned children also be the ones administering their inheritance, to ensure that it sustains and educates the children.
Ultimately, increasing awareness of the benefits of protecting widows' and orphans' property rights would help entire communities by boosting the potential of women and children to contribute to social and economic development.
The study which formed the basis for the report was conducted in four provinces of Mozambique – Gaza, Manica, Zambézia and Napula. The conclusions are intended primarily for government institutions, national and international NGOs and community based organizations that may be able to intervene, based on their mandates and capacities.


IGTV is a popular platform by Instagram that supports long videos. Instagram is mostly used for entertainment purposes, so if you create such content, it could be the right platform to gain more audience. In this article, we will show you how to film IGTV video and edit it using a video editor. Stay with us, and you will get to know everything by the end of this article.
Part 1. 4 Ways to Film Videos for Instagram's IGTV
1) Table Videos
Content creators also record IGTV videos while sitting at a table. It can be an interview or a podcast. They can also show some tricks, tips, and tutorials. If you are on a table, then shooting a video will be much easier. You can use a tripod to keep the camera still. Moreover, you can easily control the lighting in your studio. However, in such videos, the sound quality also matters. If you are addressing people, you need to have an excellent microphone to record the sound without any disturbance.
2) Time-lapse Videos
Time-lapse videos are also popular, and you can share them on Instagram IGTV. Creating a time-lapse is an art; therefore, you need to learn it, and it might take some time. You can use different mobile applications to record a timelapse video. Instagram's Hyperlapse is also a good option for iOS. While shooting a time-lapse video, you need to keep your camera still for a long time.
The most important thing in creating time-lapse videos is the frame rate. You need to set the application to click images at different intervals; therefore, the frame rate plays an important role. With time, you will get to know how to select the right frame rate according to the duration and place where you are shooting the video.
3) Vlogging
IGTV can also be used for vlogging. You can upload your daily vlogs, routines, tips, or anything you like to share with your audience. IGTV supports long videos, so it is the right platform for vlogging. People use it for entertainment, which is why you get more engagement on the platform. While recording your vlog, you need to have a camera stabilizer for the perfect shooting of your videos.
4) Recording the Surrounding and Live Videos
People also record what they see in their surroundings. If something is interesting or worth sharing with the audience, you can record it. You can also create stories, comedy skits, or anything you like. You might also see live recordings of programs and shows on IGTV; thus, you can also have your own live show.
Part 2. How to Edit Videos for Instagram's IGTV
Filme - Win & Mac
iMyFone Filme is a professional video editor, which is suitable for beginners. Anyone can use it without any hassle as it has a simple user interface. You can edit your video as you like.
 - Filme allows you to select the IGTV format for the video. You can select MP4 container, frame rate, bitrate, video codec, and other advanced settings.
 - You can do almost every type of edit using Filme. It is an all-in-one tool for video editing.
 - You can add effects, transitions, text, stickers, GIFs, images, audio, or anything to the video. Everything is simple and easy.
 - Filme allows you to add multiple audio, videos, and images to the timeline in different tracks. Therefore, you can add multiple media at the same time instant.
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How to Edit IGTV Videos on Filme
Step 1: Open Filme on your computer. Click on File and head over to New Project. You will have different options for aspect ratios. For Instagram's IGTV, 9:16 (Portrait) is the recommended one.
Step 2: You will see the import options in the Media menu. You can import from your computer or scan a QR code through your mobile for direct import. After importing the videos, images, and all files, you will have them in the Project Media. Now, drag the videos and other files to the timeline. You can adjust the duration by dragging the ends of the video or image in the timeline.
Step 3: The toolbar above the timeline allows you to crop, split, adjust speed, adjust color, rotate, record voiceover, record video, and make other changes.
filme timeline toolbar
Step 4: If you want to add effects, go to the Effects menu. You will see the available options. You can select any effect you like and add it to the video. Similarly, you can add text, transitions, or anything you like.
filme effecrs for igtv
Step 5: Drag the music file to the timeline and adjust its duration. You can add multiple music files using different soundtracks. You can also add images and videos using different video tracks.
Step 6: Go to the Export menu and click on Export Video. Select the MP4 format on the left and go to Settings. You can select the desired resolution, frame rate, and other settings. Click on Export; your file will be saved to the destination.
Videoshop - iOS & Android
Videoshop is a paid Android and iOS application, but you can also use the free version to edit your IGTV video. It is a simple tool, and you can easily do basic editing with it.
Steps to Edit IGTV Video on Videoshop
Step 1: Open Videoshop on your mobile phone. You will see two options on the screen: Import Clip and Record. Tap on Import Clip.
Step 2: You can select the videos and images for the video. Select media and tap on Done.
Step 3: Your media will be imported into the video editor. You will have different options at the bottom to resize, add music, trim, add text, add transition, adjust speed, and make other changes. You can edit your videos as you like.
Step 4: Tap on Text. You will have the text on the video. Double-tap on the text to edit it. You can also select the desired style of the text.
videoshop text for igtv
Step 5: If you want to add music, tap on the Music button. You can select music from Videoshop or import your own. You can also add sound effects from their library.
Step 6: Tap on Next. Now, you can choose filters and themes if you want. Finally, tap on the Share button at the top right corner. Tap on Advanced to select the resolution and FPS. Go back and tap on Save to Gallery. Your video will automatically be saved in MP4 format.
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Part 3. 4 Best Tips to Shooting IGTV Videos
1) Professional Camera
The quality of the video has the utmost importance. You cannot neglect it in any case. If the video you have filmed is not of high quality, no one is going to enjoy it. You need to create high-quality videos in excellent resolution. Therefore, you need a professional camera. If you have a DSLR or a high-quality mobile phone camera that can record HD, Full HD, or 4K videos, you are good to go. Keep in mind that you cannot improve the quality of the video later.
2) Choose the Right Video Settings
Video settings also play an important role. You can select the video format, which should be MP4 for IGTV videos. You can also select the frame rate, and for IGTV, the recommended frame rate is 30 FPS. Then, you need to select the right resolution for the video. You can go for 1920 x 1080 and place your camera in the vertical position, and then you can rotate the video in a video editor. Thus, you will get a 1080 x 1920 video.
You also need to set the contrast, sharpness, saturation, color tone, white balance, and other things. You can see the Kelvin setting in the white balance. You can set it to 5500K for the daytime and 3200K for the nighttime.
3) Keep Your Camera Still
This is another important thing that must be kept in mind. Your camera should be still. While you are recording in your studio, you can use a camera stand, but if you are recording by keeping your camera in your hand, you need to be careful. You can use a camera stabilizer if you want to move the camera while recording the video.
4) Focus on Light and Background
The light on the set is important. You need to set it before shooting. You can adjust lighting or arrange some lights if needed. If there is an overexposure to light, you need a few umbrellas. Another important thing is the background of the video. You need to see whether your background is clearly visible in the light or not. Select a suitable background that is visible to make the video more attractive.
Final Words
IGTV is a popular platform for sharing long videos. Your long video content will get more engagement as Instagram is mostly used for entertainment.
We have shared some ways and tips to create awesome IGTV videos. After shooting the video, you need to edit it and make it according to the platform. You can also split long videos on Instagram. We recommend Filme as it is a professional video editing tool. You can edit your videos like a professional and convert the video into the right IGTV format.
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Definitions for absorbanceæbˈsɔr bəns, -ˈzɔrRandom House Webster's College Dictionary
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the capacity of a substance to absorb radiation.
Origin of absorbance:
A logarithmic measure of the amount of light that is absorbed when passing through a substance.


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Consider the Source: Why Was Maitreya Too Fat to Sit in Full Lotus?
In the great Buddhist grottos at Dunhuang, the unequalled repository of Buddhist statues and art in China's far west, certain Buddha figures do not sit in full lotus as one might expect. Nor do they stand erect, another common posture. Instead, they sit with their legs crossed at their ankles, a puzzling, rather uncomfortable looking position. The Chinese scholar Gu Zhengmei argues that this posture is a sure sign that these statues represent Maitreya Buddha, the "Buddha to Come" who is said to appear in the world when all have forgotten the dharma. He claims that it is consistent with discoveries of Maitreya images not just at Dunhuang, but also in Greek-influenced Gandhara, where the first icons of the Buddha were found.


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Who needs smart windows when you can have smart curtains? University of California-Berkeley researchers have created a material that can bend or straighten when exposed to light, no batteries required. It could be integrated into objects like curtains or even robots to add an automatic response to light. The Berkeley team published their work in Nature Communications this week.
"The advantages of this new class of photo-reactive actuator is that it is very easy to make, and it is very sensitive to low-intensity light," associate professor Ali Javey said in a release. "The light from a flashlight is enough to generate a response."
The researchers created a series of small "curtains" by layering carbon nanotubes on top of a disc of flexible plastic. The nanotubes, which are rolled up tubes of carbon atoms that are highly efficient at absorbing light, were exposed to a light source. They turned the light into heat and passed it on to the plastic disc. The heat caused the plastic to bend while the nanotubes maintained their shape, leading the disc to bend.
The size or orientation of the nanotubes can be tweaked to coax the discs to respond to different wavelengths of light. The plastic can also be altered to give its resting state a flat or curled shape.
"We envision these in future smart, energy-efficient buildings," Javey said in the release. "Curtains made of this material could automatically open or close during the day."


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Mryia, full Mryia Jackalope, alos known as Atomhirsch, is a German furry writer and photographer.
Mryia is a fine-art photographer of abandoned places. Mryia is an active part of the German Urban Exploration (Urbex) scene under the pseudonym Atomhirsch (The name could be translated into nuclear deer).
Equipped with a Pentax K20D DSLR camera he sneaks, creeps and climbs into all kinds of abandoned buildings and places to make his artistic shots of a world after mankind. Sometimes he carries a life-sized inflatable reindeer with him as a kind of mascot, or use a deer mask to hide his face when making self-portraits while trespassing.
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Mryia was known as a plushophile with a large collection of big plushies in his earlier furry life. One of his hobbies was sewing and making SPHs to make plushies anatomically correct.
He was also took commissions from all over the world and had a good reputation with his work.[citation needed] Notably, he sold two plush toys to the New York Museum of Sex - one rabbit (in a FurBid auction) and one Meeko.[1]
Mryia's furry persona is a special form of the Jackalope, the German Rasselbock, named mryia, taken from the Ukrainian language to mean dream (The English pronunciation being mreea). He normally appears as an anthropomorphic hare with deer antlers, as well as tusks like a predator. The..
Mryia has written a lot of furry stories, many of which are erotic, although most of them are in German. Some of his most popular stories are Tales of the Jackalope and Kleiner Tiger Mikhal. Most of his literary works can be found at SoFurry.
 1. Museum of Sex exhibits modified plush toys, WikiFur News (February 18, 2007)
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Lubbock Roommate Violence Penalties
Home > Lubbock Domestic Violence Lawyer > Lubbock Roommate Violence Lawyer > Lubbock Roommate Violence Penalties
Criminal consequences of roommate violence in Lubbock include two things: punishment and collateral consequences. Punishment is defined in the statutes as time in jail and a financial fine. In addition to those are collateral consequences, which are the additional civil state penalties. This can include probation, classes mandated for the person to take (like anger management classes).
If there are any protective orders that come about, the person will be on the role of protective orders with the Department of Public Safety. This will endanger a person's ability to get a handgun and to carry ammunition. All of those are consequences that a person can face.
Immediate criminal consequences include getting handcuffed, booked, and having a picture taken. A person convicted of a roommate violence penalty might end up in the newspaper as well, facing social damage. Other social repercussions include work, family, and friend complications that may arise after a domestic violence charge.
Long-term Consequences
The long-term consequences of roommate violence penalties include having a criminal charge on an individual's record. If charged and convicted, a person facing roommate violence penalties are not eligible for non-disclosure. That means when a person has a criminal offense, there are two ways to hide that offense and to protect a person's future for background checks or something else. One way to hide the criminal offense is through an expunction of public records, which a person can only get in limited circumstances. Those circumstances do not exist for someone who gets convicted of a roommate violence penalty in Lubbock.
A person penalized for a roommate violence charge should get an order of non-disclosure, which means the records will not be public or easily obtained. For an employment application, for example, the person is allowed by law to say they never did it. The government can still see it, but that employer will never find it unless that employer happens to be a regulated industry such as the military or the medical field. So there still can be a list of people can see the roommate violence penalty.
Another long-term consequence is called an enhancement. This is a situation in which a person with a prior conviction face an increase in their penalty when they obtain another conviction. People often think they may never get involved with assault again, but it happens. A person likely did not plan to get involved in the one that they were convicted for the first time. Circumstances can get out of control sometimes, so someone can find themselves with an enhanced punishment. Those are some of the long-term consequences.
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Getting a professional, experienced Lubbock domestic violence lawyer is important if you want to avoid both short-term and long-term consequences of a roommate violence penalty. Call one today to see what you can to do avoid such punishments.
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Astronomers in the control room of the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope
Astronomers from around the world come to Parkes Observatory to use the telescope to observe naturally produced radio energy from space. They control the telescope from a desktop computer and monitor the operation of the telescope and some initial results on the monitors around the room. The data is recorded for later analysis.
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Johannes Eckart, more commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was born near Gotha in eastern Germany in around 1260. He had an illustrious career in the Dominican Order, holding senior ecclesiastical and teaching posts all over Europe including Saxony, Bohemia, Paris, Strasburg and Cologne. Eckhart is one of the great speculative mystics of Western Europe, who sought to reconcile traditional Christian belief with the transcendental metaphysics of Neoplatonism. Although accused of heretical teaching during his own liftime, Eckhart is widely regarded today not only as fundamentally orthodox but also as a foremost exponent of Christian mysticism and Christian philosophical theology. He died in the winter of 1326/7 in Avignon.
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Meaning of wheel horse
- Also calleda horse, or one of the horses, harnessed behind others and nearest the front wheels of a vehicle.
- the left-hand horse of a pair hitched to a wagon or plow.
- a reliable, diligent, and strong worker.
- wheel horse (Thesaurus)


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SQL Server 2005 includes patented technology for estimating the selectivity of LIKE conditions. It builds a statistical summary of substring frequency distribution for character columns (a string summary). This includes columns of type text, ntext, char, varchar, and nvarchar. Using the string summary, SQL Server can accurately estimate the selectivity of LIKE conditions where the pattern may have any number of wildcards in any combination. For example, SQL Server can estimate the selectivity of predicates of the following form:
Column LIKE'string%'
Column LIKE '%string'
Column LIKE '%string%'
Column LIKE'string'
Column LIKE'str_ing'
Column LIKE'str[abc]ing'
Column LIKE '%abc%xy'
If there is a user-specified escape character in a LIKE pattern (i.e., the pattern is of the form LIKE pattern ESCAPE escape_character), then SQL Server 2005 guesses selectivity. This is an improvement over SQL Server 2000, which uses a guess for selectivity when any wildcard other than a trailing wildcard % is used in the LIKE pattern, and has limited accuracy in its estimates in that case. The String Index field in the first row set returned by DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS includes the value YES if the statistics object also includes a string summary. The contents of the string summary are not shown. The string summary includes additional information beyond what is shown in the histogram. For strings longer than 80 characters, the first and last 40 characters are extracted from the string and concatenated prior to considering the string in the creation of the string summary. Hence, accurate frequency estimates for substrings that appear only in the ignored portion of a string are not available.
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I honestly love SQL Server even more now :-) I don't want to talk bad about MySQL itself because I don't know enough about the product to do so. But the tools provided are really sad as opposed to the tools that are included with SQL Server. I just wanted to know the queries that were run and their io, cpu, duration etc (<3 Profiler<3) but apparently there is no way with the standard tools to determine this. Graphical Query plans or even plans like the Text Query Plans in SQL Server... couldn't find it :-(


Camlik Steam Train Museum
Camlik is a small village in Selcuk which is known with a Steam Train Museum that was founded in 1991. There are 30 steam trains that are displayed in the museum made in Germany, England, French, the USA, Sweden and Czech Republic. Among them there's an English made locomotive that works with wood and there are only two of them in the world. There are also 4 cranes, water pumps, fuel transportation tank, 1 outdoor and 1 indoor passenger carriage and a repair shop. There is a toilet from 1850 and a tunnel of 900 meter long.
Choose one of the tours below to visit this site:
- Ephesus and Kirazli


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With the normal code editors, you could get a reading of the temperature of the microprocessor on the micro:bit. You can do that in MicroPython too. The reading is quite precise but, because it is reading the temperature of the silicon die on the main CPU, it is not an accurate reading of temperature of the room. If you use an actual thermometer, you can find out the difference between the reading that you get on the micro:bit and the one on your thermometer. That difference is likely to be pretty consistent when the temperature of the room changes and, if you subtract that number from the reading you get with your program, you will have a good measure of the temperature of the room.
It is pretty easy. Press the REPL button before you flash this to see the temperature in degrees Celsius displayed.
from microbit import * while True: sleep(5000) print(str(temperature())+"degC")
- Think of a better way to display the information.
- Create a temperature-sensitive device that sounds an alarm or lights/flashes an LED or image when certain temperatures are reached.


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Definition of source code in English:
A text listing of commands to be compiled or assembled into an executable computer program.
- If you bought a mainframe, it came with an operating system complete with source code.
- The intruder found some of their proprietary source code, but did not download any of it, the company claims.
- It lives up to its name by making both source code and file formats completely open.
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Starting with Robots
We get a lot of of enquiries from Robot Wars contestants who don't know where to start building their robot. I sometimes get the impression that they are starting with the robot control system – which is the wrong end of the design chain. As a general rule, when designing a machine, you should design the mechanical mechanism that will do what is required before you start working out how to control it.
A robot is a complicated system where mechanics and electronics interact with a human to give the required result. In all mechanical/electronic systems you must first consider the mechanics. However good the electronics, it will not compensate for a poor mechanical design.
This page is here as a general guide to robots, to give you some ideas and to help you understand your options.
 - Types of drive/control system
 There are two main families of drive systems for a machine such as a robot:
 1. To use a single drive motor with a separate steering system. This is how most radio controlled cars are designed and is the market most radio controllers are aimed at. This is a 'Drive and Steer' machine.
 2. To use two drive motors and to control the steering by differential speed control, using two reversing speed controllers. It is this system which seems to suit most robot builders – it has the benefit of giving better manoeuvrability. This is a 'Differential Drive' or 'Skid steer' machine.
 Of course variations on the above are possible, such as 4 wheel drive, walking machines etc.
 It is probably useful to note that the mechanisms, as listed, are in increasing order of control complexity.
 1. Drive and Steer
 - Powered Castor
 Here a single drive wheel is pivoted so that drive is in any direction, as shown in the drawing. The body of the machine sorts itself out, depending on friction and centre of mass, following the pivoted drive wheel. castor
 If the drive wheel is free to rotate continuously (which would need slip rings for the drive motor power) the drive requires no direction control as this is done simply by pivoting the wheel 180 degrees. For most such machines the steering 'pivot' could be motorised at constant speed, so such a machine would require a very simple control system consisting of two relays (one for forward, one for reverse) and one motor speed control without reversing.
 - Automobile style
 This is the original steering system used for autos with rear wheel drive and separate front wheel steering. Not very manoeuvrable for a robot! Modern autos use front wheel drive, where the drive wheels are steered and this system, used in a robot, could be mechanically very similar to a differential drive machine! It would have a simple control system consisting of a steering actuator [or servo] and a single reversing motor controller such as one of our DNO series.
 Of course for robot use it would be simpler to make a high powered servo actuator. After all the radio control servo simply moves an arm through an angle and you should be able to link this to a steering system!
 All of these suggestions do not, you will note, involve speed control! Which means that 4QD cannot get usefully involved in individual solutions.
 2. Differential Drive
 When a machine with two spaced wheels (on a common axle or separated) goes round a corner, the outer wheel has to travel further than the inner, as shown in the diagram. This is the reason why autos have to have a differential gear.
 This difference in distance travelled is not only the reason a differential gear is needed but is also the mechanism that causes differential drive to work. In the differential drive, a pair of wheels (one each side) are powered and under individual control, so that the two may be operated at different speed. If one wheel is rotated faster than the other, then the machine is forced to turn as shown in the diagram above.
 It should be obvious from the above that a differential control system requires two motor speed controllers – although these may be in a common box masquerading as a single controller. Moreover if the machine is to turn 'on the spot' then each controller must be able to reverse direction totally independently. There are in essence two types of system for controlling such a vehicle.
 - Tank mode – or Independent control.
 Otherwise called 'tank style' where two separate channels are used, each with a single 'stick'. Moving one stick speeds or slows one motor only. Such a system might use two DNO controllers with two separate Joystick interfaces (JSB-001 or JSA-002). The basic controller has a speed input (which might be used with a throttle pedal) and a reversing input (from a forward/reverse switch). A combined speed and direction lever (aka Joystick or wig-wag control) is a potentiometer which causes zero speed in the centre. Move the lever forward to move forward and back to move backwards. The 'Joystick interface' contains the simple circuit to translate this centre-zero control into the required speed and direction input.
 It should be noticed that a true tracked vehicle can take a lot of power (motor current) to turn 'on the spot' as the diagram should make clear.
 The green arrows show the machine turning about its centre. At the ends of the tracks the arrows are nearly at right angles to the track: movement along the track's running direction is minimal and the ends of the track are having to slide sideways, so if the track has a good grip, a lot of turning force will be needed. Only near the centre of the track is the track not sliding sideways.
 Clearly the longer the track is, the worse the effect and the wider the tracks are apart, the better the turning ability. If the tracks are wide enough apart (in relation to their length) then the nearer they behave to two normal wheels.
 To reduce the turning friction, drive on two wheels and allow the non driven wheel(s) to pivot, castor style, so they don't slide sideways. Don't forget that there is a similar drag effect with wide wheels!
 - 'Speed and Steer' control [aka differential control]
 Two drive wheels are each controlled each by their own motor and motor speed controller. A joystick is used as the control: moving this front to back alters the speed (and direction) of both motors together so the machine moves in a straight line. Moving the stick from side to side reduces the speed of one motor whilst increasing the speed of the other, causing the vehicle to turn.
 If the machine's speed is slow, the controller will need to reverse one wheel to cause a turn. Our Dual Channel Radio Control Interface [DMR-203] looks after all of this. This is a very popular method of motor speed control which has been used a lot. The most popular system is a DMR-203 with two DNO-10 controllers. Heavier robots [such as the house robots in RW] have used two 4QD-300s.
 Control Systems
 Now let us look in more detail at the available controllers and the ways you can implement (and enhance) various systems. 4QD offer quite a lot of components and selection can seem quite complicated. However this 'building block' system does mean that you can assemble almost any control system from a simple, economical, single quadrant control system to a full two channel 4 quadrant system capable of handling 300 amps per channel!
 Motor speed controllers
 If you are not used to motor speed controller 'jargon' then we suggest you look at our Guided Tour of controller features.
 You can reverse a permanent magnet motor simply by swapping over the wires with a double-pole changeover switch. However if you do that at speed, all the mechanical energy is 'dumped' into the switch or the controller. It would be a bit like throwing your car into reverse at 90 mph. The problem is that, whereas nobody would dream of doing that to a car, electrical machines are different and people do expect to do exactly that with an electric motor. So reversing controllers have to reverse safely. We use a 'dual ramp' reversing system in all controllers.
 We have four families of two and four quadrant controllers.
 The bottom of our range is the Porter, this is a single direction controller and thus not especially suitable for robots
 Next come the DNO series reversing controllers, a good mid-range controller used in a lot of robot applications.
 The Pro-150 is programable for more subtle control over performance parameters.
 Our top end four quadrant are the 4QD series, these are heavy duty, all mosfet controllers for the bigger, or more powerful robot.
 Radio control Interface
 Our two channel DMR-203 lets you drive one or two controllers from two channels of a standard PPM radio control system. It can do the direction / steering mixing for you, or it can be used as two independent channels.
 Most popular choices
 So which controllers are we selling? By far the most popular choice is a DMR-203 radio control interface with two DNO-10s. Most commonly used with two Bosch 750w motors.
 We've also sold 4QD series controllers for robot use and we know of more than one than using two Lynch motors in their robot.
 A sophisticated robot can get quite complex and it is possible to ue a microcontroller to process the pulses from the receiver and to measure parameters in the robot and to control the motors (and weapons) in a far more sophisticated fashion. In such a machine you would simply use 4QD's controllers as a 'power amplifier' to interface between the


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I guess I would have expected the command syntax to then be:
David has misread the example in the FAQ. He says that it uses
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By the way, what I present in the FAQ as Stata output of -anovaagrees with what Winer, Brown, & Michels show in Table 7.16 where
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Product Name: Rose Hips Extract
Botanical Name: Rosa Laevigata Michx., Rosa canina.
Active Ingredient: Vitamin C, Polyphenol, Ascorbic acid
Part Used: Fruit
Specification: Vitamin C 10%, 20% ; Extract Ratio 10:1
Molecular formula: C6H8O6
Appearance: Brown Powder
Rose hip is the fruit that develops from the blossoms of the wild rose plant. A common ingredient in herbal teas, rose hip is also available in supplement and powdered form. Rose hip contains a number of antioxidants, including vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene andlycopene.
1. Antioxidation, preventing skin aging and protecting the brain and nerve tissue from oxidation.
2. Strengthen the spleen and helping digestion.
3. Improve blood circulation, boosts metabolism and monitors the menstrual cycle.
4. Treatment of patients suffering from knee or hip osteoarthritis.
5. Protect against cancer.
6. Protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD).
7. Treatment of influenza-like infections, diarrhea
8. Diuretic and laxative and treatment of various urinary tract disorders.
1.Anti-oxidation,preventing skin aging and protecting the brain and nerve tissue from oxidation.
2.Strengthening the spleen and helping digestion.
3.ImprovIing blood circulation, boosts metabolism, monitors the menstrual cycle and relieves pain.


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any American pitcher plant of the genus Sarracenia, having single nodding flowers and leaves modified as pitchers that trap and digest insects: family Sarraceniaceae
/ˌsærəˌsiːnɪˈeɪʃəs/ adjective 1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Sarraceniaceae, an American family of pitcher plants
noun 1. Nathalie [na-ta-lee] /na taˈli/ (Show IPA), (Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak) 1900–1999, French novelist, born in Russia. noun 1. Nathalie (natali). 1900–99, French novelist, noted as an exponent of the antinovel. Her novels include Portrait of a Man Unknown (1948), Martereau (1953), and Ici (1995)
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1. Google Code-In (GCI)
Google Code-In (GCI)
Google Code-In is a project like Google Summer Of Code. But this time, there are not university students, but 13-18 years old people the targeted audience. Previous Code-In organisations: * Code-In 2010 * Code-In 2011 * Code-In 2012
Code-In differs from Summer Of Code also in not having a single task for one student, but creating a large number of tasks and then having the students pick the ones they want to work on. Thus, it is not suited for large projects, but for small tasks like writing howtos, fixing bugs.
All the tasks should be completable within hours or up to three days. To get an idea of how much a single task should be and what kind of they could be, look at this page. There is [information from Google] ( about what is suitable as a task for Code-In.
NetBSD participated in Code-In 2012. You can find the results here. The status of integrating Code-In's work to NetBSD can also be read there.
Goals as stated by Google
 1. Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
There were some tasks left, and there might be more ideas over the following year to participate in Code-In 2013 again.
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