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title: Arduino+WizFi250 User Guide
tags: "open-hardware"
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Thing+ Guide for Arduino(Arduino with WizFi250 & Non-SSL)

1. [ Install Arduino IDE](#id-ide)
2. [Environment Setting](#id-setting)
3. [Arduino Firmware install](#id-firmware)
4. [Gateway Registration](#id-gateway)
5. [Firmware build and upload](#id-build)

---
___This document is only for the purposes of the education and personal test.
Arduino and/or H/W having similar specs with Arduino can't support the SSL Encryption because they don't have enough CPU Power for it. Because of that, An extra H/W which support the SSL Encryption is required to use Arduino with ThingPlus Cloud.
For Arduino Users' convenience, we'd like to introduce the new way to use Arduino Board as the ThingPlus IoT Gateway without any extra H/W.
All of the communications between your Arduino board and ThingPlus Cloud can be disclosed because they are not encrypted.

WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND TO USE THIS ONLY FOR THE EDUCATION AND PERSONAL TESTS WHICH DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY KINDS OF SENSITIVE DATA.

API KEY for the non encrypted communication between Arduino and ThingPlus Cloud will be valid only for 30 days.
If you want to use the API KEY over 30 days, please extend the valid duration before it is expired___

---

#### Compatible Board for Thingplus Arduino Library

- Arduino Board / Orange Board
- ESP8266 (without Arduino board)
- Arduino WizFi250
- Board using ARM CORETEX-M chip

#### 1.  Install Arduino IDE

1) Install Arduino IDE upon PC OS environment. Please use above version. 1.6.9.

   - [Download Link](https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software)

#### 2. Environment Setting

1) Connect Arduino and PC.

  - Connect sensors as the following.
  ![Arduino Select Port](/assets/arduino_sensor_w250.png)

  - Below is `WizFi250 EVB` from wiznet. Check mac address at top of wizFi250 chip.
  ![Arduino Mac Address](/assets/arduino_wizFi250.png)

  - Connect Arduino Uno(Orange Board) with grove shield and then Connect wizFi250 EVB on there.
  ![Arduino Select Port](/assets/arduino_wizFi250_connect.png)

2) Execute Arduino IDE.

3) Select USB for Arduino Port in IDE. (for windows, COMxx)

   - Tools -> Port -> Arduino/Genuino Uno

     ![Arduino Select Port](/assets/arduino_port.png)

#### 3. Arduino Firmware install

1) Select Firmware to download into Arduino.

  - Have to install Firmware is as the following.
    - Arduino Library
    - ArduinoJson
    - PubSubClient
    - Time
    - Timer
    - wizFi250

  - thingplus Library (above. v1.0.7)
    - `Sketch -> Include Library -> Manage Libraries...`

- Search > thingplus > install

      ![Arduino_json](/assets/arduino_json.png)
      ![Arduino Lib](/assets/arduino_lib.png)

  - ArduinoJson
    - `Sketch -> Include Library -> Manage Libraries...`

- Search > ArduinoJson > install

      ![Arduino_json](/assets/arduino_json.png)
      ![Search Arduino_json](/assets/arduino_json_search.png)

  - PubSubClient
    - `Sketch -> Include Library -> Manage Libraries...`

- Search > PubSubClient > install

      ![Arduino_json](/assets/arduino_json.png)
      ![Search Arduino_Pubsub](/assets/arduino_pubsub_search.png)

  - Time
    - `Sketch -> Include Library -> Manage Libraries...`

- Search > timekeep > install

      ![Arduino_json](/assets/arduino_json.png)
      ![Search Arduino_Time](/assets/arduino_time_search.png)

  - Timer
    - [Download `Timer` Library](https://github.com/JChristensen/Timer/archive/master.zip)
    - `Sketch -> Include Library -> Add .ZIP Library...`

- To load downloaded .zip file

      ![Arduino_timer](/assets/arduino_lib_timer.png)

  - WizFi250
    - `Sketch -> Include Library -> Manage Libraries...`

- Search > wizFi250 > install

      ![Arduino_json](/assets/arduino_json.png)
      ![Search Arduino_Time](/assets/arduino_lib_wizfi250.png)

2) Modify header file in PubSubClient

  - Arduino Library Directory Path

    ``` bash
    Windows : My Documents\Arduino\libraries\
    Mac : ~/Documents/Arduino/libraries/
    Linux : /home/<your user name>/sketchbook/libraries
    ```

  - open _**LibraryPath**/PubSubClient/src/PubSubClient.h_ and modify as the following.
    - `MQTT_MAX_PACKET_SIZE 196`
    - `MQTT_KEEPALIVE 120`

    ![Arduino_Edit_Pubsub](/assets/arduino_edit_pubsub.png)

> Notice : If you didn't modify this part, actuator will be not works.

3) config setting
- open **_LibraryPath_/Thingplus/src/Thingplus.cpp** and modify as the following.(at line: 230)
  - `mqtt.thingplus.net` -> `mqtt.sandbox.thingplus.net`

```c++
void ThingplusClass::begin(Client& client, byte mac[], const char *apikey) {
	const char *server = "mqtt.sandbox.thingplus.net";
	const int port = 1883;

	this->mac = mac;
	snprintf(this->gatewayId, sizeof(this->gatewayId), PSTR("%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x"),
			mac[0], mac[1], mac[2], mac[3], mac[4], mac[5]);
	this->apikey = apikey;

	this->mqtt.setCallback(mqttSubscribeCallback);
	this->mqtt.setServer(server, port);
	this->mqtt.setClient(client);
}
```

#### 4. Gateway Registration

1) Get API key and register sensors

  - There are 3 examples in _**LibraryPath**/Thingplus/examples/_ (above thingplus library v1.0.7)
    - ArduinoEthernet : For Arduino + ethernet shield
    - ArduinoWizFi250 : For Arduino + WizFi250(wifi module of Wiznet)
    - ESP8266 : For ESP8266 (without Arduino board)
  - This guide is guide of Arduino+wizFi250, so we use `LibraryPath/Thingplus/examples/ArduinoWizFi250/ArduinoWizFi250.ino`.
  -  If you want to add `another sensors or another actions`, then modify/add the scripts.

  - Get API KEY in thingplus portal using mac address. (you might checked mac address on Ethernet Shield)
    - Assumed mac address is `11-FF-1F-F9-03-DF`

    - https://trial.sandboxthingplus.net/#/login > sign in > Settings > Gateway Management
    ![Arduino Register](/assets/arduino_register.png)

    - Select `Arduino-Developer` as Gateway Model.
    ![Arduino GW Model](/assets/arduino_developer.png)

    - Input mac address in Gateway ID field.

    - Select a `Get API key` button.
    ![Arduino Get APIKEY](/assets/arduino_getAPIkey.png)

    - API Key is issued. (The API key wil be expired in 30 days) **copy 'API KEY'**
    ![Arduino APIKEY](/assets/arduino_apikey.png)

    - Select a `Register Gateway` button.

    - Input `Gateway name`.

    - Select `grove startkit for Arduino` as the device model.

    - Input a `Device name`.
    ![Arduino  Register](/assets/arduino_Register_form.png)

    - Select a `Register a Gateway, Device and Sensors` button.
    ![Arduino  Register Finish](/assets/arduino_reg_finish.png)

    - [Move to Gateway Management in thingplus portal](https://trial.sandbox.thingplus.net/#/gatewaymgmt)

    - You can see the sensor ID.
    ![Arduino  Sensor ID](/assets/arduino_sensor_id.png)

  - Update _ArduinoWizFi250.ino_ file.
    - To connect WiFi, input `ssid` and `password` as the following.
    ![Arduino set wifi](/assets/arduino_wizFi_set_wifi.png)

    - Update api key : update using `Copied API KEY`.
    ![Arduino APIKEY Register](/assets/arduino_wizFi_set_apikey.png)

    - Update sensor ID (input `mac address` in place of `00000000000`)
    ![Arduino Setting](/assets/arduino_wizFi_set_sensor.png)

 > Notice :
 > The `Gateway ID` and `API KEY` is just for help to understand.
 > Above ID and KEY is not available.

#### 5. Firmware build and upload(execute)

1) build(compile) firmware.

![Arduino Verify](/assets/arduino_wizFi_verify.png)

2) Upload Firmware on Arduino.

![Arduino Download](/assets/arduino_wizFi_upload.png)

3) Check if the below message shown at IDE.

![Arduino Download Success](/assets/arduino_ide_upload_done.png)

4) Reay to use

  - now, you can use arduino Independently.

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The most romantic time of year always seems to be during the winter. Christmas passes you by, then your New Year's Eve kiss follows, and before you know it Valentine's Day arrives. It can be difficult to keep the holidays special and exciting. Year after year we find ourselves doing much of the same which usually involves expensive dinning at crowded restaurants. Change up the routine this year, there are so many things to do that could make this Valentine's Day a little more special for you and your loved one. We've put together some great options for lovebirds, families, and even friends to celebrate cupid's day in style.
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Bentley Unveils New Brooklands Luxury Coupe
March 6 – The Bentley Brooklands is a stunning new model that marks the company's return to the luxury coupé market and reaffirms its reputation as creator of the world's most exclusive coupés. It is the ultimate Bentley: a stylish, four-seat, grand touring coupe with classic British proportions and muscular performance.
Bentley's chairman Dr Franz-Josef Paefgen describes the motivation behind the new coupé: "Bentley's proud sporting pedigree, forged by the exploits of the immortal 'Bentley Boys' on the famous Brooklands racetrack in the 1920s, was the inspiration for our new coupé, capturing all the style, power and splendour of that era." *
Sporting design cues are matched by the phenomenal performance engineering of Bentley's legendary Crewe-built V8 engine. The new Bentley Brooklands possesses the most powerful V8 the company has ever produced – a 530bhp, twin-turbocharged 6.75-litre unit that also produces a prodigious 1050Nm of torque.
Each Brooklands coupé will be hand-assembled, employing traditional coach-building techniques and the craftsmanship skills in wood veneer and leather hide for which Bentley is renowned. To ensure exclusivity, lifetime production will be strictly limited to just 550 cars, with deliveries expected to start in the first half of 2008.
Exterior Design: Classic British Proportions
Bentley's rich coupé heritage provided the stimulus for Director of Styling, Dirk van Braeckel and his design team. For van Braeckel, the task was very clear: "To create a powerful, muscular and rakish grand touring coupé with classic British proportions, in the finest Bentley tradition."
While the new Brooklands is influenced by Bentley's fine coupé lineage, its design and engineering are thoroughly contemporary. The proportions of long bonnet, short front overhang and long rear overhang achieve the design objective perfectly, while the low roofline, steeply raked screens and pillarless side glass convey both power and movement.
As the Brooklands will be built in very limited volume, the designers were able to introduce unique features that necessitate specialist coach-building techniques, as Programme Director, Ashley Wickham, reveals: "The Brooklands' beautiful flowing lines are testament to the traditional coach-building skills and craftsmanship of Crewe's highly talented workforce."
The 'floating' rear screen, for example, is a contemporary take on traditional coachbuilt Bentleys. The lower edge of the screen sits well above the upper edge of the boot lid to provide a flowing, flawless line to the back of the car. This can only be achieved by individually hand-welding the rear wings to the C-pillars.
The fitment of 20-inch diameter wheels as standard, signalling the surefooted, robust and dynamic character of the new model, reaffirms the powerful stance of the new Bentley coupé.
Interior Design: Peerless Craftsmanship with a Sporting Character
Dirk van Braeckel describes the mission for the Bentley interior design team: "To create the perfect Bentley coupé: sumptuous hand-crafted luxury with a distinctly sporting character."
As in every Bentley, peerless craftsmanship is to the fore, enhanced by the warmth and richness of the finest natural materials. To tailor for their individual requirements, customers may choose from an extensive palette of hides, veneers, carpet tones and seat belt colours.
Its four-seat architecture and deeply bolstered seats lend the Brooklands' interior a distinctly sporting atmosphere, complemented by design accents such as aluminium foot pedals and footrest. A new, single-piece, hide-trimmed roof lining flows uninterrupted from the front windscreen all the way to the rear of the car, mirroring the long, sleek profile of the elegant exterior.
The interior designers sought to offer the very highest levels of comfort and legroom, in true Bentley grand touring tradition, while the pillarless window design enhances the feeling of space.
The Brooklands' cabin is wider both front and rear than the previous Bentley Continental R coupé – the rear by 10 percent – and it easily exceeds the interior leg, knee and headroom of any luxury coupe on sale today. This allows four adults to be accommodated in supreme comfort. Individual rear seats with electrically operated sliding cushions, set further back than on the Azure, are separated by a new centre console, incorporating both storage and cup holders.
Most powerful Crewe-built V8 ever – 530bhp, 1050Nm
Beneath its muscular, rakish, coach-built body lies the most powerful Crewe-builtV8 engine ever produced, developing 530bhp. Maximum torque is an astonishing 1050Nm, the highest ever developed by a production V8 engine. Although performance figures are subject to final confirmation as part of the on-going development programme, the new Bentley coupé will deliver supercar levels of in-gear acceleration combined with Arnage refinement.
At the beginning of the project, Dr Ulrich Eichhorn, Member of the Board, Engineering, tasked his power train specialists to deliver an extraordinary driving experience in the Bentley coupé tradition: "Exhilarating, effortless, accessible performance for those truly passionate about their driving was our prime objective."
Launched in the Bentley S2 saloon in 1959 with a capacity of 6.23 litres, the legendary, Crewe-built V8 engine has continually evolved. The first V8 was very advanced for its time with an all-aluminium construction, a five-bearing crankshaft and a well-supported camshaft, producing nearly 200bhp and 400Nm of torque. The result was a light and supple powertrain that produced maximum torque at low engine speeds, the hallmark of every Bentley ever produced.
1969 saw the capacity grow to 6.75 litres, where it remains to this day, but by far the most significant change came in 1982, with the introduction of a turbocharger to create the near-300bhp Mulsanne Turbo, a car that transformed the image of Bentley. In 1999, the single turbo engine, by now featuring port injection and charge cooling, was installed in Arnage, with twin turbos arriving in 2002, developing up to 450bhp.
For the 2007 model Arnage, the V8 engine saw a step-change in performance and refinement which became the starting point for the new Bentley Brooklands. A re-profiled camshaft and new, low-inertia turbochargers, which operate with greater efficiency at lower engine speeds have resulted in reduced turbo lag, enhancing that prodigious wave of torque at any revs, the hallmark of a true Bentley. These changes extend the power potential of the V8 in the Arnage to 500bhp and 1000Nm of torque. For the Bentley Brooklands, further component optimisation and engine calibration ensure record power and torque levels from this hand-assembled engine.
As with the latest Arnage, the V8 engine is mated to a six-speed transmission with strengthened casing that transforms the way in which both parts of the drive train communicate. A sophisticated, locking torque converter and ESP system ensure that the driver can readily access the prodigious power. A semi-automatic function allows manual gear selection for even greater driver control.
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China's Great Leader
Book Reviews | Autumn 2011
J. Stapleton Roy
DENG XIAOPING AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHINA.
By Ezra F. Vogel.
Belknap/Harvard. 876 pp. $39.95
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More than any other individual, Deng Xiaoping made China's modern rise possible. History is replete with examples of great leaders who made their mark through force and conquest. Far rarer, at least in the public mind, are those leaders who earned their reputations not through feats of arms but through their positive transformative actions while in power. Deng Xiaoping, whose life spanned most of the 20th century, was such a leader.
Deng spent much of his career in the shadow of Mao Zedong, the revolutionary leader who was the driving force in bringing the Chinese Communist Party to power in 1949 but then proved to be a disaster as a national leader, repeatedly plunging his country into chaos through his quixotic policies, his erratic vision, and his cavalier disregard for the welfare of the common people. Purged for the third time in 1976, as Mao approached death, Deng emerged from the convulsions of the Cultural Revolution to become China's supreme leader in fact if not in name. In the space of less than 15 years, from 1978 to 1992, Deng set China on the course that has regained for it the wealth and power it enjoyed through much of the last two millennia. This course, if sustained, could position China to challenge the economic and military position of the United States as the world's leading superpower.
Quite a few highly competent biographies of Deng have been written over the years. Many were published during the 1990s, when the full impact of his openness and reform policies was becoming dramatically evident. To one degree or another, all of these works have suffered from the limitations of the source material: abundant official documents, but almost no personal papers. (Deng relied on his excellent memory, and left no paper trail.) More often than not, these biographies necessarily focused on particular aspects of Deng's long career, adding useful insights but falling short of a well-rounded portrait of the man.
In an authoritative biography of Deng, Harvard sociologist Ezra F. Vogel, a renowned specialist on China and Japan who rose to international prominence in 1979 with the publication of Japan as Number One: Lessons for America, has attempted the difficult task of providing a comprehensive look at the experiences and influences that shaped this remarkable individual. He has succeeded superbly. To compensate for the dearth of personal written material, Vogel drew on extensive interviews he conducted over several years with Deng family members, former associates, officials, scholars, former ambassadors, and Chinese and foreign political leaders to add texture to his assessment of Deng's career.
Regrettably, there is still a paucity of information about Deng's formative years. Born in 1904 to a family in a rural village, Deng apparently excelled in school. In the 1920s he lived for about five years in France as a destitute student, during which time he joined the Chinese Communist Party. After he left France in 1926, he spent a year studying in the Soviet Union.
Upon his return to China, the party sent Deng in 1929 to lead an effort to establish a Communist base in Guangxi Province, where his initial small successes were negated when the local warlord used his superior forces to overrun Deng's cohort. Deng submitted a self-criticism of his failures, which was used against him decades later during the Cultural Revolution. He was then dispatched to join the Soviet base area carved out by Mao Zedong's military forces in the southeastern province of Jiangxi. While there, Deng developed a strong admiration for Mao. In an episode that gave him valuable protection in later years, he was punished by the party's central leadership for, among other offenses, allegedly heading a "Mao faction." This was the first of the three purges he suffered during his career. We know too little about these episodes, as well as Deng's performance during the Long March (1934–35), the war of resistance against Japan (1937–45), and the first two turbulent decades of the People's Republic of China, which was formally established on October 1, 1949.
In a book of more than 800 pages, only 30 are devoted to Deng's life from his birth until 1969, when, amid the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, he was banished after two years of house arrest to work as a machinist in a tractor repair station in Jiangxi. (Though Deng and his family suffered abuse and indignities during this purge and again in 1976, Mao protected Deng from efforts by radicals to expel him from the Chinese Communist Party. "Mao twice purged Deng, but he never destroyed him," Vogel writes. "He set him aside for possible later use.")
The skimpy treatment of Deng's early history is no fault of the author, who diligently mined previous biographies, archives, and interviews for what little material was available. But Vogel's research does provide a wealth of detail about the most important period of Deng's career, from 1969 to 1992, after which ill health and physical frailty forced him into the background. He died in 1997.
By the time Deng emerged as China's most influential leader, in the late 1970s—at over 70, he had reached an age when most Western politicians would have withdrawn into retirement—he became the first Chinese leader in more than 150 years to combine the necessary power, experience, and vision to thrust China onto a successful modernization trajectory. Vogel's book provides extensive insights into how Deng was able to use his experience, his network of associations among China's aging revolutionaries, and the force of his personality to direct China's course, all while allowing others to hold the top government and party titles.
What are the traits of this unusual man who succeeded where so many before him had failed? Whereas Mao, like Lenin, was a pamphleteer and prolific writer, churning out lengthy tracts setting out his vision, Deng's strength lay in organization and implementation. He shared Mao's revolutionary credentials, but not his economic vision for China's future. He saw in Marxism-Leninism an ideology that combined organizational discipline, military forces under tight party control, and a practical commitment to bettering the lives of the working class. The victory of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 provided practical confirmation that a small, tightly organized party could be the motive force for overcoming insuperable odds to seize the reins of power. Deng's belief never wavered that unchallenged rule by the Chinese Communist Party was the only method that could provide the stability necessary for China to grow and prosper.
Deng's pragmatism is well known. For those of us who witnessed the ideological excesses of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), including the glorification of the "little red book" filled with excerpts from Mao's articles and speeches, and the narrowing of China's cultural expression to a few red operas and revolutionary songs, Deng's no-nonsense practicality was a refreshing change. Yet it also represented a weakness in his understanding of human nature. Once Deng was clear in his own mind about what needed to be done to accomplish important goals, he was impatient to the point of intolerance with those who saw things differently or had other priorities.
In the lead-up to the Tiananmen Square protests, Deng was contemptuous of the respected astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, who advocated greater freedom of expression and a more open political system, because in Deng's mind loosened strictures would undermine China's ability to sustain its rapid economic growth. Two of Deng's handpicked and highly competent choices to become general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Hu Yaobang (1980–87) and Zhao Ziyang (1987–89), lost his confidence because he regarded them as lax in enforcing domestic stability.
Deng's backing for the suppression of the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 (which were precipitated by Hu's death after his forced resignation two years earlier) was predictable. He had no use for people he saw as impractical visionaries with no idea how to translate their high-minded ideals into the policies and actions that could overcome China's backwardness and poverty. He was unapologetic about quashing what had developed into a high-profile challenge to the authority of the Chinese Communist Party. Once stability was restored, he lent his personal authority to the effort to overcome the resistance to his economic policies exerted by conservative ideologues who had become entrenched in influential positions in the party after the Tiananmen events. This was his last hurrah.
Diminutive in stature and unassuming in his personal style, Deng was a study in contrasts. He possessed neither photogenic good looks nor charisma, and he showed no taste for playing the role of an inspirational national leader, preferring to exercise his influence from behind the scenes. He never sought or held China's topmost party and government positions, his highest titles being chairman of the Central Military Commission and vice premier. Yet on his visit to the United States in 1979 he displayed a flair for public relations, wearing a cowboy hat without embarrassment and acting with assurance in his public appearances.
What he lacked in looks and charm, Deng made up for in self-confidence and decisiveness. In my capacity as the deputy to Ambassador Leonard Woodcock in the U.S. Liaison Office and later the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, I was present on two occasions when Deng resolved disputed issues of great consequence. The first was his decision in December 1978 to proceed with establishing diplomatic relations with the United States even though the Americans had confirmed explicitly that the U.S. government intended to continue arms sales to Taiwan. After the establishment of U.S.-China diplomatic relations in 1979, this issue quickly resurfaced as a core problem in the relationship, prompting the negotiation of the third U.S.-China Joint Communiqué, issued on August 17, 1982. This communiqué contained the issue for a decade, but U.S. arms sales to Taiwan re-emerged as a particularly vexing sticking point in the 1990s and remain one today.
The second instance of Deng's decisiveness was his approval in May 1979 of an agreement settling the private claims of American citizens against China for property confiscated following the Chinese Communist Party's assumption of power, under terms that were vigorously opposed by elements within the Chinese government. In giving his assent, Deng overrode a cabinet-level official who had argued against the terms in a key meeting. After the meeting, a foreign ministry official rushed up to me urging that we quickly get the agreement signed because of the danger the decision would be reversed.
In both instances, Deng subordinated short-term considerations to longer-term strategic goals. He recognized that there was no prospect for a quick resolution of the Taiwan arms sale issue. As Vogel plausibly speculates in his biography, Deng probably recognized that the implementation of China's new economic reform policies would labor under a significant handicap without access to U.S. knowledge, capital, and technology, especially in the initial stages. In all likelihood, an additional motivation was Deng's concern about Soviet inroads in Vietnam; in a brief, bloody invasion in February 1979, Deng had attempted to teach the Vietnamese a military "lesson." He may well have felt that the new diplomatic relationship with the United States would deter Soviet retaliation on behalf of Moscow's Southeast Asian client.
In the case of the claims settlement, the $81 million China paid to the U.S. government for distribution to American claimants was trivial compared to the benefits provided by the 1979 trade agreement, for which the claims settlement was a precondition. The trade agreement granted most-favored-nation treatment to Chinese imports to the United States and greatly facilitated the rapid expansion of bilateral trade.
For those of us who as U.S. government officials participated in or monitored many of the developments in China and in the bilateral relationship Vogel describes, he has illuminated events in ways that would have been invaluable to us had we had such a clear picture at the time. The transformation of China that Deng set in motion is likely to confront the United States with its most significant foreign-policy challenge over the next several decades. We are fortunate indeed that Vogel has written this timely and highly informative biography of Deng Xiaoping, which provides a wealth of insights into one of history's great leaders.
J. Stapleton Roy is the director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He has served as the U.S. ambassador to Singapore (1984–86), China (1991–95), and Indonesia (1996–99), and as U.S. assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research (1999–2000).


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Forest bathing, a type of outdoor meditation, helps participants to slow down and take in the natural environment. The technique began in the 1980s in Japan but is becoming more popular throughout the world.
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MSP leads Graduated Driver Licensing debate
15.40 | 7 September 2011 | Young drivers | 3 comments
David Stewart MSP, yesterday (07/09/11) led a debate in the Scottish Parliament calling for Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) to be introduced in Scotland in a bid to reduce the number of young driver crashes.
A GDL scheme could include measures such as newly qualified drivers being banned from night time driving and carrying passengers of a similar age. A study conducted by Cardiff University found that the scheme could save more than 200 lives and result in 1,700 fewer serious injuries each year.
Brake, the road safety charity, is backing the move. Ellen Booth, senior campaigns officer, said: "Evidence indicates that reforming our system of training and testing drivers would make a huge difference in preventing casualties, particularly among young people.
"David is spearheading the campaign in Scotland, and we wholeheartedly support his work. We hope that Scotland will be a leader in the UK by introducing a comprehensive system of GLD to protect young lives on Scotland's roads."
For more information contact Ellen Booth on 01484 559909.
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When I was RoSPA's statistician in the late 1970's there was call for this. I thinks it's barmy that a 17 year old can't vote or officially drink in public, but can drive. Start it at 18 years of age, restrict the type of car they can drive, and limit the number of passengers that they can carry. Then re-test at 20 years including a more psychological IT test to check their attitude to hazard identification. Re-test at 25 years of age, and then not again until 70 years of age. Of course politically, the above is currently a non-starter, or is it?
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This old chesnut crops up regularly, but any positive progress is blocked by insignificant outfits whose own self preservation is paramount, and to h*ll with improving road safety, let alone young lives, whether they be drivers or innocent parties.
Some years ago the most professional of driving instructors associations – DIA – advocated implementing a graduated licence scheme, which very sadly was not supported by the less than professional associations.
When Dr Sarah Jones of Cardiff University published a report last year advocating GL for young drivers, which was supported by numerous MPs, I took the opportunity to raise the issue again with a certain instructor 'society' but most regrettably due to shockingly poor leadership, the committee rejected the idea of lending support to the GL proposal.
A second serious problem is the appalling state of driving instructor education, apptitude testing (lack of!),recruitment and training, all of which is the absolute pits! Any illiterate Tom, Dick, or Harry, Smoker, Obese, 'sweaty T shirt wearing baggy jeans and smelly trainer shoes no-hoper' is allowed to enter the 'profession'. This ludicrous situation is a national disgrace, and to confirm what I have said, compare it to the really professional way that Norway selects its driving instructors.
You only have to look at the people who met with the Road Safety Minister recently to see that most of the instructors 'representatives' are inadequately educated and inadequately qualified instructors themselves, and having dipped their toes into the training of learner drivers soon found themselves totally out of their depth, and so took refuge in an office to fly a desk or con colleages into voting them into some 'official capacity' as a representative. These bozos then spend their lives pontificating about 'driver training', a subject they know zilch about. Why Mike Penning (and his predecessors) gave them the time of day, I really cannot understand…
As for the DSA, well, most of them are former 'dipped their toes in the water' former instructors, who found themselves out of their depth, too, so jumped ship into the very simple job of 'tester'. Now they would have you believe that they are the 'experts' in the field of driver training! The world really is mad.
Gosh, now I feel better!
TotallyFedUpProfessionalADI
I am never convinced that unrefined banning provides a significant cure. Look at the restrictions placed on motorcyclists since the sixties. If one is going to take this route, do it robustly. Make 25 the minimum age for driving and you will have completely cured the problem with young drivers. Ridiculous I know, but it is similar in principle. We find it acceptable to send a man of 18 to be be blown to bits in the searing heat of Afghanistan but not to drive a car after dark. Do you see my point? It is crude, unrefined thinking. Furthermore, do you not think that young men will not go out at night and drive. We couldn't stop them looting and pillaging last month so driving in the dark is small potatoes.
May I ask Ms Booth from Brake to modify her quote? Evidence indicates that reform MAY make a difference, not WOULD, and it may reduce collisions not casualties. One must not be presumptuous especially in road safety.
Roy Buchanan, Epsom


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"Every Picture Tells a Story" / Winnipeg Free Press / Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson / April 29, 2019
Chronicling the downfall of a company that produces oscillating fans might not sound like the stuff of gripping fiction, but in the hands of an accomplished artist like Seth it becomes a sprawling yet intimate work of melancholy beauty.
Clyde Fans, published Tuesday by Montreal imprint Drawn & Quarterly, collects Seth's story of Abe and Simon Matchcard in an impressive, beautifully constructed volume that is certain to be a benchmark for much of what will follow in graphic fiction — from an artist who has helped define the graphic novel genre (although he prefers to call them "picture novels").
The Matchcards' story has been published in serial format over the last two decades — first appearing in Seth's Palookaville comic book series and then compiled into two separate Clyde Fans volumes. And while the story was presented over the course of years before the new definitive collected works, for Seth, 56, the core story was always there.
"The biggest surprise was that the book was basically written in note form, 20 years ago, and that I followed those notes pretty much exactly," he says from his home in Guelph, Ont., prior to tonight's launch of Clyde Fans at McNally Robinson's Grant Park location, where he'll be joined in conversation with University of Winnipeg professor Candida Rifkind.
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Student-Centered Classroom Volume is Loud...and That's Okay!
In its simplest forms, one of the scariest things about a student-centered environment is that it is a loud classroom…and that's okay! There is such an expectation that students sit quietly and do work from "bell to bell". Though I would agree that work from "bell to bell" (minus brain breaks) is still relevant, in a student-centered classroom where they are collaborating and exploring and getting EXCITED about what they are doing, it just isn't realistic that this would be a quiet environment.
I am not saying it is a free-for-all. The classroom activities need to be carefully crafted so that even though the students are up and moving and talking (sometimes loudly), there is a purpose to it. If you're encouraging flexible seating and student choice, you need to expect that there is going to be sound. You will have a loud classroom. You need to be okay with that. To boot in my classroom, I always have music playing on top of it all. My room always looks like a party, which to some, might look like it "isn't supposed to". However, if they take the few minutes to come in and look around (I encourage the concept of #observeme), they would realize that the students are completing more engaging work with a deeper understanding than if they were sitting quietly.
I smiled and brought her around. They were making time capsules to represent events from the 1970's. I had her pass by each group and they explained to her what they were making. In detail, they showed her what the artifact was, why they decided to make it, and what it represented…and other than me asking them to explain what they were doing, they rattled off all that information without me prompting them to do so.
It's chaos…but it's organized chaos.
Life in the industrial economy was typically viewed as a series of discrete segments: school, work and retirement. But this thinking is no longer viable as we have entered the era of lifelong learning. Facts taught in school today can be obsolete within a few years. Employees must constantly reinvent their skill sets in order to stay employable. Employers recognize they need to be increasingly self-sufficient in helping their employees keep their skill sets up-to-date.
Take a look at what Business Insider said would be the best jobs of the future back in 2014. The industrial model of education simply would not benefit these types of jobs. They are almost all hands on or critical thinking based. Having an active student-centered learning environment and a loud classroom (that is encouraged) is the best way to prepare our students for the workforce, which is the sole purpose of education at every level.
But consider this: just ten years ago, 'social media manager' or 'mobile app developer' would have seemed like imaginary job titles to most. With the accelerating pace of social and technological change, the World Economic Forum estimates that 65 percent of children today will end up in careers that don't even exist yet.
65%?! This, even more, solidifies that the argument of "but we've always done it this way" is not only outdated but completely irrelevant. How can we continue doing what we've always done if the outcome needs to be completely different for 65% of the population we serve? We need to do things differently. Our students need to be active, engaged, and we need to encourage a loud classroom that is full of action and engagement. We need to be certain they are gaining the soft skills that are necessary in the world that they are not necessarily getting naturally as generations past have. Generation Z is a much different group in front of us than we have had before….we need to make sure we are giving them the best possible experiences to prepare them for the real world. Thanks for reading.
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"He's kind of a calming influence. I think we were too hectic on the ball in the first half and he kind of settled us a little bit when he got the ball, and it helped us a lot." That is Landon Donovan, talking about Jose Francisco Torres -- and in particular the effect that Torres had on the U.S. team when he subbed in for the second half of Saturday's game against Turkey.
Will soccer heed doctor's orders?
Just over a week ago I was talking of the refereeing clampdowns that invariably accompany each World Cup, wondering what would be clamped down on this time.
I get a lot of enjoyment out of looking at the Cal South Magazine -- it tells me quite a lot about the youth situation in one of our most important regions, and anyway, there are plenty of photos of smiling kids, and that's always fun.
So here we go again, another super-climactic final that failed to live up to its billing. It's not that the Inter Milan vs. Bayern Munich game was a poor one -- it wasn't. But this was the high-point of the European season, the two best teams, with a ton of the world's best players ... surely such an occasion, such an assembly of talent, should produce something exceptional, something sparkling?
I guess it had to happen. Someone had to get injured at the last minute, injured so badly that he would miss the World Cup. Well, not just someone -- it would be a big star.
Every four years, as the World Cup rolls into sight, we get the news that the rules of the game are not quite as good as they ought to be. And so we learn that a minor change is necessary for the tournament to be played properly. Either that, or the referees are told that they need to be particularly diligent in enforcing a rule that is already in existence.
This sort of thing happens far too often, I'm afraid. At least, it does so here in the States. Some visitors from Europe were in town over the weekend -- soccer people, as it happened, and they thought they'd like to take a look at an MLS game. Perfect -- the Red Bulls were in town, playing against Seattle.
I continue to be astonished -- and I do not astonish easily -- at the extraordinary claims that FIFA makes as to the extent of its authority.
Looking at the preliminary World Cup squads, there are certainly some selections and omissions that you could call "surprises."
As various American players are recovering their physical fitness in time to play in the World Cup -- think Clint Dempsey, Stuart Holden, Oguchi Onyewu, even Charlie Davies -- it seems that events are taking a rather different direction for England -- the team that the USA will face in its first game.
In soccer terms - are we still a colony?
I have received a breathless announcement from MLS informing me that Manchester United will be coming to the USA this summer. A press release, of course, but one is entitled to wonder which section of the press it is intended for. It also seems likely that much of the wording is designed to impress sponsors and marketing people.
Not for the first time, Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger has been bitching about Sam Allardyce and the way that his Blackburn Rovers see fit to play soccer. Far too physical, in Wenger's view.
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Description of Indian Brides
India is an amazing country in which, along with modernity, it is still possible to meet the fulfillment of the traditions and customs of the ancestors. It is impossible to fully understand Indian culture without understanding what an Indian woman is. There is always some mystery in Indian brides, which is also what makes them so attractive.
Since ancient times Indians have believed that the beauty of a woman is concentrated in her magnificent body. Temple bas-reliefs glorify its smooth lines and graceful movements. Fantastic body forms in the understanding of the Indians symbolize health, wealth and a stable life, which for most people in India is just a dream.
Most modern Indian women are distinguished by enviable grace. It is very visible. Just pay attention to how Indian women walk. They are straight, like a string, holding their head high. That way they carry their own dignity, trying not to spill it. Perhaps the secret of this gait lies in the traditional dress of Indian women - sari. It takes time to get used to it and wear it the right away. In India, they believe that a sari not only emphasizes the beauty of the female body, but also is able to tell about the character of a woman, about the well-being of her family and, of course, about her taste.
The image of Sita, Rama's wife, is considered ideal for an Indian woman. She was sweet, friendly, noble and honest. She loved her husband with unearthly love, while other men simply did not exist for her. Indian woman always keep the house clean, and are good at raising children, cooking, as well as dressing stylishly.
Each Indian woman prefers her own special blend of spices and vegetable seasonings; as a rule, this mixture includes turmeric, ginger, garlic, coriander, aniseed, cinnamon, cardamom, and cloves. Rice is usually served to curry, as well as various types of flat cakes, collectively known as roti. A permanent dish on an Indian table is dal, thick lentil porridge, which is eaten with curry. Popular dishes such as mattar panic are a mixture of peas with cheese, seasoned with spices, sagas gosht - lamb with spinach and alu dam, whcih is also known as potato curry.
The main purpose of any Indian women is motherhood. It is believed that a woman is the center of the active forces of nature, in contrast to the passive masculinity. She is full of creative energy, capable of creating and destroying.
Appearance of a Typical Indian Bride
Let's take a look at the most important aspects of Indian beauty:
Face and the color of the skin. The beauty of eyes, nose and ears are very important for Indian women. Indian brides usually have a straight nose, ears that are pressed to the head, and almond-shaped eyes, that are always shining. The size of the eyes isn't too small, which is just perfect. Indian brides primarily have brown eyes, you will also meet a lot of girls with green and blue eyes. As for color of the skin, it's pretty simple. The lighter the color of the skin -the better. You'd be surprised, but not all Indians have equally dark complexion. For example, the northern ones are light-skinned for the most part. It is very difficult to maintain a light skin tone when the sun shines brightly in Indian for most part of the year, but Indian ladies do their best. Each Indian beauty tries to keep it in its original form, therefore they put on long cotton gloves that covers hands to the elbow. They also put on a headscarf while driving, which completely hides the face, leaving only slits for the eyes;
Makeup. Probably because naturally Indian women have dark skin and bright facial features, makeup is rarely used in everyday life. The maximum that can be noticed is eyes that have been let down with a black pencil. Everything changes if we are talking about evening make-up - in this case, many modern girls use both tone, eyeliner, and lipstick. Many girls paint their nails, but it does not always look neat, because very few girls wash off the lacquer when the first defects appear;
Height. Perfect height does not exist, because everyone is different and has their own tastes, but most of the Indian women are not tall, but not too short either, which are the parameters that most guys are looking for;
Hair. Indian men traditionally like girls with long thick shiny hair. And the girls probably like it themselves, because from childhood they use all sorts of natural oils that are rubbed into the scalp for the growth and strengthening of the hair. By the way, Indian women love to weave fresh flowers into their hair and most often decorate their hair with a jasmine wreath;
Dress color. Indian brides prefer everything that is bright. They are crazy about yellow, pink, red, green, orange, and fuchsia — these are the most common colors of saris and other Indian clothes. Also, all the colors of the peacock feather are considered beautiful, and therefore a lot of clothes are just the color like that;
Jewelry. A woman in India should always look beautiful and be well-groomed. That is why there are always a lot of jewelry on Indian brides. For this purpose, various natural and artificial materials are used. Gold jewelry is especially attractive for them. The more there is gold on the girl, the richer she is. Even if the girl was born in a very poor family, parents save money and try to buy gold earrings to their daughters as soon as possible. In addition, according to tradition, no matter how old a girl is, she has no right to show off in public with a bare neck. Therefore, it's one of the main goals for the father to buy his daughter a gold chain.
Indian Brides And Family
Indian women get married at a very early age. That way they get a higher status, because the true strength of an Indian woman is revealed only after marriage. Everything that happens in a woman's life before is only a prelude. In India, it is believed that the husband is the earthly God. Women are so firmly closing the ring of their inner world around the husband, his life, his interests, that all other men simply cease to exist for them. This is a pleasant surprise for all of the foreigners who are looking for a single Indian bride.
Indian brides love to dress beautifully for their husband. They care about their skin, their hair, their eyes, and overall appearance. They also like wearing beautiful jewelry. Indian women learn to sing and dance, and do it for their husband. And if the husband is alive and well, if he is devoted to the family, then the woman is extremely happy, because she feels like she doesn't need anything else, and she had achieved her goal.
Tradition says that a husband is everything for an Indian brides. It's the meaning of life, it's a God on earth, it's the half of a woman without whom she's not a man, not a person, nothing.
The main signs of a married woman are the rings on the second toe of each leg, the earring in the nose and the bindi in the middle of the forehead, and not between the eyebrows, as before marriage. During the wedding, the traditional "mangal-sutra" is around the bride's neck - a string of black and gold small beads with two golden hemispheres in the middle. It's a wedding necklace, and it replaces a wedding ring in India. There is also a silk white scarf tied over the groom's shoulder that is tied to the sari.
The wedding is considered to be completed, and the marriage is inseparable, when the husband will circle his wife seven times/
Sacred feminine force symbolizes the "tali" necklace, which the groom fastens to the bride during the marriage ceremony. This means that the man gives himself under the magical protection of the woman.
Indians believe that a woman gives a man magical protection: good luck in business, well-being and prosperity. Indian brides have enough energy to share it with their husbands.
After marriage, a new stage begins in the life of an Indian woman - life in a joint family, where her husband's relatives obey a strict hierarchy and his (and even more so her) personal opinion is absolutely not important to anyone if it goes against public opinion (neighbors, co-workers friends, family friends, etc.) or contrary to the opinion of the head of the family (often a grandmother, father or mother of her husband). If the husband is not the only child in the family, then instructions about what, to whom and how to say, file, where to look and how to dress will be given not so much to her husband as entitled, but to his mother, father or older relatives living under the same roof with him, as well as his older sisters, brothers, and even the wives of brothers.
Sometimes an Indian family consists of 50 people. The bride in the Indian family is the most vulnerable. Men give their parents all their earnings, and the mother-in-law determines what and how to spend the money on.
To disobey someone means to spoil relations with relatives or a husband, and Indian families know how to weave intrigues in Indian families very well. In order for the daughter-in-law to take root in the family, she needs to be able to please everyone at once, which is very hard to do.
Fortunately, such difficult family relationships are not always the case. Meek, hardworking, patient daughters-in-law, especially those who managed to give birth to a son, are usually the joy of the family. However, the life for childless women isn't the most pleasant ones. They are usually pretty soon replaced by new wives.
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In general, being a woman in India is not the most pleasant thing. Indians believe that if you were born a woman, then your karma is badly damaged. Being a female is nothing but paying for sins in the previous life. This is probably due to the precarious position of a married woman. Her happiness is directly dependent on the health of her husband. Being a widow for an Indian woman is like being buried alive.
Traditionally, widows are forbidden to wear long hair. They have to cut it off if their husband dies. After her husband's funeral wife is obliged to give up all the pleasures. She has to sleep on the bare floor, eat flour soup, spend all her days praying. A widow in India has no right to remarry. She also can't wear colored sarees - joy in the world for her no longer exists. She is forbidden to wear bracelets, earrings, rings and any other jewelry, because she no longer belongs to anyone. Widows have no right to eat more than one plate of (traditionally unsalted) rice per day, and may not eat any sweats.
It is also believed that even her shadows brings bad luck, and she will be eternally grateful if her own children are not put out of the house (and in most cases leaving the house is the only thing left to the widow). From now on, it is her fate to ask for alms and live in an ashram that was built specifically for widows (if she manages to get there) for the rest of her life. She's also treated like a leper there. To meet a widow on the street is a bad omen, even All in all, widows become outcasts till the rest of their lives.
In the ashram, if the widow is still young and attractive for the opposite sex, she can earn money with her body. All the money will be given to the owner of the ashram (the oldest or the most respected widow), and thanks to that she will be able to get a cup of rice a day and can celebrate the biggest holidays.
All in all, it's a very terrible experience for any woman, and it's hard to imagine that such things still exist to this day. There should be no doubt that most of the Indian women would gladly leave their country, and marry foreigners, who are not just better looking and ambitious, but they can also provide Indian brides with a stable and happy life, which is so important.


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Money can't buy privacy in Google Play store, study shows
Both paid and free apps in the Google Play store harvest the same amount of private information from Android phones, a researcher discovered
John P. Mello Jr. (PC World) on 15 April, 2013 22:43
Paying for an app in Google's online store, Google Play, will banish nagging in-app ads, but it won't dam the flow of personal information from your phone to marketers.
That's what Bitdefender mobile threat researcher Liviu Arsene discovered after examining the top ten paid apps in Google Play.
"When you pay for an app, you usually expect it to stop locating you and collecting all sorts of sensitive data--the kind of information used to create a behavioral profile of you," he told TechHive.
By contrast, when a free app is downloaded, "I give up access to my information willingly because I don't want to pay for the app," he said.
"When you pay for any app, you don't want someone tracking you, looking at my browsing habits, or collecting personal data about you," he said. "Apparently that doesn't stop when you pay for an app. The app only stops displaying pop-ups and banners."
Subtly siphoning data
According to Bitdefender's analysis of the top paid apps in Google Play with both paid and free versions, five of eight paid apps siphoned information from a mobile device as aggressively as their free counterparts.
"Indeed, the main difference between paid and free versions--at least in terms of privacy--is that the intrusiveness is simply hidden better in paid apps," Bitdefender reports.
Among the paid apps that continued tracking and uploading user location, as well as broadcasting unique device IDs to third-party servers, even after purchase, were Rovio's Angry Birds Space, Angry Birds Star Wars, SwiftKey Keyboard, SoundHound, and Cut the Rope.
Apps less attractive?
"The use of aggressive tracking in paid apps, if it becomes widely known, could devalue paid versions and change consumer behavior," Bitdefender predicted.
That's not something that developers of paid Android apps want to hear, since they already have a problem selling shoppers for Android apps on paying for them. For example, app market watcher Distimo noted on a typical day in November 2012, Google Play raked in $3.5 million from apps, compared to $15 million garnered by Apple's app store.
Bitdefender's latest findings may just be the tip of the ice berg at Google Play, according to Arsene. "If this is what the top ten apps are doing, you can imagine what apps that are not that popular are doing," he said.
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Milwaukee Convention Center's expansion takes step forward with release of design renderings
Posted by Wisconsin Public Radio | Mar 10, 2020 |
For years, Milwaukee officials have discussed renovating and expanding its downtown convention center but numerous studies and setbacks have delayed the process. On March 6, the Wisconsin Center District (WCD) released renderings of what the proposed expansion project would look like.
The expansion will double the square footage of the convention center and generate $12.6 billion in spending over a 30-year period. A state budget provision providing the financial backing is needed to pay for the likely $300 million project.
The exposition hall square footage will increase by 112,000 sq. ft., totaling 300,000 contiguous sq. ft., plus integrate six loading docks to support the added square footage. It will also offer a ballroom with a minimum of 30,000 sq. ft. and a minimum seating capacity of 2,000, along with no fewer than 24 new meeting rooms and no fewer than 400 parking spaces.
Previous expansion plans relied on increasing local sales tax, but the state Legislature showed little support because they wanted the district to find additional funding.
Governor Tony Evers included a state budget provision granting the Wisconsin Center District up to $300 million in bonding for the expansion project — which essentially means that if the district cannot repay its debt, the state will cover the cost.
The Milwaukee Common Council still has to approve the provision, and there are five criteria that must be met under state guidelines:
The new expo hall must be 100,000 square feet.
The convention center must attract at least 50,000 out-of-state visitors annually.
It must stimulate at least $6.5 billion in total spending in the state over 30 years beginning on the date the bonds are issued.
It must generate at least $150 million in incremental state income, franchise and sales tax revenues over 30 years.
It must support at least 2,000 full-time equivalent jobs — those jobs include construction jobs.
If the Wisconsin Center District fails to meet those guidelines, the state will not back them for the bonds. After the Common Council approves the provision it will be sent to the Joel Brennan, the Secretary of the Department of Administration, for his signature. Brennan is on the Wisconsin Center District Board. On April 2, the district will meet again to finalize the cost of the expansion and move forward with the project.
The current Milwaukee convention center, which was built in 1998, is 266,000 square feet, with about 189,000 square feet of exhibit space. By comparison, Cincinnati has 196,800 square feet of exhibit space at its convention center; Columbus has 373,000 square feet; Minneapolis has 475,000 square feet; and Indianapolis has two convention venues totaling 749,000 square feet of exhibit space.
VISIT Milwaukee and Brooks have said Milwaukee has missed out on larger conventions because meeting planners choose similarly-sized cities with newer and larger convention centers. Aesthetically, he said he also wants to make sure there are enough restrooms, including, gender neutral bathrooms, so visitors have a comfortable experience.
"We need to build this, so they come, not if they come," Brooks said. "We're building this so there are things in our building that are what the meeting planners want and that differentiates us from other markets."
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Q: Terraform modules azure event subscription optional fields I am trying to work with terraform modules to create event subscription pointing to storage queue as an endpoint to it.
Below is the module
  resource "azurerm_eventgrid_event_subscription" "events" {
  name                      = var.name
  scope                     = var.scope
  subject_filter            = var.subject_filter
  storage_queue_endpoint    = var.storage_queue_endpoint
  }

and terraform is
module "storage_account__event_subscription" {
  source       = "../modules/event"
  name         = "testevent"
  scope        = test
  subject_filter = {
    subject_begins_with = "/blobServices/default/containers/test/blobs/in"
  }

  storage_queue_endpoint = {
    storage_account_id = test
    queue_name         = test
  }
}

Error message:

:   subject_filter {
    Blocks of type "subject_filter" are not expected here.
    Error: Unsupported block type
    on azure.tf line 90, in module "storage_account__event_subscription":
     :   storage_queue_endpoint {
    Blocks of type "storage_queue_endpoint" are not expected here.

How do i parse the optional fields properly in terraform modules ?

A: In you module:
  resource "azurerm_eventgrid_event_subscription" "events" {
  name                      = var.name
  scope                     = var.scope
  subject_filter            = {
    subject_begins_with = var.subject_begins_with
}
  storage_queue_endpoint    = var.storage_queue_endpoint
  }

Formatting is off here so make sure to run terraform fmt to account for my poor formatting. Also add the variable to the variables.tf file.
Your Terraform file:
module "storage_account__event_subscription" {
  source       = "../modules/event"
  name         = "testevent"
  scope        = test
  subject_begins_with = "/blobServices/default/containers/test/blobs/in"

  storage_queue_endpoint = {
    storage_account_id = test
    queue_name         = test
  }
}

You create the full structure in the module and then you assign the variables in the terraform file.
Anything that will have the same, or generally the same, value can have a default value set in the variables.tf as well so that you get smaller chunks in the TF file.

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REPORT: DeepMind Accidentally Gave The Oxford Computer Society £105,520
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A cyclist is silhouetted in front of Balliol College, founded in 1263, it is one of the oldest constituent colleges of Oxford University in Oxford, England, Friday, Oct. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
DeepMind, the UK artificial intelligence lab owned by Google, accidentally gave the University of Oxford's Computer Society £105,520, according to a report in The Oxford Student newspaper.
The accidental payment was reportedly confirmed at the society's annual general meeting by treasurer Ben Slater, who attributed the slip up to the fact that DeepMind had the details of multiple accounts with the words 'Oxford' and 'Computer' in them.
The society's committee attempted to return the funds to DeepMind as soon as they realised their account had been credited but this was not immediately possible due to the size of the deposit.
The money has now been returned but it took approximately two weeks, according to the report, which states that the committee had to engage in a lengthy process with their banks and the companies involved in the transaction.
Edward Hart, the president of the Computer Society, said: "Accidents do happen and we are grateful for the prompt and helpful support of DeepMind's accounts team and the University."
DeepMind has a close relationship with Oxford and it gives funding to PhD and Masters level students that need it. Several of its employees also teach at the university.
But DeepMind has also been criticised for poaching Oxford and Cambridge's most talented individuals as it looks to grow its business.
DeepMind and the University of Oxford Computer Society did not respond to a request for comment.
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