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Over the course of my career I’ve encountered many people who define something as a “project” even though it’s really not. Sometimes the term is a buzzword that gets tossed around the boardroom, other times it’s an honest misunderstanding of requirements. In every case, I’ve had to define a real project and help them set their sights on something concrete.
You might be able to call your attempt at home improvement a “project”, but for businesses and organizations, the scale is a bit too small. Truly professional-level projects require collaboration between different people or groups in order to achieve the greatest effect. Solo operations aren’t any more “projects” as they are a “team”.
Projects are meant to accomplish a solidly defined goal or set of goals. A scattershot effort with vague objectives is just that—unfocused, non-directed, and most likely not going to be very effective. The problem here is that clients often mistake “benefits” for “objectives”.
One of the easiest project examples to understand is bridge construction. Yes, building a bridge can increase commerce, speed up travel, promote tourism, and create jobs. But those are all benefits. The actual project is the bridge itself.
Projects are supposed to be a benefit to the organization. It’s unfortunate to say, but I’ve handled a couple of projects that were essentially “money sinks”, which were undertaken just because there was some room left in the annual budget, and they needed to spend it otherwise next year’s budget would shrink. Although my company was paid no problem, the project was a waste in all other aspects. The client didn’t care how much time we put into it, nor the quality of the deliverables.
True projects drive things forward. If the organization isn’t better off for having done the project, then why do it in the first place?
By far the biggest mistake people make when defining a project is confusing them with ongoing operations. Ongoing operations are very different from ongoing projects. The key difference is that ongoing operations are a normal part of how a company does business (like producing cars), while an ongoing project is a project whose end date has been repeatedly extended and delayed. There’s still a definite end to the project— it’s just a long time in coming.
Properly defining a project isn’t just a matter of semantics. It also has very real implications of how a project performs. With the above list, I hope you’ve become just a little bit wiser in what to expect from your PMO.
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The UAE division of ULO Systems, a leading provider of services within the oil and gas and construction industries, has been awarded a major contract to provide in-country equipment and services to Max Group for its $2.2-billion Roopur Nuclear Project in Bangladesh.
Once completed, Roopur Nuclear Plant will become the country’s first atomic energy facility, making Bangladesh the third South Asian country after India and Pakistan to harness atomic energy for the country’s power requirements.
The agreement marks the largest concrete mattressing scope ULO Systems has won to date, delivering materials for the manufacture of 12,000 concrete mattresses, including 216,000 plastic shell pods, 648,000 clips and 568,000 metres of rope.
The project includes full collaboration in the creation of QA/QC documentation and procedures, the pouring of concrete and the installation of concrete mattresses on the project site, said the statement from the company.
ULO Systems said it will utilise an advanced MDS 3 lifting frame, capable of deploying three mattresses simultaneously, it stated.
The project’s scheduled completion date is the first quarter of 2019 and the 12,000 concrete mattresses will be ready for installation by mid-December. Up to 400 pods per day will be completed on-site, enabling the production of a 2.25-metre³ concrete mattress every two and a half minutes.
Rather than manufacturing concrete mattresses with the use of steel shells, ULO Systems, in partnership with Flexmat, utilises plastic pods in the production process.
The pods, which have a design-life of 50 years, remain part of the structure of the company’s concrete mattresses, providing a high level of cosmetic finish and removing the need to mould and de-mould concrete in traditional shells, thereby reducing the time required to fabricate mattresses.
Colin Reilly, the deputy general manager of ULO Systems, said: "This is a significant win for the company, marking our re-entry into Bangladesh, and a first move into nuclear power. This first step is perfectly aligned with our company’s 2019 growth targets, aiming to expand into the subcontinental market."
"The main challenges of this project are the location and the timelines. The nuclear plant is located in a rural area of Bangladesh on a riverbank. Due to weather conditions, the risk of flooding in the area is high and the plant’s proximity to the river has meant we have had to first establish a solid base to build upon," remarked Reilly.
"It was critical ULO Systems offered a long-term solution to protect the infrastructure and ensure the safety of the plant," he noted.
"Due to the plant’s location, there are logistic challenges in delivering materials in the required time to complete the project on schedule. However, we have a reputation for being resourceful, reactive and able to respond to any client requirement which was certainly a huge benefit here and I believe one of the key reasons we were awarded the contract," he added.
In addition to providing materials and equipment, ULO Systems said it has deployed a team of highly qualified technicians, to oversee the manufacturing and installation of the concrete mattresses.

industry_corpus2: Petrochemicals


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The Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe contain the best preserved relics of the Kingdom of Kush at the height of its power.
Meroe became their principal residence in the 3rd century BC, after transferring the royal burial ground from Napata (Gebel Barkal). Its proximity to the Nile made it a viable location for human existence.
The nominated area consists of 3 parts: the royal city of Meroe (town and cemetery), and the religious sites of Musawwarat es-Sufra and Naqa. Most notable are the more than 200 pyramids that have survived.
The city's downfall started in the mid-4th century, after being captured by the Kingdom of Axum.
After I had visited the excellent Gebel Barkal, I wondered if Meroë could surpass it. Well, it did. I do not hesitate to compare this collection of 4 archaelogical sites in the heart of Sudan with Jordan's Petra. Meroë is testimony to the period when the Black Pharoahs of Nubia found their own style: less Egyptian and more African, with far-reaching trade connections.
The focal point of the nomination is the pyramid field of the Meroë Necropolis, where about 100 structures are clustered. It lies within sight of the busy tarmacked road between Khartoum and Atbara, with mainly trucks and buses plying the route to Port Sudan. The pyramids here have been uncovered since the early 20th century. The reconstruction of their characteristic pylon gateways or votive chapels often dates to as recent as the 1990s. Fresh sand covers the entrances to these chapels every day, making it still adventurous to tread and explore. Most are empty inside, but some have carvings or paintings so it's worth to just check them out one by one to see what you find.
A few kilometres away, on the other side of the modern road, lie the remains of the former city of Meroë. This is mostly just ruins now, but you can see the size of it all (it had 25,000 inhabitants in its heyday). A Roman-style bath house has been discovered here. Nature is slowly taking over the site again: due to restrictions on wood collecting, an acacia forest is starting to regrow. We saw some fine birds here, such as a hoopoe and a small owl.
Musawwarat es-Sufra covers the third location of this WHS. It lies in the desert 35km inland of the Nile and 40km south of Meroë. The site of Musawwarat (meaning 'pictures') holds a monument that could be a WHS in its own right: the Lion Temple. This is a beautifully restored sandstone structure covered on all four sides with almost complete bas reliefs. They show local and Egyptian gods and goddesses, kings and queens with African hairstyles. The temple is dedicated to the typical Meroitic Lion God Apedemak. German archaeologists have 'adopted' it since the 1950s, and have pieced it together again carefully. Really great WHS produce a Wow!-feeling when you see them with your own eyes, and the reliefs of Mussawarat did the trick for me.
Naqa is the fourth location that comprises this WHS. It lies not far from Mussawarat, in a similar desert setting. The serious photographers and video shooters in our tour group were immediately drawn to a pastoral scene near where we parked (some even never bothered to enter the archaelogical site itself). All people and animals living in the wider area seemed to gather at this spot, where water was being collected deep down from a well. Two donkeys did the hard work, pulling the long rope connected to the bucket downhill.
I prefer looking at old buildings above pestering locals, so I followed our Sudanese guide into the grounds. Naqa is the site where the Nubians of the Kushite empire show that they've been in contact with Roman / Hellenistic structures. Neighbouring Egypt was a Roman colony during the Meroitic Kingdom of Kush. Naqa's 'Roman' kiosk, a small temple, shows familiar capitals and arched windows. There are also two larger temples on site, both again with large bas reliefs on the outside. One carving shows a bearded Greek, not far from where our 19th century friend Prince Pückler left his mark.
The sites in and around Meroë seem slightly more visited than those at Gebel Barkal, probably because of the relative proximity to the capital Khartoum. The Pyramid fields of Meroë even are fenced off (a rare sight in Sudan). There are souvenir sellers at the gate, and guys that offer camel rides. It's all still low-key of course, but Meroë is the center of Sudanese tourism and rightly so. The site saw 6000 visitors in 2010, I wonder how high the numbers are nowadays.
As soon as you enter Sudan, you can see each and every advertisement that have the slightest connection with tourism having the image of the pyramids, and that implies that Meroe is the crown jewel of the Sudanese tourism, and its relative closeness to Khartoum makes it the most touristy place in the whole country. But do not expect crowds of tourist flocking the ruins. When we visited meroe last December seemingly we were the only foreigners there. The presence of desperate souvenir sellers and guys who offered rides on their camels shows that there were better times, and maybe there are days when there are more people coming.
The site consists of two major parts, the capital of the Meroitic kingdom, and its necropolis. The capital is a bit more far away from the main road. it's more or less completely ruined, you need an extremely good imagination to see the lush palaces and pompous temples of Egyptian and local gods in the less than a meter high cramped walls. But the scenery with the trees offering a shadow for the exhausted traveller is impressive and with a knowledgeable guide it can be a somewhat interesting experience.
On the contrary the necropolis in the red desert is touching for the first sight. One of the most impressive sites I've ever seen. The pyramids are much smaller than their Egyptian brothers and much younger too, but not less interesting or mysterious. The black stone buildings in the reddish desert are utterly photogenic. And what it lacks in the grandiose measures it compensates in numbers. You can find places on top of the small hills where you can spot dozens of pyramids. Reconstruction is under way and some pyramids are already covered with white plastered stones as they were in the time they were built. You can enter some of them, but do not expect mysterious deep burial chambers inside - there are small burial chapels in the pyramids with some reliefs on the walls.
If you have a car it's not difficult to get there from Khartoum. The necropolis is on the side of the (new) Khartoum - Port Sudan highway cca 350 kms from Khartoum. Beware that not only a means of independent transport is needed if you want to go there - getting there by public transport could be a great challenge as there are no modern settlements around - bur you need a special permission from the Ministry of Interior to leave the capital. There is at least on checkpoint where you have to show it. Allow a whole day for Meroe with early morning departure from Khartoum. There are no restaurants of food stalls around so either take food and drinks with you, or stop at a roadside eatery.
The main site (the one with the pyramids) is easily accessible from the highway north of Khartoum. Buses can drop you off. The ruins of Meroë town are just a few kms away, but too far to walk in the heat - maybe you can persuade a camel driver to take you there. The other 2 locations (Mussawarat and Naqa) are remote and need private 4WD transport.
Desert Cultural Landscapes: Crit v "The major centres of human activity far from the Nile at Musawwarat and Naqa raise questions as to their viability in what is today an arid zone devoid of permanent human settlement. They offer the possibility, through a detailed study of the palaeoclimate, flora, and fauna, of understanding the interaction of the Kushites with their desert hinterland."

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For the fourth update in the siddehustle log series, I sold some things!
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It’s not just the U.S. government that would like to get its hands on Apple’s source code — China has asked the iPhone-maker for the code during the last two years, but naturally the company refused.
The news came to light at a hearing in Washington, D.C., where Apple’s general counsel and Senior Vice President of Legal and Government Affairs, Bruce Sewell, disclosed the information in response to law enforcement officials’ claims that the company was handing over information to the Chinese government for business reasons, according to Reuters.
At the hearing before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, Captain Charles Cohen of the Indiana State Police said Apple has quietly cooperated with Beijing. Representative Anna Eshoo, D-CA., asked Cohen to report a source for his information. But he could only cite news reports.
Apple testified, as did the FBI, over encryption and the company’s refusal to weaken its security on iPhones to allow access. The argument erupted over the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, who killed 14 people at a holiday party in December 2015. The iPhone was locked, and the FBI wanted to get in — so it issued a court order, demanding Apple to create special code that would allow the FBI to access the information on the device.
Apple refused, arguing that in the wrong hands, the tool could threaten the security and privacy of its customers. The FBI dropped the case, after it was able to unlock the phone thanks to professional “gray hat” hackers, but the anti-encryption war isn’t over as the Justice Department said it still needs Apple’s help in another case.
The hearing also saw the FBI defending its use of a third-party to unlock the iPhone — saying that the agency relies on them due to the fast-changing nature of technology, according to the New York Times.
“These types of solutions that we may employ require a lot of highly skilled, specialized resources that we may not have immediately available to us,” said Amy Hess, the FBI’s executive assistant director for science and technology.
But subcommittee members expressed their discomfort with the use of these “gray hat” hackers, and Representative Diana DeGette, D-Co., asked if the use of third-party hackers was ethical, and if it potentially could open more security risks.
Law enforcement across the country are struggling in investigations, as growing numbers of commercial devices have encryption turned on by default. That limits the access investigators have when trying to pry into criminal’s phones, which could potentially hold useful information.
Thomas Galati, the New York Police Department’s chief of intelligence, testified to the importance of anti-encryption legislation, saying that his department hasn’t been able to open 67 Apple devices from October 2015 to March 2016. The phones are being stored as evidence for homicides, rapes, and violent crimes.
Apple’s top lawyer reiterated the argument the company has stood by all along — an argument with which an overwhelming amount of tech, legal, cryptology, and cyber security experts agree — that weakening encryption would threaten the security and privacy of “one hundred percent” of its users.
Reform Government Surveillance, the Computer & Communications Industry Association, the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, and the Entertainment Software Association sent a letter to the two U.S. senators heading the anti-encryption bill — Senator Diane Feinstein, D-Ca., and Senator Richard Burr, R-N.C. Burr and Feinstein hold the position of chairman and vice chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, respectively.

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One of the most played casino games in the world, blackjack, sometimes dubbed 21, is the king of casino games. On first impressions it’s easy to play, but once you delve into the world of strategies and card counting advantage play it becomes a complex game of skill.
One of the reasons for blackjack’s popularity is the fact it’s one of the few casino games in which the player can skew the advantage into his or her favor, or at least reduce the house edge. However, blackjack is also a game that is also friendly and easy to play for the first time player.
1) The player scores 21, also known as a blackjack, on his or her first two cards.
2) The player manages to obtain a score higher than the dealer without going over the value of 21.
3) The dealer’s cards add up to a value greater than 21.
So to sum up blackjack, the objective of the game is to either get cards with the value of 21, of get as close as possible without going over that number, or for the dealer to go over 21 and thereby going “bust”.
If you get an ace card and a 10 or a face card, then you have a “blackjack”, where two cards hold the collective value of 21.
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Emerging technologies are contributing to an erosion of trust in our society. A social scientist and an engineer look for answers.
Can we still tell truth from fiction — and do we even care? Those questions may sound a bit Orwellian but were at the heart of a recent cross-disciplinary panel discussion at Stanford moderated by Janine Zacharia, a veteran journalist and lecturer in communication.
Sharad Goel, an assistant professor of management science and engineering, and Jeff Hancock, a professor of communication, both spoke about the changing nature of truth in the era of ubiquitous social media and widespread political and social polarization.
Even so, certain emerging technologies make it difficult to discern truth from fiction. Asked if so-called deep fakes are a serious cause of concern, Goel replied: “Yes. This technology raises the cost of identifying the truth.” Deep fakes are videos that are convincingly altered to make it appear that individuals are saying or doing something entirely different from what they actually said or did.
Both speakers noted that while transparency is a virtue, it does not always result in more trust for an institution. Videos of police abusing or even killing civilians, for example, have resulted in less trust for them, while insights into abuse by Catholic priests and their superiors have undermined faith in the church.
Ultimately, though, society as a whole will benefit as the public learns how institutions are really functioning: “In the short term, [added transparency] is undermining our trust. In the long term, it is good to make those institutions realize they can’t hide the sausage making,” said Hancock.
Sharad Goel, assistant professor of management science and engineering and, by courtesy, of computer science and of law.

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text: LISA M. PORTER is Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvan ia. She joined the faculty as Assistant Professor in 1997 and was later promoted to Associate Professor (2001) and Professor (2006). She received her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in materials science & engineering from Cornell University and N.C. State University, respectively. Her research, which initially focused on metal contacts and oxide-SiC interfaces for high-temperature and high-power device applications, broadened to include fabrication, processing, and characterization of a wide range of electronic materials, with recent focus on gallium oxide as a wide bandgap semiconductor. In 2011 she co-founded SenSevere LLC, a Carnegie Mellon spin-off that is commercializing semiconductor-based chemical sensors for severe environments. Lisa has also held leadership positions in several professional organizations. Within AVS she served as Executive Committee Member (2007-08), Program Vice-Chair (2010), Program Chair (2011), Division Chair (2012) and Advisory Board Member (2013-14) of the Electronic Materials and Photonics Division (EMPD), and as Organizer of the Transparent Conductors and Printable Electronics Focus Topic (2011-2013). More recently she served as AVS Program Vice-Chair (AVS-62) and is currently Program Chair for AVS-63 and an AVS Director (2015-16). Outside of AVS she completed two terms on the User Executive Committee for the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) while also serving as Faculty Chair of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. Since 1999 Lisa has been a Committee Member or Invited Co-Organizer of the Electronic Materials Conference and recently became an ABET Program Evaluator through TMS. These experiences have helped her to develop effective organizational and listening skills and to prioritize needs within complex organizations.


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Previously, I wrote about touters and haggling over rickshaw prices in Agra, India. It wasn't always such a hassle to get around and I wasn't always alone. I made friends with some fellow travelers. Flashback to visiting the Taj Mahal, I had just walked away from a man who was being a big sleazy towards me, when I ran into an Italian man who asked me to take his photograph. He was with his girlfriend from California, they'd been in India for a year and were leaving in two weeks. Before this they had been in Chennai doing an internship at a publishing company. After exchanging a few words, we parted ways and I made myself to the mausoleum.
Once I was at the actual mausoleum, I took a short guided tour of the inside of the building. One of the most surprising things to me was how small the inside was compared to the grandeur of the outside. No photographs are allowed, but there are a lot of people looking around and their mummers echo up into the tall ceiling. The room centers around the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, the third wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Mahal passed away in 1631 while giving birth to her and Jahan's 14th child. The following year the grieving emperor began construction on the site. The mausoleum was completed 16 years later. An arched doorway leads you into the white marble structure. Gemstones decorate the inside, adding to the intricate marble designs, which glisten as you move around the tomb. The center of the symmetrical room is Mumtaz Mahal's tomb, protected by an ornately carved marble screen. Shah Jahan was buried with his wife in a plain crypt below the inner chamber.
The marble of the Taj Mahal is ornate and shines in the sun.
I ran into someone I had seen at the guest house the day before who was on the same tour as me, afterwards we chatted a bit. He was from Israel, 25 years old, and studying to be a physical therapist. He kept calling me "funny girl" because I tend to crack a lot of little jokes and poke fun at myself when meeting new people. He then introduced me to a couple from Europe, a woman from Serbia named Viasta and a man from France named Guy (pronounced Ghee). I walked around the Taj with the three of them until they headed off to do other sightseeing.
Left is Guy and right is the man from Israel.
I went and sat on a bench in the shade. Another traveler came and sat next to me. He was from Scotland and we chatted for about an hour. He had just been in Varanasi and was off to Delhi that night. He went to school to be a psychologist but couldn't find work so he retrained as an IT Tech. He hated his job so was traveling the world for a bit.
After spending over half the day exploring I went for lunch. I ate outside at Sheela's Hotel, which lies right next door to the Eastern Gate of the Taj Mahal. I ordered spaghetti and it was delicious. The hotel has a gorgeous outdoor patio shaded by luscious greenery. I sat there and wrote about the day until the heat got to be too much and I headed back to my hotel.
As I walked into the courtyard of the Tourist House, I saw Viasta and Pokas. It was a pleasant surprise because I didn't know they were staying there as well. Viasta was a music professor and Pokas was a painter. She had fair skin. Her hair was long, wavy and jet black. Pokas wore his long dirty blond hair in a ponytail and had a scruffy beard that he scratched when there was a break in conversation. I found out that they were headed to Fatehpur Sikri the next day, so I asked to go with them. That night I prepared my things for a day trip and went to bed early so we could leave at 6:30 the next morning.
Fourteen children. No wonder the poor woman died. She needed a rest!


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NewTek Discussions > Other Products > VT-VT > VT - General Support > Ordinal 42 Error Message?
View Full Version : Ordinal 42 Error Message?
Got just one little message that pops up on my DVE folder when I open it.
"Ordinal 42 could not be located in the dynamic link library mpegin.dll".
I've seen that before, something to do with a codec from another app - do a quick search, you'll find it.
Thanks. Do you have any idea what codec? and where would I look? Do a search for mpegin.dll?


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As an aesthetic and social phenomenon of the modern age, of all other fine arts, the poster reflects most accurately, clearly and acutely the political and social climate of its time. Most often anonymous, genuinely street born, the Poster is the fastest to reach its viewers. It should hit with its calling power, it should be a slogan, a sign, a spell and a symbol. It has to be convincing and persuasive.
The history of the 20th century Bulgarian political poster has its ups and downs. It becomes a flag of the left-wing forces between the two world wars, proclaiming the new social ideas of time. In the years immediately after September 9, 1944 artists without special training in the field of poster art – graphics and painters, pave the way for the Bulgarian poster, search and find its essence, specifics and means of expression. During the Cult of Stalin Bulgarian poster becomes a substitute of its own, obeying the lowly criteria and directives of the regulatory aesthetics. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, several generations of professionally-trained poster artists bring poster art to its contemporary level of achievements, and the variety of their plastic visions determines the character of the Bulgarian poster school.
The New Political Poster exhibition is a joint project of the Museum of Socialist Art and the National Academy of Art. It offers an alternative point of view, a new focus on the thematic issues of the museum institution. Furthermore, it is an opportunity for expression of the younger generation of Bulgarian poster artists.
I am sure that in solving their academic tasks, students have faced all the challenges of the most complex and specific genre variety of the poster – the political theme. Today poster art is free from the ideological pressure of the past, from political and aesthetic “considerations”, from the dictum of the investor in the face of a party and a state. Now the question is what will be the new face of the Bulgarian political poster and what will be its public resonance. I think that the New Political Poster exhibition is relevant both to the issues it is examining and to the dialogue between the Museum and its audience. Here I see a chance to assess the ability of artistic and public awareness, responsiveness, understanding and attitude towards the social problems of today.
The reason for organizing this event is the comment of the journalist Stefan Djambazov from Въпреки.com about the very few political and social posters in our exhibition on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Specialty in Bankya Art Center.
Naturally, I did not quite agree with that statement, and referred to the genre variety sought in the selection. I also made it clear that our students have a specific learning task in their curriculum – the political poster.
Soon after that, in a purposefully made conversation with the artist Nikolay Ushtavaliiski, I shared mine and my students' intention to visit the Museum of Socialist Art, whose curator is he. Nikolay suggested that it would be a good idea if our visit to the Museum was followed by a poster exhibition. The museum we have not reached yet, but bringing the two comments together is how the idea for this event was born. The students received urgent tasks, so the majority of the posters in this exhibition were made in the last two months and added to the work of the past few years. Together with our colleagues from the Department we selected this exposition, and Prof. Georgi Iankov proposed the name New Political Poster.
This year our Specialty has had good cooperation with many organizations and cities, including the 70-year-old Dimitrovgrad. Today we celebrate another initiative with the 70th anniversary of the National Gallery. We are grateful for the invitation and the opportunity to show some of the works of our smart and talented students. Our hope is to present here the new face of the Bulgarian political poster, especially because we are among those who remember the old one. Let us hope that our students, having, for their own benefit, faced a past that is distant for them, will enjoy greater freedom to think about the present and the future.
Poster and Visual Communication Dept.

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[From Saturday, March 24] Gathering for the March in front of SF City Hall. Must admit I’m a tad verklempt at the energy of it all, the young people voicing a higher purpose. Kind of makes you think there might be hope for us after all. That we make terrible mistakes but that there’s some larger, timeless energy that resides in us – all of us as a whole – that somehow keeps us moving upward. Damn. There’s a lady writing in chalk on the sidewalk: “vote them out.” Oh yeah.
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Bunny Watson is my hero!
Continuing on a similar vein to the last two posts, I would like to recommend another movie. If you have not ever seen it, do rent/buy/borrow/steal a 1957 film called "Desk Set" starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
"Desk Set, directed by Walter Lang, evokes those bygone years before automation and the arrival of the computers into one's life. The time is the late 50s in Manhattan. The cost controlling expert, Richard Sumner, Spencer Tracy, is hired to make changes in the way the New York firm can cut costs in all areas of business. Mr. Sumner's solution is to start automation in several areas, such as in the payroll department. He faces a formidable task when he takes to task making the research department (Let's call it the library or information centre just for fun!) more efficient, in the days before Google. Mr. Sumner has to deal with the smart Bunny Watson, Katherine Hepburn, who has more facts and figures at her fingertips than any contraption could find at any given moment. Thus begins a tug of war between the man who is perceived as the "terminator of jobs" and the four women in research. They'll teach him a thing, or two."
And isn't that what we need to be doing? Teaching our *them* a thing or two? Now I am not saying any of us are going to also fall in love and live happily ever after with the efficiency expert touting the "everything's on the desk top philosophy" either. Let's get to work and figure out how we must show value for the work we do so that some efficiency expert doesn't put us out of work! because there is PLENTY for us to do- we have not been communicating it in a way that the holders of the purse strings understand!
I have heard through the grapevine that the Council of Federal Libraries is going on to the next phase of its strategic planning for libraries. This can only be a good thing! The sooner the better. The first phase was launched by Don Bidd and Rita Bolar at least two years ago. If you've been invited to participate in the planning and/or if you care about the state of libraries and information centres in government then I urge you to please take part. Next week is an important week for government libraries!
So like Bunny Watson, who ended up besting the computer EMMERAC which burnt its circuits trying to answer research questions, we have to continually demonstrate our skills, abilities and capacity in adding value to our departments. Now is not the time to lie low and hope they don't see you and leave you alone. All around us we have clients burning out their circuits! We know they're out there! Now is the time to pull in your champions, work them, get the spin spinning and be in the faces of all who matter proving that: (thank you Stephen Abram for this) our clients are not speeding down an information highway... they're either drowning in or navigatingwithout charts in an information ocean! And we the information credentialed MLIS professionals are the ones who hold the rescue lines!


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One of Iron Reign's greatest weaknesses is the organization of our physical space. It is rare that our workspace is free of clutter, and it is always difficult to find tools or parts that we need. We often joke that when we put an item down it goes in a "black hole," and you won't be able to find it again. This summer, however, we have made a system to tackle this problem and this season we hope to maintain it. We cleared out the front room and set up some shelves and got to organizing. For anyone looking for certain tools or who doesn't know where to put a tool they just found or used, use the article for reference.
On the very top, you can find miscellaneous electronics.
We have a long way to go, and we need to put organize these drawers even more and maybe soon label them. If anyone has any questions ask Evan or me (or Tycho if he's home), and make sure you put things back after you use them!
Until we receive the field elements, we will have to plan and strategize using the resources listed above.
Because we also had new possible team members over, we set expectations for this year. Actively recording our progress and blogging for the engineering journal was heavily stressed. We recognize the importance of having a good engineering journal and how it can help us advance. Our coach's house, the place where we have our meetings, is also cleaner than it has been in a long time after an intense cleaning session. Having an organized space maximizes efficiency, especially with the a larger team. Therefore, we expect for all team members to clean up after themselves and maintain the organization.
Before we could discuss robot build ideas, we talked strategy. Parking in the crater and the landing zones will undoubtedly be easy to do. Since we know that designing a way for our robot to be able to lift itself onto the lander will be a more interesting challenge and will score us the most points, we will prioritize working on prototypes mechanisms for this task. Finding a way to gently lower down form the lander may be difficult. We will have to consider ways to not damage the robot, wiring, etc. We also agreed that it would make the most sense to have one mechanism that latches onto the hook on the lander, grabs gold and silver elements from the crater, and places these elements into the columns.
Other topics we talked about include drive trains, problems with trying to create a mechanism that grab both the silver balls and gold blocks, as well as how we would be able to grab them out of the crater without going over the edge of the crater and getting stuck.
Also, in previous seasons, we have had strong autonomous game, and so we decided to make the tasks in autonomous another top priority. We had our coders start discussing the field path for autonomous. Unfortunately, we will not be able to launch our team marker into the team depot.
After the end of last season, a storm passed through and turned over shelves, trashing the robo-dojo. Some of our team members cleaned up the tent this afternoon. While it may not seem very important at the moment, this will be very helpful later in the season once we get our field elements for this year's challenge and want to set the field up. While cleaning, they also uncovered old, rusted metal tools and and pieces, which we will now be able to repair and save for future use.
Besides helping with cleaning the tent, the new members showed a lot of interest in the game as well. They were eager to start building, and actually started creating prototype mechanisms for picking up the silver and gold elements.
As our brainstorming and discussion continues, we are putting our ideas into action and making various prototypes and designs. We will continue to work with our new recruits and let them participate in a meaningful way with our building and in getting ready for competition.
Taking some inspiration from 30 hr robot reveal videos, we have continued the brainstorming for this year's robot. Our main subjects of discussion are our intake and lift, and some ideas that were thrown around were a conveyor belt-like intake and a lift that utilizes a linear slide which lifts the robot chassis. The details of our brainstorming session can be found at (E-19, Brainstorming Two - Enter the Void).
Many of our new recruits returned today and have continued to be active. During the week, we received the field parts, so we had them help us put it together so that they can be familiar with the field design and with certain power tools. They also helped with various devices we worked on, like the linear slides, etc. Field assembly progress from our new recruits.
We plan to use the chassis we built this summer for preliminary autonomous testing. Janavi and Kenna got Garchomp up and running today and added a better and more secure phone holder so we can run autonomous.
We started a project in a program called Team Gantt. We learned how to use this program from watching the many tutorials in the program and by trial and error. In our project, we have made task groups that represent our subteams, such as build, code, etc. You can see this in the image above, but I did not include the whole chart to not expose any team secrets. A project manager will be in charge of keeping these subteams on track with the chart, and will update it accordingly along with periodic meetings regarding the chart and our progress. Hopefully, this will really help us in our team organization so that we don't fall behind this season.
Continue the use of our Gantt chart in order to improve our organization and give us a big-picture view of our progress for the rest of the season.
We scrapped the chassis we worked on last meeting because of it lack of mounting points and poor assembly. Janavi started with just some extrusion rails and mounted some motors and wheels for a new new chassis. Hopefully we will have a working chassis by the time of the scrimmage.
Besides working on the chassis and a CNN, most of us taught and shared our passion for STEM at the event. The event was 10 hours long, so it was a long haul, but we had a really great time and the girls did too.
Finally, we have a chassis. We used small mechanum wheels and a small rectangular frame which is very unusual for Iron Reign with our history of 18 in x 18 in robots. The chassis that Janavi build last weekend during the outreach event was a square, but we needed to make it rectangular to make room for motors. See more on mini-mech at (E-42, Mini Mechanum Chassis).
Janavi and Justin worked on the linear slides that Janavi has been working on for a few weeks. Before, we had tested and mounted the slide to an existing chassis, but there were some improvements to be made. They changed the length of the linear slide from using 18 in rails to 12 in rails and added stops so that the slide don't slide out of each other. They also strung the slides so that they can extend and retract depending on the direction of rotation of the wheels.
Arjun worked with a few members from Iron Star and Iron Core so that they could start programs for the robots they have been working on. A few weeks ago, Abhi gave them an introduction to coding, but Arjun helped them from the very beginning of making a new project and writing their first lines of code. Iron Reign has been utilizing GitHub for many years and we have found it very helpful, so we helped the other teams set up their own GitHub repositories and taught them how to use it.
Ethan and Abhi worked on our intake system. We are using silicone mats for kitchen counters to launch field elements into our intake system. The minerals then are filtered through 3 bars, each space by 68 mm so that balls roll over and cubes fall in. They completed the intake mechanism, but their greatest challenge is fine tuning the sorting bars and finding a way to mount it onto the chassis. Eventually, we wish to make the system pivotable, but for now we mounted it to the chassis so that it is stationary. Details about this intake system can be found at (E-44, Intake Update).
We've had a linear slide that we've been meaning to hook up to the robot for awhile, and we finally did it Saturday. We mounted it to the front of the robot, as it was the easiest access point, then mounted a motor and pulley on the side to extend it. It worked - and then it didn't - as it tangled itself inside the motor, necessitating a redesign.
Then we realized a more pressing issue. Since torque is equal to force * arm length (T=FR), and the force on our robot is only the force due to gravity (F=mg), we had a torque on the lift equal to T=mgR. Then, as the lift was mounted at the very end, the torque on the arm was at its absolute maximum. And, while we're confident in our building ability, we're not that confident. So, we realized that we'd have to move the lift closer to the middle to minimize torque.
On Saturday, we worked on the red-silicone intake system, but there were still issues. We used too-long screws to mount the motor that cut into the sprocket, we mounted the fins a little to far out so that the silicone was running into them and losing energy, and we didn't have a way to mount it. First, we replaced the 15mm M3 screws with 8mm ones, ensuring that there would be no further collision. Then, we removed the beams the fins were mounted on and replaced them with a simple crossbar the we directly mounted the fins to. That way, we could adjust all of the fins at once instead of individually cutting each beam.
Our robot is a little on the small side for Iron Reign. To mitigate that, we planned to add a second stage to the robot for support and to hold components like the second REV hub. So, we started on that, cutting the standoffs, and attaching one side completely so that we could use it as a proto-phone-mount.
To minimize torque, we moved the lift to the center of the robot. Now, this won't eliminate the torque - one side of the robot is much heavier than the other, but it makes it much more manageable.
To have a functional robot, we have to have an intake *on the robot*. We had an intake, but it certainly wasn't anywhere close to being on the robot. So, we mounted a Core Hex Motor to the inside of our robot, attached a gear to our robot then bolted a second gear to our intake. Then, we attached the gear to a churro rail mounted on the robot and moved the motor to where the gears coincided. Originally, we planned to use a 30->90 gear system for a 1:3 gear ratio for a calculated 9.6 Newton-meters of torque, but this systed wouldn't fit within the size constraints, so we had to settle for a 1:1 ratio at 3.2 N*m.
On our other robot, Bigwheel, we mounted the 2nd arm for a future beater bar. Unlike most of our robots, this one is mostly off-the-shelf, with some additional Textrix parts and a REV hub.
To be able to support our additional motors, we had to add a second REV hub. And, to do that, we had to finish the 2nd stage. This wasn't that difficult, all we had to do was attach a standard piece of REV extrusion to the remaining standoffs, then add a REV hub mount, then mount the actual hub.
Our lift is a little bit wobbly laterally, so we took steps to fix this. We attached a small piece of REV rail to the second stage from the lift to minimize wobbling. This still needs to be worked on, as the rail isn't mounted well, but we'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
Since our lift needs to extend and retract reliably, we have to use a double-pulley system. So, we strung upwards normally, but then attached another string to a higher up pulley that could pull the whole system back down.
Our old pulley-motor was an AndyMark Neverrest 60. Now, we have nothing against these motors, but we wanted something that would be easier to connect to the REV hub. So, we replaced it with a HD Hex Motor with a 40:1 gearbox. This actually increased the torque by a negligible amount (from 4.186 N*m to 4.2 N*m), and was a more convenient change.
Originally, we cut a box template out of polycarb that was the exact size of two silver particles. Unfortunately, we couldn't find a heat gun, so we had to go back to cardboard.
We added the corn-cob intake from a few weeks ago onto this robot so that it can get both blocks and balls from over the crater wall.
Now, in theory, we have a competition-ready robot.
We still need to program our robot and fix any gremlins that pop up; this will happen at the Friday meet.
First and foremost, we have to work on our presentation. So, we did an hour-long presentation runthrough to ensure all team members had the content down.
Also necessary for a good tournament is the journal. We've had a consistent 10-20 post backlog since the season started, and we've finally started cutting into it. At my current count, we're down to 7 posts left. So, we're making considerable progress on this front. Ethan already finished our strategic plan earlier this week, so all we have left is to write the blurbs and retag our posts, something we'll do on Monday.
Finally, in order to compete, we have to have a robot. Now, we have a robot, but it isn't really working. So, Evan and Karina worked on mounting an intake system, as well as reinforcing the center lever. This will ensure that the robot can actually score by the tournament.
On the code side, Abhi found the coefficients for PID so that he can start autonomous. As well, he started merging SDK 4.2 with our 15k-line base of legacy code so that we can take advantage of TensorFlow. On that note, we discovered that SDK 4.2 comes with mineral detection out of the box with TensorFlow - something that we've been working on since kickoff.
Finally, we have some good news. Iron Reign has official adopted its first new member of the season: Bhanaviya Venkat. Stay tuned for her first blog post later this week.
A long time ago, in a land far, far away, Iron Reign once had a battery box. This was a fabled land, where all batteries remained charged and phones roamed the land, happy and content with their engorged batteries. But, this land was neglected, with the meadows of electricity growing dim, the plastic of the land cracking and scattering to the four corners of the Earth, and those who found their home there lost to the void.
We have a problem keeping our phones charged at tournaments and in practice. So, we made a simple battery box to fix it. We used an old REV container and cut some spare wood to create dividers, cut a hole for a surge protector, and we were a go.
Iron Reign really needs to work on its organization in general, and this was just one way to stem the tide of entropy. We need to revitalize our tournament kits of tools next.
On the robot, we are resizing the intake system as a whole so that it folds in completely and fits within the 18 by 18 sizing requirement. Our biggest focus today was on our intake system, notably building a system that deposits the minerals. We plan to create the system out of polycarb, but first we are prototyping with cardboard. There are two versions we have prototyped so far, as you can see below.
Ethan made a battery box out of an orange REV starter kit and sawed some wood to fit snuggly in order to have some dividers. Finally we drilled a hole in the side for the power strip cord.
Arjun is working on our neural network for which we need to capture more training data. He is creating a program that will have the robot take pictures & capture the data we need as it drives. We had a bare-bones autonomous for the qualifier, so over the break we want to revamp our autonomous so that we can incorporate the neural network we are training more effectively. To see more about our vision training, see (E-28, CNN Training Program).
It's a new year! And, with this new year comes new tournaments, new experiences, new projects, and more. But, to grow, one must reflect. Iron Reign's had a pretty big year, from going to Worlds to the prospect of a new MXP. And, while we can't analyze every possible aspect of the team, we can look at our stats page and differences from last year to this year.
We aren't amazing at keeping an archive of our team hours and such, so I had to pull these statistics from archive.org. The first archived version of the page in 2018 was from Feb. 14.
As of today, our stats page displays this.
Finally, the statistics page at the beginning of the season looked like this.
And, the differences between each are below.
Iron Reign wishes y'all a Happy New Year! We wish to see progress among us all in these coming months.
This version uses two of the above gears to form the latch. Then, as the robot shifts, the latch becomes undone, allowing the robot to gently fall upon the ground.
So, just having a design isn't enough, it actually has to be implemented. So, Evan cut some attachment points that also function as linear slide stoppers as detailed in our last post.
Then, we attached the latching system to the attachment posts on each side, mounting the latching system as seen here.
While Karina was testing our robot, BigWheel suddenly began to lose friction, stranding itself in the middle of the field. It would only operate if more weight was put upon it. We haven't determined the reason yet; it could be that the temperature caused some strange material effect, but the new linear slides could also have shifted the weight distribution of the robot away from the main wheels. In addition, the Superman arm failed to work. We've narrowed it down to a code issue, but beyond that, we're scratching our heads.
Iron Reign has a tradition of reviewing the performance of the past year; this year I chose to begin it using numbers. I went back in the archives and used the stats page to count contributions from team members. This post can be found here.
We still need to fully implement gold/silver particle detection, as well as the rest of our autonomous. To begin on this long, arduous process, Abhi and Arjun worked from home to begin vision integration. At the current point, the program detects gold most of the time. We are experiencing a bug in that the telemetry isn't detected.
On the robot, Evan lowered the latch system so that the system would be compatible for the hanging task. After the latch system was lowered, bolts on both sides of the lift system had to be moved so that they would align with one another. See more latch updates at (E-82, Latch Model).
In terms of code, Arjun is working on using internal Tensorflow Object Detection code to grab frames for the autonomous to avoid any bugs in the custom code he has written so far. Additionally, he is working on ensuring accuracy in the output of the OpenCV pipeline so that it will consistently sample correctly.
With the alums as our judges, we did a thorough presentation run-through. A critique that persisted from our "judges" was that we weren't as enthusiastic as we could have been. So, we decided that a better way to convey our energy was by finding out a way in which we stood out from other competing teams. One way for us to stand out was the back-and-forth debate between Karina and Evan on Mini Mech vs Big Wheel. Since that interaction effectively conveyed both the iterative nature of Iron Reign's engineering process as well as our team's quirks as a whole. In the future we are going to do many run-throughs to make the presentation informative and crisp.
And last but not least, we took a suitable team picture for our journal - this one encompassing both current and old members of the team.
Early on in the season, we began experimenting with using a Convolutional Neural Network to detect the location of the gold mineral. A Convolutional Neural Network, or CNN, is a machine learning algorithm that uses multiple layers which "vote" on what the output should be based on the output of previous layers. We developed a tool to label training images for use in training a CNN, publicly available at https://github.com/arjvik/MineralLabler. We then began training a CNN with the training data we labeled. However, our CNN was unable to reach a high accuracy level, despite us spending lots of time tuning it. A large part of this came to our lack of training data. We haven't given up on it, though, and we hope to improve this approach in the coming weeks.
We then turned to other alternatives. At this time, the built-in TensorFlow Object Detection code was released in the FTC SDK. We tried out TensorFlow, but we were unable to use it reliably. Our testing revealed that the detection provided by TensorFlow was not always able to detect the location of the gold mineral. We attempted to modify some of the parameters, however, since only the trained model was provided to us by FIRST, we were unable to increase its accuracy. We are currently looking to see if we can detect the sampling order even if we only detect some of the sampling minerals. We still have code to use TensorFlow on our robot, but it is only one of a few different vision backends available for selection during runtime.
Another alternative vision framework we tried was OpenCV. OpenCV is a collection of vision processing algorithms which can be combined to form powerful pipelines. OpenCV pipelines perform sequential transformations on their input image, until it ends up in a desired form, such as a set of contours or boundaries of all minerals detected in the image. We developed an OpenCV pipeline to find the center of the gold mineral given an image of the sampling order. To create our pipeline, we used a tool called GRIP, which allows us to visualize and tune our pipeline. However, since we have found that bad lighting conditions greatly influence the quality of detection, we hope to add LED lights to the top of our phone mount so we can get consistent lighting on the field, hopefully further increasing our performance in dark field conditions.
Since we wanted to be able to switch easily between these vision backends, we decided to write a modular framework which allows us to swap out vision implementations with ease. As such, we are now able to choose which vision backend we would like to use during the match, with just a single button press. Because of this, we can also work in parallel on all of the vision backends.
Another abstraction we made was the ability to switch between different viewpoints, or cameras. This allows us to decide at runtime which viewpoint we wish to use, either the front/back camera of the phone, or external webcam. Of course, while there is no good reason to change this during competition (hopefully by then the placement of the phone and webcam on the robot will be finalized), it is extremely useful during the development of the robot, because we don't have everything about our robot finalized.
Designed a convolutional neural network to perform sampling.
Tested out the provided TensorFlow model for sampling.
Developed an OpenCV pipeline to perform sampling.
Created a framework to switch between different Vision Providers at runtime.
Created a framework to switch between different camera viewpoints at runtime.
We would like to continue improving on and testing our vision software so that we can reliably sample during our autonomous.
With the competition a week away, we are practicing our presentation frequently. Last time we presented, we were a bit all over the place; we talked over each other and stuttered quite a bit. This practice is to minimize these mistakes and finish our presentation in an appropriate amount of time, so we can answer questions.
We finished up the design and print for version 2 of the latch system, and Janavi assembled it. The 2nd version changes the stopping mechanism; the bearings are now in the mount rather than in the actual sprockets. More details on this version of the latch can be found at (E-93, Latch Updates).
Evan and Karina worked on reattaching/realigning the belt drive for the lift. It would go off in unintended angles, the process went smoothly except for the fact that we are going to need to tighen the zip ties by replacing them frequently. See more on the belt drive at (E-87, Belt Drive).
The REV rails for our intake system are quite heavy, so we are building a new intake with its old components and carbon fiber tubing instead of REV rails. Justin designed and started a print for a perpendicular mounting bracket for the carbon fiber tubes.
To add to the new intake system, Evan is making a new box to store minerals out of polycarb.
Arjun tested and fine-tuned our computer vision. This vision uses Open CV, taking inspiration from the published pipeline and Doge CV. The vision is working well, so he is integrating it into the autonomous program that Abhi created. Karina and Arjun have been working diligently to test this autonomous so that it is in working condition for the next competition.
Ethan began the design for side shields, which we are planning to cut out using a laser cutter that is stored in our school's engineering classroom. To see more on the design process of the side shields, see (E-87, Designing Side Shields).
Since we have made a few changes to the robot, such as adding a servo to our previously mechanical output mechanism, we evaluated how well they worked. We wired the servo and fixed the wiring from the arm that got tangled in the motor using a wire router to take control of this issue. As well, we began auto tuning for the new hook.
When we weren't making changes on the robot, we were practicing driving. Some difficulties we faced included getting stuck in the crater because of our arm and the disconnection of our hook from the servo horn due to our attachment with zipties. When we got back to the house, we began changes to fix these issues by creating a replacement for the zipties out of polycarb and working on presets to improve the balance of the robot.
Since we qualified for worlds, we are using today as an opportunity to start our Road to Worlds, as the discussions we have today will shape our progress for the next 8 weeks. We plan to start today with a post-mortem discussion regarding our previous competition, and then we will proceed to evaluate our strengths and shortcomings throughout the post-mortem. These lessons will shape our Road to Worlds document, a guide that outlines our major objectives within every subteam of Iron Reign.
We discussed (on a Skype call) our presentation with one of our alumni, Jayesh, who gave us guidance and feedback based on a video we took of our presentation at regionals so that we can improve our presentation in the coming weeks.
Following our post-mortem discussion, we booted up our road to worlds doc and began our discussion as to how we will accomplish everything we need to in 8 weeks. Our Road to Worlds document will help increase focus and productivity so we don't lag behind in our progess. See our Road to Worlds at (E-119, Road to Worlds 2019).
If we are going to accomplish what we set out to, it is going to require immense commitment and higher-level planning. We need to decide how we are going to spend spring break, and with a Doodle poll that indicates participation for the next two weeks, we can plan accordingly. We may not have many builders, so hopefully we can do drive practice.
Here is a brief graph of our commit history over the past season. As you can see, there was a spike during this code refactor.
Here is a graph of additions and deletions over the course of the season. There was also another spike during this time as we made changes.
Hopefully this cleanup will help us on our journey to worlds.
Our main objectives for today are to gather and assemble the parts and subsystems needed to construct our new robot as well as continue the improvement of our robot's balance programmatically.
Aaron and Justin began working on our new competition robot. Justin designed and cut a polycarb base and Aaron assembled the elbow piece and both wheels. The polycarb base will be the structure of the robot, connecting all of the subsystems together.
Bhanaviya and Karina continued to work on a bill of materials, which can be found at (E-131, Bill of Materials). This is a continuation of progress made during spring break, and such a record will make it easier to build our second robot, as builders will have easy access to each part we need and where to aquire such an item.
Karina took some videos of our intake system to analyze its efficiency. Notably, we want to measure the time it takes a mineral to travel through our corn-on-the-cob intake and thus determine the lag that occurs in this process. This will guide our redesign of our intake mechanism. In the next week we will perform this analysis, which can be found at (E-132, Intake Speed).
Over the course of today’s meet, we plan to create new axle pieces for the big wheels of the new robot, calculate torque for Superman, improve articulations, and create a reveal video for Mini Mech.
Cooper and Ben B worked on creating new axle for the big wheels of the new chassis. Since we replaced gear keepers last meet, we will need to have axle pieces that can support the weight of the new gear keepers and the wheel. Ben worked on soldering the pieces while Cooper helped ensure that the pieces had enough room to be mounted on the chassis.
Abhi, Arjun and Ben O worked on merging all of the Pull Requests that they have made over the past few weeks, ensuring that they work together with each other and the existing code base. They also refactored our Articulation code to make it easier to use and understand. Additionally, they added support for State Space Controllers. State Space Controllers are advanced control loops which perform complex linear algebra over input matrices to find outputs. These can be used to make our articulations more efficient, as well as help with balancing on two wheels.
Janavi worked on calculating torque for the different subsystems of the new robot. Since Superman has had some balancing issues in the past, calculating torque and understanding its degrees of freedom will enable us to ensure that its center of gravity is stable. She also calculated the torque for the lift to ensure that the linear slides don’t extend too far out and cause the robot to tip over.
Paul created a reveal video for Mini-Mech. Since Mini-Mech played an essential role in us choosing our wheels and chassis design, it was only ideal to acknowledge its existence with a reveal video of its own. This video will also come in handy when attempting to see just how out iterative our design process has been.
Compete at the REV Scrimmage and do final changes on our robot in build and code before Worlds.
The code team worked on changing the presets for the hook-servo and the Superman arm to ensure that the hook was low enough to latch and so that superman is low enough to deposit minerals in the lander accurately. They also lowered the range of the intake so that our intake system can pick up more minerals without causing the robot to collapse from the pressure caused by the intake.
The build team lowered the elbow shaft so that it was at the right level to latch and so that it was parallel to the mounting bar. They also used the servo tester to get the range of servos on the hook to ensure that the hook was able to latch on accurately. They also lowered the elbow shaft so that it was at the right level to latch and so that it was parallel to the mounting bar. They also used the servo tester to get the range of servos on the hook to ensure that the hook was able to latch on accurately. Subsequently, they attached the control hub in the place of the REV expansion hub and the phones.
Finally, we created a template for a new business card. It will be unvealed at Worlds.


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Australia has become the first country in the world to recognise ‘orphanage trafficking’ as a form of modern slavery. Children from smaller countries are recruited in orphanages in the West for the purpose of profit through foreign aid. According to the US State Department, “many orphanages use the children to raise funds by forcing them to perform shows for or interact and play with potential donors to encourage more donations”. As per estimates, 80% of children living in the world’s orphanages have at least one living parent.
Salome Zurabishvili, a French-born Georgian politician, has elected the first woman president in the history of Georgia. She will be inaugurated as President of Georgia on 16 December 2018. The President of Georgia is head of state and a guarantor of national independence and unity of the country. He/she is elected on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot, for a period of five years. The President ensures the functioning of state bodies in accordance with the Constitution.
World AIDS Day is designated on 1 December every year since 1988. The day provides an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show support for people living with HIV and to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness. More than 35 million people have died of HIV or AIDS, making it one of the most destructive pandemics in history. The theme for the World AIDS Day 2018 is “Know Your Status”. This will also be an occasion to celebrate the 30th anniversary of WAD.
World number one Norwegian Magnus Carlsen has retained his World Chess Championship title, beating US opponent Fabiano Caruana in a tie-breaker event. Carlsen’s peak rating of 2882, achieved in 2014, is the highest in history. Carlsen became World Champion in 2013 by defeating Viswanathan Anand.
The UN climate summits, i.e. so called COP (Conference of the Parties) are global conferences, in the course of which action for climate policy is negotiated. The Climate Change Conference 2018 was held in Katowice, Poland. Previously, Poland hosted them twice – in 2008, in Poznan and in 2013, in Warsaw. For the first time, the climate summit took place in Katowice. This year’s summit included: 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24), 14th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 14) and the 1st Conference of Signatories to the Paris Agreement (CMA 1).
FMCG major Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) announced that its board has approved the merger with GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSKCH India) through an-all equity deal, valuing the total business of the latter at Rs31,700 crore. The transaction is an all-equity merger with 4.39 shares of HUL being allotted for every share in GSKCH India, which sells consumer healthcare products, including popular drink brand Horlicks. Post the acquisition, the turnover of the company’s Foods and Refreshment (F&R) business will exceed Rs10,000 crore.
Real Madrid and Croatia midfielder Luka Modric won Ballon d’Or 2018 in Paris. In the process, he broke the decade-long duopoly over the award held by Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. The last player to win the award outside of Ronaldo and Messi was Brazilian great Kaka in 2007.
Salman Khan has been named the highest-earning celebrity in India for the third time in a row by Forbes, with earnings of ₹253.25 crore. The second spot was captured by Indian cricket team skipper Virat Kohli, with Rs 228.09 crore to his name, to become the first sportsperson to reach the position. Akshay Kumar came third on the Forbes India Celebrity 100 2018 with Rs 185 crore, followed by Deepika. The fifth spot went to former Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni who earned Rs 101.77 crore during 2018.
India will retain its position as the world’s top recipient of remittances in 2018 with its diaspora sending a whopping USD 80 billion back home, according to the World Bank report. India is followed by China (USD 67 billion), Mexico and the Philippines (USD 34 billion each) and Egypt (USD 26 billion), according to the global lender. The Bank estimates that officially-recorded remittances to developing countries will increase by 10.8% to reach USD 528 billion in 2018.
Indian Navy agreed to gift INS Cuddalore, a decommissioned Pondicherry-class vessel, to the Union territory of Puducherry for the creation of country’s first underwater museum. The 60 m long and 12 m wide vessel was decommissioned in March 2018 after sailing 13000 nautical miles. It would be sent to the seabed at a depth of 26 m and 7 km off the Pondicherry coast to act as an underwater marine museum for scuba diving and snorkeling activities. This would enhance tourism in the UT.
Mexico’s Vanessa Ponce de Leon won the coveted Miss World 2018 crown at a grand event held in the Chinese city, Sanya. Thailand’s Nicolene Pichapa Limsnukan was declared the runner-up. Former Miss World Manushi Chillar (India) presented the crown to the new winner during the pageant in which 118 contestants participated. India’s Anukreethy Vas failed to make a mark at the pageant as she could not even make it to the top 30.
Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. On this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year, Human Rights Day marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. #StandUp4HumanRights is the global campaign launched on for year 2018.
The Congress party has picked old guard Ashok Gehlot over Sachin Pilot as Chief Minister of Rajasthan. Pilot will be the deputy CM of Rajasthan and will also continue as the state Congress chief. India’s Grand Old Party won 99 seats of the 199 in the Rajasthan Assembly, just one short of the halfway mark to form the government.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released his book titled “Changing India” at an event in New Delhi. In the book, the Congress leader narrated his journey from an economist to a politician and shared anecdotes from his life.
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik announced a Rs10,000 crore scheme for the overall development of farmers. Named Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA), the scheme will provide farmers with ₹10,000 a year at the rate of Rs5,000 each for Kharif and Rabi season. Additionally, crop loans of up to Rs50,000 will be interest-free under the scheme.
Mission Indradhanush was launched for a targeted approach to immunisation in India, in a bid to change the tardy annual growth rate of 1 per cent. Between 2014 and 2018, India’s annual immunisation growth rate has risen to 4 per cent, with an unprecedented 16 per cent rise in the number of fully immunised children. The word Indradhanush was chosen to represent the seven vaccines that were subsequently included in the Universal Immunization Program against these seven diseases – tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and measles.
The separate High Court for Andhra Pradesh will start functioning from January 1. Ministry of Law and Justice notified the constitution of the High Court in Amaravati. Andhra Pradesh High Court will be the 25th High Court in the country. The Hyderabad High Court has been functioning as common high court till now after bifurcation of undivided Andhra Pradesh.
According to data furnished by the Reserve Bank of India, between 2015 and 2017, private lender ICICI Bank penalized the highest number of employees for defrauding bank assets in the last three year out of 60 scheduled commercial banks operating in India. It is followed by State Bank of India and Punjab National Bank. In all, banks took action against a staggering 13,949 officials, of which 16%, or 2,236, belonged to ICICI.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s alliance won Bangladesh’s election with a thumping majority, the country’s Election Commission announced. It gave her a third straight term following a vote that the opposition rejected as rigged. The win consolidated Hasina’s decade-long rule over Bangladesh. The alliance dominated by her Awami League, seen as close to regional power India, won 287 of the 298 seats for which results have been declared, the commission said. There are 300 constituencies in the country. The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which boycotted the last poll in 2014, won just six seats.


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Packages that contain residues of hazardous materials are regulated for transportation in substantially the same way as if they are full. When you receive a delivery of a hazardous material transported in a cargo tank—defined at 49 CFR 171.8 as a bulk packaging intended to carry liquids or gases that is permanently attached to or forms a part of a motor vehicle—you must determine if you are required to provide a shipping paper for the cargo tank when it leaves your facility.
If a cargo tank of hazardous materials is unloaded at your facility—and the carrier remains present and leaves immediately after unloading—the cargo tank remains in transportation. In this scenario, you are a receiving facility that has not performed any pre-transportation functions—and you are not the offeror of the residue shipment. In this scenario, the original shipping paper is sufficient for the return cargo tank shipment because the carrier remained present, the cargo tank remained attached to the vehicle, and the cargo tank is considered to be in transportation and is covered by the active shipping paper throughout the process. In this scenario, it would be prudent for you to ensure that the carrier retains a copy of the original shipping paper when they leave your site.
If a cargo tank is delivered to your facility, it is unloaded without the driver present, and it is then offered at a later time as a residue shipment—it has left transportation. In this scenario, you are the offeror of the hazardous material residue in the cargo tank and you must provide a shipping paper with the return shipment.
There is an exception, however, for the Shipper’s Certification statement on the shipping paper. 49 CFR 172.204(b) states that there is no certification statement required (except for hazardous wastes) for a cargo tank that was supplied by the carrier.

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nurture healthy plants thus reducing the use of fertilizers and pesticides, which in turn improves water quality.
The composting councils’ efforts promote composting year-round; however, the strength of their message and programs are enhanced through their designated annual ICAW week of events.
Activities include: compost demonstrations, workshops, compost giveaways, displays, poster contests.
discard everyday, with yard trimmings. These biodegradable materials, along with air and water, break down into a magnificent soil conditioner. The entire process of decomposition is complex but natural. In the food web, each organism, which includes insects, slugs, bacteria and fungi, has a job to do in turning food scraps into a rich, crumbly, dark compost. While you need to check that the pile remains moist (not soggy), basically you can sit back and let nature take its course.
Your composter should be located in a sunny, airy area and away from standing water. Add a base layer of leaves or brush to facilitate air flow. With a small kitchen container to collect your non-edible food bits, you are ready to begin. Continue to layer your kitchen food scraps which provide the nitrogen, followed by a handful of dry grass, leaves, sawdust from untreated wood, twigs, brush or bits of brown cardboard to provide the carbon that is necessary in the process. Soil should be added occasionally as it acts as an odor suppressor and introduces more microorganisms to speed up the decomposition.
Items which should not be placed into your backyard unit include: meat scraps, bones, dairy products and fats, as these are slow to decompose and may cause unpleasant odors. Also avoid adding cat and dog feces. Yard debris treated with pesticides, barbecue ashes or briquettes, rhubarb leaves, diseased plants and walnut shells contain chemicals toxic to soil microbes. Weeds with mature seeds should also be excluded.
When organics enter landfill, they contribute to greenhouse gases. Whether you compost on site, participate in curbside organics collection or take your food scraps to a compost drop-off center, you will be replenishing the soil and also helping to slow climate change.
I’ve never heard of the Digester. It’s interesting and I plan to read more on it.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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"Richard Bird" is composed of at least 5 distinct authors, divided by their works.
Works have been aliased into Richard Bird.
#1 Richard S. Bird is the author of Introduction to Functional Programming, Algebra of Programming.
#2 Richard Bird (1942– ) is the author of books on gardening.
#3 Richard Bird (1947– ) is the author of books on cars.
#4 Richard Bird (1881–1965) was the author of the "School Stories" books.
#5 Richard Bird (1894–1986) was an actor and director.
"Richard Bird" is composed of at least 5 distinct authors, divided by their works. You can edit the division.
Richard Bird is composed of 3 names. You can examine and separate out names.

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Target recently acquired Grand Junction, a transport tech company to expand its delivery service. Through this, Target hopes to expand its next day delivery service, Target Restock. The new service is going to be launched first in Denver and Dallas.
Target Restock allows customers to choose from 15,000 essential items. Customers can order items that will weigh up to 45 pounds, roughly the size of a shopping cart. If customers place their order before 2PM, it will be delivered the next day. This also includes Saturday deliveries.
Restock targets to supply daily needs and essentials. This includes fresh and frozen items from the grocery that includes cleaners, health and personal care items, pet food, dry goods and a whole bunch more. The company notes that Restock service has been tweaked a bit since its first-consumer facing tests. There are additional expanded array of goods like school supplies and baby food.
This new program of Target comes as a direct competition to Amazon Prime Pantry. While Target Restock charges $4.99 per box, Amazon Prime Pantry charges customers $5.99. And of course, annual Prime membership is required to order from Prime Pantry. Whereas, there is no requirement of any membership to order from Target Restock.
But apart from the charges, the items are expected to be delivered sooner, with Grand Junction acquisition, than that of Amazon’s deliveries. However, how many of Amazon loyalists will move over to the brick-and-mortar retail giant’s new feature remains unsure. But this clearly sends out the message that Target is clearly competitive.


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This airport has the smallest runway in Bangladesh. Overall service is not bad. No wifi. The airport gets crowded when a political figure comes through this airport. Then the situation is a bit annoying.
Before it was re-constructed, there was a huge demand for an airport in the region, for quicker travel to capital Dhaka. Local organisations held many strikes and demonstrations for its construction. The airport was finally built in 1985 on 163 acres of land, at cost of BDT 4 million. It was officially inaugurated by the then president Abdur Rahman Biswas on 3 December 1995. Aero Bengal Airlines, a private airline, was the first airline to launch flights to the airport. National carrier, Biman started their services on November 1995.
In 2007, the airport played a significant role during the relief operation in the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr in November 2007, thus virtually saving thousands of lives of the cyclone affected people. International relief materials like drinking water, rice, blankets and other life saving materials were possible to send to the devastated victims of the cyclone with the help of the airport.

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Do you have a passion for wheeling and adventuring? Do you blog/post on social media about your adventures? Can you do the above listed items while maintaining proper etiquette on the trail and social media while promoting TNT Customs on the trail or at an event? Then we may have a slot for you on our Terrain Master™ Team. Team Members can earn discounts and even free TNT equipment.
TNT Customs is an industry leader in manufacturing and Jeep customization in Trail Armor and suspension components. We pride ourselves on maintaining a positive relationship with our customers and fellow off-roading enthusiast, and expect our “Terrain Master” to share the same enthusiasm for our brand as we do! In return, here are some of the ways in which we support our “Terrain Master” Team.
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Is there a way to not reload the directives for any change to this line in the agent profile? Or with changes to the pbl?
We want to be able to stage our change to the profile and not take affect until the maintenance window.
# This feature enables changes to PBDs to take effect without restarting the application server or the agent process.
# being redefined.PBD editing is all that is required to trigger this process.
# Enable/disable the dynamic instrumentation feature.
Please verify my feedback in case I am wrong.
You'll want to disable dynamic instrumentation, not change the directivesFile property.


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text: Geothermal energy is derived from the thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth’s interior. In the case of deep geothermal, the source of energy can be situated over 1.5 km underground, being used for electricity and heat generation. This geothermal resource is renewable because the extracted hot water is reinjected back into the ground after the heat transfer. Furthermore, the amount of heat extracted is negligible compared to the heat capacity of planet Earth.

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When you provided Hertz with an email from Marriott, you should have received a prompt refund. But there were several problems. First, this happened in the U.K., more than 3,000 miles from your home in Pennsylvania. Yes, it involved two American corporations, but they had European divisions through which they had to channel the request. Making matters even more complicated, you had already initiated a credit card dispute – typically, one of the last options in resolving a complaint – and your credit card issuer had already ruled in Hertz’s favor, even though it was the wrong decision.
Instead of initiating a dispute, I might have escalated this to one of the customer-service managers. I list the Hertz executive contacts (elliott.org/company-contacts/hertz/) and Marriott higher-ups (elliott.org/company-contacts/marriott/) on my consumer-advocacy site. You might have tried appealing this to one of them.
The problem here, as I see it, is that no one wanted to take responsibility for your problem. Hertz would need to make a call to the parking-garage operator and then patch in the hotel in order to get the charge removed, an action that surely would require a little research on its part. Simply put, there’s no financial incentive to go out of its way for you, especially since the credit card company had already resolved this in Hertz’s favor. And Marriott didn’t want to pay you out of its pocket because parking was included in your rate (or as they say in the travel industry, it’s ”free”).
This was a no-win situation for you. Your next step would have been to take Hertz to small-claims court, and that wasn’t worth your time. I contacted Hertz on your behalf, and it refunded the extra $146 you had to spend on parking.


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v. i. 1. to happen at the same time.
v. t. 1. to arrange or represent events so that they co-occur.
2. contemporize - arrange or represent events so that they co-occur; "synchronize biblical events"

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