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ধারণা/ওপেনপিজিপি শুরু করা
When creating a key you make several technical and organizational decisions (whether you are aware of that or not) which heavily influence the security and usability of your key, as a result the operating life of the key. Some of these decisions cannot be changed afterwards. For several reasons it is desirable that normal keys – even rather insecure ones – (at least their core) have a long operating life.
Thus this article shall make you familiar with the important aspects of key generation and help you generate a good key which you can use for many years. This article covers just the concepts you should be familiar with, it does not contain a step by step tutorial for key generation because these should be separate phases: First understand and plan what you are going to do and make the necessary preparations. If you have finished that have a look at the OpenPGP key generation article.
How to get started
You can easily create a key for playing around. But if you let others verify such a key you risk throwing work away later. Your aim should be to create one or more long term keys. The best advice is: Don't try on your own if you can avoid it. Ask experts if you can, people who already have replaced a key of their own and learnt from that. Use a secure system to create a key, use an offline main key and give both the main key and the subkeys an expiration date (not more than a year). Select a key policy (describing the security and usage of main key and subkeys) and stick to it. If you certify other keys before you have a certification policy, do not certify them for the public (web of trust), make local signatures instead (just for yourself). Avoid doing new things before you understand well what they mean.
এবং এটা মনে রাখবেন:
- What is comfortable (at least nearly) always threatens your security.
- More secure is not always better for the given task. Just be aware of the consequences (in both directions).
ক্রিপ্টো জগতে স্বাগতম!
সুরক্ষা চাবি
If keys are involved then the main question is: How secure / reliable are they and their usage? The most important rule in cryptography is not "Make it even more secure" but "(1) Think about how much security you need. (2) Decide which technical effort seems necessary (lower limit) and reasonable (upper limit) to fulfill these requirements. (3) Strictly observe the rules you have determined (write them down). (4) If other people are involved (which usually is the case) let them know precisely and securely what the usage limits and the security level of this key are." Most of the following considerations are about the security and the transparency of their security and meaning.
Nobody cracks keys by brute force attacks. That is (even for rather short keys, say 1024 bit) simply impossible for everyone beneath the level of a government agency of a "rich" country within the next decades. And it would not make sense: It's so easy to just steal them. With a huge probability the system which you are just using to read this text (if not printed...) is not very secure. De facto no system which is used for reading email or reading web pages is safe. Don't argue, just accept this. If you don't you probably just compromise yourself. A key is never more secure than the least secure system on which it has been used (this, of course, includes: created). And it is more secure than the least secure system on which it has been stored just by its passphrase which is no protection against a brute force attack if it is either not really random or less than about 16 characters long (for small and capital letters and digits).
It is perfectly OK to use OpenPGP on such insecure systems (i.e. normal computers). You and your communication partners(!) just have to be aware of the security level. The next security level are smartcards. You cannot steal a key from a smartcard (you can abuse it nonetheless if you control the system to which the smardcard is connected). The next level after smartcards are secure systems: Unconnect your harddisk, all USB sticks (and the like) and the network, boot from a secure medium like a Linux live DVD (from a trusted source, of course!). Use high security keys in such a secure environment only (and maybe even limited to safe document formats like plain text or HTML).
প্রধান চাবি এবং উপ-চাবি
Most OpenPGP keys have at least one subkey (all have exactly one main key). You usually need not care about this difference; your application (or rather the base application, usually GnuPG) selects the right one automatically. The main key is the one which the key fingerprint refers to and only the main key can certify: your own subkeys and user IDs and the user IDs of other keys. The subkeys can do everything else (mainly decryption and signing) if you configure them so. The reason the difference between these key types is mentioned here is that this is very important for key generation: You can separate the secret main key from the secret subkeys (with GnuPG; this is not part of the OpenPGP standard!). The subkeys can be replaced later, the main key cannot (that would be a new key not just a modified key). Thus if you create an offline main key at key generation which you protect by a very hard passphrase, store at least the passphrase securely and use the main key (and its passphrase) in secure environments only then you can keep this key "forever" (say 20 years). This is important for everyday keys. High security keys don't really need this separation (usually don't need subkeys at all). You should create one subkey for each capability you need: encryption, signing, and maybe authentication (for SSH).
নিরাপদ পরিবেশ
The key shall be generated in a secure environment and the secret main key shall never be used in an insecure environment. But what is a secure environment? That depends on the security level of the key. If you want to secure nuclear weapons release codes you will have higher requirements to the hardware and software involved than if you just want to keep your affair secret.
At any rate you should not boot from your harddisk (ideally disconnect it) but from some trustworthy read-only medium. This is usually a Linux CD/DVD. You should pay attention to getting this from a safe source. Just downloading some image from the Internet and burning it to a blank doesn't make a secure environment up. In general a pressed CD/DVD (e.g. from a magazine or bought on its own) seems more trustworthy.
Hardware is important, too. If you use a system which was known in advance to be used for the generation of valuable keys somebody might like the idea to add a hardware keylogger. Pay attention to rather trivial attacks: Prevent everybody else from seeing you typing your passphrase (even through windows) and from seeing your slip of paper with the passphrase. Reboot the system after key creation or (better) power it off and keep it so for three minutes.
ব্যবহারকারী আইডি
User IDs are formally just arbitrary strings but expected to consist of a name, an optional comment, and an email address. This structure allows email software to find the suitable key for a recipient address (which most programs require you to confirm for obvious reasons). An OpenPGP public key (more precise: certificate) must have a user ID but can have as many as you like. Thus you can use the same key for several email addresses (which makes sense only if these addresses shall be used at the same security level). Combining addresses has advantages and disadvantages. The main advantage is that you need less keys and thus you and others have less work with certifications. The main disadvantages are that you can revoke user IDs but they keep visible forever and that such a combined key allows to make a trivial connections between different roles of you which you may not want connected: private person, business, other organizations (associations, political parties, whatever). You may want to keep these groups separate. And there are even reasons to keep addresses from the same group separate: reputable addresses ([email protected]), anonymous addresses ([email protected]), fun addresses ([email protected]). It also may be that you have no reason to ever use OpenPGP with certain addresses; such addresses should not be part of a user ID, of course. The decision to add an address to a key and publish that key is forever. But it is easy to add an address later. Thus consider this well before you generate the key. In case of doubt start with fewer addresses.
It makes sense to have a special user ID without an email address. With most email addresses you cannot be sure to have them forever. If you revoke a User ID because you don't use the address any more then you lose all the certifications for this user ID. But you will never lose your name (even if you marry or the like there is usually little reason to revoke that user ID). So you keep the certifications for this ID at any rate. And you can use the comment for this ID for a statement about the key itself: "everyday key with secure offline main key and key policy"
চাবি প্রকার এবং দৈর্ঘ্য
ভালো সমর্থিত চাবির প্রকারগুলি হল ডিএসএ (শুধুমাত্র স্বাক্ষর), এলগামাল (কেবলমাত্র এনক্রিপশন), আরএসএ (উভয়) এবং ইসিডিএসএ (উভয়)। গ্নুপিজি ১০২৪ থেকে ৪০৯৬ বিট পর্যন্ত দৈর্ঘ্য সহ চাবি তৈরি করার প্রস্তাব দেয়। (০৮-২০২০ অনুযায়ী)
The differences in security, execution time, signature size, and being required or just considered optional by the standard (rfc4880) are irrelevant for most scenarios. The one relevant difference is: The g10 smartcard supports RSA only. Thus generate an RSA key unless you have concrete and good reason for a different decision. 1024 bit keys are considered breakable by certain well known government agencies today or in the near future. 2048 bit keys are considered safe for decades. But remember: These well known agencies would not waste their time and money by computing your key. They would steal your key. Thus if you want a larger key in order to be safe against this kind of opponent then make sure that they cannot steal it. This obviously requires profound knowledge, discipline and probably some money. The practical reasons against very long keys are: Commonly used versions of GnuPG do not support keys with more than 2048 or 3072 bit respectively length. Operations with asymmetric keys are costly in general. To make it worse: Operation with twice the key size take eight times as long. And it takes long to generate huge keys. For mobile devices this CPU load can become a problem.
Thus: Unless you have concrete and good reason for a different decision stick to 2048 bit (at least for everyday keys).
চাবি মেয়াদ
The main key can set (and change) the expiration date for itself and its subkeys. The only "disadvantage" of an expiration date for others is that they have to update the key to keep it usable. But keys shall be updated regularly anyway so you may consider that an advantage as well. The main advantage of an expiration date (for the main key, too) is that keys which are not used any more can easily be recognized as such. The "official" way is another, of course. If a key is abandoned then a revocation certificate should be published. But this may be impossible (key or passphrase lost and no certificate created before (or lost, too)) or you may simply forget to do so (or to publish it everywhere). The "right" validity period is a compromise between reducing disturbance by expired keys (on both sides; remember that you need a secure environment to change the expiration date with an offline main key) and the time which a key still appears valid. One year may be a good choice.
প্রত্যাহার শংসাপত্র
A revocation certificate is a file (or print-out) which you may create preventively to later revoke a whole key in case you have no access to the secret main key any more. This is a huge advantage if you have not just lost access to the key but someone else has! The disadvantage is: You should protect this file / print-out similarly well as the secret main key itself. It can be serious damage if you have only one (suitable) key, need it urgently and someone else destroys it right then. Obviously a main key revocation is forever (cannot be superseded by a newer self-signature).
If you (or someone else you really trust) have another key which is secure enough then you may add this key as a designated revoker to yours (you need not publish this). A designated revoker can revoke another key. Of course, the signature for the designated revoker must be available when this shall be used. If you have not given it to the other person and lost it together with your key then this is useless. If you prefer security over availability then you may make friend A your designated revoker, encrypt this signature for friend B and ask friend C to store it.
পাসফ্রেজ, নিরাপদ সঞ্চয়স্থান, এবং ব্যাকআপ
You should think about where you will store the passphrase for the main key and the revocation certificate file or print-out. Secure passphrases are hard to remember. You will most probably have to write it down. You really should not use a passphrase you have ever typed on an insecure system (and, of course, you really should not ever do so in the future). You should choose something like rsbBwNl137LcWP33RI: 18 chars consisting of lower and upper case letters and digits. Don't use special chars or umlauts. You gain little security (if you cannot remember 18 random chars then you probably cannot remember 15, too) but may get problems if you are ever forced to use the key on a rescue system (text mode Linux) with "wrong" keyboard settings. You improve security if you memorize a part of the passphrase and write down just the rest or if you write down both halves of it separately and store them in different places (one in your wallet, the other one at home). But if you store an 18 chars passphrase in two parts and an attacker gets one of them then the remaining 9 chars are not a secure protection any more. If you have created a revocation certificate then you have to store that in a safe place, too.
And, of course, you should have reliable backups of your key. It is nice if you need not be afraid that somebody has stolen your key but it is probably very unpleasant if you cannot decrypt your data any more. If you have a secure passphrase then you may even put a backup of your secret main key on your web site.
You should write a document (plain text or HTML) which describes the intended usage and security of your key and (maybe added later) your criteria for certifying the keys of other people. You can write one or more URLs at which this document can (later) be found into the key and in every signature you make. This key component is called a policy URL. It is a good idea to publish only user ID signatures which contain this policy URL(s). It is important that the users of your key can check whether a certain document belongs to a policy URL (the web server download is not safe, not even over HTTPS). Thus you should change the policy URL every time you change the document and mention the URL well visible in the document. You may use this pattern: http://yourdomain.example.org/openpgp/0x12345678__policy.1.html This document should have a detached signature (or a cleartext signature if it is plain text) by the offline main key. You should link the detached signature from the document.
পছন্দের চাবি সার্ভার
Like the policy URL a key server URL can be written into the key. You should decide which key server shall be authoritative for your key so that the users of your key know where they have to search for the "officially current version" of your key. This should be the key server which you upload key updates to first. This should be the one you configure in the GnuPG config file (--keyserver
) for key searches and uploads. This address should mainly be available for a long time and have only few and short outages. You may even use your own web site: http://yourdomain.example.org/openpgp/0x12345678.asc
Availability is improved if a server pool (with the same DNS address) is used. If you have no better idea then you may use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net or one of the more local pools hkp://eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net (Europe), hkp://na.pool.sks-keyservers.net (North America) or hkp://sa.pool.sks-keyservers.net (South America). See http://sks-keyservers.net/overview-of-pools.php
অ্যালগরিদম পছন্দসমূহ
You can also write into your key (for others) and into your config file (for your actions) in which order you prefer the cipher and digest algorithms. You should do this before you generate the key (this is easier than changing it afterwards). It makes sense to avoid SHA-1. Please be aware that you cannot prevent that GnuPG creates SHA-1 signatures with your key (because that is the only digest required by the standard). You may want to put lines like these in your gpg.conf:
personal-cipher-preferences AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5,3DES personal-digest-preferences SHA512,SHA384,SHA256,SHA224,RIPEMD160,SHA1 cert-digest-algo SHA512 default-preference-list AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5,3DES,SHA512,SHA384,SHA256,SHA224,RIPEMD160,SHA1,ZLIB,BZIP2,ZIP


text: Photo Information Sgt. Zachary L. Piepenhagen (left), shakes hands with Maj. Gen. David Coffman, deputy commanding general, I Marine Expeditionary Force, after being awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Jan. 26, 2017. Piepenhagen was awarded the medal for saving the life of a distressed Sailor who climbed over the guard rail in an attempt to commit suicide while serving with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Private First Class Gabino Perez) Photo by Pfc. Gabino Perez Download Details Share A Hero Recognized 26 Jan 2017 | Pfc. Gabino Perez I Marine Expeditionary Force PRINT SHARE MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- It was a breezy Friday afternoon, Oct. 30, 2015, as the USS Boxer was underway, moving through choppy waters off the coast of Southern California. Marine Sgt. Zachary L. Piepenhagen stood on the smoke deck to take a brief break from work and enjoy a cigarette with his peers when he noticed someone climbing over the guard rail of the ship. Piepenhagen, without hesitation, sprinted across the weather deck of the ship, jumping over the separation rope, and grabbed the sailor who was attempting to jump to his death. They grappled for a few seconds, the sailor resisting him in an attempt to escape, as both lives were in imminent danger of falling off the ship. Piepenhagen was able to pull the sailor off the ledge and back onto the ship, with the help of two other Marines, holding him against the ship's bulkhead until help arrived. "I don't know what it was, I just happened to look over and I see this sailor on the other side of the railing," Piepenhagen, who was at the time a topography specialist with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, explained. "It took me a second to really register what was going on, I don't know how long that second actually lasted, but I jumped over the rope and ran over there and grabbed him." Piepenhagen, who recently ended active duty service, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 26, 2017, for saving the life of a fellow service member. The Navy and Marine Corps Medal is the highest non-combat decoration awarded for heroism by the U.S. Department of the Navy for demonstration of heroic actions that clearly establish an act involving life-threatening risk to the recipient. "It was wild after that, there were man overboard drills called so that everybody would get accountability and see what was going on," Piepenhagen said. "I tried to go back to my shop to focus on work and tried to get out of the mentality of what just happened." After taking part in the rescue of the sailor, Piepenhagen took a step back and looked at suicide in the military community. "When it comes to suicide, it's the permanent solution to a temporary problem," Piepenhagen said. According to the award citation, Piepenhagen's courageous and prompt actions in the face of great personal risk reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and United States Naval Service. "You never know what's going to happen, you just act, you don't think about it," Piepenhagen said. "It's not about me worrying about myself or anything like that, it's about somebody needing help," he said, "I would hope that I'd jump back in there but I wouldn't know until that day came." Marines are known for their bravery in the face of danger and their unwavering commitment to duty. Piepenhagen displayed his dedication to the Marine Corps' core values: honor, courage and commitment. More Media A Hero Recognized Photo by Pfc. Gabino Perez Download Details Share A Hero Recognized Photo by Pfc. Gabino Perez Download Details Share A Hero Recognized Photo by Pfc. Gabino Perez Download Details Share

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The revised report** (full-text) extends the dataset with the addition of further interviews and suggests that autism (or rather an autism spectrum condition, ASC) may be more widespread amongst people diagnosed with a learning disability living either at home or in 'communal care establishments'. The revised prevalence figure among adults aged 18 or over is 1.1%.
There are a few other interesting facts to come from this new information including:
- Based on the combined prevalence data, the rate of ASCs in men was 2.0% and in women 0.3%.
- The reported prevalence of ASCs among people with learning disability based in either a home or residential setting was 35.4% and 31% respectively.
- When specifically looking at those with a learning disability and either home-based or in a residential setting, the rates according to gender were: home: men = 41.5% vs. women = 28.9% and residential: men = 31.1% vs women 30.9%.
- There were no statistically significant differences across ethnicity, although prevalence rates between Whites and those of South Asian descent differed (1.2% vs. 0.8%).
- Highest ASC prevalence was noted among people with more profound learning disability.
Noting that ADOS was used as part of this study and assuming that this did not include the most recent revisions to the scoring algorithm, the prevalence data produced in this study is based on DSM-IV criteria for diagnosis. In light of the various discussions on-going regarding what might happen if an unchanged DSM-V is rolled out, I do wonder how adult prevalence estimates of autism in future may pan out. I suppose the good thing about the current studies by Brugha and colleagues is that they potentially offer a direct comparison against the new DSM-V criteria, should anyone wish to undertake a reanalysis of this population in future.
* Brugha T. et al. Autism Spectrum Disorders in adults living in households throughout England. Report from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007. England: The NHS Information Centre for health and
social care, 2009
** Brugha T. et al. Estimating the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Conditions in adults: Extending the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey. England: The NHS Information Centre for health and
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Google Ready to Unveil Online Music Service: Report
Google could launch a new online music service as early as Tuesday, which will be similar to a service recently started by Amazon.com Inc, The Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
The Journal said Google is likely to announce the service at its annual Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco, adding that the service will operate in a testing mode initially and not be available to the public at large.
In April, Amazon unveiled a service that allows customers to store about 1,000 songs on its Web servers for free instead of their own hard drives and play them over an Internet connection directly from Web browsers.
Google could not immediately be reached by Reuters for comment.
The Journal said Google has not sought licenses from the four major recorded-music companies and the new feature is likely to include a system that functions much like a remote hard drive.
Users could listen to songs they have uploaded to the service in a "streaming" mode, but will not be able to download the files, the daily reported.
Earlier in the day, Google-owned YouTube said it will add more than 3,000 mainstream movies for users to rent from Monday.


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Perspective is such a powerful thing.
Whether we see our glass half full, or half empty, can really effect how we taste it as sweet, or bitter. Each day we are gifted with the 'present' of being present can either feel like a joy to unwrap... or the misery of another pair of itchy socks from ol' Aunt Gertrude.
To be honest, my heart tends to flip flop to both extremes... in any given five minutes.
But I'm learning, slowly, to flex the heart muscle of gratitude... so it can bear the weight and bounce back quicker from daily loads thrown at it, like that sack of moldering laundry in the corner.
Gratitude is a real perspective changer.
Gratitude lets us look through things... instead of at them.
You know, instead of begrudging the dirty dishes.. look through them to see the blessing of food shared with family/friends. Look through the chaos of toys and clutter on your floor, to the young souls in your care that love knowing you are there with them.
I was thinking this the other day as I saw this smudge of a hand print on our (finally) cleaned picture window. I stared at that mess, hard. It represented a whole lot of futility to me in that moment. This never-ending cycle of clean the things, they mess the things, clean the things again can wear down even the most devoted of Cinderellas. But, this was the epiphany slowly unfurling in my heart - 'look through'.
This isn't some idealised notion that you need to be enraptured with every disaster you encounter each day. I still have nerve endings that twitch as they feel messes happening at the other end of the house. It's just a reminder to my heart, and maybe yours, to seize those moments to 'look through' the glass instead of just at the smeared hand print.
I know some of us mamas can feel pretty worn out some days.
Trying to feel gratitude is maybe just vinegar in the wound... but if you could imagine some sweet elderly Grandma putting her hand over yours and saying: "I wish I could have one more day of your chaos and mess, just to hold my dear children on my lap again" would that help our perspectives? Or, a friend drops by for tea and shares with tear stained eyes... that they have miscarried, again. She looks at you and pleads: "treasure these blessings you've been given, for those of us who don't have them".
I don't want to waste a day.
Regretting, resenting, rejecting the presents given to me.
I want the perspective of gratitude.
Gratitude to the Giver who entrusted me with this one precious life and three precious souls in our care.
Mel ;o)


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When you're searching a set of version-controlled files for a string with
, particularly if it's a recursive search, it can get very annoying to be
presented with swathes of results from the internals of the hidden version
control directories like .svn
or .git
, or include metadata you're unlikely
to have wanted in files like .gitmodules
GNU grep
uses an environment variable named GREP_OPTIONS
to define a set of
options that are always applied to every call to grep
. This comes in handy
when exported in your .bashrc
file to set a "standard" grep
environment for
your interactive shell. Here's an example of a definition of GREP_OPTIONS
that excludes a lot of patterns which you'd very rarely if ever want to search
with grep
for pattern in .cvs .git .hg .svn; do
GREP_OPTIONS="$GREP_OPTIONS --exclude-dir=$pattern
export GREP_OPTIONS
Note that --exclude-dir
is a relatively recent addition to the options for
GNU grep
, but it should only be missing on very legacy GNU/Linux machines by now.
If you want to keep your .bashrc
file compatible, you could apply a little
extra hackery to make sure the option is available before you set it up to be
if grep --help | grep -- --exclude-dir &>/dev/null; then
for pattern in .cvs .git .hg .svn; do
GREP_OPTIONS="$GREP_OPTIONS --exclude-dir=$pattern"
export GREP_OPTIONS
Similarly, you can ignore single files with --exclude
. There's also
if your list of excluded patterns starts getting too
Other useful options available in GNU grep
that you might wish to add to this
environment variable include:
— On appropriate terminal types, highlight the pattern matches in output, among other color changes that make results more readable-s
— Suppresses error messages about files not existing or being unreadable; helps if you find this behaviour more annoying than useful.-E, -F, or -P
— Pick a favourite "mode" forgrep
; devotees of PCRE may find adding-P
's experimental PCRE support makesgrep
behave in a much more pleasing way, even though it's described in the manual as being experimental and incomplete
If you don't want to use GREP_OPTIONS
, you could instead simply set up an
alias grep='grep --exclude-dir=.git'
You may actually prefer this method as it's essentially functionally
equivalent, but if you do it this way, when you want to call grep
your standard set of options, you only have to prepend a backslash to its call:
$ \grep pattern file
Commenter Andy Pearce also points out that using this method can avoid some
build problems where GREP_OPTIONS
would interfere.
Of course, you could solve a lot of these problems simply by using
… but that's another post.


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Microsoft Windows 7 Command ReferenceASSOC - Displays or modifies file extension associations. ATTRIB - Displays or changes file attributes. BREAK - Sets or clears extended CTRL+C checking. BCDEDIT - Sets properties in boot database to control boot loading. CACLS - Displays or modifies access control lists (ACLs) of files. CALL - Calls one batch program from another. CD - Displays the name of or changes the current directory. CHCP - Displays or sets the active code page number. CHDIR - Displays the name of or changes the current directory. CHKDSK - Checks a disk and displays a status report. CHKNTFS - Displays or modifies the checking of disk at boot time. CLS - Clears the screen. CMD - Starts a new instance of the Windows command interpreter. COLOR - Sets the default console foreground and background colors. COMP - Compares the contents of two files or sets of files. COMPACT - Displays or alters the compression of files on NTFS partitions. CONVERT - Converts FAT volumes to NTFS. You cannot convert the COPY - Copies one or more files to another location. DATE - Displays or sets the date. DEL - Deletes one or more files. DIR - Displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory. DISKCOMP - Compares the contents of two floppy disks. DISKCOPY - Copies the contents of one floppy disk to another. DISKPART - Displays or configures Disk Partition properties. DOSKEY - Edits command lines, recalls Windows commands, and DRIVERQUERY - Displays current device driver status and properties. ECHO - Displays messages, or turns command echoing on or off. ENDLOCAL - Ends localization of environment changes in a batch file. ERASE - Deletes one or more files. EXIT - Quits the CMD.EXE program (command interpreter). FC - Compares two files or sets of files, and displays the FIND - Searches for a text string in a file or files. FINDSTR - Searches for strings in files. FOR - Runs a specified command for each file in a set of files. FORMAT - Formats a disk for use with Windows. FSUTIL - Displays or configures the file system properties. FTYPE - Displays or modifies file types used in file extension GOTO - Directs the Windows command interpreter to a labeled line in GPRESULT - Displays Group Policy information for machine or user. GRAFTABL - Enables Windows to display an extended character set in HELP - Provides Help information for Windows commands. ICACLS - Display, modify, backup, or restore ACLs for files and IF - Performs conditional processing in batch programs. LABEL - Creates, changes, or deletes the volume label of a disk. MD - Creates a directory. MKDIR - Creates a directory. MKLINK - Creates Symbolic Links and Hard Links MODE - Configures a system device. MORE - Displays output one screen at a time. MOVE - Moves one or more files from one directory to another OPENFILES - Displays files opened by remote users for a file share. PATH - Displays or sets a search path for executable files. PAUSE - Suspends processing of a batch file and displays a message. POPD - Restores the previous value of the current directory saved by PRINT - Prints a text file. PROMPT - Changes the Windows command prompt. PUSHD - Saves the current directory then changes it. RD - Removes a directory. RECOVER - Recovers readable information from a bad or defective disk. REM - Records comments (remarks) in batch files or CONFIG.SYS. REN - Renames a file or files. RENAME - Renames a file or files. REPLACE - Replaces files. RMDIR - Removes a directory. ROBOCOPY - Advanced utility to copy files and directory trees SET - Displays, sets, or removes Windows environment variables. SETLOCAL - Begins localization of environment changes in a batch file. SC - Displays or configures services (background processes). SCHTASKS - Schedules commands and programs to run on a computer. SHIFT - Shifts the position of replaceable parameters in batch files. SHUTDOWN - Allows proper local or remote shutdown of machine. SORT - Sorts input. START - Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command. SUBST - Associates a path with a drive letter. SYSTEMINFO - Displays machine specific properties and configuration. TASKLIST - Displays all currently running tasks including services. TASKKILL - Kill or stop a running process or application. TIME - Displays or sets the system time. TITLE - Sets the window title for a CMD.EXE session. TREE - Graphically displays the directory structure of a drive or TYPE - Displays the contents of a text file. VER - Displays the Windows version. VERIFY - Tells Windows whether to verify that your files are written VOL - Displays a disk volume label and serial number. XCOPY - Copies files and directory trees. WMIC - Displays WMI information inside interactive command shell. |
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Catch the best films on the Middle East's biggest screen at VOX Cinemas in City Centre Deira
From an action-packed superhero blockbuster to a spine-tingling horror and the big screen adaption of one of our favourite storybook characters, April at VOX Cinemas is offering up a mega-hit of entertainment as some of Hollywood and Bollywood's most anticipated spring films finally hit the big screen.
We uncover the top three must-watch movies to see over the coming month – you will not want to miss out on these epic flicks.
Peter Rabbit
Watch James Cordon in Peter Rabbit at VOX Cinemas across the Middle East
With an all-star cast including Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie and Rose Byrne, Peter Rabbit is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for the whole family to enjoy. The tale follows the adventurous world of the mischievous Peter (played by the hilarious James Cordon) and his three sisters as they battle to regain their home in a vegetable garden from a troublesome new neighbour.
Peter Rabbit is released at VOX Cinemas this April.
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Watch Avengers: Infinity War at VOX Cinemas across the Middle East
Marvel fans will be using all their superpowers to reach VOX Cinemas now that the hugely hyped new release in the Avengers series is finally here. You can expect plenty of superheroes, villains and jaw-dropping special effects as Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor and the entire Avengers gang once again unite to save the universe and defeat their most powerful enemy so far – the corrupt Thanos, played by Josh Brolin.
Avengers: Infinity War is released at VOX Cinemas this April.
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Watch A Quiet Place at VOX Cinemas across the Middle East
One of our favourite off-screen couples, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski pair up in front of the camera to play husband and wife in horror movie A Quiet Place. The story follows their family of four as they live under siege in a post-apocalyptic world, forced to live an isolated existence in complete silence in fear of creatures that attack at any sound.
This creepy tale will keep viewers on the edge of their seats throughout the whole movie so make sure you grab an extra large box of popcorn to hide behind!
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List of all U-boats
Type | IXC | |||||||||||
Ordered | 20 Oct 1939 | |||||||||||
Laid down | 21 Feb 1941 | Deutsche Werft AG, Hamburg (werk 307) | ||||||||||
Launched | 22 Sep 1941 | |||||||||||
Commissioned | 8 Dec 1941 | Kptlt. Friedrich Steinhoff | ||||||||||
Commanders |
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Career 4 patrols |
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Successes | 5 ships sunk, total tonnage 41,373 GRT 1 ship damaged, total tonnage 8,773 GRT | |||||||||||
Fate |
Handed over to Japan on 16 September 1943 at Kure as donation from Germany to the Emperor and became the Japanese submarine RO-500 (offsite link). Post war information (see more post-war boats): | |||||||||||
Loss position |
In June 2018 the wreck of RO-500 was located by an ROV of the Society La Plongée for Deep Sea Technology at the depth of 90 meters off Kanmuri Jima in Wakasa Bay.
Wolfpack operations
U-511 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Pirat (29 Jul 1942 - 3 Aug 1942)
Schlagetot (9 Nov 1942 - 21 Nov 1942)
Delphin (3 Jan 1943 - 14 Feb 1943)
Robbe (16 Feb 1943 - 5 Mar 1943)
Attacks on this boat and other events
12 Feb 1943
Damage caused by escorts prevented the boat continuing an attack on a convoy off Finisterre, France (Sources: Blair, vol 2, page 195)
1 recorded attack on this boat.
General notes on this boat
31 May 1942. During the summer of 1942, when under the command of Kptlt. Friedrich Steinhoff, U-511 took part in one of the most interesting experiments of the entire war. Steinhoff's brother, Dr. Erich Steinhoff, was working at Peenemünde on the rocket program, and between them they arranged for U-511 to be used for rocket trials.
A rack for six 30 cm rockets was installed and extensive tests carried out. These concluded with the successful launch of rockets from a depth of 12m (40ft). These amazing tests failed to convince Dönitz's staff of the merit of this innovatory weapon system, and it was not put into service. The rocket in question, the 30cm Wurfkörper 42 Spreng, was not advanced enough to target ships, but it might have been used to bombard shore installations such as oil refineries in the Caribbean. This idea was developed in late 1944 with a proposal for Type XXI electro boats to tow V-2 launchers which would attack shore bases. Neither the launchers nor the type XXI boats became available before the war ended.
Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-511 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
U-boat Emblems
We have 1 emblem entry for this boat. See the emblem page for this boat or view emblems individually below.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
I went to SPACE this weekend. For those who don't know, SPACE is the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo held in Columbus, Ohio. In its 12th year, SPACE is a showcase for self-published comics that fall way out of the mainstream world of comic book production and distribution. The number of small press comics conventions have grown over the years, among them SPX in Bethesda, APE in San Francisco, and Pittsburgh's own PIX which just began last fall.
As a celebration of the Do-It-Yourself mentality these are great events. This is a roomful of creators, writers and artists, who make comics purely for the love of the medium, knowing that very few, if any of them, will ever move on into the realm of professional comics creator. My guess is that this isn't even the goal of the majority of people there. They put out money to print their work, travel to the show, pay for food and lodging, pay for the table space at the con, and hope to sell enough comics to break even. Few of them do. This is in many ways the heart of true comics fandom and creativity. Each book is the product of a personal vision with little thought for commercial concerns.
This follows a long tradition in comics. The underground comix of the 1960's spawned an explosion of creativity and gave creators like Robert Crumb a home he would never have found in the mainstream. The independent publishers that grew as a result of the direct market in the early 80's were doing much the same thing. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a self-published book and spawned the ill-fated black and white comics explosion of 1986 (which led in turn to the black and white comics implosion of 1987).
I was reminded mainly of the mini-comics scene of the late 80's and early 90's. My collaborator Fred Wheaton and I were in the thick of that. There was a huge underground of self-published mini-comics that was, by today's internet standards, hard to learn about or track down. We started doing comic strips for a music/humor 'zine called The Plain Brown Wrapper. This was sold in some local music stores and comic shops, but mostly through mail order. Through this we learned of the existence of a mag call Factsheet Five. FF was a review magazine for 'zines and mini-comics. Anyone could send their book in and get a listing and a review, and hopefully, as a result, some mail order business. We sent copies of the original Grey Legacy, as well as some of our other mini-comics like Buggly the Inbred Bear, Dumpy Geeks at the Mall, and Boo Boo Chute and sold a few copies and traded many more (trades were a big part of this scene... everyone had something they wanted to get out there). More importantly we found this great, really supportive underground network of other people who were self-publishing.
I ran into a couple of people I had corresponded with back in the early 90's at SPACE this weekend and I was glad to see they're still out there doing something they obviously love. I met Pam Bliss at a number of shows back then and traded a number of comics with her. I met, for the first time, Michael Neno who I knew only by name. He used to publish a mini-comic review 'zine called Comics FX and in addition to giving positive reviews to our work he once cover-featured Grey Legacy and published a pretty in-depth interview with Fred and me.
Like any scene like this, back then the quality of the work varied. I like to think our stuff was on a much more professional level than many of the books we saw (and based on reviews and the fan letters we received I don't think I'm exaggerating too much). There was a lot of... how do I put this gently? There was a lot of amateurish crap.
And that's still true, I hate to say. I always feel a little schizophrenic when I walk through the Artist's Alley of a Con, especially one that focuses on Indy books. I want to be supportive of the scene. I am fully in favor of anyone who wants to make comics to do so, regardless of skill level. The artistic desire and drive should be rewarded. But at the same time, there's a lot of stuff that just simply doesn't interest me at all, sometimes because it's a subject matter I don't care about (it's not like I'm interested in every professional comic from major publishers either), but truthfully, sometimes I'm not interested because it's amateurish crap. So I've had to develop the skill of walking the aisles, glancing at tables, and trying not to make eye contact with the creators until I've ascertained my level of interest. I admire your enthusiasm, but I'm simply not interested in hearing your spiel.
And trust me, I am sympathetic. I've been on the other side of the table trying to promote my work often enough to know what it feels like when people walk by with barely a glance.
The Pittsburgh Small Press scene was well-represented. A lot of my friends had tables there, and I know I'm a little prejudiced because they are my friends, I do think the overall quality of the work in our corner was among the best books at the show. We put on a great showing and I'm proud of all of them.
I guess I'll end this by reiterating how much I support the DIY comics self-publishing effort. No matter what the quality of the product it takes a lot of time, work and dedication to do it with very little reasonable expectation of any kind of financial reward. Unlike big industry comics cons this entire scene is about the love of comics; reading them, making them, talking about them and sharing them. The big cons could learn a lot from this.


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Robin A Schwartz, Re/Max ProfessionalsGainesville, FL"RealBird will allow me to keep up with my competition. I am so excited to get started showcasing my listings with their own individual web pages."
James Daniel, KW CommercialSan Antonio, TX"RealBird has made marketing my listings easy. I love all the tools that RealBird has to offer. I especially like the SMS text abilities. With RealBird I'm able to show my sellers all the marketing that I do to get their property sold."
Chris Griffith, Downing Frye Realty, Inc.Bonita Springs, FL"Realbird is the best possible way for me to be able nearly unlimited images of my listings, the community and the community amenities. It lets buyers truly see a home and it's surroundings. I'm a definitely a Realbird fan!"
Tyler Hold, Keller Williams RealtyFalls Church, VA"RealBird gives me the opportunity to get my name out to my community."
Kelly Cummings & Ryan Cummings, The Cummings CompanyMobile, AL"Real Bird has increased our Listings exposure and takes minimal time and effort so we can focus on the most important thing, Satisfying our Clients. Thanks Real Bird!"
Teresa Blakeman, United Real Estate, Lexington, KyLexington, KY"RealBird is a great way to showcase properties that I have listed! What a great thing to be able to tell potential clients. Thank You"
Amy Shrader, Re/Max Real Estate TenMorristown, TN"Realbird is great and has definitely been an asset to my business!; ; Amy Shrader; REALTOR(R); Hurst Real Estate & Auction"
CeCe In St George, S&S Realty SolutionsSt George, UT"I have been in the Real Estate Business for a very long time and I can't believe all the Tools that RealBird provides for you . I work on Realbird almost everyday and I learn something new almost everyday . ; ; I love the SMS Text code how you can customize the text number to correlate with address of the listing . And now you can put your listings on your Face Book page . ; ; RealBir..."
Christy L. Zurkuhlen, Colonial Real EstatePigeon Forge, TN"I am truly amazed at the Realbird site. I entered my first listing today and could not believe the exposure I got on that listing. I love the single property listing site. I also thought the slideshow that was created was awesome. I was amazed at how easily and quickly you could post to different sites. Thank You Realbird, and I am a life long customer now."
Patrick K Smith, Patrick Smith - BrokerSacramento, CA"I have been using RealBird for years. I cannot believe what an amazing product you get from Gabe at such a low price.; ; When I post a new listing and it is syndicated I get calls from websites I did not even know the property was posted at!; ; I love the mapping programs for creating farm areas.; ; If you have not been through Eric's training you should do that ASAP.; ; I refer all my age..."
Nikitas Kouimanis Kouimanis, Mortgage Enterprise LtdCarle Place, NY"There is so many single property websites providers out there and you guys are by far the best and cheapest with the nicest looking sites. Bravo!"
Lance Whipple PA, EXIT Realty ChampionsDavenport, FL"We use realbird for additional listing and marketing cababilities beyond the MLS and our IDX websites. It regularly ranks our properties on the 1st or 2nd page of google. Realbird is like a Swiss Army knife for listings and is limited only by your creativity in employing it. Can't forget... great technical support."
Janet Anderson, RE/MAX FirstBaton Rouge, LA"RealBird is my one stop shop for listings. It automatically creates a QVC code, a simgle property site, adds a beautiful listing page to my facebook, and so much more! You cannot go wrong with RealBird - believe me, I think I have tried everything under the sun!"
Tamee Starr, Keller Williams Realty Atlanta PerimeterRex, GA"RealBird is AWESOME! It has been a great aide to marketing my listings and driving my business goals for the year. I love it!"
Gilbert JulianPlainville, CT"We have been using RealBird for a few years primarly for the listing and virtural tour software. We find RealBird to have the best technical support and overall customer service on the internet. Their overall product offerings are also have the best dollar value on the market.; ; Gil Julian; Broker; Creative Realty of CT; 93-B Deming Rd; Berlin, CT. 06037; 860-490-7921"
Gabe CarrilloMurrieta, CA"Real Bird is awesome. I love the way it allows you to send lists of properties to clients in a fully automated way. Thanks Real Bird; ; GABE the HOUSE GUY"
Cynthia Cala Suarez, Genora & Company RealtyOcean, NJ"RealBird is such a great resource to service my client's listings. I researched lots of different avenues, and this is truly the best. Everything is right at my fingertips to get the exposure and quality I am looking for to help get my listings sold. This service has made my business much more efficient and made my life easier!"
Debra Cummins, Keller Williams Bay Area EstatesLos Gatos, CA"RealBird has so many features that make it easy to showcase my clients property in so many ways."
Jay McHugh, LAER Realty PartnersLittleton, MA"Love the service and the ease of use...many of my clients find this portal the best way to view and review properties....; ; thanks so much......; ; ONE year later...I find this platform extremely important to my business....thanks again...."
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Geoffrey Schiering, The San Diego Real Estate Pros at Big Block RealtySan Diego, CA"I've been using Realbird for my real estate business since 2009. The system has been a great way to create virtual tours and single-property websites. More recently I've been using the platform to share on social media sites. And I have occasionally received buyer leads as people search my listings of homes for sale in San Diego. It's been a solid investment and I recommend it t..."
Plattsburgh Mortgage ExpertsPlattsburgh, NY"Realbird is a great platform! Auto-Syndicates to all of the major real estate portals. We use it to generate leads for our referring agents in the area. It helps us refer business to them and in turn they refer a lot of business to us! I highly recommend Realbird."
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Ole Aamodt, GRI, Platinum Realty, LLCLee's Summit, MO"I just signed up for Realbird Pro. Have tried at least a half of dozen different website providers with minimal results. ; ; "I had no idea that anything like this was even available and the price is even better than what I had been paying in the past. ; ; Hopefully, I'll eventually figure out how to take advantage of all the different features it has to offer i.e. single property marketing..."
Lawrence C. Moss Jr., EagleVail Realty & ManagementEagle-Vail, CO"Gabe and his company are pros. He knows how to leverage technology. Case in point is the mobile text function. Partnering with Twilio, the market leader in this stuff, was super smart. ; From a practical user standpoint, it is a no brainer. We use it for more than listings (selling a car?) and it works very well. While not every lead is converted, we are getting actionable and verifiable contact ..."
Hackworth Real Estate Group, Hackworth Real Estate GroupFort lauderdale, FL"Real Bird Has helped us promote our listings in the South Florida Area."
Sheri-Lee Presenger, RE/MAX Complete RealtyCanada"We love RealBird!! After using your listing system for one month, our listings are flying out the door! Albeit, we live in Calgary AB, none-the-less, the platform that RealBird has created does exactly what it's supposed to do. It helps to give your listings great presentation on their own dedicated site. At a great price point too!!; ; Thank you so much RealBird for the great product. ..."
Sandra K Shirah, CLA, Shirah & Associates, LLCTioga, LA"I am absolutely thrilled to have found Realbird! ; ; As an independent broker on a limited budget, I despaired of ever finding an affordable way to display local properties on my website. RealBird has made it possible! Just copied and pasted a quick code and, voila, homes were featured on my site! Thank you RealBird!"
Sue Trauzzi-VanTienen, Re/Max Rouge River Realty Ltd., BrokerageCanada"I have used RealBird for every listing I have over the past 2 years and the exposure has been tremendous. A good percentage of people that viewed my listings actually contacted me. Definitely a worthwhile service.; ; Sue Trauzzi-VanTienen; Sales Representative; Remax Rouge River Realty Ltd.; Brokerage; 905-619-2100"
Jason Joseph Feinman, Coldwell Banker Residential BrokerageHillsdale, NJ"Real Bird offers a lot of tools that are superior than what most agents currently use and I have an edge over other agents who do not offer their clients the tools you can find on Real Bird. From mobile home searches to property websites, if you are an agent and don't know about Real Bird, shame on you."
Will Herlan, agencyoneBellevue, WA"It was great to see how RealBird made making a website easy, and also made it good for all platforms. With the QR code, people could look at the mobile site from curbside on their mobile phones, and my listing sold in 9 days. (Individual results may vary. ) Compared to other options or doing it myself, I'm sticking with RealBird."
Honorata Gruzewski, Crown Homes Realty, LLCOKC, OK"RealBird is a place to be for all real estate agents. If you are not using the RealBird for your listings, you are missing a boat. Very easy to use, nice looking and it's free. ; You can upgrade to the PRO version, if the futures in basic are not enough. Thumbs up! Keep up a good job."
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Nelly Andrushenko, Power Realty Inc.Whitestone, NY"Realbird provides our Co. with a great service. Mainly we love using them for craigslist advertising, as well as having our listings present on search engine searches with their own individual domain names. The syndication is fairly smooth, making advertising across multiple platforms much easier.; ; Power Realty, Inc."
Eric Schuell, RE/MAX Right ChoiceMilford, CT"Realbird has been a part of my business for a long time, and will continue. Very easy dashboard, excellent syndication, and great virtual tours/home page.; ; Nice job Gabe. Thanks for keeping it very current and easy to use."
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Kate Darling on, "Extending Legal Rights to Social Robots"
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Robotics seems increasingly likely to become a transformative technology. This conference will build on existing scholarship exploring the role of robotics to examine how the increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread deployment everywhere from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces, and even to the battlefield disrupts existing legal regimes or requires rethinking of various policy issues.
If you are on the front lines of robot theory, design, or development, we hope to see you and to enable conversations between the people designing, building, and deploying robots, and the people who design or influence the legal and social structures in which robots will operate.
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Today we're excited to reveal the cover for Silent Echo by Elisa Freilich!
Rendered mute at birth, Portia Griffin has been silent for 16 years. Music is her constant companion, along with Felix, her deaf best friend who couldn t care less whether or not she can speak. If only he were as nonchalant about her newfound interest in the musically gifted Max Hunter.
But Portia s silence is about to be broken with the abrupt discovery of her voice, unparalleled in its purity and the power it affords to control those around her. Able to persuade, seduce and destroy using only her voice, Portia embarks on a search for answers about who she really is, and what she is destined to do.
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Elisa Freilich has enjoyed a love affair with language from her earliest days. Raised in rural Monsey, New York, Elisa spent her days reading whatever crossed her path and developed a keen appreciation for the ever-present music in her home – from classical to rock. French lessons and creative writing workshops complemented her adolescence, which was also greatly enhanced by a summer spent abroad at Cambridge University. From the time she could read and write, Elisa could often be found composing poems, song lyrics and satirical newspapers.
Throughout the years, Elisa has retained her devotion to all genres of books and music and was determined to synthesize her passions into one refreshing and original platform. The result is her debut novel, SILENT ECHO: A Siren's Tale, which will be published by Diversion Books in September 2013. With her own lyrical style, Elisa has created a world that young adults around the globe will find intensely gripping and refreshingly original.
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Title- Ride of Your Life
By- Shevi Arnold
Seventeen-year-old Tracy Miller met the love of her life . . . thirty years after her own death.
Tracy was working at the House of Horrors at the Amazing Lands Theme Park when the fire broke out. Instead of running, she lost her life trying to save eleven-year-old Mack. Now thirty years have passed, and suddenly everything changes with the arrival of two new ghosts: a little girl named Ashley and a cute, seventeen-year-old boy named Josh. Josh would do anything for Tracy, but can he help her let go of the past?
Ride of Your Life is a bittersweet, romantic, YA ghost story that was inspired by a true event, the Great Adventure Haunted Castle fire, which killed eight teenagers in 1984, exactly thirty years ago this May 11th. It is a fantasy novel about undying love, and it won third-place in Smart Writer's Write It Now (W.I.N.) contest in the YA category, which was judged by Alex Flinn, the author of Beastly and Cloaked.
Hang on. Love can be as terrifying as a roller coaster, but it can also be the Ride of Your Life.
Additional information about the Six Flags Great Adventure Haunted Castle fire- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Castle_(Six_Flags_Great_Adventure)
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Shevi Arnold grew up in Philadelphia, and her family had a season pass to Great Adventure in the early 1980s. She was nineteen-years-old and studying overseas when a fellow college student asked her if she had heard about the Great Adventure Haunted Castle fire. Eight teenagers had lost their lives. Like many, Shevi was shocked by the news. In her mind, she wanted to give that tragedy a happy ending. Ride of Your Life is the result.
Shevi loves writing, illustrating, and making people laugh—and she's been doing all three since 1987 when she started working as an editorial cartoonist for a newsweekly. She's also worked as a comics magazine editor, as an arts-and-entertainment writer specializing in comedy and children's entertainment, and as a consumer columnist. Nowadays, though, she enjoys writing (and sometimes illustrating) humorous fiction, fantasy, and science fiction for children, teens, and geeks of all ages. Her other books include Toren the Teller's Tale, Dan Quixote: Boy of Nuevo Jersey, and Why My Love Life Sucks (The Legend of Gilbert the Fixer, book one). She is currently working on Why It Still Mega Bites, the second book in the Gilbert the Fixer series.


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I had a major quadcopter crash a few weeks ago – and it wasn't due to my dodgy flying skills. One of my propellers broke in mid-air; one blade snapped off from a prop at the hub. The prop was one of two new bright orange coloured ones I'd bought to help keep track of the direction of the aircraft, which worked very well for me until it crashed. Looking more closely at these new orange props I now notice that they are much thinner where they attach to the hub. My other props thicken out as they approach the hub making them much stronger. The orange ones are much weaker – bending them quickly results in white crease lines at the hub, which doesn't happen with my black ones. Lesson learned, don't buy cheap props (actually, they weren't any cheaper, so the lesson is to understand how to recognise crap props).
At the time the prop snapped, I was about 20 metres up in the air, traveling horizontally at quite some speed. When it broke, which made a "ping" sound, I panicked and dropped the throttle and then realised that was wrong and throttled back up to try and cushion the landing. I'm not really sure to what extent that helped, but it hit the grassy ground hard. I was flying it in a field near my house and was prevented from immediately retrieving it by a group of curious horses that went to investigate this UFO crash landing site. Luckily they decided against trampling or eating it and eventually lost interest.
It was still powered up when I got to it, though unarmed. Annoyingly I'd decided against flying with the camera this time so didn't have any dramatic footage of the accident.
The battery looks too badly damaged to use. It's not quite punctured, but it's bashed up and misshapen. I may try recharging it out of curiosity, but I expect it to set on fire, explode or quantum leap or something – who knows with these lipo things. Quantum lipo. A friend has loaned me two new batteries, which are higher capacity (3900mAh) but weigh more – so we'll see how that works out for performance and flight time.
A couple of the other props got damaged, but the motors, ESCs, and controller stuff seem all fine.
The two arms where it hit the ground were bent quite badly.
It's taken me about a month to get around to it, but I've finally rebuilt it. The new frame is pretty much the same design as before but with a couple of minor modifications. I mounted the arms less closely to the middle of the base, so there is more space for cables, and I mounted the motors about 1cm closer to the end of the arms. So the result is that the motors are about 2-3cm further away from the base, which I expect to change the behaviour slightly and gives me more headroom between the props and the base – they were quite close before and prevented me from mounting some bits close to the edge of the base.
Since my first build I've acquired a power drill mounting and I built a wooden jig to keep the two bases in place, which meant I was able to drill holes much more accurately. I also drilled lots of extra holes which I knew would be handy, so more places to run cables and pass through tie-clips. It's much tidier now.
Lastly, in an effort to isolate vibration better, I put patches of neoprene where the arms are bolted to the base plates, and where the motors are bolted to the arms. The neoprene was an old laptop "skin" I cut up. I had to remove it from the motors as it meant they weren't mounted perfectly square, so the craft was spinning a bit. I'm not really certain how effective this is as I don't really have any data to back it up so it's a bit cargo culting atm. I may experiment with this more scientifically at some point.
I bought some much sturdier carbon-fibre reinforced propellers too – I'll write about my efforts to balance them properly later.
In summary, crashed it due to cheap propellers and I took the opportunity to rebuild the frame with some improvements. No horses were harmed.