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Former Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin says change was overdue and President Salva Kiir Mayardit acted constitutionally
A South Sudanese state signs an agreement with a U.S. company to build a hybrid solar-combustion power plant near Juba.
The South Sudan Army is accused of committing "serious rights abuses" in Jonglei state and doing nothing to stop inter-ethnic clashes there.
South Sudan issues a new business passport that costs a pretty penny but is designed to help South Sudanese do business abroad.
Witnesses say scores have been killed and wounded in inter-ethnic clashes in South Sudan's Jonglei state.
An enterprising South Sudanese man turns to fungi to make a living.
New violence flares in Jonglei state as South Sudan celebrates second anniversary of independence
Thousands turn out around South Sudan for a national day of prayer as the country marks two years of independence.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir fires another state governor, replacing him with a member of the ruling SPLM party.
Officials in South Sudan's Unity state say civilians were deliberately targeted in a recent bombing raid, and point the finger at Sudan.
A Catholic radio station reopens in South Sudan after being shut down by Lakes state authorities, but broadcasts no hard news.
A South Sudanese official says he does not think Sudan will block South Sudan's oil exports or go to war over the issue.
Dozens of South Sudanese, including a six-year-old girl, offer input to a government commission drafting the new nation's constitution.
South Sudan in Focus (SSIF) is a 30-minute English-language broadcast and Internet program covering rapidly changing developments in South Sudan and the East Africa region.
South Sudan in Focus airs at 7:30 pm in Juba (1630 UTC) and can be heard on FM stations throughout South Sudan, on shortwave, and on VOA's 24-hour channel in Nairobi at 8:30 pm. The program is hosted by John Tanza in Washington D.C., and a network of stringers around South Sudan, and reporters in Washington, D.C., produce the stories that are heard on South Sudan in Focus.
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As long as the conversation I'm having, follows the chapters in Genki I & II I'm sort of OK but as soon as I try to engage in some small-talk I'm lost!
Sentences like
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Please help me with some nice sentences for starting a conversation with friends, business associates and general acquaintances that doesn't make me sound like well, reading out loud from Genki I.

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It's ranch week here in Bush Whacker 2, because we have introduced several much-requested updates for your ranch! Enjoy the following changes:
- Head to the Town Hall (yes! It's open!) if you're over level 30 to get a permit to unlock house expansions!
- You can now plant multiple plots with the same crop without reopening the shop! The same thing goes for house items from the store/inventory.
- When you help a friend's plot on their ranch, it will no longer reduce the growing time of that plot. It will instead increase the yield of that plot by 10% (to a limit of 100%). You can still use helps to clear weeds, un-wither crops, and till plots!
- Purchase a tractor for your ranch with Bush Bucks so you can harvest or till all your plots at once!
- The friend scroller is now able to search for and sort friends, so it's easier to find the friend you're looking for! It will also let you know if their crops are in need of help!


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Fresh white 'blood' appears in fresh and intense Alien: Isolation screenshotsWritten by: / / 1 Comment
Now that we've all got over the fact that there is another Alien game in production under the SEGA banner (or maybe you haven't got over it yet?), and following the game's official announcement with debut screenshots and a lot of atmospheric in-game footage, we've received another new batch of images that take us through eerie scenes aboard the remote trading post, the Sevastopol, and the game's main setting out in space.
In the screenshots you'll get a few close-ups of the Sevastopol interior, along with even closer looks at the main (and only?) Xenomorph enemy on the station, as well as a peek at what looks like Alien: Isolation's crafting mechanic which will be your primary method of putting together tools with which to defend yourself and distract threats to make stealthy escapes.
And is that a Synthetic (AKA an android) lying in a heap with white 'blood' spurted all over the floor? Sure looks like it:
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1. This RP is for experienced players only. That means that unless I consider you experienced, then you can't join. That means the following ONLY can join this RP; Silent_Wolf, Sarah_K_O_M, TheHayleyDoll, Spirit_Queen, Singergirl509. No-one else. If your name does not appear on that list, do not spam in this RP asking to join or PM me doing the same.
2. This RP is for humans only. That means no vampires, fairies, deities, elves etc. However, as detailed below, there are various hair colours around nowadays, and also mutations. Mutations however are more like freak show mutations than anything else; the mutations that are allowed are as follows: tails, animal ears, hooves, extra fingers and toes, missing or extra limbs.
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~~~It is the year 2100, and the world is a very different place. The fossil fuel reserves have finally run out, hastened by the greed and jealousy of the world's leaders; all who, while running thru their own reserves, believed without foundation that the other leaders held bigger reserves that they could fall back on. This falsehood was discovered only when it was too late, when there were no more fossil fuels left. Now, the social fabric of the world has completely unraveled. Humans still remain, clinging on to the shattered remnents of what their world once was with the tenacity of rats. There are now no world leaders, only small tribes of people occasionally fighting among themselves for the broken fragments of what once was.
This new world holds very little resemblance to the place it once was. The sky is now yellow as a result of pollution and many of the rivers and lakes are polluted, making them dangerous to drink from. The people too are different; many are born with strangely coloured hair as a result of mixed genes and the barren world. Some are born with mutations caused by the pollution; perhaps in the future, the pollution will disappate, but no-one thinks to the future. These people live entirely in the present, their only thoughts survival from day to day. The taboos and morals of the old world are all but vanished; incest and infanticide are now so common as to be largely ignored. There are no laws; in any case, there are now no lawmen to enforce them. The people quarrel among themselves and problems are solved in an old, tribal way as did the native tribes of days gone by. Cruel words and harsh language and behaviour are also commonplace, but rarely mean anything save as a means of communication.
There is no technology. There is no longer the fuel to run it, or the people to staff the factories to build the cars, planes, trains, boats... indeed, everything that the people of the old world used and took for granted. Instead, people went back to the old methods of transport; the horses; the oxen, the mules; these still exist in the world due to the actions of far seeing people who realised that one day, they would need to fall back on primative methods of transportation. The land occasionally gives up food for its people, but the vast fields of wheat and other crops are a thing of the past. The starved soil cannot give a huge yield, which is why the people now mostly live in small, tightknit communities, occasionally trading things like mirrors, toys, cosmetics and other such things that still survive for the basics like food and water. Like the shadow that fire leaves on a wall, the pointless trappings of a society long gone still remain.
The only power that can be utilised is from natural causes, like the wind and sun, but there are no longer the factories to build the huge windmills, so only small amounts of power can be harnessed from the wind and the weather is so erratic now that solar power can not be relied on. There is no money, nor any need for it. Objects are traded for other objects; food is grown by people and used by them, or traded; theft is rampant. Settlements range in size from small tribes to small towns, but there are none of the cities that used to be around; the small towns mainly are settled where the old cities used to be, but most of the cities' buildings have fallen or been pulled down.
~~~The children gathered eagerly around the old woman as she prepared to tell them a story of yesterday. Not many people nowadays lived as long as Old Mother, who was 60 years old and the matriarch of the village. She often looked after the children of the tribe; of course, not many were born to the village as would have been in the world of yesterday; several men and women were born barren, unable to reproduce. Since there was no no means of preventing pregnancy, this was regarded as a blessing rather than as a curse. Old Mother herself could not remember how the world had been, but the stories had been passed down from her own grandmother, and she related them as they had been told to her.
"One day, the world was a different place," she intoned. "The sky was blue, and the water clean and clear. There were machines known as cars, like metal carts cept that they ran by themselves, on a magical liquid known as petrol. There were huge metal machines that flew in the sky like birds, and others that floated on the seas like wood. People did not live in villages like ours, but in huge cities with buildings that reached to the skies. But one day, the magic liquid and other magic creations ran out. There was none left, and nothing could be used instead. The world fell to pieces and there was nothing left, save what survives today." Old Mother sighed, but the children did not notice. They were rapt with attention as they listened to the story.
A boy stood nearby, leaning against a wall of a house. His name was Raziel, and he had lived in this village all his life. His face was pale, his hair black. He had one blue eye and one green eye; this was a mutation caused by both genetics and the pollution. He knew how lucky he was that this was the only mutation he had; other kids were not so lucky, and had tails or missing limbs. Raziel longed to get out of the village and away from its people; especially, to get away from his mother. He didn't know who his father was, and suspected that his mother did not know herself.
She was one of the more well off of the village; not that anyone in the village was rich, due to the restrictions of life and other things, but she was able to trade sexual favours in return for various items that made her life easier, such as food and cleaning items, but also makeup, cosmetics and clothing materia. None the less, Raziel despised her. He sometimes thought of leaving this village and its stifling atmosphere, and setting out for one of the towns; he was sixteen years old and had never been outside its walls. The very thought of spending the rest of his life here was unbearable.
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The Pratt Gators 12 and under baseball team represented their community well at the Hap Dumont State Tournament held at Green Sports Complex over the weekend.
19 teams converged on Pratt to contest the Hap Dumont state championship. The Pratt Gators, the local entry, went 2-2 on the weekend— making it to the bracket quarterfinals before being eliminated, which put them in the top eight Hap Dumont teams in the State of Kansas.
In pool play, the Gators went 1-1, losing to Wichita Cubs 15-5 and downing Mulvane Wildcats 14-2.
In bracket play, the Gators dropped Wichita Heaters 11-7 to advance to the quarterfinals. The Gators were then eliminated in the quarterfinals by the Manhattan Titans by a 20-5 count. The Titans went on to eventually claim the tournament runners-up trophy.
The tournament semi-finals were interrupted by Sunday afternoon's rainstorm. Wichita Cardinals has already advanced to the finals, but Manhattan Titans had to wait for the weather to pass before they could complete their semifinal game.
Pratt recreation director Bruce Pinkall's crew did a nice job after the one-third-inch rain left the Green Complex fields puddled up. As it was a state tournament, and some of the players and their supporters had been in town since Friday, it wasn't really an option to postpone the tourney to another day. Elbow grease, a vacuum pump and a truckful of Diamond Dry were employed and the workers soon had the infield and pitcher's mound ready for play—and the tournament continued.
Wichita Cardinals ended up downing Manhattan Titans in the finals to claim the championship trophy. Wichita Reds took the 3rd place game.
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The Florida Coastal School of Law's Moot Court Honor Board extended invitations to four students after their performances in the Moot Court Honor Board's Summer Internal Competition -- Rosanna Barsati, Gracie Holden, Emily Prestopnik and Michael Roscoe.
The Internal Competition, which consists of two graded oral argument rounds and a writing competition, is open only to first-year students and is the only avenue to joining Florida Coastal's No. 1 nationally-ranked advocacy program. The Moot Court Honor Board's current members and its alumni extend their congratulations.


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This award is is given by the Editors at OncoLink to the providers of the highest quality cancer information on the Internet. Selection is based on the particular emphasis we at OncoLink place on patients and families who empower themselves with reliable information about their disease. On a regular basis, the Editors at OncoLink will choose a website which is exemplary of this philosophy, and serves as a model for others.
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A nonprofit organization that facilitates life-saving blood stem cell transplants for patients who do not have a donor in their family. NMDP provide the products and services that bring patients and donors together through life-saving technology. They manage the world's largest registry of volunteer stem cell donors and cord blood units. They are also working to increase access to transplantation through research, advocacy, and public and professional education.


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Hi everybody,
i've been using my Wacom Bamboo tablet to do cartoons and stuff but i'm having troubles with the drawing tools. Currently i am trying to combine the facilities of 3 different programs: Gimp, MyPaint and Inkscape Vector. Each one has certain advantages and disadvantages, but it's a cumbersome process to combine the 3 for a drawing.
Gimp is a very good tool, but i find its pens and brushes very restrictive or limited. MyPaint, on the other hand, has got a very good selection of traces, pens, brushes, etc. but otherwise is a very limited program. And none of them works with vectorized shapes (triangles, circles, squares, etc.) which forces me to work with Inkscape vector, that is gain very limited otherwise.
I am currently using Ubuntu 11.10, Inkscape 0.48, Gimp 2.6.11 and MyPaint 0.9.1.
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I am building a small news aggregation service where in it collects news from some 1600 sources across the web and analyses the retrieved articles. (I only fetch rss feeds.) In this regard, I want to use Google Reader as a platform. Meaning, My application fetches all the feedentries from a single source(Google Reader account) and my Google Reader account collects the feedentries from the 1600 sources I subscribe to. Can I use Google Reader for commercial usage like this? I have already raised a question in Google Reader forums and looking for an answer. If anyone here have used Google Reader for a similar usage, please let me know.
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This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:
Does interfacing with Reader provide processing improvements over pulling the feeds directly?
If you're analyzing (and enriching?) feeds, I'm guessing you're running something like Calais and Solr as part of your processing stack. With 1600 feeds you're talking about a serious number of entries to deal with. Does Reader provide enough bandwidth to pull the entries fast enough to keep your service relevant?
I've gotta imagine having your processing and enriching machines virtualized on scalable cloud space (an EC2 account or something) and setting a processing schedule would be much more efficient than drudging such a massive stream of posts from Google.
That aside, the Google Terms of Service has a few entries which may be bad news:
If you use scripts to crawl your 1600-feed account, that may be a violation.
Making Google parse and process your feeds, then taking up that bandwidth, might interfere with the normal operation of Reader.
This last one seems to speak pretty directly to your question.


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300 Seconds of Science at NM Musuem of Natural History
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Paleontologist Justin Spielmann of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science shows off some of the cool things you can see at the museum.
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I can feel current leakage on my mbp when it is being charged. And it seems a lot of people in my country report the same problem.
Is this because of the voltage(220V) we use?
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UPDATE I went to Apple Store(Shanghai, China) several hours ago and they refused to do anything. weird company. I bought my mbp 3 months ago.


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Jewels From The Archive - July 2014Written by on May 14, 2014 Contributors: Petersen Archive Rod and Custom Motorama • Long Beach, CA • July 1963
As we were wrapping up this month's Archive installment I got a call "out of the blue" from Bob Barmore, who is the current owner of the David Martin/Skip Barrett 1929 roadster. The odd thing was I was preparing a feature on this said hot rod and hadn't talked to him in over three years! Weird coincidence or divine intervention? Not sure what to call it, but Barmore's news was that he was meeting the original builder who hadn't seen the car in 50 years. Needless to say we postponed my efforts in hopes of getting more correct and missing information.
The above photo is from the 1963 Rod and Custom Motorama held inside the Long Beach World's Fair Arena. At the middle, far left, is the roadster when it was owned by Skip Barrett. So for now enjoy these photos from the Angel Hair show era while we continue our research about this neat and tidy hot rod.
LaVonne Bremer's customized 1958 Corvette was painted numerous times by Larry Watson and was well documented. Here it features a fully restyled front end with quad headlights, molded grille surround filled, and a custom chrome tube grille. Paint color is not known, but it is a singe shade with mild pinstriping.
Larry Garmon's Harley Knuckle received at least a couple Larry Watson paintjobs. First one was blue followed by rainbow hues over a white heavy 'flaked base. The bike features a wild molded and fully sculpted Wassell peanut tank along with tons of chrome, ape hanger bars, and ripple and flared tipped twin pipes.
The show sign for this little bucket read: 1924 T roadster pickup, 1956 Buick engine, 1937 LaSalle trans, Halibrand quick-change rearend, 60 coats of Cobalt Blue lacquer, owned by Reliable Auto Wreckers of Riverside, CA. This of course is "TV Tommy" Ivo's T in its latter version. That's the "Busonic" behind it.
Among the hot rods, customs, horseless carriages, sports cars, boats, and at least one beauty queen, many well-known vehicles are on display here. Some of them are Skip Barrett's 1929 roadster; Bob McNulty's customized fiberglass Astra; George Barris' hover car, "XPAK 400," the R&C 1960 Ford Custom Starliner project car; Bob Nordskog's 1963 Corvette ":The Asteroid," which was featured recently in this section; the Bob Porter/Doyle Gammel 1932 three-window coupe; Roy Abendroth's 1955 Buick "Busonic;" Sandiego Prowlers;l and the 1956 Ford F-100 "Lil Nugget." Can you identify any more?


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I'm a quasi-newbie in Linux technical questions, so sorry for any inaccuracy! Sorry for my english, too!
I bought a Sheevaplug and I need to use it to acquire data from some sensors connected to the Sheeva's USB plug via a RS485_to_USB converter. The chip installed on the converter is a ftdi ft232bl, and the converter itself is this one:
When I connect the converter to the USB using dmesg I got this
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ehci_marvell and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Actually I don't know:
1. if the 126.96.36.199 kernel has some drivers for this kind of converter (I found some drivers for the 2.4.x kernels, but none for the 2.6.x ones);
2. which is the correct device name in /dev/ to use: I thought I was able to find a /dev/usb/ttyUSBx device, but I'm just finding some ttys and usbdev1.x [tty, tty0, tty1, ...., tty63, ttyS0, ..., ttyS3, ttyp0, ..., ttypf, usbdev1.1, usbdev1.1_ep00, usbdev1.1_ep81, usbdev1.2, usbdev1.2_ep00, usbdev1.2_ep02, usbdev1.2_ep81].
I really need some help, so I hope someone out there can give me some advices (some GOOD advices!
Thank you in advance!
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March 04, 2010, 06:51:30 AM »
Until someone else chimes in with a real answer, I'll offer this:
Unplug the device and list the /dev directory.
Plug the device in and list the /dev directory.
If there is a difference, this is the name of the device you just plugged in.
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March 04, 2010, 07:03:25 AM »
Very good!
usbdev1.2etc. has suddenly disappeared and, after reconnecting the converter, dmesg says
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ehci_marvell and address 3
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
and in /dev/ I was able to find
usbdev1.3 usbdev1.3_ep00 usbdev1.3_ep02 usbdev1.3_ep81
Does this mean that I can communicate with the converter?
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March 05, 2010, 02:57:49 AM »
Nobody can help me?
Anyway, I tried a different approach: i connected the converter
on a laptop PC provided with Ubuntu 9.10
uname -srvmo
Linux 2.6.31-20-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 8 09:05:19 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
dmesg gave
[ 1509.896135] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 1510.092662] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1510.099264] ftdi_sio 2-2:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
[ 1510.099325] usb 2-2: Detected FT232BM
[ 1510.099329] usb 2-2: Number of endpoints 2
[ 1510.099334] usb 2-2: Endpoint 1 MaxPacketSize 64
[ 1510.099339] usb 2-2: Endpoint 2 MaxPacketSize 64
[ 1510.099343] usb 2-2: Setting MaxPacketSize 64
[ 1510.101350] usb 2-2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC
while in /dev/ I found three devices:
Finally, lsmod has detected a new module
usbserial 36264 1 ftdi_sio
I still didn't wrote any line of java code to communicate with the sensors, but I'm very confident that on the laptop I will be able to use them.
So my question is: is there a way to load the correct ftdi_sio driver in the Sheevaplug? How? Can someone out there help me providing a step-by-step (very, very verbose!) guide? I would really appreciate your efforts!
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March 05, 2010, 12:50:07 PM »
My "best" advice would be to upgrade the SW on your plug to something more recent which would make "finding" drivers easier. Having written that, I realize not everyone wants to do this so your only other choices (that I see right now) are to either, as you said, find the ftdi_sio driver for the kernel you are using OR build the driver from source yourself.
RS-485 has an address associated with each attached device, right? I have not looked at the IO control interfaces in the Linux serial driver. Do you know if the standard drivers support the 485 protocol? Sorry for the questions; but, I'd hate for you to get all of the drivers you need and still not be able to talk to the hardware in a manner you want.
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March 06, 2010, 09:17:23 PM »
I would hope that a 422/485 interface would very much look like a standard serial port - it is basically a standard UART with a different hardware interface (to the world). IE a 232 device has ground, transmit and receive pins (plus a bunch of optional signal control pins) The 485 interface has a differential (+/- pair) for receive and transmit. This allows one to send high speed signals over long distances. Long ago I set up a snow making system at Whistler with more than a mile of wire between the control computer and the hydrants & sensors we were controlling.
So assuming you get a driver loaded, it will probably look like a serial port. The big issue with 485 software, is that you may be operating in a mode where the transmit and receive pairs are tied together onto a single pair so that you see whatever you transmit. In this case, you need to turn off the transmitter after sending a message out to your instrumentation in order to get a reply back. In transmit mode the controlling transmitter is driving the line levels and only one transmitter can do that at a time. The trick here is determining when you've finished sending. Even with a 1 character hardware send buffer you may get a buffer free interrupt before the last bit is out. If you turn the line around too soon, you'll clobber the last few bits (or bytes) of the message you just sent. Two solutions without an interrupt that tells you that the transmit buffer is truly empty)
1 - wait a bit until the buffer is surly free
2 - look at the data you've just sent until you see it all (since the receive pair is tied to transmit)
This latter method will work with a standard 232 serial port driver.
I typically used an external 232 - 485 converter which has hardware built in to turn the line around as needed.
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March 08, 2010, 04:13:57 AM »
Thank you for your replies!
I'm not sure I understand what dlh was telling, anyway it seems that the very first step is to have a properly working driver.
I tried to install the 1.0 Installer, but I was not lucky. Maybe I'm missing some points, but when I start the runme.exe with "nand" option, I get some informations and then everything seems to suddenly stop. I'm going to try it again, probably I will be able to have a ftdi_sio driver correctly loaded. By the way: why /proc/modules/ is empty?
Stay tuned, I'll let you know how things are going on!
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March 11, 2010, 04:55:59 AM »
Hi SonicBoom,
I am actually doing exactly the same thing as you, I am using a sheeva with a USB to 485 FTDI232BL
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC
I used the installer to set up ubuntu on an SD card, did an apt-get update/upgrade and then installed an up to date kernel ( Currently using Linux ubuntu 2.6.33)
When you attach the USB 485 it will appear in /dev as ttyUSBx (Where x is the next availible number).
I use a udev rule filter to symlink the /dev/ttyUSBx to /dev/usbserial so my C application can check and use /dev/usbserial instead of trying to find out which ttyUSBx is the 485 device
You can then treat it like a normal serial port, my USB to 485 automatically does the direction line switching not sure that's a function of the chip or my board so be aware of that.
Installing a new kernal was easy, I just did :
chmod 777 README-2.6.33
. README-2.6.33 --nandkernel
That downloads a script, makes it executable then runs it tell the script we want to flash the kernal in Nand.
Last Edit: March 11, 2010, 04:58:41 AM by CarlMLE
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March 11, 2010, 05:04:48 AM »
Just noticed you have said in one of your posts you can see a "/dev/ttyUSB0" that means linux has done its stuff and you have a serial port to write to.
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March 11, 2010, 12:22:35 PM »
Thank you again for all of your efforts in helping me! I appreciate very much!
I was figuring that the problem was related with the old kernel shipped with the Sheevaplug - and I was right!
I just installed the Installer-1.0 and (after some pain!) I was able to correctly see a /dev/ttyUSB0 device.
I have installed openjdk to install my Java programs and everything is going on fine.
I'm going to use an USB HDSPA modem to upload data to a remote server, and it works very well.
Next step will be to control the RS485 port via a Java program. I'm currently using librxtx-java that seems to work fine.
@CarlMLE: I'm not able to write a complex C program, so I really need Java code (that is much simpler for me). Anyway probably you could help me again: my old acquisition software is written in basic and it mainly just open the com port, write a string on it to ask data, listen to get data (written in a string with a command like this
str$ = input$(#comport, lof(#comport))
and closes the com port. I'm trying to replicate the same behavior in my new Java program, but on the read the program hangs waiting for data. Do you have some advices, since it's my very first attempt to control a com port through a Java program? Thank you in advance!
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March 12, 2010, 02:12:34 AM »
Our projects are very similar, mine also uses a HDSPA usb modem to upload data, another tip, I had to update the kernel to add in PPP support so I could dial the modem, with out PPP support in the kernel I could not get a connection.
Im not sure I can help you with Java, it's not a language I have used with Linux. I quick google suggests you should be using the javax.comm api :
This page seems to have an example :
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March 15, 2010, 06:40:39 AM »
So ok.
I managed the RS485 converter to work.
I'm actually writing a Java program to acquire data from my serial-connected sensors using rxtx lib.
The good news is that I can send coomands on the rs485 converter (a green blinking LED tells that the port is receiving something).
The bad news is that no data come back from the converter!
I had a basic program (written to work under a Windows system) that was working. The important part is:
open "COM9:9600,n,8,1,cs,ds,rs" for random as #dgh
for tryW = 1 to 10
print #dgh, "$aRB"
GOSUB [delay]
H$ = input$(#dgh,lof(#dgh))
if left$(H$,1)="*" then exit for
next tryW
aa = val(mid$(H$,2,9))/100
bb = val(mid$(H$,13,9))/100
cc = val(mid$(H$,24,9))/100
dd = val(mid$(H$,35,9))/100
and similar for...next loops for the other sensors.
I'm trying to replicate this behaviour through my Java code:
String defaultPort = "COM10";
portList = CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifiers();
serialPort = (SerialPort)portId.open("DataReading", 2000);
serialPort.setSerialPortParams(9600, SerialPort.DATABITS_8, SerialPort.STOPBITS_1, SerialPort.PARITY_NONE);
outputStream = serialPort.getOutputStream();
inputStream = serialPort.getInputStream();
int available = 0, k = 0;
boolean check = true;
for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
while (check) {
available = inputStream.available();
if (available > 0) {
check = false;
if (k == 100)
check = false;
check = true;
k = 0;
System.out.println("Available data: " + available);
if (available > 0) {
int prova = inputStream.read(byteArray, 0, available);
System.out.println("Read: " + prova);
} else {
System.out.println("No data found!");
A lot of things are messing in this pseudo-code I wrote, but the point is that the ouputStream.write seems to do correctly his dirty jpb, while the instruction "inputStream.available()" constantly returns 0, even when it should find some data.
My only thought is related with the "open" command in basic:
open "COM9:9600,n,8,1,cs,ds,rs" for random as #dgh
Should I use the same parameters (cs, ds, rs) in my Java program too? How?
Or the problem is buried much deeper, probably in the way RS485 protocol should be used? Maybe I'm wrong, but in the basic code I was using nothing seems to be too hard to understand and implement in a similar Java program. The result, however, is that the basic code is working, while my Java code not!
Please, help me!
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April 13, 2010, 03:52:29 AM »
Found and solved the problem! Maybe it will be useful to someone else.
It was very simple!
While in basic the "print #" statement prints a string ending with a newline character, the Java .write statement doesn't! It was a simple matter to add a "\r" at the end of the string to send on the rs485 converter the correct command.
Now the system is working properly.
Contact me if you need some help!
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Amedisys Cares: Needs volunteers to provide support to terminally ill patients and their families in Spartanburg, Duncan, Lyman, Wellford and Greer. Training is provided. 864-541-7159.
Overeaters Anonymous: 7 p.m. Mondays. YMCA of Greater Spartanburg, 226 S. Pine St., Spartanburg. 621-7901.
Salsa dance classes: 7:45 p.m. Thursdays. Ages 13 and older. Taught by Gordon Owens at Ballet Spartanburg. First class is free; four classes are $48; eight classes for $80. 583-0339.
Bipolar disorder support group: 6:30 p.m. First Monday of each month. Must be diagnosed and under the care of a physician to attend. Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, 101 E. Wood St., Spartanburg. 384-1987.
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health of the Piedmont: 7-8:15 p.m. Third Monday of each month. Parent group is intended for caregivers with children of all ages. Youth group for ages 12-21 with behavioral or mental health concerns, and their siblings. 384-4295. New Day Club House, 1530 Asheville Highway, Spartanburg.
Parkinson's dance class: Second Thursday of the month. Free for people with Parkinson's Disease. Led by Ballet Spartanburg Artistic Director Carlos Agudelo. Patients say the class helps to loosen tight joints, improve overall movement and lift spirits. Dress comfortably. Refreshments. Call 583-0339.
Gentle beginners yoga: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Instructor Liz Connell. Wear loose comfortable clothes. Mats provided (you can bring your own.) Four classes $48; eight classes $80. Ballet Spartanburg, Chapman Cultural Center, Saint John St., Spartanburg. Walk-ins welcome or register at 583-0339.
Bounce Back support group: 6-8 p.m. Every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. A free confidential drug and alcohol group. New Day Baptist Church, 2090 S. Church St. Ext. Spartanburg. Call 573-7592.
Journey to Recover from Addiction: 9 a.m. Saturdays. Bible-based. 150 S. Forest St., Spartanburg. Call 864-205-9742.
Yoga boot camp: 9:15-10:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday. Leslie Lehman, instructor. $10 drop-in; $80/8 classes. Chapman Cultural Center, Dance Studio 4 of Ballet Spartanburg, East St. John St. 612-8333.
Domestic violence support group: 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesdays. SAFE Homes-Rape Crisis Coalition, 236 Union St. 583-9803.
Kids' domestic violence support group: 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesdays. SAFE Homes-Rape Crisis Coalition, 236 Union St. 583-9803.
Sexual violence support group: 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesdays. SAFE Homes-Rape Crisis Coalition, 236 Union St. 583-9803.
LGBT interpersonal violence support group: 4:30-6 p.m. Thursdays. SAFE Homes-Rape Crisis Coalition, 236 Union St. 583-9803.
Tai chi for cancer survivors: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Improves balance, breathing and relaxation. Free. Gibbs Cancer Center, 101 E. Wood St. 560-6747.
Yoga for cancer survivors: 5:30-6:45 p.m. Thursdays. Free. Gibbs Cancer Center, 101 E. Wood St. 560-6747.
TOPS: 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Take Off Pounds Sensibly. Rosecrest Community Center, 200 Fortress Road, Inman. 864-439-4746.
Anyone in the Upstate with Larygnecedemees who would like to participate in a support group, call 864-515-0098.
First African Violet Society of Spartanburg: 9:30 a.m. Hatcher Gardens and Woodland Preserve, 820 John B. White Sr. Blvd.
NAMI Support Group: 2 p.m. Connection for adults with a diagnosed mental illness. Spartanburg Area Mental Health Center, 250 Dewey Ave. 864-541-8522.
Roebuck Garden Club: 3 p.m. Will include a home and garden tour at the home of Dr. Ann Kelly. Libby Robinson and Linda Harrison will be the hostesses. Devotion will be given by Joan McKeown.
Board of trustees of the Spartanburg Area Mental Health Center: 5 p.m. Board Room, Spartanburg Area Mental Health Center, 250 Dewey Ave. 864-585-0366.
Support group: 4 p.m. For people who have experienced sexual/physical abuse. SAFE Homes Rape Crisis Coalition, 236 Union St. 864-541-8522.
Community Clean-Up: 10 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Accepting yard debris, metal and appliances, construction and demolition debris, tires (limit 5 per household). Wofford Road Recycling Collection Center, 150 Wofford Road, Woodruff. 864-949-1658.
Tame the Tyger River Race & Festival: 10 a.m. recreational float. 11 a.m. downriver race. 161 Groce Road, Lyman.
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I need to convert some of my movies and other videos for the iPad and I am wondering what solutions are available for this. Ideally, I would like to have something that adds the new video afterwards to my iTunes.
Handbrake is a nice open source video conversion tool. Here is a blog post with some good info on settings to use for iPad rips/conversions.
As for getting videos added to iTunes automatically, that is not something Handbrake will do. If you are using OS X however, this AppleScript seems like it would be up to the task. The script watches a folder, when a file is copied in it waits for the file to stop getting larger (when the copy or encode [in this case] is finished) and then adds the item to your iTunes library. I haven't had a chance to test this for myself though, so I can't guarantee it will work as desired.
I use RipIt to digitize my DVDs, it's dead simple.
RipIt will use a Handbreak extension to compress things in a second pass but I use Handbreak itself for that.
When done I have two files: the ripped file uncompressed which I save on an external hard disk in case OS X's DVD Player ever gets AirPlay so I can play better quality movies through AppleTV, and the compressed file that Handbreak makes which I move into iTunes and sync with my iPad (and backup onto the external as well for safe keeping).
Handbreak is also useful when you want subtitles in a foreign movie or want the extras on a DVD to be available; it lets you sort out the tracks and such although it's UI is a bit overwhelming.
I have a 64GB iPad with over 20 full length movies on it at any one time and plenty of room for more. I fly a lot and the iPad, Bose 15 noise canceling headphones and the movies make long flights tolerable, even enjoyable.
Miro Video Converter is quite good, simple and free, it is a choice.
If it's something you do a lot, you might consider investing in Elgato's Turbo.264 HD, which comprises a USB dongle that accelerates video conversions, and software for doing the conversion (which includes the "add to iTunes" functionality you asked for). The dongle is also compatible with one or two other video converters, such as Roxio's Toast.
You can also buy the Turbo.264 software on its own, either from Elgato or on the Mac app store, but at around US$50 it's hard to recommend... it doesn't really do anything that the cheaper or free converters can do.
Alternatively if you don't wish to convert you can probably play the original video files through an application like AVPlayerHD which supports video formats that iTunes doesn't.
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I need example that associated sheaf functor doesn't preserve arbitrary products. I think that one can provide an example for sheaves over topological space. Thanks for your help.
Let $X$ be a space. An abelian group (or a set, if you prefer) $G$ determines a constant presheaf, call it $C_G$, and the associated sheaf is the sheaf of locally constant maps into $G$. Given a family $G_i$ with product $G$, the product of the presheaves $C_{G_i}$ is the presheaf $C_G$, but the product of the associated sheaves is not in general the sheaf of locally constant maps to $G$. (If $X$ is not locally connected then one can easily have a map to $G$ which projects to a locally constant map to $G_i$ for each $i$ but which is not locally constant itself. )
This is presumably a down-to-earth special case of what Todd Trimble is saying.
An example where sheafification does not preserve arbitrary products is where we take sheaves over a (sober) space $X$ that is not locally connected, for example the space of irrationals or Cantor space.
Recall that a Grothendieck topos $E$ is locally connected if the (essentially unique) geometric morphism $\Gamma = f_\ast: E \to Set$ has a left adjoint $f^\ast$ that in turn has a left adjoint. More generally, a geometric morphism $f_\ast: E \to F$ between toposes is an essential geometric morphism if its left adjoint $f^\ast$ has a left adjoint.
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Subject description: Slowly.....
Well, I`m putting together a Puppy Linux Theme for Opera...
Its in the the "new skins" section of Opera Skins
Stuff like this helps expose people to Puppy..Imaging someone using it on Windows..LOL
So far have a speed-dial background and some button changes...
Puppy "Home" and "Back / Forward" "FF / RW" buttons...Change color when hovered / clicked..
(Check out the "tandem" Color change when hovered
More to come....
Anyone have some Puppy related .pngs I can use??
If I can gather enough of them up I`ll make more colors available....
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Please pleas sort out the fonts as the standard choices display poorly in Puppy.
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Which font are you having trouble with???
Although fonts are not part if the theme....
(They are set in "preferences")
I set mine as dingbats, and it, as well as the default, display fine...
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Awesome look, really like the puppy logo for "Home"
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Well, hese is the speeddial background so far....
Where do you leave your "pawprints"??
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Cats + Opera but what about dogs?
Sorry could not resist
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@Whoo-hoo 1000 + posts.....
I`ll be a TPP yet...LOL....
1/9th of your record Ed...
You`ve got a lot of time on your hands, huh..LOL
Still occasionally try to psip you, but having bad luck...
That, and everyone seems to be too many "time zones" from me...
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Well, I see my theme has been D/L 9 times from here...
But...From the Official Site, almost 7000 times...
Hows that for publicity???
Even if it only got a 1 star rating..
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Not thats what I call getting the Puppy name out there....
..........55785 and counting........Sweet!!!!!
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Fresh Opera 10 Turbo build!
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Dude!!! why didn't you post a shot of opera to show off the count on a opera skin? LOL
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Thats friggin hilarious, I didnt even think about it...
Not my machine, having to borrow net time for a bit, just using whats there...
Ive even had to, (sniffle), ....use.....(sniffle).... "Windoze"...(sniffle)....
But never IE...
Never used it, never will...
Actually, that shot is PAW running live CD
Doesnt have Opera...
Guess I shoulda cropped that shot a bit...LOL
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DUDE!!!!! Thanks for the comment on the macpup opera video at youtube!!!! We are going to release it tomorrow night and the .pet of.060
Dont shoot me,but I didnt include your skin in it, I will next time, you can post a link to it in the forum thread when I get it up.
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Great looking theme.Just downloaded it and using it now.
Now Opera doesn't look out of place in Puppy.Great job.
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leopard ate the dog?
when i was relocating a shopping trolley in Africa.....
was taking a stroll in a less built up area near a small national park and came across some large foot prints chasing what looked like cat footprints. the hair stood up on the back of my neck and i looked cautiously around because these were very recent prints and i had been reading the previous night that there were large cats in the national park. passed it off as a large dog and returned gingerly to my guest house nearby. at the guest house there was a small stream and i wandered down there for more strolling and to my alarm, more of these same large unusual very fresh footprints that i had never before seen. OK there must be more dogs around.
later that evening was conversing with one of the other guest who was a local and knowledgeable in things African. mentioned the prints and he says, "did they have four or five pads? 4 is cat, 5 is dog" i wasn't sure as i didn't count them so we got a torch and went down to the stream to have a look see and count. me holding the torch and we couldn't see/find the prints. he says hold the torch down low and shine horizontally and sure enough the prints suddenly became apparent. count 1,2,3,4, pads all of a sudden the local guys attitude changes and he looks around very warily, he was previously saying it was probably a dog being this close to the houses. he says the big cats wont come near because we have the bright torch but he didn't convince even himself. and it was a very big cat as the stride between prints was a considerable distance. go back to the guest house (at a exaggeratedly nonchalant pace however quite briskly and a step faster than a normal stroll).
. next morning early i go down to the stream and look again . more prints there now heading in the reverse direction. the local guy had vacated the premises even earlier. however i stayed around for a few more days because i wasn't scared. didn't see any more of those prints for the remainder of my time in the dark continent.
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We distinguish between the states of matter: gas, liquid and solid. Possibly we could add the plasma state and/or the superconductive state as new states of matter. Phase transistions at certain temperature perhaps with some other conditions should have to exist. What do you think, does it make sense?
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Yes, there are other phases of matter besides solid, liquid, gas, and phase transitions between these other phases work in a similar way to transitions between the more familiar phases. As another example, helium undergoes a phase transition between a "normal" fluid and a superfluid at a temperature of about 2 K.
A phase transition is a Thermodynamic (therefore bulk matter) concept which pertains to abrupt changes in the physical properties of a system which occur on a boundary of a Phase Diagram. In the classic case this Phase Diagram has axes for Temperature and Pressure. Water has the three classic phases, plus a "supercritical" region above the critical point.
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I know that $\gcd(a,b)$ divides $a$ and $b$, and must also then divide $(a)(t)$ ($t$ being some integer). This makes sense to me, but how do I prove it? It seems that the addition of $(a)(t)$ is a continuation of the linear combination of $\gcd(a,b) = av + bu$ for some $v$, $u$ being elements of $\mathbb{Z}$.
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Facets are great additions to simple, silver beads. These 4mm antique silver Metallite® faceted roundel beads sparkle and shine when they hit the light, thanks to their beautiful faceting. Each small bicone shape and looks almost like a flattened disco ball. Pair these shiny beads with your favorite pendants and crystals for a beautiful jewelry design. These high quality beads are metal-plated plastic, making them incredibly lightweight so don't be afraid to string a bunch of them together. Thanks to their light weight and low cost,
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When I start my computer, I get a text login--it doesn't even load lightdm. Dmesg gives me this:
[ 42.367035] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 304.43, but
[ 42.367038] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 310.14. Please
[ 42.367040] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 42.367041] NVRM: components have the same version.
[ 42.619472] init: lightdm main process (1235) terminated with status 1
[ 48.041960] vboxdrv: Found 1 processor cores.
[ 48.044418] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
[ 48.044422] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 4.1.12_Ubuntu (interface 0x00190000).
[ 48.459287] vboxpci: IOMMU not found (not registered)
[ 50.544026] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 52.729171] init: Failed to spawn vsftpd main process: unable to execute: No such file or directory
[ 58.435781] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (2306) terminated with status 1
[ 59.169528] init: failsafe-x main process (1429) terminated with status 1
I don't know how much of this is relevant. I think this problem started around when I tried to install new proprietary NVIDIA drivers.
How can I get X back? I would install older drivers using the Additional Drivers program, except I can't start any version of X.


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If I wanted to create different shades using Food Coloring, is there a different method of mixing them or would the same principles apply as with paint. Is there a standard mixing chart that details the different variations that would break down the process?
Yes, the principles are the same as for paint. It is subtractive color, meaning each new color you use subtracts out all of the colors except the ones it reflects. The other kind is additive color, when you are mixing lights like on a stage or out of a television set, and doesn't have much application to food that I can think of.
It's a pigment, so the principles are the same, but there's a few caveats when you're dealing with icing (and other than making fake blood, or dying cookie dough to make pie chart looking cookies, it's the only time I've ever died food for no other reason than to be decorative)
Liquid colors will throw off the consistency of icing if used in any large amounts. Powdered colors (available at cake supply stores) don't fully encorporate right away, and will be a deeper color the next day. Gel colors (available at cake supply stores, and at large craft stores, such as Michaels and AC Moore) are available in more colors, which makes it easier to match colors.
You can also get white powder for lightening shades. (it takes a lot of icing to try to turn red to pink ... you're better off taking a new batch of white, and add a little of the over-dyed icing to it 'til you get the right shade) .. or using pink gel color to start with. White can also be used in non-icing applications to try to lighten things.


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What kind of role do quantum groups play in modern physics ? Do quantum groups naturally arise in quantum mechanics or quantum field theories? What should quantum symmetry refer to ? Can we say that the "symmetry" of a noncommutative space (quantum phase space) should be a quantum group? Do quantum groups describe "extended symmetry" ?
Yes, quantum groups naturally arise in many physics problems. E.g. solutions of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation appear as scattering matrices of integrable 2-dimensional quantum field theories (see "Quantum fields and Strings: a course for Mathematicians", p.1179). Also, quantum groups appear in the description of monodromy of the vertex operators in the WZW model of conformal field theory ("the Drinfeld-Kohno theorem"). Thirdly, there are spectacular applications of (infinite dimensional) quantum groups to statistical mechanics, which are described in the book by Jimbo and Miwa "Algebraic analysis of solvable lattice models". Also, quantum groups are useful in construction and studying of certain classes of integrable systems (q-Toda systems, Macdonald-Ruijsenaars systems, etc.)
One of the main mechanisms through which quantum groups appear in physics is the same as for usual Lie groups: if a Hamiltonian of a quantum system has a Lie group symmetry then this helps find its eigenvalues and eigenvectors (which is the main problem in studying a quantum system), because its eigenspaces are representations of this group.
It is not quite true that the usual quantum groups are symmetries of WZNW model. The standard root of unity q. groups are hidden symmetries at the level of pre-Hilbert space where some spurious ghost-like norm zero states appear. The true symmetry (in the sense of axiomatic quantum field theory) includes rather certain quotient which is just a weak quasi-Hopf algebra, and whose representation automatically exclude the nonphysical representations with quantum dimension zero. See
Gerhard Mack, Volker Schomerus: QuasiHopf quantum symmetry in quantum theory. DESY-91-037, May 1991. 37pp. Nucl.Phys.B370:185-230,1992, doi, scan