robotics September 2010

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by Seppelt Hickinbotham 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Ity, had not lost their new power. I was therefore like those who, on the first Christian Sabbath morning, "departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy, and did run to bring his disciples word." It is intimated above that the greatest suffering at the death of a friend does not occur immediately upon the event. It comes when the world have forgotten that you have cause to weep; for when the eyes are dry, the heart is often bleeding. There are hours,--no, they are more concentrated than hours,--there are moments, when the thought of a lost and loved one, who has perished out of your family circle, suspends all interest in every thing else; when the memory of the departed floats over you like a wandering perfume, and recollections come in throngs with it, flooding the soul with grief. The name, of necessity or accidentally spoken, sets all your soul ajar; and your sense of loss, utter loss, for all time, brings more sorrow with it by far than the parting scene. * * * * * She who was the sweet singer of my little Israel is no more. The child whose sense of beauty made her the swiftest herald to me of every fair discovery and new household joy, will never greet me again with her surprises of gladness. She who, leaning up

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E life-preserver. "Thank goodness!" exclaime
by Rei Mbonu 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

Exclaimed Capt. Noah after an hour's hard work, during which time the Ark had not moved an inch. "We'd better

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E face as I turned toward him. He was growing at the same rate
by Buchner Ijams 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Oom swooped as Polter sat down. "Hah! Now we bargain. What do you care what I do to your world? You never will see it again. I can lie to you. My plans--" "I _do_ care." "Well, I will tell you, Kent. I am good-natured now. Why should I not be with my dear little Babs? I tell you, I am done with the Earth world. It iss much nicer here. My friends, they haf a good time always. We like this little atom realm. I am going out once more. I must hide the little piece of golden quartz so no harm will come to it." Polter was evidently in a high good humor. His voice fell to an intimate tone of comradeship; but still I could not mistake the irony in it. "You listen to me, Kent. There was a time, years ago, when we were good friends. You liked your young assistant, the hunchback Polter. Iss it not so? Then why should we quarrel now? I am gifing up the Earth world. I wanted of it only the little Babs.... You look at me so strange! You do not speak." "There is nothing to say," retorted Dr. Kent wearily. "Then you listen. I haf much gold above in Quebec. You know that. So very simple to take it out of our atom, grow large with it to what we call up there the size of a hundred feet. I haf a place, a room, secluded from prying eyes under a dome roof. I become very tall, holding a piece of gold. It is large when I am a hundred feet tall. So I haf collected much gold. They think I own a mine. I haf a smelter and my gold quartz I make into ingo

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by WCMS 2011 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

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mighty influence of the f
by Bledsaw Muldrew 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hern youth is there who has not his 'chances'?--become garrison-soldiers for life. We love learning, culture, independence, progress. Year by year sees noble schools rising among us--schools in which every man's son may obtain an excellent free education, and qualify himself for any position in any society. Year by year sees our manufacturers demanding fresh labor, more talent, more youth, more energy, and with them sees the condition of the mechanic becoming more and more ameliorated. Year by year finds the public lecture and library more used by the workman, and the masses rising little by little above their post. In short, we belong to a community whose conditions are those of refinement and of peace; ours is an advanced stage of civilization, and it is our duty to maintain this advance. 'The South' cares nothing for all these things. It 'loathes the very name of free schools,' despises industry and ingenuity, scorns the mechanic, and is altogether, as a community, behind us: as a merely agricultural and would-be merely military government, must essentially be. There are predicaments when the shrewd brute and cunning brigand has his superior at a disadvantage. Let the South prolong this contest till its military social system acquires sufficient strength, and it will drag us down to its own wretched lord-and-serf level. 'To its level!' rather let us say beneath it; yes,

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New packages up for review
by Rich Mattes 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Hi all, I've got two robotics-related packages up for review: assimp - Library to import various 3D model formats into applications https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635511 libphidget - Drivers and API for Phidget devices https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635515 Gazebo bundles a copy of assimp, so before I get a Gazebo package in to Fedora assimp needs to be reviewed and included. I have a package based on gazebo-0.10.0 ready to go, but release 0.10.0 is pretty unstable and I don't think it's ready to be included in Fedora in its current state (i.e. quitting the program causes a segfault every time I run it.) I've inquired as to when the next release will be, if it's not in the forseeable future I'll try working with an SVN snapshot. If anyone's interested in looking at my gazebo packages, I'll put them up on my fedorapeople account. libphidget is a driver library to work with phidget devices. Player has a driver that depends on this library, so once the library is approved I'll patch Player's buildsystem to find it and include libphidget as a build requirement. If anyone has any free time to have a look at either of these, I'd be grateful. I'm willing to do some review work in return if the packages aren't too complicated. I've updated the SIG wiki to reflect the fact that these packages are being considered for review. Thanks, Rich

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by Walczak Waldrop 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Le use for a name that makes a mouthful, he was known far and wide under that singularly abbreviated cognomen. The Committee on Sports connected with Scranton High was a body of seniors appointed by the students themselves, and given authority to handle all questions connected with athletics. As a rule, they carried out their duties in a broad-minded fashion, and not only merited the confidence of the entire school but also the respect of the faculty as well. There was considerable anxiety abroad just at present, because it was well known that the committee had been discussing the possible make-up of the baseball team to which would be given the proud privilege of representing the school that season in the Three-Town League. No one knew absolutely just who would be selected among the numerous candidates, though, of course, it w

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Tion of "similar conditions of existence" f
by Carlsley Woolworth 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

By one group, and its complete absence in every other, a proof of a very ancient origin and of very long-continued modification. And such a positive structural addition to the organization of the family, subserving an important function, seems to me alone sufficient to warrant us in considering the Papilionidae as the most highly developed portion of the whole order, and thus in retaining it in the position which the size, strength, beauty, and general structure of the perfect insects have been generally thought to deserve. In Mr. Trimen's paper on "Mimetic Analogies among African Butterflies," in the Transactions of the Linnaean Society, for 1868, he has argued strongly in favour of Mr. Bates' views as to the higher position of the Danaidae and the lower grade of the Papilionidae, and has adduced, among other facts, the undoubted resemblance of the pupa of Parnassius, a genus of Papilionidae, to that of some Hesperidae and moths. I admit, therefore, that he has proved the Papilionidae to have retained several characters of the nocturnal Lepidoptera which the Danaidae have lost, but I deny that they are therefore to be considered lower in the scale of organization. Other characters may be pointed out which indicate that they are farther removed from the moths even than the Danaidae. The club of the antennae is the most prominent and most constant feature by which butterflies may be distinguished from moths, and of all butterflies the Papilionidae have the most beautiful and most perfectly developed clubbed antennae. Again, butterflies and moths are broadly characterised by their diurnal and nocturnal habits respectively, and the Papilionidae, with their close allies the Pieridae, are the most pre-eminently diurnal of butterflies, most of them lovers of sunshine, and not presenting a single crepuscular species. The great group of the Nymphalidae, on the other hand (in which Mr. Bates includes the Danaidae and Heliconidae as sub-families), contains an entire sub-family (Brassolidae) and a number of gene

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Ned corn, and, grinding it between his hands, groaned out, i
by Raap Syal 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

don't remember a young man who ran after you one day, when you were playing with a little white dog at Pine Grove? and how your father called to you, 'Come here, Loo Loo, and see the gentleman'?" "I don't remember it," she replied; "but I remember how my father used to laugh at me about it, long afterward. He said I was very young to have gentlemen running after me." "I am that gentleman," he said. "When I first looked at you, I thought I had seen you before; and now I see plainly that you are Loo Loo." That name was associated with so many tender memories, that she seemed to hear her father's voice once more. She nestled close to her new friend, and repeated, in

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Ces a little upward, and has a neck big enough t
by Miggins Vandergriend 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Onnection with the brain, and the vast number of phenomena which lie along the border line between the physical and spiritual, and which are conspicuous in the phenomena of somnambulism, sleep, dreaming, hypnotism, spiritualism, clairvoyance, trance, ecstasy, and religious marvels. Overlooking these things, they sought the seats of from twenty-seven faculties (as with Gall) to thirty-five (as with Spurzheim), and did not appear to realize how many had been entirely omitted. When all they attempted to locate are located by positive experiment and assigned their proper localities and limit

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