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Atol is a two-seat kit amphibious aircraft with a wood composite structure. It is available in ultralight and light-sport aircraft (LSA) versions. Atol aircraft are produced by the Finnish company Atol Avion.

Development

The Atol was designed by Markku Koivurova and produced by Martekno Ky and later Atol Avion Ltd. The development of Atol began in the 1970s, inspired by the American Osprey II. The first versions of the design used the Ken Rand KR structure. Atol’s predecessors were larger and their structure recalled the traditional structure of a wooden aircraft.

The Atol amphibian flew for the first time in Rovaniemi, Finland on 23 August 1988, and the first test flight on water was in Norvajärvi, Rovaniemi on October 20, 1988.

The first prototype was destroyed in a storm in the fall of 1989 but, with insurance indemnity and by using the first prototype’s front fuselage and wings, the second prototype was built. The second prototype made its first flight in Norvajärvi on October 12, 1990.

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Atole

Atole or ātōlli (Mexican Spanish a'tole , from Nahuatl ātōlli [aːˈtoːlːi]), also known as atol and atol de elote, is a traditional hot corn- and masa-based beverage of Mexican origin. Chocolate atole is known as champurrado or atole. It is typically accompanied with tamales, and very popular during the Christmas holiday season (Las Posadas).

In Mexico

In Mexico the drink typically includes masa (corn hominy flour), water, piloncillo (unrefined cane sugar), cinnamon, vanilla and optional chocolate or fruit. The mixture is blended and heated before serving. Atole is made by toasting masa on a comal (griddle), then adding water that was boiled with cinnamon sticks. The resulting blends vary in texture, ranging from a porridge to a very thin liquid consistency. Atole can also be prepared with rice, flour, or oatmeal in place of masa. In northern Mexico, there is also a variation using pinole (sweetened toasted corn meal). Although atole is one of the traditional drinks of the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead, it is very common during breakfast and dinnertime at any time of year. It is usually sold as street food.

C string handling

The C programming language has a set of functions implementing operations on strings (character strings and byte strings) in its standard library. Various operations, such as copying, concatenation, tokenization and searching are supported. For character strings, the standard library uses the convention that strings are null-terminated: a string of n characters is represented as an array of n + 1 elements, the last of which is a "NUL" character.

The only support for strings in the programming language proper is that the compiler translates quoted string constants into null-terminated strings.

Definitions

A string is a contiguous sequence of code units terminated by the first zero code (\0, corresponding to the null character). In C, there are two types of strings: string, which is sometimes called byte string which uses the type chars as code units (one char is at least 8 bits), and wide string which uses the type wchar_t as code units.

A common misconception is that all char arrays are strings, because string literals are converted to arrays during the compilation (or translation) phase. It is important to remember that a string ends at the first zero code unit. An array or string literal that contains a zero before the last byte therefore contains a string, or possibly several strings, but is not itself a string. Conversely, it is possible to create a char array that is not null-terminated and is thus not a string: char is often used as a small integer when needing to save memory.