Control and automation forms an integral part in the design of solar power conversion systems for stand-alone village installations as well as for industrial scale grid-connected installations.
In a more complex situation, in which one Toraja family could not handle their problems alone, several villages formed a group; sometimes, villages would unite against other villages.
With barely enough water for humans, let alone animals, villages have had to give away cattle.
Rye Brook is not alone among villages that have contemplated or threatened secession from the towns to which they belong.
The scale of destruction visited on the Philippines by "super typhoon" Haiyan started to become clear on Sunday as the winds subsided, with 10,000 people estimated to have died in Tacloban alone, entire villages washed away and hungry survivors looting grocery shops and attacking trucks bringing aid.
A visitor is not even allowed to touch the buildings in the centre of the village, let alone the villagers themselves, for fear of pollution.
After a seeming break from reality Kavira stopped bathing, began wandering through the villages alone, and became a tornado of thoughts and speech.
Last year, Human Rights Watch documented 96 disabled people who had been left alone in deserted villages in the wake of attacks in CAR – for days, weeks and sometimes months – with little water or food.
With his small pack, his plastic water bottle and his baseball cap, he has journeyed alone to remote villages, where he was sometimes threatened by survivors who are still angry at the Japanese.
Although not the first such decision by the court, the ruling stands out for its tough language and the fact that Bil'in, almost alone among Palestinian villages, has mounted over the past two-and-a-half years a successful campaign of peaceful resistance to the barrier.
