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Posted on 10/25/2001 11:12:01 AM PDT by Fred25
"It has performed superbly for all the agents we have tested it against," Tadros says.
More tests planned for April will pit the foam against real anthrax and other bacterial spores.
"If you can kill spores, you can kill germinating bacteria and you can deactivate viruses," says foam co-developer Mark Tucker of Sandia. "Spores are the most difficult."
The foam -- a cocktail of ordinary substances found in common household products -- neutralizes chemical agents in much the same way a detergent lifts away an oily spot from a stained shirt. Its surfactants (like those in hair conditioner) and mild oxidizing substances (like those in toothpaste) begin to chemically digest the chemical agent, seeking out the phosphate or sulfide bonds holding the molecules together and chopping the molecules into nontoxic pieces.
The PIDS (Personal Incident Decontamination Sprayer) is a ready-to-use decon application sprayer designed for individual use by one or two people in emergency response situations.
The PIDS application sprayer draws EasyDECON 50/50 components from dual 11-oz. polyethylene bottles. Ideal for use in close quarters such as medevac helicopters, ambulances, laboratories, and in any other emergency situation where personal decontamination is needed quickly with minimal disruption of operations.
BTW, if this stuff is effective and available, why is Daschle still whining about being locked out of his office? Scrub the place down and stfu.
Don't run out and spend a bunch of money out of our understandable fears.
I'm glad, however, that there are benign products out there that can be utilized by the people that have to go into these suspect condidtions.
KOB TV in Albuquerque says it is being used to scrub down NBC in NY right now.
Read the Sandia press release. It says the stuff is made up of common household products. What I want is to see Sandia and the feds give out the formula to the general public. This stuff was developed for the US Dept. of Energy with taxpayer dollars.
Sandia says it contains simple chemicals like stuff thats in tooth paste and hair conditioner. Well, heck, Ive got some of that stuff in my house already! Whats the formula?? I think we should put pressure on the feds to release this information.
We are probably safe right now, but if someone later sends out hundreds of letters all over the country, that will contaminate hundreds of post offices and millions of homes.
1) So I can find out where I can buy some of it.
2) So I can try to find out whats in it.
The smallest amount commercially available now is a small 11-oz double-bottle for one-time use that sells for $29.95. Ive learned so far that one of the main ingredients (perhaps the main ingredient) is hydrogen peroxide, but I dont know what percentage or strength. Based on some of the information Ive been able to collect so far, we might be able to make some of this stuff at home, if we can learn the principal ingredients. I cant afford $29.95 each, for several dozen bottles. Once a double-bottle of ingredients are mixed, they remain active for only about 8 hours.
The anthrax bacteria is not all that exotic, as compared to other bacteria. Apparently it is an encapsulated kind. Weve got to find something to break open the encapsulation and then destroy the stuff inside. Certain very simple chemicals, such as a dilute Clorox solution, might be able do this, but Clorox is corrosive, while diluted hydrogen peroxide is not.
Dont wait for the government to do something for you. Go out and do it yourself. If you want to help, try to help me figure out what the active ingredients are in this Sandia formula. KOB TV has been reporting for a week that its made up of common household chemicals.
Cleanup of anthrax presents a novel problem
Thursday, October 18, 2001
By ALEX NUSSBAUM
Staff Writer
It's a problem few companies had considered before the past few weeks: how to decontaminate a building exposed to anthrax.
Researchers say simple household cleaners such as bleach or hydrogen peroxide, in the right concentrations, will kill the bacteria.
But that will still leave building owners with questions about detecting spores, protecting office equipment, and convincing jittery workers that it is safe to reenter an office.
"We certainly have the wherewithal to decontaminate known biological or chemical agents," said Brian Kalamanka, whose Denver company manufactures a foam designed for anthrax cleanups. "It's the detection and identification of those agents that's the tricky part."
Such worries and complications are a reality now that anthrax particles have been discovered in tabloid newspaper offices in Florida and congressional offices in Washington, at NBC News, and in the New York governor's office in Manhattan.
After the criminal probes end, cleanup crews will begin the unprecedented process of making the offices habitable again.
The biggest challenge may come in American Media Inc.'s tabloid offices in Boca Raton, Fla., where authorities are uncertain how much of the building is contaminated.
AMI, publisher of the National Enquirer, The Sun, and other papers, said it isn't waiting around. A spokeswoman said this week that it would abandon its quarantined headquarters, even if officials declare it safe.
It's an example of what experts say may be the largest cleanup problem: persuading employees to return to a tainted building.
"Regardless of what the risk is assessed at, people are going to have their own opinion and they are not going to want to go back into that building unless something is done," said Monica Schoch-Spana of Johns Hopkins University's Center for Civilian Biodefense Study.
Experts say it is unlikely anyone could contract the inhaled form of anthrax from spores left behind after the primary release that killed AMI photo editor Robert Stevens and left two other employees with spores in their nasal passages.
"What we've learned is it's the concentration of particles in the first release that makes it deadly," said Schoch-Spana. "That first aerosol puff of cloud that is released is the most concentrated form."
A person must inhale upwards of 10,000 spores to become ill, scientists think. Investigators say they found an unspecified quantity in the building's mailroom and a single spore on Stevens' computer keyboard. But one spore would not have been lethal to anyone, Schoch-Spana said.
High concentrations of bleach or other common cleansers will kill anthrax bacteria, said Michael Tucker, a chemical engineer at the federal government's Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. Officials in New York have been warning people to wash their hands with soap if they think they might have touched anthrax.
But high doses of bleach or hydrogen peroxide can damage computers, furniture, and other items in an office.
With that in mind, Congress in 1996 asked Sandia to come up with a cleaning solution strong enough to neutralize the residue of chemical and biological agents of terror but gentle enough not to harm upholstery or sicken office workers.
Tucker would not discuss Sandia's formula. But Kalamanka said it combined ingredients of such common items as toothpaste and hair conditioner to produce a clear liquid that kills germs and also cleaves the molecular bonds of chemical weapons like sarin and mustard gas.
Sandia granted manufacturing licenses to two companies last year -- Kalamanka's Modec Inc. of Denver and a business in Alabama. Kalamanka said Modec, whose clients to date have included the military and local governments, has already quadrupled its monthly output -- from 2,000 to 8,000 gallons of the cleaning solution -- in response to the past month's scares.
The anti-anthrax cleaner can be applied as a foam, spray, gel, or mist. Lab tests found that it leaves only 1 spore in 10 million alive, the government reports. It leaves a soapy, but usually invisible, residue on walls and carpets.
That will do the job for most surfaces in a contaminated office, Kalamanka said. Ventilation systems or other hard-to-reach nooks and crannies can be treated with a vaporized version of whatever cleaning agent is chosen.
Cleanups must follow careful tests of an office or building to figure out which areas have been contaminated. If that is impossible, officials may have to guess based on the flow of air and people in a workplace, said Tucker, the Sandia chemical engineer.
Even then, a few stray spores may go missing, or survive the cleaning. That poses what may be the toughest question for officials: how clean is clean enough?
The government has performed mock biological and chemical cleanups on military bases in recent years, usually with success, Tucker said. But what will civilians consider acceptable?
"There are no federal guidelines that say how to certify a building for occupancy after a cleanup from an anthrax attack," Kalamanka said. "Those are things the Centers for Disease Control is looking at right now."
The consensus at Johns Hopkins' bioterrorism think tank is that decontaminating a large urban area or building is not feasible. Instead, the university recommends vaccinating workers or residents, if a vaccine is available.
A trip to the mailbox?
The Science behind the challenge:
The quotation below is an excerpt from the March 8,1999 issue of Chemical Engineering News, a weekly publication serving the chemical industry.
"Sandia National Laboratories chemist Maher E. Tadros, in protective gear, sprays a foam that he and Sandia chemist Mark D. Tucker have developed to decontaminate chemical and biological warfare agents. The foam is a combination of a mild nucleophile such as hydrogen peroxide carbonates commonly found in toothpaste, a positively charged non-toxic surfactant often found in hair conditioners, and hydrotropes found in detergents. Hydrotropes found in detergents solubilize and catalyze the neutralization or the agents.
The foam reacts rapidly with the agents. is non-toxic and non-corrosive and could be produced at a cost of 75 cents per pound. Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago conducted testing of the foam against the nerve gases VX and Soman and against mustard gas because Sandia can only use simulants. The half-life of the reaction is in the neighborhood of 2-10 minutes, Soman being neutralized very quickly and mustard gas reacting much more slowly," Tadros explains. The foam has been shown by NMR to cleave the P-S bond in the agents. Using a simulant for the biological warfare agent anthrax, the foam achieved a 7-log kill; meaning only one anthrax spore per 10 million is alive after one hour. IIT will test live anthrax next month. How the spores are killed is not known. Researchers speculate that the surfactants damage the spores' protective protein wall and allow the nucleophiles (oxidizing agents) attack the genetic material inside.
The foam's development is part of the Department of Energy's Chemical & Biological Nonproliferation Program.
The article discloses a product developed by Sandia Labs for the Biological and Chemical Warfare Division of he US Army under the auspices of the DOE. The product is a combination of a peroxide gel found in toothpaste, a foaming agent commonly used in fire fighting, and a FDA approved food grade surfactant commonly found in shampoo conditioners and different food stuffs and hydrotropes found in detergents. Obviously the product neutralizes the most potent nerve toxins and airborne pathogens known to man. The product acts to neutralize these agents and cleanse them from the skin like an antibacterial soap. But it is not soap. We spoke with one of the product developers, Dr. Mark Tucker. His explanation was that the peroxide gel, an oxidizing agent in conjunction with the surfactant and hydrotrope, surrounds the organism or chemical agent, oxidizes it and will not allow it to interact with it's environment, effectively neutralizing the toxic agent. The surfactant hydrotrope combination is apparently very effective in seeking out only toxins and gram-positive pathogens. This is not an antioxidant action - quite the opposite, if peroxide is present.
Likewise, it appears we are looking at the missing ingredients in peroxide and ozone therapy that would keep these strong oxidizers from harming the body after they have oxidized pathogens and oxygenated the body - the surfactant and hydrotrope. Surfactants have been used in fuel cells in lieu of salt to catalyze the electrolytic reaction and could do the same for ozone therapy machines. We know that the body's T-cells dispatch pathogens with peroxide and we know that the body and cells manufacture and use surfactants in places like the lungs to regulate oxygen-carbon-dioxide exchanges and at the surface of the cell wall to reduce surface tension in the water layer surrounding the cell membrane. This is necessary for cellular functioning and communications. Could it be that the surfactant in the lungs has an anti-microbial and anti-toxin function that has eluded science to date? It would appear that biochemists as well as the medical community might have missed these connections in terms of a surfactant-hydrotrope role in human health.
Decontamination -- Materials that are contaminated with anthrax bacillus or spore must be decontaminated. Spores can be destroyed by: steam under pressure (autoclave) for one hour; dry heat above 159 C; or boiling water for 30 minutes with disinfectants. Table 3 lists chemicals that have been used as anthrax bacillus and spore disinfectants. Animals who died of anthrax infection have been traditionally either cremated or deeply buried with quicklime.
Table 3 Anthrax Disinfectants
chloride solution
peracetic acid 3%
formaldehyde 10% in water
potassium permanganate
hydrogen peroxide 3%
sodium hypochlorite 0.5%
Ok, ok....... Ahhh..... Ive already got a big bottle of Safeway hydrogen peroxide 3%!
Tomorrow Im going out to buy more bottles of hydrogen peroxide and some plastic spray bottles. Ill do some testing on cloth to see if a 3% solution will harm clothes. Ill try it on plastics too.
Evidently the foam in the Sandia product is for use against the other bio-terror products, such as mustard gas. I don't think we need the foam for anthrax.
Thanks for the heads up, but of all the things I've got queued up to get angry about, some kind of ersatz-germ killer price gouging is pretty low on my list.
(After all, NASA was tax supported as well, but they won't take people for shuttle rides no matter what people offer... Of course, more seriously, the Internet was developed using tax dollars and now Americans have to pay fees to get access to it...)
Mark W.
I just STARTED the gloves today. Somehow the thought of washing anthrax spores down my drain was too unpleasant.
My idea is that if the public complains about this, all of a sudden the commercial price might go down and the product should become more available.
If the main ingredient for anthrax disinfecting is simply hydrogen peroxide 3%, I sure as heck would like to know it. Im not interested in the mustard-gas foam part of the formula right now.
If people who work at my local post office start getting sick, I want to know what to spray my mail with. If its just hydrogen peroxide, the whole country needs to know that information right now. We needed to know it 3 weeks ago.
Olive oil and whipped cream? Makes for one heck of a party - but kill spores? I dunno...
Geez, the next time you throw a party let me know......
I must really lead a boring life!
NeverGore :^)
After calling around today, talking to a distributor for the Sandia product, and reading some websites, I came up with this.... the main anthrax killing ingredient in the Sandia formula is hydrogen peroxide (mouthwash). The distributor confirmed this in a phone call. A Defense Journal article said that 3% hydrogen peroxide is fine. Thats the strength of regular commercial mouthwash.
Tomorrow Ill research other websites to confirm the 3% strength. This stuff is available in every drug store and Wal-Mart. Im going to pick up some empty spray bottles such as the kind that is used to mist house plant leaves.
All the other stuff in the Sandia formula is for other bio-chemical warfare agents, such as mustard gas. The Sandia formula is for many things in addition to anthrax, including smallpox.
The hydrogen peroxide is for cleaning up, spraying mail and stuff around your house and office. It wont kill the anthrax after youve already inhaled it. What I was looking for was something to spray on my mail and other things that might get contaminated around my house and car. I think the oregano oil is probably too expensive per oz.
He's got a plethora of compounds made from everyday household chemicals and compounds that are used to kill various garden and lawn pests - both insect and vegetable ...
(Hint: Do a web search on same!)
The other chemicals in the product are used to kill or suppress other bio-terror agents.
According to this website.......
.....hydrogen peroxide, 3%, (common household mouthwash) will kill anthrax spores, as long as you dont inhale them first (on that page, see the chemical chart at the bottom of the page).
There seems to be no evidence or even hint that anthrax is going to be a problem for the general population. Even if it _were_ released over a wide area, it doesn't cause the kind of devastation a real enemy would want. Devoting too much attention to anthrax may distract us from more important issues.
For instance.
Bin Laden has made of point of being passionate about Muslim history. After the 911 attack, he said, "Let the whole world know that we shall never accept that the tragedy of Andalusia be repeated in Palestine," referring to the medieval Christian reconquest of Spain from Muslims. Another aspect of Muslim history is:
The most important event in Islam, after the birth of Mohammed, is the defeat of the Infidel armies invading Mecca -- by smallpox!
569/570 One of the earliest recorded epidemics of smallpox struck Arabia and forced the Christian Abyssinian army to retreat, thus ending their rule there. This was known as the Elephant War epidemic, for the white elephant on which the Christian prince Abraha rode into Mecca before his defeat. According to historians, Abraha did not complete his goal of destroying the Kaaba in Mecca because of the smallpox that broke out among his soldiers. He was forced to return to Yemen, where he died of smallpox as well. Islamic tradition holds that Abraha did reach the city of Mecca but his elephant Abraha started to enter the city throu the gate when his elephant, "Mahmoud the Praise worthy," refused to enter the city, when it saw the kabba. In fact the elephant knelt down in reverence to Allah. Soon after Allah sent birds who proceeded to shower the Abyssinians (Ethiopians) with stones. The Abyssinians were driven back as they were pelted to death by the birds and Mecca was saved from the rath of Abraha Habashi. This legend is so imporatant to Islam it is accorded a chapter in the Muslim holy book the Quran and the chapter is named "Sura AlFil" or "the Elephant" after the elephant of Abraha."Do you not know how God treated the conductors of the elephants? Did he not turn their own perfidy against them? He sent myriads of birds soaring over their heads Who threw down upon them stones graven with the celestial vengeance, The infidels were cut down like corn by the reapers."(This legend is flagged on a strange but thoughtful Christian site, Andromeda Strain - Plague of Allah?)
I believe this anthrax business is some kind of distraction or feint. If bin Laden is behind this biological attack (and it's not some kind of domestic civil war camouflaged as a bin Laden response) then I think the real danger is going to be from smallpox or something similar.
Mark W.
LOL! Thanks for your expert opinion. Say, you could get a job for the feds as a spokesman.
Devoting too much attention to anthrax may distract us from more important issues.
Tell that to the family members of the postal workers who have died, and to the ones who are sick now.
The most important event in Islam, after the birth of Mohammed, is the defeat of the Infidel armies invading Mecca -- by smallpox!
Ok, do us a favor, you go out and find us a disinfectant for small pox, Ok? In two days of research, Ive found a disinfectant for anthrax. You let us know when youve found one for small pox.
then I think the real danger is going to be from smallpox or something similar.
The real danger is going to be from everything any terrorist, foreign or domestic, throws at us. What I think we at FR need to do is find ways to stop, disinfect, thwart, defeat, and defend against any and all threats.
I can guess what if too..... plague, small pox, radiation, atomic bombs, etc. Any of us can do that. Now go out and find us some cures, disinfectants, defenses, and treatments for all the possibilities.
What the hell, F25, you pinged me for this thread, and then when I take the time to put up a couple of posts, you get snarky.
I know we've all got a short fuse these days, but there's no return in going off on people you ping. If you think my head's up my ass, just don't ping me.
Mark W.
Snarky!? Me, snarky!? I thought it was you who was being snarky. If I was snarky, I apologize.
Ditto -- I'm sorry if I came off sounding weird. No offense meant, none taken.
Mark W.
By the way, hydrogen peroxide acts as a good tranquilizer. I spray it on my mail and I feel more tranquil.
I went out today and bought a little air-pump hand sprayer from Home Depot, and 4 large bottles of 3% hydrogen peroxide from Safeway. I am ready!
Funny, that's what my girlfriend says when she gets mad at me for not reading her mind.
As I understand it, the trick is to get the spores to germinate first, so the resulting bacteria can then be killed by the chlorine. I could be wrong. More on this thread:
You might be interested in the link in post#43, too. There are some recipes for a similar decontaminant in there.
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DD (almost 3.5) has been struggling with playing independently lately. I know she is still young, and I do my best to interact with her multiple times a day. But, as a SAHM, I'm exhausted. She does great playing with friends, cousins, etc... but, when it's just us at home, she is constantly needing our attention or whining because we won't play with her. We DO play with her, we interact with her, but we also need to cook, do dishes, have an adult disucssion, etc. As a parent to an only due to Infertility, this always makes me sad. Because I feel like she wouldn't do this if she had a sibling (older than a newborn obviously). Please tell me this is just a phase of this age, and something that will go away. Please tell me I'm not the only one that deals with this. Any tips? Advice to help her play alone? Usually after I explain to her that I need to do some things and that "she's a big girl and can play with big girl toys alone" she will play alone for a few minutes... So, I guess she just needs to be remninded.... I'm just exhausted though. It doesn't help that DH has been working tons of overtime lately. He's home less, and he's exhausted too... both because of work and our dd lol
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Be patient :-) My daughter didn't play well on her own until closer to 4 and 5.
Your daughter is at a good age to do structured group activities, to socialize and do something she enjoys with other kids who share the same interests. Is she taking any classes? I know that doesn't solve the at home scenario, but coming home from class offers the chance for some down time, quiet time.
Have you started to implement a strategy, like tell her you need to get X done, it will take X# minutes, and then you can play with her? Use a timer if you have to. I have to say, when I started doing that, gradually she would lose track of time and start getting really into her play, so when time was up and I saw that she was still happily playing and talking to herself, I would step away :-)
Anyway you can have her help you with your activities? My DS is only 23 months, but he pulls clothes out of the dryer and hands it to me to put in the washer, or hands me dishes from the dishwasher for me to put away, and other things. He likes to sweep the floor...although it does absolutely no good to have a toddler do it so I have to redo it - but it's a way to keep him entertained while I'm doing something else in the kitchen.
Use a timer! I've had to do this with Reagan, my almost 5 year old DD - and she normally is good about playing by herself but she'll go through spells where she wants me or DH to play with her. I set the timer on the microwave or on my phone and tell her "OK, we can play Candyland until the timer goes off. When the timer goes off, Mommy has to go and do laundry/cook dinner/whatever it is that you need to get done" and she's been fine with it and I started doing that at around age 2.5 years old. It also might be your DD's personality - some kids always want someone to play with and other kids are fine playing by themselves. DH is an only and he said he loved playing by himself - I was the same way that I loved playing by myself and I'm the youngest of four. I also like the suggestion to incorporate your LO into your housework. Reagan has chores she has to do around the house that are age appropriate and it teaches her that she needs to be a member of the family and help out in addition to having responsibilities.
Good luck!
Would play-doh, or painting or drawing work, or maybe making necklaces with beads? It can be really hard to find something to keep them entertained. My DS loves water, now that the weather is good we often put a little paddling pool with an inch of water in it outside and then he plays with boats and plastic toys in it, he loves it! Hope you find something that works for your DD to do by herself.
PS We also do the "bad" thing sometimes: movie time, long live disney, hehe..
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Does your DD like movies? You could try a little bit of movie time with toys that mimic the movie ... sometimes it kick starts their imagination. My daughter loves Milo and Stitch and after watching for a bit I find her and Stitch engrossed in something. Trust me to go and pick a naughty character lol.
If you know your child is an extrovert, it becomes a little less trying when she's on you for your attention all the time. It doesn't mean she's not capable of playing by herself, it would just mean that would need to be balanced by time with others, including you and DH.
If your child is an introvert, she will eventually find her 'thing' that she enjoys doing so much she forgets time...lol. For me it was reading. So maybe once she can read good books with stories that keep her interest, she will surprise you...
DD is 4 and extremely extroverted. Always wants daddy or me to play (prefers daddy).
She is ok with short stints of independent play after I have set her up to do the activity.
The timer method doesn't work for us, she just starts to meltdown so we have to figure out alternatives.
Working FT, married to DH G. who is a part time SAHD, DD Lee - only child by choice and proud of it. Go on, ask me "why." :)
Does your DD like stickers? DD loves these books:
Honestly - she will spend hours putting stickers on the girls in the books. She's been begging me to go get another book! She occasionally needs help with a sticker here or there, or sometimes wants to tell me what she's doing, but you'd be able to set her up at the table and get things done around her.
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The Black Clover is Prince Georges newest addition to the downtown scene. Featuring an exclusive list of authentic Irish scratch made culinary offerings and an extensive list of ethnic spirits and beverages. We invite you to come and experience our spin on traditional Irish atmosphere.
After being dormant for a number of years the local institution of the Caribou Steakhouse changed hands before its new ownership took over the location on fifth avenue in the heart of Downtown Prince George. A vast renovation project went underway with professional designers and industry specific contractors to rejuvenate and re purpose the dormant space with the single purpose of providing an unparalleled atmosphere to our local customers
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In this course, photographer, author, and educator Ben Long takes a trip to Lake Tahoe to explore winter shooting at various times of the day. He also shows techniques for post-processing winter scenes to make them look their best.
Skill Level Intermediate
Whether it's winter or summer, when you're standing in a forest, a big part of what strikes you visually is, particularly a tall forest like this, is just the incredible lines going upwards, the trees are, just towering here and it's, it's just really pretty, especially right now. The light's been really nice. On some of the trees. It's a really uneven light. Some are lit up, some aren't, and so there's a real sense of depth, to the trees. And so, it's hard not to want to capture this particular scale, this vertical scale.
I've got a very wide lens. I'm shooting with my 5D now, which is a full frame sensor, and I've got a 16 millimeter lens on it, so that's a 16 millimeter equivalent. Since it's full frame. And even at 16 millimeters I can only get about this I, well I can only get this wide. So I, I've got a nice shot of the tops of the trees. But it's not, it's not the whole thing. So, I'm going to do a vertical panorama. We think of panoramas as being a way of. Capturing a wide horizontal swath of scenery.
But there's no reason I can't tilt vertically, and capture a wide stretch this way. So, I've chosen this particular location, because, I like the opening up there. So, I didn't notice it at first, but there's, around me there's this nice thing of trees. That's what caught my attention. But when I look straight up, they actually form a, a complete circle and I've got this one right behind me, that, kind of gives a nice compositional anchor. So I'm going to do this just the way I would any panorama.
I've put my camera in aperture priority mode, because I want to be sure. That the depth of the field does not change from shot to shot. Because I'm going to be shooting a series of images that will be stitched together. I am going to go to ISO 400 because, as I move up and down, I'm going to be getting into darker areas. And so, I want to be sure it's got enough ISO latitude, to now drop my shutter speed to low, that I have to worry about handheld shake. so, aperture priority, I'm going to stay at about F11, because on this camera that's going to give me a good, deep depth of field, without introducing any softening from defraction effects.
And then, I'm going to start at the top, so that my initial metering is the brightest part of the scene. It will get darker as I go down, but that's okay. I'll be able to brighten that up. I know that I'm protecting my highlights. So, I think I need to actually get down on the ground. To get the whole scene here, and this jacket is so long. All right, so, I need to pick a focus point, now the problem is, my focus is going to change, as I move down, because the tops of the trees are much farther away than the bottoms, so I may need to refocus for each shot.
I'm hoping that my depth of field is so deep, that critical focus isn't going to be. So, important. Okay, now this is nice. I had not noticed this before, I have this tree behind me, that's all in shadow and I've got one right in front of me, that's all lit up. Which is very cool. It's, it's making a nice symmetry, I think, it will make a nice symmetry across the frame. We'll see what happens. So, here's my first shot, and now I'm going to tilt the camera down, just like I would in a normal panorama. Now, I can't see what I'm doing anymore.
I'm going to auto focus again, take the next shot. Tilt the camera down, auto focus again, take the next, and down again. The reason I can't keep my eye on the viewfinder, is there's no way. I don't think I'm, wow! See, I can't even sit steady. There's no way I'm going to be able to. Manage the movement up, without really changing my framing. So, I'm just hoping that I'm getting it right. Now, when I shoot a horizontal panorama, I'm always careful not to pan like this, because at that point, I'm panning around an axis right here, instead of an axis right here.
I'm thinking the same thing. Vertically. I don't want to go like this. I want to pan the camera. So, it's kind of just dumb luck, whether I get this right or not. So, I'm going to, I'm going to play it safe and shoot this panorama several times just to be sure or just hoping that one of them's going to work. Now, I'm framed a little bit wider than I need to be. And that's because as I stitch the panorama, depending on how. Clean my pan has been, or my tilt has been, I will have more or less cropping that I need to do.
If I'm sloppy with my tilt, it's going to mean a whole bunch of extra imagery that needs to be cut away. So, if I pad the scene with a little bit of extra space, then I've got cropping room. So I'm just going to do this a few times. So, those are my images. They need to be stitched together, and obviously I can't do that without a computer, so I've gotta wait til I get home. Now, there could be a lot that went wrong with these. I could have bad exposure, because I couldn't see through the camera while I was doing it, to figure out where to expose. I could have bad tilt. I could have really uneven exposure.
I was not using my exposure lock, for this sequence of shots, partly because I just, there's, the, the whole mechanism was just, I didn't want to find another button to push and so on and so forth. But also, when I meter the top and bottom of the scene, they're only about a third stop apart. So, I don't think having exposure locked all the way through is going to make that big a difference. Stitching software again is very good today. It can deal with that exposure differential. And if it is darker at the bottom, I can just do a gradient levels adjustment, or a curves adjustment. And even all that out.
Now, I'm not using a tripod, and that's because, honestly, I never use a tripod when I'm shooting panoramas, because I've never found a need for one. Stitching software is so good today, that I find that I can manage perfectly fine panoramas, just by going hand held. Now, I'm not shooting total 360s that have to be stitched in a perfect way, because I'm going to make a VR environment about them. I'm usually doing, not even a full 180. And for that, I find as long as I'm careful about keeping the bottom of the camera level, and panning the camera. I get fine results.
In this case, because it's a vertical panorama, a tripod wouldn't have done me any good anyway, because I only have a ball head for my tripod, and there's no way to tilt a ball head, in any kind of controllable fashion. Because as soon as you loosen the ball, the camera falls and, then you gotta reset your shot, and all of that. So, it can take some practice, but I find that it's, it's just not worth the headache of carrying a tripod around, simply for the sake of panoramas, and I knew I wouldn't need one for anything else here today. So, I'm just going hand held. Now, I need to get home and stitch 'em.
I hope they work because I, I think this could really be a cool shot. I think I got a little bit lucky here. With the way some of this composition worked out. I didn't see it til I was looking through the camera and, very often that's how it goes.


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NASA?s powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter entered a protective slumber Wednesday - the fourth time this year - after inexplicably rebooting its main computer yet again.
The anomaly popped up early Wednesday as the 4-year-old orbiter circled Mars, marking the third spontaneous computer reboot for the spacecraft this year. In a fourth glitch, which occurred earlier this month, the orbiter switched to its backup computer unexpectedly.
"We hope to gain a better understanding of what is triggering these events and then have the spacecraft safely resume its study of Mars by next week," said Jim Erickson, the spacecraft?s project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., in a statement.
Currently, the $720 million spacecraft is in a protective safe mode awaiting instructions from Earth and is in communications with its mission control team, NASA officials said.
JPL engineers are working to diagnose the ailing orbiter?s problem before making any attempt to resuscitate its six science instruments. The work is expected to take several days. ?
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter unexpectedly rebooted its main computer in February and June in glitches that engineers initially believed were caused by hits from stray solar particles or cosmic rays. Earlier this month, the spacecraft swapped to its Side B computer, a backup, also for reasons that remain unknown.
In each case, engineers revived the spacecraft after a few days.
NASA launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter toward the red planet in 2005. It is the most powerful orbiter ever sent to Mars and has beamed home more data and images than all other missions to the red planet combined.
The orbiter completed its primary mission in late 2008 and is currently in the middle of an extended mission that runs through mid-2010.
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Debt RX USA5501 L B J Freeway Dallas, Texas U.S.A.
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Clint Alexander was my original contact, and with his slick soothing, southern accent made me feel like they would take care of evertything. When I decided this was a bad decision to join this company, he made comments like "you need to do your part" and made statements that he failed to delivery upon as well as not to return phone calls. I find it laughable that this company closes their response with an offer to help, that offer was only extended twice, during the initial phone call and then again ONLY when I fired this company for LACK of help. The Fact that I was notified by the BBB that this company also FAILED to respond in a timely manner, and that BBB ws closing the case, goes right in line with the experience I have had with them. Also the fact that I was NEVER made aware that my phone calls were being taped until only after I expressed a dissatisfaction with the way my account was being handled further exhibits the unscrupulous ways these people do business. I only agree with one of their Statements, and that is that the requested refund amount is greater than the fees received. That in part to the 217.10 already refunded, and the anticipation of more fees withdrawn from my account. At the time of the complaint NO refunds were issued and No action was taken by Debt RX to suspend transfers from my bank. As of April 17th 2009 there has been 1 refund issued and that was the March withdrawal of $217.10. Another refund of $543.03 has been promised but as of this writing (April 18,2009) has yet to be delivered. I was advised to set aside money every month by an employee of this business, and I expressed my hardship in doing this for the first few months of the contract, but would in fact be able to catch up after the first of the year. I was told that it would take 6 - 8 months of saving to have the necessary funds to negotiate.
Therefore I felt I had time on my side to raise the prescribed amount of funds in that 6 - 8 month time frame to be in line for the negotiation of the settlement of my debt. When that time frame came to pass I had the amount of money that was needed to negotiate but I was informed by the company that the creditors would not accept that amount. They in fact wanted nearly double that to even begin to negotiate. It was this final straw that made me decide to dissolve the relationship with Debt RX USA. Also by blaming the bank for the excess withdrawls is another untrue response. The error was on the part of Debt RX USA. While the issue was resolved in 3 days, it was one of multiple "Red Flags" thrown up by them. I question their definition of "Good Faith". When in fact by "helping" me they failed to respond to Faxes, phone messages, and certified mail in a timely manner. These resulted in summonses to court, deteriorating credit scores, and misinformation as well as health issues, and MANY sleepless nights, that they Claim to help alleviate in their website. As far reducing my fees, That is just a flat out LIE. When I signed on with this company I was told that for the first 3 months I was to send them through automatic withdrawls $543.07 per month. After that I was to put $325.97 a month away for the negotiations. The remaining $217.10 was to be used for their service fees. When I expressed a hardship to be able to save the required negotiating fee ($325.97),over the first few months of the contract. However,I would be able to catch up over the first 3 months of 2009 to have the required funds for negotiating Debt RX USA raised it's service by $100.00 per month. In simpler terms, acccording to the contract, Debt RX USA was supposed to take $1846.31 during the first 4 months of the service, they in fact took $1846.27 a total savings to me of 4 cents. Over the next five months I paid them $1385.52, according to the contract the total fees for the 9 month period should have been $2931.81, in Truth, I paid Debt RX USA $3231.77, $299.81 over what the contract called for. So the assertion that I was afforded something for free or reduced rate is ludicrous.
Any offer to provide me free service was made AFTER I decided that these people dealt in anything but good faith. Again, as of April 18, 2009 of the $3231.77 I spent for this "SERVICE", only $217.10 has been refunded. Therefore the "CLAIM" that I was given an offer of free service comes after I had been over charged by $299.96. A company that offers to help someone in a financial crisis when they in fact don't inform you of the tax implications that you face at the end of your settlement, and offer nothing but excuses when questioned about concerns that clients like me have. I have decided as of February 2009 to close my account with Debt RX USA due to POOR customer service, and a complete failure to deliver what they claim. A refund in full is hardly alot to ask for when one faces financial collapse.
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permitting and then we will be heading north to make maple syrup.
We will have Fresh Atlantic Sea Scallops for sale until then. We
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and ourselves find that there is no difference in taste. Frozen
scallops can last for a year also. The taste of our local Atlantic
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over a week old due to delivering from federal waters. Due to
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Pleasant Hill Man Suspected Of Human Trafficking, Running BrothelA Pleasant Hill resident was arrested on suspicion of various human trafficking offenses after detectives carried out an undercover operation at the man's home last week, police said Monday.
Suspects Accused Of Kidnapping, Sex Trafficking Four Young Girls In OaklandA man and woman suspected of kidnapping four young girls were in court in Oakland Friday, facing human trafficking charges.
Second Suspect Arrested, Additional Women Rescued In Oakland KidnappingOakland police said Thursday that they believe the kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl on Wednesday is connected to human sex trafficking and that they've arrested a second suspect in connection with the case.
Sucpect Arrested After 14-Year-Old Kidnapping Victim Rescued In North OaklandPolice are investigating a report of a kidnapping in North Oakland Wednesday morning as possibly connected to human trafficking and forced prostitution, a police spokeswoman said.
2 Allegedly Tried To Lure Developmentally Disabled Pleasant Hill Girl Into ProstitutionTwo suspects were arrested in Emeryville on Wednesday in connection with multiple crimes related to a 15-year-old girl from Pleasant Hill who went missing late last month.
Indictments In Human Trafficking Ring Linked To Danville, San RamonThree suspects were indicted last week by a Contra Costa County grand jury in connection with a 14-year sex trafficking ring centered in San Ramon and Danville.
San Francisco Students To Learn About Sex Trafficking, History Of 'Comfort Women'The school district is developing age-appropriate curriculum to teach students how to recognize the signs of human trafficking as part of their health education classes.
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Skip to comments.Vanity: Is Trump gone for good?
Posted on 05/09/2011 6:58:50 AM PDT by Maverick68
A simple question: Do you think Trump has quit or is he waiting for obumble to finish his "victory lap" before returning to throw bombs?
Personally, I believe he's doing the smart thing and laying low for a week or so....
I think maybe Trump realizes he's better off in an environment he can strictly control.
Hopefully gone for good.
He'll not be the candidate, he's not conservative, he doesn't know what it is, he lacks class and we don't need another I, me, my, mine guy in the white house.
We can only hope.
The man with the gold makes the rule. Trump picks his fights. He will swoop in at the next opportunity.
He'll be relatively quiet until next season.
Agree. Trump is far from stupid and knows exactly how to the play the media. I believe he will start back up again next week. The Bin Laden story will evaporate and the media hounds will be looking for something new and Trump will be their ticket.
He's done.
The Obama trolls would be happy if Donald was gone . I see that Soros Axelrod media and minions have reimplemented the AstroTurf here to post over and over the GOP can not win, it's over, don't bother !
Barry is too strong. Donald showed how weak and easy he was to attack so he needed to be shut up!
He may not run but he certainly isn't going to stop attacking Obie's policies.
Whatever you think of his personality and politics, the man used his celebrity and a good portion of his reputation to force the world's greatest fraud to show his hand.
If this birth certificate is indeed altered as many suggest, he's forced a felony!
I'll give Trump credit for forcing the issue now. Had Obama let the eligibility issue fester and grow into a fever pitch through the election season only to release his LFBC next year as an "October Surprise" the results could have been devastating to Republicans.
Now that the eligibility issue is politically dead, hopefully the media will stop asking every single potential Republican candidate to go on the record about where they think Obama was born.
So, the only conclusion I can come to is, that Trump forced Zero to produce "something" and that "something" is fake, I'm sure Trump has had experts all over that document & my feeling is that he will pounce with the proof when the time is right!
I don't believe for one minute that Trump is stupid & that he would have gone thru all that media hype & then just sit back quietly now. I think Zero should fear the fact that The Donald is being so quiet!!
Your guess is as good as mine.
Like the cretin in the WH today, Trump is an arrogant pompous narcissist. Its all about Obama and its all about Trump.
The whole reason Trump is so quiet is, the fact that Bin Laden has been sleeping with the crabs lately. Wait till another Obama caused "crisis" surfaces that preoccupies Obama's flying monkeys in the Press again.
That is when we will start hearing from the Donald.
He was on F&F this AM. He sounded shocked at the attack on him by Zero and the comedian specifically directed at him..
He said he was use to criticism, but not direct attacks.
He may want to go back to his business life. Politics may be to rough for him.
As to the "forgery", calling the issue politically dead isn't the half of it. Trump's avoiding it because he knows a trap when he sees one. The President of the United States can produce a flawless forgery. He's had years to prepare, millions to spend, legions to do his bidding.
For Obama to release an "OBVIUS FORGERIE!!1!" with issues that any wide eyed amateur with an internet connection detect in 5 minutes is no cause to celebrate. It means Obama doesn't want the issue to die, and needs some useful idiots around to keep the "crazy Birther" meme rolling forever.
As far as training people to fetch his stick, Obama's way smarter than the Birthers. He's living rent free inside your OODA loop.
Except to the most deeply-entrenched birthers (who would've never accepted any document Obama released as legitimate), the eligibility issue is dead and Trump knows it. Obama took the wind out of his sails. If you think Trump is going to champion the "BC is fake" issue, prepare to be disappointed. It's a political loser.
We heard from Trump this morning on Fox and Friends in a phone interview.
Yes, his tone at this point has changed a litle. He praised Obama for the raid and his concentration was on Pakistan.
He said no more money to Pakisan until they fully cooperate with the US. HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT PAKISTAN MUST GIVE UP THEIR NUCLEAR WEAPONS. THIS IS A NEW ARGUMENT BUT A WORTHWHILE ONE.
He was not asked any questions about the BC. He did say that the fact that he was the total show at the Press dinner showed him that the WH was taking him very seriously.
Not at all right. Trump will counter direct attacks on him with harder hits back. He makes it hurt and sets the level at how hard they hit him first. He is nobody to be underestimated. That is why he is where he is.
"Personally, I believe he's doing the smart thing and laying low for a week or so"
Is this like how he smartly won the birther issue by wasting everyone's time in forcing Obama to prove it was a non-issue? What a wily fox that Trump is. Everything he does, he wins. Even when he very clearly loses.
"to show his hand"
Yes, to show his winning hand. Since when was it good gameplay to lose a hand?
"If this birth certificate is indeed altered as many suggest, hes forced a felony!"
I'm sure that'll be proven, and Obama impeached and thrown in jail. Also, a flotilla of clouds will carry you off to Shangra-la, where you'll live out your days in perfect contentment.
Interesting. Means no more money to Pakistan—and I'm okay with that.
"He was not asked any questions about the BC"
Like he needs prompting to blahblahblah about whatever he wants. Him not talking about it means Obama won, which means it was a waste of time all along.
Do they never figure out that this does not affect us the same way it does them?
When told, "It's over, you can't win," they believe it and fold, because to them, words are gods--words must be believed, the dogma being "If it's in print and on TV, it's true--especially if we say it!" When I (and, I suspect, most on FR) hear, "You can't win," that's when it becomes the most imperative to get out and work for your candidate and vote.
At least, I hope that's the general sentiment.
I think the most dangerously effective thing they could tell us is, "Well, we ain't got a chance against you guys this year--may as well pack it in and concede the White House!"
But I'd still get out and vote. I don't want just a victory, but a landslide of terraforming proportions.
Obama is a typical chicago polititian-
with alot of activities (rezko et al)
that Trump had the balls to bring up.
why is there a problem with that?
if barry act as if he's hiding something, he probably is
whatever happen to that colb that was on his websight?
where-ever did it go?
He's playing the media right now. Pretty soon we'll be seeing headlines deperately reading "Is Trump Gone For Good?"
Oh, wait a minute.......
I would be happy to see Trump gone. The last thing we need is another demagogue beating the populist drum, and laughingly calling himself a Republican, running for president.
If he "wasted your time" then you might have a beef, but you say he "wasted everyones time" well I still continued to go about what I do daily, his fight with Zero didn't waste my time, maybe his, but surely not "everyones"!!!
I think Trump has done a great service for this country.
He has shown that you have to play hardball with the facists in the White House and hopefully, a GOP candidate will "get it".
I don't want Trump as the GOP nominee, but would vote for him in a heartbeat over the obamachrist....
I have to agree. It does not make sense that a guy as smart as Donald Trump would squander his reputation for no good reason. If he didn't intend to really run for President I doubt he would have made such a big splash. I could be really wrong but I think Donald is laying low for a few weeks til the last episode of Apprentice airs and then I think he will announce he is running. Lets face it the GOP field at this point is not exactly overwhelming.
A couple more weeks for the current season apprentice.
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