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On March 13, the How to Improve Your Membership Retention QuickBites (Session Code: 441) will include topics such as: the eight critical mistakes credit unions make that make it impossible to fix their "hole in their bucket"; tackling the root cause of fixing the hole in your bucket - one simple step everyone can use; strategies for making employees accountable so you can add more members to your bucket; creating an environment in which employees ask for the business; and more.
During the Lending Strategies - More Loan Opportunities QuickBites on March 15 (Session Code: 442), you will learn: how to explore effective strategies that increase loan opportunities; ROA and member loyalty; how to analyze the credit report to make better loan decisions; discover strategies that bring in more loan opportunities; and much more.
It can be challenging to keep up with current legislation and regulatory change that affects compliance issues at your credit union, but the bi-annual Reg Update Webinar on March 20 (Session Code: 443), is an ideal way to "check-in" on timely topics and have your questions answered. Actual topics will be shared as the event date approaches.
The Unclaimed Property: Issues You Need to Know QuickBites on March 21 (Session Code: 444) will focus on the Basics of Unclaimed Property Reporting, including the Who, What, When, Where and Why of filing unclaimed property reports. It will focus on finding all of the unclaimed property hidden in your company's books and records and then creating a strategy to get into compliance with all of the different state laws.
It is hard to get a real feel for what banks really charge when only looking at averages. Instead, take a look at charges assessed by five unique banks in five unique markets. Chances are your credit union competes with a bank just like one on the list. The Fee Comparisons – Banks vs. CUs Webinar on March 22 (Session Code: 445) will look at charges assessed by five unique credit unions in those same bank markets and compare.
The Courting Boomer Members - A Key Business Growth Strategy QuickBites on March 29 (Session Code: 446) will stress the importance of credit unions reaching out to Boomer Generation members. Boomers are the largest most powerful demographic group in terms of buying power, influence and wealth. This session will also highlight the following strategies for appealing and marketing to this group of members with suggested products and services.
Bank Secrecy Act training is available on demand! The Bank Secrecy Act requires that all frontline personnel be trained on money laundering and the responsibilities of the financial institutions on currency reporting and suspicious activity every year. See the ICUL education calendar for the schedule of BSA on demand training and all QuickBites and Telecourses.
Also now available on demand for 2012: Financial Exploitation of the Elderly. Elder abuse training – regarding financial exploitation of the elderly -- is now required for employees and officers with direct customer contact. Examiners will be collecting information about your credit union's training on this subject, as IDFPR is required to report training data on a bi-annual basis. This QuickBite will meet the training requirements and will cover:
All credit unions face situations where only they have an opportunity to witness suspected exploitation. Participate in this QuickBite to learn the common indicators and the actions you can take.
Play it again! The audio archive of all QuickBites and telecourses for 2012 has been increased to 60 days with paid registrations for most sessions. Whether you were unavailable for the scheduled date and time of a particular call or just want to hear the session again, you will have 24/7 access for the entire 60 days after the scheduled session. This feature enhances the value of audio training and is included for no additional charge. The audio archive link will be activated within 48 hours of the live event.
For a complete calendar of all Educational offerings, please click here.
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I would like to save some space on my laptop and to do so I was thinking of moving my Pictures folder on an external hard drive. As OSX doesn't want me to mess around with the main folders in my home, how can I do this and is it safe to do so?
(this follows from my original question, which was closed as it wasn't a real question can I point one of the User core folders to an external hard drive?)


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Features new musical collaboration with The Inverse Opera, featuring Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes
SEATTLE, WA (January 4, 2011) – The critically acclaimed Seattle Dance Project launches its fifth season with "Project 5", a collection of new works and returning favorites, performed at ACT – A Contemporary Theatre's Falls Theater from January 19 – 29, 2012. Seattle Dance Project was recently named resident dance company at ACT after performing there annually since its first season. Tickets are on sale now, with prices ranging from $20-$25 and included in the ACTPass monthly membership.
Staged in partnership with ACT's Central Heating Lab, Project 5 will be headlined by Brahms Afoot, a new, multidisciplinary collaboration with The Inverse Opera, a group that explores the unique storytelling aspects of the classically trained voice.
Brahms Afoot seamlessly weaves together musicians, voices and bodies to create a breathtaking production. It is choreographed by Penny Hutchinson, a founding member of Mark Morris Dance Company, and set to the timeless music of Brahms' "Liebeslieder Waltzes," (or "Love Song Waltzes"). The virtuoso vocalists and pianists of The Inverse Opera will present a uniquely contemporary interpretation of this exquisite masterpiece of chamber music, providing a rich backdrop for the dancers' performance.
Project 5 also will feature a world premiere by choreographer and former Hubbard Street Dance Chicago member Jason Ohlberg. The piece is a mixture of music, movement and spoken word, incorporating audio from dancer interviews into the score.
To round out the program, Seattle Dance Project will bring back a number of audience favorites from past seasons, including "Planes in Air," by Molissa Fenley, which debuted in SDP's 2010-11 season, and Edwaard Liang's "To Converse Too" and Kent Stowell's "B6," both from SDP's 2009-10 season.
Project 5 will run on two consecutive weekends in January. Performances include:
· January 19 at 8 p.m. (pay-what-you-will dress rehearsal)
· January 20 at 8 p.m. (opening night)
· January 21 at 8 p.m.
· January 22 at 2:00 p.m.
· January 27 at 8:00 p.m.
· January 28 at 8:00 p.m.
· January 29 at 2 p.m.
On January 26 and 27 at noon, the company will offer two student matinees for school children. Tickets for this special matinee are $12 per student and can be purchased through the ACT box office. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Other special features of "Project 5" include a pre-show talk by members of The Inverse Opera, 45 minutes prior to each performance. They will talk about the love story that is the Liebeslieder Waltzes. A passionate Romantic, Johannes Brahms wrote the set of waltzes for four singers and four-hand piano while enamored with Julie Schumann, daughter of composers and musicians Robert and Clara Schumann. The work has been popular since its publication in 1869. The pre-performance talk will significantly enhance the audience's experience with the music and dance of Brahms Afoot before they see it on stage.
Both the dancers and musicians will also offer a post-performance Q & A with audiences after each show, with the exception of January 29.
Following the January 29 performance, Seattle Dance Project invites audience members to join the dancers and musicians for an after-party to celebrate the company's fifth season.
For tickets and more information about "Project 5", visit the Seattle Dance Project website at www.seattledanceproject.org, The Inverse Opera's website at www.theinverseopera.com or the ACT Theatre website at www.acttheatre.org. Tickets are $25 (adults), $20 (students/seniors/25 and younger) or included in the ACTPass. ACT is located at 7th and Union in downtown Seattle.
About Seattle Dance Project
Seattle Dance Project (www.seattledanceproject.org) was founded in 2007 and is currently led by artistic director Timothy Lynch. The company seeks to use the technical prowess and professional maturity of its dancers to continually push the limits of contemporary dance. Lynch formerly danced with the Pacific Northwest Ballet and is a current faculty member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet School. In addition to Lynch, company performers include: David Alewine, Betsy Cooper, Michele Curtis, Ezra Dickinson, Alexandra Dickson, Oleg Gorboulev, Iyun Harrison, Gavin Larsen and Lara Seefeldt. Reflecting Seattle Dance Project's commitment to high quality performing arts, all company members are active teachers in the Seattle dance community. The company was also recently named resident dance company for A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) in Seattle.
About The Inverse Opera
Created by Seattle-based actor/singers Jadd Davis and Lauren Marie Smith with Jared Michael Brown, The Inverse Opera strives to fill the niche between opera and musical theater, using the voice to its fullest extent, and disregarding preconceived limitations. Since officially forming in January of 2011, The Inverse Opera has provided myriad opportunities for singers and audiences to enjoy unique programs in intimate monthly cabarets throughout King County. Through collaboration with top-tier artists and adventuresome venues, Inverse has been able to fill a truly special niche in the fabric of the region's performing arts.
About ACT: A Theatre of New Ideas - Raising Consciousness Through Theatre
Located in the heart of downtown Seattle and serving a population of curious, open-minded, and brave audiences, ACT - A Contemporary Theatre is the only theatre in Seattle dedicated to producing contemporary work with promising playwrights and local performing artists since 1965. A theatre of new ideas, ACT serves as a cultural engine that makes plays, dance, music, and film that touch us through its annual Mainstage play series and new works generated from the Young Playwrights Program, The Hansberry Project, the Central Heating Lab, and New Works for the American Stage commissioning program. Because contemporary life demands examination, ACT is driven to inspire and strengthen our diverse community through works that advance our understanding of human life. With more than 100,000 people who attend shows annually, ACT is an interactive community where artists and the public witness, contemplate, and engage in dialogue on today's thought-provoking issues, ideas and art, presented with intelligence, insight, and humor.
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I'm a developer for many years, but don't have tons of experience in ops, so apology if this is a newbe question.
In my company we run a web service written in Java mainly based on a Tomcat web server. We have two datacenters with about 10 hosts each. Hosts are of several types: Dababase, Tomcats, some offline java processes, memcached servers. All hosts are Linux CentOS
Up until now, when releasing a new version to production we've been using a set of inhouse shell script that copy jars/wars and restart the tomcats.
The company has gotten bigger so it has become more and more difficult operating all this and taking code from development, through QA, staging and to production. A typical release many times involves human errors that cost us precious uptime. Sometimes we need to revert to last known good and this isn't easy to say the least...
We're looking for a tool, a framework, a solution that would provide the following:
- Supports the given list of technology (java, tomcat, linux etc)
- Provides easy deployment through different stages, including QA and production
- Provides configuration management. E.g. setting server properties (what's the connection URL of each host etc), server.xml or context configuration etc
- Monitoring. If we can get monitoring in the same package, that'll be nice. If not, then yet another tool we can use to monitor our servers.
- Preferably, open source with tons of documentation ;)
Can anyone share their experience? Suggest a few tools?


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The Earth turns with a very high velocity, around its own axis and around the Sun. So why can't we feel that it's turning, but we can still feel earthquake.
Because the rotation of the earth is very smooth and doesn't change, the centripetal acceleration we feel is very nearly constant. This means that the (small) centrifugal force from the rotation gets added to gravity to make up the "background force" we don't notice.
Earthquakes are not at all smooth and the accelerations involved are large and change direction a lot. This makes it easy to feel them.
Dan's answer is essentially good, but miss one effect : the Coriolis effect. You can imagine a planet spinning much more rapidly than the earth, but at a constant angular speed. On that quickly rotating planet, the explanation of Dan would still stand, but as soon as on moves, we would feel a lateral Coriolis force.
The Coriolis acceleration is $2\vec{\Omega}\times\vec v$, where $\vec{\Omega}$ is the (vectorial) angular frequency of the planet's rotation and $\vec v$ the speed of the object moving. For an object moving at the speed of sound (340 m/s) near the Earth's pole, where the effect is maximum, the Coriolis acceleration is $$2\frac{2\pi}{24\times60\times60}\times 340 \simeq \frac{12\times 340}{24\times 3600}\sim \frac1{20} = 5\times10^{-2} \mathrm{m}\cdot\mathrm{s}^{-2}.$$ This corresponds to an acceleration which is half a percent of the gravity acceleration, for a situation which is already quite far from everyday life.
This small effect can accumulate over long distance and can have visible effects, notably at meteorological scales. In some sense, we feel the Earth rotation when we feel the dominant wind direction in our region. The parameter characterizing the intensity of the Coriolis effect for a phenomenon is the Rossby number, which is big if the Coriolis effect is negligible. If the phenomenon you analyse has a typical speed $v$, occur over a distance $L$, the Rosby number is essentialy proportional to the ration of the rotation period (24 h in our case) over the time $v/L$ it takes to go over the typical distance.
For meteorological depressions, the wind take several days to go over the thousands of kilometres they span, and the Coriolis effect has an important effect. To really feel the effect in everyday's life, one would need to be on a planet with a day of a few seconds, like the Little Prince's lamplighter's planet ! Of course, if you don't live on a rapidly rotating asteroid, you can see the effect on a carousel.
I know it's very late in the game for this question, but this is partly a biology question. We don't feel the rotation of the earth because our brains are biased, they evolved that way. It's not useful to experience/be aware of this rotation day by day, in the same way it isn't useful to be aware of gravity. This is also why this optical illusion works:
Stare at the white dot between the green and red for about 30 seconds, then look at the white dot between the identical desert pictures.
Our brains constantly adjust to what is "normal". In the above illusion, your brain "learns" that the right side of its field of vision is under red illumination, while the left side is under green illumination. Looking at the desert scenes below then reflects this new bias your brain have adopted.
Dan also touched on this in his answer, talking about the "background force" we don't notice. It is vital that the rotation is fairly constant, because our brains need time to adjust. But if somehow the earth suddenly started rotating at a higher but equally constant angular velocity, we all might be struggling a bit for a while.
In the case of adjusting the colour bias for your eyes, the adjustment is made within a few tens of seconds, but other changes are harder to adjust to. An example are upside-down goggles. Doing some googling brought me to the wikipedia page for perceptual adaptation. Although this focuses on the adjustment of the visual sense, this adaptation is a general function of the brain. In the case where the background force changes, I suspect the adaptation would take about the same amount of time as in the case of the upside-down goggles, maybe a little less - though this is only a guess.
Why we do feel earthquakes is then easy to understand. The bias allows our brains to effectively block out a background force, but the forces of an earthquake are not part of this background and are therefore felt. It's like receiving an audio signal with a constant background noise. Because it is unhelpful (and annoying) to hear this background noise all the time, you adjust your bias. But irregular noise or a signal will still be heard. This is an earthquake in the analogy.
we don't feel the Earth spin because we, the atmosphere, skyscrapers, and everything else are spinning along with the Earth at the same constant speed.
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I have replaced windows 8 with ubuntu 12.10 , and after installing i can't open hdd and i get this Message
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I have very important files on my hhd therefore I can't formate it. What should I do to get to my harddrive?
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North Dakota's spring light goose season opens Feb. 15 and continues through May 18.
Residents can hunt during the spring season by having last fall's 2013-14 bird licenses. Otherwise, hunters will need to purchase either a 2014-15 combination license; or a small game, and general game and habitat license.
The state Game and Fish Department is offering 5,880 wild turkey licenses for the spring hunting season, a decrease of 50 from last year. The decrease is a result of poor production and chick recruitment.
Two of the 22 hunting units have slightly more spring licenses than in 2013, while 16 remain the same. Unit 21 (most of Hettinger and Adams counties) is again closed in 2014 due to lack of turkeys in the unit.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department's annual midwinter waterfowl survey in early January indicated 71,500 birds were in the state.
Mike Szymanski, migratory game bird biologist, said an estimated 40,700 Canada geese were observed on the Missouri River, and another 12,000 were scattered on Nelson Lake. Lake Sakakawea, declared iced-over on Dec. 14, had no geese on the lake itself. Szymanski said after summarizing the numbers, a total of 52,700 Canada geese and 18,700 mallards were tallied statewide.
North Dakota Game and Fish Department hunter education instructors are invited to attend one of four regional workshops scheduled in 2014.
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The Game and Fish Department will announce a winner in three age categories – 6-9, 10-13, and 14-18. Each winner will receive a pair of 10x42 binoculars. The final patch design will be chosen from the three winners.
The State Game and Fish Department has scheduled eight public meetings in February to discuss deer management in North Dakota.
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The North Dakota Game and Fish Department's Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program has openings available for a three-day workshop Feb. 21-23 at Lake Metigoshe State Park, Bottineau.
Ice fishing, darkhouse spearfishing, geocaching, snowshoe making, fur handling, winter birding, snowshoeing and tracking, fly tying, cross-country skiing, winter survival and winter camping are classes available at Lake Metigoshe. Cost of the workshop is $135.
A second deer taken from unit 3F2 during the 2013 deer gun season has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
A hunter shot the adult whitetail buck in western Grant County and submitted the head for testing as part of the hunter-harvested surveillance program. Testing was performed at Michigan State University, and verification of initial tests results are pending from a national lab in Ames, Iowa. In addition, results from the remaining 3F2 samples, as well as all samples from the eastern third of the state, should be known in another month.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will have 172 any-deer bow licenses available to nonresidents in 2014.
The deadline for applying is March 1. A lottery will be held if more applications are received than licenses available. Any remaining licenses after March 1 will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis. Applicants can apply together as a party. A separate check is required for each application.
North Dakota citizens with an interest in supporting wildlife conservation programs are reminded to look for the Watchable Wildlife checkoff on the state tax form.
The 2013 state income tax form gives wildlife enthusiasts an opportunity to support nongame wildlife like songbirds and birds of prey, while at the same time contributing to programs that help everyone enjoy all wildlife.
Bruce Kreft, conservation biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department in Bismarck, received the agency's Director's Award for professional excellence during the Department's annual meeting Dec. 12 in Bismarck.
Terry Steinwand, Game and Fish director, said Kreft is the consummate professional and always represents the department with honor and dignity. "Bruce doesn't require direction or fanfare, and brings a great attitude to work every day," Steinwand said.
Courtney Sprenger, North Dakota Game and Fish Department district game warden stationed in Elgin, is the state's 2013 Wildlife Officer of the Year. Sprenger was honored recently by the Shikar-Safari Club International, a private conservation organization that annually recognizes outstanding wildlife officers in each state.
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==Things to keep in mind==
==Things to keep in mind==
Revision as of 11:48, 29 April 2011
Introduction to optical loss
When light travels through a substance, whether it's solid, liquid or gaseous, the intensity of the light is reduced; this is called optical loss. Measuring how much the light intensity is reduced at different wavelengths is called spectrophotometry, and can be used to determine many different properties of the substance, such as concentration of a solution or opacity of a glass pane. To do this, you need a photometer, which is essentially a combination of a light source of known intensity and wavelength, and a light sensor which measures how much light was absorbed and/or scattered by the sample over a fixed gap.
Spectrophotometry may also be applied to gain information about biological processes. Especially in microbiology, where most work is done with organisms that are too small and too numerous to easily count individually, optical loss is often used as a proxy for cell density or biomass. For instance, measuring the light absorption of chlorophyll in an algae vat may be used as a direct proxy for the algal density.
In industrial production systems, such as large-scale alcohol fermentation, insulin production, etc., biological growth is often monitored using in-line ('live') sensors, which measure optical loss, usually at wavelengths in the near-infrared (NIR) or IR-A spectrum (700-1400nm). The inspiration for the home-built NIR probe described in the rest of this wiki is a single-channel NIR sensor from Optek, which emits and detects at 850nm, and is designed for in-line monitoring of yeast fermentations.
Building a NIR probe
When building a near-infrared sensor, the first important choice is that of light source (photoemitter) and sensor (photosensor). Important considerations include:
- what's the appropriate wavelength(s) for your purposes?
- how much circuitry do you want to build?
- how much can you afford to invest?
Discussion of pros/cons of different source/sensor pairs
This design uses an 850nm plastic LED (Everlight HIR204 - $0.43) as the photoemitter, and a matching phototransistor (Optek OP506B - $0.80) as the photosensor; the required circuitry is limited to a couple of resistors.
What you need
- 1x IR LED
- 1x Phototransistor
- 1x 1kΩ resistor
- 1x 100Ω resistor
- 1x Soldering iron + solder
- 1x 3/4" / 20mm acrylic tube
- 4x 3/4" / 20mm acrylic discs
- 1x 1" / 25mm PVC pipe
- Acrylic cement (thick)
- Wire
- Aquarium glue/hot glue
Optional: cell-phone motor (BubbleShaker Technology)
How to build it
Step 1: Cutting acrylic
Start by cutting the 3/4" acrylic tube into 2 x 1" / 25mm pieces (A1 and A2) and 1 x 3/4" / 20mm piece (A3). Make a slit in A3 approx. 1/3" / 8mm wide by making two cuts that run the entire length of the tube. Acrylic is very easy to cut with a small rotor tool (e.g. a Dreml), but you can also use a small hacksaw. Files or fine sandpaper are good for smoothing rough edges and planing not-quite-perpendicular cuts.
Step 2: Soldering wires
Cut the leads on both the LED and the phototransistor about 30% shorter. Solder wires onto the leads, and make sure to note down what colour wire you use for the different leads! These are polar devices and won't work if you wire them up backwards. We suggest you use red for both power / emitter leads, black for the ground lead on the LED, and white for the collector lead on the phototransistor.
Step 3: Assembling
Drill a 3mm (or as close as you can get with Imperial units) hole in the center of each acrylic disc. Take two of the discs, carefully lay down a narrow line of acrylic cement around the holes, then insert the LED and phototransistor in the holes, and set them aside to cure. When the acrylic discs with the LED and phototransistor have properly cured, thread A1 and A2 on one set of wires each, lay a fat line of acrylic cement along the edge of both discs and press A1 and A2 firmly into place, creating a lidded, cylindrical chamber for the leads. Leave to cure. Reinforce the seal by laying down another line of acrylic cement along the joint between the tubes and the discs.
Step 4: Waterproofing
Waterproof the chamber completely by filling it out with aquarium / hot glue, then immediately string the last two acrylic discs onto the wires and glue them to the tubes with acrylic cement. Leave to cure, then reinforce the seal from the outside with another line of acrylic cement.
Step 5: Spacing
Once the aquarium / hot glue has cured properly, take A3, place it between the two acrylic discs holding the LED and photoresistor, and glue the three parts together with acrylic cement, then leave to dry.
Step 6: Blocking sunlight with PVC (optional)
Since sunlight includes lots of infrared radiation, it may be necessary to shield your probe. A very simple way of doing this is to take a dark plastic cup that's deep enough to fit the whole assembly, drill a small hole in the bottom of the cup, then turn it upside down, pull the wires through the hole, and use the cup for an inverse lampshade.
Step 7: Building the BubbleShakerTM (optional)
Things to keep in mind
Biologically inert materials
Food safety
Aquarium glue vs hot glue
Interfacing and measuring
After assembling the probe, you'll need to wire it up to some kind of microcontroller; we've used an Arduino clone called BoArduino, and will use that as example, but you can use any type you like. In order to program the the BoArduino, you have to download and install the Arduino software first. Once this is done, you're ready to connect your board - in some cases, this requires a special cable, so make sure you've got the right one! Now open the Arduino program, copy the code in the box below into the blank sketch, and hit upload. Open the serial monitor to see the print-out of the data being transmitted from the probe, which ought to look more or less like this: @NIR:0:0.99$.
// // This Arduino sketch reads our custom NIR absorption sensor. // // This code is part of the BioBridge Project. // // // author: rolf van widenfelt (c) 2011 // // revision history: // // apr 25, 2011 - rolf // identify this probe. (needed for BioBoard protocol) // // apr 17, 2011 - rolf // created. // ADC code seems to work.. still need to connect actual sensor and document connections! // // // code modification: // you will need to set some calibration points... (FILL THIS IN!!) // // description: // this sketch will periodically output a short string that contains the NIR transmittance // along with some other fields that indicate which probe (0) is being read. // the string should look like this for a transmittance of 99% : // // @NIR:0:0.99$ // // this is output periodically. (in this case, every 5 sec) // // In the case of an error, an "E" message is output instead of the temperature, like this: // // @TC:0:EBADVALUE$ // // note that these data packets are output to the serial console window at 19200 baud. // also, when the sketch first starts, it identifies the software and version, like this: // // @ID:BIOBOARD:TESTBATCH1:1.1$ // // that's it! // static const char ProjectName[] = "TESTBATCH1"; const int analogNIRPin = A0; // analog input pin that the NIR phototransistor circuit is connected to // CALIBRATION SETTINGS #define IMAX 4.9 /* max phototransistor current with IR LED on (no obstructions, just 1inch air) */ #define IMIN 0.02 /* dark current (NOTUSED) */ #define VMAX 5.0 /* arduino voltage = 5.0v */ #define ADCMAX 1023 /* highest ADC value */ #define IMAXI (ADCMAX*IMAX/VMAX) /* highest ADC value we expect from our sensor */ #define IMAXI_INV (1.0/(ADCMAX*IMAX/VMAX)) /* inverse (this avoids a divide during runtime) */ void setup(void) { // start serial port //Serial.begin(9600); Serial.begin(19200); Serial.print("\n\r@ID:BIOBOARD:"); Serial.print(ProjectName); Serial.print(":0.1$\n\r"); // configure ADC to use external 5v reference (default) analogReference(DEFAULT); // just in case, throw away 1st ADC read (void) analogRead(analogNIRPin); // identify this probe Serial.print("@PR:NIR:0$\n\r"); } void printNIR() { int sensor = analogRead(analogNIRPin); float sample = IMAXI_INV * sensor; if (sensor > IMAXI + 10) { Serial.print("EBADVALUE"); // oops, value is clearly wrong, so output an "E" message. } else { Serial.print(sample); } // XXX debug - we output raw ADC value as well Serial.print(":"); Serial.print(sensor); } void loop(void) { delay(2500); Serial.print("@NIR:0:"); printNIR(); Serial.print("$\n\r"); }
How to find out whether your measurements are accurate (do you need to know?)
How to adjust (distance, resistance)
Making it cooler
Tuning to different substances
Multi-channel measurements
Geeking out
In chemistry and biology, many different methods are employed to analyze the properties of a given substance. One method that is extremely useful in both disciplines is spectrophotometry, the analysis of reflection or transmission properties of a material as a function of wavelength.
techniques can be split into in-line ('live')
- counting cells in a special microscope chamber,
- marking cells with radioactive isotopes and counting scintillation events
and off-line
- incubating on solid substrates overnight and counting the resulting colonies
- desiccating samples to measure total dry organic matter
None of these techniques are very useful for monitoring biological growth over time, however, so photometry is often used instead.
Reduction of light passing through a mass
Absorbance vs. scattering
- Optek
- Wikipedia
- TruCell .pdf


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Launched: November 16, 2000 aboard an Ariane 5 launcher
from Kourou, French Guiana.
Uplink U-band 435.550 to 435.800 MHz CW/SSB
L1-band 1269.250 to 1269.500 MHz CW/SSB
L2-band 1268.325 to 1268.575 MHz CW/SSB
Downlink S-band 2401.225 - 2401.475 MHz CW/SSB
K-band 24,048.025 - 24,048.275 MHz CW/SSB
For the current transponder operating schedule visit http://www.amsat-dl.org/journal/adlj-p3d.htm
Status: Currently, the U/L-1 to S-2 passband is active (various times)
AO-40 experimental transponder operation started on May 5, 2001 at approximately 08:00 UTC when the U-band and L1-band uplinks were connected to the S-2 transmitter passband downlink via the matrix switch. Some 58 DXCC countries were QRV via AO-40 in 2001.
Ground stations capturing telemetry from AO-40 are asked to send a copy of the data to the AO-40 archive at email@example.com.
For the current transponder-operating schedule visit http://www.amsat-dl.org/journal/adlj-p3d.htm
[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA, AMSAT-DL and the ARRL for this information]
Worldwide packet uplink: 145.990 MHz
Region 1 voice uplink: 145.200 MHz
Region 2/3 voice uplink: 144.490 MHz
Worldwide downlink: 145.800 MHz
TNC callsign RS0ISS
The ARISS initial station was launched September 2000 aboard shuttle Atlantis.
ARISS is made up of delegates from major national amateur radio organizations, including AMSAT.
Status: Operational.
ISS packet activity has resumed. Although the mailbox function has been activated, ground stations are discouraged from using it. Currently, there is no computer hooked up to the packet system.
Recent ARISS school contacts included Astronaut Dan Bursch, KD5PNU, answering questions posed by 15 students from the Bordertown School in Bordertown, Australia. ARISS school contacts will resume in late June after the Expedition 5 crew of mission commander and U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, KC5ZTD, and Russian cosmonauts Valeri Korzun and Sergei Treschev settles in aboard ISS.
The latest ARISS announcements and successful school list is available at http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov
An archive of school contacts can be found at http://www.msnbc.com/news/505064.asp
NASA information on the ISS station can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/reference/radio/
The ISS daily crew schedule (which gives an idea when crew members have free time and may be available for amateur radio operations) can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines/2001/may/index.html
A detailed breakdown of the antenna installation with some great pictures and diagrams (depicting the entire ISS ham system including antennas) can be downloaded at http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov/EVAs/amsat01.pdf
U.S. callsign: NA1SS
Russian callsigns: RS0ISS, RZ3DZR
The QSL routes for stations working NA1SS aboard the International Space Station:
|U.S stations:
|Margie Bourgoin KB1DCO
Attn: ARISS Expedition-1 (or 2 or 3) QSL
ARRL, 225 Main Street
Newington, Connecticut 06111
|SASE required
|Canadian stations:
|Radio Amateurs of Canada
Attn: ARISS Expedition-1 (or 2 or 3) QSL
720 Belfast Road, Suite 217
Ottawa, Ontario K1G 0Z5
|European stations:
16, rue de la Vallee
91360 Epinay sur Orge, France
|SASE and 2 IRC's required
[ANS thanks Will Marchant, KC6ROL, and Jean-Louis Rault, F6AGR, for this information]
Uplink 21.210 to 21.250 MHz CW/SSB
Downlink 29.410 to 29.450 MHz CW/SSB
Beacon 29.408 MHz
Robot 29.454 MHz
Launched February 5, 1991 aboard a Russian Cosmos C launcher
Status: RS-12 was placed in Mode-K on February 19, 2002.
The latest information on RS-12 and RS-13 can be found on the AC5DK RS-12/13 Satellite Operators page:
[ANS thanks Kevin Manzer, AC5DK, for RS-12 information]
Uplink 21.260 to 21.300 MHz CW/SSB
Downlink 145.860 to 145.900 MHz CW/SSB
Beacon 145.860 MHz
Robot 145.908 MHz
Launched February 5, 1991 aboard a Russian Cosmos C launcher
Status: RS-13 was re-activated in Mode-T on February 19, 2002.
The latest information on RS-12 and RS-13 can be found on the AC5DK RS-12/13 Satellite Operators page at http://www.qsl.net/ac5dk/rs1213/rs1213.html
[ANS thanks Kevin Manzer, AC5DK, for this information]
Uplink 145.858 to 145.898 MHz CW/SSB
Downlink 29.354 to 29.394 MHz CW/SSB
Beacon 29.352 MHz (intermittent)
SSB meeting frequency 29.380 MHz (unofficial)
Launched December 26, 1994 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Semi-operational, Mode A (2m uplink, 10m downlink)
Dave, WB6LLO, has operating information for both RS-15 and RS-13 on his personal web site. In addition to satellite data, antenna information for mode A operation is also featured. The WB6LLO web site URL is http://home.san.rr.com/doguimont/uploads
Uplink 435.030 to 435.180 MHz CW/LSB
Downlink 145.975 to 145.825 MHz CW/USB
Beacon 145.810 MHz (unmodulated carrier)
Launched June 16, 1983 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
Don, KD4APP, reports that he has been able to hear the beacon recently.
Stacey Mills, W4SM, has more information about the satellite at http://www.cstone.net/~w4sm/AO-10.html
[ANS thanks Stacey Mills, W4SM, for his AO-10 status information and web site]
Uplink 145.850 MHz FM
Downlink 436.795 MHz FM
Launched September 26, 1993 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
Semi-operational, mode J.
The latest information on AO-27 indicates it is back on the air. AO-27 control operator Michael Wyrick, N3UC (former N4USI), had earlier reported AO-27 had been turned off to condition the batteries.
More information is available at http://www.ao27.org
An AO-27 question-and-answer page is available on the AMSAT-NA web site, with updates by Ray, W2RS: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/intro/ao27faq.html.
AO-27 uses a method called Timed Eclipse Power Regulation (TEPR) to regulate the on-board batteries. In simple terms, TEPR times how long the satellite has been in an eclipse (or in the sun) and decides what subsystems to turn on or off. The AO-27 pages on the AMSAT-NA web site include an explanation of TEPR AO-27 operations at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/ao27.html
On Saturday, March 30, 2002 Chuck, KM4NZ, reset the TEPR states on AO-27 as follows:
[ANS thanks AMRAD for AO-27 information]
Uplink 145.975 MHz FM
Downlink 435.070 MHz FM
Launched January 22, 1990 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
Tim, KG8OC, features UO-14 information on the Michigan AMSAT web site, see http://www.qsl.net/kg8oc
Ray, W2RS, has revised the AO-27 FAQ on http://www.amsat.org/amsat/intro/ao27faq.html to include information on UO-14.
[ANS thanks Chris Jackson, G7UPN / ZL2TPO, for UO-14 information]
Uplink 145.850 MHz
Downlink 436.775 MHz
Broadcast Callsign SASAT1-11
Launched: September 26, 2000 aboard a converted Soviet ballistic missile from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
One of two ham satellites from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia built by the Space Research Institute at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.
The spacecraft is operating in Mode-J, currently configured as an analog FM voice repeater. The spacecraft will operate in this mode intermittently, as power and spacecraft experiments permit.
SO-41's downlink RF power is 1 watt with left-hand circular polarization. The uplink antenna (located on top of the spacecraft) is linear in polarization.
[ANS thanks Turki Al-Saud for this information]
Uplink 145.900 to 146.000 MHz CW/LSB
Downlink 435.800 to 435.900 MHz CW/USB
Launched February 7, 1990 by an H1 launcher from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan
FO-20 is in mode JA continuously.
Tak, JA2PKI, reported FO-20 control station operators believe that the UVC (Under Voltage Controller) now is regulating the transponder. The controller monitors battery voltage and tries to protect the batteries from over discharge.
[ANS thanks Kazu Sakamoto, JJ1WTK for the FO-20 status reports]
The JARL FO-29 command station has announced the following operation schedule of FO-29:
|through June 30, 2002
Mineo, JE9PEL, has updated his FO-29 satellite telemetry analysis program. The software will automatically analyze all digital telemetry from the satellite such as current, voltage and temperature. The JE9PEL FO-29/software update is available at http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/
[ANS thanks Kazu Sakamoto, JJ1WTK, for the FO-29 status reports]
Downlink 437.095 MHz 1200 baud AX-25 AFSK
Uplink 145.945 MHz UI digipeater
Launched: September 30, 2001 aboard an Athena-1 rocket from the Kodiak, Alaska launch complex.
Status: Operational
Student built Sapphire was launched through the U.S. Naval Academy Satellite program. Its primary missions are sensor experiments, a camera, and voice synthesizer. For more information, visit the Sapphire web site at http://students.cec.wustl.edu/~sapphire/sapphire_overview.html
[ANS thanks Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, for PCSat information]
Uplink/downlink 145.827 MHz 1200 baud AX-25 AFSK via PCSAT-1
Aux/Uplink 435.250 MHz 9600 baud via PCSAT (off)
APRS Downlink 144.390 MHz (Region 2)
Launched: September 30, 2001 aboard an Athena-1 rocket from the
Kodiak Alaska launch complex.
Status: Operational
WB4APR reports PCSat "appears to be in great shape even though it has now entered another maximum eclipse period for about a month. The only restriction at this time is that we ask for no unattended overnight beacons during May." Control operators added a new operating mode to PCSat that resulted in its packet callsign changing. The new callsign "NODIGI" will be used when the digipeater is off. All other calls remain the same.
PCSat is a 1200-baud APRS digipeater designed for use by stations using hand-held or mobile transceivers. Downlinks feed a central web site http://pcsat.aprs.org. The APRS-equipped PCSat was built by midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy under the guidance of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR.
A new version of PCSAT.EXE has been posted at ftp://tapr.org/dosstuff/APRSdos/pcsat017.zip
For more information, visit the PCSat web site at http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/pcsat.html
[ANS thanks Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, for PCSat information]
Uplink 145.850 or 145.925 MHz 9600 baud FSK
Downlink 437.325 MHz
Broadcast callsign: MYSAT3-11
Launched September 26, 2000 aboard a converted Soviet ballistic missile from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Status: Operational at 38k4 baud FSK
TiungSat-1 is Malaysia's first micro-satellite and in addition to commercial land and weather imaging payloads will offer FM and FSK amateur radio communication.
TiungSat-1, named after the mynah bird of Malaysia, was developed as a collaborative effort between the Malaysian government and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
Uplink 145.900 MHz FM
Downlink 435.120 MHz FM 9600 Baud FSK
Broadcast callsign: UOSAT5-11
Launched July 17, 1991 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
Jim, AA7KC, reports UO-22 is operational with good downlink efficiency.
More information on the satellite is available at http://www.sstl.co.uk/
[ANS thanks Chris Jackson, G7UPN/ZL2TPO, for UO-22 information and Jim Weisenberger, AA7KC, for status information]
Downlink 145.825 MHz FM, 1200 baud PSK
Beacon 2401.500 MHz
Launched March 1, 1984 by a Delta-Thor rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California
During the past year OSCAR-11 has operated continuously on both VHF and S band, with very little ground control needed. During the period 08-March 08-April 2002, consistent signals have been received from the 145.826 MHz beacon. The internal temperatures have decreased slightly. They are now 3.2C and 1.6C for battery and telemetry electronics respectively. The battery voltage observed during daylight passes has also decreased slightly. The average value observed was 13.6 with a range of 13.3 to 13.9 volts. The spin period has drifted between 233 and 315 seconds. The attitude is controlled solely by the gravity boom gradient.
The operating schedule is unchanged.
ASCII status (210 seconds)
ASCII bulletin (60 seconds)
BINARY SEU (30 seconds)
ASCII TLM (90 seconds)
ASCII WOD (120 seconds)
ASCII bulletin (60 seconds)
BINARY ENG (30 seconds)
The ASCII bulletin is currently a static message, detailing modes and frequencies of all the amateur radio satellites.
More information on OSCAR-11 is available at http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/clivew/
[ANS thanks Clive Wallis, G3CWV, for OSCAR-11 status information]
Uplink 145.900, 145.920, 145.940, 145.860 MHz FM,
1200 bps Manchester FSK
Downlink 437.025 MHz SSB, 1200 bps RC-BPSK 1200 Baud PSK
Beacon 2401.1428 MHz.
Broadcast callsign: PACSAT-11
Launched January 22, 1990 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
Semi-operational. Digipeater on.
Telemetry (state of the batteries at the end of a dark orbit) is as follows:
Uptime is 826/17:09:18. Time is Sun May 19 20:54:41 2002 +10V Bus 10.050 V +Z Array V 0.102 V Rx Temp -9.078 D +X (RX) temp 3.629 D Bat 1 V 1.218 V Bat 2 V 1.145 V Bat 3 V 1.170 V Bat 4 V 1.234 V Bat 5 V 1.204 V Bat 6 V 1.194 V Bat 7 V 1.190 V Bat 8 V 1.223 V Bat 1 Temp 4.839 D Bat 2 Temp 5.444 D Baseplt Temp 4.839 D PSK TX RF Out 0.781 W PSK TX HPA Tmp -4.842 D +Y Array Temp -5.448 D RC PSK HPA Tmp -24.811 D RC PSK BP Temp -1.212 D +Z Array Temp -13.919 D IAry= 0.000 IBatCh=-0.320 Ifb= 0.161 I+10V= 0.159 TX:1006 BCR:78 PWRC:36D BT:1E WC:25 EDAC:92
A new WOD collection of current graphics along with general information and telemetry samples can be found at http://www.telecable.es/personales/ea1bcu
[ANS thanks Miguel A. Menendez, EA1BCU, for AO-16 status information.]
Uplink 145.875, 145.900, 145.925, 145.950 MHz FM
Downlink 435.822 MHz SSB, 1200 Baud PSK
Broadcast callsign: ITMSAT-11
Launched September 26, 1993 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
Digipeater function is on, open for APRS users.
[ANS thanks ITAMSAT Project Manager Alberto E. Zagni, I2KBD, for this information]
Uplink 145.850, 145.900 MHz FM
Downlink 435.175 MHz FM, 9600 Baud FSK
Broadcast callsign: HL01-11
Launched August 10, 1992 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
Status: Non-operational
Jim, AA7KC, reports that KO-23's downlink transmitter continues in a non-operational status.
[ANS thanks Jim Weisenberger, AA7KC, and KyungHee Kim, HL0ENJ, for KO-23 status information]
Uplink 145.980 MHz FM
Downlink 436.500 MHz FM, 9600 Baud FSK
Broadcast callsign: HL02-11
Launched September 26, 1993 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
Jim, AA7KC, reports KO-25 is essentially non-operational due to very low downlink efficiencies. Jim reports there have been a few contacts displayed on the satellite, but downlink efficiency continues to be poor. Robert, G8ATE, reports he was able to hear KO-25 recently but was unable to decode any telemetry due to weak downlink.
[ANS thanks Jim Weisenberger, AA7KC, for this information]
Uplink 145.960 MHz, 9600 baud FSK
Downlink 437.025, 437.400 MHz, 9600 baud FSK
Broadcast callsign: UO121-11
Launched April 21, 1999 by a Russian launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Status: Unknown
UO-36 carries a number of imaging payloads, digital store-and-forward communications and mode L/S transponders.
Paul, KB2SHU, tells ANS that UO-36 has not been operational (over North America) since late July 2001. In addition, Sangat, 9M2SS, reports he has not copied UO-36 since July 30, 2001.
The VK5HI viewer shareware for UO-36 is available on the AMSAT-NA web site at ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/software/win32/display/ccddsp97-119.zip
Further information on UO-36 is available from: http://www.sstl.co.uk/
[ANS thanks Chris G7UPN/ZL2TPO, and the University of Surrey, for this information]
Uplink 145.925 MHz 9600 baud FSK
Downlink 436.925 MHz 9600 baud FSK
Broadcast callsign: TMSAT1-11
Launched July 10, 1998 by a Zenit rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Status: Non-operational, no data downlinked since December 18, 2000
Chris G7UPN, (UoSAT operations manager) reports the following to ANS:
The TO-31 downlink will be off over most areas, with the exception of Europe and Thailand.
ProcMail V2.00G has been released by G7UPN. This software permits the processing of image files from TO-31. It has been posted to the AMSAT-NA FTP site at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/software/win32/wisp
Many of the high-resolution color images transmitted by TMSAT are compressed using a UoSAT compression format. This format is supported by the VK5HI CCD display program.
[ANS thanks Chris Jackson, G7UPN/ZL2TPO, for TO-31 status information]
Uplink 145.840, 145.860, 145.880,
145.900 MHz 1200 bps Manchester FSK
Downlink 437.150 MHz SSB, 1200 bps RC-BPSK
CW Downlink 437.125 MHz
Broadcast callsign: LUSAT-11
Launched January 22, 1990 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
The CW beacon is sending eight telemetry channels and one status channel on 437.126 MHz. No BBS service is available. The digipeater is not active.
Telemetry is as follows:
Time is Wed May 19 21:01:00 2002
CW-Code: aun ada av4 ade au4 a6u a6v ae6 5V-reg.: 4.93 V 8.5V-reg: 8.74 V 10V-Bat: 11.58 V 10V-Curr: 113.4 mA TX-Pwr : 0.957 W TX-Temp.: 0.25 ?C +Z-Sol.: 24.45 V Box-Temp: 4.27 ?C
CW-Code: aun ada ave ade aue a6u a6v ae6 5V-reg.: 4.93 V 8.5V-reg: 8.74 V 10V-Bat: 11.58 V 10V-Curr: 113.4 mA TX-Pwr : 0.957 W TX-Temp.: -0.11 ?C +Z-Sol.: 24.45 V Box-Temp: 3.92 ?C
CW-Code: aun ada av6 ad4 au6 a64 a6v ae6 5V-reg.: 4.93 V 8.5V-reg: 8.74 V 10V-Bat: 11.58 V 10V-Curr: 114.8 mA TX-Pwr : 0.947 W TX-Temp.: -0.46 ?C +Z-Sol.: 24.45 V Box-Temp: 3.56 ?C
General information and telemetry samples can be found at http://www.telecable.es/personales/ea1bcu
[ANS thanks Miguel A. Menendez, EA1BCU, for LO-19 status information.]
Uplink to be released
Downlink 436.075 MHz
Broadcast Callsign SASAT2-11
Launched September 26, 2000 aboard a converted Soviet ballistic missile from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Status: Unknown. ANS has received no additional information.
When/if operational, SaudiSat-1B will operate as 9600-baud digital store-and-forward systems as well analog FM repeater mode capability. One of two new ham satellites from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia built by the Space Research Institute at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.
Launched February 23, 1999 by a Delta II rocket from
Vandenberg Air Force Base in California
Status: Non-operational
The SunSat team released the following statement, dated February 1, 2001:
We regret to announce that the last communication with SunSat from our ground station at the Electronic Systems Laboratory at Stellenbosch University took place recently. We are certain, after having performed several tests since the last contact, that an irreversible, physical failure has occurred on the satellite. It is therefore unlikely that we will have any further contact with SunSat, apart from the occasional visual sighting by telescope!
When it was operational the SunSat package included 1200 and 9600 baud digital store-and-forward capability and a voice 'parrot' repeater system in addition to Mode B/J operation with two VHF and two UHF transmit-receive systems.
For more information on SunSat, visit http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za/
[ANS thanks Garth Milne ZR1AFH, for this information]
Downlink 435.225 MHz, HDLC telemetry
Launched July 10, 1998 by a Russian Zenit rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Last reported, the satellite does transmit a 9600-baud burst every 30 seconds (the GO-32 beacon sends one short telemetry status transmission of 44 bytes) and upon request the complete telemetry buffer.
ANS has no further information.
Uplink/downlink frequency (listed on the PanSat web site)
436.500 MHz
Launched October 30, 1998 by the Shuttle Discovery
Status: unknown
The satellite is not available for general uplink transmissions.
The Naval Postgraduate School developed PanSat. At the time of launch, PanSat spread-spectrum digital transponders were to be available to amateur radio operators along with software to utilize this technology.
The satellite is still operating, however, the spread spectrum packet radio portion never took place. The spacecraft is now beyond it's initial 2-year mission life, but telemetry records are still being downloaded.
For more information, visit the official PANSAT web site at:
PanSat was the featured cover article in the July/August 1999 issue of the AMSAT-NA Journal (written by KD6DRA and N7HPR).
ANS has no further information.
Downlink 145.825 MHz FM, 1200 Baud AFSK
Beacon 2401.220 MHz
Launched January 22, 1990 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
DOVE stopped transmitting in March 1998. The 145.825 MHz and 2401.220 MHz downlinks are off the air and the satellite has not responded to ground station control.
ANS has no further information.
Downlink 437.104 MHz SSB,
1200 Baud PSK AX.25
Launched January 22, 1990 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
WO-18 has been in orbit for 11 years.
WO-18 was last reported to be in MBL mode after a software crash.
ANS has no further information.
Downlink 437.910 MHz FM 9600 Baud FSK
Launched October 24, 1998 by a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida
The satellite is not currently available for uplink transmissions and image and transponder recovery efforts have been unsuccessful.
SEDSAT-1 signifies Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (satellite number one).
SedSat-1 has downlinked months worth of telemetry data on the performance of its electrical power system parameters. The Nickel Metal Hydride batteries on the spacecraft were experimental and experienced some abuse due to a power negative situation. This information has provided NASA with useful information. With the exception of the imaging system and the use of the transponders, SedSat-1 has been judged a success.
For more information on SedSat-1 visit the satellite web site at http://www.seds.org/sedsat
ANS has no further information.
ANS would like to thank Mike Seguin, N1JEZ, ANS principal satellite investigator, for helping provide current satellite information for ANS.
Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to the ANS Editors at firstname.lastname@example.com, or to ANS Editor Dan James, NN0DJ, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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This week's AMSAT News Service bulletins were edited by AMSAT News Service editor Dan James, NN0DJ.


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Is there any way to mark a blog or a single post as private on Blogspot?
Put the posts that you want to be private into a separate blog, and make it private (Settings > Permissions).
If you want, put links to the private blog into the public one, along with comments about who is eligible to see it.
Just remember that private blogs may not be as secure as you think - see here for details: http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2008/02/restricting-your-blogs-readers-isnt-as.html
No, this is not possible.
You can only mark the whole blog as private or public, not individual posts.
I added the feature request on the Google forums for Blogger but I have seen it has been asked before.
For Blogger the only workaround would be to save the post as draft.
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Several area teams still seeking playoff berths
With two weeks left in the regular season, a few teams are still hoping to punch their state tournament tickets. Naugatuck and Sacred Heart are 7-10, needing one win with three games to go. Both Wamogo and Litchfield are 6-10 and need to split their final four games, and Kaynor Tech (7-9) needs one win to get in.
Right now, nine NVL teams are in the post-eason while six BL teams will be dancing.
As for the league tournaments, the BL takes the teams that make the state tournament and the league champion is the regular season champion.
The story is different in the NVL where the champion is determined in the tournament.
It looks like 10 teams from the NVL will earn a spot in the state tournament, with Naugatuck expected to join Kennedy, Torrington, Wolcott, Woodland, Watertown, Ansonia, Holy Cross, Crosby and St. Paul.
However, not all will qualify for the NVL tournament.
"We only take eight teams and it is based on their record in the NVL," explained Holy Cross coach Frank Lombardo.
Thomaston's suge: Is there anyone in the area playing better than Thomaston's senior point guard Maggie Eberhardt right now?
Eberhardt was superb against Lewis Mills with 29 points in a 66-50 victory Friday night and is averaging 16.7 ppg.
Part of Eberhardt's effectiveness is her in-and-out ability. She drilled four 3-pointers against the Spartans, mixed in with several dazzling driving layups accentuated with a scoop shot. It all caught Mills coach Joe Capitani's attention.
"That's just Maggie being Maggie and being a senior," said Capitani.
Capitani ought to know. Eberhardt had 24 points against the Spartans in the first meeting between the two teams, also won by Thomaston, 54-49
"She's 5-foot-3 but is playing 10 feet tall," said Bears coach Bob McMahon.
Back in charge: Al Ciarlo has already had one long tour of duty coaching at Shepaug Valley. He was not planning on a second tour. Well, he has one anyways, although it will only last a few weeks.
First-year coach Rico Brogna resigned last week, thrusting Ciarlo, who had been coaching the JV team, into the head coaching spot with six games left (at the time).
"It's basically been a smooth transition," said Ciarlo. "I've known most of these girls since sixth or seventh grade and they have been very receptive."
Shepaug lost to Wamogo, 51-27, Friday night and has struggled through a 2-14 season to date.
Shepaug had no comment on the circumstances surrounding Brogna's resignation.
Injury problems: No team has been hit with injuries like Sacred Heart this season.
The Hearts lost Mikyla Jacobs on the second day of practice and Dionne Parker, who broke a bone in her ankle against Kennedy. Amber Craig narrowly missed joining the list recently, spraining her MCL.
She did see some minutes Saturday in a win over Kaynor.
"If we had had everybody healthy I'd like to think we'd be up there (in the NVL race) and have a chance for the title," Hearts coach Ryan Sullivan said."
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Senior US defense officials are preparing to determine the future of a powerful, high-profile Pentagon organization that has spent nearly a decade developing equipment, tactics and training to defeat roadside bombs.
Last month, House lawmakers included a provision in their version of the 2014 defense authorization bill that requires the Defense Department to provide a report on the future of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO).
At a time when the Pentagon is facing hundreds of billions of dollars in spending cuts over the next decade, senior military leadership is said to be considering three options for restructuring JIEDDO: eliminate the organization; break up its duties among the military services through a process called disaggregation; or restructure JIEDDO into a smaller office within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).
In March 2011, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for the elimination of the JIEDDO director billet, a position held by four different three-star generals since 2008. The elimination would be "based upon deployment of forces and IED threat," Gates wrote in a memo at the time.
But supporters of JIEDDO said the counter-IED mission must be preserved through the Quadrennial Defense Review, which lays out future US military strategy and is due to Congress early next year. These supporters point to recent intelligence assessments that say terrorist networks will continue to use IEDs against the United States and its allies.
"We have to realize that the IED is part of our operational environment now," said retired Army Command Sgt. Maj.Todd Burnett, a former senior enlisted adviser to JIEDDO.
A May Center for Naval Analyses assessment of the "post-Afghanistan IED threat" found the IED will likely persist in the coming years.
With that in mind, JIEDDO supporters argue that the third option — creating a smaller office within OSD — would be best.
"DoD needs a small, scalable, agile, OSD-level organization with special authorities, ramp-up ability and flexible funding to implement and synchronize ... enduring counter-IED capabilities," a defense official said.
Since its birth in 2006, JIEDDO has spent about $20 billion, according to budget documents. Spending peaked near $4 billion in 2008, around the time of the surge in Iraq. Since then, spending has declined to about $2 billion. A scaled-down counter-IED organization would likely cost about one-fourth of that, a defense official said.
Officials close to JIEDDO said the office has already cut costs, and they point to the cancellation this year of a number of underperforming programs.
These cancellations have allowed the office to reinvest more than $289 million in training and to purchase reconnaissance robots and bomb-detection equipment. The JIEDDO office is expected to cut 22 percent of its staff by September, a reduction expected to save $163 million.
The majority of the money spent by JIEDDO has gone toward what it calls defeating the device, or purchasing systems and equipment to detect or protect soldiers from IEDs. This includes purchases of robots, electronic jammers, vehicles and even aerostats.
The equipment includes both US and foreign-made systems, such as more than 800 British-built Self-Protection Adaptive Roller Kits, giant rollers that can be mounted on vehicles to detect roadside bombs
The rest of the funding has gone toward intelligence used to go after IED networks and training equipment.
The Options on the Table
In January, the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, a panel that vets military requirements, said the Pentagon must maintain counter-IED capabilities, including the ability to identify threat networks that employ or facilitate IEDs, detect bombs and components, prevent or neutralize bombs, mitigate explosive device efforts, distribute bomb-related data across the the community of interest and train personnel in counter-IED capabilities.


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April 6, 2013
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Every 2 minutes, someone is sexually assaulted in the United States. Let that sink in a moment. Every 2 minutes....
Also, we must stop thinking that because a man is old, that somehow he's automatically "safe." It's just irresponsible to endanger kids by assuming an adult is "harmless" simply because he or she may be losing hair, wearing glasses, using hearing aids or walking with a cane. These can be signs of advancing age, but they are not signs that an individual is safe around kids.
It is extremely rare that a child predator has only one victim. Child predators need to be kept far away from kids forever. So let's hope that every person who saw, suspects or may has been harmed by anyone, will find the courage and strength to speak up and contact police, no matter how long ago the abuse happened. Your silence only hurts, and by speaking up there is a chance for healing, exposing the truth, and therefore protecting others. Child sex abuse thrives in secrecy and secret systems that allow it to continue to this day, Judy Jones, SNAP "Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests" 636-4
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Thank you for this article: April is child abuse prevention month, children (boys and girls) deserve to be safe. Something to keep in mind- Child predators are very cunning and manipulative. They know every trick on how to groom, threaten, lie, and put the fear of god into their victims and sometimes even their family members. They also appear to do a lot of goods things, they can be very charismatic and you may think they would never harm a child. They have to be this way, in order to not get caught and to continue to abuse We must overcome the dangerous myth that because someone is successful or warm or caring, he or she "couldn't have done that!
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Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
After the recent announcement that Gettysburg: the Tide Turns is coming soon to PC, we received a number of queries on the current status of the iOS version.
Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2016 by Daniele Meneghini
Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe is the ground-breaking next step in the highly acclaimed Strategic Command series of turn based strategy games.
A Return to Hexes
Our aim with the Strategic Command series is to make attractive, playable and historical games. Our aim for this release is to make a game that will provide one of the best strategic level re-creations of 20th century warfare, while also being a whole lot of fun to play.
The first and possibly biggest decision for us was to return the series to using hexes rather than tiles. There are pros and cons to both, but it was clear that the majority of those who expressed a preference preferred hexes, and we didn't disagree. So hexes are back!
Accessible and Entertaining Historical Games
The concept behind our games is that they should be easy and fun to play, while also being fully immersed in their historical setting.
So combat is quick to carry out, simply click on your units to move/attack. German units can be near Warsaw in no time at all!
Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 by Daniele Meneghini
Middle East! Once a place of advanced civilizations, now is a land plagued by dozens of cruel conflicts. Technology has made possible for small armies to deliver devastating blows to unprepared enemies and, as a consequence, new military canons have been introduced, innovating the entire warfare.
Campaign Series: Middle East 1948-1985 is a turn-based, tactical wargame that focuses on conflicts in the Middle East and today it has received its first major update!
Version 1.02 is now available and it brings a lot of improvements and incredible additions! The graphics have been overhaul improved (in both 3D and 2D mode), several new scenarios have been introduced, the Ode to Arab-Israeli Wars scenario mod has been included, and more!
Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
Prepare for the battle which shaped the fate of America: Gettysburg: the Tide Turns is coming soon on PC and Steam!
Gettysburg: The Tide Turns, is a turn-based wargame where players will be able to take command of Union or Confederate forces in the iconic battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863.
Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 by Daniele Meneghini
Thirty Years' War has been updated to version 1.01 and this update it's very huge!
A lot of improvements and bug fixes have been added, enhancing the game's experience significantly!
Among all the changes, now the cost for Protestant Artillery have been reduced, the AI behaviour during winter months is improved (now she can look for a city to pass the winter months if she has supply problems) and now during sieges you have to be careful about the "desease event"!
Posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
Fellow Warhammer 40,000 fans and wargamers, great news! The beta for the newly announced Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon - Da Orks is now LIVE!
Posted: Friday, June 17, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
Great news!
A few games from our catalog are getting a big discount on Bundlestars!
Check them out, the discounts are there for a limited time only!
Posted: Friday, June 17, 2016 by Daniele Meneghini
Black clouds are gathering over the horizon. For the second time in less than thirty years, Europe is on the brink of another terrible conflict. There is no more room for diplomacy, and mobilization orders have been sent in every nation.
Which side will you choose when the time comes?
Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe is a deeply immersive turn based strategy game covering the greatest conflict in modern history, with a heavy focus on realism and global cooperation.
The game is about to enter Beta and you can help in giving the final touches by applying here!
In the meantime, feast your eyes on this full set of screenshots, featuring Normandy before D-Day, Italian troops in the Mediterranean Sea, US fleet on patrol and more!
Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2016 by Daniele Meneghini
The expansion for the acclaimed real-time wargame Scourge of War: Waterloo is finally here!
Scourge of War: Quatre Bras will put you in command of the French forces of the Armée du Nord, or the British and their allies led by the Duke of Wellington, in the battle that more than others influenced the outcome of Waterloo!
It's up to you now! Will you fight to change history?
Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
Hello guys. We have big news for all Polaris Sector fans.
The developers are working hard on a major update and would welcome any kind of ideas and suggestions. We need your help!
Posted: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
You fought on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Order of Battle: Pacific, but now the war is global!
Order of Battle: World War II, formerly known as Order of Battle: Pacific, is a bigger project with a wider scope and the goal of featuring multiple fronts of World War II, and it is OUT NOW!
Posted: Monday, June 13, 2016 by Daniele Meneghini
Good news! Victory and Glory has been updated to version 1.0.1, bringing several improvements and bug fixes!
Among all, now there is no activation cost for moving Generals, the strategic AI has been drastically improved and Russia is more aggressive than before!
Take a look at the full list of changes below!
You can download the patch from here
Get more information of Victory and Glory from its product page!
Liked the game? Leave a review on Steam!
Posted: Thursday, June 09, 2016 by Daniele Meneghini
Thirty Years' War, probably one of the most accurate wargames depicting the dark period of the wars of religion that spread out across all Europe for the first half of the XVII century, is finally available on Steam!
Fight with the Catholics or the Protestants in over three decades of merciless war for the control of the Holy Roman Empire, but build your alliances carefully: who is your friend today could be your worst enemy in the future!
With all the major nations playable, 5 historical scenarios and with over 160 different types of units at your disposal, Thirty Years' War recreates the complexity of this period, from the first logistic systems to the intricacy of the diplomatic relations between the powers involved!
Posted: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 by Daniele Meneghini
NorbSoftDev, developers of the acclaimed real-time wargame Scourge of War series are ready to reveal that their first expansion for Scourge of War: Waterloo will be available on June, 16th!
From the Product Page:
"Following and expanding on the scope of the base game, Scourge of War: Quatre Bras heavily focuses on realism about units, formations, tactics, weapon ranges and more.
Posted: Monday, June 06, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon - Da Orks is the second installment in the series of wargames about the wars for Armageddon, one of the most iconic conflicts in Warhammer 40,000 universe. In this hex-based, turn-based strategy game, you will lead the Orks alongside Ghazghkull Thraka, Mad Dok Grotsnik and other iconic characters, against the Imperial forces of the Armageddon Steel Legion and Space Marines from a variety of Chapters.
Posted: Friday, June 03, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
On June 6 1944 the Allied forces under the supreme command of Eisenhower launched the largest amphibious invasion in history. The goal was to land in France and finally liberate mainland Europe after so many years of Nazi occupation. Many men died on that day and performed the ultimate sacrifice in the name of freedom. One year later, fascism had been defeated and peace had been restored to the world.
Posted: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
Order of Battle fans, we have big news for you. The game previously known as Order of Battle: Pacific is being restructured into Order of Battle: World War II, a bigger project with a wider scope and the goal of featuring multiple fronts of World War II.
Posted: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
Today it's the 1st of June, and on this day we remember the first land engagement of the American Civil War.
On this day, 155 years ago, about 210 virginian soldiers were occupying Fairfax Court House, about 14 miles west of Washington D.C.; they were under the command of Lt. Col. Richard S. Ewell.
Posted: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
Scourge of War fans and players, we have a treat for you.
We are releasing a few screenshots of the upcoming expansion to the critically acclaimed real time wargame Scourge of War: Waterloo, Quatre Bras.
Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2016 by Alberto Casulini
All-time classic Panzer Corps is coming back with three new expansions for a total of fifty new scenarios. Each one has its own unique theatre of operations and scenarios, but all linked in a colossal branching campaign with complete unit carry over!
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Back in Diablo II, the second you stepped foot outside the Rogue's Encampment, you were in the randomly generated marshes of the Blood Moor.
But my experience in Diablo III has been different - New Tristram, and indeed, the areas surrounding new Tristram seem to be identical for every character I start.
Which areas are randomly generated? Can I tell if I'm in a randomly generated area or not?


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I am modifiyng some macros to enforce a section style that should end with a full stop. The full stop is added automatically, but sometimes people add the full stop and I get two. How can I modify the code to detect the punctuation and add it only if it is needed? I guess I need to use futurelet, but I don't know how to use it.
Firstly it is always best to post a MWE. As you have not posted one I am posting a general answer, for exact formatting of the section you will need to add your own formatting commands.
You don't need a
The rest of the code are minor details. Here is the MWE.
If you want the macro to work both for
and test with
You can also visit the link quoted by Philippe Goutet in the comments below.
The problem can be solved at a macro level without 'meddling' with the space factor.