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To take advantage of Private Tours service type you will have to set at least one Car through Car management "Use for Private tours?: Yes".
Private tours service type will automatically appear in the Service type drop down at the front-end if you have at least one car set to use for private tours and at least one Private tour created.
After you Save the car, go to the Private tours section.
Click on "New" button in the top left corner of the page.
Name of the tour: - this is the name of the tour as it will appear at the booking form drop-down selection of tours after a user selects Service type > Private tours. Example: Windsor castle
Published: Yes/No - before your Private tour goes live you can keep Published: No so it is not shown at the front end.
Number of hours: - indicates how long it takes to complete the Private tour.
Next, select the POI for Pick up.
You will see a list of all cars set up "Use for Private tours?: Yes" with a brief information on the number of passengers and suitcases they can accommodate.
There is a "Price" field at the end of each Car section. Here you specify the Price of the Private tour for this car.
Note: Private tour pricing is for the whole vehicle, not price per passenger.
Description: - you can use this rich text area to write a description about your Private tour. Description will be displayed instead of the Google Map at the front end booking form.
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Taxi Booking for Drivers - no app needed, Accept of Decline jobs through email.
Drivers extension for Taxi Booking adds Drivers management and new functionality.
Taxi Booking Drivers is a separate package that you need to install in addition to Taxi Booking for Joomla extension on your website.
After you install the extension you can go to your back end > Components > Taxi Booking Drivers.
There are 2 sections:
1. Settings:
Turn On automatic Driver notification: Yes/No - when you set Yes here Drivers will automatically receive Order notifications to Accept or Decline jobs through their email.
Send email to next driver in (mins): - Enter wait time in minutes. If the Driver does not Accept of Decline a Job in the time frame you set here then the next driver in line will automatically receive a notification email. After that time has passed the first driver will see an Error message if clicks on the Accept or Decline buttons in their job notification email.
Note: Don't forget to Save the screen if you have made any changes.
2. Drivers - this section will only display a list of all your drivers. Clicking on a driver will take you to Users > Edit user screen where you can edit some of Driver's details.
After you install Taxi Booking for Drivers in Car management you will be able to assign each Car to only one Driver.
If a driver is already assigned, he/she will disappear form Drop down list for other cars.
When a new Order is submitted at the front end Drivers who are assigned to the same Car type will receive a chain email.
Car with lowest ID receives the first email and if Driver clicks Accept, Order is assigned to him/her.
If Driver clicks Decline the Order is emailed to next Car ID in the chain.
Order is Waiting before Accepted by the Driver, after he/she accepts status changes to Accepted - emails sent to customer and admin(s).
To get your system sending Accept/Decline emails to the next driver in the driver chain (if a driver has not responded in the given time in your settings) you will have to add a Cron job to your Hosting control panel (contact your hosting support if adding cron jobs is not obvious or you have troubles with that setting). Your cron job should be triggered on every 5 mins and if you use "wget" it should look similar to:
*/5 * * * * wget -O /dev/null "http://YOURDOMAIN.COM/index.php?option=com_
Replace "YOURDOMAIN.COM" with your actual website.
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Due to Google Maps API changes on 16th fo June 2018, all websites using Google Maps API have to use Google Maps API keys.
You must get 2 separate keys from Google Developer Console.
Create or select a project.
Click on Enable APIs. Create a project and enable the following Google Maps APIs:
- Google Maps Directions API
- Google Maps Geocoding API
- Google Maps Geolocation API
- Google Maps JavaScript API
- Google Maps Places API for Web
Then go to Credentials > Create credentials > API key.
On the Credentials page, get an API key (and set the API key restrictions).
Note: If you have an existing unrestricted API key or a key with browser restrictions, you may use that key.
To prevent quota theft, secure your API key following these best practices.
You should restrict your API keys, you will see below options for restriction
1) None
2) HTTP referrers (websites) >> This will act as Browser API key
3) IP addresses (web servers, cron jobs, etc.) >> This will act as Server API key
4) Android apps
5) iOS apps
For Browser API key, you have to set as referrer your website's URL.
For Server key restriction select "IP addresses (web servers, cron jobs, etc.)" radio restriction. Here you have to add your Server IP address so the key can be used by your Server only.
You have to add these keys at Backend > Taxi Booking > Settings > Map settings.
It may take around 10 mins for those changes in Google Developer console to take effect.
Please make sure that you enter correct Browser and Server API keys at Taxi Booking > Settings > Map Settings.
Also please set "SSL Enabled?: Yes".
Other options in Taxi Booking > Settings > Map settings:
Show Map on Address search: Yes/No - if set to Yes, the Map will be shown when the Address search service type is selected by the customer.
Show Map on Special offers: Yes/No - if set to Yes, the Map will be shown when the Special offers service type is selected by the customer.
Show Map on Shuttles: Yes/No - if set to Yes, the Map will be shown when the Shuttles service type is selected by the customer. Note that no route will be shown when Shuttle stops are selected so it's best to leave this setting to "No".
Map height - the height of the map in pixels.
Map zoom level - the zoom of the map on the scale 1 to 10.
Directions height - in the past it was common to have the directions printed under the map, these were the times when Sat Navs (GPS devices) were not very popular. Now Directions are rarely needed. Keep this setting to 0 so no directions are shown.
SSL enabled?: Yes/No - keep this to Yes as it is a requirement by Google to show the Map only over a secured connection.
API Browser key - paste your API browser key here, see instructions above.
API Server key - paste your API server key here, see instructions above.
Business client ID - optional, if you have a business account with Google you can provide the ID here. Only useful for analytics purposes but not mandatory.
Business client signature - if you would like to use Business ID make sure you add the correct signature here or the system will not work at all.
API avoid: Ferries, Highways, Tolls - multiple option selection. Google allows you to select some infrastructures that can be avoided. Hold Ctrl and click to select multiple options.
Show Stops: Yes/No - Google allows up to 8 stops along the way, select Yes to allow the customer to add more than one stop to their journey.
Use POI in stops: Yes/No - if you select Yes here all POIs that you have created on the system will be shown here as a dropdown for quick selection.
Use Address in stops: Yes/No - if you select Yes then the Address autocomplete suggestion will be available for the customer to type in their desired stop address.
Max stop time (in hours) - this is the maximum time that the vehicle can spend at any one stop along the route.
Stop duration interval: 15 minutes, half hour, one hour - single selection dropdown that will be added automatically to the whole journey for each stop added by the customer.
Charge per minute: - the price per minute spent at each stop selected by the customer.
Optimize stops: Yes/No - if you select Yes here the route will be optimized by stops to the shortest route (the shortest time from starting pick up to finishing drop off) regardless of the order stops were picked by the customer.
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Taxi Booking package is downloadable from User menu > My Downloads > Taxi Booking releases > Taxi Booking version > View files > Download now or Direct link (for installation from URL). Once you install the package, Taxi Booking component, Taxi Booking module, Payment and scheduling plugins will be all installed at once.
To find the Taxi Booking module go to your website's back end > Extensions > Module manager and type "taxibooking" in the search bar or look for module type "Taxibooking".
Once you locate the module click on it and you will see the configuration screen:


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Top 20 Startup Management Tools (2016)
Managing a company, no matter how well established – or big – it is, is a huge challenge. Managing a startup can be even harder, though, because you have to take care of all your company's needs while working on a normally tight budget.
Startup management means doing more with less – and it also means learning it's ok not to do it all on your own (it's actually a lot healthier not to try doing everything on your own but most people have to learn it the hard way).
That challenge is becoming gradually less challenging by the growing number of startup management tools available on the market – most of the companies managing those are (or have been) startups so they actually feel the pain and know the first thing about how to manage a startup.
In order to build and grow your startup, it takes some investment in tools to help improve each and every working part of your company, automating and optimizing everything, from customer support to marketing, from sales to software development.
In order to help you with the ordeal of choosing from the sea of startup management tools available today, we've curated a short list according to the tools we use here at Pipefy and the information available online in late August, 2016.
Best Startup Management Tools (2016)
We've chose to break our top 20 list of startup management tools into categories to make it easier for you to browse and find alternatives for your specific needs – but we strongly suggest you take some time to look at all the tools we're suggesting here.
Process / Project Management:
It wouldn't be fair if I didn't start a startup management tools list with Pipefy. Sure, you're probably thinking I'm a little biased but I'll convince you that Pipefy is a must-have for managing your startup (and if you don't take my word for it, you can visit our customer case studies session to check out how a growing number of startups and small companies have been using Pipefy to manage their internal processes.
Pipefy is a complete cloud-based process management tool – it allows you to centralise all your company's processes in a single place. From Sales and Marketing to Software Development and Operations, Pipefy's flexible structure allows you to customize one of its process templates or even start your own process from scratch, adding triggers, rules, automated emails, integration with over 500 apps (via Zapier) and much more.
It doesn't matter whether you're trying to run a simple team task management process or more complex software development or sales pipeline processes, Pipefy offers you a large number of process templates as well as endless customization possibilities.
I won't list Pipefy under all the categories in this post because it'd be rather repetitive but it's great for managing all types of processes – Task and Project Management, Marketing, Sales, Human Resources, Software Development, etc.
Pipefy Plans start at $7 per user/per month with a 30-day free trial
Mindmeister is a great mind mapping, collaborative tool, specially useful for department/project planning and tracking. According to the description on their website, it's a "professional mind mapping software that's both versatile and easy to use".
Mindmeister offers a free plan (up to 3 mind maps) and unlimited plans starting at $6 per user per month
I've mentioned Evernote before – and I'll probably mention it again in the future but that has a reason: I wouldn't remember half the information I need on my day-to-day if it weren't for Evernote.
Evernote is a great tool for "self management" – you can create lists, add comments, pictures, audio notes and much more. One of its greatest assets, though, is that it offers you the possibility of syncing across all your devices.
Evernote's free plan allows you to sync across two devices, which is more than enough for most people – I use the plus plan at $34.99 a year though, since I currently use 3 different devices
Zapier is a powerful integration tool that allows you to "connect your apps and automate workflows". As they say so themselves on their website, Zapier offers easy automation for busy people.
With Zapier you're able to connect 500 web apps (including Pipefy!) without technical skill.
Zapier is free for up to 5 simultaneous zaps (integrations) with paid plans starting at $20/month
Marketing / Social:
Hootsuite is an amazing social media and engagement management tool: it allows you to manage and monitor all your social media platforms in a single place.
It's specially useful for its social scheduling features, that allow you to plan and publish your social media activities way ahead. Hootsuite even has a feature that analyses the best times of day and auto-schedule your posts according to it.
The free plan is normally enough for most users but, if you need to manage more than 10 social profiles or if you'd really like to have the neat auto scheduling tools, paid plans start at $9.99 billed anually ($14.99 monthly).
Canva is marketed as an amazingly simple graphic design software – and it really is that simple! Canva is an online application that can be used to create all sorts of graphic material such as banners, beautifully designed infographics and much more.
Canva is free if you don't use any of the premium elements they offer (such as copyrighted images)
Google Adwords
Google Adwords is not news to anyone – or at least it shouldn't be. It's the world's leading pay-per-click online advertising tool and it's probably going to be the tool you use to manage your google ads.
Google Adwords is a free tool – you'll only generate costs with the campaigns you create
Kwfinder is a great keyword finder and SEO difficulty analysis tool. This is the tool you'll use to find long-tail alternatives to those costy keywords you'd like to rank for.
Kwfinder is free for up to 5 searches/day but, if you need more advanced tools, paid plans start at $12/month
SumoMe offers a large array of tools to grow your website's traffic: heat maps, list builder and much more.
If your website gets up to 1 million visits/month, you can use all apps for free. However, if you feel you have the need for pro insights and other advanced features, paid plans start at $20/month.
Sales Management:
Mailchimp is an online, email management tool that allows you to create professional email campaigns without any design or coding experience whatsoever.
Mailchimp is free for new businesses and its paid plans start at $10 per month for growing businesses
Stripe is a great tool for accepting payments online and in mobile apps. It offers a simple, easy to understand interface as well as payment analytics to help manage cash inflow. It allows you to accept payments from people all over the world (over 100 currencies are included).
It works with a pay-as-you-go rate of 2.9% + 30¢ per successful card charge
Software Development:
Github is an online project web hosting tool. Its features include source-code browser, in-line editing, wikis, and ticketing.
It's free for public open-source code. Organization plans start at $9 per user per month.
Customer Support:
Intercom is a great customer communication platform. It offers a suite of integrated products to allow all your startup's teams – sales, marketing, product, support – to create targeted communication with your customers/users.
Intercom helps communicate with users by managing contacts from your website, facebook, email contact and many other platforms.
Their complete set (all three tools) are marketed for $61/month with separate prices available for each of the tools
Zendesk is a platform that helps build your relationship with your customers. Its goal is to help "companies provide a great overall customer experience, and build customer relationships that are more meaningful, personal, and productive".
Zendesk's plans start at $5/operator a month and it offers a free 30 day trial
Intelligence / Data:
Google Analytics
Google analytics is a very useful tool to get all the data you need to make intelligent marketing and business decisions. It gathers all your website's and mobile app information.
It works with two pricing tiers: Free and Premium. Google Analytics Premium provides higher data limits, more custom variables, a Service Level Agreement, and a dedicated support team.
Mixpanel is the go-to tool to help you learn how people use your app. It offers advanced mobile and web analytics tools such well as funnel views to help analyse your user behaviours.
It has a free plan for up to 25k data points with paid plans starting at $150/month
Back-office / Productivity:
Slack is great, Slack is awesome, you must have Slack! Ok, seriously, excessive love apart, Slack is team communication made easy.
Besides offering direct messaging capabilities, Slack allows you to create channels to centralize your company's information according to the departments, share archives and much more.
Slack is free for teams wanting to try it out with paid plans starting at $6.67 per active user per month
Google Drive
Google Drive is a secure cloud storage and file backup system. It allows you to share files across all your company easily and without hassle.
Google Drive creates a file on your computer you can easily use to share files with your teams. It's free for up to 15GB storage and its paid prices start at $1.99/month for 100GB storage
Just like Google Drive, Dropbox offers you the option of sharing files with your team.
Dropbox Basic, with 2GB storage is free. Dropbox Pro offers 1TB of storage for $9.99/month
Xero is an online accounting system designed to help simplify financial processes, payroll, benefits and much more.
Xero's starter plan costs $6.30/month for the first 6 months of use
All the information in this article was current as of late August 2016. If you've found any information that's incorrect or outdated, please contact us through our contact form.
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EyeSat 3U CubeSat astronomy mission to study zodiacal light
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EyeSat (also spelled as EYE-SAT and as Eye-Sat) is a triple CubeSat project being developed by students from engineering schools working at the French space agency (CNES) in Toulouse, together with students from an University Technological Institute (IUT) in Cachan, France.
Since 2012 CNES has developed the JANUS (Jeunes en Apprentissage pour la réalisation de Nanosatellites au sein des Universités et des écoles de l'enseignement Supérieur) project, helping students to make their own CubeSat. Engineering schools and universities such as Polytechnique, Les Mines de Paris, ISAE-Supaéro, l'université Paris Est Créteil, l'université Paris Diderot, l'université Pierre et Marie Curie, Aix-Marseille université, Montpellier université and ELISA are supported by CNES to work on their nanosatellite. Without impacting their project specificity, some technologies are developed in common between teaching establishments in order to simplify some tasks and to prioritize teamwork as well.
In this context, the triple CubeSat Eye-Sat is being developed by students from French engineering schools (ISAE, ENAC, ESTACA) working at CNES as interns and students from IUT (University Technological Institute) de Cachan (France). Different actors are also contributing to the Eye-Sat project such as planetary scientists Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd (UPMC/LATMOS) and Jérémie Lasue (IRAP-CNRS), experts from CNES and companies (e.g. Systheia or Syrlinks).
The Eye-Sat project started in September 2012 and phase A has been completed in September 2013. In the spring of 2014, the project has reached the middle of phase B. A progress meeting will take place on the end of April and the PDR (Preliminary Design Review) will close phase B on the beginning of September 2014. 1) 2) 3)
The Eye-Sat mission has two main scientific objectives:
• To study, within our solar system, the zodiacal light intensity and polarization over a wide portion of the sky at four different wavelengths. Eye-Sat is dedicated to the study, during its nominal one-year mission, of the zodiacal light intensity and polarization from Earth orbit. Measurements should be obtained, for the first time with a high spatial resolution in the 0.5° to 2° range, over a wide portion of the sky and in four different wavelengths (visible and near-IR domains).
• To provide, further away, a 360° colored picture of the Milky Way, for the project outreach.
Previous observations, mostly from the Earth and with a resolution in the 5°-15° range, have been used to infer that the local polarization at 90° phase angle increases with increasing solar distance, at least up to 1.5 au in the ecliptic, while the local albedo decreases. Simulations of the polarimetric behavior of interplanetary dust particles have suggested that, in the inner solar system, they may consist of a mixture of absorbing and less absorbing materials, that radial changes could originate in a decrease of organic materials with decreasing solar distance (probably due to alteration processes), and that a significant fraction of the interplanetary dust is of cometary origin.
Some background: The zodiacal light is a faint glow present everywhere in the sky, and detectable to the naked-eye (under excellent viewing conditions) near the Sun and the ecliptic plane as a faint cone of light above the horizon, as illustrated in Figure 1. As suggested from its solar-like spectrum, the zodiacal light arises from the scattering of solar light by tiny dust particles forming a huge cloud around the Sun. This interplanetary dust cloud, practically centered at the Sun and almost symmetric to the ecliptic plane, seems to present a lenticular shape and to extend from the solar corona to the asteroid belt. The glow appears enhanced in the anti-solar direction under the backscattering from the dust particles, a phenomenon called the gegenschein. As light scattered by an optically thin cloud of dust particles, the zodiacal light is linearly polarized, up to about 20% along the integrated line-of-sight.
Figure 1: Zodiacal light seen from Paranal, Chile (image credit: ESO, Y. Beletsky)
The goal is to study the intensity and linear polarization of the faint ubiquitous zodiacal light because it constitutes a foreground, which changes with the epoch in the year, for observation of faint extended astronomical sources (e.g. disks around stars with possibly exoplanets, galaxies).
Moreover, photopolarimetric observations of zodiacal light may lead to local properties of the interplanetary dust cloud by inversion of data gathered on the whole line of sight, and thus to a better understanding of the local properties of its constituting particles, mainly originating from comets and asteroids.
Zodiacal intensity, I, and linear polarization, P, as observed from the Earth or from Earth's orbit, depend mostly upon the epoch of observation and the upon viewing direction, related to the distribution of the dust within the interplanetary dust cloud. This distribution is essentially symmetric with respect to a plane slightly inclined on the ecliptic and also including the Sun, the zodiacal cloud symmetry plane. Helioecliptic coordinates, i.e. the ecliptic latitude β and the helioecliptic longitude λ-λs, where λ is the ecliptic longitude of the line of sight and λs is the ecliptic longitude of the Sun, are this used to describe, in a first approach, the geometry of the observations. Figure 2 represents the typical geometry of observation until now, for an observer on (or near) the Earth. Besides, the intensity varies with the wavelength as the solar spectrum, while the polarization may slightly vary with the wavelength.
Figure 2: Geometry of observation of the zodiacal light from the Earth or Earth's orbit (image credit: Eye-Sat Team)
Zodiacal light observations:
Eye-Sat will provide maps of both intensity and polarization of a large portion of the sky, defined as follow in helioecliptic coordinates. The orientation of the symmetry plane will be mostly derived from a monitoring all over the year of intensity data at the North and South ecliptic poles. The maps are defined as follows:
- A large portion of the celestial sphere : λ-λs [80°, 180°] at β [0, 90°]
- The gegenschein : λ- λs [160°, 200°] at β [-20, 20°]
- The zodiacal cone : λ- λs Є [40°, 80°] at β Є [-15, 15°]
- The region around the north ecliptic pole
- The region around the south ecliptic pole.
Figure 3: Main regions of observation (image credit: EyeSat Team)
These maps will be provided into four spectral bands for both polarization and intensity: 400-500 nm, 500-600 nm, 600-700 nm and 750-925 nm. The spatial resolution will be between 0.5° and 2°, improving spatial resolution of previously obtained maps (in the 5° to 15° range).
The entire observation region will be observed several times during the one-year mission. As the intensity of the zodiacal light is very low (at least at more than 40° from the Sun), Eye-Sat has to carefully avoid, at least for zodiacal light studies, observing any field of view encompassing the Earth and its atmosphere, the Moon, the bright planets, as well as the Milky Way, the galactic band within ± 30° from the galactic plane. Also, any stray light contamination has to be avoided.
Lastly, a 360° colored image of the Milky Way will be taken in orbit, for the project outreach.
Technology demonstrations:
In addition to the scientific objectives, Eye-Sat will perform technology demonstrations. These technologies were developed through CNES R&D programs and their successful flight with Eye-Sat will strengthen their viability. Demonstrating state-of-the-art technologies is necessary to accomplish the scientific mission; these include:
- CMOS color detector instead of classical CCD technology
- Miniaturized X-band telemetry subsystem
- Dual core 1 GHz processor ARM® CortexTM-A9 and programmable logic (FPGA)
- Self-blocking and self-deployable composite hinges used for the deployment of solar panels and de-orbitation wings.
The nanosatellite (3U CubeSat) has a standard size of 340 mm x 100 mm x 100 mm, with a mass of about 5.0 kg. The maximum available power, provided by the four solar panels is 20 W. The telemetry will operate in X-band, to download up to 47 Mbit/s. A de-orbiting system, allowing atmospheric reentry within 25 years, will be included. New onboard technologies, developed by CNES R&D, include a 3-color CMOS camera and a dual-core microprocessor with programmable logic. 4) 5) 6)
Imaging of the zodiacal light and the Milky Way needs a 3-axis attitude control with a 0.25° pointing accuracy and 0.02°/s stability. The communication system has to be efficient as well. About 15 Gbit of data will be produced every day, so Eye-Sat integrates the Micro X-band HDR-TM (High Data Rate-Telemetry) transmitter connected to a directive antenna with an axis gain of 10 dBi. As a result, Eye-Sat should reach data rates of 47 Mbit/s permanently during a pass, thanks to a ground station pointing mode of the satellite.
The on-board computer is based on an ARM Cortex A9 microprocessor and supports embedded software based on time and space partitioning architecture.
Figure 4: Photo of the EyeSat student team and Pascal Martinelli (left), their CNES supervisor with the EyeSat nanosatellite (image credit: CNES, EyeSat Team) 7)
The EyeSat nanosatellite required nearly 400 3D-printed parts throughout the 14 iterations of the prototyping process, and CNES and the collaborating French students used Sculpteo's 3D printing services to build those parts. The project also made use of 3D-printed parts for more than just the prototyping stage of the effort. The final version of the satellite included 3D-printed components.
Figure 5: Illustration of the deployed EyeSat nanosatellite with S-band, X-bamd and UHF communications (image credit: EyeSat Team)
Figure 6: EyeSat internal accommodation of components (with EWC31 and EWC27 equipments and antennas), image credit: EyeSat Team
ADCS (Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem): ADCS has three support modes: the detumble/safe mode, the transition mode and the nominal mode.
The first one concerns two types of phases: the very beginning of the CubeSat life just after the orbit injection, and the satellite safe mode. In the detumble/safe mode the ADCS reduces the satellite spin and makes the solar panels point towards the Sun to charge the batteries. A 5° pointing accuracy and a 3° stability during 75 minutes are enough in this mode. The detumble and acquisition time requirement is fixed to two orbits, according to the batteries' capacity.
Sun sensors and a 3-axis magnetometer are used as sensors. With the measurement of Earth's magnetic field given by the magnetometer, the time derivative of this field is calculated which gives access to the satellite rotating velocity. The satellite's attitude is directly estimated by the Sun sensor measurements. The actuators are the magnetorquers (one in each direction) and one inertial wheel turning around the axis which points towards the Sun. The detumble/safe mode is executed in three steps: firstly the angular velocity is reduced, then the inertial wheel begins to rotate in order to strengthen the gyroscopic stiffness around the pointing axis and finally the satellite points towards the Sun.
The transition mode manages the transition between the two other modes. Only the magnetometer measurements are used to estimate the satellite's attitude, by comparing the magnetic field measurements to the theoretical value given by an Earth magnetic field model. The actuators still are the magnetorquers and an inertial wheel keeps strengthening one axis.
The nominal mode requirements are more constraining since a 1° pointing accuracy is required to take zodiacal images or to dump data. Moreover taking zodiacal images requires a ±0.2° stability over 15 minutes and data dumps requires a ±0.4° stability over 5 minutes. As a result, Eye-Sat comprises a star tracker and three reaction wheels to have an accurate 3-axis CubeSat control. The magnetorquers ensure the wheels' desaturation.
The avionics architecture is made of two means of communication, one is used for command and control and the other enables high data rate transfers. For the first one, an I2C bus was chosen with every board connected to it. For the other one, the star tracker, the X-band board, the UHF/VHF board and the payload are linked to the OBC by SpaceWire lines. The payload transfers its data at around 20 Mbit/s. The star tracker may send a bare image to the OBC if the ground wants to analyze it. Finally, the TM/TC data is transferred via the SpaceWire links, skyrocketing to 50 Mbit/s for X-band TM.
Figure 7: Illustration of the avionics architecture (image credit: Eye-Sat Team)
EPS (Electrical Power Subsystem): A power distribution study highlighted that 3 distribution buses are necessary: 3.3 V; 5 V and battery voltage (6-8 V). A single board is being developed to realize both power management and power distribution. It accommodates two SAFT VES 16 batteries of 32 Wh. Power comes from 20 solar cells placed on 4 solar panels (5 on each). Those solar panels are deployed with composite material hinges and held by a thermal knife. The maximum available power is 20 W in total.
Concerning the power distribution, three buses provide the required voltages. Two regulated buses give access to voltages of 3.3 V and 5 V. The last power line is unregulated. It is directly connected to the batteries and provides a voltage between 6 V and 8 V.
OBC (OnBoard Computer): The OBC architecture is centralized as far as possible. The majority of the functions such as health monitoring, thermal control, attitude control, attitude estimation (including the star tracker algorithm) and command and data handling are executed on the OBC.
The OBC uses the Zynq ZC702 developed by Xilinx, which comprises a dual-core 1 GHz processor ARM® CortexTM-A9 and a programmable logic (FPGA). The development of this board is part of a CNES R&D program. A QM will be available from January 2015.
TCS (Thermal Control Subsystem): A thermal study was realized during phase A. The requirements are the following:
• The CMOS must be at 0°C ± 1°C during an image acquisition.
• The batteries' targeted temperature is 20°C ± 10°C.
• The temperatures of the other subsystems must stay between -20°C and 50°C.
A preliminary architecture has been designed, comprising heaters and radiators. Figure 8 describes this architecture. There are four radiators, one to cool the boards, a second one for the CMOS detector, another one for the batteries and a last one for the payload and the ADCS. Those radiators are accommodated on the coolest sides which are almost never exposed to sunlight. Thus, the satellite temperature is naturally low and is controlled by power variations distributed into the heaters. There is one heater for the boards, one for the CMOS detector, one for the ADCS and one for the batteries.
Figure 8: Illustration of the TCS architecture (image credit: EyeSat Team)
RF communication subsystem: Syrlinks of Bruz, France has finalized with CNES and ESA the development of a new solution to download payload telemetry in X-band at high data rate for smaller platforms, such as nanosatellites and CubeSats. This equipment is able to modulate data up to 100 Mbit/s using fully CCSDS compatible filtered OQPSK modulation and convolutional coding. It delivers up to 2 W RF with no more than up to 10 W DC/DC consumption, and fits inside a 0.25 Unit of a standard CubeSat. This miniature X- band HDR-TM (High Data Rate-Telemetry) transmitter is planned to be used on board of EyeSat.
Figure 9: Photo of the EWC27 X-band HDR-TM transmitter (image credit: Syrlinks, CNES, ESA)
In parallel, Syrlinks developed also with CNES and ESA a new S-band transceiver which is fully compliant with CCSDS recommendations for RF, modulation and coding, and therefore with ITU EESS (Earth Exploration Satellite Service) frequency bands for TT&C. The transmitter can provide data rates up to 3Mbit/s (OQPSK with differential coding) with an adjustable output power from 27 to 33 dBm. The receiver supports data rates from 8 to 256 kbit/s (PCM/PM/SP-L). This integrated product fits inside a 0.25U when no diplexer is used. It is a miniaturized version of an existing Syrlinks platform. This miniature S-band transceiver is also planned to be used on board of EyeSat and will satisfy the requirement that the CubeSat will look like a fully CCSDS compliant spacecraft to the ESA and CNES ground control segments. 8)
Figure 10: EWC31 S-band TT&C/ISL with a second diplexer configuration and integrated coupler (image credit: Syrlinks, CNES, ESA) 9)
The VHF-band is used to send TC to EyeSat. The on-board antennas are omnidirectional so that the ground segment shall be able to communicate with the CubeSat even if the attitude control system does not work. For the same reason, EyeSat uses the UHF-band to send housekeeping telemetry (HKTM) to the ground in safe mode.
In nominal mode, HKTM and payload TM (PLTM) are sent through the X-band. By itself, the X-band allows the satellite to have a better data rate than the UHF-band. Moreover, as power resources are limited on-board, the downlink time is reduced thanks to the association of a directive X-band antenna with a gain of 10 dBi and a ground station pointed by EyeSat. This high data rate is necessary to transfer payload images to the ground station. Indeed the data volume is estimated to be 15 Gbit/day.
The X-band antenna is a patch antenna of 60 x 60 x 12 mm3 hence, it is suitable to be accommodated on a CubeSat side. As a result, the data rate is raised to 47 Mbit/s.
The X-band board is part of an R&D program at CNES. Its dimensions are 96 x 92 x 24 mm3, its mass is < 400 g. A QM (Qualification Model) will be available on August 2014.
EyeSat's operational modes:
EyeSat's modes describe the satellite's life which begins with the detumbling mode. In this mode, EyeSat has to reduce its rotation velocity induced by orbit injection. Then, in the acquisition mode, the satellite rotates to make its solar panels point towards the Sun. In the detumbling mode and the acquisition mode, EyeSat keeps sending TM (telemetry) to allow the ground station to detect it. Once the Sun is pointed, EyeSat waits for TC (telecommands) to switch to the transition mode. This mode's objective is to power the star tracker on and to turn the satellite in order to free the star tracker's FOV. Thus EyeSat can switch in nominal mode, divided into four modes, the standby mode in which EyeSat's batteries charge, the guidance mode in which it maneuvers to point either a sky zone or the ground station, the imaging mode in which EyeSat realizes its mission and finally the dumping mode, in which it sends TM to the ground.
Figure 11: Schematic view of EyeSat's operational mode diagram (image credit: EyeSat Team)
EyeSat switches into the safe mode, whenever there is any problem onboard, like a too high temperature or a too low battery power level. In the end of life mode, de-orbitation wings will be deployed to force the nanosatellite to reenter into the atmosphere within 25 years.
Launch: EyeSat will be launched in Q4 2019 as an auxiliary payload with the CSG-1 (COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation-1) satellite of ASI (primary payload) from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou aboard a Soyuz launcher. 10) 11) 12)
Orbit of secondary payloads : Circular sun-synchronous dawn-dusk orbit, nominal altitude = 700 km, inclination = 98º with LTAN (Local Time of Ascending Node) at 6:00 hours (dawn/dust orbit).
Secondary payloads
• CHEOPS (CHaracterizing ExOPlanets Satellite)minisatellite of ESA with a mass of 300 kg.
• EyeSat, a 3U CubeSat (5 kg) student satellite of the University Technological Institute (IUT) in Cachan, France and CNES.
• ANGELS (ARGOS Néo on a Generic Economical and Light Satellite), a microsatellite (30 kg) of CNES and NEXEYA, an innovative industrial group active in the aerospace market.
Sensor complement: (IRIS)
IRIS (Imager Realized for Interplanetary dust Study)
IRIS consists of a small telescope, with an optical system (13° x 13° field of view, 50 mm focal length), two rotating wheels (for the spectral filters and the shutter, and for the polarizing filters) and a detector (CMOS image sensor with a bayer pattern).
Observational constraints: Zodiacal light observations need to be free of straylight, originating not only from the Sun and the Earth, but also from the Earth's atmosphere, the Moon, the bright planets and stars, and our galaxy (typically for galactic latitudes below ± 20°). Constraints in the possibility of observing in a given direction are also related to the onboard star tracker's field of view and to the crossing of the SAA (South Atlantic Anomaly). Images of major scientific interest are to be obtained at 90° from the Sun near the ecliptic plane (providing, by direct inversion, information on the interplanetary dust properties near the Earth), towards the gegenschein region around 180° from the Sun in the ecliptic (providing information on the dust backscattering properties), and towards the ecliptic pole regions (to assess the geometry of the symmetry plane). Besides, images of the zodiacal cone (along the ecliptic, at a solar distance in the 40° to 90° range) and of the Milky Way are expected to be obtained, at least for outreach purposes.
Two wheels will accommodate spectral and polarizing filters, respectively. The science instrument, a camera using the CMV4000 image sensor, as well as a 50 mm focal length and a 1.4 aperture optics, is being developed at a French start-up company (Systhéia), specialized in micro-cameras. In addition, two rotating wheels, driven by a stepper motor are being developed. The first wheel comprises three polarization filters and a neutral beam for Milky Way imagery. The second one comprises two spectral filters (bandpass for visible imagery and highpass for the near-IR domain) and an obturator (dark calibrating image and optics protection). A 53 mm length baffle and a 150 mm length self-deployable Sun visor protect the telescope from solar stray light.
Figure 12: Schematic view of the Camera (image credit: EyeSat Team)
The scientific objectives define large observation regions for both the zodiacal light and the Milky Way. EyeSat's payload has a baffle in order to minimize stray light impact on the measurements. Therefore, the field of view is a tradeoff between the observation region's size and the baffle's dimensions and is set to 13°x 13°. Finally, the observation region will be divided into small meshes of 13°x 13° and reconstituted on the ground thanks to a recovering mosaic.
The camera, with a lens diameter of 35.7 mm and a FOV of 13°x 13°,has the objective to measure the intensity, polarization and orientation of the zodiacal light polarization plane. Physically, three measurements of polarized intensity along three polarization axis (0°, 60°, 120°) for each spectral band will match these objectives. Therefore, the three polarized intensities are the quantities that are systematically measured by EyeSat's payload.
Figure 13: Illustration of the IRIS instrument ((image credit: EyeSat Team)
A CMOS color detector, CMV4000 from CMOSIS, Antwerp, Belgium will provide this fundamental measurement in the four spectral bands. A RGB Bayer pattern is used on the CMV4000 image sensor. A typical spectral response is given in Figure 14.
Figure 14: Typical spectral response of CMV4000 with RGB color filters and D263 cover glass (image credit: EyeSat Team)
Using a bandpass filter (400 – 700 nm), a single image will measure a polarized intensity into three spectral bands: blue, green and red. Using a high pass filter (750 nm), a single image will measure a polarized intensity into the near-IR spectral band. The quantum efficiency's decrease in the near-IR spectral band will be virtually increased by the summation of neighboring pixels.
The radiometric budget leads to the following requirements for EyeSat:
- A 15 second integration time
- On ground pixel-binning matching the 0.5°-2° spatial resolution
- A detector's temperature of 0°C stabilized at ±1°C
- A summation of 10 images to increase signal to noise ratio.
Finally, the total amount of pictures needed to image a 13x13° portion of the observation region for each spectral band and each polarization axis defines a mesh. A dark calibrating image is added. Therefore, a mesh contains 2 x 3 x 10 + 1 = 61 images (2 spectral filters, 3 polarization filters, 10 images per configuration and a dark calibrating image).
1) Fabien Apper , Antoine Ressouche, Marc Elmaleh, Adrien Palun, Maxence Montoro, Alain Gaboriaud, Christian Buil, Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Jérémie Lasue, "Eye-Sat: a space telescope in a tripple CubeSat," Proceedings of the 4S (Small Satellites Systems and Services) Symposium, Port Petro, Majorca Island, Spain, May 26-30, 2014
2) A. C. Levasseur-Regourd , J. Lasue , A. Gaboriaud , C. Buil, A. Ressouche, F. Apper, M. Elmaleh, and the Eye-Sat Development Team, "Eye-Sat, a triple Cubesat to monitor the zodiacal light intensity and polarization," European Planetary Science Congress 2014, Cascais, Portugal, Sept. 2-12, 2014, Vol. 9, EPSC2014-587-2, 2014, URL: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2014/EPSC2014-587-2.pdf
3) J-L.Issler, A. Gaboriaud, F. Apper, A. Ressouche, D. Evans, O. Koudelka, P. Romano, M. Unterberger, T. Dehaene, B. Lechevalier, G. Guillois, M. Fernandez, "CCSDS communication products in S- and X-band for CubeSats," Proceedings of the AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, USA, August 2-7, 2014, paper: SSC14-P4-10, URL: http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3014&context=smallsat
4) Jean Pla, "Small satellites missions from the French space agency (CNES) and application of the ITU Radio Regulations," ITU-R Symposium and Workshop on small satellite regulation, Prague, Czech Republic, March 2-4, 2015, URL: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/space/workshops/2015-prague-small-sat/Presentations/PLA-CNES-2015.pdf
5) M.A. Fernandez, G. Guillois, Y. Richard, J-L. Issler, P. Lafabrie, A. Gaboriaud, D. Evans, R. Walker, O. Koudelka, P. Romano, K. T. Hansen, D. Gerhardt, "A Game-changing radio communication architecture for cube/nanosatellites," Proceedings of the 29th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, USA, August 8-13, 2015, paper: SSC15-P-48, URL: http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3258&context=smallsat
6) Frédérick Viaud, "A working 3 reaction wheel configuration for EyeSat mission," Proceedings of the 4S (Small Satellites, System & Services) Symposium, Valletta, Malta, May 30-June 3, 2016, URL: http://congrexprojects.com/docs/default-source/16a02_docs/4s2016_final_proceedings.zip?sfvrsn=2
7) Te Halterman, "EyeSat Project Includes Student Engineers 3D Printing Aerospace Parts," January 15, 2015, URL: http://3dprint.com/37270/eye-sat-3d-print/
8) M.A. Fernandez, G. Guillois, Y. Richard, J-L. Issler, P. Lafabrie, A. Gaboriaud, D. Evans, R. Walker, O. Koudelka, P. Romano, K. T. Hansen, D. Gerhardt, "New game-changing on cube and nanosatellites radios," Proceedings of the 66th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2015), Jerusalem, Israel, Oct.12-16, 2015, paper: IAC-15-B2.4.5
9) "CCSDS Communication Products X & S-band for CubeSats and Nanosatellite," Syrlinks, ESA, CNES, URL: http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?filename=0&article=3014&context=smallsat&type=additional
10) "Arianespace Soyuz to Launch the CNES EyeSat Smallsat and to Deliver ANGELS to Space," Satnews, 11 January 2019, URL: http://www.satnews.com/story.php?number=1165558904
11) "Arianespace to launch ANGELS, the French industry's first nanosatellite, in 2019," Arianespace, 9 January, 2019, URL: http://www.arianespace.com/press-release/arianespace-to-launch-angels-the-french-industrys-first-nanosatellite-in-2019/
12) Stephen Clark, "Launch Schedule," Spaceflight Now, 15 August 2018, URL: https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
The information compiled and edited in this article was provided by Herbert J. Kramer from his documentation of: "Observation of the Earth and Its Environment: Survey of Missions and Sensors" (Springer Verlag) as well as many other sources after the publication of the 4th edition in 2002. - Comments and corrections to this article are always welcome for further updates (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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The PADI Instructor Exam has now finished and we have 6 new PADI Instructors ready to work here in the Gili Islands. Of course during our PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) students are prepared not only to gain extremely high scores in their PADI exam, but to make a valuable contribution to recreational dive training. Our 6 new PADI Instructors are from 6 different countries and will therefore be able to contribute highly to growing global demand for PADI training.
Julia is from the UK and took her divemaster program in Koh Lanta, Thailand. She decided to join the Gili IDC Indonesia because she not only wanted to visit the Gili Islands, but broaden her diving experience. After Julia has finished her EFRI course she will be freelancing on Gili Trawangan.
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Dragos is from Romania and has been living in Indonesia for a long time. He speaks English, Romanian and Indonesian. He took his divemaster in Lombok Dive and decided to come over to the Gili Islands to take his IDC with us here. Dragos will be returning to Romania for a couple of weeks before returning to the Gili Islands to search for work. He is interested in working anywhere in Indonesia and has already been discussing potential opportunities in neighboring Moyo Island with our good friends at Moyo Dive. Rizwan is from India and is family have a successful dive operation in the Andaman Islands.
The future looks bright for all of our IDC Candidates and most of which are going straight into Instructor positions in and around the Gili Islands. If you're looking to take you PADI IDC than check out IDC Indonesia on facebook or simpy contact our PADI Course Director for further Information.


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This summer was an exciting time for Toucan Telemarketing as we celebrated 15 years of providing unbeatable B2B telemarketing services to clients throughout the north-west and beyond.
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Have you seen these prickly blue balls at the store? For months I walked by them without picking up a package. A few months ago, after seeing an ad touting their energy savings benefit, I asked the shop clerk, "Ray, do you have those blue balls?" It was out of my mouth before I realized how it sounded as a red-faced Ray choked out, "Aisle 1." Sticky situation aside, it is turning out to be a well spent $8.99. While dryer balls may not seem very exciting, it is satisfying to know that I am saving energy, time, and maybe my health.
The only steps necessary are getting them out of the plastic, a bit of a chore, and throwing them into your dryer. During a drying cycle, the dryer balls bounce around to lift and separate the laundry. This action allows the heated air to flow more evenly throughout the laundry. This saves energy and time. Since I began my non-scientific experiment, the drying time in my gas dryer has decreased when drying a full (but not overstuffed) load of towels.
Bonus: You can hear them bouncing around, it is muffled and unobtrusive, but the sound works like a reminder to check the laundry before the buzzer goes off. I have been surprised a number of times to find the laundry already dry halfway through the set drying time. Plus: Towels appear "fluffier."
One of the claims made about this type of product (there are several brands on the market making balls in different colors) is that it aids in eliminating static electricity. This is important because you may be able to stop using dryer sheets. After reading several articles on the potential problems related to dryer sheets, I am glad to report that the dryer balls do seem to do the trick in this department. If you don't know what some of the issues are regarding dryer sheets, then check out articles by Dr. Alan Greene.
No matter what color your dryer balls may be, they will stay green in your dryer!
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## The English you can speak, 1 Jun 2010
The English-learning craze in Korea shows no sign of stopping anytime soon. Students start their English studies from as early as in kindergarten, lasting all the way into college. Many parents will sacrifice other expenses to send their children to private language institutes. In 2009 alone, roughly 7 trillion won (or $6.3 billion) was spent on private English education in Korea. People also learn English through online video lectures, educational programs on TV or on the radio. In fact, many people look to EBS(Educational Broadcasting System) for such programs. EBS provides some of the best quality contents in English education for all age groups. Adults aren't exempt from the English fever either. Those fresh out of college continue to study English for better career prospects. Many in their 40's, 50's and 60's study the language just for the fun of it.
# My opinion
I absolutely agree with this article. One's English ability is the most important thing in Korea. Everyone makes an effort to learn English, and so do I. The reason why Koreans are dying to learn English is to get more chances in the workplace and for a better life. If someone is good at speaking English, it will be helpful for his whole life. In my case, my major was computer science and there are up-to-date books written in English about the newest technology. I need to improve my skills so I can read English books quite freely. And I also like to travel abroad, so it is essential to speak English in order to make foreign friends or reserve accommodations. Finally, I often search for some information through the internet. I am limited to searching the internet in Korean, so I want to be more skilled at English.
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1. Tell us about your experience of learning English.
2. What are some problems with English education in Korea?
3. How do you help your children learn English?
## Today's expression
If I speak English very fluently, I think I will get lots of chances to get a job.
If I spoke English very fluently, I think I would get lots of chances to get a job.
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1) Unidentified Men Shoot Brimob Plane at Papua Airport
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Papua police said that that a group of unidentified men shot at a Twin Otter Trigana aircraft chartered by the Mobile Brigade (Brimob) when landing at Keneyam Airport, Nduga, Papua.
The Papua Regional Police spokesman Sr. Comr. AM Kamal said the pilot, Capt. Ahmad Abdillah, suffered gunshot wounds on his back.
"The police and the TNI Army are still chasing after the shooter," Kamal said as ANTARA reported on Monday, June 25.
The Brimob aircraft departed from Wamena Airport, Jayawijaya and landed at Keneyam Airport at around 09:40 East Indonesia Time. As the plane taxied, about 15 people began firing the left side of the fuselage.
In addition to Ahmad, Kamal said that other passengers were also shot by bullets, including coopilot Irene Nur Farida.
Head of the Trigana Jayapura, Toro, confirmed the incident. He said the aircraft crew suffered injuries. Toro said that the crew was flying 18 Brimob officers who will be on duty for the Regional Head Election in Papua, which is on June 27.
"We also received reports that a shoot-out is taking place, and so we cannot rescue the crew and the passengers yet," he added.
2) Aircraft carrying election material fired on in Papua
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A Twin Otter aircraft carrying election material and the National Police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel, which will secure the upcoming regional elections in Papua, was fired on by unidentified assailants shortly after it landed at Kenyam Airport in Nduga at 9:45 a.m. local time on Monday.
Pilot Ahmad Abdillah Kamil, 27, suffered gunshot wounds to his left back during the incident. The perpetrators allegedly carried out the attack from the left side of the aircraft.
The aircraft departed for Kenyam, Nduga, from Wamena Airport in Jayawijaya with 15 passsengers on board. They were all Brimob members assigned to oversee the distribution of election material and secure the Papua gubernatorial election, which will be held on Wednesday.
Papua Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. AM Kamal confirmed the incident. "The pilot has received medical treatment at Kenyam health clinic. He is conscious. Plans have been made for the aircraft to fly the pilot back to Wamena, Jayawijaya," said Kamal.
Kamal said the police and Indonesian Military personnel were searching for those responsible for the armed attack.
Responding to concerns over security in the election process in Nduga regency, Papua General Elections Commission (KPU Papua) commissioner Tarwinto said the election might be delayed due to the alleged attack, depending on recommendations from security authorities.
Within one week, two aircraft shooting incidents have occurred at Kenyam Airport. On June 22, a Twin Otter Dimonim Air PK-HVU was fired on when it landed at 1:05 p.m. (ebf)


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Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane's annual State of the City address will be Wednesday, Feb. 22, at the Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch, 7700 E. McCormick Parkway.
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Once in a while I would sit down at my desk and I would stare at my computer screen. I wouldn't do anything else but stare. The hard drive would be clicking, music is playing, people are signing into MSN and I would be staring. My mind would be a complete blank but I know that my brain is rapidly working on something. Then comes this mysterious sensation of wonder. A desire to know the answer to some unknown question. A need to solve life's mysteries.
We are just ordinary people living out ordinary lives. We wake up, brush our teeth, wash our faces and head out for work. We come home, grab something to eat, watch some television and then go to bed. The next day, the process repeats itself with the addition of going to the washroom and doing your business every once in a while. Is that all there is to it? We just live from day to day, doing the same thing we do every day? There has to be more to life than that. There has to be some sort of purpose, a reason why we are here in the first place. Given the fact that humans have plague this planet, wage war against each other and slowly exhausting its natural resources, it's amazing that we're still here.
People who are religious already have the reason for why they are here. God put them here and so they are here to do his bidding. I don't know exactly what God does but whatever it is, He has a powerful influence on it. Christians would follow the Bible because it contains all of the answers to their lives. Muslims follow the Qur'an because it contains all of the answers to their lives. A lot of them are very devoted into their religion and nothing that anyone can do will steer them away.
Then you have someone like me. I'm caught somewhere in the middle of being Agnostic and Atheist. I don't know if there is a God but I sense that there might be. We live in a material world where everything is made of matter and energy. Anything that can't be detected is either an hallucination or non-existent. But there isn't enough evidence to prove that God is fake albeit there isn't enough evidence to prove he's real either. Proof that God exists is based on faith. But once in a while, you get this feeling that there's someone or something out there watching over you. But how do you prove what you cannot see.
We all know that wind exists because we can feel it. But you can't actually see it. When it's snowing, you can see the wind blowing the snow but you can't actually see the wind itself. But you can feel it so it exists. We can't see God but sometimes we feel something. We can't prove it's God because we have no idea what he looks like. I don't think he looks like us. To say that God created us in his image is a little arrogant, if you ask me. But what exactly did he create us for?
According to Charles Darwin, God did not create us. We came to be the way we are because of evolution. Basically, he's saying we're here to evolve into a higher life form. The two basic mechanisms for the changes are natural selection and genetic drift. In genetic drift, heritable traits are changed randomly. In natural selection, the traits that are passed onto the next generation are the traits that help the organism survive. The traits that are considered to be an advantage are passed on while anything that might be a disadvantage slowly disappears. This is what's known as "survival of the fittest."
A coworker of mine once told me that she believes that we are here to help each other. Sounds simple enough right? Well, not quite because there's a bit of a twist. As soon as you've helped that one person you're destined to help, you die. That's not a fair trade if you ask me. If I'm going to die after I've helped someone, I'm going to think twice before helping anyone. I might not even help them at all because I fear for my own life.
Her influence for this ideology was her grandmother. She believed that her grandmother was there to help her in her life. As soon as her grandmother had helped her enough, she passed away. She believed that her grandmother has provided the help that God sent her to do and now God wants her back in heaven. I think that's more of a coincident rather than the fact that God needed her upstairs.
This could or could not be true but that all depends on your perspective. Everyone has their own ways of interpreting signs and signals. If they see it differently than you, it doesn't mean that they're wrong. I'm sure they have a valid reason for thinking that way.
No matter how much we ponder about something as complicated as this, we will never come up with a final answer. As soon as we've reached that answer, there will be more questions. With more questions come more doubts. And with more doubts comes confusion. In the end, you won't have any idea what your initial answer was. What you do with your life is your choice. Just make sure that you make the most out of it.


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H.R.919 - Portable Fuel Container Safety Act of 2017115th Congress (2017-2018)
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|Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5] (Introduced 02/07/2017)
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Portable Fuel Container Safety Act of 2017
This bill requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to promulgate a final rule for flame mitigation devices in portable flammable liquid fuel containers that impede the propagation of flame into the container, unless the CPSC publishes a determination that a voluntary standard developed by a standard development organization meets the intent of this bill.
Either the promulgated standard or the voluntary standard shall be treated as a consumer product safety rule.
If a standard development organization subsequently revises a voluntary standard, the organization must notify the CPSC and the revision becomes enforceable unless, within 90 days after receiving notice, the CPSC determines that the revised standard does not meet this bill's requirements.
The CPSC must undertake a campaign to educate consumers about dangers associated with portable fuel containers near an open flame or other source of ignition.
The bill amends the Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act to extend child-resistance requirements for closures on portable gasoline containers to receptacles for gasoline, kerosene, or diesel fuel (including any spout, retrofit spout, cap, and other closure mechanism and component) produced or distributed for sale to, or use by, consumers for transport of, or for refueling of internal combustion engines with, gasoline, kerosene, or diesel fuel.


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Carolyyn Jerome
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Time management is a hot topic among employers looking to maximize production and protect their bottom line. It is also a big concern for employees looking to better manage the mountain of work facing them each day. We're busier than ever, but often we feel like we're accomplishing little despite being swamped.
A quick Google search of "time management techniques" returns 782 million results in less than half a second, with links to scholarly reports, online articles, various blogs and about a dozen alternate related searches. You don't have time to read all of this: You're BUSY. Fear not — that's where I come in, to highlight some of the most common themes. Here are the top things I found that will help you get your tasks under control.
Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, are taught to triage their patients at a scene with multiple people injured. Emergency rooms do the same thing. In its simplest form, this is broken down to life threat, emergent, urgent and non-emergent. We apply this to our own medical needs. There are situations where we call 911, situations when we drive someone (or ourselves) to the ER, times we go to the walk-in clinic and when we make an appointment with the doctor and wait.
This same concept applies to your work life. Prioritize. Make piles: Will do, To do and Pending; A, B and C level tasks; Hot, Warm and Cool files; whatever system works for you. Author Stephen Covey developed the "Important – Urgent Matrix." On one side, things are ranked from important to not important. On the other axis, tasks are ranked from urgent to not urgent. Tasks that are important and urgent should get handled first.
Organization should, perhaps, be the first goal. To some degree, it is necessary in order to be able to triage. If you are old-school, use a tickler file — folders with tabs for 1 through 31 for the month we're in and a folder for each of the other months. File tasks accordingly. Use the calendar in your phone or in your email. Set reminders. Download an app or a program to help get your tasks in order.
Once you are organized, you can make your to-do lists and be better situated to triage those tasks.
Consider how a doctor or dentist schedules their day. Apply that to your day. Set blocks of time for tasks. It's been demonstrated that setting a timeline helps with our focus and efficiency. It makes us accountable to ourselves, much the way it is when we promise deliverables to a client.
The Pareto Principle or the 80/20 rule states that 20 percent of our tasks take up 80 percent of our time. It follows that 20 percent of our time produces 80 percent of our achievements. Keep that in mind and focus on the things that produce those accomplishments.
Don't forget to give yourself time buffers in your scheduling. Much like doctors allow for time overages, plan for that as well. It's also good to schedule breaks.
Here are the main techniques I found to manage your day:
All of these techniques look at breaking your day in to manageable tasks. It is important to spend a little bit of time taking breaks and refocusing to keep yourself on task.
There are so many time drains in our lives. Little blinky lights that say some one has called, texted, emailed. Weather apps to check. Fishing reports to look at. Social media? That's a column on its own. The trick is to eliminate those distractions. Close your browser windows. Put your phone on mute or better yet, ask your front desk to hold calls for an hour or two. Hide your cell phone from yourself or leave it in your bag, desk or car. Close your office door and put a note on it asking to not be disturbed unless it's critical. If you don't have an office door, try putting on your headphones and listening to some music that gets your energy up. Give yourself the gifts of the time and space to focus.
Perfectionism is the enemy of the productive. Don't get bogged down in the nitty gritty of something. You promised high quality work in a timely manner. Hours, days and years can be spent trying to get something perfectly.
Multitasking is addictive. We get little bumps of satisfaction by crossing an item off our "to do" list. But was that item central to the goal? Multitasking is also inefficient. We lose a lot of time bouncing between tasks. We stop to dash off an email or step away to ask a quick question. Studies show it often takes twice as long to get back to the task at hand. Lastly, few of us multitask well. We wind up off on a tangent and distracted from our main goal.
Time management is doable. The main takeaway should be to just do it. Make a "to do" list. Prioritize that list and set goals. Planning ahead helps. Breaking those big tasks down in to smaller tasks is key. Schedule your tasks. Practice saying "no" so you don't over commit. Delegate where you can. At the end of the day, plan tomorrow. It will take practice, but it is achievable!
This column provides information about the law designed to help users safely cope with their own legal needs. But legal information is not the same as legal advice — the application of law to an individual's specific circumstances. Although we go to great lengths to make sure our information is accurate and useful, we recommend you consult a lawyer if you want professional assurance that our information, and your interpretation of it, is appropriate to your particular situation.
Carolynn Jerome is an enthusiastic and dynamic presenter. She comes to Avitus Group with many years of experience in the hospitality and tourism industry. As an operations manager and supervisor, Jerome's focus has been on customer service and ensuring that her team has the training and tools to be successful. Her goal has always been to develop the next wave of company leaders. As a trainer with Avitus Group, Jerome has combined her strong background in operations with her education in teaching and is excited to be presenting the monthly Leadership Development Program that focuses on skills and techniques for navigating the corporate jungle for managers and supervisors.


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A man has been taken into custody after departing from a Medeterrean cruise ship after his wife was reported missing from the ship. He was arrested in Italy for "suspect behavior."
Daniel Belling was with his wife Li Yinglei and their two children on the cruise, but returned to Italy without her and had never reported her missing during the 11-day trip. He claims that she packed up her bags and departed the ship while it was docked in Greece, and that she had done something similar before.
"His behavior after disembarking was not that of a person who was trying to flee. He simply headed to Ciampino airport with his children to catch the flight that he had booked when he first organized the cruise."
A witness last reported them together in Italy when Daniel was yelling at his wife. His children have been placed in a state home where they will remain until the case is sorted out.


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Sometime nailing one side of the board keeps it from cracking. Later nail the other side. I prefer working with green lumber…
I use bat and board on my house. I used white pine that I had cured up on the back forty for a couple of years. No matter how close I nailed to the edge, I didn't have one board split. Love my white pine. I used nails and no pre-drilling. I owe it to well cured wood. Also after 20+ years I don't have one crack in a ceiling or wall. Again well cured lumber. TomC
Yeah, I think tom's right. If you dry the wood well enough you won't have a problem. My house is sided with southern yellow pine. We tend to not get things as dry as we would like some times. A few of the boards split if fastened too well and too green.
To be honest 95% of the the time I just nail any board up and don't notice much if any cracked boards. Maybe it has to do with the species. The green boards dry straighter nailed up also. Boards don't last long enough around hear to dry in a stickered pile. But I do sticker them so they do not mold.
Happy nailing !
Every Saturday the wife and I sell at the farmer's market. It's a good place to network and make an extra couple hundred dollars.
Mary makes jams, baked goods and other things. I make things out of wood. This week I decided to make bird feeders. All my materials are free. I decided to use slab wood from the sawmill for the top of the feeder. I think it turned out okay. We'll see what the people say tomorrow.
Ya know Bill, I can see clock movements in your creation ! !
I like that Jeff. I will post a picture when it's done.
There isn'e a more freeing feeling for me than to not have to run to the store for every little thing I need. A minimum drive time of 1 hour for food or hardware. A 3 hour round trip for lumber.
We are getting more established every week, month, year of being here.
I bought some 18"-20" pine logs from a neighbor for $10 each. I don't have many mature pine here and I don't want to cut up my Maples.
Having a greenhouse to start veggies and have some for extended ripening time will be a huge advantage to us.
I made making firewood a little easier this year.
I don't like getting in and out of this old skid steer while it's running.
Bill love the boards on your green house. But one small suggestion run the outside boards vertical next time like the old barns. I have a barn built back in the 1750 timeframe. Two layers of vertical boards offset so the gaps between them don't go all the way through. It still has the orginal boards after all this time the outside layer half inch inside 3/4 I think ayer 1 inch on the inside but the only real issues are where they where hit with a tractor or where the old square nails have worked loose from the years of wind. If you like gray no paint is required.
Oh I forgot to mention a friend told me once that after I setup my mill I will never split wood again easier to saw it out and after it is dry saw it to stove lenght and stack in the shed. He claimed the side benefit is you can always steel from your wood pile to do a project…
Bill is practicing LEAN one step at at time ! Good job !
What if bunkers were placed behind and level with the XXX's. Then load the bunks with logs. Then roll log on to the XXX? With a cant hook, like a sawmill?
I'm guessing LEAN is an acronym but unable to figure it out.
My goal is to get forks for the skid steer so I can get 2-3 logs on at a time on a stand in place of building bunker. Then I can move it as needed. Eventually I will be making a firewood processor because I know I'm not getting younger and the 3 hernias in my back remind of that everyday. I've been collecting material for it for the last year now.
Bill, it kind of started with Benjamin Franklin and traveled to Japan then back to the USA. It is about constantly getting rid of the stuff that bugs you, make things easy and simple. And better if you can use or repurpose the stuff you already have. Exactly what your doing naturally. Never stop improving a little at a time. The word LEAN came from Toyota, I think.
hey bill look into hand held log tongs or a pickaroon/hookaroon with a long handle for moving logs instead of bending over. I started using one last winter and they really help keep your back straight when moving bucked or split firewood.
Trying learn my sawmill.
I cut the 2x4's and sheathing for the mudroom I'm adding on. I did use plywood I had left over from the greenhouse on the roof.
It feels good to build something from everything that came off my land. A lot of work but gratifying in a way I've never felt before.
The ring that secures the sending unit and both straps in my plow truck rusted out. The mechanic threw his hands up because the fuel tank is discontinued. A friend of mine and myself fixed the tank and this morning I made new straps.
Ha ha, some Mechanics just can't seem to improvise when it come to old vehicles. Good job, and look at the monies you saved not paying the mechanic.
The ring on the tank was all rusted out. It was a twist and lock ring but the slots to lock in were deteriorated. This is an 18 gallon auxiliary plastic tank and found it on the internet for $552 but was listed as 'discontinued. I happened to have this laser cut flange left over from the scrap bin at Discount steel when I lived in the city. It fit perfectly. Another problem solved.
Liability has become a BIG concern in any trades fields now-a-days in sue-happy USofA.
As a "professional" you fudge-fix anything on a gasoline fuel systems . . . later there is leakage . . . you and your professional liability insurance company will be on the hook.
I've passed on fuels systems, electrical, brake, and suspension make-your-own substitute repairs for other too.
Using a factory part (even if a take-out used) at least they are in-line too for the suing-harvest.
On my own stuff now . . .
whole 'nother story on make-it-work repairs.
tree-farmer Steve Unruh
Yep, my favorite kind of repair is the ones that "can't" be done.


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I wanted to share that with as many people as possible.
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So I created this group at San Jose Barbell.
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Dragon War Chronicles
Book One
SYN Consulting
SYN Consulting; Dragon War Chronicles Book One is live on Amazon.
Continue to hide or help save the very kin she's hidden from?
Welcome to SYN Consulting, the top business strategy consulting firm in Europe, home to a motley crew whose leader has a life changing secret. CEO, Danica Lestrange, is the first female dragon born in the last 800 years. Hidden from the rest of her kin and raised in the human world, she built a life that she would defend until her death.
A devious plan is unearthed while working on a new business deal that could plunge the dragons into another war with the humans. The humans may have forgotten the last dragon-human war, but the dragons have not. Will the war reveal this hidden world to the humans, or will the clans come together to defeat their enemies and maintain their anonymity?
Danica must gather her allies and help the very dragons she's hidden from her whole life. She can only hope that she'll be strong enough to protect her chosen family.
This is the first book in a new series about dragons who want nothing more than to live in peace, but refuse to be subjugated. In war there's also love, and love is blind. Love doesn't care about gender, race, species (in this case), or sexuality.
Warning: This book contains explicit sexual content between consenting adults. There are sexual scenes between MM, MF, and MMF. This book also depicts romantic relationships that are MM. There is also a high level of explicit language, snark, kink, and possibly bad puns and fart jokes.
This book does end in a cliffhanger. Book 2 will be released in November 2018.
Book Two
Secrets Revealed
Secrets Revealed: Dragon War Chronicles Book 2 is live on Amazon
Previously on Dragon War Chronicles, we left our heroes fighting for their lives in the midst of battle...
Kollin races against time to get samples of the weapon used in Canada to their lab in Oslo. Kenshin races to get Danica back home in time to save her, Aiden and Xander. Danica's allies converge in Toulouse to prepare for what may come.
Will Kollin be able help save Danica, Aiden, and Xander before all is lost? Will Matt be able to track down who's responsible for a new weapon that threatens them all? What will happen when Danica's biggest secret is revealed?
Secrets are revealed that will change the future for all dragon and SLIP kind alike.
Warning: This book contains explicit sexual situations that are MM, MF, and MMMF. There are romantic relationships displayed that are MM and some depictions of loving and consensual BDSM relationships. There are also bad puns, a game of tag with an invisible dragon, and lions, jaguars, and bears. Oh my!
Book Three
First Strike
First Strike: Dragon War Chronicles Book 3 is with the editor and is scheduled for a March 8th, 2019 Release
Previously on Dragon War Chronicles, our heroes recovered and were preparing to take the fight to a still unknown enemy. Meanwhile, startling breeding experiments were revealed.
Three sites are discovered in Russia that could hold all the answers they've been looking for. Three strike teams are assembled led by Xander, Kollin, and Tyler. Three simultaneous attacks are combined to make one devastating first strike against their hidden enemies.
What horrors will they discover? What plans will be revealed? Why is a member of the Dragon Council showing up on Danica's doorstep with ultimatums?
Find out in the next exciting installment of Dragon War Chronicles.
Warning: This book contains explicit sexual contact between consenting adults. There are romantic, BDSM, and purely sexual relations shown that are MM and MF. There is also high sexual tension and alpha male posturing that will make you laugh and roll your eyes along with plenty of snark and definite teasing of dwarf-like dragons.
Book Four
Dragon's Hoard: Dragon War Chronicles Book Four is estimated for an August 2019 release
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T.A.G.! You're Seen! is about 30% complete and scheduled for a June 2019 Release.
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T.A.G.! You're Heard! is scheduled for a December 2019 Release.


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