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This week has seen a lot of activity in the security world about one of the largest companies in Britain – Tesco. What's unusual about this, certainly compared to most "security" news is that there's been no notified data breach. Efforts conducted by Troy Hunt, in particular (and well documented at his web site – Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco) have identified a number of potential security issues with Tesco's online presence.
Tesco have made some responses (additional coverage at SC Magazine) and I'm sure we'll see additional news on this.
Tesco aside, what this highlights is that most people aren't aware of what security is in place, or should be in place for their online transactions. Not everyone has the time, ability or stubbornness of people like Troy to investigate and follow through with enough knowledge to get through the anodyne responses. This is an example of why having a knowledgeable and semi-independent security assessment is something that any organisation should do. That's not to denigrate some of the fine people who work at Tesco – all of us sometimes need an extra set of eyes and ears, sometimes just to challenge assumptions. Luckily, here, the problems have been identified before there's a serious issue.
One of the basic issues here is that security is hard – knowing that even if everything has been done "right" that it still may lead to a problem. This is one of the reasons that it's good advice for users to use different passwords – even if you trust the people you give a password to, you can never be sure that it won't get leaked. If you use the same username and password combo on multiple sites (or worse, for your e-mail access itself) then any password leak on those compromises a large amount of your online presence. Even a low value breach (a blog, for instance) escalates if those same credentials are used at a shopping site that has your credit card number stored and allows quick purchasing.
Security is about layers of defence – not assuming that each layer will hold, but mitigating and minimising the risk if it doesn't. This incidentally is one of the issues with the "padlock" icon in browsers – it gives a false sense of security. Users are one of those layers and should assume that whatever is in place by the provider may not be enough…
One of the difficulties with any form of security is when it meets head-on issues such as finance, usability, compliance or legislation. The latter two in particular are insidious, often being used as a replacement for security (we've complied with XYZ policy) or even being antipathic to security. Especially in large organisations the challenges in putting forward a culture of good practice against those are immense. There may even be good and acceptable reasons for, what at first appears to be, bad practice.
That said, I'm wondering if these types of events may be the trigger for security as a competitive advantage. Would a (non-security) person actually choose to shop online at one store over another due to security deficiencies? If not, at what point would that happen?


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How to Write Sympathy Notes—What to Write and What to Avoid
By Cole Imperi, CT
originally published in April of 2012
Sympathy Notes really get a lot of scrutiny from the recipient. The words inside a sympathy note carry a lot of weight; it's like they are magnified. These notes are sent when someone we know and care about has experienced pain. The pain of loss. Whether that is the loss of a parent, a pet or otherwise, loss is still loss. It is feeling empty when before you were whole.
What words are ever appropriate at a time like that, right? I don't know about you, but every time I sit down to write one of these notes, I always think that there are really no words that exist that will actually bring comfort.
And then I remember, that statement is true. A sympathy note is not actually intended to make the situation better because it really can't make the situation better. Instead, a sympathy note is a way to say 'Hi, I'm here, and I'm thinking of you.' It's a reminder that the recipient has many people in his or her life to help fill in that empty spot.
There are lots of things you can say in a sympathy note, most of which are probably fine. However, there are a few things you should avoid saying in a sympathy note and I'll tell you why.
"If there's anything I can do, let me know" or "If there's anything I can do, just call"
Those are both very nice sentiments and anyone who says them means well. However, what you are really saying is: "I'll help, but you have to call me first." When someone is grieving, the last thing they need is another ball in their court, so to speak. And honestly, they're not going to call. It's better to say something like "I'm going to call you next week to check on you" or "I'm going to email you next week to check in with you, in case you need anything."
When I discovered this tip, I was a little shocked. I said this all the time to people. I'd even post it on Facebook. And I was not the only one. Someone might post that they were sick, and there'd be eight Facebook comments of people saying "If you need something, just call!" It's just another way of not really saying anything at all.
"They're better off now," or "They're happy now," or even "They're in a better place."
Even if the person you are writing to has said one of the above statements to you, it's still best not to say it yourself. Honestly, maybe they're not better off. Perhaps things happened you're not aware of. The issue with this statement is that it's not really a comfort to the person that was left behind. The person who died is still dead. They're still dead whether they're better off or not. And, the person receiving your sympathy note is probably not better off, definitely not happy now, and likely not in a better place. How can a dead person be better off than the living person you are writing to?
Be careful when you say you understand or you know how the person feels (particularly when you've never been through the same situation). Let me give you an example. When a friend loses a parent, I will usually include a statement like this:
"While I can't understand what it's like to lose a parent, I can understand what it's like to be loved by a parent. I know how much your father loved you. I remember in high school how he'd pick us up after track practice and he'd always kiss you on your cheek, give you a hug, and ask you how your day was when we'd get in the car. I vividly remember how much love your Dad had for you."
Everything I said was completely and totally true. I didn't say I knew or I understood when I really don't know and I really don't understand. Plus, I was positive. I wasn't talking about death, I was talking about life. Be considerate of this when you sit down to write a sympathy note.
Most anything written in a sympathy note has good intentions behind it. However, if you are going to take the time to write one, really pay attention to what you are saying versus what you are meaning. They can be different. If you want to actually do something for the bereaved, say what it is and commit to it. Don't put anything back on the bereaved. Don't comment on where the deceased has gone or how the deceased may be doing. Focus on the person you are writing to, the person who is still alive and dealing with the aftermath.
Death is a funny thing. It happens to all of us, and will happen to everyone we know. Yet, many of us struggle with how to act or what to say when it happens. If you stay positive and commit to doing something for the bereaved you'll stand a better chance of sending a note that is meaningful, memorable and a true comfort.
All this said, a note written and sent is better than no note at all.


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Deftonesmo sounds like great betas to me, sorry to hear you are still spotting I know people say its ok unless red but still it is another worry but i am sure all is well and its prob 2 little babies burrowing in!!
Luckyone Glad to see you have moved over, how is your cough??? I hope the good news is sinking in but it wont seem real until your scan xx
kirsty i also have a terrible sweet tooth despite been a dental nurse! but i havent been able to eat sweet things since bfp just craving savoury and also I hate salt n vinegar crisps but last 2 days i cant get enough! surely its too early for cravings
mjay until we see those heartbeats we wont relax will we!!!
AFM still have nausea most of the day though its not too bad, got sick on friday and sat but so far not today though its still early!! Poor j still doesnt believe we are pregnant and says he has 3 days left to find out if we are! It was his 30th birthday yesterday so i bought a card from the "bump" but i wont give it to him till after scan on wed - thats if Please God all goes well. Right may go its All Ireland Football Final and j has just plugged the kettle every year i usually watch it drinking wine and today for 1st time ever i am drinking tea ...yeah!!!!


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Ron Speakman Campaign Event In Leesburg
Ron Speakman, candidate for the Republican nomination for Loudoun County Sheriff, has an engaging manner and warm personality, which partially offset the damp chill of the kind of day best suited for polar bears or yard apes. Those of us too old for the moon bounce and face painting managed to stay relatively comfortable with help from the excellent barbecue, pleasant conversation and occasional stamping of feet to reinvigorate circulation in cold limbs. Hey, outdoor events in April are going to be hit or miss, usually going one of three ways: days of sunshine and daffodils; the kind that bring May flowers; or the ones like today that make us long for summer.
Considering the buzz-kill weather, Mr. Speakman had a nice turnout. I was only there for the middle hour and saw about 45 guests, at least 35 of whom were old enough to vote, and was told a few people had come and gone already. Granting some late arrivals I estimate 45 adults.
It meant all the more opportunity for those who were there to talk to Ron Speakman. As someone attending mentioned, he is much more a "people-person" than a typical retail politician. He has conversations, gives thoughtful answers, and genuinely appears to enjoy the social aspect. This should work out well for him because there will be a decent amount of time and a few more public opportunities to meet more voters between now and the Convention or primary.
Sorry for the small number of photos but it took me a while to get started and then I got cold and had to sceedaddle. Life during wartime, this ain't. You can hover your mouse over the pictures to see who is in them and click on each for a larger version.


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Peacocks Are an Acquired Taste Some in California Don't Share
Beautiful but Rude, They Rule the Roost; Hit and Runs in Rolling Hills Estates
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif.—To keep the peace at neighborhood cookouts and cocktail parties, folks here stick to an unspoken rule: Don't discuss religion, politics—or peacocks.
Skipping the first two is easy enough. But the third is tough to avoid, because the birds—which can grow to 13 pounds—are often screeching from treetops or nesting in front yards.
For decades, peacocks and peahens have thrived in a cluster of little cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, a hilly chunk of land jutting into the Pacific Ocean just south of Los Angeles. By one estimate, the peninsula's peafowl population has grown to about 1,000.
But as more young professionals escape Los Angeles for the bucolic peninsula, there are fresh demands to thin the peafowl population. Even some longtime residents agree.
Recently, the Strawberry Lane home owners' association of 35 homes here voted to secede from the "peacock protection zone" established in the city by two neighborhoods. Now, Strawberry Lane homeowners can call the city to trap and remove birds hanging out in their yards. The birds are sent to sanctuaries or breeders.
"They're charming, but it's gotten out of hand," said Ginny Xepolis on a recent morning outside her cream-colored house. A mother peahen scurried across her driveway with a new batch of chicks.
"See?" she said, pointing to a dazzling blue male clambering across her cedar-shingled roof. "They rule the street." Peacocks can fly into trees or onto roofs but they aren't made for long-distance flights.
Ms. Xepolis said she spends about $2,000 a year to repair shingles damaged by the birds' talons. Her neighbors complained about large peacock droppings spoiling garden parties and soiling driveways.
The Strawberry Lane decision ruffled feathers one street over on Dapplegray Lane—and made the Dapplegray neighborhood the last peacock haven on the peninsula where the birds can't be removed. Pro- and anti-peafowl forces there are locked in a feud over whether the neighborhood, like the rest of the city, should allow some trapping.
"It's like a more subtle version of the Hatfields and the McCoys without guns," said A. J. Poulin, the president of the Dapplegray Lane Property Owners Association.
Some peafowl defenders accuse peafowl haters of shooting the birds with BB guns and deliberately running over them.
A sign attached to the front gate of one home reads: "$1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals shooting or otherwise harming a peafowl."
A chart kept by Linda and Kirk Retz, a pair of peafowl-defending lawyers who live in the neighborhood, tracks peafowl deaths. The Retzses send the dead birds for necropsies.
According to the Retzses' chart, one bird was shot dead in 2007. In 2009, the peafowl gun death rate doubled to two. Since 2007, another 23 peafowl were hit by cars. A chart footnote reads: "Some birds seem to have been run over on purpose..."
According to local historians, the peacocks were first brought to the peninsula in 1924 as a gift for banker Frank Vanderlip, who once owned the entire peninsula.
Residents who love the birds say that reducing the peafowl population would destroy the rural way of life that attracted them in the first place. "All of my family came to love the beautiful peafowl and to appreciate them as symbols of a slower, more peaceful lifestyle," said Kathy Gliksman, who has lived in The Lanes, as the neighborhood is called, for 38 years.
"Whenever I hear a peafowl it's just one more reminder I'm not in Century City," in West Los Angeles, said Mr. Retz, who moved to the neighborhood 10 years ago.
But Mr. Retz's neighbor, Valerie Goodman, compares the peafowl's piercing wail to a "bunch of car alarms going off at the same time."
"The noise is deafening. You can't be on the phone," says Ms. Goodman, who runs a marketing business from her home. Ms. Goodman says she was recently mortified when friends came for brunch in their new black BMW. When they left, they found a peacock clawing at its own reflection in the car door. The door needed repainting.
Mr. Poulin, the homeowner's association president, says some residents have refused to pay their monthly dues until something is done about the peacocks. He says he naively suggested a meeting to address the peafowl issue last year. It lasted for more than two hours and no consensus was reached.
Like many newcomers, Mr. Poulin, a software developer, says he moved from West Los Angeles four years ago to give his young family more space and a rural community experience.
Many neighbors keep donkeys, horses, chickens and goats. The neighborhood is laced with miles of riding trails, and horses often clomp down the streets with their riders. At dusk, neighbors sip wine in their front yards while their children run about. The smell of home-cooked dinners wafts through open doors and windows. Peacocks roam freely, gathering in this yard or that, then fluttering into trees or onto rooftops. The birds let out a screech when trucks roll past.
Mr. Poulin says he understands the frustrations of the peacock haters and wouldn't mind seeing the Dapplegray flock thinned a bit. But he is reluctant to force the issue, he says, because, "I don't want to stick my neck out and get it chopped off by the peafowl-loving crowd. They're more organized."
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OAKLAND — In danger of losing funding if it can't meet a federal spending deadline, a Bay Area transportation agency is speeding up planning for a $30 million trail extension to improve public access to the popular hiking and riding trail on the new east span of the Bay Bridge.
The new trail almost halfway across the bridge has been a hit with pedestrians, cyclists and joggers, but there are limited ways to reach it.
To change that, the Bay Area Toll Authority and Caltrans have lined up $30 million in state and federal funds for a 6,000-foot-long trail link to connect the bridge trail with the West Grand Avenue corridor of Oakland.
The money, however, is at risk of being lost unless the toll authority can begin construction by 2017.
To speed things up, the authority's Oversight Committee agreed Wednesday to spend $650,000 for a separate environmental review on the trail link.
The review initially was to be done as part of an environmental review for a proposed 170-acre Gateway Park at the foot the Bay Bridge in Oakland, but waiting for that would have jeopardized the funding.
The new trail link can stand on its own as a useful project separate from the Gateway Park, toll authority managers said in a July 2 report.
"The trail (extension) will be important to connecting the bridge trail to a portion of Oakland along the West Grand Avenue corridor," said Peter Lee, a project manager with the authority. "This is near Lake Merritt, where they are many joggers and pedestrians."
The route of the planned trail link would follow West Grand Avenue roughly between Maritime Street and Mandela Parkway.
About half of the trail extension would be built high above street level to separate pedestrians and cyclists from the heavy truck traffic traveling to and from the Port of Oakland, Lee said.
The majority of the 1.14-mile-long path would be 15 feet wide, although a portion on a bridge over railroad tracks would be only 10 feet, according to preliminary plans.
While construction of the trail must start by 2017, completion would likely be in late 2018 or in 2019, Lee said.
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When the driver of his school bus started shaking and "acting all funny," 13-year-old Jeremy Wuitschick of Milton, WA (south King County! Woooooo!) jumped into action. As you can see in this fucking awesome security video, the 7th-grader grabbed the wheel and brought the careening school bus to a stop while other students called 911. According to the LA Times:
Short and police Chief Bill Rhoads gave everyone on board an A+ — especially Wuitschick, whose grace under pressure helped keep all the students safe, and prevented the school bus from hitting any other vehicles.
"We're just happy the kid was thinking on his feet," Rhoads told the news service.
As for Wuitschick, he wishes he could have done more. He said he plans to learn CPR so he'll be better prepared when another emergency situation strikes.
"When something major happens, I always look back to see what I could have done better," he said.
ADORABLE. My only question is how the hell did this kid know how to stop a moving school bus? I don't even know if I could do it (don't they have weird pedals and stuff?), and I'm a grown lady with a driver's license and full-length legs. But anyway, more importantly, can someone PLEASE cast Jeremy Wuitschick in some sort of buddy comedy with Captain Sully Sullenberger?


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Introduction to optical loss[edit]
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[edit]
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?
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, both of which are available at a variety of on-line electronics stores, at least in the U.S. - any equivalent pair should work as well, but resistance on the circuitry and parts of the Arduino code may need tweaking. For the HIR204/OP506B couple, the required circuitry is limited to a couple of resistors.
Things to keep in mind[edit]
When designing a probe for measuring biological processes, it's important to use biologically inert materials; this means that the materials you use should be non-toxic, but also non-biodegrabable. Acrylic, polycarbonate and stainless steel all fit the bill, but vary considerably in price, availability and workability. PVC is opposed by some, on the grounds that species of bacteria have been discovered that can degrade it rapidly - whether these are likely to be present in your specific culture is an open question.
Food safety is another consideration. We've used hot glue for our initial prototypes, because although hot glue is probably not food safe (can't find any sources to verify / falsify this), in this design it is encased in acrylic. We will switch to aquarium glue in the final edition, though, on the assumption that as fish are extremely sensitive to water quality and don't suffer ill effects from it, it's likely to be safe for humans, too.
Last, but not least: this should go without saying, but make sure you don't get a glue with anti-fungal / bacterial / microbial properties - you want those critters to live so you can study them, right?
What you need[edit]
- 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)
Here's a quick hand-drawn sketch of our NIR probe to give you an overview of the construction described below.
How to build it[edit]
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 each 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 phototransistor, 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 length of PVC tube with a tight-fitting cap, make a hole in the cap for wires, and simply pull the tube + cap over your NIR probe like a lampshade. Making sure the phototransistor is pointing downwards also helps.
Bonus level: Building the BubbleShakerTM (optional)
Some biological processes form gas (usually C02), which may cause bubbles to form on the surface of the LED and phototransistor and throw off your measurements. To solve this problem, we've created the amazing BubbleShakerTM - a small off-set motor ('buzzer') extracted from an old cell phone, encased in a short piece of acrylic tube plugged with aquarium / hot glue on both ends.
To build one yourself, the first thing you'll have to do is find an old cell phone somewhere, crack it open, and extract the motor - get as much of the wires as you can, it'll make life easier for you when you have to solder extensions on. Solder about 2 ft / 60cm of additional wire (remember the colours) to both leads. Then take a piece of acrylic tube big enough to fit the motor and about 1/2" / 13mm wire and plug one end with glue. Insert the motor in the tube - make sure fits tightly by wrapping the fixed part in electrical / gaffer tape, taking care not to block the rotor. Plug the other end of the tube carefully with glue, covering the soldered joint for extra strength.
Attach the BubbleShakerTM to your NIR probe by grinding one side of the tube flat, doing the same to the LED end of the probe, and glueing the two together with acrylic cement. There's a picture of a fully assembled unit here.
Interfacing and measuring[edit]
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. Start out by connecting the 5V and GND pins on the Arduino to the power (+ / red) and ground (- / blue / black) strips on the breadboard. Then wire the LED to 5V and GND across a 150Ω resistor. Now connect the collector lead on the phototransistor to 5V, and the emitter lead to an empty strip on the breadboard, then wire that strip to the A1 pin on the Arduino with a connector, and to ground with a 100Ω resistor. If you've built the bonus version, you'll also need to wire your BubbleShaker to 5V and GND. Then you're ready to hook the Arduino board up to your computer, program it and start recording.
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 this Arduino 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$.
Calibrating measuring equipment is an important part of any scientific pursuit, because the accuracy of your calibration determines the reliability of your data. However, when it comes to biomass and cell density, determining absolute values may be somewhat difficult, so you might want consider whether you actually need to know; in a lot of cases, you are likely to be less interested in the absolute biomass than in the relative change in biomass over time.
To get an absolute measure of biomass in a live microbial culture, you can use several different techniques:
- counting cells in a special microscope chamber
- marking cells with radioactive isotopes and counting scintillation events
- incubating on solid substrates overnight and counting the resulting colonies
- desiccating samples to measure total dry organic matter by weight
All of these techniques will require special equipment, though, and multiple measurements over time to create enough data to draw reliable calibration curves and compare your NIR probe values to those curves. We're not going to go into detail with any of that here - Google will help you learn more if you want - but merely describe the ways in which you can adjust your probe if you need to.
The easiest way to calibrate this NIR probe is by tweaking the Arduino sketch. Use a voltmeter to measure the voltage coming off the leads from the phototransistor directly when the probe is just sitting in air (should be close to 5V), and simply enter that value instead of the default IMAX value in the calibration settings:
// 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) */
An initial test of your probe in the most and least dense cultures you plan to monitor should then tell you whether you can actually measure across the relevant range.
If you have problems covering the whole spectrum, the other two things you can adjust relatively easily are the distance between the LED and the phototransistor, and the resistance on the circuit. A low resistance potentiometer instead of the 100Ω resistor on the emitter lead would allow you to adjust the sensitivity of the phototransistor directly, and provide a way of tuning it without having to disassemble and rebuild it. You can also decrease the light intensity of the LED by increasing the value of the resistor; 470Ω seems to be a good mid-level.
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The reduction in intensity of light passing through a mass is due to a combination of reflection, absorption and scattering - the relative importance of these depends on the specific properties of the mass or substance, and for any given substance will vary with the wavelength of the light. When measuring directly in liquids, surface reflection usually does not contribute significantly to optical loss, thus the reduction in light intensity is almost entirely due to absorption and/or scattering.
Most chemical substances absorb light in the visible spectrum, but don't absorb or scatter much in the infrared spectrum. Conversely, with the exception of chlorophyll-containing algae and bacteria, microbiological cells generally block / scatter IR light, but don't absorb or scatter much in the visible spectrum, which is also why they appear colourless or even translucent under a microscope. Thus, a sensor measuring optical loss in the near-infrared part of the radiation spectrum (850nm in our case) will generally be much more responsive to biomass / cell density than to any (inorganic) chemical compounds present in the medium.
Making it cooler[edit]
Streamlining and verifying our current design is going to be a high priority, but we are also considering possible future develoments. One potential future improvement on the current design could be inspired by another commercial NIR probe called [Media:TruCell.TN.AUvsOD.pdf|TruCell], which uses a laser diode as lightemitter, enabling measurements at much higher cell densities. Another developement could be the construction of either a full-spectrum spectrophotometer - likely very problematic to scale down far enough to fit in a piece of 1" PVC tube - or a probe with several emitter/sensor pairs that would allow us to measure at several wavelengths at once.
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Dark Match
* Natalya defeated Charlotte.
Episode 1: Airing February 13th
* Axl Keegan vs. Mike Dalton – Match was about to start but Paige enters the ring and goes after Summer Rae, who ends up running to the back. Paige wants Summer to come back out. Dusty Rhodes comes out and demands Paige leave the ring. Summer comes back out and trash talks Paige which escalades into a fight between the two. Dusty says the two can settle it later.
* Corey Graves defeated Alex Riley.
* Summer Rae defeated Paige.
* NXT Commissioner Dusty Rhodes in-ring segment about NXT Championship.
* Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey defeated The Wyatt Family in the finals of the NXT Tag Team Championship tournament to be crowned the first-ever champions.
*Dusty Rhodes congratulates the new tag team champions to close the show.
Off-Air: Damien Sandow segment with Dusty Rhodes. It's announced Sandow will be in action at the next set up tapings against Randy Orton.
Episode 2: Airing February 20th
* Bray Wyatt w/Erick Rowan and Luke Harper defeated Yoshi Tatsu.
* Xavier Woods defeated El Local.
* Audrey Marie defeated Sasha Banks.
* Tony Dawson introduces Tyson Kidd. Tyson addresses rumors on how long he will be out of action. He says he will return eventually. Leo Kruger interrupts and goes after Tyson, however Justin Gabriel makes the save.
* NXT Champion Big E Langston defeated "The Ascension" Conor O'Brian. After the match, Corey Graves attacked Langston from behind.
Episode 3: Airing February 27th
* Justin Gabriel w/Tyson Kidd defeated Leo Kruger.
* Aksana defeated Emma.
* Bo Dallas is shown backstage non-responsive. Renee Young reveals that Bo was scheduled to compete in a #1 contenders match for the NXT championship prior to the assault.
* Corey Graves vs "The Ascension" Conor O'Brian in a #1 contender's match is in progress. Match ends in no contest when The Shield comes out and takes both men out.
* The Shield talk about recent actions and said they arent done with NXT quite yet. End of show.
Off-Air: Bryon Saxton brings Ricardo Rodriguez out. Ricardo introduces Alberto Del Rio. Del Rio thanks fans for their support. Segment is interrupted by Antonio Cesaro. Dusty Rhodes comes out and says Cesaro will face Big E Langston next.
Dark Match Main event
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[Kariudo: Seems like it would be a good idea to go through and create an index...so I did]
- Section I: The Basics to Vegas
- Section II: Making Things Complicated, Yet, Easy....
- Section III: Velocity
- Section IV: God damn subtitles!!
- Section V: Adding Text
- Section VI: Different Ways to Transition
- Section VIII: READ
- Section IX: Double The Footage = Double the Fun
So you want to know how to use Vegas? For this tutorial I will be using Vegas Video 6, though from what I've noticed there has not been a drastic change since Version 2, except the interface is prettier... and the loading time is longer since it loads up a media manager that I still have no fucking clue on what's it for (much like Adobe's VersionCue for its CS products) besides eating RAM.
1. First you open up Vegas. Vegas BEFORE version 5 will be in a folder called SONIC FOUNDRY, Vegas AFTER 4 will be in a folder called SONY.
2. Then the magical title load whatever screen appears with nice info to remind you about stuff you don't care about
3. Here is an explination of the Vegas interface
(Click on the image for an enlarged version)
Master Volume - DO NOT MESS WITH THAT UNLESS YOU NEED TO. Nuff said, just. don't touch it.
The preview box is adjustable. It can go as wide as you can make it would interferring with the track window. So bigger the resolution, bigger the preview window. Don't mess with it though, keep it at the standard NTSC Multimedia resolution.
4. Now, after Vegas has loaded and you're familuar with the window, its time to get some music.
Go to File > Import > Media and browse for some music. Acceptable types of music are wav and mp3, I don't mess with any other types besides that. I have not tried m4a or any other types.
5. Now the thing with Vegas that is a down side from Premiere is that it has to load the audio peaks, and that takes a while depending on how long the song file is. Usually, with a fast processor and enough memory, should take a minute or so.. but if your computer is slow and crappy, this can take a while.
6. The moment the audio is in your media box, click and drag it to the track window. It should appear just like that, if not, I dunno what you did. Its not that hard.
7. Same thing with the video
8. Click and drag
9. If you want to make the clip longer (as in, repeating the clip over and over again) you just click at the edge of the clip (a little square-ish cursor should appear) and you drag it across the track window like so:
To bring it back to its original length, just do the same thing but backwards until it "snaps" into place.
THIS DOES NOT EXTEND THE LENGTH OF YOUR CLIP. IT JUST REPEATS IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Extending the length of the clip will be explained in the next section.
Now you may be saying, why does that clip look so small? I can't do anything with that! Well, here's what you do to fix that.
10. You see the scrollbars on the bottom and right of the track window? See the plus and minus buttons? You click on those.
Clicking on the plus button on the bottom scroll bar will extend the track as such. This does not affect clip length, just the size of your track window.
Clicking on the plus button on the verticle bar will extend it vertically.
To return the bar back to its original look, double click on the verticle bar and adjust the horizontal slider to its regular size (to do this, the cursor will turn into a horizontal arrow and you move it as so).
11. Now you want to start clipping and slicing some clips? To do this, simply highlight the clip and press the "S" key
The clip is now split !
12. To delete a clip you don't want, simply highlight the clip you don't want
And press the delete key
And viola, the clip is gone.
In the next section I will teach you what some of the pluses for these tools are for (such as the window adjustment) and how to slow or speed up your clips.
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Junior Jenna Petrucelli scored five goals and senior Keller Torrey added three goals and four assists to lead the University of Mary Washington women's lacrosse team to a 19-11 win at Marymount University in Capital Athletic Conference action on Wednesday in Arlington. The Eagles improve to 9-6 on the season, and 3-2 in league play.
After the Saints scored the game's first goal, UMW charged ahead with seven straight goals in an 11 minute span. Torrey started the run at 25:19 with an unassisted score. Petrucelli scored on a Katie Williams assist at 20:55, and junior Megan Gersbeck scored 26 seconds later on a free position shot.
Petrucelli scored one minute later at 19:26, and sophomore Corrine Wiederkehr scored at 18:36 to push the lead to 5-1. Sophomore Emily Atkinson scored with 16:25 remaining, and senior Katie Mastropaolo scored her first collegiate goal with 14:27 left to cap the streak. The two teams traded scores for the remainder of the half, with Torrey, Karlie Fuller, and Atkinson finding the nets for UMW, who led, 10-4, at halftime.
The Eagles pushed the lead to 13-4 with the first three goals of the second half, with Kara Hogan, Petrucelli, and Gersbeck doing the honors. After a Saints goal cut the deficit to 13-5, Gersbeck scored with 20:48 left, and freshman Jamie Dillon followed with her first goal with 17:18 remaining to push the lead to 15-5.
The Saints scored six of the next seven goals to draw to within 16-11, but the Eagles used goals from Petrucelli, Atkinson, and Torrey to cap an eight-goal victory.
The Eagles led in shots, 46-25, and in ground balls, 30-15. Kathryn Stiltz had 11 saves and Maggie Beglau none splitting time in the Eagle goal.
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That may be true, but remember that Enhanced Armaments can be unequipped whereas the body parts of an avatar cannot. This means they are unable to equip certain armaments as it would conflict with their body parts. The only time we've seen an armament activated together with a body part was with Crow's Gale Thruster and wings combo. It could either be that both are classified under different slots or it could be due to Gale Thruster being already activated when Crow recieved back his wings.
|2012-12-02, 17:10
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Okay, I remember watching only the first 11 episodes til I took a break and was waiting for the season to be finished.
My question is: Does the anime have a resolved ending? Like it's done/complete and no need for a season 2, or is there probably going to be a season 2?
|2012-12-02, 17:56
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There's probably going to be a season 2, but it wraps up almost all of the loose ends from the plot points brought up within the current crop of episodes (there's really only one or two that I can think of that weren't resolved, but they aren't so huge that they can't be overlooked).
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|2012-12-02, 22:28
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I figure becoming Level 10 (or heck, even Level 9) is an undertaking about on par with Episode 1 Naruto declaring he's going to be Hokage.
If it ever happens, it's going to take so many seasons that you may start to forget that original goal. Or the story may turn into this huge "global" catastrophe/war, such that the goal no longer seems that important.
|2012-12-04, 18:55
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Because if you aren't, your arguments don't seem to have any weight at all.
The inability to un-equip a combat ability is not really a weakness at all. Silver Crow's wings don't come off, but they have a storage mode. Lime Bell's Choir Chime "arm cannon" can also disappear, assuming it's not an Armament like the Pile Driver.
As for conflicting with existing body parts... what conflict would there be, for items one starts with or gains through upgrade points? If Sky Raker started with the Gale Thruster, or gained it through leveling up, it could have easily been part of her avatar.
Even your own example of wings and thrusters conflicting didn't happen at all. Further, Enhanced Armaments are noted to change appearance and form to match different users, such as how the Armor of Catastrophe did for each Chrome Disaster, and how Silver Crow's wings did for Noumi.
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|2012-12-04, 21:21
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There may not be any light novel information backing up my answers, but that is because there simply isn't any about your question. You're the one asking a question that has no answer, and I'm merely trying to answer it with inferences from what information we already know from the light novel.
What makes you think Black Lotus can hold anything even when her swords are in storage?
Body parts of avatars still leave certain parts of themselves on the body even after. Ring deactivated. Back Lotus' swords don't dissappear completely after she deactivates them. They shrink.
Haru's wings are stored into two compartments in his back, wheras Enhanced Armaments like Cyan Pile's Pile Driver, Scarlet Rain's Immobile Fortress and Dusk Taker's Pyro Dealer all unequip and leave no traces of themselves on the user. So it is safe to assume that Lime Bell's arm is also an Enhanced Armament as it can also be unequipped the same way.
Also, the Armor of Catastrophe is the only known Enhanced Armament to ever do that. That's why when Kuroyukihime introduced it to the gang, she made special mention of it. If it was the same for all Enhanced Armaments, it wouldn't make much sense for her to take special note of it.
Silver Crow's wings are a body part, not an Enhanced Armament. Obviously it would have different properties from an Enhanced Armament, so your comparison is invalid.
Unless you've never played an MMORPG before, you would know that all equip panel items are classified according to slots so that they do not conflict with each other. That is why it may have simply been a case of both Gale Thruster and Silver Crow's wings belonging to different slots as both items do not conflict with each other.
TLDR: Enhanced Armaments and body parts each have their own advantages and disadvantages. Neither is truly better than the other. Stop whining.
|2012-12-04, 21:31
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What I meant (in that the subordinate clause) was that it is not clear (from the anime) if the Chime is an item (like the pile) or an integrated feature (like the wings).
|2012-12-04, 21:35
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Hmm... From how I see it, I don't think Season 2 won't cover the quest to Level 10. It's still a long way off, considering how powerful the Six Kings of Pure Color are.
Since a new adversary in the form of the Acceleration Research Society (ARS) appeared, I was thinking that S2 will be all about eliminating the cheaters that infest Brain Burst.
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So yeah, we all want the Six Kings defeated so anyone in NN can reach Level 10, but I still don't see how they would do it atm. Because you know, they have to deal with Haru's Chrome Disaster Armor and the ARS, and unless they get these out of the way, they won't be able to seriously challenge any of the Six Kings just yet.
In fact, the question is whether the author really intends to write the plot around the battle against the Six Kings or he's just simply interested in writing Haru's development as a VR player and as a person. Because you know, if he really wanted to write the plot solely around defeating the Six Kings, he might as well have written a thin-and-lanky MC with a powerful but boring Duel Avatar.
|2012-12-05, 05:10
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True, true.
It's also hard to remain sympathetic to your heroes when they're near-effectively murdering people merely to satisfy their curiousity.
We don't know enough about the Six Kings to care about them all, but we do know and care about Niko (who is sort of, kind of an ally at this point), we have a lot of reason to sympathize with Purple Thorn and morn for Red Rider, especially since even Kuroyukihime regrets "murdering" him.
Even Blue Knight earned points by deciding to not execute Cyan Pile despite Taku declaring his intent to join the Black Legion! On top of that, he was apparently best friends with Red Rider, and he takes a very dim view on cheating.
Pretty much the only Level 9s we might accept our heroes doing in would be Yellow Radio and (depending on what she turns out like) White Cosmos. And that would only put Black Lotus half-way to the goal; less if the kills are shared with Haruyuki or anyone else.
So I imagine that the goal of "Defeat The Six Kings" is not actually how Our Heroes will come to figure out the mystery, even if that goal is necessary for driving most of the overarching plot for now.
|2012-12-20, 22:12
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Hey, the Mystical Reins that Sulphur Pot had...
Do we know if they were something that Pot gained through level up, or bought at a Shop, or found in the Unlimited Neutral Field?
He lost it so easily that I really hope it wasn't part of his avatar; otherwise that means it's either really easy to lose something you invested Level Up bonuses into. Or that Black Lotus is really good at disarming other avatars.
There's a yellow circle on its status screen, which might indicate it's a "Yellow" kind of tool. Which it would seem to be -- comandeering an NPC to use in PVP seems like an "indirect" trick, to me.
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No true answer is yet know but I believe black is about fear. If we take a look at the Duel Avatar colour chart, an avatar's position can move in 3 different directions, with 2 directions at the same time. An avatar can move around the colour wheel and also at the same time, towards the centre, where one is paler, or the outside, where one is darker. This means that an avatar could be a darker version or a paler version of a colour and still have different properties. Blood Leopard is a very dark red. That's why even though she is a red avatar, she bites. Lotus is also pretty fearsome, with her passive ability. So is Black Vise, who can travel through shadows and force enemies into immobility.
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Polls: Immigration reform popular
Immigration reform continues to attract broad public support as the Gang of Eight compromise legislation moves through the Senate, according to a huge raft of polling conducted for three pro-reform groups: the Partnership for a New American Economy, the Alliance for Citizenship and Republicans for Immigration Reform.
In a polling memo set for release Thursday– and shared early with POLITICO – Democratic pollster Tom Jensen and Republican pollster Brock McCleary reveal that their surveys found "overwhelming, bipartisan support for the bill" across 29 states.
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"Over the last few years, we've seen a country increasingly polarized across party lines when it comes to almost all attempts to move legislation. Yet, the compromise that's been crafted on immigration reform is a rare exception to that rule. The bill that's been constructed has broad support with every segment of the electorate in every part of the country," write Jensen, who heads the firm Public Policy Polling, and McCleary, of Harper Polling.
( PHOTOS: At a glance: The Senate immigration deal)
The two firms, which use IVR methodology (often called "robo-polling"), collected a mountain of data in states ranging from strongly Republican Idaho and Utah to solidly Democratic Illinois and Maine.
In each state, the pollsters described the legislation in accurate but positive terms, telling participants that the Gang of Eight bill would help "secure our borders, block employers from hiring undocumented immigrants" and require undocumented immigrants to meet "a long list of requirements … over more than a decade" in order to obtain a pathway to citizenship.
Presented with that favorable description of the legislation, voters responded warmly, with between 61 and 78 percent in each state expressing support.
( Also on POLITICO: First immigration votes stalled)
Those are probably best-case numbers for immigration reform advocates. The reform proposals currently under consideration have not yet been picked apart in the Senate and House legislative processes. When politicians debate immigration reform before the voters next year, they won't be presenting such a plainly one-sided view of the issue.
But at this point, in states represented by key advocates of immigration reform, both the Gang of Eight proposal and a pathway to citizenship earn robust support, as described.
In Florida, where GOP Sen. Marco Rubio has been one of the staunchest supporters of reform legislation, 72 percent of voters said they support the legislation (including 45 percent who strongly support it) and 71 percent backed the pathway to citizenship.
In South Carolina, home to reform-boosting Republican Lindsey Graham, those numbers were only a bit lower: 62 percent who support the Gang of Eight bill and 60 percent who backed the pathway to citizenship.
And in Texas, the rapidly changing but still-conservative state with two senators who have resisted reform – Ted Cruz and John Cornyn – 67 percent said they could support the reform bill as described, with 72 percent backing a pathway to citizenship.
The average support for the "Gang of Eight" legislation was just under 68 percent, according to the pollsters.
McCleary and Jensen write in their memo: "The bipartisan immigration reform package represents a rare opportunity to cast an affirmative vote for major legislation that enjoys overwhelming support from voters of all stripes."


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I am writing a geoprocessing script that will need to accept a shape as an input parameter. This shape will be obtained by a user drawing the shape in a web application. The web application will execute the geoprocessing service, providing the coordinate string of the shape as an input parameter.
In the geoprocessing script tool's definition, I would assume that this input parameter would be of type FeatureSet and that within the script you would use arcpy.GetParameter to access this input parameter. Where I know that the input parameter will always be exactly one feature (string of coordinates), is there a better alternative than using a FeatureSet as the input parameter type?


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Senate GOP may foil sequester fix
Not everyone in Washington is so desperate to avoid sequestration.
A handful of Senate conservatives have been gaming out ways to block a deal, if they consider it a bad one — even if it means letting billions in across-the-board cuts go through, according to GOP sources on Capitol Hill.
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The issue: Republican budget hard-liners fear that the White House, congressional Democrats and their own party leaders will try to replace or forestall the cuts with budget gimmickry or new taxes. They worry that "fake" cuts — savings that would have happened anyway or other accounting tricks — will become increasingly popular, even for moderate Republicans, as the zero hour approaches for the Defense Department.
In private sessions, these Republicans have begun laying plans to block a big, bipartisan agreement, either by pressuring GOP leaders not to give ground or using the congressional rulebook to slow-walk the process.
It is too early to tell what will come down the pike, and the discussions are preliminary, Republican sources cautioned.
But the conservative lawmakers are "concerned" that leaders could "use the sequester as leverage to get a bad deal" through Congress, one senior GOP aide told POLITICO.
They view the cuts as money in the bank, the silver lining of an August 2011 Budget Control Act, the debt-limit deal that gave Congress the choice of coming up with $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years or letting automatic cuts to defense and domestic programs take effect on Jan. 2, 2013.
"Whatever you say about the cuts, and we all opposed the BCA, it was a big victory for those wanting to cut spending," said a Senate Republican source. "To then turn around and replace that with revenue" — or unrealistic future cuts — "is going to be a very hard thing to overcome on our side."
For a variety of reasons, many fiscal conservatives voted against the budget control measure, which set up the sequestration process. The irony now, Republican sources say, is that folks who voted for the sequester are the most eager to get rid of it and lawmakers who voted no are more willing to let it take effect.
The official line from most conservatives is that the planned cuts to the Pentagon would devastate the nation's defenses and they should be replaced by reductions to domestic programs or other budgetary offsets that don't involve raising taxes.
Congressional Democrats and White House chief of staff Jack Lew, the point man in constructing the sequester, wanted a way to force Republicans into choosing between defense cuts and tax increases, sources said at the time. House Democrats tried to make that choice more stark for Republicans earlier this month by drafting legislation that would have replaced the defense cuts with tax increases. But the GOP blocked the measure from coming up for a vote.
"The holdout has been that Republicans are much more interested in protecting tax breaks for special interests, like tax breaks for big oil companies, than they are in protecting defense spending," said Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee and a negotiator on the 2011 budget deal.


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I want my PATGuard Elite to generate a report that will include serial numbers of assets. Reading from other post, I've matched the PT300 comments last line "Serial No" to the PatGuard Elite program; Tools>Options>Text Line 4> "Serial No." The Serial No. data appeared as part of the asset detail. However, when producing a report to reflect the data, in Designer; Objects>Contents>Data Line> Insert Column> Serial No. This however returns, the Serial No. of the tester used and not the Serial No. of the asset description I would like to retrieve from the comments line.
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A cellular protein activated by the binding of an intercellular signal to its receptor on the cell membrane; the G-protein then activates the enzyme adenyl cyclase within the cell, triggering the formation of cyclic AMP and a stereotyped response.
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a regulatory protein which becomes activated when bound to GTP and is involved in signal transduction.
G protein coupled receptor
a member of a large class of cell-surface signaling receptors that contain seven transmembrane a helices; ligand binding results in activation of a coupled trimeric G protein that then initiates intracellular signal transduction pathways.


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Sonar prototypes in scoutsim package.
Added scoutsim support for encoders.
To see the query_encoders.srv (used for accessing this data) in action, use: rosrun libscout test_encoders. You will see a stream of encoder data.
Committing changes that were not previously committed. Also got rid of some confusing/unnecessary code.
Fixed the scoutsim node.
Just a couple bugs. All the nodes compile now! You can run "rosmake" from the "scout" directory (compile the whole stack).
Updated the licensing information in many files.
This is a broken commit because I decided to do this at a bad time. Sorry! The build will be working after next commit, I promise (and I won't push till then). This commit reflects the licensing in the files after I used my auto-add/remove script.
Got motor control working with scoutsim
Behaviors can now use the MotorControl class to change the speed of the motors in the simulator. The simulator correctly handles the command.At the moment, the set_motors command is limited to 'scout1'. We should look into prefixes to specify which scout (scout1, scout2, etc) each behavior should command....
Made a lot of changes to the general structure.
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