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Learn the challenges NASA faces as it works to develop an inflatable spacecraft. Choose the right shape, materials and trajectory to use a HIAD to bring cargo back from space.
To successfully guide an inflatable spacecraft through the super heat of atmospheric re-entry requires the right stuff. If you inflate too early, your shape is incorrect or your material isn't strong enough - you burn up. And if you get all that right and miss the target the mission is a bust.
Try your hand at landing a HIAD and become a rocket scientist. Advance through all stages at each of the four levels, collecting up to three stars for each successful landing.
The HIAD game challenges players to successfully land a HIAD after launching from the International Space Station and arriving at a target ground point on Earth. To successfully reach the target, players must:
• Undock from the ISS and use thruster control to steer the spacecraft towards the desired de-orbit point
• Inflate the HIAD aeroshell to reduce velocity and protect the payload from the heat of atmospheric re-entry
• Steer the inflated HIAD to the ground target prior to parachute deployment, taking into account the prevailing winds
• Customize the HIAD vehicle to achieve different performance characteristics to improve results
• Multiple spacecraft configurations and options
• Speed and trajectory controls
• In-game introduction
• Four levels of engineering mastery
• Locked levels
• Scoring for each level
• Help section
• Links to related website
What's New
ISS Detector Satellite Tracker
If you like space or astronomy, you will like this ISS locator app.
ISS Detector will tell you when and where to look for the International Space Station or Iridium flares. You get an alarm a few minutes before a pass. You will never miss a pass of the International Space Station and you will never miss the bright flashes of the iridium communication satellites. ISS Detector will also check if the weather conditions are right. A clear sky is perfect for spotting.
Extensions will enhance the functionality of ISS Detector. With an in-app purchase you can add comets and planets, amateur radio satellites and famous objects, like the Hubble space telescope or the Chinese space station Tiangong.
• Overview of the coming passes
• Weather conditions for perfect sightings
• Radar screen with path indication
• Current location on a map
• Detection of Iridium flares
• Notifications and Alarms
• Share sightings with whatsapp, twitter, gmail, email etc.
• Automatic location and timezone detection
• Widget
• Dedicated tablet layout
Available Extensions (in-app purchase):
Radio Amateur Satellites
Track dozens of ham and weather satellites
Famous Objects
Track Hubble, X-37B, Fitsat, Tiangong and more
Comets and Planets
Track comets as they come closer to earth. Perfect for C/2011 L4 Panstarrs in March 2013 or C/2012 S1 ISON in November 2013.
Enable ISS Detector to display the positions of the planets on the radar view.
ISS Detector combines data from Nasa, Heavens-above.com, minorplanetcenter.net and weather from yr.no.
Spacecraft 3D
Please look forward to interacting with even more iconic NASA missions in future updates!
This app requires a camera.
Space Images
Discover stunning images and videos of space, stars and planets -- including Earth and the sun! -- at your fingertips with the Space Images app from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a leader in robotic exploration of the solar system.
NASA/JPL's Space Images app offers a unique view of the sky via hundreds of images taken by spacecraft studying planets, stars, galaxies, weather on Earth and more. Save to your device as backgrounds or wallpaper and share them with friends on Facebook, Twitter and email as you scan through our extensive photo albums and rate your favorites.
The Space Images app works together with NASAJPL's newly launched Space Images website at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jplimages, so you can always have a view of space on the go (via Android, iPhone, and iPad) or at your desk.
· Discover the latest science images and videos of planets, stars, galaxies, weather and more
· Share photos and videos with friends on Facebook and Twitter
· Rate photos and check out which ones make the Top Rated list
· Choose the best space images and keep them handy in the Favorites folder
· Search for images or browse by categories -- now including Editor's Pick!
· Access full captions for more on scientific discoveries, NASA spacecraft and missions
· Save images to your mobile device as backgrounds and wallpapers
★ Staff Favorite on iTunes (Space Images for iPhone V1)!
★ Top Free App in the AppStore Education category (Space Images for iPhone V1)!
NASA Daily Image
An app that retrieves NASA's image of the day. You can save the images to the gallery and set them as your wallpaper. Please note images do not update on weekends and holidays.
NASA Nowt
NASA Be A Martian
This app offers exciting ways to take part in discovery and learn about NASA's Mars missions.
What's New in Version 2.0
What's New?
· Universal support for Android phones and tablet devices
· New design for Android phone and tablet devices
· Mars rover Curiosity's raw images
· See the latest mission images of our spacecraft and those returned from the Red Planet
· Learn about Mars and all the active missions
· Ask us a question about Mars
· Get up-to-the-minute news
· Check out behind-the-scenes videos featuring people on the missions
· Mars rover Curiosity's raw images
Learn more about Be A Martian at: http://BeAMartian.jpl.nasa.gov and visit NASA's Mars Exploration Program website: http://mars.nasa.gov .
Earth Cam Streaming (ISS) Free
Now you can receive directly from space (NASA) to your device screen, a beautiful, live and HD streaming from the International Space Station.
Black Image = International Space Station (ISS) is on the night side of the Earth.
Gray Image = Switching between cameras, or communications with the ISS is not available.
No Audio = Normal. There is no audio on purpose.
NASA Now
NASA Explorer - Image Viewer
Explore more of NASA with image galleries, news feeds and image sharing. The news feeds have links back to NASA's website so you can uncover more of what you want to know about.
Images can be zoomed and set as wallpaper, as well as shared with your friends through Facebook, Twitter, email, messaging, etc.
Kiip-enabled for rewards when you view and share the images.
If you have issues with the app or want, please drop me some feedback in the Review section or via email. I would love to hear from you. Please don't leave a low rating without saying why!
I would like to improve this app continuously, and your feedback helps me do that. Thanks!
*subject to daily publication by NASA.
ISS Tracker
The app allows you to see the longitude and latitude of the ISS as well as the the route that it will be traveling in the next 90 minutes.
Star Chart
You can now have a virtual planetarium in your pocket! Look through the eyes of your Android device to see a virtual window into the whole visible universe.
All you have to do is point your Android deviceº at the sky and Star Chart will tell you exactly what you are looking at.
Using state of the art GPS technology, an accurate 3D universe, and all of the latest high tech functionality, Star Chart calculates – in real time - the current location of every star and planet visible from Earth and shows you precisely where they are; even in broad daylight!
Want to know what that bright star is called? Point your device at it – you might just find out it's a planet!
Want to know what the night sky looks like to people on the other side of the earth? Well just point your device down!
Want to know where your star sign is in the sky? Star Chart will tell you all this and more.
Star Chart's features include:
- Just point and view. No need to scroll around the screen to find out what you are looking at*.
- Alternatively, look around the sky using finger gestures – perfect for armchair astronomers!
- Voice Control: Explore the solar system with commands like: "Fly me to the Moon" / "Go to Saturn" / "Tour Mars" / "Look at Andromeda" / "Where is the Cigar Galaxy?"[English only]
- Supports dynamic device orientation viewing. Allows you to view the night sky whilst holding your Android device at any angle.
- Accurately depicts all the visible stars of the northern and southern hemispheres - a total of over 120,000 stars!
- Fly to and explore all the planets of the solar system, their moons and the sun all rendered in beautiful 3D with state of the art visual effects.
- Displays all 88 constellations, with constellation imagery based on the beautiful artwork by 17th century astronomer Johannes Hevelius.
- Includes entire Messier catalogue of exotic deep sky objects.
- Using the powerful Time Shift feature allows you to shift up to 10,000 years forward or backward in time.
- Tap on anything in the sky and get the facts on what you are looking at, including distance and brightness.
- Very powerful zoom function, lets you view the sky in extra detail, using intuitive finger gestures.
- Fully configurable. Star Chart displays only the sky objects that you are interested in.
- Allows you to view the sky underneath the horizon. So now you can see where the sun is, even at night!
- Manually set your location to find out what the sky looks like from anywhere in the world.
- Full search feature
So point your Android device at the sky and see what's out there!
Star Chart is published by Escape Velocity Ltd and developed by Escapist Games Ltd. We update Star Chart regularly, so please send us your feedback and feature requests to firstname.lastname@example.com.
And thanks for all your feedback so far!
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/starchart
Follow Star Chart on Twitter: StarChartApp
º Augmented Reality (AR) mode only available if your device supports it, as this feature requires a built-in compass. Manual scrolling is supported on all other devices.
* Star Chart does not require internet access for normal usage. Internet access is only required initially to verify the license and subsequently when accessing the support page and external links.
NASA Daily Image
Simple layout with title, date, image, description and two buttons: for refresh and wallpaper.
Created as part of the tutorial and learning from the book "Head First Android Development" by Jonathan Simon.
No adds or banners.
NASA News and Images
Set the images as your wallpaper.
View NASA's breaking news stories each day.
When you select a story, it will open for you in your web browser.
Coming soon:
A gallery of all recent images
Nasa - Image of the day
Enjoy every day the most impressive NASA's images!
This is not an official NASA application.
This application places the ISS on the map in real time.
Calculate the orbit from the current time of device and TLE data, which obtained www.celestrak.com.
Green line is drawn 50 minutes before and after the current position of the ISS.
The user's position is marked with an android with the arm held high, surrounded by a semi-transparent red circle.
The red circle indicates approximately the area where the ISS would be visible by the user. That is, if the ISS is inside the circle, in theory, you could watch it at the sky. Remember, NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN!
Internet access is used to obtain maps and update once a day TLE data. More zoom means more data traffic.
From the preferences menu you can enable/disable automatic tracking on the map.
The local time Can also be superimposed on the map.
Visible Passes.
Although you can get to see the ISS for the day is much easier to see at night, because in the night sky is the second brightest object after the Moon and before of Venus.
But to be visible at night must be some circumstances:
-The ISS must be illuminated by the sun, ie outside the cone of shadow of the Earth.
-The sun must be at least 10 degrees below the horizon or, in other words, must have had at least 40 minutes before or must miss more than 40 minutes to come out.
-In its pass, the ISS must rise more than 5 degrees above the horizon. Less than 5 degrees is not visible by the distortion generated by the atmosphere.
From the main application window, pressing the menu key you can select "Visible Pass".
From this screen we have the date, time and position of the observer and a refresh button (circular arrow).
Pressing the button proceed to calculate the visible pass for the next 2 days (changeable in preferences screen).
The result is a list of steps visible. Each step consists of:
-Day and month.
-Initial instant. Time, altitude in degrees, azimuth in degrees (cardinal point equivalent)
-Instant of Maximum altitude. Time, altitude in degrees, azimuth in degrees (cardinal point equivalent)
-Final instant. Time, altitude in degrees, azimuth in degrees (cardinal point equivalent)
Alarms: You can on/off pressing alarm button (top-left icon).
3D Locator.
The locator uses accelerometer, the compass of the device and the calculated data to show the position of the ISS on sky from observer's position.
That is, when we moves the device to the sky shows a red triangle in the position of the ISS and a green dotted line showing the visible pass.
It also includes a positioning aid, based vibration:
- Hold the device pointing to the horizon, turn on your feet so as to vary only the azimuth (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW). When the azimuth differs from the ISS in less than 10 ° there is a vibration.
- Now vary the altitude, vibration intensifies as it approaches the ISS and will be greatest when the red triangle is displayed.
- You can activate / deactivate the vibration by touching the screen.
Altitude: The angle of a celestial object measured upward from the horizon of the observer. An object on the horizon has altitude 0 ° while one directly overhead the observer is 90 °.
Azimuth: The direction of celestial object measured along the direction of clockwise from the northern horizon of the observer. An object in the north has azimuth 0 °, east 90 °, south 180 ° and 270 ° west
If you like the app you can donate to developer from Extensions menu.
More from developer
NASA App
- Over 14,000 images (and growing everyday)
- Latest news and features stories
- Latest on demand NASA videos from around the agency
- Current NASA mission Information
- Live streaming of NASA TV
- Live streaming video from the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment on the ISS
- Launch information & countdown clocks
- Current visible passes for the International Space Station (ISS) and notifications
- Current visible passes for other missions (Fermi, Hinode, Hubble...)
- ISS and Earth orbiting satellite trackers
- NASA Twitter Feeds from around the agency
- Facebook® Connect and integrated Twitter™ client for easy sharing
- Schedule for NASA TV and NASA-Related Programming on Other TV Channels
- Map, information and links to all of the NASA visitor centers
- Featured content and program sections
- Earth as Art image collection and interactive map
- Third Rock Radio (alternative rock radio station)
- Favorites & image bookmarks
- 5 star rating system for images and videos with top rated list
– Live streaming data from the ISS onboard systems and mission timelines
– Crew and Science timelines with individual crewmember, social media, and international science experiment details
– Console displays with live streaming systems data and educational material to describe how the ISS works
– Virtual Mission Control Center is a 3D replica of the MCC in Houston, TX organized to describe how the mission control team supporting the ISS work
– Links to the five International Partner Space Agencies mission information
– Educational lessons that interact with the live streaming system data accessible through the website link
ISSLive!: ISS Mission Control in Your Pocket
International Space Station Live! or ISSLive! includes a website and mobile applications that tie ISS streaming systems data and operational timelines into one "Rich Internet Application (RIA)" experience. The application offers data on real time parameters such as station position, internal environment, altitude, payload rack science activities and other interesting data and crew activities. ISSLive! ties this data into an interactive application which includes the latest social media feeds.
ISSLive! contains a scrollable timeline, with a 'public-friendly' view of crew and payload activities. It uses some of the latest interactive web content technologies, including 3D interactive virtual views of the MCC and ISS. ISSLive! is a "one-stop shop" for ISS data, letting users in on the fascinating activities that happen daily onboard the ISS.
Working with the NASA Education Office, ISSLive! content serves as the basis for development of interactive lessons in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. ISSLive! is also a resource for the space enthusiast, the educator, and the life-long learner to participate in the mission of the ISS.
Rocket Science 101
ISS Research Explorer
The Experiments section provides access to the six main experiment categories and their subcategories. Experiments are depicted as dots within the category system and the stems connecting the dots to the system depict the length of time the experiment spent on orbit. Users can drill down to see specific experiments within the categories and subcategories or search for a specific experiment or subject using the search option. Experiment descriptions consist of links, images, and publications if available. The Experiments section can be further narrowed by selecting a specific expedition and sponsor by using the dials at the top right of the screen.
The Facilities section provides an interior view of three of the station modules; Columbus, Kibo, and Destiny. Once the module is selected, the interior image can be navigated by dragging up and down to see different sides of the module and left and right to view any racks not shown on the screen. Tapping a rack gives a brief description of the rack and an experiment description if available.
The Benefits section provides information on Human Health, Earth Benefits and Global education. Selecting a section allows the benefits to be investigated further.
The Media section provides access to three tabs: Podcasts, Games, and Videos. The Games section contains a game that introduces players to the differences in gravity when tossing a ball. Podcasts contains links to NASA ScienceCasts and Videos contains links to Science related videos.
The last section contains links to other Space Station research sites and NASA applications.
Sector 33
As the lead air traffic controller for Sector 33, you must merge the arriving planes into a single traffic stream as they pass over Modesto, CA on the western edge of your sector. The planes must be properly spaced and arrive over Modesto as soon as possible. Every minute you delay a plane during the traffic rush, that delay is passed on to ALL the other planes flying behind it. Although time is of the essence, to assure safety, the planes must NEVER violate minimum spacing requirements.
Can you handle Sector 33?
- 35 problems
- 2 to 5 airplanes
- Speed and route controls
- Thunderstorm obstacles
- 4 levels of controller certification
- Locked levels
- Scoring for each problem
- Scoring for each certification level
- In-game introduction
- In-game hints
- Help section
- Extra videos
- Links to related websites
- Links to social websites
Space Place Prime
NASA Desert RATS Virtual Site
About Desert RATS:
For 14 years NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) analog has brought together scientists and engineers to test robotic equipment, vehicles, habitats, space suits, communications, and power generation and storage in remote locations similar to future destinations in space. The teams evaluate mobility, infrastructure, and effectiveness in the harsh environments, and conduct scientific studies similar to those that would be performed on the moon, near Earth asteroids, or Mars and its moons. Analogs like Desert RATS provide NASA with data about strengths, limitations, and the validity of planned human-robotic exploration operations, and help define ways to combine human and robotic efforts to enhance scientific exploration. Other NASA analog locations include the Antarctic, oceans, and arctic and volcanic environments.
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LSP Activity Book
- 24 NASA- inspired pictures to color and activities to enjoy
- Paint Bucket coloring options allow even the youngest child to enjoy a creative coloring experience
- Freestyle marker and crayon drawing options to express creativity, with adjustable brush size for precision coloring
- 14 vibrant colors to choose from to express your artistic side
- Enjoy the Word Search, Asteroid Maze, Solar System Match, Planet Crossword Puzzle and more
- Listen for motivating sound effects throughout which serve as a wonderful source of praise and encouragement
- View the delicious No Bake Moon Cookie Recipe
- Obtain a Certificate of Achievement upon completion of your mission
About LSP:
NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP) leads the agency in providing access to space for the exploration of our home planet, solar system and the universe. LSP is located at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and acts as a broker to match payloads with specific launch vehicles for customers to ensure mission success. The principal objectives of LSP are to provide safe, reliable, cost-effective and on-schedule processing, mission analysis and spacecraft integration and launch services for NASA and NASA-sponsored payloads. To learn more about LSP, rockets and NASA missions go to: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/index.html
Please visit www.nasa.gov/lspeducation for additional educational resources and sensational learning activities.

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The Tommy Castro Band
Poor Tommy Castro was born 40 years too late. He really should have been going to elementary school with folks like John Lee Hooker and Wilson Pickett. That way he could have donated to the golden era of blues, when monsters like B.B. King and Buddy Guy were seemingly in every smoky, wrong-side-of-the-tracks juke joint in America. Since he missed that boat, Castro did the next best thing he jams like Hooker and Pickett and moans like King and Guy. Castro's latest release, Painkiller, is notable on two counts. First, it's some seriously good blues music. Second, Castro captures what is very much a live medium and transfers that sound to CD with much more success than gasp! Mr. King or Mr. Hooker. With more than ten CDs under his belt, including 1999's Right as Rain, which readers of Blues Revue magazine voted one of the best 40 albums of all time, Castro knows his way around a studio. From his own "I'm Not Broke" to Albert Collins's "A Good Fool Is Hard to Find," Painkiller rocks with a style both easy and hard-hitting. Pristine guitar work by Castro and guest Coco Montoya plus brash sax sounds by Keith Crossan and authentic Wurlitzer work by Tony Stead make this album a standout. Olivia Flores Alvarez
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The National Records and Archives Administration will modify its Electronic Records System for the first time since it went into the operations and maintenance phase. Mike Wash, NARA's CIO, said the use of Technical Direction Letters is one of the key lessons learned from the TechStat session ERA went through in 2010.
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I was using the GW search engine to try and find an old, old blueberry muffin thread, and I came across your post about the afternoon tea. Never did hear how it came out? That was sure a great thread! So I'm wondering . . . ?
There was nothing in your post about blueberry muffins though! The GardenWeb search engine is very arcane. I have better luck using Google. I should have known better!
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major health developments afflicting one of the ladies have been overcome. Fingers crossed that happens soon.
Re. an old muffin thread, here are several with blueberry muffin recipes. Hope one of those is what you were looking for.
Yeah, I finally realized I need to skip the GW search engine and just just use Google. I found the thread and made the Ina Garten blueberry muffins that Annie posted. They are very lemony, how I like them, and yum. Made a ton though, but that was good because I have a ton of blueberries. Not exactly a terrible problem!
I figured the tea got cancelled but I was just wondering. I sure hope your friend gets better. I cannot begin to count the number of times I have had to cancel something due to my poor health these past couple of years. I have bad migraines now and also some other chronic inflammatory conditions. Plus I seem to be always moving! I sure look forward to the day I can stay in one place and do some good cooking and entertaining. Some friends came by this past week to help me load a trailer for my moving, and we had a lovely dinner out on my patio. But I am leaving this place in a couple more days, so very sad. I have a nice apt. in MI so maybe someday I will get to have "tea" there. I already had my folks over for dinner, that went pretty well. I am taking back a bunch of kitchen and dining room things for my apt. Not my good tea service though. But I guess I could have tea at my mom's, she has ALL the stuff, tiered china servers and silver and beautiful china teacups and pots, etc. She never uses it anymore but I know she would enjoy hosting a tea.
I would love to have the problem of too many blueberries. :o) I've made the Ina Garten muffins before, agree they are very lemony and delicious.
This poor lady has had a bunch of health problems, it seems like one thing improves and something else happens. But, maybe tea would be better once it cools down anyway. Iced tea seems more appropriate with the current heatwave.
I am sorry you are dealing with health problems as well. Have you tried magnesium supplementation for the migraines? I took liquid mag. several years ago when I had frequent bouts of visual migraines, and they went away, knock wood. Also recommended to several others and it helped them as well. If you haven't tried it yet, maybe check what your doc thinks.
Wow, MI?! Gorgeous place. The only drawback is the snow and ice. We lived in CO before moving here and when I complained about the heat to a neighbor, he said "well, at least you guys don't have to shovel heat". :o)


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Selling in spring. When do we find a realtor?
We are thinking about selling our home next spring and possibly building new in a 55+ community. I've read on this forum about various questions to ask perspective listing agents. What I want to know is, at what point should we begin the process of interviewing and selecting a realtor?
I think you can start talking to realtors right now, it will take some of the pressure off you in the spring. But you won't get a very good fair market evaluation now for what prices might be like in the spring.
But you'll get an idea of which agents and companies you like.
If you do some research on this forum, the real estate section of some newspapers etc, you will some excellent ideas. You might start a notebook of the ideas and look at your home as if you were going to buy it to get it ready for sale. That information is avaiable here also. Will you be in the same area? New---if so is that really where you want to be? Medical? Shopping? Friends? Churches? etc.
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Thank you for the responses. We are looking to build in a development very close to where we live now in the same town. I realize that we won't know where the market will be in the spring , so it would be impossible to know how to price our existing home at this point. We did just have any appraisal done and it came out about where I expected. I can only hope the market increases more by the spring.
I was hoping to get feedback from the realtors on what things we should concentrate on improving in our house over the fall/winter. We have done a large amount of improvements over the past 4 years (whole 1st floor remodel, windows, furnace, roof to name a few) so I really don't want to put a huge amount of money into the property that I won't get back.
Is it best to use the same realtor for both selling and buying? I'm thinking we could negotiate a smaller commission. If we are comfortable with the realtor who is marketing the development we are looking to move to, is there any advantage or disadvantage to using them for both?
We've lived in our current home for 19 years, so I'm not up on the best way to handle this...and using HGTV as a model is certainly not the way to go. :)
Be cautious about what you list as improvements. I wouldn't really consider a new roof and a new furnace as improvements (they're maintenance issues).
Unless you've done something like changing a normal shingle roof to a fancy slate roof. But even then, I don't think you'd be able to recover that cost with a higher sales price.
If you are planning to sell in the spring ... when are you going to build? And where will you live while building?
I'd do a major landscaping clean-up this fall, removing and pruning overgrown trees and shrubs, planting some bulbs and seeds that will sprout and bloom in the spring, doing a really good job on fall lawn care. You want everything to be ready to go when spring comes.
As for the rest ... clean it until it squeaks, and take care of all the minor repairs.
Again, thank you for everyone's input.
Lazy, building would occur during the spring, but not commence until we are under contract on our house. I'm prepared to have to rent for a period of time in the interim. I plan to fine tune the floorplan over the winter and will be looking for input over on the house building forum.
Thanks for bringing up the landscaping. We've painted the outside this summer and have done some landscaping, but could certainly do more. I agree, having bulbs popping up is a plus in the spring.


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Israeli artist Omer Golan survived a Palestinian suicide bomb attack in 2000. Since then, he's worked with his wife Tal as the artist duo OMTA.
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Despite growing tensions with Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Obama administration requested more than $3.1 billion in military aid for Israel this year. But what would happen if that were all gone?
Twyman's latest production looks at what it's like for a family to live through the Israeli-Palestinian war.
There were political protests, bouts of crying, arm wrestling, a marriage proposal, and a ceremonial knife-giving.
When I went from working with NGOs to the private sector, a crazy business partner and some shady cops nearly derailed my business.
We spoke to the author of Goliath about how his harsh and uncompromising critiques of Israel have inspired a backlash from across the political spectrum.
Silwan is becoming one of the most contentious neighborhoods in the most contested city in the world.
The wall destroyed Johnny Anastas' livelihood and trapped his home in on three sides, so he decided to make the most of it with a gift shop full of wooden, Christian-themed souvenirs.
In the aftermath of the latest war between Palestine and Israel, I photographed pieces of people's lives lying in the rubble.
Pro-Israeli students started a rival to a takeout restaurant that criticized the US's role in the conflict.
The controversial Israeli historian's new book—published in English by Verso last month and part of a trilogy on Israel, Zionism and Jewish identity—is a bitter, provocative resignation from an identity he no longer wishes to have.
Eman Mohammed has fought her way through abusive colleagues, death threats, and sexual harassment.
Eighteen years ago, on November 4, 1995, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered by a young right-wing militant named Yigal Amir. I spoke to Yigal's brother and accomplice, Hagai.
In today's news roundup, Libyan soldiers and militias battle for Benghazi, and tensions heighten between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem.
While every country holds the right to refuse access to foreign nationals, it seems that Israel is extending the concept of "security threat" to anyone expressing oppositional political views.
Though many of them aren't allowed physical contact with their wives, the prisoners can still impregnate their spouses—all they need is a little creativity.
The British charity SkatePal just put the finishing touches on a concrete park in Zababdeh.
Politicians praised this weekend's protest against the NYPD for being calm and orderly, but "calm and orderly" doesn't always bring about change.
Protesters in Oakland blocked an Israeli ship from unloading its cargo to protest Israel's war on Gaza.
The recent surge of anti-Semitic violence in Germany has been intense, but it shouldn't really come as a shocker, despite politicians' claim to the contrary.
Why don't human rights groups call Israel's actions "genocide"? We asked and they wouldn't say.
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At seven stories tall and 247,000 square feet, the Science Education and Research Center at Temple University in Philadelphia is one of the largest buildings devoted exclusively to scientific research in the city's region.
At seven stories tall and 247,000 square feet, the Science Education and Research Center at Temple University in Philadelphia is one of the largest buildings devoted exclusively to scientific research in the city's region.
Valerie Smith, current dean of the college at Princeton University, has been named the 15th president of Swarthmore College (Pa.).
When it comes to industry disruption, traditional healthcare organizations have many battle scars. Visits to the hospital emergency room are being replaced by visits to an urgent care center at the local strip mall.
The authors were the founders of Touro University International (TUI), which at first was an online branch of Touro College and later became a separately accredited university by the WASC Senior College and University Commission.
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US: Anti-gay Duck Dynasty star backs nephew in run for Congress 3
2:49 PM — Homophobic Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has voices support for his nephew, who is running for Congress.
US: California governor signs law outlawing 'gay panic' legal defense 8
2:16 PM — The Governor of California has signed a law outlawing the use of the so-called 'gay panic' defense.
Serbia: Defiant crowds take part in first Belgrade Pride since violent clashes 1
1:19 PM — Hundreds of people are taking part in the first Belgrade Pride parade permitted to go ahead in four years.
27th September 2014
One Direction singer Liam Payne goes shooting with anti-gay Duck Dynasty stars 24
6:16 PM — One Direction singer Liam Payne has gone on a shooting trip with the anti-gay stars of Duck Dynasty.
US: Catholic school 'to review policies' after firing lesbian teacher for getting pregnant 3
5:26 PM — A Detroit Catholic school is to review its policies, after it sparked a backlash by firing a teacher for expecting a child with her wife.
Christian B&B owner who turned away gay couple speaking at UKIP conference 686
4:11 PM — A Christian B&B owner who famously turned away a gay couple is claiming at UKIP conference that she was "punished for believing in marriage".
US: 'Traditional marriage' group funding campaigns to stop gay Republicans getting elected 6
2:14 PM — The National Organisation for Marriage is funding a campaign to block the election of the only openly gay Republican candidates - despite claiming to only oppose same-sex marriage.
Watch: Sarah Palin gets White House address wrong in speech to anti-gay conference 26
1:47 PM — Republican Sarah Palin managed to get the address of the White House wrong in her speech to an anti-gay group.
Leicestershire Police: Anti-gay leaflets comparing homosexuality to paedophilia 'not a crime' 46
1:10 PM — A man who was caught distributing leaflets comparing homosexuality to paedophilia has committed "no criminal offence", according to police.
Indonesia: Province passes law punishing gay sex with 100 lashes 9
11:27 AM — An Indonesian province has adopted a new law introducing public floggings for homosexuality.
26th September 2014
Gay UKIP MEP David Coburn calls Scottish Tory leader a 'fat lesbian' 25
12:36 PM — Gay UKIP MEP David Coburn has labelled Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservative party, a "fat lesbian".
Kazakhstan: Court fines ad company over gay kiss poster 1
12:06 PM — An advertising agency in Kazakhstan has been hit with a fine over a poster of two 19th Century cultural figures kissing.
24th September 2014
Northern Ireland's new Health Minister blocks PinkNews, gay rights advocates on Twitter 27
7:53 PM — Northern Ireland's new Health Minister has inexplicably blocked PinkNews and several critics on Twitter, just hours into the role.
Northern Ireland: New Health Minister thinks Pride is 'repugnant' 15
7:33 PM — Jim Wells, who thinks Pride is "totally repugnant", has been appointed as Northern Ireland's new Health Minister.
Serbia: Orthodox Church attacks 'shameless' Pride parade 30
6:57 PM — The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church has attacked the "shameless" organisers of Belgrade Pride.
US: Black pastors' coalition to file 80 legal briefs opposing same-sex marriage 13
6:29 PM — A coalition of black pastors plans to file 80 legal briefs in same-sex marriage lawsuits across the US.
Northern Ireland: Health minister who claimed gay couples shouldn't adopt children sacked in reshuffle 9
1:16 PM — Northern Irish health minister Edwin Poots, who was branded a "disgrace" after he refused to lift the country's blanket ban on gay men donating blood, has been sacked in a reshuffle.
Fugitive thug who brags he 'battered the gays' evades police in Glasgow 8
12:58 PM — A wanted fugitive who previously bragged that he "battered the gays" has evaded police custody in Glasgow.
Leaflets comparing gays to paedophiles now delivered in Lincoln 22
11:29 AM — Leaflets claiming that homosexuality is "not natural" and a "rebellion against nature" have been delivered in Lincoln.
22nd September 2014
Chad considers criminalising homosexuality 90
7:24 PM — Chad is considering introducing a ban on homosexuality.


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A control arrangement for a multiple hoist suspension system in which a count is maintained for the pulley turns on each hoist. When the pulley counts approach within a selected deadband, the desired end location the controls are then left open loop and the suspended article is free to drift by inertia. Several such end locations may be stringed together with the resulting alignment sequence determined by the deadband. In consequence closed loop servo dynamics are avoided and the forces are self-resolved within the width of the deadband.
1. A control system for coordinating the extension of a plurality of hoists cooperatively suspending a single article, comprising:
a horizontally moveable overhead platform;
a plurality of extendable hoists suspended from said platform at the respective one ends thereof and connected at the respective other ends thereof to said single article;
a corresponding plurality of sensing means each mounted adjacent a corresponding one of said extendable hoists for sensing the extension of the corresponding one of said hoists and for producing a sensing signal in the form of a sequence of sensed electrical pulses each said sensed pulses being indicative of an integer unit of extending dimension of the adjacent one of said hoists;
control means connected between said sensing means and said hoists for receiving said sensing signals from said sensing means and for accumulating said sensed pulses of said sensing signals, said control means including memory means conformed to store selected reference count sequences of reference pulses, comparison means conformed to receive said reference counts in predetermined sequences of said reference pulses from said memory means and said sensed pulses selected in preselected sequences for producing an output signal indicative of the difference therebetween; and
a plurality of motive means each respectively engaged to a corresponding one of said hoists and conformed to receive said output signal for extending said hoists in response to said output signal.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to hoist controllers, and more particularly to parallel control systems for coordinating the movement of a plurality of hoists.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Automatic control over hoist movement has had extensive development in the past, particularly in the context of the transverse and extension movements of a single hoist.
Typically hoists suspended on overhead cranes are arranged for lateral translation both along and transverse to an overhead support track with the vertical dimension determined by the extension of the hoist. Since the foregoing axes of motion are substantially orthogonal very little cross-coupling results between the various motions, particularly since the motions are maintained at rates sufficiently low to minimize any cross product terms. Thus the prior art hoist controllers typically take the form of position controllers along the three orthogonal axes which more or less operate independently.
Occasionally, however, overhead cranes are useful to effect suspension alignment in three dimensions. For example, overhead stage lighting often entails the movement of lighting arrays which are sometimes tilted around one or two pivotal axes in the course of such alignment. Thus, occasions arise in which hoists, of necessity, are moved in groups which, in the course of their motion and extension, then define the vertical and angular alignment of the articles supported. To effect such alignment, three or more hoists are typically used in a single grouping and define by the extension therebetween the effective alignment of the article. Thus the extension of the hoists and their consequent angular alignment with respect to the overhead crane determines the effective alignment of the articles suspended. When the mass distribution of the suspended article is not known a closed loop arrangement combining all three hoists becomes mathematically an insurmountable problem. Accordingly, the preference is for effecting hoist control by way of point-by-point observation and it is a technique for queing point-by-point sequences into coherent movements that is disclosed herein.
Accordingly, it is the general purpose and object of the present invention to provide a multiple hoist controlling system in which the path to the desired end point is determined by prior, stored sequences of position.
Other objects of the invention are to provide a multiple hoist control system in which several hoists are simultaneously controlled.
Yet further objects of the invention are to provide a multiple hoist control system suspending an article and controlled for minimal angular path.
Briefly, these and other objects are accomplished within the present invention by providing a microprocessor based control system conformed to control two or more hoists simultaneously. Such hoists may be suspended from an overhead track and thus may be translated in unison along the coordinates of motion along said track. Preferrably, each of the hoists is offset from the others, thus defining a plane at the attachment thereof. The extendable end of each of the hoists are then secured to various points of a suspended article and thus the extension or contraction of any one of the hoists will produce both linear and pivotal motion at the article. More importantly, the summation of the suspension forces will vary for all instances at which the vertical position of the hoist suspension does not coincide with the vertical position of their attachment to the article.
Thus, concurrent with any extension and contraction of a hoist in the hoist grouping, lateral translations will occur in the suspended article as result of the unbalanced lateral force created. Of course, such lateral translation resolves lateral stresses and occurs only in conjunction with increased suspension stresses.
In consequence, closed loop control over multiple hoist extension entails force summations and dynamic effects of exceeding complexity. Simply, each twist, when conformed as a closed loop, will result in at least a second order (quadratic) effect on the mass suspended. When expanded to multiple hoists the combined product of closed loop motion becomes inordinately complex, particularly when the gain and therefore system accuracy are increased.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that any dynamic response of a closed loop system will progress towards instability with increased gain. Moreover, the stability derivatives will include expressions of the mass and inertia of the article suspended along with the suspension geometry of the hoists. Thus, as each new article is lifted new stability problems arise if classical closed loop servo control is applied.
Accordingly, the instant invention provides for a selectable dead band in the hoist servo loops along with a selectable coast timer to accommodate the dead band. Simply, the hoist servo loops are maintained closed only up to the dead band and thereafter are open looped for the time interval necessary to accommodate the mass inertia. In this manner the complex dynamics of a multiple hoist combination are avoided. Within this dead band precision the translation of the article between positions is achieved by end point coordinates.
Thus, the present system effects translation by a series of end points, in a novel control arrangement which strings together individual, balanced vertical positions to obtain the desired path within the limits of the dead band. This path of vertical motion can then be carried out at any horizontal coordinate to allow the article in various selected alignments at any desired point.
This convenience is particularly useful in suspending items like lighting arrays over stages or in controlling the deployment of articles in the course of any assembly process.
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic illustration of a hoist control system arranged in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a detail illustration, in diagrammatic form, of a signal pick-off useful with the present invention; and
FIG. 3 is a flow chart effected in accordance with the present invention.
The example set forth herein illustrates the novel hoist control system in conjunction with stage lighting arrays. While thus illustrated it is to be noted that the use set out is exemplary only and various alternatives to this use are both proper and contemplated. For example, uses like those entailed in aligning articles in the course of any assembly process or the alignment of tools from overhead suspension are accommodated with the same parameters and no intent to limit the scope of the invention to the choices exemplified is expressed herein.
As shown in FIG. 1, the inventive system, generally designated by the numeral 10, comprises an overhead crane arrangement characterized by the parallel rails 11 and 12 on which a wheeled framework 15 is suspended. Framework 15, in turn, supports a plurality of hoist motors illustrated herein as motors 21, 22 and 23, each connected to take up or to extend hoist cable stored on corresponding cable reels 31, 32 and 33. The cable from each of the reels 31, 32 and 33, shown as cables 31a, 32a and 33a is then directed over a corresponding upper sheave 41, 42 and 43 forming pulley loops with the corresponding lower sheaves 51, 52 and 53 then supporting the suspended article A. Of course, force multiplication may be effected by conventional multiplying means and the pulley pairs illustrated herein are thus exemplary only.
Accordingly, any pulley arrangement by which motion of a load can be effected may be used herein without loss of generality.
By reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, each of the upper sheathes 41, 42 and 43 may be provided with ferro-magnetic slugs 141, 142 and 143 aligned to rotate with the sheave adjacent reluctance pick-offs 151, 152 and 153. Pick-offs 151, 152 and 153 then each connect, across their signal conditions stages 150, to a corresponding counter CTR1, CTR2 and CTR3 in which the pulse count of the slug passage is accumulated. For the use contemplated herein counters CTR1, CTR2 and CTR3 are each provided with a clear and reset lines R1, R2 and R3 and are each connected for parallel output into a common multiplexer (MUX) 201 at the input of a processing system 200.
As shown in detail in FIG. 2, each signal conditioning stage 150 includes at its input a magnetic sensor 651, of the type comprising a magnetized loop 652 around which a coil 653 is wound and connected to the input of a differential driver 654. Alternatively, Hall effect devices, optic or photo encoders or other implementations (not shown) may be used for the purpose of generating an input signal. The outputs S of the differential driver 654 are then collected at the input of a differential receiver 655 which, through a photo coupler 656, then provides the pulse signal to the corresponding counter CTR1 (and by same example CTR2 and CTR3).
One should note that the foregoing illustration describes the signal conditioning at the pickoff 151. By similar connection pickoffs 152 and 153 are conditioned and their implementation shall not be repeated.
Processing system 200 may be variously implemented and may preferrably take the form of any conventional microprocessor, such as the microprocessor sold under the Model Number 6809 by Motorola, Inc. In such conventional form the processing system includes an operating memory 202, preferrably in the form of a random access memory (RAM), an arithmetic logic unig (ALU) 203 which preferrably entails an added 204, and a control stage 210. Of course, the processing system of this form will also include a program memory variously implemented, and shown herein as a program ROM (read only memory) 215 onto which the various program instructions to be described hereinbelow are impressed. As is commonly practiced in the art such a program memory will execute instruction sequences entailing the above-described operative features of the processing system. Moreover, the control 210 in its conventional form will include an output multiplexer (MUX) 221 which distributes the separate digital outputs to external digital-to-analog (D/A) converters 231, 232 and 233 which then, through corresponding servo amplifiers 231a, 232a and 233a drive the motors 21, 22 and 23. Of course, servo amplifiers 231a, 232a and 233a entail saturation limits which effectively result in on-off saturated inputs to their corresponding motors. In the course of this operation RAM 202 may be inscribed with the necessary coordinates to which the various sheaves 41, 42 and 43 are to be brought. These coordinates may be inscribed from a permanent memory record 251 or may be set in the course of execution of the instruction cycle in ROM 215.
More importantly, through the use of an external keyboard 300 manual, step-by-step, positioning of each hoist may be effected. This manually positioned sequence may then, once again, be stored in the permanent memory 251 as a string of beginning and end cues BC and EC which are thereafter useful in the course of automated execution described below.
In the course of execution of each instruction cycle the stored coordinates in RAM 202 are sequentially brought up to the added 204 to be compared against the multiplexed output of counter CTR1, CTR2 and CTR3. Added 204, therefore, forms the summing node of a multiplexed servo system and its output to multiplexer 221 is then useful for avrious functions. In the first instance the adder output may be sized to add only a selected gorup of most significant bits from multiplexer 201 and memory 202. This is under the control of an external input of a dead band DB. A second, selectable input may be in the form of idle do loop execution DL effecting a selectable idle do loop delay. Of course, these inputs may be effected through the keyboard 300 and thus appear as external inputs to a program sequence executed in the microprocessor.
The foregoing operations are set out in the context of a standard microprocessor. One should note that similar implementations may be achieved in various choices of integration, as for example by small scale integration (SSI) or very large scale integration (VLSI) and the example, therefore, is not intended as a limitation. Thus, the foregoing system may be variously implemented for execution in the course of which escapement values of one hoist relative the others is accommodated.
The foregoing may be implemented in terms of instruction flow chart set out in FIG. 3, and implemented in ROM 215. In this flow chart the first step 501 receives and enters the external inputs including the beginning cue BC, end cue EC, the do loop delay DL, the dead band DB and the pulley position PP. The entry is then compared in the negative dead band comparison 502 and the positive dead band comparison 503. If the pulse position is outside the positive or negative dead band range the next pulse count is brought up (the other pulleys) in step 504. If not, the next cue is read in for execution in steps 505 and 506. If the next cue is the end one (step 507) then the delay loop DL is invoked in step 508 and the hoist is left open loop to drift to its settling value during which the pulse count continues to be maintained.
Thus loop closure is only effected when the pulse count PP is outside the dead band DB of the system. Within this deadband no loop closure occurs unless the next cue is outside the limits thereof. Accordingly, a plurality of hoists may be concurrently resolved without incurring the dynamic instabilities that may manifest themselves close to null.
In consequence a difficult parallel central problem is reduced to sequential form which may then be manually adjusted by step increments in each hoist loop.
Obviously, many modifications and changes may be made to the foregoing description without departing from the spirit of the invention. It is therefore intended that the scope of the invention be determined solely by the claims appended hereto.
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Hope someone will be able to tell what this insect is, so I can get rid of them. They are so tiny that looking through a regular magnifying glass doesn't show any features other than what I can see with my naked eye. It's a very tiny white speck that is elongated rather than round.
This past August the hybiscus had was just about all covered with these specks. At first (from a distance) I figured that the plant was stressed because of the heat. When I decided to look closer, I recognized that these white specks didn't belong. I gave the whole plant a harsh washing with the hose and the specks gave no resistance--covering the entire area below. The plant started to recover--growing new leaves. Now the specks are back--and since I am moving it into the garage at night (for fear of frosts), and that is where the geraniums go at night, I see these white specks on my geranium leaves too. During the summer, the geraniums and hybiscus were no where near each other. I gave the hybiscus a strong hosing yesterday and notice this morning that there are some of these specks back on the leaves and can recognize that the trunk nearest the ground has the highest consentration.
Please help.
After reading about the snow scale (cycad aulacaspis scale), you just might be right. Tomarrow I'm going to have to take a look at the Sago (Cycad) and see what the underside of the lower fronds look like. I was wondering why the lower fronds were all brown--got good care and all. That hybiscus is going to have to go--it's a host--and by the time I get things under control, who knows how many of these specks are going to be picked up by the wind and scattered and land on a new host.
Here these hard white bumps all over the limbs and trunk are not part of the plant--like I figured.
I don't know what's involved, but I'm going to try and get to know the entomologist at the Univ. of FL. (if there is one). I read that it takes an entomologist that specializes in scales to determine what kind one is--after dying and putting on a slide for the magnification. My biggest concern are my citrus trees.
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Keeping You Healthy
A Book About Doctors
Describes some of the things that doctors do to help people stay healthy.
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5" gauge points design and construction based on the prototype.
A Stuart Turner 7a from Castings
Building a working steam engine.
5" Gauge SAR - VR 'Overland' Joint Stock Carriages
Two beautiful coaches: 43AE and 38CE in 1/12th scale
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Can I mix oils when deep frying?
- diablo May 10, 2009 02:22 PM
Like say, canola and vegetable? I know you're not supposed to, technically. But like if a person is too lazy to get off her big behind and go to the store....then is it permissible?
re: alwayscooking
Thanks for your speedy reply :)
I think the only caution here is that the blend will take on the lower smokepoint of the two oils, so you shouldn't use a very low smokepoint oil with a higher smokepoint oil if you're doing high heat cooking.


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Heartburn/GERD Health Center
Understanding Hiatal Hernia -- Prevention
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How Can I Prevent a Hiatal Hernia?
To prevent symptoms of a hiatal hernia:
- Wear loose clothing. Anything that presses on the stomach can aggravate hiatal hernia symptoms.
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