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Progress M1-1: This old freighter separated from Mir on 26.04.00 at 1633 UTC for decay over the Pacific east of New Zealand at 1927 UTC.
Docking Progress M1-2: Approach and docking were executed with the help of the system Kurs. All went flawlessly and smoothly. The freighter docked at the aft docking port (Kvant-2 +X axis) on 27.04.00 at 21.28.48 UTC. During the pass for Western Europe just before the docking (orbit 81124, 2116-2121 UTC) radio traffic revealed that all was going well. Just before LOS for my position the distance to the docking part was 60 Meters and Progress M1-2 was proceeding exactly on course.
During the next pass for my position in orb. 81125, 2252-2258 UTC, the crew reported that they just had opened the hatches to Progress M1-2. The equalisation of the pressures between the station and the freighter lasted long this time. Kaleri said that the cargo bay of the Progress M1-2 was only half full. The air-seal was in good order, but there had been some variations in the air pressure, which in his opinion were caused by the differences in temperature. In 30 minutes the pressure decreased by 4 MM mercury, and then the decrease stopped. At last the pressure inside the station was 687 MM. The crew still had to install the clamps between the Progress M1-2 and the Kvant-1 docking port. These clamps make it impossible for the freighter to wander away.
Meanwhile the control computer Svet had been switched on and Kaleri loaded a number of commands into Svet for the automatic control of a number of systems.
Then the cosmonauts crept into their sleeping-bags. (The bunks for eventual tourists did not yet arrive.). For your scribe a good reason to lay down in the arms of Morpheus.
Orbit corrections: The strong solar maximum causes an increased decay of the orbit altitude of the Mir-space station. Some time ago this decay was about 100 or 150 Meters a day, now this is 4 or 5 times more. The only solution is to lift the orbit of the complex by the use of the engines of the PrM-1 (mostly this is the DPO, the engine for docking and orientation of the freighter is used for that purpose), but once the engines of the Soyuz-TM30 were used (on17.04). Later some more corrections had been given by the DPO of Progress M1-1. So it was difficult to calculate accurate orbit predictions.
Just before the separation of the Progress M1-1 from the complex on 26.04 the DPO of that ship gave another impulse to lift the complex.
More orbit corrections can be expected during the next days, now with the help of the DPO of Progress M1-2.
The acceleration of the decay of the station causes anxiety at TsUP. More even than the possibly still existing small air leaks in the station. This also means that more money has to be reserved in the budget of the "users" for extra fuel.
From the beginning of the 28th Main Expedition the crew has been very busy with air-seal checks in several compartments and modules. This search was intensified on 18 and 19.04.00. The crew worked with special equipment, which had been brought to the station together with the present crew. They spoke about an instrument called Bar and a thermo-hygrometer. The cosmonauts had to disconnect cables in the PKhO (the transition section) to make it possible to close the hatches through which these cables are deployed. The co-ordination with TsUP during these activities was very good and all went well during this risky work.
On 18.04 the crew almost knew where the small leak was and when they were sure about the location they closed or plugged the leak with a cap of stopper. During traffic in the pass on 19.04 in orbit 80988, 0701-0721 UTC TsUP and the crew discussed what kind of plug they should use. In the next pass (orb. 80989, 0834-0841 UTC) Kaleri reported that the "hissing sound ceased".
Thus far it is not fully clear whether this leakage was the only one. Some of the experts at TsUP were not sure for 100%. The air-pressure checks are still going on, but less intensive than before the detection of the leak. The leak was in a valve in the hatch between the PkhO and the &"vacuumed"; module Spektr.
To be honest the crew of this expedition and the experts at TsUP did a great job during the last weeks. In the first place there was the reactivation of the important life support systems, but also the fact that they managed to keep these systems operational and succeeded in the detection of that small leak and the liquidation of that problem.
And let us not forget the flawless automatic approach and docking of the Progress M1-2 which had been equipped by a better system Kurs.
But another fact is less positive: nobody is queuing up in front of the desks where tourists can book a trip to the Mir-space station. And thus far there has not been a single satellite begging Mir for repair or maintenance. In fact a very good thing for the brave crew of Mir will need all their time to keep their iron lung operational.
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NAVIGON gives holidaymakers a comprehensive overview of accommodation options and culinary choices in 24 European countries with the MICHELIN Hotel and Restaurant Guide.
Hamburg, 23 June 2010 – In many European countries, summer holidays are approaching. However, the most beautiful time of the year can quickly turn into a disappointment when hotels and restaurants do not live up to your expectations. NAVIGON is preventing any nasty surprises by providing guidance from the MICHELIN hotel- and restaurant-guide, enabling holidaymakers to get the facts on 24 countries1 before they begin their journey.
MICHELIN ratings to help you to decide
The Guide offers over 51,000 tips in 24 European countries, including Italy, Spain and Sweden, all of which are among Europeans' favourite holiday destinations. In addition to contact details, holidaymakers are also given overviews of menu prices, accommodation with breakfast included or the parking situation. The ratings given by the MICHELIN experts in particular help to provide orientation: 13 hotel and 19 restaurant categories are available to choose from, ranging from "standard" through to "luxury". Comments describe the specific characteristics of these locations, such as the culinary specialties or hotel facilities. For larger cities, the nearest public transport connections are also displayed.
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The Guide is easy to use because it integrates seamlessly into the navigation menu. The user first selects the country and city name and then receives the relevant dynamic hotel and restaurant categories. For optimum orientation when on the move, the MICHELIN POIs appear as points of interest on the map along the route. The MICHELIN hotel and restaurant guide2 is available to download from the NAVIGON FreshShop now for 19.95 euros.
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A thief shattered the window of a car parked at Cornerstone Church on Lexington Road and stole an iPad Mini valued at $600, Athens-Clarke County police said.
The owner used the GPS function of another device to track the computer tablet to an address on Deertrigger Landing, where officers found it in the possession of a man who said he found it while bicycling on College Station Road, according to police.
The investigation continued on Friday.
Travoine Demario Gary, 25, of Burkland Drive, was arrested Thursday night in the vicinity of College Station Road and Mark Twain Circle while he was on probation and in possession of a pistol, Athens-Clarke County police said.
He was also charged with three probation violations, two of which were felonies, according to police.
Details of his arrest were not included in an incident report, in which an officer wrote that it was part of an ongoing investigation.
An Eastwood Court resident reported to Athens-Clarke County police on Thursday that someone tried to break in while she was at home.
She said she heard a "boom" sometime between 12:20-1 a.m., and when officers arrived they found pry marks on a door, police said.
Douglas Martin, 53, of Riverbend Parkway, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with public indecency after he allegedly exposed himself on an Athens Transit car, Athens-Clarke County police said.
Although a passenger complained about an alleged exposure, there were no witnesses on the bus when officers responded to the Multimodal Center, police said.
Vanessa and Mohamed Raffiek, of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Laronda Stevens, of Atlanta, to Michael Gary Jr., son of Terrie Kindle and Michael Gary Sr., of Philadelphia, Pa.
Tickets for the first Georgia club ice hockey game at The Classic Center go on sale Feb. 14.
Nancy Denson raises $28,000 in January for mayor's race Athens-Clarke County Mayor Nancy Denson reported having more than $35,000 on hand from $45,000 in donations at the end of Jan. 31.
BRUNSWICK, GA. — The street between the Glynn County courthouse and jail was shut down Thursday afternoon after a man shot himself in a parked car.
LOS ANGELES | Woody Allen is again denying he molested adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow and is calling ex-partner Mia Farrow vindictive, spiteful and malevolent in an open letter published online Friday by The New York Times.
SOCHI, Russia | A Russia in search of global vindication kicked off the Sochi Olympics looking more like a Russia that likes to party, with a pulse-raising opening ceremony about fun and sports instead of terrorism, gay rights and coddling despots.
DADE CITY, Fla.| A bail hearing for a retired Tampa police officer who fatally shot a man inside a movie theater during an argument over texting took a dramatic turn Friday: Prosecutors played a grainy video of the shooting and a recording of the defendant's police interview.
TOWN OF BELOIT, Wis. | A woman who pretended to be pregnant stole her half-sister's newborn boy from a Wisconsin home and left him in a storage crate outside an Iowa gas station in frigid temperatures as police closed in, according to court documents filed Friday.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. | Neil Patrick Harris has taken the stage at Harvard University dressed in a wig, lingerie and red heels to accept the 2014 Man of the Year Award from America's oldest undergraduate drama troupe, Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
WASHINGTON | The National Security Agency collects less than 30 percent of calling data from Americans despite the agency's massive daily efforts to sweep up the bulk of U.S. phone records, two U.S. newspapers reported Friday.
NEW YORK | Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehey, Amy Adams and Ellen Burstyn were among the stars who paid their respects Friday at a private funeral for Philip Seymour Hoffman that combined sadness and humor to honor an actor widely considered among the best of his generation.
WASHINGTON | A second straight month of weak job growth renewed concerns Friday that the vigor displayed by the American economy late last year may be gone, at least for the moment.
WASHINGTON | Authorities say a man has been arrested trying to climb over a fence at theWhite House.
WINDER — The first — and only — lead change was the one that mattered in Apalachee's loss to Heritage-Conyers.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Fifth-ranked Georgia led No. 7 Alabama after each of the first three rotations, but the Crimson Tide rallied to win, 197.500-196.825 Friday in front of 12,318 fans at Coleman Coliseum.
Oconee County lineman Patrick McArdle signed with Valparaiso (Ind.) University on Friday.
Jefferson's Stephanie Lamm and North Oconee's Jessie Denney signed with Emmanuel College on Friday.
Monsignor Donovan senior Katie Scherer committed to Birmingham-Southern, the school announced Thursday.
Mark Beard had a quick change of heart.
And just like that the rising senior offensive tackle is back on the Georgia football team.
Just 13 hours after the school announced that Beard planned to graduate this summer and then transfer to another school, he asked to return to the Bulldogs.
Coach Mark Richt said yes.
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky.— The family of a Fort Campbell-based combat medic killed in combat in Afghanistan is set to receive a Silver Star on his behalf on Friday.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is carrying out a presidential duty that he hasn't had a lot of opportunity to perform recently: signing into law a major piece of bipartisan legislation.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Savannah is saying farewell to the man who served as its first African-American mayor.
ATLANTA — Facing the latest in a string of legal battles with her brothers, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. is seeking to portray herself as the true heir to her father's legacy.
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(6:33 p.m. EDT) -- Tropical Storm Erika, the fifth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has formed this afternoon. The center of the storm is located about 390 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands.
According to the 5 p.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center, Tropical Storm Erika's maximum sustained winds are near 50 miles per hour. The storm is expected to strengthen in the next few days.
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Being a teenager is hard. Most adults would agree with that statement if they didn't forget what it was like to be a teenager. Just sit back and try to remember not having boobs when all your friends did or one minute sounding like you inhaled helium and the next sounding like Barry White. It's rough but as hard as it is to be a teenager, being an adult is not all that much fun either. Bills, kids, bills, responsibilities, bills and a job! Seriously most teenagers can't wait to be, adults. Neither side understands the other, but the cure for this is finally here. The Way Way Back is a great movie for the family because it shows how growing up and being a grownup are just parts of life and neither is as "glamorous" as it seems.
The Way Way Back is a comedy-drama starring Steve Carell(The Office)as Trent , Toni Collette(The United States of Tara) as Pam , Sam Rockwell(Iron Man 2)as Owen and Liam James(2012) as Duncan. Duncan is on summer vacation with his mother, Pam and her horrible boyfriend, Trent and how both Duncan and his mom are both trying to find love and people who like them for who they are. To get away from them, Duncan goes to a water park where he meets the cool but slightly obnoxious Owen, who takes him under his wing and gives him the attention that his mother neglects to give him in her pursuit of trying to fit in with Trent and his friends.
While this movie is funny and adorably awkward, that is what makes it so amazing because it captures how hard it is to fit in as a teenager and that some people never really find that group of people who just like them for who they are, even as adults. Both Duncan and Pam spend the movie looking for their place in the beach society, but only one has to try and impress their group of "friends" instead of just finding friends.
If you are an adult and feel like the only way you will be happy is to pretend to like people who you have nothing in common with, get in your car and go find some friends, being an adult is no fun if you don't have friends to keep you sane and to drink with. If you're a teenager and you think that no one understands you, this movie will show you that there is always someone out there who gets you, so stop being dramatic and find a bike and go find some friends. It is Memorial Day Weekend in New York City, there has to be someone grilling in the park, so this is the perfect time for everyone to make friends.


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Important notice from Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance
Oh my, this is a tough one. BCPOS commits themselves to keeping the trails open as much as possible, and closing them for extended periods is not something they are used to doing.
BMA stands behind BCPOS' efforts to keep our trails in good operating condition, and the recent closures of some of our favorite trails has been the right thing to do. It is heartening to note that we have had nothing but positive feedback from our alerts about trail closures.
This freeze/thaw cycle that our front country lands have been enduring creates a perfect storm of damage that could take years to recover from.
It is true that if we were riding on the trail this morning in this ice fog, the trails would be frozen and not be impacted at all by our passing. But if the fog lifts and temperatures jump 15 degrees, it only takes one or two bikes rolling down the trail to rip and gouge the tread.
Please, if you have to use the trails, ride THROUGH the mud, not around it. Better yet, BMA suggests that you go discover the network of hard surface trails throughout the County and Denver Metro area and give our singletrack a break.
Unfortunately, even Lake Pueblo State Park got snow and conditions are unlikely to be ridable there this weekend. Click here for conditions.
All front country trails in Boulder County are at risk of serious damage at this time. Ride when it's frozen or don't ride at all.
Please feel free to contact Michael Bauer at 303-818-0615 with any questions.
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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Food Ingredient News You Can Use: Soy, China and You
Friday, May 22, 2009
Editor's Note: FoodFacts begins a series of groundbreaking reports about the impact of food ingredients and their role in the foods you eat. We begin with soy. What do you really know about it? Read on.
New Report: Many Organic Soy Food Brands Importing Beans from China
You might have heard about this: We no longer trust these imports to feed our pets. They have no place in organics.
Tremendous growth in the organic soy foods industry has occurred over the last two decades as consumers seek healthy dietary alternative sources of protein. Many companies touting their "natural" or "organic" soy brands have found favor in the supermarket. A report released by The Cornucopia Institute, lifts the veil on some of these companies, exposing widespread importation of soybeans from China and the use of toxic chemicals to process soy foods labeled as "natural." Continue reading
Food Allergy Awareness
FoodFacts is a very strong advocate of food allergy awareness. Our site's initiatives include the world's first and most comprehensive food ingredient and nutrition database, and our resources, tools and community are dedicated to empowering the consumer with the information needed to be in control of a positive nutritional and health experience. Continue reading
Here comes the gluten-free backlash
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Gluten isn't inherently evil?
Everyone, it seems, is gluten-intolerant these days. It's the new lactose. Industry of course has jumped on the bandwagon with all sorts of products that can help you avoid the demon protein yet still have your cake.
Well, a small study published this week in the British Journal of Nutrition may be the beginning of the end of the 'we're all gluten-intolerant' phase. The study found that those who ate a gluten free diet had lower gut levels of healthy bacteria, and higher levels of unhealthy bacteria.
It all comes back to following the diet that's meant for you. Gluten intolerance is a real condition and many people do suffer from it. One of the problems is that the symptoms of Celiac Disease (gluten intolerance) seem to be universal: tiredness, weight gain OR loss, and other general symptoms many suffer intermittently that can be caused by anything from what you ate to something your boss said. If you're not gluten intolerant, you may be doing more harm than good by scarfing down gluten-free processed baked goods. Gluten intolerance is an immune condition, or triggers an immune reaction, and the immune system is a curious and complex thing. Sometimes being overly clean can backfire with a weaker immune system, which I know does not compute for many Americans.
If you think you may have trouble digesting wheat proteins, take a look at this brochure from the Celiac Foundation. It will give you the basics about symptoms and testing. The NIH also has good information to compare. If you do get a diagnosis, a bright spot is that there has been an explosion of processed gluten-free products, so you can still avoid a whole foods diet (just kidding).
Source: Examiner.com
NJ University Tackles Issue of Obese Children
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
More than 17 percent of children ages 6-11 are overweight and Rutgers University in NJ has launched a statewide outreach program.
Store Brand vs. Name Brand
|The Scott family gave their grocery list…and taste tested brand names vs. store brands.
Soup, cereal, a spoonful of peanut butter and one hungry family.
Recently, preparation was underway for a one-of-a-kind meal for the Kansas-based Scott family to compare price, nutrition and taste.
Stephanie, Cameron and their two kids say they're picky about certain brands but the rising cost of groceries is changing that.
"We used to just get name brand and in the last six months or so we've been getting more of the store brand," says Stephanie Scott.
Stephanie gave a reporter a copy of her grocery list – which was taken to area stores to see how much it would cost. Continue reading
Gluten-free diet might not be friendly to gut bacteria: Study
Following a gluten-free diet may be detrimental to gut health, which may also affect immune health, according to a new study from the Spanish National Research Council.
According to results of a small study with 10 people consuming a gluten-free diet, populations of beneficial gut bacteria, such as Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus, decreased, while counts for Enterobacteriaceae and Escherichia coli increased. Continue reading
Soy: Back In Good Graces
If put on a pedestal, you can only go down. That's what happened to soy foods, which were once touted, then controversial, and now more greatly understood.
About 20 years ago, claims that soy helped deter heart disease, cancer and osteoporosis took hold. In 1999 the FDA, based on the available scientific literature, approved the health claim that 25 grams of soy protein a day, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease. Continue reading
The Truth About Organic Foods, Wines, Sulfites and You
Let's turn our attention to the ever-present and often confusing topic of organics. At least since 1990experts been fighting the good fight trying to sort it all out. That's when Congress passed the National Organic Foods Production Act in an effort to standardize what "organic" really meant. The goal was to clarify for consumers and producers alike what was, and what wasn't, acceptable when it came to organic food production processes. Well, standards may abound but there is no fine print on a label; it can be difficult to understand what's really in the bottle. Let's see if we can't simplify matters: Continue reading
Michael Pollan wants Americans to get back to basics: Eating real food
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Michael Pollan can't make himself as ubiquitous as convenience stores or fast food ads, but it seems like he's trying.The author is on a mission with his latest book, "In Defense of Food," just out in paperback. He uses terms like "social movement" and "manifesto," the latter in his book's subtitle: "An Eater's Manifesto."
Pollan explains the thesis that Americans stopped eating actual food years ago and, through no fault of their own, replaced it with food-industry food. Long-term, that's making us overweight and sick, he said. Continue reading


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Member of the Football Team Council.
2008: Made 22 tackles, including 7 solo stops, while starting all 13 games of the 2008 season. Tallied a season-high four tackles versus Minnesota, Ball State and Louisiana Tech. Combined with Brandon Bice on a four-yard sack in the Independence Bowl game for his lone sack of the season. Recorded three tackles, including two solo stops, against Bowling Green. Assisted on a pair of tackles in the regular-season finale against Navy. Earned tackles-for-loss versus Eastern Michigan, BGSU and Louisiana Tech.
2007: Enjoyed a career year as a junior. A third-team All-MAC selection by Phil Steele. Won the team's Jawan Jackson Award, given annually to the former walk-on who makes the greatest impact on the team. Started 11 of 12 games played as one of NIU's most durable defenders. One of only 10 defensive players to play in all 12 games in 2007. Ranked fourth on the team, second among defensive linemen, with 6.5 tackles for loss. Led all Huskie interior linemen with 44 stops. Totaled five or more tackles in four games, including the season's final three outings. Forced one fumble and made at least one tackle in every game. On the field for over 80 percent of the Huskies' defensive snaps. Opened the year with two tackles vs. Iowa (9-1). Made two stops at Idaho (9-22). Registered six tackles, four solo and one for loss, and forced a fumble at Central Michigan (9-29). Recorded a career-high two tackles for loss in four-tackle outing at Temple (10-6). Credited with four tackles, three solo, vs. Western Michigan (10-13). Totaled six tackles, three solo and 1.5 for loss, and was in on a sack at Toledo (10-27). Had five tackles, one for loss, vs. Kent State (11-10). Racked up a career-high eight stops, including seven solo, at Navy (11-17). Made four tackles, including one for loss, vs. Ball State (11-24).
2006: Starter in six of seven games played. Missed final six regular season contests with injury. Totaled 13 tackles, 10 solo, with one for loss, one sack and a blocked kick. Made first career start at Ohio State (9-2). Blocked extra point in three-tackle performance vs. Buffalo (9-16). Credited with two tackles against Indiana State (9-23). Racked up five tackles, including 10-yard sack, at Ball State (9-30). Made two stops before leaving game with injury at Miami (10-8). Saw action as reserve and was credited with one tackle vs. TCU in Poinsettia Bowl (12-19).
2005: Appeared in seven games. Totaled six tackles, including four solo, and one quarterback pressure. Made collegiate debut with seven plays at Michigan (9-3). Had three tackles, including two solo, against Tennessee Tech (9-17). Credited with two tackles and a quarterback pressure at Kent State (10-22). Had one tackle at Central Michigan (11-5).
2004: Redshirted.
High School: Named second team Mid-Suburban League, All-West Division, honorable mention Daily Herald Northwest All-Area during senior season. Entered final prep campaign on Chicago Tribune Player to Watch list. Two-time football letterwinner.
Personal: Born July 20, 1985. Communications major. Honored as a Huskie Scholar for 2007-08 with a cumulative GPA above 3.0. Parents are Mike and Lynn Krutsch. Hobbies include playing the drums. Fan of Walter Payton.
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Hi, I would like to build a rover without a steering servo but rather with 2 motors (left+right) for the steering, just like a tracked vehicle.
Is there an ArduRover firmware that supports that kind of setup.
If not, can someone tell me where in the ArduRover code I have to make the necessary changes.
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I just tested a 6WD skid steering rover with my APM1.4/Oilpan. The manual mode works fine. I have not tested the autonomous mode yet. I am using the APM throttle and steering PWM signals to control a Dimension Engineering Sabetooth dual motor controller. I have the controller operating in the R/C mode so the throttle input controls forward/backward motion and the steering controls the right/left skid steering. If you are using separate motor controllers for each motor then that complicates the steering process. You might want to investigate the APM elevon output mode to accomplish what you wish to do.
Sounds good. Thanks.
I'm using the Arduino Motor shield to control both motors. I hope that it brings the same functionality as the sabertooth. I will try it as soon as I have put everything together.
I'm using a second Arduino with 40 amp 4QD Motor Controllers. The signals can be read in using the PulseIn() function, adjusted as required and then outputed as PWM using AnalogueWrite().
It should be possible to alter the ArduRover code but its quite difficult to figure out where to put the code. Having a second Arduino also opens up the possibilities for adding further features without affecting the ArduRover code.
Seems that the sabertooth does the steering into differential steering translation.
Do you know an algorithm/source code that does that translation (for forward and backward movement).
This may help. Its the code I use to convert to PWM for the motor controllers.
// Remote control ......
#define CH1Max 1830
#define CH1Min 1040
#define CH2Max 1810
#define CH2Min 1055
unsigned long CH1val = 0, CH2val = 0;
int CH1adj_val = 0, CH2adj_val = 0, startup = 0, counter = 2;
int lSpeed = 0, rSpeed = 0;
byte IsAuto = 0, IsAutoDone = 0;
int lSensorValue = 0, rSensorValue = 0, SensorResult = 0;
void RemoteControl() {
// Get receiver pulses
CH1val = pulseIn(CH1, HIGH, 20000); // read RC channel 1
CH2val = pulseIn(CH2, HIGH, 20000); // read RC channel 2
// Allow pulses at startup to settle system
if (startup < 10) { // may reconsider this stategy
startup ++ ;
} else if (CH1val == 0 || CH2val == 0) { // ignore occasional bad pulses
if (counter >= 3) { // allow 2 bad signals then shutdown
counter = 0 ;
lSpeed = 0 ;
rSpeed = 0 ;
digitalWrite(lREV, LOW) ;
digitalWrite(rREV, LOW) ;
counter ++ ;
} else {
counter = 0 ;
// Map Ch1 pulse range - 255 to 255 - sets voltage at approx 3v - vary to change max voltage
CH1adj_val = map(CH1val, CH1Min, CH1Max, -255, 255); // Spectrum 5 RC values are between 1040-1830 RANGE MAY NEED ADJUSTMENT
// Map Ch2 pulse to -255, 255 (consider different range)
CH2adj_val = map(CH2val, CH2Min, CH2Max, -255, 255);
if(CH1adj_val >= -10){ // Forward
digitalWrite(lREV, LOW) ;
digitalWrite(rREV, LOW) ;
} else { // Reverse
digitalWrite(lREV, HIGH) ;
digitalWrite(rREV, HIGH) ;
lSpeed = abs(CH1adj_val) ;
rSpeed = abs(CH1adj_val) ;
// Check direction and adjust motor speed if required (turning left or right)
if (CH2adj_val < -10) { lSpeed = abs(CH1adj_val) + CH2adj_val ; }
if (CH2adj_val > 10) { rSpeed = abs(CH1adj_val) - CH2adj_val ; }
// stabalize speed if near centre
if (lSpeed <= 5) {lSpeed = 0 ; } // adjust as required
if (rSpeed <= 5) {rSpeed = 0 ; } // adjust as required
// Constrain Motor speeds
lSpeed = constrain(lSpeed,0,255) ;
rSpeed = constrain(rSpeed,0,255) ;
// Write PWM to Motor Controllers
analogWrite(lMOTOR,lSpeed) ;
analogWrite(rMOTOR,rSpeed) ;
Instead of a Sabertooth, I'm using a RoboClaw. It is a dual motor driver board, and can convert from steering and throttle to left/right "tank" drive.
But thanks for posting your code!
sorry to bother u again lol :P but i think ur the only one that can help . im still getin nothing from my outputs.even tho i hav its own power to the outputs now, my signal voltage tho is still the same .34vdc and i tried alot of different things. even played aorund with the dip switches so many times.i did a reset in the terminal then setup radio , then just to double check and edit, i did config.my dip switches are 1 is down and the rest are in the on position.i dont know wat else to do , ive checked everything.all fuses are good.
Your best best is to invest in a Arduino UNO ($30). Connect the outputs from the RC TX to digital inputs on the UNO and use pulsein to see the RC signals - midpoint 1500. Move the stciks around and see that the signals change. Now buy a Pololu arduino motor shield and get the library. Now the UNO can drive your motors using the RC input signals. You can write a small Arduino program to decode steer/throttle to differtial drive as shown in earlier posts. Now you can control your vehicle with RC. Next put the APM in the loop (download 2.30 as documented by TCIII). Use the UNO again to test the APM outputs. Should be good to go.
- Vijay
Since the output of the APM is PWM there is no way to measure the output pin voltage with a DMM. You need to get one of these: http://www.bphobbies.com/view.asp?id=A0320107&pid=D0736126
With this tool you can read the PWM output on each of the APM's pins and also the output of your R/C receiver. This will help you to troubleshoot your problem.
A few of us are attempting to do the same thing with boats that have 2 screws. I've gone into the C++ code in several files, found references to elevators and changed them to copies of the throttle code. But I'm not a programmer and can't find all the changes that need to be made. And when I try to compile the changed code, I just get a load of errors.
If you are successful, please let me know. I've about given up and am looking at driving the boat with just one screw.
Good luck!
The shortest route to accomplish what you want to do is for you is to use a motor controller, like the Sabertooth or the RoboClaw to control the two motors. Otherwise, there is a program for the Parallax BS2 that will take steering and throttle PWM and convert it to a left and right PWM outputs for motor ESCs for a form of skid steering. I am sure that there is an equivalent Arduino program available.
Just a thought


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TC TO ROBERT MITCHELL; 18 March 1820; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18200318-TC-RM-01; CL 1:231-234.
Edinr, 18th March, 1820—
My dear Mitchell,
Ever since the month of January last, a train of ill health, with its usual depression, aggravated by other privations and calamities too tedious to particularize, have pressed heavily upon me. The victim of inquietude and despondency, I could not resolve to afflict you with my sorrows or my dulness; and tho' conscience frequently accused me of neglect, three months, you see, have passed away before the simple duty of answering your letter is performed.1 Tho' the period of my silence has been long, the excuse which I have offered might apply still longer; but my friends are too few, and my opportunities of acquiring more too slender for allowing me to stand such hazards: I cannot afford to lose the pleasure of our intimacy; and lest desuetude may cool (I trust it will not extinguish) that feeling, I write altho' it be 'in spite of nature & my stars.'2
You would suspect me of a closeness, far enough from my disposition, if I did not attempt to trace you a sketch of the life which I have led for some time past. It must be a brief sketch for many reasons, however; and chiefly because it will contain no feature calculated to interest any one, even a second self. Zimmermann has written a book which he calls 'the pleasures of solitude':3 I would not have you to believe him: solitude in truth has few pleasures, uninterrupted solitude is full of pain. But solitude, or company more distressing, is not the worst ingredient of this condition. The thought that one's best days are hurrying darkly and uselessly away is yet more grievous. It is vain to deny it, my friend, I am altogether an unprofitable creature. Timid yet not humble, weak yet enthusiastic, nature and education have rendered me entirely unfit to force my way among the thick-skinned inhabitants of this planet. Law, I fear, must be renounced: it is a shapeless mass of absurdity & chichane, and the ten years, which a barrister commonly spends in painful idleness before arriving at employment, is more than my physical or moral frame could endure. Teaching a school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction: & as to compiling the wretched lives of Montesquieu, Montagu, Montaigne &c for Dr Brewster—the remuneration will hardly sustain life. What then is to be done? This situation— But I touch a string which generally yields a tedious sound to any but the operator. I know you are not indifferent to the matter; but I would not tire you with it. The fate of one man is a mighty small concern in the grand whole of this best of all possible worlds,4 let us quit the subject, with just one observation more, which I throw out for your benefit should you ever come to need such an advice. It is to keep the profession you have adopted, if it be at all tolerable. A young man who goes forth into the world to seek his fortune with those lofty ideas of honour and uprightness which a studious secluded life naturally begets, will in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred, if friends and other aids are wanting, fall into the sere the yellow leaf,5 and if he quit not his integrity, end a wretched tho' happily a short career in misery and failure. Dissipation is infinitely worse: I thank Heaven I am not a poet, I shall avoid that sad alternative.
I was glad to learn that you had finished the perusal of Homer.6 Certainly the blind bard is little obliged by your opinion of him: I believe, however, Candour is, and that is better. If from the admiration felt by Causabon, Scaliger & Co, and still more by the crowds that blindly follow them, we could subtract that portion which originates in the as hollow admiration of others for the same object; and if farther all affectation could be banished; I fear a very inconsiderable item would remain. In fact Maeonides has had his day—at least the better part of it; the noon was five and twenty centuries ago; the twilight (for he set in 1453) may last for other five and twenty centuries—but it too must terminate. Nothing that we know of can last forever. The very mountains are silently wasting away, and long before eternity is done, Mont Blanc might cease to be the pinnacle of Europe, and Chimborazo7 lie under the Pacific. Philosophy and literature have a far shorter date. Error, in the first, succeeds to error as wave to wave. Plato obscured the fame of Pythagoras, Cudworth & Kant of Plato: the Stagirite8 and his idle spawn have been swept away by Lord Bacon, himself to be swept away in his turn. Even in the narrow dominion of truth the continuance of renown is not more durable: each succeeding observer from a higher vantage-ground compresses the labours of his forerunner; and as the principia of Newton is already swallowed up in the mécanique céleste of La Place, so likewise will it fare with this present Lord of the ascendant.— Poetry they tell us escapes the general doom: but even without the aid of revolutions or deluges, it cannot always escape. The ideas about which it is conversant must differ in every different age and country. The Poetry of a Choctaw, I imagine, would turn chiefly on the pains of hunger, and the pleasures of catching bears or scalping Chicasaws. In like manner tho' some of the affections which Homer delineates are coexistent with the race, yet in the progress of refinement (or change) his mode of delineating them will appear trivial or disgusting—and the very twilight of his fame will have an end. Th[us] all things are dying, my friend,—only ourselves die faster. Man! if I had £200 a-year, a beautiful little house, in some laughing valley,—three or four pure-spirited mortals who would love me & be loved again,—together with a handsome library, and—a great genius, I would investigate the hallucinations that connect themselves with such ideas— At present I must revisit this nether sphere.
I think you are decidedly wrong in the affair of Johnston.9 His silence most assuredly proceeds not from any thing like ingratitude to Mr Duncan or inattention to you: these qualities are strangers entirely to the mind of our emigrant; and it will be very hard, if barrenness of fancy and extreme difficulty in writing letters should deprive him of friends whom he respects, as I well know, so highly. Most probably you have received intelligence from him ere this time: but even tho' you have not, I would venture to regret—if I might do so with impunity—that punctilios & the point of honour should obstruct a correspondence—to which the wide Atlantic offers difficulties enough. I can give very wholesome advice, you perceive: unfortunately it is easier given than followed: James's letter10 of four sheets is yet unanswered! Twice have I begun—and twice has indolence or low spirits consigned my ill-fated paper to the winds. I am a great sinner in this point.
Present my most respectful compliments to Mr Duncan; and say, if you like, that I have not forgotten his kind request to hear from me; but my inabality to communicate any importance to a subject so trifling as the one he proposed, has hitherto prevented me from attempting it.— Tell Mrs Duncan (after making my respects) that her young student,11 whom I regret that I have not seen for a while, is becoming a very smart little gentleman. I have no doubt he is improving both in understanding & sçavoir faire.12— We hear a sort of report here that the Courier is to be sold very soon— How is this?— I know not whether I shall see you in summer: most probably I shall leave this town—if forever I need not greatly care: but whether or not, I need not add that, I remain,
My dear Mitchell, / Your's ever, /
Thomas Carlyle—
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Kiser, a junior from Wenatchee, Wash. (Wenatchee HS), posted a conference-leading time of 4:45.01 in the women's mile run on Friday at the Vandal Indoor, presented by Runners Soul of Spokane. The third-year Vandal has the fastest time in the conference this year by a seven-second margin. Her time also ranks 37th in the NCAA so far this season.
This honor is Kiser's first this season and the fifth of her career. She is the second Vandal to be so honored this season after Idaho sophomore Ben Ayesu-Attah won the men's Track Athlete of the Week honor last week.
Kiser and the Vandals will be in action this weekend on Friday and Saturday at the Husky Classic and on Sunday at the UW Indoor Open. Friday's action starts at 4 p.m. (PT) and Saturday gets going at 8 a.m. Sunday's meet will start at 9 a.m.


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Feeling like a pirate today? Well go and play some Frantic Frigate! Although to be totally fair not quite sure if the game is really about pirates, but we'll pretend. Notice I labeled this an arcade shooter...although to be honest it's quick a new take on the arcade shooter genre.
What I mean by this is you have the basic arcade shooter standards down. You're auto shooting controls, countless enemies, upgrade system and boss battles. But what makes it unique is hinted at in the name. Most arcade shooters are space themed, or slime or pixel themed, such as Droid Assult and Pixel Purge. However, in Frantic Frigate it's slightly different, mainly in the controls. You sort of have to drag your ship around like you're plotting a course for a ship. Also I do like how you have treasure chests appear on the screen which you have to break open in order to get extra points. But other than that the game plays like a run of the mill arcade shooter game. Of course not saying this is bad.
But what is bad is kind of the lack of detail... I've played some games by BerzerkStudio before and I quite liked them and thought they were great games. But this game...while good and addicting for a little bit. Really could have used that extra level of fines to turn this from a good game to a great game. Things that could have been added are more variety in enemies and boss battles (in terms of attack usages).
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I am going to try to explain this as easily as possible. I am working on a computer program that takes input from a joystick and controls a servo direction and speed. I have the direction working just fine now I am working on speed. To control the speed of rotation on the servo I need to send it so many pulses per second using PWM. The servo that I am using takes arguments for speed between 120-150. 120 is %100 speed and 150 is %0 or stopped. 135 is %50 speed. How would I convert percentage from 0-100 into a number between 120-150 including 1/10ths? I hope this makes sense if you need me to explain further please let me know. I really don't know what tag this falls under either.
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It looks to be a linear relationship: in particular, if your percentage is $p$ (ranging from $0$ to $100$), then the number would be $150-0.3p$.
$\text{Percentage speed}=100+\frac {100}{30}(120-\text{input})$
I expressed it that way to show the thought process. We need the $30$ step range of input to correspond to $100$ steps of output, thus the multiply by $\frac {100}{30}$. As the input rises the output falls, so we need a negative sign on the input. A little more thought gets us there. We can then do a little algebra to get
$\text{Percentage speed}=500-\frac {10}3 \text{input}$
To go the other way, $\text{input}=150-0.3 \text{Percentage speed}$


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A woman whose buttocks were impaled – run through by a guardrail pole – received her lesson like a swift kick in the butt. While texting and driving last week, a Colorado woman crashed her car, sheared off a pole, and ended up with a three-foot shaft impaled through her butt and thigh.
Writes USA Today: "Christina Jahnz says she was in the parking lot of Elizabeth Middle School on Wednesday morning to deliver her daughter's saxophone, which had been left at home. As she was driving away from the school, Jahnz started texting her friend."
Recounts the multitasking Jahnz: "I was running late for a business meeting, so I did a voice text. I looked down to make sure it was all right. The next thing I knew, I was looking up, there was white powder from the air bags deployed."
When the lucky-to-be-alive mom looked down, she realized that a busted guardrail pole had pierced through her truck and ended up inside of her. Firefighters called to the scene used a saw to cut the pole off at each end before they could extricate her. She was taken to Parker Adventist Hospital for a four day and multiple stitch-up stay, but was released Sunday.
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Biodiversity, or biological diversity, is the variety of life and includes all living organisms found on Earth. It plays a key role in the functioning of ecosystems and the provision of ecosystem services which are essential for human life and well-being. These include provisioning services (e.g. fisheries, biomass), regulating and maintenance services (e.g. pollination, nutrient cycling, water purification) and cultural services (e.g. recreation). Yet despite biodiversity's intrinsic value and its fundamental importance for humans, biodiversity is highly threatened by human activities and continues to be lost. This is estimated to reduce global GDP by 3% each year.[1]
In 2010 it was clear that neither the existing global nor the European Union's (EU) 2010 biodiversity target of reducing/halting biodiversity loss had been met,[2][3] despite important progress in nature conservation measures in Europe, e.g. the expansion of the Natura 2000 network of protected areas and the recovery of some wildlife species (e.g. large carnivores). At the same time, key drivers of biodiversity loss remain or have increased, offsetting the positive actions to reverse this.
As a result, in 2010 world leaders adopted 20 targets — known as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets — for the period 2011–2020 with the aim to 'significantly reduce the current rate of biodiversity loss'.
In 2010, the EU set the ambitious overall target of 'Halting the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services in the EU by 2020, and restoring them in so far as is feasible, while stepping up the EU contribution to averting global biodiversity loss'. In 2011, the European Council adopted its EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, reinforced by the European Parliament Resolution in 2012 (see Box 1).
Box 1: The six targets covered by the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020
The Birds and Habitats Directives (known as the Nature Directives) aim to protect biodiversity and are the key pieces of legislation underpinning the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. Other relevant EU legislation includes the Water Framework Directive, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the Common Agricultural Policy and the Common Fisheries Policy.
In 2013 the European Commission adopted the Green Infrastructure Strategy.[4] In 2014 the European Council adopted a regulation on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of IAS.[5]
The key threats to biodiversity — habitat change, pollution, over-exploitation, IAS, and climate change — continue to exert pressure causing loss of species and habitats and resulting in ecosystem degradation and weakening ecosystem resilience.
Habitat change — including loss, fragmentation and degradation — of natural and semi-natural habitats due to land-use change is a main pressure. For example, through fragmentation of the rural landscape because of urban sprawl and grey infrastructure developments; homogenisation and loss of habitat caused by agricultural intensification and land abandonment, and intensely managed forests.
Over-exploitation of natural resources, in particular through fisheries in the marine environment, remains a large problem.
The accelerated establishment and spread of IAS — more than 12 000 alien species[6] now occur in Europe — is not only an important driver of biodiversity loss, but also causing considerable economic damage to agriculture, forestry and fisheries worth billions of euros per year.[7][8] Europe faces an increasing trend of new IAS across all environments.[7]
Encouragingly, some pollution pressures have decreased such as the nutrient enrichment of European waters and the balance of nitrogen found on farmland. However, the level of nitrogen still substantially exceeds ecosystem eutrophication limits in most of Europe and the eutrophication risk is predicted to remain in 2020.
Increasing impacts from climate change are already affecting species' distribution, range and interaction and are projected to become a more significant threat in the coming decades.[9] Climate change will also interact with and exacerbate other threats.
Much is still unknown when it comes to the complete status and trends of European biodiversity and its relation to the functioning of ecosystems and the long-term delivery of services. Nonetheless, available information on selected species, habitats and ecosystems across Europe give cause for concern.
Information reported by EU Member States under the Birds and Habitats Directives indicates that local biodiversity loss could be considerable. Under the Habitats Directive, the assessment for 2007–2012 shows that only 23% of animal and plant species assessments (Figure 1) and 16% of the habitat type assessments (Figure 2) were considered to be in a favourable conservation status.
A high proportion of species assessments (60%) and habitat assessments (77%) remain in unfavourable condition. The proportion of assessments of conservation status which are unknown has decreased (to 17% for species and 7% for habitats).
Data on population trends for various groups of species show both worrying and encouraging results. There has been a dramatic decline in grassland butterflies of almost 50% between 1990 and 2011 with no sign of recovery.[10] Europe's common bird populations have declined by 12% since 1990 (common farmland birds have declined by 30%). Encouragingly, some populations of European bats[11] and large carnivores[12] appear to have recovered to some extent from past declines, demonstrating positive results of conservation action and unplanned changes such as land abandonment.
In Europe there has been progress on some issues. A significant achievement includes the expansion of the Natura 2000 network of protected areas to 18% of EU land and 4% of EU marine waters. This means that the Aichi target for global coverage of protected areas by 2020 of at least 17% of the terrestrial and inland water areas has been met while much progress is still needed for meeting 10% of the coastal and marine areas. Conserving and managing the Natura 2000 network effectively, and enhancing their coherence through developing green infrastructure, such as wildlife corridors, is a critical step to protect Europe's biodiversity.
It will be very challenging for Europe to meet the overall target of halting the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services by 2020. Many of the direct, and all of the indirect influences on biodiversity loss, arise from a range of sectors and policies that exerts considerable pressure on biodiversity. These include agriculture, fisheries, regional development and cohesion, forestry, energy, tourism, transport and industry. Consequently, the fate of European biodiversity is also closely intertwined with the developments in these areas. Thus, the adequate integration of biodiversity considerations into certain economic sectors as well as regional policies remains critical in attempting to reduce the pressures on biodiversity. Successful mainstreaming of biodiversity into these areas — in both the public and private sectors — will be required.
The EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020[1] — if fully and effectively implemented — is foreseen as an important step towards halting the loss of biodiversity. For example, the effective integration of biodiversity concerns into sectors such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries (aim of targets 3 and 4) will be important in attempting to reduce the direct impacts on biodiversity. Another key step is the restoration of at least 15% of degraded ecosystems across Europe, the promotion of green infrastructure in the EU in urban and rural areas and ensuring no net loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services (target 2). All of which have the potential to considerably benefit biodiversity, as well as society, through strengthening the coherence of the Natura 2000 network, increasing ecosystem resilience and providing nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation. Target 2 also aims to improve the knowledge base on ecosystems and their services in the EU[14] in order to assess the economic value of ecosystem services and to promote the integration of these values into accounting and reporting systems at EU and national level by 2020.
In today's increasingly globalised economy, international trade chains accelerate habitat degradation far away from the place of consumption.[15] Given that Europe has a high ecological footprint and relies heavily on the import of resources and goods from all over the world, Europe's impact on biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation extends well beyond its borders. Consequently, European efforts to halt biodiversity loss on its continent should ensure that pressures are not transferred to other parts of the world thereby exacerbating global biodiversity loss.
There are more than 10 000 alien species present in Europe, and the rate of new introductions has accelerated and is still increasing. At least 15 % of these alien species are known to have a negative ecological or economic impact. However, non-native species – for example, some food crops – can also have huge benefits.
The first report, The impacts of invasive alien species in Europe, details the effects and spread of some species. The second report, Invasive alien species indicators in Europe discusses the methodological approach in bringing this data together.
The most common reason species are introduced elsewhere is for horticulture, while others may be brought into new areas for other reasons including farming, hunting, and fishing, or as pets, the report notes. Transport is not always intentional – for example, zebra mussels have stowed away in the ballast water of ships to proliferate in European lakes.
Increasing trade and tourism in recent decades may have led to increasing numbers of alien species. Climate change may also play a role in the spread of these species, the report says, making some areas more favourable to plants and animals originally from elsewhere.
Jacqueline McGlade, EEA Executive Director, said: "In many areas, ecosystems are weakened by pollution, climate change and fragmentation. Alien species invasions are a growing pressure on the natural world, which are extremely difficult to reverse."
Invasive alien species are one of the main threats to biodiversity. Of the 395 European native species listed as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 110 are in danger because of invasive alien species. The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 has policy targets which aim to address the problem.
Case studies include the stories behind industrial mercury poisoning; fertility problems caused by pesticides; hormone-disrupting chemicals in common plastics; and pharmaceuticals that are changing ecosystems. The report also considers the warning signs emerging from technologies currently in use, including mobile phones, genetically modified organisms and nanotechnology.
The historical case studies show that warnings were ignored or sidelined until damage to health and the environment was inevitable. In some instances, companies put short-term profits ahead of public safety, either hiding or ignoring the evidence of risk. In others, scientists downplayed risks, sometimes under pressure from vested interests. Such lessons could help avoid harm from emerging technologies. However, five of the stories illustrate the benefits of quickly responding to early warnings.
The world has changed since the first volume of Late Lessons was published. Technologies are now taken up more quickly than before, and are often rapidly adopted around the world. This means risks may spread faster and further, the report says, outstripping society's capacity to understand, recognise and respond to these effects in time to avoid harm.
The report recommends the wider use of the 'precautionary principle' to reduce hazards in cases of new and largely untested technologies and chemicals. It states that scientific uncertainty is not a justification for inaction, when there is plausible evidence of potentially serious harm.
Such a precautionary approach is nearly always beneficial – after analysing 88 cases of supposed 'false alarm', report authors found only four clear cases. The report also shows that precautionary actions can often stimulate rather than stifle innovation.
Just a few kilometres along the coast in Behramkale, we meet Saim Erol. He is one of the few active fishermen left in this small fishing village founded on the site of famous Temple of Athena and with breathtaking views of the Gulf of Edremit. 'Yesterday I set more than 700 metres of nets. All I caught was four red mullets. Not even worth the diesel I used!' says Saim, who has been fishing in these waters for more than 20 years.
The fact that there are fewer fish to catch and more boats chasing them is a sore point. Looking at his six-metre boat and then at the larger vessel out in the sea, he adds, 'I knew everything about this coast, where to fish and when. But things have changed. What I knew seems no longer valid. The sea has changed.'
Over the past 20 years, as the area has turned into a tourist hot spot, most of the fishermen have given up and now earn their living taking tourists to remote beaches only accessible by boat. 'At least that gives them some money to put aside for the winter,' says Hasan Ali Özden, retired teacher and amateur fisherman. 'About five miles to the west, the fishermen in Sivrice are luckier. Once in a while they hit the migration path of swordfish. And that's good money. But it has been many years since a year of plenty.'
Fisheries are heavily dependent on healthy marine ecosystems but climate change is altering how things work. Professor Nuran Ünsal from Istanbul University points to alterations in migration patterns and their impacts on fish stocks. Migratory species with high economic value, such as Atlantic bonito, blue fish or mackerel, migrate south to the Mediterranean in the autumn and north to the Black Sea in the spring, where they breed. Year after year, however, steadily fewer fish have been migrating through the Turkish Straits.
'Changes in water temperatures and seasonal winds, crucial for the necessary currents, have disrupted their migration patterns,' says Professor Ünsal. 'Such species need a very specific setting with the right water temperature and amount of food, as well as enough time to breed.'
'Twenty years ago, they migrated south in September. With warmer water temperatures in the Black Sea now, they do not need to migrate south until mid-October or early November. This means they stay shorter in the Mediterranean and as a result they are fewer and smaller when they return north.'
Fish in warmer water are caught in a bind: as they adapt, their metabolism speeds up. They grow more quickly, although often to a smaller adult body size, and they need more food and more oxygen to support their higher metabolism. At the same time, as the water temperature increases, the amount of oxygen it contains decreases. Many fish experience what is called an 'oxygen squeeze': their need goes up and supply goes down.
Climate change is also altering the salinity and acidity of sea water and the way it forms layers. The impacts could be catastrophic. They include the collapse of coral reefs, the spread of invasive species and diseases, the loss of top predators and ultimately the whole structure of the marine food chain.
Invasive species
In the late-1980s, the anchovy stocks in the Black Sea collapsed due to a combination of factors. These included overfishing; nutrient enrichment (especially from the Danube river); warmer water temperatures due to climate change; and the invasion of a new species to the region, Mnemiopsis leidyi, a combjelly originally from the north‑western Atlantic.
Introduced in the Black Sea, most likely via ballast waters of cargo ships, Mnemiopsis leidyi feeds on fish larvae as well as organisms that would otherwise feed the anchovy. In the 1990s, another combjelly species Beroe ovata from north-western Atlantic and preying almost exclusively on Mnemiopsis leidyi, was also accidentally introduced in the Black Sea ecosystem. The introduction of this predator for Mnemiopsis leidyi, cooler temperatures from 1991 to 1993 and a decrease in nutrient flows, alongside reduced fishing during the collapse, lessened some of the pressures on the anchovy stocks. Since, the Black Sea ecosystem has shown some signs of recovery.
A similar ecosystem shift has also been observed in the Baltic Sea. Overfishing and climate change has altered the Baltic fish community from a cod-dominated one to one dominated by herring and sprat.
Whether introduced deliberately or accidentally, invasive alien species can cause havoc to people, ecosystems and native plant and animal species. The problem of invasive species is expected to worsen in the coming century due to climate change, increasing trade and tourism.
The Earth's oceans are an immense, 'blue' carbon sink (or store of carbon dioxide). In fact, they are the largest store of carbon on the planet, with the terrestrial counterpart, including forests, a distant second. These natural sinks have functioned effectively for millennia, buffering the planet from the abrupt climatic changes due to greenhouse gases. But today, the carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere faster than the land and oceans can absorb it.
Enhanced uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has increased the average acidity of the ocean. By 2100 the ocean is likely to be more acidic than at any time during the last 20 million years. Acidification is driving a decline in the amount of carbonate ion, which is needed to make aragonite and calcite — two forms of calcium carbonate that many marine organisms use to build their shells and skeletal material.
In Europe, researchers have begun to observe changes in the shells and skeletons of the microscopic organisms that form the beginning of the marine food chain. The falling rate of calcification is likely to have an immediate negative effect on their ability to survive and on the wide number of species that feed on them.
Corals are particularly at risk because they use calcification to create their skeletons, which make up what we see as coral reefs. Coral reefs are also home to as many as two million marine species and the source of a quarter of the global fish catch in developing countries around the world. The consequences of acidification go well beyond direct effects on calcification by marine organisms. More acidic water can have a major impact on respiration in some non-calcifying species such as squid (11). While the full consequences of ocean acidification have not yet been fully determined, it has been estimated that up to seven per cent of these 'blue carbon sinks' are being lost annually — seven times the rate of loss of 50 years ago.
Just like forests on land, marine ecosystems have a crucial role to play in the fight against climate change. Losing either would be catastrophic but we still do not fully understand just how quickly life under the surface of the oceans is likely to change.
Overfishing is the main culprit for the lack of fish in our seas. In Europe the picture looks very bleak: almost nine out of ten commercial stocks in the north-east Atlantic, Baltic and Mediterranean Seas are overfished. About one-third of those are so heavily overfished that the stock risks losing its reproductive capacity.
In the last decade alone, total landings in the European Union have declined by one-third(12) and aquaculture in Europe has not been able to compensate. Global fish consumption per person has more than doubled since 1973, with Europeans consuming on average 21 kg of fishery products annually, slightly more than the global average of 17 kg, but below the USA, Chinese and Canadian consumption levels of around 25 kg. There is a wide variation within the EU, ranging from 4 kg per person in Romania to 57 kg in Portugal.
To meet Europe's demand for fish, about two-thirds of the fish are imported(13). Europeans therefore have an impact on fish stocks and aquaculture production all around the world. Today, consumers, processers and retailers are increasingly concerned about overfishing and often require guarantees that the fish they consume and sell originate from well-managed and sustainable fisheries. But such assurances are difficult to give for most fish stocks in European waters.
In Europe, current re-evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy(14) is taking a fresh look at fisheries from a broader maritime and environmental perspective(15). There will be a far greater emphasis on the ecological sustainability of fisheries outside Europe and the need to manage and exploit natural resources responsibly without jeopardising their future. It will be important to see just how this new approach to securing Europe's fisheries will fit into the existing international regime and the proposed regular process for assessing the global marine environment.
Towards a global assessment of the marine environment
In 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development's Johannesburg Plan of Implementation contained specific targets for fisheries management, including restoring fish stocks to maximum sustainable yield by 2015. It also identified the need to establish a 'regular process' under the United Nations for global reporting and assessment of the state of the marine environment, including socio‑economic aspects, both current and foreseeable, and building on existing regional assessments.
This important step recognised the need for concerted international efforts to protect and manage the global commons sustainably. It marked the beginning of a concrete, action-oriented process to ensure that countries sign up for sustained, long-term and targeted efforts.
The United Nations General Assembly endorsed the proposal in 2005 (16) and in 2009 recognised the work of the Group of Experts on the scientific basis of the global assessment. As with all international processes, however, implementing the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment will take some years (17).
11. see also "Our Endangered Oceans", Dr. Richard Moss, WWF
12. Eurostat, European Commission, Commission working document 'Reflections on further reform of the Common Fisheries Policy'
13. European Commission Statistics
14. The EU treaties establish fisheries management as one of the exclusive competences of the Community. This is because fish move across national jurisdictions and fishermen have followed them long before Exclusive Economic Zones were introduced and the Common Fisheries Policy born. In 2009, the CEC published a green paper outlining the changes needed to address some of the most critical problems facing European fisheries. Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, Brussels, 22.4.2009. COM(2009)163 final
15. Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 establishing the framework for Community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) (OJ L 164, 25.6.2008)
16. Resolution 60/30 of the General Assembly on Oceans and the Law of the Sea
17. Resolution 61 of the General Assembly on Oceans and the Law of the Sea]]>


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The continuous archaeological digs in the area of the ancient city of Jerusalem is continually revealing artifacts that provide exciting evidence bringing the biblical narrative to life!
(IsraelNN.com) Archaeologists have unearthed proof of another Biblical story at Jerusalem's ancient City of David, this time corroborating the Book of Jeremiah.
A completely intact seal impression, or "bula", bearing the name Gedaliahu ben Pashur was uncovered. The bula is actually a stamped engraving made of mortar.
Gedaliahu ben Pashur's bula was found a bare few meters away from the site where a second such seal, this one belonging to Yuchal ben Shlemiyahu was found three years ago, at the entrance to the City of David.
In the Book of Jeremiah (38:1-4), both men are mentioned as ministers to King Tzidkiyahu, who reigned from 597-586 BCE. The two, along with another pair, demanded the death penalty for the prophet Jeremiah in response to his plea for the king to surrender the city to the oncoming hordes of the Babylonian conqueror Nebuchadnezzer.


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|Sulfamethoxazole (SMX) causes rare hypersensitivity syndrome reactions characterized by fever and multi-organ toxicity. Covalent binding of SMX reactive metabolites to cellular proteins has been demonstrated but the link between cytotoxicity and targets of covalent binding has not been explored. We therefore investigated the relationship between covalent binding of the reactive SMX-hydroxylamine (SMX-HA) metabolite, and its cytotoxicity to a hystiocytic lymphoma (U937) cell line. Incubation of U937 cells with 0-1 mM SMX-HA for 3 h resulted in dose-dependent cytotoxicity, as assessed by tetrazolium dye conversion at 24 h. SMX-HA caused dose-dependent covalent binding to cellular proteins as assessed by immunoblotting with SMX antisera at 3 and 24 h. Covalent binding was predominantly to proteins of approximately 45, 59 and 75 kDa, but other targets were also observed. The relative extent of binding to proteins was significantly different from the relative cytotoxicity at 24 h. Further, cells surviving at 24 h also had extensive covalent binding. Covalent binding was observed under reducing (beta-mercaptoethanol) and non-reducing conditions to plasma membrane and microsomal but not cytosolic proteins. This non-labile covalent binding has not been previously reported. These observations suggest that extensive covalent binding does not necessarily lead to cell death, allowing the accumulation of potentially immunogenic drug-protein conjugates. These observations in whole cells may be relevant to the immunopathogenesis of SMX hypersensitivity syndrome reactions.
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