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Wireless rfm12b master flash controller.
This controller drive 3 local flashes in TTL mode and 4 external remote flashes via the buildin RFM12B transceiver on 868 Mhz. Multiple values can be adjusted for the local and remote flashes. Every flash can be enabled/disabled separately. Also on every flash channel the type can be changed. Every flash have a powersetting in 1/3 EV steps from 1/256 to full power.
2 extra buttons are foresee to change the global flash EV offset level into 1/3 EV steps, one button for the 3 local flashes and one button for the 4 remote flashes. This value stay separate on the display. This quick adjustment is helpfull to change the global for /background lighting without the need to change the individual flashpower.
For pictures current print see:
www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/3916952496/
Shema:
www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/3896289984/in/set-721576...
How the flashes works:
www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/3778250766/in/set-721576...
And first prototype:
www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/3865215828/in/set-721576...
The box have 160mm x 96mm x 60mm. The antenne for the wireless transceiver is assembled inside the box (box is synthetic material). Flash ouput connectors are 3.5mm phone type monted underside the box ( not well to see here on the photo) The connectors drive the X, Q and GND signals to drive the flash in TTL mode.
This version is only a prototype to test multiple use of remote flashes. Later this year all this functions will build into a new setup for flying insects. Because controllers and LCD display are already used, the extra room to mount the new functions will be limited. The newer version need a few more functions. I need also a timekeeper, and a temperature sensor ( I need to know how warm it is for the nightcapture of the moths in-flight).
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Level Up is a quarterly sales event with unique themes based upon video game genres. Dec. 18 marks the beginning of the Retro Game round, sponsored by Cubic Cherry Kre-ations, [Fetch], Frogstar, .geek., *~*HopScotch*~* and tea.s.
Taken at Level Up - Retro Video Game Themed Sales Event, Cleavage (51, 35, 1701)
Twenty-two Transylvania County TIME 4 Real Science students advanced to two different state level science research competitions on March 24-25 in Raleigh-Durham, where they presented the results of 11 different year-long research projects. The team secured 19 state-level awards and will advance 11 students to the national and/or international level.
“My favorite part of the science competitions was being able to explain my project to people with minimal background in the scientific field,” said Sam Ballard, a sophomore from Rosman High School (RHS) and a student scientist in the TIME 4 Real Science Program. “When somebody came` over and asked about my project on their own terms, and then began to understand the science behind it, it made me feel so happy.” Ballard and Brevard High School (BHS) freshman Fritz Ruppert worked this year to levitate small particles using ultrasound.
“I think it is essential to remember that these science competitions are more than just competitions - they are chances for you, the scientist, to share and demonstrate your research; to show the world your accomplishments and your failures,” said Ruppert, reflecting on the competitions. “While receiving awards is nice, this is the most important part.”
As part of the North Carolina Student Academy of Science (NCSAS) Competition, students submit an original scientific paper for review by professional scientists and present their work to these scientists and their peers at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. Students also have the honor of hearing from a keynote speaker. This year NCSU Professor Dr. Robert Dunn presented “Six keys to making totally new discoveries in biology before you finish high school.”
Research teacher Jennifer Williams said, “NCSAS is my favorite competition. Students get to share their original work and participate in the excitement of a scientific meeting, much like professional scientists do. First place winners also have the opportunity to present at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting alongside scientists from around the world-- a life-changing experience for students passionate about science. This year eight TIME student scientists were selected to present expenses paid at the AAAS meeting in Austin, Texas next year: Aidan Spradlin, Bryce Spradlin, Hannah Lemel, Matthew Bailey, John Nguyen, Sara Megown, Chase Bishop and Alex Eberhardt. Incredible!”
At the NCSAS meeting, students have the opportunity to seek leadership roles . This year, BHS sophomore Chase Bishop ran for NCSAS president-elect and defeated seven other candidates from across the state. “It was inspirational to see that people saw me as a leader and voted for me. In football we are told that we are to be the difference, and I hope that I can be that difference not only in the NCSAS but for the world as a scientist,” Bishop said, He will serve for one year as president-elect and then move into the role of president for a year.
When most people think of science competitions, the North Carolina Science and Engineering Fair (NCSEF) comes to mind. For this competition, students prepare a trifold poster that displays their research. Judges view the boards without the students and then ask the students to defend and elaborate on their work. After the judging, the public is invited to interact with the students and their projects. Like NCSAS, NCSEF models a key component of a professional scientific meeting, the poster presentation.
Emma Dauster, sophomore, said conducting a research project and preparing for NCSEF, “took a lot of hard work and dedication, but being part of the TIME program means always going the extra mile.” Dauster worked with sophomores Cullen Duval and Kylie Evans to study the attraction of mosquitoes to plant and fungal volatiles and win a Grand Award at this year’s NCSEF. The team will travel to Los Angeles from May 14-19 to compete in the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). According to ISEF representatives, “Each year, approximately 1,800 high school students from more than 75 countries, regions, and territories are awarded the opportunity to showcase their independent research and compete for on average $4 million in prizes.” Duval says “it still hasn’t really sunk in yet!”
Junior A. Spradlin reflected on his experiences during the science competitions, “My group and I had the chance to share our research and contribute to the scientific field. Sharing what we discovered with respected scientists that may use our experiments to stem further research is very fulfilling.” A. Spradlin worked with juniors B. Spradlin and Lemel to design a new, safer method to test for Naegleria fowleri (the brain eating amoeba) in local waters.
A. Spradlin added, “As for the competition, I am extremely proud to say that the projects we completed in a small high school lab in Brevard, North Carolina were able to compete with and defeat projects that were conducted in advanced laboratories at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill.”
The TIME 4 Real Science Program is an intensive, inquiry-based school-day course. Students learn about the process of science as they conduct original scientific research into topics of their own choosing. They are supported by both teacher and scientist mentors as they choose a topic of interest, develop a testable question, design a procedure, collect and analyze data and present their findings.
“TIME is a class that offers students, who like me have a strong interest in science, the ability to really pursue their passion and curiosity in this field. The TIME science program has opened countless doors and led to experiences that have shaped my personal interest in biotechnology, and science in general, so much so that I am currently pursuing a career in this field,” said B. Spradlin.
Current TIME students would like to thank all who have helped with their research during the year including students, teachers, administrators, parents, and numerous scientists and community volunteers. Thanks go to 2016-17 TIME volunteers: Brian Byrd, Neill Cagle, Ora Wells, Ann Farrash, Alan Smith, Inga Meadows, Courtney Long, Scott Stevens, Cindy Carpenter, Jeff Hinshaw, Adam Moticak, Ken Chepenik, Don Wauchope, Gordon Riedesel, David Williams, Jay Case, Sam Farrar, Jeremy Gibbs, and Heidi Bullock. Special thanks go to Dr. Kent Wilcox, without whose help, guidance, and actions the class could not have been possible!
The TIME 4 Real Science Program is a partnership between Transylvania County Schools and NC Cooperative Extension. Funding for the students’ trip was provided by generous donations from the Duke Energy Foundation and from TIME alumnus Abby Williams’ 2016-17 community fundraising campaign. Special thanks goes to the campaign donors that helped make this program year possible: George and Elin Abercrombie, Ann Farash and Paul Onnink, Harriett Walls, Donna and Frank Patton, Bruce and Belinda Roberts, Johnny, Elsa and Ben Strickland, Mark and Page Lemel, Pat Montgomery, Jane and Chris Dauster, John and Nancy Strickland, Marion Petterson, Steve and Mary Arnaudin, Jim and Barb Strickland, Ned Steadman, Abby and Erika Williams, Jessica Good, Jodie DuBrueil, Leah Johnson and Dawn Davenport, Kathie and George Williams,Jennifer Frick-Ruppert, Tracie and Daniel Trusler, Kristi Whitworth, Jeremy Gibbs, Frances Bradburn, Mark and Betsy Burrows, Mike Judd, Laura Patch, Mark and Ameran Tooley, Brooke Burrows, Seyl Park and John Burrows.
FOR MORE INFORMATION or to indicate an interest in volunteering or donating to the program, please visit our website at time4realscience.org or contact Jennifer Williams, BHS Science Instructional Leader and TIME 4 Real Science Co-director, at jwilliam@tcsnc.org .
Transylvania County State Level Science Awards:
A. Spradlin, B. Spradlin and Lemel: An Evaluation of Local, Thermally Polluted Lakes for the Presence of Naegleria fowleria via PCR Without Hazardous Cultivation: 1st place Biotechnology and AAAS Grand Award (NCSAS); 3rd place Biology B and 2nd place, Water Works Award (NCSEF).
Dauster, Evans and Duval: Olfactometer assays to measure the response of Culex quinquefasciatus to plant and fungal volatiles: 1st place Biology A and ISEF Grand Award (NCSEF); 2nd place Behavioral Science (NCSAS).
John Nguyen and Matthew Bailey: Oligochaete Populations in Transylvania County Trout Streams: A Risk Assessment of Susceptibility to the Whirling Disease Parasite, Myxobolus cerebralis: 1st place Environmental Science and AAAS Grand Award (NCSAS); Western Representative (NCSEF).
Bishop and Alex Eberhardt: Feasibility of Cultivating Arthrospira platensis as a Food Source for Mars Exploration and Colonization: 1st place Earth and Space Science and AAAS Grand Award (NCSAS); Western Representative (NCSEF).
Sara Megown: The Antifungal Effect of Plant Extracts on Candida albicans: 1st place Biological Sciences and AAAS Grand Award (NCSAS).
Ruppert and Ballard: Particle Manipulation by an Acoustic Levitator: 3rd place Technology and Engineering (NCSAS); 3rd place Army Award, Engineering, (NCSEF).
Bain Brown and Nicole Rideout: Screening Kudzu Associated Insects and Fungi for Enzymes with Potential Application in Aqueous Oil Extraction: 3rd place Biological Sciences (NCSAS); Western Representative (NCSEF).
Emily Trusler and Elise Poche: Isolation and Identification of Entomopathogenic Fungi for Use in Mosquito Control: 2nd Place Biological Sciences (NCSAS).
Carly Tabor and Lily Harris: Megacopta cribraria Attraction to Plant Volatiles: Western Representative (NCSAS).
Jasmine Gillespie: Toxicity of Nightshade Plants to the Freshwater Clam Corbicula fluminea: Western Representative, (NCSAS).
Caleb Fore: Developing a Cost Effective Solar Array While Capturing Energy for Heating Water: Western Representative (NCSAS).
Photo captions:
1: Twenty-two Transylvania County TIME 4 Real Science students made an impact at two recent state level science competitions. Eleven students advance to national and international competitions.
2: Chase Bishop (left), new president-elect for the NC Student Academy of Science, joins his partner Alex Eberhardt in congratulating another state level NCSAS winner. Chase and Alex studied the potential of using Martian resources to grow Spirulina, a potential source for nutrition in future Martian settlements.
3: Kylie Evans and Cullen Duval test mosquitoes in their homemade olfactometer. The team discovered that carnations are strongly attractive to mosquitoes and a new fungus isolated from kudzu repels them.
4: Elise Poche counts fungal spores using a hemocytometer and contrasting light microscope to prepare a spore concentration for dosing mosquito larvae.
5: Emily Trusler uses DNA analysis to identify entomopathogenic fungi isolated from local soil and tree holes. Trusler and her partner Elise Poche studied the fungi’s potential to control mosquito larvae.
6: Jasmine Gillespie prepares a dose of snuff. Gillespie worked with her partner Noah Graham to evaluate the sublethal toxicity of tobacco on golden clams.
7: Emma Dauster retrieves mosquitoes for testing. She and her partners Kylie Evans and Cullen Duvall will represent North Carolina at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles next month.
8: Sara Megown tests the effect of herbal extracts on Candida albicans, the causative agent of yeast infections. She found that Goldenseal extract inhibits the growth of yeast in a petri dish. She also tested the extract in living wax moth larvae with some promising, if inconclusive results.
9: Matthew Bailey works to analyze DNA from oligochaetes collected from local streams. Bailey worked with partner John Nguyen to assess local susceptibility to whirling disease, a devastating trout pathogen.
@ 2017, Transylvania County Schools, TIME 4 Real Science. All rights reserved.
What is Miksang?
"Miksang" (a Tibetan word meaning "good eye") is the name of a school of photography in which photography is practiced as a contemplative art. It is associated with Shambhala Buddhism. There is an international Miksang Society whose website will provide a lot more information. (In contrast, my comments here should be understood as the amateur impressions of a total beginner!)
My experiences with Miksang
I took my first class (level one: color) in April of 2006. My reasons for doing this, as well as my understanding of and responses to the class, are recorded on this photo.
The same photo also provides an explanation of level one: color (as I understand it) and an intro to all the color shots in my Miksang set.
I took my second Miksang class--level two: space--on October 29, 2006. This and the following photos (try clicking through them in the Miksang set rather than in the general photostream; the explanations will be in a clearer sequence) are the result.
What am I trying to do in these "space" shots?
As I understand it (and again, I'm just a beginner so don't take my word for it!) the space shots attempt to capture the visual perception of wide-open spaciousness. There are two different basic types: space, and dot in space; the latter can also be stick in space, line in space, etc.
Looking at the open space of a space photo (either type) is analogous to resting our mind in spaciousness during shamatha meditation practice.
In the basic meditation practice we are taught to use an object of meditation--often the breath--as our anchor so that we can rest comfortably in the open space of our mind, without fumbling about for something to hold onto.
Similarly, in a space photograph, the main subject is a wide-open space (can be air, water, or even a solid surface). As in meditation, there is an unobtrusive anchor that allows the eye to rest comfortably in the spaciousness of the image without zooming around seeking something to look at. The anchor is usually placed at the edge of the frame as a sort of jumping-off point; also, it is usually not too interesting so that it does not distract from the space. The photo above is intended to be a space image.
The dot in space image has something happening in the space, a focal point (a dot, line, or something else) that the eye will rest upon; usually it's not at the edge but in the middle somewhere. In these pictures, the eye will move through the space to the dot (line, etc.) and rest there. The experience is still one of spaciousness, because the dot is small and precise, not too complicated, and is so surrounded by the open space. The next photo is a dot in space attempt. (Better than my attempts is this example from my teacher).
Things to avoid in both types of space images
First, there should be a sense that the space itself is the subject of the photo. Open space is commonly in the "background" of many photos, but in these photos we are trying to bring it into the foreground. That's why this one, for example, doesn't really work.
Second, the idea of space as settled, stable, resting place means that there should be no vectors of movement in the photo. I really, really struggled with that and found the struggle very profound and illuminating. More about that on this photo.
About this particular shot
The teacher and fellow students seemed to feel that this one "works." The wall at bottom functions as an anchor, stabilizing the photo without attracting too much attention to itself, and thus allowing us to rest our mind and eyes in the open blueness beyond. Just like the anchor of our breath allows us to rest in open spaciousness during meditation.
The World Trade Center in 1999 (Album)
The view from the World Trade Center observation deck (1 of 4)
The view from the World Trade Center observation deck (2 of 4)
The view from the World Trade Center observation deck (3 of 4)
The view from the World Trade Center observation deck (4 of 4)
The World Trade Center Twin Towers from Helicopter (1 of 3)
The World Trade Center Twin Towers from Helicopter (2 of 3)
The World Trade Center Twin Towers from Helicopter (3 of 3)
Taken at 3.50pm on Wednesday 29th September 1999. After taking this photo I took the express elevator to the 'Top of the World Trade Center Observatories' observation deck at the top of Two World Trade Center, the South Tower.
A short tribute to New York city for Aniboom's '9/11 - It's Been Ten Years' project:
Unmanned Level Crossing on the Wirral. I think unmanned since about 1972. These place's arnt to be messed about with so i got my pic and got off the tracks fast as i could
the gates
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Camera 4 (X8111597)
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The footpath and private access crossing at Achnashellach Station, which has recently had a new surface laid with walkways marked out.
Let's Rock Bristol took place at The Ashton Court Estate, Bristol, 6-8 June 2014. It was attended by over 10,000 people.
The festival included the following (mainly British) artists:
Then Jerico, Brother Beyond, Bananarama, Tony Hadley, Belinda Carlisle, Alexander O'Neil, Go West, Boney M, Midge Ure, Heaven 17, The Christians, China Crisis, Doctor and The Medics, Sonia, Jaki Graham, Carol Decker of T'Pau, Level 42, Rick Astley, Kim Wilde, ABC, Nik Kershaw, Matt Bianco, Imagination, The Blow Monkeys, Toyah and Johnny Hates Jazz.
Just before dawn looking out from Glastonbury with the boggy Somerset levels on your left. Managed to capture this with the frost, before the big black cloud covered up all the light for the rest of the morning.
Gail (Tan PKF Vanilla): "I know you said "snow," ami, but mon Dieu!"
Zephyr: (PKF Cony): "It's not as bad as it was. Look. Actual ground!"
Note: Gail is a storm deva from New Orleans. "Ami" is "friend" and "mon Dieu!" is "my God."
This is right by the driveway and as close as I could get to ground level without sinking in mud. We had a LOT of snow this winter.
At this time of year the light shines into my office at work for a while at a very shallow angle. I've taken some pictures of this before and now I'm taking pictures of it again. I added some small vials filled with ph calibration liquids.
Cheers.
Hilton level crossing across Egginton Road between Hilton and Egginton. 11:46, Friday 6th May 1988
(1/125, F8/11)
Hilton Crossing Ground Frame is a Torton Nomad portable building located by the Down Stoke line equipped with a 1 lever London & North Western Railway SK80 frame and an individual function switch which was opened as a non block post by British Railways on 20th November 1977, replacing a mid 1930s London & North Western Railway hut located on the opposite side of the level crossing. The lever was moved from the outside the previous hut and is electrically released by Egginton Junction signal box. The individual function switch controls emergency replacement switch for Egginton Junction signal box 10 and 12 signals
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Manulla Junction to Ballina Railway Line - MP Dublin 146 3/4.
Level Crossing (XX1) on the N5 at Manulla, Mayo 18th March 2012.
Schwebebahn arriving at Wuppertal Vohwinkel
Minolta X300 with MD 50/1.7
on Kentmere 400 in TMAX developer
Bunchrew Level Crossing with automatic half barriers - converted from automatic open crossing (AOCL) to AOCL+B in August 2013.
Level corssing on Geoff William's model of Aylesbury, now in the care of the Princess Risborough model railway club.
The National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway is located in Ireland's westerly city of Galway. A tertiary-level teaching and research institution, it is ranked among the top 1 per cent of universities in the world.The University is ranked #243 in the 2017 QS World University Rankings and has been also been awarded the full five QS stars for excellence.
The University was founded in 1845 as Queen's College, Galway, and was more recently known as University College, Galway (UCG). Alumni include the former Taoiseach and President of Ireland, Enda Kenny and Michael D. Higgins respectively, as well as numerous other prominent politicians. Other leading figures in Irish official life to have been educated here include former Attorney General Máire Whelan and Comptroller and Auditor General Seamus McCarthy.
NUI Galway is a member of the Coimbra Group, a network of 40 long-established European universities.
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edit: there! mwahahaha! I chose from powerfulest/shortest/whatever the hell fit. xD
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015, at Marshall University's Visual Arts Center, presented by Moses AutoMall of Huntington. (Photo by Kelly Cunningham.)