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When it comes to how Washington has reacted to the debt crisis we face, pundits have talked about the "small ball" approach, where Congress and the president act at the 11th hour of a fiscal crisis by passing legislation that simply pushes the crisis off for a few more weeks or months at best. That's a generous description of what has happened in Washington—"no balls" would be more like it. And no approach better represents the no-balls mentality than those on both sides of the aisle who say we should simply let sequestration occur.
Sequestration was intended to be so draconian and mindlessly senseless that it would force parties on both sides of the aisle to act to avoid it occurring. Allowing it to occur is tantamount to abdicating the responsibility to make tough choices and set priorities. The sequester cuts muscle and fat equally, disproportionately impacts discretionary programs for national security and investments in the future, and makes disruptive cuts now while the economy is still weak while doing very little to reduce the long-term growth in the debt.
It is time for our leaders in Washington to go big.
The facts are not in dispute, and they aren't pretty. Our nation's budget is on a fiscally unsustainable course, with debt growing faster than our economy and spending on entitlements and interest on the debt crowding out all other priorities. The fiscal-cliff deal and other recent deficit reduction efforts did nothing to change that fundamental trajectory—and neither will simply allowing sequestration to occur.
We need a comprehensive approach to achieve the amount of savings and fundamental reforms that are necessary to put our budget on a fiscally sustainable course and establish a strong foundation for economic growth.
The good news is that we can act, and there is way forward. Republican Main Street Partnership, the centrist organization that I now head, released a white paper (PDF) this month outlining a potential path forward, based on several different bipartisan deficit reduction plans, including the Simpson-Bowles commission. While there were differences in details, there were several common elements in all of these plans, which should be a part of the way forward for Washington.
Discretionary Spending Cuts
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi recently said that we don't have a spending problem in Washington. She is dead wrong, and any plan to address the debt must have significant spending cuts as part of it. Spending cuts need not be achieved through mindless sequestration, indeed spending cuts should be done smartly—with an eye always toward cuts that will help grow, rather than shrink, our economy.
Entitlement Reform
Debt reduction that focuses only on discretionary spending and taxes but ignores entitlements is the proverbial two-legged stool. No matter how hard you try, cutting discretionary spending and increasing taxes will never be enough to deal with our debt crisis.
We need entitlement reform that focuses on making these programs financially sound and restrains their long-term growth. Without meaningful entitlement reform, any increase in revenue through higher taxes will simply be eaten up by future entitlement growth.
In particular, we need to control the long-term growth of health-care costs covered by Medicare and Medicaid. We need structural reforms that encourage efficient and effective delivery of care. Social Security should also be reformed to ensure it is strong for future generations.
Tax Reform
Additional revenues need to be part of a comprehensive plan, but we need to be honest—we can't tax our way out of this hole. We need additional revenue that comes from fundamental tax reforms. While it might not fit on a bumper sticker the same way "soak the rich" might, the truth is that we need tax reform that will not only raise revenue, but that also lowers rates, broadens the base, and simplifies the tax code. Such reforms will not only raise revenue, but also increase American competitiveness in the global marketplace and create jobs.
Go Big
The savings achieved through this combination of spending cuts, tax reform, and entitlement reform must be large enough to not just stabilize the debt—as some have argued—but to put it on a clear downward path. We can not simply do enough to keep debt hovering at the dangerously high level it is at. By doing so we leave ourselves no room for error and no room to respond to unforseen emergencies that we may be forced to confront. Instead the savings achieved must be large enough to actually put the debt on a path where it actually decreases as a percentage of GDP.
Washington can and should do better than simply sitting back and doing nothing—allowing what was once the unthinkable (sequestration) to occur simply because they lack the courage to do something about it. It is time for our elected officials in Washington to do their job, work together, and compromise.


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Resolutions? Sure, get my shit done. I haven't posted much of my own bike shit this year. I've way to busy with non-scoot related projects and finishing other people's projects. I haven't wrenched on my own projects since February and hardly rode this year. This year it's fuck everything, I'm finishing the blown digger, getting my shovel back on the road, and ride as much as possible!
Big plans this year...stay tuned.

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Detroit (20-8-4) VS Vancouver (19-8-4)
Babs, you got it half-right. You listened to your players, that's good. The bad part is you listened at the wrong time. Do you think I give a shit if Ozzie gets his 400th win at home or on the road? Hell no! A win is a win, and it's not like there'd be any special celebration for him at the end of the game just because it's at the Joe!
Bottom line, Osgood would've won in Chicago and Howard would've won against Dallas, and those 4 points would mean a whole lot more to me right now than trying to inflate Ozzie's non-existent ego by winning at home.
Next time, the players defer to the coach and not the other way around. 400 will come, but not by forcing it, Dallas proved that to us.
On tap tonight is the Red Wings VS the Canucks, with Jimmah in the crease. I'm still upset at my Wings for not being able to get one measly win the day before OR after my birthday, so no Geek's Winning Formula for them tonight! They can figure this shit out on their own for once. Maybe if they pull out a win, I'll forgive them...
Enjoy the game, Wingnuts! Let's Go Red Wings!!


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If you want to be reminded about good web writing and usability, sometimes a trip to the supermarket helps.
While browsing the aisles of Wegmans over the weekend, I saw that Pantene (the official shampoo of TimsHead) was on sale. Being a fan of convenience (and cheapness), I gravitate toward their combined shampoo/conditioner options. You can tell this clearly by a 2-for-1 logo on these offerings. And I thought about that differentiation in comparison to web content.
One of the most outdated, but alas persistent, web phrases is "click here." It predates when researchers knew anything about how users employ the web and what motivates them. Remember that people don't read as much as they scan, looking for actions they want to take. They're scanning for actions or phrases of interest like "apply," "course information," "schedule a tour," "financial aid" or "student organizations." So a "click here" phrase is superfluous and countervenes their hunt for information. I prefer phrasing desired actions into a contextual link: "Apply to SUNY Oswego," "Schedule a visit," "Browse our majors and minors," etc.
Back to the Wegmans example — could you imagine if, instead of pertinent information, all the bottles simply said "buy me!" Sure, that — like "click here!" — is the desired outcome, but it's irrelevant to my selection process. And remember it's less about what you (the web writer, the college, the supermarket) want a user to do; it's ultimately about what the user wants to do, and cues you can offer to help.
Or consider that moderately successful website known as The Facebook. There's no "click here!" polluting the content; it's almost all about driving action. You'll see phrased links saying "Add as Friend," "View Photos of Tim," "What's on your mind?" Navigation is self-explanatory: Messages, Events, Friends, etc. Nary a "click here!" used — because the phrase is, quite simply, not necessary. Users have moved past being treated like Pavlovian dogs … they know, and look for, the actions they want.


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Actress Ino Menegaki, in the role of the High Priestess, lights the torch of the Olympic Flame in front of Hera Temple in Ancient Olympia, Greece, on May 10, 2012.
The Associated Press reports — The flame that will burn during the London Games was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics on Thursday, heralding the start of a torch relay that will culminate with the opening ceremony on July 27.
Actress Ino Menegaki, dressed as a high priestess, stood before the 2,600-year-old Temple of Hera, and after an invocation to Apollo, the ancient Greeks' Sun God, used a mirror to focus the sun's rays and light a torch.
The triangular torch is designed to highlight the fact that London is hosting the Olympics for the third time. It also staged the games in 1908 and 1948.
Under bright sunny skies there was no need for the backup flame that was used during the final rehearsal for the Olympic torch lighting a day earlier. Read the full story.
Related content:
- Five facts about the London 2012 torch
- Video: Countdown to the Olympic Games
- Slideshow: When the Olympics is your neighbor
- Full Olympic coverage on NBCOlympics.com
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The flame will make a 1,800-mile journey through Greece using 490 torchbearers.
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Ino Menegaki holds up the cauldron with the Olympic flame during the torch lighting ceremony.
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Alexander Loukos, center, a British boxer of Greek descent, runs with the Olympic flame during the torch relay at the site of ancient Olympia on May 10, 2012. The torch will be handed to London organizers on May 17 in Athens' Panathiaic Stadium, where the first modern games were held in 1896.
An actress playing high priestess kindles the torch of the 2012 Games, sparking the global relay to the Opening Ceremony cauldron in London on July 27.
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From Wimbledon to Wembley Stadium to The Dome, a look at the venues for the 2012 London Olympic Games.


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Police charged a Washington County couple with sexually assaulting two teenage girls in April and June.
VIDEO: Watch Marcie Cipriani's report
Police charged Kimberly Campbell, 37, and her boyfriend, Gary Bates, 43.
According to court papers, in April the couple told a 19-year-old woman, who is pregnant and mentally disabled, that they needed to check her for cancer.
Investigators said Campbell and Bates groped the teen, then forced her to perform oral sex. In June, police said, the couple lured a 13-year-old to an upstairs bedroom at the their Chartiers Township home, with the promise of cake.
Investigators said that once there, the couple held her down and pulled down her shorts; while she was screaming; then Bates touched her sexually.
Chartiers Township Police Chief Steve Horvath said that when they arrived at the Railroad Street home to arrest the couple, Bates was injured.
"As he came down the steps, he had a towel wrapped around, or a blanket. Once he got downstairs, one of our detectives noticed he had some blood on his hands," said Horvath. "He asked him where the blood came from, and the blanket opened up and they saw a wound in his abdomen. With that, the officers asked him what had happened, and he said he fell on his knife."
Bates was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital. Campbell was taken to jail. Both are charged with dozens of sex crimes.


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Bidadari Island Resort & Villas
Labuan Bajo – West Flores
Bidadari ( Angel Island ) Island Resort and Eco
Bidadari Island Resort has been created to give discerning guests a beautiful, peaceful place to lay their heads after a wonderful day in Komodo National Park.
Bidadari Island resort is a small island to the West of Labuanbajo, Flores, which is in the Lesser Sundas province, East of Bali
The name Indonesia has its roots in two Greek words: "Indos" meaning Indian and "Nesos" which means islands. It is an appropriate description of the archipelago as there are estimated to be a total of 17,508 islands, of which only about 6,000 are inhabited, stretching for 5,150 km between the Australian and Asian continental mainland's and dividing the Pacific and Indian Oceans at the Equator. Five main islands and 30 smaller archipelagoes are home to the majority of the population.
The main islands are Sumatra (473,6O6 sq.km), Kalimantan 1539,400 sq.km), Sulawesi l 189,216 sq. km), Irian Jaya (421,981 sq. km), and last but not least Java (132,187 sq.km), home to 70 percent of the country's population. Indonesia shares Irian Jaya with Papua New Guinea and two thirds of the island of Kalimantan with Malaysia and Borneo.
The islands and people of Indonesia constitute the fourth most populated nation in the world. As a democratic republic, Indonesia is divided into 32 provinces, special territories and classified geographically into four groups.
First are the Greater Sundas, made up of the larger islands of Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan and Sulawesi.
Second are the Lesser Sundas, consisting of smaller islands from Bali eastward to Timor.
Third is Maluku which includes all the islands between Irian Jaya and Sulawesi.
The fourth and final group is lrian Jaya in the extreme eastern part of the country
Our villas are spacious and set in a garden of endemic trees and hibiscus flowers, all within 1 minute walk from the ocean.
Each villa has remotely controlled Air conditioning for your comfort, King size beds or twin 120cm beds.
There is a mini bar with snacks and drinks, personal mini safe for your valuables, Water dispenser with hot and cold water for Free Tea/coffee anytime.
The Garden Bathroom
Your bathroom has a Hot and cold rain shower and a cold water shower Urn in the garden, twin sinks with hot/cold water.
Room Terrace
Each room has a private terrace with sun-loungers and coffee table
- Our Garden restaurant is set with a view of the ocean, with tables at the edge of the beach, so you are able to dine under the stars and moon and hear the waves gently lapping, or you can dine in our traditional wooden pavilions set intimately for two or our larger pavilion for up to 8, also placed at the beach.
- Our Menu has a variety of wholesome Indonesian, European and Vegetarian dishes.
- We serve delicious fresh fruit juices and have a small selection of wines and spirits.
- We do serve fresh line caught fish, but sorry due to the destructive fishing practices used catching shell fish, octopus, Squid and cuttlefish, these are not served in our restaurant.
Bidadari Island Resort is Private island with 10 AC/hot water cottages, breakfast, mini bar, tea/coffee making facilities, mini safe, snorkeling and shore diving available from island beaches,. Very quiet and peaceful no cars/motorbikes only us on island 15.4 hectares. 20 minutes by traditional boat from harbour at Labuan bajo
in the villa sharing with 2 person : USD 175/person/night including 03 meals
Double Bed Room : USD 320/night/including 3 meals
Price includes Airport transfers Labuan bajo airport/Resort/Airport
All rooms are Non Smoking
Low Season:
September 16 – November 30
January 15 – March 1
High Season Supplement US$ 18 per room per night
July 01 – 15th September
December 01– January 14
Returning Guests of Diving will be given priority booking for Room and diving, please contact us directly
Diving Prices in Euro
04 days 329
06 days 457
08 days 569
10 days 695
2 boat dives per day, Tank & Weights, Dive master, lunch and Refreshments.
We leave 8am and return around 4:00-5:00pm depending on which sites we visit. There is plenty of shade on the boat and places to catch the sun)
Not Included
Conservation fee to enter Komodo National Park is Euro 15 per person for 1-3 days, $25 4-8 days $35 9-15 days and a Rp.40,000 Government tax for every 3 days.
- Back-up Power Generator
- First Aid Kit
- Laundry Service available
- Mobile Phone Reception
- Non-Smoking rooms/floors
- Restaurant(s)
- Arrival/departure point transfers (Included in price for most common arrival point)
- Concierge/Travel booking and Confirmation
- Doctor/Nurse on call
- Laundry/Ironing
- Room Service
- Security Guard (24 hrs)
- Shuttle Service (i.e. to/from town centre – extra charge)
- Turn-down service
- Vehicle Hire/Car Rental can be arranged
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Despite their theological differences, members of Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim congregations came together to celebrate and worship together at the annual Lexington Interfaith Thanksgiving Service Tuesday night.
Despite their theological differences, members of Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim congregations came together to celebrate and worship together at the annual Lexington Interfaith Thanksgiving Service Tuesday night.
The service, held at Pilgrim Congregational Church, was led by the church's Rev. Judith Brain, who welcomed the attendees with the spirit of togetherness.
The willingness to work together in Lexington across faiths, especially with social issues like the genocide in Darfur and the environment, "is something to be cherished," said Brain.
Part of the service was dedicated to "Thanksgiving reflections," a three-part sermon with a speaker each from Christianity, Judaism and Islam. They reflected on the uniqueness of the event, as well as what they were thankful for at this time of year.
"We should be filled with the sense of thanksgiving for the blessings we all have in our lives, and maybe most importantly, for simply being here together, at this time and place," said Rabbi David Lerner of Temple Emunah. "There are not many opportunities in the world where such gatherings are possible."
"It is easy to go through a day, concentrating on stress, and challenges, and obligations," said Brain. "But don't stay there. Notice the small beauties and blessings that are always around."
"We should look around. We should be thankful for our life. If there is no life, we would not be here," said Firdosh Pathan of the Islamic Center of Boston and Wayland.
The inclusive spirit and sentiment was echoed by many at a reception following the service in the church's Fellowship Hall.
Pilgrim Church member Susan Bennett said she was delighted to see such a large turnout. "I'm grateful to live in a community where people of diverse faiths can worship together," she said.
Jack Cunha, who attends services at both St. Brigid and Grace Chapel, a non-denominational parish, said this year at Thanksgiving he's thankful for his family, friends and life. He was happy to be part of a large group of Lexington residents who are so inclusive and community-oriented, he said.
Susan Foote of Temple Isaiah in Lexington said she feels fortunate to live in a community where people of different faiths can respect each other and worship together.
The mere fact the service could even happen, she said, was wonderful.
Worshippers also brought dry and canned goods to the service, with all proceeds going toward the Lexington Food Pantry.
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One cut and they were hooked. Fabricators, contractors, maintenance personnel, artists and do-it-yourselfers who experience the benefits of a hand-held air plasma arc cutting machine rarely want to return to oxy-acetylene cutting or mechanical cutting processes such as saws, cut-off wheels, shears and snips.
Plasma cutting improved their productivity and lowered the cost of cutting. It cut faster, did not require a pre-heat cycle, cut any metal that conducted electricity (unlike oxy-fuel, which cannot cut stainless steel or aluminum), permitted portability around job sites, minimized the heat-affected zone and yielded a cut with a small kerf (cut width). Their plasma units also gouged, pierced, beveled, cut holes and traced shapes.
The actual process of operating a hand-held air plasma cutter unit is relatively simple. In fact, the hardest part comes before ever striking an arc-selecting a machine that best matches your application and choosing the right accessories.
Plasma 101
Plasma looks and behaves like a high-temperature gas, but with an important difference; it conducts electricity and cuts any electrically conductive metal. The plasma arc results from electrically heating a gas, typically air, to a very high temperature. This ionizes its atoms and enables them to conduct electricity. A plasma arc torch uses a "swirl ring" that spins the gas around an electrode. The gas is heated in the chamber between the electrode and torch tip, ionizing the gas and creating plasma. This causes the plasma gas to greatly expand in volume and pressure. The small, narrow opening of the torch tip constricts the plasma and accelerates it toward the work piece at very high speeds (20,000 ft./s) and temperatures (up to 30,000° F).
The high-intensity plasma jet melts a very localized area. The force of the jet (or arc) pushes through the work piece and removes the molten metal. This jet easily cuts through metals with poor heat conductivity (stainless steel) or excellent conductivity (aluminum). The flame created by an oxy-fuel torch lacks plasma's concentration and cuts stainless steel or aluminum so poorly (excess warping or dross) that professionals don't bother to use it; they consider plasma arc cutting the standard process for these metals.
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The first questions to ask when selecting a plasma cutter relate to cutting capacity:
Like a welding machine, a plasma cutter's amperage and voltage capacities determine its "size." Note that the plasma process requires relatively high voltage and low amperage levels, the opposite of welding. Many people erroneously judge a plasma machine solely by amperage. While this is an important indicator, remember that total output power (in watts) equals amperage times voltage. Do the math to obtain a more accurate product comparison.
For instance, Miller Electric's Spectrum 125C is 12-amp unit rated at 110 VDC (1,320 watts total). This provides a quality cut on 3/16-in. steel and will sever 1/4-in. steel. The cutting capacity of a particular "size" plasma machine varies greatly by manufacturer. The following table provides an indication of the maximum cutting performance you can expect from a Miller hand-held unit.
Knowing cutting speeds for the thickness of metal being cut allows you to calculate production rates, typically in parts per hour. This helps ensure that the cutting portion of the operation does not become a bottleneck. While cutting speeds often become critical to throughput in an automated application, they relate most to cut quality and operator satisfaction (or frustration) in hand-held applications.
Many manufacturers provide cutting speed charts that allow you to compare cutting speed performance. While there is no universal standard, Miller facilitates an "apples-to-apples" comparison by qualifying capacity with three standards: rated cut, quality cut and sever cut.
Rated Cut
Rated cut is the thickness of metal that an operator can manually cut mild steel at a rate of 10 IPM. This is considered the minimum speed at which an operator achieves a smooth, steady cut and the best possible cut quality. For example, a 55-amp plasma cutter has a rated cut of 7/8 in.; you can cut 10 in. of 7/8-in. thick steel plate in one minute.
Quality Cut
With a quality cut rating, the operator can cut thicker material, but at a slower rate. For example, a 55-amp plasma cutter provides a quality cut on 1-in. steel, but at speeds less than 10 IPM.
Sever Cut
A sever cut rating means the operator is pushing the machine to its maximum thickness capabilities (1-1/4 in. for a 55-amp unit). Cutting speeds will be very, very slow and the cut will require significant clean-up. Fortunately, cutting speeds increase as the material gets thinner.
As with cutting thickness, cutting speed varies greatly between models. Tests on a mechanized cutting table showed that a 55-amp Spectrum plasma cutter cuts 1/2 in. at 38 IPM with an extended tip and at 30 IPM with a drag shield. Some competitive units of the same amperage only cut at 24 or 28 IPM.
Plasma cutting requires two basic elements, air and electricity, so the next question to ask when selecting a plasma cutter is what type of input power is available. If you only have 115V primary service, don't worry. Several 12- and 25-amp plasma cutters, such as the Spectrum 125C or Spectrum 375, operate using 115 or 230 V power. If your input circuit has a 30-amp breaker, you even get equal cutting capacity at both voltages (with a 20-amp breaker, cutting capacity drops by 20 percent).
Miller Electric offers a primary power management technology called Auto-Line™. Auto-Line allows a machine to accept input voltages ranging 190 through 630 V, single or three-phase, 50 or 60 Hz. This means you can plug this plasma cutter in anywhere in the world. And even if the primary power spikes and dips, but stays within the 190 to 630 V range, units with Auto-Line technology provide a steady, consistent arc and full cutting power.
When working in the field, many contractors and fabricators only source of power comes from an engine-driven welding generator's auxiliary power. Especially for cutting aluminum and stainless steel (which oxy-fuel can't cut), many mechanical contractors opt for a lightweight plasma cutter that permits mobility. Units in the 27 to 80-amp class weigh between 55 and 92 lbs., torch included.
The Spectrum 375 will run off an engine drive providing at least 4 kW of auxiliary power. Because of its 15 percent line voltage compensation feature and power factory correction technology (which reduces draw from 34 to 28 amps), this unit is much less susceptible to nuisance breaker trips. Spectrum plasma cutters provide decent cutting power (5/8-in. steel) when paired with an 8 kW engine drive. When paired with 15 kW auxiliary power, certain models provide full cutting power (approximately 7/8 in. and 1-1/8 in. capacity, respectively).
If you plan to use an engine drive's auxiliary power, strongly consider a unit with Auto-Line technology. Similar units without Auto-Line experience erratic cutting arcs, frequent breaker trips, blown circuit boards and are prone to premature transformer failure. These problems typically occur because the plasma cutter, once triggered, places such a load on the line that voltage levels drop below the plasma cutter's operating range.
In environments with heavy dust and metal shavings (such as from grinding), machines with Wind Tunnel Technology™ and Fan-On-Demand™ provide better reliability. With Wind Tunnel Technology, the cooling air flows through the machine in such a way that it doesn't blow over the electronic components, so grinding dust can't settle on the PC boards and other critical components. Fan-On-Demand means that the cooling fan runs only when needed, reducing the amount of debris entering the unit.
With traditional technology units, the fan works constantly, sucking in any air-borne particles. If you opt to purchase such a unit, position it as far away from the particle source as possible.
Most manufacturers of hand-held plasma cutters recommend using ordinary air as the cutting gas. In mobile applications, contractors often opt for bottled nitrogen because it costs less than bottled air. When cutting stainless steel, some people believe nitrogen produces slightly less oxidation, as it is drier than compressed air. For cutting thinner materials in the field, contractors involved with HVAC, sign making and maintenance often select a plasma cutter like the Spectrum 125C because of its built-in air compressor. This lightweight package provides superior mobility.
Different consumables and torch accessories enable configuring a plasma cutter for a variety of applications and operator skill levels. For cutting, select a regular or an extended cutting tip. With plasma units greater than 40 amps, a built-in drag shield protects the regular tip and automatically holds it 1/8 in. off the surface of the work piece (with units less than 40 amps, the tip can be placed directly on the work piece). For following straight edges or tracing stencils or patterns, many people select this arrangement because it allows them to simply brace the edge of the drag shield on a guide (a ruler, piece of wood, cardboard pattern, etc.) and start cutting.
For beveling, cutting in corner and a better view of the cutting arc, some operators prefer an extended tip. This tip protrudes 1/2 to 1 in beyond the retaining cup, enabling the operator to better direct the flow of plasma jet and reach into corners. Having a steady hand is important because touching the tip to the work piece three or four times enlarges the hole in the tip to the point where it no longer constricts the arc sufficiently.
If you do not have a steady hand (remember that the cut will reflect any hand movement (consider using roller guides and circle cutting guides). These guides hold the torch in position so that it maintains consistent standoff height, prevent the tip from touching the work piece and make it easier to travel in a straight line or cut a perfect circle. For easy beveling, roller and circle cutting guides permit independently adjusting wheel height to set the bevel angle.
For removing old or imperfect welds, use a gouging tip. The hole on a gouging tip is three to four times wider than a regular tip. Its cone shape pushes out the plasma arc, which removes much more material than the constricted orifice of the regular tip.
Many people do not believe that plasma works well for gouging, but that perception is based on older machines with weaker arcs. More powerful Spectrum plasma cutters feature a much stronger design that creates an arc 1 to 1-1/2 in. long. Although carbon arc gouging removes metal faster, plasma arc gouging produces much less smoke and noise, as well as offers more control over the arc.
As with cutting capacity and speeds, consumable life varies greatly between manufacturers. In a test comparing the number of 12-in. long, 1/2-in. thick strips of mild steel cut with a single set of consumables, Miller outperforms many of its competitors. A 55-amp Spectrum plasma cutter cuts 450 strips with an extended tip and 330 with a drag shield. Miller's efficient design reduces consumables cost by up to 500 percent compared to competitive machines.
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Beveled Cut - Adjust Wheel Height
Plasma cutters use either "high frequency start" or "contact start" technology to initiate the pilot arc. If you plan to use a plasma cutter near telephones, computers, CNC machines or other electronic equipment, be aware that high frequency (HF) often interferes with electronic controls.
To avoid potential HF problems, all Miller machines feature contact start design that does not cause interference. Even better the contact start method creates a visible pilot arc that helps you better position the torch.
A few final words of advice before cutting:
Step 1. Place the drag shield on the edge of the base metal, or hold the correct standoff distance (typically 1/8 in.). Direct the arc straight down. (Dragging the tip will reduce tip life).
The arc starts immediately when trigger is pressed.
Step 2. Raise the trigger lock, press the trigger and the pilot arc starts immediately.
Step 3. Once the cutting arc starts, begin to slowly move the torch across the metal.
Step 4 . Adjust your speed so sparks go thru metal and out bottom of cut.
If the sparks are not visible at the bottom of the plate, the arc is not penetrating the metal. This can be caused by moving the torch too quickly, insufficient amperage or directing the plasma stream at an angle (not straight down). Insignificant grounding can also cause this problem.
Step 5 . At the end of a cut, angle the torch slightly towards the final edge or pause briefly before releasing trigger to completely sever the metal.
Step 6 . To cool torch, post-flow air continues for 20 - 30 seconds after releasing the trigger; pressing the trigger during post-flow instantly restarts the arc.
Traveling at the right speed produces a very clean cut with less dross on the bottom of the cut, as well as little or no distortion to the metal. If the travel speed is too slow, the material you are cutting may become hot and accumulate more dross. To minimize dross, increase travel speed or reduce amperage (for an indication of how fast to move the torch, refer to the machine's cutting speed graph or check the speed for a rated cut). Dross also accumulates when you push a machine to its maximum thickness. The only cure for this is a bigger machine.
To gouge — to remove old welds or imperfections — hold the torch at a 40 to 45° angle to the base metal. Establish an arc length of 1 to 1-1/2 in. and move the torch across the metal, adjusting torch speed, arc length and angle as needed. Direct sparks away from the torch, and do not gouge too deeply on one pass. Make multiple passes if needed.
To pierce metal — creating a hole, such as to start coping or insert a valve — place the torch at a 40 to 45° angle to the work piece. Press the trigger. After the machine initiates the cutting arc, bring the torch tip to a 90° angle and the arc will pierce the base metal. Generally, a machine can pierce metal up to one-half of its maximum cutting thickness. Powerful machines pierce 1/4 in. steel within a second or two.
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Beltway conservatives are turning against Rush Limbaugh. The most recent assassin is David Frum. The former Bush speechwriter and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute wrote an article, "Why Rush is wrong," in the March 16 edition of Newsweek, attacking the popular talk radio host.
By Jeffery Kuhner
The Washington Times
Mr. Frum argues that Mr. Limbaugh should not be the "public face" of the conservative movement. Mr. Frum says Mr. Limbaugh is caught in a time warp, championing small government and tax cuts when economic realities have changed. Mr. Frum criticizes Mr. Limbaugh's Feb. 28 speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Mr. Frum also excoriates Mr. Limbaugh for saying he hopes President Obama fails. This supposedly puts conservatives on the defensive, making us look mean, petty and unsympathetic to the suffering of Americans during the financial crisis.
Moreover, Mr. Frum maintains that Mr. Limbaugh's macho, cigar-chomping, bombastic personality, combined with his angry libertarian populism is driving key segments of the electorate – women, Hispanics, independents and college graduates – away from the Republican Party. In his view, Mr. Frum wants to "enlarge" the Republican coalition while Mr. Limbaugh seeks to "narrow" it in the name of doctrinal purity.
Mr. Frum is part of a growing number of elitist conservatives seeking to revamp and redefine the political right. Others include David Brooks, Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam, Ramesh Ponnuru and Newt Gingrich.
These conservatives are amateur Machiavellians posing as sophisticated political strategists. They offer policy prescriptions that will supposedly transform the GOP into a national governing majority once again. They claim to represent the future; Mr. Limbaugh the past.
However, they are effete policy wonks who lack firm principles. During the 1990s, Mr. Frum argued that the problem with Republicans is they lacked the will to fight the liberal ruling class. They had abandoned their anti-statist, tax-cutting, socially conservative roots.
Now, he argues the very opposite: It's time for the GOP to accommodate prevailing social liberal forces. Mr. Frum recommends that the GOP jettison income tax cuts and embrace free-market health-care reform. He suggests Republicans adopt pro-environment policies and gay rights. He also wants the party to be more receptive to pro-choice vice presidential candidates such as Tom Ridge who, if chosen as John McCain's running mate, would have made Pennsylvania more competitive in the November election.
In other words, Mr. Frum now wants to create a progressive conservatism characterized by expanding health-care coverage, environmentalism and hostility – or at least indifference – to traditional values. This is not adapting conservative principles to current realities, but diluting them to the point that they morph into liberalism. He is not saving conservatism; he is destroying it.
Mr. Frum is consistently wrong. For example, he has led the charge in defense of uncontrolled immigration, claiming it is good for business and America. When conservatives point out that no nation can absorb such a massive influx of immigrants – both legal and illegal – without profound social and economic dislocations, Mr. Frum dismisses them as "nativists." The very Hispanics voting for the Democrats by large majorities are the direct result of the open-borders policies advocated by the likes of Mr. Frum.
Mr. Frum has taken credit for coining the phrase "Axis of Evil." He predicted the war in Iraq would be quick, decisive and easy. Instead, it has degenerated into a protracted, bloody experiment in nation-building.
Elitist conservatives, like Mr. Frum, are consumed by power. They are not genuine, independent public intellectuals. Rather, they serve as the communications arm of the GOP. Ideas are simply pieces on a chessboard in which to checkmate the Democratic opposition. Principles, truth, morality – they are all expendable in the grand game of politics. They are deracinated narcissists who live in a policy bubble and are detached from the values and interests of Middle America.
What Mr. Frum and his ilk don't understand is that most voters don't care about free-market health-care reform – or other boutique policy issues, such as hybrid cars, health savings accounts or partially privatizing Social Security. These will not revive the GOP.
Voters do care about the state of the country. What they have seen under Republican rule during the Bush years has been colossal incompetence: rampant corruption, runaway spending, soaring deficits, failing schools, broken borders, corporate plutocracy and quagmire in the Middle East.
The GOP has lost the electorate's trust as a responsible party capable of governing. Posing as progressive Republicans will not solve the problem. In fact, it will only reinforce the electorate's cynicism about the GOP's lack of principles and honesty.
The Republican Party is supposed to be not only the conservative party, but the nationalist party. It has stood for great transcendental causes – abolishing slavery, preserving the constitutional republic of limited government and federalism, defeating totalitarian communism. If it abandons the seminal issues of our time – the defense of the family and the unborn – then it has lost its historical purpose. Social conservatives and pro-lifers will leave in droves. The GOP will become morally and ideologically rudderless; its various factions will fracture, reducing a once-dominant party into a rump.
Many elitist conservatives – including Mr. Frum – backed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to be the 2008 Republican standard-bearer, even though it threatened to rupture the GOP. He was their dream candidate: pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-environment, pro-immigration, pro-education reform – the ideal nominee for women, independents and educated professionals. Mr. Giuliani's candidacy, however, crashed and burned. His failure should have served as a warning. Voters – from both parties – don't care for progressive Republicans.
Conservatives are in a state of civil war. The ultimate target of the attacks on talk radio is a populist conservatism that fuses patriotism, free-market capitalism and social traditionalism. First, it Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was disparaged by the elitist right. Now, it Mr. Limbaugh is the target. Mrs. Palin energized activists across the country and Mr. Limbaugh and talk radio mobilizes and gets the message out to tens of millions of listeners.
By contrast, elitist conservatives sit in their ivory towers building castles in the sky as their country burns.


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VEX Science Planning
VEX Science Planning
Mar 15 2007, 09:21 PM
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I appreciate reading these kind of details from the daily life of the missions which cannot be found in any press release or broad public web sites.
Thanks for sharing, Don.
Mar 16 2007, 10:11 AM
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It's probably true to say that for every post expressing appreciation there are 20 or 30 other forum users following with interest - probably just as well or Doug's hard drive would be overflowing with individual 'thank you's to those few professionals like yourself who are generous enough to share an insider's view of the discovery process on this (largely) amateur forum. Please don't stop posting if the tip of the appreciation iceberg looks a bit small at times. We're still listening . .
Mar 20 2007, 03:52 PM
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VEX Weekly Status
At the end of the last Cebreros ground station (CEB) pass in the reporting period (DOY 069, 18:00z) Venus Express was orbiting Venus at 202 million kilometers from the Earth. The one-way signal travel time was 672 sec.
On 2007-066, after intermittent losses of TM had been observed, the CEB team reported high winds and requested to move the 35 meter antenna to a safe position. Normal operations were resumed 43 minutes later. As a result of this and some minor hardware issues, science data was not correctly received and had to be copied on board to a dedicated packet store for a subsequent dump. No data will be lost.
VIRTIS movie passes are now scheduled for the second week of April (DOY 98-101). This will involve use of a NASA DSN station 70-meter antenna for a higher capacity downlink, and five days of intense VIRTIS imaging spectrometer data taken of the south pole. This should allow excellent imaging with high detail of the southern vortex and the rest of the polar cloud cover. Planning of science operations for this event is now finished.
The testing of operations for quadrature is on-going; the next quadrature phase will start in May 2007. In this phase, the face of the spacecraft with the instruments would normally be pointed directly at the Sun during Earth contact. The spacecraft will be offset 10 degrees in roll during the Earth contact periods, to provide enhanced protection to the instrument suite. Since this operation wasn't foreseen, the Darmstadt operations team has come up with a good solution. When the spacecraft is told to go to Earth pointing, it will automatically go into the correct orientation, even if it is in Safe Mode. However, nothing is ever simple. This Earth-Pointing-with-roll offset exposes other spacecraft faces to the Sun which have limited exposure times due to thermal constraints, so the Earth communications phase which are normally cool (and allow us to cool down from hot science operations) must now be followed by mandated cooling periods. During the cooling periods, observations can only be cool, with the science instruments and spacecraft pointed such that the direct solar exposure is to the two spacecraft faces which are designed to allow for this continuous exposure.
To complicate matters more, in the middle of the quadrature period the operations team will need to flip the spacecraft in order to use our second, smaller High Gain Antenna (HGA). As mentioned, only two spacecraft faces are designed for long durations of direct solar exposure. At about the midpoint of the quadrature season, the use of the large HGA1 for Earth communications would expose senstive faces to the Sun. The spacecraft is designed to be flipped and flown with the smaller HGA2 used for Earth communications, putting the Sun back onto the full exposure faces. The small HGA2 is located directly behind HGA1, and points directly opposite of it. For those interested, you can see the location of the components on the 3-D model which is at the ESA VEX home page:
Venus is relatively close to the Earth right now, so our data rate is about as good as it gets. When we switch to HGA2, our data rate plummets from 228.531kilobits per second to 28.566 kilobits per second, which of course means we must reduce our science observations accordingly.
And it is in this quadrature period, with the extra operational thermal constraints limiting our science observations, with the switch to the smaller HGA2, and the loss of our data rate, that the NASA Messenger spacecraft does its fly-by of Venus, over a portion of the planet coverd by the portion of the orbit where VEX always dedicates that time to Earth communications instead of science observations. Of course. So the spacecraft team, flight dynamics team and the science operations team have now completed all their planning, and the testing of those plans are underway.
Best regards-
Mar 30 2007, 01:05 PM
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VEX Science Operations and Planning, 17 - 24 March 2007
Venus Express was orbiting Venus at 189 million km from the Earth. The one-way signal travel time was 632 sec. All subsystems are operating nominally. We are currently executing the commands in MTP012, where our ascending branch is on the dark side of Venus, just about at local midnight. 30 March is our orbit 343. We are taking a lot of night-side observations in the ascending branch, as well as using the SPICAV/SOIR instrument to catch the sunrise as we come up into the Sun at the pole, which is useful for atmospheric composition studies.
Ground station support has been verified for the VIRTIS south pole movie sequence scheduled for the second week of April (DOY 98-101). Planning of science operations during this event is now finished. Initial problems communicating with DSS-63 (Madrid 70-m DSN antenna) have been overcome.
The science planning is done in two blocks: spacecraft pointing, and instrument commands. The pointing is first verified by Flight Dynamics at ESOC/Darmstadt. Output files generated by FD are used as input into the command verification done by the ESOC Venus Express Flight Control Team. MTP014, our fourteenth monthly plan, has had both pointing and commanding verified now. MTP015 has had pointing verified, and our commanding files will be verified (I hope) in the coming week.
MTP016 planning has officially begun. A new thermal envelope has been approved for use recently, and will be used for the first timein MTP016. This will allow the spacecraft to be repeatedly pointed at nadir for about 15 minutes, then pointed away to an off-track angle; repeatable over a few hours. On VEX, the instruments are body mounted, on the +Z axis, and the spacecraft must be pointed to make observations. The VEX thermal constraints do not allow lengthy pointing that exposes the -Z face to the Sun. So, if the spacecraft has the Sun behind it, and the planet in front of it, nadir observations put the Sun right up our butt. The newly approved thermal profile means that we can do such a nadir pointing, then offpoint to get the Sun off the -Z face and cool off; then repeat these observation/heating periods with cooling periods. This will allow us to make nadir observations on the ascending branch of our orbit, near local noon when the illumination is very unique, that were not possible before. The responsible engineer for MTP016, who is also our lead engineer, has put a lot of work into creating the detailed files that translate an approved concept into something that can actually be implemented. This is very detailed, time consuming work that will allow the instrument teams to get good science data, but which garners little recognition because it is buried in all the preparatory work. Given the illumination angles, this new 'pendulum' sequence will be heavily used in MTP016. We'll also have good angles to use the SPICAV/SOIR instrument to look at the Sun as it goes behind the planet as we whip over the North Pole, which provides excellent data on the atmospheric composition. These Sun occulations near pericenter, coupled with the new pendulum observations done in the ascending branch, will make up the bulk of these 28 days of observations. We'll also be doing a single orbit correction maneuver at one pericenter pass, and a unique SPICAV calibration near local noon whose thermal profile means we have to dedicate an entire orbit to just the calibration. All this planning will be proceeding over the next four weeks.
A VEX Science Working Team (SWT) meeting was held last week. A lot of good science results are getting ready to go to press in the near future, with papers in the pipelines. The meeting included an update on the VEX Education and Public Outreach, which is based at http://venus.wisc.edu/. Some coming events they are participating in:
- ALPO Conference presentation on Venus Express June 2007
- Native Sky Stories conference at Lac du Flambeau reservation April 2007
- Presentation at EGU 2007
- Planetarium program in Brussels April 2007
Past activities have included:
- Venus E/PO workshop at Europlanets
- Teacher workshop at Belgium Institute for Research in Aeronomy, Brussels, September 2006
- Visiting Scientist International School of Brussels - September 2006
- Planetary Science 101 Teacher Workshop at DPS 2006, Pasadena, California, October 2006
A curriculum module on Venus cloud tracking is under development
The SWT included a presentation on VEX communication activities that are planned, and the instrument teams agreed to support the plans by providing inputs. These include:
End of March Web publication of recent images
11 April Web story on the orbit insertion anniversary, accompanied by new VIRTIS and VMC images
End of April Web publication of new images from VIRTIS south pole movie, assuming
processing completed.
Mid-May Web story on the ground-based observation campaign
Early June The Messenger Fly-By of Venus is on 05 June 2007. A few days before the Messenger fly-by,
a Web story will be published on the coordinated VEX/Messenger observing campaign
Mid June After the Messenger fly-by, VEX early science results from the Messenger fly-by will
be published.
Mar 30 2007, 02:49 PM
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Huh. Thanks for the information and heads up on pending image releases, Don.
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VEX Virtis Cloud Images
At the ESA web site, http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Venus_Express/SEM9N77DWZE_1.html,
photos have just been published in an article entitled, "Tracking alien turbulences with Venus Express". You can see some excellent details, showing the complexity of the cloud structures. Be sure to click on the images to get the more high-resolution versions.
Don Merritt
Apr 4 2007, 07:56 AM
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Venus Express Status, 25 March - 31 March
At the end of the last CEB pass in the reporting period (DOY 090, 18:00z) Venus Express was orbiting Venus at 183 million km from the Earth. The one-way signal travel time was 610 sec.
Mechanical and electrical systems continue to work without problems. We've got plenty of fuel, more than enough to take us through the recently approved Extended Mission until mid-2009. Batteries are fine.
The testing of operations during quadrature is on-going; the next quadrature phase will start in May 2007.
On 28/03/07, a proficiency test with the DSN Madrid 70-meter antenna (DSS-63) was held. This was in preparation for the five days of operations that will be used to take movies of the south pole region using the VIRTIS imaging spectrometer. VIRTIS movie passes are scheduled for the second week of April.
MTP014 (06 May - 03 June 2007) science pointing and command files have been accepted by the flight control team and flight dynamics team at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany. MTP015 (04 June - 30 June) pointing files have been accepted; waiting to hear about the instrument command file processing.
MTP016 science planning has begun, with the spacecraft pointing files being worked on this week. This will include use of a recently approved pointing profile called 'pendulum pointing'. With our current thermal constraints, we have to follow pre-approved illumination profiles for each face of the spacecraft, each with a defined cooling period afterwards. If the spacecraft illumination from a desired pointing is not covered by a profile, the pointing is not allowed. If it is allowed, mandatory periods must be afterwards in a cooling attitude. These rules effectively forbid VEX from pointing to nadir when the Sun was directly behind the spacecraft; the +Z face has the instrument apertures, so pointing to nadir in such a situation exposed the -Z face for much longer periods than was allowed. The manufacturer, Astrium, has approved a profile that will allow us to look for about 24 minutes with reasonably high -Z exposure angles, then turn to a cooling attitude for similar periods. We will be able to get images now with the Sun at high angles while we are in the ascending arc of our orbit.
As with any device, whether spacecraft or new car, time is slowly taking its toll on VEX. The occasionaly spurious alarm or anomalous piece of telemetry; occasional minor malfunctions for no clear reason. Cosmic ray events that have to be separated from possible real problems. At this point, nothing unexpected, and enough so that checking it all out keeps the teams busy. In general, the thing is performing like a champ.
The last few months of science operations have included refinement of data modeling. In the fall of 2006, our technical support people put together a very nice system to allow the science operations engineers to see how much science data was returned by each instrument, and compare that with what was predicted. Given the margins that engineers put into everything when doing something for the first time, and the science teams not having lots of time to work on their models due to the rush to get ready for launch and operations, the predicted amounts were probably 25% higher than the actual received data. The good news is that it was too high, not too low, which would have caused us to lose data. But we were, in effect, "losing data" by not taking data for which we had capacity. The science engineers have worked with the instrument teams over the past six months, and the data predictions are becoming much better. This process will continue over the coming months. We are now beginning to review MTP011 results; MTP012 finished this week, and we have begun looking at the first week's results. We'll continue to refine the models to squeeze out every bit we can, to maximize the possible science return.
Apr 26 2007, 08:42 AM
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VEX Planning and Status on 26 April 2007
I haven't been real consistent about what topic I use to put this information
out there. I'll just put it all in this one from now on.
A couple weeks ago, special operations were done with VIRTIS to make movies
of the South Pole of Venus. For this, the spacecraft telemetry downlink
rate was increased, and the DSN Madrid (DSS-43) station was used to
capture the high volume of data. The TM bit rate is now back to 154 kbps.
The preliminary version of the VIRTIS movies are very cool, but will
require a lot of cleaning up before release.
At DOY 104, Venus Express was orbiting Venus at 169 million km
from the Earth. The one-way signal travel time was 564 sec. Everything
continues to work just fine. However, the spacecraft seems to be getting
into its adult years. We seem to be getting more one-off, weird things
occurring. Things like an alarm going off for one frame of telemetry due
to some weird number, but it doesn't recur and everything is fine. Or
something sticks once, but never repeats itself. Or the data from an
instrument gets some strange hiccup, which self corrects. This sort of
thing is common on spacecraft, which get old in pretty much the same
way we do. It starts with little creaks and unexplained pains. But for
now, everything is fine, we just aren't as young as we used to be.
Below, I try to provide some detail about the observing plan we are about
to finish (MTP013), and the one that is about to start (MTP014). MTP015
has been scheduled and approved, and is waiting for its turn. MTP016
planning will be finished next week. MTP017 planning starts today. MTP018
is currently being looked at for long-term, early analysis.
If I haven't made anything clear that you're curious about, let me know.
We are currently executing the last week of MTP013, our thirteenth monthly
observing plan. I don't believe I put anything down about what we've been
doing in this MTP.
The definition of science cases is shown down in MTP014 section, and in
earlier posts.
MTP013 is included in the mission phases 6 (until orbit 369) and 7. This
MTP provided good conditions for observations of the night side and
atmospheric sounding in solar occultation geometry (eclipse season 3). Solar
occultation observations will be used to study composition and structure of
the atmosphere above the cloud top. Campaigns of Cases #2 (no Cases 3 are
possible in this MTP) will be used to study composition and dynamics of deep
atmosphere on the night side. Conditions were also favourable for
observations of nightglows to study composition and dynamics of the
thermosphere and search for lightning. Limb observations in forward
scattering geometry (spacecraft in eclipse) will provide good opportunity
to study vertical structure of hazes above the main cloud. Relatively
high downlink rate allow the experiments to use high resolution
operation modes to study small scale features and dynamics. Thermal mapping
of the surface and search for active volcanism will be performed. This
MTP also included an Earth occultation season.
The following observations were done in this MTP:
solar occultation measurements (Case #6) were given high priority
in order to achieve good latitude coverage. This will cover the themes:
o Cloud layer and haze
o Atmospheric composition
o Atmospheric dynamics
o Atmospheric structure
o Escape processes.
limb observations (Case #7), to study vertical structure of haze
layers. This will cover the themes:
o Cloud layer and haze
o Atmospheric composition
o Atmospheric dynamics.
For a limb observation, we point the SPICAV instrument at a star, and it then
follows the star as it scans the entrance limb, traverses the planet and then
leaves the disc at the exit limb.
Plasma and magnetic field measurements on the nightside and on the
dayside, covering the theme Plasma environment/escape processes.
Cases 2 at apocenter and Cases 1 at pericenter covering basically all
We start MTP014 next week. MTP014 is part of the mission phase 7, which
includes an Earth occultation season. Proximity to the Earth creates excellent
conditions for bi-static sounding and radio-occultation experiments that
can reach maximum sounding depth. A very good downlink data rate is
available, allowing the study of the atmosphere with high spatial resolution.
The terminator sector of the planet will be available for observations in
this phase. Thus cloud structure and atmospheric dynamics will be important
This will take place during the end of the so called COLD SEASON. The
terminator crossing is around the 31st of May.
The time span of the MTP014 operations is the follow:
START: 06 May 2007 (ORB 380)
END: 02 June 2007 (ORB 407)
During this MTP, the flip from HGA1 to HGA 2 will occur on June 1 (orbit 406).
The official ground-observation campaign starts on May 23 (orbit 397). To
our knowledge, the following observations will be performed:
- Wind measurements by IRTF: 18-21 May (orbits 392-394)
- Winds measurements by Kitt Peak: 23 May to 9 June (orbits 397-414)
- Atmospheric composition by AAT: 31 May to 6 June (orbits 405-411)
Due to the complexity of this MTP, no complicated pointings were
The following observations were planned in this MTP:
radio-occultations experiments (Case #8) will be conducted, covering
the following science themes: Atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric structure,
atmospheric composition and plasma environment/escape processes.
stellar occultations (Case #5) are planned. This will cover the
o Cloud layer and haze
o Atmospheric composition
o Atmospheric dynamics
o Atmospheric structure.
o Atmospheric structure.
Cases 7 or 1 could also be planned instead.
Plasma and magnetic field measurements covering the theme Plasma
environment/escape processes.
long Cases 2 at all apocenters, and Cases 1 at
pericenter are considered, covering basically all themes.
The final pointing plan was:
Orb # apocenter Pericenter
science Case science Case
====== ============ ============
380 2 8 Case 1: around pericenter, nadir looking
381 2 8 Case 2: Ascending branch, nadir looking
382 2 8
383 2 5+1 Case 3: from apocenter, nadir looking
384 2 8 Case 5: stellar occultation
385 OCM 2-7 Case 7: stellar occultation through limbs
386 2 8 Case 8: radio science occultation
387 2 5-7-2
388 2 8 OCM: orbit correction maneuver,
389 2 5-7-1 regularly scheduled
390 2 8
391 2 7-1
392 3 8
393 2 7-1
394 2 8
395 2 7-1
396 2 8
397 2 7-1
398 2 8
399 2 8
400 2 8-1
401 2 8-1
402 2 8-1
403 2 7
404 2 8-1
405 - 8-1
406 - 8-1
407 - 7-1
The last 3 weeks of MTP014 (from Orb 386) run in the Quadrature
Period. Technically, the quadrature phase is defined as the period during
which the Sun-Spacecraft-Earth angle is between 75 and 95 degrees, requiring
a swap to High Gain Antenna (HGA) 2 for Earth communications in order to
avoid illuminating faces of the spacecraft not designed for such exposure.
But in our loose usage of late, it has come to refer mainly to the period
when we require changes to the spacecraft operations to avoid excessive
VMC illumination.
Due to revising operating constraints on the VMC camera, in quadrature phases
the default Earth pointing orientation results in unacceptable illumination
of VMC. To avoid that, the nominal Earth attitude guidance was modified
by adding a rotation of the S/C around the HGA axis, such that a constant
+10deg illumination is achieved in the +Y panel (the least sensitive
to continuous heating, of the panels which are not supposed to be heated).
This is actually implemented onboard by commanding
fake ephemeredes (i.e. with non-real S/C and Earth positions). By proper
selection of the fake ephemeredes, the distortion of the Earth pointing
guidance computation on-board achieves Earth pointing with the HGA and
a tilt angle around the HGA axis. The Flight Dynamics team and the Flight
Control Team at ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, are finalizing their planning
to initiate this. They have, as usual, done excellent work on this, and
no problems are anticipated.
As MTP014 is mainly in COLD season, long Cases 2 will be possible, with cold
Cases 1 until pericenter. The Earth communication phase stop times do
not allow Cases 3 to be done at apocenter. Inertial cold pointings
(Cases 5 and 7) can be done after pericenter. A pericenter change (number 3)
orbit change maneuver (OCM) is scheduled.
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Excellent updates Don, much appreciated.
This detail caught my eye
This is actually implemented onboard by commanding
fake ephemeredes (i.e. with non-real S/C and Earth positions). By proper
selection of the fake ephemeredes, the distortion of the Earth pointing
guidance computation on-board achieves Earth pointing with the HGA and
a tilt angle around the HGA axis.
Is this an unusual approach to a problem like this?
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>> Is this an unusual approach to a problem like this?
Well, yes and no. VEX has never had to do such a thing. It is not unusual to have to do some sort of pointing which is offset from normal, but in my experience this is different because you are changing the references used by the flight code, rather than changing your pointing in relation to the references.
But the required offset wasn't designed for, so something had to be done. This was a possible way, so it was done this way. In a sense, every mission always ends up having to find work-arounds for things that aren't planned. So in that sense, it isn't unusual.
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Back in the days of chipped flints and ...
Early Mariner's were designed to use Canopus, which is near the south ecliptic pole and 2'd brightest star in the sky, as roll-reference. Before Mariner 10, they didn't have articulated high-gain antennas, so during extended missions, they often used alternate guide stars for roll reference. Not really a "faking it" program, but something similar.
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