Low Vision Equipment

I've been considering starting a paranormal investigation group. Although, I won't get it up and running all that quickly because there are a few items that I need, some equipment. Depending on what happens this year with things I may be able to get it up and running. I can get all equipment needed except for one thing that can waite for only $492.43 If I buy everything I need on Amazon.com. The things I need are as follows (along with amazon.com's price at the lowest):

Digital Voice Recorder-33.78
Digatal Camera (may not need)-61.99
Infered Camera's-39.99 per Camera (Estimated 3 or 4 would do)
Video Camera with Night Vision- 201.56
Digital Probe Thermomiter-45.14
Electromagnetic Field Detector and Mesurer-29.99

This one Item here would take some time to collect because of the price, with a lot of donations or a good pay check:

Thermal Imager-6,195.00

If anyone knows where I can get any of these for less then the prices stated above, let me know, and I'll check it out.

EMF detector - What sort of data would you collect with such a device? Do you realize they were not meant to be used in such a way? Unless you are seeking an electrical source don't waste your money.

Voice recorder - Unless you are taking verbal notes during your investigation (which isn't a bad idea at all), why would you need a recorder? You don't need one.

Digital still camera - It's a good idea to have one of these no matter what you're investigating. You can use photos you take as references to "rebuild" the area you are investigating. Whatever you decide to buy does not need to be thermal or be able to operate in low-light (unless there is no electricity).

Video camera - You really don't need night vision, unless you anticipate investigating places that have no electricity. Contrary to what you see on TV, there is no reason to turn off the lights, except to spook yourself. You're there to investigate, so why would you want to be unable to see what you're investigating?

Thermometer - You only need one of these when determining how warmly you should dress.

I realize the crop of TV shows have created the illusion that videotaping someone using electronics approximates legitimate investigation (it doesn't) and that collecting data of *any* kind seems to create an actual labratory-like--and therefore legitimate--experiment, but if you pay attention to those shows you'll notice all of these gizmos do is create a distraction. They don't add one single datum to the investigation at hand. At most they yield an anomaly that is nothing more than an artifact unique to the device recording it. Think about how many fruitless hours have been wasted listening to EVPs. Notice how nothing ever seems to come of the EMF readings. Same with the thermometer.

Things you should be sure to have:
+ A basic digital camera.
+ A video camera (with or without night vision).
+ A good flashlight.
+ A sturdy pair of boots.
+ A thermos for coffee.
+ An objective understanding of what your purpose is.

2007-12-27 12:37:47 by dark_angel02124

Carol, an Equipment Specialist at Easter Seals Crossroads in Indiana demonstrates a few iPad applications to assist people that have low vision.

What I mean is following.... I wonder what kind of systems the military uses to cool down equipment, soldiers, medicine, plasma, etc.... and what are the challanges they face.... at google I found some, but I'm interested in knowing their real needs of cooling (navy, army, air force, gendarmerie, police, etc...) and challenges they face today. Is passive cooling enought or do they need active cooling... I'm asking about the military use because they normally look ahead and have harder or bigger challenges (environmental conditions, etc....) and later it will be used by civils.

What cooling technologies are used today by the military ? For example, in the communication sector (radars, radio transmitters, etc... they use thermelectric tecnology), in the electronic cooling sector they use vapous compression, in the night vision equipments they use stirling cycle to achieve ultra low cryogenic temperatures.... etc.... I'm lookinkg for answer that cover lots of application fields :)

Many of the applications are the same as the ones that exist in corresponding civilian applications except maybe cooling of weapon systems.

MIL-HDBK-251 Reliability/Design Thermal Applications

This document details approaches to thermal design; methods for the determination of thermal requirements; selection of cooling methods; natural methods of cooling; thermal design for forced air, liquid-cooled, vaporization, and special (heat pipes) cooling systems. Topics covered are the standard hardware program thermal design, installation requirements, thermal evaluation, improving existing designs, and thermal characteristics of parts. Stress analysis methods are emphasized and specific step by step thermal design procedures are given.


cooling vest
http://www4.army.mil/news/article.php?st ory=8363

Electrical Power Cooling Technique
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/techtransfer/pdf s/E84.pdf

2006-09-05 11:02:28 by Grandonia

Camera runs on 9-volt battery or AC adapter (battery not included)
Full motion real time color video with no delay
Miniature Wireless Camera with Microphone General Features: 380-lines resolution

I am B.E mechanical from SSEC, Bhavnagar with aggregate of 76.8%.in year 2006
I have worked as GET in SCL, Ranavav from (July 2006-July 2007)
Currently i m doing M.tech from SVNIT, SURAT in Industrial Process Equipment Design and is about to complete.(2007-2009)

Now what I want advice is what to do? because I am rejected in Medical Test at one COMPANY because of low vision in my right eye. but my left eye is normal. and i am not feeling any difficulty with it from my childhood. but company does not want to hear this.
and I m also rejected in medical test due to same eye problem in GIPCL company in sept. 2006.
I have consulted doctor in CIVIL HOSPITAL ahmedabad for Physically handicapped certificate but they told only 30% disability is there in my vision. so i m falling into criteria of PH as per govt. rule ( 40% for PH).

Now what to do????????

These medical issue will always be in my way..? what to do?
PhD., lecturership or JOB in company which accept my problem and me......

Here is an advice from a former SVNITian. Don't be discouraged or disheartened by your physical impairment. Engineers have to overcome many problems in their work and you are one. Face life as it comes. PhD is a good option but do it at I.I.T or I.I.Sc for greater credibility.

Good Luck

2009-06-22 23:52:30 by Paresh Gujarati

Price: $22.00

1. There is no scientifically valid mechanism for CO2 causing global warming.
Carbon dioxide absorbs all radiation available to it in about ten meters. More CO2 only shortens the distance, which is not an increase in temperature. In other words, the first 20% of the CO2 in the air does most of what CO2 does, and it doesn't do much. (Heinz Hug)
2. Oceans regulate the amount of CO2 in the air through absorption equilibrium.
Equilibrium is rapid and total as indicated by many sources of evidence. One, the graph for CO2 in the air is an extremely precise line. If nothing were regulating, it would vary wildly. Two, if equilibrium were not established, oceans would be absorbing or losing CO2 at a high rate, yet no significant change occurs.

3. Water vapor would swamp any effects by CO2, if greenhouse gasses were really creating global warming.
Water vapor has three times as much bandwidth for absorption peaks, and there are about 33 times as many water vapor molecules in the atmosphere as CO2 molecules, which means 100 times as much of a supposed greenhouse effect. And water vaporizes and precipitates so rapidly that it would be creating billions of times as much change in temperature as CO2, if the same logic were applied to it. Water Vapor

4. The public is being misled through propaganda to assume CO2 is like a sheet of plastic holding in heat.
CO2 can only absorb 8% of radiation frequencies available (No one disputes this.), and only about 1% of the heat leaves the earth as radiation—the other 99% being conduction, convection and evaporation. NASA says its 41%, not 1%, but there is no agreement, and night vision equipment shows there is very little infrared radiation given off by normal temperature matter.

5. The IPCC is a bunch of political hacks who railroad the process.
It's not what science consists of. They start at the end point which they want and then try to rationalize it through computer models which override the real science and evidence.

There is a shortage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for plant growth, because alkaline oceans absorb it and only release a small amount. The atmosphere is only 0.04% CO2.

When an ice age begins, global Warming occurs exactly as it is doing now. Heated oceans cause increased evaporation followed by precipitation. Eventually, increased snowfall will reflect away solar energy and trigger a cool-down.

The sun's energy goes through the atmosphere and strikes the earth's surface.

claimed heat due to atmosphere --- 33°C

95-99% due to various things --- 31.4°C

1-5% due to infrared radiation from earth's surface --- 1.65°C

8% of infrared bandwidth available to CO2 --- 0.13°C

3% of CO2 produced by humans --- 0.0039°C

5% of absorption "unsaturated" for global warming --- 0.0002°C

claimed global warming --- 0.6°C

Explanations — Crunching the Numbers

It's actually 220x10-12 °C

This means carbon dioxide cannot trap radiant energy near the surface of the earth. To get around this, an obfuscated mechanism is contrived for heat leaving the atmosphere. But it is a miniscule effect in the stratosphere, with little influence over the lower atmosphere.



http://nov55.com/gbwm.html

I'm not even sure my self but it seems pretty right to me

Let me add to this comment as one questioner seemed offended by it and the answer also relates to the current question. A narrowly focused education that does not interact with other disciplines to give a more balanced view of global and system processes can and will lead to judgement errors that produce inaccurate conclusions such as AGW. So it is several factors interacting that the climatologists are only seeing an after the fact side effect and blaming what they see on this minor item while missing completely the major causal effect of the sun.

Because all the major warming of the last 200 years took place before 1940 and the Co2 increase took place after 1940 as the world was dropping off into the cool period that lasted from the mid 40s through the late 70s with a short heat spike in the early 60s all with higher Co2 levels just as historical and core data shows. Co2 always follows warm periods and is not a cause of the heating but a side effect of the heating. As long as the AGW faithful continue to reject real science in favor of a religious voodoo science then skeptics will continue to be puzzled and amused by the strange responses given that do not hold up to even light scrutiny of people with broad based education’s in real life disciplines.

Global warming is a con game for economic and political power by a group of politicians around the world. It has not happened, will not happen and cannot happen and anybody with even an average high school education should know better or our schools are in worse shape than I thought they were. The sea level rise happened 11,000 years ago when the ice age ended and the mile high glaciers melted. Global warming or climate change as they now call it is on about the same level of truth as the Nigerian email scam or those emails supposedly from your bank wanting you to reenter your security information so they can clean you out. So be careful if you accept the AGW scam you are prime meat for any of the rash of identity theft email scams out there.

2008-08-26 03:40:14 by Michael is ninga

35: Sound may be understood in two aspects: its physical properties (behavior of the vibrating body and waves), and its psychological properties (interpretation of the sound waves by the ear and brain).
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36: One of the most effective means by which to improve one’s voice is to give the throat and mouth maximum opportunity to function as resonators.
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37: The closed and constrained throat and vocal chords are absolutely essential to good voice production.
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38: Dominant pitch-level is the pitch that is heard most often when a person speaks. The pitch dominating in a person's day-by-day speech is called the habitual pitch-level. The natural pitch-level is the dominating pitch which is appropriate and peculiar to the speaker's own vocal mechanisms.
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39: If a speaker’s pitch-level is naturally high, they should attempt to lower it; if it is naturally very low, they should try and raise it. Changing pitch-level is easily accomplished and will have no lasting effects on the vocal chords.
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40: Utterance accompanied by gestures of the hands and arms usually has greater variety and force than speech without gestures.
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41: Utterance that is overdistinct is as unacceptable as indistinct speech.
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42: The three dialect regions of the United States are: the territory east of the Hudson River, including some parts of New York City and Long Island (Eastern speech); the region south of the Ohio River and Mason Dixon Line, east of the Mississippi and including the eastern portions of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas (Southern speech); the rest of the United States (General American speech, spoken by three-fourths of all Americans).
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43: The three steps of the gesture cycle are outlining, transition, and conclusion.
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44: The beginning movement of a gesture is called the preparation stage, because it takes the arm and hand to the point where the meaningful action called the stroke or climax, takes place.
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45: Gestures that locate objects or indicate directions suggest the size, shape, position, and movement of objects.
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46: The expository speech aims to influence an audience's attitude toward some person, thing, opinion, or action.
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47: Evidence is of two kinds: items of fact, and items of opinion.
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48: Factual evidence consists of matters of observation and experience--of data gained directly through the operation of man's sensory equipment--his organs of vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
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49: Indeed, evidence and inference (or reasoning) are often called the logical means of persuasion.
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50: The five steps of Dewey's method of analysis are becoming aware of the problem, defining the precise nature of the problem, discovering possible solutions to the problem, deciding upon the best solution, and testing the decision by putting it into practice.
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You dont what? Do your own homework? How can any be right if you didn't answer any of them?

2009-02-26 09:06:39 by sunshine girl