European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Focus for is  spec Bruce def Porfe left and capt. Gregory Crawley connect a portable tracking system to a humvee. Task Force Breaks in tracking system by Creg Markley Berlin infantry soldiers deployed with task Force 6-502 in Skopje Macedonia blazed new trails recently along the Macedonia Serbia Border by using an innovative vehicle tracking system. That improves Battlefield command and control. In the first tactical employment of a new portable satellite communications system for use in Remote locations movement of operation Able sentry vehicles was monitored at Skopje and at the brigade s emergency operations Center in Berlin r More than 1,200 Miles away. A this represents a new innovative Way of doing business in an infantry unit it gives commanders a better Means of command and control Quot said it. Col. Walter Holton task Force commander. Quot As a motorized Light infantry Force using humvee we Are More Mobile and cover a wide territory along the Border. This tracking system greatly improves our Mission capabilities Quot by letting the command keep in touch with and direct the patrolling units. The Terra Static portable Model 9806 includes a full communications package with a transmitter receiver antennae personal computer Printer batteries and chargers. The system which weighs about 50 pounds can be set up and torn Down in minutes a making it possible for a Remote site to maintain virtually nonstop Contact with the outside world. The tracking system can use both a and do Power sources and holds a Battery that can last four hours with continuous operation. It it is easy to operate even by untrained personnel Quot this is a very Soldier Friendly system and is easily interchangeable from vehicle to vehicle Quot said maj. Marcie no who headed a three person team that trained two dozen task Force soldiers who will in turn train their co workers. Quot soldiers seem excited about the system s potential especially As they patrol the Borders in the Remote areas where keeping in touch has now been made much  no is from the army transportation school s directorate of combat developments at fort Eustis a. She introduced the system to personnel deployed in Skopje and to the monitors Back in Berlin. Spec. Bruce Delaporte an infantryman was impressed with the tracking system. Quot this makes it harder for a vehicle to get lost and added with Magellan a global positioning system it makes the Soldier on the ground feel less isolated Quot he said. Sitting in the brigade s emergency operations Center in Berlin sgt . Stoudmire can locate vehicles a thousand Miles away on colourful maps of the Borders in the former yugoslavian republics. Quot i have had no trouble in tracking vehicles on Border patrol. It s amazing when you  the distance involved and the accuracy of our readings Quot Stoudmire said. Task Force 6-502 is composed primarily of soldiers from the 6th in 502nd inf regt sent to the former yugoslavian Republic. Operation Able sentry is a  Mission that joins a. 700-Man nordic battalion with the 300 american soldiers in ensuring stability along the Macedonia Serbia Border. Staff sgt. Greg Martley Ltd editor of let it Berlin observer berlin1 Community newspaper. Developers see virtual vision without the headgear by the new York times someday watching to on virtual vision May seem As quaint As viewing nature scenes on great grandmother s Stereoscope. A researchers at the University of Washington where virtual vision technology was born believe they May have found a Way to step sprightly into whole virtual worlds. Their Hope is to do away with the cumbersome headsets and Bulky cables currently required for experiencing 3-d, computer generated virtual reality. At the University s human interface technology lab in Seattle a team of engineers led by Joel Kollin have developed a technique that dispenses with miniature television screens or liquid Crystal display panels. Instead Kollin s group is at work on a system that projects 3-d images directly onto the Retinas of a person s eyeballs. The technology is meant to offer a realistically dear depth of Field View into lifelike worlds that exist Only As computer data. Although the virtual Retina display As it is called is still a Workbench Model several feet Jong the researchers Hope within a few years to have developed a full color High Resolution panoramic version that would be Small and lightweight enough to mount onto a pair of eyeglasses and would Cost Only a few Hundred dollars. Researchers say the images might be piped in through fiber optic strands attached to a portable computer. Just wondering double yoked eggs pm Moon stations by the new York times q a Why do some eggs have double Yolks and what happens if they Hatch a a double yoked egg is the result of double ovulation the simultaneous release of two oocytes or egg cells said or. Patricia a. Johnson assistant professor of physiology in the animal science department at Cornell University in Ithaca . If both oocytes Are fertilized and Hatch the Chicks can survive and Are the equivalent of fraternal twins in mammals she said. However or. Robert c. Baker professor emeritus of Avian sciences at Cornell said that he had never known a double Yolk egg to Hatch successfully without human he p in breaking the Shell. The sex of the two chickens is determined at ovulation Johnson said. In mammals the female has xxx chromosomes and the male has by but in Birds a female is Zwy and a male is Zzz. When the Hen ovulate each egg cell contains either  or a w chromosome and becomes either a male or a female. Hens most commonly produce double Yolk eggs in the first couple of months of laying she said. A they Are laying at a High rate then Quot she explained Quot and occasionally pop out two oocytes at the same  some hens do this More commonly than others and there is a genetic component she said. A line of chickens that lays a High proportion of double . A usually Yolks in double Yolk eggs Are a Little smaller than Normal but the egg is larger than Normal Quot she said. Quot if you see an unusually Large egg and crack it open it s often  i if an astronaut turned on an Ordinary am pm portable radio on the Moon would he be Able to hear any signals from Earth Nasa communications Are far beyond the am pm band in the radar frequencies so an am pm receiver would have no Chance of receiving those signals but it is theoretically possible for am pm signals to reach the Moon. However said Herb Squire chief Engineer for radio stations a exr pm and whew am in new York practical difficulties stand in the Way of receiving an intelligible broadcast Quot it would be something like tuning into flashlight beams coming up from Earth every 200 Miles or so Quot he said of Quot broadcasts Quot to the Moon. A it s there but the question is whether you can intercept it with any readability Quot the signal would be very weak and spread out Over a very wide area and it would overlap with signals from multiple stations on every frequency he explained so that possibly 30 or 40 stations would come in at once. To separate the signals at that distance would require a very Large and Well focused Antenna he said. Can radio pick up rap on the mount 20 m the stabs and stripes wednesday november to 1993