Many of the extraordinary abilities of bats are being designed into a miniature flying robot that the U.S. Army hopes to use for spying on urban combat areas. The spy bat, packed with miniature electronics, would gather data from the sights, sounds and smells it encounters and relay the information back to a soldier in real time, says the University of Michigan News Service. The university received a five-year, $10 million grant to establish a Center for Objective Microelectronics and Biomimetic Advanced Technology – COM-BAT for short – to develop electronics for the four-ounce roboplane they call “the Bat.” The News Service said COM-BAT engineers will work on the sensors, communication tools and batteries for the Bat. They’re planning on tiny cameras for stereo vision, mini-microphones to home in on sounds, and detectors for nuclear radiation and poisonous gases. Low-power miniaturized radar and a super-sensitive navigation system would help the Bat to find its own way at night, just like the creatures it is modeled on. “Bats have a highly-attuned echolocation sense providing high-resolution navigation and sensing ability even in the dark, just as our sensor must be able to do,” said COM-BAT director Kamal Sarabandi. “We’re trying to push the edge of our technologies to achieve functionality that was not possible before.” Echolocation, an exquisitely sensitive biological sonar system, allows the night-flying mammals to hunt and examine their environment by emitting beeping sounds and analyzing the echoes that bounce back from objects in their path. The Bat should be able to handle short-term surveillance in support of advancing soldiers, the university said. Or it could perch unobtrusively on a street post or building and send continuing reports of activity as it takes place. COM-BAT also includes the University of California at Berkeley and the University of New Mexico. The University of Michigan facility is one of four centers the Army launched in a collaborative effort of industry, academia and the Army Research Laboratory to develop this unprecedented robotic aircraft. The News Service said each of the four centers is charged with developing a different subsystem of the bat, “a self-directed sensor inspired by the real thing.”

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What is The Breast Cancer Site?

The Breast Cancer Site is an online activism site that offers simple ways to help mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends in the fight against breast cancer.

Clicking is Free

In just a few seconds each day, visitors can click on the pink "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button on the home page and, at no cost to them, help fund a free mammogram for a woman in need. The mammograms are paid for by The Breast Cancer Site's sponsors and distributed by the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.

The Breast Cancer Site was founded on October 23, 2000. Since that day, tens of millions of site visitors have given more than 16,000 mammograms to women in need via a simple and free daily click!

Shopping Gives Even More

Shopping at The Breast Cancer Site store helps even more. Each and every purchase provides more funding to provide free mammograms to women in need. And, we carry thousands of pink ribbon items that show your support of the cause and help spread the word.

Together, your free daily click and showing your support through purchases in The Breast Cancer Site store create a powerful, positive force for early detection and lives saved!

How does the site work?

When you click on the pink "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button, your click is counted by our servers and you move to the Thank You page. There, you will see small ads for our site sponsors. Mammograms are fully funded by the advertising fees paid by these sponsors. There is no charge to you.

100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.

Every click on the pink button sends funding to the National Breast Cancer Foundation to pay for mammograms for women who cannot afford them. The more people who click, the more free mammograms we can fund.

Who pays for the mammograms?

Site sponsors purchase small ads on the Thank You page for a certain amount of time. The Breast Cancer Site then tabulates the number of people who click during that time frame and bills the sponsors for the appropriate amount. The Breast Cancer Site then sends 100% of advertising fees to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.

What is the National Breast Cancer Foundation?

The National Breast Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization whose mission is to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer through education and by providing mammograms for those in need, particularly minority, low-income, homeless, and working poor women.

How do you calculate the number of mammograms given by visitors' clicks?

We count the number of clicks each day. The amount paid for those clicks is based on the type and structure of advertising agreement the site sponsors have with The Breast Cancer Site.

The two keys to the success of The Breast Cancer Site are site sponsors and visitors like you. The more sponsors the site has, the more funding toward mammograms is given to women in need with each click. The more visitors who click each day, the more advertising fees we can collect and the more mammograms we can fund together!

How often can I click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button? Can I just keep clicking and give more mammograms?

You can click once a day, every day of the year on The Breast Cancer Site. Our agreement with our sponsors allows us to count one click, per person, per calendar day. A monitoring system is set up to check this. While you could click on the button ten or a hundred or a thousand times, we will only count one click from you. In the meantime, our system could be slowed down, possibly overloaded, preventing other visitors' clicks from generating funding. Please note that we count clicks received through company firewalls, proxy servers, etc., to the best of our ability. We count every click as fairly and accurately as possible.

How many mammograms will be provided because of my clicks?

Please see our Results — How You're Helping page for a detailed breakdown of funding generated.

Are cookies required to count my click?

Cookies are not required in order to click and be counted at The Breast Cancer Site. If we drop a cookie it is so that one day we may offer a personal click tracker for your own enjoyment and motivation.

Please note that some of our site sponsors may drop a cookie for their own tracking purposes.

Feel free to reject cookies — it won't have any impact on your click being counted.

When does the new calendar day start?

The new calendar day starts at midnight United States Pacific Standard Time (PST). This is 08:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Where are the mammograms given? How many mammograms have been given to date?

The National Breast Cancer Foundation gives funding to clinics and mobile mammography units throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Click here to see where and how many mammograms per location have been funded to date!

Is The Breast Cancer Site a nonprofit organization?

The Breast Cancer Site is not a nonprofit organization and cannot accept financial donations directly.

GreaterGood.org is an independent charitable organization devoted to addressing the health and well-being of people (particularly women and children), animals, and the planet. GreaterGood.org distributes funds generated through the GreaterGood Network of websites to the many charitable organizations responsible for implementing programs named on these sites. 100% of the funds generated through the GreaterGood Network pass through GreaterGood.org to our partner charities.

We also encourage you to donate directly to National Breast Cancer Foundation here.

How Do I Know This is Real?

There are a number of ways you can be assured that The Breast Cancer Site is for real.

Visit "Snopes.com", the Urban Legends Reference Pages.

Read the article on our suite of click-to-give sites, including The Breast Cancer Site, at Wikipedia.

Contact National Breast Cancer Foundation directly:

2600 Network Blvd.

Suite 300

Frisco, Texas 75034

E-mail: info@nationalbreastcancer.org

Web site: http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org

Phone: (972) 248-9200

For information and ratings of our charitable partners, visit Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org).

See also our Press page for articles that have been published about The Breast Cancer Site.

What are the GreaterGood Network stores?

This is our e-commerce arm that gives even more back to your favorite cause. We pay an ad fee for each and every ad we have on the site, and 100% of that ad fee goes directly to charity. In addition, whenever you buy something at our store, we give additional funding for mammograms.

What is The Breast Cancer Site's privacy policy?

You are not required to provide any personal information to visit The Breast Cancer Site and help fund mammograms for women in need. Click here to see our complete privacy policy.

How can I tell others about The Breast Cancer Site?

Please feel free to use our e-card program to tell others about this great way to help a woman in need get a mammogram — at no charge to you!

While we encourage you to pass along the message of The Breast Cancer Site, we respectfully request that people do not send unsolicited messages promoting The Breast Cancer Site to people they do not know or post inappropriately to newsgroups or in other places. We understand that this is done with good intentions. However, anything regarded as unsolicited e-mail (spam) is not helping our cause but, in fact, is hurting it. Unsolicited e-mail can alienate people who might otherwise visit The Breast Cancer Site and help give the gift of early detection to women in need.

Can I link my Web site to The Breast Cancer Site?

Please do! Click here for instructions and artwork you can use.

We also encourage you to include The Breast Cancer Site's URL (http://www.TheBreastCancerSite.com) in the signature of your outgoing e-mail messages.

Feel free to copy and paste the sample text below for use in your signature:

The Breast Cancer Site needs your help in funding free mammograms for women in need! Help make early detection possible every day with a simple click, at no cost to you. Visit http://www.TheBreastCancerSite.com today!

How can I help The Breast Cancer Site find sponsors?

We appreciate your help in finding sponsors. The more sponsors we have, the more funding you will be able to generate for free mammograms each time you click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. For more information, please click here.

Where can I get a free or low-cost mammogram, or even financial assistance?

Neither The Breast Cancer Site, nor GreaterGood.org, nor National Breast Cancer Foundation makes grants for mammograms directly to individuals. Grants are given to programs for homeless, battered, and low-income women in inner city neighborhoods. Click here to receive information from the Centers for Disease Control regarding free mammograms.