Inkwell: Authors and Artists
Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Tue 7 Aug 12 19:56
For this latest Inkwell.vue discussion, we focus on DIY/maker solutions that support environmental awareness. Our guests are authors of For this latest Inkwell.vue discussion, we focus on DIY/maker solutions that support environmental awareness. Our guests are authors of _Environmental Monitoring with Arduino: Building Simple Devices to Collect Data About the World Around Us_. Amazon: "This inspiring guide shows you how to use Arduino to create gadgets for measuring noise, weather, electromagnetic interference (EMI), water purity, and more. Youll also learn how to collect and share your own data, and you can experiment by creating your own variations of the gadgets covered in the book. If youre new to DIY electronics, the first chapter offers a primer on electronic circuits and Arduino programming." Freelance journalist Emily Gertz has been covering DIY environmental monitoring since 2004, along with other environmental, science, and technology topics. She has been hands-on with internet technologies since 1994 as a web producer, community host, and digital content strategist. Her work has appeared in Talking Points Memo, OnEarth magazine, Worldchanging.com, Grist, Dwell, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, and more. Patrick Di Justo writes Wired's monthly What's Inside column, and is the author of The Science of Battlestar Galactica (Wiley, October 2010). His work has appeared in Dwell, Scientific American, Popular Science, The New York Times, and more. He has worked as a robot programmer for the Federal Reserve, and bought his first Arduino in 2007. Welcome, Emily and Patrick!
OK bai. (emilyg) Wed 8 Aug 12 09:26
Hello, World! Happy to be here to talk citizen science and DIY enviro monitoring. I want to mention that O'Reilly has graciously offered to make eBook copies of Environmental Monitoring With Arduino, hereafter EMWA, available gratis to a few participants in this discussion. WELL folks, please ping me if interested.
Patrick Di Justo (justpat) Wed 8 Aug 12 10:57
Hello! I'm Patrick Di Justo -- <justpat> here on The WELL since 1989. I'm really excited to have this opportunity to talk about what we're doing with Environmental Monitoring and the Arduino microprocessor. Just a few brief words of introduction: Arduino is a single chip computer which was developed in part by Tom Igoe, formerly <tigoe> here. Depending on who you ask, an Arduino is more powerful or just a little less powerful than the computers that landed Apollo 11 on the moon. It costs $35, and fits in the palm of your hand. What can you do with an Apollo landing computer that costs $35? We decided to use it to do some environmental monitoring: of our water, our electromagnetic environment, the noise pollution in our area, and even the background radiation in our city.
Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Thu 9 Aug 12 07:27
Before you get into environmental monitoring, can you say a little more about how Arduino works, how it's part of a kind of maker or DIY (do-it-yourself) tech movement, and what other kinds of applications it's been used for?
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Patrick Di Justo (justpat) Thu 9 Aug 12 10:26
An Arduino is a open-source, self-contained microcontroller platform, based around the ATmel series of processors, with some added on-board power management and input/output support. Well, that really didn't explain anything, did it? First thing is that an Arduino is open source. The design is simple -- deliberately so -- and anyone can build one from scratch if they want to. Arduino is a microcontroller. Microcontrollers are generally used to control devices that operate on a defined series of actions, usually repeating in a loop. Like a security card scanner, for instance [read card, check database to see if card is valid, open or close door accordingly, wait for next card] or a microwave oven [read input, turn on microwave beam, count down to zero, beep, wait for next input]. Arduino allows you to easily control input and output. As in the examples above, a microcontroller take some kind of input signal, processes it in some way, and delivers an output. In one of our environmental gadgets, for example, Arduino measures the conductivity of a sample of water. With this data, Arduino then calculates the estimated dissolved solid count, in parts per billion. Arduino then displays the data on an LED or LCD screen, and/or uploads it to the internet. As you can imagine, a simple computer like that can be put to any number of uses!
Emily Gertz (emilyg) Thu 9 Aug 12 11:51
Putting the upshot of this in a different way, Arduino is simple and cheap enough to use and program that even beginners to the worlds of both DIY electronics and programming can get into it, and get results with it, pretty quickly and easily.
Julie Rehmeyer (jrehmeyer) Thu 9 Aug 12 11:55
Can you tell me about some of the awesome things you've done with it?
Emily Gertz (emilyg) Thu 9 Aug 12 12:19
Hi Julie! For Environmental Monitoring with Arduino, we devised five gadgets: - Electromagnetic interference aka "energy vampire" detector - Water conductivity monitor, which detects particulates in water - Noise monitor (noise being a widespread but underreported enviro nuisance) - A basic weather station that measures temperature, humidity, and dew point - A radiation detector Along with the end goals of the gadgets, though, the book's projects teach a progression of skills, from simpler to more complex. The builds involve sending output to a 4-character LED display, for instance, or recording data to an SD card, or publishing data to a public web page. Our goal and hope are that folks will mix and match the different inputs and outputs to meet their own needs and fancies.
a plaid pajama ninja (cynsa) Thu 9 Aug 12 15:59
hey guys: I just ordered my Arduino and I'm really looking forward to getting it and trying my first set-up/experiments. can you tell me how each of you got into programming Arduinos yourselves?
Rob Myers (robmyers) Fri 10 Aug 12 04:30
Those sound like really good applications of Arduino. Does the radiation detector relate to the work people did tracking radiation in Japan after the nuclear accidents recently at all?
Emily Gertz (emilyg) Fri 10 Aug 12 10:47
Not directly, although I do talk about that effort in the book. That group, Safecast, has actually been developing an iPhone-based radiation detector for use around Japan.
Patrick Di Justo (justpat) Fri 10 Aug 12 11:04
Also, we were roughing out the book in May 2011, so sure, we were influenced by the work done on DIY internet-enabled radiation monitors in Japan. In fact, we had to save that for the last project, simply because the Japanese situation had temporarily dried up the world's supply of Geiger tubes. We ordered one in May and it didn't arrive until late July.
Patrick Di Justo (justpat) Fri 10 Aug 12 11:10
As for how I got involved with programming Arduino; I've been programming computers since I was 13. I worked as a programmer in one form or another (even programming robots for the Federal Reserve) until about 2001. I bought the Arduino as soon as it came out, but didn't do a lot with it. I made a Seasonal Affective Disorder lamp which slowly turned on a bank of blue 470nm LEDs to shine on the bedroom ceiling during winter, giving the illusion of a bright blue sky. But the real impetus came in early 2011. Emily had had knee surgery, and was laid up with her leg in a flexing machine. She said that she wanted me to teach her electronics, soldering and Arduino stuff so she would have something to do. Her questions -- can the Arduino do this, can the Arduino do that -- led to this book.
Patrick Di Justo (justpat) Sat 11 Aug 12 12:50
Many of the gadgets in the book are built around commercial sensors that can be found in things like smoke detectors and other devices that need to know the world around them ( there is a type of soft drink vending machine that senses the local temperature/humidity -- and electronically raises the prices of soda if the heat index gets sufficiently high!). But some of the sensors are real DIY. For example, the Electromagnetic Interference main sensor is .... a length of wire! The output is a simple audio speaker. The Arduino is programmed to read any electrical signals picked up by the wire and turn them into sound. In essense, we've turned the arduino into a broadband radio. Since many electrical devices give off some form of radio interferance -- read the FCC warning that came with your computer, for instance -- by turning the arduino into a radio and giving it a big antenna in the form of a wire, we can pick up the buzz and squeal of things like TVs and computer printers. The payoff for us came when we "dowsed" Emily's office with the gadget. Her component stereo, which she didn't even think was plugged in, was actually putting out as much electromagnetic interference as an operating television set! We quickly unplugged that vampire.
Craig Louis (craig1st) Sat 11 Aug 12 17:01
This is very interesting. I've been playing around with an Arduino Uno, attending meetings of the LA Robotics Club So far I've only gotten as far as getting through the LED blink exercises that come with the Sketch development tool, but it's been fun. We did a group thing assembling a little robot on wheels, but I missed the assembly meeting, and am now behind. I'm thinking of bagging the project and finding somethign with actual instructions that I can follow. Emily and Patrick, does your book provide A to Z project instructions? I'm OK with extrapolating things and hacking around, but it would be nice to do one introductory project with all instructions provided..
Patrick Di Justo (justpat) Sat 11 Aug 12 20:28
Indeed it does!!! Five projects, no waiting! The book starts with the world's shortest introduction to electronics, in a chapter called The World's Shortest Introduction to Electronics. Then it goes into the gadgets, starting with the simplest one first, the Electromagnetic Interference Detector. We give a brief explanation of what EMI is and how it is harmful, and then we get into the step-by-step build, with written instructions and photographs. The Arduino code is there in the book, and also available for download from GitHub. The projects are written for breadboarding. Breadboards are plastic boards with electrical interconnections -- by sticking wires into the boards you can join different components together without soldering. Of course, if you want to you can solder the gadgets as well. We then move on to the more challenging gadgets, ending with the most challenging, the ethernet geiger counter.
Ed Ward (captward) Sun 12 Aug 12 09:19
I don't have one of these gizmos, but I sure am curious what kind of robots the Federal Reserve has. I know: drift. Sorry.
J. Eric Townsend (jet) Sun 12 Aug 12 10:22
Arduinos are quickly becoming the new TRS-80 of college classes. A few years ago I co-taught experimental classes on "making things interactive" open to all students with the only requirement being "buy an Arduino". In one semester, students with no experience made everything from nightlights for kids to purses that could answer your phone to a comical bathroom that wouldn't let you out until you washed your hands. These days the Design department has a serious, focused class for undergraduate design students who use the Arudino to create new interaction mechanisms. On and off campus you'll see the Arduino in everything from art to engineering and even driving robots in amateur races held on school sidewalks. (Previous well member <tigoe> is one of the people responsible for creating the Arduino.)
Gail Williams (gail) Sun 12 Aug 12 10:55
Wow, good for tigoe! That's very cool indeed.
Craig Louis (craig1st) Sun 12 Aug 12 18:01
Yes, it's very cool to read taht <tigoe> was an Arduino founder person. I think I'll be clicking over to get this book! Project instructions, yes. Just the thing for the curious, but too-busy dabbler, like me. Love that hand washing enforcing bathroom, <jet>. I helped out a tiny bit on construction of an Arduino controlled robotic kegerator some weeks back. I need to ask those folks how it's coming along. If it's born already, I'll post a link back to this topic.
Patrick Di Justo (justpat) Sun 12 Aug 12 19:12
<Sidetrack> The Federal Reserve bank has a giant warehouse in East Rutherford NJ where they store approximately $2 billion in cash. The cash is stored in transparent plastic cubes about 1 meter on each side, which are supposed to be able to slide and stack inside armored cars. It looks like a giant Costco, loaded with plastic boxes of money. When banks call the Federal Reserve to get a shipment of cash, they usually ask for the same patterns over and over: $100 million, broken down as $50m in 20 dollar bills, $30min 100s, $10m in 50s, $10m in 10s, or some such pattern. Those patterns are loaded into the boxes. When a bank asks for a specific distribution of money, the computer looks in the database for a box with that pattern. It then sends a robot - about the size of a golf cart - to the warehouse location to get that box of money. The box contents are verified by a human, and then the box is loaded onto the armored car for shipment to the bank. </SIDETRACK>
Emily Gertz (emilyg) Mon 13 Aug 12 09:04
Craig, I think you'd find our book a great way to keep going with Arduino. We wrote it very much with beginner satisfaction in mind. Using breadboards instead of solder makes it very easy to build each gadget, troubleshoot problems, and mix and match components (like saving to SD card or using the 4char display for output). For more intermediate makers, we do make suggestions to up the challenge for each gadget--like soldering it together, altering the programming to do this or that, or creating a cool enclosure from scratch. Jet, I'm really intrigued by your report on how Arduino is becoming ubiquitous on campus. Of course I know about NYC programs, like NYU's ICP where Tom teaches, and the similar program at Pratt. But haven't have a lot of insight into what's happening at other schools. However, I do track the growing DIY sector of the environmental movement. Groups like Public Labs and Ushahidi are conducting workshops all over the place--worldwide, I think--that teach people how to build and program monitoring devices, and share data. I'm planning to attend an afternoon workshop later this week, organized by Sensemakers NYC (formerly Internet of Things), on scraping political data. Not sure what this means in the DIY/maker context, yet. I'll report back.
Scott Underwood (esau) Mon 13 Aug 12 10:02
Following along in this discussion, I'll throw something out as an idea that would seem to be a good Arduino application: I worked for a short time with David Rose, who founded Ambient Devices (<http://www.ambientdevices.com/>). One of his ideas is "glanceable technology," with is something that can give you information without needing you to compute: an analog clock on the wall, for example. One of his devices, the Ambient Orb, will glow with a single color based on some data source: stock market trended up (green) or down (red), pollen count, energy use, whatever you can track. He called it a single-pixel browser. For another example, sometimes it's better to see trends rather than data. If you're tracking some activity -- energy or water use in the home, weight loss, walking distance -- it may be more useful to see your trend over the last seven days than to record a number. In fact, you wouldn't even need to see a trend unless it was in the direction you don't want. No news is good news, a glowing red LED if bad news.
Susan Sarandon, tractors, etc. (rocket) Mon 13 Aug 12 10:45
that's really interesting.
Patrick Di Justo (justpat) Mon 13 Aug 12 20:22
Annnnnnnndddd... continuing the well tradition of "plate o' shrimp", it was the Ambient Orb that helped me to solve a problem with out current book "Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino". We needed a way to find the best wavelength match for a group of LEDs. I thought about it for hours which turned into days, and still got nowhere. Then I thought about the RGB LEDs in an Ambient Orb, and, to make a long story short, that solved the problem. That's the great thing about Arduino -- by itself, or interacting with a computer running something like Processing -- if what you want to do can be described as a simple electronic input followed by an electronic output, there's a good chance Arduino get you there. The Ambient Orb works that way: data from the internet in, color out. All our gadgets work that way as well: environmental sensing in, data out.
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Elissa Altman is the critically-acclaimed author of the upcoming memoir, Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw (NAL, September 2016), Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking (Berkley, 2015), and the James Beard Award-winning narrative blog of the same name. Upon its hardcover publication in 2013, The New York Times Book Review declared Poor Man’s Feast to be “one of the finest food memoirs of recent years.”
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Elissa was born in Manhattan and raised in Forest Hills, Queens during the 1960s and 1970s, a place and time that significantly informs her work, both fiction and memoir. She graduated from Boston University where she received a degree in English, studied at Gonville & Caius College/Cambridge University, and in the late 1980s attended Peter Kump’s Cooking School in New York. She has been an avid guitarist since the age of four, studying for years with Ed Simon. She has been a longtime book doctor and acquisitions/development editor working across several genres, including fiction, memoir, and food. She lives in Newtown, Connecticut with her family.
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So now that I've passed honours, I need to start considering, planning and getting my future started.
The first step is now to get a proper bank account, as at the moment I'm using a student account from FNB
and the second they see a salary going in, I'll lose the account ... not to mention the student account
is not building any credit ratings for me or anything.
I have looked at 2 options so far.
The 1st is an Investec Account which will cost me R200 per month and includes all transactional fees. I have
heard the are very good if I need a home loan or a car loan or something. The one thing I really like is the
ability to create up to 20 free cash management accounts to put money aside and still have access to it for
short term savings. I think it also includes fees of withdrawing at any ATM.
The 2nd is an FNB Platinum Cheque Account, which will cost me R99 per month and includes all transactional fees
(I think it includes the cost of the credit card as well). As far as I know, I can create 1 free cash management account.
If I withdraw at any other ATM other than FNB, it will cost R32 to withdraw (FNB ATM is free)
What would you guys recommend as a good bank account for me to get started with as I begin my articles? I would like
to build a good credit rating, receive preferential rates for a future home loan, and possibly car loan down the line.
Is Investec worth the double the price monthly fee? (I believe it's R275 if you're not doing articles.)
Are there any other accounts I should consider.
Just one thing to keep in mind, is that after my pilots license, I plan to save for another 6 months to 1 year, and buy an
appartment when I move out instead of renting ... but that's a discussion for another topic ... but hence why I'd like to get
good credit ratings, etc.

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Aleksandar Mitrovic has described the atmosphere at St James’ Park during the Tyne-Wear derby as “really fantastic” - and insists the passion levels rival even those of the tempestuous Belgrade derby.
The 21-year-old Serbia international rose at the back post to head in Newcastle United’s 83rd-minute equaliser against Sunderland on Sunday and rescue a point for the Magpies, ending a run of six straight defeats to their near-neighbours.
It was Mitrovic’s first taste of a Newcastle-Sunderland clash at St James’ Park, and he has praised the atmosphere generated on Tyneside during this match.
The former Partizan Belgrade forward played in many a derby in the Serbian capital against his ex-employer’s bitter rivals Red Star Belgrade.
Flares, fireworks and banners are common sights at Belgrade derbies, and the fans are renowned for their passionate and partisan support for their respective sides.
However, Mitrovic believes the atmosphere at Tyne-Wear derbies at St James’ Park is just as special.
“(This was the) first time I played local derby against Sunderland at our stadium and the atmosphere was really fantastic,” Mitrovic told Serbian media outlet Novosti.
“I felt like I was in Belgrade on our derby.
“True, there were no banners and fireworks, but the support of our fans was very loud.”

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by Mike Krieger
The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations.
Each central bank… sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world. – Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton’s mentor at Georgetown) from his 1964 book Tragedy and Hope
Crime Once Exposed Has no Refuge but in Audacity. – Tacitus
Central Planning for Dummies: There Will Be QE
For several years now I have been sounding the alarm that if you want to be engaged in the financial markets you need to assume that markets are being managed (rigged) more aggressively than at any moment in any of our lives. The Bernank and others on Wall Street and the District of Criminals understand that the situation is pretty much hopeless. Ever since 2008 they have had one strategy. From a monetary and fiscal standpoint, that strategy has been to pump massive amounts of liquidity into the system while at the same time borrow enormous amounts of money. The thinking was that this would stabilize the situation, create confidence and thus ultimately a dynamic sustainable recovery. They certainly bought a few years with this plan but confidence has not returned, nor has there been any sustainable recovery. What we need to understand at the moment is that The Bernank and all of his fellow Keynesian Central Planning magicians know that they have failed. This is why he is running around on college campuses presenting his sad and intellectually dishonest presentation of propaganda that even a six year old could refute. In fact several people have done just that. Here is one good article on it. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-open-letter-ben-bernanke. Moreover, Jim Grant recently gave an incredible speech at the belly of the beast itself -The New York Federal Reserve –where he completely undresses the Fed right to their face. You must read this one. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/must-read-jim-grant-crucifies-fed-explains-why-gold-standard-best-option
So what we need to understand is that we are in one of the most dangerous phases of this crisis at the moment. The priests of fiat are being attacked from all sides. People have awoken to the Fed and how criminal and deceitful this organization is and the existential threat it poses to economic freedom and hence human liberty. The arguments against the Fed are blistering and the only rebuttal the Fed has is to spout the same old nonsense like “we saved the world” or some trite derivative of this fallacy. The only thing they saved are untalented speculators from their bad bets. What the Fed has systematically done is literally transfer all of the bad debts and bets from the banks to the taxpayer. We are living this reality to this day. This fact is becoming increasingly understood throughout society, hence the emergence of the tea party and then last year’s Occupy Wall Street movement. So the thing I want my readers to really internalize is that the Fed and indeed TPTB generally are getting slaughtered in the intellectual arena and they know it. As a result, they feel cornered and will thus act increasingly aggressive to prove they are right and everyone else is wrong.
As I have said many, many times before, The Bernank needs to create more money and he knows it. He is irate beyond belief that his academic theories have not worked. He is furious that he can’t make the housing market come back to life. He is having a temper tantrum that people actually have the nerve to link printing trillions of dollars to the rise in commodity prices. He wants to launch QE3 this quarter but he feels like public opinion is against him (he’s right) and Obama is having his own little panic attack about gasoline prices and the election. So what’s a Central Planner to do? Well, exactly what they have been doing as of late. Lie.
The release of Tuesday’s Fed minutes was unlike any I have witnessed before. The Fed minutes are usually interesting to read through and every now and again have some very useful nuggets in them. That said, I have never seen them used as a way to make a statement and impact markets as was the case with the latest release. As soon as it came out there was the red Bloomberg headline “FOMC Saw No Need to Ease Anew Unless Growth Slows, Minutes Show.” After this came out the markets sold off but in particular gold was raided aggressively. I had noticed the weakness in mining shares in the morning (which is almost always a signal a raid is coming) and I mentioned this to a few friends. There is no way in a free market I could have foreseen this raid so easily. The reason I could see it ahead of time is because this was a very well orchestrated attack on an asset TPTB are desperately afraid of. Gold to Central Bankers is like Sunlight to Vampires.
What I found most interesting is that several people seemed confused. I read statements like “ I don’t know why the markets reacted this way, they said nothing new!” The markets reacted the way they did because that was what the Central Planners wanted. I mean who “reacted” that way to the minutes? A few PPT machines? There is no volume in the markets, retail is dumping stocks week after week and prices are being set at the margin by manipulators in a futile attempt to bolster confidence (hasn’t worked in four years so they are doubling down on the strategy of course!) Despite the nonsense they say about not needing to do QE3 because the economy is better, the exact opposite is true and they know it. They also know the minute they announce anything gold, silver, oil and other commodities will surge to the stratosphere. That said, the goal is to try anything they can to get oil and precious metals as depressed as possible ahead of the announcement. That is what the Fed minutes announcement operation was all about. While they have knocked precious metals down, oil is proving to be a much harder nut to crack. This is very interesting because it appears that these clowns have gotten as much mileage as they can out of the “we don’t need more stimulus” lie. What will they come up with next? I don’t know but I do know that the Federal Reserve and TPTB understand they are fighting for their lives and their survival. They will pull out any and every trick in the book before they die. The more cornered they have become they more aggressively they have acted. Watching the most powerful people on the planet fight their inevitable demise has been and will continue to be fascinating and frustrating. They will fight and fight. They will rig and rig. They will lie and lie. Until one day the whole thing will end seemingly overnight. They will vanish into history, disgraced and remembered for time immemorial as some of the biggest fools in world history.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicates to the nation the International Container Transhipment Terminal at Cochin
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Kerala with its huge diaspora of skilled enterprising workers, doctors and other professionals could become the gateway for investments from countries like the UAE.
He was speaking after inaugurating India’s first international container transshipment terminal on Vallarpadam Island close to Kochi on Friday morning. This flagship project symbolizes the suitability of public-private partnership projects in building infrastructure in India. The Vallarpadam terminal will meet the need for a global hub port and a transshipment facility, the absence of which had put our trade at a disadvantage, he said.
Mr Singh said that about 60 per cent of India’s export-import containers are transshipped through ports like Singapore and Colombo. The transshipment cost incurred is U.S. $ 300 per container. Indian business will save this money and also considerable time though the new facility at Vallarpadam.
He also called for the use of inland waterways to transport cargo, since this is an environment-friendly and energy-efficient mode of transport. The others who were present include Chief Minister V S Achutanandan; Defence Minister A K Antony; Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi; Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways C P Joshi; Union Shipping Minister G K Vasan; Union Minister of State for Home Mullapaly Ramachandran, Union Minister of State for Agriculture K V Thomas; Union Minister of State for Power K C Venugopal; Governor R S Gawai and the Chairman of Cochin Port Trust N Ramachandran.


Soaring immigration is good, says Cable: Business Secretary mocks Cameron's failure to control EU influx
- 532,000 people arrived in Britain in year to September, up from 497,000
- 320,000 left the UK, down from 343,000 a year earlier, ONS says
- Number of Romanians and Bulgarians arriving almost trebles to 24,000
- Tories promised to cut net migration to less than 100,000 by 2015
Vince Cable taunted the Prime Minister yesterday by saying the Government’s failure to control immigration was a ‘good thing’.
The Tories were dealt a huge blow by new figures showing net migration to Britain had rocketed by 60,000 to 212,000 in the year to September 2013.
It was driven entirely by a 40 per cent leap in the number of people taking advantage of EU edicts on free movement.
Tory immigration minister James Brokenshire insisted the government could not control immigration from within the EU, but Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable said rising immigration was 'good news'
The shock increase left Downing Street unable to say if David Cameron would meet his key election promise to slash net migration to the ‘tens of thousands’ by 2015.
And his opponents on the Left and Right both declared his flagship policy in ‘tatters’. But, in remarks apparently calculated to infuriate his coalition colleagues, Mr Cable declared the figures were a cause for celebration.
The Lib Dem Business Secretary said: ‘Actually, those figures are good news because the reason net immigration is going up is because fewer British people are emigrating and surely that’s a good thing – people are getting jobs here.
‘We are getting people coming in from Europe to fill jobs in our expanding labour market, but the key point is that nine out of every ten new jobs that are being created are going to British workers.
'This is further proof that any quota on migration, such as the one Conservatives are pushing to get net migration down to tens of thousands, is unworkable and contradicts our aims of getting Britain back on its feet.’
Prime Minister David Cameron promised to cut net migration to the 'tens of thousands' but that aim is now a long way off
salt into Tory wounds, he added: ‘Any target on migration is totally
impractical, cannot be delivered and would do great damage to the
Mr Cable has fought long-running battles with Tory ministers over immigration controls and is likely to view the figures as a personal victory. Hailing the rise as a success twists the knife into Mr Cameron, because Mr Cable knows that missing the cherished target will infuriate backbench Tory MPs and voters.
and Labour both said Mr Cameron’s pledge was nothing more than ‘smoke
and mirrors’ since EU free movement rules rendered Britain powerless to
stop workers flooding in from the continent.
There could be even worse news to follow later this year when more up-to-date figures are released.
Yesterday’s statistics pre-date the controversial lifting of border controls on Romanians and Bulgarians on January 1.
Some 24,000 citizens of Romania and Bulgaria arrived in the year to September 2013 – nearly three times the 9,000 who arrived in the previous year.
Ministers tried to present the figures as an economic success story as migrants fled the turmoil in the eurozone for Britain’s stable jobs market.
While migrants from Poland continue to top the list, there was a leap in arrivals from Italy, Portugal and Spain, where youth unemployment is at record levels.
There was also a jump of 25 per cent in National Insurance numbers handed out to citizens of France, and the number given to Germans increased by 10 per cent, to 11,500.
The Tories were dealt a huge blow by new figures showing net migration to Britain had rocketed by 60,000 to 212,000 in the year to September 2013
Overall, 532,000 people immigrated to the UK in the year ending September, up from the 497,000 people in the previous 12 months. Some 320,000 emigrants left the country, down from the 343,000 the previous year.
it was a surge in European Union citizens arriving in the UK that has
driven the overall increase, rising to 209,000 from 149,000 the previous
year, the Office for National Statistics said.
Some 65,000 citizens of so-called EU15 countries, that is pre-2004 members of the union, arrived to work in the UK, an increase of 23,000 when compared to the previous year.
Immigration of non-EU citizens – who need a visa from the Home Office – fell to 244,000, down from 269,000 the previous year.
Statisticians said this was due to fewer New Commonwealth citizens – such as those from India – migrating to the UK for formal study.
Mark Hilton, of business group London First, said it was ‘game over’ for Mr Cameron’s migration target.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage said: ‘It is utterly pointless setting immigration targets when you can’t even decide who comes into this country.
‘Until we end the open-door immigration policy with the EU and take back full control over our borders, nothing can really be done. It’s all smoke and mirrors.’
Secretary Yvette Cooper added: ‘These figures show the Government’s net
migration target is in tatters, and their immigration policy is a mess.’
Downing Street insisted the Government was ‘absolutely’ committed to its target to reduce net migration to tens of thousands by 2015.
No 10 dodged questions about whether Mr Cameron was confident that
would happen. His official spokesman said: ‘We are putting in place what
we believe are the right measures that go towards meeting that
Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said: ‘Uncontrolled, mass immigration makes it difficult to maintain social cohesion, puts pressure on our public services and forces down wages for people on low incomes.
‘Our reforms have cut non-EU migration to its lowest level since 1998 and there are now 82,000 fewer people arriving annually from outside the EU than when this government came to power.‘Numbers are down across the board in areas where we can control immigration, but arrivals from the EU have doubled in the last year.’
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After a lot of rain overnight, dad was fearing a cold, wet day… but as he was about to set off he saw a stunning rainbow, which got things off to a great start!
It’s been a beautiful day with amazing scenery and only a few showers (although it’s certainly getting colder as he heads further north!). He cycled up over another pass and various hills as he headed across from Dingwall to Bonar Bridge and then North up to the Crask Inn. He’s been travelling on A roads today as it made it shorter than the Sustrans route – but these are A roads with a difference… single track and even with the bike he had to get into a passing place if a car came!
Along the route today he met someone who’s walking from Land’s End to John O’Groats in aid of a cystic fibrosis charity. They took a selfie together – so if I get a copy I will post it with some other information!
Tonight dad is staying at the Crask Inn, which sounds quite a special place – the website is worth a look if you’re interested… (https://thecraskinn.com/#post-2) it’s probably the most remote Inn in the UK, and unusually it’s owned by the Church (the Scottish Episcopal Church). As well as food, accommodation and the pub, they also hold daily services!

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Optimized MEGA-SPECIAL for in vivo glutamine detection in the rat brain at 14.1 T.
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Glutamine has multiple roles in brain metabolism and its concentration can be altered in various pathological conditions. An accurate knowledge of its concentration is therefore highly desirable to monitor and study several brain disorders in vivo. However, in recent years, several MRS studies have reported conflicting glutamine concentrations in the human brain. A recent hypothesis for explaining these discrepancies is that a short T2 component of the glutamine signal may impact on its quantification at long echo times. The present study therefore aimed to investigate the impact of acquisition parameters on the quantified glutamine concentration using two different acquisition techniques, SPECIAL at ultra-short echo time and MEGA-SPECIAL at moderate echo time. For this purpose, MEGA-SPECIAL was optimized for the first time for glutamine detection. Based on the very good agreement of the glutamine concentration obtained between the two measurements, it was concluded that no impact of a short T2 component of the glutamine signal was detected.
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Editor’s Note: Full profiles on the city and school board candidates who returned our requests to be interviewed will begin running Thursday to learn more about their views and why they are running for office.
Candidates for City Commission shared their positions on issues such as vaccine mandates, government involvement in the Nottingham development and recreation opportunities at a public forum Wednesday night over Zoom.
Jolene Born, Zach Brooks, Lance Handley and Tim Reazin are running for two open seats. About 60 people attended the candidate forum, according to event organizers.
One of the questions centered around government involvement with the Nottingham development.
Reazin, who has been mayor for the past five years, said there has been success in the Nottingham development, but there is more work to do.
“We need long-term care for this community,” Reazin said. “My goals are to continue down that long-term path. The idea that we've invested in land for a water treatment plant, the idea that we're investing in long-term sports tourism are things that I haven't finished yet, that I want to be part of.”
Brooks, a committee chair for the Eudora Cub Scouts and president of the Eudora Amateur Softball and Baseball Association, wants to make sure that even with the addition of new businesses to the Eudora economy through Nottingham, he would still like to see current Eudora businesses grow.
“We don't need to be doubling up on certain items,” Brooks said. “I want to make sure we bring the right businesses to town, not take away from what's already here.”
Handley, manager of Gene’s Heartland Foods, seconded that statement, adding that current Eudora businesses are invested in the community.
“I don't want to pirate off what we already have,” he said.
Born said there is infrastructure that needs to be repaired, too, but wants to see that accomplished without a tax increase.
“We are working on revitalizing the city, and of course, growing the city,” Born said. “We can’t grow a city if we have a high tax burden. As I have been for the last eight years, I’ve been trying very hard to make sure we do not raise our taxes any more.”
Candidates were also asked if they favor a new recreation center with bigger amenities, such as an indoor and outdoor pool. All agreed the recreation center would bring more tourism to Eudora and financially benefit the city.
“Eudora has a better opportunity, with the proximity to the highways, to pull some people to this town versus them going to Paola or Olathe,” Handley said.
Reazin said connectivity and trails were a high priority, along with growing sports tourism in Eudora.
“The funding could give us fields we can use during the week for our own programming, and then gives us weekend opportunities that bring in clubs,” Reazin said.
Born said she would love to have a bigger rec center because the city has outgrown the current center.
“It’s not senior friendly for them to be sitting on those bleachers,” Born said. “As far as a bigger pool and funding, if we don’t have the private resources to fund something like that, we’ll just go to a vote and people will decide whether we raise taxes to get a bigger pool.”
A bigger recreation center could drive up sales in the Nottingham Center, Brooks said.
“If we build these places or get these facilities where kids want to go to spend their Saturday, they will,” Brooks said. “Families will spend their money in our town.”
When asked about mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for first responders, Born said she feels mandating something for a job goes “too far,” but she is in support of promoting getting vaccines.
“I think we can incentivize and encourage it, but it’s still their choice,” Born said. “I don’t want employees to be shamed or shunned because they chose not to get vaccinated. I think we have other options.”
Brooks agreed with Born and said residents should take advice from medical professionals.
“I am far from a doctor so I’m not going to say one way or another on what we need to do,” Brooks said. “I say we use our resources and use our professionals that deal with this stuff on a daily basis.”
Handley said he was opposed to mandating the COVID-19 vaccine because he wants people to do what they feel is best for their health.
“I’m not for forcing employees to get vaccinated,” Handley said. “It’s totally their choice to do with their body what they want to do with their body. You have to listen to professionals and make your own decision.”
Reazin said first responders have a duty to work and act for the community. He hopes it does not come to a point where the vaccine is mandated and recognized that those who are vaccinated are doing what they can to protect the community.
“The challenge that we have with first responders and ideas of mandating is that they’re under the medical direction of a doctor,” Reazin said. “I would be challenged by the idea to mandate something as a city commissioner in the idea that we have quite a few professionals above us.”
For closing statements, Reazin emphasized the long-term goals he has as mayor for the Nottingham project and wants to take the steps to ensure the next generation of Eudora has a good future.
Brooks emphasized the importance of finding the right businesses for Nottingham in addition to keeping Eudora’s small town feel.
Born said she wants to remain on the commission to ensure current projects continue to move forward and that Eudora remains a place for everyone to be together.
Handley again emphasized the importance of small businesses in the community and encouraged residents to vote and educate themselves on the candidates.
School Board candidates also had a forum Wednesday night. Look for that story this weekend, followed by more in-depth individual candidate profiles by the Eudora Times staff coming out next week.
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The present invention includes tree crown volume measuring devices and measuring systems useful in determining the necessary amount of growth regulator product to be applied to trees near power lines. The present invention also includes measuring methods and processes using the devices of the present invention.
1. A tree measurement device, comprising:
an opening of predetermined size and shape located in said card; and
a means for locating said card a proper distance from the eye of a user;
wherein, when standing approximately a predetermined distance from said tree, said opening limits said user's view of a crown portion of said tree such that the volume of said crown portion may be classified.
2. A measurement device according to
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6. A method of measuring tree crown volume comprising the steps of:
standing a predetermined distance from a tree;
holding a frame with an opening of predetermined size at substantially a predetermined distance from the eye of a holder of said frame, so that the line of sight of said holder of said frame to a viewed tree crown is through said opening;
viewing the crown volume of a tree through said opening in said frame;
determining if the bulk of said crown volume is viewable through said opening; and
classifying the tree crown size by whether or not the bulk of said crown volume is viewable through said opening.
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The present invention is in the field of dimension measurement devices, such as those that may be used to determine the crown volume of a tree.
This invention consists of a device and method for measuring tree growth in order to determine the necessary amount of growth regulator to be applied. Tree growth regulator (TGR) is a product that, when applied to a tree in an appropriate amount, slows the rate of growth. One purpose for the application of such a product is to lessen the frequency of trimming necessary to keep a given tree from coming into contact with overhead power lines. An accurate measurement of tree crown volume allows one to apply the appropriate amount of product. Without an accurate measurement, growth regulator may be applied excessively, raising the overall product cost to the company applying such regulator. Growth regulator can also be applied too sparingly, resulting in undesired tree growth. This excessive growth then requires the trimming of the tree, the avoidance of which was one purpose for the application.
The current method of determining the amount of TGR to apply to a tree involves a measurement of the diameter of the trunk of the tree at the chest height of the person making the measurement. This can lead to inaccurate amounts of product being applied for several reasons. The primary reason for the inaccuracies with the chest height method is that trunk diameter has little correlation with the crown volume of the tree, which is what a utility company is trying to control. To compensate, the amount of recommended product application was kept on the high side to ensure the efficiency of the product. This excessive application of growth regulator resulted in unnecessarily high costs to the utility company.
Although described with respect to the field of tree growth measurement, it will be appreciated that similar advantages of dimension measurement may obtain in other applications of the present invention. Such advantages may become apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art in light of the present disclosure or through practice of the invention.
The present invention includes dimension measuring devices and dimension measuring systems. The present invention also includes measuring methods and processes using the devices of the present invention. The methods and processes of the present invention may be applied using procedures and protocols known and used in the arts to which they pertain.
In one preferred embodiment of the present invention, the TGR volume box of the present invention comprises: (1) a card with an opening of predetermined dimension wherein the card is adapted such that a holder of the card can visually determine tree crown volume classification by holding the card so that the holder's line of sight to the viewed tree crown is through the opening, (2) an adjustable cord of an appropriate length fed through a hole in the card, and (3) a label containing trees species and corresponding application information.
The present invention may also include measurement processes and methods using the devices of the present invention. For example, the present invention may include a method of measuring tree crown volume comprising the steps of: (1) standing a predetermined distance from a tree; (2) holding a frame with an opening of predetermined size so that the line of sight of a holder of the frame to a viewed tree crown is through the opening; (3) viewing the crown volume of a tree through the opening in the frame; (4) determining if the bulk of the crown volume is viewable through the opening; and (5) classifying the tree crown size by whether or not the bulk of the crown volume is viewable through the opening. The frame used in this method may be included in a box structure or may be formed on a card.
FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a TGR volume box that may be used in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a front elevational view of a TGR volume box that may be used in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing a preferred set of steps for use of the device shown in FIG. 1.
In accordance with the foregoing summary, the following presents a detailed description of the preferred embodiment of the invention that is currently considered to be the best mode.
The present invention consists of a card with a predetermined opening. By viewing the crown volume of a tree through the opening in the card, from an established distance, one can determine at a minimum whether the crown volume falls within a predetermined range or outside that range. By considering whether a tree falls into or outside the predetermined size range, a planner applying the TGR is able to determine what amount of product to apply.
FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a TGR volume box device that may be used in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 shows a laminated 10 mil card 4. The preferred dimensions of the card are 4¾ inches×7¼ inches. The opening 5 comprising the predetermined area for viewing a tree 7 is shown, the preferred square opening having dimensions 3 inches×3 inches. There may be a ¼ inch hole 6 in the bottom left corner where an adjustable cord attaches. FIG. 2 shows the adjustable cord 9 running through the hole 6 in the card. This cord allows the planner to correctly adjust the distance from the eye to 6 inches. There is also a label 8 on the front of the card listing the tree species and the corresponding rates of TGR to be applied. The planner preferably stands sixty feet from the tree and holds the card six inches from the eye. Sixty feet is preferred because that is the approximate width of a standard two-lane road, measured sidewalk to sidewalk. This allows the planner to stand the proper distance from the tree simply by crossing to the sidewalk on the other side of the street. The entire crown of the tree, barring one or two stray limbs, will appear to the eye of the planner inside the box opening to fall into the “small to medium” crown class. Crowns stretching outside the viewable box opening fall into the “large” crown class. The planner then applies the appropriate amount of TGR, depending on the crown class.
The invention may also be produced using other materials and other dimensions to enable a planner to use the invention in different settings. For example, if the planner were to stand one hundred feet away from the tree being measured, a suitable downward adjustment in size of the box opening may be necessary to maintain trigonometric relationship (vice-versa if the planner is standing closer).
Furthermore, a box is not essential to the invention. A flat card with an appropriate opening is also useable. Practically any frame of appropriate size will accomplish the purpose of the present invention. And, practically any geometric shape (e.g., circle, oval, square, triangle, rectangle, etc.) for the opening in the frame will accomplish the purpose of the present invention as long as it is sized in relatively the same manner as set forth above.
Referring now to FIG. 3, there is shown a preferred method of measuring tree crown volume. The method involves standing a predetermined distance from a tree and holding a frame with an opening of predetermined size so that the line of sight of the holder of the frame to the viewed tree crown is through the opening. The holder may then view the crown volume through the opening in the frame, and subsequently determine if the bulk of the crown volume is viewable through the opening. The holder may then classify the tree crown size by whether or not the bulk of the tree crown volume is viewable through the opening.
Other uses for the present invention are also present. For example, city street lighting is impacted by tree growth. As trees grow larger they tend to obstruct light flow to the street below. The present invention is useful in the same manner described above in identifying trees that should receive growth regulator product to inhibit the trees' growth from interfering with or cutting off light flow to the street.
The preferred embodiments herein disclosed are not intended to be exhaustive or to unnecessarily limit the scope of the invention. The preferred embodiments were chosen and described in order to explain the principles of the present invention so that others skilled in the art may practice the invention. Having shown and described preferred embodiments of the present invention, it will be within the ability of one of ordinary skill in the art to make alterations or modifications to the present invention, such as through the substitution of equivalent materials or structural arrangements, or through the use of equivalent process steps, so as to be able to practice the present invention without departing from its spirit as reflected in the appended claims, the text and teaching of which are hereby incorporated by reference herein. It is the intention, therefore, to limit the invention only as indicated by the scope of the claims and equivalents thereof.


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My Little Pony Pinkie Loves To Party Playset
Pinkie Pie loves to share smiles and laughter with her friends. She also loves parties and is always ready to have a good time. Imagine helping this Pinkie Pie figure get dressed for a party in her frilly skirt, then celebrating the fun of friendship with her balloon hat and sweet treat accessories. This set is a great introduction to the My Little Pony brand. My Little Pony and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro.
- Inspired by entertainment
- Pinkie Pie pony figure
- Imagine fun adventures and stories
- Includes 5 accessories to match her character

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Great Days Out In & Around Cambridge (GDO) is a consortium of the top visitor attractions in the region, which includes stately homes, historic gardens, museums, nature reserves and wildlife parks, all within an hour’s drive of the historic city of Cambridge.
The 14 Great Days Out attractions collectively welcome over 2.2million visitors through their doors every year. As a group, we work together and use our knowledge and experience to enhance the visitor experience and offer exciting and memorable days out in and around the Cambridge area. Each one of our attractions has something unique to see or experience from Renoir paintings to folklore memorabilia, WWII spitfires to rocket science, medieval knights to modern day war heroes, Bengal tiger to wild konik ponies, landscape gardens to wildflower meadows, historical flour mill to Chinese temple and horse racing yards to celebrated country houses.
We hope you enjoy your visit to the region and we look forward to welcoming you to these very special places.
The Great Days Out team
The location of our attractions
1: Audley End House & Gardens
2: Cambridge American Cemetery
3: Cambridge Science Centre
4: Cambridge University Botanic Gardens
5: Discover Newmarket
6: Ely Cathedral / The Stained Glass Museum
7: IWM Duxford
8: Kettle’s Yard
9: National Heritage Centre for Horseracing
10: Shepreth Wildlife Park
11: The Fitzwilliam Museum
12: Wicken Fen
13: Wimpole Estate
14: Wrest Park

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Sexy Chain-Linked Legs Supposed to Stop Sex Trafficking
Is it wrong to think this Amnesty International sex trafficking ad is just a tiny bit hot while at the same time realizing it's a clever representation of a reprehensible practice? Please! Don't confuse. It's like those ads where young girls with huge boobs are used to convince you underage sex is a bad thing while making you want to have sex at the same time. (Not with the underage girls in the ads, mind you. Contrary to popular belief, even I know the difference between right and wrong.)
The ad, created by Switzerland's Walker, does catch the eye and that's half the battle in this game. But like the underage sex ads, it creates an uncomfortable awkwardness. Maybe that's a good thing. Perhaps it causes one to feel a bit skeeved. Trouble is, the people who engage in this reprehensible practice, after seeing the ad, may simply be more motivated to find the next young, hot thing to trade like a piece of property.
Topic: Bad, Creative Commentary, Good, Magazine, Opinion, Racy, Strange
You're commenting on a ghost, Steve. Why would you waste precious time in your life commenting on something nobody has ever seen or will ever see? I'll give you $1000 if someone can prove mass media where it ran.
Had an argument with Benj the other day about whether sex trafficking is OK if the girls who volunteer for "career placement" understand there is a "reasonable risk" they might, in fact, be trafficked for sex. Rendered inconclusive. He would make a good lawyer.
Dude, if the photography were better, it would look like any one of the ads in Vogue/Elle/etc. Personally, I would have liked to see more leg.
That being my first reaction, I'ma have to say that the ad does, indeed, suck.
ACtually, good question. 99 percent of the women trafficked DO know what they are getting into, they know exactly that they were not going to NAME THE COUNTRY to be a waitress or a nanny or a dog walker. They know exactly that they will be servicing men in the ejaculation industries of the world, and that the money is good, and much of the time, the women's parents SOLD THEM to traffickers to pay off debts or buy a house in Vietnam of Bulgaria or Malaysia or Taiwan or Russia.
They all know what they are getting into. ThEY DO NOT ALL want to be doing this, but circumstances of either parents selling them or the need for money or the desire to escape from poverty or abuse back home, dictates that they wil be working in the dick business. It's sad, yes, but they all know what they are getting into. They are not bad girls, many have hearts of gold, but they are unlucky girls, born on the wrong side of the tracks of the IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHICH FAMILY YOU WERE BORN INTO CITY. Sigh.
I know many of these girls. They are good people. But they did not get hookwinked. They all knew exactly what they were being sent out to do, and that did it because of parental pressure, boyfriend presssure or mafia pressure, but they all agreed to do it.
I think your reaction suggests it's a strong charity piece. It made you worry that more sex-trafficking might be motivated.
It made you think about the issue. Unless you've started thinking about how an issue makes you feel, you're unlikely to donate to the cause. You need to be engaged.
There are very different rules when your product (not just its essence) is intangible.
And the charity "product" does tend to be intangible.

domain: sociology


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Purpose: Alpha particle radiopharmaceutical therapy (&agrRPT) is currently enjoying increasing attention as a viable alternative to chemotherapy for targeting of disseminated micrometastatic disease. The relative biological effectiveness (RBE) quantifies the different biological effects per unit absorbed dose of α particles versus traditional electron mediated radiation damage. However, the RBE is dependent on the dose and is therefore limited in its utility. We propose the adoption of a quantity, called the RBE2, a dose‐independent ratio between the existing linear equivalents (i.e., EQD2s) of the different radiation doses. Methods: Recently, the equivalent 2 Gy per fraction been chosen as the linear standard by the ICRU, denoted EQD2. Since the electron mediated dose has a linear equivalent, and the α particle dose response curve is characterized by a linear coefficient, we have chosen to define the RBE2 as the ratio between the two linear coefficients and propose to adopt it as the relevant quantity to be reported. The theoretical framework for the proposed new formalism is presented as is the application to two tumor cell lines. Results: The radiobiological parameters are obtained by fitting the corresponding linear quadratic and linear curves to the dose response data from two cell lines: a murine breast cancer cell line, and a human breast cancer cell line. From these, the linear coefficient for both the BED and the EQD2 response lines are derived for fractionated irradiation as are the RBE values: 2.4 9.0 for the murine cell line and 2.4 – 6.0 for the human cell line. The invariant RBE2 values were 5.9 and 4.5. Conclusion: RBE2 defined as a ratio between the electron mediated 2 Gy fraction equivalent EQD2 and the linear alpha response is independent of dosimetric endpoint and provides a more logical formalism than the dose dependent definition for data reporting and dose conversions.
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Featured in currency.com
The year of crypto, as 2021 was called, produced a litany of record-breaking figures for bitcoin (BTC) and the wider altcoin market. Trading figures surpassed expectations, decentralised finance (DeFi) came to the fore, Tether became ground-zero for the regulation debate and major scams like Squid Game Token garnered mainstream coverage.
Featured in Private Equity Wire
Tyr Capital Venture SP is a discretionary hybrid venture capital fund offering investors exposure to long term returns across a portfolio of liquid tokens and illiquid digital assets (early-stage tokens and multi-stage venture capital equity) with a liquidity horizon of one to three years.
Featured in Bloomberg
Bitcoin’s notorious weekend volatility is paying dividends Tuesday for investors in the largest cryptocurrency, which is outperforming U.S. equities for a change amid the uncertainty surrounding the turmoil in Ukraine.
Featured in Reuters – As bitcoin drifts towards mainstream maturity in 2022, daring crypto investors are eyeing up new sources of explosive action: “altcoins” that power online games and worlds.
Featured in Reuters
Bitcoin hit its highest in two weeks on Saturday, extending the previous session’s strong gains as cryptocurrencies basked in a recovery in risk appetite and a rally in stock markets.
During the brutal cryptocurrency selloff last month, volumes also tumbled — a development that doesn’t bode well for exchanges that trade the digital tokens. Total spot volume slumped to $1.8 trillion in January, a decline of more than 30% from the previous month, according to a report from CryptoCompare. That was the lowest turnover since the end […]
Bitcoin has mirrored the sharp fluctuations in traditional markets this year, highlighting the tightening link between cryptocurrencies and mainstream financial assets as more professional traders enter the digital finance arena.
Featured in Hedge Week – Cryptocurrency hedge fund TYR Capital is tapping into growing investor appetite for digital assets with the launch of a new long-only fund next year.
Featured in the Financial Times – Huge gains in digital asset values are helping crypto firms to poach previously out-of-reach executives from some of the biggest companies in mainstream finance.
Featured in CoinTelegraph – In the past, there were plenty of reasons for financial advisers to dismiss Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies as a worthy investment, but all of that is starting to change as more institutions become attuned to the digital asset class.


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Pizza Hut In Trouble Over Alleged Racial Slur
GREER, S.C. -- A Greer husband and wife have started legal action against the owners of a local Pizza Hut restaurant.
David Benson claims that a racial epithet was printed on the receipt for a meal he ordered from the Bergen Foods-owned Pizza Hut in Greer last summer.
"(I) went to the counter, ordered my food, he gave me my change and receipt back," Benson told WYFF's Nigel Robertson.
A few days later he saw the slur printed at the top of the receipt where his name should have been.
Benson, who is black, still has the receipt as proof. (see article for photo of receipt which says NASTY N*****)
Benson suspects the employee working at the cash register that day might have been offended by Benson's wife, who is white.
"And she is a very beautiful woman," he said.
Benson's attorney, Theo Mitchell, said the receipt was "insulting, humiliating, debasing, embarrassing and racist."
Company lawyers said they couldn't comment on a pending case.


Tidemark, Unisys widen e-gov reach
- By Dan Caterinicchia, Dan Caterinicchia
- Jun 03, 2000
Tidemark Computer Systems Inc. recently announced a partnership with Unisys
Corp. in a move designed to increase both companies' market share in the
public sector by leveraging Tidemark's city and county customer base with
Unisys' extensive state and federal coverage.
Tidemark, a provider of electronic government licensing and permitting
solutions, has an extensive list of government customers at the city and
county levels. The company is planning to use the deal with Unisys to pursue
larger government contracts, specifically at the state level, said Mark
Parry, director of strategic alliances at Seattle-based Tidemark.
"Rather than having to build technologies, they can take our technology
and implement it with a known result, knowing that it's a complete solution
being installed," Parry said.
Under the agreement, Unisys — a provider of technology infrastructure
such as servers, workstations and networks — will make Tidemark products
and services available to its existing government clients — which include
many state, local and federal agencies — while Tidemark will introduce Unisys'
equipment to its cus-tomers at the city and county levels.
"The agreement also creates a stronger sales opportunity for us with
more than 4,000 city and county governments nationwide," said Kevin Curry,
vice president and general manager of Blue Bell, Pa.-based Unisys North
America Public Sector.


text: Tigard-Tualatin is the latest school district to join the growing automotive education program at World of Speed! On Tuesday, February 2, a class of 22 very excited students from Tualatin High School started their automotive fundamentals class. Students weren’t the only ones excited about the day. Tualatin High School Associate Principal Jarvis Gomes said of the partnership, “World of Speed has given our students at Tualatin High School an exceptional opportunity to learn auto mechanics at a state of the art facility. We couldn’t be more excited about this partnership and experience for our students.” This innovative program is the result of a partnership between school districts, World of Speed and Clackamas Community College. Clackamas provides the instructors and curriculum, World of Speed provides the classrooms, technology, tools and automotive bays, and the districts provide the motivated students. In addition to the Clackamas curriculum, students get behind-the-scenes tours with World of Speed Curator, Ron Huegli, and the chance to hear industry professionals share their experiences. The program started in fall 2015 and now serves four school districts and over 60 students, including students from Canby, North Marion and West Linn-Wilsonville school districts. World of Speed and its partners are currently in the process of planning next year’s programming and looking forward to expanding to other school districts in the future.


Toyota Wants to Change Your Opinion about the Camry
Toyota openly admits that while the Camry has been the best-selling car in the United States for 16 straight years, it has “long been criticized as a plain vanilla, grocery-getter.” That’s code-speak for “lethargic” and “boring to drive,” and clearly this has annoyed people like Akio Toyoda, who is a known gearhead.
The all-new 2018 Toyota Camry is much sportier—both in and out—than it has ever been, as is the rest of the Toyota lineup, but public perception is a tough thing to change.
To help with that, three Toyota engineers have been tasked to take the Camry XSE, Camry SE, and Camry Hybrid to the 2018 Tire Rack One Lap of America, which began May 5 and will end May 12. Over the course of the eight days, the so-called “Toyota Engineering Motorsports” team will take to seven road courses and show off the performance of the Camry.
“We were doing track testing just a few days ago with the Camry Hybrid,” said Toyota Indiana engineer James Nichols. “It was met with humor by other drivers in the paddock, but, when we started passing cars on the track, the atmosphere changed. I think we’re going to surprise some people out there.”
In 2016, the Kentucky-based team showed up with a modified 2013 Toyota 86 and placed second in the Sports GT Small Bore class. They’re hoping to get to the podium again with the Camry—or with the 2017 Prius, which they also brought along because of its similar reputation.


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Wicked Rain’s latest single “Absorb” offers some impressive hip hop and rap beats. This brand new artist from Houston, Texas offers extremely bold and expressive lyrics. His innovative approach towards hip hop and rap music is what makes his music stand out in the crowd. The innovativeness in the beats of his music really catches you off guard. The heavy hooks and catchy snares in the music engage you in its captivating musicality. His music is the perfect blend of passion, emotion and dedication. This talented and passionate artist takes hip hop and rap music to an ultimate and futuristic level.
The powerful vocal performance presents you with a harmonious and soothing melody. The impressive flow of the rap verses portrays a very deep and intense storyline. The rhythmic hooks and snares create an addictive and compelling ambience which surrounds you and pull you into the song. Wicked Rain’s new music track “Absorb” is a piece of high quality music creation. It is a combination of the artist’s creative vision and artistic noise. The song is very well structured and well produced which creates an extremely memorable experience for the hip hop and rap fans.


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