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Back In The Game
November 17th, 2013
Ups and Downs
November 6th, 2013
A few weeks ago I spent the afternoon at C's Garage taking some photos of their newly finished 2013/14 competition cars. Not long after that my house was broken into and my laptop and camera were stolen. Like an idiot I had not backed up this most recent set of photos and now I only have what I had already uploaded to Flickr – which are the few photos you see below. It's a gut-wrenching thing to come home to, your house a total mess with shit thrown everywhere by some lowlife scum who couldn't put the effort in to work hard and buy these things for himself. He could be reading this given that this page was one of those bookmarked on my laptop. If you are – fuck you.
This experience has reminded me to be more vigilant with my backups. I feel for Joel & Adam as they went to a lot of effort moving the cars around for me and we got some cool shots. I'll have to make up for it as I cover their debut campaigns in the upcoming 2013/14 D1NZ Season. On a lighter note though, their cars are amazing! Joel's S13 is the same car he has been using for the last few years while Adam's S14 is a completely new build which has occupied every spare moment of his time over the last 24 months. All the best for the upcoming season boys!


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It's the start of the new year -- traditionally a time for lists and resolutions. So, in the spirit of the season, here is my list of the top 10 thoughts on how the financial system can reclaim its place as a positive force in society, contributing consistently to economic growth and higher standards of living.
1. Re-frame and re-state the covenant between society and finance. The financial crisis caused many to question the assumptions underpinning our system of financial capitalism. It's a system where finance is "as much... an ordering principle in our lives as the rising and setting sun, the seasons, and the tides," in the words of Robert Shiller, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University.
An intense international debate continues about the role, benefits, costs and risks of finance -- but no consensus has emerged as to what society expects from our financial system. Until we can state these expectations clearly, all efforts to give us the financial system we deserve are destined to fail.
2. Complete and simplify reform of financial regulatory infrastructure. Five years after the financial crisis, we're only 50 percent of the way through implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act. Much has been done to make the financial system safer, sounder and more secure, thanks mainly to requirements for more capital and less leverage on the balance sheets of major financial institutions.
But uncertainty about proposed rules, the complexity of written ones, and lack of coordination across national boundaries are all causing financial institutions to pull back from activities that could lead to more robust economic growth, something we desperately need right now.
3. Restore ethics, integrity and client focus to the financial-services industry. Financial-service organizations need to mediate between investors (sources of capital) and organizations that can productively deploy capital to boost the economy and enhance our collective standard of living. Finance needs to focus, as former Rotman School of Management Dean Roger Martin puts it, on "real markets" rather than "expectations markets." Finance needs to deliver on what Charley Ellis, a highly regarded investment expert, calls, "the iconic statement, 'the needs of our clients always come first.'"
Unless and until we reconnect financial institutions to their mission and purpose -- helping real clients in the real economy -- no amount of legislation or regulation or rulemaking will enable the financial system to be a consistent, stable provider of societal benefits.
4. Restore investor trust and confidence in financial markets. Investor trust and confidence were severely damaged by the financial crisis and have yet to be fully restored. Technology glitches (like the 2010 "flash crash," Facebook's IPO and Knight Capital's trading error), along with high-frequency trading and America's debt-ceiling brinksmanship continue to scare individual investors. As long as these investors don't trust the financial markets, they will remain over-allocated to the "safety" of cash while inflation eats away at zero percent returns.
5. Manage an orderly deleveraging of public sector balance sheets. How skillfully and smoothly we can unwind the enormous amounts of debt incurred by developed nations is the single biggest factor in whether developed economies grow and stock and bond markets deliver positive returns over the coming decades.
Policy makers knowingly ran this debt up to keep the financial system from collapsing, and then, later, to keep economies from plunging into depression and deflationary spirals. Now it's time to pay the piper -- but how? Using which combination of tools? Fiscal austerity, higher inflation targets, currency devaluation or financial repression (low interest rates)? And over what time period? At what cost to whom?
6. Address imbalances in the finances of developed nations. First cousin to the challenge of deleveraging is the challenge of getting the fiscal accounts of the U.S. (and other developed nations) back into balance. In the short term, that means balancing the budget and not adding to public debt at the rate of more than $1 trillion a year, as the U.S. has since 2008. Over the long term, it means addressing the entitlement promises that governments have made and cannot afford to keep.
7. Address the retirement savings gap. The current patchwork quilt of retirement-savings vehicles -- Social Security, defined benefit pension plans and defined contribution vehicles (401(k) and 403(b) plans) -- is woefully inadequate when it comes to fully funding the retirement liabilities of aging baby boomers.
Financial firms will need to do a better job of educating savers and delivering product innovations if we are to keep people from outliving the money they have accumulated over their lifetime.
8. Solve the "conundrum of low returns." In the era of what highly respected economists like Carmen Reinhart predict will be as much as two decades of slow growth due to debt overhangs, it will likely to be even more challenging than in the past to generate returns that will enable investors -- individuals, pension funds, nonprofit organizations -- to meet their goals, such as preserving purchasing power, paying pensioners and meeting administrative costs.
9. Design a new system of housing finance. Remarkably, serious work has yet to begin on restructuring the single most important contributor to the last financial crisis -- the U.S. system of housing finance. Today, almost every new mortgage loan involves some kind of support and participation from the U.S. government.
A rebound in home values, low interest rates and the profitability of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are masking the fact that private capital is not yet ready to support one of society's most important policy objectives: affordable housing -- and won't until the housing-finance system of the future is more clearly defined.
10. Retool the financial system for sustainability. The ethical legitimacy of an economic system driven by growth without regard to the long-term costs to our life-sustaining ecosystem is being called into question. The biggest flows of money today are going to investment strategies that reward responsible corporate behavior and enlightened environmental, social and governance practices. What will "sustainable finance" or "regenerative finance" look like in this kind of world? How will it differ from the system of financial capitalism that has become the dominant socio-economic model in the world?
Few would argue with this 2012 assertion in Harvard Business Review: "In general, finance does serve a crucial economic purpose."
But it is a long way from there to Yale professor Shiller's vision for a financial system that advances the goals of a "good society." Making progress on these 10 items will get us a lot closer than we are today.


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Artwork Panel: 66cm x 133.8cm ≈ 26" x 52¾"
Silk/Brocade: 76cm x 191.5cm ≈ 30" x 75¼"
Width at Wooden Knobs: 85cm ≈ 33½"Information about caring for your wall scroll
Close up view of the artwork mounted to this silk brocade wall scroll
This wall scroll features Da Mo floating reed stalk - a special power that the legendary Damo possesses.
It's generally believed that Da Mo (or Dharma) directly went on to establish "Chan Buddhism" in China. When this form of Buddhism hit Japan, it became known as Zen Buddhism (Chan is the Chinese pronunciation of the same Kanji character known as Zen in Japan).
This part is going to confuse you, as this man is sometimes portrayed as being Persian, Indian, or Chinese. And he has been given many names such as Bodhidharma or simply Dharma. He has a name in virtually every language. Here are a few of them:
In Chinese, his name is . This is sometimes Romanized as Da Mo, Damo, Tamo, or the full name Putidamo or Putitamo.
His Name in Japanese is "Daruma" which is probably meant to sound like "Dharma" as in "Bodhi-Dharma".
In Korean he is Boridalma.
Vietnamese: Bồ-đề-đạt-ma.
If you want to know more about Bodhidharma / Da Mo you can probably do a terrific Bodhidharma Google search.
This is a very detailed painting that is mounted to a silk wall scroll. A lot of work went into this. It actually takes the artist almost a full day to complete.
You won't be disappointed if you become the owner of this work of art. I guarantee it personally or your money back.
The artist's name is (Zhong Qi) from near Guilin, China.
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Gary's random little things about China:
So after traveling to China, you have just finished your first meal in a real Chinese restaurant.
But the bill comes, and the waiter forgot to bring everyone their fortune cookies!
Well, actually not...
You see, fortune cookies did not come from China (at least not directly).
One legend has it in the late 1800s or early 1900s, a Chinese man running a noodle making shop in San Francisco accidentally mixed a bunch of sugar in his dough, and didn't want to waste it. So he made cookies and stuck papers with people's fortunes on them as a novelty.
In the end, it's really the Chinese visitors to America that are confused when the waiter brings them a blob of sugary noodle dough with a piece of paper stuck in it.


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Mineral Creek wanders through a ranch in Jackson County, Iowa, where Sam Mulgrew runs forty head of Charolais cattle. In most places, Mineral Creek is too deep or wide for crossing. Out of this daily challenge, Mulgrew gave his ranch the name Mineral Crossing. Mineral Crossing is a bucolic place, dense trees covering rolling hills, and at Mulgrew's invitation, Iowans have begun to pilgrimage through its peaceful hills to contemplate life and, in many cases, death. They come for silent meditation in one of the hermitages Mulgrew built, and they come to learn how to make simple pine caskets for themselves and for their loved ones.
"I want to retrieve that sense of authentic ritual that we've lost. Death has become so institutionalized and guided by profiteering that people don't grieve," says the Iowa rancher and casket-maker. He has already helped three people start small cottage industries in casket-making. His own casket business, started a little over a year ago, has been growing steadily and subsidizes his ranching and not-for-profit retreat center.
"I always wanted to do this," Mulgrew says. "When I was younger and I went to funerals with my family, I would think 'these caskets are excessively ornate, cheaply-made, mass-produced, over-priced.' Basically they reflect the things that I dislike about our civilization."
For most of us, when someone we love dies, nothing seems less important than money. No one knows this better than the funeral industry, which is why you'll find few alternatives to the standard overpriced, garish coffin. Mulgrew's window of opportunity came in 1994 thanks to a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on the funeral industry. Now morticians must use the casket you provide without objection and without charging a handling fee. Mulgrew says his business is about 10% casket-making and 90% education. For example, his brochures will inform you that in some areas it is perfectly legal to bury your loved ones on your own rural property. Further, in many cases, embalming is not required, and it is not always necessary to go through a funeral provider. "My customers are fairly strong willed with above-average intelligence. They're not going to let a mortician tell them what to do."
The average cost of a funeral in the U.S. is $3,000 to $8,000, with the casket being the greatest expense. Mineral Crossing offers six simple styles of hand-crafted casket, none of them garish. The most common rectangular pine or cedar caskets sell for $650. The basic standard size is 79 inches long, 25 inches wide and 16 inches deep. Other types of caskets, from economy to custom-shaped, range from $395 to $1,250. Prices include muslin liner. rope or wooden handles, and delivery in eastern Iowa. Delivery outside Iowa costs $100. The caskets are held together by dowels and glue and contain no metal or nails. For $400 you can get a kit with materials and instructions for building your own casket. However, Mulgrew says this method is best for people who know something about woodworking. And, he says, it's almost as easy for these people to buy the materials themselves.
If you want to learn the art of casket-making, whether to make a casket for yourself or a loved one or to start a small business, Mulgrew would be happy to teach you how he does it. He'd like to see a regional casket-maker in every part of the country. Indeed, there may be a market everywhere for a simple handcrafted pine casket.
The casket-making business subsidizes Mulgrew's budding non-profit retreat center on Mineral Crossing's 640 acres where he provides facilities for people to come and spend time in solitude. He has built two hermitages, and hopes eventually to build five, in secluded spots throughout his inviting property. There is no fee to stay in the hermitages, and Mulgrew and his wife provide visitors with homemade bread. Providing people a place for solitude and reflection is not about money. On the contrary, says Mulgrew, "It's the one thing I can do in this world."
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Our 5 favorite nursing memes on Tumblr this week – May 22
We know how vital humor is for busy (and often over-stressed) nurses. Check out our favorite LOL finds from Tumblr this week!
Looking for a dose of inspiration, too? Here are our favorite inspirational images of the week!
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Ummm, best discharge instructions ever? #Truthbomb
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APM Optimization Toolbox solves large scale optimization problems through MATLAB
IPOPT and APOPT are two of the large-scale NLP solvers are available in the APM Optimization Toolbox. Models are posed in differential or algebraic equation form. Differential variables can be included on the right or left side of the equation because the modeling language allows open-equation format.
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Below is a list of features of the optimization toolbox:
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Govt approves Rs 3,500 cr broadcasting infrastructure development plan
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan will expand the capacity of its free direct-to-home television service DD Direct Plus to 250 channels by 2017.
The public broadcaster is already working on a plan to increase the number of channels it offers on DD Direct Plus to 97 from 59 channels currently.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved a Rs 3,500 crore proposal from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on the 12th five year plan for All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan - Broadcasting Infrastructure and Network Development.
The scheme covers continuing schemes of the 11th Plan and new schemes of the 12th Plan that ends in March 2017. The continuing schemes of AIR and Doordarshan are at different stages of implementation and are scheduled to be completed in phases by 2015-16 by Doordarshan and by 2016-17 by AIR.
Under the new schemes, eight television terrestrial transmitters are also proposed along the Indo-Nepal border and these are targeted to cover 65 per cent of the population of Nepal.
This will ensure sustainability of DTH and increase revenue of Prasar Bharati. During the 11th Plan, 40 digital terrestrial transmitters were sanctioned and these are under implementation.
In the 12th Plan, 23 additional DTTs are proposed to be installed. Provisions have also been made for modernisation of existing equipment /facilities in studios and satellite uplinks which are essential to sustain ongoing activities and also for high definition television (HD TV) studio facilities at Chennai and Kolkata.
AIR FM expansion at 118 locations besides eight FM broadcasting set ups along the Indo-Nepal border, replacement of old FM transmitters at 77 locations and replace six MW transmitters with FM Transmitters, digitalisation of 29 studios and creation of archival facility at Guwahati are envisaged. Strengthening of training facilities, R&D and introduction of e-Governance with limited application of enterprise resource planning (ERP) are also envisaged in this scheme.


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2013 Media Coverage
Articles about the Department's teaching and research regularly appear in the written and broadcast media. Recent coverage included:
- Turning robots into surrogates for homebound senior citizens
Washington Post, 31/12/2013, Matt MacFarland
Article about British researchers undertaking a three-year examination of whether robots, acting as surrogates, can take the place of humans in public spaces. The project involves researchers from Oxford with the Universities of Bath, Queen Mary University of London and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.
- BMW adds dampers months after fatal crash
The Sunday Times, Driving, 15/12/2013, p.9, Nick Rufford and Dominic Tobin
BMW are reported to be overhauling the steering system on a motorbike model that was involved in a crash in which a bike journalist died. Article quotes David Limebeer, professorial fellow of control engineering at Oxford University, who has carried out research into instability in motorcycles. BMW maintains that the original model is perfectly safe, and there is no connection to the accident.
- The robots are coming, but you can't afford to put your feet up
The Times, 09/12/2013, p.20, Hannah Devlin
An article on how robots may do some domestic chores for us in the future, but they won't be humanoid robots with metal arms, is based on an interview with the chief executive of company iRobot. The piece includes comment from Paul Newman, a professor of robotics at the University of Oxford, who agrees: "Are we going to have humanoids walking around the house doing the dishes? No!"
- TV: The Imagineers, BBC 2
06/12/2013, 04:30
Repeat of a programme first shown in May 2013: Interview with Dr Eleanor Stride of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Oxford University. She talks about and demonstrates her research into ways of targeting cancer cells with drugs rather than poisoning patients' entire bodies, as happens with current chemotherapy techniques.
- UK to be 'driverless car world leader'
The Telegraph online, 05/12/2013, Daniel Johnson
The government has offered a £10 million prize for a town or city to develop itself as a testing ground for driverless cars. In the Chancellor's National Infrastructure Plan, unveiled on Wednesday, the government said it will launch a review to ensure legislation is in place to "demonstrate to the world's car companies" that the UK is "the right place" to develop driverless cars. The £10 million prize is to fund a town or city to become a testing ground for autonomous vehicles, with Oxford University's Mobile Robotics Group currently the UK hub for the technology. It is already planned that, by the middle of 2017, 100 driverless cars will run on pathways along with pedestrians in Milton Keynes, using sensors to avoid collisions. In July plans were announced by the Oxford University researchers to test cars with Nissan on UK roads. The team has already tested a car on a private road in a science park, but the Department of Transport has now granted permission for trials on roads with other traffic.
- Google Wants To Build An Army Of Robots To Replace Factory Workers
Huffington Post (USA), 04/12/2013, Dino Grandoni
Article on Google announcing a robotics programme notes that an Oxford University study from last year predicted that 45 percent of US jobs were at risk of being lost to computerised machines.
- Stirling silver?
The Economist, 28/11/2013
The Stirling engine, the brainchild of a 19th-century Scottish clergyman, is an invention whose time may have finally come. Some engineers believe that this piston-free engine design could be the perfect replacement for polluting diesel engines that provide off-grid power in many parts of the world. Article highlights a group at Oxford University led by Paul Bailey, Mike Dadd and Richard Stone developing just such an engine. It is noted that one of the Oxford group's designs has already survived for 15 years in the harsh environment of space.
- Milton Keynes to have 100 driverless cars
The Times, p.39, 08/11/2013
A hundred driverless cars will be transporting people through Milton Keynes within four years in a £1.5 million project aimed at boosting low-carbon technology. From 2015, 20 driver-operated "pods", which will be able to carry two people, will be run on designated pathways separated from pedestrians. By mid-2017, it is planned that 100 fully autonomous vehicles will run on pathways alongside people, using sensors to avoid collisions. The early collaborators on the project are the engineering consultancy firm Arup, Transport Systems Catapult, the Automotive Council and the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
- Daily Telegraph, 08/11/2013
- The Guardian online, 08/11/2013, Josh Halliday
- CNN online (USA), 08/11/2013, Virginia Harrison
- Daily Express online, 07/11/2013
- The Telegraph online, 07/11/2013
- Sky News online, 07/11/2013
- Award for Automotive Innovation: six of the best go head to head
The Times, p. 44, Robert Lea, 04/11/2013
The annual Award for Automotive Innovation from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) will be presented in London on November 26. The shortlist of six for this year's prize includes Yasa Motors' Yasa-400. The Yasa-400 is a high-performance electric motor which is claimed to be eight to ten times more powerful than others being fitted in hybrid cars. It is the brainchild of Tim Woolmer, an Oxford University engineering postgraduate, who created it out of his PhD project and won backing as a university spin-out and from the Government's Technology Strategy Board. He is also backed by business angels and family investors.
- 11 villages in Andhra Pradesh tracking heart diseases via new app
Times of India, 27/10/2013, Shimona Kanwar
An app that works on a smartphone or tablet can deliver 'a virtual doctor right in your pocket'. The 'Health Tracker-India', an android-based app developed by the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Oxford University and George Institute for Global Health in India, records blood pressure, cholesterol levels and other heart disease risk factors like age, sex and smoking status, and analyses the data to indicate extent of cardio-vascular disease (CVD) risk, based on which the person can consult a doctor for further treatment. Doctors working on the project say the app, being tested in 11 villages in the state, will not only track risk factors, it will also address a mindset plaguing a large number of people - callousness towards health issues including even basic tests, pushing the country to being dubbed the coronary capital of the world. The app will also overcome the heavily skewed doctor-population ratio in India.
- Skype app checks pulse as you chat to grandchildren
The Times, 12/10/2013, p.19, Chris Smyth
Patients will be able to monitor their vital signs as they check e-mails or watch TV using a "health Skype" that promises to revolutionise care. The software lets an ordinary laptop camera take a pulse, breathing rate and even measure blood oxygen levels by tracking tiny changes in the colour and motion of the skin. Trials on kidney dialysis patients have shown the method to be as effective as conventional techniques and its inventors believe it will do away with the need for hospital patients to be wired up to monitoring machines. A University of Oxford spin-off company, Oxehealth, plans to incorporate it into baby monitors and believes it will allow people to check up on ageing parents while talking on Skype and enable GPs to assess vulnerable patients remotely. Lionel Tarassenko, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Oxford who is developing the contactless monitoring system, is quoted throughout.
- Driverless cars are coming - and they'll see cyclists coming too
The Guardian online (Bike Blog), 11/10/2013, Carlton Reid
Discussion about the rapid development of autonomous vehicles notes that researchers at Oxford University are developing a self-driving car which is said to be much cheaper and simpler than that being developed by Google.
- County's chosen few talk about their honours pride
Oxford Mail, 04/10/2013, p.5
A number of eminent people from Oxfordshire were among those who received honours at a ceremony of investiture at Windsor Castle. Those from Oxford University included Professor Terence Cave, Professor Anthony Heath and Professor Peter Dobson, for services to literary scholarship, social science, and science and engineering respectively.
- The Robots Are Coming - Now What?
Huffington Post (USA), 27/09/2013, Richard (RJ) Eskow
A new study by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A Osborne of Oxford University's Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology and Department of Engineering Science has concluded that 47 percent of current US jobs are vulnerable to automation.
- Huffington Post (USA), 01/11/2013, Suzan Mazur
- Forbes (USA), 19/10/2013, Erika Andersen
- Time magazine (USA), 18/10/2013
- Forbes, 11/10/2013, Charles Sizemore
- Macleans (Canada), 07/10/2013, Chris Sorenson
- Radio: Business Daily, BBC World Service, 03/10/2013, 08:40
- Press TV, 15/09/013
- Before It's News, 15/09/2013
- For Economic Justice, 15/09/2013, Gary Reber
- Huffington Post, 14/09/2013, Maxwell Strachan
- Daily KOS, 14/09/2013, Richard Lyon
- Huffington Post, 14/09/2013
- io9.com, 13/09/2013
- SmartPlanet.com, 13/09/2013
- Hacker News, 13/09/2013
- MIT Technology Review, 12/09/2013, Aviva Hope Rutkin
- Huffington Post (USA), 01/11/2013, Suzan Mazur
- Tidal energy scheme off northern Scotland gets go-ahead
The Guardian, 16/09/2013, Severin Carrell
Six vast underwater turbines are to be lowered into the tidal currents of the Pentland Firth in the first phase of one of the largest tidal energy schemes in Europe. Article notes that the Scottish government's estimates that the Pentland Firth, where tides race between the Atlantic and North Sea through a narrow eight-mile gap, can support 14 GW of installed capacity are disputed by experts. Thomas Adcock, from Oxford University, said that the most robust estimate was that it would allow 1.9 GW of power plant to be installed, even though the Firth is "almost certainly the best site for tidal stream power in the world".
- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/16/tidal-energy-scheme-northern-scotland
- Reuters, 16/09/2013, Unattributed
- DNA India, 16/09/2013, via Reuters
- Scientific American (USA), 16/09/2013, via Reuters
- Keep taking the tablets, your doctor can keep tabs
Pills are being trialled that contain a tiny silicon chip that sends a signal to a patch that triggers a text telling relatives and doctors medicine has been taken. Professor Lionel Tarassenko of the University of Oxford's Institute of Biomedical Engineering has been involved in testing the patch and said: "You don't have to have severe dementia, you can just be mildly forgetful. Elderly people sometimes have to take six, seven or eight pills a day. But if someone doesn't take their pills that can be a very, very serious thing." The sensor contains much less silicon than a banana and passes naturally through the body. Professor Tarassenko said doctors would want to know whether people discharged from hospital were taking their medication or whether tuberculosis patients were sticking with treatment. Tests are also underway with drugs for people with mental health problems. Professor Tarassenko said the sensors could eventually become standard. "In 15 to 20 years' time we would expect our pills to be tagged as a matter of course".
- The Times, 02/09/2013, p.14, Chris Smyth
- The Mail on Sunday, 01/09/2013, p.17, Stephen Adams
- The Sun, 02/09/2013, p.21, Lynsey Hope
- Daily Telegraph online, 01/09/2013, Claire Carter
- Oxford Mail, p.16, 10/09/2013, Tom Jennings
- TV: South Today, BBC 1 Oxford, 06/09/2013
- Oxford Times, 12/09/2013, p.10, Tom Jennings
- The Times, 02/09/2013, p.14, Chris Smyth
- Bold expansion plans that could save many lives
Oxford Mail, p.45, 15/08/2013
A staff recruitment drive is under way to help market an Oxford invention that keeps a donated human liver alive outside the body for up to 24 hours. The device, developed by a firm called OrganOx, is already being used to help liver transplants but could be adapted for organs such as kidneys and lungs. OrganOx was founded by two Oxford professors, Constantin Coussios, a professor of biomedical engineering, and surgeon Peter Friend, the director of the Oxford Transplant Centre. Surgeons hope to perform 20 liver transplants during the pilot trial at King's College Hospital in London, which is expected to last until the end of the year. The company expects to have 16 employees by April 2014.
- Dong Energy Working to Cut Offshore Wind Cost by 40% This Decade
Dong Energy A/S, Denmark's state-controlled utility, is leading a drive to cut offshore wind- power costs by as much as 40 percent by the end of the decade. Researchers at the University of Oxford, University College Dublin and Imperial College London are to help with the research.
- Washington Post (USA), 08/08/2013, via Bloomberg, Alex Morales
- La Repubblica (Italy), 08/08/2013, via Bloomberg
- Bloomberg Businessweek (USA), 08/08/2013
- Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), 08/08/2013, via Bloomberg
- Brisbane Times (Australia), 08/08/2013, via Bloomberg
- The Age (Australia), 08/08/2013, via Bloomberg
- Washington Post (USA), 08/08/2013, via Bloomberg, Alex Morales
- TV: POP! The Science of Bubbles, BBC 4, 07/08/2013, 21:36
Repeat of a programme shown earlier this year on the science of bubbles, which includes comment from Dr Eleanor Stride of Oxford University on how the presence of tiny bubbles in the blood stream can improve ultrasound diagnostics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rtdy6/POP!_The_Science_of_Bubbles/ [35:28 on clock]
- Academy election
Oxford Mail, 02/08/2013, p.13
Oxford University scientist Professor Zhanfeng Cui has been elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was among 60 fellows named at the annual meeting last week. Professor Cui is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professorial Fellow of Hertford College, and also director of the Oxford Centre for Tissue Engineering and Bioprocessing.
- Radio: Inside Health, BBC Radio 4, 23/07/2013, 21:27
Lionel Tarrassenko, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Oxford, talks about a phone app that he has developed to read the blood sugar levels of people who want to manage their diabetes at home. The device is currently being trialled on women who have diabetes in pregnancy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0375tdn (Around 26:05)
- Oxford 'to pip Cambridge' as global hi-tech firms hub
Oxford has the potential to overtake Cambridge as a global centre for hi-tech business, according to Professor Peter Dobson, a lecturer in innovation and entrepreneurship at both Oxford and Cambridge universities, who believes the city and county have a winning combination of world-class universities, excellent training and purpose-built facilities. The majority of businesspeople in Oxford agree with him, with 64% of those surveyed in the latest Oxfordshire Business Barometer report (released yesterday) saying Oxford can push ahead of its traditional rival.
Prof Dobson, academic director at Begbroke Science Park, said: 'We have better-aligned graduate courses to train our students. Oxford is home to Isis Innovation – one of the best technology transfer offices in the world. Begbroke Science Park is truly supportive and different from anything Cambridge has to offer and we also have Harwell, Culham and Milton Park on our doorstep and the best research and teaching hospitals … [But] in Oxford, we do not yet have the same level of research and development consultancies as they do in Cambridge and this has held us back. I also believe we have been slower to realise the importance of innovation within our own university activities. Cambridge has an engineering department that is three times the size of ours and very much aligned to the needs of industry … [But] with the right leadership and vision, I believe Oxford has what it takes to win the race to the top.' Business leaders have backed Professor Dobson's view.
- TV: South Today, BBC 1 Oxford, 25/07/2013, 18:35
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b037b04s/BBC_Oxford_News_25_07_2013/ [05:47 on clock]
- Radio: Phil Gayle and Friends, BBC Radio Oxford, 25/07/2013, 07:08
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01c9r32 [1:08:24 on clock]
- Oxford Mail, 18/07/2013, p.47
- Oxford Times, In Business Magazine, p. 3, 18/07/201, Andrew Smith
- Oxford Mail (in brief), p. 6, 19/07/2013
- TV: South Today, BBC 1 Oxford, 25/07/2013, 18:35
- 'Driverless' car faces road test with passenger behind wheel
A self-driving car is to be tested by scientists on the public highway later this year, the government has announced. Researchers at the University of Oxford have managed to modify a Nissan Leaf vehicle so that it is able to hold its lane, keep a safe distance from the car in front and maintain its speed using a system of sensors and cameras. To date the vehicle has been confined to a test track but Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary, said that a road test was expected later this year. A driver will still be sitting in the front seat, but the 'semi-autonomous cars' are capable of driving independently. The news came as part of a government paper outlining £28 billion worth of investment in the roads network.
- The Times, 17/07/2013, p.20, Philip Pank
- The Daily Telegraph, p.1, David Millward, 16/07/2013
- Daily Mail, 16/07/2013, p.13, Ray Massey
- The Sun, 16/07/2013, p.16, Emily Ashton
- Radio: 5 Live Drive, BBC Radio 5 Live, 16/07/2013, 17:27 [c. 1:27 on the clock]
- BBC News online, 16/07/2013
- Evening Standard, 16/07/2013, p.2, Nicholas Cecil
- Radio: Click: A Route 66 of the Future, BBC World Service, 16/07/2013, 19:15
- Times of India, 16/07/2013, via PTI
- CBBC Newsround online, 17/07/2013
- AOL UK, 16/07/2013, Daljinder Nagra
- International Business Times, 16/07/2013, Edward Smith
- Huffington Post UK, 17/07/2013
- The Asian Age (India), 17/07/2013
- Jagran Post (India), 16/07/2013, via agencies
- Oxford Mail, 17/07/2013, p.3
- The Sun, 16/07/2013, p.2, Unattributed
- Radio: Duncan Barkes, LBC 97.3, 16/07/2013, 3:27am
- Radio: Harriet Scott, BBC London 94.9, 16/07/2013, 5.26am
- Radio: Jason Mohammad, BBC Radio Wales, 16/06/2013, 10:22
- Radio: Paddy MacDee, BBC Radio Newcastle, 16/07/2013, 22:27
- Radio: Afternoon with Allison Ferns, BBC Radio Sussex, 16/07/2013, 15:46
- Huffington Post (UK), Asa Bennett, 17/07/2013
- The Hindu (India), 18/07/2013
- India Times (India), 17/07/2013
- TV: South Today, BBC One Oxford, 17/07/2013, 18:36
- Radio: Phil Gayle and Friends, BBC Radio Oxford, 17/07/2013, 6:03
- Radio: Click, BBC World Service, 17/07/2013, 2:37
- The Sun -Motors-, 26/07/2013, p.3, Unattributed
- Radio: The Forum, BBC World Service, 29/07/2013, 03:34
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01cdg7j [28:33 on the clock]
- South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), 09/08/2013, Jamie Carter
- Popular Science (USA), 14/10/2013, Dave Mosher
- The Times, 17/07/2013, p.20, Philip Pank
- Tidal power from Pentland firth 'could provide half of Scotland's electricity'
The Pentland firth could provide half of Scotland's electricity, according to the first robust estimate of its potential. The study, led by Oxford University engineers, calculated that underwater turbines strung across the entire width of the firth could generate a maximum 1.9GW of energy, averaged across the fortnightly tidal cycle. That is equivalent to 16.5 terawatt hours of electricity a year, almost half Scotland's entire annual electricity consumption in 2011. 'It is almost certainly the best site for tidal stream power in the world,' said Dr Thomas Adcock of Oxford University, who led the work, which is published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A. Adcock's estimate of 1.9GW is far lower than the Scottish government's published estimate of 14GW, making suggestions of huge exports of electricity seem unlikely. Adcock said it would take 10 years to develop tidal power in the firth to a scale that had a national impact. 'But it depends on the level of government financial support given, which is a political decision,' he said. 'As engineers we can make this happen – if the support is there.'
- The Guardian online, 10/07/2013, Damian Carrington
- The Independent, 10/07/2013, p.8, Steve Connor
- The Engineer online, 10/07/2013
- The Scotsman online, 10/07/2013, Alistair Munro
- Smithsonian Magazine online (USA), 09/07/2013, Joseph Stromberg
- Reuters UK, 10/07/2013
- Firth is 'best site in world' for tidal power
Metro (Scotland), 11/07/2013, p.9
- Radio: Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands
11/07/2013, 06:55
- 'Turbines could power up to half of Scotland'
Oxford Mail, 11/07/2013, p.22
- Radio: News, BBC Radio Orkney
11/07/2013, 12.54pm
- The Register (UK), 11/07/2013, Lewis Page
- The Guardian online, 10/07/2013, Damian Carrington
- Life in super slow-motion
BBC News Online, 08/07/2013, Victoria Gill
Article on using high-speed cameras to capture events in nature that engineers can learn from looks at Oxford University research on silk. The researchers fired plastic bullets into single strands of silk from a silkworm's cocoon. 'We're interested in seeing how the properties of the silk change as you deform them at very fast rates,' explains Oxford's Beth Mortimer. 'We can learn what kind of structures lead to what kind of properties. And that's important in terms of bio-inspired design - designing materials that have the same properties as the silk, which is incredibly strong and flexible.' Oxford's Dr Clive Siviour adds: 'Our experiments have shown that silk is far superior to man-made fibres at absorbing energy under these conditions. By understanding how silk has evolved, we will be provided with the blueprints for stronger, tougher, sustainable fibres using nature's secrets.'
- Bullet fired into single strand of silk
BBC News Online, 07/07/2013
Video clip showing a plastic bullet hitting a silk thread in slow motion. Researchers at the University of Oxford have been filming this experiment with high-speed cameras in order to find out more about the properties of natural materials such as silkworm thread and spider silk, in hope of producing "bio-inspired" materials which share their strength and flexibility.
- Honours for local heroes
Oxford Mail, p.4-5, 15/06/2013, Andrew French
Among those recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours are Professor Peter Dobson, Director of Oxford University's Begbroke Science Park, who is appointed OBE for services to science and engineering and Professor Alison Noble, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford, who is appointed OBE for services to science and engineering.
- How innovations such as goal-line technology make sport better
The Guardian, 05/06/2013, Roger Pielke Jr
Article on goal-line technology in football mentions research carried out by engineers at Oxford University in the 1990s into whether Geoff Hurst's shot crossed the goal-line in the 1966 World Cup final.
- TV: The Imagineers, BBC 2
04/06/2013, 04:30
Dr Eleanor Stride of Oxford University's Institute of Biomedical Engineering is interviewed about her team's research into using bubbles to deliver cancer drugs where they are needed within the body.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01skhbs/The_Imagineers/ [c.00:20 on the clock]
- 3-D camera brings health service's link to innovators into sharp focus
The Times, p.44, Kathryn Hopkins, 03/06/2013
Article on a handheld camera developed by Eykona that is used by hospitals to take pictures of a wound and turn it into a 3-D image to determine how well it is healing. Eykona, a small company based in Oxfordshire, was formed by a group of University of Oxford scientists six years ago. It was put in touch with the Department of Health by the government-backed Technology Strategy Board (TSB) in 2009 through its Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI).
- With driverless cars, evolution beats revolution
The Observer -The New Review-, 02/06/2013, p.19, John Naughton
Article on less expensive alternatives to Google's self-driving car notes that researchers at Oxford University have developed a vehicle that works by recognising where it is, based on a laser scanner on the front of the car, and comparing its surroundings with its stored data. It is hoped that it could, in time, be retrofitted to existing cars and would cost just £100.
- New Device Keeps Liver Alive Outside Body
Forbes Magazine online (USA), 'Singularity University' section, Peter Murray, 01/05/13
In what's being called a medical first, doctors have been able to keep a liver functioning outside the body and then transplant it into a patient. The device is much better at preservation than the current method, cooling livers with ice. By extending the health of donated livers, the new device could not only increase the chances those who desperately need the organs will receive them, it could also improve the outcome of recipients. OrganOx was developed by Peter Friend, director of Oxford Transplant Centre, and Constantin Coussios, biomedical engineering professor at Oxford University. It keeps livers alive by keeping them at body temperature and circulating red blood cells through them that deliver nutrients and oxygen.
- Marketing mentoring for engineer
Oxford Times, 02/05/13, p. 37, Gill Oliver
Engineering entrepreneurs will receive free mentoring to help commercialise technology breakthroughs. Tom Hockaday, a managing director of Oxford University-owned Isis Innovation, was on the advisory panel for the new scheme. He said: 'The RAE [Research Assessment Exercise] scheme adds to the already incredibly dynamic and active innovation and enterprise network in Oxford and Oxfordshire. In Oxford and Oxford University we already help set up new students coming out of the university's engineering department.'
- Forget high-speed rail, the golden age of car travel is almost here
Daily Telegraph, Business Section, p. 2, Allister Heath, 01/05/2013
Article on scientists and engineers developing self-driving cars mentions that Paul Newman at Oxford University is developing a system using 3D lasers which he has already tested on cars driving at speeds of up to 40mph and which could be installed cheaply on existing cars.
- The high-tech bubbles that can blow away your illness
Daily Mail, p.48, Roger Dobson, 23/04/2013
An article on various research studies looking at the use of tiny bubbles to diagnose, treat and prevent illnesses like stroke, cancers, furred arteries and respiratory diseases. Bubbles coated with a fat-like material are loaded with drugs and blasted with ultrasound to burst the bubble and unload the drug at the area it is needed. Article quotes Dr Eleanor Stride, reader in bio-medical engineering at Oxford University, on the potential of microbubbles.
- Is the future robotic? Q&A with Paul Newman
The Guardian online, Comment is Free, 02/04/13
Text of a live Q&A with Professor Paul Newman of Oxford University, following last month's Oxford London Lecture in which Professor Newman sought to dispel some of the myths about the field of robotics.
- Keep your dirty lucre, sterling's a lot healthier!
Fears about the dirtiness of currency may be well founded: Professor Ian Thompson of Oxford's Department of Engineering Science has tested a range of banknotes and coins and found that European banknotes and coins contain, on average, 26,000 bacteria while sterling has 18,200 bacteria. He said: 'The euros we tested harboured an average of 11,000 bacteria, which for a number of pathogenic organisms is sufficient for passing on infection.' He suggested that there would be '...merit in a wider study tracking the spread of resistant strains through movement of banknotes globally.'
Metro -Main-, 26/03/2013, p.38, Tariq Tahirhttp://metro.co.uk/2013/03/26/more-than-half-of-brits-fear-germ-risk-from-filthy-money-with-good-reason-3559249/
- Radio: Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland 26/03/2013, 08:40
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9tlv [c.2:40 on the clock]
- Radio: Jon and Anne, BBC Radio Newcastle 26/03/2013, 16:41
- TV: CNN NewsCenter, CNN, 26/03/2013, 19:51
- Radio: Andy Wood, BBC Radio Cumbria, 27/03/2013, 05:50
- Radio: Toby Anstis, Heart Berkshire, 26/03/2013, 11:01
- NEWS.com.au (Australia), Unattributed, 27/03/13
- CNN online (USA), Georgina McCafferty, 28/03/13
- Handelsblatt (Germany), Katharina Schneider, 27/03/13
- Perth Now (Australia), via news.com.au, 28/03/2013
- Adelaide Now, (Australia), via news.com.au, 28/03/2013
- Brisbane Courier-Mail, (Australia), via news.com.au, 28/03/2013
- Robot car inspires scientists of the future
Oxford Mail, p.10, 21/03/13
Students from local schools had a chance to inspect cutting-edge technology up close at Begbroke Science Park's annual innovation showcase last week. The pupils visited the park last week and had a chance to tour the labs and see 'robot cars' in development first hand.
- 'Warmed liver' transplant first
Surgeons have carried out the first 'warm liver' transplant using an organ which was 'kept alive' at body temperature in a machine. Usually donor livers are kept on ice, but many become damaged as a result. Professor Constantin Coussios of the Department of Engineering Science, one of the inventors, said: "In experiments we have shown we can preserve a liver and monitor its function outside the body for periods up to 24 hours. By contrast livers kept on ice have to be transplanted with 10-12 hours at most." Five years ago Oxford University set up a spin-out company, OrganOx, to commercialise the technology.
- BBC News online, 15/02/2013, Fergus Walsh
- TV: BBC News at Six, BBC One, 15/02/2013, 18:21
- Liver Preserver Holds Promise for Transplants Wall Street Journal (USA), 16/03/2013, p.3 Jeanne Whalen
- Radio: Six O'Clock News, BBC Radio 4, 15/03/2013, 6.15pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01r525f/Six_OClock_News_16_03_2013/ (c.15:00 on the iPlayer clock)
- TV: News, BBC News Channel, 15/03/2013, including 5.20pm & 9.32pm
- TV: Sky News, Sky News, 15/03/2013, including 5.17pm & 9.35pm
- Machine helps liver function outside the body Financial Times, 16/03/2013, p.3, Clive Cookson
- 'Artificial body' keeps donor livers alive for three days Daily Mail, 16/03/2013, p.43, Jenny Hope
- New device keeps human liver alive outside body, Xinhua online (China's biggest news agency), 16/03/2013
- Liver kept alive outside body and fit for transplantation too, Times of India, 17/03/2013
- Patients given livers that machine had kept 'alive', The Daily Telegraph, 16/03/2013, p.16, Sam Marsden
- Human livers kept 'alive' out of body in donor breakthrough The Independent, 16/03/2013, p.13, Tom Peck
- Liver kept 'alive' outside human body for first time i (The paper for today), 16/03/2013, p.21, Tom Peck
- Machine offers new liver hope, The Times, 16/03/2013, p.37, Unattributed
- Liver device will double number of transplants The Daily Mirror, 16/03/2013, p.2, Andrew Gregory
- Liver 'kept alive' outside body in new transplant technique: video Guardian Online, 16/03/2013, via Reuters
- New device keeps human liver alive outside body CNTV (China), 16/03/2013, via Xinhua
- Device keeps liver "alive" outside body in medical first Reuters India, 15/03/2013 http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/03/15/liver-device-transplant-idINDEE92E0DK20130315?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
- Device keeps liver "alive" outside body in medical first Chicago Tribune (USA), 15/03/2013, Kate Kelland (Reuters)
- Doctors Can Now Keep Livers Alive Longer, Gawker (USA – one of the largest media & gossip websites). 17/03/2013, Max Rivlin-Nadler
- Radio: World Briefing, BBC World Service, 16/03/2013, 12.18am
- Device keeps liver "alive" outside body in medical first Reuters UK, 15/03/2013, Kate Kelland
- Device keeps liver "alive" outside body in medical first Yahoo! Singapore, 15/03/2013, via Reuters
- Device keeps liver 'alive' outside body in medical first Fox News (USA), 15/03/2013, via Reuters
- Donor livers kept alive outside the body for 24 hours New Scientist online, 15/03/2013, Andy Coghlan
- Liver 'Kept Alive' on Machine Transplanted into Body of Cirrhosis Sufferer Ian Christie International Business Times UK, 15/03/2013, Hannah Osborne http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/446712/20130315/liver-transplant-breakthrough-london-king-s-college.htm
- Liver 'Kept Alive' on Machine Transplanted into Body of Cirrhosis Sufferer Ian Christie IBTimes AU (Australia), 15/03/2013, Hannah Osborne
- Liver kept 'alive' outside body in medical first NBCNews (USA), 15/03/2013, via Reuters
- Liver kept alive outside of body in transplant first Wired.co.uk (Web), 15/03/2013, Kadhim Shubber
- Liver Transplant Patients Offered New Hope Sky News online, 15/03/2013, Siobhan Robbins
- 'MIRACLE MACHINE' AIDS LIVER SWAPS, Daily Star online, 15/03/2013
- Miracle machine to double live[r] transplants The Australian (Web), 16/03/2013, via APP
- Radio: News, BBC Radio Oxford, 17/03/2013, 7am
- Radio: News, BBC London 94.9, 16/03/2013, 12.02am
- Scientists Develop 'Miracle' Machine That Brings Organs Back To Life Huffington Post UK (Blog), 16/03/2013, Unattributed
- Boffins invent liver lifesaver, Oxford Mail (in brief), p.7, 16/03/2013
- Prof's revolutionary transplant machine, Oxford Mail, p.7, 18/03/2013, Damian Fantato
- Boffins invent liver lifesaver, Oxford Times (Web), 16/03/2013, Unattributed http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/headlines/10294244.Boffins_invent_liver_lifesaver/?ref=rss
- Device Keeps Liver Alive Outside Body In Medical First, International Business Times TV, Adam Justice, 18/03/2013
- Humans Can Keep Livers Alive and Making Bile for 24 Hours Outside of a Body, The Atlantic (USA), 18/03/2013, James Hamblin
- Machine Keeps Human Liver Alive And Functioning Outside The Body For 24 Hours, Popular Science (USA), 18/03/2013, Shaunacy Ferro
- Saving lives: Professor's revolutionary transplant machine, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), 19/03/2013
- New hope for transplant patients, The Nation (Pakistan), 18/03/2013
- UK device keeps liver "alive" outside of human body, The Engineer, 18/03/2013
- British team perform new 'warm' liver transplants, Times LIVE (South Africa), 16/03/2013, via AFP
- Human livers to be kept 'alive' longer outside body! Daily Bhaskar (India), 18/03/2013
- UK docs perform first warm liver transplant, The Asian Age (India), 17/03/2013
- Scientists hail new 'miracle machine' for transplants, The Scotsman online, 16/03/2013
- Human liver can be kept alive, Pakistan Today, 17/03/2013
- Device keeps liver "alive" outside body in medical first, The Himalayan Times (Nepal), via Reuters
- Device keeps liver alive outside body, Oman Daily Observer, 16/03/2013
- Invention is likely to transform transplants Oxford Times, p. 13, 21/03/13, Damian Fantato
- Radio and online: SRF [Swiss radio & television, largest Swiss broadcaster in German],
- TV: Afternoon News, EuroNews [multilingual channel reaching 5.3m viewers daily] 28/03/2013, 18:53 [repeats 29/03/2013, 11:45 & 30/03/2013, 07:14]
- We shouldn't fear robots – they'll do our bidding
The Guardian, 06/03/2013, p.32, Paul Newman
Comment piece from Professor Paul Newman of Oxford University who will deliver this year's Oxford London Lecture on 12 March at Church House, Westminster: 'Robotics and its sibling disciplines like computer vision and machine learning will, I am sure, offer us better lives. The word "offer" is important as we do get to make choices. Engineers will create the building blocks and innovations that will underpin new artefacts and services – but only if it makes sense to do so. We will be offered better surgery, better security, better warehousing, more efficient ports, safer mines, curated farms with reduced pesticide requirements and higher yields. We'll do science on other planets and at the bottom of our oceans… We'll have cars that can drive you when you are exhausted, sick, ageing or simply unwilling to waste your time in traffic. We'll get new help in cleaning up our nuclear legacy, fighting fires, and rescuing families from collapsed buildings… We can drop the droid talk and replace it with a proper sense of opportunity, benefit and maybe childlike wonder at what our creations will offer us. This is going to be good.'
- Solar-powered oven developed at Oxford University
Radio: Howard Bentham, BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester, 27/02/13, 07:50
A solar-powered oven based on technology developed at Oxford University is being developed and tested by the Malvern company Dytechna. It is hoped that the oven, which can reach temperatures of 200ºC without fuel, and can be flatpacked for easy transportation and storage, could help people in the developing world. The project is a collaboration with Oxford University's technology transfer company, Isis Innovation. [Dr Mike Dadd of the Department of Engineering Science and Professor Nick Jelley of the Department of Physics led the Oxford team who designed the oven.]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014r4wk [1.47.42 on clock]
- Self-driving car given UK test run at Oxford University
A car that is able to drive itself on familiar routes has been shown off at Oxford University. The technology uses lasers and small cameras to memorise regular journeys like the commute or the school run. The Oxford engineers and researchers behind the project are aiming to produce a low-cost system that "takes the strain" off drivers.
- BBC News at Six, BBC BBC 1, 14/02/2013, 18:24
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qmjcc/BBC_News_at_Six_14_02_2013/ [c.24:16 on the clock]. Or watch standalone report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21465042
- ITV News, ITV, 14/02/2013, c.18:40
- Sky News, Sky News, 14/02/2013, 18:30
- Repeat: Sky World Review & Business Report, Sky News, 15/02/2013, 05:52
- BBC News online, 14/02/2013, Dave Lee & Richard Wescott
- The Daily Telegraph, 15/02/2013, p.4, Richard Alleyne
- "It's the real Knight Rider", Oxford Mail, 15/01/13, p.1 & 3, Jamie Brooks
- "A dream drive", Oxford Mail, 15/01/13, p.10
- "Car that needs no driver takes to the road at Oxford", The Guardian, 15/02/2013, p.25, Charles Arthur
Also see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2013/feb/15/robot-car-ipad-video
- "The car that drives itself... using an iPad", Daily Mail, 15/02/2013, p.26, Liz Hull
- "UK's affordable 'self-drive' car to rival Google", ITV News, 14/02/2013, Darren Burn
- Metro (Scotland) -Main-, 15/02/2013, p.52
- The Engineer, 15/02/2013
- "Scientists work on car that 'drives itself'", The Scotsman, 15/02/2013
- "And this car's driver is… an iPad!", Independent Online (South Africa), 15/02/2013, Lauren Hull
- "Self Driving Car Goes on Test Drive at Oxford", India Times, 15/02/2013
- South China Morning Post, 17/02/2013, p.11
- Wall Street Journal (Blog), 18/02/2013, Nick Clayton
- Daily Telegraph online, 15/02/2013
- Times of India, 16/02/2013
- Deccan Herald (India), 15/02/2013, via PTI
- International Business Times UK, 15/02/2013, Edward Smith
- Economic Times (India), 15/02/2013
- The Guardian online, 15/02/2013, Unattributed
- The Guardian online (Blog), 15/02/2013, Charles Arthur
- LiveScience.com (US), 15/02/2013, Elizabeth Palermo
- International Business Times (Australia), 15/02/2013, Edward Smith
- The Times, T2 supplement, p.5, Kevin Maher, 18/02/2013
- Irish Examiner, 15/02/2013
- Oxford Times online, 15/02/2013, Jamie Brooks
- Engadget, 16/02/2013, Alexis Santos
- Electronics Weekly (Blog), 15/02/2013, David Manners
- Littlehampton Gazette, 15/02/2013
- T3 Magazine online, 15/02/2013
- Wall Street Journal online (USA), Driver's Seat blog, 19/02/2013
- Huffington Post (USA), 19/02/2013
- TV: Evening News, EuroNews, 20/02/13, 19:56 (repeated 21/02/13, 02:52)
- International Business Times, 01/03/2013, David Gilbert
- TV: Top Gear, BBC2, 24/02/13, 20:35
- Radio: Kirstie McMurray, Downtown Radio, 23/02/13, 17:14
- Radio: Malcolm Boyden, BBC Radio Oxford, 21/02/13, 11:41
- Radio: Phil White, BBC Radio Humberside, 21/02/13, 16:42
- Radio: Mark O'Donnell, BBC Radio Wiltshire, 15/02/2013, 11.39pm
- Radio: Nick Conrad, BBC Radio Norfolk, 15/02/2013, 11.14am
- Radio: Jonathan Miles, BBC Radio Newcastle, 15/02/2013, 11.41pm
- Radio: Andy Comfort, BBC Radio Humberside, 17/02/2013, 11.21am
- Radio: James Cannon, BBC Radio Oxford, 15/02/2013, 17:36pm
- TV: News, ITV 1 (Meridian South), 15/02/2013, 10.36pm
- Radio: Henry Kelly, BBC Radio Berkshire, 16/02/2013, 9.43am
- Radio: Carl Wheatley, BBC Radio Humberside, 15/02/2013, 7.51am
- Radio: News, BBC Radio Oxford, 15/02/2013, 11.03am and 5.37pm
- Radio: Amy McConnell, TFM, 16/02/2013, 7.17am
- Radio: Dominic King, BBC Radio Kent, 15/02/2013, 5.16pm
- Oxford Mail, 18/02/13, p23
- The Evening Show, BBC Radio Wales, 14/02/2013, 20:37
- BBC London 94.9, Harriet Scott, 15/02/2013, 05:43
- Anthony Davis, LBC 97.3, 14/02/2013, 23:04
- Trevor Fry, BBC Radio Wiltshire, 14/02/2013, 23:29
- TV: Daily Planet, Discovery Channel Canada, 18/03/2013, 19:00
[Report to appear online: http://watch.discoverychannel.ca]
- OrganOx (IBME) and OPV (Physics) meet Vince Cable
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By Michelle Malkin | August 31, 2012 6:55 am
Thumper the Rabbit's parents always taught him, "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all." If the left's self-appointed Omniscient Diviners of True Meaning have their way, conservatives in the public square won't be left with anything at all to say. Ever.
It's a treacherous business exercising your freedom of speech in the age of Obama. As a public service, I present to you: "The 2012 Condensed Liberal Handbook of Racial Code Words." Decoder rings, activate!
–Angry. On the campaign trail this summer, President Obama has become — in the words of the mainstream Associated Press — more "aggressive." But don't you dare call him "angry." According to MSNBC host Toure, that's racist!
"You notice he said 'anger' twice," Toure fumed in response to a speech last week by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. "He's really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man." Or maybe Romney is just accurately describing the singular temperament of the growling, finger-jabbing, failure-plagued demagogue-in-chief. It's about the past four years, not 400 years. Sheesh.
–Chicago. The Obamas and their core team of astroturfers, pay-for-play schemers and powerbrokers hail from the Windy City. This is a simple geographic fact. But in progressive of pallor Chris Matthews' world, it's an insidious dog whistle. The frothing cable TV host attacked Republicans this week who have the gall to remind voters of the ruthless Chicago way.
"(T)hey keep saying Chicago, by the way. Have you noticed?" Matthews sputtered. "That sends that message: This guy's helping the poor people in the bad neighborhoods and screwing us in the 'burbs."
Actually, it's a pointed reminder that the radical redistribution politics of Chicago-on-the-Potomac have done little to alleviate the suffering of impoverished Americans in violence-plagued, job-hungry inner cities everywhere. Racist!
–Constitution. Fox News contributor Juan Williams, who proudly calls himself a "real reporter," has apparently added real telepathist to his curriculum vitae. Earlier this year, he read the minds of Republicans and conservatives whom he accuses of deep-seated bigotry when they show any public reverence for our founding principles, documents and leaders.
"The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message," Williams wrote. "References to a lack of respect for the 'Founding Fathers' and the 'Constitution' also make certain ears perk up by demonizing anyone supposedly threatening core 'old-fashioned American values.'"
So, if you ever find yourself wanting to hum the "Schoolhouse Rock" version of the Preamble, heed these three words: Stop the hate!
–Experienced. A significant population of American voters believes that qualifications actually matter when running for the highest office in the land. Chilling, isn't it? They might as well sport KKK hoods. In the judgment of one Basil Smikle of The Century Foundation, "experienced" is a dreaded "racial code word."
Intoned Smikle: "Experienced? Does it really mean the time that he spent in the Senate, or does it mean, 'Well, does that guy have the same kind of experience in life that I have?' … What does inexperience really mean?"
Maybe it just means what critics meant it to mean: "Does this guy have experience beyond the measly 304 days he served when the U.S. Senate was in session before he announced his first presidential bid?" I know: Racist!
–Food Stamp President. At the dawn of the modern federal food stamp program, one in 50 Americans was enrolled. This year, one in seven Americans is on the food stamp rolls. The majority of them are white. Obama's loosening of eligibility requirements combined with the stagnant economy fueled the rise in dependency. "Food stamp president" is pithy shorthand for the very real entitlement explosion.
Democrats fumed when former GOP candidate Newt Gingrich bestowed the title on Obama and decried its purportedly racist implications. But who are the racists? As Gingrich scolded the aforementioned race troll Chris Matthews last week: "Why do you assume food stamp refers to blacks? What kind of racist thinking do you have? You're being a racist because you assume they're black!" Time to find a new code word.
–Golf. This one's a gobsmacker. Beltway barnacle Lawrence O'Donnell appeared on cable TV to decry Republicans who mention Obama's frequent golf outings. He singled out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's convention speech Wednesday night, which joked that Obama "was working to earn a spot on the PGA tour." The warped racial radar of pasty Lawrence O interpreted this golf joke as "Obama equals Tiger Woods equals RACISM."
Huh? "These people reach for every single possible racial double entendre they can find in every one of these speeches." O'Donnell expertly explained. "Things are getting lower and lower by the day," host Martin Bashir agreed.
I'd say this is all Greek to me. But that's probably racist, too.
–Holding down the fort. Obama's State Department diversity officer now advises us, based on admittedly dubious history, that "holding down the fort" is an anti-Native American idiom that has no place in U.S. discourse. Example: "I know you guys have been holding down the fort." Oops, that was Obama at a Tampa rally in 2008. Next…
–Kitchen cabinet. Radio talk-show host Mark Thompson jumped on Romney for using this phrase — coined to describe Andrew Jackson's administration in the 1800s — at the NAACP convention in July. Romney was referring to a close member of his staff during his tenure as Massachusetts governor.
"To talk about being in the kitchen and not talk about an African-American actually being in your cabinet is really not a good metaphor to use with African-Americans," Thompson blasted. Is it racist to ask: Huh?
–Obamacare. Left-wing Daily Beast columnist Michael Tomasky accused Romney of "race-baiting" by wielding the term "Obamacare." The Beltway shorthand for this behemoth federal spending program exposes Romney as a "spineless, disingenuous, supercilious, race-mongering pyromaniac" because it is a "heavily loaded word," Tomasky railed.
How then to explain the use of the Bull Connor-channeling epithet by none other than the Obama campaign, which peddles "I like Obamacare" T-shirts on its website? Logic is racist.
–Privileged. Stay with me here. Washington Post writer Jonathan Capehart has a problem with Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry calling Obama "privileged." Spotlighting his elite education is tantamount to racial bigotry because it insinuates that "he took the place of someone else through affirmative action, that someone else being someone white."
And here I thought it was a simple description of an out-of-touch academic whose crony Chicago ties of all colors gifted him with access, money and power that the vast majority of Americans don't have.
–Professor. Several progressive black intellectuals excoriated 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for this statement: "They know we're at war, and to win that war we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern."
"Professor," professor Charles Ogletree said, was code for "uppity." This translation service is available only to credentialed Ivy League eggheads. A saner criticism would be that Obama was never a professor of law, but an untenured lecturer. Racist? Tell that to Hillary Clinton, whose 2008 campaign made that very point.
–You people. Asked last month whether her husband would release more tax returns, Ann Romney told a pack of reporters: "We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about how, you know, how we live our life."
A chorus of faux-ragers from the Huffington Post to NBC's Andrea Mitchell hammered Mrs. Romney for her double-whammy sandwich of elitism and racism. Apparently, "you people" is the verbal equivalent of putting black people back in chains. One little, teeny-tiny problem: ABC News admitted: "Our ruling after reviewing the original audio is that she did not include the 'you.'"
In other words, it was manufactured out of whole cloth. Give the dog-trombone media another black mark for ridiculous bias denial. "Black mark"? I know: Raaaaaaaaaaacist!
Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies" (Regnery 2010).
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Pit Crew Panic is probably every gaming nerd's dream come true. Basically, players watch cute little booth babes clean their toilet. How this insane game ever escaped Japan, we'll never know. But Hudson is delivering it to WiiWare in North America, so we might as well prepare ourselves. The publisher describes it as an "action panic" game.
These girls are anxious to clean whatever you throw at them, not just toilets. Cars, aircraft carriers, flowers, the Golden Gate bridge… If it's dirty, they'll take care of it. Pit Crew Panic is designed as a multiplayer experience with up to four players all ordering girls to polish stuff at once either competitively or cooperatively. Point at a babe with your remote, then point at a dirty part of the object and they'll dutifully scoot over there and get to cleaning. You can play by yourself, but there is no story mode to work through. Thankfully, online multiplayer is available.
Objects fly at your pit crew in a sort of "boss rush" mode where you try to clean as many objects as you can before time runs out. Waggle controls have been implemented to help the ladies in their work. If they're scrubbing a hubcap, for instance, mimicking her actions with the remote will speed the process along.
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Buckwheat, a whole protein, adds an unusual background flavor and unique texture. Look for roasted buckwheat groats, which provide a full-bodied, almost smoky flavor, in bulk bins at your natural market (you can also use plain buckwheat groats). Dark-green Tuscan kale, also called lacinato or dinosaur kale, is more tender and less bitter than curly kale.
- Place oil, garlic, and rosemary in a large pot over medium heat. Stir constantly for about 2 minutes, or until aromatic (press on rosemary sprigs a bit to release flavor). Do not let garlic brown.
- Increase heat to high, add onion, and stir another 2–3 minutes, until softened. Add carrot, celery, and leek, and stir until vegetables turn bright and begin to soften, 2 minutes. Add potato and stir until mixture sticks slightly, 3–4 minutes. Add water and bouillon cubes, stirring to deglaze pan bottom. Bring to a boil; then reduce heat to maintain a steady simmer.
- While mixture comes to a boil, wash kale and discard center ribs. Stack leaves and cut into small pieces. Add leaves and buckwheat to simmering soup, and cook about 20–25 minutes, until all vegetables are tender. Season to taste with salt. Remove rosemary twigs and serve.
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The sluggish economy has combined with a break in the weather to produce an explosion in fishing interest.
"The economy is bad, so everybody who has a boat is going fishing," said Jason Tucker of JR's Marina on Lake Weiss in northeastern Alabama.
The recent surge has been good for area bait-house operators hurt by months of icy temperatures.
Crappie fishing has been a main reason for the upswing, sales personnel say. Jerry's Bait Shop near Watts Bar Lake needed six employees to handle sales for crappie anglers last Friday, according to Donna Cox, who operates the business with her husband Jerry.
"We're thankful because it's been a long, cold winter," she said.
Weiss is another lake where casting for the panfish is annually a top draw, regardless of economic situations. Large numbers of Kentuckians, along with anglers from Georgia and Alabama, have streamed to Weiss.
Many of the crappies being caught there now are small, said Tucker, who believes the best fishing is just ahead.
"We're at mid-spawn," he said. "Another couple of weeks should see a lot of fish being caught."
Weiss anglers are hopeful that 2-pounders will become more commonplace.
Tucker reeled a 30-fish limit within a five-hour span Monday by "flipping" docks, finding the fish two feet deep. Several that he caught weighed more than a pound.
Watts Bar and, farther away, Reelfoot Lake in northwestern Tennessee also are producing plentiful crappie catches. Brisk jig sales are a measure of the success.
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It took us a while to get Eustice to calm down enough to understand that this is a type of fish... I'd never seen him so upset before.
While Monicaroni ordered fish, and husband got a beer, Eustice and I staked out a table and waited for our live crabs to be cooked. Eustice refused to pose with living crabs. I think maybe he thought they'd be smaller? Or maybe he was afraid of being pinched. Still, he looks excited about it all, doesn't he?
When I brought the bag of steamed crabs to the table, he wasted not a moment to get a good look...
This crab had one of the thickest shells I've ever seen. Even Eustice's hooves were not strong enough to break it! Much mallet whacking and flying debris ensued. Sure was sweet and tasty tho. Once you got past the dirt... I grumbled about the fact that they didn't rinse it before steaming it. Eustice just stared at me. "What's wrong with eating dirt?" He asked. "MY MOM," he said "told me it's a great way to get your minerals." I'm not gonna disrespect Eustice's Mom.
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And Monicaroni had to reassemble this one for the picture. It was so delicate that it fell apart (but boy oh boy was it tasty!)
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What is the Islamic ruling in your view on a woman who reaches the age of sixty five, and from the time she married her husband at age 14 she has been suffering from her husband's bad treatment, his beatings, his humiliating her in front of her children and in front of others, and always throwing her out of the house, yet despite that she has been patient and seeking reward from Allaah, responding to all his never-ending demands even though she suffers from heart disease and blood pressure, and the doctors have advised complete rest for her and that she should not exert herself? Recently this husband's bad treatment of this woman has become even worse; he humiliated her in front of her guests, beat her and threw her out of the house, so she had no choice but to leave the house to him and go and stay with her children, knowing that he would not give her enough money. What is your view on this case? Now she does not want to go back to him and he does not want her and he does not acknowledge that he has wronged her… Is she guilty of anything if she does not go back to him if he asks her to? What is your advice to them? May Allaah reward you with good.
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It is haraam for the wife to ask for a divorce for no reason, and it is haraam for her to go out of the house for no reason without her husband's permission. But if she is being harmed as a result of staying in her husband's house or staying married to him, then she has the right to ask him for a divorce. She has the right to leave the house and go to her family so that she can escape from her husband's abuse and beatings. The husband has to fear Allaah with regard to what Allaah has put him in charge of. The Prophet urged good treatment of women, and Allaah commanded His Messenger SAWS (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) to treat people on a reasonable basis. Whatever the case, if the husband's abuse is ongoing then she has the right to ask for the marriage to be annulled, and he has to respond to that request, or he has to repent to Allaah, and stop harming her.