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Sunday 28 November 2010
Police radar guns could help identify suicide bombers
The radar guns police use to spot speeding motorists have inspired a version that aims to identify a would-be suicide bomber in a crowd.
A radar gun fires microwave pulses at a car and measures the Doppler shift of the reflected signal to calculate its velocity. However, the strength and polarisation of the reflected signal – the "radar cross section" – can provide additional information about the size and shape of the reflecting object and the material it is made from.
William Fox of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and John Vesecky of the University of California, Santa Cruz, wondered whether the wiring in a suicide vest would alter the radar cross section of a bomber enough to allow a radar gun to pick him or her out in a crowd.
To find out, the pair used software to simulate how radar signals at 1 gigahertz and 10 gigahertz would be reflected by the most common arrangements of looped wiring typically used by suicide bombers. They found that the clearest reflected signals were in the 10 gigahertz range...
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Paul Marks @'New Scientist'
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Saturday 27 November 2010
Samuel Beckett BBC Radio Plays
1. A Piece of Monologue (UK, 1986)
BBC Radio Cast: Ronald Pickup
2. Cascando (UK, 1964)
BBC Radio Directed by: Donald McWhinnie Cast: Denys Hawthorne, Patrick Magee Music composed by Marcel Mihalovici
3. Cascando (Ireland, 1991)
RTE Radio Directed by: William Styles Cast: Bosco Hogan, Frank O’Dwyer Music by Gerard Victory
4. Embers (UK, 1959)
BBC Radio Directed by: Donald McWhinnie Cast: Jack MacGowran, Kathleen Michael, Kathleen Helme, Patrick Magee Music performed by Cicely Hoye
5. Rough for Radio (UK, 1976)
BBC Radio Directed by: Martin Esslin Cast: Billie Whitelaw, Harold Pinter, Patrick Magee, Michael
6. Words and Music (UK, 1962)
BBC Radio Directed by: Michael Bakewell Cast: Patrick Magee, Felix Felton Music composed by John Beckett
7. The Old Tune (Ireland)
Adaptation by Beckett in English of La manivelle, a radio play by Robert Pinget RTE Radio Directed by: William Styles
Cast: Peter Dix, Brendan Gauldwell
8. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Ireland, 1958; Caedmon Audio, read by Cyril Cusak)
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5] Breakage - Justified - Digital Soundboy
6] Von D - Nouvelle Histoire - Argon
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10] Burial - Raver - Hyperdub
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2] Clouds - Protecting Hands Part 1 - Deep Medi
3] Martyn - Far Away - 3024
4] Ramadanman - Don't Change For Me - Hessle Audio
5] Breakage - Justified - Digital Soundboy
6] Von D - Nouvelle Histoire - Argon
7] Ramadanman - I Beg You - Hessle Audio
8] Martyn - Seventy Four - 3024
9] Shackleton - Death Is Not Final - Skull Disco
10] Burial - Raver - Hyperdub
11] Mj Cole - Sincere (Nero rmx) - Prolific
12] Mrk1 - Troubleshoot - Dark Circles
13] The Others - 100 $ bills - MILF
14] Trolly Snatcha - We Rock The Forest
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