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This patent application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/668,827, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,256,695, filed Sep. 23, 2003, and claims priority of that application.
This patent application also claims priority of Provisional Patent Applications 60/412,725 filed on Sep. 23, 2002 and 60/419,994 filed on Oct. 21, 2002, both of which are entitled "Remotely Powered, Remotely Interrogated Wireless Digital Sensor Telemetry System."
This patent application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/731,066, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,478,108, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/801,230, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,622,567, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/768,858, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,433,629, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/215,752, which is a divisional of the U.S. Pat. No. 6,433,629 and which is now U.S. Pat. No. 6,714,763, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/114,106, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,529,127, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/379,224, which was a continuation of U.S. Provisional Patent Application 60/362,432 and which is now US Publication Number US 2003-0234730, all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
This patent application generally relates to sensors. More particularly, it relates to a circuit for wirelessly powering a sensor. Even more particularly, it relates to a circuit for remotely powering and interrogating a sensor.
Sensors on civil structures, such as buildings, dams, and bridges and orthopedic implants, such as artificial hips and knees, have been limited because of the need to provide power for sensor operation and interrogation. In many of these applications retrieving sensor data precludes the use of batteries at the sensor or hardwired connections to the sensor. Very small spaces where common batteries will not fit, extremely harsh environments where common batteries would fail, and metallic hermetically sealed enclosures that would interfere with electromagnetic communication are among the many environments where sensor data retrieval is difficult.
Biomedical implants in which any sensor or electronic device must be hermetically sealed in a bio-compatible material such as titanium. It has been undesirable to use batteries for power because of the possibility of leakage. In addition, the implants must be as small as possible, limiting the size of batteries. Providing power to such sensors has been particularly difficult.
The rotating shaft of a turbine engine poses another type of challenge since centrifugal forces exceeding 80,000 G's with very high ambient temperatures is routine. Batteries cannot survive these forces and the high speed rotation precludes hardwiring or even slip-ring connections, which don't work reliably at such high RPM for extended periods of time. Furthermore, crystals commonly used for system timing, have not been able to withstand these forces making placement and reading of sensors in such locations difficult.
Thus, a better solution is needed to provide power and to read sensors that may be in inaccessible places or experiencing harsh environments where electric power is limited or where batteries cannot be easily recharged, and this solution is provided by the following patent application.
One aspect of the present patent application is an electronic system that includes a reader and a remotely powered and remotely interrogated sensor transponder. The sensor transponder includes a reader and a remotely powered and remotely interrogated sensor transponder. The sensor transponder includes a sensor and a radiation receiving device. Data from the sensor is conditioned to provide sensor data ratiometric with magnitude of excitation voltage provided by the radiation receiving device.
The present patent application substantially improves communication from switched reactance devices to enable powering a sensor transponder and communicate data from the sensor. Switched reactance circuits have advantage since they need no on-board power supply and receive all their power for operation from power transmitted to them by an external reader.
Remote electromagnetic powering with switched reactance communications has been used to power up and read identification codes on Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags. RFID tag 26 has tank circuit 28 with its switched reactance circuit 30. Capacitor 31 of switched reactance circuit 30 is brought into or out of tank circuit 28 under the control of power supply and ID generator 32, as shown in
Typically, RFID tags like RFID tag 26 shown in
However, heretofore RFID tag technology has not been considered for reading sensors since several orders of magnitude more current and more energy are required to power and read most types of active sensors and to convert their information to digital format for the serial communications required in switched reactance sensor systems.
The present patent application is not limited to power consuming sensors. It may also be used with other power using devices such as RF transmitters or actuators. The power consuming sensor can be a strain gauge, a displacement sensor, a corrosion sensor, a temperature or pressure sensor, or any other type of sensor. An actuator can include a solenoid, a pump, a motor, a mechanical switch, a piezoelectric device, or any other type of actuator.
One embodiment improves efficiency of transmitting and using power that is provided from an energy transmitting reader to an isolated, remotely powered, remotely interrogated, remotely programmed, or remotely controlled device such as a sensor transponder. The improved efficiency of transmitting power is achieved by tuning receiver and transponder coils or antennas to the same resonance frequency and by impedance matching the load using a tapped coil or a capacitive divider as more fully described below.
The improved efficiency of using power is accomplished by such approaches as integrating electronics into a low power microcontroller, using switched reactance communication instead of an RF transmitter, and turning on power using components only when needed.
One embodiment provides a way to power a high-energy consuming device that may use much more power than can be transmitted. In this case transmitted power is gradually stored in a storage device, such as a battery or storage capacitor. When enough energy has been stored in the storage device the high-energy consuming device can then be operated briefly.
One embodiment provides a more mechanically reliable hermetic seal for such a container by eliminating the potentially leaky feed-through normally required for an antenna for radio frequency external communication. This allows the device to be more reliably used in locations such as biomedical implants where fluids may leak in harming the device or where materials from the device may leak out, harming the patient or other living organism. The present inventors found that they could transmit into a sealed metal container without a feed-through or external antenna by providing the electromagnetic signal from the reader at a frequency low enough to penetrate through the metal of the container.
One embodiment provides a more mechanically robust device by eliminating mechanically sensitive parts, such as clock crystals for a microprocessor. This allows this embodiment to be used in adverse locations, such as in jet engines that experience high G forces.
In addition to eliminating a crystal, one embodiment allows eliminating a transmitter for communicating with a sensor transponder. It also takes advantage of microprocessors that integrate separate components such as an a/d converter or a multiplexor, thereby reducing power drawn.
One embodiment allows using a simple receiver coil both for harvesting energy from a remote reader that is transmitting an electromagnetic signal and for transmitting sensor data back to the remote reader. Substantial energy savings result from eliminating an RF transmitter from the sensor transponder and replacing it with switched reactance transmission. A microprocessor is used for timing and a/d conversion as well as for controlling a switchable reactance for communicating sensor data from the receiver coil to the reader. Thus, this embodiment provides remote powering and remote interrogation of the sensor with very little energy. It also permits communicating data into the sensor transponder, for example for remote programming of its microcontroller.
One embodiment includes a sensor, a microprocessor with on-board a/d converter, a coil, and a switched reactance. It may also include an amplifier to boost sensor output if it is low, and a multiplexor so that more than one sensor can be connected to a single microprocessor. While this is enough for communication from the sensor transponder, additional hardware could also be provided to sense external modulation, allowing two way communication. No battery or other source of on-board power is needed for powering the sensor or for the one or two-way communication, allowing an embodiment to be implemented in locations where replacing or recharging batteries is difficult. As mentioned above, an embodiment is also applicable in locations where the sensor transponder must be hermetically sealed in a metal container and a feed through to an external antenna is undesirable.
In one embodiment power received by on-board receiver antenna or receiver coil 34′ is converted to direct current in rectifier 50 and voltage regulator 52 to power electronic circuits that use more power than RFID systems. Sensor transponder 48 a of one embodiment includes receiver coil 34′, microprocessor 54, multiplexor 56, amplifiers 58, and sensors 60, as shown in
Sensors, such as DVRT sensor 60′, can also be powered directly by providing some of the AC power from receiver antenna or receiver coil 34′, as shown in
The impedance across a resonant tank circuit, such as tank circuit 28′ of
Coil 34 can be a spool type coil or it can be patterned on a plane. For patterning in a plane it can be formed on a surface, such as a plastic surface. It can mounted on a PC board or it can be an external coil electrically connected to components on a PC board. If external, its shape can be modified to allow a larger coil to be used for the available space.
Instead of varying reactance by switching a capacitor in and out of tank circuit 28 it is also possible to vary reactance by providing a way to change inductance of receiver coil 34. One way to change inductance of receiver coil 34 is to provide a switch with wires making contact to receiver coil 34 at two positions so that a portion of coil 34 is shorted out when the switch is closed. Inductance and reactance of coil 34 would be reduced when the shorting switch is closed and elevated to the coil's full value when the switch is open. Alternatively, a second coil could be switchably included in tank circuit 28.
Power Transfer and Power Consumption
As mentioned above, one problem with using remotely powered switched reactance communications with sensors, actuators or other active digital telemetry systems has been their increased power consumption relative to prior art traditional RFID tags. This increased power consumption is due to the more complex electronics and the power requirements of the active sensors involved. The present inventors recognized that since switched reactance communications is dependant on the Q of the resonance of both antennas or coils 34′ and 38, connecting a circuit that draws significantly higher power than an RFID tag across the whole transponder coil 34′ causes the Q of this resonance circuit to go down to the point where communications is difficult. Since Q=R/X for a parallel resonant tank circuit, where X is the reactance and R is the resistance, the Q depends on the load resistance across it, and the greater the resistance in parallel with the coil, the greater the Q factor. The circuit being powered by coil 34′ provides that parallel resistance. The more current it draws, the lower that resistance in parallel, and the more in drags down the Q factor. However, the present inventors found that by instead providing that resistive load at low impedance tap 66 in coil 34′, located to match the low resistance of the transponder circuit load from sensors 60, 60′, the Q factor of full coil 34′ is preserved. Power is thus more efficiently transmitted to coil 34′ and also more efficiently transferred from coil 34′ to the load. The Q factor of reader coil 38 is also kept high using this tapped coil scheme.
A comparison of
The present inventors recognized that advantage could be obtained by more efficiently getting power into transponder receiver coil or receiver antenna 34′ as well as by better managing power consumed by sensors 60, 60′. As described above, the present inventors recognized that they could more efficiently use the coupled AC power by matching the impedance of switched reactance circuit 30 at receiver transponder coil 34′ using tap 66, as shown in
Receiver transponder coil 34′ connected to different sensors may experience different power requirements depending on sensor current draw. The present inventors recognized that a plurality of taps 66 could be provided on receiver transponder coil 34′ to dynamically optimize the impedance matching by using sensor channel input to MUX 56 on Vp line 67 to monitor the available voltage and to select appropriate tap 66 with switch 68 controlled by microprocessor 54, as also shown in
Power consumption can be further reduced by multiplexing the DC excitation to sensors using MUX 69 to provide Vcc power to one sensor at a time, as shown in
Alternatively, tap 66 can be replaced with capacitive divider 66′, as shown in
Elimination of Crystals
Further improvement is available by eliminating oscillator crystals in receiver transponder 48 a-48 c. Crystals are a relatively bulky and are mechanically delicate. RFID tags avoid using crystals by instead using the frequency of the AC interrogation signal for system timing. In RFID tags this is acceptable but for applications, such as sensor transponder 48 a-48 c, it is easier to manage system design optimization when system timing and excitation frequencies are independent of one another. Independent frequencies allows the system to be frequency agile—the system can accommodate different antenna or coil geometries required by different applications. For example, low excitation frequencies can be provided, allowing radiation from reader 40 to penetrate through metal walls of hermetically sealed containers but fast system timing can still be used if the system timing is independent of the excitation frequency.
Crystals can be eliminated from the circuit while still providing independent system timing by using control processor 54 with integrated RC oscillator clock circuit 70. While this is disadvantageous compared to a crystal for initial accuracy of system timing and drift of system timing with temperature, the present inventors found that A/D converter sample timing and the timing of other software functions are not critical.
They found, however, that accurate system timing is desirable for maintaining accurate baud rates in serial communications. They found that asynchronous serial format data works best if data rate variation is maintained within 1% for serial ports but an RC clock cannot usually maintain that 1% tolerance over typical ambient temperature changes.
The present inventors found that with a well known data encoding method that embeds the baud rate clock in the data stream, such as Manchester or bi-phase encoding, and with a microprocessor controlled receiver at the reader, the clock and data can be recovered in a manner that will tolerate more than a 10% variation in data baud rate with negligible effect on Bit Error Rate (BER). They found that this ten percent communications timing accuracy is easily achieved over the 150 degrees Celsius operating temperature range in the remote powered telemetry system with RC based timing. These data can then be sent by the smart reader to a host computer using accurately timed standard serial communications. This system topology has the further advantage of supporting protocol conversion at the reader, which allows these remotely powered transponders to be integrated into other systems, such as MicroStrain's Wireless Web Enabled Sensor Network (WWSN).
In addition to allowing packages to be smaller, the elimination of the crystal from the remotely powered transponders also improves compatibility with high 'G' force environments. High G force environments are found in jet engines where spinning turbine 80, as shown in
As shown in
Receiver coil 84 includes tap 66 (see tap 66 in
In one embodiment switchable tap 66 provides efficient transfer of power from reader coil 88 to receiver coil 84. Switchable tap 66 also provides improved communications by maintaining high quality factor Q. Crystal elimination allows sensor transponder 82 to function in a high G jet engine environment while simplifying the circuit and allowing it to be smaller. The Manchester or biphasic encoding allows clock recovery from a potentially drifting RC oscillator, facilitating crystal elimination. The combination of these three elements has significant advantage in receiving power, transmitting data, reducing size, improving resistance to G forces, and extracting timing information.
Similarly, in a biomedical application switchable tap 66 and the elimination of crystals allow substantial size reduction as well as reducing power consumption and communication out from the transponder. Manchester or biphasic encoding also provides for correction for change in temperature. These elements can be used with sensors, power management of sensors, and shunt calibration of sensors to allow making measurements in difficult environments, such as high G or biomedical applications, where they could not be made before.
Communication with a Sensor in a Metal Enclosure
With hermetically sealed metallic enclosure 72, feed-through 92 connecting to antenna 95 can be used when RF transmitter 96 a is included with sensor transponder 48 b in enclosure 72, as shown in
However, feed-throughs, such as feed-through 92, adds cost, and feed-throughs can break or leak. Therefore eliminating feed-through 92 would be highly desirable for orthopedic implants, such as knee implant 100 of
Low Frequency Excitation and Elimination of Feed-Throughs
The present inventors recognized that low excitation frequency provides advantage by enabling power to be transmitted through certain metals, such as those used in hermetically sealed biomedical implants, including titanium and stainless steel. Low frequency also allows switched reactance communications to be accomplished through these metals. RFID tags have been standardized on 125 kHz and on 13.565 MHz, frequencies that don't penetrate through metals very well, especially for ferrous metals. For titanium, frequencies up to one MHz can be used. The use of an insulating material has been disclosed to allow RFID tags to work near metals but not through metals. The present inventors recognized that communication to RFID tags or to transponders enclosed in metal containers could be made successful by changing the system operating frequency to a range that more efficiently passes through the metal. They found that providing low frequency radiation penetrates deeper into metal. They found that with a frequency of 44 KHz, substantial energy penetrated, and they were able to communicate with switched reactance transponders enclosed in hermetically sealed metal containers, such as a titanium container.
Preferably the frequency is less than 125 kHz. More preferably frequency is in the range of tens of kHz, such as around 44 kHz. The inventors found even greater penetration through metal in one application at even lower frequency, at about 4 kHz.
Alternatively, other materials can be used to provide hermetically sealed container 72, as shown in
Feed-through 92 can be eliminated in the metal container embodiment of
Receiver coil tap 66 continues to be provided to improve efficiency of delivering power to sensor transponder 98, as shown in
Feed through elimination is also illustrated for spinal implant 102 of
Hip subsidence measuring device 110 for hip implant 112, shown in
In another embodiment, an implant may involve two components, one to measure movement of the other. For example, non-contacting DVRT 132 may be located in one of the implants 133 and used to measure the distance D to the other implant 134, as shown in
DVRT 140 can also be used in corrosion detection device 141 in which spring loaded DVRT core carrier 142 can break through metallic element 144 once metallic element 144 corrodes away, as shown in
Corrosion detection device 170 can include stack of corrosion plates 144 a, 144 b, 144 c made of a number of metallic elements subject to corrosion, each with different thickness, wherein each stack of plates 144 a, 144 b, 144 c has its own spring loaded DVRT and each sensor transponder has a unique address, as showing for one such stack of corrosion plates and one such DVRT in
Alternatively output data of a DVRT will gradually change with corrosion of a metal layer, as shown in
In another embodiment, DVRT core carrier 180 of DVRT 182 is connected to hermetically sealed flexure element 184, as shown in
A book, Biomedical Telemetry by R. McKay describes an analog device using coils and a diaphragm to measure forces and pressures within a live body. It describes transmitting the data out of the body using an RF transmitter powered by an implanted battery. One embodiment improves upon this scheme by providing power to a digital sensor transponder through a sealed metal container. By providing a tapped coil, a microprocessor and an a/d converter, it provides a digital system that has higher measurement resolution and the ability to perform error checking.
In another embodiment strain gauges 190 are bonded to or deposited onto flexure element 192, as shown in
Multiple Addressable Transponders
Programmable microcontroller 54 as controlling element in transponder 48 a, 48 b, 48 c allows a great deal of flexibility in sensing system 200 to be realized for the first time, as shown in
A protocol in which sensor data is randomly periodically transmitted from each addressable sensor transponder 202 can accommodate hundreds of sensor transponders 202 in a single excitation field 204. Sensor transponders 202 may be randomly distributed in concrete, for example, to provide information during curing, or to provide information about the deterioration of the concrete over an extended time, such as crack formation or corrosion of reinforcing bars in the concrete. Collisions between sensor transponder communications may be avoided, as shown in the program illustrated in
Microprocessor 54, included in each sensor transponder 202 (see
Since each sensor transponder 202 can have onboard memory or data storage 208, and since they can all be remotely powered simultaneously by reader 206, it is possible for all sensor transponders 202 to acquire and store sensor data simultaneously even though they transmit the data at different times. Additional or alternate non-volatile data storage can also be provided, such as static RAM, magnetic RAM, or flash memory. They can then communicate the stored data back to reader 206 later randomly and one at a time. Furthermore, by logging the data in data storage 208, energy is saved compared to immediate serial transmission, allowing increased distance between transponder and reader while acquiring data, especially in the embodiment using RF transmission, shown in
As shown in
In another embodiment multiple sensor transponder circuits 218 can be provided with a single receiver coil 34′ and receiver tank circuit 28, as shown in
Energy Storage
A further advantage of the periodic transmission from multiple addressable sensor transponders 202 described herein above is the ability of each transponder 202 to collect and store energy for reading sensors that may consume higher power to operate, such as low resistance strain gauges. Transponder 48 c, having energy storage capacitor 220, shown in
Ratiometric Sensor Detection
As shown in
One disadvantage of using energy from receiver coil 34 to provide an AC signal to an AC sensor, such as a DVRT, is that a change in distance between reader coil 40 and receiver coil 34 modulates the intensity of that AC signal received at the AC sensor 60′, as shown in
The sum of voltages at points A and B is equal to the magnitude of the AC signal at tap 66. The difference in potential between A and B is the output of sensor 60′. The ratio of the difference to the sum is the desired ratiometric signal. Because the difference signal depends on the sum signal the ratio of the two is independent of the sum signal and independent of the distance to reader 40.
Alternatively, the ratio of rectified signals can be used. In this case, the ratio of Ar-Br to Vp is used, where Vp is the rectified signal from tap 66. Outputs A and B can be rectified using rectifiers 230 becoming rectified outputs AR and BR respectively, as shown in
Reader Optimization
Data coming back to reader 40 from sensor transponder 48 a, 48 c (
Many methods can be used to convert this varying electromagnetic signal into meaningful data, including such a well known method as AM envelope demodulation that is widely used in ordinary radios and for reading ordinary RFID tags that do not have sensor transponders. Existing off-the-shelf RFID systems typically use envelope demodulation in which the excitation signal is simply rectified and low pass filtered to remove the carrier wave from oscillator 253 while passing the changes in amplitude of the carrier wave that are provided by switched reactance in sensor transponder 48 a, 48 c occurring at a designated data rate.
In addition, the present inventors found that synchronous AM demodulation, commonly used in broadcast or military grade AM radio receivers and as a signal conditioner for DVRTs provides improved signal to noise ratio. Synchronous AM demodulation has not heretofore been used for reading RFID tags. The present inventors also developed a new scheme for converting the signal received at coil 38 to meaningful data, which they called impedance bridge demodulation, more fully described herein below. They also found that phase demodulation, widely used as one method of detecting RF data communications radios, can be used.
Envelope demodulation type reader 250 is illustrated in
Oscillator 253 provides AC power to reader coil 38 which generates an electromagnetic signal that is received by receiver coil 34′ and modified by switched reactance transponder 48 a, 48 c. But this AC power from oscillator 253 includes harmonic distortion products and phase noise. In addition, this AC power from oscillator 253 is loaded down by changes introduced by sensor transponder 48 a, 48 c as its switched reactance switches. The desired signal are the changes introduced by this loading, and envelope demodulation allows detecting the loading signal on the carrier wave despite the presence of the distortion products and the phase noise. Using envelope demodulation, the sum of carrier 252, distortion products, phase noise and modulation induced by sensor transponder 48 a, 48 c (
The present inventors found that one improvement is to use synchronous demodulation reader 260, as shown in
This amplitude modulation signal is then low pass filtered in low pass filter 264, providing a signal similar to that shown in
Another method of detecting small load impedance changes in reader 270 having reader coil 38 is to use impedance bridge 271 between reader carrier oscillator 272 and reader coil 38, as shown in
Without impedance bridge 271, carrier 276 would have only about 1% amplitude modulation, as shown in
The present inventors also found improvement by providing reader 280 having a combination of impedance bridge and synchronous demodulation. The synchronous demodulation may be provided based on the AD698 (Analog Devices, Norwood Mass.) signal conditioner IC 282, as shown in
Still another embodiment of a high performance reader employs phase detection reader 290, as shown in
This technique produces the highest signal to noise ratio of the embodiments described here because the phase detection scheme completely removes the carrier signal. This is because the carrier frequency component appears at both inputs to the double balanced mixer and the phase angle is provided as an output along with twice the frequency of the carrier signal. The high frequency signal is removed in low pass filter 254, leaving only the phase angle information. This phase angle is amplified in amplifier slicer 256 and sent to RS232 output 258 as before. Alternatively the amplified phase angle data can be provided to microcontroller 94, as described in
Calibration of Sensor Transponder Electronics
Signal conditioning electronic components can drift over time or with temperature. These changes in signal conditioning electronics can affect the accuracy of readings from sensor transponder 48 a-48 c, and therefore the signal conditioning electronics in sensor transponder 48 a-48 c should be calibrated from time to time. Furthermore the conversion of voltage readings from sensors to physical units, such as strain or pressure, should be calibrated and this calibration should also be performed from time to time. These calibrations may be difficult for sensors that have been hermetically packaged, implanted, potted, positioned on a spinning turbine, or otherwise positioned with difficult access.
The present inventors provide shunt calibration, as shown in
The shunt calibration can be performed on demand for sensor transponders, such as sensor transponders 48 a-48 c, under the control of microcontroller 54. No bidirectional communication is needed in this scheme. It can be performed automatically, for example, such as on startup of sensor transponder 48 a-48 c under the control of microprocessor 54. In this case bidirectional communication is not needed. The calibration information can be sent to reader 40 so reader 40 can provide the coefficients to the sensor data it receives, as required to adjust the data it receives. Alternatively the calibration information can be applied locally by microcontroller 54 within sensor transponder 48 a-48 c to provide correction before communication to reader 40.
Bidirectional Communication
Amplitude Shift Keyed (ASK) demodulator 320 a can be included to provide for receiving information from the reader, as also shown in
Bidirectional communication allows reprogramming microcontroller 54. It can also be used to trigger the start of data logging from sensor transponders, initiate transmission of stored data, or initiate a calibration. Although the system is powered only when a reader is nearby, the initiation of these functions with bidirectional communication allows selecting which of a large number of sensor transponders performs any of these functions. Thus communication from networked sensor transponders is enabled while avoiding communication collisions.
The present inventors found that with the techniques described herein, sensor data can be communicated from exceedingly harsh environments, such as where batteries may need to be eliminated, crystals are likely to fail, physical space is limited, or wired connections are undesirable. Such a system has application in medical, aerospace, industrial, and civil infrastructure environments.
While several embodiments, together with modifications thereof, have been described in detail herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it will be evident that various further modifications are possible. Nothing in the above specification is intended to limit the invention more narrowly than the appended claims. The examples given are intended only to be illustrative rather than exclusive.
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I am working with a mouse cell line and would like to express my gene at high levels using one of your vectors with the CMV promoter. Do you foresee any problems with this approach?
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text: GBP/USD update (8th July 2010, 15:45) Market Moves Staff in Forex News 8 Jul 2010 0 share Share Tweet Email Share Sterling was able to recoup 38.2% of its earlier losses but has faced some stiff resistance near the 1.5170 level. As expected, the Bank of England today announced that the Official Bank Rate would remain unchanged at 0.5% and there would be additions to the Asset Purchase Facility. Unfortunately, the other economic indicators were not as positive as expected. Manufacturing Production in the UK did improve, but missed expectations by posting a 0.3% growth reading. The Halifax House Price Index was really the burden on the pound though, coming out with a reading of negative 0.6% versus the reading of +0.6% that traders were expecting. Overall though, the technicals still seem to be the play in this pair as the trading channel remains firmly intact. After breaking only slightly over the high levels of the week, sterling once again retreated lower. Resistance still seems steadfast in the zone of 1.5230 to 1.5240. On the support side, the GBP has three times over the last week tested levels near 1.5080 and each time has held firm and then moved higher. If we get a fourth test of this level, it could be the try that determines whether or not the pound will fall back below 1.5000 or if traders should start looking for an upside break of the channel.


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Book by: AubreyMaxx
Status: Finished
Genre: Young Adult
Chapter1 (v.1) - Cutting Deep
And actually, if he did come back, I would just say ''get away from me.''
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Rlly interesting! I love it so far!
Keep me updated!?
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Aww...I really lie the way you write. Keep going!! It's great! Is she really ill? That's sad how she cuts herself....good job! -DS
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Wow! This is REALLY good! I liked it it's interesting! I've beeen practically dying to read a story like this and I'm UBER happy that you asked me to read!
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Glad I got that off my chest. Lol.
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At least now she has friends who understand her.
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By Louise Egan and Jason Lange
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada's top central banker said on Saturday the commodity price boom could last for decades and urged his emerging market peers facing inflationary pressures not to delay raising interest rates for too long.
The rise in prices for commodities is partly due to supply effects, though underlying demand remains strong, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said during a panel discussion at the Inter-American Development Bank's annual meeting in Calgary.
"It's a mistake to chalk this all up to cyclical, and that's where one can make pretty big mistakes and delay too much, both on the monetary side, or on the pretty fundamental structural reforms," Carney said.
"... We're in an environment that is probably going to be with us for several decades," he said.
One challenge for Canada, a major producer of oil, gas, grains and metals, is to rebalance trade and investment away from its top buyer, the United States, he added.
In a speech earlier on Saturday, Carney warned that misguided policies for dealing with high inflation and a flood of capital into emerging markets could lead to financial instability and weak economic growth.
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Carney said some countries were postponing interest rate hikes, needed to arrest inflation, for fear of further boosting currencies that have already been pushed higher due to heavy capital inflows. Continued...


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Nowhere Left To Turn
Home alone... and there's nothing but the breeze
gently pushing my hand towards the bottle
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Fragments of those days blur in my mind
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Home alone... but I never wanted any of this
when the sun never wants to rise
I wake to the velvet kiss of a never-healing wound
I've still got time to find myself but
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I'm not sure if I want to face what I have become
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though I am only twenty years of age
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1918 flu pandemic had a trial run
The flu pandemic that struck in the autumn of 1918 killed tens of millions worldwide. But it now seems that it had a widespread, and much milder, trial run.
Scandinavian health statistics record an unseasonable outbreak of flu in the summer of 1918. People who caught it were only a tenth as likely to die as those stricken in the autumn, but those who did catch it were mainly young adults – a hallmark of the autumn outbreak and a strong indication that the summer virus was closely related to it (The Journal of Infectious Diseases, DOI: 10.1086/524065).
Previous studies have shown that the autumn virus spread relatively slowly. It had been hoped that this was a general feature of pandemics, because it would mean that "social distancing" measures such as closing schools could prevent deaths.
However, the Scandinavian figures suggest that the autumn virus spread slowly because the summer virus had already immunised many people. The team also found that the summer virus spread too fast for social distancing to work, but that the immunity it caused may have saved lives. Not every city got the summer flu and those that did may have had up to 40 times fewer deaths in the autumn.
If a pandemic behaved the same way now, this suggests we shouldn't try to avoid the first wave. Watching out for it could also give us time to make vaccine before the bad wave hits.


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The 10 Laws of Enduring Successby Maria Bartiromo, Catherine Whitney (With)
What do Condoleezza Rice, Joe Torre, Bill Gates, Goldie Hawn, Mary Hart, Garry Kasparov, and Jack Welch have in common?
All have talked at length with Maria Bartiromo about business, the world and their surprising, inspiring and uncommon ideas about the/b>
The times have changed. We need a fresh understanding of the meaning of success.
What do Condoleezza Rice, Joe Torre, Bill Gates, Goldie Hawn, Mary Hart, Garry Kasparov, and Jack Welch have in common?
All have talked at length with Maria Bartiromo about business, the world and their surprising, inspiring and uncommon ideas about the meaning of success. Their stories, those of an extraordinary range of other people from all walks of life, and Maria Bartiromo's personal insights are the foundation of The 10 Laws of Enduring Success. It is the guide for the extraordinary times we are living through.
During bullish, optimistic periods, people seem to ride an upward wave with ease and confidence. The tangible evidence is right there for all to see--in their jobs, bank accounts, homes, families, and the admiration of their peers. But it is a fact of life that success, once earned, is not necessarily there to stay. If ever there was a cautionary tale about the fleeting nature of success, it is the events of recent years.
But a funny thing happened. Faced with gut-wrenching realities, many people have started to re-evaluate the meaning of success in less superficial and impermanent ways. They're asking themselves hard questions that have long been ignored: about what's really important to them, and where the bedrock of their personal achievement lies.
As Maria Bartiromo watched the financial drama from her front-row seat at the New York Stock Exchange, she began to re-assess the meaning of success--not just as one-off achievements, but as a durable, lifelong pursuit. Is there, she wondered, a definition of success that you can have permanently--in spite of the turmoil in your life, your job, or your bank account? This question is more important than ever, given the unpredictability of the current economy.
--What are the intangibles that can't be measured or counted?
--What are the qualities that aren't reflected in your title or on your business card?
--And more practically, how can you remain successful even when the worst things happen to you?
--Is it possible to build success from failure? It's lonely at the bottom of the heap, when your BlackBerry stops buzzing, and the world moves on without you.
Everyone wants to be close to success, and to have success. But what is success? How do you get it, and how do you keep it? As Maria interviewed some of the most successful people in the world, she felt the need to answer these questions: what makes these success stories tick? How did they achieve such leadership and power and how can one hold onto it, once you get it. What are the barriers to success and what is the bedrock to enduring success?
From the Hardcover edition.
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If you were to ask me during the early years of my career, "Maria, what is your passion? What do you really want to do?" I wouldn't have had a good answer. I had a general idea that I wanted to pursue journalism, and I found, almost by accident, that I had an interest and facility in business reporting. But there are a thousand ?dif?ferent ways of expressing those interests, and I was still feeling my way. Luckily, I was in the right place to figure it out.
Landing a job as a production assistant at CNN right out of college was a dream come true. I didn't even realize at first how valuable the opportunity was. When I was in school, people only wanted to work for the big guys—the established networks. But as I would discover, being at a small, non-union network like CNN allowed me a fuller plate of experiences. At the major networks, you had one job only and that was your narrow slot—whether it was teleprompting, ripping scripts, or floor direction. At CNN we all wore many hats, and I was able to learn every aspect of broadcasting.
What a time to be in the news business, especially at such an energetic young company! The Gulf War was just starting, and CNN was making history in news reporting. It was also pioneering an aggressive approach to business news, with Money Line, Business Day, and Business Morning. I was happy to go to work every day. I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do at the time, but I did know that I loved the urgency and immediacy of the news business. I also knew I had a knack for learning things by speaking to people and getting information.
Within a couple of years I had found what I felt was the right fit for me: working as an editor on the assignment desk. That doesn't sound too glamorous, I know, but I loved it. I wrote and produced pieces for on-air reporters like Kitty Pilgrim, Terry Keenan, and Jan Hopkins, who were the early stars of CNN's business division. I also worked with Lou Dobbs on his popular show, Money Line.
At CNN I watched and learned from many smart, hardworking newshounds who loved what they did. They knew what they were good at and adapted to a changing news business—particularly during the war, when things were moving so fast. I admired their courage as they reported from war zones in the midst of bomb blasts.
I loved my job and was completely engaged in what I was doing. And then, after five years, out of the blue, CNN announced that it was going to restructure the assignment desk. My boss presented me with the "good news" that I was being promoted from assignment editor to producer on the overnight shift. My immediate reaction was disappointment—not the usual response to a promotion. I didn't want to stop what I was doing. I was having such a great time, and I was good at interacting with sources and fostering the right relationships to get newsmakers on the air. I was beginning to compile a fantastic Rolodex. And I felt that I was valuable on the desk.
The promotion was a great opportunity, with more money and a better title, but it was not what I wanted. I was very upset, although I tried not to show it. I fled to the library on the twenty-second floor, where I could cry in peace.
It was a big moment of truth for me. Like most of my peers, I had been conditioned to think of my career as a climb up the ladder. The important thing was to keep moving upward, and it didn't matter how much you loved it as long as you nabbed the better title and the bigger paycheck. And suddenly here I was, accomplishing just that, but in my heart I knew it wasn't a job I would love. It wasn't right for me.
What to do? I wandered into the ladies' room to clean up my face, and as I stood at the sink, wiping my eyes, Kitty Pilgrim walked in. I'd always looked up to Kitty, although she was only a few years older than me. She had broken into the boys' club of business news so smoothly, and she always seemed sure of herself. To this day, Kitty remains one of the top business anchors and reporters at CNN. I wondered how one achieved such confidence and certainty. I sure didn't feel it.
Noticing that I was upset, Kitty stopped to talk with me. "Kitty," I confided, "I don't know what to do. I love this place, and I don't want to leave. I'm proud to get promoted, but I think I will hate my new job. Should I quit? Should I just suck it up and enjoy the promotion?"
Kitty was very wise. She said, "Maria, you have to think about where you see yourself in five years. Once you get that picture, then you have to work toward it now. That's the best advice I can give you."
It was the first time anyone had spoken to me about taking the long view of my future. On that day, I began to think seriously about where I was headed. I considered what I loved—being in the center of the news, interacting with people from all walks of life, writing stories, reporting. I also realized an aspiration I hadn't dared articulate before: to be on camera. I knew that as long as I stayed true to my ultimate goal, I could take the new job and use it as a stepping-stone to my future. And that's what I did—with a little help from the crew.
I took the new job and started producing on the overnight shift, but I now had a larger plan: to build my portfolio and on-air experience. I convinced my boss to allow me to work longer than the typical day. After my regular shift, I'd go into the field with the morning crews and pick up the news and sound bites when the markets opened. I'd write out scripts, and when I was alone with the crew, I'd ask them to shoot me on camera, reporting, so I'd have some clips. I'd wheedle and plead—"It will only take ten minutes. I have a script. Can you just shoot me?" And they were very kind and supportive. With their help, I created a portfolio of clips: "Maria Bartiromo, reporting for CNN Business News."
My heart was telling me what to do. And when I had compiled enough clips, I sent a tape to several places, including CNBC. I'd decided that I wanted to be where business news was central. And CNBC called me back. They liked my tape.
So one morning, after working all night, I got myself together and went to meet the then top executive, Peter Sturtevant, and Roger Ailes, who had just become the new president of CNBC, at their office in Fort Lee, New Jersey. I could feel that the interview was going well. We clicked. I know you can't always be sure that your instincts are right about these things, but that day, at the tender age of twenty-six, I thought I knew. I left the meeting so convinced I had the job that I went back to Manhattan and bought two new dresses.
I was exhausted by the time I got home. I had to get a few hours' sleep before I went on my night shift at CNN. In the middle of a deep sleep, I heard the phone ringing, and I grabbed it groggily. It was CNBC with an offer: they wanted me to be an on-camera reporter. I didn't go back to sleep that day. I was elated.
When I think back on that period, more than sixteen years ago, I see the journey my younger self took, and the truth I learned has stayed with me. That is, you have to know yourself and follow your heart. Titles, prestige, and money are fine, but if you don't love what you do, it's all meaningless.
Control your fate, or someone else will
Jack Welch has been an important mentor for me. When I joined CNBC in 1993, he was the chairman and CEO of our parent company, General Electric. Jack used to say, "Control your own destiny, or someone else will." (There was even a book about Jack with that title, Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will by Noel Tichy and Stratford Sherman.)
It's such a basic idea—a centerpiece of success: You can't go through life thinking that the tide will just move you along and take you where you want to be. You have to swim there. In today's economic climate, I hear a lot of people saying, "I hope I don't get laid off. I hope I can hang on to my job." It's a paralyzing attitude. You might survive this storm, but what about the next one? Do you want to spend your life hoping that bad things won't happen to you? I know I don't want people working for me who are just rolling along with the tide. I want the strong swimmers—and it's okay with me if they falter sometimes, as long as they're in there kicking, moving forward.
I'm struck that one of the main characteristics of our time is the overwhelming feeling many people have that they're not in control. Many high-achieving professionals are sitting in their offices every day, hoping the phones on their desks don't ring with the dreaded summons to the head office. I have spoken with many of them, both personally and professionally. They see what's happening on Wall Street—firms consolidating and going out of business—and they're afraid they're going to be victims of the cutbacks. I notice two types of responses: Some people feel that they're trapped by circumstances and there is nothing they can do but wait and hope for the best. Others take action, improving their skills or looking for options in other fields. The big question is, How can you be like the latter group and take control of your fate in perilous times?
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
Maria Bartiromo is the anchor of CNBC's Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo and host and managing editor of the nationally syndicated (to over 200 stations) Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo, rated as the most-watched financial news program. Earlier in her career she was a producer, writer and editor for CNN Business News. A graduate of New York University and now on its Board of Trustees, Maria Bartiromo lives in New York City with her husband Jonathan Steinberg.
Catherine Whitman is a New York writer who has coauthored many books on politics and business
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This book is best when she isn't describing famous friends' boringly hyped life breakthroughs and when she just sticks to her own story. The celebrity ra ra fervor has got to be the most boring emotion on earth. How can anyone get excited about Oprah's story anymore? Why even mention her? I don't like the writing style when she starts the name dropping, it becomes an infomercial. She has a tendency to hype up any news, the CNBC style where every day a new hypothesis is proposed for the markets. I hope journalists drop this style. In fact, her principals are well chosen and solid and you can see the real Maria exemplifies them. That's the good part. Trying to analyze the world through the prism of these principals is the boring part.
...but she's not saying anything you couldn't find (argued better) in a Jack Welch/leadership motivational book. Her anecdotes are very brief, too numerous to leave much an impression on the reader and her summaries are often unnecessarily preachy. Reading about her childhood at the beginning of the book gave me some perspective on why she formulated these laws and sub-laws. Perhaps, if she fashioned the book as a memoir, presenting her "enduring laws" from the actual perspective of her interviewees, I think she could have eliminated these relatively mild weaknesses.
This book is a great review of what makes successful people endure to achieve goals. It is easy to read and moves quickly. She is a very successful tv personality and has meet a lot of people with wisdom to share. This book is especially good for some one who owns or wants to start a business.
Maria Bartiromo's The 10 Laws of Enduring Success offers an optimistic bouquet of fast and firm rules to a world currently trying to recover from financial chaos and fiscal confusion. This fascinating book is extremely well-written, the words seeming to flow from the heart. It is well-organized, full of interesting stories and compelling practical advice. Not only is this book meant to be shared with all of the current graduating classes of both high schools and colleges across the nation, it is meant to be read by all of us, especially those of us in the financial services industry. Maria Bartiromo and her writer, Catherine Whitney, have performed a valuable service to our nation and to the world---for one of the book's essential messages is to do for others, and thereby give of yourself to the world. Inspirational, honest, and full of warm encouragement, the 10 Laws of Enduring Success is sure to be an enduring best-seller. I was tremendously moved by many of the stories and lessons I learned while reading this terrific book.
The book is outstanding. I believe the book was written for everyone. It doesn't matter who you are, where you are in life, or what you're doing with your life at this time, this book should give you guidance and help move you forward and in the right direction. I believe the book was written from the heart and with spirit. Quite honestly, every page seemed to have something that was reflective and directional for me. I could mention so many things that I found, but I'll just randomly select one that I could relate to and will consciously consider moving forward. This is not a quote, but just one of the messages that I absorbed in my own way and in my own words; you should follow your heart not the money. Sometimes to grow and diversify your career, you may need to accept less money. As you become more diversified, your options should become greater and more money can follow if that's what you're after. The point as I saw it; don't let money dictate all your decisions. The author provides insights of many of the most successful business persons as well as her own. I also found the book to have a sense of compassion and to be about life (how it's important to be humble and how things can so easily go up and down within your life). I think if you read openly, you will learn and it will help you achieve your goals.
$19.31 for this book. $18.99 for Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged. Yet, Barnes and Noble will not allow us to use the Membership discount on eBooks. I'm getting closer to giving up on B&N. Prices are lower at Amazon.com.
I have enjoyed watching Maria for years on CNBC, and have always found a calm in her ability to relay the financial news of the day - even when that news was often anything but calming. Maria has always appeared to be humble - even though she has experienced incredible success in journalism. When she is interviewing one of the many "Who's Who" in the area of finance & business, she always portrays an air of somebody who is simply pleased to have these opportunities presented to her. I am looking forward to reading this book.


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It had been two weeks since Sebastian presented me with the ring. I hadn't had any dreams since the last one. There was no sign of Ron or Don and everything seemed perfect.
Despite our delay in taking a road trip, we didn't let it stop us from at least enjoying a honeymoon. Sebastian called back the blonde boy who was happy to accept a position at the store. His name I found out was Brady, him and his family had just moved to Cottonwood a few months back.
We were to get married at the court house and then we would head off to the virgin Islands. Apparently Sebastian had a few secrets himself that he revealed to me. First and most astonishing was that his parent's had come into some money and they left it to him. It was what helped him keep the store a float and helped him live comfortably.
Secondly, he had an old customer who was a regular back before he moved to San Antonio. He had left Sebastian his number in case he ever got out of this small town. Lucky for us he also dabbled in a little illegal activity which consisted of fake id's and papers. Now that I was ready to leave my past behind, Sebastian was willing to turn a blind eye to the crime in obtaining a new identity. It had arrived in the mail earlier that week.
I couldn't help admiring my new ID, it felt good to belong for once. I read the name aloud," Mrs. Destiny Ann Clark." The middle name was after his mother, it was sort of my gift to him.
We would be leaving in less then a week and each day I became more excited. Sebastian was busy at the store training Brady to ensure he knew everything he needed to know. Just in case of an emergency Sebastian had a neighbor that agreed to look after Brady while were gone. He knew Sebastian's dad well and had filled in for Sebastian a few times in the past. So he knew what he needed to know.
I had asked Sebastian once if thought about selling the store, but he said it was all he had left of his family. He did however say he would take into consideration letting someone else run it for a while. It would probably take two people to keep the store intact as he did.
I had decided the night I said yes to Sebastian I never look back to yesterday, and I hadn't. The virgin Islands wow, beaches lined with beautiful blue waters. Just me and mu husband, wow I like the way that rolled off my tongue.


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Globe-La Crosse Health Care Management Students Support the Salvation Army
The Salvation Army provides food, housing, and one-on-one support to community members in need. At times, consumers utilizing the Salvation Army have to wait before meeting with a case worker to discuss community resources. Globe University Instructor, Rhonda Staats, saw this as an opportunity to develop a service learning project to assist the Salvation Army in reaching out to their consumers.
To provide community resource information to Salvation Army consumers, Staat's collaborated with the Salvation Army to identify the needs of the organization and to understand how her class could assist them in meeting their needs. To accomplish these goals, she divided her class into teams. Each team was responsible for researching community resources that were available for Salvation Army consumers. Students collected information on family resources, employment services, medical resources, and transportation assistance available in La Crosse and Monroe counties.
After the students completed their research, they designed a resource manual for Salvation Army staff to use with consumers to help them locate beneficial services. The manual was carefully edited, designed, and organized by the students so that it was user friendly.
The class presented the resource manual to Salvation Army staff and shared with them the steps they took to collect and compile the information, as well as how they managed a comprehensive class project. The Salvation Army was thrilled with the project and very grateful for a new tool to assist community members in need.
In addition to supporting the Salvation Army, the service learning project provided a great opportunity for a hands-on learning. "The students received professional experience in managing a large project from inception to completion. This is an important and useful skill to have as they graduate with the Health Care Management degree from Globe University. Additionally, these students learned about the broad array of local resources
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