Well, the heatwave has passed and we are at a mere 25 degC and decreasing. A bookish day today with two sets of print proofs arriving and two different books requiring slight design changes after having seen their proofs. Moving margins and balancing proportions by two or three millimetres is quite time consuming. Later in the afternoon also looked at converting one of our children's books to an ebook format using comic book creator.
It was a CETC Talk evening (Cambridge Enterprise and Technology Club). Our chair was justifiably aghast when one of the three speakers suddenly decided it was too far to come and cancelled today. Since their talk was on Drone racing, I found an interesting YouTube video on the Dubai Million Dollar Drone Race, won by a 15 year old drone pilot! The problem was at the talk location, where suddenly the hi-tech equipment was inexplicably unable to provide sound when I arrived early. Fortunately the situation was resolved with two adapters and long cabling to the large screen.
The other two speakers more than made up for the missing speaker. Andrew Kadis of TTP introduced us to the hi-tech world of sports data trackers, apparently with us since 2004. The enterprising Australians began collecting real time data from their sports people, developing the range and complexity of data that could be detected. The reality in sport now is, that any winning team in a form of sport will have been using data monitoring and tracking in its athletes as part of training and also recovery after injury. Elena Rastourgeva, student at Cambridge University, gave a great introduction to the Cambridge University Eco Racer CUER, which was going to race in the trans Australia world solar race. Limited to a 5KWh battery and solar panels delivering no more than 1KWh, vehicles in the solar races had to brave kangaroos, road-trains and heat.
Prime Minister Theresa May went to Brussels today to present her first offe to the EU and the remaining 27 members. She proposed that the three million EU citizens living in the UK would be allowed to stay after Brexit, under a new "UK settled status", that is, if they had lived int eh UK for 5 years. However, the offer is dependent on EU states guaranteeing Britons the same rights. The cynical headline in Der Spiegel roughly translates as the Prime Minister *Giving EU ciizens living in the UK vague promises for the first time".
The news today was running articles in parallel on the worries in agriculture, that there would not be sufficient people working in the fields this year to bring in the fruit and vegetable harvests.
President Trump grudgingly admits on Twitter "With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea ... whether there are "tapes" or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings."
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