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LITTLE UNIVERSES
Heather Demetrios
Heather Demetrios's Little Universes is a book about the powerful bond between sisters, the kinds of love that never die, and the journey we all must make through the baffling cruelty and unexpected beauty of human life in an incomprehensible universe.
One wave: that's all it takes for the rest of Mae and Hannah Winters' lives to change.
When a tsunami strikes the island where their parents are vacationing, it soon becomes clear that their mom and dad are never coming home. Forced to move to Boston from sunny California for the rest of their senior year,
When a tsunami strikes the island where their parents are vacationing, it soon becomes clear that their mom and dad are never coming home. Forced to move to Boston from sunny California for the rest of their senior year, each girl struggles with secrets their parents' death has brought to light, and with their uncertainty about the future. Instead of bringing them closer, it feels like the wave has torn the sisters apart.
Hannah is a secret poet who wants to be seen, but only knows how to hide. The pain pills she stole from her dead father hurl her onto the shores of an addiction she can't shake and a dealer who turns her heart upside down. When it's clear Hannah's drowning, Mae, a budding astronaut suddenly launched into an existential crisis—and unexpected love—must choose between herself and the only family she has left.
About Heather Demetrios
Heather Demetrios is a critically acclaimed author and writing coach. Her novels include I'll Meet You There, Bad Romance, and Exquisite Captive. She is the recipient of the PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award for her debut novel, Something Real, which is not at all impressive to her cat or imaginary friends.
"A gripping story…illustrating that blood ties aren't necessary for deep, enduring sisterhood." – Booklist starred review
"An unflinching, devastating, and compelling portrayal of life after insurmountable loss." – Kirkus Reviews
THERE ARE PIECES OF STARS IN OUR GUTTERS.
(!!!!!!!!!).
It wasn't a Nobel-winning astrophysicist who made this discovery, but a Norwegian jazz musician named Jon Larsen. A completely random human who's into the cosmos and got to thinking.
His experiments led to the observation that these micrometeorites are EVERYWHERE—gutters, yes, and in our hair, the tops of cars, on the rosebushes in your front lawn. Stick out your tongue long enough, and perhaps you can SWALLOW THE STARS.
In case you didn't know, these micrometeorites are older than the planets themselves, some of the oldest matter in existence. Some of them are older than the sun, even. One hundred metric TONS of stardust crashes into Earth—Every. Single. Day.
And it's just raining down on us, all the time.
My mom has this book called Acorn by Yoko Ono and, I'm warning you right now, if you read it, you will never be the same again. It should maybe come with a warning label.
Say her name to yourself, softly: Yoooooh … kooooohhhhhh.
Mom says Yoko's presence in the world is the universe's way of reminding us all that we don't have to spend our lives wearing business casual. Or sensible shoes.
Spend our lives. Minutes as currency. It's like we're paying God, handing Her our time in exchange for more breath: Here's a minute, here's another minute, another. And sometimes I want to be like, Can I have a refund? Or maybe an exchange. A new life. A new me. Because I'm only seventeen and I feel broke. Like I spent my life already.
Do you ever feel like your skin is a little too baggy, like a pair of jeans that you should probably get rid of, but can't bring yourself to because maybe you wore them the night you lost your virginity or they're your good-luck charm on test days? But you really want to get a new pair. Or some days your skin is too tight, like all of you got stuck in the dryer too long?
And that's where Yoko comes in. She is the great reminder that It Doesn't Have To Be This Way.
Yoooooh … koooooohhhhhh.
Whisper with me. Come on.
Do it.
The sound of her name is just like these wooden wind chimes my mom keeps on our back porch. The wind comes in off the beach and bumps them around, soft wood clunking out poetry. Sound medicine. An incantation.
Good word. Incantation. Almost as good as Yoko.
Yoko fronts her own rock band even though she's a senior citizen, and she sees the truth of the world and writes about it and draws about it, too, and one time I got to see her art for real, and it made me cry, it was so good. Most people only know about Yoko because she was married to John Lennon. You know, the Beatle. He's the imagine all the people guy. I'm a George girl, 'cause he's the silent, sexy one who's all enlightened and plays the sitar, but even I have to admit that John is the man.
People say Yoko broke up the Beatles, but that's just dumb humans blaming a girl for boy problems. The thing is, people change. You know? You love someone, you make things with them, and then you realize you don't fit anymore. And that's what happened for John and Paul. They understood that it wasn't working. No matter how good it was. Before.
In her book Acorn, Yoko has all these suggestions that she writes down for people to do. Like in "Connection Piece I":
Whisper your name to a pebble.
Sometimes late at night I sneak out of the house and walk over to the beach. I go past the boardwalk, past those iconic Cali lifeguard huts, and the homeless guys and stoners, right down to where the water kisses the shore. I pick up a pebble and I whisper my name to it. Then I throw it into the ocean.
Maybe it will tell the crabs or jellyfish or dolphins my name when they come by.
Maybe someday the whole ocean will be whispering
Hannah. Hannah. Haaaaaa … naaaaaahhhhhhh.
I always have a Sharpie in my pocket, and when no one's looking, I write my own acorns. They're not like Yoko's. They're more like secrets I whisper to the whole world. Or just thoughts I want to share, but have no one to share them with because if I did they would give me that blank look they always do when I say things like what I write down with my Sharpies. I say stuff like that and Dad goes, "Maybe we should make an appointment with Dr. Brown," and then I say I don't really need to sit in her stupid paisley chair and talk about my problems and I walk out before he can start rattling off statistics about adolescent junkies, though he would never use that word. Neither would I. Because I'm not one—a junkie, no matter what they say in group. Mom tries to sweeten the deal with some Reiki from her friend Cynthia after the Dr. Brown appointments, to balance things out.
There isn't enough Reiki in the world to fix me, but I don't tell her that.
I wrote this on a stop sign a few days ago, after my first week of senior year:
i am invisible.
Mae would say this is a scientifically unsound assertion, but she doesn't understand that some things are true even if you don't have proof.
I don't know why I do them. The acorns. It's weird, I guess, to leave little pieces of yourself all over Los Angeles and never go back to pick them up.
Copyright © 2020 by Heather Demetrios


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Moving toward you at a speed of 47 mph is a train pulled by an Alco diesel-electric locomotive that was built in 1926. It is fuchsia and turquoise – two colors you didn't even know existed back then.
The six cars immediately behind the engine are filled with children's books from the 40s and 50s. You know, the kind with the three-color screen-printed illustrations – blue, green, orange – none of which line up quite right with their thin, black outlines.
And, the five cars in back (just in front of the caboose, which to your disappointment isn't red) are stacked with paperback murder mysteries somebody's grandmother had accumulated, one per week, from the local Five and Dime, right up until the day she died. That dime store died too, a murder mystery in its own right. One that's far too common.
You are standing 24 feet from the edge of the tracks, contemplating throwing yourself across them because, for some reason, the idea seems romantic. If it weren't for your indecisiveness, you'd already be lying there. After all, your capable mind has accepted the fact that the kinetic energy involved in the upcoming series of moments will claim your life, regardless of the prayers and less-genuine efforts from those on board the train.
You can already feel the earth trembling beneath your feet. It's decision time.
As the train approaches, passing the grain elevator (which died with your great-grandfather at the edge of the depot grounds), you lay yourself down atop a railroad tie. You find that the partially rotted wood sinks beneath the weight of your torso, cradling you comfortably. Your head rests on the northernmost rail (it feels alive with vibration), and you find it perfectly ironic that the cool sweat in your stubbly hairdo makes the top of your head feel like it's covered with moss. Your eyes are looking up at the copper eaves of the depot, when you are distracted by a flock of multi-colored birds. There are eight of them and they take up the band's high harmony. You don't have much time to wonder where they're from, where they're headed, or how they know the melody.
leaving the music with no sound.
that was said with no one around.
Oh my goodness! The train is upon you and you before you even realize it. Your last few seconds are spent hearing and seeing, but not [physically] feeling. It just doesn't seem real!
Maybe that's why they call it dream pop?
Those Transatatlantics released their debut LP, Knocked Out, on Detroit's Suburban Sprawl Music, which was preceded by two self-released EPs.
We like to make people dance, but we aren't dancy. Is that confusing?


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Rebecca Hall Shows Some Bristling Energy in the Otherwise Turbid Ghost Thriller The Night House
By Stephanie Zacharek
If there's one reason to view Oscar tastemakers with skepticism, it's the career of Rebecca Hall. She's one of our finest, most daring actors. But year after year, she fails to make a blip on the Academy's radar (although she has won a BAFTA, and plenty of critics' groups love her). Part of the problem—if you view this sort of thing as a problem—is that she tends to choose challenging roles laced with subterranean complexities. In Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017), she played a brainy, assured, freethinking academic who helps bring a comic-book heroine to life. And her dazzling, harrowing portrayal of troubled Florida TV-newswoman Christine Chubbuck, in the 2016 Christine, was one of the finest performances of that year. Though Hall has been working in movies for more than 15 years—and has directed a terrific, soon-to-be released first feature, Passing, adapted from the Nella Larsen novella—she still has the aura of an under-the-radar favorite, a performer who keeps us guessing as to what her next move might be.
That's a long way of saying that I'd watch Hall in anything—but David Bruckner's ghosty grief thriller The Night House isn't worthy of her gifts. Hall plays Beth, a recently widowed teacher living somewhere in woodsy upstate New York. Her husband, Owen (played, in flashback, by Evan Jonigkeit), committed suicide with a handgun she didn't even know he owned. He also left an enigmatic note she can't fully comprehend.
Beth always thought they'd been happy enough, and now she's left to wonder why he'd take his own life. That would be a big enough heap of stress for any woman's plate. But Owen apparently hasn't fully passed into the beyond. The stereo turns on by itself in the middle of Beth's mostly sleepless nights. She sometimes feels her husband's presence so strongly she's compelled to wrap her arms around its invisible form. These signs and signals aren't all comfortingly benign. Beth keeps seeing bloody footprints on the dock outside the couple's lakeside house. And when pressed, Beth's kindly neighbor Mel (played by Vondie Curtis-Hall, always a welcome presence), informs her that Owen had exhibited some alarming behavior when he was alive. Mel had withheld these details from Beth in order to protect her, but now he sees they have more meaning in the wake of Owen's death.
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Rebecca Hall in The Night House
Hall is terrific at playing characters dancing on the knife's edge, and that's what she brings to The Night House. Beth is a woman dressed in calm, muted tones of linen even as she's bristling with confusion; sometimes you'd swear you can see her nerve endings through her skin. In one of the movie's best scenes—something of a throwaway, but one that perfectly conveys Beth's state, poised precisely between jittery fragility and DGAF recklessness—she unleashes her diplomatic vitriol on the mother of a student who has come to negotiate a better grade for her offspring. It's a terrific and slightly odd moment, one that briefly jolts this mostly turbid film to life.
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But Brucker (The Signal, The Ritual), working from a script by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, leans in so hard on loud, scary noises and overly elaborate plot twists that some of his more subtle and effective touches get lost—for instance, the way a light shining out into the misty night just barely reveals the outline of a man, so minimally you're not sure you really saw it. Hall strives to carry The Night House on her more-than-capable shoulders, but she can't quite compensate for the moments when the movie is outright silly or, worse, boring. As Beth, she's a woman capable of seeing things we can't, stranded in a story that doesn't trust her enigmatic power.
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Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion in Southampton, Virginia, killing at least 57 whites. Hundreds of black slaves are killed in retaliation.
Alabama makes it illegal for enslaved or free blacks to preach.
In Boston, William Lloyd Garrison founds the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, signaling a dramatic shift in the antislavery movement. In the previous decades, it had centered in the South and favored a combination of compensated emancipation and colonization of freed slaves back to Africa. In the 1830s, the abolitionist movement becomes the dominant voice among antislavery advocates. Abolitionists demand the immediate end to slavery, which they consider to be a moral evil, without compensation to slaveowners.
Nat Turner, a literate slave who believes he is chosen to be the Moses of his people, instigates a slave revolt in Virginia. He and his followers kill 57 whites, but the revolt is unsuccessful and up to 200 slaves are killed. After an intense debate, the Virginia legislature narrowly rejects a bill to emancipate Virginia's slaves. The widespread fear of slave revolts, compounded by the rise of abolitionism, leads legislatures across the South to increase the harshness of their slave codes. Also, expressions of anti-slavery sentiment are suppressed throughout the South through state and private censorship.
North Carolina enacts a statute that bans teaching enslaved people to read and write.
Slave Revolt: Virginia Slave preacher Nat Turner leads a two-day uprising against whites, killing about 60. Militiamen crush the revolt then spend two months searching for Turner, who is eventually caught and hanged. Enraged Southerners impose harsher restrictions on their slaves.
Oberlin College is founded in Ohio. It admits African-Americans. By 1860, one third of its students are black.
The American Anti-Slavery Society is established in Philadelphia.
The British Parliament abolishes slavery in the entire British Empire.
Hércules Florence, a French-Brazilian painter and the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, coined the word photographie for his technique, at least four years before John Herschel coined the English word photography.
South Carolina bans the teaching of blacks, and slave or free, in its borders.
Henry Fox Talbot produces durable silver chloride camera negatives on paper and conceives the two-step negative-positive procedure used in most non-electronic photography up to the present.
Texas declares its independence from Mexico. In its constitution as an independent nation, Texas recognizes slavery and makes it difficult for free blacks to remain there.
Southern states expel abolitionists and forbid the mailing of antislavery propaganda.
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre perfects and presents the daguerreotype process as the first publicly available photographic process (which for nearly twenty years was also the one most commonly used). To make the image, a daguerreotypist would polish a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish, treat it with fumes that made its surface light sensitive, expose it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting; make the resulting latent image on it visible by fuming it with mercury vapor; remove its sensitivity to light by liquid chemical treatment, rinse and dry it, then seal the easily marred result behind glass in a protective enclosure.
Henry Fox Talbot publicly introduces the paper-based process he worked out in 1835, calling it "photogenic drawing", but it requires much longer exposures than the daguerreotype and the results are not as clear and detailed.
John Herschel introduces hyposulfite of soda (now known as sodium thiosulfate but still nicknamed "hypo") as a highly effective fixer for all silver-based processes. He also makes the first glass negative.
Sarah Anne Bright creates a series of photograms, six of which are known to still exist. These are the earliest surviving photographic images created by a woman.
La Amistad was a 19th-century two-masted schooner, owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives, who had been enslaved in Sierra Leone, and were being transported from Havana, Cuba to their purchasers' plantations. The African captives took control of the ship, killing some of the crew and ordering the survivors to sail the ship to Africa. The Spanish survivors secretly maneuvered the ship north, and La Amistad was captured off the coast of Long Island by the brig USS Washington. The Mende and La Amistad were interned in Connecticut while federal court proceedings were undertaken for their disposition. The owners of the ship and Spanish government claimed the slaves as property; but the US had banned the African trade and argued that the Mende were legally free. Because of issues of ownership and jurisdiction, the case gained international attention. Former president John Quincy Adams argued on behalf of the slaves when the appeal was brought before the U.S. Supreme Court, which eventually determined the Africans to be free men. The case became a symbol in the United States in the movement to abolish slavery.
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We have added a Xerox Workcenter 7225 to the printers I can choose. Previously my color choice was a HP5220 Series PCL6. The Catalog I produce has correct color on the HP. But the Text and Picture Quality is by a large margin better on the 7225. All text and pictures on the 7225 have a slight "red" tint on the 7225. The Catalog is printed from the Booklet tab in InDesign. Why is there a difference between printers and How do I get the Xerox 7225 to print the corect colors.
Make sure you calibrate the printer.
Sometimes a differnt driver can give you a different result.
Compared to the WC71xx, color quality is realy dissapointing on WC72xx.
Seems a software/firmware issue though.
Has anyone found a solution for this? we just replaced a 7125 with a 7225 in an archetect office and they are very unhappy with the 7225 print quality. They 4 color grey has a pinkish tint and the overall density is lighter than the 7125.
Customer and Service Color Calibrations have been done.
PCL versus PS, With a PS driver you gain vast color control, but you need to adjust your workflows to match, PCL sends much less information, so there is 0 chance you will actually be able to hit a pantone color , but what you see on a completely uncalibrated RGB monitor is typical of the print. It's more of expectation verses reality.
Neither the 7120 nor 7220 come with PS as standard, so it may not be an option to use it.
In the above dropdown, I prefer None but I calibrate my monitor with an X-rite, LCD or sRGB may work better for some.
If the PS option leaves the blues too dark and Magenta overpowers background. I don't see where it's a viable solution.
You missed most of the paragraph it seems, I stated that the defaults are the issue and explained how to resolve it and even showed it in a picture and highlighted the area to try.
You will never get 100% accuracy, the printer isn't exactly a Full Pantone Certified device, it is an Office product, meant to make your Pie chart look great so that is where the driver defaults are set.
I can't tell you 100% how to get accurate color, because if you are comparing printed output to your monitor it would merely be a fluke for them to be the same unless you had a it calibrated too. And even then, no matter the printer, you would need to load ICC profiles from the printer into the Application (ala Indesign) and likely for a print shop export that document as a PDF/x3 or higher and print that to make sure the whole profile and everything else make it to the printer.
On my work laptop I have 2 external monitors, all run of the mill type stuff from Dell, all 3 monitors show the same image slightly different due to how they are made, all the same manufacturer.
On my design PC I have it Calibrated and the output is very close to any printer when the profiles are loaded.
OK, my bad. I only saw the driver on the right and that it was the PS driver. As you say, there really are no possible changes with the PCL driver. Also learned today that there are 6 spar updates since the last .73 public release. Unfortunately it didn't make a difference. I have attached samples to this post: the first 1 is from the 7125 and the 2nd is from the 7225. as you can see, the 7225 are darker and more saturated.
Also note that both the 7125 and 7225 COPY the origionals faithfully. there is no disernable difference between either of the origional and their copies.
Forgot to list RID 507440885 and to agree with you; I told the client on my first visit the 7125 and 7225 are Business color machines, not graphic color. Sadly, there is a very noticable difference in print quality.


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Макао — азартная карточная игра, широко распространённая в мире в начале XX века, до запрета игорных домов. Названием обязана городу Макао (Аомынь), бывшей португальской колонии, крупнейшему центру игорного бизнеса на Востоке.

В макао повсеместно играли в Петрограде осенью 1917 года «невероятное количество солдат, располагавшие подчас, неведомо откуда, довольно большими деньгами» в «свыше пятидесяти игорных притонов», в том числе и в игорном клубе Общество Престарелых Мучеников в рассказе Александра Грина «Клубный арап».

Правила в разной литературе описываются по-разному, но принцип их один. В одних вариантах сдают по 1 карте, в других — по 3, ещё в одном варианте играют с козырем («клубное экарте»). Наиболее известный вариант имеет другое название: виктория. Количество игроков неограниченно. Колода — 104 листа, то есть две смешанных колоды. Прежде все ставят условленную ставку. Затем банкомёт сдаёт по 1 карте каждому игроку и себе. Другие игроки называются понтёры.

Правила
Туз имеет одно очко, картинки — по 10, остальные карты — по достоинству. Игроки могут затребовать прикуп. Тогда банкомёт сдаёт им ещё по одной карте. Правда прикупившие потом теряют в выигрыше. Можно прикупить и ещё раз, то есть сбросить обе плохие карты и получить новые две. После сдачи подсчитывают очки и выигрыш. Десятки отбрасываются, высшая карта — 9. Выигрывает тот, у кого 9. Он получает втройне, в том числе и банкомёт. 8 даёт двойной выигрыш, 7 — одинарный. Если банкомёт имеет 7, то он платит тем, у кого 8 и 9, но берёт со всех остальных. В целом банкомёт имеет преимущества.

Виктория отличается тем, что в ней сдают по две карты.

Литература

Карточные игры

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CT radiation dose levels vary widely, new study finds
AuntMinnie, CT, CT Protocols, Dose, Radiation
A new international study has found wide variation in radiation dose levels used for CT scans, potentially exposing patients to unnecessary radiation. On the positive side, dose could easily be reduced through changes in CT protocols, according to the study published January 2 in BMJ.
In many cases, radiation dose could be reduced by 50% or more without reducing image quality and diagnostic accuracy. In addition, setting more consistent dose standards would ensure that patients are not exposed to unnecessary radiation risks, noted a team led by Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman, professor of radiology, epidemiology and biostatistics, obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman from San Francisco.
"Our study highlights that there is tremendous variation in the radiation doses that radiologists use for CT — and that this leads to unnecessary risk," she explained to AuntMinnie.com. "It is the responsibility of radiologists who do CT to ensure they are using the minimum doses to get the quality images needed for diagnosis, and, currently, this is not the case."
"I am extremely concerned about how high patient exposures have become at some hospitals and imaging centers — and yet other centers are doing an excellent job of minimizing doses, making it clear that it is possible to get high-quality diagnostic images for CT and minimize patient dose," she added.
Over 2 million scans analyzed
The team analyzed dose data for more than 2 million CT scans from 151 institutions in seven countries. They included scans of the abdomen, chest, combined chest and abdomen, and head acquired from 1.7 million adults between November 2015 and August 2017. They adjusted the data for a range of variables related to the patient (e.g., sex and size), institution (e.g., trauma center, academic, or private), and CT scanner (e.g., manufacturer and model).
The researchers found that most of these factors had only a small effect on dose variation across countries. For instance, after adjusting for patient characteristics, they still found a fourfold range in mean effective radiation dose for abdominal scans. Similar variations persisted for chest scans and combined chest and abdomen scans.
Characteristics of CT examinations & machines included in analyses
CT examinations
(n = 2,005,459) Institutions
(n = 151) Machines
(n = 290)
Anatomical area
Abdomen 724,627 (36%) – –
Chest 515,007 (26%) – –
Combined abdomen & chest 83,124 (4%) – –
Head 682,701 (34%) – –
Manufacturer*
GE 873,965 (44%) 92 (61%) 147 (51%)
Philips 381,917 (19%) 28 (19%) 44 (15%)
Siemens 552,222 (28%) 43 (28%) 78 (27%)
Toshiba 197,355 (10%) 16 (11%) 21 (7%)
Switzerland 37,119 (2%) 2 (1%) 4 (1%)
Netherlands 38,034 (2%) 1 (1%) 5 (2%)
Germany 45,599 (2%) 4 (3%) 7 (2%)
U.K. 61,888 (3%) 3 (2%) 9 (3%)
U.S. 1,627,834 (81%) 133 (88%) 253 (87%)
Israel 133,031 (7%) 5 (3%) 5 (2%)
Japan 61,954 (3%) 3 (2%) 7 (2%)
*Machine characteristics were not mutually exclusive. Institutions could have more than one manufacturer's machines, and, therefore, the total number of institutions does not add up to 151.
Adjusting for institution and machine factors also had little effect on dose variation, but allowing for technical factors (how scanners were used by medical staff) substantially reduced or eliminated nearly all the dose variation across countries.
Essential measures to take
Several steps are vital to balance image quality and radiation dose, according to Smith-Bindman. For example, multiple-phase studies should be used rarely and only in very limited circumstances. When multiple-phase studies are used, one or more phases can be performed using lower-dose techniques. Lower mAs and kVp often can be used.
The size of this analysis was far larger than the group's previous studies, and this allowed them to disentangle the reasons for variation in radiation dose, she noted.
"We were surprised to learn that the type of machine mattered so little — it is how the machines are used that matters, telling us that there is tremendous opportunity to lower doses … without acquiring the newest machine make and model," Smith-Bindman said. "Our analysis of assessing the variation in dose for specific clinical indications and limited to patients scanned in a single type of machine was the most surprising and highlights this finding."
The variation between patients was extremely high, even after the researchers made adjustments for patient size, but dose levels could be reduced virtually overnight if there was the will to do so, Smith-Bindman continued.
There is a safety imperative to standardize the protocols used for CT. For instance, in the authors' presentation of the various protocols used to assess patients for suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), many hospitals employ multiple-phase studies routinely (two or even four phases) when a good PE protocol should use just one phase, she stressed.
It can be difficult for individual radiologists to know how to standardize their protocols across a range of clinical questions, Smith-Bindman conceded. Furthermore, if an organization has several CT scanners, it is difficult to standardize the protocols across the different units.
"The process of developing optimized protocols that balance image quality and dose and of standardizing and updating protocols needs to be simplified — and manufacturers need to get involved in this role," noted Smith-Bindman, adding that companies must help radiologists adopt standardized protocols and make them easy to adopt and use. "Currently, optimized protocols are not freely shared, and there is a huge role that manufacturers can play in advancing this."
Manufacturers can work together and in conjunction with radiologists to help develop a consensus and implement approaches for standardizing protocols on machines that are already being used, she said.
ECR 2019 presentation
In addition to the BMJ study, the researchers have completed a randomized trial that assessed the impact of providing detailed feedback to organizations on their doses, coupled with detailed suggestions for how they can optimize their doses. This was presented at ECR 2018, and additional work will be presented at ECR 2019 in Vienna.
"We are also expanding our dose registry and our process of providing feedback. Organizations that would like to join our registry should reach out to me," Smith-Bindman said. "We are also developing an automated measure of image quality that can be used to ensure that the image quality is adequate for diagnosis."
The authors noted that the BMJ study was an observational one, and, therefore, it cannot establish a specific cause of CT dose variations. They added that other limitations may have influenced the results, but overall these findings suggest that optimizing doses to a consistent standard should be possible. They call for more education and international collaboration to set benchmarks for optimum target doses.
Source: CT radiation dose levels vary widely, new study finds
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Jon Ramer
Jon Ramer is co-founder of several technology companies including Ramer and Associates, ELF Technologies, Inc., and Smart Channels. The designer and co-founder of several Deep Social Networks, he is the former Executive Director of the Interra Project, and a co-founder of Ideal Network, a group-buying social enterprise that donates a percentage of every purchase to a non-profit or school. Ideal Network is a certified B-Corp that was recognized as "Best in the World for Community" in 2012 by B-Labs. He is also the designer and co-founder of Compassionate Action Network International, an organization based in Seattle, that led the effort to make the city the first in the world to affirm Karen Armstrong's Charter for Compassion. Most recently, Ramer conceived of and produced the "Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest" in response to a challenge from the mayor of Louisville to other cities to outdo Louisville's compassionate action as measured by hours of community service. Ramer also serves as Director and Chief Technology Officer at Four Worlds International Institute, with a focus on the Campaign To Protect the Sacred. The campaign birthed the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects, signed by over fifty different tribes throughout North America. Ramer is also the songwriter and lead guitarist in the band Once And For All.
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Published on February 27, 2011,	by Sue Stauffacher in The Backstory, Training.
This is the part of the story where time passes. While it's passing, I can report that I am very sore from working out. I had a period of a couple of months where I just couldn't find my groove. I hurt my shoulder, I've been busy with school visits and finishing up a book. But there was nothing like turning 50! to get me motivated to get in shape for our big ride (Roger doesn't turn 50 until May).
This t-shirt reads "Sue: Copyright 1961″. In the meantime, we are planning our celebrations for when we reach Chicago (see how optimistic I am!) and finalizing our schools. When I was feeling blue, two people said things that made me feel better. First was Bob, who is taking a week of vacation to make sure we get to Chicago in one piece. When I worried I wouldn't be in shape, Bob said: "Spring will be here quicker than we think. The roads will be pulverized by the numerous freeze-thaw cycles ahead but we will get out for plenty of rides to adequately prepare for the epic Chicago ride in May." Then there was my friend, Connie. We were deciding what to tell schools about my talk and I said I wanted to discuss Tillie and maybe something motivational. I mean if I can ride my bike from Grand Rapids to their schools, just think what they could do. To which, Connie replied: I think you seem to be right on the money with what you are thinking about sharing with the kids you will meet on your ride. Some of your presentation will be driven by kids questions, of course. But an encouraging explanation of what you can accomplish if you try seems to be the ticket. Who else would ride across three states in their long underwear except someone who knows this message is critical!
Friends like Bob and Connie help me power through when my behind gets really sore from spinning class. Thank you, guys!


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A July trial has been scheduled for a Columbus man accused of shooting and wounding a Delaware man on March 4.
William Devan Lassiter, 34, of Columbus, was scheduled to stand trial Tuesday on a charge of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony; a charge of felonious assault, a second-degree felony; and a charge of theft, a fifth-degree felony, but his defense attorney asked for a continuance because prosecutors had not given him all evidence in the case's discovery process.
Delaware County Common Pleas Judge David Gormley held a status conference for the case on Wednesday. Both sides told him they had worked out the issue and are ready to proceed.
Gormley then scheduled a trial for July 5 and told Lassiter that if he wished to change his plea he would have to do so by July 1.
Lassiter was in the Delaware County Jail Wednesday afternoon.
Police detained Lassiter and a passenger in his car but did not charge the other man.


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import net.jcip.annotations.ThreadSafe;

import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;

/**
 * A 'time bucket', used for counters which represent an event count or metric
 * delta over a limited, sliding time window. For example, the number of
 * requests served or bytes written in the last 60 seconds. Takes both a period
 * (the amount of time represented by each window), and a resolution (the
 * duration at which events will be clustered together).
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public final class TimeWindow {
	private final int resolution;
	private final long period;
	private final String name;

	private TimeWindow(int resolution, long period, String name) {
		Preconditions.checkArgument(resolution > 0,
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		this.period = period;
		this.name = Preconditions.checkNotNull(name);
	}

	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}

	public int getResolution() {
		return resolution;
	}

	public long getPeriod() {
		return period;
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	 *            aggregated. Must be a positive factor of period
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	public static TimeWindow of(int resolution, long period, String name) {
		return new TimeWindow(resolution, period, name);
	}

	public int getBuckets() {
		// We know that bucket count fits in an int, per our constructor checks
		return (int) (period / resolution);
	}
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Artistic director: Gerrie de Vries
Music dramaturgy: Klaas de Vries
Management: Kiki Raposo de Haas
In the music theatre works that are developed by De Helling, music plays the leading role. It is the starting point for developing new works, rather than an emotional supplement or interruption of the dramatic plot. All aspects of the performance evolve equally around that musical starting point.
The music theatre work of De Helling come into being through collaboration with a variety of composers and theatre directors with very different back ground. Creating a work from scratch in a joint venture of open minds results in greatly varying stage projects.
That is why, the working methods of De Helling differ with each project. Projects develop from different sources: either assembled by improvisation and experiment, from a fully worked out score as starting point for a performance, and everything in between. De Helling does not restrict itself to new works. Existing repertoire will feature on programmes regularly, but always developed with a new and different approach.
A specific choice of singers and musicians is essential for the type of works the group wants to present. But productions can also include writers, painters, sculptors, choreographers and film or video artists.
Themes: De Helling explores a great variety of themes.
De Helling produces one music theatre production per year, plus various small scale experimental projects performed in targeted neighbourhoods. These experiments aim to surprise people who are not accustomed to visit music theatre performances with a captivating, unexpected experience. For these experiments, De Helling cooperates with festivals, community centres and schools. E.g. a cooperation with the Rotterdams Opera Choir where De Helling performed La Habanera from Carmen in the foyer of the Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam and the 'beautiful laundrette' tour, where three big women do their laundry in different laundrettes while singing songs written especially for the occasion by Rob Zuidam.
*) The simple translation of 'De Helling' would be 'The Slope', though by the once-so-seafaring Dutch it is still often used in the meaning of ´The Ship launching slope´


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Airports, spaceports, and carports — these three Houston innovators represent the city's future. Courtesy photos
This week's Houston innovators to keep an eye on are working on technologies that are true testaments to the day and age we live in. From commercial space travel to a product that protects vehicles from floodwaters that are more and more frequent, these entrepreneurs are providing solutions to problems no one even dreamed of having a few decades ago.
Mark Bergsrud, co-founder and CEO of Grab
Courtesy of Grab
For over 20 years, Mark Bergsrud worked at the intersection of travel and technology — first at Continental Airlines, then at United Airlines following the merger, and now for himself as the co-founder of Grab, a Houston startup that's making grabbing a bite at the airport way easier.
Grab's technology digitizes and optimizes the airport dining experience — from ordering pickup remotely ahead of time to kiosks or table tablet ordering. The company, which has operations in 37 airports, just closed a multimillion-dollar Series A fundraising round to help continue its growth.
"We've called ourselves a startup for a long time, and now we think of ourselves as more of a scale-up company," Bergsrud says. "Now it's about having the money to scale faster."
Read more about the company by clicking here.
Rahel Abraham, founder of ClimaGuard
Courtesy of ClimaGuard
For inventors, you can usually pinpoint a particular "eureka" moment. For Rahel Abraham, it was seeing her 2008 Infiniti G35 completely totaled by the rain waters of Hurricane Harvey. She knew there had to be some way to protect cars and valuables from flooding, so she invented ClimaGuard's Temporary Protective Enclosure.
Abraham, who was selected for the 12-week DivInc accelerator program in Austin for her company, wants to make the product available to everyone.
"My goal is not to make it to where it's an exclusive product — available only to those who can afford it — but I want to be able to help those who it would make even more of an economic impact for," Abraham says.
Arturo Machuca, general manager of Ellington Airport and the Houston Spaceport
Courtesy of the Houston Airport System
Arturo Machuca is playing a waiting game. Various companies are developing commercial spaceflight and — whether that technology delivers in two years or 10 years, Machuca wants Houston to be ready. Ellington Airport and the Houston Spaceport are being developed throughout a multiphase, multimillion-dollar process, while also serving as an active airport.
"We use what we already have at Ellington Airport," Machuca tells InnovationMap. "We're serving aviation today until commercial spaceflight gets here."
Read the full interview by clicking here.
Houston-based travel software company closes multimillion-dollar Series A and plans growth
Just plane convenient
When you fly, you can definitely rely on the fact that you're going to encounter two things: long airport walks and even longer airport lines. This Houston startup is ensuring that you have less of both of those.
Grab is a mobile software company that's designed an app where travelers can see what eateries they are going to pass in their airport visit and order their meal from their phone. The company has also expanded on their technology to include restaurant kiosks and mobile ordering from the table.
Grab was founded by Mark Bergsrud, who worked in senior leadership roles for almost 20 years at Continental Airlines and then United Airlines, following the merger. For Bergsrud, Grab feels like another major mobile game changer the industry experienced.
"I spent many years thinking about the travel experience and how to make it better and faster," Bergsrud says. "This feels like how mobile check in felt. There was a problem customers didn't know they had — check in wasn't that difficult anyway, but to be able to have that control, people love it."
Grab launched in the Atlanta airport in 2015 and now has a presence in 37 airports around the world, including Dallas and Austin though, ironically, not yet either of Houston's airports. Expansion is in the works, says Bergsrud.
"Our strategy is to build a ubiquitous network of partners, marketplace, and restaurants at all major airports," he says.
Also included in Grab's growth plans is to white label the software to include it in existing travel apps, like airline apps. Grab is already integrated into the American Airlines app.
"We don't want customers to have to work hard to figure out they can take advantage of this," Bergsrud says.
Grab, which has grown to a team of 20 people based in Headquarters in EaDo, has new resources to continue its growth. London-based Collinson Group was the sole contributor to Grab's multimillion-dollar Series A round, which closed last week. Along with financial support, the company, which is best known for its Priority Pass lounge membership program, also offers a huge network of partners and years of travel experience.
As for where Grab will be scaling, Bergsrud says they are focused on the top 30 airports based on enplanements — including Hobby Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport — as well as creating more partnerships with airlines.
Report: Houstonians lose days-worth of time each year due to rush hour
not in the fast lane
Traffic is a part of life in Houston. But a new study quantifies just how much time the average Bayou City dweller spends sitting in rush hour gridlock every year—and the results are eye opening.
According to a study released this month by CoPilot, Houstonians lose nearly four days of time each year due to rush hour commuting.
The report found that rush hour extends Houstonians' commute by an extra 22 minutes per day. Annually, that totaled an additional 91.6 hours commuting due to rush hour.
This earned the Houston area (including the Woodlands and Sugar Land) a No. 8 spot on CoPilot's list of cities where commuters lose the most time to rush hour.
Evening commutes saw the highest increase in time in Houston, with the average commuter spending 14 additional minutes on roadways due to rush hour. Morning rush hour in Houston added about eight minutes to commuters' daily drives.
Houston was the only Texas city to make CoPilot's list of the top 15 cities that lost the most time to rush hour traffic. New York drivers lost the most time to rush hour, which adds about 32 minutes to daily commutes and 132 hours a year, according to the report. Los Angeles drivers lost the second-most time, followed by urban Honolulu, Miami, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Birmingham, Alabama.
The report found that drivers in Houston spend about eight more minutes commuting during rush hour than the average driver in the county. That totals to about 30 more hours per year than the average U.S. driver.
Commute times have been dropping nationally, reaching a low of 25.6 minutes in 2021 compared to 27.6 minutes in 2019, as more workers have transitioned to hybrid schedules or working from home, according to CoPilot
In 2020, Houston drivers even witnessed a 33 percent drop in traffic compared to in 2019, according to a study from Rice.
Still, Houston roadways are consistently ranked among the most congested in the country. Last year, a similar study found that the typical Houston driver wasted 46 hours due to traffic congestion.
Portions of the 610 West Loop are notorious for being ranked as the state's most congested roadways, and other stretches of roads are known as some of the worst bottlenecks in Texas.
5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week
Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, a C-level promotion for a local innovator, the TMC announced its latest cohort, and more.
This week's roundup of Houston innovators includes Stephanie Tsuru of SheSpace, Fareed Zein of Unytag, and Libby Covington of The Craig Group. Photos courtesy
Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from smart city tech to startup marketing — recently making headlines in Houston innovation. Read more.
Climatetech incubator announces C-suite promotion, Houston jobs, and nonprofit transition
Juliana Garaizar is now the chief development and investment officer at Greentown Labs, as well as continuing to be head of the Houston incubator. Image courtesy of Greentown
The new year has brought some big news from Greentown Labs.
The Somerville, Massachusetts-based climatetech incubator with its second location at Greentown Houston named a new member to its C-suite, is seeking new Houston team members, and is in the process of transitioning into a nonprofit.
Juliana Garaizar, who originally joined Greentown as launch director ahead of the Houston opening in 2021, has been promoted from vice president of innovation to chief development and investment officer.
"I'm refocusing on the Greentown Labs level in a development role, which means fundraising for both locations and potentially new ones," Garaizar tells InnovationMap. "My role is not only development, but also investment. That's something I'm very glad to be pursuing with my investment hat. Access to capital is key for all our members, and I'm going to be in charge of refining and upgrading our investment program." Read more.
Fresh off grant, Houston health tech company's AI aims to revolutionize diagnostics, care
InformAI has three AI-based products geared at improving health care. Photo via Getty Images
In Houston, we're lucky to have top-tier doctors in the Texas Medical Center, ready to treat us with the newest technology. But what about our family members who have to rely on rural hospitals? Thanks to one Houston company, doctors in smaller community hospitals may soon have new tools at their disposal that could improve outcomes for patients around the world.
Since InnovationMap last caught up with Jim Havelka, CEO of InformAI, two years ago, that hope has come far closer to a reality. InformAI is a VC-backed digital health company. Part of JLABS @ TMC innovation facilities, the company uses artificial intelligence to develop both diagnostic tools and clinical outcome predictors. And two of the company's products will undergo FDA regulatory testing this year.
SinusAI, which helps to detect sinus-related diseases in CT scans, received its CE Mark — the European equivalent of FDA approval — last year and is being sold across the Atlantic today, says Havelka. He adds that in the United States alone, there are roughly 700,000 sinus surgeries that the product is positioned to support. Read more.
TMC announces entrepreneurs, researchers joining its 2 health tech accelerators
This month, TMCi is welcoming a slew of health tech and cancer innovators who will advance solutions in medicine over the next several months. Image via TMC.edu
The Texas Medical Center has announced the latest cohorts of its two health tech accelerators.
The Texas Medical Center Innovation has named eight companies that are in the Spring 2023 Accelerator for HealthTech cohort. TMCi also announced 21 participants are set to join the 2023 Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics cohort. Both programs connect the entrepreneurs and innovators to experts at TMC's campuses to solve unmet clinical needs and reach the next business milestone.
"At TMC Innovation, we start with a promise of uniting cutting-edge innovators in science and medicine with the talent found at the Texas Medical Center," says Emily Reiser, associate director of TMC Innovation, in a news release. "Our 2023 cohort members are tackling some of the most critical issues we face today in healthcare.
"We are excited to welcome a new group of researchers and companies to the TMC Innovation Factory, and to work collaboratively with our new cohort members and our partners from across the Texas Medical Center," she continues. Read more.
Houston startup teams up with nonprofit research for decarbonization pilot
With this new joint effort, Syzygy is one step closer to commercial scale of its decarbonization technology. Photo courtesy of Syzygy
A Houston tech company has joined forces with a nonprofit to test a new sustainable fuel production process.
The project is a joint effort from Houston-based Syzygy Plasmonics and nonprofit research institute RTI International and sponsored by Equinor Ventures and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas. Based in the RTI facility in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the six-month pilot is testing a way to convert two potent greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) — into low-carbon-intensity fuels, which have the potential to replace petroleum-based jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline.
"This demonstration will be the first of its kind and represents a disruptive step in carbon utilization. The sustainable fuels produced are expected to quickly achieve cost parity with today's fossil fuels," says Syzygy CEO Trevor Best in a news release. "Integrating our technology with RTI's Fischer-Tropsch synthesis system has the potential to significantly reduce the carbon intensity of shipping, trucking, and aviation without requiring major fleet modifications." Read more.


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Betway to sponsor Kingmaker at Warwick Racecourse
Press Release 18th January 2017 Warwick
Warwick Racecourse has been given a boost ahead of its next feature raceday – the Gentlemen's and Kingmaker Chase Day on Saturday, February 11.
Leading online bookmaker Betway has agreed a deal to sponsor feature race of the day, the Grade 2 Betway Kingmaker Novices' Chase - continuing the firm's investment in the sport.
The race has been won the past by greats such as Long Run and Finian's Rainbow.
Andre Klein, General Manager at Warwick Racecourse, said: "The Kingmaker Novice Chase is a fantastic race and has been won by some of very classy horses.
"The likes of Long Run, Flagship Uberalles and Voy Por Ustedes are amongst recent winners who used the Kingmaker as a stepping stone to even greater success.
"To have Betway on-board as a sponsor is seriously terrific news for Warwick and we look forward enormously to helping them achieve their objectives."
Carey Buckler, Regional Head of Partnerships for the south west region of Jockey Club Racecourses, added: "We're really pleased to be working alongside Betway as they continue to invest in racing with Jockey Club Racecourses.
"The Betway Kingmaker Novices' Chase is a key race in the build up to The Festival and is a great addition to Betway's sponsorship portfolio."
Betway, who gained Authorised Betting Partner status in October, have also penned a deal to sponsor the full card at Wincanton on Saturday February 18.
Anthony Werkman, marketing and operations director at Betway, said: "Betway took a significant step in becoming an Authorised Betting Partner in 2016 and that status now affords us the opportunity to invest further in British racing.
"We look forward to building relationships with new racecourses going forward, while also bringing our customers great offers."
Warwick Racecourse to welcome racehorse owners, Annual Members and hospitality customers for spectat
WARWICK REPORT SUNDAY 8 MARCH 2020
New records set at The Wigley Group Warwick Half Marathon
Please email warwick@thejockeyclub.co.uk or call 01926 405560
Hampton Street, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV34 6HN UK


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Earl Grant (born December 25, 1976) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach for the Boston College Eagles men's basketball team. Prior to being named head coach at Boston College, Grant served as head coach at the College of Charleston, as an assistant coach at Clemson University, and an assistant coach for six years under former Charleston assistant coach Gregg Marshall at Wichita State and Winthrop University. Grant also served as an assistant coach at The Citadel.

Biography
A native of North Charleston, South Carolina, Grant went to R.B. Stall High School. He played college basketball at the NCAA Division II level at Georgia College for two years. He led Georgia College to consecutive Peach Belt Conference championships and the Elite Eight of the 2000 NCAA Tournament. Grant graduated from Georgia College in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. He is married to Jacci Grant and has three sons: Trey, Eyzaiah, and Elonzo.

Grant began his coaching career as an assistant at The Citadel under Pat Dennis from 2002 to 2004. Gregg Marshall hired Grant as an assistant at Winthrop University in 2004, and when Marshall left to take the head coaching gig at Wichita State in 2007, he brought Grant along with him. Grant was hired as an assistant at Clemson in 2010, serving under Brad Brownell. Grant recruited future NBA players K.J. McDaniels and Jaron Blossomgame to Clemson.

On September 2, 2014, Grant was hired as the head coach of the College of Charleston, replacing Doug Wojcik. Dennis, Marshall and Brownell all praised the hire. "We are thrilled to welcome Earl back home and to the College of Charleston," athletic director Joe Hull said. "He will bring great energy and excitement to our program. He has learned the game from terrific coaches and is ready to lead the Cougars. We need to hit the ground running and Earl is ready to do that."

Grant led the College of Charleston to the NCAA Tournament in 2018 and was a finalist for the Skip Prosser Man of the year Award in 2019. On March 15, 2021, he was announced as the head coach at Boston College.

Head coaching record

References

External links
 College of Charleston Cougars bio
 Clemson Tigers bio

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I have been following all kinds on AI discussions at many places. The confusion and high degree of inaccuracy have bordered me a lot. So I decided that I will also give my contribution to this.
When people use concepts like robot, artificial intelligence machine learning and so forth all the concepts seem to be very fuzzy and without clear indication what they exactly means with them. The whole IT has been created within 65 years and it is extremely short time. I have been working with computer from early 1970's when I learned my first programming language FORTRA and the basics of the computer. When I compare computer at that time late last millennium and today, they all differ from each other in some many ways that they hardly are examples of the same concept. One thing that I have learned during these 45 years is that in very early state of the development no-one has been even near prediction their structure or behaviour in advance. Actually we have started to understand their true meaning and role really late after their appearance.
I will start from words and their meaning.
Robot is a device, that is capable autonomous movement and influence toward its environment. A simple example could be a robot vacuum cleaner. The most import aspect of this term is that it does state anything of the device's intelligence. Actually most robots today have none! They are fixed industrial robots with usually one powerful arm and programmed behaviour.
Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) is a term used at least from late 1970's, but the meaning of the term have changed during these years. During last millennium the overwhelming majority thought that these will be kind of expert systems where the 'intelligence' was in detail programmed by programming team. Finally nearly all understood that the task was far too complex to be ever solved this way. There were some pioneers like Teuvo Kohonen in Finland that started to experiment with traditional computers where they had programmed very primitive neural nets that were able to learn to do simple classification. Some from the industry laughed at them. The rest thought the were and will always be toys.
Then Google lab decided to increase the number of neuron layers and created self-learning neural net and this was a beginning of modern Deep Learning construct. Today the number of deep learning solution is exploding. Based on the victories in this field has crated the lively discussions of automation and technical unemployment.
Now wider and wider groups have been reporting and discussing about this. Here is however one persistent mistake repeated in this discussion over and over again. This is in the predictions. Most writes will tell you that the advance in this field is based upon the speeding up the circuities in the traditional von Neumann computer. This is actually completely wrong conclusion. The von-Neuman architecture traditional computers never reach such a performance that these prediction requires. The solution is not in that direction. The von Neumann architecture is designed in a way that it can do massive parallel computing and this is necessary requirement of big deep learning machine.
These machine are NOT in the commercial market yet, but they will be soon and when they come they will revolutionise the IT-market totally. The effect of this is larger that that of computers and mobile devices together.
These machines can be taught very complex tasks in a very short time. It is most probable that traditional programming is done solely by these machines after 5 years from their commercialization.


User involvement has always been considered an important contributor to the success of information systems, despite inconclusive evidences to support such claims. None of the studies on user involvement have paid attention to environmental context. This paper reports on a system that demonstrates how the external environment actually affects user involvement and system success. It also provide some insights for future research on user involvement.
Qualitative research is necessary to generate in-depth understanding of the effect environment has on user involvement. Detailed data collection was conducted through unstructured face-to-face and telephone interviews and review of materials.
Quality Data Management (QDM) system was selected because it experienced significant environmental changes and counters the traditional wisdom of user involvement. It is a system developed by the IS department at MI that provides quality data documents in the form of Certificate of Analysis (COA) for chemical products to customers, in a timely manner. The system receives quality testing data from quality laboratories at production sites throughout North America electronically, stores those data centrally, compares those data to specifications on customer's orders, and produces customer specific COAs. The COAs can be distributed to the customers via EDI, fax, mail, or can be attached to the product shipments.
QDM was a visionary system initiated by one IS manager. "We could see that our outside customers were going to require quality data transmissions on the various products that we were shipping them. We were the one that saw it coming and said we better do something and get ready for this." The majority of potential user departments did not believe that such a system would be necessary at that time. Most reacted "We don't need that. We're handling it ourselves on our little PC and it's only a couple of customers that wanted COA." Because of this reason, no users were involved in the initial development of the system and none were willing to fund the project.
At the stage when detailed information such as the type of data or interface were needed, the project members went to solicit information from potential users. It was through this information gathering that one department, IOX, decided to try out and fund the project. It was at this detail design and coding stage that users got involved by signing-off certain project documents. Half way through the coding for IOX, the company purchased another firm (PLS) that also required the system. The priority of the project shifted to PLS and one department within PLS actually became the first group to implement QDM. Other like IOX, OPD, and so on followed. Currently, over 70% of all potential user groups for QDM have expressed interest to implement the system and about 40% are already using QDM.


Durham, NC-based law firm Pulley, Watson, King & Lischer has hired Rella:Cowan, a marketing and advertising agency. Rella:Cowan will re-brand the law firm, which mainly deals with medical malpractice and personal injury cases. The agency will research and develop the firm's brand positioning and create a new website as well as build a full corporate identity package including a new logo. Pulley, Watson, King & Lischer is one of North Carolina's leading personal injury firms and specializes in catastrophic cases.
LexisNexis has acquired Nashville, TN-based Juris, Inc., an accounting software provider that serves midsized law firms. Juris has been added to LexisNexis's practice management group. Juris provides law firms with all types of market-solution software, including lead-time, billing, and accounting products such as Time Matters®, PCLawTM, and Billing Matters®. LexisNexis will integrate Juris products with key LexisNexis offerings in the near future as part of its "Total Practice Solutions" strategy. LexisNexis, headquartered in New York, provides information and service solutions to customers in 100 countries.
Duane Morris, LLP, one of the 100 largest law firms in the world, has opened offices in two major Vietnamese cities—Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The new expansion comes six months after the firm opened an office in Singapore. Duane Morris is one of the few U.S. law firms with offices in Vietnam. Eduardo Ramos-Gomez, Duane Morris partner and former Mexican ambassador to Singapore, will lead the firm's Vietnam operations. Duane Morris's Vietnam offices will practice mainly in the areas of cross-border transactions, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, energy, corporate finance, project finance, and telecommunications. Duane Morris has 600 lawyers and about 75 lawyers in San Francisco alone.


The function which we use to show message is "alert".
Alert function is useful in lots of cases where we may want to alert the user.
Suppose a user needed to provide an email in a box but he has not provided a proper email then we can call alert function and inform the user about the mistake.


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