“”In a medical emergency, medical imaging plays a critical role in diagnosis and treatment, time is critical in acute stroke care, every minute counts.” said Dr. Mitchell who is from the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine.”
“”Now a physician anywhere can get a call on their iPhone and can immediately take a look at the images in the remote community,” said Ross Mitchell, a professor of radiology at the university who helped develop the software. “They can do more than just look at them. They can cut into them, rotate it in 3D, they can do all kinds of advanced visualizations and analysis, which may be critical to make the diagnosis.“”
“New research from the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine shows that doctors can make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone application with the sameaccuracy as a diagnosis at a medical computer workstation. This technology can be particularly useful in rural medical settings. This allows for real-time access to specialists such as neurologists, regardless of where the physicians and patients are located”
Not to take away from the significance and importance of team’s achievement, there are limitations in using the system over 3G network due to data transfer rate issues as indicated in the technical paper.
“The system should provide practical frame rates over cellular or wireless networks. In our experience, a single visualization server can accommodate 10 or more simultaneous iOS device users and is capable of delivering and displaying up to 14 frames per second on an iOS device connected over a 802.11g Wi-Fi network. The frame rate was enough to provide sufficient interactivity for comfortable use. However, the frame rate on a 3G cellular network was 1 to 4 frames per second, which was insufficient for practical use. We know that fourth generation (4G) cellular networks are now installed in many metropolitan centers. We estimate that the higher bandwidth of these new cellular networks should allow 10 to 15 frames per second to be delivered to smartphones. However, currently only the iPhone 4 and a few Android-based smartphones are capable of utilizing greater network bandwidth.”
“Well, now we know why all of us had trouble ID’ing the helicopter that crashed, or was brought down, in the Osama raid.
It was a secretly developed stealth helicopter, probably a highly modified version of an H-60 Blackhawk. Photos published in the Daily Mail and on the Secret Projects board show that the helicopter’s tail features stealth-configured shapes on the boom and tip fairings, swept stabilizers and a “dishpan” cover over a non-standard five-or-six-blade tail rotor. It has a silver-loaded infra-red suppression finish similar to that seen on some V-22s. ”
It feels like closing a sad chapter to see Canadian bail legislation changed after the hard work by the Bagbys and Member of Parliament Mr. Scott Andrews and Senator Tommy Banks. From the film’s site,
“BAIL REFORM BILL C-464 BECAME LAW IN CANADA ON DECEMBER 15, 2010.
It adds a clause to section 515(10) (b) of the criminal code giving courts the power to deny bail to someone accused of a serious crime who is deemed a potential danger to children under the age of 18.”
(10) For the purposes of this section, the detention of an accused in custody is justified only on one or more of the following grounds:
[...]
(b) where the detention is necessary for the protection or safety of the public, including any victim of or witness to the offence, or any person under the age of 18 years, having regard to all the circumstances including any substantial likelihood that the accused will, if released from custody, commit a criminal offence or interfere with the administration of justice;”
李嘉誠基金會「香港仁 愛香港」公益行動繼「Love Ideas, Love HK集思公益計劃」、「人間有情」香港寧養服務計劃與「寧舍」後，夥拍選址於天水圍的社會企業〈天比高創作伙伴 賽馬會策動創新思維〉共同策劃《你還可愛麼》系列，邀請十二位香港導演炮製十二套不一樣的創意短片，展現嶄新感動方程式以喚醒香港人的無限愛心。 Read the rest of this entry »
“The bearded face of the detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is spray-painted on a nondescript gray wall overlooking the steep lanes of Hong Kong’s nightlife capital, Lan Kwai Fong.
Given his real-life circumstances — summarily disappeared at the hands of the Chinese authorities with no charges yet laid — the furrowed forehead and hooded, tired eyes of the image now seem a representation of suffering. Underneath his face is one simple question, “Who’s afraid of Ai Weiwei?”
This graffiti, appearing all over Hong Kong, has become a political statement, more than a month after the world-famous artist was detained by the authorities at Beijing airport. The campaign could yet lead to a jail term for the young graffiti artist responsible. And that fact has led to fears about the erosion of Hong Kong’s distinct freedoms, which are a legacy of its colonial past under the British.
Despite causing consternation for the authorities, many Hong Kong residents like both the graffiti’s aesthetic and its political message.
“It’s cool,” says passerby Peter Chan. “The graphic is cool, and the presentation of protest against China is cool.”"
UBC = crazy awesome! Don’t believe me? Check out this video (viewed over 1 million times since Apr 8, 2011). What a creative way to showcase a school by looking at the 1000+ UBCers involved in making the video. Make sure you watch the last bit for some of the behind the scenes stuff. Great job everyone at UBC (especially director Andrew Cohen for his creative vision). [HT Doug Coupland]
“On Saturday, March 26, filming for UBC LipDub will take over campus in what is sure to be a strange assemblage of over 1000 people out to promote school spirit. “We have a whole lot of people with crazy costumes signed up,” said Andrew Cohen, the event’s organizer. “People come up to me saying, ‘Can I be a Chewbacca on rollerskates?’ And I’m like, ‘Yes, that’ll be fantastic.’ I don’t need to say no to anything.”
In its purest form, a lip dub is a single-shot video in which participants lip-synch along to a song while trying to act as outlandish as possible.
The songs chosen to represent UBC are Marianas Trench’s “Celebrity Status” and Pink’s “Raise Your Glass.” Cohen feels that the latter encompasses the best parts of campus and of lip dub as a form. “It’s got a really great message. It’s about being who you are, it’s okay to be different and to enjoy what makes us different,” he said.”
P.S. I attended UC and UT, and I wish they would do something as cool & fun as UBC to promote school spirit and possibly attract students!
“Time Warner’s Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire Flixster, the movie discovery service with over 25 million worldwide users per month that also includes film review site Rotten Tomatoes. [...]
Under the terms of the deal, Flixster will continue to operate independently and will expand its services beyond movie discovery to enable digital content ownership and delivery across connected digital devices.
The Flixster team will stay in San Francisco, and the Rotten Tomatoes team will continue to work independently from Los Angeles.“
This can’t be good news when the reviewer is now owned by the reviewed even independence is claimed.
Looks like Paramount’s ”The Dictator” may be another interesting film by Sacha Baron Cohen (of Borat fame). Here is an excerpt from THR (emphasis and link added),
“Anna Faris is in negotiations to play the female lead in The Dictator, the new comedy Sacha Baron Cohen is doing for Paramount.
Larry Charles, who directed Borat, is back in the helming saddle for the Paramount movie, which has been described as “the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.” Cohen is said to play dual roles of a goat herder and a deposed foreign ruler who gets lost in the U.S.
Ben Kingsley and Jason Mantzoukas are also in the movie, playing fellows from the Middle East.”
It is important for us to bear witness of what a criminal male mob can do to a woman (not just a reporter). A sad and shocking event in the brightest and darkest hours of Egypt. The courage of Lara to break her silence and the first woman, and other women & soliders that risk their lives to save Lara’s.
It is naive to think crimes of sexual attacks and rapes by a male mob happen only “elsewhere” or in “other countries”. These crimes happen in Canada, United States and other places in the world! Sometimes, the single flicker of hope and light can come in the form of a woman (or man) that comes in aid of the woman under attack. Witness the first woman that came in aid of Lara risked her life to do the right thing. And this unnamed Egyptian woman saved the life of Lara, a mother of two young children and wife of a loving husband.
I hope one lesson from this tragedy is that we will teach our sons and daughters to have the wisdom and courage to be that ONE woman/man, willing to put herself/himself in harm’s way to shield and protect the woman being sexually assaulted. Sometimes it only takes one person to act instead of watch/participate.
I’ve lost touched with Mr. Bob Freeze for the last two years. So it saddens me very much today to learn that he passed away on Jan 15 at age 90.
For the few years that I have pleasure and privilege of knowing and working for Bob, I have seen his generosity and his love and support for sporting youth under his tutelage. His determination to learn new things (e.g. computers, movie editing, etc all at close to 90) and to do things himself has inspired me to try to remain active and continue to learn when I get to his age.
I wished I could have been at Bob’s funeral. Goodbye Bob, you are dearly missed.
“Bob Freeze was accomplished at virtually everything he did in his 90 years, but his greatest passion was always to help young people in their sporting pursuits.
Right up to his death on Jan. 15, Freeze helped train cross-country skiers on the Nordic trails of his rolling farmland near Spruce Meadows.Read the rest of this entry »
For the families and friends of the dead on 9/11 and the many deaths in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, the death of bin Laden hopefully will bring them some closure. And I am thinking about the soliders (especially Canadian soliders) who have died or still fighting the war in Afghanistan.
“When Captain Carl Feldcamp takes off from the Toronto island airport on the inaugural Air Canada Express flight to Montreal this morning, he’ll be depending on his iPad. [...]
Instead of lugging around manuals filled with rules and regulations, Feldcamp taps on iPad, checking everything from flight plans to weather radar pictures.
“You don’t have to carry binders full of charts. All of the charts in the whole world are right in here. And you don’t have paperwork,” said Feldcamp. “We’ve had them for a few weeks. It’s awesome.”
On the ground, the pilots can link up to head office with instant updates and information and even hold Skype conversations on Bluetooth equipment. But once in the air, they turn off wireless connection like other passengers, and use information that has already been downloaded.”
“Well over 100,000 Canadian soldiers died to give you and others around the world the right to exercise your democratic freedoms. Get out and vote tomorrow!” – Facebook status of a former Canadian solider that I think makes a lot of sense.
“Stephen Harper is a bit like Alexander Keith’s beer — those who like him, like him a lot. More to the point, Mr. Harper’s supporters don’t like anyone who suggests the Conservative leader is fallible, such as the travelling news media. [...]
But it was during the press conference that followed the speech that the temperature rose. CBC Television’s Terry Milewski asked whether Mr. Harper would respect the Governor-General’s decision, if he called on a second-placed party to form government after a Conservative minority was brought down. The Prime Minister said he wasn’t going to speculate on what might happen after the election, despite the fact his whole campaign has been based on conjecture about what might happen post May 2. Mr. Milewski accused the Conservative leader of ducking the question and repeatedly asked him to answer. By this point, the assembled partisans felt it their duty to jump in for their man. “Shut down the CBC,” shouted one man. Another behind Mr. Harper was screaming, gesticulating and visibly upset. To be fair to Mr. Harper, he gestured for calm and maintained his composure. In days gone by, he would have responded to such a challenge by attacking the source.
Quite why the press conference needed to be held in front of a hostile crowd is not clear, unless it was an attempt to intimidate journalists. Other parties hold the presser in a separate room after the event.
Party spindoctors suggest Mr. Harper likes the visuals of being surrounded by supporters but it lends the appearance of a lynch mob when the inevitable happens. One suspects the visuals of this morning’s episode will be replayed on newscasts across the country and confirm many people’s impressions of the Conservative Party as the home of anger, intolerance and blind partisanship.”
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