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PACS investment gains you a foothold on competition.
There several things to keep in mind when deciding the who, what, when, where, why and how of buying picture archiving communications systems (PACS) and teleradiology. The adage: "He who hesitates is lost," more than applies to the purchase of PACS and teleradiology today.
Why is PACS practical today?--Managed care and capitation are playing an incredibly strong role in healthcare today. Providers are demanding more bang for their buck. Gone are the days of 24- to 48-hour report turnarounds. Two hours is the new norm. Couriers can't provide that response time and double shooting film is expensive in an era of cost containment. It makes little sense to buy a spiral computed tomography scanner (CT) that can do 50 patients a day if the referring clinician can't get a timely interpretation (or even have access to the images).
PACS and more directly, teleradiology, solve that problem. Why the change? Money, pure and simple. The development of moderate cost (less than $60,000) systems that can transmit diagnostic quality CT, ultrasound and general radiographs allow clinicians to net an average of $300 to $400 per day per site in diagnostic fees for a typical rural (or smaller urban) hospital.
How can I afford PACS?--A small hospital generates on average 10 to 12 radiographic series (typically two-view films) per day, a couple of CTs and a couple of ultrasounds--nothing earth shattering and definitely not enough volume to staff a full-time or even a half-time radiologist. If each plain-film study generates $20 per case, each CT $100 and each ultrasound about $65, then each small hospital site would generate around $530 per day. Amortizing the cost of the $60,000 system over three years (786 days, based on a five-day work week), and you get a cost of just under $80 day including communications costs using an ISDN (integrated services digital network) line that will transmit a nominally compressed 2,000-line resolution chest film in under two minutes. Net profit per hospital: $118,000.
Cut the number of studies in half (six plain films, one CT and one ultrasound per day) and you still make a tidy profit. Multiply that revenue generation buy the five, six or even seven hospitals in the network and you can see where teleradiology has the potential to make big bucks.
It is important to note we haven't factored in the cost of the dedicated receive station, which we're assuming in this model already exists. However, even if we factor in $150,000 for the cost of two 2,000 x 2,500 line resolution display workstations--with all the bells and whistles--and divide the cost by five transmit sites, it declines the revenue stream by a mere $30 per site per day. Adjust these numbers accordingly for your situation and it's a win-win situation.
When should I invest in PACS?--The "When" is now (if not yesterday) for the obvious reasons of revenue generation. There is another equally important reason for buying now--your competition. By buying now you gain a foothold on your competition. In three years when managed care and capitation really start to take hold (if they haven't already in your region) the cost of a $60,000 transmit site (or even a fully optimized $450,000 system) will be completely amortized. Others bidding for the same capitated heads or managed-care contracts using teleradiology will have to factor in their equipment costs that you have already amortized. At $550 day (five sites at $80/site plus $150/day for the receive site), that translates to nearly $150,000 per year-- more than enough to make or break a large-scale contract (or show the difference between profitability and loss). Even if the contract comes in the next fiscal year when your equipment is only one-year old, having the equipment in place and operational provides a distinct advantage.
Many people have held out hoping equipment costs will decrease even more. Equipment costs will probably not go down appreciably even though hardware performance, as in previous years, will rise.
This brings us to another "how," as in how much is too much. I own three computers--a 100 MHz multimedia Pentium with more bells and whistles than I know what to do with, a 486 DX4 laptop that can give the Pentium a run for its money and my glorified typewriter, a 386/25 running DOS 3.3. My 386 can run circles around my other machines for the application it serves: typing. While my Pentium is searching for DLL's, INI's and similar files that are necessary to run Windows, my 386 has been waiting patiently for my fingers to strike the keyboard.
Likewise, "more is better" does not necessarily hold true for medical imaging, although most medical imaging workstations do require a tad more horsepower than your standard multimedia PC (and considerably more than my 386). The line between Pentium-based PCs and their UNIX-running Sun, HP and other counterparts is becoming thinner and thinner, especially with the development of 32 and 64 bit operating systems that run on PC platforms. Still, in high-volume applications, the edge is given to the Sun SPARC-based workstations because of their ability to perform true multitasking operations. In moderate-to low-volume applications, however, PCs will work just fine and result in a considerable cost savings.
Where should I use DICOM?--A more difficult question deals with the use of industry standards--specifically the DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standard. When do you need DICOM and when don't you? The rule of thumb has always been you can't go wrong with a standards-based solution. For the most part, that holds true. However, with DICOM there are exceptions. The cost of implementing 12-bit DICOM is about twice as high as implementing a non-DICOM (proprietary) network. The reason for this, or so we're told, is to recoup the cost to develop the interfaces to the hundreds of imaging modalities, each of which requires a specific DICOM interface. In a market where standards implementation has taken over a decade to formulate, one would think that vendors would bend over backward to promote the standards-based solution.
The reality of DICOM vs. non-DICOM comes into play when a hospital is looking to import or export images (creating a teaching file, for example), archive images or establish a baseline PACS that can be grown outward or upward (i.e., start with ICU/CCU viewing, then bring in modality archiving, computed or digital radiography). DICOM images include information in an area called the header, which eliminates redundant (and oftentimes inaccurate) data entry on the part of the technologist. In addition to patient attributes (name, ID, birth date, sex, etc.), there are also both study and modality specific attributes included in this header information. This information is critical when establishing an archive, as data will often be prestaged (i.e., transferred from the archive to the requesting workstation) based on a series of criteria found in the header. This can be done as a simple single field request or a more complex Boolean search. If a hospital is going to archive all images and not make hard copies, than a DICOM-based image archive is mandated.
The use of DICOM is less defined in other applications, including ICU/CCU viewing and teleradiology. The established guidelines for PACS and teleradiology, including the ACR (American College of Radiology) Standard for Teleradiology, do not dictate file formats that need to be subscribed to, but only resolution requirements for particular images. Most importantly, within the DICOM standard there is a provision for image transmission and archiving in an eight-bit image file format. Although the image file format is the same as what is used in both ultrasound and nuclear medicine applications, a true DICOM interface to ultrasound and nuclear medicine will also include the patient, general, and modality specific attributes as well.
What is a JPEG?--In a teleradiology scenario there is little, if any, diagnostic significance for interpreting an eight-bit image frame grabbed from the imaging modality and the same 12-bit DICOM data set. This statement holds true if the image is formatted in a ".acr" file format (eight- or 12-bit) or other file formats, including desktop publishing standard-based formats such as JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), and others. Most clinical radiologists (with teaching institutions being an exception) have expressed preferences to have the window and level settings established for them by the technologists and presented so they can read online, just like the film.
So when do you buy DICOM and when do you not? In an intranet type environment when you are connecting multiple hospitals together to do primary or preliminary interpretation and no archiving is planned, I recommend most facilities consider the most cost-effective solution, DICOM or non-DICOM, including using PCs and frame grabbers. I typically request, however, that images be transmitted and saved in a .acr file extension, using the eight-bit DICOM file format output. Many companies have begun to offer this feature recently. If DICOM is desired near-term and budget constraints are an issue, hybrid solutions are also available, provided the facility is willing to "write off" the cost of software and the frame grabber boards. Because most DICOM solutions are software-based, a hospital could start with a frame grabber solution then grow the system into a DICOM-based solution, migrating PC-based capture terminals to workstations with appropriate hardware and software upgrades. A given in this scenario is that a software escrow account be established as well as a clause in the vendor contract that will allow other providers access to the selected vendor's DICOM conformance statement.
Other areas to consider are "who" and once again "how." How is easy-- just go slowly and carefully. A formal needs assessment process is a must and will serve as the template for your RFP (request for proposal) for both vendor quotes and the final contract.
"Who" is the $64,000 question-- There are a plethora of vendors in this marketplace--some quite good while others make Alicia Silverstone (star of the movie "Clueless") look absolutely brilliant. Finding out which vendor is the right vendor for your application is not easy, especially since no one vendor offers the right solution for all applications (or even most applications, although frankly there is no reason why one vendor couldn't be the end all/be all of the universe. No one in this market is even close.) I've worked with clients whose decisions were to buy systems from Agfa, E-Med, Cemax/Icon, Olicon and several other major players. I've also had clients make decisions to install systems from smaller regional players. Most of the systems went in without a hitch, although a few redefined the "Maalox moment." Choosing a vendor often boils down to a gut feeling-- nothing more, nothing less. It's not an exact science. And when the numbers are in and the cards are on the table, one player wins and several others lose. If you've done your homework, the loser won't be you.
Michael J. Cannavo is the president of Image Management Consultants, a division of Healthcare Imaging Specialists, Inc.
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NEW ORLEANS, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Treaty Energy Corporation (OTCQB: TECO), a growth-oriented energy company in the oil and gas industry, today updates its stakeholders on drilling progress in Texas.
Andrew V. Reid, Chairman & CEO of Treaty Energy Corporation, stated, "I am extremely pleased to announce that on Wednesday of this week we made the final payment on the Failing 1500 CF Truck Mounted Drilling Rig that was purchased in mid-April to drill wells on the Treaty owned Texas leases."
The purchase price for the Failing 1500 CF Rig and all related components, including all current drilling contracts for this Rig, was $180,000, as detailed in the Company's Form 8-K filing with the SEC on April 20, 2011.
Mr. Reid added, "This Rig has been drilling constantly since being acquired under drilling contracts with independent oil companies, and has a backlog of several more wells to drill and the possibility of a large contract to be agreed to during the next few days." He added further, "Demand has been so intense for this Rig that we are in discussions with Stephen L. York, President and COO of Treaty, to add a second rig for our Texas operations. This would bring the Treaty owned rigs to three should the discussions be finalized to purchase the second Texas rig."
Treaty's drilling company, Treaty Energy Drilling, LLC, has been productively drilling wells for independent oil companies since mid-April and has already logged operational profits of more than $42,000 to date from these drilling contracts. As this drilling continues, the Company's drilling company will be starting a new well (spud in) for another independent oil company on Monday, June 20th.
Stephen York stated, "I have received inquiries to drill another 25 wells for Treaty Energy Drilling's top three customers."
Mr. York added, "The BARNES LEASE has been officially transferred to C & C Petroleum Management, LLC, Treaty's operations entity, and based on this transfer we have started processing all stored oil for sale to BLM Oil Transport. Our HENDERSON and LONG LEASES are awaiting transfer by the State of Texas RRC to C & C Petroleum Management, and I expect these transfers to be completed this week. In addition, all paperwork has been filed with the State of Texas RRC to initiate the transfers of the GREAT 8 LEASES to C & C, a process that should be completed within a week."
Mr. York stated further, "Oil pick ups have been scheduled with the Transporters. Upon initial receipt in the Transporters headquarters of the time and date stamped P4′s from the Texas RRC, the transport trucks will commence the pickups. We are expecting to sell a minimum of 850 BBLS of oil in the month of June 2011."
In closing, Treaty Energy's CEO, Andrew V. Reid, stated, "I continue to be very pleased with our progress in Texas and look forward to updating our stakeholders on the Belize project very soon. I am also pleased to report that our Company will show revenues in this second quarter (Q-2) of 2011 from both its oil production operations in Texas and from its contract drilling for a number of independent oil companies."
About Treaty Energy Corporation
Treaty is engaged in the acquisition, development and production of oil and natural gas. Treaty acquires and develops oil and gas leases which have "proven but undeveloped reserves" at the time of acquisition. These properties are not strategic to large exploration-oriented oil and gas companies. This strategy allows Treaty to develop and produce oil and natural gas with tremendously decreased risk, cost and time involved in traditional exploration. For more information go to: www.treatyenergy.com
Forward-Looking Statements:
Statements herein express management's beliefs and expectations regarding future performance and are forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, raising working capital and securing other financing; responding to competition and rapidly changing technology; and other risks. These risks are detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Forms 10-KSB, 10-QSB and 8-K. Actual results may differ materially from such forward-looking statements.
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2007 was the year that saw California's wine industry pick up once again, after a troubling couple of years. Indeed, all across the state of California, fantastic harvests were reported as a result of fine weather conditions throughout the flowering and ripening periods, and Napa Valley and Santa Barbera wines were widely considered amongst the best in the world in 2007, with Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes packing in all sorts of fine and desirable features in this year. South Africa, too, had a much-needed fantastic year for red wines, with Pinotage particularly displaying strong characteristics, alongside the country's other flagship red wine grape varietals. Over in Europe, France had another fine year, especially for white wines. Champagne wineries were very happy with their Chardonnay harvests, and the Loire Valley and Graves in Bordeaux are proclaiming 2007 to be a memorable year due to the quality of their white wine grapes. For French red wines, Provence had their best year for almost a decade, as did the Southern Rhone. However, 2007 was most favorable to Italy, who saw high yields of exceptional quality across almost all of their major wine producing regions. Tuscany is claiming to have produced its best Chianti and Brunello wines for several years in 2007, and Piedmont and Veneto had a wonderful year for red wines. For Italian white wines, 2007 was an extremely successful year for Alto Adige and Campania. Germany also had a very good 2007, with Riesling displaying extremely dry and crisp characteristics, as did Portugal, where Port wine from 2007 is said to be one to collect.
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New Caloocan Mayor Oscar Malapitan will have more than the local chief executive's shoes to fill when he assumes the post on Monday. He will also have to contend with his new office, which has been stripped bare of all furniture.
Speaking to guests at the reception after he took oath on Sunday, Malapitan revealed his first problem as he assumed the city's leadership.
"I had wanted to tour the city hall's different offices, but someone whispered to me that I can't go to the Mayor's Office yet," he said.
"So I asked, why? The answer that came to me was, 'When you go there, you won't even see a single chair. No tables. The conference table—everything's gone.'"
Malapitan went on to say that even the toilets were probably missing.
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Malapitan, who took over the post of now Caloocan 1st District Rep. Enrico Echiverri, said he directed his management committee "if there is still money left, to get a budget for the construction of emergency classrooms" to replace the ones ordered demolished by the previous mayor at the University of Caloocan City-Integrated School building.
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First things first; after reading the replies I took my new replacement key out of the BMW packaging and went out to the bike to try it without going to the dealership: it started just fine. 2011 1200GSA. Probably should have done this right away.
If a key goes missing, the EWS, the control unit in charge of security, can be told to ignore that key through use of the dealer's computer
That may be what this person at the original dealership was talking about. In essence I was to bring in all my keys at once and then reprogram the computer to the keys I currently had. Then again I wasn't talking to the service dept person, I was going through a middle man, so the conversation may have been a little misleading on both parts.
You order the key from BMW with the proper documentation, wait for it to arrive and when it does, insert in the ignition, turn the bike on and start it.
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1) "Winterize" your workout wardrobe. Whether you are running outdoors or staying indoors doing barre, you will most definitely want the proper attire to keep you dry and comfortable. Bonus points if you can do this fashionably. (Thank you, Zella!)
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Zella is a brand for every woman, designed to fit and flatter all shapes and sizes. It's fun and functional, with a studio-to-street edge that looks and feels great in the gym and on the go. As a studio owner, nonprofit director and workout nut, I need clothing and accessories that meet the demands of my schedule. Zella's moisture-wicking fabrics, form-fitting cuts and quality designs carry me through the day without stretching, pilling or fading. In Zella, I feel as fabulous working out at 5am as I do teaching class at 9pm. They surely don't call them 'Live In Leggings' for nothing!
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Movement matters. After surviving a brutal physical assault and attempted abduction in Central Asia, I felt powerless. I was physically and psychologically broken, far from home and unable to access the resources I needed to heal. My personal recuperation through fitness, writing and art transformed my life. I have fallen back in love with my body and celebrate its strength and beauty through movement every day—I hula hoop, I Skip-It and I smile! At Ploome and REQ.1, I am blessed to share my passion for healing through movement and art and for building creative communities dedicated to personal transformation and social change. I am truly living my dream and am eternally grateful for all of the support and kindness our Ploome clients and REQ.1 participants have shown!
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I love to create funky workout routines that utilize childhood favorites, like hula hoops, Double Dutch ropes and Skip-Its as fitness props to advance my clients' workouts. Your daily workouts should be fun, and the people with whom you share a group fitness class should feel like old-time friends! It's amazing to watch my clients' faces light up as they push themselves through challenging classes that blend playful movement with traditional strength and resistance training. The studio is always full of laughter. Inspired by my clients and the good times we spend together, I have created some of my all-time favorite workouts (Bottoms Up Booty Camp, Wunda Barre Apparatus, and Armed and Dangerous Mat, to name a few!).
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I used Splenda for this recipe for a friend. They are a diabetic. They really did like them.
Good texture, a little dry, but I'm not sure anyone would know these are low sugar cookies
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Column: The real cost of the NFL's business
In the past few months, more than two dozen NFL players and a sprinkling of front-office executives have been arrested for crimes ranging from petty to deadly.
No matter how bad it looks, remember that's not a crime wave by any fair measure, let alone by league standards. Think of it instead as just the cost of doing business. Everybody in the NFL already does.
To be fair, any company with that employs 9,000 people is bound to have some bad apples. And this year's number of arrests, give or take a few, lines up with last year's pace.
So no one should have been surprised to awake Thursday morning to news reports that Patriots cornerback Alfonzo Dennard was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Lincoln, Neb. But because the NFL is all about image, about ''protecting the shield,'' as commissioner Roger Goodell never tires of saying, Dennard's team pretended to be.
Another jersey trade-in offer may be in the works even as you read this.
''The New England Patriots are extremely disappointed to learn of Alfonzo Dennard's arrest,'' a team statement said. ''We take this matter very seriously and are working to get more information on the incident.''
Please. Let's not forget the bottom line is always personal responsibility, and that Dennard climbed into his car likely knowing that the entire league and his team in particular - former Pats tight end Aaron Hernandez is being held on a murder charge - was already feeling the heat.
And that he was on probation after punching a cop during a fight in the same town a week before the 2012 draft.
But let's not forget, either - because the Patriots certainly can't - that the reason they were able to pluck him all the way down at the seventh round of that draft is because Dennard had several previous scrapes on and off the field.
Once you stop to think about it, the cynicism that underpins the whole ''crime-in-the-NFL'' phenomenon is almost breathtaking.
A respected agent said earlier this week that just about every time he meets with one of the league's general managers or personnel chiefs, the guy knows exactly how many potential troublemakers are on his roster. There's even a code word for those players: ''turds,'' as in ''I can't risk a chance on another turd. We've already exceeded our quota.''
There's upwards of 10 on just about every squad, the agent estimates. He said they tend to be clustered around a handful of defensive positions where meanness and a short memory are essential, with wide receivers being the most notable exception on the other side of the ball.
''They want guys who say `gimme the damn ball,'' and guys who can turn around the play after they get beat and start talking trash right away about how it won't ever happen again,'' he said. ''Without those nasty, selfish guys, competing on a regular basis is practically impossible.''
According to the agent, who asked that his name be withheld because he's still negotiating deals, the number of headaches a team takes on can generally be calibrated by how desperate it is to win. Think of the Cincinnati Bengals a few years back, or on a smaller scale, how Cowboys owner Jerry Jones hired a bodyguard to make sure wide receiver Dez Bryant didn't find himself in any more compromising positions.
The problems in New England at the moment may spring from a different source - hubris, or as the agent put it, ''too much faith in the `Patriot Way.''' But in every case, teams know exactly what they're doing when they draft, trade or take a flyer on a knucklehead like Dennard. The only thing they can truly be ''extremely disappointed'' about is when one or another does something stupid or dangerous while they were his enablers.
There were at least 17 different teams touched by the more than two dozen arrests these past few months, and anytime a problem extends that wide, it usually runs top to bottom as well.
As noted above, this is first and foremost about personal responsibility. And to be fair, Goodell hasn't been shy about doling out harsh punishment to any employee, and even harsher punishments to the league's higher-ups. But what's clear is that his message, no matter how many times he warns rookies to ''protect the shield,'' is still being greeted in too many corners of the league with little more than a wink and a nod.
So why not just spare us the lecture?
Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. write to him at jlitke(at)ap.org and follow him at Twitter.com/JimLitke.
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Unfortunately the construction work at other properties back of hotel kept waking us up. Layout of rooms also meant that in-house noise echoed throughout so no chance of laying in or afternoon nap.
- The reception went above and beyond to make us feel like VIP guests, they worked out it was my boyfriend's birthday from his passport and made our stay special by sending us flowers and a personalised cake.
- The breakfast exceeded expectation in terms of variety and quality of food.
- The fresh flowers in the room
- Peaceful hotel with a beautiful view from our room
- The bathtub was huge, such a treat
- A little unorganised, we had booked the room in advance and arrived past 3pm yet we still had to wait at reception for a time whilst they prepared the room.
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I don't think much will change in her schedule. She'll probably go to Australia and play Brisbane and Sydney Q and AOpen MD. After that challenger in Midland, WTA Memphis and IW and Miami.
But it would maybe be interesting to go to clay earlier this year, even skip IW and Miami(yes, I know she won't do it, but she could). There is a WTA tournament in Cali(125k) and in Bogota, those always have extremely weak draws. and maybe to back those up with a challenger or two in USA and Charleston and fly to Europe after it.
She's better on clay than on hard in last year, in her career also( Rome SF, two WTA titles) so it could be good idea.
And in Europe she should play Estoril, Fes and such a tournaments if she's all about points, Yes, glamour is in Stuttgart and Madrid, but when you're around 100th in rankings, points and success are in Colombia, Morocco, Portgual...
I think you're absolutely correct about the clay strategy. It would be great to see her do something a little more "outside the box" in that regard. Those fast & medium fast hard courts should be so ideal for her big game, but the fact is that she moves much more fluidly on clay (surely because she grew up on it). Also, I think clay forces her to be just a little more patient ... To wait until "pulling the trigger" with her huge shots. Still, she practices predominantly on hard courts. Let's hope she starts the season with a fresh focus, hungry to hurt the other girls.
That training regimen has GOT to be giving her added confidence. Truly, I don't think she has ever looked more fit/athletic.
Whatever the case, just one lovely run early in the season could break her year wide open. I have always felt she is just so so SO close to the sort of "hit" that would propel her back to the Top 50. I do believe if she had beaten Vinci at W this year ... That would have galvanized her whole career. Getting to the last 16 of a Slam again.
Really hope she gets some traction early-on, as well as some nifty draws. Mostly, hope she has fun. She can be proud of her comeback, whether No. 50 in the world or No. 105. How many people on earth can say they were regularly one of the 100 best on the entire planet at their profession?
Mirjana can say it ... She has spent most of the last 2 years as a Top 100 talent in a very deep field. She can absolutely go higher. Good luck to her.
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Standing as one of the most-heinous hate crimes ever, the lynching-style murder of James Byrd Jr. at the hands of three White men in Texas served as a painful reminder that racism was very much alive in America, even on the cusp of the 21st century.
On June 7, 1998, the 49-year-old Byrd would find himself on a Texas road near the town of Jasper at night, when a trio of men, Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer (pictured), and John King, offered him a ride. It was later reported that Byrd and Berry knew each other. The friendly gesture turned deadly, though, when the men savagely beat Byrd and chained his ankles to the back of the pickup truck Berry was driving, dragging him three miles over asphalt and road and causing severe injuries. Byrd was said to be conscious during most of the harrowing ordeal, finally dying by way of a decapitation after his body hit a culvert in the road.
The men were quickly arrested, with Jasper finding itself uncomfortably under the glare of scrutiny and shocked stares. Police charged the trio with capital murder, as each of the men was tried in separate cases. King, considered the ringleader, and Brewer were part of a White supremacy group; they reportedly met in prison when they joined the gang years prior.
Both men were sentenced to death row with Brewer being killed by lethal injection last September. On the eve of his death, Brewer said he felt no remorse and would do it all over again. King currently sits on Texas' death row list, while Berry, who is serving life in prison, was spared capital punishment after prosecutors determined by some manner of miracle that he was not a racist.
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All too frequently, I wonder whether I've somehow taken up residence in the Twilight Zone, or in one of Salvador Dalí's paintings.
Today, for example, I came under attack elsewhere for my supposed criticism of Elizabeth Smart on Friday. I was, it seems, very harsh toward an innocent victim, and, in my post, as I typically do, I behaved like a "jerk." (I'm not reproducing the more unsavory descriptors that were actually applied to me.) It's my cruel, vicious writing, I was told, as exemplified in that blog post, that has led discerning people around the world to hate me.
(I had thought that I was — gently, obliquely, and without even naming them — criticizing people who, seemingly for their own agendas, had distorted what Ms. Smart, now actually Ms. Gilmour, had said. That seems to me a form of abuse. But no, I was attacking the victim. And, then, by replying that I had been grotesquely misrepresented, I was compounding my crime by illegitimately trying to claim her genuine status as a victim for myself.)
Moreover, also today, elsewhere on this blog, I've come under criticism for my silly supposition that Cuba is an oppressive, totalitarian regime whereas the United States isn't.
I have a Cuban daughter-in-law, born in Havana, and I was deeply involved in the Elizabeth Smart case (for both Brian David Mitchell's competency hearing and his kidnapping trial) and I think very highly of my daughter-in-law, her extended family, Elizabeth Smart, and her family. But no matter, I'm a bad guy, and, even when I don't actually say bad things, they can still be recognized between the lines in the penumbra of the implication of things that I haven't really said. And no denial on my part can erase those invisible, inaudible thought crimes.


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Composition of Linear Mappings
Main Concept
Any real matrix A gives rise to a linear transformation which maps each vector in to the matrix-vector product , which is a vector in .
Conversely, each linear mapping can be represented by a unique transformation matrix A, where the -entry of A is the coordinate of and is the standard basis vector with 1 in the position and 0 elsewhere.
Due to this 1-1 correspondence between matrices and linear mappings, matrix multiplication corresponds to the composition of linear mappings.
If a real matrix B represents a linear mapping , and a real matrix A represents a linear mapping , then the composition is represented by the matrix .
Proof: due to the associativity of matrix multiplication.
Illustrating Common Linear Transformations
To graphically illustrate linear mappings in two-dimensional space (), we can use real matrices to describe transformations of the unit square, which is defined by the columns of the identity matrix:.
The matrix can be viewed as the transformation of the unit square into a parallelogram with vertices at , , , and .
This allows certain types of matrices to represent common transformations of planar figures, including:
Reflection through the -axis,
Rotation by θ degrees counter-clockwise,
Scaling by a factor of k in all directions,
Horizontal shear,
Squeeze mapping,
Projection onto the -axis,
The parallelogram which results from the transformation of the unit square by a matrix BA will be congruent to the parallelogram formed by successive transformations by matrices A and B.
If the combination of transformations resulting from matrices A and B returns the original unit square, these matrices and their corresponding linear mappings must be inverses, since their matrix product BA is equal to the identity matrix.
Change the values in matrices A and B below to observe how the composition of the corresponding linear mappings transforms the unit square. Click the checkboxes to highlight the different linear transformations.
The plot on the left illustrates the parallelograms which result from the transformation by matrix A, the transformation by matrix B and the successive transformations with A followed by B.
The plot on the right illustrates the parallelogram which results from the transformation by matrix BA. This figure will always match the parallelogram in the other plot which was created by the composition of linear transformations A then B.
If either matrix A or B is left as the identity matrix, you can observe the transformation of the unit square caused by a single linear mapping.
In both of the plots below, the gray figure (show
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In this plot:
The red parallelogram represents the first transformation of the unit square by matrix A.
The blue parallelogram represents the second transformation of this figure by matrix B.
The purple parallelogram represents the composition of transformations by matrices A then B.
The purple parallelogram represents the transformation of the unit square by matrix BA.
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Terry Pratchett mixes fantasy with history in this young adult book set in Victorian London.
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Doubleday, 368 pages
THE Dodger is a tosher, a sewer scavenger who navigates the city's underbelly looking for coins, shiny baubles and other lost treasures.
One dark and stormy night, our artful hero comes across a young damsel in distress leaping from a carriage, and proceeds to save her from two louts who were about to do unspeakable things to her.
In the process, the young lad is sucked into a world of trouble, one that is of a significantly higher class (and better smelling) than he is used to, as he tries to help the girl escape her troubles with the help of a well-spoken journalist/writer named ... Charlie Dickens.
Yes, Charles Dickens himself is a character in a book that sees him meeting and helping Dodger, a character from Oliver Twist, a book by the real Charles Dickens. And if that wasn't mind-warping enough for you, the Dodger also meets other real and fictional characters, such as the throat-slitting barber Sweeney Todd, former British Prime Minster Robert Peel (the real man founded the London police force), and heiress Angela Burdett-Coutts (who, according to Pratchett's acknowledgements, was "the richest woman in the world at the time, apart from a queen here or there").
This may not be one of Pratchett's books from the more popular Discworld series, but the world it occupies is also a fantasy world of sorts, populated by well-known literary names and characters co-existing in an early Victorian-age London that somehow reminds one of Discworld's sprawling Ankh Morpokh metropolis (with cleaner sewers, if that is even possible).
It's such a wonderfully warped yet artfully constructed little world that I wouldn't have been surprised if some alien tripods showed up and blow up London only for the city to be saved by the Nautilus, emerging from the depths of the Thames River (Oh wait, I think that's something from Alan Moore's League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen).
To Pratchett's credit, he doesn't turn Dodger into a how-many-famous-people-and-characters-can-I-stuff-into-this-book exercise. Of all his standalone, non-Discworld books, I probably enjoyed this one the most – the somewhat philosophical Nation (2008), though entertaining, hardly registered in my mind after I had finished it, while his collaboration with Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth (2012), was more memorable for not being a typical Pratchett book than anything else. With Dodger, Pratchett's writing is funnier, and the jokes come a lot more naturally. It actually feels like he is having loads of fun with his characters, especially the titular hero.
Sharp, streetwise, and artful, of course, Dodger is a main character who is instantly likeable and whom you will immediately want to root for. His rise from street urchin to the upper echelons of society is a journey you desperately want him to complete, even though it sometimes feels as though Pratchett is making it way too easy for him.
While the author admits in his acknowledgements that "certain tweaks were needed to get people in the right place at the right time", probably only historical nitpickers will begrudge him this artistic license. This is, after all, a "fantasy based on a reality", a "historical fantasy, and certainly not a historical novel", which Pratchett wrote to get people interested in that fascinating era.
If that was his main objective, then he certainly succeeded. While reading the book, I was constantly researching names that popped up, just to see what their real-life counterparts did. And while the Victorian slang he uses in the dialogue was a little challenging at times, it added to the authenticity of the era and made the story that much more engrossing (not to mention the use of the word "richards" to describe er ... human excrement made for some hilarious sentences).
Dodger feels like a calming reassurance from the ailing Pratchett, who is suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's disease. With this book (and the next Discworld book, Raising Steam, to be published later this year), it feels like he is telling us that yes, he is still around, and yes, he is still writing, pretty well too. So don't write him off just yet, thank you very much.
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Madhya Pradesh Congress has demanded an apology from BJP president Nitin Gadkari for his remarks on the IQ levels of Swami Vivekananda and fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim.
"Gadkari's statement showed that the BJP chief had lost his mental balance after corruption charges were levelled against him," Leader of Opposition in Madhya Pradesh Assembly Ajay Singh said in a statement here.
The BJP chief's statement also proves Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh's allegation that the "RSS is in league with fundamentalist organisations."
Addressing an award ceremony in Bhopal on Sunday, Gadkari had said, "As per psychology, if we can compare the IQ level of Swami Vivekananda and that of Dawood Ibrahim, then it could have been almost the same. But Vivekananda used it in nation building, brotherhood and spiritualism, while Dawood used that in excelling in crime world." PTI AS NP RCJ RYS 11061453 NNNN