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Melissa - I think I poorly expressed what I was trying to say. It does not matter the amount of money you are paying for that care you receive in the hospital, you are still paying for it. If you went to a department store and were looking to buy something and you were unhappy with your sales associate, would you find it odd to request a different associate? It would not matter the reason you wanted someone different, if the boss/owner wanted your business they would do their best to accommodate you. I used the figure of a half million dollars because I know that is how much a few weeks in the NICU costs. There are so many people that think "well I am a lowly person and my doctor is SO smart, how dare I question anything they say", when in reality you know your own body and your children more than any doctor. You also care more about you and your children more than the doctor does. It is your job to speak up for youself to make sure your rights are being heard. It is not for the hospital to say "Well this is the nurse you are getting, if you do not like it go somewhere else", if that is the case for requesting a black nurse, it is also the case for requesting one that speaks clear English, one that is a woman/man, one that does not have an abrasive personality, one that does not wear deodorant, or any other number of reasons. You either are in charge of your own care or you are not.
Again, just to re-iterate, I think racism is horrible and my heart breaks for anyone on the receiving end of that situation. I do not however, think it serves anyone to have a nurse keep serving a patient that does not want him or her there.
Agreed. Either you can request a different practitioner for any reason or you can't. Just because we really dislike and hate his reason doesn't mean that someone couldn't find my reasons just as awful.
Asking to be accommodated to a preferred physician or nurse is not going against medical guidelines. If it couldn't be done then his option is to stay with what they are providing him or at that point go AMA and transfer to another hospital. I don't believe it is entitlement to ask for someone I'm comfortable with to be my caretaker. I've never even had to ask any physician or nurse to change but I still feel as I should have the option to.
I'm not saying people can't ask. I never said they can't ask. I'm saying that for people to believe that its okay for the hospital to participate in discrimination because someone asked is wrong. And I'm saying that the idea that a nurse who has done nothing wrong but be black can be refused the ability to do her job is dead wrong. And you can try to distinguish between an emergency and non emergency situation and whatnot, but at the end of the day we live in community. And part of living in community, or being in a hospitals care, as this debate may have it, is that the whole world does not and should not cater to you. A bad or rude or dangerous nurse has nothing to do with a nurses skin color or the color of their scrubs, and to believe that we should all have the power not just to ask but to GET whatever we want simply because we are "paying for it" is selfish thinking, IMO.
Believe me, I'm the first to demand correct care. However, truthfully I DON'T know more about lots of medical things than doctors. For instance, when my son was bleeding to death I didn't have any idea how to stop it. While I knew my hip was broken, I surely didn't know how to reset it and insert multiple screws and pins. So I guess that is where we differ. I don't think that I know the inside of my children's bodies, or my own, better than a Dr or nurse, because they have years of schooling and experience that I don't have. Therefore I am not willing to think that I am the most important person in a hospital, even though I'm "paying them", nor do I think that I have the right to choose my caregivers based on my own personal pet peeves (or outright bigotry, in this case).
I'm not saying being black is being equivalent to having poor care. But, I throw it in the boat of me having a preference of a female physician (although I don't think it's as ugly to say that.) They could have easily said...sorry that's all we have that is available to tend to your child and they probably should have. But either we let that reason be a reason to ask or else all our reasons are out the window.
That is where we disagree. When a Dr came into my sons room and said he wasn't on Morphine (and laughed at me when I said that he not only was but had been for three days), I demanded that he leave the room, and not entirely politely, either. A doctor who wants to discharge my child but can't be bothered to read my child's chart is not going to treat my child again. Ever. And since I had a nurse witness the encounter, I got exactly what I wanted, which was a new DR. Saying that giving into discrimination protects us to be able to make requests when we get bad care just isn't logical. There is no maybe about it to me, the hospital should never, ever have allowed this man to determine that that nurse not treat her son any more than a Dr should be allowed to decide that they don't want to treat a patient due to their skin color.
Yes, doctor's have more medical training than I do, that does not mean they are always right. I have so many examples just in my own life. Caitlyn was born with a tethered cord. The paediatric neurosurgeon that we first took her to told us to ignore it and that he believed she was fine. If I had listened to that doctor, and not taken her to a different neurosurgeon in a larger city she would be paralysed from the waist down by now. My uncle was told by a doctor that he had terminal cancer. A second opinion revealed there was food in his lungs and that he was cancer free. Doctors are not perfect. Sticking up for yourself has nothing at all to do with thinking you are the most important person in a hospital. Just that you are important. Every patient there is important. When DH was recently in the hospital for his transplant, it was a constant battle to get the nurse to come. If he was due for medicine at 3:30 and the nurse had not come by 3:45 or 4:00 I went to get her. Turning the light on for a nurse would take a least a half an hour for someone to come unless you went and personally asked them to come. I do not think it is being self centered to make yourself heard or to ask for a different nurse. On both parties. I do not think it would serve a nurse well to have a patient that had hatred for her.
What makes your reason to deny care any more noble than someone else's reason? Should you have been charged with criminal neglect because you requested a different doctor? Of course not. Requesting or even demanding a different nurse or doctor does not equate denying care regardless of the reason. Being a racist does not give the hospital the right to refuse to treat you.
I guess we will disagree (not very often that happens Melis). I think it has to be all or nothing. You can either request a change of caretakers when it is unrelated to quality of care or you can't.
Quality of care.....always allowed to change if you are getting bad care. Theres no ifs, ands, or buts with that for me.


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In 2007 Zen provided me with a router called SpeedTouch 585. I have now changed to TalkTalk and they have provided a router called HG 523a. [The first cost about £60, the second was free.] Should I bother to change to the new router - is it likely to make things any faster or have any other advantage? Also, I was advised to turn off the SpeedTouch overnight, but TalkTalk say I should leave the HG permanently on. [The Speedtouch does get quite warm by the end of the day.] Many thanks for any advice.
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Your choice but the new router way give you higher speed and I prefer to leave always on as it tends to stabilise your line settings. It could take up to 10 minutes after you switch the router on for it to settle.
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This time of year is commonly referred to as the "Dog Days of Summer". If you are so lucky as to have a dog, perhaps you would like to curl up with you pet as you devour your Summer Read in the hammock or under the air conditioning. If not, curl up with one of these and enjoy your "Dog" Days of Summer.
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Secret Service agent Ethan Burke is sent to the small Idaho town of Wayward Pines to search for two missing agents, Ethan comes to in a hospital with amnesia. Ethan finds out he was in a car accident and his partner was killed, as his memory comes back he finds out this picture perfect town isn't what it appears to be.
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Would a great work of art be any less great if there was a little technical assistance involved? Computer graphics pioneer Tim Jenison had a fascination with the theory championed by David Hockney and Philip Steadman that the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer may have painted with the aid of a camera obscura, a special projection device that could have helped him reproduce sight lines and shadings with superhuman accuracy. In 2008, he set out to try and deduce just how that might have been done, with his friends Penn & Teller on hand to document the process (Teller directs, Penn narrates). For the next five years, Jenison worked out a process and spent countless hours devising mechanisms that he thought would allow him to make an almost exact replica of Vermeer's The Music Lesson, despite having no previous experience with painting. The film is a nerd's paradise, full of tinkering and speculation. It gets bogged down in minutae at times, but ultimately, it makes a great case that art and technology go hand in hand.


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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/21/us-to-send-47m-in-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza-strip/ I think this is a stupid move. 47M would be better suited to go to South Side of Chicago. What's next giving millions to the cartels? How about Putin?
Nothing should surprise us anymore especially with the leaders we have today in America. Gang Banger Problem As for giving aid to Chicago that will never happen they secretly want them to kill each other off, that is the easy way of getting rid of them instead of jailing them, the prisons are already loaded with them so what better way to exterminate them, let them do it to themselves. Liberal Democrats can be very ruthless. Also Money to the Gaza Killers while America's wounded warriors are all over TV begging for money.
PR ... it's a great burden in life to be sentenced to being born in Gaza. The citizens are not the terrorists ... Hamas sponsors terrorism.
The death toll today is Israel 27, Palestinians 518(100 are children)... Perhaps Israel will shut their water off again... We should send humanitarian aid, as we are complicit as we send weapons to Israel regularly... What is the endgame here?? How is justice defined??
The problem is that no one can tell an ordinary citizen from a terrorist in Gaza. But as long as it's 100% guaranteed that no terrorists will benefit from the money.....
You should ask the terrorists that question DarrylS. Whomever starts the aggession must be willing to pay whatever price there is to be paid. Hamas is responsible for everyone that has died.
We'll see how much of that money is allowed to go to the benefit of the ordinary people living there.
What I meant was that if one dime gets in the hands of terrorists, then it's not worth giving them anything. I know you don't think that's absurd. Or do you Jack? I'd really like to know
They did, and as much as I'm loathe to say it, the situation on the ground was very difficult for the Palestinians in those elections. The Fatah group were basically acting like the mafia, extorting protection money from businesses and harassing the locals. Palestinians didn't really buy into the Hamas religious agenda, and Hamas played that down in favor of promoting their social agenda, which promised an expansion of their care network (hospitals, welfare, etc). So when the Palestinians went to the polls, they pulled the lever and hoped. Alas, months like this are the result... EDIT - But all of this underscores the misplaced anger of (well-meaning portion of) the anti-Israel crowd. Yes, we should all feel some empathy for the Palestinian civilians, but the real bad guys here are Hamas, and before them, Arafat and his PLO thugs, and before him, the Grand Mufti, none of whom ever did the Palestinian people a real favor.
Or . . . just don't borrow it ? We don't have this $47M we have to borrow it wherever it goes. It would be best suited never being borrowed to begin with.
What a gigantic waste of money. Obama could call a presidential address, gather the media, and then proceed to wipe his ass with $47M in front of millions, and it would be a better use of that money than aiding Gaza.
Meanwhile last week we allocated another 621 Million for Israeli Defense spending... The Death Toll is now 626 Palestinians, many children and 29 Israeli's... how do they define justice?? Should be a good day for more carnage... turn on your tv's... http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/us-senate-doubles-funding-for-iron-dome/2014/07/16/


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Taking a step away from siblings.
I agree with what you want to do. It's ok to step away for a while & try to keep things light for the summer. Sometime you might want to have a meeting with your siblings & talk about things with the house-but at your own pace & time.
I'm the youngest girl in a family of 8 & I constantly want to take a break from them-to them I'm the baby & I'm constantly judged for every decision I make & my voice is never heard so I completely get where you're coming from.
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In the previous section, the concept of dividend payout was introduced. Now we take another step closer toward reality by introducing additional elements of reward and risk: interest rates and cost of carry. Recall from the previous part of this tutorial that there was a dividend profit potential of $32 in the April 100 conversion (see Figure 11).
Note that on its own, the conversion itself is not profitable because the purchase price $101.08 is greater than the strike price, as we demonstrated in the previous sections on conversion profitability determination. But when we factor in the receipt of a dividend payment of 40 cents, the cost drops to $99.68, leaving room for a profit of 32 cents per share, or $32 for each conversion. This looks great provided that the dividend is not canceled or lowered. But what about a change in carry costs?
Suppose now that there are carry costs of 0.48 % (just under one half of one percent annually). This position would cost $21 in interest charged to hold open with a debit balance for the 158 days of life to the options. (To learn about minimizing carry costs, read Don't Let Brokerage Fees Undermine Your Returns.)
April 100 Conversion Profit Calculation w/ Dividend and No Carry Costs |
(Conversion Price -Dividend) | Profit=$0.32 per share (or $32) |
$101.08 - $.40 = $99.68 |
Figure 11: Conversion profit assumes no carrying costs but now includes a dividend payment of 40 cents per share on ABC stock. Here April 100 \'09 strikes are used. |
In Figure 12, this would leave just 11 cents per share of conversion/dividend profits, or $11 per conversion. The debit balance is $101.08 x 100 = $10,108, to which is applied the cost of carry charge ($10,108 x .0048/360 x 158 days in the trade = $21).
April 100 Conversion Profit Calculation w/ Dividend Minus Carry Costs | |
(Conversion Price - Dividend) | Profit=$0.11 |
$101.08 + $21 - $.40 = $99.89 |
Figure 12: Conversion profit assumes total carrying costs of $21 and includes a dividend payment of 40 cents per share on ABC stock. Here April 100 \'09 strikes are used. |
Conversion Outcomes | Dividends | Interest | Profit |
Profitable | $33 earned | $23 paid | $10 |
Breakeven | $23 earned | $23 paid | $00 |
Loss | $23 earned | $33 paid | -$10 |
Figure 13: Three scenarios are presented for the conversion strategist. Profitable, breakeven and loss, which depend on dividend costs and interest rates paid on credit balances. Here we assume that the credit balance is equal to the strike price of the reversal. Therefore, there is no arbitrage profit per se, simply a potential profit that the dividend generated over interest charged. |
In this scenario, carry costs could increase or dividends could be cut or eliminated, thus eliminating this small profit or both could occur at the same time. Figure 13 shows the effects of changes in these two variables on a conversion. In Figure 13, a conversion profit of $10 goes to zero and then to a loss of $10 when dividends are cut by $10 to $23 from $33 (breakeven) followed by a $10 rise in cost of carry, leaving an overall loss for the position.
Reversal Outcomes | Dividends | Interest | Profit |
Profitable | $23 paid | $33 earned | $10 |
Breakeven | $33 paid | $33 earned | $00 |
Loss | $33 paid | $23 earned | -$10 |
Figure 14: Three scenarios are presented for the reversal strategist. Profitable, breakeven and loss, which depend on dividend costs and interest rates paid on credit balances. Here we assume that the credit balance is equal to the strike price. Therefore, there is no arbitrage profit per se, simply a potential profit from interest earned over the dividend paid. |
Reversal, Dividend Risk and Interest Earnings
Reversals have potential profit arising from interest earnings on credit balances, which are above any locked-in arbitrage profit on the three-leg strategy. Taking a look at Figure 14, here we see that a dividend to be paid by the reversal strategist during the life of the strategy is first $23, with interest earned on the credit balance $33, leaving a profit of $10 per reversal. If the dividend is increased while in the trade, the dividend cost rises, resulting in a change of $10 (from $23 to $33), thus erasing the potential for a profit on this trade. Finally, in the third scenario, the dividend is increased and the earned interest on credit balances falls by $10 to $23 from $33 (this could result from changes in market conditions that fluctuate over time), leaving the strategist with a loss of $10 overall. (Read Managing Interest Rate Risk to find out more.)
Currently, we are leaving out compound interest calculations, which at high interest rate levels might make a material difference. We are also assuming that there are no transaction costs. Given the rates earned on interest are known for the day, and the dividend cost is available to the strategist on that day, it is possible to know if the reversal is making money on any given day. Obviously, if a surprise dividend increase occurs during the life of the trade, it will most likely turn the trade into a loss. The interest earned will not be sufficient to cover the dividend costs. On the other hand, a surprise dividend cut would add profit to the position, as would rising rates.
Basically, the interest potential is a source of profit and the dividend payment is the cost. Depending on how much interest can be earned on the credit balances (depends on prevailing rates and strategist status), it is possible to establish a reversal that is known to be earning a profit each day. We will return to the issue of credit balances and interest earned in the following section covering issues related to interest costs and profits. (Discover the issues that complicate dividend payouts, read Dividend Facts You May Not Know.)
Interest rates impact both carry costs and earnings on credit balances, two important factors in conversions and reversals, respectively. We have just looked at their potential to impact profitability in both strategies, showing that a rise in carry costs will reduce a conversion profit and improve performance of a reversal. Meanwhile, a fall in interest rates will have the opposite impact, when other things remain the same (ceteris paribus).
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US 6572284 B2 Résumé A photo minilab includes a computer or other device for estimating processing times of jobs accepted by the minilab.
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Description The present invention relates to photo minilabs. More specifically, the present invention relates to queue management for photo minilabs. Photo minilabs offer quality processing of camera film with a quick turnaround. Customers drop off rolls of film at photo minilabs, and usually pick up prints the same day. Many photo minilabs promise a one-hour turnaround. However, a photo minilab might break that promise if it has a large backlog of jobs. Broken promises can leave customers angry. The broken promises are also costly to photo minilabs that give partial refunds or discounts to customers whose jobs aren't completed within the promised time. According to one aspect of the present invention, a photo minilab includes a computer or other device for estimating processing times of jobs accepted by the minilab. This device gives customers a better estimate of when their prints will be ready for pick-up. The device also reduces the likelihood that promises will be broken and it reduces the costs associated with those broken promises. Other aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, illustrating by way of example the principles of the present invention. FIG. 1 is an illustration of a photo minilab according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is an illustration of a method of queue management for the photo minilab. As shown in the drawings for purposes of illustration, the present invention is embodied in a digital photo minilab. Digital photo minilabs offer several advantages over conventional analog minilabs. Conventional analog minilabs process film and create prints on silver halide paper. Digital minilabs, by contrast, digitize film, and also accept digital input such as digital camera storage cards and floppy disks. The digital minilabs use inkjet technology to make prints. The inkjet technology does not use any hazardous chemicals. This makes the digital minilabs environmentally safer than analog minilabs. Conventional analog minilabs offer only a few options for editing images, such as color balancing, whereas digital minilabs allow for a wide variety of image processing, such as color correction, sharpening, image editing, red eye elimination, color saturation, and merging of images into greeting cards. Referring to FIG. 1, a digital photo minilab 10 includes five stations for processing camera film 12 into prints 14. After a customer drops off camera film at the minilab 10, the film 12 is brought to the first station 16. At the first station 16, a film processor 18 makes negatives 20 from the film 12. The negatives 20 are taken to the second station 22, where the negatives 20 are fed into a negative scanner 24. The negative scanner 24 converts the negatives 20 into digital data 26 and supplies the data 26 to a computer 30, which is located at the third station 28. The computer 30 displays the data as images on its video monitor. The computer 30 may be used to perform color correction on the digital images (e.g., RGB correction), touch-up (e.g., red eye removal), and other edits. After the images have been edited, the modified data is converted to printer data 32, and the printer data 32 is sent to a printer 36. Located at the fourth station 34, the printer 36 prints out one or more images onto a print medium such as photo paper. The printed medium 38 is taken to the fifth station 40 for packaging. The packaging may include slitting photo paper into individual prints (e.g., wallet-sized prints, 5×7 prints), laminating the prints, and placing the laminated prints 14 into envelopes. The envelopes may be placed in a bin for customer pickup. The photo minilab 10 is staffed by one or more people (there is no limitation on how the minilab 10 is staffed). For instance, the different stations 16, 22, 28, 34 and 40 might be staffed by different people; multiple people might be assigned to each station 16, 22, 28, 34 and 40; the minilab 10 might be staffed by a single person who is responsible for each station; etc. The photo minilab 10 is likely to process more than one job any given time. The photo minilab 10 is also likely to have a backlog of jobs. The backlog results from limitations of the machines, as well as limitations on the speed and efficiency of the staff. Limitations of the negative scanner 24 include the speed at which the scanner scans in the negatives. Limitations of the printer 36 include the speed at which prints are made. A high quality inkjet printer, for example, might be able to make high quality 4×6 color prints at a speed of 40 to as many as 20,000 per hour. It may also have scheduled maintenance needs. Limitations of the staff include the speed of editing the digital images, the speed at which media is moved between stations, the speed at which packaging is performed, lunch breaks, etc. Moreover, different people work at different speeds under different conditions. Consequently, the limitations of the staff are less predictable than the limitations of the machines. These limitations can create bottlenecks at certain stations and inactivity at other stations. As a first example, a large number of jobs is received within a short period of time, whereby a queue forms at the first station 16. As a second example, the negative scanner goes off-line, whereby a queue forms at the second station 22. As a third example, an excessive amount of time is spent on color correction, whereby the printer 36 is idle while a queue forms at the third station 28. As a fourth example, little to no editing is performed, and the printer 36 cannot keep up with the data being supplied to it. Thus a queue forms at the fourth station 34. As a fifth example, a staff member at the fifth station 40 takes a break while prints are being printed. Consequently, a queue forms at the fifth station 40. The computer 30 may be programmed with software 42 for performing queue management. The queue management software 42 estimates processing time and completion time for each job accepted by the minilab 10. The estimates may be based on statistics for each station 16, 22, 28, 34 and 40 and the length of each queue for each station 16, 22, 28, 34 and 40. Statistics for each station 16, 22, 28, 34 and 40 may be broken down into statistics for each machine, and statistics for each staff member. Statistics such as means and standard deviations may be used. Additional reference is made to FIG. 2, which describes the steps performed after a customer drops off a job. The customer or a staff member enters the number of rolls dropped off, and the number of pictures per roll (110). The print format and the numbers of prints (e.g., slides, ten wallet-sized photos, two 8×11 photos, five 3×5 photos) are also entered (110). This information may be entered into the computer 30 via a remote terminal. Once the information has been entered, the computer 30 estimates the processing time and completion time for the job (112). The completion time (tdone) may be estimated as follows:
where tstart is the start time, tin-progress is the time to process jobs already in progress, tqueue is the delay due to queues, tnew is the time to process the new job, and tmargin allows for a margin of error. For each station, each time may be based on statistics for the machine and statistics for the employee, as well as external variables (staff member break-time, machine down-time, minilab closing-time). If the variables are based on means and standard deviations, the computer 30 may compute completion times (tdone) based on 1-sigma, two-sigma and three-sigma guarantees. The estimated completion time is communicated to the customer (114). This estimated time is a function of the statistical and real time data collected. Different guarantees could be communicated to the customer. For example, if the mean is sixty minutes and the standard deviation is ten minutes, the customer could be given a 95% guarantee that that the prints will ready within eighty minutes and that the prints will almost certainly be ready in ninety minutes. Or, the customer could be given a single estimate based on the mean and a selected standard deviation. Selecting the standard deviation involves a tradeoff between providing an accurate estimate and asking the customers to wait too long. High accuracy reduces the likelihood that the photo minilab 10 will incur costs associated with broken promises; long wait times might result in lost business. The minilab owner can select the standard deviation that provides the best tradeoff. The printer 36 can print a receipt indicating the details of the job (116). This receipt informs the customer exactly what was ordered (e.g., 2 sets of twenty four 4×6 prints). The receipt can also indicate the information entered by the customer. For instance, when the negative scanner 24 reads a roll of film, it determines the number of images (e.g., 12/24/27/36) on the roll. That number can be added to the receipt. The photo minilab 10 of FIG. 1 also includes a feedback system, which provides feedback for refining the statistics and increasing accuracy of the estimates. The feedback system may be implemented as a combination of sensors 44 and manual input devices 46. The sensors 44 can measure the performance of the machines and operators. For instance, sensors 44 can measure the actual speeds of the negative scanner 24 and printer 36 instead of relying on the manufacturer's specifications. Such sensors 44 might include, without limitation, input and output light curtains, LANs that poll machines at the beginning and ending of jobs, vision systems with people recognition software and object identification software for monitoring work areas, and barcode readers for tracking jobs as the jobs are received in input trays and placed in output trays. Manual inputs may be entered by staff members via terminals 46 at the different stations. The manual inputs might indicate times for performing tasks such as preparing negatives, image editing, packaging, transporting prints from the printer 36 to the packaging station 40, etc. Tasks such as image editing will usually have a larger standard deviation than straightforward tasks such as packaging. Manual inputs might also include time stamps indicating the beginning and ending of lunch breaks, and codes identifying staff members. Statistics may be kept for each staff member. If a certain staff member is on duty, the computer 30 may use the statistics for that staff member. A digital photo minilab according to the present invention is not limited to the five stations described above. For instance, the negative and scanning stations can be bypassed if digital data is presented to the photo minilab. Digital camera and scanner users may be able to drop off their digital media at the minilab, or the digital information may be transmitted via the Internet. The end product of the minilab is not limited to prints and slides. A minilab according to the present invention may offer thumbnail index sheets, photo greeting cards, enlargements, photo captions, frames, collages, etc. It may offer services such as uploading on the Internet. The queue management software is not limited to the same computer that is used for image editing. It could be integrated with the printer, executed by another computer (e.g., a server, a non-networked desktop computer) at another station, etc. The queue management software is not limited to digital minilabs. It may be used to estimate processing time and completion time for jobs accepted by analog minilabs. The queue management software may use statistical information to estimate the performance times for each analog minilab station, as well as feedback information to update the statistical information. The present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described above. Instead, the present invention is construed according to the claims the follow. Citations de brevets
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