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The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) held its 90 th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, November 28 through December 3, 2004. Nearly 59,000 people attended the gathering, including more than 26,400 imaging professionals. The meeting offered more than 2000 scientific presentations and poster papers. In addition, more than 600 companies displayed products in the technical exhibit area. The following highlights just a few of the new products shown at RSNA 2004.
Toshiba America Medical Systems
Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. (Tustin, CA) featured a variety of new products in a range of imaging modalities. From its magnetic resonance (MR) imaging line, Toshiba highlighted enhancements made recently to two of its products: new gradient packages for the Excelart Vantage 1.5T system (Figure 1) and Version 5.0 software for the Ultra open-MRI system. The new gradient packages, the Vantage MGV and the work-in-progress ZGV, feature gradient strengths of 30 mT/m and 33 mT/m (milliTesla per meter) and slew rates of 86 mT/m/sec and 200 mT/m/sec (milli-Tesla per meter per second), respectively.
This Excelart Vantage system is capable of performing a variety of advanced MR imaging applications when equipped with optional packages for cardiac imaging, advanced echoplanar imaging (EPI), perfusion and diffusion imaging, peripheral MR angiography (MRA), and SuperFASE (fast advanced spin echo) imaging.
The system also features the company's proprietary Pianissimo technology for acoustic noise reduction and SPEEDER parallel processing for increased imaging acquisition speed and reduced examination times.
The Version 5.0 software for the Ultra open-MRI system includes advanced MRI pulse sequences for added clinical versatility and faster scan times. The system features an amplitude of 25 mT/m and a slew rate of 100 mT/m/sec. According to the company, this slew rate allows the system's gradient speed to be nearly 5 times faster than current open systems and 250% greater than its high-field (1.0T to 1.5T cylindrical) counterparts.
With the new Version 5.0 software package, the Ultra can perform a variety of MRI pulse sequences, including: SuperFASE, steady-state 2 echoes (SS2E) for high-contrast imaging, steady-state T2 (SST2) for conducting heavily weighted T2 images, sliding slab for enhanced three-dimensional (3D) time-of-flight (TOF) brain MR angiography images, variable no phase wrap (NPW), line scan diffusion to complement sin-gle-shot echoplanar imaging (SS-EPI), and swirl encoding to reduce flow and motion artifacts.
The company also used RSNA 2004 to introduce the Aplio xV high-performance ultrasound system and the addition of 4-dimensional (4D) imaging technology to its Nemio compact system. According to the company, the Aplio xV features "next-generation tissue Doppler and contrast imaging technology based on Toshiba's Intelligent Component Architecture (ICA) to allow faster processing of more complex data" for improved image quality and sensitivity.
Designed for small hospitals and physicians' offices, the Nemio (Figure 2) is now capable of performing simultaneous display of real-time 2dimensional (2D) images and continuously updating 3D volumes. Additional enhancements include: Tissue Harmonic Imaging (THI); Quad Signal Processing (QSP), which provides 4 times more data per transmission signal; Directional Color Angio that combines color angiography with directional flow data; and multifrequency transducers including convex, linear, and sector transducer capabilities.
The system also features optional software packages designed specifically for the clinical requirements of a particular imaging marketing segment. The radiology package features trapezoid imaging; an extended-field-of-view mode; a differential THI option to provide increased resolution at depth to assess tumors, lesions, cysts, and normal tissue with maximum penetration; a Quick Scan option for one-touch image optimization; and the ApliPure option for real-time spatial and frequency compounding. The system also features a new flat-screen display for enhanced imaging uniformity and clarity.
In the area of computed tomography (CT), Toshiba announced the approval of the SUREPlaque cardiac visualization software. Designed for the Aquilion CFX line of scanners, this new software can be used to identify and quantify soft plaque for cardiac and peripheral vessel analysis using a color-coding system based on tissue density.
The company also displayed, as a work-in-progress, a new large-bore CT scanner designed specifically for oncology. The Aquilion LB features a 90-cm bore with an 85-cm display field-of-view and a 70-cm acquired field-of-view. The system's Quantum multirow CT detector provides image slice thickness of 0.5 mm. According to the company, the detector's highly efficient ceramic material provides low noise and high dose efficiency. The company hopes to have this system available in the third quarter of 2005.
Lodox Systems North America
Lodox Systems North America (South Lyon, MI) featured its new Rad-MP system upgrade for the Statscan Critical Imaging System. Designed for use in emergency and trauma medicine, the Statscan system is capable of performing a whole-body X-ray examination in approximately 13 seconds. Once acquired, the images can be displayed, magnified, and rotated almost immediately at a viewing station.
The new upgrade consists of a 20-× 28-inch (50-× 71-cm) radiolucent imaging table and a hydraulic patient imaging chair and platform. The imaging table can be used in both horizontal and vertical planes, and the adjustable hydraulic chair and platform can accommodate both seated and standing patients for upper-body, extremity, or erect chest/abdominal imaging, as well as for weight-bearing spine and joint procedures.
The Rad-MP system upgrade can be purchased as an option to the standard configuration on new Statscan systems or added to Statscan systems already in clinical use.
Confirma (Kirkland, WA) previewed two works-in-progress at RSNA 2004: the new Access Breast Coil and the latest version of CADstream.
The Access Breast Coil is a 7-channel phased-array coil designed for both conventional imaging and interventional procedures (Figure 3). Optimized for parallel imaging of the chest wall, breast, and axillary tissue, it supports both bilateral and unilateral imaging.
For interventional procedures, the coil's design allows for lateral, medial, and craniocaudal access, and it supports all needle-gauge sizes and vacuum-assisted biopsy systems. In addition, the coil has an integrated lighting system for illumination during interventional procedures. The ergonomic design was modeled after stereotactic biopsy tables with positioning accessories that include a headrest, armrest, and torso pad to relieve pressure on the sternum. The company expects to have the Access Breast Coil on the market in the first quarter of 2005.
Confirma also previewed the latest version of its computer-aided detection (CAD) system for breast MR imaging, CADstream, at this year's meeting. The new version incorporates the American College of Radiology (ACR) BI-RADS Atlas for lesion classification. The system also has a multimodality-ready configuration, offering users the ability to access, view, and reference mammography and ultrasound studies while interpreting breast MRI with CADstream. The system's additional new features include automated summaries with size, classification, and location for tumor volume of interest, and AngioMap overlays.
Zonare Medical Systems
Also at RSNA 2004, Zonare Medical Systems, Inc, (Mountain View, CA) introduced the z.one convertible ultrasound system based on the Zone Sonography platform.
The Zone Sonography platform employs a new approach to ultrasound data acquisition and image formation. According to the company, this technology allows for the acquisition of data in relatively few large zones rather than many narrow lines used in traditional systems, allowing for more rapid image storage, processing, and display. Unlike conventional ultrasound systems in which each line is formed by summing together the contributions of all the channels in the transducer and discarding the channel data as soon as each line is formed, Zone Sonography aggregates the original channel data and stores it in Channel Domain Memory. All of the echo information is then utilized in Channel Domain Processing to form the image and to provide greater options for image postprocessing by retaining all of the original raw data.
This new method of data acquisition is used in the company's new z.one convertible ultrasound system, a full-featured cart system that can quickly convert into a compact, portable system that works like a conventional system (Figure 4).
The z.one system consists of a full-featured cart-based system and a compact system. The cart system includes an adjustable height cart, advanced LCD display, and a backlit keyboard and a full user interface similar to that on a conventional ultrasound system.
The convertible scan engine is contained in a self-enclosed, 6-lb compact unit that can be removed from the cart and transported to the patient. Full functionality is available in both configurations, including advanced imaging and multiple simultaneous modes. The company expects the system to be commercially available in early 2005.
DynaWell Int. AB (Billdal, Sweden) featured its L-Spine compression device for CT and MR imaging. The device was designed to simulate the axial compression that occurs on a patient's lumbar spine when standing in order to aid the clinician in detecting abnormalities that might not be visible when the spine is relaxed in the supine position.
In clinical use, the patient wears the DynaWell L-Spine vest over his or her shoulders and upper chest with the feet placed against the footplate of the compression device (Figure 5). The straps on the vest are tightened over the patient's chest and two adjustable cords on opposite sides of the vest are attached to the compression device. By tightening the cords to a desired measured load (up to 50% of body weight), the clinician is able to compress the spinal cord in a way that the manufacturer states is similar to that of upright posture. In addition, it helps the patients remain motionless and distributes the pressure across the chest rather than the shoulders.
According to the company, this noninvasive device can be used with nearly all CT and MR systems and is most useful in patients with neurogenic claudication, sciatica, and long-standing, unexplained lower back pain.
Agfa (Mortsel, Belgium) also featured a variety of products at RSNA 2004. One highlight for the company was the launch of their new multimodality mammography diagnostic workstation, the IMPAX MA3000.
This system, developed based on the company's picture archiving and communication system (PACS) model of information management, allows the user to access all digital breast images as well as all other general imaging studies, regardless of the modality used to acquire them, all on a single workstation.
The workstation comes with full integration capability with PACS, radiology information systems (RIS) and hospital information systems (HIS), and reporting applications. When part of a PACS network, images can be retrieved and reviewed from anywhere on the network.
In addition, Agfa announced the release of the latest version of its voice recognition technology, TalkStation 3.0. The new version incorporates several workflow and user interface enhancements, as well as the Dragon Naturally-Speaking v7 medical speech engine from ScanSoft, Inc. (Peabody, MA).
TalkStation 3.0 also features: Correctionist Capabilities, enabling real-time speech recognition with on-the-fly deferral to a transcription editor; TeleDictation, for dictating via telephone; Auto Macros, for additional workflow customization; Enterprise Gateway for increased interface flexibility; and several security enhancements.
The company also introduced two new computed radiography (CR) digitizers: the CR 75.0, a high-throughput CR system for centralized CR environments, and CR 25.0, a multiapplication digitizer for a decentralized environment (Figure 6).
According to the company, the CR 75.0 is a high-speed multiuser digitizer, which features a drop-and-go buffer designed to eliminate waiting times and allow for a continuous workflow.
The company calls the CR 25.0 a fast, highly versatile, small-footprint digitizer. Designed to complement existing centralized CR systems, the CR 25.0 can be used inside the X-ray room and is suitable for a mobile environment as well.
A fully integrated CR User Station is available for both CR 75.0 and CR 25.0 digitizers. Both systems also offer 3 different resolution modes with a standard resolution of 6 pixels/mm that can be increased to 10 pixels/mm and a maximum resolution of 20 pixels/mm available for specific applications.
"This new technology platform allows us to provide increased, homogeneous application range throughout the entire Agfa range of CR systems, to tailor specific CR solutions to different and new imaging environments, and to address the increasing needs to be closer to the patient point of care," said Iskandar Accaoui, Business Manager Digital Radiography Solutions at Agfa.Back To Top
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Happy Thanksgiving! For Americans around the globe (including your editor in Thailand), Thanksgiving a time of family and friends and football and more food. And, of course, it's the time we're supposed to take a few moments to think of all the things we're thankful for. Most of us have life far easier today than the original settlers and native Americans did back in the 1600's, but there's still a lot to be thankful for.
Truth be told, almost every device and app we touch today would have seemed magical only a decade or two ago, and the internet itself is almost a modern miracle. Here's some of the biggest things in the world of web apps the AppStorm team is thankful for this year.
There's a wealth of video editing applications available but the majority (and the best) are confined to native desktop apps and generally come with a high price tag. Even when wanting to create the simplest of movies or slideshows, these apps also hog system resources, which isn't friendly to other processes you want to run.
Stupeflix is a browser-based, simple video editing utility. It's strapline is "video production made easy", which it is… to an extent. Stupeflix has two main utilities: Stupeflix Studio (the aforementioned video production utility) and Stupeflix TV (which allows one to create a web TV channel showing Twitter updates and Flickr images). The latter, for me, sounds the most impressive but since Stupeflix Studio has a larger feature set that will be the focus of this review.
Although Christmas is either already over for many or nearly there, the holiday season isn't quite over yet. The New Year is right around the corner and we, at Web.AppStorm, wanted to take a moment to wish you all a Happy Holidays and hope you've had a great holiday season so far.
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The American legal system is complex for anyone. But for someone who is unable to hire an attorney, our legal system is downright intimidating. For more than 50 years, LAF (formerly the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago) has provided free legal services in non-criminal matters to people living in poverty in metropolitan Chicago. At LAF, we make equal justice a reality for more than 30,000 of the most vulnerable members of our community.
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At LAF we work together to provide high quality civil legal services to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups. Through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation, we empower individuals, protect fundamental rights, strengthen communities, create opportunities, and achieve justice. In carrying out our mission, we treat everyone with compassion and respect.
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LAF's work starts by making the legal system accessible to clients and concludes with a resolution that changes their lives and gets them back on track. With more than 100 full-time attorneys and staff providing our clients with comprehensive legal services, our advocacy results in such successes as gaining custody of a child, obtaining an order of protection against an abusive spouse, preventing an unfair eviction, or getting justice for a victim of consumer fraud.
As advocates for people living in poverty, LAF witnesses how structural racism thwarts the health and stability of low-income communities and perpetuates the cycle of poverty. Free legal aid can and should be a tool to fight racism in all its forms. LAF joins with legal aid organizations across the country to speak out and work against racial injustice, including racially-biased policing.
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The History of LAF
"Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it."
Those were the words of President Lyndon B. Johnson more than 50 years ago in a speech that kicked off the War on Poverty, which in turn gave birth to the federal Office of Economic Opportunity, and to legal aid lawyers who built the LAF many rely on today. We have weathered many changes – including names and locations, funding feasts and famines, and we were proud to celebrate LAF's 50th Anniversary in 2016.
In 1966, the Office of Economic Opportunity awarded two grants to two Chicago legal aid organizations which were later merged to form the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, now known simply as LAF. In 1974, finding that "a need to provide equal access to the system of justice in our nation for individuals who seek redress of grievances," Congress established the Legal Services Corporation and transferred the OEO's legal services programs to LSC. The Legal Services Corporation remains LAF's partner to this day.
LAF was originally organized with a downtown office in the Loop, which housed its administrative staff and specialty law projects, and neighborhood storefronts in Lawndale, Austin, Englewood, Uptown, Pilsen, Wicker Park, and Grand Boulevard, where attorneys served clients with diverse legal needs. In 2000, LAF expanded its service area to include all of Cook County, and added offices in Evanston and Harvey.
A decade later, many of those offices had merged or closed. Some were located in depopulated or gentrifying areas. After long discussion, LAF decided to consolidate all of its offices into one central location in the Chicago Loop, where clients can still reach us relatively easily. LAF reorganized its staff into Practice Groups, focusing on Housing, Consumer, Children and Families, Public Benefits, and Immigrants and Workers' Rights issues. Under this format, case handlers could develop deeper expertise in their practice areas and collaborate more readily to help people with multiple legal problems. LAF also created a Community Engagement Unit to help maintain its community ties and assist with education and outreach. The Practice Groups and CEU are supported by the Client Screening unit, LAF's primary portal for clients seeking legal services. The people in CSU screen clients, and provide advice, brief services, and referrals to LAF's Practice Groups and partner organizations in the community.
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THOMAS W. PRESTON, a prominent blacksmith, London, was born in Lancaster County, Ky., January 25, 1841. His
father, Thomas Preston, was also a native of Kentucky, and a carpenter by trade. He resided in his native State
until his death, in 1851. He married Mary Owens, of Kentucky, and our subject was the only child born to this union.
Mrs. Preston died in 1841. Our subject was reared by Mrs. Polly Baker, of Lancaster County, Ky., till sixteen or
eighteen years of age, obtaining a very fair education. He then went to Flat Rock, in his native State, and learned
general blacksmithing, remaining there three and a half years. He then removed to Cincinnati, and two years later
(in fall of 1860) located at Pittsburgh, Penn. He subsequently went to Columbus, Ohio, and in 1861 to Jefferson,
in this county. Soon after, he came to London, and thence to Newport. He was there married, August 7, 1862, to
Elmira, daughter of Laban Willoughby. of Range Township. On May 2, 1864, he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred
and Fifty fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. David Watson, and served one hundred days. He then reenlisted
in Company B, One Hundred and Ninety sixth Regiment, March 1, 1865, and received an honorable discharge at Baltimore,
Ad., in September, 1865. He then returned to Newport, and in 1870 removed to London. Mr. Preston has met with fair
success in his trade. His shop is located on the south side Fourth, between North Main and North Oak streets, where
he does blacksmithing and general repairing. Mr. Preston is a member of Madison Lodge, No. 70 (I. O. O. F.), of
London, Gilroy Lodge. No. 695, of Lilly Chapel, and London Encampment, No. 126 (I. O. O. F.). He is Republican
in politics. Mr. Preston has been thrice married. His first wife died February 22, 1875. His second marriage, November
14, 1878, was to Lizzie Wilson, a native of Madison County, who died June 10, 1870. His third marriage occurred
February 21, 1882, to Angie M. Fuller, a native of New York. The first and second wives were members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church; the present one, of Trinity Episcopal Church, of London. Seven children have been born to Mr.
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This post is brought to you 30,000' in the air :). On my way from Arizona to Orlando. Apparently I'm trying to see how many states I can get to in the 4th quarter of the year! So far in the last month I've hit: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, Arizona, and now Florida! I won't count New Jersey and New York since I'm in those all the time haha!
Anyway, I joined my lovely friend Marie for another national park adventure! She was already in the area for a class so I just tagged along (a lot like last years Yosemite adventure!)
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A long, long time ago, back when dinasour mainframes roamed the earth, I was fresh back from my mission to Japan, trying to figure out what all LDS young men just back from their missions are trying to figure out: What do I do now?
But this little rant is less about that and more about one of the things I did. My brother, out of the kindness of his heart, gave me a 6800 prototyping board, I think it was the micro-chroma 68. Basically, it was the Radio Shack Color Computer, but with a 6800 instead of a 6809, or even a 6801. Okay, it was a 6802, but that was just a 6800 with some built-in RAM and ROM.
It's about 4000 miles away, so I can't post a picture, but that's okay. This rant is not so much about that piece of kit, either.
My brother dug up a ROM BASIC somewhere, but I wanted a better language. One of the teachers at the community college suggested FORTH, so I wrote off for the fig-FORTH model implementation for the 6800. The printout did not contain the object dump, so I had to go through the entire assembly listing and add the op-codes that had been abbreviated in the listing. I really did not think much of hand-assembling code at the time, writing it down seemed like more work than looking up the op-codes.
[I once had the insane urge to actually transcribe the source for that 6800 fig-FORTH. For a while, it was linked at forth.org, but they seem to have removed the link now. You can find it in the appropriate sub-directory of my 6800 assembler. Joel -- 2015-03-28]
I was silly enough to not build a floppy disk controller, but I did build a fast cassette tape controller, which was a little bit more reliable than the built-in 300 baud cassete tape controller. So I had some place to store the results after I typed the the entire model in in hexadecimal code. How long did it take? Don't remember, but it did seem like a long time, when I had friends and teachers playing around with the original IBM PCs, Apple ][s, and the like. Not to mention the time I wasted at Radio Shack playing around with the Color Computer demo models.
I don't think I can explain why I didn't just save up the money and get one of those Color Computers, with disk drive, etc. It sure would have saved me some time.
I think.
I played around with the FORTH, worked out the examples in Brodie's Starting Forth, as far as I could without disk drives. The dRAM was actually 64K, and I used a bit on the parallel port to toggle between banks, but I didn't really have the experience to figure out how I could usefully emulate a (very small, very volatile) floppy disk with it. So I was a little stuck on the disk examples. Also, the model provided hooks for implementing multi-tasking, but no actual implementation, so I wasn't able to play with that.
But I did learn enough FORTH to make me very impatient with other languages.
Fast forward to to when I got my associates and transferred to BYU. Found myself at the end of the BS-CS coursework with three class left, the one where you write a simple compiler, the one where you write a simple OS, and an elective. I was still spoiled by FORTH. (Maybe I still am.) Could not resign myself to stupidly hashing through simple closed algebrae and playing stupid register allocation games when I "knew" there was a better way. Kept trying to synthesize something useful from the two diametrically opposed approaches to computer languages, without the experience to know where the boundaries of object orientation were, to see where the difference between closed mathematical objects and infinite tape were always depositing me during my design attempts at random places in my own undefined memory.
Hey, I'm stronger for it. Right?
Anyway, those were my first flunked classes. I had, actually, a low A average to that point. Fortunately, BYU allows you to repeat classes. I took on the OS class first. Finally got up the courage and the wisdom to invest enough money to buy a Color Computer on sale, with Radio Shack's recommended cassette deck. (Yeah, I know about store recommendations, but it was also on sale. I could have saved another five dollars, but I'd have wasted a day running around.) Wrote screen routines and keyboard routines and time routines, and whatever else I could to pass the class.
The elective I chose was software tools. I went ahead and bought a disk drive and Radio Shack's disk-based assembler package, and implemented FORTH on the Color computer's 6809.
Actually, I got OS-9/6809 before I got the more basic assembler, and tried to do the FORTH in the OS-9 assembler, but found myself fighting with trying to make a relocatable FORTH, without fully understanding that I was effectively trying to define an i-code without actually pinning the codes down to specific values.
No, actually, I really did figure that out fairly quickly, but I just couldn't reconcile myself to the solution, you know, the one that put a 64K code limit on classes in early versions of Java -- Make the i-codes an index into an array, put the actual pointers in that array. Cry when you run out of array. Or not, if you never compile that many words.
One other option might have been possible, using self-relative i-codes. Needless to say, Microware's assembler would not assemble such a beast. For some reason, I declined writing an assembler that would. OS-9/6809's pre-ANSI C compiler might have been one of those reasons, or maybe I was just too lazy.
You have a similar problem when you try to use raw C language function pointers as i-codes. Most modern OSses relocate by keeping a list of addresses that need to be fixed up when the code is loaded. You can't help filling borked when you have to implement your own fix-up on an OS designed not to be fixed-up, and the fix-up table is as big as your object.
So I dropped my attempts to do it in OS-9, and went out and got the more primitive assembler software and worked with that. That way, I didn't have to think about relocation issues.
Once I had a simple enough implementation environment, the port was fairly straightforward. Or it should have been. First, assign the virtual registers of the FORTH model to real 6809 registers:
The return stack pointer, RP, was the 6809's call stack pointer, S.
The parameter stack pointer, SP, was the 6809's user stack pointer, U.
The i-code instruction pointer, IP, was the 6809's Y index, but I would sometimes save it off temporarily when I needed two index registers.
I put W on the top of the return stack, if I remember right. A little weird, but it was out-of-the-way, and still accessible.
You might think I'd use DP for the user variable pointer. But that sure was an awkward idea, DP being only the top eight bits. I ended up putting most (all) of the headerless primitive words in the DP and using DP relative jumps to get there, which was not a good idea, either. Oh. I also put the user variable pointer in the DP, too.
I designed the symbol table structure as a nested binary tree instead of using the more typical hashing techniques. That facilitated a certain amount of information hiding, for modularity and other object-ish behaviors.
Then I wrote the primitives, the inner interpreter, the basic parser, the symbol table lookup, the basic math. At a certain point, I had enough primitives that I could have finished off by just typing in the rest of the fig-forth high level model's compiled form. But the teacher wanted to be sure I was not just copying, so I re-wrote some of the stuff where it looked like 6809 object would actually be smaller than the high-level object. Used a kind of stupid-code-trick approach to shifting between high-level object and 6809 object on the fly (mostly stupid because shifting gears is not really a good idea, other than showing the teacher that you understand what it's doing at some level.
Once I had the 6800 model converted to 6809, with my modifications, I copied the fig editor source into a screens disk and had a running system. Source code was about a hundred 60-line pages, the object a bit fatter than I had expected, just over 8K if I remember right.
Then the teacher asked me to document every word in the model, so I did that. By hand. On paper. Don't know why I did it by hand, on paper. I later typed it into a text file, and that is also a part of the download on my site, linked again here, in case you missed it above. (Just what you always wanted, wasn't it?) All of that took me about six months, working pretty much full-time on the project. (Thanks go to my parents for letting me live in their attic for a while.)
[My personal website is now off-line until such time as I can afford $20 a year or so to pay dyn.com or someone else to resolve the url for me on an on-going basis, I guess. See the bif-c link below, and look in the appropriate subdirectory for the source code. -- Joel 2015-03-28]
I ended up passing my compiler class with a compiler written on that FORTH. So my education was all FORTH colored. Maybe that's why I just gave up on the industry about two and a half years ago. Maybe I can do something about it [link added 2 May 2011] while I'm taking a break.
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LGBT Updates
Bad News: On May 8, 2012, North Carolina voters approved Amendment 1, which states marriage between one man and one woman as the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.
Great News: On May 9, 2012, President Barak Obama declared his support for gay marriage during a sit-down interview. On Sunday, prior to Obama's interview, Vice President Joseph Biden stated that he was personally comfortable with same-sex marriage. These acts of political bravery have been a major victory for the LGBT community.
I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married. – President Barack Obama
Wedding Planning Updates
Last Friday, Cori and I ventured to Astoria, NY to meet with a potential hairstylist and make-up artist, Jen Washburn, owner of Styled by Jen. While looking for wedding vendors, Cori and I would often seek out individuals who were offbeat and laid-back, but still brilliant at his or her trade. Jen was everything we were looking for and so much more! We had excellent chemistry and Jen uses MAC make-up, which was an added bonus. Cori and I had so much fun getting our hair and make-up done and taking photos of each other.We decided to hire Jen to do our hair and make-up, as well as the hair and make-up for our bridal party, which would be gift from us. A little pampering here and there always seems like an excellent investment!
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First of all, it is January and that means time to pay for the month. Yay, right?
Secondly, a way better announcement is that the Paleo Challenge begins on January 11th! That means next Monday kicks it off. We will provide you with your food journal near the end of this week and the info packet will be given to you on the 11th. Due to some people being out of town we are going to hold one more lecture here THIS SUNDAY at 1:30pm. If you are going to do Paleo or just interested you need to be at this lecture (if you haven't already attended one). Not only that, but you should bring your friends and family. There will be some really good, maybe even life changing information presented on. I know when I heard some things my whole perspective on food changed.
Lastly, Friday's MetCon has a part to be done outside. This means please bring appropriate clothing with you. I don't know how cold it is supposed to be, but plan for the worst. I would recommend some scarf or neck gaiter, a thick headband to cover ears, and maybe some gloves. Don't let the cold scare you off people, you don't want to miss this workout.
I guess there is one more announcement. This Saturday after the free class, the gym can be used to test one of your year-end goals. Several of you have met at least one of your goals and some of you have already met both, congrats Glenn, but if you have missed retest days use this time to come in and kick some Goal Butt!
"9" got A-nine-hilated,
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Biographies are important books to read for the historical perspective and for the many business lessons found in so many of the bios - including those of celebrities. A new biography by Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford The Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) is a biography that includes a few lessons learned.
The book took over 16 years to finish. It is a lengthy 445 pages including a filmography in the back. The author starts the book way back in Redford's family tree making the first few chapters a bit slow in the reading. The story quickly picks up steam and gets much more interesting around the third chapter or so.
Redford participated in the writing of the book by providing the author with his personal papers, journals, correspondence and spent hundreds of hours taping interviews. Callan writes about how late Redford has always been his entire life including being late to movie sets and ultimately costing some of his producers a lot of money.
The book also covers Redford's rebellious early and late teen years, how he got his start in acting(and that Redford really wanted to be an artist who painted), he details the time Redford spent abroad and how he met his first wife. Readers will be surprised at a number of revelations including Redford's relationship with his father, his love and respect for his mother and that Redford was born out of wedlock, which 76 years ago may have turned a head or two.
The book profiles his personal life, his marriages, his children and his attraction to politics and environmental issues. It also goes into detail about all of his 42 films including Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, The Way We Were, The Natural, All the President's Men and his directorial films including Ordinary People and The Horse Whisperer. Another topic that is explored in depth is Redford's longtime relationship with director Sydney Pollack.
While a biography about a well known movie star may not seem to have any business benefits to be gained from reading, this is one of those biographies that offers several business lessons. First, Redford could have just made his films and made his millions and did nothing more. Instead, he got involved with political issues and continues to fight for environmental protections and other issues.
The book goes into some details about the Sundance Institute and the as the reader will learn, the first business model was much different than what the area uses now which is now to promote independent films. The last business lesson that Redford teaches us is that if you stay true to who you are, you'll be able to work through almost any obstacle.
Redford is portrayed in the book as having carefully selecting his movie roles. He seems to always embed some message in most of his films. One of my favorite Redford lines in The Horse Whisperer is, "Truth is, I help horses with people problems." Jeremiah Johnson was about living on the land while respecting and preserving nature. Ordinary People was about family dynamics.
Of course many of his films were pure entertainment. The Way We Were and Out of Africa were about romance and relationships. The Sting was about revenge. Indecent Proposal was about sex and money.
There is so much of Redford's life covered in this book. If the reader can get past the first few chapters, the remainder of the book is highly interesting and reads kind of like a movie. Men and women will find the book worth the read. It is not all about Redford's dashing good looks, blue eyes or his drop-dead smile. Redford and the book have enough substance to make it a good read for both male and female.
I highly recommend this book for pleasure reading as well as picking up a few business lessons.


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Leader Networks delivers a unique, and highly valuable, combination of research, consulting, coaching, and content. Vanessa DiMauro is a social business guru, and I would highly recommend her firm to anyone who needs deep insight, sound digital strategies, and winning solutions to their most pressing business challenges.– Dr. Christine Bailey, Director, Marketing, EMEA and Russia, Cisco
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Cisco launched a Services Planning wiki called The Collaboratory. The goal of this internal initiative was to enable greater productivity across hundreds of virtual planning team members, and to accelerate decision-making speed for services' top executives.While still in beta, we looked to Leader Networks to help us build our engagement model and, as a result, subsequent use of the Collaboratory increased by over 80%. Within a year of launch, The Collaboratory won the "Collaboration Project of the Year Award" at Cisco.Ed Baum, Vice President of Planning + Bold Initiatives, Cisco Systems
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I am happy to bring to you the highlights of EU-ASEAN cooperation in the past two months, across the political-security, economic, and the socio-cultural pillars.
In October, we held the 21st ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting in Bangkok where Foreign Ministers of both regions took stock of progress made in our relations and adopted the Bangkok Declaration.
In the area of political-security cooperation, Thailand and the EU co-hosted the 3rd High-Level Dialogue on Maritime Security, INTERPOL conducted trainings in the area of border management and assisted Lao law enforcement authorities in securing the ASEAN Summit in September, and ASEAN made good progress towards a human rights-based approach to Trafficking in Persons.
Furthering our economic engagement, the first round of ASEAN-EU Comprehensive Air Transport Agreement (CATA) negotiations and the first round of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) negotiations with Indonesia were held in Brussels. In the area of socio-cultural cooperation, the new ASEAN Quality Assurance Network will now bring universities and higher education institutions across ASEAN closer together.
On cross-sectoral cooperation, we published the very first report on development cooperation between the two regions, "EU-ASEAN Blue Book 2016", and reaffirmed our commitment to supporting the ASEAN Connectivity at the 7th ASEAN Connectivity Symposium in Vientiane.
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- Political-Security Pillar: Highlights of EU-ASEAN Political Cooperation
- Foreign Ministers of EU and ASEAN reaffirm increasingly strong partnership
- INTERPOL training ASEAN on integrated border management
- Senior Officials of EU and ASEAN take stock on cooperation to prepare for the Ministerial
- Thailand and the EU co-hosted the 3rd ASEAN-EU High Level Dialogue (HLD) on Maritime Security
- INTERPOL helped secure ASEAN Summit in Laos
- Corporate Social Responsibility: part of EU-ASEAN cooperation on human rights
- ASEAN moving towards a human rights-based approach to Trafficking in Persons
- Economic Pillar: Highlights of EU-ASEAN Economic Cooperation
- Socio-Cultural Pillar: Highlights of EU-ASEAN Socio-Cultural Cooperation
- New ASEAN body makes Quality Assurance of Universities Regional
- Rapid population ageing: HelpAge International partners with ASEAN governments on welfare
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Hawaii's Medical Marijuana Program
Hawaii's medical marijuana program has sparked fierce debate over the past decade. Some view it—and use it—as medicine, while others contend it is a dangerous drug, widely abused. How does the program work, and who is involved?
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Registration and Compliance
If you have MS like Heede, you have to go through a bureaucratic process to become a medical marijuana patient in Hawaii. First, you must have one of the specified ailments, including glaucoma, seizures, HIV, AIDS, severe nausea, pain or muscle spasms. You must get your condition documented on your medical records. You then have to find a doctor willing to participate—many physicians don't, for fear of legal repercussions. Heede's physician didn't, so she had to find one who did. Then you'd have to transfer your medical records, set up an appointment and then sometimes pay an office visit fee; some physicians charge $175.
Under the law, the physician must work with the Narcotics Enforcement Division, which oversees the medical marijuana program. Unlike most other states, Hawaii's medical marijuana program falls under the state Department of Public Safety—the people who run law enforcement, prisons and jails—not the state Department of Health. After recommending you for the program, your physician mails an application to the NED offices, a clerk processes it and sends it back to the physician, who signs it and gives it to you. After paying $25, you then receive a blue, business-card-size registration permit with your personal information. Heede says she was first given a temporary permit—only one clerk handles the applications, so there's a backlog. With your permit you can now own and cultivate up to seven marijuana plants—three that are mature, or flowering, and four that are immature—and possess three ounces of smokeable marijuana.
Getting the card took Heede six months. "I've never once had my paperwork processed in a timely fashion, either by the doctors or the NED. It is not a straightforward process."
Patient Concerns
One of the biggest complaints from growers like Gonsalves and patients like Heede is the lack of access. While an MS or AIDS patient can legally grow and possess cannabis, they often have to acquire it illegally, since Hawaii law does not allow dispensaries. "Law enforcement would have you believe everyone knows a drug dealer, everyone knows where to find marijuana. I don't think they've met these people who are totally legitimate citizens, who have never broken a law in their life," says Ohta. "The reason they're registering is they don't want to do something illegal, they want to be legal."
Ohta and others mistrust the NED's supervision. "The Narcotics Enforcement Division takes an adversarial view of a program it administers. Its control of the program has been scary for both patients and physicians," she says.
"We didn't ask for it," says Keith Kamita, the chief of the NED. Kamita has become the face of the law enforcement's side of the program. Ohta and Heede say they would love to sit down and debate Kamita on his attitude toward the program his department runs. "It's like putting the Klan in charge of civil rights," adds Brian Shaughnessy, a paraplegic medical marijuana patient who smokes to alleviate muscle spasms, a condition of his paraplegia. It was the result of a surgery gone wrong when he was 24.
In Kamita's defense, some people have fudged their applications or had more than the allotted seven plants. Maj. Susan Dowsett, who heads the Honolulu Police Department Narcotics/Vice Division, confirms this; however, there have only been three cases this year—two people exceeded the plant limit, while a third had an invalid permit.
Kamita also says the NED has noticed a lot of young people utilizing the program for pain—versus older adults with terminal or degenerative diseases and disorders for whom he believes the law was originally intended. "There's a question of whether it's severe enough for them to be in the program. If you go on the Internet and punch in 'Hawaii medical marijuana' you'll see a lot of different ads popping up. Sometimes you'll think, 'What does this have to do with medicine?'" He is also wary of the participating physicians, especially those on the Big Island. "We have physicians in Hawaii who do this just as a business," he says. "And you bring in crime with dispensaries [if we allowed them]. You're not talking about care here, you're talking about distribution." He specifically mentions California's program, which has earned the reputation for being the Wild West of cannabis; you could walk into many dispensaries and buy pot, no permit required.
"We know what doesn't work with California; we can avoid it," says Ohta. "Just because California is not running it right, doesn't mean we can't have a totally regulated process." Ohta says she gets phone calls and e-mails from patients daily who have their blue cards but have no idea where or how to acquire cannabis. She recommends patients try to grow it themselves, or find and register a caregiver who can grow and harvest it for them. (A caregiver can only grow for one patient.) Even then, that isn't always successful. Heede says she was too sick to grow the plants, and admits she bought weed from the black market before finding a caregiver. But for some, finding a caregiver—who is trustworthy, isn't already growing for someone else and can grow marijuana—can be just as difficult. "A lot of patients [resort to] the illegal market," says Ohta.
"I've tried to talk to my fellow legislators about making medical cannabis more accessible and it's always very hush-hush," says state Rep. Joe Bertram III. "We made it legal in 2000! It's still a hard thing for people to understand." Bertram continues to introduce bills to amend the law. He also is a registered caregiver for his friend who has MRSA (a bacterium that causes infections and is harder to treat because it's resistant to commonly prescribed antibiotics). He currently doesn't grow marijuana for his friend, another man on Maui does, but Bertram keeps his caregiver license, just in case. "You never know. It's very uncertain."


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Licence Suspension Appeals
If your drivers licence has been suspended by the RTA or the police, you may be able to appeal that suspension in the Local Court. Generally, the following most common suspensions can be appealed:
- A decision by the RTA to suspend your licence following speeding of over 30km/h or 45km/h
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Notice of Suspension
Once you have paid a fine following the issue of a Penalty Notice for speeding (over 30 or 45 km/h), the RTA will then normally issue you with a separate Notice of Suspension advising that your licence will be suspended for 3 or 6 months. The Notice will also advise when your licence suspension will commence.
If you are a provisional licence holder, once you have paid the fine for the offence that takes you over your demerit point limit, a similar Notice of Suspension will be issued.
Lodging an Appeal
If you wish to appeal that decision to the Local Court, you then have 28 days to lodge the appeal in the Local Court. It is important that the appeal is lodged within 28 days as there is no provision for an extension of time.
Court Hearing
Once the appeal has been lodged, you will be given a future date to attend the Local Court and have your appeal heard before a Magistrate. On that date, there will also be a representative from the RTA attending the Local Court. You or your lawyer will be given an opportunity to explain to the court why your licence should not be suspended.
What can the Court do?
The Court has wide powers and can confirm the decision of the RTA to suspend your licence, disallow the suspension, or vary it. It can also "make any such order in the circumstances as the Court seems fit". This means that the court can quash the suspension, reduce it down to as little as one day, or confirm the suspension and dismiss the appeal. The court's decision is final. There is no appeal against a decision of the court.
Will my appeal by successful?
Whether or not you have good prospects of having your suspension reduced or quashed will depend on a number of factors, but primarily:
- the reason you were speeding or, in the case of a provisional licence, incurred the demerit points
- your driving record
- your need for a licence
The weight given to each factor will vary, and you shouldn't assume that just because you have a substantial need for a licence, the court will uphold your appeal. The court will consider all of the factors relevant to the application.
Police Suspensions
In the case of a suspension of your licence by a police officer, it must be demonstrated that there are "exceptional circumstances" before the suspension will be varied or lifted by a court.
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Twice this week, President Obama suggested that he might become the first sitting U.S. president to support gay marriage. He said his views on whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry are "evolving" and added that, although he is a longtime supporter of civil unions, "I recognize that from their perspective, it is not enough."
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First of all, marriage laws are largely written by individual states (Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont allow gay marriage, as does the District).
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Hundreds of members of the MIT community gathered Thursday at the annual breakfast celebration to honor the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to reflect on the importance of using the Institute's gifts to serve what President Susan Hockfield called the "highest human purposes of connection, compassion and kindness."
Titled "Deploying Our Gifts for the Betterment of Humankind: What Would Dr. King Say About Us?," the event highlighted the gifts—in the form of creativity, innovation and problem-solving abilities—that MIT bestows on its students, faculty and staff, and on the imperative that they be used for the greater good.
"MIT itself is a gift, one that we have a duty to use, in service to the world," Hockfield told a crowded Walker Memorial. Still, much work remains in order to bolster the value of that gift, she said.
"As wonderful a gift as the Institute may be, intrinsic to its value, and our understanding of its value, is a perpetual striving to be ever better," Hockfield said.
Keynote speaker Gerry Hudson, the international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, the country's fastest growing labor union with more than 2.2 million members, echoed that call, imploring audience members to use their gifts to "try to realize the possibility of a more just America."
"Knowing what I know about the gifts in this room, if you put them on the table, we'll get there," said Hudson, who has been involved with MIT for about five years. Hudson recalled his work with J. Phillip Thompson, associate professor of urban politics in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and other MIT faculty and students in New Orleans on the rehabilitation of public housing after Hurricane Katrina's devastation.
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In November 2008, Hudson and Thompson, as well as Joel Rogers of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy and a number of national partners, including MIT's Community Innovators Lab (CoLab), co-founded the Emerald Cities Partnership to advance "fair opportunity, shared wealth and democracy" in the nation's cities, according to the organization's website.
Hudson explained that although King inspired him to become a labor organizer, he had declined to speak at King celebrations in recent years because he did not recognize the King he "knew and loved" in the speeches he heard at these events. Hudson agreed to speak at MIT because "I think you get it, the real King message."
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He spoke about King's rarely quoted "If the Negro Wins, Labor Wins" speech, given before an American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization convention in 1961. During the address, King explained that his vision for America's future was not only about civil rights but, more broadly, about freedom and jobs. Hudson believes it was the failure of the labor movement to respond to this speech and join King's call to action that "gave rise to an ugly politics that has swept this country for more than 40 years," and that contributed to income inequality.
It was in 2008 when President Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party nomination that Hudson was persuaded that "maybe, just maybe" his generation had picked up the baton that had been passed from King's generation. A year after Obama's inauguration, Hudson expressed frustration over what he said was a lack of progress on healthcare or labor law reform — and made clear his belief that it takes more than a president to bring about significant change.
"I say to you, MIT, we need your gifts put out there one more time," he said. "It won't happen unless you put them on the table."
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In addition to the speakers, Thursday's breakfast featured passionate performances by the MIT Gospel Choir and Jermaine Tulloch, a guest soloist from the Harlem Gospel Choir.
Recent Rhodes Scholar winner Ugwechi Amadi, a senior majoring in brain and cognitive sciences and literature, moderated the celebration, which was dedicated to the memory of Leo Osgood, the former MIT basketball coach, associate dean and director of the Office of Minority Education who passed away in November. Hockfield praised Osgood for his commitment to the community.
"Leo was a guiding force behind this celebration for many years, and we are all very much the beneficiaries of his compassionate vision," she said.
Citing that vision, the president stressed that there was room at MIT for improvement to harness the tools of modern technology and science to bring about more change. She called the recently released report from the Initiative on Faculty Race and Diversity a "constructive tool" to help MIT fully tap into and strengthen its gifts, while upholding its nearly 150-year-old tradition of excellence.
The product of 2-1/2 years of research and analysis by a team of nine MIT faculty members, the report concluded that while MIT's efforts to hire and retain under-represented minority (URM) faculty have produced some gains in recent years, the results are uneven across the Institute, and that more effective policies and practices are necessary. Moreover, the study said the experience of URM faculty at MIT can be different from that of their majority peers, and that MIT must do more to foster a culture of inclusion.
Hockfield said she disagreed with the notion that the report's findings and recommendations might "somehow threaten to erode or compromise the excellence of MIT." asserting instead that the report "is not about compromising those standards — it is about reaching them."
Hockfield praised the report for offering practical steps to accelerate positive change, and she noted that Provost L. Rafael Reif and Paula Hammond '84, PhD '93, the Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering who led the committee that prepared the report, have already begun strategy meetings with Academic Council, school councils and the heads of academic units.
In addition to the report and its recommendations, Hockfield pointed to another example of MIT using its gifts to serve the world, acknowledging the efforts of students, faculty and the Public Service Center in responding to last month's catastrophic earthquake in Haiti.
One of those students, Dylon Rockwell, a junior majoring in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, spoke about his concern that even though he helped raise thousands of dollars through his involvement in MIT's Jan. 29 Haiti Relief Benefit Showcase, it might not be enough.
"What would Dr. King say about me?" Rockwell asked. "What would Dr. King say about MIT?"
Zenzile Brooks, a graduate student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, spoke of another gift widely abundant at MIT: talent. She said she recently embraced her gift for playing the piano after an organizer from her church told her she had a responsibility to use that gift, much like King had a responsibility to use his gift to organize for change.
"You say thank you, and you use it," Brooks said, noting that "sparks really begin to fly" when MIT community members combine their individual gifts with the larger gift of MIT. "We are obligated to put this gift to good, good use."
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Martin Luther King by his ideas revolutionized many areas of modern civilization. Science and technology go together shoulder to shoulder and people are living on this planet easier. But Peter has done so beautiful it takes a lot of education and research. Without these two essential things and human civilization on earth would lose its identity.