Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality: An Emerging Game Changer In Healthcare

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/advertising-week/virtual-reality-an-emergi_b_13343112.html

   Virtual Emergency Room

Collaborating with academics and healthcare experts at Ohio University, Northern Arizona University, and OhioHealth, our Immersive Media Initiative is creating a virtual trauma bay for pennies on the dollar compared to the real thing. 

Imagine putting on a headset and immediately you are in a trauma bay with real patients.  You can hear and see everything just by turning your head:  the patient, the medical team, and the equipment.  You are there.  By spring, the next class of emergency room physicians will be able to participate in this sort of training. 

With 360-degree video, the viewer is in control of what is being watched, and when.  Imagine being able to freeze an image at any point during a live trauma and then being able to look around and observe important elements of the room:  the medical monitors, the patient, or the professionals. 

The audio is immersive as well.  You hear the monitors behind you, and can look and see them.  Cross talk between team members is crystal clear.  If you want to isolate on the head nurse’s interaction with the team, you can do that. Then you can watch the whole trauma again, this time from the perspective of the head surgeon.

Virtual trauma room training brings three important cost-effective benefits to healthcare:

• First, it helps acclimate newcomers to a stressful, chaotic job setting that has low tolerance for error. 

• Second, it allows students to experience the realities of the emergency room without getting in the way or putting others at risk. 

• And third, it allows experienced professionals to assess their work in a way that hasn’t been possible before.  It’s like post-game analysis, on steroids.

Structure of the Lead：

WHO -  Eric Williams

WHEN - 206/11/30

WHAT - Virtual Emergency Room

WHY - not given

WHERE - not given

HOW -not given

Keywords :

1.academics學者
2.collaborate合作
3.penny一分錢
4.headset耳機
5.equipment設備
6.monitor監控
7.trauma創傷
8.acclimate適應
9.tolerance度
10.分析

Leonardo DiCaprio

WATCH LEONARDO DICAPRIO'S 2016 OSCAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FOR BEST ACTOR

http://oscar.go.com/news/winners/watch-leonardo-dicaprios-acceptance-speech-for-best-actor-2016

Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar acceptance speech was certainly one for the record books.  After six previous Academy Award nominations, DiCaprio finally joined the ranks of Oscar winners and took home the 2016 Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role.  DiCaprio, now 41, was first nominated in 1993 at the ripe age of 19 for Best Supporting Actor for his work in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.  Since then, he's been nominated for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 Nominee, Actor in a Leading Role), Blood Diamond (2006 Nominee, Actor in a Leading Role), and The Aviator (2004 Nominee, Actor in a Leading Role).

Full transcript:

Thank you all so very much. Thank you to the Academy, thank you to all of you in this room. I have to congratulate the other incredible nomineesthis year for their unbelievable performances. The Revenant was the product of the tireless efforts of an unbelievable cast and crew I got to work alongside. First off, to my brother in this endeavor, Mr. Tom Hardy. Tom, your fierce talent on screen can only be surpassed by your friendship off screen. To Mr. Alejandro Innaritu, as the history of cinema unfolds, you have forged your way into history these past 2 years... thank you for creating a transcendent cinematic experience. Thank you to everybody at Fox and New Regency…my entire team. I have to thank everyone from the very onset of my career…to Mr. Jones for casting me in my first film to Mr. Scorsese for teaching me so much about the cinematic art form. To my parents, none of this would be possible without you. And to my friends, I love you dearly, you know who you are.

And lastly I just want to say this: Making The Revenant was about man's relationship to the natural world. A world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow. Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people out there who would be most affected by this. For our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed. I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so very much.

Structure of the Lead：

WHO -  Leonardo DiCaprio

WHEN - 2016

WHAT - Oscar acceptance speech

WHY - not given

WHERE - not given

HOW -not given

Keywords :

1.certainly確定當然

2.nominate提名

3.congratulate祝賀

4.transcendent超越

5.cinematic電影

6.urgent緊急迫切

7.threat威脅

8.underprivileged貧困

9.procrastinate拖延

10.performance表演表現

police chokehold death

Eric Garner's daughter speaks out about the DOJ's NYPD chokehold death probe

Erica Garner hasn't ever minced her words in expressing dissatisfaction about how federal, state and New York City authorities have handled the investigation of her father's 2014 police chokehold death.

But she is now more hopeful that justice is still possible, following the news that U.S. Department of Justice officials have replaced the FBI agents who reportedly stalled a decision to charge New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who held Eric Garner in the chokehold that led to his death.

"This is a small step forward," Erica Garner said in a statement released Wednesday. "I take it as good news that the Justice Department has chosen to replace them."

It has been widely reported that the DOJ is determined to mount a civil rights case against Pantaleo, who had been placed on modified duty and stripped of his badge and gun following the July 2014 incident. Eric Garner, the 43-year-old unarmed black man, died on a Staten Island street corner where New York police officers attempted to arrest him for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes. Garner was captured on video pleading with Pantaleo, "I can't breathe."

Erica Garner, who has feuded with Mayor Bill de Blasio and even President Barack Obama over her father's case, said the shakeup at the DOJ is promising. 

"It's about time that they have an outside set of eyes working on this case, and I'm hopeful justice will be swift and my father's case can be tried," Garner said in the statement.

In December 2014, a New York City grand jury decided against indicting Pantaleo, sparking Black Lives Matter protests across the nation. According to a New York Times report, the New York-based FBI agents who had been reviewing the case disagreed with DOJ civil rights attorneys on the grounds to charge the officer. To mount a civil rights case, the DOJ needs proof that Pantaleo willfully violated Eric Garner's civil rights — or what is known as a "color of law" violation.

Pantaleo, through his lawyer, Stuart London, maintains that he didn't violate Garner's constitutional right against unreasonable seizure or arrest. "This was always a simple street encounter where Officer Pantaleo utilized his NYPD training to subdue an individual," London said, according to the Times.

Pantaleo has also testified that he used the maneuver — which had been banned by the New York Police Department in 1993 — because he feared Garner would push him through the glass window of a convenience store where officers confronted him.

"I've seen a report from Mr. Pantaleo's lawyers saying it would be a miscarriage of justice if he goes to jail because, when he acted against my father, [Pantaleo] was in fear of going through a window," Erica Garner said in the statement. "My response is that if he did go through that window, my dad would still be alive — maybe in jail, but still alive."

In the end, Garner said she wants the outcome of her father's case to be different than those involving Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, where federal authorities have not mounted civil rights charges against police.

"I hope they take their time and get it right this time," she said.

https://mic.com/articles/157760/eric-garner-s-daughter-speaks-out-about-the-doj-s-nypd-chokehold-death-probe#.Xc8lYWHN4

Structure of the Lead：

WHO -  Erica Garner

WHEN - 2014

WHAT - police chokehold death

WHY -expressing dissatisfaction about how federal

WHERE - New York City

HOW - not given

Keywords :

1.  dissatisfaction不滿意

2.  modified修改 修正

3.   incident事件

4.  grand盛大

5. violation違反

6. seizure發作

7. maneuver演習

8.  ban禁止

9.  miscarriage 失敗;誤投

10. arrest逮捕

European refugees

Syrian child photographed 'surrendering to camera because she thought it was a gun'

This photo of a Syrian child so scarred by war that she stared into a camera lens believing it was the barrel of a gun and raised her arms in surrender has  been shared around the world.

The fear in the little girl’s eyes as she bit her lip to stop herself crying has caused an outpouring of emotion about the “heart-breaking” image showing how “humanity failed” in the Syrian civil war.

It spread across social media this week after it was tweeted by a photojournalist in Gaza.

Nadia Abu Shaban’s post on 24 March has been shared more than 14,000 times, sparking threads on Reddit and other forums being inundated with thousands of comments.

She said the child thought the photographer had “a weapon not a camera” but the lack of further information caused viewers to speculate that the image was fake, posed or taken in an unrelated situation.

But now the man who took the photo has come forward to explain the real context behind it.

Osman Sağırlı told the BBC he took the photo in December last year at Atmeh refugee camp, near the Turkish border.

Now working in Tanzania, he said the child was a four-year-old girl called Hudea who was forced to flee fighting near her home in Hama with her mother and two siblings.

“I was using a telephoto lens and she thought it was a weapon,” Mr Sağırlı recounted.

“İ realised she was terrified after I took it, and looked at the picture, because she bit her lips and raised her hands. Normally kids run away, hide their faces or smile when they see a camera.”

During his 25 years covering conflict and disasters for the Türkiyenewspaper, he has visited many refugee camps and told the BBC that suffering can be most keenly be seen through children because they “reflect the feelings with their innocence”.

The image was first published by Türkiye in January alongside an article on the desperate families fleeing the Syrian war, claiming Hudea’s father was killed by bombing in Hama.

The province was the scene of an offensive by the Syrian opposition in December 2012 that sparked a counter-operation by the Syrian Army leading to battles in dozens of towns and villages, as well as the alleged massacre of hundreds of civilians.

More than 200,000 people have been killed so far in the Syrian civil war, where Isis, other Islamist militants, secular rebels and President Bashar al-Assad’s government are fighting on numerous fronts.

Most of the 3.9 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt see no prospect of returning home in the near future and have little opportunity to restart their lives in exile, according the UN’s refugee agency.

Millions of children are suffering from trauma and ill health, with a quarter of Syria’s schools have been damaged, destroyed or taken over for shelter and more than half of the country’s hospitals razed to the ground, the UNHCR said.

The Atmeh refugee camp, where Hudea was photographed, sprung up on the Turkish border at the start of the conflict in 2011.

Housing up to 30,000 people, it is known as the “Olive Tree Camp” after the groves surrounding it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syrian-child-photographed-surrendering-to-camera-because-she-thought-it-was-a-gun-10146198.html

Structure of the Lead：

WHO - Syrian child

WHEN - not given

WHAT - she stared into a camera lens believing it was the barrel of a gun and raised her arms in surrender

WHY -war

WHERE -  Syrian

HOW - not given

Keywords :

1.  humanity failed人性失敗

2.  inundated淹沒

3.  further進一步

4. conflict衝突

5.  innocence無罪

6.  opposition反對

7.  opportunity機會

8.  destroyed銷毀

9.  border邊境

10.weapon武器

2015 oxford dictionary words emoji

It's a historic moment of recognition for little images that have been gaining popularity since 1999

Oxford Dictionaries made history on Monday by announcing that their “Word of the Year” would not be one of those old-fashioned, string-of-letters-type words at all. The flag their editors are planting to sum up who we were in 2015 is this pictograph, an acknowledgement of just how popular these pictures have become in our (digital) daily lives:

“Although emoji have been a staple of texting teens for some time, emoji culture exploded into the global mainstream over the past year,” the company’s team wrote in a press release. “Emoji have come to embody a core aspect of living in a digital world that is visually driven, emotionally expressive, and obsessively immediate.”

Oxford University Press—which publishes both the august Oxford English Dictionary and the lower-brow, more-modern Oxford Dictionaries Online—partnered with keyboard-app company SwiftKey to determine which emoji was getting the most play this past year. According to their data, the “Face With Tears of Joy” emoji, also known as LOL Emoji or Laughing Emoji, comprised nearly 20% of all emoji use in the U.S. and the U.K., where Oxford is based. The runner-up in the U.S., with 9% of usage, was this number:

Caspar Grathwohl, the president of Oxford Dictionaries, explained that their choice reflects the walls-down world that we live in. “Emoji are becoming an increasingly rich form of communication, one that transcends linguistic borders,” he said in a statement. And their choice for the word of the year, he added, embodies the “playfulness and intimacy” that characterizes emoji-using culture.

Though this marks a historic moment of recognition for the pictures plastered throughout tweets and texts, Oxford has not added or defined any emoji in their actual databases. Nor, says a spokesperson for the publisher, do they have plans to do so at this point. The word emoji, however, has been in both the OED and Oxford Dictionaries Online since 2013.

Japanese telecommunications planner Shigetaka Kurita is credited with inventing these little images in 1999, taking the emoticons that had been gaining steam on the Internet to an iconic level. Inspired by comics and street signs, the name for the alphanumeric images comes from combining the Japanese words for picture (e-) and character (moji). “It’s easy to write them off as just silly little smiley faces or thumbs-up,” sociolinguist Ben Zimmer told TIME for a story on how emoji fit into humans’ long history of using pictures to communicate. “But there’s an awful lot of people who are very interested in treating them seriously.”

Here are the other words that made Oxford’s short list:

ad blocker, noun: A piece of software designed to prevent advertisements from appearing on a web page.

Brexit, noun: A term for the potential or hypothetical departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

Dark Web, noun: The part of the World Wide Web that is only accessible by means of special software, allowing users and website operators to remain anonymous or untraceable

lumbersexual, noun: a young urban man who cultivates an appearance and style of dress (typified by a beard and checked shirt) suggestive of a rugged outdoor lifestyle

on fleek, adjective: extremely good, attractive, or stylish

refugee, noun: A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster

sharing economy, noun: An economic system in which assets or services are shared between private individuals, either free or for a fee, typically by means of the Internet.

they (singular), pronoun: Used to refer to a person of unspecified sex.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/17/oxford-dictionary-emoji-word-of-the-year-crying-face

WHO---Oxford Dictionaries

WHAT---announcing that their “Word of the Year”

WHEN---2015
WHERE---not given
WHY---not given
HOW---The flag their editors are planting to sum up who we were in 2015 is this pictograph

1. editors 編者
2. pictograph象形文字;繪畫文字
3. mainstream主流
4. aspect方面;方向
5. digital數據
6. obsessively妄想的
7. linguistic 語言學的
8. alphanumeric文字數字符號
9. telecommunications通訊
10. flag旗