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Michigan vs. Ohio State in Big Ten tournament: How to watch
After capturing the outright Big Ten regular-season title, the Michigan men’s basketball team is looking to double up on conference championships. Top-seeded Michigan (29-2) will face No. 8 seed Ohio State (21-11) in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals at noon Friday at the United Center in Chicago. The game will be on the Big Ten Network. It'll be the third meeting between the rivals this season.
Implementation and prospective real-time evaluation of a generalized system for in-clinic deployment and validation of machine learning models in radiology
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Citation: Hawkins JR, Olson MP, Harouni A, Qin MM, Hess CP, Majumdar S, et al. (2023) Implementation and prospective real-time evaluation of a generalized system for in-clinic deployment and validation of machine learning models in radiology. PLOS Digit Health 2(8): e0000227.
Getting ready for St Patrick's Day
The Critical Times is a quarterly publication of WSLR+Fogartyville. Our first edition hit the streets in January 2017. The purpose of the paper is to help foster democratic participation in our community.
Howdy Kids! - WSLR+Fogartyville
The Critical Times is a quarterly publication of WSLR+Fogartyville. Our first edition hit the streets in January 2017. The purpose of the paper is to help foster democratic participation in our community.
The really important job interview questions engineers should ask (but don't)
Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from this? It's normal for candidates not to ask harder questions about our company, so they usually miss out on a chance to (i) de-risk our company's performance and (ii) to increase the chances they'll like working here. This isn't desirable. People should be able to reduce the chances they end up in a situation like this, or this.
HOWDY Kids! - WSLR+Fogartyville
HOWDY! Well, well, well how are things on your end of the world? I’ll bet that your credit cards must be “smoking” about right now! I know mine are. I’ve been looking around for that perfect gift but so far NO LUCK! I think it’s time to chill out and tune into yet another episode of the “Acoustic Waves Show” Some folks will be stopping my my Facebook page to chat some.
Acoustic Waves “CHILL TIME”
HOWDY Kids! There are people who make our lives so much easier by just being there. Every morning as I head out to work I listen to some of these artist so on this weeks show I thought I would start out with people who get inventive with their art. And then I threw in some songwriters and before you knew it I had a pretty nice line up of artists.
Microgrids give your business energy resiliency
Energy Management/Energy Efficiency In recent years, large-scale data centers, hospitals, ports, and other critical facilities throughout the U.S. were fortified with microgrids that keep electricity flowing, even when the grid goes down. Grocery stores, pharmacies, and other facilities with fewer energy needs weren’t part of the microgrid conversation — until now. The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly changed our society’s perspective on which businesses and services are essential.
Microgrids give your business energy resiliency
In recent years, large-scale data centers, hospitals, ports, and other critical facilities throughout the U.S. were fortified with microgrids that keep electricity flowing, even when the grid goes down. Grocery stores, pharmacies, and other facilities with fewer energy needs weren’t part of the microgrid conversation — until now. The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly changed our society’s perspective on which businesses and services are essential.
Executive Summary: Banking on Asia | E3G
Development finance institutions across Asia are beginning to implement their commitment to aligning their financial flows with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Some have made more progress, whereas others appear to have only just begun. This report assesses the level of Paris Agreement alignment within the Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China Development Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Korea Development Bank and the World Bank.
A cooling opportunity for Multilateral Development Banks | E3G
Photo by Chromatograph on Unsplash Ahead of the World Bank’s Annual Meetings and related events next week, Multilateral Development Banks must begin integrating ‘cooling considerations’ into investments to match growing shareholder awareness and rising demands for action on cooling energy efficiency. The importance of cooling The last five years have been the hottest on record.
What to consider when building startups targeting expats
What to consider when building startups targeting expats In the past few decades, Southeast Asia has played host to a significant number of expats from the east to the west. According to some estimates, there are 500,000 to one million expats in Thailand alone. Over a quarter of residents in Singapore, the financial powerhouse in the region, are expats. The Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur has been regarded among the friendliest cities in Asia for expats. This is not a one-way street.
How our school paid tribute to Holocaust survivors
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, a time for international reflection on the biggest global human atrocity and the subsequent genocides that have followed. In January last year, the students of Selly Oak Trust School, a large 11-19 years special school in Birmingham, were invited to take part in an innovative project based on the gifted video testimony of a survivor of the Holocaust.
Banking on reform: Aligning the development banks with the Paris Climate Agreement | E3G
E3G’s new report, Banking on Reform: Aligning the development banks with the Paris Climate Agreement, shows that the Inter-American Development Bank is a leader amongst the MDB’s in aligning with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. However, none of the MDBs has been shown to be transformational across the different areas covered, demonstrating MDBs still need to work to integrate climate across their operations.
New frontiers for shared services
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How to Use ECommerce to Grow Your Offline Business. : 4Hoteliers
The operational expenses of hosting a website online are much lower compared to the money spent on leasing store space and employing staff to handle customers. In addition to this, the target market for eCommerce is much wider than a physical store that depends on customers from a restricted geography for business. This makes it possible to grow exponentially faster than you would by running a store in your neighborhood.
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Tom Stoppard’s heartfelt high jinks
Interviewed on Radio 4’s Today programme in July, Tom Stoppard admitted he was stuck for what to write next. Brexit, Donald Trump, the election result, the Grenfell Tower fire: it was too much to process. “Art is somehow so overshadowed by real events,” he sighed. “Every time I blink, there’s a play begging to be written. But not always does it feel like a play by me.” It is a tantalising question of how this most inventive of writers might respond to the events of the last 12 months.
The BBC gender pay gap furore should serve as a warning to all bosses
The BBC pay figures have been released, and the internet is awash with gossip. Chris Evans, it transpires, is the company’s highest-paid male star, with pay between £2,200,00-£2,249,999, while Claudia Winkleman is the highest-paid female, with a salary between £450,000 and £499,999. If you notice some discrepancy there, you’re not alone. As commentators across the political and media spectrum have pointed out, the figures show a clear gender pay gap among the BBC’s top talent tier.
Speed data: Just how polluted is London’s air?
A dangerous gas where the trend is going the wrong way A generation ago, Britain’s city-dwellers thought of local air pollution as a problem that was on the way to being licked—the smogs of the 1950s were fading from memory. But some forms of pollution have got worse since. Ozone doesn’t sound scary: it’s made out of oxygen, and occurs naturally, especially very high up, in the “layer” that shields us from the sun’s ultraviolet rays.
The banking crisis revealed a widespread problem in our culture-for which we are all culpable
Since 2007, bankers have been shown to have gambled with other people’s money, rigged the Libor rate, ripped off customers with Payment Protection Insurance and even hidden drug money. Yet the list of bankers convicted of crimes (five) is as short as this charge sheet is long. The question many have asked is: why? The impulse to find a scapegoat is natural, but people should only be held to account if they did wrong wilfully or through culpable negligence.
Autumn Statement: Osborne must address generational inequality
Read our cover story on workers vs pensioners—the battle of our time Today, the Chancellor will deliver his Autumn Statement. Among his announcements is expected to be mitigation for the planned Tax Credit cuts. Rejected by the House of Lords, the cuts have rightly been criticised across the political spectrum. Any mitigation will, however, come with a price tag.
Haematological cancers: improving outcomes. A summary of updated NICE service guidance in relation to Specialist Integrated Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Services (SIHMDS) | Journal of Clinical Pathology
Haematological malignancies are a diverse group of cancers that affect the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic systems. Laboratory diagnosis of haematological malignancies is dependent on combining several technologies, including morphology, immunophenotyping, cytogenetics and molecular genetics correlated clinical details and classification according to the current WHO guidelines.
The case for a wild card
In the summer of 2007, I had an idea that changed my life. I had just left university and was unsure what my future would look like—but I had an inkling. It could either be a safe job in the civil service, legal profession or even journalism. Whatever it was, it was going to be very different to my past. I came to this country as a nine-year-old child refugee originally from Somalia and grew up in a disadvantaged area of north west London. My academic marks were not the greatest.
Haematological cancers: improving outcomes. A summary of updated NICE service guidance in relation to Specialist Integrated Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Services (SIHMDS) | Journal of Clinical Pathology
Haematological malignancies are a diverse group of cancers that affect the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic systems. Laboratory diagnosis of haematological malignancies is dependent on combining several technologies, including morphology, immunophenotyping, cytogenetics and molecular genetics correlated clinical details and classification according to the current WHO guidelines.
Automation might mean fewer jobs-but better ones
Retail isn’t the first industry to spring to people’s minds when they think about the bleeding edge of automation and technology, perhaps because it is so woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. The fourth industrial revolution will affect individual sectors very differently. However, for two reasons retail is a bellwether industry for the future of work. Firstly, British retail is one of the most competitive industries in the world. It is incredibly responsive to the consumer.
Yes, robots are taking our jobs. But we shouldn’t be scared
There have been a large number of opinion pieces written recently in response to research findings that suggest that many of the jobs humans currently perform will be replaced by AI or robots.
Is Rodrigo Duterte untouchable?
On 5th November 2016, Rolando Espinosa, mayor of the central Philippines town of Albuera, was shot dead in his jail cell. A prisoner in an adjacent cell suffered the same fate. A police statement claimed both had died in a “shootout” with officers searching the jail.A few months earlier, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte had read out Espinosa’s name on television, along with those of 158 other public officials and judges, accusing them all of involvement in the drugs trade.
Can humans benefit from robots in the workplace?
Can humans benefit from robots in the workplace? This question is commonly asked, but we often make two mistakes in answering it. The first mistake is that, in everyday conversation about the future, we tend to talk about the different “jobs” that people do. We speak about “doctors” and “lawyers,” “teachers” and “accountants.” And we ask whether, one day in the future, they might wake up to find a robot in their place. But talking about the future in terms of “jobs” is misleading.
Foreword: April 2017-Labour looks death in the eye
Political parties can and do die. The Whigs of the 19th-century United States and the Progressive Conservative Party of 20th-century Canada were once major forces; today they are no more. Once-mighty Pasok in Greece is today on the critically-endangered list, and the hollowed-out French Socialists could soon head that way too (see Lucy Wadham). Such talk might sound fanciful when applied to the Labour Party, especially after a bungled Conservative budget.
If I ruled the world: Deborah Levy
If I ruled the world, all politicians, including presidents and prime ministers, would have to sign up for three years of rigorous psychoanalysis, as a condition of taking office. In this way, the men and women who represent us would be better equipped to think more intelligently on behalf of others.
Leith on language: Found in translation
I was having lunch the other day with the publisher Christopher MacLehose, and we fell to talking about translation. This is not wholly unexpected: as well as having been (I discovered) PG Wodehouse’s last editor, MacLehose is a man with a career-long interest in translated fiction.
The government’s approach to encryption could make us more vulnerable
From pig Latin to the complex mathematics of today’s computer encryption, encoding communications is as old as humanity. Often, as with Alan Turing’s work in World War II, cracking the enemy’s codes has conferred crucial military advantage. Because the internet was designed to share, rather than secure, information, encryption plays several important roles in today’s digitised landscape.
The media gave Anjem Choudary’s extreme views far too big a platform
For such a tiny band of ostensibly big-mouthed clowns, it is astonishing how many terrorists Anjem Choudary and his Al-Muhajiroun followers have inspired over the years. The damage this crackpot organization have inflicted on the reputation of British Islam, and consequently on community relations, is incalculable. How did this happen? When Choudary was finally imprisoned in 2016 for inviting support for ISIS online, Muslims cheered. Mainstream Islam had been denying him a platform for years.
No, British Muslims don’t have a special duty to combat extremism
On Saturday night I was in bed, reading Henry James, when I learnt of the attacks in progress on London Bridge. By chance, the novel was James’s 1886 work The Princess Casamassima, one of his few novels to engage with contemporary political events. The protagonist is Hyacinth Robinson, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat and a dressmaker, who joins a terrorist organisation.
Let’s face it: we have to start building on the green belt
The devastating Grenfell Tower fire has inevitably provoked many difficult questions about how the disaster could happen, who should be held to account, and how we can prevent a similar incident taking place again. Moreover, it has refocused public attention on London’s myriad housing problems—with public grief and outrage broadening into a wider discussion about the conditions that many Londoners live in, and the capital’s desperate shortage of quality affordable homes.
“They have changed nothing”: why Southwark campaigners won’t be cowed by terror
“There’s a real community pride,” Neil Coyle tells me, sounding both optimistic and far less exhausted than I’d expected him to be. Until recently, he was the MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark—the constituency where Saturday night’s terror attack took place. Now, he’s campaigning for re-election. When we speak on Monday, his team have started returning to the doorstep following a suspension of campaigning on Sunday, and Coyle is clear about why.
Bernie Sanders’ enduring influence is the one silver lining of a Trump presidency
He came into the packed hall to a rock star’s reception. The speech at the O2 Academy in Brixton on Friday evening was the latest stop on a European swing which has included speeches in Germany before three engagements in the UK. Bernie Sanders’ trip has been part book tour, part political rally, and part mop-up campaign after the US President’s dust-up with Angela Merkel during the recent G7 conference—and the latest Trumpian travesty on climate change.
If I ruled the world: Sayeeda Warsi
These days we’re more connected than ever through technology. But the more connected we are, the less we seem to really know about each other. So if I ruled the world, the first thing I’d do would be to set up a national cultural exchange scheme. This would mean everyone at some point would spend a month living with a community or group of people that he or she feared or even hated.
Eurozone growth is accelerating-a hard Brexit could see us struggle to keep up
Read much of the British press’s output on the European economy and it won’t be long before you come across words like “sclerotic”, “stagnant” or “moribund.” There is a peculiar type of glee that is found in talking up the Euro’s inevitable demise; doubly peculiar when one considers that a serious crisis in the UK’s largest trading partner would hardly be good news for our own economy.
Theresa May’s empty threat
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. The same goes for threats: Theresa May’s Article 50 letter appears to link Britain’s desire for a generous post-Brexit trade deal with the possibility that it might withdraw high security co-operation. This has been seen as a threat by the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, by the European Parliament’s chief negotiator, by senior European politicians and by recently retired Whitehall Mandarins.
Gibraltar: enough with the grandstanding
When the UK’s preliminary position on Brexit negotiations was communicated to the European Union on 29th March, no mention was made of Gibraltar. This was considered by many in Gibraltar and the UK to be an error; not to mention to the Rock was, it was feared, an invitation to Spain to demonstrate intransigence over Gibraltar’s future status during the negotiations. The fears of Gibraltarians were realised when the EU issued its draft guidelines for the Brexit negotiations.
The DUP has moved away from its roots-but it is still the largest, hardest party of the union
The Democratic Unionist Party, uniquely in the United Kingdom, is a political party founded on the basis of fear of an outside enemy and fanatical adherence to the Protestant religion. Its formation was announced in September 1971, on the night of one of the first major Provisional IRA bombings in Belfast, by Rev.
Chuck Berry: the genius who invented the modern world
There I was, a teenage Scot on a pilgrimage to Rough Trade records in Ladbroke Grove in west London, when something new and unusual started to play. “Back in the USA” said the Boston accent, “by Chuck Berry as done by The Modern Lovers.” It was the legendary Jonathan Richman who had formed The Modern Lovers and had his first album produced by the Velvet Underground’s John Cale, only to see it languish in unreleased because the oil crisis had driven up the price of vinyl.
Are the Single Market’s benefits imaginary?
One of the more curious aspects of UK membership of the Single Market is that successive governments have declined to monitor and measure its impact on the UK economy. Hence the Treasury’s study during the referendum was unable to cite a single source that had traced and analysed the benefits of the Single Market over time.
The Great Repeal Bill-neither glorious nor democratic
The 1832 Great Reform Act is considered one of the central events in the development of our democracy (although its extension of the franchise was in fact small.) No doubt the 2017 Great Repeal Bill has been named with this venerable predecessor in mind, hinting at a glorious democratic legacy. But scrutiny of the Government’s White Paper on the Bill, issued on Thursday, leads one to wonder whether it will sap power from our elected assembly and concentrate it in ministerial office.
Leith on language: Embarrassment of riches
There are two things, it is said, that an Englishman will never admit to: being drunk and being rich. So it is small wonder that John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, fell into an elephant trap when he defined the “rich” as those earning more than about £70,000 a year.
After the Manchester attack, security could be a key election issue
Last night, at least 22 people were killed in an explosion at an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester arena. Children are among the dead. A further 59 people were injured by the attack, which shook the venue shortly after the concert finished. Islamic State has claimed responsibility, and a 23-year-old man was arrested this morning in south Manchester in connection with the blast. This is the deadliest terror attack to hit the UK since the 2005 7/7 London bombings.
Stuck in the middle with EU: Britain could end up lost in transition on Brexit
This week, we learned three important things about Brexit. Firstly, with David Davis and Michel Barnier finally kicking off Brexit talks on 19 June, the UK has accepted that the negotiations will be phased in the way the EU demanded. Only if sufficient progress is made on the rights of citizens, the UK’s Brexit bill and the impact of Brexit on Ireland will EU negotiators turn to the future UK-EU relationship.
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