Word: alerting
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...companies selling those services insist that they care about privacy. AirSage, for example, gets data from wireless carriers to monitor drivers' cell-phone signals and map them over road grids. That lets it see exactly where gridlock is forming and quickly alert drivers to delays and alternative routes. The data it gets from carriers are aggregated from many users and scrambled, so no one can track an individual phone. "No official can use [the data] to give someone a speeding ticket," says Cy Smith, CEO of AirSage...
Shelley Thomas, 53, was wheeled into an anteroom at London's Middlesex Hospital in preparation for pelvic surgery. A patient going into that operation is usually given a mix of painkilling narcotics and nerve-quelling tranquilizers. But not Thomas. Instead she rested on a gurney, alert and calm, taking deep breaths at her hypnotherapist's instruction. Thomas counted aloud, "One hundred, deep sleep; 99, deeper sleep...
...Look at the nerds,” Northeastern News columnist Jack Weiland instructed in a piece from February 2004 titled “Nerd alert! Harvard band pinnacle of geeks”. “No, seriously, look at them...
...upbringing. If something went wrong with the car when her family was on a road trip, her father would recite aloud the steps he had been taught for dealing with an airborne crisis. “Assess situation,” he would say. “Alert commanding officer.” And during her high school tennis matches, he would shout traditional military encouragements to her in Dutch. “Pain is good! Bleed more!” he would say. Sarvis feels that too many outsiders misinterpret military discipline. The army makes them think of drill...
...treated ethically, with respect and dignity." Her no-nonsense annual report has become a valued source of well-documented evidence and has served as an early-warning system for emerging issues, such as the burgeoning use of crystal meth. "We interpret the data epidemiologically," says Buxton, "and we alert the key players...