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For the past week, people have been asking me how to buy FaceBook shares. This post was originally published several months ago to answer that question. But I decided to republish this post today. FaceBook is going public in a few hours and while the price may skyrocket out of the gate, I still think it's a speculative investment. Of course, I could be wrong – I've been wrong before. Time will tell Anyway, here's how to buy shares even if you don't get them on the IPO (which you won't) and why I think you should be careful about buying shares anyway.
You probably already know, you'll be able to buy shares of Facebook very soon. (A far more important question is – do you really want to? We'll get to that shortly.)
"FB" shares will be brought to market in an IPO sometime over the next several months. That means you'll be able to acquire them either through the Initial Public Offer (IPO) or on the secondary market. While there is a ton of interest in snagging those shares on the IPO, there are plenty of reasons why you might want to stay clear. Before we get into that, let's talk about how you would buy those shares if you insisted on doing so.
Neal's note – If you put in a request to buy shares in FaceBook on the IPO you probably didn't get them. Read on to find out why.
How To Buy Facebook Shares On The IPO
An IPO is an Initial Public Offer as I mentioned. This is a mechanism by which a company sells a portion of itself directly to the public by offering shares. There is a group of brokerage firms who "underwrite" the offering and these people are key players. Underwriters do the legal work and due diligence – or are supposed to. They basically prepare the paperwork in order for the stock exchange to put buyers and sellers together who are interested in the shares.
The underwriters are given the responsibility to get the shares sold. With a hot offering like Facebook, that won't be a problem. There will be a great deal more demand than there will be shares available. The reason the underwriters sell the shares is for the markup or commission.
What happens is that the company and the underwriters determine a value for the shares – that's the price they think the public will pay for each share. And for every share the underwriters sell, they receive a nice fat commission. You can see that this creates a huge conflict of interest between the brokers who are part of the underwriting group and the brokers' clients who rely on them to look out for their own interests. This isn't talked about much now but it was a big issue in the early 2000's. Back then the SEC levied huge fines against the largest brokerage firms for touting IPOs to the investing public that were total "schlock".
What has this got to do with Facebook?
The company and its underwriters are going to sell a portion of the shares and they hope that will value the company at $100 billion. There is a great deal more demand for those shares than there will be supply as I said. The underwriting brokers are going to "award" those shares unfairly. They are going to let their very largest customers, hedge funds and institutional clients buy shares and they are going to award shares to brokers who have done other "favors" for the brokerage firm like getting investors to buy shares in other IPOs that weren't as hot as Facebook.
Bottom line is, there is going to be a great deal of demand for Facebook shares and if you aren't a fat cat or very good friends with one, you probably aren't going to be able to buy shares during the IPO.
If you don't get shares on the IPO what are the options?
If you have an investment strategy that has an asset allocation for individual stocks, you can always buy shares on the open market after the initial public offering is allocated. After that, the people who did get the shares will be only too happy to sell them – at much higher prices than they paid for them of course. That's the big pop everyone wants. Chances are good they won't have any problem dumping those shares on people willing to pay sky-high prices.
That's because once those shares get divvied up among the fat cats, all the people who didn't get shares on the IPO are going to fight each other to buy shares on the secondary market. That's going to drive the price up – at least temporarily.
Aren't all IPOs sure things?
Nope. Not by a long shot. Sure there are success stories – but there are more tales of woe. Netscape communications came public in 1995 and ignited the tech boom. Now, nobody knows where they are. And that's not the only example. More recently in 2011, there was $38.7 billion worth of IPOs that came to market. More than half those companies lost share value that year. (This is why I don't buy IPOs myself and it's why I almost never buy individual stocks.)
The FTSE Renaissance IPO index tracks all IPOs worth over $100 million. It lost 21% last year compared to the S&P which was basically flat according to Investment News Magazine.
I mentioned above that the underwriters value Facebook at $100 billion and they are going to price the shares accordingly. But at that price, the shares will be trading at 27 times its revenue. That's not 27 times earnings – it's 27 times revenue. That is ridiculously high – even for Facebook. And it's 5 times the multiple that Google has.
My bottom line feeling is that Facebook may not be a great long-term investment. What do you think about FaceBook as an investment?
Of course I could be wrong. Facebook could become another Google or Apple. How do you feel about the Facebook thing? Are you a buyer or a seller? Why?
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BENNINGTON— Do you have a chronic health condition that is affecting your life? Would you like to change your life for the better? Southwestern Vermont Health Care's Wellness Connection, along with the Vermont Blueprint for Health, is offering a free six-week workshop for those interested in self-managing one or more long-term health conditions.
The next class begins Tuesday, Aug. 31, in the Walloomsac Apartments on School St. in Bennington, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A second class will be on Thursdays, beginning Sept. 23, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Northshire Campus of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), Rte. 7A in Manchester Center..
Learn how to take charge of your condition; communicate better with your healthcare providers and friends and family; stay optimistic; cope with frustrations; manage your pain; de-stress and relax; beat fatigue; and reduce feelings of depression.
Those with long-term diseases such as arthritis, diabetes, asthma, cancer, heart disease, lung disease, emphysema, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, or persistent pain are encouraged to attend.
Participants should plan on attending all six sessions. Family members and friends are also welcome. Workshop leaders have a chronic illness themselves and use humor and compassion to teach new skills for living well with a long-term illness. The course also covers appropriate use of medications, tips for improved nutrition, and how to evaluate new health treatments.
People who have completed the workshop report less stress, more confidence, higher energy levels and fewer trips to the doctor's office. The workshop is free for Vermont residents. Call (802) 447-5076 to register, for more information or for upcoming class schedules and locations.
The Wellness Connection is a community outreach service of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) that offers an ongoing schedule of health forums, classes, and screenings. SVHC is a community-based, not-for-profit charitable organization that exists solely for the benefit of the communities it serves. Find out more at www.svhealthcare.org.

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Health Equity Matters
In This Newsletter
Winter 2013 ~ Vol.2, #1
A quarterly e-newsletter in which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) shares news, perspectives and progress in the science and practice of health equity.
Welcome to Health Equity Matters, an electronic newsletter intended to promote awareness of minority health and health equity issues that affect our work at CDC and in the broader public health community, support the achievement of our goal to eliminate health disparities, and foster ongoing communication and collaboration.
January 31, 2013 marked my second year in the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity! It hardly seems like 2 years have passed until I consider the work underway that is contributing to the achievement of our strategic priorities. We are preparing for the Orientation Week activities to introduce students participating in the CDC Undergraduate Public Health Summer Program (CUPS) and the James B. Ferguson Graduate Fellows to CDC and public health research and practice. We are building stronger collaborations with our colleagues in the National Center for Environmental Health and the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities to raise awareness about environmental justice and health disparities among people with disabilities.
In this issue of Health Equity Matters, we feature commentaries by colleagues in those national centers, Dr. LaToria Whitehead and Dr. Vince Campbell. This year our Office will celebrate 25 years as a focal point for minority health at CDC, and we hope you will read reflections on the establishment of the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity by Dr. Rueben Warren, CDC's first Associate Director for Minority Health and currently Director of the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. Our Health Equity Champion is Dr. Bonnie Duran, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. These and other news items in this issue of Health Equity Matters highlight the growing work of health equity at CDC, among our partners, and in the community at large.
We hope you will enjoy this issue, and your comments are always welcome! In less than a year, our readership has tripled, so please continue to share Health Equity Matters with others in your professional networks.
We welcome your comments, and encourage you to continue to circulate the newsletter among your colleagues and friends.
Leandris C. Liburd, PhD, MPH, MA
Associate Director for Minority Health and Health Equity, CDC/ATSDR
Office of Minority Health & Health Equity (OMHHE)
News You Can Use!
Summer Internship coming upWe are getting ready for the 2013 CDC Undergraduate Public Health Summer Program (CUPS)/ National Undergraduate Summer Public Health Program (NUSPHP) sponsored by OMHHE. The program, which accepts up to 200 students, is intended to support participating students' consideration of public health as a long term academic and career choice, providing interns with hands-on project-oriented assignments designed to expose them to 'real-world' public health activities and functions.
The program, now in its second year, will begin with an orientation at CDC's main campus in Atlanta May 28-31, 2013. Students will get an overview of CDC including our priorities, current public health initiatives and programs, and will learn about current and emerging public health issues at the national level. At the end of the week, the students will move into their internship assignments. CUPS/NUSPHP has greatly benefited from the support of CDC staff and partners serving as mentors, and from the program's grantees. For more information, visit OMHHE's Sponsored Internship & Fellowship Opportunities
CDC Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. HolidayReverend Stephon A. Ferguson delivered the keynote address, "Breathing Life into Dr. King's Words", during CDC's "Commemorative Celebration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., A Celebration of His Life and Legacy", on January 24, 2013. CDC's Office of Diversity Management and EEO and Blacks in Government chapter hosted the event. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington and his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which called for an end to racism in the United States and was delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
Million Hearts™ Celebrates National Heart Month with new tools for public health professionals and the publicThe Million Hearts™ initiative released the new Million Hearts™ en español website in February, with information and resources for Spanish speakers, including a new factsheet developed in partnership with the National Alliance for Hispanic Health on the Four Steps to Heart Health and a fotonovela on sodium's role in hypertension.
For the public health community, the campaign shares Toolkits (en español), including the new guide "Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Action Steps for Public Health Practitioners," to help support individuals in regular, effective monitoring of their own blood pressure. Other new Million Hearts™ materials include announcement of the winning Heart Risk Check mobile application for Americans to assess their heart risk and find places to get blood pressure and cholesterol screening. Watch the Million Hearts™ website for updates.
March Observance Focus on Women's Health IssuesCDC's Office of Women's Health (OWH) helps raise awareness about issues impacting the health and safety of women and girls. OWH supports two national observances in March.
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day This day highlights the risks that HIV and AIDS pose for women and girls, is a time when organizations and communities come together to offer support, encourage discussion, and teach women and girls about prevention of HIV, the importance of getting tested, and how to live with and manage HIV and AIDS.
Women and youth at risk:
- Women accounted for 20% of estimated new HIV infections in 2010 and 24% of those living with HIV infection in 2009. The 9,500 new infections among women in 2010 reflect a significant 21% decrease from the 12,000 new infections among this group in 2008.
- About two-thirds (66 percent) of those infected through heterosexual sex were women. The number of new HIV infections among females attributed to heterosexual contact decreased by 18 percent, from 9,800 in 2008 to 8,000 in 2010, largely because of a drop in new infections among black heterosexual women.
- In 2010, 1 in 4 people infected with HIV was 13 to 24 years old.
OWH also celebrates Women's History Month throughout March with this year's theme, "Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics."
CDC's Bi-National Collaboration with BrazilWhat can we learn from other countries on engaging the public in the development of national health disparity-reducing plans, particularly with respect to racism? An examination of this question will be one of the areas of collaboration between CDC and the Brazilian Ministry of Health as part of the U.S. Department of State led U.S.-Brazil Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Promote Equality (JAPER), a bi-national agreement signed in 2008 that is the first bi-national collaboration targeting racism. CDC has engaged with partners across HHS to support the JAPER by facilitating a health sub-committee. CDC's Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) coordinates the US participation in the JAPER health sub-committee.
OMHHE staff provided an overview of CDC's involvement in JAPER at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities' Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit, held in December 2012 in Maryland. During this event, OMHHE collaborated with the HHS Office of Minority Health and Office of Global Affairs to conduct plenary and panel presentations, which raised awareness among conference participants of the JAPER health collaboration.
Welcome to the new Director of the Division of Community Health
He currently holds adjunct appointments at the rank of Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine and the Global and Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health at Tulane University.
Dr. Jack was with the CDC for more than 14 years, serving as a Senior Behavioral Scientist, Community Intervention Section Chief and Lead of the Applied Behavioral Research, Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Evaluation Team within the Divisions of Cancer Prevention and Control and the Division of Diabetes Translation (DDT). He has published over 90 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. His areas of research expertise include sociocultural aspects of disease management; family- and community-based research; program evaluation; psychosocial aspects of managing diabetes; men's health; and minority health.
"The Division of Community Health has an excellent opportunity to advance both the science and practice of health equity through our plethora of funded efforts targeted at improving health at the community level. As the new Division Director of the Division of Community Health at CDC, I look forward to providing national leadership in facilitating national conversations regarding ways the Division can work with others committed to reducing health disparities and improving quality of life among all Americans," Dr. Jack said.
See the Division of Community Health (DCH): Making Healthy Living Easier website.
New Environmental Justice Officer of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)NCEH's Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services (EEHS) works closely with communities to reduce exposure to hazardous substances in their homes, schools, and workplaces. LaToria Whitehead, PhD, MPH, formerly of the Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, is now the Environmental Justice (EJ) Officer and Public Health Advisor working with Sharunda Buchanan, PhD, in the EEHS Office of the Director. Dr. Whitehead holds a Master in Public Health from Mercer University School of Medicine, and a PhD in Political Science from Clark Atlanta University. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Justice at Spelman College. Her new role includes liaison with CDC working with EJ communities, advocates, and organizations and with the offices and divisions in NCEH/ATSDR. Promoting EJ strategies and identifying opportunities to provide technical assistance, outreach, education and training for EJ groups allows Dr. Whitehead to work at local, state, tribal, and national levels. See Dr. Whitehead's commentary below.
Winter 2013 CDC/ATSDR Tribal Advisory Committee Meeting and HHS Tribal Consultation SessionsThe CDC/ATSDR Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC) convened in Atlanta on February 5-7, 2013. TAC members engaged in discussion with CDC leadership and provided advice and guidance on CDC policies, programs, and activities. The TAC also heard presentations on key issues in Indian Country, including substance abuse and mental health, suicide, tribal public health winnable battles success stories, and community-based public health engagement. The next TAC meeting and CDC/ATSDR Tribal Consultation Session will be held in Indian Country in the summer of 2013. Once scheduled, information will be posted on the CDC Tribal Support website.
CDC/ATSDR will also participate in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Annual Tribal Budget Consultation and HHS Regional Tribal Consultations. The Annual Tribal Budget Consultation will take place in Washington, DC, on March 6–8, 2013. Information about the Regional Tribal Consultations will be available through the HHS Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs website.
Including Disability at CDCVince Campbell, PhD, Senior Health Scientist, CDC Chief Disability Officer
National Center on Birth Defects & Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)
The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established an initiative in 2010 to integrate considerations for disability into the agency's mainstream public health activities so that they would better serve needs of people with disability in the United States.
The disability inclusion initiative is based on the principle that people with disabilities are best served by public health when included in mainstream public health activities, and recognizes that appropriate accommodations must be addressed when there are barriers that limit adequate participation.
This initiative is led by the Chief Disability Officer, under the direction of the Associate Director for Program at CDC. An intra-CDC Disability Health Work Group was established in August 2010 with representation from the Centers, Institutes and Offices within the agency.
The overall mission of the disability inclusion initiative is to reduce disparities in the availability and accessibility of public health programs and services for people with functional disabilities, which are limitations in mobility, vision, hearing, cognition, expressive communication, or serious difficulty establishing or sustaining social relationships.
There are four major goals:
- To improve public health surveillance of people of all ages with disabilities in order to identify health differences and disparities by striving to include disability status in key CDC survey-based health surveillance programs;
- To improve the participation of people with disabilities in non-research program activities that are conducted by or sponsored by CDC;
- To improve the understanding of disability as a risk factor in the onset and trajectory of preventable disease, injury, and loss of function, and;
- To provide accessible health communications and messaging available to people with sensory or cognitive limitations.
Many barriers impede the participation of people with limited mobility, vision, hearing, cognition, expressive communication, or who experience serious limitations in establishing or sustaining social relationships. Environmental barriers to their participation may include physical obstacles that block entry for people who use wheelchairs, like steps instead of ramps and elevators. Barriers for people with vision or hearing impairments could include printed materials with print that is too small or not high contrast enough, or a lack of American Sign Language interpreters for those who attend meetings or visit doctors.
Other barriers to service by public health providers include surveys and other health data approaches that do not include methods for identifying people with disabilities so that health differences or disparities can be identified.
The disability inclusion initiative has achieved several key accomplishments thus far. They include adding disability status questions to the 2013 questionnaire of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; sponsoring a CDC-wide symposium on the utility of including disability status in epidemiologic research; conducting a study to determine the relevance and accessibility of recommended interventions in the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) for people with disabilities; and linking the Community Guide website to resources on making programs accessible to people with disabilities.
Read more on People with Disabilities and Public Health
LaToria Whitehead, PhD, MPH, Environmental Justice Officer
Where We Live Significantly Affects How Long We Live
National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
One cannot justifiably speak about health without speaking about the environment. The environment is a leading determinant of human health. Physical, natural, built and social environmental factors that influence the life of an individual or a community include water, air, weather, infrastructure of buildings, roads, parks, sidewalks, the aggregate of cultural and social norms, and beliefs.
Economic, social, and cultural factors can modify exposure to environmental hazards. This is a part of why environmental hazards disproportionately harm minority, low-income, and Tribal populations. For example, minorities are more likely to live in counties with particulate matter and ozone levels that exceed air quality standards. They are more likely to live in older, impoverished areas and have the highest odds of living in inadequate housing that contains toxic substances. Populations affected by the uneven distribution of environmental degradation are the same populations that also are afflicted disproportionately with chronic diseases, including asthma, obesity, and cancer.
Environmental justice (EJ), the movement working to reduce this inequality, seeks to achieve two important goals. The first goal is fair treatment, to ensure that no group of people has to deal with an unequal share of the harmful environmental effects coming from the day-to-day waste of a modern society. The second goal is meaningful involvement, to ensure that potentially affected community residents can participate in decisions about activities that will affect their environments or their health.
Environmental injustices stimulate health disparities. Residential and racial segregation, housing discrimination, exposures to pollution, and other environmental risks are distributed unequally by race and socioeconomic class. Systemic and institutional recurring issues of racism and classism continue to occur. The consequences of these recurring issues are inequalities for underserved populations that influence health disparities.
Collaborative activities and consistent dialogue at CDC on the explicit link between health disparities and environmental injustices are helping to yield new prevention strategies that mitigate these outcomes. The goal of environmental justice is an optimal quality of life for everyone.
See the recent NCEH Your Health-Your Environment Blog Post: With Health & Justice for All
Reflections on Minority Health at CDC 1988-1997
To commemorate the occasion of our 25th anniversary, we will feature some reflections of our former and current colleagues, beginning with Dr. Rueben Warren, CDC's first Associate Director for Minority, who shares some thoughts on the establishment and accomplishments of the Office during his tenure.
Dr. Warren came to CDC in the summer of 1988. His appointment was historic in that it came on the heels of the release of the landmark 1985 Secretary's Task Force Report on Black & Minority Health. Dr. Warren recalls, "In the Introduction to the 1985 Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health, then Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Margret Heckler wrote, 'disparities have existed ever since federal record keeping began more than a generation ago…'" The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded by establishing the first Office of the Associate Director for Minority Health within a federal agency in August 1988.
"Having the opportunity to be in the public health agency that focuses on health promotion and disease prevention, and being able to respond to the Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black & Minority Health" was what attracted Dr. Warren to this position. "We were the first HHS Operating Division to be able to respond to this Report," Dr. Warren remembers proudly. Within CDC, there was a group of minority scientists and public health advisors who met with then CDC Director Dr. James Mason to explore what was needed to establish a focus on minority health in the agency. Dr. Sonja Hutchins, Senior Medical Advisor in the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, was part of this group as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer and shared, "We envisioned that there would be an Office of Minority Health that would serve as a resource to the national Centers, Institutes, and Offices (CIOs) to promote the science, training, and partnerships needed to improve minority health." Continue to 2nd page of this Feature
Exhibition Illustrates How Design is Being Used to Transform and Save Lives
From February 4 through May 24, 2013, the David J. Sencer CDC Museum will engage designers, innovators, engineers, public health followers and urban planners alike with the traveling exhibition "Design with the Other 90%: CITIES," a look at the most resourceful design emerging from the informal settlements (commonly referred to as slums or squatter settlements) of the world's most crowded cities.
Later in the year, the David J. Sencer CDC Museum will present, in collaboration with OMMHE, an exhibit on the evolution of minority health in the United States to coincide with the celebration of OMHHE's 25th anniversary in late September 2013.
Organized thematically around issues related to the social determinants of health, the exhibit will highlight public health challenges and achievements in reducing health disparities by CDC, other public health agencies, and community-based organizations.
Science Speaks
Selected publications from OMHHE authors:
Ana Penman-Aguilar, PhD, MPH, (Associate Director for Science)
gave a poster presentation at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities, entitled, "Socioeconomic Disadvantage as a Social Determinant of Teen Childbearing in the U.S."
This study reviewed scientific literature on socioeconomic influences on teen childbearing. All studies included in the review identified at least one statistically significant association relating socioeconomic factors (e.g., neighborhood disadvantage or neighborhood-level income inequality) to teen birth.
Dr. Penman Aguilar is an author on two new published manuscripts that examine laboratory methods for determining whether semen exposure occurred during sexual activity. These methods are useful for evaluating new products for preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) – for example, among populations disproportionately affected by HIV and STIs.
Snead MC, Kourtis AP, Black CM, Mauck CK, Brown TM, Penman-Aguilar A, Melendez JH, Gallo MF, Jamison DJ, Macaluso M.
Effect of topical vaginal products on the detection of prostate-specific antigen, a biomarker of semen exposure, using ABAcards.
Contraception 2012 Dec 7; pii: S0010-7824(12)00966-3. doi: 10.10167.
Gallo MF, Snead MC, Black CM, Brown TM, Kourtis AP, Jamison DJ, Carter M, Penman-Aguilar A, Macaluso M.
Optimal methods for collecting and storing vaginal specimens for prostate-specific antigen testing in research studies.
Contraception 2012 Oct 31; pii: S0010-7824(12)00885-2. doi: 10.1016
Karen Bouye, MPH, MS, PhD, (Senior Advisor for Research)
and Ramal Moonesinghe, PhD, (Senior Mathematical Statistician)
gave a poster presentation at the NIH 2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities, entitled, "The Association between Mortality Rates and Residential Segregation among Residents in the Mississippi Delta Region."
CAPT Sonja Hutchins, MD, MPH, DrPH, FACPM, (Senior Medical Advisor) gave an oral presentation at the 140th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA), in the APHA Science Board Session "Addressing Health Disparities with our Scientific Tools" entitled, "Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities Using a Small Sample Size".
Uncommonly used epidemiological and statistical methods can further elucidate the burden of and risk factors for health disparities and identification of effective interventions and programs to eliminate health disparities. This presentation describes the use of a small sample size to estimate an intervention effect with the same certainty and reliability of effect estimation from a large sample size.
Conversations in Equity
Our blog Conversations in Equity shares and exchanges perspectives and progress in the science and practice of health equity.
See the latest post and add your comments today!
Health Equity Champion
We are pleased to honor Dr. Bonnie Duran as Health Equity Champion for her pioneering efforts to reorient conventional models of (western) research toward models that promote community-based participatory research, cultural humility, and indigenous ways of knowing.
I first met Dr. Duran through the Health Disparities Subcommittee to the Advisory Committee to the Director. She "rolls up her sleeves" and is actively engaged in the work of the Health Disparities Subcommittee. I recently discovered that she engages the thinking of Michel Foucault – a philosopher who is among the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century, in creating research models that respect the history, culture, and traditional knowledge of American Indians. Foucault is well known for his critiques of the (western) construction of knowledge and power, and the inter-relatedness of knowledge and power. Dr. Duran has found these ideas resonate with what Tribal communities have been saying about knowledge and power, and are the foundation for transforming prevention research in Native communities.
We salute Dr. Duran and congratulate her on being a champion for the cause of health equity!
--Leandris C. Liburd
Dr. Bonnie Duran is Director of the Center for Indigenous Health Research at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI), and a member of the CDC Advisory Committee to the Director, Health Disparities Subcommittee. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health. Dr. Duran received her DrPH from UC-Berkeley's School of Public Health in 1997. At the University of Washington, she teaches graduate courses in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Health Promotion/Disease Prevention and Critical Theory. She has worked in public health research, evaluation and education among Native Americans and other communities of color for over 30 years.
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The Griffins still lead the seres 3-1, and get another crack at wrapping up their first championship in Game 5 tonight.
Richard Panik's goal with 3:08 left in the second period held up as the game-winner for the Crunch, who avoided being swept out of the Finals after winning 11 of 12 games through the first three rounds.
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The Crunch killed off overlapping penalties midway through the opening period, including 59 seconds of 5-on-3 time, to hold the Griffins lead at 2-1 through 20 minutes.
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On the next shift, Cedrick Desjardins robbed Andersson from point-blank range to keep the score tied, and at 16:52 the Crunch grabbed their first lead of the night as Panik redirected a point shot from Mark Barberio past Mrazek.
Syracuse got a golden opportunity to extend the lead when Griffins forward Gustav Nyquist was assessed a spearing major and game misconduct with 21.5 seconds left in the second period, but the Crunch could not extend their lead.
A Grand Rapids power play with 4:33 to play in regulation gave the Griffins another chance to pull even, but Desjardins and the Crunch held their ground.
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Multi-cultural view from ivory tower
Azly Rahman
Jun 26, 06 1:31pm
What are we fighting for in our varsities? It seems we are fighting over stale crumbs held out by dying ideological hands. Same old story.
Is university education all about quotas and unthinking graduates? Is it about making sure that all the vice-chancellors and deputy vice-chancellors are from a particular ethnic group? Or must we do better in our national will to create citizens who will help the helpless members of society evolve with dignity - regardless of ethnicity, color, creed, and national origin? We can do better if our university administrators are more ethnically diverse.
Let us do a better job with our policies of affirmative action in order to find a peaceful solution to the dead-end issues of quota, meritocracy, dread, mundaneness, blind nationalism, cemented racism, closing of doors to the best and the brightest, and a spectrum of malaise in our public universities. Our vice-chancellors must enculturalise what is good, new, and true that they have learnt from their alma mater in foreign lands, so that they can govern institutions with purity of thought.
The problem is that many get afflicted by philosophical amnesia as soon as we are back. We let 'this old house we inhabit' define the culture that will intellectually disable us. The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in the US proclaimed its commitment to diversity in a statement issued on Sept 20, 1999:
"At UCLA, a public university located in one of the most heterogeneous regions in the world, diversity is an indispensable element of academic excellence. We are fundamentally committed to including and integrating within the campus community individuals from different groups as defined by such characteristics as race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic background, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, and intellectual outlook.
"This commitment requires efforts to attract to the campus members of historically under-represented racial and ethnic groups. However, to create a rich academic experience and intellectual and cultural environment for everyone, we extend our concern beyond representation to genuine participation. Our commitment to diversity entails devising strategies and programmes to realise its benefits fully in education, research and service. This commitment inevitably means an openness to change - indeed, to transformation."
Einstein once said that we cannot solve problems from the same plane on which the problem was created. We would be going around in circles, looking for the door to equality, justice and wisdom in our collective hope of creating a nation of peace-loving Malaysians. The New Economic Policy and the problem of race in governance of our universities must be framed within the Einsteinian maxim.
"Multi-cultural audit"
Many would like to see a diverse team of top leadership in our public universities. Chinese or Indian Malaysian students would like to see a vice-chancellor or a deputy vice-chancellor of their ethnicity. Our foreign students are not lured here to learn more sophisticated political-economic forms of racism.
A multi-cultural mix of top leadership will ensure a good sense of student belonging to the university and will show the world that not Malaysia will not only has a 'world-class' image but also practises a 'world-wise' educational policy. Universiti Utara Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Mara, for example, can be made less Malay and more multi-cultural, so that we may teach students to view success not solely in racial terms but through a transcultural lens. The two universities will benefit intellectually and culturally from a good composition of multi-cultural leadership. A multi-cultural university senate may help heal ease the migraine of the quota mentality and will educate the top leadership on the need to evolve wisely thorough good affirmative action policies that are also in line with the teachings of the great religious traditions and humanistic educational philosophies.
Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and even atheism teach us to look at human beings not through the eyes of race alone. A good system will look at class as a basis of creating a just system that brings out humanism in all of us. The concept of democracy in education demands us to integrate all the diverse cultures so that each may learn to better respect, and next, help each other build better visions of an ethical society.
"Dare we create a new varsity order?"
Borrowing the words of the great American social reconstructionist George Counts, who wrote of the need to reconstruct society through education, I propose that we seriously engage in a national dialogue on the beauty of diversity in our public universities. It will be a guarantee that whatever we have set up as a multi-cultural nation will be achieved if we begin with this vision from the top of the ivory tower.
"Blind nationalism"
If we let the higher education minister restructure the culture and nature of who should constitute the leaders in the ivory towers, we will see discrimination being properly addressed and resolved. This may be painful in the beginning and the healing process will not be pleasant, but heal we all must. An all-Malay, all-Chinese or all-Indian educational institution may not educate well but will indoctrinate excellently. Education in the broadest sense of the word should train people to become transcultural citizens able to build a strong foundation of radical multi-culturalism so that society will continue to be critical of governments that lie to their own people through policies that give new meaning to the colonialist policy of divide, conquer and rule.
How much have our universities progressed in the area of cross-cultural understanding? To what extent will our graduates be colour-blind in their work for national development and ultimately, for human liberation? How much do the universities perpetuate racism through their hidden curriculum of excluding each other based on race matters? The 22-year policy of the previous administration has reached its ideological shelf-life.
The universities need to evolve beyond the paradigm of blind nationalism which has never been healthy for this nation. We need the 'sensor-fused' technology of eliminating the vestiges of hyper-addictive neo-feudalistic educational pill we have been made to swallow en masse. We need to radically reconstruct the composition of our university leaders to put a stop to this conveyor belt of disabling and paralysing strategy of social reproduction.
"Truly diverse senate"
Monthly university senate meetings would be more vibrant if we choose to create a culture that will celebrate the diverse perspective that addresses the issue of class, the marginalised, and the criminalisation of the best and the brightest students. We may even discuss how to apply diverse statements to meet the diverse needs and intelligence of students. We will learn to become less suspicious of our ill-derived and acquired ultra-nationalistic sentiment. Our senate room will be a beautiful forum and may also in decades to come evolve somewhat like the "Conference of the Birds", as the great Sufi Master Sheikh Fariduddin Attar would call it. In it, we will see the faculty seeking wisdom and truth rather than arguing their biases using politically-correct academic jargon.
We will see a beautiful senatorial culture in all universities. The common goal would be to celebrate humanism, not to dehumanise students and faculty through discriminatory policies. We will gradually free ourselves from the shackles of shallow politicking that has plagued our universities ever since Independence. All voices will be heard and the voices of social justice and intellectual freedom will be the most celebrated. We can become like America and its insistence on diversity in its universities. Walk into a good American university and you will see a diverse faculty - white, black, Hispanic, Asian and Pacific Islander - all appointed on merit.
We can embrace such multi-culturalism and trumpet to the world how we truly value diversity. This will add more meaning to the idea of a truly world-class Malaysian university. Our university senators will spend more time discussing the philosophical and transcultural foundations of university education, rather than argue tediously over this or that quota and then go home scheming against one another and using their intelligence for less noble purposes.
Let the rakyat insist on the diverse composition of our university leadership. Let us see which Malaysian university will embrace this idea of projecting a 'world-class' and 'world-wise' university. After all, aren't we supposed to be a world model in racial harmony? Let us then quickly put an end to racial segregation in our ivory towers.
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Some marketers get me angry, and sometimes think even the operator deserves what they get for agreeing to do such job, but the disturbance they caused you with calling which they didn't initiate is still not a valid excuse to make their day shit, which it probably already is.
I had a very nasty colleague who ran the marketing of the company I worked for, whose ideas alone earned them the dislike of the rest of us and eventually got them fired. And they'd put newly hired people to do even nastier things they were in no position to challenge. One of them took it very hard when they realized their instinct had been right, and the rest of the company also disapproved of what they had been told to do. But they had already done it. And that's without getting verbally attacked by anyone. I wouldn't want to additionally ruin the day of someone in that position.
Unrelated, but like everyone I had many urges to troll certain spammers. After getting a lot of spam for real estate in Brazil, I eventually responded harshly to a message in Portuguese without even attempting to read it. It turned to be some Brazilian kid who immediately crafted an apology through Google Translate, basically for me being an ass. Not having much to do with telemarketers per se, but it made me seriously think about how your responses might affect somebody, and how such "clever" judgements might turn out to be totally misplaced when you don't know that person on the other side of the line, email or whatever it is.
Quickly crafted troll ideas are not always very wise please troll the company, not the person calling. Making the operator uncomfortable through sexual innuendo, for example, is a very disturbing idea. Even if I first liked it upon reading it, upon a little reflection it's not a nice thing to do at all.
(Not that I blame anyone for doing such a thing, it can be so irritating that you'd eventually lose your cool. But I don't think advising people to be dicks on purpose is a good idea either.)
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One guy tried to do the routine from a Seinfeld episode where Jerry got a telemarketing call. He got all the way to the line "Oh, is that because you don't like these kinds of calls?" I had not seen that particular episode at the time, so I wasn't able to feed him whatever the desired response was. Instead, I truthfully answered "No, it's because I can't afford a phone."
He didn't like that at all, because he suddenly went quiet for three seconds, then angrily demanded "Let me talk to your supervisor!" So the supervisor got on the line and apologized, and we took him off the call list. All he had to do was ask, but he wanted to play games.
We called all over the country, and sometimes into Canada. One night, one of the phone workers got connected to someone on the East Coast (we were based in Arizona, but the client was hq'd in Emmaus, Pennsylvania). The customer she got apparently was in severe depression and suicidal. The phone worker made her supervisor aware of the problem, the supervisor called emergency services for the customer's location, and the phone worker (who had crisis line experience) kept the customer online by listening and talking to them for 30 minutes until help arrived at the scene.
I hated the job passionately, but I needed work and couldn't get back into something I was more experienced in (computer specialist on mainframes). I hate talking on a phone even at home. The job stressed me out so much after 5 years, I wound up having a stroke and now can't work anymore. That was about 13 years ago.
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|March 14 2014, 06:53 PM
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As for stopping these calls I suggest you buy yourself a T-Lock. Just let it hang up on these callers for you. Over time they go away on their own.
|March 15 2014, 08:55 PM
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Screw the future, fight the BEE!
Bring on the aliens. It all depends on which way my mind swings. I'm part NOROMO ya know .
|March 16 2014, 12:05 PM
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They sure don't care about your time, well being and privacy and many of them treat their telemarketers as human robots, i.e. they give them predefined phrases and flowcharts which they run through like a human computer which only infuriates the person on the other end because it's an added insult when they realize a live person is talking to them but won't really engage with them in a normal discussion.
All this, once again, is not the fault of the operator. As all of you know we have to do what is required of us at work and most of us have a boss enforcing this to a certain degree. Many of us have some wiggle room or freedom in how to do their job as long as the result is ok.
Telemarketers usually don't have that kind of freedom as opposed to customer service people who you call when you have a problem of some kind. So you won't achieve anything if the company the telemarketer works for doesn't play by the rules and you have to take stronger measures.
It's not the guy talking to you that's the problem but the company though i admit it's hard to keep your cool sometimes when you have the xth phone call from the same company after you have told them to stop calling.
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It's 1981. Roy Richardson is a manager at a Los Angeles computer company. A devout Mormon, he has a two-year-old son, with two daughters yet to be born. He has a little over ten years to live.
I was that two-year-old and Roy was my father. I grew up without him, knowing the outlines of his life but not the details. In 2006, at my mother's house, I found three boxes of details.
My father never kept a consistent diary, but he bought over a thousand postcards between 1981 and 1991. On most of them he wrote notes to himself, reminders of what he'd done that day. Others he mailed to us from his business trips. A few he left blank—he just liked the pictures. This site is my attempt to build a picture of my father's life, one piece at a time.
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"Recognizing that my writings in this journal in recent years have been sparse, I must comment that my life has not been entirely undocumented. I have accumulated several hundred postcards — together with Frances, Leonard, Susanna, and Rachel — from our outings around town, our long-distance trips and my business trips. Many evenings in the hotel have found me writing postcards to my family and friends and also recording my own experiences on postcards. There are some I hope who will find them of some historical and biographical value — as well as lovely to look at." (From Roy's journal, 1985)
To keep things interesting, each day's postcard is selected randomly. On rare occasions my father would write 10-30 postcards in a single day, and I for one don't want to see those postcards one after another for a whole month.
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Ben Edelman is the world's premiere spyware epidemiologist. In his Cambridge, Massachusetts, lab near Harvard Yard, he deliberately infects a sacrificial PC with programs like eWallet. Then he tracks the way the applications sink their tendrils into host desktops, collect sensitive information, and transmit it to the mothership.
This research has earned him few friends in the industry. Eagle, ever on the defense against competitors, believes Edelman is a spy for his rival WhenU. After I tell the Claria VP I'm planning to visit Edelman, he turns grim. "Why don't you ask him who he works for?" he asks testily.
The fact is, Edelman works for the same kind of customers Eagle does: large organizations with a substantial Web presence. His consulting clients include AOL, the National Football League, and Wells Fargo.
In Edelman's testimony on behalf of the publishers in their 2002 suit, he gave a step-by-step overview of how Gator's user tracking and ad delivery software wound up on the machines of unwitting users. When someone downloaded eWallet, Edelman found, another program called OfferCompanion came along for the ride. Whenever the browser loaded a new site, OfferCompanion sent the new URL to Gator, which served a related pop-up for the software to display. Moreover, Edelman discovered, the stealth program couldn't be removed using the Windows uninstall command. Once it was on a PC, it took some effort to erase.
He also found that thousands of smaller companies were also distributing OfferCompanion (along with similar programs) bundled with Kazaa and AudioGalaxy. These distributors made deals with yet another tier of companies that gave away the bundle along with still more freeware. Whenever a user clicked on an ad, everyone along the chain took a cut. So if Gator got $10 for each click on a Home Shopping Network pop-up, the second-tier distributors might get 10 cents each and the third-tier distributors 5 cents each.
Sometimes, though, the middlemen didn't wait for a user to click; they simply made it look that way. When someone clicks on a pop-up ad, the advertiser puts a cookie - a small text file - on the user's browser to track his movements. The more active the user is on the advertiser's site, the more the distributors get paid - especially if the result is a sale. These companies realized they could add code that stashed a cookie in the browser whenever a pop-up appeared. Thus, each pop-up served made them another dime, whether or not it ever got clicked. The scam, known as cookie stuffing, became endemic to the industry. "Quite simply, affiliates use spyware to rip off marketing departments," Edelman says.
The publishers' suit set off a cascade of bad news for Gator. L.L. Bean, Hertz.com, and Overstock.com piled on during 2003 and 2004, launching separate suits for unfair business practices and trademark infringement. In April 2004, the FTC held a summit to address the spyware problem and followed up with lawsuits against companies like Seismic Entertainment. Seismic's code embedded itself so deeply in the operating system that trying to delete it occasionally ruined the host PC. The agency didn't go after eWallet or OfferCompanion, but it was clear that the Feds were paying attention. Then Yahoo! announced that its toolbar would block pop-ups from Gator, among others.
Amid the string of setbacks, Gator canceled plans for an IPO. Eagle declines to talk about it. "Suffice it to say that market conditions weren't right," he says.
The lawsuits and bad publicity left the company wounded, but the numbers were exploding anyway: Profit grew from $91,000 (on revenue of $40.5 million) in 2002 to nearly $35 million (on revenue of $90 million) in 2003. The user base was roughly 35 million and growing 50 percent annually. Apparently, Gator didn't need to change its software; it needed to change its image. So, as Eagle puts it, "we shifted the momentum and grabbed the mike."
The first move was to give the company a new name. Thus, in October 2003, Gator, the fearsome snapping reptile, became Claria, the paragon of transparency and light.
Next Claria went to work replacing the pejorative word spyware with the more business-friendly adware. The adware model was already an accepted way for software companies to support otherwise free products - the free version of the Eudora email program, for instance, displays ads in a small window that can't be closed while the program is in use. Claria execs argued that eWallet was no different. Moreover, they policed the distinction with diligence: Anyone who called the company's products spyware risked a lawsuit.
In late 2003, Claria filed a libel suit against PCPitstop.com, a mom-and-pop site that distributed spyware-removal tools. The suit claimed that PCPitstop was infringing on Claria's business by including the company on a list of firms that distributed spyware. As part of a settlement, PCPitstop took down several pages on its site describing how the company's pop-up generator ruins PC performance and tracks every move consumers make online.
Meanwhile, Claria quietly settled the suits filed by L.L. Bean, Hertz.com, and Overstock .com. All parties signed nondisclosure agreements, so the terms are secret and nobody will discuss them.
The next step was to cozy up to regulators. Claria offered to help government agencies and industry watchdogs establish guidelines for spyware, and perhaps show how its own practices were more benign. To that end, the executive suite made room for a new position: chief privacy officer. Reed Freeman, a former staff attorney at the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, took the job. Freeman spoke at industry events about the importance of privacy and consumer rights, and Claria became a supporter of the Antispyware Coalition, a public interest group headed by the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, DC.


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Planning and Scheduling: A Critical Part of Customer Fulfillment
S. McVey - December 10th, 1999
from E-Commerce
face of retail is rapidly evolving from traditional brick-and-mortar facades
to electronic ones. While web businesses spend considerable effort in polishing
Internet front ends with sophisticated graphics and animation, they must also
give attention to back end fulfillment operations. Invisible to the web consumer,
these operations encompass networks of manufacturers, warehouses, and distributors
that shoulder the burden of filling orders and delivering products. Advanced
Planning and Scheduling (APS) offers powerful tools for addressing the challenges
presented to these networks by e-commerce.
all its promise, the Internet presents web businesses with significant challenges,
marketplace potential: Geographic marketplace boundaries have been all but
obliterated by the Internet. Web portals appear with the same clarity on laptops
in Boston or Bangkok and data transmission technologies continually improve
the speed at which on-line ordering activities take place. Though web businesses
can choose to limit delivery areas, in doing so they ignore a significant avenue
for growth. All that is needed is a means for making expanded distribution cost
order volumes: Free access from every corner of the globe implies the potential
for massive order volumes. Unfortunately, an increase in order volume is usually
accompanied by a disproportionately large increase in the complexity faced by
back end fulfillment resources. These complexities arise because companies must
balance customer demand fulfillment with constraints of time, distance, resources,
and cost.
access to alternatives: Because the Internet dissolves physical distances,
companies are faced with the sobering fact that competitive sites lie a mere
mouse click away from their own. Web businesses that fail to satisfy customer
expectations regarding product quality or delivery risk losing customers to
companies that offer superior alternatives. In addition, the Internet serves
to level the competitive landscape, allowing small unknown companies to take
on established giants.
is APS?
speaking, APS is a set of techniques that facilitate and/or automate human decision-making.
More specifically, APS comprises methods for solving complex problems that arise
in the operational infrastructure used to support customer fulfillment. The
solution to these problems is usually a sequence, strategy, or configuration
that results in the optimum material, time, or cost savings subject to a set
of constraints. An example from everyday experience is the problem of getting
dressed in the morning. If one specifies the goal of this problem as "a fully
dressed person", then many possible solutions exist, however, constraints imposed
on the dresser quickly reduce the number of acceptable outcomes. For instance,
shoes are not put on before socks (sequence), the activity cannot take more
than twenty minutes (strategy), fashion dictates that no one wear two ties (configuration),
and so on. This problem is a simple example of linear programming, a mathematical
technique for finding solutions of linear equations subject to simultaneous
constraints. It is just one example of the vast array of problems that are addressed
by APS.
manufacturing and distribution environments, constraints are far more difficult
to juggle because the problems are many times more complex. A few constraints
come easily to mind, such as raw material availability, resource availability,
and order due date compliance, but others arise from many sources, including:
market conditions
to support all market demands
must be prioritized by key customers, region, technology, etc.
capacity requirements
cannot be added when operating at maximum levels
optimize existing capacity
dispersed manufacturing and distribution operations
supply chains
can extend to multiple plants, warehouses, distribution centers and cross
international borders
manufacturing characteristics
product, component life cycles place pressure on throughput
and sub-assemblies can also be sold as end products
manufacturing characteristics
grading and inverted BOMs (Bills of Materials) introduce complexity
may visit operations iteratively
procedures vary significantly by product
mix variability within manufacturing and transportation lead times
material may be used for different end products
availability must remain flexible over time
the dressing experiment, problems in manufacturing and distribution that face
these types of constraints rarely lend themselves to a perfect or optimum solution,
since finding one would involve an inordinate amount of time and processing
power. Instead, reasonably good solutions are made to suffice. APS routines
usually employ a "back door" that enables them to stop searching for the optimum
configuration, strategy, or sequence and offer a merely "good" one - or at least
one that is better than could be found without APS.
of older planning and scheduling techniques, such as MRP, MRP-II, and CRP, used
by many Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems provide ideal opportunities
for APS. While these techniques represented a significant improvement over older
methods when they were introduced in the 1960s, many companies find they can
no longer match increasing demands on manufacturing and distribution networks.
The fundamental disadvantage of these approaches is that all fail to address
real world constraints sufficiently. In general, these approaches:
to respond quickly to changes in supply and demand
not enable management of priorities across products and channels
on fixed lead times to calculate delivery dates, failing to take into account
all relevant delivery constraints
not search exhaustively through BOMs or recipes to check the availability
of components, sub-assemblies and alternate parts when quoting availability
of a finished product
not allow for Available-to-Promise (ATP) visibility across multiple sites,
resources, business units, and warehouses
addresses these issues much more effectively than other techniques. Properly
implemented, APS can help back end fulfillment networks achieve reduced inventory
levels, better utilization of resources, shorter order cycle times, and lowered
operation and delivery costs
can address a variety of problems in different areas of the fulfillment network.
Four key areas are described below (see Figure 1).
Successful customer fulfillment begins, in many cases, with the ability
to make accurate predictions of customer demand. Forecasting involves making
assumptions about the marketplace and attempting to predict customer acceptance
for a company's products. By superimposing the effects of seasonal factors,
promotions, new product introductions, economic cycles, competitive actions,
and other events, companies seek to build a demand profile that can be acted
on by procurement, manufacturing, and distribution operations. Forecasting
algorithms, ranging from basic extrapolation to neural networks, which take
into account business events, are usually classified under demand management.
Demand management is an important venue for APS more because it provides
a point from which the rest of fulfillment activities follow. .
Production planning determines the blueprint for meeting customer demands
over long periods of time. Plans specify the product to be ordered or manufactured,
its required quantity, any planned raw material sourcing or procurement
activities, and other information. Usually, companies decide to allocate
available materials and resources to those customers' orders that will maximize
their profitability, fulfill previous inventory agreements, or aid the development
of preferred business partners. Production plans usually take into account
these allocations, or material and capacity set aside with particular business
objectives in mind. Industry frequently determines the scope of production
planning. For discrete manufacturing, production plans typically deal with
material availability only. For process manufacturing, resource availability
plays a larger role. Though most companies selling products over the Internet
do not manufacture widgets, their suppliers or their supplier's suppliers
most definitely do. Visibility across all links in the supply chain is becoming
increasingly necessary for web businesses to respond to customer orders
Production scheduling
Production scheduling differs from production planning primarily in regard
to time horizon and granularity. Where production plans map out expected
material flows by week, month or even year, production schedules focus on
smaller intervals of time: day, hour, and even minute. Production scheduling
frequently involves horizons of less than two weeks, although industry is
the determining factor. Generally, volatile businesses tend to have shorter
scheduling horizons as longer ones are usually wasted effort because of
order cancellations. A good example of algorithms used for scheduling is
capacity balancing. Capacity balancing seeks to ensure that no resource
(production line, mixing vessel, kiln, packaging station) is loaded beyond
its available capacity. This is not as straightforward as it may at first
appear, since there may be more than one alternative resource for offloading
tasks, movement of tasks scheduled on an overloaded resource may be restricted
by upstream tasks, or due dates can be violated if tasks are postponed.
Since these problems involve a high degree of complexity, algorithms usually
employ heuristics, or "back doors", that allow them to return a feasible
answer within a reasonable time.
Logistics involves planning the flow and storage of finished goods from
warehouses to distribution centers and end customers. Transportation time,
methods and costs are the primary trade-offs that APS seeks to balance in
order to arrive at the optimum distribution plan. One famous problem in
logistics concerns the plight of the travelling salesman who must visit
a number of cities scattered across the country while minimizing the total
distance traveled. Like scheduling problems, the logistics problems seek
to find a good solution quickly given the constraints. As in the case of
production planning, web businesses, while not involved in the actual shipping
of goods, can be held responsible by disgruntled customers when their order
doesn't arrive on time, making logistics a priority consideration.
No discussion of APS is complete without mentioning ATP. ATP is not a specific
functional area like demand planning or production scheduling but is a feature
that provides visibility into the aforementioned areas. ATP refers to a
quantity of finished goods, work in process (WIP), raw materials, or some
combination of the three that is available for promising to customer orders.
ATP figures also incorporate the results of allocation routines that limit
supply to particular customers. Global ATP extends the reach of this allocation
to facilities and warehouses around the globe. Although vendors profess
to offer these capabilities, advances in data sharing technologies and security
are just beginning to make global ATP a reality.
of APS
Though APS can
help web businesses satisfy high customer expectations, there are serious consequences
associated with packages that prospective users should understand. Two of the
most insidious are level of representation and algorithm visibility.
of Representation
APS packages require that users create an electronic model of their fulfillment
network that represents how the business operates at a functional level.
Though the software provides the basic development tools for constructing
these models, it is often difficult to know just how detailed they should
be. A single model designed for a large network is often unable to sufficiently
represent important business process details. On the other hand, highly
detailed models that attempt to replicate every nuance of an organization's
workflows usually fail because of data integration and usability issues.
Success of APS hinges on striking a balance between the two extremes.
Most vendors do not allow users to "peek behind the curtain" and observe
how their APS algorithms work. While some, like SAP and i2 Technologies,
license solver technologies from third party vendors such as ILOG, they
usually augment the acquired techniques with others developed internally.
Many subtleties of planning algorithms do not become evident until late
in the implementation phase when detailed testing takes place. For instance,
few users realize that i2's Rhythm Factory Planner will automatically schedule
low priority orders in advance of more critical orders if they are significantly
Planning and Scheduling (APS) has received new relevance with the advent of
the Internet marketplace. E-tailers like Amazon.com are successful not so much
because of their glittery graphics, but because of their back-end fulfillment
and customer service capabilities that enable them to satisfy customer demands.
As heavier "brick and mortar" manufacturers move towards e-commerce, APS will
continue to play an important role in the invisible back end network of manufacturing
and distribution. According to Ray Hood, CEO of EXE Technologies, "as companies
attempt to transform their traditional stores into e-businesses, they often
overlook the complexity and cost associated with having an efficient back-end
order fulfillment system." Armed with APS, web businesses can respond well to
challenges resulting from these complexities and prosper in the new global marketplace.
(Materials Requirements Planning): A planning method that schedules on-hand
materials and/or procurements to external demand.
(Manufacturing Resources Planning): Successor to MRP, this method attempts
to factor in capacity constraints.
(Capacity Requirements Planning): A detailed procedure that checks capacity
against production plans produced from MRP.


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January 22, 2014
Star News
Orange Villa residents protest police shooting
Diandra Grandison, Staff Reporter
Residents of the Orange Villa community along Slipe Road staged a protest yesterday, following the death of a cookshop operator, allegedly at the hands of the police at his home on Monday.
The residents who were armed with placards, lit debris along King and Orange streets in downtown Kingston in a bid to show their displeasure at the manner in which 27-year-old Robert 'Nakia' Jackson was killed, as well as a comment which was allegedly made by the police.
"The police said that there was a confrontation and that was a lie. There was none and no gun was found. We want justice. We need that statement to be withdrawn. Dem kill him and he's dead! Don't defame his character," one of the protesters told THE STAR.
However, Deputy Superintendent Michael Cunningham, who was at the scene, told THE STAR that he was not aware of such a comment being made, but stated that the police will be making every effort to engage in dialogue with residents and the family of the deceased.
The sister of the deceased, Shakilia Jackson, told THE STAR however, that until the security minister or commissioner of police visits the community, the family is not interested in any discussions with the police.
Robert Jackson was killed about midday on Monday after the police were chasing a Rastafarian man and encountered Jackson, who is also dreadlocked, and opened fire on him.
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Published Friday, November 09, 2012
Newnan vs. East Coweta — say those words this time of the year and everyone knows you are talking about the big game. It's the annual football rivalry game between the two Coweta high schools, and it kicks off at 7:30 tonight in Garland Shoemake Stadium on the East Coweta campus.
As is usually the case, both teams will be heading to the state playoffs after the game. The winner of tonight's battle will secure home field advantage in at least the first round of the playoffs. The loser tonight will be on the road for the opening playoff game.
In addition to the playoff ramifications, this game is for bragging rights in the community for the next year and much more.
Newnan Coach Mike McDonald said, "It's a big game. It always is. It usually means something. Not just bragging rights. This year it decides whether you stay home or go on the road for the first round of the playoffs.
Said East Coweta Coach Clint Wade, "This game ... it's a little different. It'll put a lot of cotton in your mouth. They'll be times you'll feel like it's hard to get a breath. But that's what this game's about."
These two schools have a long winning football tradition. Both have had a history of great players, great coaches, great fans and tremendous support throughout the community.
Newnan has a better overall record this season and is eager to get revenge for allowing East Coweta to come back from a 19-0 deficit last year and defeat the Cougars 28-25.
East Coweta is looking to build on last year's victory and earn the home field advantage in the playoffs.
It's game day. The two teams are ready to do battle. Let the showdown begin.