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Between 50,000 and 60,000 United States Postal Service (Service) employees, or 7 to 8 percent of the Service's workforce, occupied a modified work assignment during fiscal year 2008. The Service must provide these assignments to employees with workplace injuries if work is available to perform within their medical restrictions. Historically, the Service has returned employees to work as soon as possible, partly to reduce its costs for workers' compensation. In 2006, the Service initiated a program, the National Reassessment Process (NRP), to ensure that modified work assignments are medically suitable and necessary to carry out the Service's mission. This requested report addresses (1) the goal of the program, (2) how it is being implemented, and (3) the program's status and outcomes. To perform its work, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) analyzed data and documentation, visited four districts selected to illustrate a range of conditions, and interviewed Service officials.
The goal of the National Reassessment Process is to ensure that all employees in modified work assignments are performing work that is both suitable to their medical restrictions and necessary to the Service's mission. Among other things, the program aims to eliminate what Service officials call "make-work" assignments which, over time, occurred when factors such as increasing automation and declining mail volumes reduced the amount of manual, sedentary, and useful work available for these employees to perform. The number of employees reassessed under the program is not readily available nationwide because the Service does not aggregate district data. However, on September 30, 2008, there were 31,044 employees in modified work assignments, all of whom may have been reassessed under the program. The program is being implemented in three phases in the Service's 74 districts. In Phase 1, the Service ensures that all employee medical records are current, and categorizes the employees based on their medical status. In Phases 2 and 3, the Service attempts to find each employee medically suitable and necessary work. If successful, the Service provides these employees with modified work assignments. However, when suitable work is not available, employees become eligible for wage loss compensation (workers' compensation). Specifically, because employees in Phase 2 have reached their maximum medical improvement, they are not expected to return to work for the Service and, thus, may receive workers' compensation indefinitely, whereas Phase 3 employees are eligible for workers' compensation for only the number of hours they cannot work for the Service. Initially, the Service implemented each phase of the program sequentially; however, in July 2009, it began allowing some districts to conduct Phases 2 and 3 concurrently to expedite the program's completion. The Service has not established milestones for completing the program, but, according to Service officials, they expect the program to be fully implemented by September 30, 2010. After 3 years, none of the Service's districts had completely implemented the program, and implementation in most is far from complete. Available data on employee outcomes are limited and preliminary because implementation is ongoing, and the Service does not track employees who receive medically suitable and necessary work--the goal of the program. The Service achieves program cost savings when, for example, employees return to full duty, retire, resign, or perform modified work assignments. However, when suitable work is not available, some employee outcomes could increase the Service's short- and long-term costs for workers' compensation. For the year ending June 30, 2009, workers' compensation costs totaled about $1.1 billion and, in 2008, the Service estimated that its future liability for these costs totaled about $8 billion. The Service reported to the Congress that the program saved $146 million in fiscal year 2008. However, the Service did not disclose that these reported savings reflect neither the Service's total gross savings nor its net savings, nor any other limitations in its cost estimation methodology.
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Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In 2009, we reported that after 3 years none of U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) 74 districts had completely implemented the National Reassessment Process (NRP), and implementation in most districts was far from complete. USPS initiated the NPR without clear management support for ensuring timely implementation. USPS did not set specific time frames for completing the program and it has taken longer than senior headquarters officials expected. We concluded that although USPS officials estimate that the NRP will be completed by September 30, 2010, without milestones for its completion, it is uncertain when the NRP will be completed. Therefore, we recommended that USPS establish milestones for completing the program. In response, USPS established a deadline of December 31, 2010 for all districts to complete the NRP. According to the senior manager responsible for the implementation of the NRP, all the districts met the completion deadline. As a result, USPS demonstrated management support for the NRP and ensured that it was completed successfully and in a timely manner.
Recommendation: To enhance the NRP's implementation, the Postmaster General should articulate senior management's commitment to the NRP by setting program milestones, including a timeline for all districts to complete the NRP to improve program management and enhance accountability and transparency.
Agency Affected: United States Postal Service
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: We found that data on National Reassessment Process (NRP) employee outcomes are limited and preliminary because, in part, the Service does not track the number of employees who are in modified work assignments that are medically suitable and necessary to carry out the mission of the Postal Service, which is the goal of the NRP. The Service indicated that it planned to deploy a new national claims management program in February 2010 that will enhance its ability to track and measure NRP progress. However, the Service did not indicate that it planned to use the new program to track and measure NRP employee outcomes. Therefore, we recommended that, when deployed, the Service should use its new claims management program to track and measure whether the goal of the NRP was being met, including tracking the number of employees placed in necessary and medically suitable modified work assignments. In 2009 USPS deployed its new process that, among other things, tracks and measures NRP employee outcomes. As a result, the Service has the data to accurately measure and report on employee outcomes and report on NRP's success to Congress and other stakeholders.
Recommendation: To enhance the NRP's implementation, the Postmaster General should, when deployed, use the Service's new claims management process to track and measure whether the NRP's goals are being met, including tracking the number of employees placed in necessary and medically suitable modified work assignments to improve program management and enhance accountability and transparency.
Agency Affected: United States Postal Service
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: We found that although the Service reported to Congress that the National Reassessment Process (NRP) saved $146 million in fiscal year 2008, the Service did not disclose that these reported savings reflected neither the Service's total gross savings nor its net savings, nor any other limitations in its cost estimation methodology. Therefore, we recommended that the Service fully disclose any limitations that apply to NRP-related cost savings reported to the Congress and others. In response, the Service in its 2010 Comprehensive Statement on Postal Operations to the Congress disclosed that the Service's estimate of NRP-related cost savings through June 2010 represented only the savings associated with certain employee outcomes, specifically, savings from employees who resigned, retired, or returned to full duty. As a result, Congress and other postal stakeholders are now aware of the limitations associated with these cost savings estimates and can use them appropriately.
Recommendation: To enhance the NRP's implementation, the Postmaster General should fully disclose any limitations that apply to NRP-related cost savings reported to the Congress and others to improve program management and enhance accountability and transparency.
Agency Affected: United States Postal Service
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In the New York Times on Thursday (October 25) appeared an editorial by a farmer, Verlyn Klinkenborg, who enjoys talking to his pigs and scratching them behind the ears and who anticipates the day, "very soon," when "a farmer and his son will come to the farm to kill our two pigs." He spends time with the pigs both because he loves being around them (pigs are actually quite similar to dogs in their friendliness towards trusted human friends) and because "taming them means it will be that much easier for the farmer and his son to kill them swiftly, immediately." He adds that whatever one might say about the treatment his pigs receive, it is much better than what happens to the animals that virtually every omnivore purchases at the supermarket.
The editorial brought me back to the ambivalence I expressed in an earlier posting about the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to ban the production of foie gras because of the cruelty entailed. If one is going to keep and kill animals for food, then I would certainly prefer that they treat the animals humanely and attempt to minimize the fear and pain experienced at the end. Indeed, I suspect that what bothers most people who object to the consumption of animals and animal products is primarily the horrific cruelty that animals suffer prior to death rather than the fact that the animals are killed for food at all. But, despite what this particular farmer says, the two -- killing for food and great suffering before death -- are hardly unrelated.
When we eat animals and animal products instead of taking advantage of equally healthy, plant-based alternatives, we have made a decision to treat the experiences of animals as infinitely less important than the experiences of human beings. Animals are, in this framework, and despite their sentience, "things" that we use rather than beings whose interests have weight. It is in this context that existing regulations of farmed animal treatment before and during slaughter barely nip at the heels of the brutality that animates modern factory farming. The primary goal is going to be profit, and humane treatment must not disrupt that primary goal.
In addition to constraining the potential reach of animal welfare regulations, the logic of keeping of animals for eventual killing and consumption provides a very strong incentive to erect an emotional wall between ourselves and the living creatures whom we breed and feed for slaughter and consumption. To do otherwise feels like betraying a friend, and this is why many people in this country find the prospect of slaughtering dogs for food morally horrifying.
This reality of animal welfare law and human nature makes the farmer who is kind to his pigs and gives them happy lives until the moment of death an exceptional phenomenon. He pays for and watches the slaughter of his pigs, but he still enjoys their company while they are alive. I am told that my grandfather was a ritual slaughterer -- a shokhet -- in a small town in
My tentative conclusion is therefore that even if one believes that killing and otherwise using an animal for food is theoretically acceptable, provided that the animal's life is free of abuse and cruelty, the reality will rarely if ever meet that condition in the real world. As a result, the rare individual who meets this condition does not necessarily help matters for the animals. He may instead provide "proof" that eating animals does not subsidize tremendous cruelty, when in fact it does. He thus provides an illusory salve for the conscientious omnivore who wishes to pretend that the meat she buys at the market belonged to a well-treated animal.
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33 comments:
- Kenji said...
When I read this post, I realize once again how powerful Marx's critique of capitalism remains to be today. Alienation of labor, which accompanies introduction of money, has completely separated production from consumption in modern capitalist society, as a result of which consumers of food usually don't know anything about how the food arrived on their table. We obviously can't roll back the clock, but we need to work hard to close the information gap.
- Sobek said...
Gotcha. Being nice to pigs is, ultimately, extraordinarily cruel.
- Sobek said...
Marx's critique of capitalism would be more powerful if the alternative didn't inevitably lead to mass murder.
- Eric said...
Thanks for this post. I'm glad to see so much discussion in favor of animal interests provoked by this NY Times opinion piece.
- David C. said...
Cf. the lelthal injection cases and the debate over the most "humane" way to put humans to death.
- Paul said...
You are conflating socialism/communism with totalitarianism. There is pleanty wrong with socialism from an economic stagnation perspective, but socialism/communism, like capitalism, is silent on mass murder. - 6:59 PM
- Paul said...
Also, yes, being nice to pigs does further animal cruelty. This is actually very obvious when you look at the advertising and marketing of the meat industry. Here in California (perhaps nationwide for all I know) the industry spends millions on its "happy cows" campaign. Look at a milk carton - do you see a picture of an idyllic pasture with a single cow happily grazing or do you see a bunch of cows all lined up in small cages with milking robots attached to their utters?
In a very real sense, the meat industry persists in large part because of its successful portrayal that animals are treated well. It is, of course, all a lie, and the occasional anecdote from the rare family farmer that actually does (somehow) care for his animals that he is raising for slaughter helps perpetuate the lie that such things are common. - 7:08 PM
- egarber said...
When I read this post, I realize once again how powerful Marx's critique of capitalism remains to be today.
Interesting. I see the opposite dynamic. To me, it's largely due to market forces that there are a growing number of affordable alternatives out there for people who don't wish to eat meat. In the U.S., I think the market has reacted positively to growing consumer demand -- there are a good number of vegetarians out there -- for variation in the food supply.
And the implication that capitalism has in a way caused us to be meat-eaters seems far-fetched to me. Humans ate meat long before economic systems were developed, and I don't see evidence that there's a proportionate drop in consumption around the world the further you stray from capitalistic economic models. I welcome corrections of course, but don't folks all over the world eat meat in one way or another -- regardless of the economics?
In fact, a market purist might tell you that one reason it's so easy to buy meat is that the government has subsidized farming for so long. The argument would go that government has distorted the price structure in subtle ways, making it more affordable than it might otherwise be in a purely capitalistic society. [I'm not really arguing that -- just bringing up another side of the coin.]
To me, in the end meat is plentiful not because capitalism has dictated that it be so; it's plentiful because the market has simply reacted to large-scale demand. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a meat eater -- o.k., I eat fish -- but I feel like there are plenty of choices out there for me. If public opinion were to sway radically, the market would react, imo. - 9:12 AM
- Derek said...
I think the idea is just that because animals are treated as a commodity, rather than as subjects of experience, and the emphasis in a market system like ours is on efficiency, that you see, as a consequence, cruel measures put in place that maximize efficiency at the expense of the animals' interests.
So, for example, if there is demand for 1000 chickens and a farmer has to choose between raising 1000 chickens in a healthy environment for $100 and raising 2000 chickens in an unhealthy environment (expecting 1/2 to die) for $75, the assumption is that he will choose the latter.
So I guess capitalism itself isn't really to blame, but rather capitalism in conjunction with treating animals as if they were merely part of the system, like ipods and sweaters, without any interests of their own.
And I think that's all consistent with your claim, egarber, that if public opinion about animal welfare changed, the market would react. - 1:16 PM
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- Carl said...
Where in Marx does he criticize capitalism on the grounds that it forces people to produce what they don't consume? This is a necessary feature of any large scale industrial economy, including those favored by any Marxist who, like their namesake, are not advocating a return to some kind of subsistence level of existence. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Marx's principal criticism of capitalism instead that it forces people to produce what the subseqently do not own? - 3:26 PM
- Kenji said...
egarber and carl,
You're missing my point. I'm only referring to what Marx said about alienation of labor. No where in my comment did I use Marx to explain how capitalism caused people to become meat-eaters or "force people to produce what they don't consume." - 3:58 PM
- Carl said...
kenji wrote:
I'm only referring to what Marx said about alienation of labor. No where in my comment did I use Marx to explain how capitalism..."force people to produce what they don't consume."
Yet you point to Marx's account of alienation as an indication of "how powerful Marx's critique of capitalism remains to be today."
But be that as it may, his point is not that the capitalist mode of production uniquely divorces production from consumption but that it alienates the producer from the product of his labor (i.e. someone else owns it). As I said before, however, all advanced forms of production separate the process of producing some good from its consumption. This is not a uniquely Marxist insight.
I agree with you entirely that this is one of the biggest obstacles we face in convincing people to stop eating meat. But to characterize it as a distinctily Marxist insight is to misunderstand both the nature of large-scale economies and Marx's own contribution to their analysis.
Or to put it another way: production can be separated from consumption without laborers being alientated from the product of their labor in Marx's sense. A moment's reflection suggests this must be that case if, as Marx believes, laborers will not suffer such alienation once they come to own the means of production. - 5:43 PM
- Sobek said...
Paul said: "You are conflating socialism/communism with totalitarianism."
They are one and the same. Any contention to the contrary defies all historic data.
And it's not just the practice. Marx's theory was expressly conditioned upon the historic inevitability of violent uprising (i.e. mass murder), and he nowhere suggests that's a bad thing.
But theory aside, I prefer the historical data. Marxism equals mass murder, mass starvation, and mass disregard for human rights. - 12:40 AM
- Sobek said...
Carl said: "I agree with you entirely that this is one of the biggest obstacles we face in convincing people to stop eating meat."
Stop eating meat, or stop eating meat that is produced in a certain way? Because if the former, then neither Marxism nor anything in Prof. Colb's post (or the subject article) has any bearing on that, for the simple reason that in pre-industrialized society, when people were more closely tied to the land, vegetarianism was far less common. One cannot imagine a farmer in 1940s Iowa decrying meat consumption as unethical, yet that's the kind of person we most expect to know exactly what slaughtering a cow entails. There's no education problem for hypothetical Elmer the farmer: he knows more about food production than a hypothetical Manhattanite ever will, and he chooses to eat beef.
That's not to say Elmer would approve of cruel production methods -- he would just reject the idea that the only reason any meat consumption is tolerated is because of ignorance -- or Marxist nonsense about alienation. - 12:49 AM
- Carl said...
Sobek asks:
Stop eating meat, or stop eating meat that is produced in a certain way?
The latter. - 6:12 PM
- Sobek said...
"The latter."
Fair enough. And I agree with you, in spite of the shrivelled, conservative blackened lump that I call a heart.
But Prof. Colb's argument is a very different one: that all meat consumption is immoral, and the only reason it continues is through ignorance. That's a terrible argument, because humans have consumed meat for most of history, and been closer to the production process through most of human history. Industrialization may remove most consumers from the reality of the process, and also encourage inhumane production methods, but that is a historically recent phenomenon, and does nothing to support the premise. - 11:40 PM
- Carl said...
But Prof. Colb's argument is a very different one: that all meat consumption is immoral, and the only reason it continues is through ignorance.
She also allows that it may continue even where people know what is going on if they are able to detach themselves from it emotionally.
I think this is probably true as a general empirical claim. I'm not sure, however, what its moral implications are. After all, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with not being emotionally attached to animals, so we cannot condemn a practice simply because it requires us to become so detached. A lot of perfectly acceptable professions may require some degree of emotional attachments - medicine, law, and the military being notable examples. - 1:13 PM
- Sobek said...
"She also allows that it may continue even where people know what is going on if they are able to detach themselves from it emotionally."
That was no defense of the morality of meat consumption, only an explanation of a mechanism of meat production. - 2:23 PM
- Carl said...
That was no defense of the morality of meat consumption, only an explanation of a mechanism of meat production.
Her appeal to ignorance was not a defense of the morality of meat consumption either, as I read her. I doubt that she thinks people who are ignorant of how meat is produced do nothing wrong when the eat meat. They may be less blameworthy than people who are able to continue eating meat once they know what is entailed in its production, but those are two distinct issues - one concerning what makes eating meat wrong (which I assume she believes is the pain caused in producing it), the other concerning when eating meat is blameworthy (which she seems to think turns on whether we know what's involved in producing it).
Your previous comments suggested that she could not explain why people who know what's entailed in the production of meat continue to consume it. I was simply pointing out that she has an explanation - they detach themselves emotionally from the process. I was not suggesting that she takes this to be a morally valid response. On the contrary, I took her to be implying that there was something wrong with this defense mechanism, which I am less certain about. - 10:59 PM
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can a doctor please provide a diagram or video showing how they do the eyelifting procedure, including where they make the incision?
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There is a trend toward more natural appearing plastic surgery, not the wrinkle free look. Eyelid surgery more often than not involves minimal repositioning of the upper and lower eyelid fat, with removal of excess skin. Muscle is often preserved completely, or redraped. Minimally invasive cheeklifts now come into play which can preserve the eye shape.
Due to the many different eye shapes, surgical goals, ages of the patient, medical status of the eye, vector of the cheekbone area, etc. there is not one procedure that fits all. In fact, your prospective surgeon should be fammiliar with many different procedures to offer their patients.
Web reference: http://drbrent.com/360facelift-procedure.php
Demonstration for the blepharoplasty procedure can be found on our website http://seattlefacial.com/procedures/blepharoplasty.html. There is a video located on the website which shows how the procedure is done. An alternative video is eyeimaginations.com, and they have video presentations about cosmetic eyelid surgery as well.
Web reference: http://seattlefacial.com/procedures/blepharoplasty.html
When performed properly, your upper blepharoplasty scar should be invisible with your eyes open. With your eyes closed, a mature blepharoplasty scar is a thin white line that is barely visible.
I do not have a video of my technique to share with you.
I hope this is helpful for you.
Web reference: http://ericmjoseph.com/index.cfm/ProcedureNameID/49/PageID/4141
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There are a number of good web sites that have animated representations of eyelid surgery. I would try www.yourplasticsurgeryguide.com, or www.plasticsurgery.org for a good starting point on the standard procedures. Most plastic surgeons will have educational videos in their office which you can also watch.
There are different techniques for blepharoplasty.
In Los Angeles, the trend in blepharoplasty has become very conservative with natural results. The current most popular upper eyelid blepharoplasty technique is removal of upper lid skin, leaving muscle and most fat intact. This procedure can be carried out in the office under local anesthesia only. The below referenced web site shows the usual incisions for upper blepharoplasty which are usually hidden within the upper eyelid crease.
Lower eyelid blepharoplasty has become even more conservative, and many patients are treated non-surgically with Restylane injection to fill the lower eye lid hollows.
Enjoy the two web references below for the diagrams of the procedure.
Good luck and be well.
Dr. P
Web reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhlUm9BHZRI http://www.aafprs.org/patient/procedures/blepharoplasty.html
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Summary We are looking for an exceptional polymer or organic chemist to lead and commercialize Research and Development (R+D) projects and programs. Successful incumbent will be able to develop water-based products for the Printing and Packaging BU that will provide a clear competitive advantage for our commercial markets and are engineered to meet the needs of new and existing markets that align with the strategic business plan. Primary Responsibilities • Research and Development: Conduct R+D of water-based products and commercialize for the Printing and Packaging BU. Design multivariate studies of different formulations of a particular product for use as water-based coatings for use in packaging applications. Source and evaluate new raw materials and product improvements. Develop new products via bench work efforts. Interact with plant and Regulatory Affairs (RA) staff on new product scale-up. Evaluate developed product at customer's site. • Customer Relationships: Develop and actively maintain external and internal relationships to share knowledge, promote technical leadership, process understanding and material performance. Provide technical assistance to the customers, production, marketing staff and sales • Support: Develop and maintain intimate knowledge and understanding of product and project histories to participate and lead technical and business discussions. Support other chemists to solve research problems. Participate in business planning activities. • Regulatory/Compliance: Work with RA team to learn, understand and properly follow policies and procedures that ensure compliance with regulatory agencies. Be knowledgeable of regulatory requirements (FDA, TSCA, International inventories, REACH) to support commercial activities. Actively participate in lab safety. • Professional Associations: Maintain professional memberships, certifications and relationships. • Manufacturing and Quality Control: With supply chain, develop and specify manufacturing and quality control procedures for new products. Supervise and implement the First Manufactured Batch process/scale-up trial runs. Assist supply chain as needed, e.g., disposition of obsolete raw material or finished product inventory. • Business Relationships: Develop and actively maintain high level of focus with suppliers, customers/prospects and industry organizations and embrace focus throughout the organization. • Design, conduct, (and may direct Assistant in) experiments of significant difficulty and then draw scientific conclusions. • Monitor long-term stability of products • Prepare coating substrates at lab bench and roll-to-roll gravure coater for samples for potential customer evaluation • Analyze results of experimental studies, create reports and technical presentations • Assist with scale-up from development to production quantities, in collaboration with plant production personnel • Make broad recommendations with business impact for Michelman. • Work within the entire Michelman organization to recommend ideas and approaches to current business strategy. Interact with suppliers and customers. • Selectively participate in Michelman business teams and provide technical recommendations. • Create, and carry new product families and new product platforms through scale-up and commercialization. Involve customer and supplier education. • Develop novel products for the industry based on industry requirements. • Apply broad scientific knowledge to develop novel products. • Perform related duties as assigned or as the situation dictates. |
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Plastic Surgery, Hand and Upper Extremity, Orthopedics, Brachial Plexus, Vascular Anomalies
On staff since August 2007
Academic Title: Assistant Professor, Surgery/Plastic Surgery
"I consider it an honor that patients and their parents put their trust in me to care for their hand problems. I also consider them my partners in the care of these problems. I pledge to my patients and their families that I will uphold my end of the partnership by always working to maintain that trust and engaging them throughout the entire hand care process. Plus, it helps that the hand is just about the most amazing contraption in the world and I think its awesome to be able to work with such a wondrous part of the body."
Dr. Friedrich is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Orthopedics and is a faculty member of the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Washington. He is also a member of the Combined Hand Surgery service at the University of Washington. He completed plastic surgery training at the University of Washington, followed by a hand and microvascular surgery fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
His specialty interests include pediatric congenital and traumatic hand and wrist problems and care of brachial plexus injuries. Dr. Friedrich is currently the residency director for the Plastic Surgery program at the UW, and is on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Hand Surgery. He is board certified in plastic surgery and holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in surgery of the hand. He lives just a few blocks from Childrens hospital and spends as much time as possible with his wife and two children.
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Chlorella is a blue-green algae thriving in freshwater. It is known to have large amounts of chlorophyll, the pigment used by green plants for energy creation. Chlorella benefits are still being investigated today, but did you know that it is already popular in countries like Japan and is commercially available inn powder and capsule forms? Did you also know that it was explored decades ago as a "superfood" that can help meet the food demands of the world, which then was….. Read more
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For thousands of years, grapes have been heralded for their nutritional value as well as their use as a medicine. It is knows that the Egyptians consumed grapes over six thousand years ago. Yes, grapes have been around for a long time. They're not only delicious, but also great for our health. But not just the fruit of the grape is used for it's medicinal benefit. The vines and leaves also possess healing properties. An ointment made from grapevine sap was used by….. Read more
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This touch-able add on shield for Arduinos will inspire your next interactive project with 12 capacitive touch sensors. Capacitive touch sensing works by detecting when a person (or animal) has touched one of the sensor electrodes. Capacitive touch sensing used for stuff like touch-reactive tablets and phones, as well as control panels for appliances, which is where you may have used it before. This shield allows you to create electronics that can react to human touch, with up to 12 individual sensors.
The shield has 12 'figure 8' holes in it that can be gripped onto with alligator clip cables. Attach one side of the clip to the shield and the other side to something electrically conductive (like metal) or full of water (like vegetables or fruit!) Then start up our handy Arduino library to detect when the object is touched. That's pretty much it, very easy! For advanced users, you can also solder to a pad to make a slimmer & more permanent connection. Works great with any Arduino as it only uses the I2C pins (SCL & SDA).
It uses the same chip as our MPR121 12-Key Capacitive Touch Sensor Breakout so you can duplicate the library and code! We have examples for reading touches. Using an Arduino Leonardo and a little bit of creativity you can use it to turn touches into keyboard KeyUp/KeyDown presses (so you can make a veggie-keyboard) or pair it with our Music Maker shield to create an audio player that will play a sound per sensor (fruit drums!)
Each order comes with a Capacitive Touch Shield and a stick of 36-pin headers. You'll need to do some light through-hole soldering to attach the headers onto the shield circuit board, but its easy to do with basic soldering tools like a soldering iron and rosin core electronics solder. You'll also likely want to pick up a 12 pack of alligator clips!
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July, 2014, Vol. 14, Issue 07 TDR Massage Protocol for Pain ReliefBy Linda LePelley, RN, NMT Tissue Density Restoration (TDR) massage was developed in response to my clinical observations over a number of years that musculoskeletal tissues experiencing pain are associated with an elevation in tissue density (TD) and once the elevated TD is reduced, the pain is alleviated. Wanting to focus on these phenomenons and better understand their nature, I decided to stop doing relaxation massage and limited my practice to clients in pain.My original focus was directed at determining the components of treatment that are most effective and discarding actions that, at best, do not appear to contribute to improvement or, at worst, are counterproductive. I asked my clients to participate; rather than just laying back and quietly enjoying the massage, they keep me informed about what they are experiencing throughout the treatment. Patterns of duplicable efficacy emerged, resulting in an extremely beneficial protocol. Questions Remain Once I determined I had a replicable method of alleviating pain by treating the elevated TD, the questions that remained were:
The answers I've found are much like the treatment itself; simplistic, easily dismissed by some because they seem too elemental and easy. However, they are consistently reliable. In my experience of actively looking for elevated TD, I've found it happens to everyone in pain. All musculoskeletal pain can be located and felt (in the tactile sense) by a second person, as palpable areas of indurations at the locus of pain. From the toes to the top of the head, elevated TD can be found at any physical location that hurts. The older a person is, the thicker and more compressed the density can be. I suspect the reason has more to do with a buildup over time, rather than degenerative changes of aging. Rather than deterioration, it seems more accurate to describe it as a disorder of accumulation. (Perhaps previous injuries lay a foundation upon which TD builds? Maybe a residue is deposited during the inflammation process which, if not cleared out through normal circulation, attracts mineral deposits over time.) Through close observation and repetition I've found that the more malleable the affected tissue becomes, the longer the relief will last. People can be fully relieved of chronic pain and that relief retained with maintenance massages. How it Works I have ideas of how and why TDR massage works, but they are just that, ideas. I am not a pathologist, biochemist or neurologist, nor do I have the time or inclination to acquire the additional education it would require to be able to investigate the physiology involved in the formation of elevated TD. But I don't need to. I trust what I can see, experience and duplicate. I don't have to fully understand the mechanism of the combustion engine to drive a car, but that doesn't impair or hinder my ability to do so. I can leave scientific research to those who have dedicated their education and interest and are qualified to do such work. I suspect that in much the same way that I am impelled to discover how to affect changes in tissue density, a motivated researcher will investigate that explanation one day. I am a nurse massage therapist – my duty, talent and intention is to provide my clients the best possible pain treatment outcomes. In order to share the method of TDR massage, I use the term, "Protocols". While I do not anticipate changes to these protocols, I think that it's a mistake to declare rules and dogmatically follow them. Doing so fosters resistance to any future perspective or observation that may suggest they need to be adjusted. It also stifles exploration, hinders growth and suppresses conversation and communication. With that said, I've found that by following these directions, the results are reliable and effective. TDR Massage Protocol The massage movements I use are abbreviated Swedish – friction effleurage in small, circular areas; using slight petrissage movements, which helps monitor the boundaries and density of the target area as they change throughout the treatment; and vibration, which can be used as the tissues become malleable and are able to be grasped and gently shaken. The smaller the focus area, the sooner it is likely to be resolved. You will want to measure and document the state of the target area before providing treatment and then again afterwards, using the Tissue Density Grading Scale (TDGS). (See "The Tissue Density Grading Scale: A Communication Tool," Massage Today, March, 2014.) By doing so, you will have an accurate picture of the condition the tissues were in before treatment and proof of the effectiveness of your treatment afterwards. First, focus on the location of the pain and target the worst spots first. (As tissues soften and the pain begins to resolve, the target area may shift.) Causing pain promotes the localized excretion of inflammatory chemicals which I suspect may play a part in the development of elevated TD. Regardless, there is no reason to exacerbate an already painful condition. The amount of pressure to use at any time will depend on the clients ability to tolerate it without going over a 3 on the 0/10 pain scale. Using the Walton Pressure Scale along with the TDGS will help you determine treatment progress and provide more precise documentation. Keep the tissues you are working on moving continually. This will usually require working on areas no larger than the span of your two hands at a time. Doing so not only contributes to tissue heating through friction, but I believe that in addition, the movement combined with appropriate pressure, creates a fatigue state that helps soften TD.
I have found that it takes about 45 minutes of consistent, firm, circular massage to begin to affect change at which time you can feel a smoothing of ridges and softening change in the density of the target area. At this time, the client will also state that it feels better. Continue treatment(s) until the indurations are no longer palpable, and tissues are with a Grade 1 on the TDGS. If the condition requires more than one treatment to resolve, it is best to schedule following treatments as closely as possible. The tissues seem to remain more malleable for a few days following treatment, thereby not requiring as long to respond and soften. This protocol applies to pain of any size, at any location. When a new client comes seeking relief, I tell them that if I can feel elevated TD at their pain site, I will be able to help them. As one develops their sensitivity to the palpable varieties of tissue densities and becomes adept at restoring it, they will find themselves able to truthfully state, "I feel your pain," and then relieve it. Click here for previous articles by Linda LePelley, RN, NMT. Join the conversation
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School girls are motivated to reach their full potential
Gender equality is still a vast concern in South Africa. Novozymes South Africa organized an education day for school girls called "Take a girl child to work." The objective was to inspire and motive schoolgirls to reach their full potential and pursue an education. The initiative is a joint project between the Department of Education, businesses, and the general public in South Africa. Under this initiative, Novozymes partnered with a local boarding school for girls called the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy. Five students, accompanied by a teacher from the school, spent a day at Novozymes South Africa in August 2010. The entire site was involved in educating them about science and enzyme technology, and providing insights into modern business by sharing with them "what a day at work is like." The girls also participated in a practical bakery exercise. "The learning was definitely both ways, and the passion and spark from these girls was inspiring," says Kim Webster, Managing Director, Novozymes South Africa.
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List of artificial intelligence projects
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The following is a list of current and past, nonclassified notable artificial intelligence projects.
Specialized projectsEdit
- Blue Brain Project, an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level.
- Google Brain A deep learning project part of Google X attempting to mimic human-level intelligence.
- NuPIC, an open source implementation by Numenta of its cortical learning algorithm.
Cognitive architecturesEdit
- 4CAPS, developed at Carnegie Mellon University under Marcel A. Just
- ACT-R, developed at Carnegie Mellon University under John R. Anderson.
- AIXI, Universal Artificial Intelligence developed by Marcus Hutter at IDSIA and ANU.
- CALO, a DARPA-funded, 25-institution effort to integrate many artificial intelligence approaches (natural language processing, speech recognition, machine vision, probabilistic logic, planning, reasoning, many forms of machine learning) into an AI assistant that learns to help manage your office environment.
- CHREST, developed under Fernand Gobet at Brunel University and Peter C. Lane at the University of Hertfordshire.
- CLARION the cognitive architecture, developed under Ron Sun at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Missouri.
- CoJACK, an ACT-R inspired extension to the JACK multi-agent system that adds a cognitive architecture to the agents for eliciting more realistic (human-like) behaviors in virtual environments.
- Copycat, by Douglas Hofstadter and Melanie Mitchell at the Indiana University.
- DUAL, developed at the New Bulgarian University under Boicho Kokinov.
- EPIC, developed under David E. Kieras and David E. Meyer (both University of Michigan Ph.D. graduates) at the University of Michigan.
- The H-Cogaff architecture, which is a special case of the CogAff schema; see Taylor & Sayda, and Sloman refs below.
- FORR developed by Susan L. Epstein at The City University of New York.
- IDA and LIDA, implementing Global Workspace Theory, developed under Stan Franklin at the University of Memphis.
- OpenCog Prime, developed using the OpenCog Framework.
- Procedural Reasoning System (PRS), developed by Michael Georgeff and Amy L. Lansky at SRI International.
- Psi-Theory developed under Dietrich Dörner at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany.
- R-CAST, developed at the Pennsylvania State University.
- Soar, developed under Allen Newell and John Laird at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan.
- Society of mind and its successor the Emotion machine proposed by Marvin Minsky.
- Subsumption architectures, developed e.g. by Rodney Brooks (though it could be argued whether they are cognitive).
- AlphaGo, a computer that plays the Chinese game Go created by Google
- Chinook, a computer program that plays English draughts; the first to win the world champion title in the competition against humans.
- Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by IBM which beat Garry Kasparov in 1997.
- Stockfish AI, an open source chess engine currently ranked the highest in many computer chess rankings.
- FreeHAL, a self-learning conversation simulator (chatterbot) which uses semantic nets to organize its knowledge to imitate a very close human behavior within conversations.
- TD-Gammon, a program that learned to play world-class backgammon partly by playing against itself (temporal difference learning with neural networks).
Knowledge and reasoningEdit
- Braina, an intelligent personal assistant application with a voice interface for Windows OS.
- Cyc, an attempt to assemble an ontology and database of everyday knowledge, enabling human-like reasoning.
- Eurisko, a language by Douglas Lenat for solving problems which consists of heuristics, including some for how to use and change its heuristics.
- Google Now, an intelligent personal assistant with a voice interface in Google's Android and Apple Inc.'s iOS, as well as Google Chrome web browser on personal computers.
- Microsoft Cortana, an intelligent personal assistant with a voice interface in Microsoft's various Windows 10 editions.
- Mycin, an early medical expert system.
- Open Assistant, an evolving open source artificial intelligence agent able to interact in basic conversation and automate an increasing number of tasks.
- Open Mind Common Sense, a project based at the MIT Media Lab to build a large common sense knowledge base from online contributions.
- P.A.N., a publicly available text analyzer.
- Siri, an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator with a voice-interface in Apple Inc.'s iOS.
- SNePS, a simultaneously a logic-based, frame-based, and network-based knowledge representation, reasoning, and acting system.
- Viv (software) a new AI invented by the creators of Siri
- Holmes a new AI created by Wipro
- Watson, a question answering system developed by IBM. Has played the Jeopardy! game show.
- Wolfram Alpha, an online service that answers queries by computing the answer from structured data.
Motion and manipulationEdit
- Cog, a robot developed by MIT to study theories of cognitive science and artificial intelligence, now discontinued.
- AIBO, the robot pet for the home, grew out of Sony's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL).
- Melomics, a bioinspired technology for music composition and synthetisation of music, where computers do not mimic musicians, but develop their own style.
Natural language processingEdit
- AIML, an XML dialect for creating natural language software agents.
- Apache Joshua, a statistical machine translation decoder for phrase-based, hierarchical, and syntax-based machine translation, written in Java.
- Apache Lucene, a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java.
- Apache OpenNLP, a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text. It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction, chunking and parsing.
- Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (A.L.I.C.E.), an award-winning natural language processing chatterbot.
- Cleverbot, successor to Jabberwacky, now with 170m lines of conversation, Deep Context, fuzziness and parallel processing.Cleverbot learns from around 2 million user interactions per month.
- ELIZA, a famous 1966 computer program by Joseph Weizenbaum, which parodied person-centered therapy.
- InfoTame, a text analysis search engine originally developed by the KGB for sorting communications intercepts.
- Jabberwacky, a chatterbot by Rollo Carpenter, aiming to simulate a natural human chat.
- PARRY, another early chatterbot, written in 1972 by Kenneth Colby, attempting to simulate a paranoid schizophrenic.
- SHRDLU, an early natural language processing computer program developed by Terry Winograd at MIT from 1968 to 1970.
- SYSTRAN, a machine translation technology by a company of the same name, used by Yahoo!, AltaVista and Google, among others.
- Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations (SEAS), a model of the real world used by Homeland security and the United States Department of Defense that uses simulation and AI to predict and evaluate future events and courses of action.[1]
Multipurpose projectsEdit
Software librariesEdit
- Apache Mahout, a library of scalable machine learning algorithms.
- Deeplearning4j, an open-source, distributed deep learning framework written for the JVM.
- OpenNN, a comprehensive C++ library implementing neural networks.
- TensorFlow, an open-source software library for machine learning.
GUI frameworksEdit
- Encog, a neural network and artificial intelligence framework available for Java, .Net, and Silverlight.
- Neural Designer, a commercial deep learning tool for predictive analytics.
- Neuroph, a Java neural network framework.
- OpenCog, a GPL-licensed framework for artificial intelligence written in C++, Python and Scheme.
- RapidMiner, an environment for machine learning and data mining, now developed commercially.
- Weka, a free implementation of many machine learning algorithms in Java.
Cloud servicesEdit
- Data Applied, a web based data mining environment.
- Grok, a service that ingests data streams and creates actionable predictions in real time.
- Microsoft Cognitive Services, cloud-based APIs that you can embed into your apps for computer vision, NLP, search, and more.
- Watson, a pilot service by IBM to uncover and share data-driven insights, and to spur cognitive applications.
Machine Learning As A ServiceEdit
- Apache PredictionIO, is an open source Machine Learning Server built on top of state-of-the-art open source stack for developers and data scientists create predictive engines for any machine learning task.
See alsoEdit
- ^ Baard, Mark (23 June 2007). "Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale". The Register.


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Re: interchange for e-commerce?by justinNEE (Monk) |
on Mar 14, 2002 at 00:37 UTC ( #151565=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
You do have options when it comes to merchant accounts, check yahoo under:
The last one I worked with was authorize.net. They let you ftp a batch of credit cards / charges whenever you wanted to or use a page that was on their server as the credit card form. You can change everything on that page. (e.g. add your own logo, add more inputs to the form, etc) You also tell them what page you want it to go to after the charge is made, and it passes you acceptance/denial info. Its kind of primitive, but I don't think you even need pay for an SSL certifcate since you never have the credit card number.
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The 6th IGF starts at the UN Compound in Nairobi; lovely surroundings with a relaxed atmosphere. Even strict security checks are not as annoying as in other places. It is fascinating how the same rules (UN security) are localised worldwide. With a few smiles and easy communication, life is easier, even when it comes to security matters.
At the event itself, the IGF crowd is going through its annual ritual. Some patterns have been established with GigaNet and APC pre-events. One innovation is the High Level Ministerial segment. One experienced IGF-er passed the comment that even after six years, we have not managed to put different IGFs 'in the same room' . While ministers had a 'blue sky event' with speeches on broadband and major achievements, the sky didn't look quite as blue in conference room next door where civil society and academia warned us about growing risks for the Internet. How can they communicate? Can we harness this diversity of views and ideas?
The Nairobi IGF is an IGF in transition. It will pose more questions than provide answers. Sometimes, the key is to ask the right questions. However, it is important that we make a start on providing some answers when it comes to IGF itself. Can it fill the widening gap in global Internet governance? How can the IGF adjust to fast changes in global policy? What needs to be changed and what should remain as it is?
Even a quick glimpse of the IGF agenda shows that this will be the main theme: Improving the IGF: How can we get the most out of IGF Improvement P... Enhanced Intra-Stakeholder Diversity and Intra-stakeholder Balance ..., Mapping Internet Governance, IGF Improvements, Internet Governance Principles: Initiatives Toward the Improvement ..., Reflection on the Indian Proposal Towards an IGF 2.0, e-Participation Principles, e-Participation Principles
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They have increased their borrowing over the years and they currently have an outstanding mortgage of pounds 69,000. They have a Scottish Widows endowment policy for pounds 78,500 which is due to mature in 2022. Apart from this Paul and Nina have very little savings or investments. They have two children: Emma is 21 and Ben is 12. They generally have around pounds 200 in surplus income every month. Nina works part-time, and most of their income comes from Paul's cabinet-making business.
The adviser: Thomas McPhail is pensions development manager for independent financial advisers Torquil Clark plc, St Marks, Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton, WV3 0TZ, (01902 576778).
The advice: The good news is that there is still time to take action, but only just. There are several issues that need to be addressed - the biggest is the mortgage which was originally taken out in 1984 with a term of 25 years.
Unfortunately Paul and Nina had to cash in their endowment policy and only restarted saving with their Scottish Widows policy 2 years ago. Endowment policies tend to be good value only if held to maturity, and most of the small print is, not surprisingly in the insurance company's favour. In order to ensure that they have the necessary capital to repay the mortgage when it is due, they will have to either increase their savings substantially or defer the repayment of their mortgage.
The current endowment policy has a monthly contribution of pounds 143. If they want to repay the mortgage on it's original maturity date of 2009 they will need to increase their monthly savings to around pounds 450 per month. After a very brief discussion, this option was rejected.
The alternative is to ask their lender, Abbey National, if it would be possible to extend the term of their mortgage to coincide with the maturity date of their endowment policy. This would avoid an increase in costs now, but they would have to pay interest on the outstanding mortgage for an extra 13 years.
Given the nature of their occupations, and their fluctuating incomes, Paul and Nina should look to build up a cash reserve to cover short-term financial emergencies. Ideally they should have enough cash to cover expenditure requirements for at least three months. They can set up a direct debit from their current account to feed into a deposit account, a cash ISA would be suitable for this purpose and has interest credited without any tax being deducted.
Apart from their endowment policy, Paul and Nina have very little in the way of insurance to cover illness, injury or death, so the loss of Paul's income would have serious consequences, particularly while Ben is still financially dependent on them.
Insuring against these possibilities to the maximum would be prohibitively expensive, but modest levels of cover can make a big difference. A CGU Family Income Benefit policy would, for a cost of under pounds 17 per month, provide an income of pounds 200 a week in the event of death during the next eight years. Paul can use a PHI policy to insure against the possibility of being temporarily unable to work through illness - for him, cover of pounds 700 per month would cost around pounds 35 per month.
A critical-illness policy which pays out on diagnosis of severe medical conditions such as heart disease, cancer or a stoke would cost Paul and Nina around pounds 65 per month for cover of pounds 69,000, which would be enough to pay off the mortgage.
Paul and Nina's pension planning has been limited to date. Paul paid contributions to a Hill Samuel self-employed personal pension for a couple of years, but is not currently putting in any money. Paul and Nina have been self-employed for most of their working lives, and as such will only be entitled to the basic state pension for a married couple, just pounds 106.70 per week in this tax year.
Their only other source of income in retirement would be to sell their house to release the equity. Any additional action they can take now will reduce pressures in later years, so Paul should look at restarting his pension contributions immediately. He has already paid the starting costs on his existing pension so it is better to use that one than to start another.
A contribution of pounds 50 per month gross (pounds 38.50 net) could produce a pension of around pounds 4,000 per annum at Paul's 65th birthday. This is a good start and can be increased as time goes by. Where possible, increases to existing pensions should be made via a discount broker to reduce costs. If possible in the future, they should also try to make some pension contributions in Nina's name, since she will be able to draw a tax-free income in retirement up to the level of the personal allowance.
One further option would be for Paul to employ Nina, either now or at some point in the future, to help with his business. By paying her a salary of a few thousand pounds per year they may be able to reduce the household tax liability, and help with pension planning.
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Hey everyone, it's that time of year again. Time to embrace your inner geek. That's right, time for another Emerald City Comic Con. I'll be at the show selling some art prints in artist's alley, so fell free to stop by and say hi. Check out the website for the list of guests and directions to the Washington convention center. Looks to be a fun show.
Hope to see you there.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
3 comments:
- Brian Meredith said...
It was great seeing you (and your incredible artwork) at the show, Augie! Swing by the shop whenever you get the chance!
- Ted said...
Great chatting with you at the show, thanks for the awesome sketch! I've definitely got to get over to Seattle again for one of the shows you are in. --Ted
- Augie said...
-Brian, yeah I'll have to stop by the store when I'm in the area. You guys put on a kick ass show. Can't wait for the next one.
-Ted, keep an eye on the blog for the next show. There will be a cool art show in Seattle coming up in the next few months. - 7:57 PM
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