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Patent US6223100 - Apparatus and method for performing computer enhanced surgery with ... - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsA teleoperator system with telepresence is shown which includes right and left hand controllers (72R and 72L) for control of right and left manipulators (24R and 24) through use of a servomechanism that includes computer (42). Cameras (46R and 46L) view workspace (30) from different angles for production...http://www.google.com/patents/US6223100?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6223100 - Apparatus and method for performing computer enhanced surgery with articulated instrumentAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS6223100 B1Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 09/047,912Publication dateApr 24, 2001Filing dateMar 25, 1998Priority dateJan 21, 1992Fee statusPaidAlso published asCA2128606A1, CA2128606C, CA2632123A1, CA2632123C, DE69312053D1, DE69312053T2, DE69331789D1, DE69331789T2, DE69332914D1, DE69332914T2, EP0623066A1, EP0623066B1, EP0776738A2, EP0776738A3, EP0776738B1, EP0776739A2, EP0776739A3, EP0776739B1, EP1356781A2, EP1356781A3, US5808665, US20020058929, WO1993013916A1Publication number047912, 09047912, US 6223100 B1, US 6223100B1, US-B1-6223100, US6223100 B1, US6223100B1InventorsPhilip S. GreenOriginal AssigneeSri, InternationalExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (87), Non-Patent Citations (24), Referenced by (475), Classifications (53), Legal Events (3) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetApparatus and method for performing computer enhanced surgery with articulated instrument
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500,000 letters a week go missing in the post | Daily Mail Online
Half a million letters a week are lost or arrive hopelessly late, it was revealed yesterday.
The figures were disclosed on the day Consignia escaped an £8million fine for missing targets but was warned it would have to pay hefty compensation unless things improve.
The vanishing mail is made up of 400,000 items which never reach their destination and 100,000 which are at least 15 days late, usually much more.
The dismal performance was highlighted in the first official annual study by Royal Mail since it became part of the troubled public company, Consignia.
Consignia is losing £1.5million a day and has faced huge criticism over the name change. It plans to change it back to Royal Mail by the end of the year.
A spokesman blamed the disappearing post on poor or indecipherable addressing.
But the timing of its research could not have been worse, coming on the day that industry regulator Postcomm reported on the company's missed targets.
The regulator criticised Consignia for not trying hard enough in some areas. It expressed concern at the poor standards of delivery to certain postcodes, particularly in London.
Among the missed targets was 92.1 per cent of first class mail arriving the next day, on which it fell short by 0.5 per cent - or 164,000 letters a day.
On business post, Postcomm officials believed Consignia had breached its licence by 'failing to use all reasonable endeavours' to achieve its end-of-year targets.
But it said it had decided against imposing a fine, which could have amounted to £8million, because it would be counterproductive and of no benefit to customers. Instead, it will work with the company to improve services.
It would, however, face hefty payouts if it continued failing to meet its targets.
Consignia met or surpassed the performance targets in nine of 14 key areas specified in its licence. These included second class mail, which accounts for two-thirds of all mail, and special delivery.
Postcomm said it would review the detail of Consignia's action plan for 2002/2003 for improving its service to see whether it was adequate.
'If not, it will face enforcement action to ensure customers receive the agreed standards of service,' it added.
The research on missing mail was undertaken by Consignia as part of its licence, which requires stringent mail protection measures and an annual estimate of lost post.
The company said more measures were being introduced to stop letters and parcels going astray, including better equipment at sorting offices to cope with increased volume of mail, and better training for new recruits and temporary employees.
Mick Linsell, managing director of the delivery division, said the amount of correctly-addressed mail which does not reach the right person is very small - less than 0.1 per cent of the overall volume of 82million letters a day.
He said more than 15million badly-addressed letters still arrived at the right place and on time each week.

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SILENT MOVIES WERE rarely, well, silent. Even though the characters "spoke" only by means of intertitles, their actions were accompanied by live music performed in the theater by a lone piano player, a full-scale orchestra or something in between.
You can enjoy that live, interactive experience at next Saturday's 7 p.m. screening at AFI Silver Theatre of the 1922 vampire classic "Nosferatu" (it repeats Monday at 9 p.m.). F.W. Murnau's movie is extraordinary for its eerie images, visual innovation and creepy performance by Max Schreck as the vampire. While Schreck gazes with hungry longing at human necks, you'll hear a score performed by the musical duo Silent Orchestra. Don't let the small number of players fool you: Carlos Garza on keyboards and Rich O'Meara on vibraphones, electronic samples, cymbals and gongs will fill the auditorium so you can party like it's 1922.
At AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Rd. Saturday at 7 p.m. and Monday at 9 p.m. $20. Call 301-495-6720 or visit www.afi.com/silver. For more information about the music group, visit www.silentorchestra.com, where there's an MP3 sample of highlights of its "Nosferatu" score.
SOCIAL COMMENTARY alternates with abstract compositions in "Hot Talas, Cool Ragas," a program performed by Mallika Sarabhai and her company, Darpana. Saturday's program centers on women's experiences in mental asylums and the recent riots in Bombay. Sarabhai -- one of India's leading dancers and named among the "1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005" for her work pursuing social justice through the arts -- performs here as part of a two-night flurry of Indian dance presented by Washington's Daniel Phoenix Singh. His company, Dakshina, will perform Friday, along with regional Indian dance presentations from troupes Nrityanjali and Kuchipudi Kalanidhi.
At Tawes Theater, University of Maryland, College Park. Friday (Dakshina) and Saturday (Mallika Sarabhai) at 8 p.m. $32 ($22 students), plus $1 facility fee. For more information call 301-405-2787 or visit www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.
JENNY HOLZER, an art world veteran who has won virtually every kind of honor and award, makes art that's built around words. She's used scrolling banks of LEDs to send messages that are both cryptic and strangely telling. Other oracular aphorisms by Holzer have been carved into granite benches or printed on T-shirts. Last year she was in Washington to present a new body of work in which she projects once-secret documents across building facades. She's back here Wednesday for a lecture at the Corcoran. This time the words will issue from her mouth, rather than her art. But she's known for being as eloquent with one as with the other.
At the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW. Wednesday at 7 p.m. $30 ($25 for members). For more information call 202-639-1700 or visit www.corcoran.org.
THE INDIE-FOLK TROUBADOUR Richard Buckner is a master of poetic melancholia, performing gorgeous if dolorous songs in a low, ragged rumble of a voice that seems to split the difference between Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen. On his most recent album, 2004's "Dents and Shells," Buckner -- who performs Thursday at Iota -- underscores his lachrymose lyrics with some pedal-steel guitar lines, the very sound of heartbreak. The result is arresting. It also suggests that the ghost of the great Townes Van Zandt rides, indeed.

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