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Four years ago, Tompkins County in upstate New York had to make a decision on what to do with nearly 200 years of paper records. The vintage county library building where old records were stored was being repurposed, and a new home had to be found for more than 9,000 boxes of documents.
Financially, the decision turned out to be simple, said IT director Greg Potter. The county already had begun using some digital documents in the mid-2000s, so digitizing existing records was an option. And building a new records storage center for paper documents would cost an estimated $6 million. "We did a cost comparison for digitizing the records we had and that came out to $500,000."
With $600,000 in state grants, the county began scanning and digitizing documents in 2010, and two years later had converted 13 million records into electronic files. "It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be," said Deputy County Clerk Maureen Reynolds. "And it was cheaper than I thought it was going to be."
The files now are held on mirrored storage-area networks in two county data centers. If additional grant funding comes through as expected in the coming year, the next step is to move the electronic records to nearby secure, climate-controlled digital storage facilities. The space is being converted from Cold War-era military bunkers by Finger Lakes Technology Group (FLTG), a local networking company.
Tompkins County is at the southern tip of Cayuga Lake and has a population of about 105,000. Ithaca, the county seat, is a college town, with Cornell University and Ithaca College the largest employers. Most of the paper records maintained by the county go back only to the 1970s, but some date to 1817.
Just as important as technology in successfully moving from a paper to a digital environment is business analysis, said Katie Burke, government program manager for Laserfiche, the company that provided content management software for the conversion.
"The challenge is imagining the business process in a digital way," Burke said. "Tompkins County has been impressive in the way it scaled the project."
The county began reviewing operations in each agency in 2010 with an eye toward adopting a complete electronic records management strategy. The clerk's office was one of the first to adopt digital forms and records, Reynolds said, "so it wasn't a hard sell at all" in that office. The advantage and economy of bringing old records into the electronic system were obvious. The old records were being stored in boxes at a cost of $4,000 a month and were not really accessible.
"I've never seen the boxes, and I've worked here 23 years," she said.
Still, the process of scanning and converting existing files created extra work for every department, since officials had to sign off on the millions of scanned and converted documents before the paper originals could be disposed of. "We did a lot of shredding after the digitization of the records," Potter said.
The county hired Challenge Industries of Ithaca, a non-profit company that employs the disabled, to do the scanning. Each document was scanned to a TIF (Tagged Image File Format) image and converted with optical character recognition software to an electronic file. Then
Laserfiche software classified each record according to the appropriate record retention schedule, and metadata was added so that documents could be identified and searched.
The management software creates shortcuts within the documents so that they can be stored in the folder structure the agency chooses but still can be easily searchable across folders. And although documents are classified according to the length of time they must be retained, deletion is not automatic at the end of that time.
"There is an extra layer of protection," Burke said. Files eligible for deletion are flagged, but a person must make the decision to delete each one.
Most of the files were taken to Challenge Industries for scanning, but scanning equipment was set up in the old library for some historical material. "A lot of it was in rotting leather books," Reynolds said. The pages of these were removed for scanning and then rebound. Each agency made its own decisions about what materials to retain after being digitized and what to destroy.
"There were interesting things in some of the boxes" that had not been opened for years, Reynolds said. One box, from the district attorney's office, contained a stack of $100 bills. "We think it was counterfeit," she said.
Six of FLTG's Cold War vintage storage bunkers have been repurposed for storage and office space, and the county is using one for storing tape backups, microfilm and some paper archives. FLTG has converted one to a secure data center with back-up battery power and generators. The county is hopeful that within a year it will be able to get a high-speed fiber optic link to the center and move its electronic documents to the bunker.
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My great great grandfather Randle Thornton died on 17 June 1907 at Amble in Northumberland. Randle was a 64-year-old coal miner when he died of Bright's disease, which I understand to be chronic nephritis (kidney problems) and cardiac hypertrophy.
Randle married Mary Oliver in 1842 and they had 11 children: 5 girls and 6 boys. So far I have only focussed on the fates of two of their girls. Two Thornton sisters married two Henderson brothers. One of these couples was my great grandparents Archibald Henderson and Margaret Jane Thornton. The other couple was Newton Henderson and Mary Phyllis Thornton who are give rise to my California Henderson connection.


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A modern riverside hotel in suburban Kingston, with free Wi-Fi, meeting facilities, a restaurant and a fitness centre
Holiday Inn® London - Kingston South hotel is 22 minutes by car from Wimbledon, 25 minutes from Heathrow Airport and 35 minutes from Gatwick. Kingston railway station, with fast services to central London, is seven minutes away.
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Efficacy of Botulinum Toxin Versus Lidocaine in Treating Masticatory Myofascial Face Pain Using Ultrasound and EMG Guided Techniques
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00992108
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Lack of eligible patients willing and able to participate)
First Posted : October 9, 2009
Results First Posted : December 29, 2016
Last Update Posted : December 29, 2016
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Botulinum toxin-A (BTX-A) prevents the release of acetylcholine in presynaptic terminals of the neuromuscular junction. It has been proposed to be effective in spastic conditions of the head and neck including oromandibular dystonias, bruxism, and muscular hypertrophy (1,2,3,4). However, only one randomized, double-blinded, placebo controlled trial has been completed involving 20 patients demonstrating both objective and subjective improvement in the BTX-A treated group over those treated with saline at one week, one month, and six months (5).
Currently, in most orofacial pain practices, when the diagnosis of masticatory myofascial pain in the head region is made, patients are treated with a standard myofascial protocol. This protocol involves stretching, application of moist heat, spray and stretch, and lidocaine trigger point injections into the masticatory muscles. This is considered the standard of care among most orofacial pain practioners.
There have been no randomized, double-blinded, head-to-head trials comparing BTX-A injections to lidocaine injections in the treatment of masticatory myofacial pain. Moreover, in all studies, muscles were targeted using surface landmarks with no confirmatory tests to guarantee the medication was administered to the intended muscle. In previous studies, the medial and lateral pterygoid muscles, important masticatory muscles that is often hyperactive in masticatory myofacial pain was not injected due to lack of palpable surface landmarks. Ultrasound and electromyography (EMG) guidance will help us locate these muscles.
The purpose of this study is to objectively measure functional improvement in patients with masticatory myofascial pain injected with lidocaine versus BTX-A. A pilot study enrolling 20 patients is proposed. 20 patients will be randomized to receive either BTX-A or lidocaine injections into the bilateral temporalis, masseter, and medial and lateral pterygoid. Objective and subjective clinical parameters will be measured. These include pain at rest and with chewing, maximum non-assisted and assisted mouth opening, protrusive and laterotrusive jaw movements, subjective efficacy of treatment, and side-effects of treatment. Patients will be assessed at baseline, one week, one month, and three months after the procedure.
|Condition or disease
|Face Pain
|Drug: lidocaine Drug: chemodenervation
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|17 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Efficacy of Botulinum Toxin Versus Lidocaine in Treating Masticatory Myofascial Face Pain Using Ultrasound and EMG Guided Techniques
|Study Start Date :
|October 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2010
Active Comparator: Lidocaine
lidocaine injection group
Drug: lidocaine
1cc 1%
|Experimental: Botulinum
Drug: chemodenervation
botulinum toxin
- Clinical Response as Assessed by >20% Change From Baseline in the Jaw Functional Limitation Scale (JFLS) Global Score [ Time Frame: 4 months ]The JFLS contains 20 items that measure limitations across mastication, vertical jaw mobility, and verbal/emotional expression rated on a 0-10 scale where 0 = "no limitation" and 10 = "severe limitation."
- Clinical Response as Assessed by >20% Change From Baseline in the Jaw Functional Limitation Scale (JFLS) Global Score [ Time Frame: 6 weeks ]The JFLS contains 20 items that measure limitations across mastication, vertical jaw mobility, and verbal/emotional expression rated on a 0-10 scale where 0 = "no limitation" and 10 = "severe limitation."
- Clinical Response as Assessed by >20% Change From Baseline in the Pressure Pain Threshold [ Time Frame: baseline, 4 months ]measurements were obtained by placing examiner's index finger of the examiner on the area of the trigger point (hyperirritable areas on skeletal muscle with palpable taut bands of muscle fibers) and exerting pressure until there was whitening of the nail bed. Pressure pain levels were rated subjectively by the participant and coded numerically as mild (1), moderate (2) to severe (3).
- Clinical Response as Assessed by >20% Change From Baseline in Jaw Opening [ Time Frame: baseline, 4 months ]maximum mandibular range of motion scores (measured as the maximum interincisal distance and compensating for occlusion)
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects are to have identifiable painful myofascial trigger points in the masseter, temporalis, and medial and lateral pterygoid muscles.
- Subjects will be examined by the principle investigators to determine if the individual is a suitable candidate for the study, based on active trigger points and willingness to participate in the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant woman will be excluded from participation as potential risk is noted in product label indications. Individuals over the age of 65 will be excluded per product label indications that reflect lack of data in individuals over age 65.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00992108
|United States, California
|Westwood Associates
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90024
|Principal Investigator:
|Marisa Chang, M.D.
|University of California, Los Angeles
|Responsible Party:
|University of California, Los Angeles
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00992108 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|October 9, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|December 29, 2016
|Last Update Posted:
|December 29, 2016
|Last Verified:
|November 2016
Myofascial pain
Masticatory myofascial face pain from bruxism and clenching
Facial Pain
Neurologic Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Botulinum Toxins
Anesthetics, Local
Central Nervous System Depressants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Blockers
Sodium Channel Blockers
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Acetylcholine Release Inhibitors
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WHAT IS IT? The Xtrig worm-drive preload adjuster allows quick and precise preload adjustments for KTM 125, 150, 250, 350 and 450 shocks. It eliminates the need to use a hammer and punch or deal with KTM's iffy nylon preload ring.
WHAT'S IT COST? $149.99 (there are different models for linkage or PDS shocks).
CONTACT? www.xtrigusa.com or (909) 949-4155.
WHAT STANDS OUT? Here's a list of things that stand out with the Xtrig preload adjuster.
(1) Installation. The biggest downside to installing the Xtrig preload adjuster on a KTM is that the shock has to be taken apart to get the Xtrig to slip on. This is not the case with the Xtrig on most Japanese bikes. If you want the Xtrig adjuster on your KTM, you should try to time the purchase to coincide with having your shock revalved. That way you can kill two birds with one stone.
MXA uses a 8mm socket on a Makita power tool to spin the Xtrig preload ring.
(2) Function. The Xtrig preload adjuster replaces the manual preload rings on your shock. In their place, Xtrig adds a mechanical worm-drive gearset that threads the adjuster up and down with the twist of an 8mm socket. The Xtrig preload adjuster makes race sag adjustment quick and easy, but with one catch; the small worm gear only has a 24:1 gear ratio. That means you have to turn the Xtrig's 8mm socket 24 turns to add one turn of preload to the shock spring. MXA's solution to this problem was to put an 8mm socket on a Makita power tool and spin the Xtrig preload ring with electric power. We could put two or three turns on the Xtrig preload adjuster in a few seconds.
(3) Performance. Every MXA test rider hates KTM's nylon preload ring. It deforms easily and sticks if there is any dirt on the shock body. Not so with the Xtrig. The Xtrig adjuster moves up and down the complete length of the shock body in the time it takes to loosen the lock ring on the stock KTM preload adjuster. MXA test riders check their sag before every race (and normally have to make some minor adjustments). With the Xtrig preload adjuster, we can make minuscule or major adjustments in the
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WHAT'S THE SQUAWK? There are two downsides. (1) Price. At $150, it's not cheap. You might be just as happy with a hammer and punch. (2) WP shock. Having to take your WP shock apart to get the preload adjuster on or off is a big negative.
If you own a Japanese motocross bike, the Xtrig preload adjuster deserves five stars. It works just as flawlessly on a KTM, but the hassle of mounting it on the WP shock cost it a star. If you don't know what a preload adjuster is, this is a one-star product.


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Bemidji State University will induct three new members into its Professional Education Hall of Fame during a dinner and induction ceremony at the university's American Indian Resource Center, April 19.
This year's inductees are:
• Randy Swedburg '65 of Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada;
• Cynthia "Cindy" (Burggraf) Storhaug '82 of Alexandria, Minn.; and
• Tracy Loken Weber '02, '05 of Menomonee Fall, Wis.
The dinner and induction ceremony is open to the public. Tickets are $22 and must be reserved by April 12. To reserve tickets, call (877) 278-2586.
The Professional Education Hall of Fame award honors Bemidji State alumni who demonstrate excellence in teaching students or managing schools. Awards are made bi-annually. This award is open to teachers or administrators who are graduates of Bemidji State University and who hold holds a BSU Teacher Education undergraduate or graduate degree; has been previously awarded or recognized by a reputable group; and is nominated by a BSU alum, colleague, teacher or administrator.
Dr. Randy Swedburg '65
Swedburg is a professor emeritus and former department chair in the Department of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University in Montreal. He was also director of the Center for Human Relations and Community Studies and a vice president of Elderhostel Canada. His major research interests have been in the areas of lifelong learning, successful aging and lifestyle and e-synchronous learning. In these areas, he has received 45 research grants and contracts for more than $1.3 million. He has published more than 75 articles, delivered 175 presentations at conventions and research symposia and workshops locally, nationally and internationally.
An advocate for international studies, he has been involved with student exchange programs around the world. Swedburg has received several professional and service honors including the Prime Minister of Canada Citizens award, CU Alumnus Award for teaching excellence, the American Association for Leisure and Recreation Merit Award and Outstanding Achievement Award, American Association for Health, P.E., Recreation and Dance Honor Award and others. Swedburg completed his bachelor's degree at Bemidji State and earned his master's and doctorate degrees at the University of Idaho.
Cynthia "Cindy" (Burggraf) Storhaug '82
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I typically find games like Zen Studio's The Punisher: No Mercy tricky to review. On one hand, you have a brand new first-person shooter that has your mind consistently comparing it to the Call of Duty, Unreal, and Halo's of the world. On the other hand, it sells for under ten dollars and should be compared to similarly priced games. Unfortunately for gamers, The Punisher: No Mercy doesn't hold up well when compared to similar wallet-friendly games.
Presumably envisioned primarily as an online multiplayer experience, No Mercy offers a single-player campaign mode to familiarize yourself with the gameplay - albeit a shockingly short single-player experience. Each of the four (yes, four) levels are introduced by cutscenes visualized in comic panels and voiced over by some entertaining dialogue. Not to spoil the rest of the review, but the most entertaining aspect of the game were the cutscenes, even if you need to be familiar with The Punisher universe to follow the storyline or recognize the characters involved. The campaign itself lasts roughly an hour, which somehow manages to feel too long.
Single-player boils down to a giant deathmatch against endless enemy bots. This consists of running around the level while shooting as many enemies as possible with whichever weapons you currently have unlocked and gaining upgrades to your guns for stringing together kills. You'll notice immediately that the enemy A.I. is exceptionally bad, as though they are following predetermined paths toward or away from you. One level gave me a time limit in which to kill a slew of enemies along with the level boss. After failing once and realizing I would have to attempt this all over again (nooo!), I had the bright idea to hang out on what I imagine was a giant pipe in the warehouse and shoot my enemies from above. It was from up here that I easily killed everyone required without coming into danger myself. The enemy pathfinding apparently couldn't figure out how to threaten me while on the easily accessible pipe.
Controls are par for the course for any first-person shooter with your analogs controlling movement and viewing while the L and R buttons fire. It is a short learning curve, and in no time you'll feel as though you understand everything there is to offer. Perhaps this could be tied into a positive for the game, most people marginally familiar with any FPS since Golden Eye should be comfortable with the controls in no time.
The graphics don't do the game any favors either, lacking any distinct flavor or style to enhance a game that could use all the enhancement it could get. Characters and environments are bland and nothing overtly stands out. Particularly bad are character animations and movement which seems to be lacking a few extra character states. Enemy movement isn't choppy per se, but characters don't seem to have any weight and are more tacked into the environment rather than integrated within it.
Sound, at first listen, seems to be one of the bright spots. Early cutscenes quickly throw out several expletives serving as an early reminder that this is an M rated affair. Yet what at first seems like a strength is quickly revealed as a weakness. Characters seem to only have a small handful of phrases for any given situation and will repeat them over and over. "Time to punish The Punisher!" and "My time has come" loop with an alarming frequency. But it's not all bad - the guns sound like you'd expect when you pull the trigger.


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Why 'Robocop' is good for humans
Remakes frequently are safe ways for Hollywood to turn a profit. If something works once, theoretically it should work twice. Never mind the cases when not enough time has lapsed between versions to avoid seeing the original, often better film, running in marathon fashion on basic cable for an entire weekend - hello, "Footloose."
Like "Footloose," "RoboCop" was made during the 1980s. Sure, special effects are better now. It was a different period, not only politically and socio-economically, but certainly culturally. Then again, it wasn't like "RoboCop" was made in the 1930s. It still can be relatable and undated enough for new fans, as long as they aren't gazing too hard at characters' hair and fashion choices.
So why remake "RoboCop?"
Because we love seeing robots/cyborgs/androids/mechanically enhanced people on the big screen.
But - and not to sound like my 5-year-old - why?
There are lots of reasons. Robots can be servants without the immorality of enslavement, such as Rosie, the Jetsons' maid. They can harness enviable power and intelligence unobtainable by humans, such as the giant robot-car-alien thingies in the Transformers movies. And, in frightening films such as 1973's "Westworld," they can satisfy humans' violent and/or sexual fantasies without harm (seemingly) coming to another human being.
There always seems to be something about robot movies that makes us think, which, obviously, is a good thing. That didn't necessarily help Dave Bowman deal with HAL 9000 in "2001," but they learned from their mistakes by the sequel.
Robots/mechanized people (let's just say "robots" and not dawdle on semantics) reflect our humanity, or lack thereof. They represent power without conscience, and the ones in film who come closest to being human draw our sharpest interest (there's a reason why C-3PO and R2-D2 bickering like an old married couple have, so far, been the only common characters through all the "Star Wars" films).
Besides offering plenty of shoot 'em up action, Paul Verhoeven's 1987 version of RoboCop - starring Peter Weller as a Detroit police officer killed in the line of duty, only to be resurrected as a half-man, half mechanical supercop - featured plenty of commentary on 1980s America. Not that it was why people loved "RoboCop" - it was a well-made futuristic thriller that didn't necessarily have people leaving theaters talking about the big-picture issues.
But the new "RoboCop" (which I haven't seen yet, but I've read a lot about) reflects an updated human view of what robots can do for us. In a post-9/11 world, in the wake of unpopular wars that are among the longest in U.S. history, the idea of technology doing the fighting (the whole premise of the "Terminator" movies) and taking what would otherwise by human risk can be appealing.
Robot movies make us think critically.
"We set out to make a movie about issues, not the regular superhero thing," Jose Padilha, director of the new "RoboCop," recently told USA Today.
We're already pondering the moral dilemma of unmanned drone strikes overseas. In the new "RoboCop," conflicts largely are automated all the way around, fought by robot soldiers.
"They make their own decisions and they make their decisions based on a program, and the human aspect is taken out of it," Joel Kinnaman, who plays Alex Murphy/RoboCop, told the paper. "That creates a moral dilemma."
Padilha expects to see machines with RoboCop-type abilities created very soon. "When a machine is able to perform as well as men," he explained, "you can ask what is it that separates him from them?"
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Recall the fact that the representations of a quantum group form a braided tensor category, and this corresponds to the fact that $U_q(\mathfrak g)$ is a quasi-triangular Hopf algebra. The braiding operations can be constructed via the KZ equations for representations of $\mathfrak g$. The first thing that the KZ equations give is a quasi-triangular quasi-Hopf algebra, i.e. we have an associator present. It turns out that this is equivalent to $U_q(\mathfrak g)$ in some suitable sense, but one needs to somehow absorb the associator into the rest of the structure in order to get a genuine quasi-triangular Hopf algebra (and this is not straightforward to do).
The Kontsevich Integral for tangles can be calculated in same the formal way one calculates the monodromy of the KZ equations (of course, since this is just the definition of the Kontsevich integral). Thus to calculate the value of the Kontsevich Integral for some parenthesized tangle, it suffices to multiply the values of together the invariant for elementary tangles and changes of parenthization (this being the use of the associator) corresponding to the given input tangle. These can be given more or less explicitly, as the (chord diagram)-valued "R-matrix" and Drinfeld associators respectively.
Is there a (chord diagram)-valued R-matrix (hopefully somewhat explicit) which does not require an associator? (i.e. one that genuinely satisfies the relations satisfied by the elementary tangles in the category of unparenthesized tangles)?
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Let's pick up the expanding thread on AAA publishing by considering costs. Coming up with a single figure for the AAA's large publication portfolio is frustratingly difficult. There are complications such as sunk costs, various ways of calculating overhead, the complexities of the W-B contract, and the like. I'm an anthropologist, not an accountant, so I'll stick to basics:
- Production costs (2010): about $1 million. This includes copy-editing, layout, relevant IT work, printing, mailing of journals and Anthro News, and marketing of journals. Keep in mind that we're talking about 31 different serials, albeit including a few that aren't publishing actively at present.
- Salaries and related overhead, i.e., AAA Publications staff (2010): about $1 million for salaries/benefits/equipment/offices.
- Editorial offices (2010): about $300,000. In addition there is in-kind support from the journal editors' home institutions. Whether cost-conscious universities will continue to provide this level of in-kind support in the future is anyone's guess.
- Total annual cost (2010): roughly $2.3 million
At this point, I'll bet that some readers are thinking: "What's with this crazy huge budget? With open source software and a digital-only model, using cheap server space for hosting, I could reduce the cost of publishing each AAA journal to a couple of thousand dollars a year." That was my thought prior to joining CFPEP.
Unfortunately, I've since learned that conversion to an OA, digital-only publishing model (i.e., one that abandons paper and toll-collection) doesn't cut costs as much as one might hope. Sure, you lose the cost of printing, mailing, subscription management. That's not trivial, but it's not totally transformative either. It is liberating for new, modest-circulation journals, but more selective, large-circulation ones still cost money to administer and produce, and they are saddled with certain legacy costs (warehousing back issues, etc.) that will take time to wind down.
Skeptics may want to consult the many pro-OA publications that estimate such costs. Here's one, a 2010 article in ArsTechnica.com, "The Economic Case for Open Access in Academic Publishing." Relevant quote: "For example, the estimated first copy costs for Nature and Science are $10,000 to $15,000 [per article], while the first copy costs for highly field-specific, low-selectivity journals is closer to $2,000." That's sobering for anthropology because our articles tend to be longer than STEM articles, meaning that they cost even more. Another study computed per page estimates: "Cost per page published in 2007 ranged from $184 to $825 (aver: $526). When the variable costs of print are removed these costs fall to a range from $90 to $652 (aver: $360)." For a dissenting view on costs and related variables, check out this.
Even if one discounts these estimates as inflated–and I find myself doubting the validity of such high figures–it means that the AAA would need to cut costs drastically to shift to OA mode. And with subscription revenues dropping to zero, that means that membership dues, plus the occasional grant, would pay for everything. In 2010 AAA used $900K of membership dues to cover the costs of the publishing program. If AAA were to eliminate subscriptions, keeping the membership subvention the same, we would need to eliminate $1.4M in costs. About $500K could be shed to eliminating print copies, but the membership subvention would still need to grow to twice its current size.
Are AAA members prepared to take on that cost? I have no idea.
That's not an argument against OA by any means. OA might still be the best alternative, especially given its ethical merits. Yet it's important to keep in mind that any proposal for changing the AAA's publishing model has to contend with unforgiving economic and logistical realities. The same is true for the status quo, which many feel is unsustainable. Tough choices all around.


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USAT first performed a cashless evaluation on our existing deployed terminals. We found that consumers were already spending an average 35¢ more when they paid with cards compared to cash. The data attributed the increase to 22% additional spending from the ability to purchase multiple items with a single swipe of a card. Purchases of higher-priced items accounted for an additional 12% spending lift with cashless acceptance.
USAT then took all of our business data and developed a deployment plan for the hybrid solution that included account selection based upon projected incremental net operating profit for cashless vending plus wireless DEX. It also factored in net operating profit calculated from incremental sales increase projections, less our cost to deliver those incremental cases, less all cashless costs, plus a further 15% route cost savings from the handheld computers used to collect DEX information. At the end of the day, or even during the day, handhelds can be synced using Verizon cellular service; or they can be plugged into a dock at our office and synced at any time. When you are prekitting a particular machine every day, the salesperson must sync from that location as soon as possible, so that the next day's order can be pulled correctly. Many of our people pull into a McDonald's and use WiFi to sync up.
Account selection also was determined by customers' suitability for cashless deployment, machines that covered all product categories, where possible, and approximately 25% to 30% coverage of wireless DEX on each route, as we deployed VendSys.
We found that the addition of DEX telemetry to cashless vending drops the profitability hurdle down from a minimum of $5,000 a year per machine in cash sales before deploying cashless, to $3,000 a year for cashless and wireless DEX. In total, this qualified some 31% of our machines to be deployed with cashless and wireless DEX.
Without USAT's wireless telemetry, if we service a machine once a week or every two weeks, the data we get from handheld DEX will successfully drive pre-kits for 70% of our machines. With USAT, either cashless with telemetry or just standalone telemetry for our highest-volume machines, we are getting data twice a day that is collected and sent to, or pulled, by VendSys.
The more data we get, the better Vendsys works for prekitting. It comes closer and closer to actual usage, with fewer overpulls or underpulls.VendSys works great with just its existing pre-order, pre-kit forecast model, but it is perfect in conjunction with USAT. The savings are realized by eliminating routes and personnel, and still increasing volume with fewer people. We are running more volume on nine routes now than we were running on 14 routes last year. Our salespeople are making more money, and I have eliminated large trucks and gone to much smaller vehicles with twice the gas mileage -- which is huge when gas is so expensive.
A big advantage in our largely rural market is the availability of Verizon Wireless, a USAT business partner, to complement our existing AT&T network. We were chosen by USAT as a pilot site for this communications network, and had rewarding results with major industrial customers. In some rural locations, we were able to provide the best coverage with the advantage of two alternative carriers.
USAT also helped us optimize our cashless performance of existing terminals, which lifted debit and credit card usage by 24%, in dollars, over a six-month period. This was achieved in part by configuring our terminals to allow customers to swipe their card once to purchase multiple items, such as a candy bar with their bag of chips, a beverage for a coworker. USAT advised adding more higher-priced items to the mix in machines with ePort readers, since consumers typically spend more when they pay with a card.
Our cashless deployments are delivering more than $1,500 annual cashless sales per machine. Our top 100 cashless machines are delivering over $2,500 card sales at 30% cashless usage. One of the biggest benefits is that consumers are spending an average 35¢ more per transaction when they pay with a card versus cash.
Our VendSys vending management system experience has shown excellent results, everything from ease of deployment and training and cost, to operational benefits. We immediately saw productivity improvements that allowed us to reduce the number of routes.
New features are continually being added at no cost to enhance operational and management reports to improve profitability.
Rawls Distributing is about to deploy USA Technologies' two-tier pricing program for our cashless vending, which will give the operation the ability to charge one price for credit and debit cards and a discounted price for cash.
I was prompted to try the program when I learned that USAT had surveyed two-tier pricing across nearly 2,000 deployments and found that consumers are willing to pay for the convenience of using their cards. Cashless sales rose, according to USAT, and the number of vends even were reported to increase when two pricing options were available.
The final step will be the addition of LightSpeed Automation, a warehouse picking system that streamlines logistics for even greater efficiency and productivity. It will simplify order fulfillment during the prekitting process by enabling our personnel to pick quickly because they can find the correct bin locations along an assembly line more quickly.
DEX data, delivered wirelessly from our ePort readers, will drive the Vendsys vending management system, scheduling machines that need to be serviced and identifying exactly what product needs to be filled. LightSpeed will then automate the warehouse picking process, completing the final piece of the puzzle.
So far, every step we have taken has improved efficiency, volume and net operating profit for Rawls Distributing Co.
photo | SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE: Robin Rawls (l.) explains to Chris Williams how Williams' small operation can increase sales and reduce expenses by employing remote machine monitoring. Williams works three jobs in addition to running his vending route to support his family. "He has so little spare time that one wasted trip means he may not see his kids that day," said Rawls, who has been mentoring Williams, and referring smaller accounts to him, for the past five years.
Getting our salespeople to embrace new technology was the key to our success in implementing it. Not every salesperson has the ability to transition to the "information age," however, so we focused on those salespeople who could. Tech-savvy salespeople played a key role in applying the new tools, which helped to reduce the number of routes, again increasing our productivity, improving efficiencies and costs.
After a lifetime in vending, and seeing how technology has changed and grown my business, it is important to me to pass on what I have learned. I enjoy mentoring operators who call me for advice. The vending business has been good to me, and I want to help others succeed.
I have had people say: "I have some money to invest, and I am thinking of going into the vending business." My advice is not to go out and buy old, outdated equipment. I tell them to do their research and start knocking on doors, and I emphasize that vending is a highly competitive market. You must do it the right way, and you must employ the latest vending technology.
ROBIN RAWLS started in the vending business almost 40 years ago as an employee of Tom's Foods Inc. He established his own business, Rawls Distributing Co., in 1985, and it has since become one of the largest vending service providers in the Savannah, GA, market. Rawls Distributing operated 25 routes during its peak.
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