Task-Planner, a unique approach to staff scheduling (online medication)

By Adaptive Planning Tools

  

Task-Planner addresses the problem: Who is to do what and when.


To this end Task Planner’s main planning board contains two schedules :


  • the activity schedule
  • the working hours schedule

and an automatic assignment procedure based on competences required by the tasks and competences offered by the employees.


This unique approch pinpoints the scheduling problem and ensures that you get the jobs assigned and with the right staff.


Below is the main planning board of Task Planner in which the two schedules and the assignments are clearly identifiable.


This layout gives an instant overview of the scheduling situation.


Planning board for a hotel and restaurant. Click for larger image.


Templates


If the schedule expedites a recurrent pattern a template covering the pattern can be formulated.


Templates look and behaves exactly as the main planning board and is therefore a great simulation tool targeted at trimming your staff to the tasks.


Generating a monthly plan using templates is done by pressing a button and is a matter of seconds even for very large plans.

Handling of daily exceptions.


Absences of any cause are readily visible in the plan and can be dealt with immediately.


Changes in the allocation and duration of activities or working hours are done using the mouse, mirroring the familiar planning board.

See example


Other features.


Teams of employees can be associated to a task, or group of tasks, thereby enforcing that only employees from the team can be allocated to the task/tasks.


Job rotation prevents a group of employees to do the same task every day.


The program can be operated and configured by the ordinary user.


Applicability


The program is applicable in health care, hospital departments, kindergarten, facility service business and other sites where the tasks and working hours exhibits a recurring pattern and where the scheduling task is of such complexity, that manual composition is difficult.

Adaptive Planning Tools develop planning and scheduling software covering small to medium sized tasks. Tasks, that are too complex to handle manually, and too small to let the computer solve them by an algorithm.

http://adaptive-planning.com

The importance of weight training
By derek cla

  There’s a story that the first person who trained with weights was a Greek named Milo, way back when the original Olympic games flourished. He acquired a small calf, and each day he would walk around an amphitheater, carrying it on his shoulders. Each day the calf grew a bit larger, so Milo had to work harder to carry it around. But because it grew only gradually, he was able to do it. Finally, he was carrying a full-grown bull around the amphitheater, and had the musculature to show for it.

Well, anyone with common sense knows that women were the original weight trainers! Substitute a new born baby for a small calf, and there ya go.

Unfortunately, once the babe has grown enough to be able to walk on his or her own two feet and not want to be carried whenever their little legs get tired, some moms never lift weights again, and the muscles that were used to perform these feats become little used, and therefore weaken. When they get on in years, the dowager humps and the flabby underarms and the general loss of bone mass happen just the same.

Which is why weight training is important, and training the upper body is more important for women than it is for men.

So, what type of upper body exercises are there?

Shoulders

Strong arms don’t do you much good if your shoulders can’t support them properly.

The exercises that target the trapezius muscles only is the shoulder shrug.

The shoulder shrug can be done with either a barbell or dumbbells. For a woman, it’s probably easier just to use dumbbells, of appropriate weights. Stand up straight, holding the weights at your sides - 15-pound weights are best. Then, simply make a motion as if you were shrugging your shoulders, ten to fifteen times. You’ll be able to feel the muscles being worked after you finish the set.

Exercises that target both the trapezius muscles and the deltoid muscles are “presses,” “raises,” and “fly”s.

When you press a dumbbell or barbell, it means that you’re pushing it over your head. Again, dumbbells are easier to use than barbells (indeed, if you don’t want to go to the expense of a barbell and the weights that fit onto it, a selection of dumbbells of appropriate weights will suit the purpose also.) .

Simply stand with your hands holding the dumbbells at shoulder-high level. Then lift them alternately over your head, until you’ve done a total of ten with each arm.

To do a dumbbell raise, on the other hand, you stand with your arms at your sides, holding 10 pound dumbbells in this case. (Or five-pound dumbbells, depending on your strength level.) Simply raise your arms straight outward from your sides, until your arms are parallel to the ground. Lower and repeat ten times. Again, you’ll be able to feel your shoulders after repeating this set.

To do a back fly, stand up, but bend over, so that your chest is parallel to the ground. Let your arms hang straight down. Then, simply raise your arms straight up. This really works your pectorals as well as your shoulder muscles, and is harder to do than the other exercises, just because of the body angle.

But you really want to work your pecs, because this will help prevent sagging breasts in old age!

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Fat Loss And Weight Training Myths
By Dane Fletcher

  Instant reduction myth. No matter what commercial advertisement propose, the existence of instant reduction of weight is quite improbable. Fat loss in the body occurs through a sequence which relies upon genetics, steroid (hormone) and age mostly. Even though blubber is lost or acquired by the body, it appears that the last place to become lean or the fast place to gain fat is the midsection in male and a few female. On the other hand the last place to become lean or the fast places to gain fat are the hips in female and a few male. Some common physical and fitness exercises such as; sit-ups, rollers, push belts, etc. tend to work on the muscles which exist under the blubber or fat.

Another storage area for fat exists and this can be found in the abdominal muscles, the intestines and other body organs. This is what normally leads to a “big pot belly” which pushes the abdominal muscles and the adjacent fat outwards.

Lower Abdominal muscle Myth

Most physical experts believe that exercising of the lower abs occurs during activities such as leg raise and other hip flexing physical exercises. To give an opinion on the mechanics of a certain exercise based on where your muscle is mostly affected or fatigued will be very incorrect or rather misleading. The main muscle which is used during hip flexion is normally the lliopsas, which is one among many other hip flexors. The lliopsoas actually tends to spring up from deep down the Rectus Abdominis on its lower portion. When leg raise occurs abdominal muscles in its entirety tend to contract isometrically

The combined existence of localized muscle fatigue and working of the hip flexors lead to creation of fatigue in the area surrounding the pelvis which most people wrongly come to the conclusion that they are exercising the lower portion of the Rectus Abdominis.

More Repetitions Burn High Fat Myth

Working on lighter weights with high or more repetitions (15-20reps, 20-50reps) will not lead to the burning of more blubber or tone. It is actually better to use a heavier weight and apply moderate repetition (8-14reps). The type of training involving lifting weights normally uses carbohydrates immediately the ATP and CP reservoirs have depleted during the first few seconds of thorough contraction of the muscles. A typical set should last duration of 20-30 seconds. The requirements for an average healthy fit person is 20 to 40 minutes of continuous aerobic exercise with large muscle groups such as Quadriceps to burn about 50% fat. Oxygen is usually required during the burning process of fat.

The performance of a few more extra repetitions on a weight lifting exercise is not of utmost importance in burning the extra fat. It actually in effect leads to the burning of less fat. Less fat will be burned when you lift light weights with more repetitions when you compromise or overlook the intensity the exercise. The usual deterrent for attaining higher intensities during high repetition training sessions is the resulting burning sensation.

For people who wish to acquire fat loss for beauty purposes, the intensity of weight training can work for them and at the same time work against them. During the early stages of an exercise program, the increase in muscle mass may be more than decrease in fat. This will result in a small initial gain in weight. For a significant loss in fat a person needs to acquire a certain tolerance which encompasses great intensity and duration during exercise. A lighter weight with more repetition is more appropriate if the training exercise and nutrition program is inadequate for a significant fat loss.

Dane Fletcher is the world-wide authority on bodybuilding and steroids. He has coached countless athletes all over the world. To read more of his work, please visit either http://www.BodybuildingToday.com or http://www.SteroidsToday.com

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