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This New Year, Resolve to Go Outdoors
Texas State Parks Again Offer Guided Hikes on New Year's Day for First Day Hikes Program
For years, two of the most popular New Year's resolutions have been to begin a fitness program, and spend more time in nature. Now, for the second year in a row, you can combine both by participating in First Day Hikes at a Texas State Park near you on Jan. 1.
The second-annual First Day Hikes program is part of a national umbrella coordination by the National Association of State Parks Directors (NASPD) to encourage a new tradition at the beginning of each year to get people outdoors, and promote the numerous physical and emotional benefits of hiking.
During the inaugural year of First Day Hikes at the start of 2012, more than 1,100 people showed up at 47 state parks across Texas. For 2013—which is just a few weeks away—more hikes and locations are scheduled, and they range from short, leisurely walks, to birding hikes, to nature tours along the Gulf Coast, to challenging treks in mountainous terrain.
"In addition to drawing new users to parks on January First, we hope to see return visitors from last year as families start to embrace First Day Hikes as a beloved tradition from year to year," said Interpretive Services Assistant Director Karen Blizzard, the Texas coordinator for First Day Hikes.
Most all hikes will be guided by state park staff or expert volunteers and feature an interpretive message about native plants, animals or park history. The walks average one to two miles in length, but many also offer shorter or longer trek options as well.
Participants will want to make some modest advance preparations. Some hikes warrant call-ahead reservations, and in most instances, folks will want to wear sturdy shoes, and bring drinking water and a hiking stick. Park entrance fees apply in most places, and many parks are leading the First Day Hike at no extra cost.
Recent on-site visitor surveys in Texas parks revealed that hiking / trails were the most sought-after amenity by park visitors, and many Texas state parks have added newly built or recently improved hiking and biking trails in order to meet growing demand.
The concept of having an official "First Day Hike" in a park on New Year's Day originated more than 20 years ago at the Blue Hills Reservation, a state park in Milton, Massachusetts, with the intent to promote both wellness and year-round recreation at parks. Since then, other states have offered similar New Year's programs. It has, however, grown into a nationwide event today, with most state park systems participating.
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If Murphy Brown and Donald Trump had gone on a date in college, how would it have gone? About as well as you'd expect.
Actress Candice Bergen, best known for her five-time Emmy-winning turn as the outspoken, feminist eponymous lead of "Murphy Brown," appeared on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" Wednesday night and revealed details of her collegiate date with the eventual leader of the free world.
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According to a statement from Fox, Hannity and Trump will discuss tax reform, the economy and news of the day. Judging from the news cycle as of late, topics could include the controversial federal government response to the devastation in Puerto Rico or the recent resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price The news release also notes that audience members will have an opportunity to ask Trump questions.
"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and other celebrities slammed President Trump on Saturday morning following Trump's Twitter tirade targeting San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, who had criticized what she called the federal government's unhurried response to the destruction caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
Miranda, Lady Gaga and John Legend were among the stars that lashed out at Trump's string of tweets Saturday that took aim at Cruz, suggesting she was being "nasty" and displayed "poor leadership."
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Pop legend Lionel Richie and country music star Luke Bryan are taking a seat at the judges table for ABC's revival of "American Idol" next year.
The pair will join Katy Perry for the return of the singing competition series, which originated on Fox. Ryan Seacrest, as previously announced, will be reprising his role as host.
"As a singer, songwriter and producer, I feel I can bring a great deal of experience to the table," Richie said in a statement Friday. "It's going to be so much fun!"
There is little room for levity as Puerto Rico recovers from the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Maria, but Stephen Colbert and Nick Kroll are looking to change that with a new fundraising endeavor.
During his Wednesday night appearance on "The Late Show" to promote "Big Mouth," his new Netflix comedy about puberty, Kroll brought a deeply unflattering photo of himself as a teenager.
Colbert then shared a photo of himself as a teen.
The drama that began on screen and spilled over into reality continues to unfold as famed actress Olivia de Havilland scored a significant court victory Friday. Her lawsuit against FX Networks and Ryan Murphy Productions is headed to trial in November.
FX and Murphy had filed a motion to dismiss the 101-year-old legend's lawsuit over her depiction in the Emmy-nominated series "Feud: Bette and Joan," citing the U.S. and California constitutions' rights to free speech in connection with a public issue.
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Nostalgia is all the rage these days, with "Full House," "One Day at a Time" and countless other series being revisited all over film and television.
But "Sex and the City" will not join them.
Dreams of a "Sex and the City 3" film were dashed Thursday night when Sarah Jessica Parker told "Extra" that "it's over."
In the midst of natural disasters across the Caribbean and Mexico, pop superstar Beyoncé has teamed with Colombian reggaetón singer J Balvin for a new remix of "Mi Gente," his hit with producer Willy William.
The song was released to streaming services Thursday night, and the team will donate all proceeds to earthquake and hurricane relief charities working in Mexico, Puerto Rico and other affected Caribbean islands.
In a statement posted on her website, Beyoncé wrote, "We're heartbroken by the hurricanes and earthquakes that have devastated families around the world. There are many ways to help. We've listed a few organizations that are on the ground from Mexico to the Caribbean, lending a hand to those who need it most."
Wonder Woman has had it with James Cameron.
Actress Lynda Carter, who starred as the Amazonian warrior goddess in the '70s TV series, took to social media to respond to Cameron's repeated smearing of "Wonder Woman" in recent months.
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Monday, September 26, 2011
4B: "Svengali" a Weill Later
Much more Kurt Weill still lay ahead as Lotte Lenya's publicizing efforts (see part 4A below this closing section) made things happen--long-play records, more performances by more curious musicians, scholars mulling things over. Nonet trombonist J.J. Johnson and pianist Andre Previn teamed up for a Weill record, and then Gil Evans proceeded to create two multi-varied albums of great genius, perhaps the best of his long career (and no Miles for miles!), titled Out of the Cool and The Individualism of Gil Evans.
Each LP featured, and to some extent was keyed on, a single piece by Weill. Retrieved from his German theatre works were "Bilbao Song"—in Gil's hands a mix of dissonant proclamation, odd percussion, and plucked bass and guitar, somehow all of a piece with the Cool album's other tunes—and,
Evans' assistant for several years in the Eighties was Maria Schneider, who learned much from Gil and applies those lessons herself as a multi-Grammy award-winning Jazz orchestra leader. Invited by Jazz.com to pick and analyze a dozen favorite Evans tracks from his long career, well, Ms. Schneider chose Weill's "My Ship" and "The Barbara Song" as two of the twelve. Regarding the latter she wrote, in part:
Musician, conductor, and scholar Ryan Truesdell has located and studied and prepared for recording a number of unknown Evans arrangements, with an album to be released next year. He too has declared "The Barbara Song" to be one of Gil's best and most important creations.
Without Gil Evans and Kurt Weill would the Doors ever have swung wide open--first, Kurt's "Alabama Song" and then Gil's "Jambangle," reworked a bit to become, with lyrics added, "Light My Fire"? And that era-defining hit probably led inexorably to Gil's late projects with both Robbie Robertson and Sting—while edgy rockers like Lou Reed, Marianne Faithful, Nick Cave, and Tom Waits
Without Evans, would composer Carla Bley's twists and turns and quirky jibes so readily have found a place in Jazz? Without Kurt's Berlin days, could bassman Charlie Haden's peripatetic orchestra ever have become so political, so "Musically Liberated," and so admired?
If Gil hadn't taken off the arranger gloves and punched-up his freeform bands of the Seventies and Eighties, embracing electricity and synthesizers, would Miles Davis have gone so far (and farther out) into fusion and funk? He continued to consult Gil at every turn, and one can easily imagine the two of them holed up with some medicinal weed,
But we need to resume our walk on the Weill side. George Avakian became the manager and producer for a John Lewis-Gunther Schuller "Third Stream" venture called Orchestra U.S.A.; and one mid-Sixties project was an album titled Mack the Knife and Other Berlin Theatre Songs of Kurt Weill, by two Orchestra sextets that included ex-Nonet members Mike Zwerin and Lewis. Zwerin's arrangements took a much simpler approach to Weill,
Nearly three decades later, when Avakian wrote typically brilliant liner notes for the CD reissue of yet another Weill/Jazz album (John Bunch playing solo piano versions, mostly "up" and Fats Wallerish),
Lenya listened and then responded with her own tale of Kurt hearing a Jazz version of one of his tunes and not recognizing it at first. When he did, he quoted a Threepenny lyric, "It's possible my way—but this is possible too."
Gil Evans was dead by the time Avakian wrote about woodwinds-and-sax genius Dolphy—who had contributed as well to the great Individualism album. In the mid-Eighties Gil evidently had begun to rethink the anything-goes, un-arranged bands he had "led" (just barely) for two erratic decades. Some bits of evidence:
Maria Schneider found him at the piano one day, practically tearing his white hair out; he desperately wanted to recreate his classic re-composing of Weill's "My Ship,"
At the time of his death in 1988, he was considering a proposed commission from producer Hal Willner, innovative driving force behind the excellent Weill tribute album Lost in the Stars (released in 1985) and the varied and amazing September Songs CD sequel that would shake up the Jazz/Pop world in 1997. Willner wanted Gil to do a new version of Mahagonny! (The mind boggles at what might have been… the whole opera given the old Evans musical magic? The Songspiel only? Or even just the right song or two…)
Maybe Gil had finally heard the rumblings among fans and Jazz critics,
"Evans belongs back in the studio, where greater focus is a prerequisite, and where arrangers are in their element… He deserves an opportunity to pick the soloists for an entire album of Mingus or Ellington or Billy Strayhorn or Kurt Weill, for whom he has long shown a special affinity…"
But none of that occurred. Instead Gil cut a disc of duets with Steve Lacy and a pair of fine, old-style-Evans orchestral CDs with Laurent Cugny's Big Band Lumiere. Then he died.
Gil's assistants and musicians and fans continue to ponder his musical choices and mysterious innovations. The piano trio known as Tethered Moon issued a terrific CD of Weill songs in 1995; all three musicians (Masabumi Kikuchi, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian) in some manner had played or recorded with Gil.
And in late August, a few weeks ago, Ryan Truesdell and his hand-picked orchestra of New York musicians cut a dozen previously unrecorded and/or unknown Evans arrangements ranging from the Forties up to the Sixties. The resulting album will be issued in 2012, Gil's own centennial year.
Among the tunes recorded was a recently discovered alternate arrangement of "The Barbara Song," this unknown version
The Kurt Weill conduit continues.
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My thanks to all who actually read all five parts in this diffuse saga. I tried to make it vaguely amusing, even surprising in a few spots, with a changing perspective on the people and music. Maybe I got in over my head, but the float vest worked... and here we are, finally ready to move on.
5 comments:
- Alan Kurtz said...
Wow! I've never heard before that Gil threw away his magnificent "My Ship" arrangement. Was it accidental?
I did read once that Miles tossed all the nonet charts; but when somebody asked Gil about that, he laughed it off, saying Miles had them in his basement but didn't want anybody poking around down there.
- September 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- I Witness said...
In the late Nineties someone turned up a copy of the "My Ship" arrangement, so the family has it again, also mutual access to the scores squirreled away by Miles. Gil's older son is another Miles, which probably helped. Evans' bored dismissal of accumulated papers evidently went on for some time. Who knows what unknown treasures were tossed?
- September 26, 2011 at 11:32 PM
- Steve Provizer said...
Fascinating... DId the Doors ever acknowledge their debt to Jambangle? I'm not that big a fan, but Eartha Kitt does a very good job on the Barbara Song-http://youtu.be/QlOw-OwqnlU
- September 27, 2011 at 12:30 PM
- I Witness said...
You can bet the Elektra lawyers told them to acknowledge nothing and make no statements detrimental to their legal position. Anita Evans wanted Gil to sue, but as usual he was more amused than miffed--just couldn't be bothered--kinda like Ellington when Jimmy Forrest pilfered the tune he called "Night Train" but which was Duke's "Happy Go Lucky Local" (I think). Both leaders were more concerned with their next piece of music (and maybe who'd be playing it), not what they had written before. "No ancient history, please; what's next?"
- September 27, 2011 at 7:35 PM
- Steve Provizer said...
I know it's very late for a Weill/jazz comment, but I just dipped back into Escalator Over the hill and, cripes, listen to this: http://youtu.be/WyLoMmQsrz4
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
TIBS / Whisky Live 2012
Post by Stefan of Tokyo Whisky Hub.
While the second day of the inaugural Tokyo International Bar Show (a revamped 12th edition of Whisky Live Tokyo) is in full swing, here are a few impressions of the first day. This review will focus on the whisky side of the event, which is not to say the cocktail/bartending side was of little interest – far from it! I actually thought the new formula – one hall centered on whisky, the other offering a variety of cocktails and other spirits – made this edition an even better experience than in previous years. I found myself shuttling back and forth between the two halls: there's only so much whisky one can assess fairly (i.e. with a fresh palate) before the law of diminishing returns starts to assert itself, so the cocktail section offered frequent, well-needed breaks from the sensory assaults of the hard-hitting malts.
Most of the early birds on the first day (many of whom arrived hours before the official opening) were there to make sure they didn't miss out on the TIBS Kinen bottlings. There were five of them, and fifteen complete sets were offered at a discount – these sold out in a matter of minutes. Of the five, the Venture Whisky bottlings (Chichibu and Hanyu quarter casks, limited to 164 and 167 bottles respectively) were the most interesting ones. I was very keen to try the Karuizawas, because unlike most companies who focus on producing excellent single malts (i.e. vattings of several casks), with the occasional stand-out cask being bottled as a single cask, the No. 1 Drinks (owners of the complete Karuizawa stock since a couple of months) approach has always been to bottle single casks, so I was naturally curious to see where their recent multi-vintages (a single malt by any other name…) would fit into their portfolio. The need to vat casks is clearly enforced by circumstances: when you buy the entire inventory of a distillery there are bound to be casks of lesser quality. I found the two TIBS Karuizawas – a vatting of casks from the last two vintages, married for a number of months in two different casks – to be very similar with only the slightest difference in nuance, and certainly not of the high quality we have come to expect of Karuizawa. Some people feel that expectation is unrealistic, the irony being it was fed by the selection of stellar single casks by No. 1 Drinks. In a way, they raised the bar to such a high level that they are now forced to use all the tricks of the trade to make casks of lower quality into "great" whisky. (Another interesting angle of comparison is the pricing: compare the 1999-2000 vatting for TIBS priced at 8,000 yen with 1999 single-cask #867 which currently retails in the UK for a staggering 300 pounds or about 38,000 yen!) In any case, the TIBS Karuizawas failed to impress me. I found the Yamazaki puncheon to be similarly flat and uninspiring. Bottom line: go for the Chichibu and Hanyu chibidaru bottlings – they are of outstanding quality. There probably aren't many left, so I wouldn't waste time if I were you.
As in previous years, there were also special bottlings for the event by the Craft Distillers (the group of distilleries represented in Japan by Whisk-e, i.e. Arran, BenRiach, Bladnoch, Glendronach, Kilchoman and Springbank). For me, the Glendronach and the Springbank bottlings were the most impressive. Glendronach had selected a 2002 ex-bourbon cask, not the usual ex-sherry heavyweight! A few ex-bourbon casks of the same vintage have been released so far - some for the European market (whisky festivals and/or distributors in Belgium, and LMdW in France) - and one made its way to Japan two years ago, but this one is really quite something: it beautifully displays the power of the Glendronach spirit, subtly complemented by notes picked up from the cask. A real stunner, in my opinion. I was similarly impressed with the Springbank offering, a 1995 (bottled in 2011) 1st fill ex-sherry hogshead: wonderful prune and raisin notes in the foreground with all kinds of things going on in the background (too complex to put one's finger on in the hustle and bustle of the show).
Two of Japan's "craft distillers" used the show as a platform to gauge response to (possible) future bottlings: Hombo Shuzo (of Mars Distillery in Shinshu) and Venture Whisky (of Hanyu and Chichibu fame). Mars distillery is one of two part-time whisky distilleries in Japan - meaning they only produce whisky for part of the year - the other one being Eigashima. After a hiatus of 19 years, Mars started distilling again early last year. They only distill for three months every year (January to March) and have just finished their second season. They fill about 150 casks per season, and seem to have taken a leaf out of Akuto-san's book since they restarted, as they told me they are experimenting with many different types and sizes of casks (including small casks). Very promising, I think! They plan to release two new single-casks from the "ancien regime": a 1985 ex-sherry cask (#162, 60.7% abv) and a 1989 American white oak cask (#1041, 57.9%) later this month. They are priced about the same as comparable Nikka single-casks: 18,900 yen and 15,750 yen respectively. The ex-sherry cask is absolutely gorgeous - a must-have bottling, one of their best so far, in my opinion. The other one was more subdued in character, but intriguing nonetheless - one I definitely want to try again in peace and quiet. I also learned that there is another customer-exclusive bottling available in Japan (other than the Seijo Ishii one I wrote about a few weeks ago), but this one is a bit harder to get hold of. It's a vatted malt, created exclusively for liquor store Ushijima Sakaten in Kagoshima. As good an excuse as any for a trip to Kyushu, I reckon.
Akuto-san had brought no fewer than 6 possible future Chichibu bottlings to the show. A look at the pictures should give you an idea of the variety. The most impressive of the six - and for some people (including myself) the pick of the whole show - was the Mizunara Puncheon. If this isn't bottled soon, I think Akuto-san will find fans knocking down the door of his distillery. It's always a treat to try a mizunara (i.e. Japanese oak) cask bottling, but this one was superb beyond description. As some of you may know, mizunara casks are expensive. Most mizunara used for whisky maturation comes from Hokkaido. You can find the oak in other parts of Japan as well, but it's not of sufficiently high quality to mature whisky in. Staves are prepared in Hokkaido in two cuts, thin and thick. The thick ones are so thick that the only possible way to make them into casks is to go for the large-size puncheon. The cost however is quite high. Until recently, Akuto-san ordered mizunara-casks from a factory in Sendai. Lately, however, he started experimenting more with using mizunara oak for the cask heads only: it's much easier to fit casks with such heads at the distillery itself, and it's more cost-effective. I also had a chance to speak to some of the distillery workers about the chibidaru, the "original quarter cask". These are quite simply hogsheads that have been shortened by removing the top part (above the head hoop) and the bottom part (below the bottom hoop). They contain about 150 litres, and at the time of writing there are about 50 of them in active duty at the Chichibu distillery. It was obvious - both from the quality and originality of the whisky samples and from the queues at the Venture Whisky booth at the show - that Chichibu is one of the brightest stars in the whisky firmament at the moment. Exciting times up there in Saitama!
The Bar Show also offered the chance to try some exciting recent and forthcoming bottlings from Scotland for the Japanese market. Shinanoya, in particular, seems tireless in its efforts to keep bringing the best of the best to these shores. At the show, they had their recent 1985 Benriach and their 1991 Glenfarclas Family Cask bottlings open for tasting - both absolutely superb. They also had a forthcoming 40-year old Benriach (1971), a joint bottling with BBI Japan, available for tasting. It'll retail for just under 50,000 yen, but I'm sure it's worthy every yen.
Other personal highlights of the show included the Laddie Ten (Bruichladdich, that is), Taketsuru 35 and a wonderful pairing of Talisker 10 with Lindt "Sea Salt" chocolate (something I want to try with a top quality chocolate of the same type - for example, the sea salt chocolate I had the pleasure of discovering at Puccini Bonboni in Amsterdam when I was there last fall). I was very happy, though, to find one of my all-time favourites hidden amongst the bottles at Diageo's booth. The Diageo people in Japan routinely take it to all the events they attend. It never screams for attention and it's either free or very modestly priced (200 yen at the show), but it's a true gem. Like a message in a bottle from a not-so-distant past when the release of a truly great whisky didn't automatically lead to it being raved about by reviewers and bloggers (guilty as charged!), instantly selling out, being snapped up by collectors and offered on auction sites: the Dalwhinnie 29yo (57.8% abv), bottled almost 10 years ago and still available.
We'll have to wait another year to see an event with the same flair, appeal and intensity as the Tokyo International Bar Show / Whisky Live. There's just nothing like it, and it keeps getting better and better. I, for one, can't wait to see what marvels the organizers will throw at us next year.
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The main difference as a tank between running instances and tanking in raids is that in raids you get to work with more people. In a raid, you are part of a tanking team. You will very likely have a private tanking chat channel, which will be used for assignments as well as small talk.
You will probably be given an assignment on every trash pull as well as every boss fight. But there are some general rules of etiquette when working with other tanks — people won't necessarily tell you these in advance, but you'll quickly find out when you have crossed the line.
1. Never taunt a mob off another tank (unless by prior arrangement), it's rude. It is the tanking equivalent of telling someone they're doing a bad job and you could do better. If you taunt something off another tank by mistake, apologise after the pull. We all do it, but it's polite to say sorry.
Note: this is a little different in Warhammer because taunting makes you do more damage. In that game it's more common to have taunting rotations (or just assume everyone will taunt when their taunt comes up).
2. In a trash pull, tank the mobs close together unless you know in advance that one has to be taken to a safer distance. This makes it easier for the dps to use AE, easier for them to move from one mob to the next, and also easier for other tanks to use AE parts of their rotations (why would you want this? It's extra damage/ debuffs as much as anything else). If you insist on taking your mobs off to their own special corner without prior arrangement, expect to get some snark.
3. If you're in a raid and you know another tank hasn't tanked a particular mob before, make sure they know any special tanking tricks that they need to know. The raid leader may not be a tank and may not think to remind them.
4. Tanks are a TEAM. You have to work together. You stand as a team, you fall as a team. It's not a competitive sport like dps (or healing, although that really shouldn't be competitive either). You will tend to find that most tanks are pretty supportive of other tanks — there are a LOT of helpful blogs, websites, bbposts, gear guides, and so on. Yes there's a lot of player support for most sides of the game, and raids are teams too, but tanks stand together. Don't refuse a request for advice from a less experienced or lower level tank.
5. If you see another tank in trouble or low on health, be ready to step in if needed. This can go against rule 1, but it's OK if you saved a wipe.
Tanking is like sex, it's more fun with partners 🙂 Happy tanking!


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Surrounded by technology but pressed for time, even top guns get off-target.
The goal of any maintenance team is to maximize production output. When this doesn't happen, what's the cause? In nearly every case, it's a departure from maintenance basics.
Sometimes, the very nature of the assigned work is at fault, such as making a maintenance crew pull double duty as a construction crew. Consider a plant that hosts the division's corporate offices for 13 plants. The division vice president assumed the maintenance department was her private labor force for building pilot projects, making signs, and doing odd jobs. She misunderstood a core principle of assigning work: You measure the dollar value of a maintenance worker's time in terms of production time saved, not dollars saved by not outsourcing.
Overloading maintenance people to save a few dollars on a construction project forces them to cut corners. A quick visual inspection misses something a thorough inspection would have caught. This results in 3 hr of downtime at $250,000 an hour, but you saved $171.32 on a sign-making project.
Let's look at another example. Squeezed for time after attending two days of seminars, a maintenance engineer quickly reviews test data, missing a voltage imbalance problem that toasts air compressor motors. This error results in a 12-hr plant shutdown.
Doing things right is not enough. You must focus instead on doing the right things. Sometimes, that means questioning management. You must enforce the principles of maintenance, and review requests for work against them. Then assign and prioritize work accordingly. Let's look at what you can control.
Visual inspections. How can you ensure good visual inspections? You can't do this by edict. We all know youprobably won't see a problem. The chances of penalty and pressure for unfinished work is high. Thus, the usual decision is, "This was fine the last time I checked it, so it's okay now." A typical inspection form asks you to check a box that says "okay" for something like transformer oil level. To eliminate inaccurate assessments, your form should ask for the actual level in units of measurement. The sidebar outlines how to make a good inspection form. Remember, maintenance people are not interchangeable. You must respect individual skill levels, and actively develop craft capability.
Safety. Since we plan maintenance activities, how is an accident possible? If you wade through reams of accident reports, you see certain causes repeatedly. Building safety steps into maintenance procedures reduces maintenance-related accidents. Training also helps, but the most important factor is management commitment to personally ensure workers avoid unsafe acts; one on one, face to face.
Grounding. Problems attributed to harmonics, bad power from the utility, bad equipment, and gremlins are usually due to poor grounding and bonding. Common errors include neutrals bonded at multiple places, using earth as a bonding jumper, and grounding system deterioration. Therefore, make inspection of the grounding and lightning protection system routine maintenance.
Testing and trending. Today's powerful test equipment is bargain-priced. Yet, hundreds of case histories reveal an amazing lack of basic testing. But, don't go overboard; evaluate each possible test with a cost benefit analysis. One consulting engineering company I know, Iris Power Engineering, has about 80 different tests for a motor. Most of these are impractical for a 10hp mixer motor, but many apply in other cases. After baseline testing, you should plot trends to look for emerging problems.
Predictive maintenance (PdM). A natural result of testing and trending, PdM allows you to assess equipment health and determine when a failure is likely to occur. This "condition-based maintenance" maximizes production uptime and the economic life of the equipment that makes production possible. PdM reduces maintenance costs, unplanned downtime, and unnecessary intrusion into equipment. PdM can get you off the "repair and replace emergency breakdown merry-go-round."
Preventive maintenance (PM). Before PdM, we scheduled PM by time-related methods (e.g., calendar days or hours of service). These resource-wasting methods couldn't address equipment wear. By basing PM tasks on PdM results, you spend your maintenance efforts fixing problems before they happen. You also reduce what was once the leading cause of downtime: intrusive maintenance work.
Reviewing procedures. Procedures don't necessarily reflect best practices. So, make it a policy to get feedback on each procedure as workers perform it. Make the feedback process easy and quick. For example, handwritten notes may do the trick. The less formal the process, the more effective it is. Don't rely on a procedure review task force, because historically they don't accomplish much. Everyone should look for ways to eliminate nonessential tasks and improve ways of doing essential tasks. Maintenance managers can improve procedures by getting out from behind desks and foregoing non-essential meetings to observe work in the field.
Training. "What you don't know won't hurt you" doesn't apply to maintenance. Many of us assume training is a function of how much we've budgeted for expensive offsite classes. Think beyond this mindset. For example, using On the Job Training (OJT) enables you to assign a trained person as a tutor to someone who needs specific training on a certain task. To realize the full potential of OJT, assign specific goals and checklists to both workers.
Among your other options are online courses, assigned reading of technical books and articles, and vendor classes. You may find another company needs training on subject X (which your people know inside out), but has an expert on subject Y (which you need training on). Networking inprofessional organizations, such as the IEEE and NETA, helps you find such opportunities.
Analysis. Testing is useless if you don't use the results. If you can't understand the results, don't run the tests. Employees capable of understanding test results have left many downsized companies. If this is a problem you struggle with, an engineering consulting firm can help you. Use common tools such as Pareto charts to analyze test results. Then, form an action plan.
Action. One power monitor consultant has a list of cases where facilities went down for a problem that the power monitor had identified ahead of time. When you treat a power monitor as a wall ornament rather than as a tool for deciding what actions to take, you miss the point of having one. And you miss the point of having a maintenance department. "Paralysis by analysis" happens when you spend too much time managing information rather than acting on it. Instead of being distracted by technology, use it to help focus your efforts on those actions most likely to improve production. Such a philosophy is a basic principle of effective maintenance.


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If you would like to copy or scan a literary work for your class, follow these steps:
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If the work was written before 1923, it is in the public domain and can be used on an unlimited basis without infringing on copyright. Shakespeare, Dante, Austen, and Twain are no longer collecting royalities on their works! If the work was written after 1923, proceed to Step 2.
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You can use the Library Catalog to determine which print and electronic books are available through the library. For help finding specific plays, poems, or short stories, contact a reference librarian.
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Using an excerpt from a literary work in a class meets one of the four criteria for fair use (purpose) but fails to meet another (the nature of the work). There are two other factors that must be considered: How long is the work? Would this use complement or compete with sales of the original?
If the library owns a copy of the work, then copying or scanning a short work or an excerpt of a work may be fair use. Publishers' guidelines are not legally binding but may be used as a rule of thumb for an acceptable amount:
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Not more than one short poem, article, story, essay or two excerpts should be copied from the same author, nor more than three from the same collective work or periodical volume during one class term.
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The banks lent $5.4 billion for wind projects last year, a fall of 36% on 2011, and counter to the steady increase in investment in the sector since 2007.
This fall came in spite of a 19% increase in overall renewables investment to $108.9 billion. Wind generation was overtaken by hydroelectric power as the form of renewables to receive the most investment.
BNEF analyst Abraham Louw said: "The fall is releated to policy changes which are particularly acute in the US with the imminent end of the production tax credit. This has had a serous effect on development banks' willingness to invest in wind.
"We do not expect to see any further blips, and investment should start rising again this year. It should also be remembered that this money is still buying more in terms of megawatts due to the drop in the cost of wind."
Since large development banks like the European Investment Bank have ruled out investing in fossil fuels and an increased interest in renewables from banks in developing countries, the report predicts that there will be an overall increase in investment in renewable energy of between 15 and 30% in 2013.
Germany's KFW Bank tops the list of investors in clean energy with $34.4 billion injected in 2012, with China Development Bank coming in second with $26 billion invested.
Investment flows between developing countries reached an all-time high of $7.5 billion in 2012, not far behind lending from developed countries to developing countries.


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- Oscar said...
Damn well said.
Though I have to say that at the very least we have some progress since people were willing to condemn what the guy did.
- dkh said...
Two points-
Firstly, I think you missed the mark about places where it is okay to be nasty, sexist, mean, whatever. I have no problem with venting and joking and so forth in a closed context. The caveat is that it has to be something understood. For instance - a friend got me to join her Facebook group. This group was mean, racist, sexist, all of that. And the jokes? They were FUNNY. But I told the friend I had to leave because I didn't know them, I couldn't personally tell that they were joking, and so the only way I could really listen to it was to pretend, or in other words, to lie to myself. The problem here is that these guys are combining their desire for a nasty and mean club (I can appreciate such a thing) with their desire to dominate a large venue (fighting competitions). Can't have it both ways, guys.
Secondly, Leland Yee isn't the bad guy, and I wish people would stop ragging on him. He has gone on record as saying he is perfectly okay with completely depraved video games, and is even okay with parents getting them for their kids, just that this decision-making should be in the hands of the parents. It's not like "Kids can't smoke." It's "Kids can smoke, but only with their parents' okay." Call it what you want, but he's not trying to censor the medium or attack gamers. We can disagree with him, but he isn't the bad guy.
Who cares this much. Let natural selection take its course. If someone does something to you, then stand up for yourself and do something about it. You dont need "Movie BOB" to go off on this for you. We go from the bully SF guy to the bully Movie Bob guy on the other side of it. Nothing Bob said really does another to help this out its just Bob going off on it. If you are going to get all up in arms about it then do something about it not just talk about it.
- OJ said...
Hey! I feel insulted.
Samurai Pizza Cats is not some obscure TV show - at least not for my generation. It was one of the First TV shows for kids in the early years of cable TV here in Israel and it was one of the best. It's the only show where the dubbing in hebrew is better then the English dubbing.
Just a presentation note: Try not to hammer a point of how it's not okay to ignore the many ghouls "we" apparently have in our gaming culture closet while simultaneously kicking off your program in a tone that matches a stereotypical disappointed mother who now has to figure out how to hide THIS particular bad incident of Billy's from the rest of the neighborhood's eyes. It colors the tone of your persuasion as harmful to your objective.
I really cant belive this guy has gotten away with thinking like this for so long.
Also, to the people saying he isnt a bad guy and doesnt deserve the hate...really? When DOES a person become a bad guy? So you arent a bad person if you are acting mean and blatantly sexist at a large event in front of a female and then act as if this is not only ok, but to be expected and part of the very identity of this games community? And your response to the suggestion of removing it is to reference a game community with relatively good manners as something to be feared?...
Does a guy have to go to Dr.Doom levels of evil and dickish before he is officially a "bad" guy?
Good episode, Bob.
Should we take this as a prelude to a Game Overthinker episode covering this issue in full?
Something to add to the specific Cross Assault incident: It's shocking to me that no one from Capcom stepped in. The girl in question actually expressed she wanted to leave much sooner because of how uncomfortable she felt but she was contractually obligated to stay.
She expressed how she felt during one of the streams (I believe day 5) but the guy who harassing her defended his behavior towards her. Her forfeiting her match was clearly what she saw as her only exit.
How the hell did Capcom allow this and not step up to put the creep in his place?
Really, unless there is some strange stipulation in the contract she signed, she should sue. She was being sexually harassed for days and all of it was being streamed online for the world to see and she could not leave if she wanted to. How utterly humiliating and Capcom allowed all of it to continue!
- biomechanical923 said...
I think nerd culture is so hostile toward "outsiders" because they're trying to carve out a space for themselves in a world that has rejected them. I really don't see what's wrong with that. Other cultures get to create "safe spaces" for themselves without being accused of being exclusionary.
Well said and good stuff. Nothing new, but that says more about the community and how they refuse to listen then about this.
One other thing I want to add:
I came across this video that I think should be shared and viewed because I believe it shows the other side of the coin. The positive side of this community that doesn't get shown or reported on as much as it should.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPhDl60y_Xs
This is to show that not only are all gamers not like that sexual harassing and bigoted creep from the Cross Assault incident but that he is completely wrong when he says that disgusting behavior like his are integral to the fighting game environment and fighting game experience.
- Elessar said...
Easily one of your best Big Picture episodes. Notttttt much to say past that.
- Skins Elliott said...
Well said there Bob!
Been having way to many chat of late around this subject and its nice to know im not the only one that has been trying to make this world a better place... if not one person at a time
- William Righetti said...
Damn glad to see someone do a piece, and speak up about that shit! Because it is shit, and when you leave it around and let it ripen and fester, it starts to stink. That shit and it's stink are a stain and a dishonor on our medium, and the cultural identity thereof, and I for one will not miss it and the mentality that breeds it, when it is finally gone. From the gaming culture and any other culture on this earth.
- Aiddon said...
Good on you sir. I'm also glad you bitch-slapped that cowardly "free speech" excuse idiots use to run away from an argument. I love free speech, but having that right also demands you use it responsibly. Also, some guys from Level Up who did commentary on a stream called Wednesdays Night Fights went a little overboard with remarks regarding this incident and they have been punished by having their sponsorship from Shoryuken.com (probably the BIGGEST fighting game fansite) pulled. That is harsh but just about the only way they'd learn
IF nerds have been chastised and rejected by society, I don't think the threat of chastisement or rejection will have any sway.
Been there, done that.
Also, racism, classism, sectarianism, elitism, and nationalistic jingoism, all exist within every single group known to man, and this includes feminism (heavy anti-male sentiment in more extreme circles), Rich and Poor share a mutual hatred and disgust for each other, nations have developed stereotypes about each other, and so on.
The problem is these "-isms" are acceptable policy positions for all these groups. Feminists can grind on Men for everything under the sun, up to and including blaming an entire gender on rape.
Rich and Poor are both allowed to grind on each other for ruining the economy and being shiftless and lazy, even if neither are completely true of every member.
Intelligent people get to lord their gift of greater understanding as superiority over "inferior minds," including calling them retarded, like I've heard you say before, Bob. (Guess what else isn't OK, Bob. Also, guess what you're guilty of.)
However, a group of men can't ever let anything that bothers them about women be known. Or ANYBODY for that matter. For example, it's OK for ethnic groups to hate on "whitey," because they can lay their oppression at the feet of the white people. It's OK for feminists to shit all over men, actually get away with a position that assumes every man is a potential rapist until proven otherwise, call them all violent, and so on and so forth.
But Lord damn the man, presumably white, who's suffered at the hands of any minority group. He must suffer in silence, unable to even speak his grievances. The last acceptable bigotry is against men.
Anonymous said:
"IF nerds have been chastised and rejected by society, I don't think the threat of chastisement or rejection will have any sway."
Agreed, you do unto others as they have done unto you. That's called social justice.
- Patchwork Poltergeist said...
I think nerd culture is so hostile toward "outsiders" because they're trying to carve out a space for themselves in a world that has rejected them. I really don't see what's wrong with that.
You're right. There's nothing wrong with that.
Other cultures get to create "safe spaces" for themselves without being accused of being exclusionary.
Here's where there's something wrong with that.
Just because you've made a safe place for yourself doesn't mean that you're suddenly immune to criticism, nor should it be. It doesn't suddenly mean they can't be excluding to other people, either. There's no reason they shouldn't be accused of exclusion if they're guilty of it.
Why shouldn't I also be welcome in this safe place? Should I also have a place to safely play videogames openly as myself without being barraged by slurs? I'm not an outsider in this club, I've been here since the 90's, so shouldn't I also have the same benefits? Shouldn't I also be allowed to have a shelter from the outside world to be a nerd in peace?
Because call me crazy, but being singled out to be raped sure wouldn't make me feel very safe in this "safe" place.
@ Patchwork Poltergeist
You're contradicting yourself here. Gamers don't like having their space invaded by the people who ostracize them in public. We're in this community to get away from that shit.
Gamers want a peaceful place to game without being harassed by the outside. The premise is similar to the idea that battered women's shelters don't like husbands coming around asking questions.
- biomechanical923 said...
"Should I also have a place to safely play videogames openly as myself without being barraged by slurs? I'm not an outsider in this club, I've been here since the 90's, so shouldn't I also have the same benefits? Shouldn't I also be allowed to have a shelter from the outside world to be a nerd in peace?"
Yes you should be able to do all those things. If you don't make fun of people in public, then obviously I wasn't talking about you.
Anonymous said: The problem is these "-isms" are acceptable policy positions for all these groups. Feminists can grind on Men for everything under the sun, up to and including blaming an entire gender on rape.
You're describing a false equivalence here. I understand your point that people with privilege (people who are white, male, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgendered, and/or wealthy) face a greater backlash when making exclusionary statements than people without privilege. This is true. But the reason for this is that it's a greater problem. People with privilege hold insitutionalised power over people without. Institutionalised racism, classism and sexism are very real things, and in the effort to eliminate them, the focus is on members of privileged groups because only they have the power to stop feeding the system of institutionalised prejudice.
(note: I am not saying that all members of privileged groups are prejudiced. I am saying that those members of privileged groups who are prejudiced are the only ones who can stop it, because nobody can force anyone else to stop being prejudiced).
Does that mean that it's okay for those without privilege to harass/insult/verbally abuse members of privileged groups? Absolutely not. Yes, it certainly happens, and no, it doesn't get as much attention, because it's not as pressing an issue. But they certainly aren't acceptable policy positions. You are 100% correct when you point out that intelligent people shouldn't lord their intelligence over others. You are not correct when you say that they "get to" do it. Case in point: You are calling Bob out on his doing exactly that. Which is a good thing!
By the way, feminism is not, in any way, anti-male. There certainly are people who hate men and who blame all men for rape, and many of them may even call themselves feminists, but they do not represent the feminist movement as a whole. The feminist movement aims to convince people that everyone should be treated equally, regardless of gender. There is a lot of anger against the mysoginistic system, but anger against innocent men is misplaced. And most feminists understand that.
- RPX said...
While I agree with the sentiment of this video, it is in no way OK for a group to be singled out for an aspect of themselves that they ether cannot change or should not have to as it has nothing to do with a third party.
I do however have an issue with the way that this particular issue has centred around the events that occurred during Cross Assault.
The majority of the gaming press have based their reporting of this issue on the comments of one man and the tweets of one woman. There does not seem to have been an attempt to consult the other people on the show, or within the community that is being hung out to dry.
As with many other serious issues that face gaming/geek culture as soon as a scape goat appears they are tarred and feathered so everybody else can sit back and pretend that this isn't an issue in their community.
Sexism and other sorts of bigotry exist in every gaming community, even those with a greater perceived professionalism. It exists on XBL and PSN in perhaps its rawest form, within almost every genre of gaming communities are tainted with bad apples.
These people quite rightly should be exposed and wherever possible shown the error of their ways. However to alienate group due to how an issue is reported only makes them more insular and defensive, less likely to make the changes that need to happen because they feel attacked.
Communities by their very nature are fluid, and as people come and go from them ideas change and as demographics within gaming expand these cases will inevitably become fewer and fewer in number. That is not to say we all shouldn't do what we can though.
A great example of the FGC looking at itself is this recent show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVgGJkMxG4&feature=player_embedded they are still new to casting so please don't judge the lack of technical presentation rather than the content.
Rather than simply men discussing how this is an issue it asks some of the women within the community how they feel that gaming and the fighting game community can move on.
That said Bob, I enjoy your videos immensely and look forward to seeing more in the future.
- Megabyte said...
You're describing a false equivalence here. I understand your point that people with privilege (people who are white, male, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgendered, and/or wealthy) face a greater backlash when making exclusionary statements than people without privilege. This is true. But the reason for this is that it's a greater problem. People with privilege hold insitutionalised power over people without.
Um... no... privilege has nothing to do with any of those things on an individual level (and a hell of a lot less then it used to on larger scales... at least here in my state and in the US at large). That is a fallback statement many use to basically gloss over things. Nothing more.
Look, if you want to say it's wrong, fine. It's wrong on all counts then. There is no "well this race/sexual orientation/gender has more power" that can justify giving other groups more of a pass. There just isn't.
Furthermore, all or nothing is the ONLY way you are going to breed it out. If that kid who happens to be racially (or any other way) privileged sees only he cant say these things, what do you think he will think about it? Either he will think there is something wrong with him (damaging him) or he will learn to hate them for basically being allowed to hate him. In essence you BREED THE VERY THING YOU ARE FIGHTING.
Think about it.
Megabyte says: If that kid who happens to be racially (or any other way) privileged sees only he cant say these things, what do you think he will think about it? Either he will think there is something wrong with him (damaging him) or he will learn to hate them for basically being allowed to hate him.
But my point is that they aren't allowed to hate him. I'm absolutley not advocating hate speech by anyone, toward anyone. I was explaining the reason certain hate speech gets more attention than others. But this does not make hate speech from any particular group any more excusable. It SHOULD be called out, and it SHOULD be condemned. Always. You and I agree on this. I apologise if I didn't make that clear in my previous post.
So when we have this very justified outrage at this gamer's misogyny, for Anonymous to stand up and argue that MEN are the real victims in this modern world is nothing short of bullshit. It has nothing to do with the topic of this video, and it's also not even close to being true. If a woman makes a blanket statement calling all men violent, and Anonymous were to call her out on it, he would most certainly find agreement and support. It may not get a ton of media attention, but he would not be forced to suffer in silence, as he puts it.
(This is Megabyte... just not at home and not trusting of work's AV enough to log in)
Now you see, we took different points from his argument. You took that men are the real victims (and we agree, this is horseshit... well outside of divorce issues, but that is unrelated to this... just a footnote). I took home the idea of silent acceptance (the whole no media attention thing).
And to use your own example, yes, he would find plenty of support for calling her out, but would her actions hang over her? Or would it be over the next day (or week at most)? I guarantee a reversed roll the guy would never live it down, and that is really what Im taking home there... and seems a rather legitimate point, and a point that I think only breeds the very thing we can both agree is plain wrong since it at least shows the appearance of one being okay and the other not.
To Megabyte:
Okay! I get where you're coming from. And I agree with what you're saying; I also think that all hate speech should be publicly condemned. I just can't get as excited over this issue as over the issue of institutionalised sexism/racism/classism. For me, this issue is just so much bigger and more destructive. So my first reaction to comments like yours is "Well, you're missing the point!" Even when what you're saying is very valid.
Anyway, thank you for a civil discussion!
- Megabyte said...
The pleasure was all mine. Not often you see someone out there who wants to remain civil... especially the anonymous world of the interwebz.
- Aqua said...
@Patchwork Poltergeist
I just love how people actually READ what you posted before responding.
Like, that bit about contradicting yourself. Isn't THAT response in actuality contradicting ITSELF? What's the point of making a peaceful place to game without being harassed by the outside, when you're being harassed on the inside as well? Kind of counter-productive. That's exactly the point. Gamers who don't want to be ostracized SHOUDLN'T be ostracized within their own community.
Patchwork was quoting you because they agreed you, genius. Don't turn against your allies in a debate, that TOO is counter-productive.
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