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Get ready for the subcommittee of all subcommittees.
No, we're serious.
The House Ways and Means Proviso Subcommittee is scheduled to meet Tuesday. It is a subcommittee made up of other subcommittees -- the seven subcommittees that have been taking testimony for the past month about various state agency budget requests.
The first half of the budget is everything you would think a budget would be: lots of numbers. But the second half of the budget is provisos -- or the directions on how to spend the money in the first half of the budget.
The proviso subcommittee's job is to finalize all of these directions before the full budget goes before the House Ways and Means Committee.
Provisos can be silly. Previous ones have required a human being to answer phones at state agencies and have banned the governor from serving junk food at the governor's mansion.
But they can also be serious, like one of the biggest changes in the state's education system this year -- using public money to send special needs children to private schools.
The meeting is at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday in Blatt 521 and will be lived streamed.
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Nikki Haley fires away Tuesday: The governor announced she will sign the bill that would allow South Carolinians with concealed-weapons permits to carry firearms into bars and restaurants on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. Full story
Gov. Nikki Haley speaks at a State House bill signing last week.
A first that could be second: If she wins in June's primary, Meka Childs, a candidate for state superintendent of education, would not be the first African-American woman to receive the GOP nomination for a statewide constitutional office, as her campaign announced last week. A campaign spokesman said the Childs camp did its research, consulting with GOP leaders and historians to find out if Childs would be the first. No other names surfaced. But Senate President Pro Tempore John Courson, R-Richland, recalled one. Full story
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Sen. Alex English? Rep. Darius Rucker, Dabo Swinney or Stephen Colbert? Mayor Vanna White?: With "American Idol" star Clay Aiken deciding to run for Congress in North Carolina, The Buzz wondered what some S.C. celebrities might offer for elected office. Full story
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Thinking about evolution and climate change critically
Debate about revising state's K-12 science standards could end Monday. The process of updating the 2005 standards has included whether standards asking students to analyze evolution and climate change should include the adverb "critically." Some scientists have criticized the word for making the concepts controversial.
At last month's state Board of Education meeting, board member Neil Willis of Boiling Brings tried to add "creation by design" to the standards as an alternative theory of evolution. That motion failed. But the state Board of Education approved the standards with word "critically" and returned them to the S.C. Education Oversight Committee, which will consider them at a Monday meeting.
The two boards must approve them before the updated standards take effect. The meeting is at 1 p.m. in 433 Blatt. Read the agenda.
House on furlough
The S.C. House is on furlough this week (not a bad idea considering the wintry weather coming), though some budget meetings are planned (see above). The House is trying to staying ahead of its budget work after missing a week of sessions with the snow storm a couple of weeks ago. The state Senate will be all here with major finance and judiciary committees scheduled for Tuesday.
Gov. Nikki Haley's public schedule
• 1 p.m.: Attend an economic event, Palmetto Primary Care Physicians in Summerville
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Tussle over paying for SC colleges: South Carolina's public colleges and Legislature are locked in a fight over how much the state should pay for higher education. Legislators are frustrated the state's 33 public colleges continue to ask for more money while also raising their tuition rates. Colleges said they have little choice but to raise tuition because the General Assembly cut their state funding during the economic downturn. Full story
Fees considered for hybrid, electric cars: South Carolina lawmakers are considering annual fees, $60 for hybrids and $120 per year for electric vehicles. Across the nation, state legislatures are grasping for ways to collect revenue from alternative fuel vehicles, as purchases of the vehicles go up and gas tax collections go down. Full story
Later gator: Local alligator meat could be the next foodie niche in South Carolina. The Captive Alligator Propagation Act, sponsored by Sen. Brad Hutto, D-Orangeburg, creates the legal framework for someone in South Carolina to set up a farming operation to raise alligators for slaughter for their meat and hide. Full story
Supplying corruption?: South Carolina's ethics debate in recent days hasn't addressed the issue of using campaign dollars for office-related costs, which a watchdog called too broad and tempting for lawmakers. Full story
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The legacy of Jean Toal: S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal, re-elected to the state's top judicial position this week at age 70, remains a powerful mentor to women several generations removed and in fields as diverse as law, advertising and sports. Full story
Jean Toal
Midlands governments work together on roads money: Richland, Lexington and Columbia leaders have joined together to request at least $280 million in state money to improve road access to the airport, make USC safer for students walking to class and eliminate the wait by drivers blocked at downtown railroad crossings. Full story
Putting some ketchup back in Florence's bottle: Florence County will retrieve 74 percent of the $2 million in incentives offered to H.J. Heinz, which announced in November that it is closing its Florence facility. Full story
Who's not winning from lottery scholarships: More than a decade after voters approved a South Carolina lottery pitched as a way to fund free tuition to technical schools and two-year colleges, students still aren't getting a free ride. Full story
Welcome back to South Carolina: Tourism, which now pumps about $18 billion into the South Carolina economy, has recovered from the Great Recession and has been setting records in recent seasons. And the director of the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, Duane Parrish, says the trend should continue in 2014. Full story
Getting to know an insurance tax credit: The number of South Carolina homeowners with high insurance costs who have taken advantage of a state tax credit worth up to $1,250 has more than quadrupled. Still, too few seem aware of it. Full story
Election Clicks
Pro-Hillary group though not Hillary herself coming to Columbia: A group tied to top 2016 Democratic prospect Hillary Clinton will hold a fundraiser this month in Columbia. State Rep. Bakari Sellers, a Bamberg Democrat running for lieutenant governor this year, said he will be one of hosts of the fundraiser by Ready for Hillary, a political-action committee pushing for the former First Lady and Secretary of State to run for the White House. Full story
We have a race for secretary of state: Ginny Deerin, a veteran Democratic political operative who managed Charleston Mayor Joe Riley's most recent re-election campaign, says she is running for secretary of state against incumbent Republican Mark Hammond. Full story
Sheheen visits Spartanburg: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Vincent Sheheen showed up at his party's issues conference in Greenville on Saturday and immediately went after Gov. Nikki Haley on what figures to be one of his top campaign issues. Full story
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Auditing the IRS: Republicans in Congress, including two from South Carolina, are renewing calls for a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service for singling out conservative groups for extra scrutiny in making decisions on tax exemption. Full story
How S.C. is like Russia: Eight states, including South Carolina, limit speech about homosexuality in ways similar to, though not as far-reaching as, the Russian ban that has received international criticism ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, The Washington Post reported. Full story
More tough immigration talks from S.C delegation: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) "jumped the gun" in pushing immigration reform principles on his conservative conference last week, Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina said in a TV interview. Full stoy
Poetry instead of a job: Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-Spartanburg, on Sunday said Democrats are pushing poetry as an alternative to holding a job. During an appearance on Fox News, he referred to the results of a report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that finds millions of American workers may move away from full-time employment because of benefits offered within ObamaCare. Full story
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S.C. ties to proposed N.C. casino: A South Carolina businessman with long ties to the video poker industry is at the center of the Catawba tribe's effort to build a casino in North Carolina. The Catawba Indian Nation in September unveiled plans for a casino that could bring 4,000 jobs to a site off Interstate 85 near Kings Mountain, about 30 miles northwest of their reservation in Rock Hill. But the project has faced a backlash from a bipartisan group of elected officials who say they don't want the casino in North Carolina. Full story
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This music school commercial will make you cry
A commercial in Japan for a music school pulls emotional strings as only music can. Yup, onions everywhere.
Anyone even thinking about going to a music school would undoubtedly pick Tosando Music School after watching this commercial.
A wedding is taking place, and the MC announces that the father of the bride has a message for his daughter. He steps to the piano. The bride knows her father doesn't play, so she's confused. As it turns out, the father has actually secretly been taking piano lessons, and plays a special song for his daughter. We find out why.
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Page Turnings
Make your event at Pequot Library truly unique by including an exploration of some of the internationally important treasures in our Special Collections. Our staff will showcase and turn the pages of our treasures so you and your guests can have an unforgettable experience.
Pequot's Special Collections form a vibrant portrait of the literary, religious, political, military, musical, and cultural life of America at the time of the Library's founding. This is one of the most important and impeccably selected collections of its kind in the country.
The Pequot Library Special Collections are about history, but they are about other things as well. There are hundreds of editions of most of the great works in the canon of English Literature. There is an exceptional array of Presidential papers from George Washington to Dwight David Eisenhower. They are about art and architecture. They are about the beauty and diversity of the natural world around us even as it is disappearing at an alarming rate.
These Collections have a magic to them. They jump to life. They are full of cross currents and interconnections, and are a source of pride and joy and inspiration for us all.
There are three section sections in the Special Collections that are particularly popular, but there are over 30,000 items to choose from. Work with our staff to select the topic that appeals to you, and make them part of your special event at Pequot!
The unspoiled, natural world in America was beginning to disappear as Pequot Library was being founded. Natural history was of particular interest to all involved with the creation of the Library's Special Collections, and, as a result, it has some of the very best works available in the field.
The flagship of the Natural History section of the collection is, of course, the Bien edition of Audubon's Birds of America. This breathtakingly beautiful double elephant folio is considered by some to be one of the most important early examples of the chromolithographic process through which the plates were produced.
There are other beautifully illustrated volumes in the Natural History collection, and some that are even more beautiful than the Audubon. The John Gould volumes on hummingbirds are considered to be among the finest ornithological illustrations of the 19th century. They are a tour de force of the hand-colored lithograph as a medium. Gold leaf, transparent oil colors, water colors, lacquers and gum Arabic are combined to capture the iridescent quality of these most colorful of birds.
Daniel Giraud Elliot's books on birds were not constrained by the lack of funding that hamstringed Audubon. Elliot was one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and curator of zoology at the Field Museum in Chicago. Elliot used his wealth to publish a series of sumptuous color-plate books on birds and animals.
These books are full of breathtaking beauty and they represent the art of the book at its best. Those attending your event at Pequot Library will never forget seeing them and leave grateful for the opportunity.
Genealogy has never been more popular than it is today. In an increasingly rootless world, from Web sites to shows on PBS and NBC, we are all interested in finding out more about our families. A great deal of this new interest springs out of the internet, but all of it comes back to the documentary sources contained in historical collections like the one at Pequot Library. It is here that the hard facts are found, where the proof is established and often the only trace of an individual family member's life is documented.
This section shows the enduring appeal of genealogy from the early days of the Republic up to today. The material it contains is full of the history of families and the communities in which they lived. A few minutes spent with some of the treasures in this section of the Library's Special Collections is often all it takes to launch someone on a remarkably satisfying exploration of their own family history.
The Library's materials on the Civil War are rich and remarkably personal. The collection, it will be remembered, was assembled only 20 years after this horrible conflict that left an indelible mark on the country, and especially on the generation that founded Pequot Library.
This part of the Special Collections starts with the deep, unresolved issues left over from the Revolutionary War and the ingrained racism that cast a shadow over the promise of the country. Included here is the verbatim text of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, a fascinating document in today's context of sound bites and YouTube. How appropriate it is that these collections also include a strong section on Abraham Lincoln.
Young men went off to war and to die from all the states whose history is documented in Pequot Library Special Collections. As if creating a memorial to that loss, the bright minds that assembled this collection proceed regiment by regiment across the battlefield, collecting the memoirs, published diaries, and log books, allowing those who were there to tell their first-hand story.
The result is an overwhelming picture of bravery, loss, incompetence, brilliance and everything in between. There are very few collections that tell such a complete story of the Civil War and demonstrate how important Pequot Library's Special Collections really are.


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One of the greatest sources of historical shame for Christians is the way that Church leaders blithely approved of unjust, destructive wars.
From the wars against Native Americans to our own civil war — in which slaveowners quoted the Bible to justify their fight — to colonial conquests in Asia and Africa, all too often believers and pastors, bishops and generals, have overlooked the strict criteria which Christians have always accepted for what makes a war "just" or not. These ecumenically accepted conditions are narrow and demanding:
- the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
- all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
- there must be serious prospects of success;
- the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.
Some conflicts absolutely meet this test. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war on the U.S., only deluded pacifists would have denied that we should fight. When Afghanistan harbored Al Qaeda in the wake of 9/11, again the answer was obvious.
But all too often our leaders are willing to send our troops into war when the conflict is not necessary and wouldn't even be wise. Rulers throughout the centuries have launched unnecessary and foolish wars for a long list of reasons. Sometimes they wanted to assert their nation's strength, at others to promote the national ideology and impose their own system of government on another country that was unwilling or unready for it. Some adventurous politicians today want to throw American weight around and spread "democracy" in a Muslim world that has shown no aptitude for it AND no commitment to protecting the rights of religious minorities. Christian churches and villages from Benghazi to Baghdad lie in rubble as a result.
Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and John Kasich have said that the U.S. should go way beyond fighting ISIS—that we should send our pilots to confront Russian airplanes and threaten to shoot them down. For what purpose? To topple the dictatorship of Bashir Assad in Syria, and make room for the Islamist militias that are fighting to take the country—militias allied with Al Qaeda and funded by the bigoted regimes in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, where few Christians dare to live. None of these powerful militias are committed to religious tolerance. Few Christians are left alive in the areas they control.
Indeed, the proposed U.S. invasion of Syria seems likely to go like Iraq all over again. In that conflict American soldiers stood idly by—following misguided orders from the State Department—while more than a million Christians were killed, robbed, raped, or driven into exile. I have worked with, met with, and talked with Iraqi Christian survivors. And what they ask us is this: "How could you American Christians, and your Christian president, do this to us? The people you put in power let Muslim militias ethnically cleanse our villages, burn our 1700-year-old monasteries and churches, drive us into unheated containers to freeze in the winter and sweat in the summer. You paved the way for the rape squads of ISIS. What did we ever do to you?"
What can we say? That we thought it more important to rally around the Republicans, who were led by a school of utopian dreamers? That we didn't bother to think about what would happen to them? That because they weren't Western, we lumped them in with Muslims? At least we had some reason to consider Iraq a threat to the United States. No one even pretends that the embattled Syrian government poses any danger to us today.
We don't have access to the statements of Iraqi Christian leaders before the U.S. invasion, but there are Christian leaders in Syria now, and we owe it to them to listen to what they have to say before we decide on electing a president committed to invading their country and turning them over to their intolerant Islamist enemies—men little better than ISIS. Here is what the local bishop, Gregorios III, the worldwide leader of millions of Melkite Catholics, told Aid to the Church in Need:
If [the West] helps moderates in Syria in a direct way, [it is] helping ISIS in an indirect way. If you give money to the weak, moderate groups one day, it will get into the hands of the powerful, militant groups the next. We see this happening every day…
Under pressure from U.S.- and Saudi-backed Islamist militias as much as from ISIS itself:
every day people are leaving the country, some with visas, some without. Sometimes, people take with them thousands of dollars in the hope of getting to Europe—leaving themselves open to exploitation or worse.
Other religious minorities, such as Syria's Shiites and Alawites, are also in danger of genocide and of falling victim to Sunni Muslims' century-long project of "cleansing" Arab countries of "infidels" and "heretics," which began with the Armenian genocide exactly 100 years ago. Countries such as Iraq and Turkey that once boasted rich religious diversity, with Christian and Jewish communities living side by side, are now monolithically Sunni Muslim, and monasteries and churches that date back to the second century are now being used as mosques or lying in heaps of rubble. That is not an accident. It a program, and Syria is next on the list.
I don't see how Christians can support such a policy, or a candidate such as Marco Rubio who favors it—any more than they could support a defender of partial birth abortion. I challenge my fellow Christians to listen to the voices of the martyrs, the plea of our brother Christians threatened with persecution. We rightly spoke out when the HHS mandate imposed itself on our religious freedom, when judges attacked Christian business owners, as in Oregon. How dare we take freedom away from unarmed, besieged fellow Christians in Syria in the name of spreading "democracy" or asserting U.S. prestige? If we are complicit in using our nation's military to subject our fellow Christians to violent persecution — out of misguided patriotism, lazy idealism, or rank partisan loyalty — do we deserve such freedom ourselves?"
Jason Jones is the co-author of The Race to Save Our Century.


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BENEFITING: The ALS Association Tennessee Chapter
Ke Ning Liu Mason, my Chinese wife, had a father, Chairman Liu Zhi Yuan, who I dearly loved. I first met him in March of 2005. We had a wonderful relationship in spite of our language barrier. (Ke Ning says it will take me three generations to learn Chinese.)
Liu Zhi Yuan had been sent by Chairman Mao to Yueyang, China in the late 40's to establish civil order. It was an easy thing for him because his natural gentleness, kindness, and love for people made him an exemplary leader. I could see this when we took walks together. He was retired, but it was easy to see the love the citizens had for him. Each time we walked we stopped many times because he was greeted warmly by everyone we met. He always stopped to talk to the rich and powerful and the poor and destitute equally, and he would introduce me in Chinese proudly (Ke Ning said) as his future son-in-law.
He was an accomplished photographer, and he taught me many techniques in obtaining the ideal lighting conditions, framing a scene correctly, and adjusting the cameras' settings. He obviously sensed something because he told me he wanted me to have most of his photography equipment.
ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) took him away from us. I wept more at his death than I did when my own father died years earlier. I witnessed the indignities the gradual shutdown of his body caused. A quick death would have been a blessing, but he suffered increasingly every day, and each day I visited him in the hospital I saw more of what this dreadful disease had robbed from him. At first it was walking, then talking, then his motor control. A noble man to the end, he never complained. The last evening I saw him he attempted to write my name in Chinese characters on a piece of paper. Ke Ning recognized what he was trying to write. I cried.
That last evening I asked him through Ke Ning if I could Baptise him. I explained to him the signifigance of Baptism. Without hesitation he nodded assent. As I Baptised him, I told him that my tears were not being shed because he was about to die. My tears were for the pain and suffering he had to endure. He quietly endured that pain and suffering for two more hours, then, just as quietly he slipped away. His suffering ended.
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Decapitation of 3-year-old sparks anger and fear in Taiwan
The apparently random decapitation of a 3-year-old girl in front of her mother in low-crime Taipei earlier this week has sparked outrage, calls to save the death penalty and questions about the island's state of mental health care.world Updated: Mar 31, 2016 20:55 IST
The apparently random decapitation of a 3-year-old girl in front of her mother in low-crime Taipei earlier this week has sparked outrage, calls to save the death penalty and questions about the island's state of mental health care.
The attack on the child, who was walking behind her mother on the way to a metro station, has stunned and horrified inhabitants of greater Taipei, with the reaction at times verging on the violent. Hours after the girl was killed, a crowd gathered outside the police station where the slaying suspect was taken, some of them armed with baseball bats.
"I can't accept this," said Chiu Yuan-chao, Taipei mother of a 9-year-old, said in a telephone interview. "This kind of person shouldn't be allowed to enjoy the treatment of a normal person. I think all moms and dads will have this kind of view. This sort of incident is becoming something of a trend and my feeling is that the society is amid some sort of panic."
Police arrested Wang Ching-yu, 33, who they suspect killed the child. He had been was hospitalized for treatment in 2010 and 2014 after arguing with his family because of an unspecified mental illness, Central News Agency said, citing police.
Authorities have not said whether mental illness was a factor in the attack or whether Wang had been clinically diagnosed with any mental illness.
City dwellers largely still consider the metro area of 5.6 million to be safe. Murders across the island have fallen from 1,765 cases in 1995 to 474 in 2014, statistics from the National Police Agency show.
But the attack triggered debate about whether to keep the death penalty as a deterrent against violent crime. Legislators have been discussing reforms to the punishment, which had been effectively suspended from December 2005 to May 2008. Thirty-three people have been executed since 2008.
About 80 percent of Taiwanese support capital punishment, according to the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty.
"We need a deeper discussion, not just keep or drop the death penalty, but a more complete system," alliance Executive Director Lin Hsin-yi said Thursday. "If we let a criminal out of jail, will he do more bad things? We need to talk about that."
The girl's killing was among several cases of random violence in recent years that have raised concerns about crime and the city's ability to provide adequate mental health support.
A day after the slaying, a police officer was stabbed at a metro station, again apparently at random. Last year, an 8-year-old girl was killed on an elementary school campus by a man who local media said heard voices. In 2014, a man killed four people in Taipei's ever-crowded metro system.
In each instance, the attackers were characterized as suffering from mental disorders. The man convicted of killing passengers on the subway at age 21 was sentenced to death last year.
The attack has also raised questions about potential inadequacies in the island's mental health services. Lin Wani, an incoming official of the President-elect's administration, told local media that the suspect had not been properly diagnosed and observed before being discharged.
Since Monday, many people in Taiwan, including a local official overseeing a Taipei borough, have called for hospitalizing severely mentally ill people in hospitals.
But Pan Chun-hung, director the Department of Addiction Science with Taipei City Hospital, said Taiwan needs to raise the public's overall awareness of mental health issues. Some people may have difficulty recognizing mental illness in themselves and others or are unaware that treatment is available, he said. Strangers should not fear the mentally ill as "most have no antisocial traits," he said.
"When things happen there's a bit of panic and a reaction that people should be quarantined," Pan said. "But our medication is advanced and people can be treated effectively. We hope eventually, if people know more, they won't feel so panicked."
Tsai Ying-wen, Taiwan's president-elect, said Wednesday that Taiwan's future head of police will need to devise "specific strategies and activities" to boost public safety.
"Facing the innocent sacrifice of a child, we can't just be angry and sad," she said in a statement. "Our responsibility is to give every father, mother and child a life that's free of fear."
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On Wednesdays We Wear Pink
Today was a pretty special day -- my uber-talented husband got his first real office!! I am so proud of him.
I've watched his business from the beginning, and this moment feels really huge. When we met, he was working at a booking agency outside of Boston and recording shows on nights and weekends. I still have texts from him from the winter of 2011 saying, "I booked a gig for this weekend! And I'm charging for it!!" That spring, we moved in together (right around our 5 month anniversary), and we starting talking about the future... I knew I wanted to move back to California, so we made plans to visit LA, just to see if we liked it. When we returned to Boston, he made plans to quit his job at the end of the summer, and move out west.
He bought a new camera and sent me pictures of his new, beautiful, color-coded recording rig. He filmed his friends perform in bar basements and recital halls. He mixed tracks hunched over our Ikea coffee table. And when the end of August came, a few days shy of his 23rd birthday, he gave his two weeks notice.
He bought a car and we packed it full of everything we could fit. We filled two palettes full of even more stuff, and we set out on the cross-country road trip that would seal our fates. When we arrived in LA, he hit the ground running. He solicited gig after gig, often working for free or very little money. I even let him work on my 23rd birthday, because I knew how much he needed the work.
Months passed and he started working more consistently. Pretty soon, he stopped soliciting work -- it was an endless stream of recordings he could barely keep up with. Watching his business flourish gave me the courage to quit my retail job and take a stab at making my dream happen, too.
We moved into a new apartment, with a more spacious layout and separate room for me to use as my office. Alex still worked out in the living room, but he now had a beautiful mid-century desk he bought from a local vintage store. It was the kind of purchase that said, "I'm really doing this!" Work kept streaming in. Clients came over to hear mixes and sat on a folding chair next to his desk. I made them lemon bars to make them feel more welcome. Alex worked and worked and worked. He'd come home well after midnight most nights and still rise before nine in the morning to try to keep up with all the editing and mixing. But it was a lot of work and his backlog was simply piling up. I tried to help by coming on shoots with him, carrying gear to his car, typing up title cards and credits for him. But even with my help, he was still in a hole. So, last week, Alex hired an assistant.
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I am so filled with pride and excitement, I feel like I might cry! Alex has worked and planned tirelessly not only to grow his business, but to provide for both of us, and I couldn't be more grateful! Here's to my hard-working husband!!
We took these photos in his new, empty office with the sunlight streaming through, using Alex's new favorite camera -- his GH4. He's so excited about this 4k camera, I've been calling it his girlfriend... All he wants to talk about is her!
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Swartz died in New York City in January as he faced trial on charges he hacked into a Massachusetts Institute of Technology archive of scholarly articles with the aim of making the information freely available.
The documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show the Secret Service field office in Boston secured documents and electronic devices seized during a search of Swartz's home and research office at Harvard University.
Agents also joined local police who interviewed Swartz's associates, including a San Francisco woman who told them that he called her and asked her to call his lawyer to arrange bail.
A co-founder of Reddit and activist who fought to make online content free to the public, his death prompted an outpouring of grief from prominent voices on the intersection of free speech and the Web.
Aaron Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of journal articles from an electronic archive in an attempt to make them freely available. If convicted, he faced decades in prison and a fortune in fines.


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Earlier this year, Neal Ford blogged about Why Everyone (Eventually) Hates (or Leaves) Maven. It's a great read, but since not everyone will go the extra mile, I will attempt to sum it up grossly with this quote:
Contextual tools like Ant and Maven allow extension via a plug-in API, making extensions the original authors envisioned easy. However, trying to extend it in ways not designed into the API range in difficultly from hard to impossible
This is an oft-discussed topic among developers at Summa, the Java Posse Roundup, and Pittsburgh Geek Out Day. I have my opinion, and I figured I would put it down in "print" once and for all so I could refer to the article rather than re-hash it each time. A warning before we continue: this is just my opinion. I would and have recommend a variety of build tools.
I like Maven. I like it a lot. And I believe it gets a bad rap. And I believe those who have given it that reputation have done so not because they are ornery but because they are trying to make Maven into something it is not.
I completely agree with Mr. Ford's quote that extending Maven in ways it wasn't designed is difficult, and I've rarely seen it undertaken in practice. Where we disagree is that this is necessary or even desirable. Maven is not a programming language. It is a build tool. The build is essential to get right, but it is not what we are here to do. We are here to make the lives of our users easier by producing software, not writing fancy build scripts. What I love about Maven is that it IS opinionated and it is NOT easy to extend. It tells you how your code should be organized, what order steps should happen in, how frameworks should work together and so forth. When working with this tool, the developer's job is to describe their software: how is this different from other software?
But many of the newer kids on the blocks (e.g. Gradle) can do that. So why would you choose a framework that uses XML and is complex to write plugins for?
I find so often people who dislike Maven dislike it because it does not let them do things their way. That is not it's goal. Maven wants to make the world of the build-master -- a once chaotic and inconsistent world -- and add some order and process. So that builds from one part of the company work like builds in another part, and even another company. And this does not happen if everyone does things their way, extending the tool as they see fit.
So in short, extending Maven is difficult. And I think that is ok. In fact, important. Because Maven is a build tool. And no one's build is as special as they think.*
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To many brands, web analytics is all about reporting. They use their website data to see which pages are popular, track their site's bounce rate, and understand the customer journeys which drive conversions.
But in 2017, argues Tealium's Andy Clark, we will see the role of web analytics greatly expanded. It will, he states, be used both to enhance external communications as well as internal analysis.
In the video below, Mr Clark lays out his vision for web analytics in 2017 and I've then provided a summary, examples, and additional commentary.
So, according to Andy, in 2017 we will see brands:
1. Combine web analytics with marketing automation for a 360-view of the customer
In the past, customer views to websites were largely used for one thing in marketing – to create a personalised ad campaign through retargeting. That is, if someone visited a web page for 'red shoes', we made sure that those 'red shoes' followed them all around the internet.
Now, brands are using customer browsing behaviour as input data in order to change many things besides just an ad campaign. Through combining analytics data with marketing automation, marketers are able to use data from multiple sources to achieve multiple marketing objectives.
For example, here a marketing manager from LL Bean describes how abandoned shopping cart data not only improves a retargeting display campaign, but can also improve email, paid search, and the user's future website browsing experience.
Then through assembling all of the captured data points, companies can produce a 'Universal Visitor Profile' which will be the central repository and source of data about identifiable customers.
This will allow brands, then, to treat each member of their audience pool uniquely. The excellent example provided by LL Bean is that having this profile allows the team to assemble an audience of people who have viewed an out-of-stock item and advertise it to them when it becomes available.
In doing so, marketing has captured website behaviour, combined it with their stock system, and leveraged it to give customers information that they are looking for through an email or display ad.
2. Integrate web analytics with offline systems for new business insights
It's curious that while most companies will use website data to improve their web experience, it's rare to find one which uses it as an input for enhancing other, non-web related data.
This could mean using page views, time on site, or even bounce rate to determine the level of consumer interest in a product or category. Or, with the right data, a conjoint analysis of product features and benefits could be carried out through highlighting particular combinations on the website.
American airline US Airways (now American Airlines) had a particularly interesting external use case for its website data. Besides providing air travel, US Airways also made significant revenue from its data monetization partner Adara Media.
But while US Airways had long ago integrated its offline booking system and loyalty programme database, the company website was changing so frequently that the web analytics data was often missing many key data points.
Using a tag management solution, though, US Airways was able to greatly enhance the website data passed to Adara, and achieve an annualized ROI of over 400%.
So whether it's through using web analytics to improve your marketing via enhanced automation or repurposing your web analytics to improve internal analysis, 2017 is going to see big changes in how brands use their website data, according to Tealium's Andy Clark.
And while it will still be useful for more traditional reporting, the data marketers harvest from their websites can then be used to provide greater value both internally and to customers as well.
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"This type of article isn't wrong but wildly understates the level of complexity. It gives false hope about what will be possible with data without illustrating what else needs to happen. This is why every CEO and ecommerce manager thinks data will change everything but they can't seem to harness it. It's the hype cycle.
Everything in the article is true. Please don't doubt that. The question is, how do you connect all these systems, why is it so difficult? The simple example to begin with is that you'll need the connections between your tools (paid search, CMS analytics, onsite, apps, email, etc.) to be real time or nearly real time.
Normally there's a delay between just collecting data and analysing it, never mind real time connections between systems. This doesn't have to be an extremely complex setup between channels but what it needs is deep thinking about the structure these connections need now and next year.
We want to use behaviour in one channel to influence another, so we need a flow of information. Onsite behaviour triggers an abandoned cart email, which triggers personalised onsite content when you return. If you buy an item after this it changes the PPC remarketing and email lists you're on. Does recency of interacting with email and PPC change what we show you onsite? It probably should. The interactions between channels need to flow smoothly at high speed, not weekly.
Ecommerce managers and their superiors need to understand databases and APIs. They need departments and divisions to be able to think beyond budgets at one system level and think about long-term plans for the evolution of marketing channels. At an organisational level that's a big challenge.
This will be a trend next year and the next five years but don't buy into the hype too soon. Be afraid. This isn't available for everyone without leadership having a very deep understanding of each channel and the actual systems. Businesses may need to approach more of the Toyota philosophy, Genchi Gembutsu. In short it means that the way to solve problems is to go to where the work is done and get your hands dirty.
Finally, what systems do you actually need? One option is to maybe buy all of Adobe's systems. They're one of the only providers who do everything from CMS to analytics and through all marketing channels. Google is coming up behind now they've launched Optimise (but they still don't have a CMS or email). Even if you want to start small with triggered emails or remarketing lists, have you really had the deep internal conversation about how flexible that solution is if you want to add something else later on? Do you have an API guy? Could you transform the data yourselves through an automated solution? Would it add long-term potential if you got more budget in the future?
Automation, combining data sources, multi-channel, it's definitely going to trend but start thinking beyond the hype now."
Hi Market Force. Thank you for the above comments. We appreciate you taking the time to listen to Andy's video. In answer to your thoughts around,
"The question is, how do you connect all these systems, why is it so difficult? The simple example to begin with is that you'll need the connections between your tools (paid search, CMS analytics, onsite, apps, email, etc.) to be real time or nearly real time."
Tealium answers this by staying focused on gathering data, enriching it and allowing you to take action in real-time. We integrate with a 1000+ vendors via API, Webhook, and Connector technologies using a real-time platform that does exactly what you mentioned in your reply, "use behaviour in one channel to influence another".
That being said, there is a large difference between us and Adobe. You do not need to purchase all Adobe products. As you can see here, http://tealium.com/integrations/, you can use any vendor (including Adobe) that we have integrations with to stream data back and forth between systems. Don't see a vendor in our list? That's okay because we have generic Webhook and APIs at your disposal.
We enable all of this by utilizing a data layer. This amazing piece of technology allows you to have a single set of data which you can use to communicate and connect all your different analytics, email systems, website, and even offline systems, like IoT and stores, to one another. And, again, all in real-time.
So the "delay between just collecting data and analysing it" is removed saving your data analysts extraction, transformation, and load times across multiple systems and even across your entire organization. (Learn more about Tealium's data layer: http://tealium.com/what-is-a-data-layer/)
And, yes, Tealium has the ability to automate a cart abandonment email from your website, see if the customer has opened your email, but not converted, clicked on a display ad but HAS converted, THEN suppress media spend in your retargeting ads because the customer DID convert in display. Did I mention that this can all be automated via our UI and without IT assistance? Please check out our Martech Challenger series here to see how this can be done http://videos.tealium.com/categories/challenger-series.
Again, thank you Market Force for the reply. If you have any questions about our products and services our door is open. We'd love to give you a demonstration of how we can help you integrate all of your offline and online data into one data set. And if you're still not convinced… maybe these case studies can help? http://tealium.com/resources/case-studies/
Thank you again.
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ED Leader Seminar Will Help You:
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The course begins with an overview of objectives and an introduction to the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch (IAED). We discuss the IAED's role in promoting standards for call processing, training, and quality management in the dispatch environment.
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Are there significant benefits for implementing the PDS? Absolutely! This section of the course discusses why a standardized, unified protocol is so important in the dispatch environment. Learn how correct use of the PDS will improve safety, professionalize agency image, reduce training time for new hires, and manage agency liability.
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This section provides you with the necessary understanding of how the PDS actually functions in an on-line environment. We will explain the functions of each PDS component and how they all interact to ensure the best approach to each incident. Additionally, we identify how the PDS interacts with current agency policies.
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This probably won't surprise you, but 70 million fast-food meals are served daily across the U.S. The problem with fast food—or any sort of meal-on-the-go, like TV dinners, turkey potpies, or chicken nuggets—is that you and your family are eating processed foods in a form not healthy for your body. Processed foods have been adulterated with sugars, salt, chemically charged additives,and unhealthy preservatives that make them cheaper to mass-produce, but much costlier in terms of health. One of those costs is that processed foods are nearly devoid of enzymes.
A diet composed exclusively of processed or cooked food can put severe strain on the pancreas, drawing down its reserves, so to speak. If the pancreas is constantly overstimulated to produce enzymes that ought to be in foods, the result over time can result in inhibited function of the pancreas. People eating an enzyme-poor diet comprised primarily of over-cooked or over-processed food use up a tremendous amount of their enzyme potential in the outpouring of secretions from the pancreas and other digestive organs.
The result, according to the late Dr. Edward Howell, a noted pioneer in the field of enzyme research, is a shortened life span, illness and lowered resistance to stress of all types. Howell points out that humans and animals on a diet comprised largely of cooked food, particularly grains, have enlarged pancreas while other glands and organs, notably the brain, actually shrink in size.
Dr. Howell formulated the following Enzyme Nutrition Axiom: "The length of life is inversely proportional to the rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential of an organism. The increased use of food enzymes promotes a decreased rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential."
Another rule can be expressed as follows: Whole foods support good health; enzyme-rich foods provide high energy. Unfortunately, however, our diets do not primarily consist of these health-supporting foods--and that includes much of what our children typically eat.
The number of children and teens consuming grain-based snacks regularly--including crackers, popcorn, pretzels and corn chips--have more than doubled (60%) in the last couple of decades, but that is not all. About one-half of preschoolers eat away from home on any given day--and one of the primary places they eat is at a fast food restaurant. By the teen years, fast food restaurants become the most frequent choice of outside food for teenage boys, and a close second to the school cafeteria for teenage girls.
For American children some of the most popular choices for foods eaten away from home include French fries,grain mixtures such as pizza, lasagna and ravioli, and Mexican foods such as tacos and burritos.
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Update: Board of Trustees Meets, Accepts Sanctions
Convening at around 5 p.m., the Board of Trustees met with President Erickson in a room at the Penn Stater Conference Center — the same place where it met in November when it made the decision to fire Graham Spanier and Joe Paterno.
The meeting was closed to the public, and the media was prevented from being near the room by barricades set up by hotel staff.
It is presumed that the meeting is to address President Erickson's handling of the NCAA sanctions. Erickson is reported to have left the meeting at around 7 p.m, while the rest of the board continued to meet.
UPDATE (8:24 p.m.) – The board has concluded that President Rodney Erickson had no other option but to accept the sanctions against Penn State. They released the following statement:
The Penn State Board of Trustees met for a discussion tonight. A vote was not required and none was taken. The Board finds the punitive sanctions difficult and the process with the NCAA unfortunate. But as we understand it, the alternatives were worse as confirmed by NCAA President Mark Emmert's recent statement that Penn State was likely facing a multi-year death sentence.
The University and Board resolve to move forward together to recognize the historical excellence in Penn State's academic and athletic programs. We anticipate and look forward to demonstrating our outstanding performance in complying with the sanctions. We continue to recognize the important role that intercollegiate athletics provides for our student athletes and the wider University community as we strive to appropriately balance academic and athletic accomplishments.
Penn State will remain a world-class educational institution of which our students, faculty, staff and alumni can be justifiably proud. The commitment demonstrated by our student athletes in recent days embodies all that is good about Penn State and we look forward to unprecedented support by the Nittany nation when we take the field this fall.
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By Lee Cioppa, Associate Dean for Admissions I am entirely delighted to announce that Juilliard Admission is now on Facebook! "Like" us at http://www.facebook.com/JuilliardAdmissions.
Now, you might ask, why do we even want to be on Facebook? The answer to that is simple – where are you?
If there is one thing that has changed in college admissions in the past 10 years, it is that print materials have become dinosaurs, and prospective students are finding their information almost exclusively on the Web. As a result, you have a lot more ways to find out about us than we have opportunities to communicate with you – you don't need a colorful Viewbook or print brochure from a college to find out all you need to know. The downside, of course, is that you aren't always getting first-hand information. Chat rooms, message boards, personal blogs – these come up in a Google search as much as a school's individual Web site.
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As we reported on Wednesday, the Disco Biscuits will begin an extended winter tour on January 16 at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton, MA. The Biscuits will then travel to the Midwest and on down to the Southwest, routing through Colorado for shows at Denver's Ogden Theatre on February 13 and 14, closing out this leg of its tour on February 15 in Lawrence, KS at Liberty Hall. Other stops include Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and Nashville. Tickets for all these shows are on sale through BiscoTix on Monday, December 8th, and through Ticketmaster on Friday, December 12th. In addition, Relix now has a contest underway, giving folks an opportunity to win a pair of tickets to their hometown show, with the details available online. Next up for the Disco Biscuits is next week's Caribbean Holidaze in Runaway Bay, Jamaica.


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This Root Cause Network(TM) Newsletter article has received attention from many. Some have called me to praise the idea of more attention to serious incidents and proactive improvement. Others have questioned my views about NOT analyzing near-misses with "apparent cause analysis."
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The Curse of Apparent Cause Analysis
If you are not in the Nuclear Industry, you probably haven't heard of Apparent Cause Analysis. If you are in the Nuclear Industry, you should wish that you never had. Why do I call Apparent Cause Analysis a curse while others say that it is a good practice? Read on to fully understand.
In almost every industry, the most frequent question asked by people that are doing good root cause analysis is:
Isn't there an easier way to do this for smaller incidents?
That question led the Nuclear Industry to Apparent Cause Analysis. The idea is that you can skip some of the rigor of real root cause analysis, not ask as many questions, assume some facts, and even occasionally guess at the most likely cause and the result will be good enough to develop effective corrective actions and trend. Now for the bad news:
You get what you pay for.
When you take shortcuts, skimp on the facts, don't ask all the questions, and guess, the result is a poor analysis that should NOT be used to develop corrective actions or trending. Why? Because you will trend and correct the investigator's assumptions and guesses. They may be good assumptions and guesses, but they may also be bad.
I tell people if saving time is their highest priority, why not use an even faster technique … Spin-a-Cause™!
"Implementing improvement based on our engineers' best guess is better than doing nothing at all."
My answer? NO IT ISN'T!
Look at the iceberg model and think. A nuclear plant does 1 to 5 good root cause analyses per year. But they do 100s or even 1000s of short-cut analyses. The 1000s of corrective actions based on guesses & assumptions are driving their improvements. Is that why nuclear managers complain that improvement programs aren't cost effective?
So what should companies do? Here's my advice:
1. Expand good root cause analysis to all incidents. (That's about 100 incidents per year). It is cost effective.
2. Learn to be efficient in your root cause analysis efforts without taking shortcuts. (Article on this is at the Root Cause Analysis Blog Site.)
3. Stop doing analysis on near misses and instead, categorize the occurrence types and watch for adverse trends.
4. Take the effort you save from not doing 1000 short-cut analyses and not fixing the assumed problems and put that effort into a targeted PROACTIVE improvement program based on good root cause analysis.
Need to learn more? Attend the 5-Day TapRooT® Course or talk to me at the TapRooT® Summit. But stop fooling yourself about getting something for nothing!
Category: Performance Improvement, Root Causes
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John Sargaison from Santos sent the following comment:
I would like to challenge your third recommendation re: stop analysing near misses.
I should start by saying there are near misses and then there are NEAR MISSES.
There are two broad categories that you can split incidents/near misses into – high frequency, low consequence and low frequency high consequence events. Of course with near misses you are working on the likely potential consequence rather than an actual consequence. The latter category (low frequency high consequence incidents and near misses) are typically rare in comparison to high frequency, low consequence events (incidents and near misses).
A low frequency high consequence near miss should receive the same time and effort that would be afforded to an actual significant incident as they will identify root causes which are likely to be different than those that will be found in actual high frequency, low consequence incidents.
Relying on fixes to root causes derived from investigations of high frequency, low consequence incidents to prevent low frequency high consequence incidents is folly. True insight into system weaknesses that could lead to high consequence events such as loss of process containment in an oil and gas facility will primarily be provided by thorough analysis of the relatively rare low frequency, high consequence near misses and incidents.
I would rewrite point three along the lines:
Stop doing analysis of low potential consequence near misses…
Food for thought.
Comment by John — March 3, 2006 @ 10:21 am
I agree completely.
But the potentially high consequence near-misses should be called incidents and therefore should be included in the investigations that are already performed. (Top part of the iceberg.)
I am going to post the newsletter link on the blog site. Can I post your comment?
Comment by Mark Paradies — March 3, 2006 @ 10:24 am
Yes please post my comment – discussion of these issues is always beneficial. Semantics I know but a near miss by definition is an event that did not result in injury or damage, but which, when assessed, had the potential to have done so. A high consequence event that did not result in injury or damage is still by definition still a near miss.
Thanks for taking the time in preparing the articles that you do. I always enjoy reading them and the subsequent discussions that typically flow. The issue of TapRooT(R) being too resource intensive for low consequence incidents is by far the issue that causes me the most discussion with management.
John Sargaison
Chief Health and Safety Adviser
Corporate EHS&S
Comment by John Sargaison — March 3, 2006 @ 10:25 am
I think I understand your disdain with apparant cause analysis, but I believe it may be a little mis-focused. Our differing view points may be founded in the purpose behind performing apparent cause analysis to start with.
The performance of apparant cause should not be to provide for a simply short cut method to identifiy corrective actions, but rather to provide for a reasonable basis for application of failure mode coding associated with high frequency low consequence events. These codes in turn support the ability to have meaningful data for a trend analysis program.
The problem with apparent cause analyses that you may be reacting to is the willingness of an organization to make changes to their programs, organizations, or processes based on what you call a short cut approach.
Correcting/changing a program, organization, or process should be an action taken only when the level of certainty is high that you are addressing the "cause" of a problem and that you are not actually creating the cause of the next problem. A well performed and substantiated Root Cause analysis usually brings the organization to that appropriate level of confidence necessary to support the changes to remove error likely conditions or systemic weaknesses that resulted in the event – however, an apparant cause analysis rarely provides that level of confidence. As such, there should be a reluctance to take "corrective" actions beyond the remedial actions needed to address the adverse condition based on a single event related apparant cause analysis. To do otherwise results in the hundreds of corrective actions that really don't provide any improvement in performance – and most likely cause a decrease in performance.
In summary, I believe the warning associated with whether or not to perform an apparant cause is more appropriately contingent on whether or not the peforming organization has the restraint to not "fix" every problem identified by an apparent cause analysis. Lacking that restraint, I would agree that embracing the apparant cause analysis approach would, in itself, be an error likely strategy.
Comment by Mike Hassell — March 9, 2006 @ 2:53 pm
Thanks for your comments.
I agree with you – mostly … and I think you agree with me, mostly …
First, your approach to Apparent Cause Analysis sounds different than most I've observed. If your data that you produce is meaningful and is not root cause related, then you do have a different approach than what I've seen others take.It sounds more like what I'm proposing for incidents not worthy of analysis.
The results that I've seen of nuclear utilities and their approach to apparent cause analysis sounds like your description of what is a "error likely strategy." Maybe I've just seen bad examples?
From those bad examples, I'm not convinced that most apparaent cause analysis as practiced in the nuclear industry produces statistics worthy of trending.
Apparent Cause Analysis Trending would probably be better than trending random numbers but how much better? I don't think I would have confidence as a manager or a regulator to base decisions about improvement on the Appratent Cause Analysis data produced by the methods I've seen or heard about.
Therefore, as I see the results, I'm not convinced that the effort spent is worthwhile.
I would guess that a good Apparent Cause Analysis (I cringe at the term "good Apparent Cause Analysis") and Root Cause Analysis aren't that far appart in effort. So why not do an investigation worthy of some management confidence? Why not spend the extra effort to identify real root causes?
I'm not sure why I'm so adverse to Apparent Cause Analysis except that is seems such a shame to fool yourself that short-cuts can lead to quality results. And the way I've seen Apparent Cause Analysis used fits the description of a short-cut and I haven't seen it produce reliable data.
Comment by Mark Paradies — March 10, 2006 @ 4:47 am
Hi Mark,
Interesting discussion…and as an advocate of more proactive reporting of hazards and near misses…one that I've been observing for years, and still haven't been successful at getting full value from an increased level of reporting.
The value I'm striving for is to make improvements to the underlying systems and processes that will eliminate the repeating patterns of behavior. The barrier to getting value from this level of reporting typically is that we tend to apply the same analysis process for individual near misses/hazards with low potential as we would for an incident of consequence, which tends to bog down in process when you have 1-200 events/month (I know one company that reports 1000 behavior observations/month – essentially near misses, if you support the theory that the essential difference between a hazard and near miss is human interaction….and I realize that isn't always the case (Directionally accurate and precisely wrong)).
I think the opportunity is to 'categorize' the individual event data, look at the common underlying systems/processes and apply root casue logic to that level of thinking.
One example I think about; the monthly near miss data pointed to poor quality morning tail-gate/task hazard analysis process….and the quality apparently deteriorated because the work crew were continuing with work in a plant area over the span of a number of days. What they were missing in their morning THAs was an explicit conversation about changes in the plant operating conditions or the working conditions (weather, a different stage of the task which lead to different hazards associated with that day's task). When we addressed this gap explicitly, there was a reduction in events that I could relate to this process. However, without continued reminder about the importance of this fundamental process, behavior tended to revert to the complacent approach previously observed. So, the "jury is still out" regarding whether this 'proactive reporting'is going to make a difference.
I'm reminded of my research into the "Human Factor" revealing that we are pretty awful when it comes to 'vigilence' when the work is routine. Some successful companies say that Safety is as much about thinking as it is about anything else. So, the question seems to be about how we keep people thinking, engaged and aware.
I hope the thoughts are helpful.
Comment by Wayne Pennycook — March 10, 2006 @ 6:48 am
Thanks for your comment.
Yes – I agree with you and Mike about categorizing and trending (I need to post my talk about this sometime soon).
I just think that people try to do more with "Apparent 'CAUSE' Analysis." Things like corrective actions and cause determination for trending.
I think you should trend:
– incident location
– incident time
– workgroup
– equipment ijnvolved
– incident type (for example – slip on wet surface or part failure)
That's a small list – and I invite others to add to it. But it is not an Apparent Cause Analysis or trending of Apparent Causes.
I think even the term "Apparent Cause" is deceiving. Why don't we call it … "Jump to Conclusion" Analysis. This would nore properly describe what is most commonly practiced by junior engineers overwhelmed with other work.
Comment by Mark — March 10, 2006 @ 8:03 am
At my plant I have had to write an "apparent cause analysis" for an apparent cause analysis that did not prevent a repeat event. I certaily wish that I had found this discussion prior to that event!
Comment by Joe Anastasio — March 24, 2007 @ 12:46 pm
As per my experience most of the time bosses try to find root cause in an apparent cause analysis report. They do not satisfy with the apparent cause(s) even though the scope of the analysis is to determine only apparent cause. Does this occur due to lack of their undersatnding about the difference between apparent and root cause or some thing else?
Comment by Shahid Raza — June 10, 2009 @ 1:38 am
Shahid Raza,
Actually the problem starts from the decision to use Apparent Cause. A manager decides to use this method because… less time required, perceive the issue to be less of a risk, and wants a quick resolve to a solution. Often the manager "already knows" the answer and just wants it verified on paper.
So if the purpose of an apparent cause analysis is to find a cause or causes for the problem which will then be acted on with a corrective action…. then how is this different from the purpose of finding a root cause? Unless of course you define apparent cause as a symptom and you just want to resolve the symptom so that it can occur again. After all , why invest the any amount of time just because it might be a problem from appearance's sake? You get out of the investigation what you invest in.
Comment by Chris Vallee — June 11, 2009 @ 9:55 am
I think they need root cause analysis training if they think they can get root causes from an apparent cause analysis.
Comment by Mark Paradies — June 11, 2009 @ 3:46 pm
Hey, that was interesting,
Keep up the good work,
Thanks for writing about it
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Comment by ♪HeBe3yH — January 23, 2013 @ 4:51 pm
Mark – I know this is an old post – you may not even read this – however I just couldn't resist. If I spent just one year doing 100 root causes I would have to increase my staff size by at least 20, then be fired because my bosses would suspect I was insane for even asking.
In nuclear it just isn't practicle to put that much time into the "full blown" process. You are well aware of the amount of process that has been driven into this area by both regulatory and external oversite pressure. Ingnoring these realities of the nuclear business makes the post appear naive or at worst out of touch. I would also submit that the taproot tool even lends itself to a stream lined analysis that doesn't require hours and hours of investigation. Perhaps "apparent cause" and "root cause" are just symantical peculiarities with an identical outcome that use of taproot can address. At any rate, I am not a proponent of either the ACE process or a deep analysis of a problem that doesn't need analysis – I want the right action to fix the problem.
Thanks for letting me respond.
Comment by Rich Gadbois — August 27, 2013 @ 10:33 am
Rich, I guess I should assume, just like we do with ACE, that you'd rather committ MUCH MORE resources to correcting issues at the ACE level, when you don't have any rigorous cause determination to even know if you are correcting the "apparent" cause. To me, that's grounds for firing – convincing me to committ resources to things that are not fsact-based decisions?
I recently had the mis-pleasure of working at a station (as a contractor, not gonna tell you which one, but there's some "fire" history there) where we did a root cause analysis on a Substantive Cross-cutting issue in the aspect H.2(c). We employed several tools, including common cause analysis on some ACEs that the NRC sited in their inspection report where the SCCI was issued to the station. The problem we encountered was that the ACEs were so poor in causal determination and corrective action that we almost had to redo every analysis in order to determine any causal commonalities.
I agree with Mark P. completely – if you're gonna do a cause analysis, do it right. If you build your trend program on poor analyses, you'll go after the wrong "roll-ups", you can't do common cause analysis, and you'll be doing root cause analyses on major events way too often. There's a way to eliminate the ACE and not make it a full-blown RC investigation – limit the portions of the analysis for those not SCAQ, such as not doing OE portions for CAQ.
Bottom line is what Mark describes – the bulk of our continuous improvement effort is built on poor analysis – let's not compound the issue with P.1(c) and P.1(d) safety culture cross-cutting issues because we are not doing good cause determinations. Just the term "apparent cause" should send us to the bathroom to throw up. The industry will sometime regret this unmitigated disaster.
Comment by Nathan Adelman — September 26, 2013 @ 1:00 pm
May be we should also correct that misnomer "near miss" a near miss is a hit.
Call it what it is "Close Call" and yes do a root cause if it nearly killed you.
Comment by Henny Lamers — May 15, 2014 @ 9:42 am
I have facilitated numerous TapRoots and before I became familiar with the system I used other well known systems. It has been my experience that if you allow human perception into an investigation, this would generally send it of tracks, so why bother investigating? Your TapRoot system that I use quite frequently, keeps every on the straight and narrow and in the team environment answering yes or no to specific questions allows the end result to be very accurate. I would suggest doing an "Apparent 'CAUSE' Analysis" would allow the human factor to creap in. This would send the wrong signal to our industry, clients and most of all workers.
We ask our workers, supervisors and management not to take short cuts and particpate fully with all investigations. In my opinion, doing an "Apparent Cause Analysis" would appear to be taking a short cut to save time.
Time can be saved during a TapRoot investigation with the use of a strong competant facilitator, who keeps the train moving on the right track and with the support of the investigation team providing as much information and documentation when the team convienes.
Also, if company X finds themselves performing many TapRoots, it would indicate a flaw in their safety management system that should be looked at.
I have used your system on High Potential Near Misses, Property Damage ($5,000+) & Medical Treatment on up. TapRoot is a very effective tool for adequately investigating incidents and I thank you for creating this program.
Daran Downie
Comment by Daran Downie — May 15, 2014 @ 11:46 am
Now that I've got your attention, and some people have commented that I may be naive, let me propose something even more radical.
Get rid of ACE's (apparent cause) and become proactive!
Start by reading this post:
Best Regards,
Comment by Mark Paradies — May 15, 2014 @ 3:13 pm
Great article. Should really call it "ASSumption Cause Analysis". I particularly like your point of categorizing and grouping Near Misses together by similarity and working on systematic or high level causes and mitigations for them. Chris Veley, was very helpful in coaching me and providing examples of what I call Trend Root Cause Analysis.
Jeff Caudill, P.E.
Comment by Jeff Caudill — May 29, 2014 @ 3:27 pm
Dear: Mark
I totally agree with you and thanks a lot for your response on all comments.
best regards
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