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Posted: 07/11/2008 - Just before 8:00 last night, deputies pulled over a car near columbine park court after they say the car made jerky and erratic turns on the road.
Posted: 07/11/2008 - Just before 8:00 last night, deputies pulled over a car near columbine park court after they say the car made jerky and erratic turns on the road.
Updated: 07/11/2008 - 45 year-old Mark Irvin got in the shopping cart at seven this morning at the 29 and F road Safeway.
Posted: 07/11/2008 - A Grand Junction man accused of attempted murder is back behind bars after a judge quadruples his bond.
Updated: 07/11/2008 - The newest model of the iPhone comes out today, and it's supposed to be twice as fast and half the price of the original iPhone.
Posted: 07/10/2008 - Officials are continuing to keep a close eye on the Clover fire, burning near Collbran.
Updated: 07/11/2008 - A routine traffic stop lead to much more for Grand Junction Police. Officers say they had to call in hazmat to investigate several containers with chemicals in them.
Posted: 07/10/2008 - Jeremy Carothers knows his way around town. "I've been doing this for a while," says Carothers. Carothers is a delivery driver for domino's pizza in the Redlands and knows first hand how gas prices are hitting him in the pocket book.
Posted: 07/10/2008 - A bill that would set up a federal fund to fight wildfires is one step closer to getting on the books.
Posted: 07/10/2008 - Due to the two wildfires burning on the Western Slope, The Mesa County Health Department has issued an air quality warning for people who have asthma or respiratory conditions.
Updated: 07/10/2008 - The Mesa County Sheriff's Office and C-DOT are launching a new road safety campaign.
Updated: 07/10/2008 - The Mesa County Coroner's Office has released its first-ever annual report on deaths in our community. The report breaks the numbers down by age, manner of death, types of accidental deaths, murders, suicides, as well as deaths from undetermined or natural causes.
Updated: 07/10/2008 - Smoke jumpers are working another fire on the slopes of the Grand Mesa.
Updated: 07/10/2008 - A fire that in the Kannah Creek Watershed is still burning and fire officials say they want it to burn even longer.
Updated: 07/10/2008 - An accident closed east bound I–70 for a half hour late Wednesday night.
Updated: 07/09/2008 - The Grand Junction Police Department is warning residents to be wary and on the lookout for "Skimming".
Updated: 07/09/2008 - One second a family's driving down the road, the next they're in the hospital. Now because of a car crash a single mother is struggling to pay the bills and keep herself and her children off the streets.
Updated: 07/09/2008 - The Mesa County Clerk's Office is testing voting machines in anticipation of upcoming elections.
Updated: 07/09/2008 - There are about 33,000 wild horses living on federal ranges in ten western states, but the land is only fit to hold about 27,000 of the animals.
Updated: 07/09/2008 - Over one hundred people turned out to Clifton Elementary School Tuesday night to hear about almost every aspect of the community's future.
Updated: 07/09/2008 - Try outs for America's Next Top Model are this Saturday from 9-5 at Wax It Salon.
Updated: 07/08/2008 - A crane operator had a brush with death when he crashed his crane wire into some powerlines in Orchard Mesa.
Updated: 07/08/2008 - A grass fire quickly spreads burning down a shed and catching a house on fire Tuesday. Fire crews had to battle flames as well as exploding ammunition.
Updated: 07/08/2008 - St. Mary's Hospital says inspections and repairs to Care Flight should be finished today.
Updated: 07/08/2008 - Whether it's something in the water or the grooving sounds of country music, the aftermath of what one health officials calls Grand Junction's "Woodstock" drives up pregnancies in this city each year.
Updated: 07/08/2008 - A 19-year-old man from Penrose is back at work as a volunteer firefighter and training to be an emergency medical technician, a little more than two months after an accident that could have killed him.


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Posted: 10/08/2014 - Calm and beautiful today, but that will change in the upcoming days. The weekend appears to be wet.
Posted: 10/08/2014 - Calm and beautiful today, but that will change in the upcoming days. The weekend appears to be wet.
Updated: 10/07/2014 - Berea Police are looking for two women in their late teens or early 20s who are wanted in connection with a theft at Adventure Pets pet store.
Updated: 10/08/2014 - While Kentuckians might be split over who to vote for in the U.S. Senate race, a new Bluegrass Poll finds they're clear about one thing: the economy and jobs remain their top concern.
Updated: 10/07/2014 - Rounds of strong and severe thunderstorms will rumble across the region. Isolated tornadoes are possible.
Updated: 10/07/2014 - We have another active day in the weather department. Showers and storms move through with isolated severe cells possible.
Updated: 10/06/2014 - "It's a bigger issue than just my family." Grover Barnett has had issue with the bus stop since he bought his home down Forge Mill Road in Powell County in 2012. He's talked to state legislators, local elected officials, the school system, but the bus continues to turn.
Updated: 10/06/2014 - With a surge in popularity among eastern Kentucky voters, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes took back the lead in the battle with Sen. Mitch McConnell.
Updated: 10/06/2014 - A First Alert Severe Weather Day has been declared due to the possibility of severe weather through the day.
Updated: 10/06/2014 - A string of vandalism in one Lexington neighborhood has some church members saying enough is enough.
Updated: 10/06/2014 - In polite but spirited debate, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray and former police chief Anthany Beatty squared off Sunday evening over crime, Rupp Arena, and numerous other issues that divide the two men running to be the city's next mayor.
Posted: 10/03/2014 - Kentucky fans will have an opportunity to get another early look at this year's men's basketball team in action as UK's Oct. 10 practice will be televised live on ESPNU from 3-5 p.m.
Updated: 10/03/2014 - A soggy Friday is in store before this blasting cold front moves in some very cold air this weekend.
Posted: 10/02/2014 - A strong cold front ushers in a cold weekend.
Updated: 10/02/2014 - The case against a Lexington daycare owner accused of abuse has been dropped. Her attorney says she was the one falsely accused.
Updated: 10/02/2014 - It'll feel like summer as we head into the afternoon, but you better enjoy it now. A big blast of chilly air swings in here for the weekend.
Updated: 10/03/2014 - Lexington Mayor Jim Gray and former police chief Anthany Beatty will square off Sunday in their first televised debate since advancing to the November general election for who will lead the city over the next four years.
Posted: 10/01/2014 - A strong cold front will blast the bluegrass state on Friday.
Updated: 10/01/2014 - We are looking good again today and tomorrow, but major changes are coming as we slide into the weekend.
Updated: 09/30/2014 - Firefighters tell us the fire alarms at a Richmond motel were not working when a large fire broke out.
Posted: 09/30/2014 - A powerful cold front arrives Friday.
Updated: 09/30/2014 - We are looking at much of the same weather the next few days. We are still watching that big cold front coming toward the weekend.
Updated: 09/29/2014 - When the cost for teachers is more than they can justify paying on their own, they ask for donations on sites like www.donorschoose.org. "Something like this affords them the opportunity to do something just for their classroom," said Clark County Superintendent Paul Christy.
Posted: 09/29/2014 - We have some good weather to kick off the work week, but changes a coming as we slide into the weekend.
Updated: 09/29/2014 - Four shootings in less than 48 hours have many folks in Lexington on edge.
Updated: 09/28/2014 - The Kentucky Wildcats have defeated the Vanderbilt Commodores

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text: Emotion as a Substitute for Accountability by John Sexton May 28, 2013 10:32 AM PT Share This: Print President Obama is outraged over the IRS scandal. Attorney General Holder is remorseful over the James Rosen subpoena. Former Secretary of State Clinton is exasperated by Benghazi. Lois Lerner is apologetic for the targeting of Tea Party groups. An unnamed White House adviser is chagrined by his own idiocy. All of these emotive responses to scandal have in common that they help insulate the person doing the emoting from any real responsibility. Holder feels bad about what he has done but that's it. He's not leaving office. Secretary Clinton is frustrated that people working for her denied additional security, rewrote talking points and blamed everything on a You Tube video. But "What difference does it make?!" she blurted out during her appearance before Congress. She feels terrible, just don't hold it against her in 2016. President Obama has been on an emotional jag lately. He was outraged by the IRS targeting of his political opponents, is shocked by the subpoena of James Rosen's emails and (implicitly) repulsed by the drone strike that killed a 16 y.o. American citizen on his orders. It's all very shocking and he knew nothing (except when he did) but in those cases he's going to make sure it never happens again. The idea behind all of these responses is that the person responsible has learned their lesson. Everything in Washington becomes an Aesop's fable the moment it goes wrong. The powerful ham-handedly act out the role of the enlightened pupil and then carry on as if expecting more than a self-inflicted slap on the wrist would be, well, outrageous. You may have noticed that this approach to wrong-doing only works for people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. You or I can't cheat on our taxes and go to the I.R.S. with a sob story and a promise it won't happen again. We can try but the I.R.S. will still demand our money and threaten to seize our property. Similarly, if you or I look at someone else's email using tendentious legal reasoning, the judge won't let us off the hook because we feel sorry. It may help at sentencing but sorrow alone is not enough to avoid jail time. Admit your underlings misused their official powers in the worst way imaginable and see if you can skate by on administrative leave, i.e. paid vacation. That works for Lois Lerner but not for people with real jobs working outside the bubble of government service. In Washington DC a staged, false show of humility followed by an empty promise of change is the closest anyone gets to accountability. Just don't try emoting your way out of trouble with government. The expectations for you and me are very different. Men On Strike (Scabs Wanted) by Lisa De Pasquale May 28, 2013 3:14 PM PT Share This: Print In response to Emotion as a Substitute for Accountability: The feminist movement isn't about equality, but condemning all things "male" and praising all things "female." Higher value is placed on sharing emotions than on traditional male roles like fatherhood, stoicism, and taking care of one's family. Right now I'm reading the book "Men On Strike" by Dr. Helen Smith and have an interview with her over at Townhall. (Warning: This is a series I do where none of the questions are political.) "Men on Strike" has some interesting points on why men are giving up on fatherhood and marriage, one being that society now places less value on these things. The last two presidential elections have told us that women love Obama. John's post gives us insight as to why. For the last forty years feminists have told women to respect and reward emotions, not accountability, from men. advertisement Breitbart Video Picks advertisement advertisement Most Popular Fox News National Opposition to Common Core spurs jump in homeschooling25 Nov 2014, 1:13 PM PDT Philadelphia attorney had sex with captive girl, 14, prosecutor says25 Nov 2014, 12:04 PM PDT Ferguson mayor criticizes what he calls delayed deployment of National Guard during protests25 Nov 2014, 11:31 AM PDT Los Angeles freeway sign that misspelled Olympic Boulevard as 'Olimpic' stirs social media25 Nov 2014, 11:01 AM PDT Ferguson hoping for peace, bracing for worst25 Nov 2014, 10:56 AM PDT advertisement Send A Tip Sign up for our newsletter


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Brother's death shakes Bode Miller, family
"We still live in a 'village,'" Starcy Branch, a friend of the family's said Tuesday, noting there is an outpouring of love for Joanne Kenney Miller and Woody Miller of Easton, parents of the 29-year-old who died Sunday of an apparent seizure.
Miller was hoping to make the U.S. squad for snowboardcross for the 2014 winter Olympic games in Sochi, Russia. He'd returned to the sport after recovering from a 2005 motorcycle accident that left him in a coma for 11 days. He came in fourth at the 2013 Sprint U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix. In March he won the Rahlves Banzai Tour overall title.
He was found in his van in the Mammoth Lakes area of California.
Miller grew up in Easton, as did his brother, and learned to ski as soon as he could walk. He discovered snowboarding when he was about 9, and immediately fell in love with it. He was sweet and loving and very close to his family, Branch said.
"He just liked people," she said. "It's very, very tragic. He really made an impact because he was so kind."
Branch called him, "a massively great snowboarder," who also excelled at other outdoor sports.
"We all know everyone," she said of the Easton-Sugar Hill-Franconia area. Everyone, she added, is uniting to help the family. "Their hearts are broken."
John DeVivo, general manager of Cannon Mountain, said Chelone moved out west before DeVivo came to Cannon six years ago.
"Everybody who knew him says he was a great kid, with a lot of spirit. Everyone seems to have a story or two from back in their youth," DeVivo said.
Bode Miller was at Cannon last weekend, raising money for the family's Turtle Ridge Foundation at BodeFest. His sister, Kyla Miller works at the foundation in Sugar Hill; another sister, Wren Miller Weed, is on the board of directors.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family," DeVivo said.
"Chelone Miller was an aspiring elite athlete who had made great progress as a snowboardcross rider this past season. We are all deeply saddened at the news of his death and extend our condolences to the entire Miller family," said Bill Marolt, president and CEO of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association.
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2. CRM Scenario: The applicant will demonstrate their ability to perform in a Part 121 airline environment.
3. Behavioral-Based Interview: During this phase of the interview process, the following areas will be assessed: background, core values, leadership skills, ability, professionalism, etc. The candidate should come prepared with resume and copies of current first class medical, pilot license, driver's license and passport.
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I made my first batch of hard cider last year and loved how it turned out. I want to step up my cider making and try making a bunch of different varieties with different apples, yeasts, and aging techniques. But first things first, I need to get the apples and juice.
Can anyone recommend a good book or online resource that lists cider apples and their characteristics similar to the resources you can find online about grains and hops? I've found the following books online: Cider:Making, Using & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider; and Cider, Hard and Sweet: History, Traditions, and Making Your Own. I almost got the latter, but there are some mixed reviews.
15 Gallons of New England Hard Cider - Four yeasts: Ale yeast, two cider yeasts, and a champagne yeast.
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Implementing change requires reconfiguring processes - and modifying the management systems and behaviors that need to accompany them. But as anyone who has ever tried to instill change knows, maintaining those gains can be very difficult. There is always a natural tendency to revert to the way things were. After the completion of a project, we go back to the organization and review how well the changes have sustained. We've learned that there are some signals that can indicate that improvements are starting to erode. We call these signals "red flags."
It is critical to watch for red flags, because performance improvements are always made up of many small changes, not just one large change. If you let the small changes gradually fall away, a cascading affect can gradually erase the overall gains that were achieved. In the next few Observations, we highlight some of the tell-tale signs we look for when reviewing the sustainability of changes.
Process changes refer to some type of modification of how work is processed from input to an output. Examples include changing the sequence of the process, removing steps that are deemed unnecessary, combining work functions, changing equipment or modifying speeds. The more concrete the process change, the easier it is to sustain. For example, physically changing the layout of equipment (and order of operations) is something of an all-or-nothing proposition. Once in place, it is likely to sustain because of the difficulty of reverting back to old methods. The more complex and difficult process changes to sustain are the ones that require management intervention.
Many process changes require monitoring and compliance, e.g., increasing speeds on a line operation, or staggering shift starts or working through breaks. These types of changes require management follow up to ensure they remain in place. The red flags associated with these kinds of changes are usually simple noncompliance.
In the case of the examples above, red flags would be:
It's fairly easy to see these red flags after the fact, but sometimes the seepage is gradual and more difficult to notice than you might think. One of the difficulties is that there are always good reasons why process changes gradually erode. It takes perseverance to "stay the course" and it often requires active problem solving.
It's not easy for any operation to go through a performance improvement change. Consultants love to say that people should: "Work smarter, not harder," but that can be a false dichotomy. We aren't big fans of the expression because we think it subtly implies that you can get something for nothing. Sometimes working smarter does mean working harder. It certainly means you're working differently.
Take the analogy of losing weight to explain performance improvement. Part of the equation for losing weight is to stop eating foods that aren't healthy for you (that's the "work smarter" part), but another key is to be more active and get some exercise, so you burn more calories than you take in (that's the "work harder" part). If you streamline a process by removing recurring daily obstacles, it can be misleading to suggest that working harder isn't also sometimes necessary. If a process constantly breaks down leaving a person with little to do, fixing the problem may result in that person working more. The majority of people we observe have no objection to putting in a fair day's work for a fair day's pay; it's the recurring problems that frustrate them and that make work tedious. Fixing those problems creates a better environment and may also help foster more employee engagement.
"Working smarter" for a front line manager often means becoming more involved in the scheduling of work and following up on the process. It may be a matter of semantics whether or not this is technically "harder" than previous behaviors. In our experience it usually means a more focused committed diligence is required. To return to the weight-loss analogy, it usually takes more discipline to stick to a healthier regimen. At least initially, managers may find these new requirements "harder" because they aren't familiar with them and because they change their patterns of behavior. The object is to be a healthier, lean organization, but it's a mistake to underestimate the actual change required for many people.
A better expression might be: "Work smarter to be more productive." It's just not very catchy.
We've written frequently about the need to look at operating problems from three vantage points: the actual process of how things get done; the management system that is used to control the process; and actual management behaviors (what people do to control the process). So if you're presenting your findings to an executive group, where do you actually start? What is the right order or sequence to make your points?
There are different schools of thought on this. Historically we've always started with a detailed study of the process, showing where problems manifest. Executives tend to find this very interesting because it depicts reality -- and deeply resonates with anyone who's worked within the process before. Following this, we've presented a study of what managers were doing while these problems were occurring. Finally we've recapped by illustrating the gaps in the management system that helped create the management behaviors we observed.
A more recent school of thought is that you should start with the management system, because it is effectively the intelligence of the operation. If the management system is broken or "disconnected," as we often find, it's virtually impossible for a manager to actually manage a process. All they can do is follow up and provide oversight or some type of after-the-fact quality control. They can't identify when a process is off-plan in real time. Therefore problems like rework and "workarounds" can become the norm and eventually become part of the actual process. So, from this angle, it becomes clear that the management system allows problems to reside in the process and gives no support or direction to guide management behavior.
The two camps remain somewhat divided. Process studies are generally more interesting, whereas management system studies tend to be a little more academic. Both camps will advise, however, that whatever order you settle on, the first study you discuss needs to grab people's attention -- or you may spend the rest of the meeting watching people checking their email.
Being analytical by nature, we sometimes struggle to get a handle on the fuzzy logic behind planned sales growth. One of the things we often find lacking (and sometimes missing entirely) is the logic as to why sales will improve. No, not the forecasts and budgets, broken down by customer and region -- there's often no shortage of those. What's lacking are the changes in actual sales activity that will create the increased volumes.
Sales growth comes from some very specific sources (e.g., price increases, new customers or distributors, new products or markets, increased volumes from existing customers, better retention of base customers). But P&L statements -- or even sales reports for that matter -- are rarely explicit about the source of growth. They tend to highlight markets or customers or product types, so they link to the original budget forecasts. But planned sales growth implies specific activity required on the part of the sales organization related to where the growth is intended to come from. For example, new customer growth would imply new leads and conversion rates on the part of salespeople. New distributor growth would similarly require a specific series of actions to achieve.
But if the planned sources of growth are not made explicit, you can't translate anticipated volume into the required sales activities. If the required sales activity is not explicit, it's very hard for a sales manager to provide any meaningful direction, beyond basic coaching. The fate of the growth plan reverts mostly to the sales force, who also may not know which specific actions are required to achieve the plan put forward. Achieving the sales plan becomes driven by fate and market conditions.
Sales is one of those areas that's really part science and part art. As consultants, we tend to overplay the science part, while sales professionals have a tendency to overplay the art aspect. But there needs to be some movement toward the middle ground if a company wants to actually manage its growth.
Jim Collins' belief that "good is the enemy of great" is a brilliant insight, and it applies to pretty much everything. Essentially, he means that if people get in the habit of accepting things as "good enough," it inevitably leads to marginalization and mediocrity. He's observed that a common trait of great companies is that they hold themselves to very high standards. We believe he is right – and that a key distinction between the good and the great companies we work for is their disciplined insistence on excellence. But we also have come to recognize a practical reality, which is that you simply can't be great at everything. There are not enough hours in the day, and companies would come to a grinding halt if they managed entirely by this edict. So how do you apply Collins' mantra?
The really good companies we work for are skilled at choosing where they should focus and where they shouldn't. They consciously select what they need to be great at, and then aggressively focus on those items. That's a lot harder than it sounds. It requires an obsession for simplicity, which most companies don't have. Most companies become more complicated over time, and if they aren't very careful the complexity feeds on itself (we argue internally that we repeatedly fall into this same trap). Complexity spreads through organizations like a cancer. Each new management level adds information filters; each new manager adds reports and distribution lists and meetings each new market or product variation adds requirements throughout the supply chain; and on it goes. Success may seem to breed success, but often it just creates an appetite for more complexity.
We gain some insight on how well a company is focused by looking at C-level reporting and having executives explain to us what is most important, what issues they commonly drill down on, and how they manage others. At the mid-level, we also look at management reporting and meetings. Meetings are a surprisingly rich source of insight on complexity. Frequency of meetings, stated purpose, who attends and what actually gets accomplished can speak volumes about the culture of an organization. Complexity is insidious. To keep it in check requires leaders to be relentless in making sure the organization stays focused on where it needs to be great.
There's a Latin expression that will resonate with anyone who has struggled to implement change in an organization: "Cui bono?" Commonly attributed to the Latin orator Cicero, it means "To whose benefit?" In a legal context, it insinuates that the guilty party can usually be found among the individuals who have something to gain from the crime. The adage speaks to understanding people's motivations, which is obviously very important when trying to implement change in an organization.
In change-management vernacular, the expression that managers are more familiar with is "What's in it for me?" (or WIIFM, as it's usually written on management-training posters). "What's in it for me?" implies that people naturally have their own best interests in mind, so when you're trying to sell them on the virtues of changing what they do, you need to articulate why the change will be better for them. But it's a mistake to stop there.
"What's in it for me?" is similar but not the same as "To whose benefit?" -- and the distinction is important. "What's in it for me?" is asked by individuals trying to determine if the changes will either make them better or worse off personally. "To whose benefit" stems from individuals trying to determine who the changes are really going to benefit. Many people become cynical if a change is oversold as something that is designed to make them personally better off. It insults their intelligence if it isn't at least balanced with how the change will also help the company, and perhaps leave them worse off in some ways. Many changes are not "win-win." Often, something must be given up in exchange for something else that is hopefully better. So the key is to try to show why the net balance is better, recognizing the losses as well as trumpeting the gains. It's more honest and, in our experience, it's a more successful approach for most organizations.
We've mentioned before that of the four perspectives we study when we analyze a business (product, process, system and behavior), one is significantly more complex than the others and subsequently takes much more time to change. That one is behavior.
We tend to zero in on management behavior, as opposed to employee behavior, because we find that management behavior is critical to a well-run organization and, in turn, significantly influences employee behavior. Management behavior is, very simply, what managers do during the course of the day. In a broad sense, they actively manage others, train staff, do administration and some in-process work and, of course, fix problems as they come up. But until they actually spend some time observing and categorizing these activities, most managers don't have a very good sense of how their time is divvied up.
Therefore it's very helpful to have a proper analysis of how your time is spent -- and then to have a model that prescribes how that time might be spent more effectively. This takes the generally vague notion of "behavior" and gives it some analytical structure.
The tricky part about this is how behavior profiles (and models) change by industry and company, and within companies by their organizational hierarchy. How front line managers allocate their time is naturally significantly different from how corporate executives allocate theirs. But understanding the current and desired profile at each organizational level can be very helpful in making sure that your organization is aligned and optimizing its valuable management resources.
One of things that we find paralyzes some managers and prevents them from fixing operating problems is something one of our healthcare clients termed the "X- Factor." The X-Factor means problems that were initiated externally (i.e., outside the department) and were therefore difficult, if not impossible, to fix because local managers had no authority.
It's not surprising that external factors can, and do, routinely affect performance simply because organizations are made up of processes that run horizontally through vertically organized functions. And functions within organizations are often in conflict with one another. For example, a company's procurement department wants to purchase supplies in large quantities so it can negotiate the best price, but the people managing inventories want it to buy in small lot sizes to keep inventory levels down. Organizations are a complex web of compromises and trade-offs.
The X-Factor is alive and well in most companies -- and it impacts the performance of one department over another. However, we find that it is rarely as significant as managers think. Often there is not enough effort spent separating the myth from the reality. One of the first things we do when we encounter a problem that is deemed "unfixable," due to X-Factor conditions, is simply quantify the source causes. What we are trying to determine is how much of the problem is caused by external factors versus those factors that are within the control of local management. Often we will find that there is plenty of scope to incrementally improve a process quite independent of the X-Factor issues.
Then we also look more closely at the underlying external factors and further break them down into specific issues. Here we often find that there is more ability to influence external departments than local managers realize. Sometimes just educating external groups about the specific issues and quantifying the impact can influence what they do, when they do it and/or how often they do it -- whatever it is that's actually creating the problem.
Over many years we've had a few less than flattering nicknames thrown our way. It's all part of the job when you are somewhat of an intruder in an organization. The funniest was probably "Cushman bait." This was the nickname jokingly given to our consultants at a large aerospace manufacturing plant. "Cushman" was the brand name of the utility vehicle employees drove around the plant. It wasn't all that funny to our consultants at the time, but it is pretty funny if you didn't take it literally!
This particular plant was unionized, although that's not really relevant, as it's fairly common for workers (unionized or not) to be less than thrilled that we are spending time up close and personal, observing them do their work. What is almost always surprising is how much their opinion changes by the time we've finished doing our "observations." Employees are often initially worried that our watching them work is some kind of "Big Brother" intrusion and that the outcome won't be beneficial to them. By the time we're finished, however, most employees agree that there is no better way to understand their daily issues than to spend a day in their shoes and see the world through their eyes, completely unfiltered. It's arguably the most honest way to really understand what they have to deal with on a daily basis.
To get past their initial resistance and to help ensure that the observation experience is positive, we follow a few helpful guidelines:
1. Clarify the purpose.
Take the time to properly inform employees of the purpose of watching work where and when it happens, which is to see the inherent operating problems that impede the process -- not to watch individuals. We never attach an individual's name to an observation: it's irrelevant to the purpose.
2. Be transparent.
Share what you are observing with the employee and keep them informed about what you plan to do with the information. Remind them that it is not an assessment of them personally in any way.
3. Protect your sources.
When you share observations with management, it's critical that you again stress the purpose of the observation (i.e., the process, not people). Sometimes there is a knee-jerk reaction to reprimand an employee when problems are observed. However, you can't let management do this or employees will simply shut down. Also, as we have discussed previously, most operating problems have more to do with the process and how it's managed than they do with individuals.
4. Follow up.
After completing a series of observations, you need to close the loop. It's helpful to employees if you let them know what was collectively learned -- and what resulting changes are being examined and tested.
In the previous Observation, we discussed the need to make internal performance improvement (PI) groups more accountable, and by doing so make the operating groups that use them more accountable as well. In this Observation, we are going to add a few more thoughts on some of the problems we have seen that can limit the effectiveness of PI groups.
1. Too "process-focused"
PI groups are often the offspring of some type of process-oriented improvement methodology. This is useful but can be limiting in terms of generating tangible financial results. Many process improvements require changes in the way that managers plan and control their resources and in how they interact with their staff. For example, changing a process results in changes to the time and scheduling parameters associated with that process. This, in turn, requires a change in how the process is scheduled, and how the new expectations are communicated and followed up on. To be more effective, PI groups need to spend more time understanding the management control system and the managers' actual behaviors.
2. Too "stretched"
In an effort to control what is often perceived as overhead costs, PI groups tend to be kept relatively small. This works fine if the projects they are focused on are also relatively small. However, projects are often quite large in scope. Larger-scope projects are attractive because the financial returns are more appealing but, by design, they require more resources than are often available. The net result is that the burden for implementation of good ideas falls onto operating managers. Often it is the implementation of ideas, not the ideas themselves, that gets stalled in organizations. If PI groups effectively become "advisors" that generate reports, they aren't very useful to line managers. For changes to stick, they need to be owned by the people who have to make those changes and live with them. Getting people to own change takes the investment of a great deal of time as they need to first understand why change is necessary and then to gain confidence that change will be beneficial to them in some way.
3. Too "corporate"
Finally, as mentioned in the previous Observation, PI groups are often initially put together to enact a corporate vision or objective. Although there is nothing inherently wrong in being a "corporate" function -- and a strong argument can be made that it needs to be a corporate function -- this can cause resistance to change as strong as that typically reserved for external consultants.
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Pianist Jinhee Yoon presents her senior recital at Berklee, featuring her favorite standards and a selection of her original tunes.
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Tommaso Gambini Band
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Guitarist and film scoring major Tommaso Gambini and band perform originals and covers.
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Pianist Thomson Knoles presents a mixture of modern jazz, original compositions, and funk.
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Jazz vocalists studying with Voice Professor Maggie Scott will perform standards accompanied by a jazz trio. Singers will perform songs from the Great American Songbook as well as Latin composers.
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An Evening with Preston Reed and Special Guest Usman Riaz
Tuesday / November 4, 2014 / 8:00 p.m.Berklee Performance Center
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In his first caf show at Berklee, singer-songwriter Max Brandenburg and his band will perform unique originals in the style of jazz-influenced pop, soul, and R&B.
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Uri Gurvich Clinic
Wednesday / November 5, 2014 / 1:00 p.m.Cafe 939
Saxophonist and composer Uri Gurvich was named Jazz Player of the Year in his native Israel before relocating to the U.S. to study at Berklee under Joe Lovano.
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Network Before You Move: Los Angeles
Wednesday / November 5, 2014 / 1:00 p.m.Steve Heck Room
Justine Taormino, Berklee's LA-based assistant director of Alumni Affairs, will speak about the current scene in LA for Berklee alumni. Please feel free to bring a lunch. Snacks will be served.
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Marie Lang and Friends
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'American Idol' Alum Allison Iraheta is Married
The 21-year-old season eight finalist and her Halo Circus bandmate eloped earlier this year.
American Idol alum Allison Iraheta is married.
The season eight finalist, who competed at age 17 and came in fourth behind winner Kris Allen and runners up Adam Lambert and Danny Gokey, eloped with songwriter-producer Matthew Hagar back in January. Hagar is also her bandmate in the group Halo Circus.
The two have kept the nuptials under wraps even as they perform Halo Circus gigs together (tonight they're scheduled to appear at Los Angeles' Hotel Cafe).
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Iraheta first met Hagar through her friend, guitarist David Immerman. As the 21-year-old explained to The Hollywood Reporter in April, Immerman had written a song with Hager and wanted Iraheta to record the vocal.
Said Iraheta: "I thought, why not? I'm not doing anything." After the session, Hager asked her, "Why aren't you writing or recording? What's happening with your career?" to which she revealed that she'd been having a hard time coping with being dropped by her label.
"Matthew said we should write a song and have fun," Iraheta continued. "Two or three weeks after that, we wrote our first song. We liked being creative, and I thought it might be an opportunity to reintroduce myself to the music world. And it was."
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The song Iraheta and Hager wrote, called "Gone," bonded the three musicians. "Our souls were patched together in this project," says Iraheta. "It was so honest. We felt like a family, so we continued to write as a band."
Hagar, a former musical director for Mandy Moore, a multi-instrumentalist, composer and founder of management company 76 Steps Entertainment, is originally from Houston, Texas. He graduated from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in 1991.
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School board officials, MTI Director Mary Cantrell, elected county officials and Doug Wagner, director of adult, career and technical education for the district, participated in ribbon cuttings for the main entrance, the Wagner Auditorium, Cantrell Hall and the east and west wings.
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Although the House favors delaying action for a year of study, the Senate seems poised for action. The Senate Conference Committee this week unanimously approved a measure creating a "no-call list" that would allow consumers to opt out of uninvited calls.
Telemarketers would have to buy regularly updated versions of the list and honor them or face potential penalties.
The telemarketing industry points out that a one-size-fits-all ban would not only would hurt some businesses that rely on telephone sales, but also charities as well. Lori Fentem of the American Teleservice Association told senators on Wednesday that even some people who find those dinnertime calls generally offensive may buy a product or service over the phone if it interests them.
That no doubt is true, but unless the Legislature comes up with a workable compromise, public frustration may soon reach a breaking point. As Sen. Carolyn Allen, R-Scottsdale, put it, "It's becoming so overwhelming for people that you almost want to yank your telephone out of the wall. So many of us would like to have these calls stop."
As pressure has built for a legislative remedy, various groups — including politicians, newspapers and charities — have pushed for exemptions.
As we've suggested before in this space, some exemptions may make sense — but let individual consumers make that call. Give them the option of being on a comprehensive no-call list, or allowing calls from, say, charities, political organizations or certain types of businesses.
Being able to select would protect everyone's interests. Telemarketers wouldn't be wasting time and money calling people who've said they don't want their calls, and consumers would have more peace and quiet without banishing calls in which they've indicated an interest.
Meanwhile, consumers do have options — though all of them cost money. There's caller ID and those "If you're a telemarketer, please hang up now" messages.
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Attendees at recent recycling conventions see limited upside for ferrous scrap in the short term.
Ferrous scrap demand has not plummeted and supply has not completely dried up, but one steel analyst's recent description of a "rutted road" for the steel and scrap industries does not provide much encouragement for a swift improvement.
Speaking at the 2013 Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) World Recycling Convention in Shanghai in late May, steel industry analyst Peter Marcus of World Steel Dynamics, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., said the steel industry will continue to travel the "rutted road" it started out on in 2008 through the rest of this year and into 2014.
Marcus was bearish about ferrous scrap and iron ore pricing during that stretch, declaring "Steel's iron age is over." He predicted, though, that raw material costs are on their way to swinging back in favor of ferrous scrap as a feedstock, with the pendulum moving in scrap's favor by 2015.
China's ferrous scrap reservoir has been building, said Marcus. He forecasts that by 2025 China will have a 145-million-tons-per-year ferrous scrap surplus, "given the same EAF (electric arc furnace) steelmaking and BOF (basic oxygen furnace) scrap usage figures."
Even if China adds EAF capacity and charges more scrap into its BOF mills, Marcus foresees "75 million tons of surplus" scrap in China annually by 2025. (For more on the state of the steel industry, see "Empty Pages" starting on page 66 of this issue.)
In the short-term, prices stabilized for most grades of ferrous scrap in early June, as many mill buyers in the United States agreed to pay per-ton prices similar or identical to what they had paid 30 days earlier.
The American Metal Market (AMM) June Midwest Ferrous Scrap Index for No. 1 Busheling, released June 10, rose by 6 cents per ton from the month before. Shredded scrap in the Midwest, however, dropped by some $6.40 in the early June buying period, according to AMM.
Market reports offered at the BIR Ferrous Division meeting offered a mixture of resignation, concern and a few hints of optimism regarding the global market.
Division Chair Christian Rubach of Germany's TSR Recycling remarked that "economists are starting the discussion [of] whether we are at the end of the commodity super cycle [that] fueled our steel recycling industry for the last [several] years."
A report submitted by United Kingdom-based Tom Bird of Van Dalen Recycling noted that "prices have continued to weaken during the month [of May] and we could see further reductions for June across the board."
Bird added, "Like 2012, 2013 is proving to be a difficult year. After a fairly positive start to the year, the market has gradually tightened though April and May."
Bird did refer to a positive scenario, saying, "If steel demand does recover in the second half of the year, then this will filter into the scrap market with a revival of sorts from mid-June onwards. We should also see a lift after Ramadan [which ends Aug. 7 in 2013]."
Summarizing the U.S. market, Blake Kelley of Sims Metal Management, New York, described declining prices in May and referred to "trade opinion" predicting declines of $10 per ton or more in June.
Prices for finished hot-rolled coil steel in the U.S., at from $606 to $639 per metric ton, are "the lowest since 2010, as steelmakers struggle to maintain order books where lead times are reportedly three to four weeks."
Kelley noted that the world's steel industry in 2013 continues to produce more steel than ever before and is on pace to produce 1.56 billion metric tons of steel this year—54 million more metric tons than in 2012.
However, with much of the growth occurring in China, where iron ore-fed basic oxygen furnaces predominate, the world in 2013 will "apparently consume 11 million metric tons less purchased scrap," according to Kelley.
In the U.S., according to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), Washington, D.C., in the week ending June 1, 2013, domestic raw steel production was 1.84 million tons at a capability utilization (capacity) rate of 77 percent. That was down some 100,000 tons from the week ending June 1, 2012, when production was 1.95 million tons at a capacity rate of 78.6 percent.
Year-to-date production of 40.4 million tons (at a capacity rate of 76.6 percent) represents a 7 percent decrease from the 43.4 million tons made during the same period in 2012, when the capacity rate was 79.6 percent, according to AISI.
However in May 2013, the Worldsteel Association reported that crude steel production in the 63 reporting countries was up 2.6 percent for the month compared with May 2012 to 136 million metric tons.
*FOB New York, in metric tons; **FOB Los Angeles, in metric tons. The American Metal Market (AMM) Midwest Ferrous Scrap Index and the AMM Ferrous Scrap Export Indices are calculated based on transaction data received that are then tonnage-weighted and normalized to produce a final index value. The AMM Scrap Index includes material that will be delivered within 30 days to the mill. Spot business included after the 10th of the month will not be included. The detailed methodologies are available at www.amm.com/pricing/methodology.html. The grades are based on the Institute of Scrap Recycling Inc. (ISRI) specifications from 2012.
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