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What makes a great surgeon? Using a pinch of logic, it should be an easy enough answer: his/her more serious operations (internal trauma, transplants, etc.) consistently result in a saved or extended life, while the less serious ones (bone spurs, breast augmentations, etc.) result in a pain-free or deliciously top-heavy patient. How about what makes a great coach? Again, logic: he/she molds good players into excellent ones, and racks up a whole lot of wins. Now, can you as easily narrow down what makes a moron? Perhaps the most scientifically precise answer ("a mommy moron and a daddy moron") is the first thing that hits your head, but what about more common, subjective ones?
Would you say it's a habit of making inane or wildly incorrect statements? Is it unwise decision-making? Being held back so many times you get voted "best beard" in your fifth-grade yearbook? Calling tech support because you can't get your pencil to work? Accidentally bathing your cat with dog shampoo and worrying he'll start barking?
All right, too many options–maybe it's better to pose the question ratori…retorri…rhettor…
I'm convinced Democrats believe the word "moron" means something along the lines of "a Republican without several engineering degrees." The poor darlings don't merely think their definition is arguable; they're downright convinced it's indisputable. One can only hope the folks at Merriam-Webster don't face some sort of "omission tax" if the liberal definition isn't among the listed.
Much as it fastballs me in the groin to admit, Democrats are no slouches at pushing the narrative that Republicans are the mental mush-heads in politics. They did it with Gerald Ford. They did it with George W. Bush. Ditto with Christine O'Donnell. They tried it with Ronald Reagan for a bit, though only to end up packing up their slingshots and riding off on their Big Wheels. I'd say the best example in recent memory, where calling a Republican an imbecile morphed from petty insult to apt description, is former VP Dan Quayle. Almost from the get-go, the opposition beat the elder Bush's running mate relentlessly with the dumbass stick, and you gotta admit he made it easy as sweet potatoe pie. With all the assorted silliness he lovingly served up, convincing the public Quayle was utterly brainless wasn't a hard sell. However, Conservatives knew better–the claims were hardly the reality. Utterly brainless? Ridiculous! Quite the contrary! He was just terribly stupid!
Among the many things Barack Obama's swooning fans gushed about, from the moment he stepped off the plane from Liverpool, was his intelligence. From Manhattan cocktail parties to Hollywood elbow-rubs to San Francisco pre-orgies, whenever the topic of conversation changed from Obama's body to his brain, liberals (after wiping the corners of their mouths) would gasp what a superior thinker he was. They're not conversating much about it now, partly because he's not the refreshing new craze anymore, and because saying out loud that Obama is extremely smart sounds more and more ridiculous as time goes by. You know they still believe it with all their hearts, but last I checked the heart's job is to send blood to the brain, not do its thinking for it.
Has your itinerary ever listed as many as fifty-nine states? Have you ever singed the praises of people who built an intercontinental railroad? Do you think there is an Austrian language? When millions of drivers are being eaten alive by gasoline at $4.95 per gallon, do you tell them they wouldn't be having such a hard time if they had simply tuned up their engines and inflated their tires properly? Have you ever reassured people that paralegals were present in case anyone required medical attention? Is "(e)verybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma. They end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs when, if you, they just gave, you gave, treatment early, and they got some treatment, and uhhh a breathalyzer, or uhh, an inhalator, not a breathalyzer…" an actual quote by you? Because if you have, it's fair to say aliens searching for signs of intelligence will avoid your head at all costs.
I should point out this list of Obama gaffes is not even close to the complete collection, and it already dwarfs the one produced by a certain perky-licious former governor of a very large state. (No, it's not George W. Bush.)
More recent efforts by leftists to brand us with an irremovable idiot tattoo have, arguably, only made them look more irrational. Now thanks to a couple of shining moments last month, we're reaching the point where they'll have no choice but to climb atop the Coit Tower and loudly admit their stupendous stupidness. The amazing thing is these examples didn't involve Joe Biden, whose omission from this column is only due to the impossibility of describing his sheer dunderheadedness with an alphabet of only twenty-six letters.
Last month the liberals got good 'n busy with the idiocy. It started with (surprise!) the president, who added yet another notch to his cranium by misspelling the word "respect" while praising Aretha Franklin at the White House. You really can't blame him, and not because his dome-light is low on wattage; it's because the guy has made every effort to be completely unfamiliar with the whole concept of respect. When a guy like Barack Obama spells that word correctly, it collapses the existential apple cart.
The Queen of Soul wasn't the only star on hand; singer Patti LaBelle was also in attendance, and at one point was nice enough to show Obama he wasn't the only fool in the room. Among the smooch-speak she gushed to the first couple was her unfortunate failure to complete the word "swagger." "Baby, you've got swag" is what she said, verbatim. I didn't even need to reread the quote, because LaBelle is known for having a great voice, not the Theory of Relativity. I figured she was quite capable of attempting to praise the Obamas' air of cockiness, only to wind up accusing them of trafficking in stolen goods.
The next cute mental failure came courtesy of Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (one of the very few instances you'll get courtesy from her): "(m)aybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a Constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not."
Like everyone else, I was amused by the ever-so-slight misfire on the Constitution's age, which was created & ratified in the late 1700's, not the early 1600's. I was equally amused by what followed "400 years": Lee's profound revelation that a Constitution defines what is constitutional. This was probably the only time I wished I was near the Yale alum, just so I could've told her how wonderful envelopes are because of the way they envelope the letter you're sending. Time permitting, I might've even cooed a little about the greatness of meat tenderizers–they tenderize meat.
I've seen Ms. Lee in action for a long time, and sometimes find it difficult picturing her going to Yale. If she did, however, I'd be yumping for yoy.
All in all, let's just say we need not be so afraid anymore of our intellect being called into question, at least on those occasions we utter a malapropism or get caught on camera looking confused. It's still a good idea to mind some of the basics, like spelling werds corectly, putting conjunctions in the right place but where they belong, and proper usage of punctuation
A better column than last time although you still can improve. I notice that you play drums. I play about 8 or 9 stringed/fretted instruments and keyboards. I can read and write drum notation and have a home studio where I substitute a drum machine for a drummer.
Thanks for the kind words.
Improvement is always a factor, specifically the avoidance of it. Trying to maintain standards here.
A previous band of mine had used a machine before I was hired to take its place. For balance's sake the drum machine took mine too; rehearsing was so much easier knowing it was at my house playing with the cats while watching NYPD Blue reruns.
Did they use the machine live in public? That seems to me something that would kill the feel of performance. When I play live using electric instruments, I use a real drummer. It's a social occasion.
I use the drum machine because when I'm recording in a bedroom studio it doesn't take up space, make mistakes, or have an opinion different than mine.:)
They used it live early on, and in one or two of the regular joints, it was practically a better choice given the size. I had to leave most of my kit at home (made me feel like Linus without his blanket) and play like a dwarf at these coat-closets.
These were good musicians, with 2 GREAT singing voices. They did well no matter who/what kept the time. Showmanship was the difference–my predecessor sucked at twirling and banter.
A friend of mine did a gig at Joe's Pub in NYC. They had to leave some of the kit home. They found they liked that sound better.
I know about playing on small stages. I once played a bar next door to the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. I don't remember its name. If you leaned forward on stage, you'd fall into a pool table. Southside Johnny was playing next door in a group called the Blackberry Booze Band (I think). I'd ask customers on the side- "Why are you here listening to me?"
The claim that Republicans aren't as smart as Democrats is just more boilerplate from the leftist PR machine. It's been part of their partisan mantra for as long as I've followed politics; through fifty years of shifts in the demographic bases of the respective parties. And why not make the claim if you can get away with it? We all want smart leaders. And they know that Republicans will have just as much trouble disproving the charge as Democrats have had trying to prove it. So if you make the assertion loud and often, and you have enough allies in the media to help spread your story, you just might get some of the American people to believe you.
That this claim has been examined from time-to-time over the years and there's no scientific evidence to support it doesn't really matter to Democrats. In their mouths it's now settled science. So what if it's not true? It's their story and they're sticking to it.
When I think of Obama (which is only when I check the latest bill from my health insurance carrier) I can think of several phrases that describe him: "The lights are on but nobody's home." "Throw a rock at a pack of dogs and the one that howls is the one that got hit." " He's two bricks short of a load." There's more but that's enough for now.
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Adjustables Open Doors But They Can Be Risky
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Last year, Janice Pierini fell in love with a two-bedroom condominium and rushed into an adjustable-rate mortgage.

She said it was the only way she could get into a place that cost her more than $200,000.

Now Pierini, of Natomas, Calif., is struggling, like a growing number of homebuyers who face the risks that come with the loan that has become a leading way for many Americans to buy a residence.

Pierini's troubles occurred just months into her interest-only mortgage, when she saw her income drop because of sickness and she fell behind on payments. Though she's worked out a repayment plan, her next hurdle is less than a year away when she must start paying principal, too.

"Down the road a little way I find I am really struggling with this mortgage," said Pierini, a nurse at a Sacramento hospital.

Adjustable mortgages allow many people to buy homes they normally couldn't afford by offering them lower interest rates than a traditional 30-year, fixed mortgage — in many cases saving the buyers hundreds of dollars each month.

Some homeowners, like Pierini, can face trouble when personal circumstances shift. Others can struggle when their mortgage rates, which are tied to other interest rates, rise at designated intervals. That leaves many people who barely qualified for the homes in the first place paying higher monthly mortgages than they planned on.

Rates for adjustables have climbed as much as 1.5 percentage points in the past year, according to federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac. The increases, combined with other factors, can add $50 to $250 to a monthly payment, experts say.

Pierini's story is just one inside the world of mortgage financing, where most buyers now shun the traditional and simple 30-year fixed rate mortgage. This spring, nearly 70 percent of homebuyers in some California counties used to a wide variety of adjustable-rate loans that can badly surprise those who don't study their fine print.

Though the use of adjustables is down in some places early 2005, some analysts see warning signs in their continued dominance. The research firm DataQuick Information Systems reported an increase in overdue mortgage payments in some parts of the state during the first quarter of 2006 compared with the same time last year. Those increases may worsen in months ahead as rising interest rates hike monthly payments.

"We expect the risky loans to be a bigger factor later this year," said DataQuick analyst John Karevoll.

Pierini praises adjustable rate financing for getting her into a home she couldn't have bought otherwise. But she advises people who have options to use a fixed rate or wait.

"Take your time, shop around and if at all possible try and get a 30-year fixed," she said. "If it means waiting an extra year or two, do it."

Mortgage bankers acknowledge difficulties that some homeowners are having. But Michael McGee, president of Winchester McGee Financial, said the industry's array of adjustable mortgage products has opened homeownership to thousands who otherwise could never afford today's prices.

"As time goes on and there's more competition in the mortgage industry, you'll see more and more of these types of products," McGee said. "There will be better opportunities and more opportunities for people to buy a house."
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He knows I don't trust him, but we've been together since high school so we've tried to just live in the now, and not be angry.
Well this week I have caught him, once again in a verbal and visual affair. To me this is cheating, BIG TIME. Especially since this is what he has done in the past. I knew he had been talking to a girl from home, but things were so good between us that I figured she was just a friend...well I saw the messages (which he had over 200)..and confronted him. He somehow turned it into my fault and said it was about time I take up for myself...that's all he wanted...I don't understand that but its not even bout me...its about our 5 month old daughter.
We had a conversation and I told him that he didn't have any real friends, friends would respect the fact that he is married with a family. Friends who were true friends would not only talk to him when they broke up with their so's. Friends would have been here for you when you joined the military and had to move away...instead all of his friends ditched him and only talked to him when they needed some form of "booty".
Well I knew the girl still texted him after I had asked him to tell her to stop and for him to just ignore her..so I went onto our onnline account for our phones and blocked her number. From what vzw online says, he won't be able to call or text her and vice versa. He doesn't know and I don't care if. He eventually finds out...
Do you think I went overboard by blocking her? Would you block the others who do the same thing? Or would that make it obvious that I blocked them?
I would have done the same thing ... maybe even more...lol.. definitely would have blocked them all .. haaha... way to go! ... I hope things work out ... sounds like you both could use some counseling services...
She also chase after Christopher's cousin's new husband, but only after they (his cousin & her husband) got married.
I was told yesterday by his cousin (after I messaged her and told her to f off, she was nothing but a homewrecker), that she isn't prepared for the wives sticking up for their marriages because she actually lived with her baby daddy & his family for a long time after she got pregnant & they wife was nice to her!
Nowhere I'm hell would I allow that!
Quoting LADYBUGZ909:
I think you did the right thing, you do whatever it takes to save your relationship if he is upset too bad. If he finds another way to communicate with her then honestly I would just let him go. This girl needs to get her ass kicked for messaging him knowing damn well that he is married. Don't feel bad I for blocking her out, I would have done the same thing.


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Wife and I were at the velodrome swap meet and saw a (10 speed) that looked like this:
Her words "that thing's sexy, you should get one one day".
I heard "you should get one"
She swears the emphazis was on "one day".
Anywho, I'm wondering, if anyone know what the frame style is, and if anyone here rides one. I've got about 3 billion questions on them.


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If the opening to Lady Lazarus's album, Mantic, sounds familiar, it might be because the piano is very close to the riff played in Perfume Genius's "You Won't Be Here." In fact, I know very little about piano riffs, but I bet we could find a number of other songs that borrow the same chord changes or rhythm. But if looking at Mantic for instrumentation innovations is really the angle you want to approach it from, have fun being disappointed. The album is spare, haunting, and quite beautiful, and looking for connection, rather than innovation, is a more realistic lens and, ultimately, a quite rewarding one.
Like listening to the upcoming James Blake record, Mantic shows the magic that space can create. And Lady Lazarus, whose name likely comes from a Sylvia Plath poem, knows how to use lack of sound to accentuate the actual sounds. "The Eye In The Eye Of The Storm," one of the record's clear highlights, speaks volumes about the record both in its title and content. Mantic can feel like the eye of a storm, both with the current landscape of the music world and the current state of the planet. But on this song, the listener should get lost in the quiet, in the moments that are left to reflect solely on the comforting piano notes and the isolating lyrics that borderline on existential. Yeah, "who is going to sing it but me?"
Mantic passes by in an almost trance-like state, so it becomes difficult to point out particularly affecting moments or songs. It is the kind of record that sounds best as a whole, which, unfortunately, will turn off some listeners, as this characteristic has also done for like-minded artists, such as the aforementioned Perfume Genius and Joanna Newsom. But there are moments that do stand on their own. "What It's Like" overflows with both a rawness (something that is present on every track, really) and distinct professionalism. No, not in the playing but in the emotional control. Sadness, nostalgia and ultimately redemption all can be felt simultaneously within the track, which seems carefully orchestrated like a master puppeteer commanding his marionettes. And still the song seems so precise in its plodding. "What It's Like" also comes across like the first song Melissa Ann Sweat has ever sung or written. Almost like her piano notes are accompanied with the thought of "what comes next?"
This kind of sensation is impossible to fake or create, and so Mantic bursts with both orchestrated moves and spontaneity. Yeah, I know that doesn't make sense, and honestly, the rewards of Lady Lazarus' first album are still being revealed to me, weeks after first listening. To call it a "grower" would be selling it short. It is an expander, filling the space that it creates with the craving for return after return. Ask me what I think about it in a month and it may be one of my favorite albums of the year. For now, it is a strong debut that can prove difficult at times, but puts the singer on the map of future artists to watch.


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It's not as easy as noticing a little increase in prostate size because some enlargement of the prostate gland is normal, as a man gets older. So when does prostate size become a health concern? Read more.
The name given by physicians for enlarged prostate is benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), or benign prostatic hypertrophy.
As a man matures, the prostate goes through two main periods of growth. The first occurs early in puberty, when the prostate doubles in size. At around age 25, the gland begins to grow again. This second growth phase often results, years later, in BPH, or benign prostatic hypertrophy.
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Analysis Guide a system is defined as:
"A composite of
equipment, skills, and techniques capable of performing or
supporting an operational role, or both. A complete system
includes all equipment, related facilities, material, software,
services, and personnel required for its operation and support
to the degree that it can be considered self-sufficient in its
intended operational environment."
When we look at these
definitions in conjunction it becomes very evident that any
asset management program must address system development through
all phases of a systems life. There is no maintenance program
that can improve the reliability of a poorly designed system.
Additionally, whatever maintenance program is developed is
determined by the design of the system and the goals of the
The Goal of
Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
The primary goal of
Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) should therefore be to
insure that the right maintenance activity is performed at the
right time with the right people, and that the equipment is
operated in a way that maximizes its opportunity to achieve a
reliability level that is consistent with the safety,
environmental, operational, and profit goals of the
organization. This is achieved by addressing the basic causes of
system failures and ensuring that there are organizational
activities designed to prevent them, predict them, or mitigate
the business impact of the functional failures associated with
The Seven Questions
of RCM
There are seven basic
questions used to help practitioners determine the causes of
system failures and develop activities targeted to prevent them.
The questions are designed to focus on maintaining the required
functions of the system.
1. What are the
functions of the asset?
2. In what way can the
asset fail to fulfill its functions?
3. What causes each
functional failure?
4. What happens when
each failure occurs?
5. What are the
consequences of each failure?
6. What should be done
to prevent or predict the failure?
7. What should be done
if a suitable proactive task cannot be found?
What Are The
Functions of the Asset?
Every facility is
uniquely designed to produce some desired output. Whether it is
tires, gold, gasoline, or paper the equipment is put together
into systems that will produce the end product. Each facility
may have some unique equipment items, but in many cases common
types of equipment are just put together in different ways.
Within every RCM analysis we have two types of functions. First,
the Main or Primary function, this function statement will
describe the reason we have acquired this asset and the
performance standard we expect it to maintain. Second, are the
Support Functions, which list the function of each component or
maintainable item that makes up the system. The Support
Functions are provided by the bottom level of equipment in most
facilities such as pumps, electric motors, valves, rollers, etc.
Each of those maintainable items has one or more easily
identifiable functions that enable the system to produce its
required output. It is the loss of these functions that lead to
variation in the Main or Primary function of the system and the
safety, environmental, operational, and profit output of the
key thing to remember when describing equipment functions is
that we are interested in what the equipment does in relation to
its operating context, not what it is capable of doing. For
example, a cooling tower pump may be capable of pumping 100 gpm
at 275 ft of head, but may only need to pump 75 ± 10 gpm at that
same pressure. It is necessary to focus on the required and
secondary functions within the system operating context in order
to analyze asset functions. Our main function statement for
this system would address the functionality within the operating
context; Be able to pump cooling tower water at a rate of 75 ±10
gpm at 275 ± 15 ft of head while maintaining all quality,
health, safety and environmental standards.
rate, the head requirement, quality, health, safety and
environmental standards are all performance standards for the
Functions need to be well defined. Statements such as "pump
water from the pond" don't lend themselves well to understanding
what functional failure would look like. A statement such as
pump 1000 ± 100 gpm at 275 ± 15 ft of head from the pond make it
easy to understand what a functional failure might look like.
If we can only pump 800 gpm then we obviously have an
unacceptable variation in output.
What Way Can the Asset Fail to Fulfill its Functions?
and Heap said there are two types of failures. There are
functional failures and potential failures. Functional failures
are usually found by operators, and potential failures are
usually found by maintenance personnel. In many organizations
there are great debates about what constitutes a failure. In
their original work Nowlan and Heap used a very good definition
for failure. "A failure is an unsatisfactory condition." Using
this definition allows us to grasp the idea that equipment can
continue to operate yet be considered failed. Many condition
monitoring programs don't achieve their desired output because
those running the program do not recognize that a failure has
occurred as soon as an unsatisfactory condition is detected.
They often try to run the equipment as long as possible or until
they get closer to the F of the P-F curve. At Allied
Reliability we call this "managing to the F". More mature
programs manage to the P, meaning that they take action as soon
as the unsatisfactory condition is recognized. Remember, the
further we go along the P-F curve the higher the level of
business risk we are accepting.
It is
equally important to recognize that there is significant value
in ensuring that equipment is installed and commissioned
The I-P-F curve
shown above is the standard P-F curve with an I-P portion
added. Point I is defined as the point of installation of the
component. The I-P portion of the I-P-F curve is the failure
free period. This is the time during which the operation is
defect free. The I-P interval for machines that were installed
improperly may be just a few seconds. The I-P interval for
machines installed by well trained crafts people using well
designed procedures, precision techniques, and precise measuring
equipment, and commissioned by operators using well designed
operating procedures may be years.
The graphic above
shows what the I-P-F curve for two differently installed
identical machines might look like. The machine with the longer
I-P interval was installed by well trained crafts personnel
using a properly designed procedure and precision measuring
devices, and commissioned by operators using a well designed
operating procedure. The machine with the shorter I-P interval
was installed by inadequately trained personnel using either no
procedure or a poorly designed procedure without precision
measuring devices and techniques, and commissioned by operators
using either no procedure or a poorly designed procedure. The
difference in lengths of the I-P portions of the curve for the
two pieces of equipment may represent large sums of money. The
dollars represent the additional cost of parts and labor and
also the amount of additional foregone production as a result of
the extra maintenance work that had to be performed.
Looking at an
organization's shift in focus from F toward I is a more
effective way to determine its maturity than by looking at the
age of their maintenance program. Many organizations reactively
maintain equipment for a long time. An organization that is
constantly focused on Point F and staying clear of it, will
undoubtedly be a reactive culture. Typical things heard around
this organization might be "How long can we run it before it
fails?" and "Just how bad is it?".
An organization's
first step toward maturity will be to shift its focus from Point
F to Point P. The organization then focuses its efforts on
understanding how things fail and their ability to detect these
failures early. Typical things overheard in this organization
may be something like: "Is this the best way to detect these
defects early?" or "I appreciate you letting me know about this
problem, even though it's very early."
Further maturation
results in a transition from focusing on Point P to focusing on
Point I. Overheard in the hallways of this organization are
things like "Take the time to do it right, it will pay big
dividends for us not too far down the road" and "Let's update
the procedures for that job to reflect what we just learned".
This organization is trying to prevent failures from occurring
in the first place by applying best practices with fits,
tolerances, alignment standards, contamination control and well
documented procedures. They will see the step change in
performance and they are the ones we label "mature" not the
organizations that have been doing it poorly but for a longer
period of time.
The functional
failure statement describes the loss of the equipment's
function, not what is wrong with the equipment. A good
functional failure statement will most likely not have the noun
name of an equipment part in it.
What Causes Each
Functional Failure?
At the end of the
day we will be building maintenance tasks designed to prevent
functional failures from occurring. In order to do this we must
understand what causes each functional failure. The cause may
be the failure of some equipment part, but it can just as easily
be a failure in some human activity. Improper operation and
improper maintenance are likely to be the causes of failures.
Remember the definition of a system. Everything and everybody
in the facility has some impact on system reliability.
It is very
important to describe these causes or failure modes in a way
that allows us to create a living program for improving asset
management. Easy to use codes in the Enterprise Asset
Management (EAM) system will allow us to capture data about what
types of failures are occurring and to react to that data by
reengineering the maintenance plan, training plan, or equipment
design associated with the equipment. A well designed Failure
Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) is a
must for continuously improving system performance.
For part failures
we may want to use a simple three part code that consists of the
part name, part defect, and defect cause.
What Happens When
Each Failure Occurs?
Known as Failure
Effects, these statements clearly describe what happens when a
failure occurs and what events are required to bring the process
back to normal operating conditions. Different things can
happen when a failure occurs. Not all failures are created
equal. When listing failure effect statements we should fulfill
the following criteria:
What Are the
Consequences of Each Failure?
What makes
failures matter is their impact on the business. Every business
has goals for profitability, safety performance, environmental
performance, and operational performance. Each failure has a
different impact on business performance, and it is important
for the RCM team to understand the consequences of each one.
Some failures are of little to no consequence, and some can
result in the loss of lives, or in extreme cases total failure
of the business.
Most organizations
use some sort of severity matrix to define the consequences of
failures. The tables below represent just some of the ways this
can be done.
How would your
company handle creating severity rankings for failures?
In most cases each
failure will be ranked according to what is known as
criticality. The criticality is the result of combining
probability and consequence rankings together to yield a single
number. The criticality will be a biased towards the business's
philosophy of safety, environmental, and operational risk. The
tasks in the Equipment Maintenance Plan (EMP) generated from the
RCM analysis are designed to lower the criticality of the
significant failures in the system. Tasks can be rank ordered
for implementation by implementing those that yield the higher
reduction in criticality first.
What Should be
Done to Predict or Prevent the Failure?
Each failure mode
must be examined to determine what type of maintenance task, if
any, should be used to prevent or predict it. Nowlan and Heap
recognized four basic types of PM tasks.
When and how these
tasks are performed depends on the failure mechanism that is
present. In the original report six failure shapes were
investigated. The team determined that only 11% of the failure
modes present in their study of aircraft part failures would
lend themselves to scheduled rework or replacement. In this
instance 89% of the failure modes present would require some
sort of inspection. The majority of the failure modes, 63%,
could actually be made worse by time based overhaul or
replacement. Clearly, some good non-invasive method of
inspecting for potential failures would be very beneficial.
Figure 3:
Failure Shapes (John Moubray, Nolan and Heap)
In some cases it
is not possible to detect functional failures during normal
operations. Those undetectable failures are called hidden
failures. Hidden failures are usually associated with some sort
of protective system that is designed to minimize the impact or
prevent the high consequences associated with a failure of the
protected system. Items such as pressure safety valves (relief
valves), circuit breakers, high temperature interlocks, and high
level interlocks are just a few examples of devices that could
have hidden failures. The bad news is that the consequences of
failure can be extremely high. The good news is the probability
of the catastrophic event is often quite low. It requires that
both the protecting and the protected item fail at the same
time. In cases where functional failure is not immediately
detectable during normal operations a failure finding task must
be done to prevent the high consequences associated with
multiple failures.
Table 6,
reproduced from the Nowlan and Heap report presents a comparison
of the four types of tasks and their applicability. For
non-critical failures the order of preference will generally be
inspection, rework, and lastly discard or replacement of the
When Nowlan and
Heap published their report in 1979 condition monitoring methods
such as vibration analysis (VA), ultrasonic inspection (UE),
ultra-violet inspection (UV), and other non-invasive technology
based inspection methods were in their infancy and were very
expensive to deploy. Now, nearly thirty years later, technology
based inspection methods are relatively inexpensive and easy to
deploy. These methods are really nothing more than inspection
methods that can be used on a periodic basis to determine the
condition of equipment. We can be almost certain that Nowlan
and Heap would have recommended extensive use of these
technologies had they been readily available.
In any case, the
task chosen must either lower safety, environmental, or
operational risk to an acceptable level, or for non-critical
failures be economically effective. Risk is always the top
driver in the decision making process. We may have to spend
more money to ensure that we meet our risk goals.
What Should be
Done if a Suitable Proactive Task Cannot be Found?
There may be a
couple of reasons why we wouldn't be able to find a suitable
proactive task. We are either unable to find a task that will
lower business risk to an acceptable level, or we are unable to
find a task that is economically feasible. Each case requires a
different response. In the first case, the system will have to
be redesigned to that an acceptable level of risk. In the
second case, we can choose a run to failure approach for the
failure mode. It is important to remember that when a run to
failure strategy is employed we should then put in place
consequence reduction tasks to mitigate the impact of the
failure. The RCM team must ensure that appropriate steps are
taken to have written procedures in place to deal with the
failure mode, and that proper spares levels are maintained.
Answering the
seven questions of RCM properly will yield a cost effective EMP
that achieves the business' goals for safety, environmental, and
operational risk. Answering the questions properly requires a
cross-functional team of maintenance, operations, and
engineering personnel who have a thorough understanding of how
the asset works, and what the organization's risk and profit
goals are.
Click here for
a larger table (PDF)
Centered Maintenance, Anthony M.
Smith, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-059046.
Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA),
Reliability Analysis Center, IIT Research Institute, 201 Mill
Street, Rome, New York 13440-6916
DOD report number
A066-579, "Reliability-Centered Maintenance"., F. Stanley Nowlan
and Howard F. Heap, December 29th, 1978
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4-H agents in our parish develop and execute educational programs and activities that provide youth the opportunity to develop such life skills as self-esteem, community and citizen responsibility, decision making, organization and social interaction. These characteristics allow youth the self-confidence and communications skills to achieve the 4-H Mission. Our mission is through non-formal, research based, experiential education activities; 4-H participants gain knowledge and life skills enabling them to become positive, productive, capable and compassionate members of their communities.
Annual enrollment begins in September through October of each school year. Members complete an enrollment card by selecting at least one project and pay their annual membership dues. A variety of parish events that consist of contests and activities are conducted throughout the program year September through August. These contests are open to only 4-H members. Project books are given out to each member in either October or November of each year. They provide a variety of activities in a specific area for the member to work on at home or with fellow members in the same area. We advise parents to lead by example in the areas of support through motivation; encouragement and guidance.
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November 26, 2015
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities say Casey Kasem has been located in Washington state three days after a Los Angeles judge expressed concerns about the ailing radio host's whereabouts and safety.
Santa Monica Police Department Sgt. Mario Toti said Kasem was located a few hours after his children filed a missing person's report on Wednesday. A representative for three of Kasem's children said the report was filed after a court issued letters appointing his daughter Kerri as his temporary conservator.
Toti said Kasem was found by the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office, which could not immediately be reached for comment.
On Monday, Superior Court Judge Daniel Murphy ordered adult protective services and a court investigator to locate Kasem after an attorney for his wife said he did not know the former "Top 40" host's whereabouts.
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Author and Des Moines native Bill Bryson lectures at Drake University in 2009. He will give a free lecture on Monday at Stephens Auditorium in Ames titled 'At Home and Abroad.' / Register file photo
See Bill Bryson
WHEN: 8 p.m. Monday
WHERE: Stephens Auditorium, Ames
DETAILS: Bryson will present his lecture, At Home and Abroad. Free.
Britains best-selling nonfiction author of, as Bill Bryson says, books that dont have recipes, is a revered figure there and merely loved in the U.S.
In Iowa, where he is lovingly revered, the wry 61-year-old stops for a lecture Monday night at Iowa State University in Ames.
Best known in these parts for his take on growing up in Des Moines (The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid) and his light-hearted travel adventures (A Walk in the Woods and The Lost Continent, among others), he has aptly become an everymans historian.
A few years ago, he even wrote an engaging history of items found around your home (At Home). His latest is the story of just four months, One Summer: America, 1927.
A reader can almost see the round, bearded man, who talks with a light giggle around the corner of every sentence, rolling through microfilm from his starting point: The coincidence of Babe Ruths remarkable tear, hitting 60 home runs on a Yankee team considered one of the best baseball teams ever assembled, with the astounding achievement of Charles Lindberghs transatlantic flight.
Bryson is familiar with archives. He once was a newsman in England, where he has lived most of his adult life, as were his parents, who worked at The Des Moines Register. Its as if he rolls from Lindbergh to Ruth and discovers a summer that would make any ragamuffin drool. The worst flood in history happened on the Mississippi River. The first talking film The Jazz Singer came out. The television was invented. One crazy man thought of the idea of carving four presidents into a big rock in South Dakota.
One also quickly realizes that 1927 was not much different than our current 24-7 news cycle in its sensation and subjects. The trial of a woman, Ruth Snyder, for arranging a lover to murder her husband so captivated the nation that crowds assembled around her every court appearance. Widespread irrational fear of immigrants was fueled by Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, who were executed for killing a guard and payroll clerk during a robbery. A school bombing in Michigan killed 44.
In anyone elses hands, it should be said, this book could be an almighty mess a circus without a ringmaster, wrote the Guardian. But few writers of nonfiction, and, lets be honest, few writers of novels, can crack the narrative whip like Bryson.
A historian writing in the Washington Post, a rare dissenting voice, called him a writer of travelogues and kitsch, who does a disservice to history with a tone reminiscent of a Ripleys Believe it or Not carnie brag.
Its unlikely that Bryson would never say that perhaps dry historians have long done a disservice to history. Hes Iowa nice. He has his own way of weaving what we know with what we forgot. He celebrates the forgotten heroes, including Philo Farnsworth, whose patents for use of cathode ray tubes led to the electron beams that produced images. The inventor of television died an alcoholic in obscurity, although the courts confirmed his patents.
Iowans often think of themselves as forgotten. Bryson doesnt disappoint, telling the story of Clarence Chamberlin of Denison, who never matched the fame of Lindbergh although that same summer he broke his record for endurance and distance by flying for 43 hours and 3,905 miles to northeast Germany.
We also think ourselves as nice as Bryson. But Iowa was also the home, we learn, of Harry H. Laughlin, who may have been the most lamentable person to achieve scientific respectability in America in the twentieth century, Bryson wrote. Laughlin was born in Oskaloosa and developed a zeal for eugenic purification and led a group touting the sterilization and incarceration of those considered inferior, including immigrants, the mentally ill and people born of racial interbreeding.
In 1927, there were poor decisions by leaders in an overheated economy, which led to the Depression. Racism and anti-Semitism ran rampant, for which another Iowan, Herbert Hoover, can take some credit. But Bryson just as fervently zeroes in on the exhilaration of men such as Shipwreck Kelly. The Manhattan sailor climbed to the top of a 50-foot flagpole and sat there. For a long time.
People flocked to see him as they flocked to see Snyder and Lindbergh and Ruth.
It was an astounding time and who could tell it better than a man who doesnt take himself, and his many fun facts, too seriously. Tying it all together seemed a major problem, so after 425 pages this is as close as Bryson gets to what it all means, without a lot of cymbals crashing:
It is a little hard to imagine now, but Americans in the 1920s had grown up in a world in which most of the most important things had happened in Europe. Now suddenly America was dominant in nearly every field in popular culture, finance and banking, military might, invention and technology.
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Brenda had dated Rick for two years after high school. They had broken up and the next year he had joined the Air Force. One day in 1990, Brenda was shopping at Walmart when she suddenly almost ran into someone with her shopping cart. She looked up to say sorry and she realized it was Rick. Oh my and how he had changed for the better. He had slimmed down and had muscles now. He looked great.
"How are you?" he asked. Brenda could hardly take her eyes off of him.
"I'm home for the next two weeks and I just bought a new Ford Mustang," he stated. "If you want, I will show it to you." Brenda agreed to see it and went for a ride with him in the blue mustang. After the ride, Rick turned to Brenda and asked her if he could take her out that night. She agreed and they set a time for 7 that evening. She drove back to her parent's house very happy and could not wait to see him that night. At exactly six forty-five Rick pulled in the driveway and whenever he came to the door he brought Brenda one red rose.
"Thank you, it is beautiful," exclaimed Brenda. Rick walked her to the car and even opened the car door for her. He took her out to Applebees for dinner. Brenda still couldn't believe how much he had changed. He was such a gentleman and looked great. After dinner they went for a drive through the country and he pulled off on the deserted road that they use to make out at in high school. Rick stopped the car and put his arm around Brenda. They started kissing and Rick ran his hand under Brenda's shirt and unsnapped her bra. He started playing with her nipples and Brenda started unsnapping Rick's jeans. She grabbed his cock and rubbed it up and down for several minutes. Rick worked his way down between her legs and fingered her pussy until it was good and wet. He then pulled her jeans and her panties off. Brenda put the seat back and Rick moved over on top of her. He slid his cock inside of her and started moving his cock in and out of her pussy. This felt so good to Brenda and she just felt warm and tingly all over. They continued in this position until Rick suddenly stopped.
"Get on top of me," he whispered. Brenda moved over on top of him and got on his cock. Brenda was really getting wet and Rick had his hands around her waist. She rode him for the next ten minutes until Rick was about to climax. He suddenly pulled out of her and Brenda went down on him and started sucking on his rock hard cock. She did this for a few minutes and then started licking it up and down until he about exploded. She licked it off for a while and then they decided to get dressed. Rick took her home around 12 A.M. Brenda invited him back over to her parent's house the next evening. He arrived there around 6 and brought some more roses. This time he brought a dozen. He knew that Brenda really loved them. He also had something else for Brenda.
"What is it?" Brenda asked. Rick suddenly got down on one knee and took out a ½ carrot diamond engagement ring.
"Oh my gosh," Brenda exclaimed. She could not believe her eyes.
"Will you marry me?" asked Rick. Brenda was speechless. She definitely was not expecting this at all tonight.
"Yes," she said. "And the ring is so pretty." Brenda and Rick decided to get married the next night. He was getting ready to be sent to Germany. Also, they decided to elope. The next night when they said their vows Brenda about fainted during the ceremony because she was so nervous. After the ceremony, they went to the hotel for their honeymoon. Rick brought some champagne and poured them both a glass of it. They finished off the bottle and they were both feeling pretty tipsy. Rick then started kissing Brenda and pulled her down on the bed. They about tore each other's clothes off. Rick started kissing her nipples and then worked his way down to Brenda's pussy. He licked it until she had a magnificent orgasm and was practically tearing the blankets off the bed. Then he worked his way over till he was positioned behind her and they had sex doggy style until Rick almost came. He pulled out of her then rubbed his cock against her breast and nipples. He then got on top of her and started going in and out of her several times. He was definitely hitting the spot on her because Brenda was moaning with pleasure. Rick continued for about thirty more minutes and finally he came really hard.
"I love you Brenda," he whispered. They continued making love for the rest of the night. Two days later Rick went over to Germany and a month later Brenda got to join him and they are still married till this day.
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GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn.-It's called the festival where their is "something for everyone." If you are looking for something free to do with your family this weekend, head to the Loring Park Art Festival.
Shelley Fischer and MaryAnn Wunderlin, Co-Founder of Loring Park Art Festival joined KARE 11 News @4 to give viewers the details.
The nationally acclaimed Loring Park Art Festival celebrates its 14th year of bringing art to one of the cities' oldest and finest parks. This FREE two-day event takes place on Saturday, August 3 from 10-6 and Sunday, August 4 from 10-5, 2013 on Oak Grove Street and Hennepin Avenue in Loring Park, near the Walker Art Center and the Basilica of Saint Mary.
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St. Francis Medical Center and YMCA of Northeast Louisiana have teamed up with the Downtown RiverMarket to present the group's annual health and fitness day during the market's hours Saturday.
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Attack Ad (Marxist-Leninist)
Somewhere around here I have a copy of the CPC(M-L) pamphlet Northrop Frye: High Priest of Clerical Obscurantism by one Pauline Kogan. Sometime in the early to mid 1980s, the American radical newspaper The Guardian ran a review of Kogan's posthumously published collection of poetry. It seems to have vanished from the face of the earth. Anyone knowing the title, or whereabouts of a copy, please let me know.
While in London a few years ago, I trudged out to the bookstore of the Canadian party's sister organization, in hopes that it would have material by the late Cornelius Cardew, the British composer, who had been a member. In particular it would have been nice to find a copy of Stockhausen Serves Imperialism.
No such luck, though they did have Stalin and Enver Hoxha aplenty. But see the review in Bookforum of the new Cardew biography.
The normally very exacting Bookforum staff have somehow permitted reference to Cardew's group as the Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain. This is, of course, wrong. It's the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist). This kind of thing is easy to check considering they have a webpage.
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Harare – A fine 62 from opener Hamilton Masakadza set up hosts Zimbabwe for an 11-run victory over Bangladesh in the opening match of a Twenty20 tri-nations tournament that includes South Africa.
Masakadza slammed four sixes and six fours in a 35-ball stand and captain Brendan Taylor (38) offered good support as the home team reached 154-6 off 20 overs in clear, warm conditions.
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The report released Wednesday followed months of agitation and charges that evangelical Christian cadets sought to convert Muslim, Jewish and atheist classmates. Separate reports from the Yale Divinity School and Americans United for Separation of Church and State in April accused chaplains at the academy of encouraging that sort of proselytizing.
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She was straightforward, direct, authentic. But that didn't stop her cleverly allowing herself to be packaged for television to sell her ideas more effectively. Packaged authenticity is the secret of great broadcast communication.
When Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, she was a shrill member of the lower middle class with crooked teeth, homely hair and silly hats.
By the time she became Prime Minister in 1979 her voice had deepened, she spoke more slowly and more clearly, her teeth were straighter and her hair carefully coiffered.
Hats were out unless they worked in a media opportunity (eg in a factory or a tank) and her clothes were simpler, bolder, reflecting her message.
She knew the power of the moving image to communicate and cut through.
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None of that would have given her victory of course. What resonated then, and what resonates now all these years later, is that she was always authentic. She didn't say anything she didn't believe. You knew what she stood for. She was consistent.
No amount of packaging would have worked if there wasn't that real substance beneath it. But she acknowledged after she left office that even a great product needed selling and she was open to advice and expertise to help her do so. A former TV news producer, Gordon Reece, worked hard to repackage her. A PR and marketing leader, Tim Bell, sharpened up her messages. And then of course Saatchi and Saatchi made their name amplifying the messages through advertising.
Two became Lords and one a knight. Journalism and marketing combined to ally substance with style, the sausage and the sizzle.
The same is true today with Boris Johnson. He's popular because, even if you disagree with him, you know he's telling it as he sees it. He doesn't try to be someone he isn't – he doesn't try to dumb down his public school accent, or become smooth. He is now artfully unpackaged - of course much of this is now carefully considered, but there is no question that the person we see is truthfully Boris.
Contrast these rich, colourful personalities with so much of the grey, bland political communication we receive. When many politicians speak we don't believe them – not even because we disagree, but because they are so carefully nuancing their comments to what they think we want to hear. They have lost their authenticity. The style has replaced the substance.
The lesson: packaged authenticity
I squirm a little to try to take a monumental event like Mrs Thatcher's death and turn it into a marketing message. But I can't resist it – the echo is so clear for all of us seeking to engage, market, sell. Big moments like this provide a bright spotlight on some important ideas.
If you are responsible for internal communications and need to make your CEO's video messages more effective; or for marketing and want to engage customers more fully; or supporting a sales campaign or a bid strategy – have Mrs T in mind when you use video. What are the essential truths; what is the real personality of the person or the brand; how would the people involved actually talk? What does the product really do? Forget powerful sound bites: how can you ensure that something which is inevitably packaged is also authentic?
It's hard but if you start from that point and make that the benchmark, then it's more likely that your video communication will be believable.
Even if you have to do the equivalent of straighten some teeth and get rid of the hats. Nothing wrong with a bit of polish, after all.
Here is an example of authenticity that did not result in a party leadership.
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I really like your article, thank you!
I have always believed that the greatest leaders are those who have the ability to make difficult decisions and stick to them. Mrs Thatcher was not always popular, but as you said, she stayed true to her vision.
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I am so damn tired to throwing money at everything to fix it. Our Money has become an idol of worship. Families have terrible expenses, with raising children and educating them to fend for themselves. We are throwing billions to education; do we see any improvement, no. We pay people hundreds of millions to dribble a round ball seventy-five feet and shoot at a basket and they only make the shot count 28% of the time. The owners do not pay the professionals we do. It costs over five hundred dollars for a family of four to attend a college football game.
It is claptrap my Grandfathers farmed with Mules, sold cream and eggs to buy staples and raised productive children. If we quit throwing money at politicians, we would not have to have term limits. They need to show taxpayers what they can do for their money instead of being like a spoiled child asking for bigger allowances. Politicians are a perfect reflection of the Paris Hilton disorder. The government wants 39% of your wages, the preacher wants 10%, and the School, State, and City wants 26% we are expected to save for retirement and live on the remaining 25%.
Huckabee comments about illegal Pakistani not only shows his lack of foreign policy but also shows his efforts to spread message of fear and protectionism.
Reality is illegal immigrants from Pakistan are a fraction of what we as a national are getting from other countries including mexico and latin america.
The latest crisis in Pakistan yet again reminds us that world is a dangerous place. And if there is one nation that must rise above the rest and continue to lead the world towards democracy, peace and prosperity, it is America.
huck is right on. protection of boarders and culture is just what the american majority is crying for.
and what is wrong with "protectionism"?
"protection of boarders and culture is just what the american majority is crying for."
Gee i thought what American crying for is an end to Iraq war and a president who isn't a buffoon.
BTW the right spelling is 'BORDERS'!
What have all the listed nationals have in common? they are all here illegally! A nation with out enforced borders is isn't a functioning nation. By the by illegal aliens kill more Americans than then have been killed in Iraq the last year. The numbers caught? Why even use them--one out of twenty-five people in the USA is an illegal alien. I think Bush is a buffoon because of his anti-American illegal-immigration position. Not for his efforts to finish a war congress declared.
Just what would Huckabee do to remove the illegals from the US? I want to hear a rational plan to restore the rule of law to the chaos of US border control and begin the deportation of illegals with the incarceration of their employers.
The Huckster is doing what republicans do best- pander to the basest instinct of American xenophobia.
All republicans can rely on to promote their agenda is FEAR of everything.
you are so proud of your immigrant heritage you actually posted as "irish MD". and you say you stand for "protection of boarders and culture". meaning protecting our culture from immigrants, right?
that's why the gop candidates' focus on immigration stinks a little. because huck says it's all about keeping america safe, but he's really trying to get nativits like you to vote for him. and for you it's all about keeping america white.
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