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| Record Type:
| Directive Number:
| Old Directive Number:
| Title:
|Inspection policy and procedures for OSHA's steel erection standards for construction
| Information Date:
| Standard Number:
|EFFECTIVE DATE: Friday, March 22, 2002
|SUBJECT: Inspection policy and procedures for OSHA's steel erection standards for construction.
|This instruction describes OSHA's inspection policy and procedures and provides clarification to ensure uniform enforcement by field enforcement personnel of the steel erection standards for construction.
|Construction Safety and Health Standards, Subpart R, 29 CFR 1926.750-761, Subpart M, 1926.502 and §1926.105; Federal Register, Vol. 66, No. 12, January 18, 2001, pages 5196-5280, Final Rule; Safety Standards for Steel Erection; Federal Register, Vol. 66, No. 137, July 17, 2001, pages 37137-37139, Final Rule; Delay of Effective Date; OSHA Instruction CPL 2.103, The Field Inspection Reference Manual (FIRM); and Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Section 5(a)(1).
|All interpretations (including letters of interpretation and memoranda) of the previous version of Subpart R issued prior to January 18, 2001.
|State Plan Impact:
|This instruction describes a Federal Program change for which State adoption is not required.
|Action Offices:
|National, Regional and Area Offices
|Originating Office:
|Directorate of Construction
|Effective Date:
|The effective date for the steel erection standard is January 18, 2002 except that §1926.754(c)(3) will not take effect until July 18, 2006. Certain other provisions are subject to a phase-in period (see Chapter 1, Section X).
|(202) 693-2020
Directorate of Construction
200 Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20210
|By and Under the Authority of
John L. Henshaw
Assistant Secretary
NOTE: In order to effectively enforce safety and health standards, guidance to compliance staff is necessary. Although adoption of this instruction is not required, States are expected to have standards, enforcement policies and procedures which are at least as effective as those of Federal OSHA.
NOTE On Effective Date: See Steel Erection Delay Notice (Federal Register #66 pages 37137-37139) to determine if component requirements of the new standard are in effect for a particular project. A number of provisions in the final rule address the safety of certain structural components. These provisions ("component requirements") contain requirements for these components to help ensure that the structure can be erected safely. There are provisions that: prohibit shear connectors on members before they are erected (§1926.754(c)(1)(i)); require all columns to be anchored by a minimum of 4 anchor bolts, which must meet specified strength requirements (§1926.755(a)) (there is a comparable requirement for systems-engineered metal buildings, §1926.758(b)); set requirements for double connections (§1926.756(c)(1)) (there is a comparable requirement for systems-engineered metal buildings §1926.758(e)); require column splices to be at a specified height and meet a strength requirement (§1926.756(d)); require perimeter columns to have holes or other devices for perimeter safety cables (§1926.756(e)); in some instances require a vertical stabilizer plate to stabilize steel joists (§1926.757(a)(1)(i)); require certain joists to be strong enough to allow one employee to release the hoisting cable without the need for erection bridging (§1926.757(a)(3)), and require certain joists to be fabricated to allow for field bolting during erection (§1926.757(a)(8)(i)).The Agency will not conduct general schedule inspections of steel erection until March 18, 2002.
- For building construction, the component requirements of the final rule will not be applied: (1) where the building permit was obtained prior to January 18, 2001, or (2) where steel erection began on or before September 16, 2001 (see volume 66 of the Federal Register, page 37137-37139).
- For bridge construction, the component requirements of the final rule will not be applied where: (1) the bridge project has a contract date before January 18, 2001; or (2) steel erection began on or before September 16, 2001.
In the proposed rule, the controlling contractor would have had to provide the ASTM test results to the steel erector. The final rule has been changed to reflect that the controlling contractor must ensure that the test results are provided to the steel erector. This rephrasing will allow the controlling contractor to have a contractor familiar with the ASTM test methods perform the test and provide the results to the steel erector.Question 13: Can the controlling contractor contract with subcontractors to perform the work required by §1926.752(a)? If so, is the controlling contractor still responsible for these duties after subcontracting them out?
Under §1926.757(c)(2), there are several requirements that must be met before the hoisting cables can be released from these joists. One of these requirements is that the joist be attached as specified in §1926.757(b)(2). Under that provision, the final connection can be either a bolted or welded connection.Question 36(a): Section 1926.757(c)(3) and (d) contain requirements that refer to Table A (Erection Bridging for Short Span Joists) and Table B (Erection Bridging for Long Span Joists). How do I read these tables?
In contrast, §1926.757(a)(8) refers to the initial connection of certain members. Under this provision, these members must be initially bolted (unless constructability does not allow). However, the final connection can be either bolted or welded. The initial bolting is typically done with an erection bolt, which would either be replaced with a high-strength bolt for the final connection or the final connection would be welded.
So, §1926.757(c)(2)'s requirement that joists over 60 feet be attached in accordance with §1926.757(b) means that there must be a final connection -- whether bolted or welded -- that meets the §1926.757(b) requirements before the hoisting cable is released. While these joists had to be initially bolted, the final connection could be either by bolting or welding.
"addresses the hazard that arises when a single steel joist or a bundle of joists are placed on the structure and then left unattended and unattached. . . [T]he bundles must remain intact prior to installation until the time comes for them to be set. This paragraph also prevents those ironworkers who are shaking out the filler joists from getting too far ahead of those workers welding the joists, a practice that leaves many joists placed but unattached. Paragraph (b)(3) of this section . . . requires that at least one end of each steel joist be attached immediately upon placement in its final erection position and before additional joists are placed. Another example of a situation addressed by this paragraph is if the exact dimensions of a piece of mechanical equipment to be installed in the decking are not known. A common practice, when this occurs, is to leave a joist unattached until the dimension is known. This paragraph requires such a joist to be secured . . .pending its final attachment." (Volume 66 of the Federal Register at page 5231).The joists remaining in the bundle do not have to be re-secured while workers are in the process of removing them from the bundle and installing them. However, if, for example, an erector lands all of the joist bundles for a section of a building and will not install the joists until the following day, the joists must be secured to prevent unintentional displacement.
The employer can choose the provider, method, and frequency of training that is appropriate for the employees being trained. The provider may be an outside, professional training organization or other qualified entity, or the employer may develop and conduct the training in-house [Volume 66 Federal Register at page 5152 ].The preamble also states that "the program must meet the requirements of this section, and each employee must be provided the training prior to exposure to the hazard." [same Federal Register page as above]. It is the responsibility of the employer to take reasonable steps to assess the third party trainer's ability to adequately train the employees in accordance with this section. For example, discussing the curriculum and instructors' qualifications with the third party trainer to determine if they were sufficient, coupled with evaluating the employee's knowledge after completing the training, would be considered reasonable steps.
While retraining/refresher training is not specifically addressed, the employer is responsible for making sure that it has programs necessary to comply with the training requirements in §1926.21(b)(2): 'The employer shall instruct each employee in the recognition of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his work environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury.' Steel erection involves progressive sequences of erection, so that the work environment on any one day may involve entirely different or unique new hazards than the day before and that new employees may enter into the erection process when it is already underway. In order to apply §1926.21 during steel erection activities, an employer would have to assess the type of training needed on a continuing basis as the environment and changes in personnel occur. It is the employer's responsibility to determine if an employee needs retraining in order to strengthen skills required to safely perform the assigned job duties and whenever the work environment changes to include newly recognized or encountered hazards. This is a key element in the employer's accident prevention program. [Volume 66 Federal Register at page 5152]Question 55: Is receiving training through union apprenticeship programs the only way to meet the requirements of this standard?
..[o]ne who, by possession of a recognized degree, certificate, or professional standing, or who by extensive knowledge, training, and experience, has successfully demonstrated the ability to solve or resolve problems relating to the subject matter, the work, or the project.As discussed in the answer to Question 53, the employer is responsible for assessing the third party organization's or qualified person's qualifications and experience as they relate to the training program requirements and subject areas described in section 1926.761. The proficiency of the employees in their work activities as determined by the employer is important evidence of an effective training program. [see page 5152 of January 18, 2001 FR]
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Microsoft a history of large, successful product development, not only thanks to the Operating Systems they release, but also due to the commercial Office packages. Microsoft Office Professional 2007 represents the evolution of the classic way of working, creating innovation with the visual aspect and then charming users with the options and features it offers. The twelfth Office edition appears after a gap of 4 years without any new releases for one of the main Microsoft franchises. With the 2007 version, the Redmond Company includes general improvements for all the included applications, as well as some new ones like Groove for the Ultimate version.
The professional version of this Office package includes the basic software components for all kinds of office work, as well as some applications that will enhance and supply the download of external programs. In this edition, you will find Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and additionally Microsoft Publisher and Access. Each one of these applications has become a standard in the software industry, being complete programs that will solve the necessities in these fields. The Office product includes all the elements needed to run the installation and other Microsoft software to make the most of your computer like SQL Server Express and .NET Framework 2.
When you put your hands on the suite for the first time, you will see that the design has changed completely to offer an interface with fewer elements to show at the same time. This Fluent User Interface, later known as Ribbon UI, offers the possibility of changing the options that appear on the upper side of the program you are using. This way, any of the applications that are part of MS Office Professional 2007 can be customized according to their main uses in an easier way for you.
Compatible formats have changed along with the times. Although the old .ppt, .xls or .doc formats are still being used; the new documents based on the open XML format offer a better way to work. Efficiency is important, and with this open type of archive, you can make sure they can be used even if it gets corrupted, thanks to the way the information is saved in different modules within the same archive. This also makes the files a bit smaller than older formats, but bear in mind that they won't be compatible with previous Office versions unless they download a compatible addon to enable the capability read and modify of these archives.
Although this is one of the most complete editions of Office 2007, there are some elements such as OneNote that are missing. The dynamic performance enhances your productivity with any of the available utilities so, in general terms, the functionality of this package enhances any of the previous Office suites. Customize all your documents in a powerful environment providing the indispensable tools for you.
Meet the Ribbon in the screen
The key new feature of this interface comes when you have to check advanced functions that with previous editions, were only available through difficult menus. In this sense, Microsoft has managed to gather all the options in different tabs that offer the main functions and advanced options. For those users that have never seen something similar may be a bit shocked leaving behind the old menu style that was simpler, but once you get used to it, you'll find it works better, not only for its speed but also its usability.
Almost all of the tools included in Microsoft Office Professional 2007 have the same Ribbon interface style, but it is specifically customized depending on the functions you need for the program. For example, in case of Microsoft Word, you have the usual Insert, References, and Page Layout tabs as well as the main general menu clicking on the Microsoft Office Professional 2007 icon located at the left side and the possibility of managing the Add-Ins that you can download and install as you need for increasing the application's functions. If you select one of these tabs, a new section below will appear with all the relevant functions, getting rid of the old contextual menus.
Ribbon Interface gives the importance to what really matters; that is the work space
One of the key features of this Ribbon Interface is that it gives the importance to what really matters; that is the work space, optimizing this space by keeping menus to the minimum size possible with a clean view. Although this interface makes the work space seem to be a little smaller when you have it fully deployed, you can minimize its size with an option located in the Quick Access toolbar. Additionally, you can change the options the Fluent User Interface offers by default editing each part. This way you can configure almost everything, making this one of the most dynamic and customizable Office editions.
Word, write this way
Microsoft Word is probably the quintessence of the Office package for the average user. This powerful text processor has been physically changed just like the rest of its software partners, but it also includes some new options to enhance the writing process, such as making changes immediately. Options like the Live Preview, which allows you to check how a format change will affect to your text just by passing the mouse arrow over the style you want, makes it quicker to check out possible changes in Word instantly, instead of wasting time by modifying the document directly.
The overall engine has been improved, offering a better way of working without delays and smoothly enough to guarantee less annoyances
The spell checker function has been improved adding a new function, highlighted with a blue underline, which warns about contextual misuses of correctly spelled words. This way, the program, can efficiently correct homophone words that may seem equal for speakers such as 'to' and 'too' or 'lose' and 'loose' in a sentence. Microsoft Word has also integrated a translation tool for U.S. English, French and International Spanish in the default pack, with more languages able to be added when additional complements are downloaded free with the official support.
Academic writers will be thankful for the addition of the most commonly used citation formats included a tool for directly inserting the right way to make bibliography and text citations for the MLA, Chicago and APA styles. The new opportunity to blog directly from this Word utility makes it pretty useful for those authors that want to avoid added steps. This time you only need to configure the application with the service you use such as SharePoint, WordPress or Windows Live Spaces and you will be able to upload the texts you create directly to your online site.
The overall engine has been improved, offering a better way of working without delays and smoothly enough to guarantee no annoyances. The way you can insert images into the text, as well as other multimedia elements, and move them in a more efficient way than in previous editions where these elements could mess up your whole work. SmartArt is a new option for graphic elements. With this editable diagram function you can create the graphics you want much easier than before, include it within your text and modify it the way you really need.
Outlook, connected to everyone
Microsoft Outlook might be the general Office component most often used, since users can arrange meetings and manage contact lists, but moreover Outlook is an email client. It is by far, the application that has changed the least of the suite since the Ribbon Interface has only been included for the creation of new messages and not in the main window. However, this feature doesn't mean that Outlook hasn't changed at all; the main interface includes a To Do bar with your important events included.
This software requires, at a minimum, using Exchange 2000 or later for the mail service, since Exchange 5.5 has finally been dropped. The advantage of this application is a better form of manually managing your emails than online, HTML-based services. In Outlook, you can save your messages to your computer, store them in a local file and thus access them without being constantly connected to the Internet, just getting the permissions to log in with your personal account. For performing searches, Outlook has been sped up using the features of Windows Search APIs, which directly indexes the content of your messages, showing the results of your search in a blink of an eye.
You can push content to your mobile phone, to have your information wherever you are
The new key features included in Outlook take it to another level, being able to read RSS feeds directly so that you can be informed automatically of the subjects you are interested in. Additionally, you can push this content to your mobile phone, to get information wherever you are. This comes in handy due to the synchronization of the email service with mobile phones, being able to send and manage SMSs and text-messages using Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging service. With Postmark, a new function included in Outlook 2007, you can avoid receiving spam more efficiently without being aware of the extra processes the computer undertakes.
Excel, the spreadsheet utility
One of the utilities that have benefited from the interface change is Microsoft Excel. The way it works is quite similar to the way it used to be, but now for instance, some of its functions have been simplified to the Ribbon style. This way, the modification of cell formats is now quicker and more visual thanks to the buttons you find in the upper half. The spreadsheets have grown in rows and columns from the former 65,536 by 256 to the current 1,048,576 by 16,384, format that offers more than enough for most project books. The main previous features are same in this edition, with better performance and much larger Excel files.
The benefits of this edition are obvious when you take a look at the possibilities the Ribbon buttons offer. This new method allows the user to avoid investigating further in the dialog of 'Format Cells'. The introduction of Conditional Formatting gives the user the opportunity of using three new features for Excel 2007, Icon Sets, Color Scales and the Data Bars. These formats allow for creating more intuitive documents thanks to the visual capacities included. Automatic grouping values in colors and icons depending on their relation helps in a great way, as well as being a feature of showing how the value of a singular cell contribute to the whole group in which it belongs.
The best part comes once you take a look at the Formulas tab and find an automatic way of including them in your spreadsheet in an easier way. From simple functions to financial utilities, Excel 2007 also includes a feature for auto-completing formulas according to the characters presented. Thanks to the CUBE functions you can import data from external services like SQL Server Analysis Services, which makes it easier to create advanced reports including options such as PivotTables and filters to order the information you want to check.
PowerPoint, the slideshow must go on
Apart from the redesigned interface introduced with the rest of the utilities in Microsoft Office Professional 2007, PowerPoint has been improved in its rendering tools and the overall performance, allowing you to manage bigger files than before, and very smoothly. The inclusion of support for audio files such as .mp3 or .wma enhances the variety of the slideshows you can create; also enabling you to include video clips for more interesting presentations and enhance the variety and possibilities for your documents.
In general terms, there are no great innovations on PowerPoint 2007 since there was no need to include many more improvements than a better performance with new multimedia elements. Microsoft has increased the support for tables imported from Excel or for images imported directly from a camera or a scanner without first passing through another program.
Publisher, professional design
Microsoft Publisher 2007 is, without any kind of doubt, the software that has the least amount of changes in this new version. The page designer has always been an independent heavyweight, but since it joined the Office package, Microsoft seems to have stopped spending too much time on this piece of software. With no Ribbon interface design or even the useful Live Preview to check how the changes you want to introduce will finally look, Publisher 2007 only improves its performance and adds some minor features that can make things work a little better for the average user.
Publisher 2007 only improves its performance and adds some minor features that can make things work a little better for the average user
The utility can convert the files with work with into another publication format, from a newsletter to web page archive type. Publisher also includes an option to save your documents as a PDF for conserving the documents' original quality for print. Templates are automatically filled with important information as long as you have included it, such as the name or location of the company or the business' address for which you are preparing the design. The content that has been used recently can be immediately accessible through the Content Store menu.
Access, database management
Finally, Microsoft Access gets the new Ribbon Interface as an improvement on the previous Microsoft Office Professional 2007 utilities, featuring several enhancements. In this edition, a new database format, ACCDB, has been introduced natively. This new format allows you to link SharePoint lists as well as include complex data types and files for the same field. Additionally, the user will find a new field, File Attachment, which allows you to work in a dynamic way with complex data.
Microsoft has included the possibility of synchronizing the application with SharePoint Services 3.0 for multiple features such as to serve as a backup server without worrying about the security of your document, both locally or online. Accessing 2007 has not being designed especially for heavy users, and this time it includes a gentler way of working for first timers in order without making it too difficult. This way we can say that Access 2007 has opened up to a medium-level audience as a friendlier software.
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Features
The list of key features of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 can be found below:
- Professional edition product includes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher and Outlook
- New Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Ribbon design allows you to easily access additional options without opening new menus, all in a single window
- Improved accessibility for the average user thanks to the Office button for general options
- Addition of the new Live Preview that allows users to check how a text format change will affect the entire document
- Overall performance has been revised and improved for offering better multimedia management embedded in the documents you create
- Office Open XML format introduced as the default format for smaller files and additional features
- SmartArt includes a great variety of diagrams for adding to different files with 3D effects along with rendering options
- Native compatibility with additional languages sharing complete professional dictionaries
For further details about the Office package before the download, be free to visit its creator's website.
System Requirements
Here are the minimum system requirements for your computer to run this Microsoft Office Professional 2007 product:
- Operating System: Windows XP or later
- CPU: 1GHz processor or faster
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Size: 2GB free space
- 1,024 x 768 screen resolution
New Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Ribbon design allows you to easily access additional options without opening new menus, all in a single window
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i like the every this in ms word its menus its templates bullet numbers its color and saving deleting new documents it is extremly very very fantastic
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By Faith Mwari
On Monday, November 16, 2015
Microsoft professional 2007 is a very interesting software and very enjoyable. it makes the user do his work perfectly and easily without much problems its interface is style depends specifically on the functions for that particular program. it also has icons that increases the applicants functions you require leaving behind the old menus. surprisingly it works better and its speed is more advanced.It came to save all the people that were doing projects in the office work because it supports all the formats that an office is supposed to work in fact i used it in my office work when i was doing some presentations from my field work assignment.You should download it now to have this awesome experience as you also get to try it.
Microsoft word, excel, power point, attracts the user.
its outlook is also very attractive.
its preview makes the format of text looks good
you can now have your presentations in a professional manner.
- its interface is beautiful wow
- it makes the presentation work very easy
- too complicated to work on
By Martin Maguna
On Tuesday, July 14, 2015
This is just another new features of the version of Microsoft but they have introduced some very new features here for example you can be able to have a preview of your work the way it will be when you have already typed it and then you can be able to choose well if you like it and then whether you are going to apply it or not. Another thing that I also noticed when I downloaded this version is that the interface can be able to offer other additional features such as the inserting the images and such things and this helps you to save on time without opening other tabs.
The features are
An additional feature user interface
There are relevant functions in the interface
Some other new features have been added compared to its predecessors
There is a format painter
It is not that fun to use
- The interface is very easy to use
- It is very easy software to use
- it does not have many features to use
By Jackson Mbindyo
On Thursday, June 11, 2015
Microsoft office professional 2007 is another addition to the world class packages and operating system developed by information technology giant Microsoft. It's the twelfth version of the office packages and comes with additional features to make your office work and presentation easier. It incorporates and gives the user additional features to edit your work without opening new tabs and documents by adding more operational commands on the tool bar including the insert, layout, references and mailing to name a few. This package has the following applications namely MS office word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access. All these are meant to give the user more creativity and freedom to choose the kind of application to use for instance the Excel is very useful in keeping numerical information and calculations.
This software once installed is ready for use though for beginners it need some tutorials which can be found on you tube or you can get help from a professional expert in the field.
- Enables one to hold large volumes of data at the same time
- Gives the freedom to choose the application best suited to your nature of data presented
- Comes in a variety of languages hence can be used by many people
- It's expensive to install and use
- Ones need some tutorials to use and it's not self explanatory


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Planning law specialist Michael Rudd joins Kings Chambers
Michael Rudd has joined Kings Chambers to further add to the strength and depth of the set's planning, environmental and administrative law team.
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Re-enter the Half Life Universe and revisit City 17 in the time before Freeman, in this fan made single-player mod. The Resistance is threatened by a decisive Combine assault, and as a wanted Resistance member you will need to fight to escape from the Combine's clutch. At the same time, a mysterious force is working towards ends unknown...
Mar 29th, 2011 8 people agree 0 people don't
Overall, a CLEVER mod with nice puzzles to advance through the maps, good battles in various environments.
Some fantastic parts with the train ride or the "enhanced" Hunter. I was clearly pleased overall!
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This mod fits into the half- life universer very well. The level design is good and the fact that a flashlight is missing can sometimes scare the hell out of you. The gameplay is various and the mod has diffrent locations (indoor level as well as outdoor level). Over all it's a very nice mod which entertains you for 1-2 hours.
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Very good mod, one of the better hl2 mods I've played. Good balance and all, but (the reason I didn't give it a 10) there really is nothing new to experience here for those who have played the hl series before (besides a regular baddy modified to be an end boss). Still, a very pleasant run through that I highly recommend.
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Excellent mod with nice mapping, good voice over work and a good mix of combat/puzzles. I would point out that the map layout was very linear with no real alternative routes, this is both a good thing ( it never got confusing or unclear as what to do) and a bad thing ( I got through the game quickly due to a lack of exploration).
Highly recommended.
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Very well done, good maps and well paced levels.
I do enjoy the story in it, nothing fancy but voice acting was belevable and good.
Download this mod, lots of fun.
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This mod had a very professional feel to it, the mapping was excellent and definitely had that HL2 feel.
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Aside from a couple of minor details, a great mod.
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Good mod, far too short though. I like the addition of many enemies and the environments are fantastic. The only problem with this Mod is that it ends just as it starts to get challenging/really good.
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Really good singleplayer mod, one of the best ones I've played. There are puzzles, challenges, interesting environments and great atmosphere. A little short duration, though. I hope this will get a sequel.
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This month is pretty awesome for me. Underhell was first and now we have this high quality work.
It may be boring at times due to big spaces and pretty dark too but has the most important thing many of modders seems to forgot - great firefights in very well planned areas. What else you could ask for? Well, may be for actual SECURING of White forest in the end.
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Judgement of the Judgement of Parsons Green
by Tom Stevenson, 06/13
On 28 February 2013 I was one of 17 tasters taking part in the Judgment of Parsons Green. This annual shoot-out between a comprehensive selection of English sparkling wines with some wildcards thrown in was conceived and organised by English wine consultant Stephen Skelton MW. As it represents a rare opportunity to taste so many English sparkling wines in a blind context, the Judgement of Parsons Green is something I would normally attend at a drop of Mr Fizz's hat, but due to travelling commitment I was abroad when the first two events took place. Stephen brought forward the third Judgement, enabling me to accept for once, consequently I was looking forward to the tasting, and it was well worth the wait.
It is called the Judgement of Parsons Green as a nod to the more famous Judgement of Paris in 1976, a Steven Spurrier initiative that resulted in French judges rating Californian wines over many of the greatest Bordeaux and Burgundy. Rather than Paris, Stephen's competitive event is held in Parsons Green (so-called because the vicar of Fulham used to live there).
The Wines
At the Judgement of Parsons Green III there were 79 English sparkling wines and 5 wildcards, which comprised of four different wines: three Champagnes (one of which was duplicated) and one Californian wine. With 17 tasters no one expects to agree with all the results, but I concurred on a fair number of the overall Top 30 and some wines that did not make my list were close runners-up. I drew my line at a Top 26: that broke down into seven groups of equally placed wines, and with 11 wines in the eighth group, a Top 37 would have been too many. The overall positions are down the left-hand side, with my positions on the right.
1 Wyfold Brut 2009 (£24.99) TS Equal 1st
2 Theale Blanc de Blancs 2007 (£24.95) TS Equal 2nd
3 Breaky Bottom Cuvée Princess Colonna 2008 (£24.50)
4 Ridgeview Cavendish 2010 (£24.95) TS Equal 6th
5 Wiston South Downs Cellars Bin 3 2009 (£23.95)
6 Ridgeview Grosvenor Blanc de Blancs 2010 (£29.95)
7 Roederer Estate Quartet NV (California) (£21.99)
8 Bluebell Estates Hindleap Rosé 2010 (£25.00) TS Equal 2nd
9 Camel Valley Pinot Noir Rosé Brut 2009 (£24.95) TS Equal 6th
10 Waitrose Champagne Blanc de Blancs NV (£23.99)
11 Henners Vintage Reserve 2009 (£29.00)
12 Henners Vintage 2009 (£27.00) TS Equal 2nd
13 Plumpton The Dean Blush Brut NV (£22.00) TS Equal 3rd
14 Champagne Taittinger Brut NV (£35.00)
15 Chapel Down English Rose NV (£18.99) TS Equal 2nd
16 Gusbourne Blanc de Blancs 2008 (£28.99)
17 Jenkyn Place Rosé 2009 (£27.00)
18 Meopham Sparkling Brut 2008 (£23.50)
19 Chapel Down Rosé Brut NV (£24.99) TS Equal 7th
20 Ridgeview Marksman 2009 M&S (£22.00)
21 Champagne Devaux Oeil de Perdrix Rosé NV (£18.00) TS Equal 3rd
22 Ridgeview South Ridge Brut 2010 (£19.99)
23 Three Choirs Blanc de Noir 2009 (£18.15)
24 Ridgeview Victoria Rosé 2009 (£29.95) TS Equal 1st
25 Ridgeview South Ridge Blanc de Blancs 2010 (£24.99)
26 Camel Valley Cuvée R 2011 (£24.95) TS Equal 6th
27 Camel Valley Pinot Noir Rosé Brut 2010 (£24.95) TS Equal 6th
28 Ridgeview Knightsbridge Blanc de Noirs 2010 (£32.95) TS Equal 3rd
29 Herbert Hall Brut Rosé 2010 (£25.00) TS Equal 5th
30 Plumpton The Dean Brut NV (£22.00)
Two things immediately threw me about the overall order. The first was how high up the chart Roederer Estate Quartet came. Not because I do not rate it. I do. In fact I was the first to rate Roederer Estate as world class in the 1980s. But there were serious problems with the specific bottle we tasted. It was full of mercaptans: methyl mercaptans from the smell of stale cabbage and stagnant water. This is not typical of Roederer Estate and suggests that it had suffered from warm storage at some point. I couldn't believe its position, especially as Stephen Skelton had kindly sent me the median scores of the other tasters to compare with my own and the Roederer Estate was one of seven equal top wines. Some people tend to ignore or forget the aromas on a sparkling wine for fear of getting a nose-full of CO2, but we had a roomful of good tasters, some of them seriously good. I contacted Essi Avellan, a Finnish MW who had flown in especially for the event and the best natural Champagne and sparkling wine taster I've met. Was I the only one to notice? Apparently not. She told me "I was troubled by the mercaptans on what I thought otherwise was a very nice wine, hence my low points, although not as low as yours." My score was indeed very low, but it is not in me to be lenient of any faulty wine, however nice it might otherwise be. I am disappointed when a fault has spoiled what should be an excellent wine, but it should be scored for what it is. The second thing that I found odd was that the Top 30 did not coincide with the top 30 median scores.
Others deserving equal honours
Evidently there is no argument between this taster and the group results for first and second place, but what is probably the most impressive aspect of the achievement by Wyfold and Theale is that they are both owned by Laithwaite (of Sunday Times Wine Club, Direct Wines, Averys, Virgin Wines and, of course, Laithwaites itself) and both vinified by Ridgeview. They must be doing something right. It should also be pointed out that from my ratings, Ridgeview Victoria Rosé should be up there with the Wyfold. It's as good as the best rosés from Nyetimber and Camel Valley (the latter of which, for some reason, possibly the timing of its disgorgement, I always appreciate more in the September-December period).
However, if we are keeping to a Top 30 or, in my case, a Top 26, there are other wines that deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. Chapel Down Blanc de Blanc 2007 (£26.99), for example. Not my favourite producer, I must admit. Too inconsistent, but within that inconsistency Chapel Down can come up with a little gem and this blanc de blancs was a good example of that. It came equal second on my scoring and a couple of months later Stephen Skelton's panel at the Decanter World Wine Awards thought it deserved not just a gold medal, but a regional trophy.
Three wines missing from the official Top 30 that deserved equal fourth place as far as I was concerned: Bluebell Estates Hindleap Seyval Blanc 2010 (£25.00) might be a touch on the sweet side, but it does show that of all the funny-money grapes grown in this country for climatic reasons, Seyval Blanc is best suited to autolysis, if and when it can be grown to produce relatively neutral fruit; Charles Palmer Brut 2009 (£55.00) is a new one on me, with a lovely smooth mousse, which I found particularly impressive and a slow-building, gentle richness of fruit. Quite remarkable for a first vintage of less than a thousand bottles! And Herbert Hall Brut 2010 £24.00 is as beautifully focused as its previous vintage, with just as much potential.
There were three additional equal fifth wines: I have been known to empty a bottle of Camel Valley Brut 2010 (£24.95), despite its funny-money contents, and the 2010 doesn't give me any reason to stop now, although I really prefer the Lindo's Pinot Noir Rosé when it has had another 6-7 months post-disgorgement ageing. Langham Wine Estate Blanc de Noirs 2010 (£24.00) is another new English wine experience for me, and with typical blanc de noirs richness yet no excessive weight, it promises a lot and as Essi had this as her equal first (with Wyfold), she was obviously even more impressed than I was; and what more could you ask from the Southcott Rosé 2010 (£23.99) than its extremely pale colour and lovely, elegant fruit, with a typically English crisp finish?
The additional equal sixth was the very pale Meopham Sparkling Rosé 2009 (£21.00). Some were put off by its high acidity and to be fair my note did state "bracing acidity", but bracing acidity is part of the typicity of English sparkling wine and if English sparkling wine is to carve a permanent niche in the global market, we need to embrace its typicity.
The final three wines in my Top 26 all ranked equal seventh: Eastcott Brut Rosé 2010 (£24.50), which is Seyval Blanc with Rondo for colour - as good a rosé I have tasted from a Seyval-based blend; Ridgeview Bloomsbury 2010 (£24.95), a soft, fresh, easy drinking brut with smooth mousse that is excellent, even if in the group scoring system it fell well short of the Top 30; and Sharpham Sparkling NV £29.95, a blend of predominantly black grapes.
As stated earlier, this was my first Judgement of Parsons Green, so I was not familiar with the scoring system, or how it would be used to create the ranking. For example, at Decanter tastings 12.5 is "poor" and 10.5 is "faulty", whereas at The World of Fine Wines 12.5 is "good, but with no outstanding features" and 10.5 is still "enjoyable [if] simple and straightforward", while 0-7 is reserved for "disagreeable or faulty". I prefer Decanter's scoring rationale because it is more in line with other 20-point systems, but once the scoring parameters are known, they are easy enough for any taster to comply with. Stephen told me that he follows the Decanter World Wine Awards 20-point system, which is a scoring regime I am familiar with. He also told me "The rank is based upon the median score, which I feel is fairer than the average as it takes account of excessively high and low scores, and where the median is the same, the wines with the highest average are top. No scoring system is foolproof and in this tasting the top two wines were both top by a good margin."
Although Stephen is correct: a median score (literally the middle score when all the scores are listed in numerical order or, if there are an even number of tasters, an average of the two middle scores) is generally less influenced by high and low scores; there are many circumstances where it can be far more ludicrous than an average. However, there is no fair or meaningful method of interpreting all the scores of any tasting panel, particularly one with so many tasters, so Stephen's method did not bother me any more than other ways of calculating the results.
Having received the Top 30 list I immediately requested the complete results. Stephen kindly sent me the median scores of the other 16 tasters for all wines, but the more I studied the data, the less sense I could make of it. The first seven positions were all from the highest median group and looked right. After that, however, the median scores were not only out of order, but there were five wines with lower than Top 30 median scores included, thus five with higher medians had been excluded.
Not having median scores for all 17 tasters, it was impossible to check with absolute accuracy of course, but as the median for 16 scores is the average of its 8th and 9th score, and the median for all 17 tasters is the 9th score alone, I knew that the medians Stephen used for ranking must be very similar to the median scores he supplied, especially as just one point separated the first wine from the last in the Top 30. There is so little wriggle room between the wines that the only significant difference should be the positioning Stephen achieved by using the average scores to order those wines that shared the same median score.
That makes it more of a mystery how and why five wines with lower median scores could end up in the Top 30 at the expense of five wines with higher median scores. Maybe once I saw the data, all would be clear, but when I asked for the scores of all 17 tasters, he told me "I am not prepared to release all judge's scores as this wasn't what was agreed."
I could understand his reluctance to release scores identified by tasters without their prior consent. But why the scores could not be made available without any identification baffled me. Not wishing to get into an argument, I asked for the median scores of all 17 tasters and their average scores too. Stephen could not possibly object to that, could he? Well yes he could: "I am not going to start an argument about the ranking as it has already been decided." The last thing I wanted was an argument, but a Top 30 had been announced and my name had been part of that announcement. I had every right to be able to verify the results so I persevered, only to be told "This seems to have got out of hand and I am not sure quite why [nor was I!]. You must appreciate that I cannot release judge's scores [I had long accepted his position on this]. I have told you how I arrived at the ranking and I assume you accept that is how it was done."
Of course, I accepted that was how Stephen had intended to do it and I most certainly was not questioning his integrity (he is retained as a consultant by one producers who did not do particularly well in this tasting), but something was odd with the results and we all make mistakes. When he feels inclined to put his journalist hat on, he should ask himself what a good journalist should do: accept what he is told without question or start digging when things do not add up. But the more I pushed, the more he dug his heels in: "If you want to chat about it fine, call me, but I am not giving out any more details about the scoring. I have worked out what the ranking by what I consider to be a fair system. It's the system I have used for three years and no one - producer, judge or anyone at all - has ever questioned it before." Frankly I was sick and fed up with telling Stephen I was not questioning the system, I just wanted to verify the results. I don't care if no one else has ever questioned anything.
Judgement of the Judgement
This is a competitive event and as such needs a certain transparency for validity going forward. Not transparency to the point of opening up everything for public inspection, but simply by providing every taster with, if requested, a spreadsheet of all the scores. It's Stephen Skelton's event, so the method of interpreting the results is entirely down to him and if anyone disagrees with the system he chooses, that taster should not take part. However, having taken part and having given permission to use his or her name, Stephen has a duty to that taster to demonstrate that his or her scores have been properly used. Instead of taking offense, he should treat this as an added safeguard. I hope that Stephen Skelton takes this on the chin because this has become a supremely useful event for those in the trade and wine writers who want to keep up with producers of English (and sometimes Welsh) sparkling wines.
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Wait?! Caroling is dead?! The I had a very strange and vivid hallucination last December.
My opening question may have come across wrong. I know that carolling still exists. It's just that I couldn't recall any recent instances of seeing/hearing carolling firsthand. But just because I haven't seen it firsthand myself in the last thirty years or so doesn't mean I think carolling has become extinct. That's why I was asking for other people's experiences and recollections regarding carolling and other perhaps more obscure Christmas rituals.
Although hardly obscure I do recall being bundled up when I was small on Christmas Eve to go to evening mass before returning home to greet Christmas at midnight. Everyone present would wish each other "Joyeux Noel" and hug and kiss and then gifts would be opened. After about an hour or so we would all sit down for a small meal of cold meats, cheese, salads, potatoes and meat pies and other treats. Then after a little more socializing visitors would depart and those remaining would go to bed, sufficiently tired to fall asleep right away. This kind of Christmas Eve festivity could last easily until 3 or 4 in the morning. Of course, as we all aged Christmas Eve mass eventually fell by the wayside and the festivities ended earlier and earlier as guests became fewer. Now we still stay up to greet Christmas at midnight and open our gifts, but we might eat our small meal before midnight and we're usually in bed by 2am at the latest and often earlier. The absence of small kids playing with toys and charging the atmosphere with their energy doesn't encourage adults to stay up later. But I'm sure the kind of Christmases I remember as a child are still practiced somewhere among other French Canadian families, particularly where there may be large family gatherings with a good number of small kids.
My parents recall Christmas Eve mass more clearly because it was more prominent in their childhood than it was in mine. Their childhood Christmas memories are often of being bundled up in an actual horse drawn sleigh to go to evening mass. They also recall large family gatherings with singing and dancing and playing of musical instruments, be it a fiddle, accordion, guitar and harmonica. When I was in my early twenties I recall my immediate friends and I going about visiting each others' families on Christmas Eve, and I made sure to be home by about ten o'clock or so. I kind of miss that, but all those friends are off somewhere else with their own lives and contact is now sporadic in the form of an occasional email from some of them. One of them I still see with some regularity around Christmas because he eventually became my brother-in-law.
When I was small I do remember sitting up late just to gaze at our lit up Christmas Tree and wonder at the presents beneath it. We would listen to Christmas music on the radio or listen to records. When listening to the radio we'd pay close attention to NORAD reports of tracking an object originating from the North Pole.
And we watched the clock ticking off the minutes.
While I do recall some of the gifts I received in those long ago days what I really remember are the sights and sounds and smells and the
of magic and anticipation. As an adult during the years when I couldn't be home for Christmas the thought uppermost in my mind, the one thing I wanted most, was simply to be home with family.
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BRANDON, Miss. — A convenience store robbery was thwarted when the mother of the suspect stepped in, police said.
Surveillance video recorded Tuesday shows Roy Mitchell, 22, pull out a gun and demand money from a store clerk after trying to buy a bag of chips at the register.
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The pair then drove to a nearby town, where they were stopped by an officer. Mitchell was arrested and charged with attempted armed robbery.
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Founded in 1997 by Vasco Wellenkamp, Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo makes its Kennedy Center debut with Fado, Rituals and Shadows, performed to a soundtrack featuring the voice of Portuguese fado singer Carla Pires.
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Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo (KENNEDY CENTER DEBUT)
Vasco Wellenkamp, Artistic Director
Fado, Rituals and Shadows (D.C. PREMIERE)
"Mr. Wellenkamp knows how to distill feeling and pour it out onstage."--The New York Times
Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo was founded in 1997 by Vasco Wellenkamp (a former choreographer for the Gulbenkian Ballet) and Graça Barroso. Over the last 15 years, the company has premiered more than 50 works and toured to Brazil, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, the United States, China, and Israel. Jan Linkens, Artistic Director for the Netherlands Dans Theater, invited Vasco Wellenkamp to choreograph Fado, Rituals and Shadows, a work about the national music genre of Portugal. The score features the beautiful voice of Carla Pires. The poetry of the text she sings represents a sense of abandonment and emotion, a ritual without time or defined characters.
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