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5 Whys
Refers to the practice of asking, five times, why the failure has occurred in order to get to the root cause/causes of the problem.
5S is the Japanese concept for House Keeping
1.) Sort (Seiri) … determine what is needed and what is not
2.) Straighten or Set in Order (Seiton) … a place for everything and everything in its place
3.) Shine (Seiso) … clean everything
4.) Standardize (Seiketsu) … create the rules to monitor the first 3 S's
5.) Sustain (Shitsuke) … teach the work force how to clean and stay organized
7 (or 8) Wastes of Lean
The 7 (or 8) wastes are at the root of all unprofitable activity within your organization.
The 8 wastes consist of:
1. Defects
2. Overproduction
3. Waiting
4. Not Utilizing People
5. Transportation
6. Inventory
7. Motion
8. Excess Processing
Any or all of these create "downtime".
A tool of visual management originating from the Japanese for "Lamp". A light that provides a signal or has meaning. Andon at many manufacturing facilities is an electronic device: audio and/or color-coded visual display. Lights placed on machines or on production lines to indicate operation status.
Balanced Scorecard
The scorecard balances traditional performance measures with more forward-looking indicators in four key dimensions:.
• Financial
• Integration/Operational
• Employees
• Customers
Processing more than
one item and then moving those items forward to the next operation
before they are all actually needed there…thus items need to
wait in a queue. Also called "Batch-and Push." Contrast
with continuous flow.
Batch Size Reduction
Lean concept or tool.
Striving to reduce batch size to the optimal level to meet the
customer demand at the next step of the process. The goal is One
Piece Flow. However, when One Piece Flow is not possible,
the goal should be to reduce the batch size as far as possible and
still be able to respond to customer demands and expectations.
The concept of
discovering what is the best performance (in a particular area or
process) being achieved, whether in your company, by a competitor, or
by an entirely different industry. Once this is determined, use this
information to improve your own processes.
Best Practice
A way or method of
accomplishing a business function or process that is considered to be
superior to all other known methods.
Black Belt
Sigma team leaders responsible for implementing process improvement
projects (DMAIC or DFSS) within the business -- to increase customer
satisfaction levels and business productivity (top-line growth and
bottom-line results). Black Belts are knowledgeable and skilled in
the use of the Six Sigma methodology and tools. Black
Belts run
the Six Sigma projects.
Business Excellence
A level of performance
in which a company achieves and sustains "best in industry
(world-class) results", for critical factors deemed to be vital
to business success, as defined by the key stakeholders of the
Business Process
Quality Management
The concept of defining
macro and micro processes, assigning ownership, and creating
responsibilities of the owners.
Business Value Added
A step or change made
to the product which is necessary for future or subsequent steps but
is not noticed by the final customer.
The capability of a
product, process, practicing person or organization is the ability to
perform its specified purpose based on tested, qualified or
historical performance, to achieve measurable results that satisfy
established requirements or specifications.
A factor (X) that has
an impact on a response variable (Y); a source of variation in a
process or a product or a system. Anything that adversely affects
the nature, timing, or magnitude of an adverse effect.
Operating a true
continuous flow on workstations placed close together in the order of
processing, sometimes in a "U" shape. Cell staff may
handle multiple processes, and the number of employees is changed
when the customer demand rate changes. The "U" shaped
equipment layout is used to allow more alternatives for distributing
work elements among staff, and to quite often permit the leadoff and
final operations to be performed by the same employee.
Cellular Processing
and Decision
Linking of operations
into the most efficient combination to maximize value-added content
while minimizing waste.
leaders and senior managers who ensure that resources are available
for training and projects, and who are involved in project tollgate
reviews. There are different levels of Champions. Two types are
Organizational Champions and Project Champions.
Project Champions own
the Six Sigma or Lean projects.
When a piece of
software, machine or staff member has to stop processing in order to
change and process a different item. For example, an accounting
clerk is processing accounts payable and must stop, file A/P claims,
pull A/R records, change software screens and then process accounts
receivable items.
Change Agent
A person who leads a
change project or business-wide initiative by defining, researching,
planning, building business support and carefully selecting
volunteers to be part of a change team. Change Agents must have the
conviction to state the facts based on data, even if the consequences
are associated with unpleasantness.
Change Management
The process responsible
for controlling and managing requests to effect changes to the
business infrastructure or any aspect of business services to promote
business benefits and results. Change Management also controls and
manages the implementation of the changes.
A document or sheet
that clearly scopes and identifies the purpose of an improvement
project. Items specified include, but are not limited to, background
case, purpose, team members, scope, timeline, financial benefits,
expected results and additional benefits, etc.
Content Time
See Work Content Time
Continuous Flow Processing
Items are processed and
moved from one processing step to the next one-piece-at-a-time. Each
step processes only the one piece that the next step needs, and the
transfer batch size is one. Sometimes called "single-piece-flow"
or "one piece flow." Contrast with batch-and-queue.
Adopting new activities
and eliminating those which are found to add little or no value. The
goal is to increase effectiveness by reducing inefficiencies,
frustrations, and waste (rework, time, effort, material, etc). The
Japanese Lean term is Kaizen.
Control Chart
(Process Behavior
A graphical tool for
monitoring changes that occur within a process, by distinguishing
variation that is inherent in the process (common cause or routine
variation…predictable process) from variation that yields a
change to the process (special cause or exceptional
variation…unpredictable process).
Control Plan
The intent of a process
control plan is to control the product characteristics and the
associated process variables to ensure capability (around the
identified target or nominal) and stability of the product over time.
Cost of Quality
Cost of quality is the
amount of money a business loses because its product or service was
not done right in the first place or was not produced as close to
target as possible.
Critical to Quality
CTQs are the key
measurable characteristics of a product or process whose performance
standards or specification limits must be met in order to satisfy the
customer. They align improvement or design efforts with customer
A person who purchases
the end product or service that a business produces.
Customer Demand
Product needed based
upon the amount a customer requires at any given time.
Customer Focus
The concept that the
customer is the only person qualified to specify what Quality means.
This leads to detailed analyses of who are the customers…what
are their needs, what features (or new) are required of our
products/services, how do customers rate our products/services versus
our competitors and why, how can we keep our customers satisfied?
Customer Requirements
wants and needs of the customer (Voice of Customer) in Stated
or Implied Terms.
Cycle Time
time is the total time from the beginning to the end of your process,
as defined by your business and your customer. Cycle time includes
process time, during which a unit is acted upon to bring it closer to
an output, and delay time, during which a unit of work is spent
waiting to take the next action. It is the total elapsed time to
move a unit of work from the beginning to the end of a physical
A dashboard is a tool
used for collecting and reporting information about vital customer
requirements and/or your business' performance for key customers.
Dashboards provide a quick summary of process and/or product
Data are factual
information or measures used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or
calculation. The "right" data and its analysis are
critical to achieve quality improvement.
Any type of undesired
result is a defect. A failure to meet one of the acceptance criteria
of your customers. A defective unit may have one or more defects.
Defects per Million
The average number of
defects per unit observed during an average production run divided by
the number of opportunities to make a defect on the product under
study during that run normalized to one million.
Amount needed as
defined by the customer.
Deming Cycle (PDSA)
(Also known as PDCA) A
continuous quality improvement model consisting of a logical sequence
of four repetitive, fluid steps for continuous improvement and
learning: Plan, Do, Study (Check) and Act.
Design for Six Sigma
integral part of a Six Sigma Quality Initiative structure for
designing or redesigning products and processes. Uses DMADV
framework which consists of five interconnected phases: Define,
Measure, Analyze, Design, Verify (DMADV). Design for Six Sigma is
used for new product/service introduction.
Design of
Experiments (DOE)
A Design of Experiment
(DOE) is a structured, organized method for determining the
relationship between factors (Xs) affecting a process and the output
of that process (Y). Used in the Improve phase of Six Sigma to
determine best improvement strategy.
An acronym for five
interconnected phases: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and
Control. Incremental process improvement using Six Sigma methodology.
Pronounced (Duh-May-Ick). DMAIC refers to a data-driven quality
strategy for improving processes, and is an integral part of the
company's Six Sigma Improvement Initiative.
components age and equipment undergoes changes in temperature or
sustains mechanical stress, critical performance gradually degrades.
This is called drift. When this happens your test results become
unreliable and both design and
production quality suffer. While drift cannot be eliminated, it can
be detected and contained through the process of calibration.
An effect is that which
is produced by a cause; the impact a factor (X) has on a response
variable (Y).
Refers to the
"every-part-every" interval which is a measure of process
size and length. For example, if a computer system is able to change
over and produce all required checks, regardless of type (accounts
payable, payroll, etc.), during a three week cycle, then the batch
size for each individual check type is three weeks. Thus this
process is covering every part every (EPE) three weeks.
Excess Inventory
Any product supply in
excess of the absolute minimum requirement to meet customer demand.
Stands for "first
in, first out," which means that items processed by one step is
used up in the same order by the next step. FIFO is one way to
regulate a queue between two decoupled processes when a supermarket
or continuous flow are impractical. A FIFO queue is filled by the
supplying process and emptied by the customer process. When a FIFO
queue gets full, the supplying process must stop producing until the
customer process has used up some of the inventory.
Financial Metrics
Used to measure the
gains of a Project. Financial metrics convert the process
improvements (measured through the primary process metric) in to Hard
or soft dollars.
A main objective of the
entire lean processing effort, and one of the key concepts that
passed directly from Henry Ford to Taiichi Ohno (Toyota's
production manager after WWII) in the manufacturing world. Ford
recognized that, ideally, production should flow (or move)
continuously all the way from raw material to the customer and
envisioned realizing that ideal through a production system that
acted as one long conveyor.
A graphical
representation (picture) of a process, depicting inputs, outputs and
units of activity. It represents the entire process at a high or
detailed (depending on your use) level of observation, allowing
analysis and optimization of workflow. Current state flowcharts show
a picture of the process as it currently operates. Future state
flowcharts can be drawn to show desired process flow.
Focused Kaizen
Improvements made
within a Value Stream using kaizen techniques…the events
usually last two to three days. Also see Kaizen
A goal is a targeted
value by a design team while building a quality process/product.
goal can also be defined as a customer voice…what the customer
is asking for or specifying.
Green Belt
An employee of an
organization who has been trained on the improvement methodology of
Six Sigma and will lead a process improvement or quality improvement
team as *part* of their full time job. Their degree of knowledge and
skills associated with Six Sigma is less than that of a Black Belt or
Master Black Belt. Extensive product knowledge in their company is a
must in their task of process improvement. The Green Belt usually
serves as a Six Sigma Team Member or leads smaller less complex
projects requiring less advanced tools and analysis.
Products/services with
similar process tasks can be grouped into a product family.
Hard Savings
Six Sigma or Lean
project benefits that provide you with bottom-line profitability
results that can be measured in dollars saved.
The act of leveling the
variety and/or volume of items processed at a task step over a period
of time. Used to avoid excessive batching of product types and/or
volume fluctuations, especially at a pacemaker process.
ISO (International
Organization for Standardization) is the world's largest developer
and publisher of International Standards. ISO is a network of the
national standards institutes of 162 countries, one member per
country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that
coordinates the system.
ISO is a
non-governmental organization that forms a bridge between the public
and private sectors. On the one hand, many of its member institutes
are part of the governmental structure of their countries, or are
mandated by their government. On the other hand, other members have
their roots uniquely in the private sector, having been set up by
national partnerships of industry associations. Therefore, ISO
enables a consensus to be reached on solutions that meet both the
requirements of business and the broader needs of society.
ISO Certification
ISO Certification
refers to a written assurance (the certificate) by an independent
external body (Certification Body; CB; Registrar) that it has audited
your quality management system and verified that it meets the
specific ISO requirements for that specific standard that you are
requesting certification.
"In-Control" process is one that is free of special causes
of variation. Stable, in-control, with random variation only, all
mean the same thing which is, the process behaves equally over the
time. Such a condition is most often evidence on a control chart
which displays an absence of exceptional variation. In control
refers to a process unaffected by special causes. A process that is
In Control
is affected only by common causes or routine variation (Predictable
Process). A process that is Out of
Control is affected by special
causes in addition to the common causes affecting the mean and/or
variance (Unpredictable Process).
Product supply on hand.
Inventory (Excess)
Any product supply in
excess of the absolute minimum requirement to meet customer demand.
Manufacturing)- A planning system for manufacturing processes that
optimizes availability of material inventories at the manufacturing
site to only what, when & how much is necessary.
Japanese term that
means continuous improvement.
Continuously improving
in incremental steps. The word translated from Japanese and
embracing the cultural use in Japan is: Rapid, continuous, good
actual term means "signal". It is one of the primary tools
of JIT system. It signals a cycle of replenishment for production and
materials. It maintains an orderly and efficient flow of materials
throughout the entire manufacturing process. It is usually a printed
card that contains specific information such as part name,
description, quantity, etc. that gives instruction for
production or conveyance of items in a pull system. Can also be used
to perform kaizen by reducing the number of kanban in circulation,
which highlights line problems.
Lead Time
The time required for
one piece to move all the way through a process or value stream, from
start to finish. Envision timing a marked item as it moves from
beginning to end.
Lean Enterprise
Principles of Lean Enterprise:
Zero waiting
time Zero Inventory Scheduling — internal
customer pull instead of push system Batch to Flow — cut
batch sizes Line Balancing Cut actual process
Lean Manufacturing
Initiative focused on
eliminating all waste in manufacturing processes.
Lean Six Sigma
An integrated
methodology, infrastructure and the tools, techniques and skills from
Lean and Six Sigma necessary to optimize your processes. Lean
focuses on process speed and eliminating waste, Six Sigma focuses on
process quality and eliminating defects and reducing variation in
Lean Thinking
A way of thinking which
specifies value, lines up all value-creating activities along a value
stream to make value flow smoothly at the pull of the customer in
pursuit of perfection. Elimination of non-value added activity
(waste). Lean focuses on process speed (speed and efficiency,
process flow, elimination of waste).
Lean Tool Box
A set of tools,
techniques, and activities used to accomplish Lean Thinking. Some of
these include Pull Systems, Work Cells, TPM, Performance Measurement,
Setup Reduction, Quality at the Source, Continuous Flow, Batch Size
Reduction, Standardized Work, Teams, POUS, Visual Controls, Value
Stream Mapping, 5S System, Layout, SMED, CEDAC, Poka-Yoke, etc.
Low Hanging Fruit
Those improvements and
innovations that can be suggested and implemented immediately when
they become apparent.
Malcolm Baldrige
National Quality Award
The annual
self-evaluation for organizations covers the following seven
categories of criteria:
· Leadership
Strategic Planning
· Customer and Market Focus
Information and Analysis
· Human Resource Focus
Process Management
· Business Results
The National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a federal agency within
the Department of Commerce, is responsible for managing the Malcolm
Baldrige National Quality Award. The American Society for Quality
(ASQ) administers the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award under a
contract with NIST.
Master Black Belt
Master Black Belts are
Six Sigma experts. Master Black Belts main responsibilities may
include training and mentoring of Black Belts and Green Belts;
helping to prioritize, select and charter high-impact projects;
maintaining the integrity of the Six Sigma measurements, improvements
and tollgates; and developing, maintaining and revising Six Sigma
training materials. The Master Black Belt should be a resource for
utilizing statistical process control and advanced design of
experiments tools (typically just outside the Black Belt's knowledge
base) within processes.
Milk Run
Routing a delivery
vehicle in a way that allows it to make pickups and drop-offs at
multiple locations on a single travel loop, as opposed to making
separate trips to each.
Motion (Excess)
Any movement of product
or machine, or employee movement that does not add value to the
product or service.
See waste
Process input that
consistently causes variation in the output measurement that is
random, common and expected and, therefore, not controlled is called
noise. Noise also is referred to as routine variation or common cause
Non-Value-Added Time
The time for those work
elements that adds no value to the product or service from the
customer's point of view.
Not Utilizing People
Not using your
employees' mental, creative and physical abilities
Definitions which
assure measurements are made consistently.
Three parts:
The criterion…what
you are measuring
The method…how
you are measuring (i.e. measuring device)
The specific
instructions…rounding of final answer, etc.
The result of a
process. The deliverables of the process; such as products, services,
processes, plans, and resources.
Making or producing
more, sooner or faster than is required by the next step in the
Paced Withdrawal
A timed sequence of
withdrawal of finished product from the pacemaker process. Paced
withdrawal is a tool for pacing a process and becoming aware of
processing problems within a pitch increment.
Pacemaker Process
A series of production
steps, frequently at the down-stream (customer) end of the value
stream in a facility, that are dedicated to a particular product
family and respond to orders from external customers. The pacemaker
is the most important process in a facility because how you operate
or "set the pace" here determines how well you can serve
the customer, and what the demand pattern is like for upstream
Point Kaizen
Improvements made at an
individual process step. Usually completed in less than one day.
Also see Kaizen.
Japanese term which
means mistake proofing…simple device used to prevent errors in
the process. A poka yoke device is one that prevents incorrect parts
from being made or assembled, or easily identifies a flaw or error.
Procedures are the
largest volume of instructional content representing practical
knowledge; they include all types of human decision making such as
guides, help text, methods, instructions, policies, regulations,
standards and technical practices. A procedure is a set of
conditional instructions that affects the human interactions
involving customers, information workers and service suppliers.
A series of steps or
actions that lead to a desired result or output. A set of common
tasks that creates a product, service, process, or plan that will
satisfy a customer or group of customers. A sequential series of
steps leading to a desired outcome.
Processes are largely
affected by one or more of the following factors:
5S is the Japanese concept for House Keeping
a.) personnel who operate the processes
b.) materials which are used as inputs (including information)
c.) machines or equipment being used in the process (in process execution or monitoring/measurement
d.) methods (including criteria and various documentations used along the process)
e.) work environment
Understanding how these factors interact and affect processes is a key consideration in process studies.
Process Behavior
See Control Chart
Process Control
The features or
mechanisms that control the execution of a *Process*, including
process initiation, selection of process steps, selection of
alternative steps, iteration of steps within a loop, and process
Process Control Plan
The Process Control
Plan assures that the good improvements established by your project
will not deteriorate once the improved process is returned to the
process owners.
Processing (Excess)
Any effort that adds no
value to the product or service from the customer's point of
Process Kaizen
Improvements made at an
individual process or in a specific area. Also See Kaizen.
Process Lead Time
Door-to-door time for
the process, usually measured in days and weeks.
Process Management
The concept of defining
macro and micro processes, assigning ownership, and creating
responsibilities of the owners.
Process Map
A hierarchical method
for displaying processes that illustrates how a product or
transaction is processed. It is a visual representation of the
work-flow either within a process - or an image of the whole
operation. Process Mapping comprises a stream of activities that
transforms a well-defined input or set of inputs into a pre-defined
set of outputs.
Process Owner
The individual(s)
responsible for process design and performance. The process owner is
accountable for sustaining the gain and identifying future
improvement opportunities on the process.
Processing Time
The time a product is
actually being worked on in a machine or work area.
A product is an outcome
of a process or activity which could be a defined object or service.
Project Scope
Defined and specific
project beginning and end points…sets the boundaries of the
project. The more specific the details (what's in-scope and what's
out of scope), the less a project may experience "scope creep".
Project Selection
Means by which projects
are selected in an organization. Selection criteria should be
defined and tied directly to achieving the organization's
strategic goals and objectives.
Pull System
An alternative to
scheduling individual processes, where the customer process withdraws
the items it needs from a supermarket, and the supplying process
produces to replenish what was withdrawn. Used to avoid push. A
method of controlling the flow of resources by replacing only the
amount that has been consumed. See also kanban.
Push System
Resources are provided
to the customer based on your business' forecasts or schedules.
Continuous and dynamic
adaptation of products and services to fulfill or exceed the
requirements or expectations of all parties in the organization, the
customer, and the community as a whole.
Quality Control
Also called statistical
quality control. The managerial process during which actual process
performance is evaluated and actions are taken on unusual or
unacceptable performance.
It is a process to ensure whether a
product meets predefined standards and requisite action taken if the
standards are not met.
Quality Function
Deployment (QFD)
structured methodology and mathematical tool used to identify and
quantify customers' requirements and translate them into key critical
parameters which are then tied back to the capabilities of your
process. In Six Sigma, QFD helps you to prioritize actions to improve
your process or product to meet customers' expectations.
Quality Improvement
A systematic and
continuous activity to improve all processes and systems in the
organization to achieve optimal level of performance. The organized
creation of beneficial changes in process performance levels.
Quality Management
A systematic set of
activities to ensure that processes create products with maximum
*Quality* at minimum *Cost of Quality*.
Queue Time
The time a product
spends waiting in line for the next processing step.
Reengineering is
focused on achieving dramatic, breakthrough improvements often by the
application of new technologies.
Work that is done to
correct defects in products or services.
Root Cause
An identified reason
for the presence of a defect or problem. The most basic reason,
which if eliminated, would prevent recurrence. The source or origin
of an event.
Root Cause Analysis
Study of original
reason for nonconformance with a process. When the root cause is
removed or corrected, the nonconformance will be eliminated.
Generally, the extent
to which a process or procedure applies. Project Scope defines the
boundaries of a project.
An evaluation device,
usually used to evaluate how well your business is performing. Can
also be in the form of a questionnaire, that specifies the criteria
your customers will use to rate your business's performance in
satisfying their requirements.
The Greek letter "s"
(sigma) refers to the standard deviation of a population.
Sigma Level
sigma levels of processes (one sigma, six sigma, etc.) allows process
performance to be compared throughout an entire organization, because
it is independent of the process. It is merely a determination of
opportunities and defects; however the terms are appropriately
defined for that specific process.
Sigma is a statistical term
that measures how much a process varies from perfection, based on the
number of defects per million units.
One Sigma = 690,000 per
million units
Two Sigma = 308,000 per million units
Three Sigma
= 66,807 per million units
Four Sigma = 6,210 per million
Five Sigma = 233 per million
Six Sigma = 3.4 per million units
Process input that
sometimes causes variation in the output measurement that is specific
and unexpected and, therefore, called a signal. Signals also are
referred to as exceptional variation or special cause variation.
Stands for Suppliers,
Inputs, Process, Output, and Customers. You obtain inputs from
suppliers, add value through your process, and provide an output that
meets or exceeds your customer's requirements. Visually depicted it
includes product and information flow.
Six Sigma
A strategy-driven,
process-focused, project-enabled organizational improvement
initiative. The goal of Six Sigma is to increase profits by reducing
variability and defects and eliminating waste that undermines
customer loyalty…leading to bottom-line profitability and
top-line growth. Six Sigma is a methodology that provides businesses
with the tools to improve the capability of their business processes.
This increase in performance and decrease in process variation leads
to defect reduction and vast improvement in profits, employee morale
and quality of product. Six Sigma focuses on process quality.
Spaghetti Diagrams
Visual layout and flow
of the process as if you would walk though it…following it
from beginning to end.
Soft Savings
Six Sigma and Lean
project benefits such as reduced time to market, cost avoidance, lost
profit avoidance, improved employee morale, enhanced image for the
organization and other intangibles may result in additional savings
and benefits to your organization, but are harder to quantify or
People who will be
affected by the project or can influence it but who are not directly
involved with doing the project work.
Stakeholder Analysis
A tool used to identify
and enlist support from stakeholders. It provides a visual means of
identifying stakeholder support so that you can develop an action
plan for your project.
Standard Operating
Documents which capture
best practices (both in written words and in visual graphics) for
meeting standard work.
Standardized work
Doing the same thing,
the same way, each and every time, with as little non-value-added
Statistical Process Control (SPC)
application of statistical methods to identify and eliminate the
special cause or exceptional variation in a process.
Statistical Thinking
The process of using
wide ranging and interacting data to understand processes, problems,
and determine best solutions.
The mathematics of the
collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data.
Strategic Planning
A disciplined effort to
produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what
an organization is, what it does, and why it does it, with a focus on
the future. Determines the strategic goals and objectives of the
organization, short and long term.
A controlled inventory
that is used to schedule production at an upstream process.
Supply Chain
Managing the movement
of goods from raw materials to the finished product delivered to
customers. Supply Chain Management aims to reduce operating costs,
lead times, and inventory and increase the speed of delivery, product
availability, and customer satisfaction.
Synchronous Flow
The concept of
"flowing" an item through a process in time with the
steps downstream to avoid bottlenecks. Acting differently than
Continuous Flow, which relies upon kanbans and one-piece flow,
synchronous flow regulates the process through balanced work, minimal
handling of the item, and timing of tasks and deadlines.
System Kaizen
Improvement aimed at an
entire value stream. Also see Kaizen
System of Profound
Systems Thinking
interrelationships rather than linear cause-effect chains, and seeing
processes of change rather than snapshots at a single point in time
(Peter Senge's book, The Fifth Discipline).
Takt Time
Lean Production uses
Takt Time as the rate or time that a completed product is finished.
Takt Time established is defining the customers' buying rate
(the rate at which the customer buys your product).
Responding to the rate
of customer demand. How often the customer requires one finished
item. Takt time is used to design pacemaker processes, to assess
process conditions, to develop material handling containerization,
process routing, to determine problem-response requirements, and so
on. Takt is the heartbeat of a Lean system.
time is calculated by dividing Available Time by the quantity the
customer requires
in that same amount of time.
Team Leader
The person who leads or
directs a team of people to complete a task or project.
Output or production
over a period of time.
Total Content Time
The cumulative labor
time used to complete production of 1 unit through each step of the
process…doesn't include wait time, travel times, or
other non-value-added activities.
Total Cycle Time
The observed cycle
times at each step in a process added together. Cumulative time of
all process steps and cycle times throughout the process.
Total Quality
A conceptual and a
philosophical context which requires management and human resources
commitment to adopt a perpetual improvement philosophy, through
succinct management of all processes, practices and systems
throughout the organization to achieve effectiveness in the
organizational performance.
Total Work Content
The observed work
content times at each step in a process added together.
The unnecessary or
excess travel of people, product, forms or parts around a facility or
Value is the exchange
for which a customer pays.
A product or service's
capability provided to a customer at the right time, at an
appropriate price, as defined in each case by the customer.
be a value-added action, the action must meet all three of the
following criteria:
1) The
customer is willing to pay for this activity.
2) It must be
done right the first time.
3) The action must somehow change
the product or service in some manner.
Value-Added Time
The time for those work
elements that adds value to the product or service from the
customer's point of view.
Value Chain
A graphical
representation of an organization's structure… the chain
depicts those processes that actually produce the product or
service…these are at the heart or center of the picture.
Every other process (including management) is shown as a support
process or function. Key is to optimize the value chain by aligning
the Voice of the Process to the Voice of the Customer.
Value Proposition
The proposition that
states that:
Businesses have a right
to produce and offer products and services that yield the highest
possible profits.
Customers have a right to expect the highest quality products and services at the lowest possible cost.
The "Value Proposition" establishes this strategic alignment between organizations and their customers as critical to all improvement efforts.
Value Stream
the steps (both value added and non-value added) in a process that
the customer is willing to pay for in order to bring a product or
service through the main flows essential to producing that product or
service. All activities, both value added and non-value
added, required to bring a product from raw material into the hands
of the customer, a customer requirement from order to delivery, and a
design from concept to launch. Value stream improvement usually
begins at the door-to-door level within a facility, and then expands
outward to eventually encompass the full value stream.
Value Stream Loops
Segments of a value
stream whose boundaries are typically marked by supermarkets.
Breaking a value stream into loops is a way to divide future state
implementations into manageable pieces.
Value Stream Manager
Person responsible for
helping to determine the current state map and creating a future
state map and leading door-to-door implementation of the future state
for a particular product family. Makes change happen across
departmental and functional boundaries.
Value Stream Mapping
A paper and pencil tool that helps you to see and understand the flow
of material and information as a product or service makes its way
through the value stream. Value stream mapping is typically used in
Lean, it differs from the process mapping of Six Sigma in four
1) It gathers and displays a far broader range of
information than a typical process map.
2) It tends to be at a higher level (5-10 boxes) than many process maps.
3) It tends to be used at a broader level, i.e. from receiving of raw material to delivery of finished goods.
4.) It tends to be used to identify where to focus future projects, subprojects, and/or kaizen events.
Involves two stages:
a) Follow a product's
production path from "end" to "beginning" and
draw a visual representation of every process in the material and
information flows. (This creates the picture of the current state of
the process or the Current State Map).
b) Then draw a Future
State Map of how value should flow. The most critical map is the
Future State Map which shows proposed, improved process design.
The fluctuation or
movement over time in process output. Can be seen visually by using
Process Behavior (Control) charts.
Visual Controls
Simple signals that
provide an immediate understanding of a situation or condition.
Voice of the
Customer (VOC)
Describes the stated
and unstated needs or requirements of the customer. The voice of the
customer can be captured in a variety of ways: Direct discussion or
interviews, surveys, focus groups, customer specifications,
observation, warranty data, field reports, complaint logs, etc.
Voice of the Process
Term used to describe
what the process is telling you. What it is capable of achieving,
whether it is predictable or unpredictable and what significance to
attach to individual measurements. Key is to align the Voice of the
Process to the Voice of Customer.
Waiting or Wait Time
Any amount of time
spent waiting for anything…when the process cannot flow.
Any activity that
consumes resources but creates no value for the customer.
Stand for "work
in process." Any inventory between raw material and finished
Work Content Time
The actual amount of
labor time an item or product requires to be completed by a process
step, as timed by direct observation.
Work Flow
Steps in the process.
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Something pretty amazing is happening up on the Sunset Strip, and no I'm not talking about BLT's Birthday Celebration! (which, side note, if you don't already have your reservations, you're probably SOL for this fantastic deal... $3.03 cocktails + $33.03 22oz Rib Eyes. sorry, i'll be posting nommy pictures of that meal at a later date) Eveleigh, one of the newer eateries just next to Sunset Park, pulls the ambiance of a perfect rustic retreat from daily life.
When you walk into the idyllic courtyard with a bubbling fountain, all of your worries and woes slowly melt away. Then you're faced with your first difficult decision, inside or outside.
Inside the gorgeous restaurant with animal heads, huge wooden tables, an exposed kitchen and a crackling fireplace, you're met with delicious aromas of freshly roasted meat, and the sights of perhaps one of the more beautiful bars in Los Angeles. Outside on the covered patio, with sweeping views of Century City (I probably wouldn't have know that's where we were looking had the waiter not pointed it out) and large communal tables, it's the perfect place to recover from a heavy night of partying with a nice mimosa, a hot pot of coffee and a ton of fresh sunlight.
I've heard that they serve a wonderful seasonal dinner, but at least for now, the sunny Sunday Brunch is the place for me. Plus they have a disclaimer on their menu... substitutions politely declined. I thoroughly enjoy a chef who knows & understands his flavors well enough to make guests eat his food as is! Deal with the deliciousness.
spelt hot cakes (13)
maple whipped ricotta, bay leaf, nutmeg-male syrup
roasted portobello (11)
burratta, vincotto, thyme, sourdough toast
'bubble & squeak' (14)
corned beef, kale & potato hash, scotch egg
The Eveleigh
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West Hollywood, CA
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Underground and underappreciated, tunnels' time has come
These are amazing days in this small corner of the universe. San Francisco is booming, techies based here are inventing something incredible almost every week, and the Giants just won the World Series.
We don't want to bore you with yet another triumph, but this is also the golden age of tunnels. We live in an area of natural beauty, laced with bays and estuaries, ringed with hills. Where would we be without bridges and tunnels? Nowhere, that's where. We wouldn't be able to move.
The region's bridges have been celebrated to death, but tunnels are the jewel in the crown. Well, the jewel under the crown.
Gaining appreciation
Tunnels take us from one part of the Bay Bridge to another, they bring us to Contra Costa, to Marin, down the Peninsula by rail, under the streets of San Francisco and through the hills to the Sunset and Parkside districts, hitherto a wilderness of sand dunes. Tunnels bring us everything from drinking water to commuters.
There is a tunnel boom just now. San Francisco is digging the Central Subway, a 1.7-mile-long streetcar tunnel from South of Market to Chinatown. The subway not only is San Francisco's most expensive civic project ($1.6 billion), but it features two boring machines with all-star names, Big Alma and Mom Chung.
Meanwhile, across the city, the Presidio Parkway, which leads to the Golden Gate Bridge, is under construction, also featuring beautiful new arched tunnels.
Only last month, a 5-mile-long tunnel from Newark to Redwood City began carrying Hetch Hetchy water up to 100 feet below the floor of San Francisco Bay. The tunnel was a transbay first since the BART tube, which is a series of sunken cylinders and is not a genuine tunnel.
And, for your consideration, we offer the fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnel through the East Bay hills, and the Devil's Slide Tunnel on the San Mateo Coast, new additions to the region's underground hall of fame.
There are famous tunnels, like the one through Yerba Buena Island, 75 feet high, 58 feet wide and 540 feet long. It's in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest-diameter bore tunnel in the world. It is one of the busiest as well — 275,000 cars and trucks go though it every weekday.
There are historic tunnels, too. The Stockton Street Tunnel, connecting San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach, celebrates its centennial on Dec. 29.
Grand rhetoric
There are unsung tunnel heroes, like Dr. Hartland Law, who came up with the idea for a Stockton tunnel during lunch on Jan. 27, 1910, and convinced the city fathers that it was feasible. There is also Robert Halligan, a Caltrans engineer and information officer, who was behind the rainbow that graces the Waldo Tunnel in Marin. The string of lights on the Bay Bridge was also his idea.
On occasion, tunnels have inspired grand rhetoric. "Westward the course of empire takes its way," Mayor James Rolph said at the dedication of San Francisco's Twin Peaks Tunnel on July 17, 1917. He meant West Portal.
There are ghostly tunnels, too, the entrances closed off, the interiors dark and clammy. I can think of at least three railroad tunnels in Marin, and four in San Francisco, three of them under or near Potrero Hill.
A Broadway High Level tunnel still exists through the East Bay hills. It was famously narrow and dangerous and was replaced with the first Caldecott Tunnel in 1937. There is also an abandoned railroad tunnel once used by the old Sacramento Northern Railroad.
And who can forget the Tunnel of Love at the late, great Playland at the Beach in San Francisco?
Time for comeback
There is a lot of talk about reopening the 100-year-old Fort Mason rail tunnel, as part of an extended streetcar line. If that happens, it would be the comeback tunnel of the century.
Much of this was brought to our attention by Riley Doty, who is in the tile business in the East Bay. He lived in New York for eight years, didn't have a car and rode the subway everywhere.
"I always thought it was magical how traffic could be stuck up above, but how we traveled frequently in underground tunnels," he wrote in an e-mail. He saw the same thing when he moved to the Bay Area. He thought tunnels were an under-appreciated asset.
"The built environment is richly layered and gets more and more interesting as time goes on," he wrote.
Carl Nolte is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. His column appears every Sunday. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @carlnoltesf


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text: Post by Mark Gelband (@markgelband) on Thu, 09 Nov 17 16:34:56 +0000 Reposted by Lead: Tracy Van Santana @tvansantana (@ellowrites) on Fri, 10 Nov 17 13:27:12 +0000 View Original Post View Full Post ***I am lucky to live in Boulder, CO, but I am and have been a political loud mouth about our local xenophobic zoning and land-use policies. While most of the country was celebrating the off-year election results in Virginia, New Jersey, Seattle and other places, Boulder elected an anti-housing, protectionist slate of conservative zealots. My heart hurts. When I woke up yesterday morning, the scent of Boulder's white privilege stunk differently. The first time I smelled overt racism was the fall of 1970. I rode my gold Schwinn Stingray with flaked banana seat, 3' sissy bar and orange safety flag down 152nd Street, pedaling faster after the canal at 77th Ave and the field of dank tall weeds that became the park years later. I was on my way to Coral Reef Elementary School, 1st day of 1st grade. That was the 1st year Miami integrated public schools. I came from NYC, and Earl the Pearl & Clyde Frasier were two of my sporting heroes. One of my favorite early childhood memories was going to the Garden with my dad to see the Knicks in the playoffs the spring of 70, the year they beat the Lakers for the NBA championship in 7 games. Willis Reed hobbled out onto the court, the hero. My hero. Howard Cosell saying to him on live national television: "You exemplify the very best that the human spirit can offer." And that's how I felt about black people in my mind and heart when I rode up to school and a bunch of angry white housewives had signs that read "No Niggers Here!" "Niggers Go Home!" and other crazy shit, none of which I could really understand. At least not the words themselves. This hate smelled much different than the kind slinking around 21st century Boulder, CO. It had an acrid scent like too much Folgers instant, Magic City humidity and crushed blue crabs on hot asphalt. It was a powerful smell you could feel like the breath of Hurricane Gerda, one that lingered long after it went - a sad and soggy destruction that mosquitoes thrived on. I wondered whose parents would make those signs and hold them, scream at kids like that. I wondered where all the anger came from. Didn't yet understand that rage or the history. It was a year and half later before my mother first got diagnosed with breast cancer, and even longer until I had studied slavery. I just remember seeing Curtis Jackson for the first time through the window of the yellow school bus, the bus blocking some of the foul-mouthed anger and hate. Curtis had a big smile and even bigger fro. I smiled at him and waved. He nodded back at me. Wealthy white privileged racism in Boulder has a more distinct and subtle odor. In Boulder it smells like a mixture of gluten free zucchini bread with a cashew milk latte, $2.50 per hour to park near Indian Peaks Foothills fresh air, a 2018 Lynskey Pro titanium cross frame, new Lululemons, a freshly Palo Santo good vibes wood smudged Kundalini yoga studio, some hispanic people in a trailer park we want to landmark over there somewhere, and a green & white compostable bag full of dog shit propped on a rock halfway up Sanitas Trail. All passers by wondering who the damn hell left it there - yeah right, he's going to pick it up on the way down. The smell is in the la di dah la di dah, re-uptake inhibitor happiest place in the nation we all recently read about. That more PhDs per sq foot - that history of sales tax for open space liberalism, the Next Door American Bistro crowded on a Wednesday afternoon, did you know Elon Musk's brother owns this place, get me some garlic smashers - that Niwot curse irony of me not in the picture referring to it. As if my coming has nothing to do with the undoing even though none of Niwot's ancestors seem to be around anymore. It's always the people who came after me. As if me being the 76,242nd person doesn't contribute to the scent. The integration and school busing system implemented in Miami reeked of white privilege. From 1st to 5th grades, black kids were uprooted from neighborhood schools and distributed to white elementaries on the east side of South Dixie Highway. Frank C. Martin Elementary in the heart of the Richmond Heights neighborhood - a solidly black middle class neighborhood became a 6th grade only school. Frank C. Martin Elementary was founded in 1952 by Captain Frank Crawford Martin, a World War II veteran pilot. Captain Martin initially purchased the land that became Richmond Heights in an effort to provide affordable housing for Black veterans. I imagined he knew something akin to the way I knew Earl the Pearl Monroe. And one year of elementary school, white kids from four feeder schools east of South Dixie Highway got bussed to Richmond Heights. Kids from neighborhoods named Gables Estates, Gables by the Sea, Pinecrest, Palmetto Bay, and Deering Estates catching the bus. Frank C. Martin smelled like no other elementary - a delicious combo of pre-teen freedom and dreams, and homemade hot southern rolls that came out of the cafeteria ovens piping hot everyday. The only time I remember it snowing in Miami was my year at Frank C. Martin 1977. All these 11 & 12 yr olds running around throwing snowballs. So many of us had never seen it before. I had and Curtis knew I had. We still smiled somewhat innocently when we hucked snowballs at each other. It snowed in Boulder this election day. It's interesting the way snow can make the town feel cleaner, even more white than it already is. It's as though it hides what's just beneath the surface. But it melts fast here in Boulder, not nearly as fast as it did that morning in 1977 in Miami, but fast enough to know better. As fast as Borat made the illusion melt, as fast as Donald Trump only a year ago. The Boulder modern bouquet of racism doesn't wave rebel flags, isn't hooded in white Klan outfits like the kind I saw in 1975 where Old Cutler Rd meets South Dixie Highway around 224 St in Goulds, just north of Homestead. My mom and I were coming home from Kerry's, the importers where my mom purchased bromeliads for her living sculptures. That day at Kerry's, Kerry himself used the N-word in front of my mom and me. I forget the exact context, but it was directed at one of the workers there - Michael, a guy who was always nice to me and mom. My mom called Kerry out on the spot. He looked my mom straight in the eye and said something like: "All you northeastern liberals come down here and think you can tell us how to be. Where do you live? Gables Estates, Deering Bay? How many black families live in your neighborhood? Mike's family and mine have lived together for 50+ years. Our children go to school together, play together. We eat at each other's homes. Don't tell me how to talk. How many black families live in your neighborhood?" Mike and Kerry and I helped my Mom load her order into the back of her beige Chevy wagon. No one said anything. When my mom and I were in the car, Kerry leaned into the driver's side open window, his elbows on the door frame. He smelled like horse manure compost and Mint Copenhagen. His teeth were yellow and his face Homestead tomato red. "Have a nice day. Thanks for your business." My mom backed out the dirt road in reverse. Every other time I'd been there with her she pulled forward and turned around by one of the hot houses. Not this time. She didn't take me to the Amish Farm to get a strawberry shake and sticky bun either. Normally I would have protested real loudly. The strawberry milkshake and sticky buns were my main reason for helping out, but I understood, sort of. She just drove east to Dixie Highway. Kerry's was on the edge of the swamp, and I could tell my mom just wanted to get as far as away as quickly as possible - especially because what Kerry said made some weird sense in my 10-yr old head. So we get to Goulds and we're stopped at a red light, waiting to turn right onto Old Cutler. I see the Klansmen handing out literature before my mom does, the twenty or so men in hoods. She seemed to be lost in what took place twenty minutes earlier. And before she can roll up the windows, a Klansman hands me a flyer. She yanked it out of my hands and threw it back out the window. Sped off like a swamp monster was chasing her. I notice how hungry I am. But don't say anything because I know there's nothing on Old Cutler Road way out here. I smell an uneaten Whopper and fries coming from the air conditioner, the windows up now, doors locked, how the smell of car air conditioning can tangibly morph with feeling. And on WIOD the Wings are on: Oh yes, indeed we know That people will find a way to go No matter what the man said And love is fine for all we know For all we know, our love will grow That's what the man said So won't you listen to what the man said In Boulder the whiff takes names like "neighborhood character" and "quality of life." It's a grease stain in the zoning and land use code that enables seemingly "good" liberal minded folks to play pretend with their politics. "I love affordable housing." "I am all for co-ops." Not here though. Not now. Always the here & now in their quasi-Buddhist approach except when it comes to housing someone different. I know I moved next to a pig farm, but why does it smell so bad. In 1993 on Martin Luther King day, a noted hate group held a rally on Boulder's iconic Pearl St Mall by the old Courthouse. A couple hundred protesters met the small group of ragtag overt haters. The protesters held signs that said things like: "No Hate Here." "Haters go home." "No more importance than the color of his eyes." Chanted uplifting slogans. The hate group leader got up and spoke directly to the crowd, and he smelled of Dairy Queen soft serve subversive and cigarette tobacco. "Why are you so mad at me, Boulder? I came here because you've created what we want - a rich, white city. We came here to learn from you. We want to know how you did it. You're the model for us." The discomfort in the crowd of protesters had this weird odor like a covered-up burp from a fast food restaurant burger, one snuck on the way home from a night drinking - like damn - you found me out. "If you love diversity so much," he continued, "why don't you live in Cleveland, Chicago or Detroit? It's MLK day, and I don't see one negro in this crowd. Do any black people live in Boulder? Again, have your people get in touch with mine. We love Boulder. We want to emulate what you've done so effectively." As the protesters slinked away, I thought about Curtis Jackson, about my second grade birthday party at the Bowl-O-Mat. I remember when Curtis' mom dropped him off, how excited I was that he was coming to my birthday. The rented bowling shoes always smelled like pesticides to me, that weird spray between uses disinfected the way the grown-ups in Boulder pretend about inclusivity. Curtis and I bowled on the same team, high fived when we won. My mom had gotten pizza from Papa Rico's on 144th and an ice cream cake from Carvel. The little chocolate crunchies in the ice cream cake reminded me of Tom Carvel's gravelly voice when he said, "Wednesday is always Sundae at Carvel" on the commercials. But after bowling his mom picked him up, and I was sad because he was supposed to sleep over that night, and I didn't understand why he wasn't. Was mad at my mom for not telling me beforehand. Kevin Love and Brooke and a couple other kids did sleep over, but Curtis was my best friend at school. That was around the time my parents found out my mom had breast cancer. It was the year the Dolphins went undefeated and won the Super Bowl too. Even though my parents never directly told me she had cancer, as a teenager, when I fell asleep on the couch and she would wake me up, turn off the TV, and tell me to go to my bedroom, I could see through her nightgown that her left breast was missing. I never said anything or asked. Not until way later when she was on the couch dying - in and out of her morphine drip those final days. She told me that Curtis couldn't sleep over that night because some of the other white parents said their kids wouldn't be allowed to if "that nigger kid" did. Some weren't even allowed to go bowling, she told me. "You remember that day at Kerry's," she asked. "When he said the N-word?" I nodded yes and held her bony hand tighter. "What he said to me that day was true. It's easy to be liberal and equal and have a voice when there aren't any real consequences." "Why are you remembering this now," I asked? "Because I didn't have the guts to let Curtis sleep over at your 2nd birthday, to tell those ignorant women to fuck off like I should have." I always loved when my mom cursed uninhibited like a Jean Genet character. "It was my fault, and that day at Kerry's raised my guilt. He was right. I should have taken you to the Amish Farm that day for a strawberry shake. I'm sorry. I could go for one right now." "Really mom," I said through tears. "Really," she said. And I got up and told her I'd get her one as fast as I could. The putrid aroma of death on a relatively young human can also smell delightful. When I got back, she had zonked out and my coming in woke her up. She asked where I had been. I handed her the bag. Nothing in my youth smelled quite as delicious as those buns and strawberry shakes. Nothing. But she had forgotten her earlier desire. So I drank the shake and ate a few of the sticky rolls, but they tasted metallic, the way it feels when a fork hits the tooth and tongue the wrong way. And here and now in Boulder, only patches of snow linger the Thursday post election day, but almost 25 years since that MLK day not much has changed, and it seems to have gotten much worse. Boulder is richer and whiter and just elected a bunch of Gables Estates type crackers - the ones Kerry dressed down, the everyone-is-equal just not here & now kind. And the zoning and land-use rules used to prevent housing, create token ghettos and protect "neighborhood character" smell much less subtle than the privileged new age mixture that seems so intoxicating on the surface. It's the Greeley upslope, the Weld County slaughterhouse rotting stench pushing up against the foothills, singing, in a beat like the Gourds redoing Gin & Juice, something like: I know you like to think that your shit don't stink, but lean a little bit closer… @ellowrites @tvansantana


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Designing for Outlook Web / Office 365
Anyone have any pointers or experience designing for Microsoft's web-based Outlook that's part of Office 365?
It appears to be parsing out the CSS it sees, dropping a lot of it, and rewriting some of it as new HTML tags (like <font>). An odd choice. I'm simply trying to change the text color, but "color: #ffffff" works inconsistently.


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It's CW time!
Well, sort of… With this clock, from DCI, you can read the time in Morse code. Not a bad deal at $27 US on Amazon.com.
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OH6DC's Liver Casserole CW key
And I thought my buddy, Mike (K8RAT), was being gastronomically adventurous when he made a homemade single-lever "sideswiper" with a steak knife! Imagine what might happen if the steak knife meets up with this:
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CW on the pirate bands
Last night, I captured the pirate radio station Dit Dah Radio on 6,935 kHz (+/-) USB. I published the audio on my shortwave radio blog, The SWLing Post, where I post quite a lot of shortwave radio recordings. I'm well … Continue reading
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Curiosity making tracks…with morse code?
Today, I watched a fascinating eleven-minute NASA animation depicting key events of NASA's newest Mars rover, Curiosity, in action. As I watched, I noticed something very peculiar about the tires–right around mark 5:15, one can see a pattern imprinted on … Continue reading
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FITSAT-1 will write messages in the sky with CW
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Morse "encoded" National Guard building in Milan, Illinois
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This is one question that you should ask yourself if you are into business or you are planning to put up one.
We all know that a lot of business thrives because of their online presence. In this day and age, to be able to keep up with competition, being known online is a must. Think about this, even the most remote area will get known if someone promotes it. So even if your business is small, if you have your own army to do the job for you, you will get known too.
If you are not yet convinced, here are more reasons why you should outsource your virtual assistants:
Virtual assistants will help you get started. Not everyone is knowledgeable about how online promotions and business work, so a virtual assistant will come in handy to help establish online presence.
A virtual assistant who is an expert in web development will help create a functional and easy-to-navigate website for you. A website is critical because it will create income for you especially if you are into online selling. Creating a website that is user-friendly and functional is important because not everyone is tech-savvy. So if you want to earn more, outsource a virtual assistant.
If you are not a writer or you are not good in expressing your thoughts, then getting a writer or a virtual assistant is a good way to go. Remember, a good writer can relay your message to your target audience. If you have a good following, this can turn out to be a good source of income too.
More time for your family and other things
By outsourcing virtual assistants, you are freeing yourself up from different tasks. This means that you will have more time for other things and most importantly with your family. For a lot of online entrepreneurs or stay-at-home business owners, the reason why they are into this is because they want to spend time with their family more. So, outsourcing a virtual assistant is a good advice to take.
Work can be done faster if there are more people with you. Even if you feel that you are versatile or you are a superhero, you simply cannot do it all.
Lastly, if you have your own virtual assistants, you will have people you can brainstorm with. Remember, you may be good but you cannot do everything your own. These virtual assistants are good with what they do, so they can surely contribute their two cents.


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Austin Powers was seduced by the alluring robotic women The Fembots in the 1997 hit
It turns out we'll all be having SEX with ROBOTS much sooner than previously thought
SEX with robots will become the social norm within the next 50 years, according to a top academic.
By Aaron Brown
5 August 2015
Advances in robotic sexual technology will leave traditional sex looking "very primitive," a leading academic has predicted.
The high-tech sexual gadgets and gizmos will likely lead to a shift within our society and sex with robots could become a normal day-to-day occurrence within the next 50 years.
Dr Helen Driscoll is a leading on authority on the psychology of sex and relationships.
She believes that advances in sexual technology will trigger a fundamental change in our relationships – like those seen in hit Channel Four drama Humans and Oscar winning 2014 movie Her.
"Sex Tech is already advancing at a pace and in 50 years' time physical relationships will seem very primitive," she said.
You can already order a life-like mannequin partner online.
And robotic, interactive, motion-sensing technology is likely to become a key part of the sex industry within the next few years, according to Dr Driscoll.
Ashley Scott as Gigolo Jane in Steven Spielberg's science fiction film A.I. Artificial Intelligence
"It could really start to enable mannequin partners to 'come to life'", the University of Sunderland academic has predicted.
She said: "We tend to think about issues such as virtual reality and robotic sex within the context of current norms.
"But if we think back to the social norms about sex that existed just 100 years ago, it is obvious that they have changed rapidly and radically.
Robophilia may be alien now, but could be normal in the near future as attitudes evolve with technology.
"As virtual reality becomes more realistic and immersive and is able to mimic and even improve on the experience of sex with a human partner; it is conceivable that some will choose this in preference to sex with a less than perfect human being."
Dr Driscoll adds: "People may also begin to fall in love with their virtual reality partners."
Theodore Twombly develops an intense love for an computer operating system called Samantha in Her
This is an issue explored in the recent film Her, in which Joaquin Phoenix's character falls in love with an operating system. In the hit drama Humans, Anita is a robot who has sex with the father of the family that has bought her.
Dr Driscoll said she believes that: "This may seem shocking and unusual now, but we should not automatically assume that virtual relationships have less value than real relationships.
"The fact is, people already fall in love with fictional characters though there is no chance to meet and interact with them."
Dr Driscoll has shown that there are already many people living alone, people who have not been able to find a partner or have lost a partner who virtual relationships could benefit.
Virtual sexual partners may provide significant psychological benefits for them as a virtual partner will be better than no partner at all.


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DENVER (CBS4) – Two former top regulators of Colorado's marijuana industry have now gone to work for the other side.
Colorado's Amendment 64 bars legislators from lobbying state officials for two years after they leave office. But there's nothing that stops former department directors from going to work for the industry they regulated.
Matt Cook and Laura Harris' jobs were to enforce the rules and regulations of Colorado's marijuana industry. Now both of them are working for it.
The news about Harris comes in a release from Denver Relief Consulting that states "former cannabis enforcement chief joins firm."
The release does not state exactly what Harris, the former head of marijuana enforcement, will do but cites her background in regulatory compliance.
Elena Nunez is State Executive Director of Common Cause, a non-partisan organization that works for credible government.
"There are a couple of problems potentially. One, they have specialized knowledge of the agency and its processes and they also have special relationships that can influence their ability to get approval for contracts contributions or other things," said Nunez.
Matt Cook was spotlighted on the CBS news program "60 Minutes."
"Matt Cook, a former narcotics officer, wrote the law and served as the state's first director of enforcement," they said.
Cook is now a consultant to the marijuana industry with the 60 Minutes interview displayed on his website. His credentials include Senior Director of Enforcement for the Colorado Department of Revenue.
"We need to make sure those folks who are privy to confidential information about the industry or client matters. Maintain that confidentiality and privilege," said State Rep. and Assistant House Majority Leader Dan Pabon.
Harris and Cook could not be reached for comment. The governor's office said it found no legal or ethical breach on their part.


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Pizza Places in Tulsa: For Adults
This content was written for Gaetanos Pizza
When looking for pizza places in Tulsa you want to make sure that you check out Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery. Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery is dedicated to making sure that they deliver top-of-the-line pizzas to all of their clients. The clients from Gaetano's are dedicated to ensuring that they spread the word about Gaetano's around Tulsa. The reason being is because they are so loyal to the message and the values that Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery embody. If you're looking to plan a family outing give Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery a call at 918-298-1122.
When it comes to making a perfect pizza, there are a few things that go into it. This doesn't matter if it's one of the pizza places in Tulsa doing the making or you yourself at your own house. The first thing that you have to make sure of is that you have a crust recipe that is to die for. The crust is a significant part of the pizza and if the crust is a right and the pizza is just not going to taste good. Therefore, you want to make sure that you test a lot of different pie crust recipe is before you choose the one that you want to use for your favorite pizza dough crust.
The second thing that you got a pay strict attention to when you trying to make a magnificent pizza again whether you are one of the pizza places in Tulsa or if you're doing it at your house is the sauce. If you talk to anybody who makes a significant amount of pizzas they are going to tell you how important the sauces. The first layer is of course the crust and we've are to discuss that in the second layer of your pizza is the sauce. You want to be certain that you test as many different ways of making your sauce as possible. This will ensure that you come up with the one that you enjoy the most.
The third thing that you need to take a look at is the cheese. You have your first layer of your pizza which is your crust. The second layer of your pizza is your sauce. Then the third layer of your pizza is going to be your cheese. You have to make sure that you have the finest cheese in order for your pizza to have to biggest flavor impact on your mouth. Cheese is extremely important.
If you're looking for a really good pizza pie, then you need to look no further than Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery. Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery is dedicated to making sure that they are always improving their recipes and ingredients to please their customers. The other great thing about Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery is that they also provide ice cream. So you can go and have your main course which would be pizza and then you can have your disorder which is ice cream. To get in touch with Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery call 918-298-1122.
Pizza Places in Tulsa: Gourmet
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Are you having cravings for pizza and ice cream? If you're having cravings for pizza and ice cream, one of the best pizza places in Tulsa to satisfy that craving is Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery. Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery has the best of both worlds when it comes to satisfying your cravings. What better way is there to satisfy a craving than by consuming copious amounts of cheesy, doughy goodness and frozen fatty, sugary awesomeness? There is no better way is the answer. To contact Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery call 918-298-1122.
Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery is one of the best pizza places in Tulsa to get both pizza and ice cream because they ship in delicious gourmet ice cream all the way from Wisconsin. This ice cream is chilled to remain fresh and is rotated on a consistent basis. They rotate the flavors of their ice cream to ensure that you can taste many different ice creams over the year. This allows you to taste over 110 of the Chocolate Shop flavors that they rotate through. This prevents you from ever getting bored of any of the types of ice cream flavors that they carry.
Another reason they're one of the best pizza places in Tulsa is quite frankly because their pizza is delicious. They spend a lot of time and pay attention to detail when they are making their pizza pies. When they make a pizza they always want to make sure that it comes out perfectly and they refused to serve a pizza that is burnt, overcooked, or does not meet their specifications. This ensures that the customer is always happy with the taste of the pizza that they get from Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery. Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery wants to make sure that every person that steps into their doors and eats some of their food is satisfied with their experience.
Let's go back to the ice cream just for a second so that we can talk about how awesome ice cream is. Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery rotates their flavors every single day. This means that you could go in to Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery just about every day and have a different type of ice cream flavor. How exciting is this? Furthermore you have many different options of sizes to choose from. You can choose from a Junior cup, a single cup, a single cup with waffle cone, a double dip with waffle cone, a double dip without waffe cone, a pint of ice cream or a quart of ice cream. This gives you plenty of opportunity to eat ice cream every single day of the year. Why in the world would you pass that opportunity up.
Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery is the place to go if you have a hankering for either pizza or ice cream. They're going to make sure that you are blown away by the quality of their ice cream or pizza. If you need to contact Gaetano's Pizzeria and Creamery for any reason you can give them a call at 918-298-1122. They want to make sure that you are satisfied with your experience. Give them a call today to learn more.


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Architectures of Displacement – Salford, UK & Guangzhou, China – Temporary Research Space
Currently IUD is exhibiting in The Fire and the Rose curated by Tongyu Zhou as part of the Asia Triennial 14. The work is located in the Vertical Gallery, 3rd Floor, Benzie Building , Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. We have created a Temporary Research Space, an invitation to spend time exploring selected materials from our archive, derived from fieldwork and other research in Salford, UK and Guangzhou, China. Also included are a small sample of related critical and fieldwork texts. The show is on until November 28th.
Spatial justice and Urban De(re)generation
"Just as none of us are beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings." Edward Said, Culture & Imperialism
Peach Tree Court Demolition
A Walk Around the Demolition Site of Peach Tree Court, Saturday 27th September 2014.
We cross the main road and enter the waste ground through the old school gates, the ones parents used to visit the head teacher in the 1990's before the school was demolished. We had already smelled smoke from the other side of the road, before we saw the treacly patches of branded earth, some of them still leaking a pencil line of smoke. The blond grass of the waste ground is too damp to burn for long and the young arsonists (we caught sight of them briefly) have failed in their attempts to make the fires take hold.
Everyday Archaeology – IUD Fieldwork
The Poetry of the Street – The Film and Flanerie of Jem Cohen
When I was in my twenties two of my great loves were documentary photography and experimental film. Seeing Jem Cohen's work Lost Book Found (1996) made me realise how the two could come together in a heady mix. Cohen wanders like a street photographer gathering Super-8 and 16mm film material through his direct observation of the urban world around him. Lost Book Found is his modern day homage to Benjamin's Arcades Project relocated to New York. It attempts to find another layer of meaning to the city through its traces, fragments and neglected spaces. The narrative alternates between the city's hard streets and a hidden reality beneath the kaleidoscopic distractions and phantasmagoria of its capitalist space.
Paris – Invisible City – Bruno Latour & Emilie Hermant
Latour & Hermant's on-line book Paris: Invisible City (1998) presents a challenge to all urban photographers and the observational methods central to their work. The project questions how much we really can understand about the modern city by simply looking. Starting off on the rooftop of the famous La Samaritaine department store it begins by examining the panorama of Paris.
The book explores the labyrinth of overlapping networks that underpin the functioning of the city. Using Latour's Actor-Network-Theory as a methodology, it highlights the 'invisible' and unnoticed connectivities that compose the city. It presents us with a layered portrait of place "bypassed by the normative representational mode" (Networks of Design). Latour uses the term 'oligopticon' to define these hidden networks that ultimately serve to make Paris the functioning city that it is. As a social researcher he believes that they are a means to appreciate the intertwined totality of municipal space. Unlike the absolutist all seeing gaze of Foucault's panopticon, with the oligopticon "extremely narrow views of the (connected) whole are made possible–as long as connections hold" (p.181, Reassembling the Social). By drawing our attention to the complexity of these 'co-existences', the work ultimately demonstrates the sheer impossibility of understanding Paris or any urban space through a single image or glance.


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SWITCHING rivers certainly paid off for barbel ace Garry Teer as a week after a 27 lb 4 oz brace he topped it with a pair of Thames barbel going a stonking 32 lb 13 oz.
The stunning Thames barbel pair came when Garry returned to the same stretch of the middle reaches to smash his PB with a giant of 17 lb 9 oz (pictured above) after first nabbing one of 15 lb 4 oz.
The 51-year-old technical manager explained: "After many years fishing my local Great Ouse which has been hit with otters, this season I decided to try the Thames.
"Last season had been the hardest ever although I still managed to land a 14 lb barbel, so I decided to try elsewhere even though the journey would be at least an hour.
"I had no particular inside information about the Thames and chose to join a club which allows night fishing on the standard ticket.
"I was hoping to acquire some local knowledge on the bank but one guy told me he had fished 500 hours without a barbel, although perhaps he was trying to put me off."
Thames barbel 'on a slope'
Garry continued: "After my great night the previous weekend, I was itching to return and found a swim close to a weedbed with a hollow going down from 7 to 10 feet, and I opted to fish on the slope.
"Just before dark the smaller of the two fish struck and I was delighted to beat my PB by an ounce, but only two hours later the 17 lb 9 oz monster was on and put up a tremendous fight on my 2.2 lb rods.
"I could hardly believe it when I saw the size of it with such a tremendous girth – it was really the fish of a life-time and I am still buzzing now.
"I fished with a Bankside Tackle dumbbell with the end pinched off, wrapped in their team barbel paste with a small PVA bag of crushed samples," added Garry, from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
CAUGHT A BIG FISH AND GOT PICTURES… or got some news or views to share? Email to: firstname.lastname@example.com You could appear in Angler's Mail print magazine, on sale every week.


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While the economy was back on track, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said growth did not take place in a political vacuum. In this context, he identified three issues of particular concern. "First and foremost, I am told in a few days' time you will [see the] judgment of the Babri Masjid [title suit]. Now the way the country handles this — the aftermath — will have a profound impact on the evolution of our country. Then the same way — I think the way we handle the Kashmir problem, the way we handle the Naxalite problem." If the country didn't manage "the divisiveness, the communalist elements … caste tension … I think there could be problems for India."
In an interaction with a small group of editors at his residence on Monday, Dr. Singh said he was proposing to call the Cabinet Committee on Security later this week "to discuss threadbare" the Kashmir problem.
"No instant solution"
"I cannot promise you that I have an instant solution, I cannot produce rabbits out of my hat. It will be a problem of experimentation and the country must learn to be patient."
Not being patient could sometimes "lead to pathways which may later on prove to be counterproductive," he warned.
The problem of Naxalism required a two-pronged strategy where underdevelopment and poverty were tackled even as law and order was restored. Here, he again emphasised the wider economic implications. "After all, the Naxalite areas happen to be those areas which are the heartland of India's mineral wealth. Now, if we are not allowed to exploit the mineral resources of this country, I think the growth path of this country could be adversely affected."
The Prime Minister also stressed the need to find a "new balance" between the environment and industry. "Environmental issues are important, they cannot be wished away," he said.
"We must adequately ensure that whether it is tribal rights, environmental concerns or forest concerns, they are given their appropriate place. But at the same time there has to be a balance. You cannot protect the environment of this country by perpetuating poverty."
Vedanta project
Asked whether he was calling for a new balance in the light of the government's recent decision to shelve Vedanta's mining plans at Niyamgiri in Orissa, Dr. Singh said he was speaking in general terms and not with reference to any individual project.
The Prime Minister said he would soon convene a meeting of the Ministers of environment, coal, surface transport and other infrastructure related ministries to find a "new pathway" for ensuring environmental and development imperatives do not come in the way of each other.
At the same time, he denied the existence of multiple voices within his government was a sign of drift or discordance. "We are a democracy. The Congress itself is a movement and within the Congress party, this is not today — I think right from the days of Jawaharlal Nehru, there have been differences of opinion and they have been allowed to be expressed in party fora, even within the Government. So, I do not think the expression of differences on the part of Ministers or on the part of party functionaries is necessarily a bad thing."
Dr. Singh said his Cabinet "has functioned with a degree of cohesion that I believe no other Cabinet has functioned ... I ask each one of our senior colleagues to express their views, and then I sum up the consensus." He added that this Cabinet has functioned with a much greater degree of cohesion than the Cabinet under Jawaharlal Nehru. "I think there were daily differences, exchange of letters between Sardar Patel and Panditji. And in [Indira] Gandhi's Cabinet for example, when Morarji was the Deputy PM, journalists could go from one Cabinet Minister to another Cabinet Minister and hear different kinds of stories. That I can say is not happening."


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TONIGHT!! The The Sunday Night Revue returns to the winery Sunday May 26th at 8pm for an evening of celebrating the music of Prince. Musicians from all over the greater Los Angeles Area will be performing their favorite Song from the iconic music catalog of Prince.
Today we will be open from 12pm to 10:30
J.J. Wolf
Arthur Autumn
Blake Baldwin
Eddie Tyclus
Sarah Lightman
Randy Salviejo
An Arthur Autumn Production
FOOD TRUCK Yolo Cupz
Authentic Mexican Food in The Back Lounge
The winery tasting room opens at 12pm
• Free Parking (Parking in front and back of winery & street)
• Please Ignore Reserved parking signs
• NO COVER Charge
• 21 Years and Over Only
The Sunday Night Revue was founded by Arthur Autumn. The Sunday Night Revue is a Los Angeles based Music Collective focused on creating a sense of community among Los Angeles Musicians and Artists. Each month an Iconic Artist of great influence is selected and local Los Angeles Musicians are invited to interpret the songs. The Sunday Night Revue has paid tribute to the music of The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Tom Petty Amy Winehouse and U2.


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