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The amount of money raised isn't a huge, but every little bit helps nonprofits like the Black Canyon Boys and Girls Club, which has twice been a Tap Night recipient, raising more than $100 each time.
Justin Kiehl, executive director of the youth club, said Tap Night is a "really neat thing" that he experienced just a week after he and his wife moved to Montrose in January.
"It was my first trip to the Horsefly, and I found out they had amazing burgers," he said. "That's one of the first things you look for when moving to a community – where all the good food is at."
Besides raising some funds for the nonprofit, Tap Night was a lot of fun, even though they didn't have a huge turnout, Kiehl said.
"I'm doing a mailer and sending it out to previous donors asking for $50 donations," he said. "To get $100 from an event where we didn't have to do anything but get people there is great."
Horsefly Brewing co-owner Nigel Askew said the business started Community Tap Night about a year ago, and it has already raised money for Partners, F.I.D.O (future dog park), San Juan Cancer Center, Montrose High Senior Class Party, San Juan Health Care, Montrose Historical Society, Dreamcatcher Therapy, and the Black Canyon Chorus.
Nine more charities have signed up for future Tap Nights through September, including the Montrose Lions Club, CASA's Voices for Children, Dolphin House, Kids Aid Backpack Program, Montrose and Olathe Special Olympics, Altrusa Club, Friends of the Library, and Community Options.
The idea for Community Tap Night came from a friend who visited Tamarack Brewing in Lakeside, Mont., Askew said, and the owners readily agreed that the Horsefly could copy them.
Nonprofits can sign up for Community Tap Night as often as they like by getting on the waiting list, Askew said. To sign up, go to the Community Tap Night section at www.horseflybrewing.com to download an application.
Askew said he is glad that the Horsefly can give back to the community, in small ways that add up, and that it's good for business, too.
"It's about the same [profits-wise] as happy hour," he said. "We don't make as much, but it brings in people who might not have been here before."
The amount that a nonprofit can make depends on its organizers' efforts, since it's up to them to promote the event, Askew said.
"It varies with the crowd," he said. "Some people put a lot of effort in it, and contact all their members, and some just sit and wait for people to come in."
It was a bit of a mix for Boys and Girls Club, Kiehl said.
"We struggled to get people there," he said. "Some of the staff and leadership went, and some of the board of directors, but it's not everybody's cup of tea."
But for organizations able to pack the place, it can be quite profitable, Askew said.
Packing the place has hardly been a problem since the Horsefly first opened at the far east end of Main Street on Sept. 9, 2009. Askew said one of the first things a friend told him when the first brewery opened was that it was already too small.
But business has been good, even in the tiny original location, so around Labor Day of last year, the Horsefly bought and renovated a building near the center of downtown. With three times the space, Askew was able to buy bigger equipment to keep up with the demand for locally brewed beer, he said, and keeping plenty of beer on hand is his biggest concern.
Since moving to the new location at 800 block of East Main Street, in addition to its signature bar, brought from the old place, and tables inside, the Horsefly now has outdoor dining for 30 or 40 patrons, Askew said.
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Every baby born in Australia is given a Personal Health Record (often referred to as the Blue Book) at birth. This book provides a record of immunisation and health checks, as well as mapping the changes in your baby's development for the first five years of her life.
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Ashwell Prince's first century of the season enabled Lancashire to recover from a tricky opening session and finish the first day of their LV= Division One match against Kent respectably placed on 317-9.
After 96 overs of absorbing cricket which provided a wonderful showcase for the range of fluctuations which only the first-class and Test fomats can provide, Glen Chapple's team probably hold a wafer-thin advantage over opponents who had invited them to have first use of an Old Trafford wicket containing plenty of early life.
At one stage, the Red Rose team were perilously placed on 86-4; nearly three hours later Prince and Steven Croft's 144-run fifth-wicket partnership - only four shy of the county record gainst Kent, set by Peter Marner and Ken Grieves at Gravesend in 1953 - had put their side in a position approaching dominance; but Prince's run out for 115 was followed by the loss of four further wickets before the close, the last of them Croft's, when the 25-year-old was just seven short of his second first-class hundred.
But if Croft was disappointed by his failure to reach three figures, he will be delighted by his excellent start to the season. This was his fourth successive fifty in Championship cricket this year and he is plainly in excellent form.
For his part, Prince made no attempt to disguise his pleasure at having helped extricate his team from a tough situation against his former Test team-mate Makhaya Ntini.
"The way things were going this morning with the ball nipping around, it was very satisfying to be able to come up with a good score," he said. "For someone who only stepped off the plane yesterday, Makhaya was bowling really well and Kent were making it hard for us to score.
"There was variable bounce too, which made it tough, and I was just glad to stick in there. The surfaces tend to do a little bit more at the start of the season and if you lose a few wickets early on, the important thing is not to panic. The new ball will get people out and you just have to get a partnership going."
Prince's analysis crisply reflects events in the middle on the first morning. Openers Tom Smith and Stephen Moore both fell to the skilful new-ball bowling of Ntini and Amjad Khan, and when Darren Stevens defeated Paul Horton's defensive stroke with a delivery which kept a little low, Lancashire seemed on course for a disappointing total.
"My partnership [41 for the third wicket] with Horts got our momentum going a little bit, and when Crofty came in after lunch, I knew that he had been in excellent form this season," said Prince. "It was just disappointing for us that he couldn't get his hundred. He really deserved it, but at least by then our partnership had got us going.
"Crofty has shown that he's a gutsy player who doesn't take a backward step. I'm sure he'd like to turn those fifties into hundreds, but he's been making great contributions to the team and I'm sure those hundreds will come."
"It's a good effort to get beyond 300 and it will be interesting to see how they go tomorrow when we have the new ball in our hands. And you never know, maybe we might sneak up to 350 before that !"
Perhaps only Prince made batting look remotely straightforward during the morning session, and even he needed Kentish generosity when Joe Denly dropped a straighforward catch at point off Amjad Khan.
The South African had made 18 when he received that let-off, and he had pulled Khan for a six into the pavilion off the previous delivery, but the key to success in the 28 overs before the interval was watchful resistance rather than expansive shotmaking.
Lancashire's fortunes reached their lowest point five overs after lunch when Mark Chilton was beaten by Ntini's bounce and edged to Martin van Jaarsveld at second slip.
For the rest of the afternoon session Prince and Croft batted with increasing assurance as the pitch eased, and the pair had taken their stand to 92 at tea.
Both batsmen had their alarms, Prince edging his former team-mate Ntini over slips and Croft surviving an impassioned lbw shout from the same bowler. Yet the balance of the early stages of this contest clearly shifted as Kent's support bowlers initially failed to match the incision achieved by their new-ball pair.
When Kent achieved their much needed breakthrough, it came via a brilliant throw from deep mid-wicket Denly which ran out Prince for 115, and it also marked an important shift in the shape of the game.
Although Glen Chapple contributed a typically attacking 27, the Kent attack held the whip hand in the closing stages of the day's play. Darren Stevens' accuracy earmed him three wickets in eight balls, including that of Croft for a 164-ball 93, as Lancashire's hopes of adding to their three batting bonus points declined.
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Although it may seem as though the medical community cannot agree on anything at times, physicians are in agreement on at least one thing: practice the motto "first do no harm" when treating patients.
Perhaps that is why doctors have embraced water exercise as the activity of choice for many of their patients. Indeed, it's extremely difficult to break a hip while partially submerged in a pool of water. But, as you're about to see, there's a lot to like about water fitness besides its safety factor.
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Swimming is a terrific workout. But for some, swimming conjures up images of sharks, drowning or, worse yet, Speedos.
The good news is you don't need any swimming skills whatsoever to exercise in the water. You don't even have to tread water or go under water. Don't worry, you won't drown (most water fitness classes take place in water that is three to five feet deep). Further, you can be quite certain there will be no sharks to contend with at your local YMCA. (Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about the Speedos, as an occasional pair may present themselves at some point during your water fitness endeavors.)
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There are numerous benefits unique to water exercise, but its most celebrated attribute is the low-impact nature of the activity.
When submerged in water up to your waist, your body only has to support about 50 percent of its weight. If you go a little deeper, say to your neck, your body will only be responsible for shoring up 10 percent of its mass. This is possible, of course, due to the buoyant nature of our bodies in water. Reducing the load on the joints, muscles and other structures in the body means less jarring, aches and pain. It also makes this exercise ideal for patients with pre-existing injuries or conditions such as rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and obesity. It can also benefit otherwise healthy individuals looking for a temporary escape from the pounding of their land workouts.
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In addition to offsetting the effects of gravity, working out in water can offer resistance-exercise—like benefits that are not achieved during more traditional activities such as walking or biking. Because water is denser than air, certain movements in water can be performed in a manner that provides anaerobic (strength training) work. This type of training is needed to preserve muscle mass, which will ultimately preserve your metabolism and functional capacity as you age. In this way, water exercise provides a good start for those who aren't ready to start lifting weights. Working out against the resistance of the water also means that it takes more energy to perform the movements, meaning you burn more calories.
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Unlike traditional "aerobics" classes that take place on land, water aerobics is generally much more comfortable. Instead of being confined to a cramped, stuffy dance studio, you're immersed in a refreshing pool of water. Being submerged in water offers one last benefit for those bashful participants: more discretion than most other modes of exercise.
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The essence of professional sport is competition. Maybe also beer consumption. But no amount of beer washes down the bitter taste of paying to see part-time fighters beat up haplessly mismatched opponents. That's if you can even afford a cold one after shelling out forty bucks on the pay-per-view (PPV).
With Wallaby Quade Cooper announcing this week that he will put his rugby career on ice to moonlight as a boxer, it seems the Australian public will be subjected to yet another painful, expensive mismatch. Cooper, who is set to make his professional debut (with no amateur background) on the undercard of Sonny Bill Williams' February 8 fight in Brisbane, is only one of a parade of footballers who've soured the sweet science with their presence in recent years.
Williams, who shares manager Khoder Nasser with Cooper, is a case in point. Since his debut in 2009, he's fought five times against opponents whose combined record was 18 wins, 19 losses and a draw. Three of those five wins have come within two rounds.
It seems that the pattern is set to continue. The idea has been floated that Cooper, whose 92 kilograms and 1.86 metres make him larger than late world heavyweight champ Joe Frazier, might face runner John Steffensen, who is as skinny as a scarecrow. Boxing has weight divisions for a reason, though it's also supposed to have serious regulators who protect participants and the public from mismatches.
Footballers aren't flocking to pugilism because they appreciate a ding-dong barney (though many of them no doubt do). The attraction is that they can trade off their names and cash in on boxing's lucrative PPV business model. Viewers pay handsome fees up front, with the only costs being the promotion and production of the broadcast – which can be offset with sponsorship money anyway.
That leaves quite a large pie to be divided between about 28 less people than play in a game of rugby. PPV is why welterweight Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the highest paid athlete in the world, earning $85 million in the last financial year, around 212 times the reported $400,000 ARU offer that Cooper and Nasser found so insulting.
Nasser realised this and found a golden egg with Anthony Mundine fighting Latin American street sweepers on PPV. Now, with Cooper and Williams, he's built a goose farm. But it's not sustainable - there's a limit to the number of times punters will part with $40 when what they're getting in return is slop.
Cooper probably won't be a great prizefighter. The number 10 is contact shy at the best of times. Boxing isn't for part timers, or even latecomers; it's one of the most skilled and physically demanding sports on earth. Ask American heavyweight hope and former gridiron player Seth Mitchell, who got brutally knocked out the weekend before last.
Boxing is a sport full of nuance, intelligence and courage. Football players bashing unfortunate souls on government benefits only gives ammunition to the Gardening Australia watching vegans who claim we'd all be better off if archery and squash were on TV instead.
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acotrel says:
I once attended one of Jimmy Sharman's boxing shows in Bendigo years ago. I can see how guys can get sucked into getting their head's punched, but it was pretty appalling.
stephen says:
That whole piece is spot on especially the last 2 paragraphs : everybody wants a piece of the action whether they be armchair viewers, egger's-on or participants because a fist-fight is now the schoolies weapon of choice - not to mention every drunk who doesn't get to go home with a date - and everyone wants to be a hero who cannot talk nice or turn into the class-clown.
Once, only kids who were up against the wall would take this sport on ; only kids with guts, brains and a damned good trainer would get to fight a worthy opponent, but now every dumb NRL boy who needs a sideshow alley, ends up de-flowering their own spirit and credibility, not to mention boxing.
These guys are shadow boxers, and only their mothers should be their audience.
Markus says:
Not sure what you're worried about, the only boxing that has any real credibility is Olympic boxing.
The regular match-fixing scandals aside, professional boxing is probably the only sport where becoming the champion doesn't actually require you to be the best or beat the best.
That somebody like Mundine has been able to forge a successful career fighting nobody but has-beens and hobos is case in point.
Bill says:
Never heard of Quade Cooper or Sony Williams, but it doesn't surprise me that rugby players are stupid enough to get in a boxing ring.
Bill says:
Skill and athleticism Levi?
Jogging slowly forward and bouncing off an opposition player? Gently throwing an over-inflated ball BACKWARDS? Barely able to kick the ball 20-30 metres? No skill involved there.
Compared to footballers who can sprint at full pace while bouncing an oval-shaped ball, kick or handball with absolute precison to a team mate, kick a ball over 60 metres, tackle a fast-moving opponent, kick a ball in a 'banana-shaped' trajectory, leap 2 metres in the air over an opponent's shoulders, read the play in a 3-dimensional, 360 degree environment and run a half marathon every game.
Australian footballers shit all over the fat rugby players when it comes to skill and athleticism. Must be why our national code outrates rugby on TV.
Arnold Layne says:
Professional boxing is a joke and has been for years, but isn't the bigger joke on the idiots who fork out money to watch this garbage on PPV?
TheRealDave says:
Credibility and Boxing is a classic Oxymoron.
Professional Boxing lost what litlte credibility it had after Don King arrived on the scene. Nowadays its little better than the WWE…..
Harbinger says:
Put Cooper up against Adam Hollioake (93kg). Nah, hang on, that's a bit too likely to result in an actual fight that someone other than Cooper might win, even if Hollioake's in his 40's now. I'm sure Nasser can drag up some 50 year old school janitor from NZ (where all the Nasser fighters' opponents seem to come from) who might just be able to string together some trash talk before laying down for a nap in the second round, allowing Cooper to walk away without a scratch. I hope the ARU tell him he's too big a risk after he fights and reduced his contract further (if they offer him one at all).
Basil says:
As a boxing and martial arts coach I tire of the vitriole handed out to these athletes. I know firsthand what it is to fight and i also know that an athlete switching codes needs time to gain his feet and composure in the boxing ring. Anthony Mundine has taken on the best in the world and lost albeit extremely narrowly (Mikel Kessler). They take risks financially as well as in the ring and who can blame them for ultimately thinking of providing for their family and not coming unstuck for the viewing pleasure of some bitter armchair pub critic who will continue to hate them no matter what they do. These people raise the profile of boxing and just like music pop stars will come and go but true musicians stand the test of time. They are all valid and add to the rich texture of the sport I love.
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When talking to maintenance managers from organizations spanning all major industry sectors in more than 40 countries around the world, it is apparent that there is a great deal of uncertainty about the precise role of the maintenance function. Should it be centralized or decentralized? To what extent (if at all) should maintenance be outsourced? What is the ideal maintenance strategy? Above all, what exactly is—or should be—the role of the maintenance manager?
Underlying this uncertainty is a widespread feeling that the maintenance department as a whole lacks the organizational clout to do whatever needs to be done to achieve real world-class equipment performance. To understand why this may be so, it is useful to compare and contrast current approaches to the management of financial and human assets with the management of physical assets.
What follows reflects the opinions of the author, which are based on more than 30 years of experience in the field of physical asset management. It should be noted that I have not encountered any organization designed exactly along the lines suggested here, but I also have not encountered any physical asset management department that enjoys the same level of respect and influence as the finance department among the top executives of any organization. What follows might be a way to remedy this situation.
A wide variety of issues affect the current state—and status—of the maintenance function in industry around the world. Some of these are organizational and others are technical.
Traditional maintenance organizations
In some organizations, one finds highly centralized departments responsible for all aspects of physical asset management. The responsibilities of these centralized departments include specifying, acquiring, installing, and commissioning new plant equipment; formulating maintenance policies; specifying, installing, and operating maintenance planning and control systems; managing spare parts stocks; executing maintenance tasks; and, in some cases, looking after site services (water, steam, air, power distribution, etc.). These departments tend to be large, with dozens and sometimes hundreds of employees reporting ultimately to one department head.
In other cases, especially in North America, engineering is separated from maintenance. The former is responsible for the specification, acquisition, and deployment of new plant efforts (nearly always capital projects), while the latter looks after all aspects of maintenance after the plant has been commissioned.
The business unit concept
The previous two models tend to dominate maintenance organization design. About 15 years ago a major trend started to emerge in the structure of business undertakings. This was the growth of the business unit concept. In essence, this concept entails subdividing larger undertakings into business units, usually centered around specific products or services. When these units are formed, the maintenance department is often broken up at the same time and most, if not all, of its personnel allocated to the business units.
Over the same period, we have seen a leap in automation. The number of operators has shrunk by an order of magnitude as machines have taken over duties that used to be performed by humans. In the case of some systems, pumping stations for example, there are no operators on site. These systems are driven by computer programs, with occasional additional guidance provided by people in distant control rooms.
Maintenance cost reduction
Nearly all maintenance departments face intense pressure to reduce direct maintenance expenditures. Some of this pressure arises from a need to remain competitive in the market, from competition within the organization for financial resources, or both. However, much of the emphasis on cost reduction seems to arise from a vague belief on the part of senior executives that if it was possible to reduce expenditures on operations people by (say) 40 percent, then it should be possible to reduce maintenance costs by a similar amount. This belief loses sight of the fact that one of the main factors that has enabled organizations to achieve increases in productivity has been increased mechanization and automation—in other words, replacing people with machines. However, these machines need maintenance. Under these circumstances, huge reductions in direct operating costs should, if anything, be accompanied by an increase in direct maintenance expenditure, because too little expenditure on maintenance reduces equipment reliability and hence productivity.
The problem of under funding is made worse by the fact that most maintenance managers are unable to specify with adequate precision two important baseline factors:
This occurs despite the fact that tools which enable managers to specify both with great precision have been available for over a decade.
(All this having been said, there is no doubt that it is often possible to reduce maintenance costs to some extent by making more effective use of maintenance resources. However, the real scope for such reductions while still delivering a safe and effective maintenance service is much more limited than is generally believed.)
Maintenance technology
One final major area of change has been the technology of maintenance itself. The comfortable certainties of 30 years ago about asset care, which tended to be based on fixed-interval overhauls and component replacements, have been found in many cases to be a waste of time and often actively counterproductive. These needless overhauls cost a fortune in terms of both maintenance expenditure and equipment downtime—and hence lost production—while contributing little or nothing in terms of improved equipment reliability.
Many organizations have become aware of the invalidity of fixed interval overhauls, and have reacted with a massive swing toward predictive or condition-based maintenance. In some cases, this swing shows signs of going too far, and is in danger of reaching the point where predictive technologies are being employed either at the expense of arguably even more important tasks such as failure-finding, or where they are simply another expensive waste of time.
The consequences of the status quo
The issues discussed have produced the following results:
All these developments have contributed to feelings of confusion and occasional demoralization in the world of maintenance. (This does not mean that all maintenance departments and their managers have reached this state. However, nearly all are suffering from some of these problems to some extent.)
The following discussion explores ways out of this maze. It does so by comparing and contrasting typical physical asset management organizations with the design of the two other major asset management support functions—those associated with the management of financial assets and of human resources. These comparisons are used to draw conclusions about how not only maintenance but the world of physical asset management as a whole could be restructured in such a way that it becomes recognized as a vital contributor to the long-term health of the organizations that it serves, and its practitioners acknowledged accordingly.
In order to place the major asset management support functions in context, we first consider the value chain.
The value chain
The function of all organized forms of human endeavour is to take a primary input, add value to it, and dispose of the output. In manufacturing, the primary inputs are raw materials; value is added by converting these materials into something else, and disposal entails selling them to customers. In mining, the input consists of ore, value is added by extracting and refining the minerals in the ore, and the minerals are disposed of by selling them to manufacturers. This logic also applies to services. For instance, in hospitals the primary input is sick people to whom value is added by curing their illnesses, and the expected output is healthy people.
Nearly all value chains, especially those associated with for-profit businesses, consist of three main organizational elements. At one end, one finds the raw materials procurement function. In the middle is the operations department, which is responsible for operating the value-adding processes. At the other end is the marketing and sales function, which has to locate potential customers and persuade them to acquire the output of the value-adding process.
These three principal organizational functions are supplemented by major support functions associated with the management of assets.
All value chains need three types of assets to function: financial assets, human assets or human resources, and physical assets. All three categories must be managed appropriately to ensure that they support the value-adding process efficiently and effectively. The detailed processes and procedures are very different for each of the three categories. However, they have seven basic elements in common: functional specifications, design specifications, acquisition and deployment, maintenance, disposal, compliance, and scorekeeping. See accompanying section Three Asset Management Types, Seven Elements in Common.
Financial asset management
One very important thing that the finance department does not do is decide what is to be sold or acquired (except for goods and services needed for its own use). Those decisions are made by people in charge of the different parts of the value chain. The finance department merely ensures that the organization has the financial wherewithal to allow the value-adding process to continue to function in accordance with the mission established by its principal stakeholders.
The finance department is very much a support function. It sets the policies and procedures that are to be followed with respect to finance by the people involved in the value chain, ensures that they follow those procedures, disposes of surplus funds, and keeps the financial score. It also arranges for the acquisition of additional financial assets when required.
This department usually consists of a small number of qualified specialists ranging from clerks and bookkeepers to highly qualified accountants. However, despite its small size, the finance department is immensely powerful. The overall head of this function nearly always reports directly to the chief executive, and is usually known as chief financial officer (CFO), vice-president–finance, or financial director. This officer nearly always has a seat on the main board of directors.
Human asset management
One very important thing the human resources department does not do is tell other employees what to do on a day-to-day basis (except for those employed by the department itself). Those instructions are given by the managers of the different elements of the value chain. The human resources department helps to ensure that the organization has the people needed to allow the value-adding process to continue to function in accordance with the mission established by its main stakeholders.
The human resources department is also very much a support function. Like the finance department, it sets the policies and procedures that are to be followed with respect to employees by managers of the value chain, ensures that they follow those procedures, and keeps the human score. It also assists with the acquisition and deployment of additional human resources when required. It usually consists of a small number of qualified specialists.
Like its financial counterpart, the HR department is also becoming increasingly powerful. In more and more cases, the overall head of this function reports directly to the chief executive, and is usually known as vice-president–human resources or personnel director.
Physical asset management
These tasks are once again very much support functions. They entail setting procedures to be followed with respect to physical assets by managers of the value chain, ensuring that the procedures are followed, and keeping score. They include the acquisition and deployment of additional physical assets when required. Given the striking similarities between these tasks and those of the other two main value chain support functions, one would think that the physical asset management organization would be similarly small, focused and tightly organized, and equally influential.
In reality, this is seldom, if ever, the case. As mentioned previously, the physical asset management function is usually much larger than the other two, much more diffuse, much less focused, and not nearly as influential. All of which means that it is also much less effective.
In the opinion of the author, the single most important reason for the differences in organization, influence, and effectiveness between the physical asset management function and the other two is that more often than not, it is responsible for executing maintenance tasks in addition to deciding what tasks should be done. This adds an enormous—in fact, a crippling—additional day-to-day management burden compared to the other two support functions.
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John Moubray is president of Aladon, LLC, a reliability-centered maintenance consultancy.
1. Functional specifications: Decide what each asset must do to make the value-adding process function as a whole
Deciding what finance must do entails deciding what funds are needed to set up and operate the value chain. This requirement is usually expressed in the form of financial models that forecast cash flows and capital requirements on the basis of detailed budgets. It is usually also the responsibility of the finance department to develop the processes used to establish these budgets.
What people must be able to contribute to the value-adding process—what they must be able to do—is defined by preparing job specifications. The role of the HR department is to develop procedures for preparing these specifications, and help other managers to apply them correctly.
In the case of physical assets—plant, equipment, buildings and, to some extent, inventories—the first step is yet again to specify what their users want them to do in the context of the requirements of the value-adding process as a whole. A key role of the physical asset department is to help users prepare accurate functional specifications.
2. Design specifications: Decide what the asset must be in order to meet functional specifications
When setting up the organization, deciding what the finance must be entails deciding what combinations of debt and equity (or grants) are needed to start up the value-adding process. Thereafter, it entails establishing whether projected revenues are sufficient to sustain the process, or whether these need to be supplemented by further combinations of debt, equity, and/or grants.
Decide what people must be entails deciding what combination of skills, qualifications, and experience prospective employees must have in order to be able to do what is required.
The next step is to decide what the assets must be in order to fulfill the functional requirements (the design stage). The physical asset department usually either prepares these designs itself or, more often, arranges for outside specialists to do so.
3. Acquisition and deployment: Acquire and deploy the assets
Acquiring financial assets entails persuading someone either to invest in the undertaking or to lend what is needed to get started. In the case of established business undertakings, the principal source of funds is revenue from sales, supplemented by the disposal of assets that are no longer needed. If additional funds (debt, equity, or grants) are needed, the finance department usually plays a key role in acquiring these funds.
The human resource acquisition process involves hiring, promoting, or transferring people. Ideally these should be people who are already able and willing to do exactly what is required. However, the exact blend of required skills and motivation seldom exists in the job market. As a result, it is usually necessary to put people through a training program. This training is reinforced where necessary by clearly defined procedures.
The physical asset department plays a central role in acquiring, installing, and commissioning new physical assets. In the case of large capital projects, this nearly always entails soliciting and adjudicating competitive tenders.
4. Maintenance: Sustain—and where necessary replenish—the assets in such a way that they continue to make the required contribution to the value-adding process
Sustaining financial resources is largely a matter of preserving their value. This is done by:
Sustaining human resources requires a blend of employment conditions, leadership, and ongoing training which ensures that the people continue to be able and willing to do what is required for as long as they are physically capable of doing it. The role of the HR department is to assist with the development of training programs, and in some cases to conduct the courses, especially where these deal directly with human resource management issues such as leadership. Additional functions of the HR department in this area include:
Sustaining physical assets is a matter of operating and maintaining them correctly. Determining what tasks must be done to sustain these assets correctly is a two-stage process.
If the execution of tasks is to be outsourced, it should be the responsibility of the physical asset department to establish the scope of and negotiate contracts.
5. Disposal: Dispose of the assets when they can no longer fulfill the required functions or when they are no longer needed
Disposing of financial resources entails paying the suppliers of goods, services, and labor (including employees), and where relevant, deciding what to do with surpluses that emerge in the form of profit. This includes the development of the procedures used to allocate funds for acquiring goods and services (purchase requisitions and purchase orders) and issuing the checks that actually pay for goods, services, and labor.
Disposing of human resources entails either redeploying or retiring them when the demands of their jobs exceed their physical capabilities, or redeploying or retrenching them if the nature of what they need to do changes—or if the people themselves change—in such a way that they are no longer the right people to do it. The role of the HR department is to develop and enforce procedures for ensuring that this is done as fairly and equitably as possible.
Physical assets are disposed of when they are no longer able to do what is required. (More often than not, this occurs because what the assets need to do changes rather than because the assets wear out.) Disposing of plant, equipment, and buildings is usually a matter of selling them to less demanding users or scrapping them. However, in some sectors—notably nuclear undertakings—disposing of obsolete plant and equipment can be the most costly challenge in the entire value chain.
6. Compliance: Monitor and ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing the use of the assets
In the case of financial assets, compliance means ensuring that the organization fulfils its statutory and regulatory financial obligations, such as the payment of taxes and adherence to accounting codes of practice.
In many industries, conditions of employment are codified in the form of government regulations (governing such issues as mini-mum wages and working hours). These regulations often are supplemented by union agreements, and HR professionals tend to play a leading role in the development of such agreements. The HR department also monitors laws and regulations governing employment (such as minimum wages, working hours, and so on), and ensures that the organization complies.
The physical asset department should ensure that the organization is aware of and complies with laws and regulations governing the operation and maintenance of its assets.
7. Scorekeeping: Identify key performance indicators that show how well the assets are making their required contribution to the value-adding process
Financial scorekeeping consists of two principal elements:
Human resource scorekeeping entails tracking key performance indicators such as staff turnover rates, lost time injury rates, absenteeism, and so on.
It is the responsibility of the physical asset department to track key performance indicators such as plant availability and reliability indices, schedule completion rates, outstanding workloads (backlogs), and so on.


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Fantastic Spa Party – My younger daughter is getting married and her sister and I planned a surprise spa party for her. It was fantastic. The spa staff, Andrea in particular, arranged everything for us. Each guest had a service, we had food and wine, everyone was in robes and slippers and had a wonderful time. All the guests loved the experience and I can not say enough about how wonderfully the event was handled for us and how relaxing it was for me as well since I did not really have to do anything for everyone to have a good time. Services were great, spa is beautiful and staff is wonderful.
BEST Spa in the Triangle, SERIOUSLY. – La Therapie is an oasis of friendly relaxation. The front desk girls are amazing - always friendly and professional, no matter why I happen to be calling. I have had numerous massages here, both with Susie and with a male therapist (sorry, can't remember the name!) and they were both FANTASTIC - definitely the best I've had in the area, they both listened to all of my qualms and I left feeling like an entirely new person!!!! I also had my first facial ever with Jane, who was an absolute doll - she made me feel comfortable and at ease, almost like I'd known her for years, and my skin afterwards was flawless (which is unusual for me!).
Every experience I have had at La Therapie has been incredible from the time I walked in the door. The amazing inhalation room, to the cozy upstairs room to relax between treatments, to the lovely locker room for after treatment usage - all coupled with a friendly and knowledgeable staff. Undoubtedly the best Spa in the triangle area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best maternity massage ever – I am 6 mos pregnant and just had a maternity massage with Susie. It was fantastic!! I highly recommend her to all expectant moms. It was more than worth the drive from Chapel Hill! Achy back is totally gone; and it was really relaxing.
The spa is absolutely beautiful; and the staff is super friendly. It is many steps up from other spas in the area -- they have a waiting area where you can relax in your robe on a couch and have tea and snacks between services; there is a full locker room and an inhalation room.
Amazing Facial! – I recently visited La Therapie Spa for the first time and was extremely impressed! I was able to get a facial at the last minute with no problem! As soon as I arrived I was greeted, checked in, and the girls at the front desk made sure that I knew where to go. My esthetician was wonderful! She did not rush through my facial at all. She made sure that I was comfortable with everything she did. She gave me helpful tips and a great massage. I would highly recommend my friends to go! I really enjoyed my visit to La Therapie!
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Thank you, La Therapie for always providing the best service!
Simply the Best – I was referred to Nina, owner and my esthetician at the time, for facials probably 6-7 years ago. It was nice to have appointments with her because I witnessed her customer service skills, high expectations of her staff, her sense of humor and she is not a pushy saleswoman. Her products speak for themselves and I LOVE the candles. Nina gave the BEST facials. I value her and her skills!
Since she has taken more of an administrative focus, I now see Jane for facials. Jane is wonderful - her touch is soothing (like Nina), I can feel the care and concern she takes with my skin and I enjoy her quirky sense of humor!
Thanks Nina, Jane and everyone!!
Wow...never knew a spa could be this good! – I went to La Therapie for a spa day - my friends booked me a surprise day there for my birthday. i had a blueberry facial, massage and pedi. Everyone made me feel so comfortable even though this was my 1st spa experience. I highly recommend you treat yourself!
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