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Get bookish this weekend
Posted By Andy Mulkerin on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:57 PM
In lieu of a regular ol' weekend overview this week, I'm highlighting two weekend events that benefit good, and bookish, causes. Ready?
Tonight at Howlers is Literazzi, a benefit for the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council. The $5 cover nets you performances by an array of local spoken-word/performace types: Ashly Nagrant, Jenn Dallas, Nikki Allen, Jocelyn Hillen, Michael McGovern, Lance Cheuvront, Patti Emory. Plus there'll be a raffle and a Howlers favorite, live-band punk rock karaoke. It's all hosted by local writer Kristin Ross, whose birthday it is, so give her punches.
Then tomorrow (Saturday) night at Remedy is Bookstock II, the sequel to last September's benefit to raise money and awareness of the Carnegie Libraries' financial crisis. Performers include TypewriterGirls, JonBro, Dean Cercone, and the Fake Sinatras; additionally, there will be art auctions, library trading cards(?!) and some DJ's (Mary Mack, ja(m) (bo)x, and JoeyJ, friends of libraries all). It's a sliding-scale deal, $5-10, no one turned away for lack of funds.
That's TWO chances in one weekend to check out some quality local talent and support readerly causes. And you don't even have to do any reading yourself. What could be better?
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Gene Ludwig Tribute This Weekend
Posted By Bill O'Driscoll on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:17 PM
Ludwig, a star of the local jazz scene, was to have performed at this Sunday's opening night of Citiparks' Reservoir of Jazz concert series. It would have been a nice launch for this year's series, and probably heavy on the veteran organist's familiar favorites, like "It's You or No One."
But the show will have to go on without Ludwig, of Monroeville: This pillar of Pittsburgh jazz died July 14, at age 72. Instead, the Reservoir of Jazz (a Highland Park tradition) will open with a Tribute to Gene Ludwig. A quintet including Ludwig collaborators will honor him with a set including other favorites, like "Birk's Works," and such Ludwig originals as "Louie & Jazz" and "Duff's Blues."
The band will include Jay Willis (tenor sax), Mark Strickland (guitar), Tim Jenkins (piano), Jeff Grubbs (bass) and Thomas Wendt (drums).
Missing will be Ludwig's own tones, which the Cambria County native (who grew up in Wilkinsburg and Swissvale) honed for a half-century, playing jazz and R&B, locally, on the chitlin' circuit, and in Atlantic City, among other places. He was best known for his stylings on the classic Hammond B-3 organ.
The free tribute show is 5-7 p.m. Sun., Aug. 1 (412-255-2391 or visit www.citiparks.net).
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Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Posted By Bill O'Driscoll on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:42 AM
Under artistic director Kevin Noe, PNME has for years been a musical initiative that warrants performing in a place like its longtime home, City Theatre's main state. The July 23-24 program went particularly far in utilizing the stage as would a theater company -- one that also performs adventuresome and devilishly complex music.
At the center was pianist Conor Hanick, performing all dozen movements of György Ligeti's "Musica Ricercata." (It's a partly structural work, with the first piece limited to just two notes, and each succeeding section adding one note to the palette.) But between each movement, other members of the ensemble emerged from the wings to perform some other short work, each occupying a different part of the stage in a circle around Hanick.
Some of the pieces were designed to be theatrical. Thierry de Mey's "Musique de Tables," for instance, consists of three performers whose only instruments are one butcher-block of wood each and the hands and fingers they variously slapped, thumped and rapped upon the wood, a marvelous bit of percussive play. More stage-friendly still was Emmanuel Séjourné's "Vous Avez de Feu?" -- four musicians playing cigarette lighters, the noise of the spark-wheel the only sound, the brief little flames dramatically echoing the "notes" on the darkened stage.
(Most of the works, of course, were performed on conventional instruments: violin, marbimba, cello, clarinet.)
Sometimes, PNME's staging can get a little corny or labored, and the visual impact of the third movement of "Tables" was somewhat blunted for being performed way upstage (behind pianist Hanick). But because this show -- like most PNME programs -- was composed of several short works, it was a fast-moving hour whose highlights only began with Hanick's terrific work.
There's one more chance this season to see PNME, whose musicians hail from around the country and the world. (Violinist Natalie Shaw, for instance, lives in Paris, and Noe himself is based in Austin, Texas.)
The fourth and final 2010 PNME program takes place July 30 and 31 (www.pnme.org). The show features five works, including the world-premiere commission "Radiance," by Ned McGowan, and Radiohead's "Like Spinning Plates."
MP3 MONDAY: Boulevard of the Allies
Posted By Kelsey Shea on Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:00 PM
In Pittsburgh, the Boulevard of the Allies isn't just a road running through Downtown that backs up every day at five o'clock. It's also the name of a local alternative band that sounds straight out of the '90s. Hopefully this week's MP3 Monday track, called "Man in the Photograph," will keep your rolling, even through rush hour.
"The Man in the Photograph" is a pretty upbeat tune with nice breezy guitar parts and a catchy refrain. It's the title track off Boulevard of the Allies' debut album, and you can hear why for yourself by clicking here!
Joel Lindsey, the band's singer, will be hosting Club Café's AcoustiCafe open mic tonight, starting at 7 p.m. And on Wed., July 28, the band will play Espresso Amano's new "Tip Jar" acoustic music series, with fellow performers Dream Job and Clinton Clegg. The event runs from 7-10:30 p.m., with an open mic segment beginning at 9:30 p.m. For more info, visit the Boulevard of the Allies website.
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More with Josh from Meeting of Important People
Posted By Andy Mulkerin on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:16 PM
Sometimes you do an interview and it's kind of long, but good. And you only have 750 words of room in the paper, so you have to cut the interview down -- plus there's the matter of making the interview fit some kind of arc that will actually make sense in that space. But you know that the interview is a fun and interesting read in its entirety, or at least in a less abridged version.
So, you put it online, where there is an infinite amount of space.
That's what I'm doing with my interview this week with Josh Verbanets of Meeting of Important People. The edited version that ran in the paper is here, along with the release show(s) information. The mostly uncut version follows.
Tell me about the new record. How did you hook up with Authentik Artists?
I remember telling you specifically [at the time] – "I'm going to be really annoying and keep telling you about [the self-titled LP], and tell lots of people about it, not because it's that great but because we did it, it's done." I contacted so many people about it – some people I'd met in previous bands, some people of actual "importance," some just friends. They heard a couple tracks from the record and got in touch with this really cool distribution deal – meaning they have nothing to do with the physical record, but they control the digital domain. And it was a great deal. It was amazing. The head of the label, Scott Austin, was the head of Madonna's label, Maverick, in the mid-'90s, which went under. It's a small label and they've been incredibly supportive, and they've been into every idea we've had. They're not a really "cool" label of any prestige, but they've done quite a bit, but they've helped pay for us to make records.
It's hard to call them a label – they don't have ties to traditional media and they don't have anything to do with physical distribution. They're just really energetic former music executives who really like to hype music online. They have tie-ins with iTunes, they got us featured on iTunes.
Do you think that's a satisfactory route to go, at this juncture, with the business being what it is – is that the meat of what a band really needs?
I think it's great because we've been able to live several lives at once. On one hand we've been able to appear like a modern pop band, where they've hyped us on blogs, put glossy photographs of us up, made us look like a glossy modern Pitchfork band. That hasn't really worked for us, because the kind of music we have isn't really experimental enough to fit in with that. But it's been great because they've gotten some really great placements for us. As you know, one of the only places people find out about music these days is through song placements, and they've gotten some incredible song placements for us.
We've been able to live a dual life of doing that and also being a band that travels, we've played a good 30 to 40 shows out of town, and plays to people what appears to be kind of throwback garage rock. We played with The Cynics and people loved it. When we play with a modern indie band – when we open for an OK Go or David Bazan or whatever, people don't really care. It's when we play a garage rock bill where people want to talk about old Alice Cooper bootlegs that it really seems to work.
You've been doing the model of going out for a weekend, rather than touring.
Yeah. We've played regionally. And the reason that we've done that – it's not because we're lazy or anything like that. It's that the stuff we do doesn't seem to fit into any clear genre. It's really difficult – like, a pop-punk band, a pop-punk listener will immediately say, I recognize these inputs and this distortion and this way of singing and I'm into this. There's nothing about this that tells you to like it. Because it's just some goofy little songs. We've done the weekend trips because we love to play and we like to give our music away. But I'd say it hasn't done very much for us. We played Northampton, Brooklyn, Columbus, Cincinnati, all the way to Wisconsin, we played Madison, we played Chicago, Philadelphia, Morgantown. Those kinds of regional things. Nothing more than 5 to 8 hours away.
But you've got a pretty significant local following. You might not fit into a subgenre or "scene," but you fit into a scene on a personal basis here.
Totally. My whole life, I rallied – when I was in my early 20s starting to play, I hated all of those bands that had their friends, just 200 of their friends would come out, I hated it, it made me so mad. "Just because you were on the soccer team in high school, now all your buddies come out --" know what I mean? Then I find myself – the Lohio thing was such a positive thing, it did turn into a little scene. It turned into that thing I always made fun of, when we started playing in Lohio; I don't know why, but it reached some little critical mass where WYEP was playing the song, so enough of the public knew about it, and friends would come and it was just a nice thing, to be in your mid-20s and to come out and see your friends. So I realized the thing I always thought was negative was actually really positive.
One thing I've been curious about is "The Jesus Song." I know some of you are Christian, some of you maybe less so – what degree of sincerity of irony is involved, or does it matter, does it transcend that?
The only person in the band who's religion is [bass player Aaron Bubenheim]. We're not outing him in any way – he's always defined himself as a Christian. But that has nothing to do with our music, with our band, with our friendship. It's something he's embraced a lot more in the past few years, and it's a pretty significant part of his life. "The Jesus Song" was written by me, as a little bit of a reaction to Aaron – to me, the idea was to write a song that was really impassioned. I wanted to write a song that would lay out a straight gospel song lyrically. Of course there's something about doing drugs, there's something about "shooting up hymns" in there, but basically to me the idea was just, could I write a gospel song that could be taken either way? There's that thing where – the snide kids are going to say "This is awesome, they're making fun of religion," and the religious kids are going to say "This is interesting, they're making a real call" -- for me as a songwriter, it has nothing to do with that. It's just a character singing an impassioned song. It was inspired, I'd say, just from what was on my mind from discussions with Aaron. And if you lay it out, it's really similar to what a "real" religious song would look like.
Is that what your approach to songwriting here was like – picking a character, a perspective, writing a song based on that?
This one, definitely more – the last album was songs kicking around and we got together and recorded them. You hear these words all the time, so I don't even want to say them, but: this is more of a band record. We did it together. I'll try to get off of that.
Two of these songs are really old. The two in the middle, "Leap the Dips" and "They Love Me In the City," I wrote when I was probably 19, but they seemed to fit with this stuff. Each song has a specific voice, a specific character. There's less "silly" than the last record. Plus, to me it's less annoying. For example, the first song – it started because I wanted to write a song cycle about an amusement park. I love old amusement parks. I wanted to write a concept record, as silly as that is, where every song would be about a different aspect of the park over the day. So the first song was going to be "Training Song," and it was the owner of the park telling the employees who not to let in that day: "Don't let anybody with a chain wallet," know what I mean? It turned into a song that was basically like any employer telling you who not to let in. They're all kind of that. And little references – "Leap the Dips" is about a roller coaster in Altoona, stuff like that. It's pieces of an aborted concept record.
You could probably revisit that with some grant money from someone. The American Coaster Enthusiasts.
ACE! I was a member for a while. That's my big nerdy thing. Old roller coasters.
You picked a cover, "Come On Down To My Boat" (by Every Mother's Son). Why did you choose that, and are you going to get sued?
We're not going to push it nationally. That's not going to happen. I'm just being realistic – we're not in a place where we're going to go out and play seven million shows. If Authentik Artists places one of our songs in a Coke commercial and suddenly people love us and want us to come play, I'd love that, but for me – the idea of this record was just to make something that sounds more like our live band, it's short, and just give it away, to people who come out to see us around Pittsburgh. If something nice comes of it, that would be great. If not, no problem.
When it comes to "Come On Down to My Boat" – we only pressed 500 CD's. And our label isn't putting out this cover. The cover's only on the disc. The label's putting out four or five bonus songs, some demos that we did. They're putting that all on iTunes. We're just putting [the physical CD] out as our version of the record.
The song's great – it used to be on 3WS when we were kids. We recorded it because it's the creepiest – it uses the most violent imagery. He's talking about cutting her loose with his knife; it doesn't sound like a very nice way of asking a girl out. It sounds like he wants to abduct her into international waters.
Cartoonist Pat N. Lewis and Trickster
Posted By Bill O'Driscoll on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:39 PM
Pittsburgh-based Lewis is among the contributors to this pretty cool, possibly unique new Fulcrum Books publication that takes a graphic-novel approach to Native American tales.
Editor Matt Dembicki, a Fairfax, Va.-based artist, paired native writers from tribes around the U.S. with artists like Lewis (a Shadyside resident).
The book ($22.95) is a handsome, full-color, 232-page paperback on glossy stock. The 21 tales cover everything from why there are stars in the sky ("Coyote and the Pebbles") to a song about an ursine grouch ("The Bear Who Stole the Chinook").
While some of the stories impart lessons about nature, or getting along with others, one of the real pleasures is their cheekiness. As in other classic fables and folk tales, the human characters and animal characters have a lot in common, and they're seldom terribly noble. Like us, they're often impatient, greedy, lazy and ungrateful. The trickster is the critter who uses others' traits against them -- sometimes so the victims get what they deserve, but often just because he can (or because a good meal is involved). Many of the stories resolve in a fairly open-ended, shaggy-dog kind of way.
The artwork, meanwhile, has something for everyone, from gorgeous realism and the stripped-down, stylized angularity you might expect from a "graphic novel" to stuff that wouldn't look out of place in Ren & Stimpy or even Pokemon.
Lewis contribution is to "Rabbit's Choctaw Tail Tale," about why rabbits (some of whom are apparently very talkative) don't have long tails like they used to. A fox is involved, along with the suggestion that rabbit's long tail would make the perfect fishing line.
The storyteller is Tim Tingle, an Oklahoma Choctaw and a touring story-teller and writer who speaks and performs at tribal gatherings, universities and more.
Lewis's style falls on the classic-cartoon side of things -- you can really see such avowed influences as MAD Magazine and Tex Avery.
Lewis, a freelance cartoonist, illustrator and designer, specializes in editorial, children's books, greeting cards and more, with clients like McGraw-Hill, Science Magazine, Johns Hopkins University and the New York Press. He has solo work out too, including the graphic novel The Claws Come Out (IDW Publishing).
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Routeless: Massive Port Authority cuts may be in the offing
Posted By Lauren Daley-Maurer on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:08 AM
In May, Port Authority CEO Steve Bland said potential budget woes could lead to "draconian" cuts in service. That time may be here. The Port Authority of Allegheny County plans to roll out today a proposal for system-wide cuts. If approved, the cuts would go into effect in January, and would make up for a $47.1 million shortfall.
"It's going to be drastic," says spokesman Jim Ritchie. He says the proposal will affect every route in the system and leave 55 neighborhoods with eliminated or severely reduced service.
The cuts will result in a 35 percent service reduction in bus and light rail service. More than 50 routes will be eliminated, including event services to Steelers' games; the 1F to Millvale; 41G to Dormont; 65 to Squirrel Hill; and the 77A to Oakland Others will lose weekend service, like the 6A Troy Hill and neighborhoods like Lincoln-Lemington and Homestead. Others, like the EBA, will see reductions in weekday and weekend service.
Among the neighborhoods that could see a total service loss are: Banksville, White Oak, the Beechwood Boulevard corridor in Squirrel Hill; Marshall-Shadeland; Franklin Park; Edgewood Town Center; Garden City in Monroeville; and parts of Mount Lebanon around Cedar Boulevard and Old Farm Road.
Base rates for urban and suburban routes, and transfer, will increase by a quarter. The agency is also considering a "premium price" of $4 for express and flyer routes in suburban areas.
In terms of staffing, Ritchie says between 300-500 employees from union-represented operators and maintenance workers to non-represented employees could be laid off.
The plan goes before the Port Authority planning and development committee today then onto the full board on Friday. If approved, the agency will undergo a public hearing process required by law. The changes are slated for January.
PAT officials point to the rejection of a plan to toll Intestate 80 -- revenue already included in Act 44, the state law establishing funding for transit projects -- for the budget shortfall. And even with all of the proposed changes, Ritchie says the plan, at best, is a one-year fix.
"The problem for us isn't the expense of operating the system," Ritchie say. "The problem is the state didn't come through with transit funding established under state law."
Ritchie says agency brass are working with local legislators to re-establish state funding, and transit activists like Jonathan Robison are encouraging riders to contact their own local representatives. Robison fears that if state money doesn't come through and even more cuts come down the pike, "this could mean the end of the Port Authority as we know it."
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MP3 Monday: The BNVz
Posted By Andy Mulkerin on Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:05 PM
Okay. If you're like me, your Monday's been killing you. So let's cut straight to the good stuff.
This week's MP3 comes to us from Marcus, aka MH the Verb, of The BNVz. The electro-pop-hip hop group came out of Pitt a few years back and has refined its sound since then -- and is now relocating to Philly to be closer to the music-industrial complex. Which is cool, I guess, as long as they keep repping the Pittsburgh scene like the promise too, and also keep repping the Steelers.
The MP3 they've supplied is "Burnin' Up," a party track that'll likely blow Peter's Pub up on Saturday (the 24th) when The BNVz play their last show as Pittsburgh residents.
Friday round-up
Blog-people! Good to see you. I have a lot to tell you of. Let's get down to business.
It's Friday, which means weekend, which, most weeks, means I give you some ideas as to what shows you might go see.
Tonight is the Cultural Trust's Gallery Crawl, and unfortunately as of the writing of this, the Cultural Trust website isn't loading for me. Regardless, it starts at 5:30, runs officially until 9:00, and involves a bunch of music performances: Local faves Delicious Pastries lend levity to a pretty serious exhibition about gender-based violence, especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at SPACE (812 Liberty). A band I know little about called The Wrong Airport is playing at the Crazy Mocha on Liberty across from Wood (trivia: that space was where Future Tenant used to be -- I played music there once!) Elsewhere, The FutuRisticz and Shinobi perform at the August Wilson Center, Mark Lucas Trio plays Little E's (where there's always jazz on Friday night), Chelsea Baratz sings at Seventh Street & Ft. Duquesne Blvd. (I'm told there'll be a stage) 805 Liberty, and DJ's appear throughout, including at a block party at Penn & Ninth the Convention Center Underpass at 7:30, where Mike Canton of WYEP and DJ Nate da Phat Barber spin.
Elsewhere tonight, On Fillmore plays the Warhol, Brillobox hosts Shapiro, Chalk Dinosaur and Yours Truly (the band, not me), and Good for Cows split a bill with Audrey Chen at Garfield Artworks. A bill, I should add, that is presented by frequent CP contributor Manny Theiner.
Saturday and Sunday is the Free4All Music Festival in Polish Hill at the pool, coinciding with the Polish Hill Arts Festival: Organized by Project 53, a musician resource center, it features all manner of local and out-of-town bands, and is all free. Mike Tamburo, Gangwish, Secret Tombs, The Runaway Circus and more play on Saturday, and Midge Crickett, Buddy Nutt, Good Game, Evil Twin and others play Sunday.
Tomorrow (Saturday) night: the 31st Street Pub hosts the Battle of the Worst Bands in Pittsburgh, which basically sounds like a night dealing with what I deal with every day at work. At Brillobox, Justin Andrew Band headlines a bill with Paul Luc on it. Texas mates Dignan populate Garfield Artworks along with Sainthood Reps, The Felix Culpa, and The King and the Thief. Elsewhere, Bear Cub, Harrison Wargo and The Wreckids play an all-locals bill at the Rex.
Sunday night, Joan Armatrading plays the New Hazlett, The Old 97s bring their always-popular show to Mr. Smalls, and Ola Podrida, whom you know because I both Short Listed them (him) this week and played them (him) on my spot on WYEP a couple weeks ago, plays Garfield Artworks.
Whew! Is that enough for you?
Slush Puppies at 707 Gallery
Posted By Mason Fulmore on Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:33 PM
In the summertime, what better way to cool off than with an icy treat? Two artists bring that cool feeling to summer with their exhibit Slush Puppies.
The exhibit combines music and a summer feel with a little taste of the chill of winter. Slush Puppies, which closes July 25, will be part of Downtown's Fri., July 16, Gallery Crawl.
Artists Chris Beauregard and Jonathan Chamberlain met while working at Wood Street Galleries. They teamed up to create Slush Puppies after discovering they shared a taste in humor and art.
The exhibit's title speaks to all the cool things that summer has to offer, with a humorous take on the season. Indeed, as a viewer first enters the gallery door, it's actually winter that's best represented: The temperature drastically drops. The walls are covered in white, with fake ice, and the theme of cold is present throughout.
Slush Puppies tries to freeze the memorable moments of summer and make them last forever. Though the exhibit is silent, about half of it displays musical influence. Another piece, "Endless Summer on Ice," consists of the sleeve of the soundtrack LP to the classic surfing movie Endless Summer -- frozen in fake ice two inches thick. Another highlight is "Snow Cone" -- a replica of a traffic cone, except colored blue and also encased in fake ice.
But while the artists introduce winter into summer, summer remains in the form of the season's stereotypical delights. "Three Ice Princesses," an acrylic painting, pays homage to the clothing of summer: beautiful women, colorful clothes, summer fads. These sit alongside the slushies, ice cream and Klondike bars that fill the thoughts of many minds on a warm day in Pittsburgh.
Slush Puppies reminds anyone who complains about the summer heat that no matter how hot it is outside, that there is always an icy treat to enjoy.
Beef Honey Comedy Show
@ Richard Vaux Masonic Hall
Sat., Jan. 18, 7-9:30 p.m.
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Early and late rehabilitation and physical training in elderly patients after cardiac surgery
Claudio Macchi, Francesco Fattirolli, Raffaele Molino Lova, Andrea A. Conti, Maria Luisa Eliana Luisi, Rosanna Intini, Renato Zipoli, Costanza Burgisser, Lorenzo Guarducci, Giulio Masotti, Gian Franco Gensini
Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus
OBJECTIVE: Few randomized trials have enrolled patients who have undergone cardiac surgery, and even fewer have included patients aged 75 yrs or more. Furthermore, the optimal timing of cardiac rehabilitation for postsurgical patients has not yet been codified. The aim of this study was to verify whether rehabilitation outcomes are also favorable in postsurgical patients aged 75 yrs or more and whether an early rehabilitation program is as effective and safe as a late one. DESIGN: Three hundred patients who underwent cardiac surgery, 27.7% of whom were at least 75 yrs old, were randomly assigned to a rehabilitation program starting within the second week after operation or within the fourth week. All events occurring during the rehabilitation program or in the following year were recorded. RESULTS: During the rehabilitation program, new-onset atrial fibrillation was significantly more frequent in the early rehabilitation group, independent of age class, and anemia was significantly more frequent in older patients, independent of rehabilitation timing. At the end of the rehabilitation program, more than 90% of patients showed significant increases in walking distance, and during the follow-up, no significant difference was found with regard to mortality, nonfatal events, functional ability, or control of cardiovascular risk factors, independent of rehabilitation timing and age class. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides evidence that in selected patients who have undergone cardiac surgery, rehabilitation outcomes are also favorable in patients aged 75 yrs or more, and an early rehabilitation program is as effective and safe as a traditionally late one.
American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
https://doi.org/10.1097/PHM.0b013e318151fd86
Health Professions(all)
Macchi, C., Fattirolli, F., Lova, R. M., Conti, A. A., Luisi, M. L. E., Intini, R., ... Gensini, G. F. (2007). Early and late rehabilitation and physical training in elderly patients after cardiac surgery. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 86(10), 826-834. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHM.0b013e318151fd86
Early and late rehabilitation and physical training in elderly patients after cardiac surgery. / Macchi, Claudio; Fattirolli, Francesco; Lova, Raffaele Molino; Conti, Andrea A.; Luisi, Maria Luisa Eliana; Intini, Rosanna; Zipoli, Renato; Burgisser, Costanza; Guarducci, Lorenzo; Masotti, Giulio; Gensini, Gian Franco.
In: American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 86, No. 10, 10.2007, p. 826-834.
Macchi, C, Fattirolli, F, Lova, RM, Conti, AA, Luisi, MLE, Intini, R, Zipoli, R, Burgisser, C, Guarducci, L, Masotti, G & Gensini, GF 2007, 'Early and late rehabilitation and physical training in elderly patients after cardiac surgery', American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, vol. 86, no. 10, pp. 826-834. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHM.0b013e318151fd86
Macchi C, Fattirolli F, Lova RM, Conti AA, Luisi MLE, Intini R et al. Early and late rehabilitation and physical training in elderly patients after cardiac surgery. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2007 Oct;86(10):826-834. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHM.0b013e318151fd86
Macchi, Claudio ; Fattirolli, Francesco ; Lova, Raffaele Molino ; Conti, Andrea A. ; Luisi, Maria Luisa Eliana ; Intini, Rosanna ; Zipoli, Renato ; Burgisser, Costanza ; Guarducci, Lorenzo ; Masotti, Giulio ; Gensini, Gian Franco. / Early and late rehabilitation and physical training in elderly patients after cardiac surgery. In: American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2007 ; Vol. 86, No. 10. pp. 826-834.
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AU - Masotti, Giulio
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N2 - OBJECTIVE: Few randomized trials have enrolled patients who have undergone cardiac surgery, and even fewer have included patients aged 75 yrs or more. Furthermore, the optimal timing of cardiac rehabilitation for postsurgical patients has not yet been codified. The aim of this study was to verify whether rehabilitation outcomes are also favorable in postsurgical patients aged 75 yrs or more and whether an early rehabilitation program is as effective and safe as a late one. DESIGN: Three hundred patients who underwent cardiac surgery, 27.7% of whom were at least 75 yrs old, were randomly assigned to a rehabilitation program starting within the second week after operation or within the fourth week. All events occurring during the rehabilitation program or in the following year were recorded. RESULTS: During the rehabilitation program, new-onset atrial fibrillation was significantly more frequent in the early rehabilitation group, independent of age class, and anemia was significantly more frequent in older patients, independent of rehabilitation timing. At the end of the rehabilitation program, more than 90% of patients showed significant increases in walking distance, and during the follow-up, no significant difference was found with regard to mortality, nonfatal events, functional ability, or control of cardiovascular risk factors, independent of rehabilitation timing and age class. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides evidence that in selected patients who have undergone cardiac surgery, rehabilitation outcomes are also favorable in patients aged 75 yrs or more, and an early rehabilitation program is as effective and safe as a traditionally late one.
AB - OBJECTIVE: Few randomized trials have enrolled patients who have undergone cardiac surgery, and even fewer have included patients aged 75 yrs or more. Furthermore, the optimal timing of cardiac rehabilitation for postsurgical patients has not yet been codified. The aim of this study was to verify whether rehabilitation outcomes are also favorable in postsurgical patients aged 75 yrs or more and whether an early rehabilitation program is as effective and safe as a late one. DESIGN: Three hundred patients who underwent cardiac surgery, 27.7% of whom were at least 75 yrs old, were randomly assigned to a rehabilitation program starting within the second week after operation or within the fourth week. All events occurring during the rehabilitation program or in the following year were recorded. RESULTS: During the rehabilitation program, new-onset atrial fibrillation was significantly more frequent in the early rehabilitation group, independent of age class, and anemia was significantly more frequent in older patients, independent of rehabilitation timing. At the end of the rehabilitation program, more than 90% of patients showed significant increases in walking distance, and during the follow-up, no significant difference was found with regard to mortality, nonfatal events, functional ability, or control of cardiovascular risk factors, independent of rehabilitation timing and age class. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides evidence that in selected patients who have undergone cardiac surgery, rehabilitation outcomes are also favorable in patients aged 75 yrs or more, and an early rehabilitation program is as effective and safe as a traditionally late one.
KW - Cardiac Rehabilitation
KW - Cardiac Surgery
KW - Elderly
KW - Physical Activity
KW - Secondary Prevention
U2 - 10.1097/PHM.0b013e318151fd86
DO - 10.1097/PHM.0b013e318151fd86
JO - American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
JF - American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
10.1097/PHM.0b013e318151fd86

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The most admired people tend to be the teachers, neighbors, pastors and bosses who live in our hometowns.
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In high school, we were blessed to have legendary teacher and coach.
Harry "Swede" Dahlberg's teams won a number of state championships over his 40-year career, but everyone admired him as an ethical family man who believed in hard work, following the rules and honesty.
There was a reason former students stop by Butte High School to visit him. They knew he cared.
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If one of the servers makes a mistake such as dipping a vanilla cone in chocolate rather than cherry coating, Art doesn't throw it the trash; he puts it in the freezer. They are called mistakes, and kids asking for mistakes get them free.
His "mistake policy" has become so popular that he devised a "baby cone" that he would give children when there were no slipups available.
There are millions unsung role models in business today. They are generous people who work hard to make our communities better places.
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For many reasons including the great weather, many people choose to purchase property and spend time in Florida. Florida also has several significant tax benefits for its residents; however, qualifying for these benefits depends on whether Florida is your primary residence.
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that is quickly becoming a Seattle icon. Spend the day with Rosie and me on an "Artful Adventure." Details here. I also offer tours and group activities for private parties and businesses.
In March 2017, I converted a 2002 Bluebird short school bus into a mobile art studio and traveling storefront dubbed "Rosie the Art Bus." I paint inside the bus and on top of the rooftop deck and invite local musicians to join me up there to celebrate and share the arts. I hope Rosie the Bus brings art visibility to the community to share the creative process and a glimpse at the arts as a profession.
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In the Occitan language, the term Pèira Levada, literally « lifted stone », denotes a megalithic structure: menhir, dolmen. Naturally, the name Peyro Levado has been attributed to the largest of the Tarn's dolmens, dated nearly five thousand years ago and recently erected at the Historical Monument rank. This building stone of 4 meters long and 2.90 meters width is located about one hundred kilometers northwest of Toulouse. Hence the presence, in the western sky, of numerous whitish trails: dispersed by the southerly wind, the traces of water vapor contained in the exhaust gases of aircraft engines draw particular shapes - the Greek letter psi on this photograph taken an autumn evening. In quantum physics, the letter psi designates the wave function that gives any particle (not just the photon) a wave nature; in astronomy, a star of high apparent magnitude. More generally, the Greek language is to Material Sciences what the Latin language is to Life Sciences: it forms the basis of a formalism shared by an entire community of teachers and researchers.


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Not taking such a semantic difference into account, it is possible to identify the capability of developing new ideas in order to fill social gaps as the common shared value of creativity and innovation. In the contemporary context the progressive affirmation, at national and international level of these two major drivers of development, has made no further postponed the development and implementation of strategies to convey in a single path of growth economic and social benefits resulting from their joint use.
In this respect, this issue of Tafter Journal provides a reflection on the notion of innovation from two different points of view. The article by Chiara Guerritore about participative methods of designing local cultural policies, brings to light the evolving process of cultural planning through the concrete case of the Password project which has been implemented by the Cultural Department of the Municipality of Trento during 2012. Thanks to a "bottom-up" approach, the citizens have played a strategic role in the radical review of the local cultural plan, taking part in twelve public meetings – dedicated to five main topics, as performing arts, museum networks, education, urban marketing and so on – and giving voice to their needs and expectations. By focusing on the meeting and on the comparison of different perspectives, the Password project also has been able to strengthen social cohesion and sense of belonging to local community.
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Ashley D. Bell is an American attorney, political advisor, and government official serving as Regional Administrator of the Small Business Administration for Region IV, which is in the Southeastern United States. In October 2019, it was announced that Bell would serve as a White House Policy Advisor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Office of American Innovation.

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Bell was born and raised in Gainesville, Georgia. In 2001, Bell earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Valdosta State University, where he served as president of the Student Government Association and founded the local chapter of the Iota Phi Theta fraternity. He earned a Juris Doctor from Louisiana State University. He also attended Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government where he was a 21st Century Leadership Fellow. He also has an honorary doctorate in Intercultural & Urban Studies from Lighthouse College.

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Bell began his career as a public defender, later co-founding the law firm of Bell & Washington LLP based in Atlanta. Bell initially focused on general civil litigation, later going on to concentrate on public finance and government litigation. Bell was named a 2017 Georgia "Super Lawyer Rising Star", one of the 2016 "Top 40 Young Lawyers" by the American Bar Association, a 2016 "Lawyer on the Rise" by Georgia's leading legal journal. After leaving the Trump Administration in 2020, Bell became a partner in Dentons' policy practice.

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HomeCommentaryIt's Time to Fix the RTS Earlygame
It's Time to Fix the RTS Earlygame
Posted on May 23, 2015 December 29, 2017 by Michael Lowell
Note: This piece was amended on May 25th, 2015.
The Cossacks series and Planetary Annihilation are allowing players to throw thousands of soldiers across the fields of war, and singleplayer RTS games constantly seek to scale the action as they move onward. And yet, many developers and players have resigned themselves to this idea that everyone starts off with a tiny outpost and a heap of workers. And all I can ask is: Why?
I mean, seriously, has anyone ever said "My favorite part of the RTS experience are the situations where you only manage a handful of units?" Hell no. Today's earlygame is the worst part of the RTS experience and it's not hard to understand the reason: In a genre where economies and armies ideally grow at an exponential rate, earlygame situations feature the smallest economies, the fewest soldiers, the least interesting fights, and the least room for complex game states.
The happenings are so simple that in tournament RTS matches, the earlygame provides commentators with ample time to discuss the players, the tournament, and the stakes of the match. They're approaching the earlygame for what it is: Prep work for the "real action". And it is this simplicity that has manifested itself in strict, rigid build orders, simple enough that the opening minutes in most RTS games are "solved" at the strategic level and most of the hand-wringing comes at the tactical level.
But it is in the complexity of lategame situations where "build orders" and other rote actions become irrelevant, because the game states are complex enough that they strip the player's capability to map them out. So why not simply build RTS games which get to those complex situations sooner? Anyone who has tasted those situations (and understood them) wants more. More units. Bigger bases. More destruction. Even in the RTS games which pride themselves on small-scale encounters and micromanagement—games such as Warcraft III or Sacrifice—the best moments are still those involving the largest, most demanding encounters that can exist within their framework.
Bear in mind that RTS developers understood this from the get-go. Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness and Command and Conquer offered significant flexibility for customization and starting resources, where players could begin matches with massive resource pools and large standing armies. Players did not cast off those choices because they were fundamentally bankrupt, but because their implementation (in the infancy of real-time wargames) was poor. That's not a problem anymore. Decades later, there is a massive body of RTS theory out there and there is nothing stopping developers from pushing the edge even further.
And if you're genuinely unconvinced, then all you have to do is look at videogaming's contemporary body of work. Divinity: Dragon Commander translates the tabletop pieces in its turn-based strategy component into material for real-time engagements, allowing both sides to immediately push the action until they can recruit more troops. The Wargame series lets players start the battle with standing armies and then reinforce those troops as the fight moves on. But if you're looking for something familiar to what is thought of as RTS, Planetary Annihilation offers each player enough resources to crank out three production buildings in the first minute, and players will be waging meaningful encounters by the three-minute mark. Even the StarCraft II expansion pack Legacy of the Void is doubling the game's starting worker count. And in all of these games, this jumpstart happens to be one of the strongest aspects of their design.
So if the body of current RTS design is already favoring more impactful and interesting earlygames, then why not go all-in? Instead of starting off with a single headquarters or an all-constructing Commander, how about a construction facility that unfolds into a functional base? Why not have the ability to launch half-a-dozen production facilities from the moment the game starts? Why not give the player multiple scouts so they can survey the battlefield immediately? Why not give players a starting army so they can press the action? Yes, for those of you who are worried that a different earlygame could result in a broken earlygame, you would have to adjust the basics of RTS multiplayer to get it to work, but it's absolutely nothing that talented designers couldn't handle.
And look at what you would gain from doing this. Instead of a long buildup phase, the earlygame now looks like the midgame. The midgame now looks like the lategame. The inevitable rush tactics provided by the early armies can be buffered with larger maps, replacing the rush tactics with a rush to control important parts of the map. And the time and energy commonly afforded to "worker scouting" and single-factory openings can now be afforded to endgame situations, replaced by the coolest ideas to see face in an RTS. More room for Supreme Commander's experimentals. More room for Sacrifice's environment-deforming sorcery. And for the developer that feels a bit more ambitious, you could even integrate true space combat beyond the land, sea, and air archetypes, where the best of Homeworld meets the best of ground warfare.
Then you can go a step beyond today's lategame and endgame, the one toyed with in Planetary Annihilation, where superweapons don't merely blow up the soldiers, but the very ground they stand on. The ultimate answer for the exponential economies of the RTS lategame will be exponential destruction, total annihilation in the truest sense, whatever form this may eventually appear in. And committing oneself to earlygames with a small handful of units will only take time away from what will soon be an essential component of the genre.
But if the obvious mechanical benefits are not enough to convince you, then I'll simply point out that scrapping the earlygame just makes sense in the first place. If we accept the given narrative that RTS multiplayer matches are a smaller slice of an epic, all-reaching conflict, who would start a galactic war with little more than a tiny outpost? Who lands in unknown territory without the tools to explore and survey the immediate surroundings? Maybe the Total Annihilation lineage provided a good reason as to why—since it's easier for the Commander to build the army on-site than it is to send the army through space—but that's the best alibi in a genre which has spent most of its time supplying bad ones.
"This will make the genre even harder for beginners to enjoy!" Who gives a shit? Didn't we learn anything from Warcraft III? You can hand beginner RTS players the most beginner-friendly RTS game possible and they will still think it's too hard, and when they are given the opportunity, they will rush for the degenerate variants of RTS (dota, tower defense) that are even easier. You want to win beginner and inexperienced players? Give them their shared armies, their scalable game settings, their "no rush" modes, and make sure the map for two experts—or teams of experts—can be played by dozens of players who can't find all the keys on the keyboard. There is never going to be a magic pill that breaches the divide between the strongest and weakest players in RTS, and the sooner we stop pretending there is, the better.
And when it is said and done, you will notice that all the opposition arguments will have a common theme: They are opposed to progress. "Beginners will be overwhelmed!" "It might ruin the earlygame!" Fuck 'em. If we opposed every single RTS breakthrough because it may compromise the current template, we'd still be playing Dune II and Warcraft. This is an idea that is being intended for the next level beyond Supreme Commander, the things that wider consumer technology will soon be capable of handling. As far as I see it, the epic battles of Seton's Clutch and Open Palms should be the bare minimum for the RTS experience. And as more and more RTS games throw thousands of soldiers to a side, nobody will even want to borrow from the single-factory openings of the genre's formative years.
So if you want the best singleplayer and multiplayer skirmishes in a genre which is heavily defined by the number of moving parts, then you start by cutting out the phase of play that looks more like the beginning of a chess game and less like the awesome simulation of war that RTS can be. Let's support progress and fix the earlygame.
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Another factor that tends to push up the price of cable harnesses: In future data-driven business models, some functions may only be temporarily enabled via OTA software updates. In the case of electric vehicles, this can also include the motor performance. For car manufacturers to be able to implement such functions, the cabling must be designed for the maximum possible performance, even if this is rarely required at all. This will also make cable harnesses more expensive, Hornfeck explained.
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Q: Emit data to a specific user using Socket IO,Laravel,Redis,Angularjs I am building an app that gives students the ability to see their schedule which is created by the admin. Now each student has a group_id.
I want to make the schedule update in real time so I applied this tutorial http://www.kodeinfo.com/post/realtime-app-using-laravel-nodejs-angularjs-redis . here what I've done so far.
Event Handler:
namespace echooly\Handlers;
use Redis;
use Response;

class StudentScheduleUpdatedEventHandler
{

    CONST EVENT = 'schedule.update';
    CONST CHANNEL = 'schedule.update';

    public function handle($data)
    {
        $redis = Redis::connection();
        $redis->publish(self::CHANNEL, $data);

    }

}

AdministrationController (Event CRUD Method)
//Create an event
public function createEvent()
{

     if(Auth::Admin()->check()) {
        $eventDetail = Input::all();
        $event = Planing::create($eventDetail);
        $event->save();
        Event::fire(\echooly\Handlers\StudentScheduleUpdatedEventHandler::EVENT, array($event));
    } else {
        return Redirect::intended('/');
    }
}

So Basically I am pushing the latest created event.
Node Server:
var express  = require('express'),
       http  = require('http'),
     server  = http.createServer(app);
var app      = express();
const redis  = require('redis');
const io     = require('socket.io');
const client = redis.createClient();

server.listen(3000, 'localhost');
console.log("Listening.....");

io.listen(server).on('connection', function(client) {
     const redisClient = redis.createClient();

     redisClient.subscribe('schedule.update');

     console.log("Redis server running.....");

     redisClient.on("message", function(channel, message) {
         client.emit(channel, message);
     });
     client.on("getGroup", function(groupId) {
         console.log(groupId);
     });

    client.on('disconnect', function() {
         redisClient.quit();
    });
});

Angular Controller:
  studentSocket.on('schedule.update', function (data) {
        $scope.events.length = 0;
        $scope.populatePlan(JSON.parse(data));
        inform.add('New Course Added');
  });

The issue is how can I filter the sent data to a specific student.

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*Something is telling me that we can make a dynamic channel with redis?  sadly I don't have any experience with it.

*I tried to fire the event when I fetch the data by the student group id
this ends up making the student see a new schedule whenever the group id changes.

//Show Planing by group
public function showPlaningsByGroup($id){
    if(Auth::Admin()->check()){
        $planing = Planing::with('Course')->where('group_id',$id)->get();
        Event::fire(\echooly\Handlers\StudentScheduleUpdatedEventHandler::EVENT, array($planing));
        return Response::json($planing);
    }
}

I hope I was clear enough I really hope to get some answers thanks.

A: You need to send the data through to each student on a separate channel.
Example:
public function broadcastOn()
{
    return ['Student.' . $this->student->Id];
}

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Wasted water means increased room fees, so you're ultimately losing out on maximizing your hotel profits. Plus, there's the environmental ramifications related to wasting all that water.
In the United States alone, hotel and other lodging facilities account for nearly 15% of all commercial and institutional water usage. That means that your hotel has a major impact on the water usage in your city; therefore, the responsibility lies with you to make sure you run and maintain an efficient and environmentally friendly establishment.
These water saving tips (among many others) have been proven to save hotels thousands of dollars in water related costs alone. For example, a hotel in San Antonio, Texas upgraded its restroom facilities with high efficiency toilets, showerheads and sink aerators, saving 7 million gallons of water and $35,000 in water and sewage bills each year. And if that's not good enough, they also reported fewer maintenance calls from their 397 guest rooms!
The bottom line: If you become as water savvy as possible within your hotel operations, you'll save and make more money, help your local community keep their water costs down, and help save the environment. It's a win-win situation for everyone!
The first thing to do if you want to understand how to lower your water bill is to conduct something called a water audit. A water audit is a process to figure out how much water your business is using and exactly where it's all going. Though the best way to get accurate results is to hire an energy consulting firm, this can be done in a more general way by yourself and/or your staff. If you choose to conduct your own water audit, you should start by looking at two things: your previous water bills and your water meter(s).
If your bookkeeping is in order you should have ready access to at least year's worth of water bills, and two or three years worth is even more helpful if you have them. This may be 12 bills annually, or as few as two or four. Some municipalities bill water usage monthly, some bill once per quarter and others just twice a year.
Your water bill will generally be measured in cubic feet (or Ccf), so you need to know that one cubic foot is equal to 748 gallons. This information is useful because it gives you a starting point for a comparison with other businesses of a similar size as your own. As a general point of reference, as of June 2012 the EPA found that the median per guest room usage in a hotel was 102 gallons of water per day. When you begin calculating where the water in your bill is actually being used (we'll touch on that shortly), knowing industry benchmarks helps determine if your usage is low, higher than normal or just about average.
Additionally, changes in your bills might give you a clue as to hidden leaks or problems in your system. If your usage has increased considerably from bill to bill and you can't attribute a jump in your hotel water usage to anything in particular, such as additional equipment or seasonal changes, this could indicate a leak somewhere on your property.
If you don't have access to your bills, you can still calculate your water usage by reading your water meter. This may look complicated at first, but once you know what all of the numbers mean you can easily calculate your facility's overall usage rates. To gather current data, add the task of checking the water meter to the list of scheduled maintenance your crew is already doing.
You may also be able to use your water meter for leak detection. For this you need to find your "water movement indicator dial" aka "leak dial." The leak dial is usually either asterisk or triangle shaped. This test will only work if you can be sure that none of the water in your facility is running, which is why this is simpler for homeowners to accomplish. But it might be feasible if you own a small hotel or close for business at any time – perhaps on a seasonal basis. Essentially, if the leak dial is moving there is a flow of water somewhere inside your building. So if you can be sure that everything is turned off and your dial is still turning, you know you have a leak somewhere.
For faucets and showerheads you need to know the rate of flow (gallons per minute or gpm), for toilets you need the amount of gallons/flush, for dishwashers you'll need the gallons per rack rating (GPR), and for washing machines you need to know how many gallons of water are used per load. Consider that although you may have 200 toilets, sinks and showerheads in each of your hotel rooms, the chances are high that many of them have the same fixtures installed. If you have documentation for your equipment or the make and model, you can easily find the usage per rack or load.
If you have the resources, it might make sense to appoint a staff person to this task. Choose someone who is numbers savvy and has a passion for reducing, reusing and recycling. The more interested they are in conserving our Earth's natural resources, the better!
The reason for doing this is simple: knowledge is power. You can't understand what needs to be upgraded, improved or changed if you don't know where the problems lie. Knowing what uses the most water in your hotel is the first step to becoming more efficient. Your restrooms, kitchens, laundry operations and landscaping consume more water than any other area. Luckily, there are plenty of solutions, and we're here to help!
If you were under the assumption that your pool and jacuzzi were sucking up your water dollars, think again. Pools usually account for just 1% of a hotel's overall water usage. Restrooms are the number one culprit when it comes to hotel water usage, claiming a whopping 30% of total water use. Luckily, this is one place where changes can easily be made, simply by reducing the flow from showerheads and faucets, along with the gallons flushed down those toilet drains.
This is a great example of why you need to know your rates of flow and gallons used. Let's say your toilets are two or three decades old, and they use between three and seven gallons of water every time they are flushed. Installing a WaterSense model will reduce that usage to 1.28 gallons/flush. You can probably imagine how quickly a water savings of between 50 and 500 percent would affect your bottom line, and how quickly those toilets could pay for themselves.
Similar examples can be made with shower heads and sinks. If your showers were installed pre 1992, you might be looking at a flow of 5.5 gpm. Now, you can get a shower head with a flow rate of 2.5 gpm. Multiply that by 100 rooms and you've got a significant daily savings.
Low flow and high efficiency toilets will save you money immediately. REMEMBER: Dual-flush toilets should be equipped with posted instructions so that everyone understands how to use them!
Have sink aerators installed; these reduce the flow of water by 1.5 gallons/minute.
Install showerheads that regulate flow; 2.5 gallons/minute or less will not bother your guests, while saving you big time.
Install motion activated sensors for hotel sinks and restroom facilities. This not only controls the amount of time water is used, but your guests will appreciate hands-free options.
Install timers in your hotel showers. This is a gentle reminder to guests to be conscious of water conservation.
Many urinals are no-flush, but there are new energy efficient models on the market which may provide a more pleasant user experience.
If your hotel has a kitchen, there are likely two main areas where you can make reductions in your water usage and save money over time: upgrading appliances and educating staff.
Consider investigating possible rebates, tax breaks or other incentives may be offered for purchasing ENERGY STAR® rated equipment. Energy efficient equipment can go a long way in reducing usage. The average commercial dishwasher uses roughly four gallons of water per rack (GPR), while energy efficient models can bring that number well below a gallon per rack. The official requirements for a commercial dishwasher to be considered for an ENERGY STAR® rating can be found here, if you're interested.
Ice machines, which might be in your kitchen as well as other places around your hotel, are another big offender when it comes to inefficient water usage. This is because ice machines with water cooling refrigeration units use lots of water simply to cool – much more water than is actually used to make ice. The amounts of energy and water vary widely with each unit, but it's likely that between 34% and 95% of water used in these machines is simply going down the drain after it's used for cooling.
The alternative option is air cooled refrigeration units, which are much more water efficient. Previously, these machines were often less energy efficient that water cooled machines, but current energy efficient technology means you can have an air cooled refrigeration unit that wastes neither water nor energy.
Don't forget about the human element to water usage reduction in your kitchen – namely your staff. While most of us have an education in basic conservation, your staff might not be aware of how much their water usage is costing your business. It's imperative that you make it clear that water is a metered utility – just like electricity or natural gas – and should be treated as such. Don't be afraid to educate them on ways to conserve water!
Do your kitchen staff do any of the following?
Washing produce under a constant stream of running water.
Running half-full loads in your dishwasher.
Keeping the water running while cleaning surfaces or dishes.
Upgrade to ENERGY STAR® rated equipment. This alone will reduce water usage by approximately 10%.
Install sink aerators to reduce the flow of water to 2.5 gallons/minute or less.
Install pedal operated faucets. This will reduce the ability for staff to turn on a faucet and walk away while leaving it running.
Turn off continuous flow water streams when not in immediate use.
Only run fully loaded dish racks through the washer.
Defrost food in refrigerators instead of under running water. With just a bit of foresight, you will save thousands of gallons/year by eliminating this unnecessary cost.
Wash vegetables in water basins rather than under running water.
Fix leaky water lines immediately.
Educate your staff about water usage and encourage them to be conscious of how they use water.
Install food traps or compost food waste, rather than automatically and excessively using your garbage disposal which requires running water to work properly.
After restrooms, laundry operations are the second biggest consumer of water in your hotel, clocking in at an average of 16% of overall usage. One great way to cut down on loads of laundry being implemented in hotels everywhere is to change your practice from daily washing of sheets and towels to every other or every third day. Mosts guests to your hotel probably don't sleep in freshly laundered sheets each and every night of the week, and won't expect to do so at your hotel either – especially if it's in the name of water conservation. If properly implemented, a long weekend stay can go from daily washes of sheets and towels to just once per room per stay. And for bonus savings – less frequent washings can also lead to less frequent replacement of linens and towels!
Water and wastewater account for more than 50% of the total operating costs in a typical commercial laundry. An upgrade that can really make a difference in your laundry operations, is to invest in either a "tunnel washer" or a "washer-extractor".
A washer-extractor often includes a water recycling option, meaning the water used in the rinse cycle is stored inside the machine for use in the subsequent wash cycle. Machines without this capacity can be retrofitted with a recycling unit.
Tunnel washers operate much differently than normal washing machines, containing long chambers that the laundry is slowly pushed through. These units, though very expensive are highly efficient, using between ⅔ and ½ the amount of washer-extractors.
Reduce detergent and water use by installing ozone systems.
Landscaping is number three on the list of Big Water Users, generally making up an average of 14% of hotel water usage. Oftentimes water is wasted in landscape architecture simply due to a lack of knowledge about irrigation systems and horticultural practices.
For instance, you're probably familiar with overhead sprinklers for irrigation, but have you heard of a product called drip tape? Exchanging your overhead sprinklers for drip irrigation can save you water because while a sprinkler will broadcast water all over the place, drip tape and drip irrigation will concentrate a steady flow of water onto only the plantings of your choosing. Just place the drip tape tubing on exactly what you want watered, turn it on and walk away – certain that only your plants are being watered and not your asphalt driveway.
Another great innovation in irrigation are rain sensors for your sprinklers. Never again will you have the frustrating experience of looking out the window in a downpour only to see your timed sprinklers come on, adding your purchased water to the free stuff falling from the sky. Rain sensors tell your sprinklers that the work is being done for them and they can take a break for the time being.
Unless you have water-loving plants in a hot and dry landscape, plants and shrubs don't need to be watered every day. The exception to this rule is new plantings, which may need a daily watering for the first week or so. Follow these and save on water and overall costs!
Water your hotel landscape 2 to 3 times a week instead of every day.
Remove weeds and other unwanted plants to preserve water for your desired landscape.
Do not over-fertilize or over-prune plants to avoid overstimulated growth.
Avoid hosing down hotel sidewalks, parking lots and driveways, unless absolutely necessary.
Install soil moisture override systems and timers on hotel sprinkler systems.
Time watering when evaporation is the lowest: early morning or evenings are the key.
Make sure irrigation equipment applies water evenly; if it's watering anything other than the lawn and garden, it's wasting your money.
Use mulch around plants to help avoid evaporation and keep weeds to a minimum.
Install drip irrigation instead of sprinkler systems.
Install rain sensors on your sprinkler system so you don't end up watering in the rain!
Install rain barrels or other water catchment systems to catch water as it falls from the sky for free for later use in landscape watering.
Sweep floors whenever possible to clean them. Avoid washing down sidewalks and surfaces with hoses, which waste a lot of water in this application.
Consider switching your mopping system to the water broom, a new technology that saves water while delivering maximum cleaning power.
Conduct an audit of your housecleaning staff and their procedures and keep an eye out for excessive water usage during cleaning.
Discourage water-wasting practices in the housekeeping staff, like using the bathtub as a mopping station.
Switch your hotel's carpet cleaning process from wet to dry.
Have windows cleaned on an as-needed basis, as opposed to a set schedule which may be unnecessary.
Consider switching any water cooled equipment to air cooled – in addition to your ice machines this could include air compressors and refer condensers.
Installing greywater systems is a big commitment, but once in place is probably also the single biggest way to recycle potable water. Greywater uses filtration systems to turn the water used for laundry, dishes and bathing into water that can be used to flush toilets and irrigate your landscaping. We may not think that water can be used twice, but really – why shouldn't the water you showered in be used to flush a toilet? With the right mechanisms in place, greywater can be an amazing way to reduce water usage. If you're ready to take your water reduction to the next level, look into installing a greywater system in your hotel.
Now that you have a better understanding of how to save money with your hotel water usage, it's time to get to work. The longer you wait to begin implementing your hotel regulatory procedures and water saving equipment, the longer you're going to keep flushing money down the drain.
You're in the hotel business to make money. Taking control of how effectively and efficiently your hotel uses water directly affects how much money your hotel makes every year. Making money isn't just about renting more rooms, it's also about reducing your hotel expenses. You simply can't afford to keep ignoring your water usage, not just for your profit margin, but also for the environment. Try these water saving tips today!
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