User talk:Ehusman

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Good edit

I appreciate the eagle eye, keep up the good work. Care to discuss the differences over the page in talk? Sam Spade 03:37, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Fascism & Austrian School

Hi, don't panic. I moved your text to the Fascism and ideology page since there was already a big discussion on the exact same topic there. I really hope you will consider editing the combined material into something more coherent. Your prose was one of the best summaries of the position I have seen, even though I totally disagree with it.--Cberlet 22:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Re your nasty note on my page: I am not censoring anything, and your assumptions about my views are false. Hayek, von Mises, and Flynn all wrote about similarites among fascism, national socialism, corporatism, and the U.S. welfare state. Your ignorance of this has created your anger. Please chill out.--Cberlet 18:26, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm not angry, and it was a statement of fact. Nobody who hates Nazis seems to want it known that they were a variation on Socialism, hence my contribution has been removed 3 times despite the fact that I was only citing work from two books still in print over 50 years after their initial publication. Censor me, grow some skin. Ehusman 23:56, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Academy edits

Nice edits on the Albuquerque Academy page. The added history really adds a lot more depth. -Vontafeijos 02:25, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Shewhart cycle

You asked:

"Is there any reason to carry the "Joiner Seven Step Method"? It looks like advertisement for a non-notable consultant."

Dr. Joiner worked closely with Dr. Deming for many years. Deming often quoted and gave credit to Dr. Joiner for contributions in his books and during The Deming Four Day Seminars. The Joiner Seven Step Method is widely recognized as a useful elaboration of the Shewhart Cycle. Dr. Joiner has retired from practice.

See: Brian L. Joiner, Fourth Generation Management: The New Business Consciousness McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (February 1, 1994) ISBN: 0070327157

I was unable to find a reference to the Joiner Seven Step Method (other than a brief listing in the glossary section of the Library section) on the Oriel Incorporated web site. I suggest keeping the information about the Joiner Seven Step Method in the body of the article and deleting the link to the Oriel Incorporated web site.

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Deming Library Videos

The definitive, comprehensive presentation of the Deming philosophy as Dr. W. Edwards Deming developed and taught it. The Library contains 32 1/2 hr. programs with narration and teaching guides (on CDROM).

This is the complete and authoritative presentation of the Deming philosophy of continual improvement and cooperation in video with teaching guides. Dr. Deming collaborated with producer Clare Crawford-Mason and writer/narrator Lloyd Dobyns for more than eight years to produce an account of his theory of managing for continual improvement based on knowledge of systems and the principle of variation.

http://www.managementwisdom.com/imdemvol3cas.html

Implementing Deming, Vol. 3: The Case Against Management by Objective

This video features Dr. Brian L. Joiner, CEO of Joiner Associates. He describes Western management practices as a combination of three generations of management: doing it yourself, directing another person, and managing by results which he states is a subset of management by objectives. Dr. Joiner recommends the "fourth generation of management," which he refers to as "management by method." This management strategy places emphasis on methods as well as results. 26:27 min. Includes teaching guide.

http://www.managementwisdom.com/imdemvol4wha.html

Implementing Deming, Vol 4: What To Do Instead of Managing by Objectives

Dr. Joiner discusses implementation of continual improvement. He begins with the 14 Points and discusses in detail how to use the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle as the logic for on-going improvement. He recommends that leaders initially select a few key processes for improvement. Appropriate data has to be gathered and analyzed. Dr. Joiner summarizes the important differences between MBO and management for continual improvement. 23:27 min. Includes teaching guide.

Leaders100 14:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Training Within Industry

"For that purpose, TWI trainers were brought to Europe by the occupying forces there, and to Japan by Macarthur during the occupation."

The following is a link to the The Fundamentals of Industrial Management CCS Management Course taught by Homer M. Sarasohn and Charles A. Protzman at Macarthur's direction in Japan. I thought this might be of interest to you.

http://deming.ces.clemson.edu/pub/den/ccs_manual_complete.pdf

Continuous Improvement

Hi there... why the redirect from Continuous Improvement to Kaizen? I know they're related, but to me, Kaizen is a specific school or body of knowledge, whereas continuous improvement is a concept. What about Theory of Constraints, Root cause analysis, Learning organization, etc... these are all continuous improvement tools/methods that aren't necessarily related to Kaizen very closely. --72.141.22.69 19:52, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Engineer User box

Yeah, I'm a chem eng, it's not the best generic image - but for some reason cogs seem to mean engineer. The userbox used to feature the image from {stub engineering}, I like this one better. Journeyman 01:42, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

stealing quotes

NPOVly May I borrow/steal this? (from one engineer classic liberal to another)Jance 04:57, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

atmospheric resolution

A non-wiki-editing friend tells me that your expression for atmospheric MTF at Optical_resolution#Atmospheric_resolution has a minus sign in front of the 5/3 exponent where it should not. It does seem peculiar, since there's a ratio that would probably just be written the other way around if a negative power were desired there. Can you check your source and let me know if you agree that this is in error? Dicklyon 18:54, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Need help removing my IP address

I thought I was still logged in when I put an edit on Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act. It's pretty obvious, so I'd like it taken off.

It is extremely difficult to edit article histories: we can delete a revision or you can request oversight but that is reserved in most cases for removing libel or improperly posted personal information- which an IP address is not. Sorry- l'aquatique || talk 20:31, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for getting back to me! Ehusman (talk) 04:04, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act

On 13 December, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

DYKBot (talk) 02:01, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message about CPSIA. Actually, we're not supposed to do copy-and-paste moves like this, because it makes you lose the edit history of the page; instead, the best way is to click the "move" tab at the top of the existing article. I can't move the page using that tool right now, since you have already created the new page and now it's in the way; in these cases, the way to do the move is delete the page that's in the way (using speedy deletion {{db-move}}) and then move the old page to the new name as soon as the stuff in the way has been deleted. It should get moved pretty quickly, and I'll be keeping an eye on it, but just in case you see the deletion before I do, you are welcome to move Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act to Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act using the "move" tab. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 02:27, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

It's been moved. Thanks for notifying me! —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 06:01, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Cotton

Happy new year- great to have a response- it can feel rather lonely stuck here in the 1880s.

When I started looking at these pages everything was written from the point of view of a craft handloom weaver. Looking at the history here, I created the article and most of the text is mine and that is not healthy. I anm happy to have you take a critical look.

My principal problem here is keeping the text simple and focused. I didn't want to go to the lengths that Marsden did in describing the problems of doffing, fluff collection and an over heavy flyer causing the Throstle technology to be lie dormant for 25 years. There was also the danger of a trans-attlantic edit war on British mule rather than American ring. Marsden is available on line so you can check. p298 line 8 refers to the Danforth Throstle though throstles are alluded to on previous pages.

Farnie is the current recognised authority on industrial archeology in NW UK. I have the book mentioned. Here it only makes broad statements gained from his previous research. Here it says The water frame ... could not produce yarn of sufficient strength to be used as warp Translating, that would mean in a standard commercial environment, but you would most likely find a mill somewhere whose owner would get thing to produce yarn of sufficient quality to be used as warp in some small marginal weaving shop- pity the workers though.

Coincidence-no- more like adjacent paragraphs.

Yes 1884/1885 and 1903

I am aware that I litter my contributions with signature errors- and I do need an experienced copy editor following me round. Please do join in and correct the obvious! I see that a new stub has been created for Throstle frame, which does change things slightly; I will try and flesh it out in the next few days.

Overall, I am still working on trying to list and document major cotton mills in NW England. On anything this big there are many side tracks and diversions. {{Lancashire Cotton}} is in fact a todo list.

Thanks for the input. --ClemRutter (talk) 12:47, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Re: this anonymous edit, thanks for reverting that. However, for what it's worth, I don't think the IP was vandalising (as you suggested in your edit summary), but simply had no idea how to use MediaWiki. It might be better simply not to mention "vandalism" for edits that are apparent "tests"; it could deter a potential, future long-term contributor from making another edit, for all we know! Regards, AGK [•] 11:56, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Fair enough, I will keep that in mind.Ehusman (talk) 13:14, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Sweatshop

Thank you for posting on the talk page for Sweatshop about more literature to consider on the topic. I appreciated more input as the current article seems a bit lacking on the many comprehensive components of sweatshops. I have just edited and added on to the two bottom paragraphs of the article under the "History" section. There was some information lacking sources to connect the material together. Your feedback would be much appreciated along with any other information you see lacking in the article. I am spending my final college semester trying to add information where I can. I will look forward to reading more input from you on the article's talk page.

Laurenleaf (talk) 06:12, 3 April 2013 (UTC)Laurenleaf